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> what one person finds a simpler or more elegant theory, another person might not; in that sense it is quite arbitrary

But one can quantify the complexity of a theory as the number of bits required to compute all of its predictions. In that sense, the MWI is the least complex version of QM, because, as stared pointed out, it's just the basic math of QM with nothing added on. All of the other interpretations add something on, which means requiring more bits for computation.
As the earlier X series 12" ThinkPads show, there is simply no reason to move keys around for "space". IBM showed it's easily done, that a full sized layout fits on a small device. These new laptops with compromised layouts are sad. It's just stupid mimicry or terrible "designers" putting questionable form over function.

Looking at available ergonomic mechanical keyboards, I think there must be a curse, that every kb designer must do something silly for no reason. I just bought a $200 ergo mech keyboard, and it comes with dedicated Undo/Copy/Paste keys. They actually added a key that sends CtrlZ, which is probably the easiest combo to hit, on a higher end keyboard aimed at pros. Wtf? (I'd pay hundreds for a MS Ergo 4000 with good switches.)
I don't understand the point of these style articles. If you were to look at the ridiculous volume of black people that were basically forced to pass as white in order to live, that really robs this story of its bite.

So, yes. Some people today can abuse the system for advantage. The system this was built to counterbalance was far far worse. And... I question whether it has actually been fully dismantled, yet.
how likely is it that anyone at the US border will actually want to examine my laptop

Not very likely.
The thing I don't get about the storage issue is this: Does volume mounting into a Docker container impact performance meaningfully at all? No? Can't you just punt on the migratable storage question until then? You'd not be any worse off than you are and doing upgrades to the db engine would be pretty easy, right? I dunno, maybe there's something I'm missing, block storage, what are you gonna do?
I think you need to define regularization. L1/L2? Yes those are old.

Drop out itself IS fairly new[1]. As well as its newer cousin drop connect.

I agree neural nets themselves are basically just a crazier parametric model. Many of the things we do to modify the gradient are applicable to logistic and other simpler regression techniques as well.

[2]: https://cs.nyu.edu/~wanli/dropc/dropc.pdfhttp://www.cs.toron...
I just think it is interesting to consider all these path finding algorithms, and compare/contrast them. So with ray marching, we already have access to a "distance" function. And it's not one but many targets we are looking for. It does seem to me like JPS tries to do something similar, the cacheing of jump points looks alot like the distance function, and now we are going to cast rays out looking for the target point, and let rays "bend" around corners, etc.
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But not in the same brain. Sure, evolution happened and picked the right parameters; but today's brain comes with the hyperparameters baked in (with some small amount of randomness). It is able to do all the things it can do without the luxury of parallel training and tuning.

For example: you don't need to show a baby a 1000 photos of mugs before it can tell what's a mug and what isn't. Just show it 1 example of a mug a couple of times, and from then on it's able to identify mugs and mug-like objects pretty reliably.
> Those things they sell as blueberries in the stores really aren't blueberries.

The is absolutely true. My family owns a pick-it-yourself blueberry farm at the top of a mountain in the Hudson River Valley of NY. Prior to 100 years ago it was worked as a vegetable farm, but then the fields were left fallow and wild blueberry bushes popped up. My family has owned it for about 70 years, and most of the bushes are a bit older than that. These are high-bush blueberries, 8-12 feet tall. You can pick the berries standing up with a bucket hanging from your neck. The flavor of the berries is very potent compared to store berries, and they are much smaller. They're incomparable with mass market berries. They're also more delicate, and have a shelf life of only a few days in the fridge once picked (though they can be spread on cookie sheets and frozen for greater longevity).

My childhood black lab would run around with us plucking berries with its mouth as the family picked into buckets. One of my favorite memories of summer in the Northeast.

From the berries we would make pies, jams, cakes, muffins, and our personal favorite: "blueberry pizza," made from unsweetened pizza dough onto which blueberries were spread with a bit of butter and a light dusting of cinnamon and sugar.

