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Unless the thing you are modelling is itself also a model.
And by virtue of the limitations of our (extended) senses, everything is a model.

What you know as "gold" is really a model of gold. What we know about gold, the colour, specific weight, etc. in no way describes the actual thing and is only a representation as can be conveyed by our senses.

Everybody agreeing about the observable nature of a thing from a particular frame of reference does not imply that frame of reference is the one that is closest to the truth.

Anyway, as much fun as it is to think about such matters, they will, almost by definition, never be falsifiable, so yes, you are of course correct, even if only from the generally most useful frame of reference we call reality.
Meh. It makes no difference to me which languages other people use. I was merely pointing out that not everybody finds the CLHS unusable.
GaAs logic is probably happening at some point, just not yet. All improvements like that which would be incredibly expensive to develop will be held off on until all cheaper options have been exhausted. It does seem to be slowly moving though.
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> Some conspicuous examples have certainly been falsified, like young earth creationism

The classic counter-argument is that God has created the world N years ago in a way that makes it appear older, in order to test our faith or sth like that.

You cannot really disprove that. Scientists discard such theories because of Alder's Razor: "What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating."

I think your misconception is that science is the method by which all truths can be discovered. That has not been shown. Science is merely a narrowed down version of philosophy (with restrictions on which tools and methods may be used) that is vastly better at finding a consistent and useful model of reality than average philosophy.

This is why something like Occam's Razor (or Alder's Razor from above) is used by scientists. Occam does not say that the simpler hypothesis is always correct, but it suggests that you will usually be more productive when you work with simpler rather than more complex hypotheses.
>I'll always take a corrupt politician over a benevolent dictator.

Am I wrong in saying that if you have enough resources, corrupt politicians and authorities will let you dictate the affairs under them?

So a dictator, as you say exerciser their power to enforce their own agenda. While a corrupt politician sells them off to the highest bidder, to enforce what ever agenda they have...

The only thing better in that scenario is that the "highest bidder" may have an incentive to not kill droves of people, since they probably have a business to run, and that often require people..Also, business does not really have an ideology or a philosophy. It just need to grow its profits..
Absolutely. Buy index funds, don't worry so much about fluctuations, keep a long-term perspective.
I agree, 50% seems arbitrary. Finnish law only requires registration of negative equity.

In practice the difference between 10% and 50% is only 1000 euros though, assuming your company is registered with the minimum required share capital of 2500 €.
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Solid advice. I was stupid enough to follow the process estonian gov had laid out and it really didn't make this distinction at any point so I registered our full capital as share capital.
My claim is kind of orthogonal, that “actual instances” is a red herring and that the only thing that matters is observational equivalence.
I read the book nearly cover to cover. I can't recommend it enough, but it's an enormous time and energy investment.
I can see why being forced to apply the law of another country can be bad. I don't see why merely deciding to do so is necessarily bad.
Read "Inviting Disaster" for a lot more about this topic.

Many very high profile disasters were caused by operator error or more precisely complex systems not designed for what you might call failure ergonomics.
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At least Firefox 52 doesn't copy the "display: none" stuff. You have to use other means to hide the text.
Just have the background image have a pattern to it that changes by user: you can encode stuff in a uniform-looking background by making some squares be color (255,255,255) and others be (255,255,254) for example: it would appear to be uniform white but not really.
Sorry to hear about your loss.

Just to add that, although you’re right about time at college, it is possible to make very close friends afterwards. Make sure you remain open minded; I hope you make other lasting and meaningful relationships.
Decade old UK tv series on BBC two? I imagine most have never heard of it.

I was thinking more of an even older show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8
I generalize it as the US protects companies, the EU protects people.

It sounds backwards as the US leans more towards personal freedoms than societal freedoms, but the most powerful amendments don't protect people outright. They just protect them from the government.
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> without EU presence

If you offer no services that will be used by citizens of the EU, you can just carry on.
You've misunderstood. They put many chips inside one package, but the individual chips are still from different wafers.
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I'm looking for books / articles about how to write reliable software.
There is a lot of focus in the web / startup world on writing code as fast as possible with the general assumption that you can always fix your bugs once they're in production (ie 'Move fast and break things').

