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It really does. But that seems like a mission for a startup, not a research organization. The challenges are more engineering and business than science.

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Great idea!

I decided not to go into academia many, many years ago, because a short look revealed that it seems to destroy the love of the subject matter more quickly than just about anything.

Now that I am partly back working on my PhD, I am still glad I didn't make it my main source of income, because now I have the freedom to do real research, rather than gaming the system of academia with minimal viable papers and incremental research re-gurgitating old insights. ("Doing X in Smalltalk" 10 years later: "Doing X in Java" 10 years after that: "Doing X in JavaScript" Sigh).
Well, I have been in a lot of street fights, ranging from random run-ins with drunken louts, to being assaulted by a group, to deadly conflict involving weapons. I am sure you have experience of your own and that your beliefs have worked well for you, but I do not feel any obligation to adopt them based on your say-so. Nor do I expect you to adopt mine, but I will lay them out for your consideration.

Of course conflicts can escalate once you are already fighting. A bully's objective may be simply to scare someone, knock them down and administer a few painful blows. Or a mugger's objective might simply be to get whatever cash is in a person's wallet. Knocking such a erson down a few times or slapping them around may be sufficient to get them to take off. One can escalate a conflict by actively trying to hurt someone rather than merely repel them or drive them away, in which case the opponent will be inclined to try to knock the escalator unconscious or inflict a serious, debilitating injury such as breaking someone's arm. There's another level of escalation again in which one person actively attempts to kill the other and makes their intention absolutely clear, such that the other person fully believes their life to be in jeopardy and either begs for mercy or fights to remain alive.

You are suggesting that there is no distinction between the different states. This is nonsense. At the international level we are well aware of the differences between skirmishes, limited engagements, limited war, and total war. Conflicts between individuals are similarly nuanced, and the notion of a proportionate response is well established in law; if someone tries to steal your cellphone, say, and slaps you in an attempt to startle/intimidate you into letting go of it, you do not automatically have the right to kill them and you'll need to make a convincing case about being in fear for your life rather than just angry about the prospect of losing your phone.

There are certainly situations in which is it appropriate to inflict as much harm as possible. I have been there and done that. But I believe those situations are exceptional and I make no apology for holding back in situations where extreme measures are not warranted. Of course I would not like to be wrong and find myself a victim, but nor would I wish to be wrong and find myself having gone too far.
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I agree, I really like seeing the EVE development blog. There are a few blogs up about major battles where their servers are just being thrashed and how they were able to stay up.

They also mention that their users warned them about this battle before hand which was really cool.
And I hope you guys really do make the next Bell Labs :)
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IS exploits Telegram mobile app to spread propaganda
Agreed. It's important to remember that sama is SV elite (tm) and can afford to throw his money after extremely ambitious and risky projects-- he isn't living the "normie" life. There's nothing wrong with that, but it can be a bit jarring to be reminded of it.

I still think that this is a great (fantastic and maybe even unprecedented, depending on how serious he is about the duration) move by YC, though. I really hope that they nail the concept of research being different from shipping products, though-- the mentality that research is a product that has to be shipped out has largely killed the scientific research community of academia, warping it into a horrendous paper-churn for survival.
If you host on someone else's servers, you need to follow their TOS for what you can and can't host. For instance, lots of places don't like hosting porn.

I don't know Amazon's TOS very well, nor am I implying it comes in to play here. I just remembered seeing some posts about Reddit being hosted on AWS.
Very similar to http://bookmarked.us but instead of storing your bookmarks in Evernote it uses Dropbox. I like it.
But it's not, really. It's HTML + a mandatory web components polyfill and standard library loaded from a remote origin. If I just rendered the HTML, I wouldn't see any images or videos, because they're hidden behind custom <amp-img> and <amp-video> tags.

I guess the upside is that I also wouldn't see content in the <amp-ad> or <amp-pixel> elements.

I wouldn't disagree with AMP being "just web technologies," but it's sure as hell not "just HTML."
this is exciting! even more exciting would be when the regime collapses. what sort of war crimesque stories would we hear? ex. who was sending the messages on the number stations?
imagine one day, north korea....the horrors that would be unveiled while the world sat by looking the other way. it would be the biggest embarassment of humanity. in our modern day and age, in this day of UN and international bullshit, we allow a nationwide gulag to operate and continue to attack south korea.
>“ When we see harassing behavior, we can speak up to challenge it,” the authors wrote. And that’s true. We can. But if we aren’t white men, it’s likely we won’t be heard.

Here. This doesn't make sense. Why are people, or do people feel the need to link their identity to their thoughts online. If you're pushing for equality then why are you assigning a gender, race, or political affiliation to your comments? If we are all equal then why separate yourself with labels?

