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In the movie, Ultron wasn't always present in only one single robot at a time. There were numerous scenes where he was actively controlling / in the bodies of multiple robots. For example when he shows the twins what he is building, there are dozens of robotic bodies all being controlled by him simultaneously.

To the point about the movie focusing on one substantial robot body, there is an excellent explanation: extremely limited quantities of vibranium.
Yours is the most reasonable answer and I wish more engineers understood this. As long as there is a nontrivial fraction of engineers that don't, then startups can take advantage of these ridiculous vesting periods and terms.
Nope. I got the point just fine.
I am not sure that anyone who works with technology in any capacity wonders that.
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And I will vote with my feet, as I'm sure a number of other potential employees will.

(Much as I will never knowingly work for a Kleiner company.)
And then do we we tax people who benefit from the economic output of these children after someone else raises them? Figuring out the extent of these externalities is not easy, but ignoring their existence is like putting your head in the sand
> I'm unaware of any place in the world requiring a license to sleep and eat breakfast.

This was the third Google hit for "are hotels licensed":
http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/Servicesthatrequirea...

Restaurants, too:
https://www.sfdph.org/dph/eh/Food/Permits/default.asp

Anyway, it's a completely bogus assumption that licensing is only about ensuring competence.
Do you genuinely find my comment "scary"?
I appear to be arguing with someone who has the same viewpoint as me. Perhaps a better summary of my view is that the existing penalty system would be OK if the fines were larger (and this hit shareholders hard enough to incentivise others not to break the law).
What use is kodi if not watching pirated media?

I use kodi to watch my own home movies.
"The AirBnB transaction has three parties"

That's incorrect. AirBnB provides a platform on which hosts can list their properties. There are two parties to that transaction.

In case you're talking about the subsequent 'rental' transaction, AirBnB is pretty clear that that's between the host and the guest. See section 5 of their ToS:
https://www.airbnb.com/terms
Can you define what a corporate death penalty entails?

Going off a direct analogy with a human, it appears it would require destroying the equivalent of the brain, so perhaps a forced wiping of the IT infrastructure, inventory ledgers, blueprints? Probably also a seizure of all patents.

At the end of the day it's just money, except it's probably simpler to just take it in cash. (Or however the $15B is expected to be disbursed).
10 years is the life of a VC fund, because that's the largest horizon that a wealthy investor is willing to part with his money even if it's not a large fraction of his wealth.

To ask almost the same (6-8 yr vesting period) to a worker that has a large fraction of his net worth in the startup seems utterly insane.
Maybe you could ask participants to rank their proficiencies in a collection of skills. Then they could be tested on some or all of those skills to see if their ranking is correct.
"I've thought about this. My thought has been, bump the street level up one story to create a pedestrian / bicycle promenade and move building entrances to the second floor."

This (sort of) already exists in Minneapolis (and to a much smaller extent, St. Paul and Duluth) courtesy of the skyway system.[1]

It's very well done and has created a completely separate urban ecosystem overlaid on top of the existing, street level, downtown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System
Why? Does the language bother you for some odd reason?
Would you arrest a telephone?
Accusations of astroturfing and shillage are not allowed on HN without evidence. And please don't post comments complaining about downvotes (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11989084 and marked it off-topic.
in other words- Too big to Fail? The equivalent of which in human terms is too rich to be prosecuted.
this would be the best response

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/06/27/thoughts-on-brexit-f...
Dunno about the OP, but I do. I look at some comments and actually get the chills imagining what the poster would come up with, if he or she got hands on the reigns of power.
How often do you google "who is mitt romney?" as opposed to just "mitt romney"?
This forum is not ostensibly focused on startups. It is focused on anything that "hackers", broadly construed, would find interesting.

It happens to share a second-level domain name with a startup accelerator. That's the extent of it.
I can carry a full week of groceries home in one of these (from a grocery store a 15 minute walk away):

https://www.amazon.com/UTG-Environment-Molle-3-Day-Deploymen...

(Sometimes if I'll buy eggs I'll carry those in a separate bag. How difficult.)
Nice! SQL is good like that, in my experience I've found that non-devs are able to understand and use it somewhat surprisingly quickly. Probably has something to do with the clause structure & parsing being fairly similar to that of a natural language sentence.
Why not?

Bear in mind, the vehicles VW sold were _superior_ from the point of view of the customer & driver.

Unless of course the whole affair dented your faith in them responding properly to safety issues or the like.
Cannot "arrest" something that's not a natural person, but yes, they could absolutely seize a bot under a number of civil forfeiture laws, or likely as evidence. The burden would be on the owner to sue to get it back.
The answer is clear – not easy, but clear; refuse to work with people who act in ways you find unethical.

