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"As for your other question, I think there is something fundamentally fair about the concept of proportionality."

Proportionality of what, is much of the question. Progressive taxation is often justified by pointing at the fact that money (like most things) has diminishing marginal utility. Taking $10k from someone making $50k is far more of a burden than taking $100k from someone making $500k.
Hence why I am always cautious when getting architecture tasks.

Behind the name Architects, you get lots of different understandings depending on the organization.

I have seen in being used as technical architects, business architects, solution architect, application architects. Usually only technical architects tend to mean some kind of coding, with the other ones being synonyms for some sort of manager.

So I always feel I need to describe what I understand for architecture role, to make sure everyone is on the same page.
There's a startup in the most recent YC Fellowship batch: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/31/the-flex-company/.
You can shelve a changelist in P4. And any other user can unshelve it. I'm not sure how different that is from creating/sending patches? Especially if done from the cmdline.

This has been a fun, educational HN thread. Thanks for sharing!
Per the Guardian[1]:

> Six members of the House of Lords, three former Conservative MPs and dozens of donors to UK political parties have had offshore assets.

I expect we'll hear more about this in coming days and weeks.

I don't really understand this line of thinking. Big leak + "fancy website graphics" = vast Western conspiracy? Sounds less like insightful analysis and more like the kind of denial I'd expect from RT.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/the-panama-paper...
Everyone in Russia knows government officials siphon off billions govt money to offshore accounts. Same happens in much of the developing world. Corruption is evreywhere but the scale and depth of it in these places is unprecedented. It baffles me how the west has allowed this to happen for many decades and now we're shocked corrupt Russians own half of London.
> Let's please all just converge on bash

As (I hope most) Unix/Linux users would respond: let's not.

A good thing about the Unix/Linux world is that there is a multiplicity of shells. And this is regularly taken advantage of. I have systems (for example) where my interactive shell is the Z shell and /bin/sh is the Almquist shell. I have others where /bin/sh is the Korn shell.

The "Shellshock" incident should have told everyone that Bourne Again shell everywhere, for everything, is not a good idea.

In any case, this is not a debate to be won/lost in the first place, as I hope Unix/Linux users would also respond. There are places for shell scripts, places for Python, places for perl, places for awk, TCL, REXX, execlineb, and a whole lot of others. One size, one scripting language, does not fit all.

Indeed, if you do eventually gain all the Ubuntu command-line toolsets from this, your options should broaden to those and more besides, not narrow to the Bourne Again shell.
>What's not true?

The part about poor Russia being targeted by German media for no apparent reason. German media space has plenty of differing opinions in it altho I do understand that the vocal Russian minority in Germany would rather if any criticism of Russia stopped regardless of its veracity.
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That's a good point. If you've already got a full-time job with a boss, adding a micro-managing client on top is a fast road to burnout & reduced quality of life. And the best way to learn how to build a product & market it & deal with support is to jump in and give it a try.
Copyright laws are an affront to the free market, since they don't allow selling what one wants or what the customert wants. Instead one can only sell what the copyright holder allows.
That was more than 70 years ago.
Yea, I was hoping for the same.

Specifically I came in curious as to how it knows to "start paying attention" at the prompt Alexa. I assume it must be integral to the local system although I was under the impression most of these artificial intelligence systems did a lot of their speech processing back home and not locally.

Otherwise Amazon would A) be processing a lot of irrelevant conversation and B) be eavesdropping.

So my guess was that the Alexa aspect must be local.

Very neat, even with the kind of weak article I did put myself in the place of "Alexa, call me an Uber please, I'd like to go to the movies" which is pretty neat. Especially since you could work through, "what's playing nearby Alexa?" ..."okay, in 25 minutes call me an Uber for the Avengers Alexa"

I assume you have to say Alexa everytime? But maybe once you're conversing it will keep talking with you? Can you say Alexa at the end? Does it keep track of the last five seconds or so of audial information at any given point for parsing questions?

Lots of interesting challenges.
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Suppose you needed 40k/yr of AWS computing time and couldn't afford it. And suppose someone hacked into AWS and redistributed it for free.

As far as I can tell, if the argument you made is correct, you should support the same argument that says the AWS hacker is right.

(To address the two obvious rebuttals, viz 1. Marginal cost and 2. Sci hub is getting data from those who have a subscription, merely in violation of ToS:

1. Marginal cost for AWS is likely low, if there's any unused CPU time.
2. Change the scenario slightly to someone signing up for a bunch of free AWS accounts and handing those out. )
Did you intend to reply to the grandparent comment?
This is supposed to be a dumb peripheral, so users can decide whether to accept psychological analysis and manipulation.
Thanks for clearing that up. US press seems curiously absent from even covering this story. As per @mathewi the only US media companies on the #panamapapers team are Miami Herald, Univision, Fusion and McLatchy.