This is why having your online identity linked with your real identity is a bad thing in lots of cases. This is why anonymity is important.

Every conversation I've had on 4chan I have no clue what gender the other person is, what race they are, where they live, how much money they make, what organizations they support, or what their name is real or not. The only thing that matters is what they're saying or what pictures they're posting. Even identifying yourself as a female results in "tits or GTFO" responses. You can see this as hate speech against women or the community saying in it's own fucked up way "we don't care and you shouldn't announce these labels to us". But in the end it pushes away the labels that people have such a problem with. And nobody's comments are getting downvoted so there goes the echo chamber mechanic built into Reddit.

In an ironic twist the "internet hate machine" can be far more inclusive than Reddit.
I'd venture a guess that that the liquor store and the restaurant do this for "accounting purposes" and the diner is living in the 80s. As I say though, I'm sure it varies based on specific situations, my experience is based on working with small business owners based in the UK.
DanBC consistently makes these puerile arguments but never gets downvoted. Unbelievable. This white knight seriously wants me to believe that society as a whole are in control of these people's emotions.

Dude, wow. Just wow. If I say any more than that the thought police will curb my post.
React upgrade path is stabler and smoother than 90% of >1.0 libraries I have seen. Please don't jump to conclusions. ;-)
I'd wager most HN readers can't relate to the day to day experience of most people in this country.
It's hard to know what to think in regards to big pharma. One conclusion I've come to in recent years is that the EPA should have the funds to actually do the testing themselves (as opposed to receiving results from the automotive manufacturers for example), and so should the FDA. This idea that companies won't submit doctored results to these standards we provide as a nation is laughably false, clearly.

Another thing is that somebody needs to go to jail. And it should be from the top of the chain to the bottom. If you're a sales rep dealing with pamphlets which you've explicitly been told can't be left out in case of regulators, your options should be "whistle blow" or be held accountable along with the rest of that chain.

In a country with over two million people in jail you'd think we could nail one of these bastards. It's just so gross.

Then there's all the issues with the US Taxpayer directly funding vast amounts of the research that goes into these pharmaceuticals and not receiving anything in return (except for exorbitant unregulated health care costs). The taxpayers need to benefit from the corporate profits which come from taxpayer funded research.

I'm not exactly sure what to think about all the advertisements for drugs on our tvs and to our doctors. Most of me thinks it's disgusting. I'm not one to think there should be a profit motive in healthcare as it can lead to awful stories like this (I'm done with chapter one, I figure I can do one a day). Unfortunately these are, at the moment, opinions, and I can in no way fully flesh them out, offer concrete evidence as to why it should be any other way, or really truly expand on the issues. That'd be a post of it's own and a few weeks research I think.

Something needs to change though.
The state does no such thing.

The state regulates the killing of humans. If you forcibly enter my home with a perceived intent to harm me or my family and without any right to do so, I will kill you and never run afoul of my state's laws.

If you attack me and I find myself in fear of death or grave injury, I will kill you and never run afoul of my state's laws.
Arbitrage. The price of power changes every few minutes (wholesale) to a utility. They shield you from this with flat rates per kwh or tiers. With battery arbitrage, you switch to a time of day metering scheme where you're exposed to dynamic pricing. The benefit, of course, is that you can charge when power is cheap, and run off your battery when power is expensive.

A great example: I reside in Illinois for part of the year. My utility provides power from nuclear plants, which cannot be idled. That means, at night, I can get power between midnight and 5am for about 1 cent/kwh. If batteries get cheap enough, cheap power + batteries means I save money.

Most electric vehicle charge controllers are already "smart" in this regard, and can charge when power drops below a certain price.
This is total vaporware, and likely total bullshit. See the Wikipedia article. That project has been promoted for years, by some guy who has no funding for it. He was previously promoting a private spaceport at White Sands.[1] Nothing was ever built. And a private satellite network using lasers.[2] Also didn't happen.

He's good at PR, though.

[1] http://www.pegasusglobalholdings.com/international-commercia...
[2] http://www.pegasusglobalholdings.com/laser-light-communicati...
Democratic accountability to the served population deals directly with disconnection from the served population without appeal to either "wisdom of the crowds" (it doesn't rely on the "crowds" being correct, it relies only on them being the population served) or the "perfection" of centralized control (which seems to be a completely different issue, that might be worthy of discussing, but isn't the one you said was ignored.)
That's a list of most popular, not most used.
Ask HN: Is messaging an alternative to service discovery?
I'm a newbie to distributed systems, currently reading Enterprise Integration Patterns[1] (which I strongly recommend). I've read nearly everything available from guys like Martin Fowler, Greg Young and Adrian Cockroft on the topic.

