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> Adrian Cockcraft helped lead Netflix's effort to move to AWS and now is a VP at AWS.

I always get a bad taste in my mouth when I read things like that. Was it really an objective choice, or was this AWS’ way of saying “thank you” ?
Adding my turtle as a CDN employee ;-)
> The article says that PEG handles non-deterministic grammars by becoming non-deterministic itself.

Wait, where? As noted here, PEGs are certainly deterministic, so I just double-checked the article: it doesn’t claim that PEGs are non-deterministic. In fact, it says that “PEG [is] always linear”, and (way before that), “all non-deterministic parsers can run in worse than quasi-linear time”. So the article indirectly states that PEGs are, in fact, deterministic.

PEG’s problem isn’t non-determinism; it’s PEG’s linear memory requirement in the length of the input (rather than the parse tree depth), as well as the fact that it fails to parse some nondeterministic (but unambiguous) grammars.
For some fairly good details on the solid answer since 1933 to your questions, see my post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16854106

below. In short, the answer is that a real valued random variable X is a real valued function. The domain of the function is a set of trials. So, for a trial w (usually written as lower case omega), X(w) is a real number.

Then the event for real number x

X <= x

is really shorthand notation for

{w|X(w) <= x}

So, typically we don't mention the w.

Moreover, typically for all but grad school mathematicians taking a course in "graduate probability" we don't mention that X is a function. Instead we just say something like, X is the number we get from running an experimental trial, one of all the numbers we "might have gotten" considering the probability distribution of X.

You are correct: You sense some mushy ground under the foundations of probability theory, and you are not nearly the first to so sense.

Long an answer was, "it works great in practice" which is doesn't make the mush any more firm.

Well, in 1933 A. Kolmogorov gave a solid mathematical foundation for probability theory. That's the usual foundations for advanced work in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes. My post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16854106

here outlines that foundation.

Some of the consequences are surprising, but I omit those. And we end up assuming that in all the universe all we ever see is just some one trial and don't say anything about the other trials but imagine about them a lot. That point may be hard to swallow.

IIRC, one line of argument is just that in probability there are lots of possibilities we just don't distinguish. E.g, maybe the police have long since concluded that nearly everyone driving a car with custom installed, hidden compartments is a drug dealer and then conclude that a person with such compartment is "likely" a drug dealer. Well, of course, actually, they might not be a drug dealer and have the car and its compartments for some other reason. So, the police are putting all owners of cars with hidden compartments in a box and refusing to distinguish them, insisting that they all be treated the same until there is evidence otherwise. It may be that more can be said. For now, make of such lines of thought what you will.
Unlike magnetic nanoparticles, pollen isn’t going to literally stick in your brain, just provoke an allergic reaction in some.
I think email is a reasonable place to do this since it's one of the few storage places people keep around across devices (sadly, other services with no centralization at all can't easily send SMTP). Could also consider a printable QR code I guess. I assume the Blockstack browser or whatever makes it easy to enter your clear text 12 word phrase or the encrypted one w/ the password when using a new device. I also assume that there is no way to revoke access by device (e.g. per-device keys but still same identity and some revocation list, I dunno). These are definitely tough problems.
"Its overwhelmingly clear the main reason for the party is to turn Sweden into some sort of white nationalist fantasy where anyone with a brown face is not welcome. "do you really believe this? - yes. Anecdata, what relatives and other acquaintance tells me who votes for the party say that thats what they want.

You don't have to scratch surface particularly hard to see statements such as Zlatan is not Swedish, or for example what leading members called Soran Ismail during the iron pipe scandal.

SD has also been very open with what kind of society they want when coming into power, they have been studying Hungary and Poland closely, countries which has openly racist policies and are defacto not democracies anymore.

"Maybe it wasn't clear in my original reply but to me it seems SD thinks the way to save the Swedish welfare state is reduced immigration." I am aware of that and its utterly, utterly hogwash. Immigration is the only way to save the welfare states all over western Europe since we face an ageing population.

"immigrants don't get jobs the taxes will have to be higher. " Perhaps some investment is needed to get immigrants up to speed.

Look, Sweden went through a very similar immigration wave in the early nineties from the balkans. Those immigrants and their decedents have mostly stayed in Sweden and have today similar levels of employment as native Swedish people. It took awhile and yes there where real issues but I have a hard time seeing that the end result is no less than an extremely positive outcome.

"In the paper Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden by Ruist, Joakim. The cost is refugee immigration and their family members is calculated to 1 % of BNP in the year 2007."

