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We have software to detach the comments and do mechanical things like that, but finding ways to vary the message about civility seems important to me, so I force myself to do those by hand. Sometimes I throw in variations to counter tedium, even with the idea that it might have entertainment value... though that is dangerously easy to overdo.

There's a design point here too. After two years, these comments have shown themselves to be partly formulaic and the sort of thing that could benefit from software support. I'd like that software support to be something available to users, not just moderators. If there were a way for users to convey to each other that a comment could be edited to better follow the guidelines, that'd be great, because we (actually just I in this respect, since I'm the only one currently posting moderation comments) would no longer be the bottleneck. The long-term vision for HN is to make it a self-regulating system.
Is it as liquid as cash in hand, no.

Is it more liquid than the stocks I own, yes, and those are the most liquid of my investments (vs bonds, 401k etc).

I live in CA so I have a rather large chunk of cash on hand. It isn't outrageous amount, but I could make it for two weeks if there was an earthquake or natural disaster. I don't think the bitcoin would do me any good if that happened.
Unless you are sharding multiple redis instances and merging the HLL counts at the end (you need only do this at google scale, maybe not even then), HLL is not the right way to go. HLL has errors of several percent.

Instead you should use a bloom filter plus a simple counter:

if not bloom_filter.might_contain(user_id):
count.incr()
bloom_filter.add(user_id)

A bloom filter can easily be tuned to have 1e-6 false positive rate (meaning a 1e-6 error rate in the counts). You just can't reliably do that with HLL.
Is there Android malware that, when connected to a Windows PC, spreads Windows malware? Sounds reasonable in this situation.
> Just turn it into a PDF with slides for goodness sakes.

Hey, I'm not the ones who linked to slides.com. :) The PDF version is linked off the main conference page: http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/giant-bags-of-mostly-water....

> Btw, one thing worth correcting is false claim that QubesOS was or is only attempt at workstation security.

You must look at my statements in the context of presenting this at the Linux Security Summit. You know a lot more about this than me, obviously, but from what I can tell, each of the other solutions you mention run custom non-Linux microkernels that provide virtualization to other consumer OSes. I'm ready to be educated here, but I believe I didn't misstate that QubesOS was one of the first pure-Linux mainstream attempts at workstation security through compartmentalization.
> $81M was stolen the Bangladesh Bank via the SWIFT

Nearly all of which was later recovered.

> The IRS Seized $107,000

> DOJ's 'Operation Choke Point'

Those are political problems, not problems with the banking system. If the government decides to fuck with you, then you're fucked no matter what the banking system looks like.

> MasterCard Cuts Off Wikileaks

This is a real problem, and it a result of what is IMHO the main unaddressed flaw in our current system: banking is conflated with money transfer. Bitcoin does address this problem, but IMHO it doesn't do it very well. The risks and costs are too high.
Yes Rebol is a great language to teach kids, especially Rebol/View (http://rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html).

Below is an example of it draw dialect:

view layout [
box 320x200 effect [
draw [
pen black
line 20x20 80x80
]
]
]

Many more drawing examples can be found here - http://www.rebol.com/docs/draw.html
Not a duty. But I still think it would be the humane thing to do.
This is very much an American thing to hate public transport though. Places in Europe, especially Switzerland for example, have much better infrastructure and taking a car can be a pain compared to a train which is faster and a lot more comfortable.
It may have to do with for example, the VTA expanding service (in miles of track) but the ridership not going up to match. Also, rail in places like the bay area, or even buses, just can't justify the opex given the relatively light ridership. Mass transit is rarely profitable (financially self sustaining) but many transit systems, given housing density and commercial/residential patterns, in the US, are woefully in deficits.

Edit: To add, I mean this in terms of more than just the high density corridors and terminus to terminus lines. I mean if you live in Almaden Valley and want to get to East San Jose or you want to get to Milpitas. Or if you want to get from The Marina in SF to the Outer Sunset. Most SF transit is designed to pull people in and out of the old downtown core (even MUNI uses the terms "inbound" and outbound" which tell you a lot about the passenger flow they had in mind. There is no "ring" line or N-S LRVs in SF.
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This completely excludes "walkable cities" out of the equation. If everyone is moving around on their autonomous vehicles that means that the entire city is criss-crossed with wide roads that take up tons of space, instead of dense walkable city centers with big transit corridors.