Service discovery is a term I hear often in discussions about microservices and distributed systems platforms like Mesos or Kubernetes. Other than use within the platform internals and application-specific message broker (eg RabbitMQ or NMessageBus), when would service discovery be useful to my distributed application itself?

Coming from a frontend background and thinking in "reactive" terms, messaging seems like the most intuitive solution (specifically, CQS backed by event stores). Can't most problems be solved using a distributed exchange with well-defined routing, queues and proper correlation?

ie. upstream services simply send messages (commands/events) to stream, use exchanges/topic routing to optimize delivery, and relevant actors can react?

[1] http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/
Show HN: Telegram bot to log your weight – open source with JSON API
One day they will teach about this at universities. How not to approach IT problems.
Two steps forward, one step back: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/07/uk...
+500 internet points to Bort for providing import & export options out of the box :-)
But with Inline::Perl5, it is, which I keep trying to point out. I think Inline::Perl5 may be a bad name for what is essentially "Interop with all your Perl 5 code and modules seamlessly in Perl 6, including XS".
in the home, no thank you.

however within substations, or perhaps subdivision localized power storage facilities, or lets go even further, charging stations for cars, I can see it.

Utility setup and managed charging stations replete with a lot of battery storage soaking up wind, sun, and base line power when off peak usage times, providing both a source to recharge EVs and serve peak power usage times. To insure adequate power on hand they could charge EVs based on time of day to move people off peak.

because honestly, the last thing I want in six hundred to thousand pounds of lithium batteries in my home.
IIRC, it also instructs the user to update and secure their firmware, wiping and blocking the vigilante worm as well as other malware. That doesn't seem like a plan for building a secure criminal botnet.
Having a new generation, i.e. babies, is good for the state -- it's actually essential for Social Security style systems to work. It's also considered desirable by many, many people.

Taking your argument to the logical extreme, your argument implies that the state has the authority to impregnate women.

Not arguing against vaccines, (I'm pro vaccines), but I'm against giving this much power to the government. Government abuse of power is always a question of "when and how", never a question of "if".
I think there is a common misconception here.

Even John Stuart Mill, one of the biggest proponents of free speech philosophy, was okay in limiting free speech when allowing it would harm or cause damage to others. SCOTUS has also explicitly stated that first amendment (gov censorship) rights do not apply to threats of violence.

The reddit execs have said as much through their communications, that they're okay with allowing hateful and biased communities so long as they're not targeting, damaging, or causing harm to individuals.

People are misinterpreting that as reddit being a "bastion of free speech" without fully understanding what free speech really is.
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Be careful about relying too heavily on Hersh's article. It makes some pretty bold claims about a conspiracy of eyewatering proportions that have never really been backed up. There has been a lot harshly critical responses to it. [1]

Historically Hersh has been a successful investigate reporter but his LRB piece hasn't really been widely accepted: [2]

> Were it not for the byline of Mr. Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who first gained notice more than 45 years ago for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the story would likely have been readily dismissed and gained little attention.

1. http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bin...
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/us/seymour-hersh-article-a...
Here's the problem.

Let's look at something non-controversial like Doctor Who. There's /r/doctorwho, which allows posts like "My cat pretending to be Matt Smith" and "My girlfriend made me this bow-tie - look how cute it is on my cat!".

Then there's /r/gallifrey, which only allows posts about Doctor Who. Then there's a few others (/r/classicwho for episodes before the reboot).

Now, imagine if /r/DoctorWho banned criticism of Moffat. Obviously, all the Moffat haters would get banned, and go to /r/gallifrey. You'd suddenly have a large Moffat hating sub, and a large sub that couldn't understand why every other sub seemed to hate Moffat. These people wouldn't politely debate anything, because they'd get more upvotes and positive responses for attacking the other side than trying to be reasonable.

FWIW, I dislike Moffat, because I think Doctor Who works better in a more episodic format - long arcs don't work when the Tardis is in the mix. But that's not the kind of nuance you get when there's two subs that both have a bunker mentality, throwing bombs at the brainwashed idiots on the other side.

Anyway, reddit is not a "free speech" site. It's a site that lets mods do what they want, for their sub. It's architecture is not one that allows a free, civil discussion of ideas, so much as a place that encourages group-think. (And while you can blame the "SJWs", there were prominent "hate" subs, like Fat People Hate, that behaved the same way - it's just the way the site is designed and run).
>2. Those who care about compatibility a little bit but don't want a large version number.