Yes some investment is needed, it will pay dividends later. And in the short term there was a very nice correlation between gdp growth and immigrants arriving to Sweden.
> It’d be cool if your and the other poster’s ideological spat could try to not use science as the battleground, or at least eliminate more likely issues before going there.

I don't disagree. A big part of the problem is the social sciences claiming the mantel of science (often just statistics layered over tiny samples, as you point out), in order to imply some sort of impartiality and precision on par with the hard (i.e. real) sciences.

Unfortunately, and I say this sincerely, I believe the ideological nature of the social sciences since the 60s has been responsible for a huge amount of uncritical acceptance of bad (false) work as well as preventing a lot of unpopular good (true) work. I don't know how to deal with that fact other than stating so forthrightly, which, unfortunately from the perspective of science, carries necessary ideological freight with it.
It doesn't work where the results are already cornered by high reputation sites or loads of junk.

High reputation sites: travel, hotels, the popular marketplaces.

Junk: drugs, mattresses, pills to grow your hair back, cooking recipes, SEO.
We're not building every time. But some times, like the example above, we do need to build. The problem however is this becomes a fairly manual process. If a developer forgets to do it, they will keep running with an older base image. So all the consistency benefits across developers is gone.

In any case, thanks for your suggestions. I think it's some misconception on my part about how docker-compose should behave.
but they have the keys, and can't be trusted
Sure, for downstream SAAS to use for customers. I think it'd be a nice add-on for services with customers outside the US who are wary of overreach. So if there are two web email vendors, and one has this protection and the other doesn't, it may be the deciding factor for a customer. The one that has that protection could use this service to do that for them.

Even without the national boundary feature, good crypto APIs not bound to your compute vendor is a nice thing to have.
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They could still extract keywords on the sender or recipient device and send them independently of the message; the message is still encrypted but keywords such as “buy” and “house” were submitted to Facebook anyway.

I don’t buy the “end to end encryption” argument. If the app used encryption for the benefit of their users it would absolutely make no sense for Facebook to buy them for billions. The reason FB did so anyway is that they have a workaround the E2E encryption like described above.
Stealthy uses Blockstack to authenticate users.

"Your identity wallet and master private key are controlled by a locally-running node.js process. The Blockstack Browser code is served locally, so none of the concerns about remote code injection apply. The crypto code for this is downloaded once when you install it."

More information in the thread here: https://forum.blockstack.org/t/blockstack-vs-clientside-js-e...
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Debit cards offer buyer protection. It's not as comprehensive as a credit card but you can report fraud and get your money back. Granted the cash will be tied up for a few days until the refund posts but it's not lost.

Debit cards also have transaction limits and fraud detection designed to limit your exposure. It's not foolproof but it's a lot better than carrying large amounts of cash around in your pocket.

I went many years without a credit card out of moral principal but having to travel and rent cars finally made me break down and get one. It was so much less hassle to rent a car with one vs without one that I did it.

I hate credit cards.
You really must be a troubled individual.
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Depends on where your customers are and the applicable scale/latency costs of not using the biggest providers.
A Reintroduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning
Have you tried termination at ELB with TCP to backend, or just plain TCP passthrough all the way?

Also as mentioned elsewhere, ALB or NLB might do what you want, either working the same way as regular ELB or via the same workarounds.
Although oddly, Chomsky seems more important for computer languages than natural languages?

The most successful machine translation systems don't use Chomsky's grammars. But their compiler's parser probably does. More:

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Wittgenstein was more of a mystic than a logician, though he tried to dress up his mysticism in what may at first glance appear to be logical garb in the Tractatus.[1] This is something the early Logical Positivist analytics of the Vienna Circle, perhaps willfully, did not understand. He was championing the very thing that they abhorred: religious mysticism.

When Wittgenstein said "Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent." He meant it in a respectful way, as a defense of religious mysticism. The Logical Positivists assumed that attitude in the exact opposite direction: to attack religious mysticism and religion in general. They labeled it as meaningless nonsense. No wonder Wittgenstein wanted nothing to do with them, despite their (misplaced and misunderstood) hero-worship of him.

I'm really not sure what any programmer would get out of reading the Tractatus... at least not for anything programming-related.

