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Ask HN: Why do you believe that your religion/faith/worldview is correct?
Nearly everyone in this world holds to some central and defining philosopy or faith or religion that shapes the meaning of life for them. I would like to know: What, in your opinion, is the most compelling reason that persuades YOU to believe that your particular "world-view" is accurate/true/trustworthy? Do you base your belief on scientific reasoning? historical evidence? philosophical syllogisms? simple "faith"?

This is an honest and genuine question. Feel free to ask clarifying questions of responders, but please no trolls or religious debates. We're just looking for a respectful exchange of ideas.
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Communication complexity of approximate Nash equilibria
Vim, apparently, is the new emacs.

/me ducks and runs out of the room
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That's been the response on Reddit and Disqus as well. Guess I'll have to give it a try!
You make a compelling point. If I wanted to support one of those companies by purchasing their products, what would I look for? Any chance salmon is among the fish that are well farmed?
I have a CS degree, and while I feel it has been quite helpful, I by no means think less of those without one or that it makes me a better dev than someone else. In fact, most of the best developers I've worked with have not had a CS degree. My running theory is that the same skills and talents that enable somebody to learn software engineering/programming without the structure of a degree program are the same skills and talents that make a great engineer. Long story short, there is no reason to feel like less of a dev, programmer, or engineer because you don't have a piece of paper.
I don't take notes with my ipad pro. I only use it to annotate textbooks. Notes are taken with either pen & paper or my MBP.
It's not just debt, it's the fact that the debt is effectively unlimited. The problem is that we want an education market but also for no one to be priced out of higher ed. So we provide easy credit, and there's consequently no brake on costs.
Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's next?
I've been writing software for startups for the last three years. I'm self taught and started right after high school. I've worked for my current employer for about 18 months and our team and technology were recently acquired. As I've begun to assimilate into the new company, I'm realizing how burnt out I am and how little satisfaction I get from writing software for enterprise companies. My question is, what's next? I've looked at other tech jobs and few of them spark my interests.

I realize this is a very open ended question. Any advice is thoroughly appreciated.
By that argument, my house is conscious whenever I'm at home.
And manifold learning: https://people.csail.mit.edu/tommi/papers/HasAlvJaa-TACL16.p...
Not a great analogy. And even good analogies don't make great arguments.
Fair's fair, I think that skis and horses might rank above walking for most people, but most places where that is possible don't have the amenities of major cities.

Also, horses shit all over the place.
> audaciously malicious

malicious: characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm

I worked in the WMT home office for 12 years.

I can assure you that it's not malice. It's much worse.

During the glory days of growth in the early 2000s, where we were opening a new store (minimum 150,000 square feet, usually much later), on average, every day, the feeling was nothing more or nothing less than complete apathy toward the dollar stores.

WalMart, back then, cared as much about dollar stores as most people care about some ants running across their sidewalk.

Though, as we now see, that was a short-sighted perspective, since WMT, while still enormous, is seeing its growth slowing rapidly.
This is super cool. Thank you all for your hard work.
Here are a couple stories that relate to your last paragraph.

Dead in Irons by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro[0]

Survival by John Wyndham[1]

[0] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56991

[1] http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1952feb-00102
That's fair.

It's a puzzling situation. I don't think it's possible to prove that cryonics is wrong, because it strikes me as a non-falsifiable proposition.
It's hard to understand why we'd spend effort pushing for adoption of a rube goldberg machine that can only hope to approach the security of Signal when we could instead just have people adopt Signal.
Interesting that they were generating pretty insignificant returns and their accounts got flagged.

Their bets were not that large $50... wonder what aspect of their play got them flagged.

I would assume the bookies are aware of when they are offering an odd that is above market...they also would know that this is an areas where they are potentially exposed. So maybe they report on that and see who is betting exclusively on those positions?

Confusing though - because they are often offering those odds because they want to balance their position to reduce risk...so wouldn't they want people to be on those odds?
A city on the outskirts of Silicon Valley

This is a definition of "outskirts" with which I was previously unfamiliar. It's a minimum 90-minute trip by private car from, say, Menlo Park, with no traffic. It's a 7 hour trip by the one public transportation option Google Maps just showed me.
> “why is this better than an ide?”

Because it's a workflow that works for some people. Shouldn't being the most effective you can be trump things like which editor is better, or IDE versus vanilla editor? Your workflow is your workflow, don't worry about other people's.
How would you even know of there has been so little research on the subject? How can you claim to have an unbiased answer when you only research one side of a topic?

I legitimately want to ask you how you can be so sure that our doomsday scenarios are accurate, when we still have a fledgling understanding of a massive chaotic system like climate, and when almost all research has been purposefully negative?

