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> If I am giving you one apple per hour and you are giving me 100 apples per hour, is it accurate to say you are feeding apples back to me?

Yes. I am feeding apples to you. You are feeding apples to me. that's why a feedback loop is called a loop.

> No, I am feeding apples back to you. I am the feedback loop. You are the source.

You are not a loop. You are a person.

I realize that sounds silly, but I think this actually is the miscomprehension at play. We are both sources. And sinks. That's literally the whole point of a feedback loop.

Because I'm writing this on a site with a combinator in the upper left-hand corner, consider the following programming/logic analogy:

let A = λx.xx

Does the program diverge? NO. However, the program

let A = λx.xx;
AA

does diverge. This is analogous to llamataboot's point: if anthropogenic warming triggers a feedback loop, then the effects of that feedback loop are attributable to anthropogenic warming.

A is a function definition, not a diverging program. You are a person, not a loop.

The observation by llamataboot that "maybe we shouldn't execute AA given what we know about the definition of A" demonstrates a competent and accurate understanding of feedback loops.
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Is the good-vs-evil narrative always a regression?

Caricature-painting is a basic tool of modern morality tales. Is it so universally regressive? Would we be better off if we portrayed Pol Pot, Heath Ledger's Joker, or Opposing Racist White Guy as trying to balance conflicting motivations?
Everybody is in on it except for the casual folk, who I imagine make up the vast majority of the user base and have no clue what's going on behind the scenes.
Any recommendation of where to start with his books?
> “If Twitter was to purge everyone who did so there would be hardly any of them on it.”

Ban a few, even just for a few weeks, and the others will stop. That's how society works most of the time.
This is a case where discussion will likely be better if HN points to the paper rather than an information-poor popular treatment.

We changed the URL from https://qz.com/1189730/google-is-using-46-billion-data-point....
The increasing prevalence good guy bad guy dichotomy is probably driven by the conatraint of the shorter forms. There's a great videoessay on why star trek movies are awful (all of them except I and IV have a villain, and only II pulled it off well) while the series deep space nine pulled off an incredibly complex villain by virtue that they had 7 years to develop his story arc.

Even Darth Vader, the example from the OP essay got complexity as the franchise spanned decades.
The Affordable Care Act, and most replacement bills proposed over the last year, protects you from this type of discrimination.

Health insurers can't deny you coverage or raise prices due to any pre-existing health condition. By law, an insurer has to offer the same rate to everybody with the same age, zip code, and smoking status.

Insurers are allowed to rebate up to 30% of your premiums if you take healthy actions (e.g., going for a run, joining a weight loss program, medication adherence), as long as those actions don't discriminate based on health status.
I wouldn't be suprised at all. Go find an openly racist account and report them. Two weeks later Twitter will agree with you...but not ban the account
What happened? Did you get promoted? Start a family? Lose a bad bet with the mafia?
There are a couple projects that solve this by adding a rules engine that manages ACL.

https://deepstreamhub.com
https://crossbar.io
I agree that if Google throws enough money and talent at the problem then they can certainly make improvements, but I seriously doubt that they are going to create some sort of revolutionary clinical decision support system which is going to massively improve outcomes.
Don't need cat for the last one, can you redirected input

http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken < mybody.json
It's clear that he's using Perl 5. XS and CPAN are concepts exclusive to Perl 5.
We've transferred the motivation from war to political strife.

"I should hate other voters because they have it coming, history is on my side, and we will win!"

Generally, there's less physical violence, so I guess it's an improvement on those merits. Assuming this doesn't end in Civil War II.
When we go to talk to doctors to talk about a situation in Turkey, if you just say "I looked it up internet" they interrupt you, and talk about how you can not understand anything, they treat you like an idiot and show no respect. I imagine they might be exhausted by uneducated or nervous patients, but this is not the way to go to undermine a person's knowledge.

I do not complain when IntelliJ autocompletes my lambda function in Java 8 and get defensive and yell at the IDE. (Excluding who prefer no assist code editors)
>We're so hardly conditioned to believe that "racism is wrong" that when we see instances of racism that actually make sense, we instinctively want to name it something else.

Part of it is that.

Another part is that we conflate any collective tension or precaution or generalization to "hating".

You might not hate blacks, but you still wont want to walk alone in 3AM in downtown L.A. Even if 99% of the people you meet there are great with you, it only takes 1-2 persons to attack or rob you to make the precaution (and thus the generalization) perfectly rational. That doesn't make you a racist, just a person aware of crime statistics.

Few, if anyone, can just say, "I'll just visit downtown L.A. at 3 AM without a care in my mind, and judge people I meet there on an individual basis". And even the few that do that, if they end having it bad, they rarely keep to the same ideal.
In fact 1GB was so mind-blowing that people thought it was an April fools joke.
A lot stronger with the 190 proof (95%) Everclear.

