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What? FUD? There are a few state exceptions (as there are to just about any US intersection of state and federal law) to what I wrote and you call it FUD?

The fact is, for those states that do give federally-recognized tribes casino rights (ie, most of them), there is not way for a tribe to forfeit that right.

How in the world is that a "myth" or "FUD"? Look, I can understand why you got irritated at the other statement above (of course federal recognition brings benefits other than casino rights!), but I have no idea what you would call this fact a "myth".

If you're pointing out that this would have to come from the states, and not the federal government, then it's a good point (that's what I was referring to my "legal reasons"). But why call this "FUD"?
It's not really an accident though if it's a likely outcome. The point is simply this: on the one hand people accept a substantial probability of killing innocent people and intentionally killing guilty people if the upsides are good enough, but these same people are unwilling to accept mere torture of guilty people no matter the upsides.
Isn't it possible to just buy a set of knobs/buttons/etc and use that to control the software?
I don't think there has to be a huge controversy here. It's perfectly plausible to build a system that contains a hybrid of human and machine intelligence, where the humans work on the more fuzzy questions that cannot be directly answered yet, and the interactions used to fill in the gap as the AI is improved for later.
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That is iff you use the shorthand declaration-assign: https://play.golang.org/p/6uGmPZIu4S
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I have some eastern European friends who have taken training classes to help reduce their accent with English. Even as much as it's unfair and biased for people to make assumptions based on accent, they still saw the cost as an investment into their careers and went through with it.
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If you were picking somewhere to defend, a flat paddock is hardly idea. It was probably forested then too, making it even worse. I have no idea what it was but it sure doesn't seem like a defensive position.
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Amazon apparently sells a bunch of 64GB and 120GB SSDs for less than the $53 cost of your boot drive.
Ask HN: Hacking or management?
I currently work as a tech lead at a very large company outside the US. The product I'm in charge of has tens of thousands of users.

The problem is that I manage a team of mediocre programmers and the engineering culture is terribly broken (cowboy coding, no tests, people don't care much about writing good code ie. no passion, etc).

I feel bad for not learning more technical things lately (due to the lousy culture) but I also feel it might be a good thing to learn how to manage.

My goal being to start a tech company eventually, I ask you:

Is the skill of management transferable from a team of bad/average programmers to a team of good/great ones? I'm afraid I might be wasting my time here and should look for a job where I get to hang around smarter people and learn more technical stuff.

PS: I don't think I have enough experience to get hired as a tech lead in charge of a strong team.
I was asking myself how people measured time before mechanical clocks, and I completely forgot about hourglasses.

I wonder if the development of mechanics was hindered by the lack of standardized time-keeping. I've read that Galileo used his own pulse to measure pendular motion, and I find that highly impractical.
On the other hand, honouring people by roasting [1] them is also tradition. Maybe if the criticisms were funnier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roast_(comedy)
Isn't that basically long-form restatement that you should know what you need before spending money? The storage pods are pretty openly targeted at large-scale operations where the lower storage costs pay for a dedicated ops team and things like redundancy are handled at the software layer. Dinging them for not having hardware RAID is like buying a semi-truck and complaining that it doesn't fit in your garage.
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thats not the point OP was trying to make, the cert is issued via control of the domain, get control of the domain somehow, most any CA will happily issue you a cert for it.
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I just had a teacher do the exact same thing. Its all about the narrative.
Reliability has a cost, too. You can get a 60GB SSD for cheap (Amazon suggests it's about the same price as the slow 500GB HDD), and the SSD will fail at a much lower rate than that HDD.
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I don't think that's feasible either on a large scale. How about this strategy:

1. Pick the top three offenders (not in the same industry).

2. For each offender, find their cash cow, or top 3 most profitable products.

3. Make a concerted effort to boycott those products, and those products alone, indefinitely. Make some real damage.

The purpose here is to make an example out of someone. Build morale among protesters that if well organized, they can be effective.

First scenario: One million US/Canadian citizens sporadically decide to buy from company Y instead of company X... nobody notices.

Second scenario: Company Z suddenly loses 100,000 customers for their core product... I'll bet you someone notices.
No one is really worried about H1B workers "receiving benefits"...we're not speaking about laborers. The core problem is that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of local graduates are sitting idle, unemployed, looking for work, while companies claim there is a "shortage." In reality, there is only a shortage of companies willing to pay market wage.