>React seems to fall into #2 here.

Seriously, a library that goes out of its way to provide useful deprecation warnings and always keeping deprecated behavior for a version, with versions coming out once in three months, and released with codemods automating the transition for you, cares a little about compatibility?

React team will eventually jump to bumping major, and it's a good question to ask, but it's a good question to ask the team instead of guessing what and why they do.

https://gist.github.com/zpao/6e12ee0f46ce87af2287#versioning
A useful sub-algorithm in GOULASH: Goal-oriented linearly approximating selection heuristic.
..but then they turn around and flatten said communities out of annoyance.

A lot of subreddits with the same idea as FatPeopleHate got swept up in their ban despite being run by different people and having never harassed anyone. A racist subreddit was banned out of some vague argument of being the focus of a lot of their time. (In other words, not for violating the rules.)

It feels very much like another instance of what intopieces just described, a transparent PR lie.
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> I don't buy the "Media vs Reddit" narrative. I don't think this has anything to do with journalism or even intolerance.

Right, it's about selling ads. Reddit wants to keep its users (who want free speech) which sells ads. But Reddit also wants a PC site, which sells ads. Newspapers want to whip a popular whipping boy because it sells ads. They're all morally bankrupt: none of them care about the other or intolerance.

> I just don't like hanging out with racists and sexists (in real life or online). If Reddit wants to keep me as a contributor to their site, they need to do something about that or I will not return. I doubt I'm alone in feeling that way.

You're welcome to unsubscribe from racist and sexist subreddits. You're also welcome to subscribe to TwoXChromosomes and other similar subreddits. I'm literally subscribed to 4 very specific interest subreddits that don't tolerate hate speech and I haven't encountered a comment that could be even construed as racist or sexist that I can remember since shortly after I created an account.

So let's stop pretending that this isn't about you not wanting to hang out with racists and sexists: that's easily within your power by using the services Reddit offers. Let's admit that this is about silencing racists and sexists.

I don't have any skin in this game (the subreddits I subscribe to could easily be replaced by going back to the bulletin boards I used in the early 2000s) so I really don't care if Reddit crashes and burns, or if they have free speech: it's just not a platform that I care about. But I do think it's a bit disingenuous for people to pretend this isn't a free speech issue.
Yeah. It's too crowded.
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> JITs could only optimize pattern matching if one particular branch is picked all the time, but not statically knowable.

They would optimize it if one particular branch is picked all (or even most of) the time but not statically knowable at any given (extended) call site, and by "extended" I mean up to any reasonable point on the stack. That is not a niche case at all. Think of a square-root function that returns a Maybe Double. At most call sites you can optimize away all matchings, but you can't do it statically. Statically-knowable is always the exception (see the second-to-last paragraph).

> Names should be a purely compile time affair.

That doesn't work too well with dynamic code loading/swapping... But in any case, you're now arguing how languages should be designed. That's a whole other discussion, and I think many would disagree with you.

> There goes 99% of the damage that a JIT tries to undo, along with a lot of the damage that a JIT doesn't undo.

At least theoretically that's impossible. The problem of program optimization is closely related to the problem of program verification (to optimize something you need proof of its runtime behavior), and both face undecidable problems that simply cannot be handled statically. A JIT could eliminate any kind of branching at any particular site -- be it function dispatch, pattern matching or a simple if statement -- and eliminating branches opens the door to a whole slew of optimizations. Doing branch elimination statically is simply undecidable in many, many cases, regardless of the language you're using. If you could deduce the pertinent information for most forms of (at least theoretical) optimization, you've just solved the halting problem.

Whether or not what you say is true in practice depends on lots of factors (like how far languages can take this and still be cheaply-usable, how sophisticated JITs can be), and my bet is that it would end up simply being a bunch of tradeoffs, which is exactly where we started.
I'm not sure if we improved for Greek in particular yet but this generally (non English) has been a focus recently so it should really be improving. I'd be curious if you notice any improvement and if the region toggle does anything for you.
s/subset of/overlapping set with/

AMPHTML whitelists a handful of HTML tags, but adds a bunch of its own custom elements, like <amp-instagram>, <amp-img>, and <amp-ad> on top. It's neither a subset nor a superset of HTML in the common understanding of those terms.
When would this be useful? Isn't the point of CI to ensure bugs don't make it to production?

EDIT: I get the joke now. Thanks to everyone who replied.
The joke was done a few days ago (I have no idea if this was the first either but its the first I saw)

https://github.com/hmlb/phpunit-vw

(To those that don't get the joke, Volkswagon just got popped for cheating their emissions tests by detecting when they were in a test vs real world environment)
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