[1] - The full title being the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", just in case you missed that it was supposed to be logical and philosophical. Wittgenstein starts by labeling some of his statements as "axioms" and constructing what might appear as derivations.. which don't actually follow. On superficial inspection it might look like some kind of logical treatise, but that impression vanishes if you actually try to read and make sense of it.
Quitting Facebook doesn't cure the social bankruptcy, though. The only cures seem to be joining cults and gangs and militaries and other groups with high costs and low standards.
I think you may be right. Many of these stories talk about users mentioning they would like X product. Then they are surprised when they get an ad for that product. They forget A. all the other times they talked about products and never saw an ad and B. all the other ads they saw without ever mentioning the product.
Any time you break something down into a collection of "mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive" elements, there's going to be a bunch of different ways you can slice and dice that. What worked for me was something that was kind of like maslow's hierarchy. I think mine broke down into physical environment, financial security, being socially well-rooted, being healthy, and working on "meeting my greatness" (kind of like actualization).

If I were to redo it now, I'd probably collapse being socially well-rooted into being a subcomponent of something else that would include service, giving back, etc. But at the time I created it I was very much invested in developing friendships after moving to a new place for a new romantic relationship.
No, updates work fine. Some blocked domains : settings-win.data.microsoft.com, v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com, mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com, nexusrules.officeapps.live.com
> It's also quite obviously the case that profit seeking research has incentives to be bad science in other ways

I agree. My point is the Marxist framework is a bad one for modern science.

We have endowed academics and ones working for private institutions and getting grants from public bodies run by scientists. Privately-financed biotech companies founded by academics taking moon shots and getting acquired by marketing and distribution powerhouses. Even delineating who is "capital" and who is "labour" quickly becomes pedantic more than useful.
IP address is sort of equivalent to location.

Cellphone tower is similarly equivalent to location.
> Hard sciences like physics are on much firmer ground, and conflating the two is clownish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair

> It's a nice story you've got there, but the reason there is a replication crisis in the softer sciences is not due to the evil capitalists of the marxist imagination.

You understand literally nothing about Marxism. For example, "capitalist" isn't a moral designation, it is a description of an economic agent's role in an economic relationship. Capital owners have access to resources and they give permission to laborers to use those resources. That's it.

> cultural marxist

You can't be serious.

> See the ongoing fight against the idea of a high genetic basis for adult IQ.

This plays out more in the public sphere than in scientific communities. It's also the case that a few popular intellectuals try to sell psychometric science as saying more than it actually does about how social policies should be designed. This, again, happens moreso outside of scientific circles.
I should clarify that there were two parts to my answer: first was answering your question "on behalf of" the parent poster. It seemed their position was to "let people vote on it". I was somewhat defending that position, but more just clarifying that democracy wasn't necessarily in conflict with using science to make decisions.

The second part of my response was to your framing of "science vs. gut-instinct". My point is that sometimes ignorance is thrust upon us by the complexity of the circumstances. In that case, my point was that decentralized policy making (separate from any notion of voting) was essential to reducing the worst case.

In other words, I am not claiming that democratization "results in minimax optimal decisions". I am claiming that decentralized governance structures do "result in minimax optimal decisions". Does that change your question?

edit: fixed spelling
"p-hacking" is also a thing, it's a reasonable possibility that they tried 20 false but plausible null hypothesis and published the one that got a significant result.

If there's no pre-registration, my prior of a paper actually being true would be much lower than statistics would say simply because the incentives are aligned so that there's a motivation to exaggerate significance.
Actually you are correct - the X100F looks like a huge upgrade, I had the previous model!
There are multiple ways to deliver gated access to registrant data only to those who need to know (like EV cert issuers). See e.g. RDAP, a JSON/REST successor protocol to WHOIS, which displays different amounts of data depending on if you're logged in and what data your account has access to.
All load balancing services do that today. It is rare to get HTTP/2 on both ends unless you run your own software like Envoy.
Sweden has done it before very successfully. Also yes there is a limit on how many people you can sustainably take in. The Swedish government put on the brakes when the system couldn't handle more.
Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps
Even if you don't have cookies enabled, then browser fingerprinting could make the connection.
I wonder if doctors will become like pilots? Ie. Almost redundant, but essential, at the same time.
The tricks people used to call SEO stopped working amost 15 years ago with the Florida update. The next big one was also long ago, Panda in 2011. Writing relevant content (especially if there is new content frequently) works. Nothing else works and nothing else have had for a very long time. Most SEO services are selling snake oil. In a sense Google won and if you want to be featured at a high place in the result list you need to be relevant to what's being searched. No tricks.
OFX may be widely supported in the US, but not the rest of the world. I looked for major Canadian banks on http://www.ofxhome.com/index.php/home/directory/all and could only find ING Direct.
Stocks can get hairy in a hurry, especially when you have a partial sale of a tech stock (happens commonly in mergers when they liquidate partial shares) that was a former baby bell you inherited from your grandmother's AT&T options. What's the strike price? Who knows?

