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A drunk awakens in a void and finds his arms, legs, in fact all extremities are bing pulled outward by some reverse gravity. It is quite unpleasant.

By some strange mechanism he is able to make himself start spinning. At first it is worse: in one direction the reverse gravity increases in effect! So he reverses and is relieved to find that in the other it slowly abates. Though the sweet relief is strange. Because if he goes too far in that direction, he finds that the expulsatory force begins to increase again.

But eventually he finds the sweet spot and stays there, relieved, to find himself not being pulled apart. "This", he says to himself, "I shall call an inertial reference frame. It is so much more relaxing than the others."
Can North Korea’s missiles deliver an atomic weapon to the U.S. mainland? Maybe
Well, a basic sense of dignity as a human being should certainly not be tied to success. But the important point is that the best way to think about failure and success is as simply facts about what happened. You failed. You succeeded.

The problems with fixed mindset relates to treating success as an indication of your self-worth. Doing that means that failure is a rejection of your self-worth. That leads to people fearing failure and thus avoiding taking on risky challenges they may fail at. And yet growth comes from being willing to fail and to persist in the face of failure etc.

If I fail at expressing myself clearly in a comment like this, it's better to acknowledge it and think "that comment failed" and think about how to succeed better next time… (I could go on, but I'm not going to invest more time in this comment right now)
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> indexers think they should own 10% of your company

i like to believe indexers are not that easily fooled.

broad market indexers (think 2-5k stocks like the russell) normally use an approximation portfolio that holds significantly fewer assets in order to minimize transaction cost. the correlation between a 500-asset portfolio and a 5000-asset portfolio is something like 98%, maybe more. a lot of replication portfolios don't even bother with the underlying nowadays, they just load up on cash settled equity swaps with the dealers and let them deal with the basis.

and narrow market indexers track indices that won't bother including corporates with tiny floats.
I agree with you, but there are many who believe that a person has a right to a job, and that it is fundamentally unfair for one person to have a job that is better than another. They also believe that basing employment on merit is an anti-pattern, and that it is not fair that some people have educational and employment opportunities that others do not have, purely as a result of their parent and/or birth situation. I worked with a guy who would argue that the entire society should reap the reward because without the provisions from society (roads, structure, etc) the business would not be possible.
Ask HN: Should I use LinkedIn for blogging?
I'm a grad student in IT, but I'm looking to get a job as a front-end web application developer. I'm not sure if completing the degree is going to be worth it, so I've taken less credits this semester to focus on learning and building a portfolio project on my own.

I've been considering writing a blog about the research I've done while getting ready for the portfolio-project, such as cloud platforms, front-end frameworks (I think I'm going to indulge myself and use ClojureScript), etc. I just noticed that linkedIn has a blogging platform, so I'm wondering If I should use that instead of my blogger page.

Do you or your co-workers use LinkedIn for job hunting and/or networking? Would it be worth it to try and put an effort into building connections through the site? Any anecdotes are appreciated.
which is obvious because a gyro is not rigid and has parts the move relative to each other, but would the entire system feel a force if exerted on it and correct it's orientation? What would it be "pointed" at? If it did, wouldn't that imply an absolute point of reference?
Aren't those the same alternative? If something is fighting precession symmetrically, then isn't it acting like a block of matter with nothing rotating inside it?
I guess this is the calm before the storm.
>If we made them operate more like private corporations, I would agree more

What specifically would you change to make them operate more like private corporations, and how would it help?
I'll give you a serious response.

It can and there is quite a bit of politics involved, unfortunately. Your best bet is to take the time and do some learning in your own, at least that is what I did.

I'd suggest not paying much attention to the extremists on either side. Chances are really good that AGW isn't going to result in human extinction. Chances are really good that AGW is real.

The journalism is generally terrible and I do have a negative opinion about some of the more vocal scientists. However, I have a stronger opinion about the people who refuse to acknowledge the results.

The planet is absolutely warming and we are almost certainly adding to that warming. Our contribution to this warming is due to our adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is well studied and can be replicated.

Models aren't certainties and can only make broad predictions. Anyone citing them as absolute fact is poorly representing the science. There are multiple models, many data sets, and variable results.

More greenhouse gases will increase the rate of warming. Global warming is only one part of global climate change. The exact results aren't entirely known and the models attempt to predict this.

The system is very large and very complicated. We don't even know the initial starting state. So, they make approximations, which is what these kind of models do.

