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"The Democratic Party has required candidates receive at least 1 percent in three major national polls in the six weeks leading up to the debate in order to get a spot on the stage. But Lessig said the rules were changed last week, which would require those three polls to come prior to the six-week mark."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10494192
Not sure I entirely follow you.

In a meritocracy, as I understand the idea, one's success is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.

If the biggest factor in your success is your parents' wealth, doesn't that suggest we might not have a pure meritocracy?

Do you have a link to the study? I don't remember the part about it still holding true when children are adopted away. That is an interesting finding. It would support your point (I think the point you're making, at least) that it's not necessarily parents using their class/wealth to bolster their children, but instead the parents have the proper mix of traits (intelligence, grit, ability to delay gratification, etc.) that results in financial success.
Just to clarify, Kotlin doesn't have a collections library. What it does have is some clever compiler magic over JDK collections that adds:

• Mutable vs immutable views (List is read only, MutableList is read/write)

• Safer generics: map[key] which is translated to map.get() has the type bound you would expect rather than Java's much weaker Object type.

• Lots and lots of extension functions to do things like functional programming with them

However, behind the scenes they are still JDK collections, so you can call to and from existing Java with no problems and ... you know, actually, JDK collections library is pretty good. Especially once you get into the scalable concurrent collections.
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But I think the thing missing is that each of these threads ran on the same CPU (right?), and thus things like torn reads and writes weren't an issue, so they didn't need to use expensive std::mutex or std::atomic everywhere.

Today, we have single concurrent execution by enforcing a single GUI thread, at the time of the Amiga they had single concurrent execution because that was the only execution they had.
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Some background on VBulletin for the uninitiated: back in the day (2000-2006ish), bulletin boards/forums were extremely popular. The popular choices were PHP-based. There were some in MSFT-based languages, but not widely adopted by the new-age crowd and upstarts. Your choices included PHPBB (FOSS), IPB (commercial), or VBulletin (commercial); SMF was new and "hot" (FOSS), and MyBB (FOSS) gained popularity since it was the child of a few VBulletin wizards.

Up until VB4, VBulletin was the bees knees. When it tried to take on an entirely new social face, that's when users quickly opted for other solutions.

Two of the most popular forums today are still based on VB3, which would be WarriorForum and WebHostingTalk. DigitalPoint runs on SMF, and I have no idea who uses PHPBB on a huge scale, and I'm not even sure what's going on with IPB.
Well not sure if there are enough repeated UX-es in there. If there would be, maybe 5 more, I'd be convinced, but so far not really.
It's an interesting point. How does one determine when one is past the point of being a spoiler and into being a serious candidate? It seems that there is a self-fulfilling prophesy here, wherein if one is concerned about being a spoiler, then one will begin drawing votes away from other viable candidates as soon as they enter politics, and thus spoil; but yet, in order to ever become a viable candidate in the first place, one must do that.

Perhaps the counter-argument is that you could enter politics away from an election, to "test the waters" without drawing support away from other candidates. But that's not a serious way to enter politics. Or you could enter politics at a different level, a lower level. I don't know if that's a viable way for Lessig to accomplish his aim. The same type of problems he's talking about might exist in other political spheres, but they aren't the ones that seem to concern him primarily. I can buy those arguments, but they leave me uneasy for a reason I can't characterize. It reminds me somewhat of the process of becoming the mayor of the city of London [1], where you're only allowed to run once several groups of people approve of you.

It seems like Lessig is being held to a different standard, almost, because he is entering politics with a specific policy objective in mind, rather than because he himself wants to become a leader. Most politicians enter politics simply to win and become leader, and so they can be judged by whether they win. Lessig is entering to accomplish an aim, and so it is possible to criticize his candidacy on the basis of whether he'll accomplish the aim, to a degree greater than other candidates. "By entering politics to accomplish that policy, you are being disruptive rather than helpful" is the charge, and I agree that it is a reasonable charge. A President needs to be an overall effective leader, and not ignore everything but their single pet issue. From that perspective I agree with the criticism. Yet I still feel that the charge of being a spoiler is a circular argument in some way. He's only a spoiler because he's a spoiler, and once you stop defining him as a spoiler, he becomes a serious candidate. Now of course, we have reason to believe that he is not in fact a serious candidate, which is a valid criticism, but it seems like that should be the criticism ("you are going to be a bad leader because you're only focused on one issue"), rather than "you are a spoiler".