I don't see many articles on general strategies / ways of thinking / processes to put in place when you can't afford to have bugs in your software. I'm not writing airplane-level, formally-verified code either (the level I'm aiming for is that the user can't do his job if the app fails but no one is going to die either)

More specifically, we're writing mobile apps where some of the users don't have network connectivity for a part of the day, so syncing is a big issue.

Thanks for all your ideas!
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I got laughed at once people realized I was using telnet in the windows console to talk to them.
If you are worried about water boiling of for human habitation, this is not a problem at all. Domiciles will be pressurized, and water will boil at Earth’s temperature.
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> The law isn't in effect yet.

Sort of, kind of.

http://dbsdata.co.uk/blog/gdpr-2018-deadline-red-herring/
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“Corals are not plants but rather colonies of genetically identical organisms called polyps“

Talk about self similarity!
> I can pull out if needed

According eesti.ee, it will take around six months to close limited liability company in Estonia. So yes, technically you can pull out but if it's anything like other more obscure legal procedures in Estonia, good luck. Conveniently this is not mentioned anywhere in the nice looking promo sites either ;)
> piss pour

Eww. That’s nasty. ‘Piss poor’ is likely the phrase you’re looking for.
That may be part of the problem.

Silly jokes don't go down well on HN, as they're distractions from the conversation. It's considered "Reddit-like" behaviour, and discouraged through downvotes.
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It should be noted that merely being accessible in the EU doesn't automatically make the GDPR apply to a site, although the line is not sharply delineated.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/
I can confirm that Vim shows the hidden characters as question mark.
Donate to Open Whisper Systems (maintainer of Signal and led by the designer of the encryption protocol therein). It recently became a 501c nonprofit organization following a hefty donation, but one day that will dry up and they will need continued support.
LXC had most (if not all) of what you're describing, and a long time ago Docker was just a simple wrapper around LXC. A lot of the inspiration for containers came from other operating systems (FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones) as well as previous work such as Xen.

I think what made Docker popular was that it was easier for developers to use, with small bits of information like what ports the container wants to listen on and so on. From an administration standpoint, LXC was already more than good enough.
I'd never realised the two were connected. What's a good learning reference for bandgap physics? It's something I've never quite understood properly.
If you do business in the EU, you'll incur most of those expenses anyways. It makes sense that companies would offer privacy protection to all their paying customers.

In the case of Facebook, it makes sense that they wouldn't want to offer privacy protection to their livestock.
Update: sorry to say that after some research internally we've come by some new information that means we are actually unable to support remote work for now, contrary to the ad above.
THIS is what really freaks me out about quantum mechanics... how eerily close it seems to what a computer engineer working on optimizing a simulation would design...
I've been through a situation like that in a very international team, where culture played a significant factor in how people communicate. Once people knew about their preferences, it became easier for them to collaborate.

Did you try to do some team building activities with the whole group? Sometimes getting them to connect on a more personal level gets people to open up.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron”

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
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Personally I'd predict the opposite (and current) pattern, creating generic chips which can replace many ASICs / less generic chips. If you can produce a chip which can replace 10 other low/medium-volume designs, economical scaling will win out as long as you're not adding too much overhead. This has been driving FPGAs forward for quite some time, although they're inherently pretty inefficient in terms of die size. Plus, it also provides some logistical advantages in terms of supply chain fragility.

See also: how ridiculously cheap microcontrollers have gotten, and the current messy DRAM pricing (high-capacity chips used in phones sometimes ending up cheaper than low-performance/capacity chips).
In the mid-90s, I took my bored then-girlfriend to the local University library computer lab and introduced her to MUDs. When they shut off the building lights late that night I had to pry her away from the computer terminal. (Neither of us were students, so getting caught there after closing might not have been good.)