Happy to answer any blueberry questions folks may have.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714770
Prove that there is in fact a 'bias' and not simply a reflection of the number of blacks and latinos who have the aptitude to become a doctor.
In Bangladesh, we had scrawny little chickens that you'd buy live at the market. When we moved to the U.S. I couldn't eat chicken for 6-9 months because it just tasted so bland and flavorless.
Really? You cannot imagine any scenario where employment approaches zero other than the robotic-utopia scenario? We have no historical example of employment approaching double digits without societal problems ensuing? The higher the unemployment, the closer to robo-utopia, in a smooth, monotonic fashion, right?
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Some Han characters are ideographic in nature, but not all of them. Korean used to be written with Han characters (using sets of very complicated rules for how to apply them to the language) prior to the invention of Hangeul, but other than a handful of them they aren't in widespread use any more outside specialized or educational contexts. However, some of the Hangeul letters are featural in design, e.g. the velar consonant ㄱ (g/k) is meant to be a side view of the tongue when producing its sound.
You could achieve just as much, and more, by using affirmative action to target people who are actually disadvantaged, i.e. the poor. It would target mostly the same people (blacks and hispanics), but not thosethat don't need assistance. Obama, a black man, surely needs help from the government much less than the genious poor white kid from the ghetto. Plus, it's not racist, so you win twice!
The thing is that while it doesn't rain that much, when it does it rains really hard.
The problem with the old boys's club is that it's essentially networking. In other words Japan Finland and China all would have this and is has little to do with bias. It's basically networking.

Yes there are exclusionary clubs which bar specific classes of minorities but on the whole they don't work that way. It's like saying frats are biased. Yes they are and the world would be better off without frats and their counterparts elsewhere, but I don't think they are mainly perpetuating racial discrimination. Rather they work as a job network and business network for their members.

I could be wrong. If so illustrate.
Absolutely! I'm currently using a Surface Pro 3 in conjunction with the extremely versatile Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop.
Great piece. Quotation #1:

"Cities need to understand whether short-term rental inventory is expanding faster than they can produce housing stock and whether that is impacting the availability of housing to long-term residents. Put another way: you would not A/B test changes to a software platform or interface without data, so why would you ask city policy makers to A/B test regulatory changes in the dark when it comes to the “platform” of their finite physical space?"
> what one person finds a simpler or more elegant theory, another person might not; in that sense it is quite arbitrary

There are ways of making it formal and precise. See section 3 in this chapter from Judea Pearl's book: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-99/ch2.pdf or for a more lightweight discussion that happens to be in my tab stack atm, see https://probmods.org/occam's-razor.html

I understand people think they're being helpful with the knee jerk "that's not science" response to someone asserting Occam, since the principle is often abused/overused, but the academic perspective on this has been much richer for decades now. It's not fair to just sweep that away with a ba-humbug.
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Quotation #2, from the conclusion:

"Lastly, it’s important to remember that technological change breeds changes in the way that we travel. … it’s [not] accurate to call what is happening “tourism.” It’s an entirely new market that isn’t really competitive to traditional hotels. … an emergent and more globalized and mobile population."
A great talk touching on this topic is "Law of the locust: a tale of swarms, cannibals, ageing and human obesity" <URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rV7zAGdbyA> (though I saw Dr. Simpson speak at Harvard, rather). He mentioned how the body craves protein and will over-consume carbohydrates to get enough; less so the reverse. It really messes things up when you have a starchy food laced with MSG so your body thinks from the savory umami flavor it's getting protein, but never does, so desperately eats more.... according to him Doritos are pretty much evil incarnate.

Speaking of Doritos I just noticed they finally came out with the Roulette ones near me. May have to risk the evil.
As someone who has a card at the table with this one, we asked that question on the list fwiw[1].

I don't think there will be any problems here.

1: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/word2vec-toolkit/...
I think its a step in the right direction, but I believe one can go even further. It is not necessary to assume an observer or a conscious entity (the dog problem in the article), if one remarks that physical entities that have the "collapse of the wave function" property make good measurement instruments. In other words, knowledge is gained more rapidly with a good measurement instrument, and that is what defines the "collapse", not consciousness.

In that interpretation, QM is seen as the only way to do physics when you represent your knowledge of a system using probabilities. Measurement instruments are a choice among all the physical systems, and what we consider good physical instruments lead to QM "axioms".

This is elaborated here: http://cc3d.free.fr/tim.pdf.
Depends on your definition of stream...

http://isee3.p3s.nl/philae/

So 40 minutes ago the main structure was at +9.17C. Not exactly high def video but still kinda cool.

Please don't "hacker news effect" the poor server. But yeah, live streaming data...
That's a cool idea. They do it using robot controlled arc welders with welding wire fed in.
Both current stage of development and accuracy of "mind reading" technology and the price of equipment used on ISS would prevent this from happening. That, combined with high cost of failure (possible damage to life-supporting systems), make me believe that such a system would be infeasible.

