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Well, as an American, I can say that it isn't an assumption that success in life is solely due to talent. However, there is a belief that one can be successful with an entrepreneurial, hard-working attitude. Everyone knows that ultimate level of success is influenced by things out of one's control, but the American work ethic is more about making the most of what one has. People choose to control what they can, which is effort and attitude, and not worry about that which they can't.
I think you might have missed my point. I'm not saying that dark matter skeptics are crackpots because they don't believe in dark matter. I'm saying that if people think they can disprove the existence of dark matter because you can apply some high school arithmetic and claim that Keplerian law is violated, then you are a crackpot.

Someone else unwittingly suggested a parallel to Fermat, which I think hits the nail on the head exactly. If someone thinks they can prove Fermat's last theorem with some high school geometry, odds are pretty good they're a crackpot. If they're a well-regarded mathematician and they can build off new mathematics and make a few very complicated leaps by discovering new mathematics of their own, then people take them more seriously.

Scott Aaronson has a really great take on this here: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304

As an aside that's probably only interesting to me, I went to a Great Books college. It's one of those hippy dippy liberal arts schools where there are no electives, no textbooks, no lectures, just primary sources. You learn mathematics by reading Euclid, Ptolemy, Newton, etc.

At any rate, for first-year "Labratory" class, you trace the atomic theory from the Greeks to roughly Avogadro. Along the way you read papers by and replicate the experiments of many influencial scientists along the way. When I mention that the above crackpots are "wrong", I don't mean it in the sense of the aether or analogous theories along the way to the atomic theory, namely phlogiston or caloric, two previous theories of heat. Those theories did not explain new observations and were rightly discarded along the way. Priestly and Lavoisier were brilliant and tried to make theory match observation, so now even though their theories are discarded, their work still stands on its own for the time. I wouldn't call them wrong. There's a definite difference between them and theories that are just wrong.

Nobody's going to get a Nobel Prize when they just make the world believe that they have obviated the need for dark matter by pulling out some high school math and some Kepler proofs.

Someone will win it if they ever make an observation that proves a MOND theory in a way that shows conclusively that dark matter is not needed to explain all current observations and in fact cannot remain compatible with this new observation.

There's a big difference between the two, I think.
Let's face it - how intelligent you are, what if anything you're gifted at, how tenatious you are, where you were born, who your parents are, who you know, what opportunities life presents you, what you enjoy doing, how much you are driven to win... ALL of these things are out of your control. The real falacy is that rich and successful people think they somehow "deserve" their status and that other people just didn't try hard enough. The reality is that life is a random shitshow and the rich / successful have been extremely lucky.
You are also always free to leave a country and live somewhere else. There are plenty of countries in the world. Isn't that the same argument?
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Ironically enough the font+point used for HN has kind of bad kerning on the rn pair that makes it look a lot like m in comments.
So, you are under the impression your connections gave you these opportunities out of friendship, not because they thought you were great for the job?
I didn't mean to insinuate that the process I describe is one to be taken out of boredom. Let me try to explain what I am thinking:

I have been studying lisp and wanted to understand more about the origins. So I went back to the beginning of the language and read the various McCarthy papers. But what he was thinking is not entirely clear to me. So I wonder, what papers was he studying himself when he wrote this? That is easy to answer as he put the references right there in the back of the paper for me to track down. So I start reading papers written by Church and Godel. I repeat this process recursively while looking for shared references. That network of interconnected papers is a treasure trove of useful information. Reading the same papers an author was reading during their writing process is a valuable way to expand your understanding of their work.
This sounds great until you realize that "illegal hate speech" includes criticizing your government over rape gangs that are kidnapping your children.

But that's fine because there's nothing to worry about, we assure you. It's just sensationalism, not that we weren't doing our jobs in investigating this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/telford-grooming-...

Based on how censorship is currently done in Europe, I won't be surprised if this law would be used to target "hate speech" like this and still nothing will be done about all of the content on YouTube being made for pedophiles.
The European Parliament is just as accountable as any other.

That's the theory, but it's really not true at all in practice.

For one thing, UK MPs are directly elected. If they don't represent their constituents satisfactorily, the constituents can vote them out, personally, next time. In contrast, UK MEPs are elected via a party list system. If they don't represent their constituents satisfactorily, the only way to get rid of the top person on a party's list is for that party not to get enough votes for even a single representative in that region. The personal accountability is lost under this system.