The reality is that local grads (Joe Smith in Columbus Ohio) is not willing to live 2hrs away and dorm with four other guys in a H1b exurb hostel...while some guy from India is...and this is why they are hired, not because there is a lack of local talent but because few local grads are willing to work for so little that they are essentially reduced to exurb hosteling.
Side projects start to bit rot if the creator stops caring for them with a full heart. Like anything, if you're not committed to something, it becomes a second class citizen, and in the worst case simply becomes abandoned.

The only person who can sustain a side project long into the future is the creator. Not the people who support it via donations, or buy an item...You and only you are responsible for its shelf-life.
I'm curious as to what materially materially changed in 6 months since Fidelity invested (at $15bn pre-money)[1], considering Snapchat it looks like they have been ramping it's revenue[2]. Maybe slowing user acquisition or lower than projected revenue growth?

1. https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/4a2de2da69d5ccaac85...
2. http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-is-on-track-to-gener...
Having sold a company to IBM, I can attest that this issue would be a Big Problem. {Edit: I mean for any company that used BlackBlaze diagrams labeled "proprietary."}
"I am the mystic sailor", indeed.
I'm surprised that Windows Vista is included in this, since Microsoft will be supporting it through April of 2017, a year after this Chrome announcement takes effect.
In a Bayesian framework, replication is pretty easy to make predictions on.

Suppose there is a parameter - say the probability q of a Bernoulli random variable being true. Based on your past experiments you have a posterior p(q). Then given p(q), you can easily compute a probability distribution on S(N), where S(N) is the number of successes you'd get from a bernoulli random variable with N attempts.

In code terms, you are just computing posterior.flatMap(q => Bernoulli(N,q)). (Using the inherent monadic structure of probability.)

This actually works in general. If you want to predict the outcome of a later experiment (the replication) you just compute posterior.flatMap(parameter => generateResult(parameter)).
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I fully understand about Windows XP. I'm disappointed about OS X 10.7 and 10.8, because many users with older (but still perfectly functional!) Mac hardware are stuck on those versions 4-5 years after their release because Apple won't extend support for newer OS X versions to that hardware. Apple also refuses to provide a way to upgrade a system to the maximum OS X version it supports; it's a huge hassle to do so.
I thought Dropbox uses Amazon S3 not their own storage?
My teacher read it to us in elementary school. I don't recall if I ever saw it as a movie, but I might have. The only thing I remember is from the very beginning, a spelling bee (insect)?
Cooperation in its root is voluntary suspension of freedoms. I voluntary agree to not do Bad Thing X if you agree to not do Bad Thing X too, and we both reap the benefits. But in practice, coordination is very fragile, and that's why we invent devices for enforcing it - social norms and local enforcement works on small scale (few dozens of people); on a larger scale we usually end up with a government.
> If you are correct you can make money by betting contrary to the bias.

This betting market only covers reproducibility, not truth. But since most reproducible findings are still false, betting contrary to bias is unlikely to work.
> If the lessee is willing to pay the penalty, what's the problem?

Do they happily turn themselves in, or are they relying on a yet to be established, landlord sponsored snitch industry providing state of the art tenant surveillance services to smoothen the transaction?
Nature had a good article [0] about the use of iPython notebooks in science that was previously discussed here [1].

[0]http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the...
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563028
Ah, I also had a hard time finding a job in biotech, despite having some solid referrals and awful offers. Settled for a mediocre offer as a result.

Anyways, thanks for sharing.
The immigration process is a nightmare, but I thought that it was done on purpose. It took me many years and probably hundreds of pages of documents and forms to get my US Citizenship but I didn't use an attorney.
To be fair, that's "extended support," not "mainstream support" - it's mostly just security updates and so on.
No, what you wrote is was incomprehensible.
"The beauty of the market is that we allow people to be Bayesian" [...] "People come in with some prior belief, but they can also follow prices to see what other people believe and may update their beliefs accordingly [...] participants in the market could focus their bets on the studies they felt most sure of, and as a result, rough guesses didn’t skew the averages as much."

It certainly isn't a fool-proof method of increasing accuracy, and it does favor popularity of a theory over other factors, but overall it's probably a nice layer of data to consider adding to the mix.
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It is philosophically pointless, as you are arguing from an untenable position: if you don't trust your system provider, you shouldn't trust your system. Leaving kernel bugs unfixed does not make your system any more trustworthy.