Ethanol works well to extract flavors due to it's lipophilic character (oil-loving). The more dilute it is, the less oil-dissolving power it has.

190 proof alcohol will pull a lot more from something like orange peels than 80 proof.
They could join the rest of the internet and serve a Captcha to the suspicious accounts!
Can you please not post shallow partisan comments to HN? They push discussion in a direction that HN is definitely not for.

Also, the site guidelines ask people not use uppercase for emphasis: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Oh yes! I remember how my friends and I were blown away by Warcraft, and then just feel into SC with abandon. Good times.
`terraform state mv` is indeed the trick. It took me a while to understand it, but this blog post helped. [1] It leads you through refactoring some resources into a module.

The key takeaway for me was "we really only need to consider the nodes that map to the physical resources of our infrastructure when we are planning our state surgery. This means we can ignore all of the nodes that correspond to data sources, variables, and providers."

So after a refactor, this is what I do now: (1) run plan to get the names of everything terraform wants to delete and recreate; (2) pair all the resource nodes manually and translate them to state mv commands; (3) re-run plan and verify that terraform is now convinced there is nothing to do.

It would be nice if terraform could do this for me, of course, but I find that it is generally possible to avoid delete and recreate if all I've done is a refactoring.

[1] https://ryaneschinger.com/blog/terraform-state-move/
There was someone who saw his own product being resold at a higher price. So he placed an order with the reseller while substantially raising the price of his own product. They had to buy from him at a big loss or take a hit on their reputation.
The Empire wasn't saying, "Well, if Alderaan doesn't cut it out, we'll have deaths that add up to ten Alderaans." It's not an apples to apples comparison.

Though now that I say that, A New Hope would have been better if they had Tarkin thinking along those lines.
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Articles of this sort:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2540

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/10/29/t...
One nice thing about Julia is that you basically never have to think about the indices. One of the primary reasons for this is that people using julia like array types with all types of strange and wonderful index sets (e.g. skew lattices to slice through a higher-dimensional array which people in medical imaging like apparently). As such, there are easy and convenient abstractions that are independent of the index space and all of the standard libraries and most external packages use these (to be able to deal with non-standard arrays).
Or use a bot for a lousy summary http://smmry.com/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01...
They won't say, because they're secret. But it's probably optics or just some legacy designs that they don't want to qualify for horizontal.
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If you want to eradicate biting dogs, does it make sense to add an extra word to specifically limit the scope of the effort to just white dogs?

It's not an unclear sentence.

And you're probably quite sane.
> Please note that the goal of this project is to provide a simple, turn-key solution. There are basically no configuration options and you can’t tweak the machine’s configuration files after installation.

Can't configure post-install? At all? This seems like it would be a showstopper for some.
This is an announcement of an announcement. Those are the quintessence of offtopicness, so please don't post them.

On HN, there's no harm in simply waiting until a thing happens.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20an...
Good point. Good TV, shows like Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, and Mad Men use their longer format to take their time and develop more complex characters.
Original Bulgar tribes were Turkic not slavic, migrated from Asia, through north of black sea. I did not say all current Bulgarian population is descendants of them.
You'll notice in my description I'm describing as intrinsic tangible costs, e.g. materials. E.g. in this case what would be investment in the hardware plotter, paper, software... etc (There are opportunity costs for time which are pretty objective as well.

That is: I do think that so long as you assume someone isn't for more complicated or personal reasons distributing their work at a loss, there are really intrinsic costs... and hence arguably an intrinsic value. Assuming that your market agrees that you've done more than ruin the materials as materials.

BUT I agree with you, these costs are usually immaterial in most art world attributions of value. That is, who cares if a De Kooning consumed $400 in paint on a $400 canvas.

My interest was that in most industries, e.g. non-consumer hardware electronic goods, it's an industry standard to charge something on the order of 4:1 or 8:1 over the material costs, to account for all the less tangible costs: and provide a "healthy" profit which is liable to not also be so high as to invite competition.

In this case then it'd be expected that the cost of tangible material investment was around $25-50/work, which seems the right ballpark at least.

QED IMO anyway those drawings aren't "overpriced," quite the contrary. :)
To me your comment seems to highlight how important it is to have good safeguards in place when founding (any) company. I’ve seen (and experienced first hand) things go south even when people knew and trusted each other for years/decades for an infinite amount of reasons: people change, you may not know them as well as you think, success/failure puts immense pressure and makes people irrational, etc. etc.

Have basic safeguards in place like backups, paper trials, make sure you have good contracts that cover what happens if one of you leaves, can’t work, doesn’t perform, etc. make sure you have an independent board member further along, etc.
> ...the most recent film in the series explicitly questioned the entire premise.