For another thing, UK MPs do tend to communicate meaningfully with their constituents. I have written to my MP on occasion and invariably received at least a sensible reply (and this has been true for several different MPs, not all in the same party). I have visited my MP in person at their surgery and had a face-to-face discussion where I could see they were understanding the issue I was raising. In striking contrast, on the occasions when I have written to my MEPs, I have not received so much as a courtesy acknowledgement from around half, and usually only one or two have replied with any real substance. I have literally never heard (unsolicted) from any MEP representing me other than at election time, I am not aware of any means to meet them face-to-face to discuss an issue, and most of the time I don't even know their names or which parties they represent.

Whatever the pros and cons of the EU in general, the democratic deficit is a legitimate and well-founded criticism.
Why is that strange?
That doesn't answer either of my questions. Sorry I was unclear about "your defintion" - it was implicit and allowed for folding in all the "luck" aspects you are including.

I see why you are saying the factors are somewhat confounded, but that does not implicitly mean that separable analysis is not possible or useful. I don't think your analogy holds and these are nearly as coupled concepts as parts of a fruit.
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Be that as it may, this blog is about a specific paper and the strength of its claims. I don't really think puritanism has anything to do with whether this paper's model or inferences are sound.
Lobbying makes sense, in theory. If Company X would create 10 new factories if tax regulation Y were changed, local politicians should be aware of that. The big increase in jobs would almost definitely be beneficial to their constituents, provided the tax changes are not disproportionately detrimental.

I'm not saying that's how 90% of lobbying works in politics today, but the practise does have a place.
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Because they couldn't get their shit together from a sandboxing perspective.
Yes I understand that they want to offer their services in Europe, but the servers are in the US and billing is also not handled by a European branch company afaik. I’m really just wanted to know if and how the EU could force GitHub to comply with this law. Ban their service?

Or could it have to do with the successor agreement of safe harbor?
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I'm working with on something just like that. IDE : Windows notepad = my thing : normal daws. Sign up here if you want to be notified when it's ready https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-aQzVbkbGwv2BMQsvuoneOUPgyr...
I had the same reaction.

If the HQ is going to employ thousands of workers when its built, and will require a massive construction operation to build, you're looking at a fairly large windfall for the state. Is it $5B worth? The article doesn't delve into the details.
You use 'we' to describe your collective, showing you understand the concept of heritage, and then go on and say you don't understand pride in your people.

Only whites seem to have this internal conflict, and that makes far less sense than being proud of the society your people created.
The clickbait aspect is the teaser "had a deadly goal" which is designed to make you wonder "what was the deadly goal?"

It's the same form as "You won't believe number 9!" in a clickbait top 20 list. It is phrased in a way to make you wonder "what is item 9?"

There is a combination of emotional content and purposeful, unnecessary ambiguity.
Agreed. I'm not a game developer but looking in, it seems to resemble the tech industry. You have the AAA studios which are like the FANG companies in that they have relatively stable well paying jobs and then there are a bunch of indie studios which are like startups.
It is also a matter of having the resources to act on that lucky opportunity.

So it's two-fold, one is that you have the resources to expose yourself to more possibly lucky situations, the second is being able to actually do something about it.
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The irony is not lost on Catholics, who are the recipient of much criticism from Protestants who view "saved by works" as an insult to God's grace. (The theology is actually a mix of both since faith without actions is inconsistent, but I'm refering to the stereotype from the Protestant side.)
Initially it took me entirely too long to determine the right config options to launch BC as the diff and merge tool. It's preposterous to be that difficult.
I'm not sure that I would stick around Atlanta if Amazon puts its HQ here. The property values will skyrocket, and I haven't bought in here yet.

The civic angle is interesting though, will pressure groups succeed in reining back the usual massive concessions that local governments usually grant corporate behemoths? Or will it be business as usual where the giant tosses a few shiny wampum beads to the locals while destroying their livelihoods?
amichal says>After user testing we’ve had to:...
- remove “percentile” after no one could agree if 99th percentile was higher or lower then 1st..."

IIRC studies show that people comprehend natural frequencies (e.g., "10 of every 1000 women have cancer") more easily than they do percentages ("1% women have cancer").
I've been working on a similar system that is in the process of being adopted by at least one standards group (https://github.com/cabforum/documents ).