From a practical point of view, it's a different matter: the exploits may allow you to regain some control over an untrusted device. But you still have the fundamental disparity of you trying to gain (software) control over an untrusted (hardware) device. That makes it a pointless philosophical debate regardless of practical use.
Cobol, Fortran and Lisp are still around.
I think, the freemium model works best, when the resources needed for one additional customer (including computing-power, storage and support) are relatively negligible.

Many companies operate the freemium model with much less than 11% conversion rate -- but the additional customers they have to carry with the others are not so a heavy burden.

The advantage of the freemium model is faster scaling and adoption of the service -- but with the cost of an additional burden ... and you have to know, if your business can carry the weight or has to do differently.
I guess they realized S3 was too expensive, eventually? :)
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It's more just rich places. Europe, North America and Australia/Japan have very good safety records, and some don't speak English natively.

These places all have highly developed regulatory bodies that communicate with manufacturers and each other. Most happen to enforce English to ease communication on safety related issues.
Letting more people who want to move do so is not making things worse.
A 96 bay 4U chassis is readily available http://www.raidinc.com/products/object-storage/ability-4u-96... but that's still not a magnitude.
https://github.com/nicksardo/jsonpath can pull out parts of a JSON document without unmarshalling.
> Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

The whole rationale behind the "guns will protect our liberty" movement is that it is much easier to kill people with guns than with baseball bats and knives. It's just that in practice the people being killed relatively quickly and effortlessly with guns are real civilians and not hypothetical fascist stormtroopers.
> Leaf is a open source framework for machine intelligence, sharing concepts from TensorFlow and Caffe.

That was fast. (Like, I know that's a documentation change, but stil.)
I very strongly disagree with the premise of your thinking. The reason hash collisions do not matter in practice is due to the fact that cryptographically strong hash functions have preimage resistance, making it robust to attacks.
However it is an extremely reasonable point that a small probability of error in determining equality is much more of a concern. Imagine if your '==' operator only worked 99 times out of a hundred. Your emphasis on practicality is unfounded in this context.
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Great work -- very exciting to see a Rust ML framework!

Dist-Belief (TensorFlow's predecessor) was oriented around layers (as Leaf is) but TensorFlow (like Theano) is graph/flow-based rather than layer-based. I think in particular the layer-based approach makes it awkward to represent more complicated models since not every model can be decomposed into backward/forward passes.

Do you worry that by adopting a layer-based paradigm you are boxing yourself in? A graph-based approach does seem more flexible (and distributable across machines).
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Thats such a rhetorically empty statement. No one claims it was perfect or by perfect people, but they certainly bested the British system! At least I don't have to swear allegiance to a Queen! The Constitution is my king.
Personality could be strongly typed, we don't know if it is yet. The continuous distributions we see in traits could be due to people behaving in a socially desirable way, while their mental algorithms are distinctly categorical.
To link something like "type theory" to personality theory, I would look to computational complexity theory. The link is conceptually simple - different types of people might be optimized for solving different classes of problems.
There might be a more direct link with mathematical types - I'll have to put it in the burner and see.
Addendum: It can stream mkv/h264 without transcoding quite well. I'm really enjoying Plex on my new Apple TV!
Google is locked in a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over the ownership of trivial bits of Java code!
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An infographic I found once regarding approximate time to learn a language for English speakers.

> I have yet to meet a single person who speaks a second language without an accent who began their study as an adult.

I've met a couple, but they're indeed very rare. Although English may not have been their second language, it may have been more like 4 or 5, perhaps that made a difference.
That's a fair point overall. It's basically the entirety of the debate between functional languages and imperative languages. Nonetheless, it is still pretty good question as far as someone trying to understand the differences and why it might be useful.

@hmehta, one of my recent favorite videos generally on this topic has been from Curry On conference [1]. It's not strictly data-flow vs control flow, but it does discuss some of the more practical differences in between using monads for structuring data flows vs imperative control.

My take is that monads can be roughly considered as wrapping up imperative control flow along with the data. E.g. wrapping up the if/else choices into a data structure. Currently I actually found studying up on actual category theory easier than all the "easy introduction" things regarding monads. As in, the ideas when presented straightforwardly and technically correct are simpler than we give credence to.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449j7oKQVkc
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> People who choose to work for the startup instead are doing it because they identify strongly with the problem or market, want to have a voice, or want equity.