On the other hand, NASA experimented with volleyball-sized self-propelled semi-autonomous robots, called Personal Satellite Assistants. More on the program here, but no info about what happened to the prototypes: http://psa.arc.nasa.gov/
We have "badges" for all kinds of things, ie free range eggs, organic produce, electricity usage etc. why does something equivalent not exist for flavour? might be a tad subjective, but certainly doable. Might be because a lot of people actually confuse organic produce for a flavour badge?! never been convinced by it though..
I think people see it as "deep" (even though it's not!) due to the representation learning component. Word2vec is often used as PART of a deep neural network for feature engineering.
> I want the best qualified people to treat me and my loved ones.

No, you really don't. You want a team of the best doctors and nurses. "Best" is not the same as "best qualified".
> Besides, if the archive didn't contain any such information, why didn't he simply dump the entire archive onto the Internet, WikiLeaks-style?

Because then all the NSA apologists would be harping on their favourite theme of irresponsible disclosure, see also: wikileaks, Manning.
It's "salamat" in the Philippines and "maraming salamat" for "many thanks" in English or "thank you so/very much".
I learned English at a very young age but I"m continuing to improve by enrolling myself to accent reduction classes at Preple, a company I heard from my cousin. They teach Chinese, too, which I would like to learn in the future. Right now, I'm on an easy Portuguese course at http://preply.com/en/portuguese-by-skype . Learning languages is really fun for me. Although I'm not an expert at any language other than Tagalog and a couple of other Filipino dialects, i, unlike other people, like that I know a little of several languages.
Friend of mine who was born in the 1940s remarked that due to rampant discrimination, when he was growing up the smart people who weren't racist went to black doctors, since it was so much harder to become one.

A great example of the racial divide is the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? In it, two parents are concerned for their daughter's happiness as she introduces them to her fiance, played by Sidney Poitier. He's not just a smart, charming doctor - he's the head of the freaking World Health Organization! And they're worried about what a rough time they're going to have as couple!
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714497
What you call billberries is called e.g. blåbær (literally blueberries) in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

It's also called blaeberry in English.
I'm a US permanent resident, which means I've gone through a whole bunch of interviews and examinations and delays at the border and so on, and my encrypted laptop even has a Tor sticker on it, and no-one's ever asked to look at or been curious about it.

So you're probably fine.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/2/171689-mars-code/abstra... is a good watch.

And you can get a fair bit of insight through many of the videos from Flight Software Workshop - http://flightsoftware.jhuapl.edu/files/_site/workshops/2014/
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This is such a weak argument. It's misleading to include white people in the discussion of affirmative action, because, almost paradoxically, the program only strengthens the white-power hierarchy.

There are millions of things we can do to reduce racial inequality that don't involve discrimination against Asians: ending the drug war and funding rehabilitation programs, reducing police brutality and discrimination, ending for-profit prisons, voting rights for previously convicted, quality hospitals and healthcare access for the poor, funding mental health programs in urban neighborhoods, monitoring and reducing discrimination against colored people in the court systems, actually investing in poorer neighborhoods, funding quality public transportation, seriously funding low-income schools, enacting regulations against companies that take advantage of the poor (payday loans, for-profit colleges). The list goes on and on and on.

Affirmative action has effectively increased the white power structure in this country by reducing the power of Asians, while simultaneously used a delaying tactic for real justice for poor African Americans.
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And this means I should accept a statistically inferior doctor to treat my heart attack... why?
Same here - in Poland. We had Delphi on school computers, but obviously I couldn't "take it home". So it was really great (and surprising, too) to find it in a magazine.
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People use the term "NAM", or non-Asian minority, to separate out minorities who are affirmative-action target populations from non-Whites as a whole.
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"Why should a native american kid who did shitty all through high school get to go to med school and a asian kid who got a perfect 4.0 and did extra curricular things not."

Maybe because you decide Native American was the safest race to use in your example? Also, your example is pretty much BS since you still have to make the school test minimums even with AA, and a Native American who did "shitty" isn't going to apply anyway.
It's also misleading because nothing optimal is faster than A* . Quote from AIMA:

"A∗ is optimally efficient for any given consistent heuristic. That is, no other optimal algorithm is guaranteed to expand fewer nodes than A∗ (except possibly through tie-breaking among nodes with f(n) = C∗). This is because any algorithm that does not expand all nodes with f(n) < C∗ runs the risk of missing the optimal solution."
...Capitalism has a soul?
"Ruby code can have a syntax error in a conditional..."

No, it can't. If this is something you've seen "many times", would you mind providing an example? Show me a program that Ruby tries to execute without having been able to parse it.
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It's funny that she takes the opportunity to plug her former employer chef's work and an entirely different book at the end.