When I modeled traffic, I couldn't tell you when you'd get to your destination. I could accurately predict the results, however. They would be largely true for everyone. On an individual scale, they could be wrong but they were much more likely to be true. We had a high confidence in the results.

Modeling the climate is a bit like that, only bigger and more complicated. It is also politically charged - another similarity with traffic modeling. But, the end result is we are, almost certainly, going to get to our destination unless we change our route.

I am not a climate scientist and was a bit skeptical of the claims of accuracy and certainty. I have since put in a lot of effort to learn. I am really, really certain that the climate is changing, we are speeding that up, and that the models are accurate enough to where we should reduce our output of unconstrained greenhouse gases.

Make of this what you will. I've tried to be as clear as I can. I'm not suggesting you trust me. I'm suggesting that you'll reach the same results if you put the effort into learning.
HTML parsing is, from the HTML 5 spec onwards, defined as a state machine.
Thanks, that article does clear it up. So the orbit doesn't change shape nor does it shift, instead it rotates (from the article: "More precisely, it is the gradual rotation of the line joining the apsides of an orbit"—so I guess the ellipse major axis rotates).

From what I can tell using precession as a direct substitute for rotation is less common, even in astronomy—but maybe I've just had poor samples so far. I was thinking of it as: "Precession is a change in the orientation of the rotational axis of a rotating body." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession)
On the package are the words, "No B.S." This makes me think of poop in it (despite the word No) and I don't buy it.
We won't. Worse is better, remember? Especially when a typical company wants to be the first to quickly sell some shit product and then, maybe, they'll patch it for a while as they go along. Competitive pressures (and management fads, IMO - software market ain't that efficient yet) turned "good solution today > perfect solution next week" into "steaming pile of garbage today > good solution tomorrow".

I guess this is fine for throwaway acquihire SaaS stuff, but it's becoming a serious problem for stuff that's meant to be widely used.
Costco is absolutely insane. I have no idea how they're in business and I enjoy every minute of it.
2005. So I guess this didn't catch on.
I wasn't only making a slippery-slope argument, it was just one aspect of this. And it's based on my understanding that there really is a slippery slope in THIS case (although I didn't write a full essay explaining the evidence).

> a digital version of what teens already do

That would be nothing more than open-ended chat such as teens communicating via text-messages or online forums.

An analog version of TBH would be a structured system in which employees of for-profit companies go to high schools and facilitate teen gossip, inject themselves into a circle of girls hanging out in the hall and prompt them with these questions etc.

I would like to think you can consider for yourself the ramifications here. Teens do lots of stuff, some of which is kinda shitty even when it seems positive on the surface, and TBH is a for-profit app trying to monetize and control it while spouting some B.S. about how they're doing something positive somehow.
>to maintain its gas blackmailing power over Europeans

You throw around the word "blackmail" as if this is established fact.
Please tell when Russia has ever blackmailed Europe using gas?

The only times when gas supply to Europe has been disrupted, were due to disputes with Ukraine (who has been found to divert EU gas to themselves).
And in this case, only the gas intended for use by Ukraine was reduced.

Supplying gas directly from Russia to Germany is intended to create more reliable supply, by removing transit through dishonest and thieving country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...
You can look at this both ways actually:

For some people (like me) thinking through problems with pen and paper is a tool.

For others I guess it is annoying: look at him, now he's doing this wannabe software architect stuff again.

Same might go the other way: here he goes again, trying to prove his programming super skills by jumping into it without even the smalles amount of planning.
I see, this really threw me off:

"Rsync over HTTP — zsync provides transfers that are nearly as efficient as rsync -z or cvsup, without the need to run a special server application. All that is needed is an HTTP/1.1-compliant web server. So it works through firewalls and on shared hosting accounts, and gives less security worries."

The other child comment also touches on something that I seem to have skipped over, the .zsync metadata file which contains pre-calculated rsync hashes. Using this means software isn't needed, but during upload the file needs to be processed to produce this metadata.
Yup this, our privacy policy plainly states that we're not in the business of making money from your data. We have various provisions which limit how and when we can share your data.
Any blogging is better than no blogging, but unless you yearn to be an "enterprise" dev I would blog on medium or something a lot more hipster than LinkedIn. There's obviously exceptions, but my general observation is that it's management types and enterprisey types that blog on LinkedIn. There's some good stuff on there to be sure, but you get an immediate brand by choosing one platform over another.

Definitely start a blog tho. Every dev should have a blog. Use it to market yourself.
It's not too hard to pirate Windows either. That doesn't make it a viable option for individuals, or, especially, businesses who don't want to engage in copyright infringement.