I guess we'll see how active they'll become and what their spin will be, if any, in the coming days.
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We tried a few methods and eventually went to pair programming. But never tried the ping-pong pull requests. It sounds interesting. What gets me off for pair programming is that it's not always feasible. If the other person who could work with you is on another task you spend a lot of time try to play catch up. How well did the ping pong work?
There's always risk. The biggest risk I can think of is a battery invention completely disrupting the industry and making the Gigafactory obsolete. Losing a few billion dollars (I am not sure how much Panasonic invests of the reported 5B figure) would be a gigantic blow. Now, how likely such a thing is? Beyond the bombastic media reports, not at all likely but it exists. There are quite a few companies and university teams chasing this particular Holy Grail.

For example, Graphenano claims they will ship graphene batteries this year.
I would like to reiterate my points that I've made in a different HN submission on the topic [1]: Alexandra isn't in any way similar to Aaron Swartz, she's an opportunistic supporter of an oppressive regime. She is playing an "activist hero" card now, but in reality she's not even close to an "activist" in a common Western sense.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180762
Sci-Hub and other open access advocacy things are practically the ideal use case for IPFS. One and done. Whoever implements it, you're welcome for the idea.

Especially with Internet Archive involvement, IPFS should be quite compelling these days, even in its infancy.
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It's amazing the logic hoops their supporters go through. I can't find the site (it was linked from another journal article on HN) again right now, but I went to a journal trade site once and started reading the comments. The article was about open access, scihub, and how journals needs to be ready, but the comments I could only assume were paid shills.

There was one guy whose position was that journals needed to limit access because the layperson would not understand what they were reading. He was questioning a person employed in home care who admitted to use SciHub to read topics she was interested in because according to him she had no need for that knowledge. This is what open access to knowledge is up against.
This has always been the most laughable thing for me. Stiff competition.

As if anyone is likely to come up with a car this compelling in the same time frame. Like some mass-produced awesome car is just going to appear out of nowhere. Yes, the big manufacturers have some things like the Bolt in the works. Have you seen it? It's pretty meh. You wouldn't expect any of them to rack up hundreds of thousands of pre-orders before anyone's even gotten their hands on the car in person, non-binding or not.

Yet somehow all these internet analysts seem to think somehow all this incredible passion for the Model 3 will just magically fade away in favor of the exceptionally meh cars released by Chevy and Nissan and others. That's just not how things work. People have waited 12 years for this, you don't think they can wait two more?

I swear to god, even after Tesla is selling 10 million cars per year, you're still going to have people sitting here saying "But can they keep it going? Here comes the Tesla-killer~"

Extreme analogy, I know, but reminds me of Holocaust denialism. Some people are just determined to see past all available evidence to focus on one outcome which suits their personal biases.
To play devil's advocate, how is this kind of "civil disobedience" going to change the system? Why not pursue ways to legally change the system, e.g. new regulation on academic publishing?
Click through to the article; you've literally restated one of the FAQs.
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Among the academics I work with there is general disgust with the likes of Elsevier. Uni pays them to do research. Then has to pay again to Elsevier et al to use it for teaching.

Swartz created the push for open access (and bad reporting that this ars article doesn't mention the mass resignations at Elsevier over that issue as far as I can see)

So this site is only a good thing in my opinion.
My "argument", if I was even making one, was that the cost to Elsevier to provide an API, is a tiny fraction of $40k/yr, and thus their business practices and model is all about rent-seeking and not about saving peoples lives, which I personally find disgusting.
I urge you to look up that evidence for yourself, it is easily found. There is both empirical evidence, from e.g. rats, and sociological experiments, from rehab centers.

Also, I reject your use of "unambiguous". Ambiguity is a given, we're not discussing a mathematical proof here.
On TV some of the journalists involved just said that they wouldn’t know "any western bank or government not involved in this".

You should watch the TV debate, btw.
What? no. Elsevier does not make any science, they just put a stamp on it and sell it. They would be more likely to make you pay $40/y for using their linux in someone else's server. Because you have to have "elsevier linux" to get grants these days.
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Your missing the point, it's clear they this leak is planned and not someone just uploading a bunch of files.

People don't seem to understand what I mean by the above^.

The question is would it not be better to dump the entire data set to the public, instead of it being funnelled by reporters?
These analysts always make me laugh. Their "insights" are just random guesses picked out of a hat. "Maybe THIS will happen! Then again, maybe it won't!" And they're proved wrong, over and over and over, but they keep at it. What are their credentials? Why are these people writing headlines?
Is there a way to grep for a specific country related information?