It makes it seem like that was her motivation for reviewing this book in the first place.
I wonder what Dan Brown would have to say about this.
Parts of California, e.g., the Bay Area, have quite large concentrations of people who are secure enough in tgeir basic immediate needs to focus energy on more peripheral and/or longer-term concerns. NIMBY concerns are one of many such things.
I'm aware of situations where consumption and employment dropped. But in this thread, we are very specifically discussing a situation where employment (a cost) dropped and consumption (a benefit) increased.

If you want to argue that consumption has dropped, do it. So far no one else here has.
This story reminds of me this 1986 movie called "Soul Man":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVtsvIpJFTw
Hence why I suggested the student manual which is a little more forgiving.

TAoE isn't something you read cover to cover anyway, it's a reference book.
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So if I call you a dickhead and you're offended, it's your fault?
Isn't discrimination racism? It's strange we live in a world where you have to discriminate to not be racist and those of us who are against discrimination are the racist ones.
Did you mean to say "semantic error" instead of "syntax error"?
As far as cost factor, I imagine James Randi's circle might be of assistance:

http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html
When's the last time an unarmed Asian youth was gunned down in the streets by police officers?
By the same logic, the smart people today who aren't racist will go to Asian doctors.
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>They appear to be some giant flavorless mutant.

This could be said about a great deal of the fruit and veg available in supermarkets. Giant, shiny, brightly colored and with very little taste.

They are bred to look good as that is what sells. They are also bred to grow as big as possible as fast as possible. Apparently when you optimize for cosmetic appearance, size and speed of growth you lose taste (and possibly also nutritional content).

Not really surprising. What gets measured gets managed and all that. And it is easy (and financially rewarding) to measure average size, the volume of produce coming out of a given area of land in a given time period and the percentage of produce left unsold and ultimately discarded due to poor cosmetic appearance.
Unfortunately the investment to make good science just to get it discredited by interested parties isn't as cost effective.
Well technically whatever you do, you always are at their mercy. But having looked at the document you linked to, it doesn't seem like having an encrypted drive would mean extra scrutiny. Unless you're actually planning on not giving them access when they ask. Which still, according to the document, should not mean an automatic denied entry.
but I haven't found any that really got me exited

I am reasonably content with BlogSpot. Others seem happy with WordPress. If you aren't excited, I suggest you start with listing what YOU want, code up an MVP and then maybe submit it to HN under Show instead of Ask.
I agree don't agree with that part. Hotels don't just cater to "tourism", and AirBnb is absolutely replacing them. I don't doubt that some AirBnb experiences live up to those seen in the ads (OMG I'm living like a local!) but for me and everyone I know, it's a cheaper, more convenient alternative to a hotel.
Free range chickens for example seem to taste much better, but I don't see you could have a pure flavor badge.

However, you could probably just create a new flavor(s) and only apply it to nutritious foods.
> But what's the scientist wearing? :-)

The thoroughly shitty subthread your comment spawned is probably why the guidelines say

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
"statistically inferior" is meaningless when it comes to individual capability.
Indeed light simply just uses a Dijkstra-like flood [1] fill :)

This isotropic propagation is the reason Fermat's principle [2] works.

[1] The flood pattern, or Huygens principle, in turns follow from the local (fundamental) and isotropic (for most media) nature of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic propagation.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_principle
No, racism is one of many possible motivations for discrimination; the two are neither equivalent nor included one within the other.
Of course there are biases against minorities. It's a big problem, particularly with respect to police violence.

However, if you want to completely derail a reasonable discussion with a white male, just use that phrase: "check your privilege".

It'll work every time, guaranteed.

I'm open to listening to reasonable arguments for or against AA, but I'm not going to be told "check your privilege" by anyone and continue to take them seriously; "check your privilege" is a phrase which erases the individual and invalidates any personal struggles they may have gone through (extreme poverty, abuse, disability, learning disability, etc.).

Even by itself, "privilege" is a really terrible, loaded word. People like George Bush are privileged -- most white people are not.
Exactly. "Women are shorter than men on average," but that doesn't make a 7'2" woman any shorter in absolute terms.
About a month ago I had the strangest conversation with a guy and his mom, both of whom live in Idaho and object strongly to the settlement of Syrian refugees in Pocatello. The mom was fully convinced this would cause sharia law to be allowed in Pocatello. Citing of facts did no good; in fact, the guy demanded I stop Googling facts that supported my argument. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.