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> Currently, the service is free, but staff told the newspaper that in future months, users will be able to ...

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...and a nation state has plenty of budget to buy even multiple chips to RE destructively.
He uses a sample size of one from the 70's to claim theories "really work." Further, his examples of economic theories that work come almost all come from mathematicians/physicists that moved into the field.
I CALL SEXISM!!!!!!

But then again, I like it so what does that make me? O.o
On the other hand, it may be possible to use F# on Linux with .NET Core now.
I can't figure out if this is something I'd use or feel that it's insanely patronizing. I suppose the market will tell which is which.
This says nothing about the time evolution of the state space of a system, only that the entropy as it relates to _the current state of the system_ is bounded - indeed the bound is on the entropy of a finite volume of fixed energy. Even if we expand the volume to encompass the entire universe, the bound informs only the _maximal_ entropy at any given time.

As this relates to the human brain, and even omitting any quantum weirdness (of which there is probably a lot), all we can say is the total state of the brain at time t requires at most N bits, where N is the bound over volume of the brain. It says nothing about the (information theoretic) entropy of the _dynamics_ of the brain, which is where the process of cognition actually occurs. In fact many (if not most) physical processes have infinite entropy.

For an example of a deterministic system that exhibits such behavior, Consider the logistic map at r~5.7. There exist some coarse partitions [0] of the state space such that the trajectory that can be expressed in a finite number of bits, but this is not in general the case, even though any _given_ state of the system can be expressed in a finite number of bits. Other examples include the double pendulum, three-body orbits, and in fact most real physical systems.

In fact it is not in general true that a system with N bits of state can be always simulated with <= N bits. We can obey the Bekenstein bound without necessarily being able to simulate the process, even a complete description of the state at time t.

For the time evolution of the state space of a system, the Lyapunov Time [1] and the Lyapunov Exponent [2] are much more informative. If the time required to reach another bit of precision grows faster than polynomial time, no Turing machine can hope to simulate that physical system in a practical amount of time. In fact we also have physical bounds on how much memory we have to work with, and how fast we can flip bits for a given volume of space - simply enumerating all possible state transitions of the brain using a Turing machine will require a volume of space much larger than the brain itself if the time evolution of the system produces large Lyapynov exponents (which it absolutely does). This should come as no surprise - known NP-hard problems have the same behavior.

I would also add, even if the brain turns out to have a representation in N bits, and the state transition is (somehow) computable in polynomial time, it may still be physically infeasible to do so without just building and 'running' an actual brain.

[0]http://tcode.tcs.auckland.ac.nz/~corpus/logistic.html
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_exponent
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_time

PS: To me all of the above suggests that whatever the universe is doing when it's doing physics, it certainly isn't computing in the Church-Turing sense.
There's two reasons as far as I'm concerned:

1. The internet has very much democratised communication (or at least did around the time of the inception of the web) - this is the reason we have such campaigns for net neutrality. Government intervention into transmission of telegrams was tolerated because the medium was largely out of the direct control of most citizens. Having more control and insight gives a sense of ownership and a greater awareness of civil liberty around the bounds of use. Which I think is largely positive.

2. The efficiency of internet communication and automation thereof makes any intervention in communication channels much much more far reaching with comparatively little resources or effort. And therefore far far more dangerous.
It's cheaper when you buy in bulk.
Exactly this. You can't sit in a land of plenty and ask hungry people to not use their most valuable land for personal gain.

Yes, we all share one globe. Yes it would be for the benefit of the globe to protect these regions. But most decisions like this are economic decisions, and the economics support slash and burn.
That seriously sucks.
Trello. My wife uses it as well. It sounds silly at first to use something so engineering/workplace minded in a relationship, but it actually works really well for us because my wife and I have two very different styles of task management (and as newlyweds, we needed to quickly figure out a workable system!)

Her strategy is to break all tasks into little manageable chunks and complete them over a period of weeks. My strategy is to sort all tasks into a giant priority queue and then complete each task in one non-stop session as late as possible but early enough that is still gets done. For those who are deadline-averse, my strategy is clearly anxiety inducing, so Trello allows to us pick dates for each other that we would like tasks to be completed by. So far, this has eliminated all difficulties and confusion involved in getting stuff done.

The next step is establishing a shared calendar so we can track events, but I haven't found one I like yet.
Complex arithmetic is complicated
What sort of things would banks, telcos, and insurance companies typically patent? These don't strike me as innovation-oriented companies.