If you look hard enough, you'll find anything. That's why skepticism is necessary. You'll at least agree that anything remotely pro climate change is taboo, I hope, and there is no room for taboo in science, in my opinion.

Edit: hell, how long have we known about deep ocean currents? Stratification of the subsea into various isoclines and thermoclines? Calthrates? People seem to underestimate how complex climate is, and how much we've yet to discover.
> Google claiming to be working on 49 qubits

I heard someone say that once we got to 50 qubits, we would be able to unlock the potential of quantum computers/actually solve problems that are nontrivial for traditional computers. If that's the case, why is google stopping just before that threshold?
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> It's a policy that should be scrapped

Why? They're not spraying some broad-spectrum pesticide.
This seems like a big change. I am always curious about what the current state of the art is for modelling second order effects of such a big change. Would appreciate any insights from people who have an insight into decision making at this level (something that affects millions of people in a real and meaningful way).
Not denying what you wrote, but a folding bike is cheaper, probably more portable (i.e. you can take it on a plane with you) and it doesn't need recharging.
IME most of the classes you take in grad school are irrelevant to your research. Maybe 2 will be useful, 3-5 if you're lucky. That's basically 1-2 semesters of learning compared to 3-6 years doing research for a PhD. My point is that the coupling of teaching and research isn't necessary, teaching could be covered in a 4+1 undergrad/masters. I've personally had professors from each combination of (good at teaching) x (good at research), and I think the (good,bad) is more common than (good,good).

Coupling of research and university in order to protect research against financial/political shocks does seem to have some merit. But I think we have to examine the costs. For example, in my department one of the professors has a poster that reads what is expected of their time commitment: 30% of their time devoted to service, 70% to teaching, and 100% to research. If the reaserch is that important to us, shouldn't it be done by someone who can spend all their time thinking about it?
Google unveils AI that learns on its own
> The truth is, employers are willing to pay $180k, but if someone would work for $110k[1], they'd rather find that out in advance.

That is exactly why I refuse to negotiate over compensation: I don't want to work with people who have that kind of cheapskate attitude. If they want me, they can express that by making a good offer. If the offer is low, none of the possible reasons are good for me. Why waste time haggling? Better to just move on.
For sure! There was definitely some trial and error as I was writing it. :) The specific use case I have is for running Elixir tests, but I'm sure adapting it wouldn't present too much of a challenge:

https://gist.github.com/ddresselhaus/98b022e295bc27e9264dece...

I haven't done a ton of Vim scripting and found this resource to be super helpful! https://devhints.io/vimscript
Start with what you enjoy doing. Write code that interests you. Do it for no other reason than to scratch you personal itch. Share it on GitHub. Get good at it through enjoyment of the 'work'.

Then you'll have another perspective to evaluate future opportunities and you'll have a much better chance of getting a job that also interests you. Getting paid to do something you enjoy and that interests you doesn't feel like a job, but it sure is.
>>Apple used to be the UX good guys

Apple had one person who was good at UX. And that guy is dead for years now. His product pipeline can't be milked further to make more money.

From here onwards its just your usual managers running the show.
I've long had a scifi vision of the future in which autonomous drones intelligently, with sustainability as a goal, hunt wild fish as a good way around the factory meat problem. Only slightly related, just wanted to share some techno-optimism.
Better coverage in Reuters: [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-funding-tezos-spe...
Take some time off. You should sit down and work out what you really value.

The definition of burnout is when you force yourself to work on something that you don’t see the value in.

When you know what you really value then make steps toward experiencing those values in your every day life. This doesn’t just go for work but every part of your life.
Probably a case of having engulfed the industry so much that just throwing money into the industry will actually pay out for them in the long run.

And it's probably also just nice to be able to bite Google and Microsoft in the butt here. Those do benefit from a healthy web and both very much need the PR of supporting webstandards, but they could also both benefit a lot more from controlling a platform like MDN and then sneaking in pseudo standards here and there.
So, Samsung helping out with MDN makes it even harder for one of those to build up their own version.

Lastly, Samsung does ship their Samsung Internet Browser on all of their Galaxy devices, which has got to be a somewhat significant share of daily internet users. Currently, that's Chromium-based, but they could be looking to eventually follow Google and Microsoft in making up webstandards.

They've also already invested into Mozilla's Servo, so maybe they're also just trying to build up a partnership with Mozilla to help to take on those giants.
Yeh that general area has heaps of cool museums and factories around. I only got to these due to a super cramped sechedule, but I had marked several there (ESA Operations Centre is a bit north, for example) and would've loved to see more!
Just want to add that the blog posts[1] detailing how and why ripgrep is able to beat other search tools are pretty interesting reading.