So very true; but if you're looking to make a quick buck you shouldn't join a startup [1] or want to checkout from work 5-6 pm everyday (BTW, there's nothing wrong with that)
With the insane valuations that exist today, a decently funded startup can at least match a base salary with an established company.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/
Go try to get a domain-validated cert for Google. They are in no way relying on DNSSEC.
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Or you know, quit doing massive military deployments with nebulous goals, requiring people to be stationed abroad for years. Obama has it right; lots of intelligence, then a small, very focused mission to act on the intelligence.
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A big problem for BB if they were to have open source-licensed tech and got acquired by a megacorp, or a big problem for a "kinda-sorta-licensee" of their tech once acquired?
Your reasoning behind downvoting is totally unfounded. Collisions may not be the primary reason for not using a hash function, but to discount the fact that it results in an unreliable equality operator is just ignorant.

This fact applies to any hash function even those you don't consider broken.
Now that's a backhanded compliment.
The MBTI and Big 5 are simply rotations of one another. They explain most of the same variance. This was demonstrated by McCrae & Costa, who created the Big 5, in the 80s.
Never heard of slam-fire shotguns before. I'll look into it. As a kid I had seen designs for railguns though.

I disagree that the shotgun would be easier because of ammo issue. It may be as you say in the US of A, but in Europe it's not that easy to get your hands on live rounds. Also, I doubt people often sell ammo to a 12 year old - so in order to get it, you'd have to interact with a grownup. Railguns are easier; your parents will never know what you're building even if you're spending your lunch money on high voltage capacitors.
> It's clear that negotiating with our leaders has failed

I don't think that's quite white happened. It seems more like, our leaders have had their power stolen from them; they couldn't take the public's side even if the tried. Here, we have a policy decision - copyright duration - over which the legislature has traditionally had authority. But the decision was made by a group of diplomats and corporations, without legislative input or access. I don't think our leaders have real access to public opinion on this issue; wherever the decisions are made, corporations create a bubble of disinformation to conceal our ire.
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It isn't fool-proof, but there is a lot of research into the phenomenon that groups of humans are pretty good at predicting outcomes (much better than most individuals). I forget the math behind it, but it makes a lot of sense mathematically.

Here's a book all about it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/...
That's great, if you are Google. I unfortunately, am not Google.
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Can you link to the shelf / hardware? I'm curious
I want this to be real so bad...and then I hope my neighbor downloads it so I can swipe right on him and go kick his ass.
> I understand Pages has nothing to do with source control

Slightly disagree. What I always loved about pages is every commit is on record and auditable by the public. This makes coders accountable for their actions if they introduce malicious code to their users. Take for example:

`something.js` being served from RawGit (https://rawgit.com/). In all likelihood the asset can be trusted because we can inspect the repo where the asset resides and audit it.

The same cannot be said for private GH accounts, because it's impossible to view the source. People actually pay Github money to conceal their source code. Gasp
> I try very hard, everyday, to practice my pronunciation, and I still fail.

This is the sort of thing makes me feel sad. I don't feel bad for ESL university professors who are impossible to understand because they won't bother to pay for accent training which is entirely within their reach.

I'm glad that have a good attitude about it though.
The checkpointing part is the most expensive and error-prone (what happens to all the fd's that were closed and opened again since the last checkpoint ?).

Is the "flip malloc/synchronization/scheduling knobs" part being actively used in any existing project ? It's probably the most easy part to implement from the whole paper.
Maybe you are not interpreting the term "false memory" in the right way: Here, false memory means that they falsely remembered something that didn't actually exist (a word that the New Yorker had not said). It's only a term used in the study to "describe" their action. In reality, they perfectly remembered that the New Yorker had not said a word that was previously on the list. But they assumed it was the New Yorker's "mistake." With the Brit, they assume it was his "intention" to drop a word.

Also, another thing is confused here and you are right. For this: "...we slip in what we think a foreign speaker means to say, particularly when their accent has low social standing."
The study is used to support specifically the latter part, that is, bias against accents with low social standing. Not foreignness. (An accent can be native but have low social status, it can be foreign AND low social status, or it can be foreign like the British one but have high social status.)
welcome to the walled garden game, where everybody gets their own!

standards..? Where we're going we don't need standards!

;)
Twitter baffles me too, it primarily appears to me as a marketing channel. I prefer FB (personal) and LNKD (professional) over TWTR and G+.

Majority of tweeters I follow seem to share links only. I figure 140 character limit is not conducive to having meaningful conversations. Twitter app and site is not suitable for reviewing links.

Recently, I discovered shared links in Safari browser that seem to work better in tweet reading as it shows the pages linked in tweets too. I just quickly browse through the tweets in Safari shared links sidebar and read the linked articles that seem interesting.