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I'm seriously bummed. I don't trust Facebook and by extension, Zuckerberg.

But what do we lose by supporting this move? He's made charitable efforts at improving the world before, and making an announcement puts pressure to follow through.

And so what if it's vain? A person who does a good deed in vain... still did a good deed. It should be encouraged, including through appeals to vanity.
If you were going to rewrite your data, why wouldn't you go with something that's been standardized by every hardware implementers as the next generation CRC algorithm, CRC32c (the one the article explicitly throws out at the beginning, because the author did not want to rewrite the data)? Even ARM chips and network- and storage-focused microcontrollers have hardware acceleration for it these days...
> If you are an artist so good that your paintings are worth $1M each, should you get to have them? Or should someone walk in your door and say "whoa there, you have too much now, we're taking your paintings until you have the same amount of wealth as the $75k/year guy"?

If you paint million dollar paintings and leave them in your studio, I guarantee you the IRS will not knock on your door and say "you have too many paintings now, we're going to take them now".

If you sell those paintings, and make an INCOME, the IRS will expect you to pay INCOME TAX.

Seriously. How is the basic concept of taxes so hard to understand?
> the hostility that's constantly directed at him and Facebook

Methinks you are confusing cause and effect.
Someone should totally build a dynamically typed language around C which is specifically meant for dealing with HTTP and serving HTML.
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A couple of things stand out for me here -

> Perhaps this was the time to mention that having witnessed the murders of Eric Garner and Walter Scott on video made personal experience unnecessary.

Eric Garner said "I can't breathe" 11 times.

Any person that has experienced a chokehold, knows that if you can't breath, you can't move air in and out of your lungs and throat, you can't say anything, not even "I can't breathe" 1 time. Certainly not 11 times - unless it was a purely stationary-type hold.

Also, chokeholds which result in death leave physical damage, that was not present in the autopsy (no damage to the windpipe or neckbones).

Eric Garner was not "murdered", he died in the ambulance from the situation exacerbating his health complications.

Anyone who thinks he was literally "murdered" is racially motivated to see it as such, not based on facts nor common-sense, the later which the author brings up multiple times.

Second, as this is written anonymously and rolls a "white-jury" racial narrative from the start to the end, you have to consider that 9 out of the last 10 racial incidences (of the national news proportion) ended up being hoaxes done to validate someones need for there to be racism where there was none. At some point you get tired of the lies. And there is absolutely nothing in this story that allows the reader to verify it.
nonetheless I think this tool could be awesome for presentational purposes (but not as awesome when comes to project analysis).
with GPU-accelerated spreadsheets (google: AMD LibreOffice Calc) it would be interesting to see more games use the spreadsheet as the engine for games with massively-complex 2D worlds with easily parallizable local interactions.
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> and the rest is total crap.

Do you actually have an Android phone? Because this is totally not true at all. Like for example I just installed the imgur app and it's fantastic. I have 1password and it's great. Hearthstone? Yup, amazing. Just like every app I have I'm happy with. I just don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. I know an Android engineer who works for Square and they've got a huge Android team that is doing amazing work.
Because that alternative, that we should simply "hope", or the idea that such should be valued at all irrespective of purely judging such on outcomes, is itself a symptom of a fundamentally sick system overwhelmed with feel good press releases and cynical marketing PR bullshit.

I don't generally go around saying: well at least I can "hope" that when I eat this burger it will give me sustenance rather than poisoning and killing me, because the later has a miniscule chance of happening relative to our everyday experience. Indeed, what a sad and desperate situation we would have to be in to say: "eat the burger, and just hope it doesn't kill you".

So indeed, needing to "hope" , or pointing out that we should "hope" wouldn't be a good thing. It is itself a symptom of a system whereby the necessity of suggesting that we should hope about a bullshit PR release in fact reveals that what we're talking about is prima facie a bullshit PR release, or at least must be assumed to be given our common experience.

Perhaps it is only right that we should not expect or place value on people "hoping", but suggest that we give praise to people, Mr Z or otherwise, when they actually do something, not when they put out a sappy marketing piece about "we're totally gonna do something 'cause luv".

Facebook already puts out motherhood statements regarding say, internet access to poor people, that myself and others pretty much deem thinly veiled self-serving bullshit.

So if anything, we should be grateful that not everyone is taken in by PR, and just say that if there is any basis to Mr. Z's philanthropic claims, then extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and when it is forthcoming, he will be given credit.
Let us not forget the Internet and many of the other technologies that make Facebook possible are a product of government investment (e.g. DARPA).
> ...in a social dynamic characterized by omnipresent personal recording devices, the capacity to share the gathered evidence, and the capacity to deliberate and apply social pressure in response to criminal behavior, that accountability is the natural consequence.