Compare LA and SF to NYC and MTL.
It looks easy but it isn't.

The second example causes unexpected behavior (and probably ub later) if: min + step > MIN_TYPE_MAX

The last example causes undefined behavior if: max - min < step - 1.
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While I could see plenty of mathematical/philosophical arguments that you would be correct, I don't see how this is a useful statement, unless its implication is that science actually doesn't move our understanding of the world forward. Then we have a real disagreement.
If their legacy system doesn't support UTF-8, I doubt they'd update their system at all.
Perhaps in a really tight loop but the counter is still going to be several iterations ahead thanks to the out of order capabilities of the CPU. You may also have other things in play as well such as the micro-op cache depending on the code size of the loop.
>the "DOM is your API" paradigm

What does that mean, exactly? Do you have any resources you could link to?
I'm not opposed to Uber and Lyft. I'm opposed to letting them regulate themselves.
> a chunk of silicon who never gets sick or tired, never overlooks the smallest detail

We haven't successfully created bug-free software yet. How exactly is this mythical self-driving car going to pull that off? You did say 'eventually' though, and strictly speaking, that does not put a deadline on these achievements...
How to buy a home in the US is weird and baffling to me, everything is different from what I'm used to.

The interest rate discussion is one thing, I don't understand why everyone here is only talking about a long-term fixed rate mortgage, where I'm from, everyone advertises the lowest variable rate. Coincidentally, Stockholm has a crazy housing bubble, so there's that.
Now imagine you are debugging the console output after it went thru a web server, your browser, your local dev environment, your local console, and then pasted into your text editor.
I do wonder what would happen if they built a new double lane highway between two cities that is only usable by autonomous vehicles? How fast do we trust autonomous vehicles to go?
Not around here.
> it means he had some idea of how far away the sun was from the Earth

He didn't really have any idea of the actual distance to the Sun. He just knew it was far enough away that the Sun's rays could be assumed to be parallel.
I'd check the Clinton count on Drudge. He's constantly reporting on her, almost entirely in a negative light. Her number is showing 0, 0%.
(tyop: should be 'permit per driver')

Unless I misread http://kut.org/post/explaining-exactly-what-yes-and-no-vote-... a 'yes' vote would've meant the fee must be 1% of annual revenue, whereas the 'no' vote means they can still pay that amount, or have two alternative options if they prefer.

So at that point I'm not sure why that would upset them, except perhaps the fear that the 1% option would then be separately phased out later? (which is possibly a very real risk; I'm seeking synthesis, not antithesis, here)
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Flat earth is totally fine as long as you need to simply go from village a to b and it's not too much of a distance.

So all models are wrong but some are indeed useful.

Darwins theory (and later modernizations) are indeed wrong (as in not true) but it's the most useful model we have.
Yes .. although housing has traditionally been excluded from consumer inflation measures. There's an argument to be made that housing cost has gone up as a result of cheap credit (although arithmetically that should raise the sticker price while keeping the monthly payments the same), but it also appears to be due to capital inflow. This is the reverse side of the trade deficit with China.
In fairness, the vast majority of the models of the earth people use day-to-day are flat. Case in point: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0279156,-94.0814245,3z
Are you really that naive to think gangbangers and drug dealers don't use ride-sharing programs and exploit it to their advantage? Every system will be exploited. If you dare live in the environment, you might experience it.
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I'd say the opposite: i used public transit whenever i can and, having lived in many countries, bought a car in just one (Cyprus) because there is no usable public transit there. Cars are not something 'desirable' for most people, they ride them because they have no other choice.

Also it's easy to put a webcam inside an SDT to monitor what's going on - it's not a problem with a human-driven taxi that he could see you, so it shouldn't be seen as a violation of privacy. If you do something nasty a machine vision system can detect it, lock the car down, and drive you to that aforementioned police station.
> we could try to create infrastructure around bitcoin which would solve the problems

Of course you could try, but (I predict) you will fail. The problems I've cited are fundamental problems that are built in to the bitcoin protocol by design. You can't patch your way around them.