Did it? The bad guys are still blowing up planets and murdering the people who love them.
Seconding Baudrillard. His analysis of hyperreality, and how we respond to hyperreality, even though it doesn’t really exist and has no effect on reality (which it is imitating) is really tragic.
OP here. That was in fact the case ;-)
As a fairly successful bootstrapper, I'd say that it's more likely that taking money generally leads to a "runway" in that you need to be profitable or raise another round by the end of that runway. Many don't succeed in either of those efforts because they tend to take on heavy expenses too early, where a bootstrapper is much more thrifty and mindful of cash flow.

In the early days of my company, I applied to YCombinator, was a 2x Techstars finalist, and pitched Fred Wilson at USV's office. Rejected by everyone - but honestly, if I'd taken their money I probably would have mismanaged it and brought the company to an early end.
I'm not sure why you are downvoted about this.

I've went through 10 research papers on this very subject last week, all from 2016-2017, and this is a huge problem.

Just because google does it, people assume it's infallible, where in reality there are bunch of methods to deanonymize data, from machine learning to pure mathematical models on binary vs categorical inputs and such.

In this day and age, somebody will publish the deanonymized, cross-referenced (from voting registry or whatever) set online for free searching.

Then again, most people are fine with this, as long as their names aren't on the list, so considering it's 200k sample out of 323M population, at most 0.7% will be really outraged. Which may explain the down votes he's receiving. 99.3% names aren't on the list, and from that set they want the scoop on the rest of their neighbors.
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Just a note, that with polar night comes a) long winter with sun and snow, and b) polar day.
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OP here.

This is funny. On the rest of my blog post I use indices. For this post, I went with indexes because that's what PG calls them in the docs.

I feel your pain.
When you have a long commute, even by transit, it tends to crowd out other activities that you might want to partake in. I'm not talking about a 30 minute trip, but rather 2+ hours each way. It's life altering.
Is there a debate informed by decent evidence, though? As far as I know, no high-quality study has ever shown acupuncture to significantly outperform sham acupuncture, let alone outperform usual care. In my experience, studies cited by lay acupuncture advocates are usually either preliminary types of studies (uncontrolled or unsuitable control intervention, non-randomized, small N) or actually involve doing something other than acupuncture, such as running an electrical current through the needles.
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OK, we added the year above.
> And if you only waited until you have a firm financial backing behind you and you alone with nobody to split risk with, we wouldn't have very many start ups.

A programmer doesn't have to wait.

Try to take it from a programmer's perspective:

We already have ideas. There's a huge supply of programmers. One's that'd be happy to write an MVP for that inventor/artist/etc in exchange for 20k. But I guarantee you there's zero programmers waiting around, saying to themselves, "If only I had a visionary come along to give me an idea"

Programmer's get used to it. But at least once per year many of us hear something like, "I have a vision", "I got this idea, psst", because you can guarantee 99% of the time, they're not willing to put any cash into it themselves. What I get is a person bossing me around, while I don't get paid, and I absorb all the risk of their idea.

> This applies equally to every start up entrepreneur, from artists to inventor.

If I take on a co-founder, co-hacker, inventor, what do I get?

What role do they play? The "ideas guy". My above post was based on the assumption they have a 50% split. But since they view themselves as the unique, creative force behind everything, they want 51%. Maybe more.

Now, this co-founder thing would make sense if we laid transparent ground rules up front: while all this comes into formation, am I getting paid while I'm crafting this "vision"?

Programmers are in a unique position when it comes to tech startups. They can bootstrap by themselves. The burden lies on the prospective co-founder to balance that contribution through something more than dictating and having ideas. That usually is them going out and raising a seed or self-funding.
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It does. But after growing up in freezing winter Russia, then cold rain Holland and now living in California, even though I do miss some of those wintery things, I’m sure glad to be back to no season coastal California every time I spend even a few days in a cold/dark northern hemisphere place.
In many ancient societies - and not few contemporary ones - tribalism was thoroughly accepted, as were tribal wars. I would say that having to justify the morality of a war, however many lies this brings about, is still a step forward.
> He was just fighting for the other side and David killed him, that's it as far as I know.

The Philistines in the Bible were generally military aggressors. Goliath was at the head of that aggression. He provoked and tried to dishonor Israel. You could read everything he said about Israel as so much smack-talking, but the fact that he was there to conquer is hard to hand-wave around.
The commute time has grown over the last few decades[1]. I wonder if commuting not on the list because the polled older Americans didn't have to commute as long.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/22/the-a...
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Thanks and definitely.
I think, when you have the time, it is always worthwhile to dig into the nuance of a particular issue. whether you have time to dig deep into the intricacies of le sophisticated gentlesir's stunning new devil's advocate argument about racism is ultimately a personal decision.
You see similar cases being made with languages like q, the programming and query language for the kdb database. Arthur Whitney, the q-father, built an apl dialect called a+ at Morgan Stanley, which is still in use.