I would strongly recommend looking at weasyprint (http://weasyprint.org/ ) for HTML to PDF. It gives much better PDF output and offers CSS print support, so you get page control.
You can learn the basics of modern OpenGL and the related modern toolkits in very little time. That knowledge directly carries over.
That proves my point even further. The "beyond your means" part is where math starts being needed again.
I have filters for all "order" emails, so I haven't even really noticed anything like that.
Excessive belief in luck seems more convenient to me. At least by trying to work hard you're taking responsibility for yourself.
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The focus on inequality is irrational only for rich people or machines. Humans are social beings right from the start. You always compare yourself to others. Given that wealth mostly depends on your birth and not on your efforts given your resources, the focus on inequality is very rational.
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
This is fair. Thanks.
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This article is about politics, therefore it should be removed from the front page.
Definitely agree here. The EU in general is a good idea in terms of diplomacy, but it really shouldn't have this much power.
Old links to connect issues stopped working. After signing in to Microsoft Collaborate, the successor it seems, I need to add my personal details, including phone number and company. After that, I'm greeted with an even more confusing dashboard where recommended sites, like "Windows" are paywalled.

What happened? I just wanted to look at an old connect issue which came up at stackoverflow. Searches within Microsoft Collaborate lead to nothing. I fear, that this will hit many windows developers. Why can't Microsoft leave old services running or why can't they properly link old content to new locations?

Example: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...
Emacs keybindings are a standard of their own: they generally work in the shell and other readline based command line utilities. They also work in Cocoa text entry widgets on the Mac.
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Its interesting to note I've worked at two companies who were attempting to lure cities into giving them tax breaks for building larger campuses, or other structures. Both times since they didn't get their tax breaks, they dumped the projects.

So no, not all cities or municipalities cow tow to large corporations when it comes to handing out tax breaks or incentives.
Given that it's Japan, it's very likely that a good deal of it is stored in paper, especially faxed copies and hard contracts.
I am the luckiest. I make my luck. Every bad event brought me here and formed me. Every good thing is mine to enjoy. Whatever happens I will own it. Luck is a lie you tell yourself. But it is a useful lie.
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No more or less than the back of a bus I imagine. People seem to prefer windows there while being driven, and I don't suspect removing the driver changes that.
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I have it on very good authority (a fine music engineer friend) that this ten year old project still remains the standard for an AI music generator. And look at the people who used it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmann_Neuron
That's not the issue, the issue is huge disproportion of influence that these platforms create for their owners. You are practically saying that monopolies are fine as long as you're not getting robbed. The fact is, you probably are getting robbed, by paying too much money for the dominant service.
Sorry but I just don't agree with you. Seeing kids doing nothing but blowing up pixels on their computers is a real tragedy. So many better things they could be doing, but because of the consumer culture you espouse, they just won't get there.

And its not like the motivation to dig further is just going to happen with the kids intrinsically - after all, these new platforms don't ship with compilers onboard, nor tools necessary to start digging, even though they're more than capable of supporting such tools, architecturally..

People valuing experience rather than creation is one thing; not knowing the first thing about how to create new software, because the vendors discourage that participation in order to drag attention into a profitable endeavour - this is another thing entirely. I'm hopeful that the attitude will change, but as you have demonstrated, its going to be a long haul ..
Should probably bow out after this one; I don't think there is much room for rational discussion for my viewpoints here.

I agree that walmart is a piece of crap, but you don't really know what suffering is. Please ask your grandparents what options their grandparents had in life.

If you have some notion that corporations that try to profit are a blight on society and that their abolition will lead to some dream world, then by all means. Please knock over all the establishments, nationalize all corporations and divy profits amongst the workers, redivide the wealth of every millionaire, publish a list of banned words like 'wealth', and so on, and then point me to the nearest democracy.
This post is about politics, therefore it should be removed from the front page.
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Ask HN: What's your GDPR-compliant encrypted logging solution?
Given that files which may contain customer names and purchase information are potentially covered by GDPR, is there a good standard solution to protect them?
In reality Google Maps is farther ahead of its competitors than most people realize.

Google Maps now provides wholly personalized points of interest and attention affordances in its UI. It's also well on its way to 3D scanning and annotating POIs in every structure in the world, including very large pedestrian-only interiors. It also has realtime transit and traffic feeds, and more pedestrian trails and venue detail than anyone else. All of these are areas where its competition is not just behind, but falling further behind. But the personalization combined with superior POI search really illustrates how Google's competitors don't even have the platform to properly conceptualize the type of product Google is building, much less build it.
> “The most rewarding things were the yawns,” said Krafcik.