For example:

> which has nice UI and double checks everything

How exactly are you going to "check everything"? Remember, you have to get it 100% correct. Failures are completely unacceptable because failures are completely unrecoverable.
As someone who uses the Caltrain every week 3-4 times , I can say the ridership at commute times is very healthy. The housing prices in SF and the concentration of a decent number of large companies (AirBnB, Pinterest, Atlassian) in the SoMA area is probably the chief reason for this trend.
This is how it works.
(British)
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Plus basic income bitcoins as a service and uber, but for light rail. Am I right, guys?
In the CLR/C# for example, List<int> is a distinct type from List<bool>. At runtime, when you create List<int>, the CLR will create a new type based on List<T> that is specialized for int. For List<bool>, a new type based on List<T> is specialized for bool. Then at runtime, you can test variable (if (untypedObj is List<int>)) because there are distinct types for each closed generic type.

In java, the compiler would instead (I'm simplifying here), replace List<int> and List<bool> with List<object>, and at runtime, you wouldn't be able to tell a List<int> from List<bool> because their types were "erased" and became List<object>.
https://github.com/lfit/itpol/blob/master/linux-workstation-...
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> Since there are infinite things about which we are wrong

That's... ahem... wrong.

How could there possibly be an infinite number of things "we" (humanity, I presume?) are wrong about, given that there have only been a finite number of human beings with (as far as I know) finite life spans?
Yes, I'm definitely looking forward to the Real Shadow DOM being browser-supported. I was unable to use the full webcomponents polyfill in my own application, as it introduced gamebreakers with contenteditable-based rich text editors [0]. Putting polymer anywhere on my page meant my rich text editor (quilljs fwiw) broke on non-chrome browsers, even through I wasn't doing anything polymeresque with the editor. It was just the polyfill interacting poorly with the browser's range implementation. In my case (my application also heavily leaned on angular for routing and page-level templating), I couldn't mix-and-match angular and polymer and also maintain cross-browser support of the text editor.

But I still am _super_ excited about the future of the webcomponents world. I mean, if nothing else, having well-namespaced element ids (if I have two editor components on the page, I can't just grab "#dateinput") will be great. I love the idea of directly attaching properties to DOM nodes, encapsulating templates, and projecting content into viewports. It's seriously rad. I am 100% on board with the notion, it's just the polyfill in the meantime that's problematical.

https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs/issues/212
I believe HPC still accounts for under 10% of Nvidia's GPU sales, so it is almost certainly true that there's no way it could be a profitable business if the R&D couldn't be shared with the gaming and workstation GPUs. On the other hand, the HPC GPUs are supposed to have by far the best margins of any of their products. So talking about "subsidizing" seems totally misguided.
That 500 GB/s is the bandwidth between the NV shader cores and the GPU RAM, not between the shader cores and CPU accessible system RAM. You don't want to be transferring between the two pools that often, as those buses are much slower.
The point is that we are wrong about everything to one degree or another. Maturing intellectually is a never ending process of becoming less wrong about the things we choose to study, but at no point do we ever cross a finish line and become right about anything. As soon as you think you're right about something, the only thing you can be certain of is that you're wrong.
You can even use a flat Earth model for navigation over long distances -- you just might not get the most optimal route, and your map projection (if you're using a map!) will distort something. But it might not be something that you're very concerned about for your particular navigation purposes.

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This pointed me to another story about reconciling the jagged boundary and 160+ Indian/Bangladesh enclaves along that border. The story notes: "The area contained the only third-order enclave in the entire world. It was literally an enclave surrounded by an enclave surrounded by an enclave surrounded by another state." Cool maps in the article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/06...
xkcd relevant to this thread.

https://xkcd.com/1318/
Thank you very much for the offer. I'm not sure I can easily take you up on that, as SF and London are about equally far from Montreal. I'll try to see if perhaps I can do an on-air hangout.
>The Fed pays its profits to the US government.

After paying a dividend to its stockholders (commercial banks).
The deciding factor in current gen cards for me isn't cost perf (as it's reasonably close) but perf/watt which is where the 9xx is clearly better than the AMD cards.

Is AMD tackling this issue in the next generation or are they continuing to be competitive with cheap but hot chips?