Did you hear about the one where Social Justice Warriors bullied an artist into a suicide attempt because they felt her fan art "erased fat people" and that her use of the interjections "dude" and "man" when speaking to women made her "transmisogynistic"? [0][1]

This all happened on-the-record, on the Internet.

How does your social theory account for this incredibly harmful behavior?

What is an adequate response to this behavior under the system that you propose?

[0] http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/02/sjws-bullied-a-youn...

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/geek/steven-universe-fanartist-bulli...
It's useful! Thank you for your example.
> why everyone else doesn't just do the same

When your upside on doing fancy tax maneuvers is several billion, you can afford IRS lawsuits. And you can afford the initial time for a lawyer to set this all up.

Average people are using Turbo Tax for yearly taxes and relying on common law to handle their estate, because that's all they can afford.
Foundation or LLC, when Mark dies only 1% of his wealth will be passed to his kids...If this is not Generosity i don't know which is
I believe his point is that although it worked in this instance it seems likely that it DOESN'T work in many other cases.

Then again 10 people would argue the system doesn't work because 2 stubborn knuckleheads refused to issue a guilty verdict when that obviously should have been the ruling.
Anecdote: a computer security professor at my university has deep roots in biology. Everything he touches has traces of evolution and homeostasis.
In this case, the author is clearly comparing another juror ("Henry") to Henry Fonda, not himself. Which is definitely not comparing himself to Henry Fonda.
Not at all--if the provenance of the confession is in question, and there is little other evidence, then it is at the heart of the question.
That was mean.
>guarantees you won't things that can't be learned from the single, genetically uniform mouse type that is used.

This is a misrepresentation of the state of mouse biology research.

We use many different strains of inbred mice (check out the JAX Labs list of available inbreds)[1].
Inbreeding reduces the genetic variability of our mice, allowing us to control more of the variation in an experiment. This allows us to perform pilot studies with smaller samples sizes while still reaching sufficient statistical power.
This is important -- mouse biology is expensive, and we try to discover as much as possible with limited funding.

If a result merits generalization to multiple backgrounds, it is often tested in multiple inbred strains and an "outbred" strain that is genetically diverse.

[1] - https://www.jax.org/jax-mice-and-services/find-and-order-jax...
The money you use to buy stuff also (usually) pays consumption taxes. Yet that money was income that you've already paid income tax on. Should consumption taxes be abolished?
Who would you trust to make the right decision? The prosecutor? The defense attorney?

Like other aspects of republican democracy, it's not the best system, but it beats all known alternatives.
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> a huge Android team that is doing amazing work.

Exactly. It takes a huge Android team to do the simplest things. Twitter app has dozens of engineers. It doesn't do much!
Indeed. One jury is far too small a sample size to draw any conclusions (too obvious to even state but I did anyway).

When comparing proportions (in this case racial makeup of juries versus racial makeup of the population) you want a sample size large enough that you have at least 5 expected cases for each group. In this case the expected cases are the population proportion (p) times the number of jurors (n). So you would need n * p >= 5 and since Asians are the lowest proportion at 5% you would need data on at least 100 jurors. Then you could do a Chi-square goodness-of-fit test to see if something is really going on.

If it seems like I'm being geeky it's only because I just recently worked on a problem exactly like this, determining if jury demographics matched population demographics. Turns out in many cases there IS something going on, but then the reasons for it aren't always what you think. One reason is that in some communities there is a shortage of eligible jurors due to high rates of felony convictions.
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Otherwise known as PR. Some clients need it more than others.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/broken-age-act-2/critic-re...

Act 2 scored 90% in IGN, 80% in Edge... I'd like to make an "especially horrible" game like this some day.

Also I hope they never stop taking risks and I hope gamers will continue to enable that instead of demanding safe bets.
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See also MBox[1] and the HN discussion[2]

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/mbox/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7214419
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> The buffers we checksum are small, the minimum being 24 bytes (a twoskip header), average perhaps 32 bytes. This is our target case.
I think you misunderstood. The universal app runs on both windows desktop and windows phone. So they would only need to be incentivized to want their app on windows desktops, and then it's automatically on win phone for free.

