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No, you're right, it's just a terminological morass. Entropy and information are different names for the same concept, one that in its full generality is simply a measure of the uncertainty about the value of a random variable.

Entropy is a bad name, one that will probably continue to confuse people for generations. Information is a decent name, but it's a bit backwards: information is the resolution of uncertainty. Really, the concepts implied by the names information and uncertainty are opposite sides of the same coin: for each unit of uncertainty, you gain one unit of information when you observe a random variable's outcome.

The problem is that in the conventional definition (with the negative sign in front of the sum), a more positive quantity denotes more uncertainty. Perhaps the conventional quantity should have been called uncertainty and the name information should have been given to the inverse quantity, i.e., to the sum without the negative sign.

As it is, people usually use the word information as a synonym for entropy or uncertainty, but when they focus on resolving uncertainty they sometimes use it to mean something like the opposite. In the end, so long as you are confident in you understanding of the concept, it doesn't much matter because it's easy to figure out what everybody means.
same logic as google

• Google owns about 67% of the global search market

• Google owns less than 3% of the global advertising market

• Google owns less than 0.24% of the global consumer tech market

http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-google-monopoly-2...
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It depends on the complexity of the new language, doesn't it? If these new languages are highly domain-specific DSL's for complex domains, then the entire software package might be more understandable overall.
she desrved 70% of it
The problem is the standard for reviews. It cannot become mandatory to read Reddit before publishing a paper. Reddit has an endemic issue of publishing sensational results with major distortions, Reddit contains frequent major errors which will effectively leave you less knowledgeable than you started. It makes no sense to avoid scientific journals, but then trust whatever you read on Reddit.
You're right that lack of awareness and judgement is the problem.

Lack of awareness of the fundamental error of attribution, and rushing to judgement based on far too little information.

Anyone who thinks they can reasonably judge anyone based on any single post, much less 140 characters, is not doing a great job of being a citizen in the 21st century. Everything we say can be misunderstood, and if you can't imagine anyone tweeting something you don't like without them being racist/sexist/whateverist that is simply because your imagination sucks as a tool for knowing reality, just like mine, just like everyone else's.

What we can or cannot imagine has absolutely nothing to do with what is real. This is the lesson of three hundred years of science. This is why ideas must be publicly tested by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference to be counted as knowledge.

This is not to say we must never judge, but that judgement is far more difficult than most people realize, and they are far too quick to do it based on far too little information and far too much imagination. [edit: I should have said "we are far too quick..." The habit of judgement is hard to break!]
Another is that the integral of rand(x), strictly doesnt converge at the endpoints, although a generalized fourier transform exists.
Don't get overly technical. Many speakers feel like they have to show every technical detail in order to prove their worth. It's more effective and helpful to focus on concepts and applications rather than details.
Steel is 36 cents per pound. Assume you can move it up and down 300ft (30 story building). This will get you 1pound * g * 300ft of energy storage. This comes out to 300,000 USD/kWh, about a 1000 times more expensive than Li-ion batteries, per kilowatt-hour.
Indeed, the only thing I use the third-party sites for is search. For example, to get a quick overview of which airlines have flights to the place I'm going to, or what the available hotels are and their relative prices. And then I go and book directly through the airline or hotel. The price difference is usually minimal or non-existent, and it drastically reduces opportunities for problems.
That's the thing, I don't want a more expensive stay awake pill. I take a caffeine pill every morning and it does a good enough job at waking me up and keeping me that way, and it's less expensive than coffee. It seems to me what you've done is thrown green tea extract and a few herbal supplements into the mix, given it a fancy name and logo, and jacked the price up. That is not a "smart drug" in my opinion, so labeling your products as nootropics seems like false advertising.
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On the Internet, someone is already calling you a loser, possibly without your knowledge. It's best to worry more about the folks who have greater power to destroy your social standing than just simple name-calling.

And to provide a sentinel value for the previous search space, I'll just say it. You, and everyone else who may be wondering if someone on the network is calling them a loser, are all losers.

Now that's taken care of, and you can go about your business, expressing controversial opinions without worrying about incurring greater harm to yourself than has already occurred.
I would suggest trying Vyvanse[1] instead of Adderall. It's available by prescription and, being an amphetamine, is schedule II (meaning there are rules on how much you're allowed to have at one time, I think 30/month). Nevertheless, it has greatly increased my productivity with minimal side-effects; the only side-effect I've noted to date is diminished appetite, but it does seem to have worn off over time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetamine
My brother once put in a 1M EUR transaction instead of 1M HUF he wanted and it went through without a hitch... even though his account didn't have that sort of money or even anything close to that. That was weird and disconcerting.
Correspondingly, this thread is about a bad HN user getting what s(he) deserved. When you don't read TFA you are a bad HN user :)
>Has anyone else ran into this problem?