Aren't the higher power requirements creating higher costs in datacenters (power, cooling) that make the AMD cards less attractive? The 390 vs 970 is at nearly a 2-to-1 power advantage for nvidia!
I was watching S01E05 of Mr. Robot, which involves the crew breaking in to a huge data warehouse facility reminiscent of Fort Knox. My friend asks me if places like that really exist and I laughed, "No company cares enough to pay that much to protect their data".
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Reposting my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021613 :

Well, Yellen recently said something along the lines of 'being part of the team' and Bernanke claimed something similar in his book or talks iirc ( sorry, no references atm ).
The whole independent claim is just smoke and mirrors.
> Unless you are also auditing all the code you use for software that objects with Bitcoin yourself

As I mentioned in another reply, compared to existing electronic monetary systems, an open source one will always be more trustworthy than a closed source one.

>Bitcoin involves trust in the mining community

To be a part of Bitcoin, miners need to follow a publicly known protocol that is easily verifiable by anyone using math. Additionally, miners never have direct control of your money: they can't spend it on your behalf.

I think the only point you have there is that you must trust someone somewhere to mine Bitcoin. And as long as there's a profit to be made, someone probably will.
Well, Acela isn't really high speed rail; it only shaves off about an hour compared to the regular train (and costs around twice as much).

But, that aside, Acela is really competing with air. Their bread and butter traveler is traveling on business and they're taking Acela over a plane because they prefer to travel on Acela for a variety of reasons. They don't really care about cost within reason.

Those same travelers won't typically take a bus. If they do, they'll take something like the LimoLiner which is priced in the same ballpark as Amtrak. (I tried it once and didn't like it as much.) However, regular buses are always going to be the cheapest option both because they're typically competing for price-sensitive customers and they can take advantage of a a road network that already exists and that they don't need to maintain (other than whatever taxes they pay).
>linguistic practice in which people deliberately speak in gerunds as a form of verbal indirection

? could you give an example? (I can only think of sentences like "stealing is wrong" - but it doesn't seem like this is what you mean, because where's the indirection?)
Fair enough of a point. Web components have a lot of potential and it's good to hear Mozilla et al are slowly helping build consensus on the custom element instatiation! Polymer is one opinionated take on Web components which feels a bit heavy handed for my taste, I'm experimenting with x-tag from MSFT lately. Much lighter weight. The nice thing once these specs get finalized it'll be much easier to mix and max from whatever components you like (if they follow a DOM centric approach).

One thing that's still frustrating is the lack of html rel import in Firefox. Any word if that's ever going to change? Http2 changes the performance constraints quite a bit so the previous decision not to support native html imports means you have to use vulcanize and you can't dynamically mix and match sources.
Wow, so characters like U+022F (ȯ) and U+042F (Cyrillic letter Я) U+062F (Arabic letter د) are not allowed but nearly everything else is? Some of those are letters used in actual languages. That's sure to make people scratch their heads.
This doesn't model the earth's surface as flat. It uses a distorted flat map to model the actual curved geometry of the earth's surface. If the earth were actually flat, the flat map wouldn't be distorted.
In the same-ish vein, may I suggest http://ikura.co for anyone wishing to link timely jobs w/ their web applications.
> Darwins theory (and later modernizations) are indeed wrong (as in not true)

Not true in what sense?
It's quite simple. I am assuming there are an infinite number of things to know. That which we do not know we are wrong about.
This is very common with foos ball. There are local maximums where a player can get stuck. If you're playing opponents as good or a little better it pays to practice your foosball skills like passing and high accuracy shots. However if you're playing opponents far stronger then the best strategy is lower percentage Hail Mary's so it trains less important skills.
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> short/medium-term data

This in particular, but your entire post, would be a great addition to the Prometheus front page, or top of the documentation section. This wasn't clear to me initially, speaking as someone who evaluated prometheus a few months ago.
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The study of Biggest Loser contestants included people who (after they lost weight) were burning hundreds of calories LESS than a person of their weight normally would be. (The average metabolic deficit in the study was 500 calories/day; the largest metabolic deficit was 800 calories/day)

So no, it doesn't seem impossible for her testimony to be accurate at least approximately as given.
sure, but if you're not integer performance bound, which most graphics work won't be, it doesn't usually matter.
AFAIK, doing a web redirect to a purchase page for virtual goods is considered an evasion of Apple's 30% cut on in-app purchases. If Overcast tried to do that it would be pulled.
Well, it seems to just add "gooooooogle" to your query and redirect you to Google search. Why not, I suppose.
Even Latin 'I' and 'l' and the digit '1' are visually indistinguishable in some fonts! So are trailing spaces and different numbers of spaces. This is such a pervasive problem that maybe we can just give up and expect users to get used to it.