If Scott Kupor's position is a company's position, and the total package value (including salary, benefits, etc), isn't acceptable to you when valuing options at zero – and given you don't control the company, and they can fire you at any time, you have to – then they're on the list. Refuse to work with them and tell your friends.

If you disapprove of his or A16Z's attitude, just don't accept investment from him. Let the market tell them they're wrong.
How about his comments regarding the judge?
If it were opt-in, they'd collect significantly less data, and the data they do collect would likely by heavily skewed. Microsoft could be misled by the poor quality of data collected, and an opt-in system could actually be worse than not collecting any data in the first place.

The way I see it, at the end of the day, the decision for Microsoft is really between not collecting data and an opt-out system. If Microsoft chooses not to collect data, then all developers have to live with tools that improve slowly and have issues (possibly security related that could be maliciously abused) that are not fixed as quickly as they could be.

If Microsoft chooses an opt-out system, they can collect the data they need to make sure their tools are working optimally and as intended. Some developers may not be comfortable sharing how they use Microsoft's tools even with no personally identifiable information collected. These people can opt-out while minimally compromising the quality of the data collected. Additionally, the tools are open source, so any developer that's skeptical of how and what data is being collected by the tools can verify Microsoft's claims.

Those are the two options I see. To me, the cost/benefit of the second option greatly outweighs the cost/benefit of the first for all involved. By not collecting data, security issues that could actually compromise your privacy could go unfixed for longer. By collecting data through and opt-out and open source system, Microsoft can fix issues ASAP and developers can verify that data is collected in way that preserves their own privacy.

It seems like a lot of people are knee-jerking to the idea of collecting data through an opt-out system and not actually weighing the cost/benefit of the realistic options. Can you explain how not collecting data has a lower practical cost/benefit ratio than an opt-out and open source system?
We have 3 Beams at 2 offices. Everyone assumed the first one would be just a Silicon Valley start-up novelty, but they are surprisingly useful and personal for someone out of the office to have a presence. They can drive right up to your desk and it's like having a conversation with a live person.
Being german myself I find your generalizing comment quite offensive.
Hi, I confidentally and unconditionally prefer dynamic typing. Just to let you know we exist. Please don't forget that static typing introduces the possibility of compile time defects. Even statically typed languages often support reflection, which is another way of getting the benefits dynamic types. The easier metaprogramming is, the happier I am.
A quality of life built on relabeling employees as "contractors" to avoid paying them a fair wage with appropriate benefits. But yes, the medallion system was also very broken.
I dunno, maybe it makes sense, but there seems to me to be something incredibly demeaning about living in housing owned by your employer. Very....19th century. Is there a company store?
for what it's worth, there are a bunch of combat tai chi practitioners out in the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc0jNJwgJA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HQnuWY13ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iw4xFD-47Q
The comments on that thread seem to point to the fact that ORION did clearly take assets from CoD or recreate them exactly. Example mentioned in one of the comments: http://i.imgur.com/ZQeBNGs.png

So, I'm not so sure Activision is in the wrong here, other than the lack of transparency with the takedown.
They didn't ask people for their evaluations before the test; they asked after the test, and after it had been scored, to see where people thought their score ranked relative to the rest of the people who had taken the test.

So, people already knew how many things they had gotten right and wrong when making their judgement. They just judged that most other people had also gotten a similar number wrong.
>>>>The shareholders would still be richer and don't have to fear punishment
>>This is actually an interesting thought. What if they did have to fear punishment?

What about people who may have invested in a fund that bought shares? Should the fund managers fear punishment? Should the people that bought into the fund be punished?

This is where the "punishment for those who benefit" gets complicated. It's hard to work out the people that should NOT be punished.
I you are talking about some kind of timeline, may I plug my own JavaScript solution for this?

It's called Barrel: https://github.com/zachrose/barrel

You can think of it either as map for setTimeout, or a way to turn sequences into a player object that accepts your own function to perform each point in the sequence.
8, actually
> how much of Japan's conduct in WW2 (notably, the fighting until death) can be attributed/blamed to this misinterpretation of samurai history?

Japanese soldiers' "fighting to the death" nonsense was myth invented many years after WW2 by allied "historians" to justify the mass murder of japanese soldiers by the allies.

It's not that the japanese weren't willing to surrender. It was that the allies ( unfortunately out of extreme racism ) wouldn't allow japanese soldiers to surrender.

If you dig a little past the history/propaganda and look at the raw data/facts/etc of the pacific war, you will learn how brutal the pacific war was. And how racist the allies were towards the japanese soldiers. Nearly every japanese soldier who was wounded was butchers and killed as were nearly all japanese POWs.

