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What you do when the accumulated knowledge, is wrong?

Example: I've been getting hostile responses on StackOverflow when asked about RDTSC and MS QPC, and about some strange behaviour of XCode compiler.

Found out that both MS and Apple has wrong documentation, and that XCode compiler indeed does things differently than the official LLVM distribution (And way different from the published Obj-C standard).

How I am supposed to know that without asking someone that already knows?
This "software eating the hardware" is worrisome.

It used to be that at least you could depend on the hardware staying the same unless you chose to apply patches yourself.

Is it theoretically possible to change the microcode to actually add more features instead of disabling them?

Let's say Zen actually comes out better than expected and then Intel miraculously releases another update which re-enables OC ability?
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The cars just need a high speed connection to the credit bureaus, then they can optimize for minimizing the sum of the FICO scores of those killed.

More seriously, I don't understand why this is always brought up in the context of autonomous cars. How often do crashes happen where killing people is inevitable but you get to choose who dies? How often will such crashes happen when autonomous vehicles are common? How far from the theoretical optimum will it be to just say "in an emergency, brake to a stop and steer to avoid obstacles"?

I'm pretty sure this is an edge case on the edge cases. If autonomous vehicles deliver on even 10% of their promise, safety will go way up. It doesn't have to be perfect.
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Reasons for giving up your US citizenship aren't officially listed, but one of the main reasons cited is Fatca - a 2012 law designed to target overseas accounts held by wealthy Americans.
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so...best strategy is to cheat.
I didn't say they would be successful, but merely 'trying'. If you want to address demand issues or excessive savings you typically look to fiscal policy, but that is basically a non-starter for political reasons. The Fed and many other central banks such as the ECB and BOE are operating basically as the first and last defence with regards to all macro issues.
I, for one, much prefer tons of bugs if that's what's necessary to keep the language evolving. I like the fact that powerful features are rapidly being added to the language, even if it breaks backward compatibility. Most of my programming is scientific in nature, so I write lots of one-off scripts. "Fixing" these scripts for the newest version of Julia rarely takes more than a few minutes.
No wants to be holding the bag when music stops, since that is how politicians lose their jobs.
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I find beginners also can adopt this know it all attitude, and if something isn't in the scope of their understanding, it's either not relevant or capable of being understood.

Curiousity, interest, cooperation is the key of creating new beginners.
Dogs are certainly not pretending in the way that a human actor is pretending. The question is whether or not dogs are really feeling an emotion. We know that humans can look as if they're feeling a particular emotion without actually feeling it because we know that they can pretend (convincingly) to feel it. So we know that in general, it is possible for someone or something to give the appearance of feeling an emotion without actually feeling it. So, we know that the fact that a dog looks sad is not particularly good evidence that it is actually feeling sad.
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As more people use adblockers and publishers are losing their ad income, it becomes obvious that there should exist an alternative monetization system. I believe that it will appear within the next several months, and it will be a huge and profitable startup.

The biggest problem with micropayment systems is that a user has to make a conscious decision to pay every time he wants to read an article or watch a video. And the biggest problem with websites having payed subscriptions is that a person has have to manage multilple payed subscriptions, also usually subscribing to one website isn't worth it.

I think, the solution is to create a universal yourube-red-syle micropayments system:

Users can pay for a $10/month subscription, that gives them access to premium content on multiple websites. Then this money is shared between the websites the user is subscribed to, in proportion to the amount of time they spend on them.

Some features it needs to have:

- It should be possible to use this system to get access to the content behind the paywall, or just to the ad-free version of the website. Maybe there also needs to be a 3rd option, where money is shared between all the websites the person is visiting, as a donation.

- It should be possible to share revenue between the platform and content creators, for example a platform like medium should be able to take 10-20% of revenue, and give the rest to the authors.

- It should be convenient to join this network, and it should be easy to get access to the premium/ad-free version of the website, ideally in one click.

What are your thoughts? What problems could this system face? Do you know anyone working on it?
US dollar is a giant Pyramid scheme.
http://www.zerohedge.com/print/502779
Bookdepository.com is also Amazon owned.
They don't have to do mess around with face value. Individuals and companies with billions of dollars in cash can't really stick it in a mattress and ignore it. They have to find storage, pay rent, heating/cooling/humidity control, security, etc. That costs money. Negative interest rates reflect that cost.