If you don't have any patents, you're not really risking anything using React.
I wonder if they were inspired by Jerryboree from Rick and Morty.
ZeroPhone: a phone for tinkerers and hackers using a Raspberry Pi
I recently wrote about how I handle pretty much everything related with work here[1]. It can easily be applied outside of work. hope it helps

I personally just use evernote and list everything there.

[1] https://medium.com/@jmrocela/an-organized-chaos-5c844f8a9c82
Data binding and JavaScript frameworks
I'm from Germany too and am using a Fritz!Box 7490 behind a cable modem (200 down/12 up).
The router let's you set up one wireless network with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz so devices automatically get switched onto the band with higher Tx rate.
Currently pretty happy with the setup.
You mean like they did with the space shuttle? :)
It's such a silly question. No one is readu for a missile attack except the navy. And no one can prevent a missile attack despite all the bluster about missile defense systems, again, except the navy, and the only reason the navy can defend is because ships are such small targets compared to countries and cities, so navy defensive systems have a chance of hitting incoming missiles because there is some certainty about what they are aimed at. Even then I wouldn't give a ship much of a chance against multiple incoming missiles.

The only positive thing working for the target when it is a city is that ICBMs are likely to fail to hit and detonate precisely as intended.
I don't manage them. Managing tasks doesn't change the likelihood of them being done; it only changes the order in which they'll get done, if they get done at all. Changing the way you plan won't magically motivate you to do stuff.

The way I get tasks done is by doing them immediately I see that they need doing. If you can develop that habit then tasks won't even need managing, you won't need to set time aside to do things, and you'll always be on top of things. Sometimes it's really hard work to keep at it but your future self will thank you.
A real whiteboard! Easy to edit and organize. With colors too!
I try to routine-ize as many of them as possible so it's on autopilot. Sunday afternoons get time scheduled in the calendar to take care of one off items.
Did you watch / understand the video? The entire thing was about non-science departments faking the trappings of science.

For another explanation, see "Cargo cult science"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

His whole point (and mine) is that a field of study can follow the superficial trappings of science while at the same time not understanding the core principles of science. If that isn't "faking it", then you should explain why. Use examples.
Using a weapon (any kind of, starting with a rolled magazine up to a laptop) is a much better solution.

You are likely to break your hand if you try to boxe someone out of the blue, especially if you hit the skull.

Kicking is a better option if there are no weapons.

The melee option is not bad either in the configuration they had (not much space to show off martial arts skills learned in a J Chan movie) - with a few people on him he is not likely to be able to move.

Source : 14 years of self - defence, had to use my skills only once, ran away twice.
I don't think their attorneys would let that fly, but I also think their attorneys most likely have already negotiated other contracts with Facebook that override whatever's in the React license.

This is not a tool for Facebook to be able to use against another multibillion major tech company. This is a tool for Facebook to be able to use against potentially disruptive tech upstarts of the sort that they were 10-15 years ago. Also, don't just think about Facebook's core business - remember that they're getting into all sorts of fields now. Do you think there are any VR related patents held by smallish companies that might be of interest to the owner of Oculus? If those companies are using React, Facebook now gets to negotiate with them from a position of "You've already basically given us permission to use your patented IP in our new headsets."
I studied economics through the backdoor, starting with game theory, then (around 2008, because "no one saw it coming") generalizing to economics, political economics and politics.

If you go that way, you will inevitably end up subscribing Austrian economics (and also libertarian justice/politics) which is basically a non-existent area in mainstream economics but is the only consistent theory and kind of automagically leads to many of Taleb's criticisms (e.g., second order effects).

For the interested I recommend as an introduction:

- Atlas shrugged (A. Rand, for those who have time)
- Economics in one lesson (H. Hazlitt, for those who don't have time)
I think the OP is asking about this in particular:

As far as I know Google Play allows you to rate an app only when you have installed it.

If someone was using "farms of mobiles", you'd expect the installs to go up too.
The race to the finish for self-driving cars
If most people could do it that way they simply would do it and we wouldn't have a thread like this one.
Calendar for time-sensitive tasks, reminders for everything else including location-sensitive tasks. I also meet with my wife every Sunday night to review everything four weeks out, so we know who's doing what.
> "More democracy, less state-involvement to solve legitimacy problems, more financial responsibilities to solve Euro and Southern economic problems."

That's an interesting mix. It sounds like you're pro-democracy and also pro-centralisation, would you say that's a fair statement?

> ""Then Asia, but Europe lived happy and peaceful ever after.""

Are you implying that Asia is on the path to peace ahead of Europe?
Desperate for a discussion? ;)
work and "non-work" are the same thing to me. it all goes into trello or jira, then synced with a time management tool. so i track the amount of time i spend doing everything.
"Economics has many successes"

Out of interest (no pun intended), what are they?
Is installs the current number as opposed to the total over time? That would allow people to install, rank, then later remove, and so make sense of the statistic.