If that works, it makes more sense to me than emulating or porting android apps. Those ideas will never work, as MS probably found out with the canceled Astoria project. It's a great sounding strategy, but that kind of technology isn't practical for many reasons. Just look at all of the issues that wine has trying to go the opposite direction on Linux.
Original paper "Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields":

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I was taking a look around some of the data for antidepressants and was wondering why there are sometimes such drastic decreases in spending. Spending for Escitalopram dropped over 80% in a single month[1]. There are a few others that had sharp drops in spending. Just curious, do you know why?

In any case, it would be really interesting to see how legislation, lobbying, and current events (relative) may have affected this data.

[1]: https://openprescribing.net/chemical/0403030X0
It's interesting to look at if this article is fiction or non-fiction. It is certainly amazing writing with a strong message, but seems to be so strange to be non-fiction.

Then again, I knew about some of this from the excellent Illustrated Guide to Criminal Justice, so I wasn't totally surprised.

In the end, does it even matter if it happened?
I'm curious about this. I've never totally discounted the possibility but I've always been highly skeptical mostly due to the number of reports that come from places that just don't seem isolated enough to conceal a breeding population of such large creatures. I'd be more inclined to believe if all the sightings were in, say, Northern Canada, but Oregon, Northern California, and Alabama seem far too heavily traveled.

One very intriguing idea I heard once was that Bigfoot is not an animal at all but essentially an ethnic group of human with a different enough physiology to look very odd and with a unique isolationist culture. Think of Pygmies, who are just an ethnic group but who in their native culture seem very unlike other human beings. This would explain the lack of a Bigfoot body, since any remains would be considered unidentified human remains. The intelligence of humans would also explain how they stay so aloof. Pretty remote possibility but interesting nonetheless.
No, I think power users are not a good fit for the apple store. I don't see a huge problem with downloading signed code from another site.
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In this article, and apparently this happens a lot, jurors are not allowed to research the laws they are supposed to reach a verdict on. Also, the jurors cannot get the court transcript or ask the prosecution to repeat the charges.

How is this the best alternative? Why can't jurors learn what they are incarcerating for?
He's not "robbing" the government unless what he's doing is illegal. He's responding to tax incentives that encourage rich people to use their money for non-profit activities. Tax incentives that the government chose to create.
I wish that had worked for me. I served 3 times, first time was a hung jury, next two were burglary and battery. Terrible experiences all of them. Wish I could have been excused.
I agree with most of what you say. Unfortunately we have inherited a tremendous amount of technical debt that isn't as easy to pay off as it sounds. Our big apps are pretty straightforward because probably 90% of our bare-metal servers are roughly 10 core applications. That's roughly 6500 servers. It's the "long tail" of the other 500 servers with, say, 100 different applications running on them that is trickier. I probably need to do a better job justifying attention in this area.
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At this point I don't think people know why the Farook couple did what they did, but there are suspicious circumstances like their computer missing a hard drive and their cell phones broken.

Supposedly, these people were connected to those that the FBI were already investigating for terrorism threat, and if so, then there is even more cause for their names to be known, because we need to be able to non-ignorantly to discuss specific successes and failures of the FBI. That, and striking things from public discourse is very dangerous.
Fletcher has poor properties as a hash according to SMHasher, if I recall correctly.

xxHash is one of the best in terms of speed and quality.
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I think what the OP meant was no 3rd party library dependencies such as a CGI library and that he's still dependent on OS system calls such as file I/O and sockets.
Ok. Why are political opinions useless and immaterial? One, because technology always overrules them. What are you going to do against executable technology? Some more political verbiage? Two, because almost nobody is willing to risk their lives and die for that kind of opinions. Ultimately, it will always be the few who do, who will end up running the show. Voting does not count, simply because voting is not valid proof-of-work.
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Comparing xxHash with FNV is a strawman, it's apples and oranges in terms of quality.

You are discounting xxHash considerably. xxHash is one of the best, if not the best, all factors considered.

SMHasher:

xxHash, speed=5.4 GB/s, quality=10
MurmurHash 3a, speed=2.7 GB/s, quality=10
SBox, speed=1.4 GB/s, quality=9
Lookup3, speed=1.2 GB/s, quality=9
CityHash64, speed=1.05 GB/s, quality=10
FNV, speed=0.55 GB/s, quality=5
CRC32, speed=0.43 GB/s, quality=9
MD5-32, speed=0.33 GB/s, quality=10
SHA1-32, speed=0.28 GB/s, quality=10
Trained professional judges who understand these matters. This is called 'Bench Trials'.
It is relatively easy. I've done it myself many moons ago.