So many people did that this very practice is now banned in the state of California.
My understanding is that, after translation, Agda's Haskell makes rather liberal use of unsafeCoerce :: a -> b (it's already been type checked by Agda, after all).
Tesla made many people rich however. And was wealthy himself from time to time. He spent it all on more basic research and development. A true citizen of the world.
The coorect response to what most of these people said is for someone to pull them to one side and say "stop being a dick, especially if you're using the company social media account".

Threats of violence, loss of job, weeks long campaigns -- none of that is an appropriate response.
It reminded me of Print Shop from the 80s. I felt an urge to print it out on colored paper to read. The web devs over at bloomberg must have plenty of cocaine.
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For the record, I don't think the author was actually trying to defend that point, but instead to highlight how when taken out of context or in hindsight any one of our behaviors could in the future be seen as a real, unambiguously "wrong" act.
Wait until they buy Homeaway next..
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I think you neglected to fix the last picture.
Gross unprofessionalism? She wasn't on the job. It wasn't an official account.
Great news about the backend rendering to PNG. We can't run the current version on our monitoring screen, because it's powered by a raspberry pi, which takes about 90 seconds to render all the svg stuff (down to 30seconds with a Pi v2).
Breaking polynomially computable hashes is in NP, in the sense that its decision version - is there any word lexicographicaly smaller than w that hashes out to v - is in the NP class. Thus P=NP would give us a procedure to compute preimages of all known reasonable hash functions, with complexity depending on the size of the shortest solution.
and yes, I believe the default phrase for the voice login option was "my voice is my passport."

It was actually "my voice is my password" not "passport."
It doesn't matter that the Gaussian is its own Fourier transform, as such, does it? It's just that, whatever it is that Fourier transforms into the Gaussian (1 - t^2/2n)^n, that's what sample means converge to.

[I suppose it does matter that this is itself Gaussian for establishing the central limit theorem as specifically about Gaussian distributions. I guess my point was that, even if, counterfactually, nothing Fourier transformed into itself, still we would have a central limit theorem about whatever distribution it was that Fourier transformed into the Gaussian]
My point is, it's natural for her to say afterwards that it was meant ironically now that the backlash has happened. Maybe she's just a jerk who got caught being a jerk.
Fun fact: Rich Barton founded both Expedia and Glassdoor.
Seeing how each visualization adjusts as I change the original dataset is so useful. The technique reminds me of Bret Victor's amazing work.

Ladder of Abstraction Essay: http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

Stop Drawing Dead Fish Video: https://vimeo.com/64895205

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!
The gray text makes it look like a lot of people disagree. So suppose for the sake of argument that lots of people on the internet considered this post "really f*cking stupid" and tried to get you fired for it - would that not be a problem?

I mean presumably you don't think it was a repugnant thing to have posted, but then neither did Justine Sacco.
>Also keep in mind that many prisons in the US are run by for-profit corporations. They clearly don't want people to reintegrate. They want people recommitting at as high of a rate as possible.

This is over blown. It's like 3% of prisoners are in for private prisons. We treat them shit in our government prisons too.
> The market rate would just fall to near zero. The surplus from different homes would have very similar patterns.

This assumes that all homes are using the same technology to generate power, but after the landrush to solar, rates (which are time variant) would incentivize new entrants to the "sell-to-the-grid" market to choose technologies which might be less average output per unit cost than solar, but which have different timing characteristics.
The way I've squared the similar terminologies in different fields is that as thermodynamic entropy increases, the amount of information required to encode/duplicate the state of the system increases (consider the extremes of maximally compact matter (say pre-big bang) and heat death where all matter is spread out arbitrarily over an unbounded volume). So entropy is equivalent to information as understood as a measure of disorder. This squares with shannon entropy as it can be understood as just a measure of the "disorder" in a random variable.

The difficulty is distinguishing the other interpretation of information as a specific correlation, a quantification of order rather than disorder. When we think of communicating the state of a RV as some number of bits of "information", one way to think of it is that we're reducing the "possible disorder" (i.e. uncertainty) by communicating partial state. And so information here is the change in the possible disorder (uncertainty), the more information you receive the less uncertainty that remains.
"[she] instigates" is the rub.
> Yep. D-Bus feels, honestly, like someone looked at every RPC mechanism ever invented and decided to pile all their bad parts into one thing.