Security guards alone would cost round_up(24*7/40) = 5 security guards assuming you only need a single guard (and they never get sick or take vacation), which at a loaded labor cost of at least $150k (low end) is $750k, which is 4% interest on $18.75m. So, under $20m and you're happy to pay the central bank the money to guard your cash.
bookdepository.com is also Amazon-owned.
Code your way out of this one.

Google is awful for programming research for instance if I look for javadocs it is random if I get jdk 6, 7 or 8.

Same for the other dependencies in my code despite the fact that I use maven so the versions of everything are specified.

The how do I question has to be managed on an individual and project basis because in a certain projects we do it the same way so the system has a property we need and we don't care what the stackoverflowers think...
Correct (I considered explaining SNI but ultimately didn't bother), and a determined attacker could probably figure out a large number of the sites you visit by the IP as well.
CNN also does this, headlines change all throughout the day.
The freer the monads...
The state department has been warning people to avoid Yemen for over a decade. Likewise they've had over a year of notice as actual organized violence has increased in the country. Up until the summer last year, people could've left at any time on a commercial flight.
I think you are misinterpreting what the author means. I understand the author to mean this is good:

"Python strings have a method, rstrip, for that. You can read about it here: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/stdtypes.html#string-met.... I find Googling 'python docs x', where x is what you're looking for is a quick way to see if Python has that thing included in the standard library."

And this is bad:

"It's in the docs, google for it."

And even worse, a literal:

"RTFM."

I understand the author to mean that if you want to say the last two things, don't bother.
> Some may call this naive, but this is the reason we need more unity in the world. Less division. More us...less us and them.

Then you have learned nothing. The tribalism in humans is hardwired. It's not going away, whatever we may wish or do. The media doesn't create the divisions, they just profit from them.

The key to peaceful coexistence is properly delineated regions and nations, so that each thede can have their land without being afraid of being invaded and replaced.
bookdepository.com is also owned by Amazon, since 2011.
It's hard to escape their grasp on the market.
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> how huge the benefits would be for society

Maybe if you think government and society are the same thing.
One of my biggest issues with SO is questions that have been answered but the answer is wrong. Updating the answer to be correct is REALLY hard, especially when the user was a one off user, who asked a very good question. They just got a bad answer.

Another issue I see with SO is, a question gets answered then the language advances and boom the answer is now invalidated. So someone asks, "Hey I know it's answered here but I think there's a new answer, or has something changed." Those questions get shut down too which is frustrating.

I think SO should be a source of knowledge but it doesn't handle language versions well or out of date questions well. It doesn't even handle wrong answers well.
Increasing price before a sale is actually illegal in pretty much every first world country. AFAIK the time gap between price increase and a sale has to be around 1 month in EU.
"You ask a complex question and they ask you why you're doing it."

Without context, it is very hard to differentiate complex questions that are necessarily so, and the much more common case of them being due to muddled thinking or fundamental misunderstanding.

If you are looking for help, the most important thing is to clearly describe the problem you are trying to solve, much more so than the details of the approach you are trying. This leads to a much more productive conversation, and can avoid a lot of back and forth based on mutual misunderstanding.
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That compensates itself by shrinking employment numbers, which is what you expect during deflation / crisis (and indeed one of the causes of low rates in general).
Nope.

Every currency can have low interest rates at the same time. It's not rates relative to each other that matters that impacts nominal activity, it's the absolute rate of each.

All currencies could have -10% rate at the same time (if they all introduced an exchange rate between cash and digital deposits).

Hard to claim that credit is the problem because we know for a fact that monetary policy is too tight right now (as indicated by where the nominal aggregates are). In any case the govt should largely not attempt to influence credit.

Until monetary policy is back to neutral, all other problems most economic ills are likely to be a consequence of bad money policy.
Didn't know about that situation with US citizens in Yemen, one of the comments posted in response to the LA Times article says Russia ended up evacuating them? Is that true, or just propaganda? The only source is RT..
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The hostility isn't to sexual dimorphism per se. If only because of hormones and reproduction, there is clearly sexual dimorphism. Anybody can see that.

The hostility is to the tendency to attribute differences between men and women to sheer biology without a careful consideration of other factors.
Do you regret saying no to anything in particular?
So if India hadn't been colonised it would have industrialised in the 1840s, remained competitive in world trade, and never have had any internal political troubles and never ever jail opponents of the mughal empire?