For me, this is the best line in the article. Moving from excitement to normal in a single trip. The "user experience" can only improve from this point.
Buffett himself has raised the same point, saying that he won the "ovarian lottery". He doesn't deny that he's uncommonly talented, but readily acknowledges that his particular talents wouldn't be such an advantage if he hadn't been born into a society where they are highly valued.
This is a very Anglo point of view. In other parts of the world the relationship is much more antagonistic than you would expect. The state has to get its money from somewhere, and the locals rarely have much of it.

The state is often heavily intertwined with industry, through massive regulation and, too often, good old-fashioned corruption. If the state thinks it can get away with nationalizing a vital industry concern, it will without a pause. Usually though it can't because it knows that bureaucrats make horrible managers.
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Don't forget, there are multiple things in play -

OTOY does a light field renderer, which is essentially a bunch of computer animations, glued together to make a light field.

But they're also doing (like this article) a light field capture.

It's entirely possible the OTOY light field renderer is awesome... but that the light field capture is no good.

I don't think that's the case, but I just wanted to point out those might be two different things.
What about the EU preventing countries from doing such things? There's a lot of countries with governments which really like filters. I'm against _any_ government or organization which proposes such filters, but I do not have much hope killing the EU would help to stop such proposals. I rather hope the EU parliament will help to prevent such filters like they did with software patents.

And per-country rules don't really make much sense anyway for the internet. Global rules would make it easier for developers - unless they are completely stupid like this proposal obviously.
While the quality of the model can be debated (I noted lots of false positives too), I do note that it’s kind of cool that we’re all sitting around and poking at an app written in an R web framework.

If you haven’t:

1. Downloaded RStudio IDE

2. Built a hello word Shiny App (better still for a flavor of the thing a hello world app using the shiny dashboard package)

3. Deployed your app to shinyapps.io

I highly encourage you to do so if for no reason than to see how streamlined RStudio has managed to make web app deployment for people who often don’t have much of a programming background.

I’m continually impressed with the work RStudio does, even if I’m a curmudgeon and still write all my code in Emacs instead of their IDE. If RStudio expanded to support Python similarly well, I imagine they could really be the place most data scientists work.
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>and its enshrined immutable in the public record //

I know you file a document, but the public record is the content, and increasingly access to content is not done in the form the content was originally created.

In my opinion it shouldn't "look nice" but should comply with a standardised format (which hopefully has reasonable aesthetic qualities) which was developed by an field-experienced document design specialist.
With regard to tonality: you might enjoy some microtonal works, traditional turkish music [0], electronic music [1] and many other non-european musical traditions (indian, arab).

For rhythm there's a wide range for experimentation: from really slow tempos [2] to really fast and (seemingly) chaotic [3]. I like this study from Conlon Nancarrow [4], where the tempo between two voices evolve in time in coordination with each other.

So this 'different' music exists, and has existed for a long time in human history, it's just not very popular. E.G. In [1], apart from Wendy Carlos's invented microtonal scales there are some songs that take from other cultures [5] (See how the 7th track is similar to [3] interestingly enough).

And it makes sense for not being popular actually, given how human ears perceive chords as really fast polyrhythms. The simpler the more harmonic they sound. [6]

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxWUgqduqYM

1: https://soundcloud.com/roberto-la-forgia/sets/beauty-in-the-...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiRKpflgQA

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1sgrw1PGM (1:50 onwards)

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gVhBxwRqg

5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_in_the_Beast

6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiNKlhspdKg
While so, it also targets tech companies so is in the interest of this tech news aggregator.
> Is it not always the case? We vote for a goal a leave the experts to implement it.

No, lawmaking in a representative democracy consists of the wording of a bill being amended as many times as necessary to secure agreement from a majority of representatives - all able to propose amendments themselves - and then being put to the vote before becoming law. This is also the case for some policies put to referenda: the AV referendum was one where the referendum was on a previously agreed text to become law, with no further legislative change implied.

And what is being objected to here is not the government attempting to implement the result, it is the government proposing a raft of policy objectives loosely related to some interpretations of the result and trying to curtail further debate and votes over them.

If, as you say, part of the result is because people wished to express their discomfort with the feeling of being in an oligarchy, it is even less attractive a method of decision making to assume that the executive's interpretation of the vote must prevail and that criticisms of it from those who voted the other way lack any legitimacy.
That was very interesting and helpful, thanks!