This is an important leak, but I'd like to see come crowd-sourcing in this.

That is we have 100 newspapers with access, but that might not be enough.

We only get the condensed version deemed relevant to a particular subset of population. By combining these 100 subsets we are not going to get a full set.

In other words, UK paper might report on Russian connections, Russian paper(if any got access that is) might report on UK connections, but how do I find out if an obscure mid sized town city boss from Eastern Europe is on the list?
If hypothetically, Amazon was making 80% margins on AWS, would that make them disgusting?

Edit: note that Elsevier's margins are around 30-40%; I don't know if the particular API you wanted has higher margins.
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The newspaper leading in this investigation has been very open to research of such data it received in the past – not just opening the data, but also funding it.
> As the germans say: "Keine Bange, der kocht auch nur mit Wasser"

Meaning? My high school German and a bit of Google translate give me "Don't worry, he also cooks with water" or something similar? Can anyone (native German speaker would be good) clarify further, please.
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We try to solve it in a couple of ways:

* Enable smaller PRs. Reviewing 50-150 lines of code is much less daunting. This can be done by using tools like feature flags, AB tests, github/scientist etc.

* Ask/communicate about the quality of PRs. Like: splitting big ones into multiple,writing good descriptions, including the problem and screenshots.

* Automate the trivial parts. We use Pronto (disclaimer: I'm the author - https://github.com/mmozuras/pronto), but there are other tools/services that can help achieve the same result.
> Real leaks don't have fancy websites with responsive vectorized portraits and a full on content /social media structure.

I don't understand this. Don't newspapers always make stories that they can tell are important more engaging for the reader? Here's a cute Guardian flash interactive from Cablegate, [1] and another nice Washington Post interactive on the same story. [2] Here's a really fancy six-part interactive from the Guardian in the wake of the Snowden files. [3] Whenever the media publishes leaks they will make similar things, even when Western governments act strenuously to prevent publication, as in the case of Cablegate and Snowden.

How does a well-presented story indicate anything other than the media thought this was a story which was important and in the public interest?

1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2010/nov/28/us-...
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/wikileak...
3. http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/sno...
I suspect, they will react in the same way, as Russians when learning their 'corruption fighting' Путин (Putin) [1] is involved through a proxy.

I suspect, the reaction will be: "If not [$enter-corrupt-leader-name], then who else should lead our nation? "
or
"Yes, [$enter-corrupt-leader-name], however we had much worse. And this is the least evil of all the other options"

In other words, the population in large in these places are simply brain-washed to be complacent.

I would also suggests, that the fan's of former secretary of UN Kofi Anan [2] -- will not react any differently

I would be interested, however to see, how far complacent the British had become.
And, specifically, how far, the British media will go to mute the 'small imperfections' of leaders of 'so-called free world' and UN, vs the despicable money laundering 'by the others'.

[1] https://rbth.com/news/2016/04/01/putin-confirms-national-ant...
[2] http://fusion.net/story/287227/famous-presidents-shell-compa...
Tax capital, not income, like we should have been doing in the first place.
No code available to browse on Github? I could only find a zip file to download.
Business model? How will this service sustain itself?
They bought the rights from the author (each side gets consideration: author gets free publication, Elsevier gets copyright signed over to them).

That publication costs them, they have expenses, etc. Why is it fundamentally different from buying servers?
> British Prime Minister David Cameron, a leader in the push for tax-haven reform

There was a load of rhetoric in 2011 about offshore/tax reform, but very little in the way of action since then. As with tradition in Cameron's brand of "Compassionate Conservatism", it's a depressingly cynical slight of hand and nothing more.
Thank you for translating those quotes.

I would suggest, however, that supporting open access isn't necessary a fascist or liberal position, so while her political views in your linked comment seem repugnant, that doesn't necessarily change the good she's doing here.
Could someone explain this - "Ruby also protects you from segmentation fault errors. But to do so it uses a garbage collector."?

How does GC protect you from a segfault?

Surely trying that doesn't help you when you attempt to access the 5th element of an array with only two elements. Maybe its just confusing that the author used that as an example. I'm guessing aside form a dangling pointer GC doesn't offer much protection form a segfault?
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I'd push the logic even further. How about taking away $100k from someone who's making $250k per year? If you reach $250k/y you're supposed to make a statement. Someone who studied hard (for example), got into student debt, etc. A doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, etc. You have to give away 2 times the salary of that person making $50K/y. I think it's not far. Progressive taxation should start way higher. If you make 1 million dollars a year you'll never become a millionaire because you'd have to give away %50 of it. You have to make 2 million dollars to earn one million dollars. I think it's unfair at any level. Unless you're a billionaire. Billionaires should get taxed %50. You still have half a billi left in your bank account to live your life like a king... you'll be fine trust me.
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But whose job is that to decide? The arbiters of fairness and marginal utility?