If you make your living even in part by using a Hackintosh, that is, at best, hypocritical.
You're arguing from a position of someone with some history knowledge, which is not the problem. Knowing that Ivan the Terrible was a Russian Tsar is uncommon, and if he comes up you probably will be exclusively focused on Russian history.

People don't know a ton about the Dark Ages either, but "Rome collapsed leading to the Dark Ages," and "The Discovery of America/the Renisance/The Scientific Revolution led us out of the Dark Ages" are often things you will have heard. And given the context you can hear them, it's not clearly referring to Western Christian Europe.
What agenda would that be?
The lack of subscription and signup, combined with the pricing, suggest that this is aiming at people who almost never send a fax, and would spend significantly more buying and maintaining a fax machine, compared to a couple dollars on this service.

I do hope you find a service that fits your need, but this is very likely not intending to be it.
The business plan is what you put together after you have a validated product. It is necessary in all businesses.
Just like alcohol is dangerous.

Precautions must be made, I agree with you. But this looks like all drugs must be included in the next studies, and articles.
Available on Amazon (search for rxbar). Had not heard of these but definitely going to try them. That ingredients list is amazing.
I'm not considering behavior of individuals. Rather, I'm considering how Medieval society was dominated by the Catholic Church. To me, that seems utterly undeniable.
On a similar note, a fast baseball takes less than 450 ms to go from the pitcher's hand to the plate. The "turnaround time" for the bat, from when it starts moving until it hits the ball, is 150 ms. That leaves about 300 ms in which the batter must first spend some time analyzing the path and spin of the ball, then decide whether and how to hit the ball. The only way to make it work is subconsciously.
This sounds kind of like how stenographers’ keyboards work. You plan and type words with key combos. Much faster than typing since you react to whole words and think in phrases (so I was told).
Um, just to be clear: can I write a program that depends on both A and B? Nix lets you do that.
So you would agree overfitting is not a real issue and talking about it is distracting from NN?

My question is are people using overfitting as an excuse of a what is instead a badly made NN.

If you are smart enough to create a NN that can tell if it's sunny or not then tanks would also be possible. But if your NN just sucks than blaming overfitting is a convenient out.
Why is it called an urban legend, it seems to accurately depict how NNs work.
I remember my school network used to block the Sun Java SDK docs, for "hacking"... it made studying for AP computer science interesting. I forget the slightly dodgy vpn/proxy I wound up using to get around that - I think it had fire in its name, and was a super Web 1.0-style site filled with anarcho-libertarian rhetoric.

May Bess rot in hell.
This was fascinating.
If you just want a copy of a paper

If you search the title or visit the author's homepage you can sometimes find a copy hosted, and these days there is of course sci-hub.
In Denmark, to name one.
Well, sort of. I don't recall that being specifically mentioned but we were taught to tighten all muscles. You actually want to be as tense as you can when you hit the water. You want to hit it as close to straight as you can.

When you do hit it, just relaxing will fold you up - by the way. You're going so fast that you won't relax before you're completely submerged and slowed. I forget the numbers but it means your dive is more shallow than if you'd stayed tensed. There's a ratio for it, but I've long since forgotten.

I suspect there's been a bit posted about this. My enlistment was a long time ago but I'm told they still teach it. There may be some modifications to it, or new data for survivability.
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GCP has a virtual networking stack to support a bunch of crazy (and awesome) features Google has built. Unfortunately the complexity here seems to hurt power-users like us. In this case it appears that for some unknown reason the node failed to program its network stack when coming up, meaning it was completely unavailable (even the metadata service used internally by google failed).
6x revenue seems like a really high valuation, right? There's a physical product distributed via retail, we aren't talking tech margins. What's the value to Kellogg's?

My only guess is that Nutra Grain bars are being destroyed by Kind and their contemporaries. They need to compete in the category because they get some sort of incremental value when they own a number of different grocery departments. And their internal product development team just isn't very good.
Since no one has pointed this out yet, allow me to mention that weather and climate are two different things. The average of weather over long periods of time is climate. Failing to understand this is why you see articles that claim that a single cold day in the winter means that the climate isn't heating up.
Ah, we do delete the file as soon as the fax is confirmed as delivered: its in our FAQ at https://www.faxrocket.com/faq.html. We will update the privacy policy to include a reference to that.
In roughly the same sense that Portal is just a clone of Doom.