You must have mixed up D-Bus with CORBA.

> It's not discoverable

Try installing "d-feet", it's a nice GUI that will show you everything that's listening on the bus and what objects and interfaces it supports.
> Seems a bit like sect behavior to me (arbitrary rules and punishments).

Wikipedia in a nutshell.
Props to the codeship team for another release well done. They're a great team and they're building a great product, can't recommend them highly enough.
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You at least admit that it might backfire on you. I try to tell people, you don't get a choice in how people interpret what you say. If an angry mob decides to take one tweet out of context, your good intentions won't save you.
Feature request: user-defined lock of selected circles, similar to how the existing red circles are locked.

(This is like the Minesweeper flag option)
Really enjoying this "Please sign in to save view settings" modal box that pops up when I try to move the divider between the post and the source code. Who thought that was a good idea?
99% go with #1.

Its a twitter client, it works, why bother with anything else?
Every word is an English word.

"Pukka sushi compadre" is an English sentence. Even my spell-checker mostly agrees. The word origins are Hindi, Japanese and Spanish, respectively.

England gave up her empire, but kept all the words.
The reason you'll get banned for such behavior, and the whole reason why such behavior is against the rules, is because personal attacks are counterproductive to logical discussions. When HN degenerates into a group of people who go around calling other groups of people losers, that does not bode well.
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The term "public shaming" doesn't feel quite right for describing a response to what someone chose to do in public, of their own free will, in forums that are meant for dialogue. "Negative reaction" or "backlash" or might be better.
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I spent a few minutes trying to figure out whether there is any evidence for "Zermatism." I recommend others do not waste their time. It appears to be a completely crackpot theory. I don't believe the parent comment is serious.
I don't think people realize how many restrictions are put on their property--mainly my small towns, and entities. Every
year Busy Bodies(usually retired with no interests), or local politicians looking for something to do; complain, and enact these rediculios laws. They are essentiall eye sore laws, and usually originate from people who should never talk about
aesthetics. You buy a piece of property and really can't
do much to it. I would like to call out my own town, but I
have shared too much here--they could probally harass me in some way?

I would look into fighting whomever told you to remove the solar panel. I thought solar panels were protected by Federal law? In my town, I couldn't put up a car shade for
one day--without risking a ticket. I don't know what country
you are in, but in the United States we have way to many laws. "Oh it sounds good, and doesn't effect me; let's enact
a law prohibiting it."
Meta-Wikipedia is where the toxic parts are. Admins are an easy target and sometimes people get swept up in bashing. Read ANI today and you can see similar things occasionally.
If so many people were offended on the internet, is it that big of a stretch that people in real life might be turned off too? Just because you or I don't think it's a big deal does not mean that others might share the same opinion. I could easily see how someone might be turned off, especially before actually meeting the person.
This is a nice guide on setting up integration with a PostgreSQL database from Node. I've come across a few projects recently that make similar attempts, as an ORM:

Bookshelf: http://bookshelfjs.org/

Sequelize: http://sequelizejs.com/

Waterline: https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline
Interesting. Couldn't you achieve the same thing by aggregating data into an RDMS "when and where [you] can make useful sense of it"?
> Every single attribute in the event gets indexed at least 3 times and it grew out of a manageable scale really quickly.

Ok, so it was a technical issue. I assume you attempted to change the indexing.

The technical reasoning did not come through in the project page or your comments.
I'm not judging the woman. I'm judging the action she chose to take, in the given context.

I'm saying she did something really stupid. I don't know anything else about the woman bar the fact that she seems to have a very nice taste in New York social spots.

Anyone who thinks they can reasonably judge anyone based on any single post, much less 140 characters, is not doing a great job of being a citizen in the 21st century.

^ If you're referring to me, as I said, I'm not judging her. But it's great that you see fit to lay down a marker for what constitutes being a good citizen.

What we can or cannot imagine has absolutely nothing to do with what is real. This is the lesson of three hundred years of science. This is why ideas must be publicly tested by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference to be counted as knowledge.

^wat

This is not to say we must never judge, but that judgement is far more difficult than most people realize, and they are far too quick to do it based on far too little information and far too much imagination.

^ Agreed, but unfortunately thats a symptom a lot of the internet suffers (arguably, feeds) from.
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At what point does a set of reproducing cells become an "offspring"? It's a hard question to answer and there's no bright line. I understand the opposition's argument, and I don't feel nearly as much animosity towards them.