It was called the "no prisoner policy" of the allied soldiers. And if you want to read about some more base aspects of the pacific war, go read about the mutilation of the japanese soldiers by the allied soldiers. Some real sick shit.

The more you learn about the real nature of ww2, you realize that there was no good side in that war. Just two evils fighting each other.
Google Fiber announced several months ago they were moving into my apartment complex and construction is expected to be completed with 8-12mo. In the mean time, I got a new job where I get to work from home, so I figured I probably -ought- to buy internet instead of tethering.

Shortest contract I could sign to get the advertised pricing was 3 years from the incumbent telco provider here. They offered me the "blazing" package that had a whole 10mbit upstream.
D-K is one of my favorite patterns. This is the first time I've seen these charts. Some questions about methodology:

The x-axis shows quartile, not score results. If the range was between 80 and 90%, then all participants were accurate in assessing their ability as "above average". [EDIT] I doubt that's the case, but would rather see scores.

How was the self declared expertise in "humor" judged? That seems pretty subjective. Maybe the subject is hilarious to his or her friends.

Did the subject know what the examiner's definition of "logical reasoning" is? Was that street logic or discrete structures? What if the subject was able to glance at the test questions? Only then answer the question as it pertains to the test. How would the results change?

Grammar is idiomatic. In some places "over yonder" is contextually concise. Other grammatical forms may never occur. How is self-assessment over tacit expertise judged? Maybe another glance at the test?

Maybe Dunning-Kruger shows that there is a disconnect in how examiner and subject interpret a question? Maybe, it is a matter of saving face in saying that you're above average? Maybe, because the subjects are college students, that they actually are above average? Or maybe, these are above average participants that aren't quite sure of the question, so they say that they're above average?
Well, your comment's a bit harsh. There's nothing wrong with sharing your own stuff here. If it has no relevance to the community we'd call it spam, but this is far from that.
I've started with the book "PostgreSQL Up & Running". It's rather lacking in detail and has a lot of typos, but I'm nevertheless enjoying it. It's written in a simple language and it provides a good landscape overview, which is exactly what you need in the beginning. Get the big picture first and then you can look for the necessary details as you go.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032144.do
Aikido is far better in that regard.

Edit: I mean that it's more usable in real life.
As the old Usenet maxim goes, the best way to prompt posting of a true claim is, occasionally, to post a false one.

(Doesn't always work. But often does. Or it turns out that the "false" one is justified. Happened to me, once.)
While it might be a more authoritative place to start, it's not the only academic paper in the sources, and it's definitely not the entire argument undergirding this post. I for one appreciate when he pulls out a citation that make you raise an eyebrow.
Have you not noticed that HN often rewrites titles to be more factual about the content of the target?
Arguably the best approach to dealing with this sort of thing is not the hair shirt use less medicine line of thinking, but rather to focus much more effort on creating therapies that work more effectively and for more people and under more circumstances. Then you won't see non-beneficial treatments in action so often.

Sadly, much of the present generation of medicine was created in an environment that prioritizes a focus on late stage disease state, discovery of proximate rather than root causes, and adjustment of disease state without addressing root causes. Making a damaged machine work better and longer is really, really hard if you don't fix the damage. Medicine is one illustration of this point.
I live in Redwood City and my building offers both AT&T and Comcast. The last place I lived in sunnyvale offered 4 different tv/broadband providers. You should certainly ask what a complex offers when considering where to live.
Why do we have a system that uses SSNs as passwords, rather than usernames? Wouldn't it make far more sense the other way around? That way, if your SSN is stolen, it would be equivalent to getting your email address leaked. Consequential, but not devastating. And then in that case you could update a password/PIN whenever you want to.
Really no good side in most wars. Winning wars requires evil in one form or another.
Who was responsible for the mass suicides in the Battle of Okinawa?
Oh come on. That was the substantive argument, expanding on what was said before in good faith and providing a reason why it matters to the discussion. Several other users here seem to think it has at least something to contribute, and it has already provoked a somewhat more nuanced discussion below. Calling it a "shrill ideological denunciation" is, itself, a shrill ideological denunciation. ("Shrill" in particular is a very unbecoming word for a supposedly apolitical moderator whose main enemy is supposed to be incivility.)

I am trying to be charitable in my interpretation here, but twice now you have zeroed in specifically on the charge that US military activities constitute 'terrorism'. It really looks like your objection is to that postulate, and not to its relevance to the discussion or the politeness with which it's advanced. If that's really the case, then you have taken an unequivocally political position which you are willing to enforce through moderation.