Another option is that people get to rank each device install but only count as being one (person with an) install? That would allow for such "corruption".
The real reason women freeze their eggs
Boyfriend couches are really useful in dating situations where the girl wants to shop but doesn't want to leave her boyfriend alone. It isn't logical, but hardly anything about dating is.
> I guess the author gets a kick back for everyone that buys this book based off the link.

They're also selling their own "Rabbit Hole Summary" of it, which I'm guess is like a Cliffnotes version. But if it's as terribly written as this article...
Wash out from business and psych TO econ is strange. My impression of the rigor of those disciplines:

Econ > Psych > Business

Econ/psych debatable, but business definitely isnt
I don't know about your industry but the abiding memory i have from before the financial crisis of 2009 was of economists fanning the property bubble with the mantra ' the fundamental are sound' and how the worst scanario would be a "soft landing"
One possible explanation could be that the ratings count is updated immediately while the install count is updated at a slower rate...
Note that "impossible" and "will never be achieved" are two entirely different propositions.
heh, I've always wondered why arcade machines aren't peppered all over shopping malls.

There are so many bored husbands/boyfriends who could use them.
> Besides, Trump isn't "afraid" of anyone

I see no evidence for that.
Or Nathan for You? Pretty much the exact same thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-3eRMpOC4
Google Keep runs my life.
As long as wives are also allowed to use the pods while husbands go shopping, I don't think it's sexist.
web2py let arbitrary code be called by the client, and its failsafes were full of holes. So it fell out of favour.
Not only are the theoretical foundations of some areas of economics dubious but the profession is (particularly at the high levels) very money-driven and, in some cases, very morally dubious. Some professors and academics are paid hefty sums to write papers that support and influence important policies.[0]

Please watch the Inside Job for an example of how money goes around the high strata of the economics profession.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-mor...
Nice! We use something similar, also a famous often-used shopping checklist on a card.

Any details on how granular those tasks become? Mostly talking about recurring ones.
I use the same combo
oh good, its not just me then...
> Idiomatic rust avoids heap allocations, but it very much encourages immutable stack allocation...something that OCaml also tries to encourage.

No doubt, but most of your OCaml data structures will, in a typical program, still be on the heap, while idiomatic Rust will avoid Box whenever possible.

Apart from that, I know about the links between the two (and I think the blend between the OCaml/Java (for the generics) and Ruby syntax (lambdas) works really well in practice. But I think the underlying philosophy, and the way of structuring code are really different. This is a much more fundamental concern than surface-level considerations.
Local coffee shop has a "Free Husband Creche -- just buy drinks" sign. It's located in the front half of a pub, and they have decent wifi. I'm good.
Google Keep -- when I think of something that needs done, I write it down and set a reminder for the next available non-work time.
For one off items with no clear date, "People that I owe something" and "People who owe me something" lists, managed in apple's todo apps.

For things that have a clear deadline - calendar entries blocking time to go work on whatever it is (i.e. "Research deals for fall vacation").

I've found that writing things into either of those categories clarifies things a bit. Personal tasks end up being in the "I owe" lists, with my own name next to them.
Sir, what's the obstacle for supporting El Capitan, I think it is not too old?
There is a real difference in company impact between leaking your code and your credentials. If your code and credential policies are the same, your company has a serious problem of priorities, since it's either not protecting credentials enough, or it's slowing down developers too much.
I love how diplomacy isn't mentioned as an option. Sounds like the message between the lines is to expect and fear inevitable missile attacks.
Yes, you're right that "BSD+patent"+"revoked patent grant because you sued Facebook over another patent" is pretty much the same as just BSD from the start. Licensing software you know you have patents on under BSD only with no patent grant would be pretty awful, of course.

If Facebook wanted to be the good guys here they would license under Apache 2.0 or write their own symmetric patent grant. They already relicensed RocksDB after Apache's move, perhaps they will do the rest of their stuff too.
Every time I enter a clothing shop and see chairs, I thank the heroes of that establishment who thought about bored boyfriends.
> there were expectations of you going into the priesthood if you were the eldest son in an Irish Catholic family.

Doesn't that make for an overabundance of priests?
Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control had imagined something rather like this in a near-future United States, where phone calls and video screens would occasionally be interrupted by a message from the president.

I had thought it was inventive and evocative, but sort of unrealistic.