A few years later, I would play up to 16 hours straight with a lady who lived 1000 miles away (and our band of MUD/IRC friends). We were in-game when she got the news that her best friend had died. But she didn't want to just sit in silence alone at home, so she stayed on the game and the group gathered round to comfort her and let her talk through her grief and her memories. MUDs can be intense! Some years later, we met in person and she became my wife. Years later we discovered Discworld and became fans. Sometimes we miss the MUDs. I'll have to tell her that there's a Discworld one, although it may suck us back in for countless hours.
Related discussion on the Publishing Reform Forum: https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/38

Please help us by expressing your opinion and public support on the forum. There is still a lot of work needed to convince the journals' editors.
That's not my impression; EU citizens abroad don't seem to be covered. I'm not an expert, though.
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Here's a graph for disapproval ratings for both of them. See for yourself: https://i.imgur.com/5dk3lWg.png
Hi, this reply is completely irrelevant to the subject matter, but i couldn't directly send you a message so this is my only option. quite a while back in a topic regarding bitgrail losing 170m you submitted a link to the bitgrail trollbox chat log in here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16355342

but unfortunately the link no longer has file, is there any chance you still have the chat log? i would be incredibly helpful.

Thanks
Maybe it's a viable research project, but still far off from reality. The largest chips that can be manufactured with current technology are about 900 mm^2 in size, but a normal 10" wafer is about 51000 mm^2, which is 50x larger than the state of the art today.

An attempt to produce entire wafers in one go is also a big gamble. Any defects in the manufacturing could ruin the entire wafer rather than individual chips. Parts of the wafer could be disabled if defective, but it would result in a combinatorial explosion of different configurations.

Also worth noting that in 1980 when Wafer Scale Integration was researched (without success), wafers were 4" diameter. Current wafers are 10-12" in size, which makes the process much more difficult and error prone.
This. This protection law is a double-edged sword. A decent solution would be to prevent things like judicial documents and government reports from appearing in search engines, and instead make them all available in a different form, which requires some personal effort. Say a custom website or on a request basis. This way you can make sure that if a journalist is researching a corrupt politician, a corporate manager or his seemingly dangerous neighbor that keeps making threats, he can get his information, but it will require a certain minimum of commitment. This way your employer can also only look up the details of only 1-2 people, not screen all applicants based on their past convictions.

News articles should be removed only after a court order that confirms what is said is defaming and untrue. Most people don't get news articles written about them, and if they're correct they can get their legal fees back.

Right now the system is extremely opaque and it's not entirely clear if it's regular people using it or just scammers.
A compiler can only reduce the overhead relative to the hypothetical perfect program for a given task/source. That's asymptotic growth, not exponential.
Well, I tried to do that a little with one of my side projects, Chasm Lords. It was a multiplayer roguelike with some MUD inspiration. Problem is this is such a small niche (people who like MUDs and roguelikes!) that I struggled to find and retain players, so I let the SSL certificate expire and now the game doesn't load. :)

It was a fun experiment though, I learned a lot about websockets and networked game programming!
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Has been done, see my comment above.

http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?12731-Once-upon...

The images are 404, but they used a background with slightly different color and something similar to a QR code.
To my understanding, IANAGE either, you are right. The purpose of data capture and processing must be explicitly acknowledged for the user. If you intend to use that data for another purpose, you need to ask consent. Plus, the user may revoke those permissions anytime. GDPR is going to be hard stuff.
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I am waiting for this year's video to get posted. This year syllabus has been slightly updated to match the current trend
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Ah, I didn't know that there are already banks with negative interest rates. I'm surprised Swedes haven't started keeping sums of cash in their homes.

In the Netherlands, they had been going down until the +0.05% mark, where they have now stayed for some time.
The problem, independent of the ideology, is the quality of “checks and balances” which protect the human and other rights of the citizens.

And as we see, even in the USA as we speak it’s easy to take some rights from the people without too much fuss (just enough distraction).
It'll change if someone can manage to take the "central" out of the CPU internals. You don't necessarily need software to see anything other than a monolithic core, but having to plumb everything through one central execution unit is hugely inefficient, if anything due to the latency involved. For example, if you're performing an indirect load and hit DRAM while loading the pointer, that result has to be brought into the core, then all way back to the memory controller the same way it came. So far that's just been worked around by throwing in bigger and bigger caches, but the size of first-level cache is at a dead end for now (due to needing physical proximity).