RTL evaluation semantics aside, the argument I’ve heard for the terseness of the q language is that the interpreter is tiny so it fits inside a page. Okay, great, so use your words and kill the built-in webserver.
I'm be curious, but it seems broken in mobile. The Brave Android browser isn't recognized.
I don't mind the change in light (dark or light) - but a friend recommended sticking alum foil over windows with normal house/floor cleaning soap for glue (doesn't hurt the glass, makes for easy removal).
Worked for me when I worked night shift and went to bed around 10 am.
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Thanks!

Yeah the active learning is one reason we made it a downloadable tool. We couldn't figure out how to make that work well as a SaaS.

That said, there's definitely advantages to the SaaS design too, so I think the products take different shapes. It's good to see more tools in this space, and your free usage for open data plan should be really useful for researchers.
Hey wjnc. That's actually part of the problem I have with it. When you say:

> ...for me 'constructing reality' really drives home that reality is subjective, a construct.

That is a large part of why I take issue with the phrase: the idea that 'reality is subjective, a construct' is one philosophical stance, but by no means the only one possible (afaik, it's quite uncommon for those outside the humanities and certain social sciences to believe this), so it's problematic to have it assumed as true, and to encode that assumption subtly into the language you're using (it's a phrase made up of common words, so unless you're familiar with it, you won't know it has a special meaning).
OK, we s/discovered/patched/ the title above. Since something can't be patched before it is discovered this seems strictly more informative.
It's worse than that. They could just throw away all the sales from this contract, since it's not connected to anything.

They also failed to verify source code for the contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x3c7767011C443EfeF2187cf1F2a4c..., and the source code on GitHub is missing a file ("Ownable.sol"), making it difficult for anyone else to verify what source code is actually running.

I suppose the lack of verified source code doesn't matter, given my first point. People who are buying are placing a lot of trust in the "Fuel Bros Innovation Team."
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Hey, reading the article made me realize there's space for a tool to clean out all those bots from your follower list. People like @chefsymon who are now a bit embarrassed by their previous acquisitions.
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How long did your “non-funded” friends put into it before it could pay their own expenses? Unless it was really fast, it’s probably more accurate to call it self-funded or bootstrapped and then compare numbers.

I’m not disagreeing that bootstrapping can often be the better path, but it’s also not credibly available to everyone. What percentage of folks can work for a year without pay? In my experience it’s fairly “U-shaped”: people just out of school (minimal expenses) and people who don’t need money anymore. People in the middle rarely are up for burning through their savings for an idea.
I've posted this on HN before, and it seems appropriate here as well. I read this every once in awhile, and it never fails to inspire meet to live by what Jeff Bezos calls the "regret minimization framework":

If I were able to live my life anew, In the next I would try to commit more errors. I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more. I would be more foolish than I've been, In fact, I would take few things seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would run more risks, take more vacations, contemplate more sunsets, climb more mountains, swim more rivers. I would go to more places where I've never been, I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans, I would have more real problems and less imaginary ones.

I was one of those people that lived sensibly and prolifically each minute of his life; Of course I had moments of happiness. If I could go back I would try to have only good moments.
Because if you didn't know, of that is life made: only of moments; Don't lose the now.
I was one of those that never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot-water bottle, an umbrella, and a parachute; If I could live again, I would travel lighter.

If I could live again, I would begin to walk barefoot from the beginning of spring and I would continue barefoot until autumn ends. I would take more cart rides, contemplate more dawns, and play with more children, If I had another life ahead of me.

But already you see, I am 85, and I know that I am dying.

Edit: Not sure who the author is. I've seen it attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, but am pretty sure that is incorrect.
I do agree that for applying technologies in real world problems, a much deeper understanding is required than what majority of MOOCs provide.
That being said, different learning methods suit different type of learners. For some, starting out with a hands-on overview of the topic at hand works best. This is where tutorials such as this one shine through.
"Why Opposing Racist White Guy actually has some kind of point" is a popular genre of mainstream news opinion columns.

Superhero stories vary on an an axis from pure pantomime villains to giving the villain considerable space to explain why he's actually in the right. Part of the reason that Heath Ledger's performance is so acclaimed that his Joker isn't simply one-dimensionally evil.
OK, time to hold off on computer purchases until the fixed version is out the door. Maybe by then the big GPU shortage due to cryptocurrency mining will have been resolved.