The issue with fairness is that it's impossible to arrive at a definition of fairness without it inevitably just serving the interest of whomever defined it.
One (more) thing that is conspicuously glossed over is non-ELF executables. We've seen Win32 programs invoking ELF64 binaries demonstrated. And of course the Windows NT Linux subsystem already "knows" that it's a Linux subsystem process when a program comes to exec() a script, and doesn't have to worry about checking binary formats over fork() because the program image doesn't change. But missing so far has been Win32 programs invoking Linux executable scripts, that have #! lines.
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About.me has been around for a while, and they have a nice offering.

I'm not sure what you offer that they don't, other than some brutal simplicity.
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Well, a bit click-baity.

Yes sampling profilers are inaccurate, and most users know the limitations. It is deliberately a profiler on the one side of the trade-off.

The google paper was more interesting.
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I'm sorry you're just coming off as a rabid fanboy.

This is business, there are a number of realistic possibilites and not all are favorable for Tesla.

Holocaust denialism? Join the rest of us in the real world please.
I like this a lot, it's always tempting to think that we can create a perfect language that would be the best in all situations but we can't.

Rust is great for projects where its values are valued:

- Speed

- Memory Safety

- Concurrency

Go is great for projects where its values are valued:

- productivity (from being able to immediately understand a new code base due to the small and simple language to the toolchain it provides).
- concurrency

Likewise, Ruby and Python are great choices for some projects.
I suspect that they're going to run out of lithium (or at least run out of affordable lithium) before they can accomplish this goal.

Electric cars are not the future, there just isn't enough lithium on earth to do this. The US might be able to, but not worldwide.

Powerwall is definitely not ever going to get off the ground - cars are more profitable, and they will never have enough extra supply to shunt some to powerwall.
On which channel? BBC?
His position doesn't really change if you accept the use of "dopamine center" as a metaphor. For as far as we know, reward/punishment are essential triggers for adaptive neural networks. I don't think it's anthropocentric to presuppose that any advanced lifeform can artificially stimulate its own reward mechanisms.
> it's clear they this leak is planned

But you haven't produced any real evidence for this claim.

The ICIJ has co-ordinated the reporting on the leak, sure; but that's not the same as claiming the leak itself was in bad faith, part of some wider state-sponsored conspiracy from G20 nations, etc.
This entire comment makes less sense than a llama driving a taxi.

This "biggest risk" you've named is....entirely fantastical. A battery invention making the Gigafactory obsolete? What?

1. What kind of invention are we talking here? A new battery that stores 100,000mi per charge, is lightweight (magically), and charges in 10 seconds? Great, then the Gigafactory can start manufacturing that instead. It wouldn't be obsolete.

2. Even if such a thing as #1 were invented, great, now Tesla's product is infinitely more compelling. They'll sell that many more cars. The car now has enormous range and charges very quickly. This is a bad thing? What??

3. Even if #1 were invented and somehow intellectual property'd out of Tesla's reach, how's it going to hurt them? Are we imagining one of their competitors magically coming up with this, and conjuring an equally compelling but superior car out of thin air, using technology Tesla has no access to? That's an incredible turnaround time, this new tech being revealed AND reaching mass production AND having a car designed around it which ALSO reaches mass production...all before 2017. Incredible! Unheard of!

4. #1 is a joke. That won't happen, can't happen, has never happened. New revolutionary hardware technologies don't just appear. They gradually work their way into society, and it takes a lot of time before methods are found to cheaply mass produce new hardware technologies.

Given that your "biggest risk" is an absurdist fantasy, I think we can safely say Tesla's in a good position!
No complaints about the meat of the article, just with two introductory remarks:

> For example, Ruby famously values Developer Happiness and that value has impacted Ruby’s features.

Really? Every time I give Ruby another chance (admittedly, not too often), I end up feeling angry. I can stare at five lines of code for several minutes, and have no idea what it will do. Not even Haskell.

> Ruby also protects you from segmentation fault errors. But to do so it uses a garbage collector. This is great, but it has a big impact on your program’s speed.

Is garbage collection the main culprit? Not duck typing? Not dynamic metaprogramming? I reckon performing a hashtable lookup during every single method call has a bigger effect on performance than garbage collection.
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BTW there is one thing that could be improved on the pricing page, which is to have a short explanation available for each feature.
This has a good overview of a routine day in the life of a monarch. It's nothing like bad meat and oatmeal.
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