The tax code is hairy but for the most part all of that complexity has a good reason for being there. A lot of it is closing loopholes that fat cats used to dodge taxes. The flat tax people want to open them all back up again and start from scratch.

I mean right off the bat the grandparent's post falls victim to a scheme where you are paid a $0.01 salary, but simply get an enormous cash "holiday" gift every year. Tax Dodge 101. But the gp will say "oh, then you just need to declare gifts as income as well", and he's starting down the road to the big bloated tax code we have now.
I know quite a few people who have never in their lives voted for the elected President - some are in their 50s and vote in every single election. Many have no other country which would let them in and better suit their desires.

That doesn't make democracy bad, but it's absolutely bizarre seeing people in these threads equate "you get to vote" with "you're voluntarily accepting your government". As you say, you don't get to pick where you're born, and the chance to vote doesn't necessarily change anything for you personally.
you mean, in the US you can't opt out of them?
I'm struggling to come up with anything other than "Cody".
Got a blog? Can I use your content?
If you have a WordPress blog and publish regularly, can I use your content?

Here's the long backstory: I wanted to have my own fun, little content aggregator for the small city I moved to (about 80K people and some cows), so I built it, because I cared about local headlines, tweets, grams and I wanted reversed out text during the evening, because looking at bright, white screen at night was annoying and the "eye comfort" setting was even more annoying. People seemed to like it with and so I started adding more cities, which attracted more readers. Since my own site was ripe for a new look, I wanted to see if I could refactor the code to make the city-based site useable for my own content... that seemed to work well, too. In fact, I noticed that my bounce rate immediately dropped and my time spent on site went way up.

Anyway, I wanted to experiment with someone willing to let me use his/her content across my network of sites and see if he/she gets similar results (mine's at michaelkuhlmann.com). If you know of someone who writes regularly and doesn't mind me adding some GA/GTM tags to his/her site for tracking purposes, please pass along this note or hit me up @mfgmk. Alright, thanks for your lending me your attention and have an awesome remaining day.

Mit Freundlichen Gruessen,

Mike Kuhlmann
Much of Radiology and Pathology specimen interpretation is based on reliable and consistent detection. To come and think of it, the application of AI into this area is fantastic because it removes human fatigue and missed diagnoses. AI neural nets seem well equipped for image recognition. At the very least, this can lead to a first level flagging of specimens.

My only concern is that with any system, a major downside would be that human operators would place too much reliance on a system that works great most of the time, resulting in missing something that otherwise would have been caught. This happens every once in a while, such as with EKG machines spitting out a diagnosis based on electrical activity patterns.
While that might be the case, I wouldn’t be surprised if they let teams play with k8s as well. Besides, one should always look at these choices objectively; if Google + k8s is a better deal overall than AWS & Mesos, then you shouldnt let your earlier investments cloud your judgement.
Another decentralized app, https://keys.casa/, is solving a similar problem.
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Am I supposed to make the assumption for you that because you put your name on your lunchbox, you prefer to make available your name, phone number, and address on your website whois?

Honestly, I think you should take social engineering more seriously if you think the benefits outweigh the costs.

Like someone removing their front door because it might encourage someone to drop by for some stimulating conversation.

For example, the author of the "Amazon Backdoor" post a while back suspected that the attacker got their address from a whois of one of their domains.
This kind of "air-gap join" definitely happens based on my own experience. e.g. I get shown ads for products my kids are interested in, where I am sure I never interacted in any way online with the vendor. Also I had a /24 IP block and used some addresses for my neighbors' connections (different to our IP but within the same block). Neighbors reported seeing ads for products we bought. In fact we would joke about it, ask each other why we were seeing ads for xxx weird and unusual thing.

I'll guess that the following join keys could be used:

IP address or IP address subnet
Physical location / postal address
Known family or romantic relationship
Offline key match such as use of the same credit card
Your original thesis just got completely destroyed and now you are bring up unrelated speculative issues not explored in the article.

Just admit that the marxist analysis doesn't hold much water in this case. That doesn't mean it is never useful, just that you might need to think a bit before applying it.