The underlying problem seems to be with how winner-takes-all voting works.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c
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Why is this being downvoted.
Sure. Gunnar's "Topology and Data" paper (already linked to by another poster) is the first place to go for an overview of TDA (although it's getting dated). A more updated version (but behind paywall) is "Topological pattern recognition for point cloud data" ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0962492914000051 )

Robert Ghrist has another take on TDA ( https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints.html ) that is more "engineering" focused and also uses a different mathematical tool set than the above (eg. Sheaves/Co-Sheaves). I particularly like the sensor coverage results.

Rob Ghrist and John Harer ( http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/john.harer/publicati... )both have textbooks available if you want to get into the fundamentals in the field.

Jose Perea has some nice results using ideas from TDA in a variety of contexts. eg texture classification ( https://www.math.msu.edu/user_content/docs/KleinBottleTextur... ) and signal processing ( https://www.math.msu.edu/user_content/docs/Sw1Pes_Theory2015... )

Here's a talk I gave at ICERM last summer using persistent homology as a feature generating method for drug discovery:

https://icerm.brown.edu/video_archive/#/play/726

(slides available for download if you poke around on the icerm web site).

This is my "part two" of the video linked to in the parent article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z73Wd2T1xE
Why not just be more positive?
None of your comments about Slack's UX are actually about UX; they're about the UI.
Slack's UX is amazing.

What many people seem to miss about Slack, is that it isn't a replacement for IM/IRC. It is a replacement for email. (Email is pretty embedded infrastructure though, so it still exists as a lower layer system protocol.)

The reason the UI design of these tools looks like Slack is because they are trying to get some of Slack's thunder. But the wannabes are making the mistake of copying the UI without trying to copy the UX.
Advertising underwrites the web. But who underwrites the underwriters? Us of course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961761

If it is ad-supported it is not free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773

Advertising as a way to get paid for whatever it is you are offering people isn't very honest, a way around your product not being valuable enough that people will pay for it. If you make it feel like it is free, people will go "But if it is free, what the hell, why not?" What they do not know is you are taking more from them than if you charged them straight up.
So elections are more important than free speech?

Darn, I disagree. It's the first amendment for good reason. I want to like someone who will really do something about this but I think this solution is a rabbit hole.

Free speech is the most basic protection individuals have for asserting their rights. Elections follow. As much as I'd love to see political corruption reduced, I think those things are already in the proper order of importance in the constitution.

Maybe we can try out his amendment for a few years, but it would be nice to have some further open and public discussion about what might happen with that new amendment in place.

What happens, for example, if a foreign company starts supporting a US political candidate? Would a US company be allowed to invest in said foreign company, or buy their products? Would we start censoring the internet for unlawful political advertisements?
Consider the London blitz and WW2 bombing of other cities. Following initial disruption, the citizens of those cities adapted and life and economic activity went on anyway.
Sequence has much the same extensions available on it as other collections.

I did a tutorial a week or so ago (it's not online yet, unfortunately) on FP in Kotlin. We wrote a little app to do IntelliSense style autocompletion on an n-gram model. The core code was purely functional and used lazyness as well.

I suspect "does Kotlin support FP" is one of those questions that's doomed to turn into a no-true-scotsman thing: whatever support is available will be considered insufficient by true FP fans :-) But it's good enough to let you write code in a typical functional style in many cases, with little cost.
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Wow, what a step back. I'm glad IntelliJ isn't as irreplacable as Photoshop.
> The Republican Party is pro-business and, more importantly, anti-government

That's the theory, but often not the practice. The Republican Party often favors bigger government, they just disagree about what to spend it on. Neither party is particularly small-government anymore.
In what sense is it closer to Scala? It's more like a slightly nicer Java: All Kotlin code can be translated back to Java (with some boilerplate), but almost no Scala code could be expressed gracefully in Kotlin (or Java).
Consider using a `Proxy` object.