Somehow I doubt that.
We were in a time of froth, it appears to have ended with markdowns and public market bloodbath.
eBay! A huge number of independent bookstores sell books, both used and new, online via eBay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921008
That's exactly it - thanks! Somehow I missed that when searching the docs for "chain", "pipe", and "compose".
"borrow less" is the new "pay back what you owe"
Personally, I find StackOverflow to be one of the most useful online resources for general/random programming questions. Its not a place that tolerates a great deal of willful ignorance, and does almost nothing to help you if you're not willing to help yourself.

Also, I'm not surprised to see a bunch of comments taken from r/learnprogramming, a subreddit dedicated to helping beginners, being somewhat critical of StackOverflow and its style.
Does someone know if this research has been published and is freely accessible? The difference of the losers of -0.5 compared to the expected value gives me the feeling N is not pretty high...
> I've no idea about the "private and semi-private communications" and I can only hope things were patched up there.

I'm the co-creator that Dan was talking about. He wrote a bunch of less-than-charitable comments on the aforementioned semi-private forum – not specifically to me, but where he surely knew I would read them – to which I responded with:

https://gist.github.com/StefanKarpinski/c72219ff8ce261172b11

You can judge for yourself whether I was nasty or dishonest. Things were, unfortunately, not patched up. Dan posted a number of responses, deleted all of them before I could read them, then left the conversation permanently.
I'd stay under the radar. I have dual citizen friends (Australia) who have been there for decades and don't file and don't have a clue about it. They visit US frequently. This law deserves no respect.
there is no way fb let alone any self respecting app would do a cost-benefit analysis of added app size, security and scrutiny - and decide to embed an sdk just to make some marketers happy. i wouldn't be surprised if they made api calls with an extremely high sampling considering 1.5B people use the fb app.
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Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm definitely not an encryption expert, but I was under the impression that full disk encryption on Linux with a sufficiently long passphrase was secure.

I personally use cryptsetup (dm-crypt/LUKS) on my laptop running Arch Linux just in case it were stolen. Are you saying that bypassing the bootloader with a live USB, etc, could give an attacker access to the data stored on the encrypted drive (outside of the boot partition, of course)? That seems like it would defeat the purpose of full disk encryption. Note: I understand that this is assuming that the attacker does not gain access to the system while it is up and running.
But the problem there is companies breaking the law, not the H1B visas, the people or the companies that use them legally.

And of course the knee-jerk reaction is to make the laws even more draconian than they already are, when a significant portion of the problems are caused by the very draconian nature of the current laws (and non-enforcement against companies that flout them).
The British were famous for divide and rule policies in India - that's how a little company like the east India company eventually swallowed up the various kingdoms and princely states of the subcontinent.
The US government, by contrast, didn't really help out any US citizens in Yemen.
Fair enough and consumers are rewarded for carefully researched shopping. However, many of the days we compared were specifically billed as major "sale" days and so I, at least, found the price inflation disconcerting.
I did burn through it pretty quickly, but I still didn't get much out of it. I really like magical realism, but that book just didn't click with me for some reason. It's a bummer because—given how many people love it—I was really looking for ward to it.
The "correct" way to do this is to make a playlist of the things you want on your device, and then to tell iTunes to sync to that playlist (or collection of playlists) only.
We live in a world of niches and algorithms that pander to our every whim, only showing us what we 'like', we're only getting more divided as a people.
So not thinking about things you don't like makes them disappear?

That's odd, because I spend about 0% of my time thinking about dumb Hacker News comments, and yet I can see them right there, and before you know it, I've read them and wasted my precious time. How come?
Well if the wrote it off they actually might end up making more money on it because depending on the original asset value it can reduce their taxable income to nothing.
> Maybe if you think government and society are the same thing.

No, I just think that neutral monetary policy which leads to full employment (defined as natural employment under given tax/regulatory regime) is good for society.

Also good for govt's ability to manage budget, but that's secondary.
1. Sounds like a market opportunity for a beginner oriented forum, that somehow incentivizes experts to help constructively.