[1] http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
Oh man, I worked with Kevin a long time ago in my first web dev job. I remember this existing even at that point. Cool to see it here, haven't thought about these things in a long time.
Yup. The Buran was awesome. They have scaffolding up into the cargo bay and a small viewing deck into the rear to look at all the electronics near the engines. I definitely recommend both, they're wonderful museums with heaps on offer.
The demo video at the bottom of the page shows that it can output to Markdown easily.
HOAs, township laws, etc — it is somewhat common in the US to be unable to do anything but grow grass in your front yard. We took advantage of the CA drought and tore out all our grass in front and replaced it with drought tolerant natives. It looks better and the kids didn’t play there anyway. And now we have monarchs.
AFAIK, I can do with my garden whatever I want to do, as long as a I don't turn it into forrest. But that's here in Austria. What you describe sounds terrible. Fines for not mowing? In which country do you live?
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Show HN: Play Request Tracer – A module for tracing a request flow easily
It's actually a relative luxury to live in a car. Living in a car is more expensive than, say, living on a cot in a group shelter.

If we were most concerned about maximizing efficiency, we'd all be living in dense urban environments, using shared public transportation, etc. Most people would sleep in something similar to a Capsule Hotel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
Thanks! Do you have any suggestions for Ben Franklin biographies/books?
I think there might be a cultural difference here. Where are you from? I have maritime family and my uncle has been awarded his village's "Biggest Asshole" award multiple times. With a trophy and everything. He's a potato farmer who listens to classical music and reads poetry while on the machinery. He's got a laugh that lights up a room and is wonderful family man with strong values. He's deeply committed to his community in a spiritual sort of belonging way. He farms the family homestead like 7 generations of Welsh goofballs before him.

Maybe another way to look at it is ask, what is the alternative to having a laugh at the tourists? I can't comprehend one.

Calling each other out for riffing on tourist blunders because they are part of a pseudo-disabled population or something? I'm honestly finding it impossible to imagine a different way for it all to play out.
> Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbooks.

Yes, digital textbooks can offer so much more, and yet maybe the "so much more" is their biggest pitfall: they (and/or the device serving as their platform) offer near limitless opportunities for distraction. While our attention span - or our lack thereof, trained as we are by the 3 second rule TV commercials push on us - might be able to get a major workout that leaves us exhausted and feeling like we have accomplished something (though in reality, hardly anything) - the digital format and form of delivery can rob us of our ability to freely focus. Let's face it, even with a good old-fashioned hard cover we can encounter distractions, and when we use digital, we're opening ourselves up to overwhelming levels of "opportunities for distraction" in which environment the human mind/body/condition is incapable of flourishing. Ironically, the very limitations of the physical textbook may be one of its liberating features.
For some reason the video was uploaded at 25fps which almost never plays right on computers, and frame-by-frame playback shows the skipping is baked into the video. I got bored counting frames to figure out what the source framerate might have been, if there was a consistent source rate.
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I of course don't know the full details, but that doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. Have you talked to her about it? If so and it's still like this, maybe consider a therapist or other options? Sorry for what you're going through.
> Are you implying that tax and trade policy have no impact on economic efficiency?

Quite the reverse. A VAT is an efficient tax, and in particular is more efficient than income or capital taxes with lower deadweight losses. And in fact, if the US reduced capitals gains and corporate tax rates, and introduced a VAT, keeping its total tax take the same, I'd expect the US to become more economically efficient and employment to rise. (...not that I'd expect the US to introduce a VAT in this way of course.)

But that's neither here nor there. Your original comment was about international trade, trade deficits, and NAFTA, and none of it is true. A VAT does not subsidize exports, nor penalize imports, and 0% of the US balance of trade can be explained by its decision to not have a VAT, or the decision of many of its trading partners to have a VAT. If you want to argue that US economic policy is wrong headed and costing jobs then...yeah, it is. And a VAT is probably a key step on the path towards making major improvements. But that's got nothing to do with NAFTA.
> but I've made the choice to forgo today for tomorrow.

Problem is that choice is a luxury
Yeah, I think my sarcasm didn't go over well here.
There are backdoors you can introduce from that position that don't involve an n * 2^-700 probability of the pattern occurring non-maliciously.
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>>It's literally shown in every marketing video and advertisement since demo day.

The whole point of a good UI is you shouldn't be reading a manual and watching videos to do X, Y and Z.

Apple used to be a pioneer at things like this.