There are similarities in the mechanism; in the very early game in particular they are nearly identical. But they tell different stories, of different styles and levels of sophistication. They deal with different ideas. And this one goes from start to a satisfying end in a handful of hours.
OK, but was it the same Church in the East and West?

Or, even if nominally the same Church, were their attitudes about science the same?
My understanding is that the latest RFCes touching that syntax (not sure if they're implemented) have it overloaded with traits, and I would guess/hope that it's possible to implement those traits in a way that is fallible (e.g. hypothetically 'impl BoxSyntax for Result<Box<T>, AllocationError>').
Does this really hold up? I don't think so. I remember reading that under the law that an LLC that just holds property for the purpose of subverting re-assessment upon transfer, is not legal (or the reassessment happens when the LLC is sold, no free ride under prop 13). I would also think this doesn't work or every piece of property in California would just be owned by a separate company. If it does work, I'd like to know so I can set up my LLC for my house when I want to sell it. Reducing the property tax by $1000 a month should be worth quite a bit in this low interest environment.
He's missing a few dimensions.
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To give a data point, as someone who observes it, I'm just above the 45th and in the mountains of Maine. I also keep local weather records, as well as have amassed the historical records in a variety of formats.
On mobile and imgur refuses to work on my Fx, so won't post a screenshot. So just imagine how funny yours and oconnore's [0] comments look next to each other...

So, which way is it?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15488391
Computers are fast. 100ms is eons for things that just run on CPU. With a 2ghz computer, you can count from 1 to almost a billion. That's a billion little steps that can happen in the blank of an eye.
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Not that I would know any better but I always saw a user-controlled approach built around rdiff as a better alternative than surrendering files to a non-transparent third party such as Dropbox (who, go figure, used librsync originally).

There is an elegant simplicity to rdiff, IMHO.
Let me refine that part: I think that what would physically happen in the elevator example is apparent to most (someone with knowledge of Newtonian physics may agree with the idea that the interior of a falling elevator acts identically with the interior of an unmoving gravity-less elevator), but people without knowledge of relativity and the experiments that lead to it may disagree about what the elevator example means about physics and the world.

But the spinning-in-an-empty-universe example is a situation that I don't even agree with Mach/Einstein about what would happen, much less about what it says about the world. Maybe they're right, but this difference makes the thought experiment a much different kind and arguably a less compelling one than the other.

Thanks for the link, I found it an interesting read!
I tried a bunch of these because a. the packaging is great, and b. my office stocks them. I desperately wanted to like them, but they're really not that good. The ingredients are good but the macros are nothing special, and they are just so hard to eat. The consistency is terrible and it feels like the only health benefit you get is the workout you're giving your jaw, whilst trying to swallow it down.
Ubuntu still provides zsync of its installation media: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/17.04/release/

That said, I'm not sure I know of any other major users of it -- most people just use a .torrent (which similarly has checksums of each piece so you know which pieces need to be downloaded).
I can get it down to 1ms, so there's probably something wrong with my setup. (I just look for how the cursor moves; on the delayed one, I can discern the presence of the cursor on the next line for a split second.) Maybe monitor refresh rate, or the minimal resolution sleep can handle?

I'm using Alacritty, which is supposed to be really fast and everything!
>>There always turns out to be some fatal flaw that's obvious in an editor but totally escaped me in the word processor.

This problem goes away once you gain some experience - both in writing specs and in programming.

Think of it this way: do engineers build bridges without design documents and diagrams? No. So why are you writing software without them? If you aren't familiar with the problem domain, fine, do it the agile way. But once you gain experience there is no excuse to not thinking problems through in advance before trying to solve them.
Brand recognition + brand decoupling?

Brand recognition would allow them to push new products using the same brand (which people trust to be "no BS, healthy food"). Brand decoupling could disassociate their "healthy" line of products from the rest of the crud they produce (outside of their bran cereal, most of Kellogg's stuff is laden with sugar and chemicals.)

Also, AFAIK RxBar is sold just in the US.
The two friends I know who went to war had to shove dead kids into trucks. One is a functioning alcoholic and the other is a recluse whose nickname has "drugz" in it. Good luck with that as a self-motivating strategy.
Right, but is it a viable business if the average customer spends $1-2/year or less?

A business phone line ($100/month or less -- crap tier VOIP lines work fine for faxes) and a PCI fax/modem (<$50) should let you send hundreds of pages an hour with no paper or other consumables. It certainly seems like a send-only service that charges $0.01/page is more than viable. Even averaging only a page a minute would be $15/day in revenue, a huge profit margin.
JSON, but it isn't that pretty.