2. The number one sign an expert is an impostor is the way the play the role of a teacher and student.

3. The main thing I hate about SO is the illogical ban on questions that recommend something. At least 80% of my searches that land on a SO page are like, "this is blacklisted by some troll master, because it encourages people to post links to cool and interesting things that might be outside of the box".
I think that pretty much sums up why Yahoo went to hell and cannot adapt. My sympathies on having to deal with that. I wonder how many business have gone under because of need to "scale and act professionally"?
Would probably be a BIOS update distributed from the motherboard manufacturer. As the article states, people could just not update,but finding hardware with the older BIOS will be more and more difficult over time.
One problem that I see with it:

Publishers would not have control over pricing, any website will get the same proportion of money per visitor. If proportion of revenue depends on the time a person spends on the website then situation is better(people spend more time on sites with higher quality content, so such websites would get a higher percentage of revenue), but maybe there's a better solution.

In any case, even with that problem, I'm sure a lot of people would be happy to join it, it's much better than not having a system at all.

Maybe it is be possible to create some pricing tiers though?
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The sticky part is, the software has to be written now. After millions of miles of exercising that code, every path will be taken.

So what do you put in the "Run over the kid, or run into a wall (or oncoming traffic)?" decision point? Somebody has to die. Just braking until you hit the kid is a pretty crappy hack.

And when the kid gets hit, the software will be examined. And the comment that says "screw it, just hit the kid" will come to light.
Speaking from my experience as a self-taught programmer, IRC convos generally follow the same trajectory as OP specifies.
nice video, super short, highlights features that probably would have taken longer to explain in the typical release notes pages.
They couldn't enforce much before FATCA. Now they can easily see and potentially seize your account funds.
Perhaps that is another issue - "MYYYYY question was cloooosed, that is a MORTAL INSULT TO ME" instead of accepting that mistakes do happen, and even I make them. Did I go out to find knowledge, or did I actually want a pat on the head for being a good schoolboy who never makes a mistake?

This is a (mostly subconscious) theme in most of the SO flamewars: "they are attacking me for trying to find out the Truth" vs. "I'm trying to get to the root of his question, and he's just being stubborn" (I have seen such pointless bickering from both sides; hopefully I have learned something from that?).
"I also don't understand why there is a constant push to coddle beginners to increasingly absurd degrees."

Apply this perspective beyond software development. Law, medicine, firemen, teaching a kid to play baseball. Why do we continually look at software development different than other acquired skills?

To answer your question directly, it is my opinion that the layers of abstraction that we have today, and that continue to grow, put those new to software and computer science at a huge disadvantage. They have a very long haul. And yet, demand increases for these skills. Yes, we should coddle to the best of our ability.
Negative rates are scary if they go low enough, where an inverse of the problems with high inflation come about. Rather than try to collect payments as fast as possible due to the eroding value of money, there will be an incentive to delay receipt of payment as long as possible. Taxes will be overpaid to be reclaimed in the following year. How would your local telco handle being treated as an implicit temporary checking account?

I don't claim to understand all the implications, but it's an odd experiment we would probably be better off not trying. What's worse, how do we ever get back to some range between [-2,2] once we've gone that far negative?
Pair programming is suppose to fix it.
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Outside performance critical areas, where shaving off KB and ms really counts, C++ has become an infrastructure language with others taking most of the work.
I talked to SVB customer care. They said that they will allow only venture backed startups.
Sometimes a subtraction of a unit absolutly legal and you are still in the same model or context. (Temperature loss)

Sometimes a subtraction of a unit is hidden-black-magic and you are switching between two models or contexts but still being in a meta-model or meta-context. (Debits and credits)

It just depends on your model or context how you interprete your value/unit relation, but this is a typical problem in applied physic, engineering or computer science :)
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In order for anyone who has money in the bank to pull out money, they must still see a positive IRR, compared to leaving money in the bank. If they don't the central banks eat that money. So yeah it's a wealth transfer from private money to central bankers. Or else the government should ask for the difference for its own coffers and reinvest that into the economy.
So people went to a port or airport. It's not really a rescue as much as just having a few more planes picking people up than usual.
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The alternative here is what, exactly? Can you site an example of a better situation?
It's an MCMC algorithm for a fancy kind of matrix factorisation.

I had a look at Spark, but its linear algebra packages seemed too limited (I guess abstraction comes at a cost). I can see that Spark would be nice if it does what you need out of the box.

Heard good things about Scala, is it straightforward to get a process on a remote machine to execute code?
Noam Chomsky was concise on this point:

> "You find that people cooperate, you say, ‘Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."

Cordelia Fine also does a great breakdown of all of these "monkey does this, therefore women shopping men guns" arguments.

The nurture side of the debate has its "no nature" clowns, but the caricature by the top-level post is completely uncalled for in this context.