There is no legitimate argument against gay marriage.
When it's easy to fire someone, like in the US, keeping them on becomes, in the minds of people, a position on the issue.
An online bullying campaign was launched against him and he was forced to quit.

Maybe he shouldn't have participated in an offline bullying campaign against an entire segment of the population.
"it is when one specific company controls one commodity or service"

There are plenty of office alternatives, including open office.

Here is a list of 10: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-microsoft-office...

Google also has competition: Bing, Yahoo, and Baidu to name a few.

"Expedia absolutely has a monopoly on travel price comparison sites now."

There are many other travel comparison sites. How can they possibly have a monopoly?
> Are people actually buying the whole "Eich is a victim because as a white multimillionaire he lost his job because he cared deeply about taking away the rights of others"...?

Yes, categorically they are. All over HN.
He explains his viewpoint:

"Still, in those early days, the collective fury felt righteous, powerful and effective. It felt as if hierarchies were being dismantled, as if justice were being democratized."

This is delusional slacktivism. Overthrowing power structures and hierarchies by retweeting. How more delusional can you get?

OTOH, if you've got a PR job or a shitty position where you'd get fired for saying such stuff, you really ought to be ever so careful. Why are people posting this stuff with their real names attached? Unless you've got FU money or are in a career track that's mostly immune to this kind of harassment, just use a separate personal account. FFS, does anyone think the general public wants your tweets?
>when the universe is just a uniform heat - it won't take much information to describe.

Actually this is when it takes maximum information to describe, as no particle is correlated with any other (and thus no savings from encoding). You basically have to fully describe each particle individually as a point in space. The alternate extreme is where matter is maximally compact and thus maximally correlated.
When it's easy to fire someone, like in the US, keeping them on becomes, in the minds of people, taking a position on the issue.
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I kinda agree, a PR person of all people should be held accountable for making a terrible joke that comes off as racist.

The problem is just the reaction of a mob of arm chair vigilantes thinking they are each delivering some unique tiny bit of justice with their comments, emails or calls. It's a death by a thousand cuts, not to mention the nut-cases who send horrible threats of violence and worse.

It's obviously something ingrained in our DNA, it reminds me of nature documentaries - watching a group of apes attack one of their own who they perceive as weak.
Actually yes. Internet is not real and is the place where everyone overreacts.

As long as she is above the hot/crazy line, she won't be turned down dating for such a petty "offence"
Twitter seems pretty much designed to function as an emotional amplifier.

It's not dissimilar to traditional news media in that respect -- "if it bleeds, it leads" and all that. Humans like to pay attention to other humans, and are fascinated by bad behaviour and messy accidents. Newspapers and TV channels are always after something that provokes their readers and gets them emotionally engaged at a fight/flight level. And twitter and other social media that permit unrestricted engagement play to this -- that's precisely why they've grown so big.

(Facebook is in no way an improvement unless you lock it down to friends-only. After all, the difference between 4000 characters and 140 isn't that great, when you're trying to discuss complex issues, especially if you're not very articulate or thoughtful in the first place.)
Maybe to someone who's already familiar with other, longer descriptions of the problem. I don't know what problem this is solving and that description doesn't do much for me.

Can someone either explain, or point to a fuller explanation, of the purported problem?
So, for coal, is it just because of thermal inertia? The size of the whole thing? Do they need to load the coal in a specific way?
Macs had success in the education markets and among artists / filmmakers / musicians. That's a small market. Despite their advanced hardware and mature interface, early macs lost to PCs because PCs were cheaper and more open (software could run on any IBM compatible machine rather than just macs).
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> in Justine Sacco's case the Lead Bully was Sam Biddle

You'd be surprised to find out just how many times the Lead Bully turns out to be Sam Biddle.
Yeah, that could have been clearer. Deaf people are 100% as deserving of this content as non-deaf people. They should not be treated as a separate group. Captions are a required part of the distribution, not an optional add-on. There is not "the real message" and then "the message for deaf people".
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I would certainly like the people who mobbed and bullied Justine Sacco to be held accountable for what they said, which unlike her innocent, easily-misunderstood comment was full of willful malice.
EDIT: thanks! Now I don't have to wonder about the potential effects of undo. I just have to wonder why I didn't figure out which icon triggers it...

Perhaps time is a distracting concept in that icon?
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That's what has been so frustrating about watching the GamerGate stuff in a subcircle of the people I follow. Or any argument/outrage-of-the-day I've seen pop up.

There are people on both sides of an issue who are genuinely, mistakenly trying to have conversations. On Twitter, where the UI is designed to strip context away.
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