I don't want to believe this is the case, as it would mean the end of my participation on HN. So I would like to know what moderating principle is being used here. So far all I have are the following pejorative terms: "deeply uncool", "political flamebait", "shrill ideological denunciations", and "ideological rants".
Citing Mamoru Oshii as a kind of expert on bushido is completely laughable. How does anything he says about the subject gives him any kind of authority ?
You mean like a subway?
> Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Kamikaze [1], I was surprised to read that the concept of suicide attacks only became formalized late in the war (June 1944), rather than something ingrained in the Imperial Japanese fleet from even before the start of conflict.

You don't lose planes for fun.
Definitely! The core of our product is software so ideally we just sell software licenses (much higher margins). Turns out there are a lot of drone companies that want a plug and play product though, and don't have spare processing power around to run our software.
I've done some form of boxing, grappling /judo or martial art for 30 years. I taught physical skills- use of force, to law enforcement for 6 years.
For 5 years I worked in a violent custodial environment.
Some young people entering that work-place had never faced an angry man, never been in a real fight. For them that "martial arts" environment is a reasonably safe and accessible place to start.
I agree that it is no substitute for actual combat/use of force training but I wished some of them had at least gone to the local Y or a regular basis. The 6 month "entry to service" training was not sufficient, nor was 3 days a year skill updates.
Perhaps the biggest issue with "martial arts" is the misunderstanding some people arrive at they can start a fight and win, and not get hurt. That their theoretical skills will enable them to prevail without pain. That is dangerous and un-helpful.
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> Skype/Hipchat/whatever-video

Don't bother. Pied Piper video chat is so much better.
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But type systems do help. You don't have to go far to notice the shortcomings of any large enough project written in python, ruby, javascript, etc. Whereas a project of equivalent scale written in c#, typescript, java, dart, etc. is much easier to maintain and debug. So given enough discipline and enough good programmers I agree that there isn't much difference but in practice this is not the case and having the compiler double check your work helps a lot.
For me the issue comes down to whether or not Microsoft does anything useful with this data (probably not, if 20 years of NVIDIA blue screen driver failure logs, Windows 8 and OneDrive are any example of how 'big data' impacts Microsoft product quality) versus how many comments I have to read where joeblow52 is personally offended that Microsoft dares to learn what his compile time plus 999,999 other compile times, divided by a million, equals.
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> The more you learn about the real nature of ww2, you realize that there was no good side in that war. Just two evils fighting each other.

You don't win wars without killing people, and therefore all sides are evil by definition.

The little process of judging "war criminals" after the war is over is just for one's good conscience. If the Allies had lost they would have been judged as war criminals by the victors too.
I had a couple of reports on Connect related to crashes in Edge on Xbox disappear as part of a migration - the best I can work out they've become private/internal. I'm assuming those kinds of things are going to UserVoice and not GitHub but is there some way I can find out what happened in the end?
I don't think those things need to be reconciled.

Not everyone hires the top 1%, only those that can afford it. And how many people consider themselves in the top 1%, anyway? Do you? I don't. The hubris of the idea of the 1%. That's what the hedge funds tell themselves when they put you through an 8 hour-long interview where you're asked to code sorting algorithms on a whiteboard. That they're seeking out that 1%. Larry Wall and Bjarne Stroupstrup? Okay, 1%. 25 year old comp-sci / top of class engineer student? I don't know, possibly? Okay, putting aside the snide remarks: 1% selection is not scientific, as we all know from hiring interview experiences. And moreover, are the people making the most money doing it writing software, or are they somewhere else in the IT company?

But to answer you, why shouldn't kids learn coding, it's one more notch on the belt. Takeaway: people have different interests, inclinations, talents and thoughts. For a young kid, you teach them the basics, you see what sticks. No reason why coding can't be taught young, even if it's part of a math curriculum. To be honest with you, I sucked in math, but perhaps if I had math in the context of a computer program, it wouldn't have been so bad.

Teach people coding. Also teach them to read the classics, do pullups, cook, what happened in the past, how old the rocks in the Earth are, what's in the oceans, what's outside of Earth's atmosphere, and everything else that we feel is important for a human being - not a future worker - to learn.
"maldito país"
My recollection might be off, but I think the term was popularized by the tech press not so much the tech companies described as such.

However, the argument can be made that the sharing, while not in the classical sense, does reduce the impact on resources through efficiencies. So in that sense, people are sharing resources (as in sharing a bus ride --you both pay) and making less impact on earth's resources.

Small cab companies in that sense were more inefficient, among other things, because an idle car (one without a medallion) could be put to use to taxi people around. Same for AB&B. People arguably maximize the use of a house --by renting their spare rooms (the use case has morphed since inception, granted). I think you can see where this model, whatever it's called makes more efficient use of our resources.
To add to the irony, "robot" comes from the Czech word "robotnik," meaning "slave."

http://etymonline.com/index.php?search=robot