I've followed Steve off and on over the years. He seems to prefer C++ as a web-app language so much so that he blogs about it and other things. I like his stuff. I discovered Steve through Joel On Software some years ago. If memory serves me, I think at one time he was publishing a Web CMS type engine written in C++ but I could have him confused with someone else (been awhile)

Here is his site:
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=95
Bacteria that infect other bacteria? Or do you mean bacteria that produce antibacterial compounds that could be used as antibiotics?

Didn't most antibiotics come from fungi? All of the -mycins came from fungi.
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"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

It takes a lot more courage to let a possibly guilty person go free than to convict a possibly innocent one.

Always show up for jury duty if you can.
Bill Murray is a person after all.
Brutal dictatorship over

Did I miss something? Cuba is still a dictatorship.

As for the capitalists coming in, I'm sure it'll be the gov't and their families that benefit most, not the average Cuban.
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Brings back memories. I served on the jury when Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys was on trial for including a rude poster in one of their albums[1]. Jury deliberation was a circus. One woman hung the poster up (it was pretty rude [2]), looked at it for a while, and said "Kinda makes you horny".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_an...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape
Let's ignore profit for a minute. These drugs still cost money to discover and produce. Who pays for it?

We put a price on human life all the time, not just for drugs.
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Here we have what I think is a display of an intelligent mind specialized in one area, funded by a state institution, and weak at resolving moral conflicts. Computer scientists (and any self-respecting scientists) HAVE to separate their ethics from the interests of state institutions. Phrases in the paper resembling something like "where the cryptographer has a duty to serve the public and keep their self-interest in check" indicate this.
I've read a paper recently on designing systems to have security exceptions for law enforcement and calling them "exception requirements" or something to that effect. This is the sort of thing a good study of ethics can help to resolve.
This doesn't make sense to me. Assuming this is a simulation, real-time isn't "real" time.
> I'm fairly sure the revenue attributable to Firefox dwarfs what any of the bigger competitors are spending on their browsers

I suspect you would be wrong at least for the cases of Google and Microsoft. I don't have a good feel for how many people Apple has working on Safari and WebKit, but both the Chrome and IE teams are significantly bigger than the Firefox team from what I can tell, and probably more expensive unless you think Google and Microsoft pay developers less than Mozilla does. Let me ask you this: how many people do you think Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google each have working on their respective browsers? Ballpark figures, of course.

Also, estimates are that the money Google spends annually just _advertising_ Chrome in the last few years (TV ad campaigns with Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, worldwide ads on public transit, etc) is comparable to the entire annual revenue attributable to Firefox.
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This seems very useful for schools, who both need lots of paper (still even now) and who need it only for a short time.

Schools have the space and resources for such a machine, and they could potentially save lots of money and paper that otherwise goes into the trash at home. It all depends on the costs of the system.
I get your point, but I can't help but think: we're talking about the importance of privacy regarding the founder and CEO of one of the most privacy invading websites ever. There's some irony there.

Not that this means anything - I completely agree with you - but there's something 'funny' about it.
Ask HN: How to be a great Junior Engineer?
I recently joined a tech company (roughly 200 employees) as a Junior Engineer.

From a Senior Engineer's (or teammates) perspective - what would be the ideal characteristics of a junior engineer joining your team?

* Asks lots of questions vs. making independent decisions on tradeoffs?
* Seeks additional code review vs. pushing a project and getting started on the next?
* Self picks projects from the backlog vs. asking after each project what I should work on next?

It's my first time working as a full-time software engineer. I can write the code, but have zero experience in 'this is how a junior dev should approach their role'.

Thanks!
Nit: It was co-discovered by Google and Codenomicon, so it did not depend on Google.
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If you're guilty you want a jury trial. If you're innocent you want a bench trial.
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> So they would only need to be incentivized to want their app on windows desktops, and then it's automatically on win phone for free.

On Windows desktops in Metro, though. That's a little bit different of a value proposition when WPF and other toolkits do still exist outside of it.
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Computer scientists (and any self-respecting scientists) HAVE to separate their ethics from the interests of state institutions.

Why?
The paper argues exactly to the opposite in the first part, describing the atomic-bomb scientists, and the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

In my opinion, cryptographers and computer scientists have ignored morally questioning their work for too long. Reality is now catching up on this, with techniques for surveillance. The paper argues this for cryptography, in my view this is even more generally applicable.
It's tax avoidance because if you hadn't gifted that $100 to charity then your taxable income would have been $100 higher and you would have paid higher taxes. You "avoided" paying tax on the amount that you gifted to charity.
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My background is mathematics too. But I'm not a mathematician, and I wouldn't trust myself to know enough mathematics to figure out how something like this could be exploited.
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Also seems to provide evidence against simulated reality.