Heck, current x86 chips could be juiced quite a bit if you could take out the requirement for backwards compatibility. Instruction encoding being the obvious thing (not that it's not hip and RISC, but that it's an absolute mess that a huge proportion of the chips power has to be wasted on, and is pretty space-inefficient due to how horribly allocated things are). Less obviously just removing things like the data stack instructions (which, at least on Intel, have a dedicated "stack engine" to optimize them), the ability to read/write instruction memory directly (creates a mess of self-modifying code detection to maintain correct behaviour, and complicates L1 cache coherency a bit). Trimming transistors reduces the power consumption, which in turn means you can raise the voltage without the chip melting, and can clear up space in your critical data path.
> I have not read the book, but I have a hard time imagining any world in which the Cell could possibly be successful. Its heterogeneous architecture thrust a huge amount of complexity onto software developers in exchange for meager gains. Writing good code for it was difficult and expensive compared to other platforms. Sony was just completely out of touch with reality.

This was a different time. At that time researchers tried to build clusters out of PS3s - because the speed advantages of the Cell made it worth and "regular" Cell clusters were much more expensive. Some years later GPGPU became feasible and one could forsee that it will become faster than the Cell, too, in near future - and at that time the same kind of researchers dropped their PS3 clusters and built GPGPU clusters. Don't tell me that particular in the beginning GPGPU was easier to program for than the Cell.

It was also the time when Apple switched to Intel CPUs. I know at that time IBM was also trying to sell the Cell to Apple, but Steve Jobs refused and decided for Intel instead.

This decision of Apple and the decisions of researchers to stop tinkering with PS3 clusters and build GPGPU clusters instead were in my opinion the two landslides after which the fate of the Cell was destinied.
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At least in Maven, the answer here is simple: write your own plugin.

You can do whatever you want, but you're still operating within the confines of the build system so you've not lost the ability to see what's going on.

It's not all that common that I see an "advanced task" that actually belongs in the build, though -- more often I see people who have decided to fight against their tooling rather than working with it.
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Can't one just

sudo echo -e "\7”

anyway? Or if you're trying to do something fancier there is snd-pcsp which lets use use the piezo as a normal ALSA device (quality may vary). Not that many modern machines even include such a useful device.
Perhaps the OP meant that the Bible is not listed if you perform a web search somewhere inside China.
An amazing 2014 talk[1]/article[2] by @idlewords explores exactly this premise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwhZ3KEqUlw
[2] http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
The in-game stuff is the tip of the PVP iceberg as far as Eve goes. Whole alliances have been killed off using a handful of reddit sockpuppets impersonating their members, brought down by a player flipped at a social event, or simply imploded under the weight of internal drama stoked by rivals. Often all 3 at the same time.

It's a very interesting game, built on a really crappy space themed spreadsheet.
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You're assuming the failure rate is related to the number of flights. With 2 failures in 20 years there's not really enough data to extrapolate.

And remember this wasn't a complete system outage - it affected 50% of flights, a degraded service.

In comparison the vast majority of startups that HN people work in will be lucky to last 2 years. In the last 10 years Gmail has been down, well not sure. It was down 6 times in one year. Uptime is apparently 99.8%, or down for 175 hours a decade, so 6 hours seems quite reliable.

Level 3 went down last month. And in 2016. And in 2015.

Having a system having to work for decades without downtime is unheard of in the web world, even in simple systems like gmail and AWS.
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"Morally correct" as in according to one's moral principles? Is that, in its turn, something that we all agree on and share?

Terrorists definitely hold moral principles that are different from mine. To a terrorist, blowing people up to bring attention to their point may be the morally correct thing to do.

Hence we have terrifying people like Kaczynski with extremely strong moral convictions that deviate far from what is generally considered normal and socially acceptable, whose ill deeds are consistent and true to their moral principles.
I've used sails 3 years ago on a startup that we wrote from scratch.

Don't want to be negative but it is by far the worst framework and ORM I've ever used. Strongly recommend reading this[0] before you even start fiddling with the framework.

Even tho there are 100 wrong things about it the absolute worst: ORM "migrations" work in a way that they drop the tables and and then re-create them. If you have a lot of data the table is dropped and you get Out Of Memory exception - what a great ORM!

[0] https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/dont-use-sails-or-waterline/
Is there not a recommended replacement library for OpenSSL? I'm thinking of LibreSSL for example that has leaner API but probably not the same amount of resources as OpenSSL.
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I for one would not switch to Apple Music. No web app, no desktop app for Linux.

Google Play Music could be an option, at least they have a functional web player, but neither it nor the Android app are anywhere close to Spotify's apps.