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Mattermost has the advantage of being bundled with GitLab, so organisations opting for GitLab might be tempted to use it as well.
I used to work on a legacy Java codebase that made heavy (mis)use of the Observable pattern, and I must second your sentiment.

Invariably a system acquires enough stuff going on that you get "observer storms" of feedback, or people find really weird couplings that are not immediately obvious because something several modules away is observing something it doesn't need to.
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No, JavaScript is a language embedded in browsers. Web specifications detailing standard events are all over eventing, because browsers use event loops. On a related matter, Node does, too. JavaScript does not require an event loop.

Any misunderstandings within this system are a misunderstanding regarding DOM events. HTMLIFrameElements don't change on their own. If they change based on the window resizing, you listen to the "resize" event, etc.
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Largely irrelevant. Netflix shows are at a budget Netflix controls, rather than the pricing maze of licensing content from major networks. Many more shows, often with higher budgets. And with a price premium because Netflix would be competing with their own services if Netflix was given earlier access to them.
I've just read that it uses a lot of Linux-specific things, but are there features that inherently can't be ported to BSD? And are those features absolutely critical to running it at all?

What I've read sounds more like "we're focusing on Linux, and won't be porting it" rather than "this software is inherently Linux-only, and can't be ported".

I daresay coming up with a shimmy layer to port it to BSD is probably less effort than completely rewriting it.
Build times are used to be slower, but I think recent Kotlin compilers have "daemon" mode to speed things up.

I personally use Kotlin on a daily basis for Android development and build time is comparable to the one of Java. May I also recommend Anvil framework (https://github.com/zserge/anvil)? It brings declarative layouts and data bindings, which works best with the immutable data types of Kotlin (much like React does in the web).
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Ah, okay. So, there are possible scenarios that are going on in his life that we should be considering before laying certain gleefully harsh judgments on him. Gotcha.
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In my example, the specific crime may not have been stealing, but there was revenue stolen.
Agreed. My personal fabe is: "But the Committee of the Mending Apparatus now came forward, and allayed the panic with well-chosen words. It confessed that the Mending Apparatus was itself in need of repair."

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The Democrats plan for victory is to appear less crazy to moderate voters than the Republicans. That's their biggest advantage right now. It's why they don't like Bernie Sanders and it's why they've constricted their debate schedule so much. They want to sit on the sidelines and let the Republican candidates make fools of themselves during primary season.

Putting Lessig into the debate runs contrary to that plan. Besides, the "two polls have me at 1% and every other poll has me at 0%" argument isn't exactly a convincing case for inclusion.
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Nearly everyone glossed over how hard it is to make one os for both lo-cost non-touch laptop and finger-touch mobile form factors.

If there was an awesome touch ux for the pixel laptop I'd be more inclined to believe.
Thank you. Very good and simple explanations on this site. Even better than my text book.
True; ignorance suggests that they weren't well aware of what would sell a story.

Notice, reading the original WSJ article, exactly which (and how few) statements are attributed to unnamed Google sources or statements, and which are speculation or third-party commentary.
Yeah not sure how that would help from having your chest compressed by the crowd. That would help with saving your sides, are those the most vulnerable parts in such a case?
It's not morally okay. It's legally okay. Morality is irrelevant when it comes to corporate decision making.

I'm not saying this is how it should be. I'm saying this is how it is. And that is nothing new.