Sad things have come down to this.
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Seems like the site would freeze the entire browser on Firefox 57.0b9 in macOS 10.12.
They can ask, legally. Maybe it would be used as evidence they wanted to discriminate but it's not a violation of the law simply to ask.
https://i3wm.org/
Just so we're clear here, you're whole argument here is that people shouldn't mow the lawn b/c it causes stinging insects, but at the same time doesn't cause stinging insects? What is your point exactly?
Only "a boot stamping on a human face, forever", will survive that. Not a human foot, not a human wearing a boot, just a boot -- I think these words were chosen carefully.
Server logs dont have much useful information, especially for SaaS interfaces. You need to have the events from the actual UI tracked, which requires a lot more work and is the reason why these analytics tools are used.
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The aes key is encrypted using an rsa key that was generated on the TPM - the TPM PCR values need to be valid for the TPM to decrypt and release the decrypted aes key.
Yeah, becoming a CA is kind of a PITA. I think a "Sub-domain CA" would be a kind of happy middle ground, as it wouldn't need to be trusted as much.

Also, the Plex approach requires some DNS trickery, which works well when you're online, but on a boat in the middle of an ocean, it might be harder... We need a way to secure local-only communications, with local-only names (like .local). While we're at it, mDNS support in browsers would be nice, too.
> The Breitmans had also hired Strange Brew Strategies, a U.S. communications company, to promote their project, and Reuters wrote a news story on May 5 about Draper’s involvement.

> In pitching the story to Reuters, John O‘Brien, a principal of Strange Brew, had made claims about Tezos’ progress. He wrote: “The applications of Tezos, ranging from derivatives settlement to micro-insurance, are real and recognized by industry giants. Ernst & Young, Deloitte, LexiFi, etc. have adopted Tezos in their development environments and labs.”

> On Oct. 3, a spokeswoman for the accounting firm Ernst & Young told Reuters: “The statement is not correct. EY has not adopted Tezos.” A spokesman for Deloitte said Tezos’ code is “one of many technologies we’re considering” with blockchain, but it’s “still early stage and we haven’t used the technology for a client project.”

> Jean-Marc Eber, CEO of the French software company LexiFi, said, “The sentence, as stated, isn’t accurate and unfortunately exaggerated, to say the least.” While there had been “informal contacts,” he said, “at this stage, LexiFi has not adopted Tezos’ technology in its development environment or labs.”

Jesus.
>As far as we know the brain is just a "linear algebra blackbox"...Likely they use similar principles.

I'm not an expert, but my impression is that this is not really a reasonable claim, unless you're only considering very small function-like subsystems of the brain (e.g. visual cortex). Neural nets (of the nonrecurrent sort) are strict feed-forward function approximators, whereas the brain appears to be a big mess of feedback loops that is capable of (sloppily, and with much grumbling) modeling any algorithm you could want, and, importantly, adding small recursions/loops to the architecture as needed rather than a) unrolling them all into nonrecursive operations (like a feedforward net) or b) building them all into one central singly-nested loop (like an RNN).

The brain definitely seems to be using something backprop-like (in that it identifies pathways responsible for negative outcomes and penalizes them). But brains also seem to make efficiency improvements really aggressively (see: muscle memory, chunking, and other markers of proficiency), even in the absence of any external reward signal, which seems like something we don't really have a good analogue for in ANNs.
Why do you want to sell it? My friend and I thought of this the other day as a business.

Do you do the printing yourself or use a SASS to do it?
Congratulations on getting a head start on your career. Now go to college. Seriously. Start at JC. You'll kill it. Then transfer to the best university you can get into; that would be Berkeley.

There's a shit ton to learn at college and a lot of interesting people to meet. You'll have a better broader handle on things than knowing everything there is about Python.
I am not sure Akka already runs on Scala Native, but if/when it does, that would be my first reason.
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> Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbooks. They can have embedded interactive content, ranging from extremely zoomable 2D content to see something in detail to rotatable 3D models. They can have videos. Or just audio, say to listen to case studies or know how a bird sounds. They can have automatically gradable quizzes and exercises. There is so much more digital books can offer.

Yes yes yes yes!

I love your thinking.

I'd love to see a startup specifically targeting this-- A new type of publication. You pay for it like an e-book, but it's interactive like an application, and super high quality.

Maybe we could start with programming books? Take the best of the programming books out there and re-interpret them as this new sort of interactive product.
My company moved me away from the East Coast and didn't even bother with the West Coast and while I was able to negotiate a salary increase.. moving me the mountainous desert warranted them to pay me far less. Can't really complain... can't say I'm rich, but I am making a good living. Whereas living on the coast cost me about 1 out of 2 of my paychecks for rent, I now have a mortgage that costs me about half of one paycheck (though my lady and I split the costs and charge her adult children rent as well).

I work beyond my job to try and make that East Coast or West Coast salary in my own time.
It’s not clear if you believe all ad-supported apps are sleazy or if you think it’s clear to users when apps use precise geotargeted ads. Either way that doesn’t constitute “very real client-side protection” anymore than expecting folks to regularly disable basic functionality.