I was wrong. Yikes.
This is neat, it looks similar to Fantastical. Have you used that before, and how does it compare if so?
Because malls don't want to give broke teenagers a place to hang out.
Economics is fundamentally based on the fallacy of statistics to say anything meaningful about society. However as someone once noticed, statistically humans have one testicle. It's statistically true but pragmatically useless.

Economics is in reality a study of history sometimes a social science rather than a study of the future. And all economic models are based on historical knowledge.

Economy in itself is pretty harmless but when it's combined with politicians who use it to steer public discourse it's catastrophic.

And so we have economist with no model for factoring in technologys' effect on society advising and informing politicians about public policy.

It is my guess that Economics in the future in many ways will be seen the same way many of us sees astrology. As something which is really good at finding correlation but very bad at exposing any causation.
Org in Emacs, synced to my phone's calendar with Radicale.
When using an open source stack to do illegal encryption leads to XX years in prison, not many people will use it.
That is incorrect. He first mentions CIA fronts, but then goes on to discuss real companies that occasionally do business with the CIA 'on the side'. Two of these (Sportsflight and Richmor) sued each others on activities that happened to be tied to the CIA.

He did not make that claim out of thin air, but produced documents that were publicly available.

The New Yorker provided more details on this topic in a piece they did on Paglen:

"More than fifteen hundred documents were made public in the case: invoices, e-mails, cell-phone logs, receipts. These contained financial data—a typical rendition itinerary seems to have cost the government about three hundred thousand dollars—and structural details of the rendition program."

Source:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/prying-eyes

The article also notes that he is recognized by other journalists for his work on renditions.
Master Algebra with Krista King
Users flagged it. Not sure why; probably because of the title.
This mostly seems like "English as I don't like her spoken"; only pt. 2 (thanks to tapanjk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780499) !) seemed to describe any actual wrong language, as opposed simply to phrasing of which the author disapproved. With that said, I don't understand the complaint from pt. 4, recapitulated (as morinted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780372) points out) from pt. 3, about:

> you may hear that your train was “originally due to depart from Platform 4”, but “will now depart from Platform 6”. What’s “originally” doing there?

Surely 'originally' is serving exactly the purpose it claims to serve, of describing the state of affairs before the alteration? What would be a better word?

If the suggested alternative is to omit the description of the 'original' entirely: though I'm not much experienced with the London Underground, I know that, on the Amtrak, if I paid attention to every announcement I would go mad, so I have a subconscious routine that perks up conscious attention only when it detects something that seems likely to me. If I am waiting at Platform 4, I probably won't notice a random, unprefaced announcement about Platform 6; but I am much more likely to notice it if it points out that those of us at Platform 4 should be paying attention to it.
Scammers Break the Kindle Store
I'm not sure that office-mates aren't as disruptive as kids. I've worked both ways. In the office, I only far more done when everybody else was off to lunch, or by staying after 5.

Vs working from home, where every hour I bill (I'm a contractor) is a work hour, when I'm making progress on my client's problem. More efficient for everybody.
I am asking how, not why/why not. In the video you can see that they did actually automate it.
> "Therefore they have no choice but to move the jobs to where the majority of the business is and that's no longer Britain."

The majority of business wasn't in Britain before Brexit either, but we still had businesses based here. If some companies leave, they're just opening up new opportunities for their competitors. I don't like thinking of people as 'workers' and 'consumers', but let's use those labels for a second. Are you trying to tell me in a nation of over 60 million consumers, with a high volume of skilled and hard working workers, that there aren't business opportunities to be had, regardless of a slow down in exports?
just delete the spreadsheet
The "Austrian school" isn't what you think it is. The Austrian school refers to a theoretical school of thought of a very narrow subsection of macroeconomics (which itself is a very narrow subsection of economics) called business cycle theory. That subsection doesn't even represent 1% of what professional economists worry about, yet it somehow has 100% of the attention of armchair economists and political parties.

The funny thing about the statement isn't that it is true (the Austrian school doesn't rely on empiricism) but rather that you singled out a single school of business cycle theory for that criticism. Because BCT can't rely on empiricism. It is an area of economics where controlled experiments are impossible and standard impact measurement methods used in econometrics are not applicable due to dynamic cycles. That's the reason why "see, look at this trend line...your idea didn't work" is always defended by "well it would have been worse if we didn't do it!".

The implication is that by design, none of the "schools" of BCT use empiricism and all of them rely primarily on theory. Any appearance of empiricism coming from one of those schools is highly suspect on its face and far more likely to come from a politically backed think tank than from a peer review process. And that includes the incredibly terrible claims of empiricism from Keynesian and Monetarist schools in addition to your target of scorn.