The problem isn't that Apple all of a sudden misbehaves. The problem is that apparently a lot of people have a really flawed mental model of what kind of behaviour they should expect from a company like Apple and make bad decisions because of that.
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The Democrats Have Now Changed the Rules, and Forced Larry Lessig Out
one use case is when ssh-ing machines you can see visual reports rather than text and numbers (think cpu metrics or app specific).
I'd love to tell you - but that would reveal what I like, right? And I don't want you to judge me based on that. I do know that it's ad-network related; bad scripts have nothing to do with the sites that host them. They just don't do the due diligence - a 24/7 job - to prevent the problems.
No. I'm sorry, but spending money is not speech. Restricting the amount of money that one can donate to political campaigns would be perfectly fine, and would not infringe upon anyone's rights at all.
How easy is it to write Kotlin code for Hadoop mappers and reducers?
I'm in the "Loves SMF but not a huge fan of systemd" camp

SMF took over and replaced things that made sense for it to replace. It didn't attempt to replace everything everywhere, which as best I can tell, seems to be the overall summary of the systemd roadmap.

I would love SMF on Linux, but unfortunately it would be quite difficult to port over - it makes extensive use of contracts and doors.
No, as I mentioned, only those 'when'-expressions, the result of which is used as a value, must be exhaustive. Those which are not, we call them 'when'-statements, correspond to an if-else chain in C-like languages and thus are not required to be exhaustive.

More info in the official reference: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/control-flow.html#when...
How did the author figure all of that information out?
Not everything in Scala can be cleanly translated into Java, but Kotlin looks more like a subset of Scala than it does a superset of Java. The syntax is very close.
XML and XHTML are two different things. Related, but different. XHTML is no longer encouraged for website markup, that part is true too. That does not mean that XML is no longer encouraged.
So what, in the above "wall of text", is wrong about Scala or Kotlin? You're not telling what was incorrect, just that the author is _always_ incorrect, which strikes me as hyperbole.
The URL should point to => http://www.fastcompany.com/3052270/lessons-learned/why-im-no... instead of a snippet on 1bytebeta.com.
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My point was that they are actually producing "First-run, current-season material". They have several shows that have gotten attention for their quality.

You say "you couldn't/wouldn't want to pay for how much current TV shows would cost in commercial free.", but a show with a 10 million dollar budget and a million viewers would cost $10, not a lot more than Google Play for current season stuff (per episode), so apparently people are paying about what it would take.
Democracy is an information system - it is not just about politics, it is an approximation of a society's needs, wants, and its moral zeitgeist. Voting is how we add information into this.

Who wins or loses in one election is based on its instantaneous value. But this system has long oscillation times. Some may vote to signal long-term wishes (Lessig), some short-term (Sanders). Both choices I guess are fine.
Whatever the course of action, whoever is ultimately behind it is going to get sued by the survivors of the party harmed by the programming.
Enterprise was set before Starfleet existed, where nobody knew what they were really doing. The idea was for the crew to make the mistakes that set the precedent for future Starfleet's regulations.
Really cool!!! I think this is also useful on helping people construct components.

Thanks!
>That said, Brannon Braga and Rick Berman not being involved might be a good thing...

Berman and Piller were a much better team.
Anyone using it in production shouldn't have, it's completely unsupported except by Chrome and Opera.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=object-observe
Poor choice. They should've gone with "TextSecure". "Signal" is too generic, and I don't see any security aspect related to it. (But who am I to complain, I'm using Threema, anyway.)
For not being a citizen you have some strong opinions about his alignment being "nonsense." Basically, republicans have utilized the increasingly deregulated campaign financing (via Super PACs) to a much later extent than Democrats. The key figure on this page[1] is on the unlimited donations category, which largely comes from the rich, old or not. I think this article[2] describing the upwards redistribution of wealth by the right might also surprise you.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/electio...

[2] http://www.vox.com/2015/11/2/9656398/republican-welfare-stat...

EDIT: Also, even more to the point, it's been a conservative court than has unspooled campaign finance regulation to the point where Lessig felt obligated to step in.
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What gives people the idea I'm defending Apple? I'm not defending them. I'm just saying it's wrong to have expected them to act any different than this.

You can't force them to behave morally. But you can inform your market decisions if you understand that companies will behave like this if there is no sufficient disincentive.

You're not to blame if you think this is bad. It is bad, and you are right to be morally outraged. But you are totally to blame if you're a happy Apple customer and are only offended because the behaviour surprises you.
maybe chrome will support this soon...
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I think that was a failed attempt at sarcasm.