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> One recent example is Reddit trying to "catch" the Bostom marathon bombers

I feel like something has been lost in the retelling. That thread was also full of self-aware posts warning about mob mentality, posts criticizing baseless or racist speculation.

A lot of the photos posted resulted in pretty balanced debates about whether they were worth flagging for the FBI or just completely useless. Then again, every photo was completely useless, so every photo "of interest" that was identified was a special failure.

For those who don't know how it emerged, there was a photo gallery posted online that collected photos from the event. There were thousands of photos, people were just dumping their entire SD cards in there. It was obvious the set was full of noise, so the thread was designed to just put a lot of eyes on these images, ala mechanical turk, and reduce the thousands to a few dozen that were most likely to be of interest.

As it happened, the full set contained no images of any value.

The primary mischaracterization of the thread is actually about the student from Brown University. Speculation about him really emerged from the broader social media phenomenon. (Remember the thread's purpose, and that the student would not have been in any of the photos being reviewed... he came from completely external speculation.)

That theory was primarily spread by /r/news and twitter, but /r/findbostonbombers took all the blame for it anyway, even though that was the only place with rules in place designed to prevent exactly this sort of thing. From the sub's creator:

"My particular subreddit never allowed posts about him — they were immediately deleted, as a name is personal information."

...

"In regard to "Find Boston Bombers," I think the media is talking like everything to do with the Boston bombers was posted there, when it's clearly not true."

http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/04/reddit-find-boston-b...

Sure, it was hopelessly naive as a project, and very tiny mistakes can lead to devastating outsized consequences when you're involving that many people. But, I don't know, the thread wasn't quite so thoroughly dominated by misguided monsters as the prevailing narrative suggests, and I think it's a bit of a scapegoat for how awful the entire internet was that week.
Or abusing the system to score income on the sale of his house. I nearly snorted at that point.
What are the well-known arguments?
I do know how a conveyor belt works. Have you heard of contingency planning?

A soccer player is out on the field for, 45 minutes? Have you seen contracts that restricts a player's ability to use a restroom?
That's exactly the issue. If you go into the field of software development thinking that you can just "exploit" your way to the top you'll find yourself falling short. That kind of mentality leads to poor deliverable.
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Your polygon parable shows that phase segregation is a natural result of like-dissolves-like (something chemists have long known), and will likely occur naturally as a result of individual choices rather than malicious effects.

While this is interesting - it provides strong evidence that various racial disparities may NOT be the result of racism - it doesn't support the Matthew Effect at all.

Black Americans are clearly less advantaged than white Americans.

No one disputes this. The question is why this will result in differing exponential growth rates. You haven't provided a mechanism for this.

Indians and Chinese are also clearly more disadvantaged than black Americans - just think how much effort they need to go through simply to get the natural advantage of being legally permitted to work in the US. Yet their growth rate (in terms of life expectancy, income, etc) is higher.

This demonstrates that your "clearly less advantaged" theory does not imply differing exponential growth rates.

Also, your source about within-country inequality (i.e. Piketty) is silly. Even if we only assign 3/5 weight to Indians and Chinese people [1], inequality has still decreased. Any discussion of inequality which mentions Balzac more frequently than India/China/Africa (such as Piketty's book) is hopelessly myopic.

[1] Is there a reason that the Indian people around me (I'm in India) deserve less weight than Frenchies? I'd love an answer more detailed than "Trump 2016!!! WOO YEAH!"
I fully agree with you, with a small caveat though: the mechanism to use is called IRS section 83b election.

It is applicable when instead of the stock options companies offer restricted stock, in a similar way founder stock works. This should solve the problem for at least early employees, for whom the tax paid upfront will be almost negligible: while the company valuation is still low, the shares are inexpensive.

https://www.cooleygo.com/what-is-a-section-83b-election/
I'm no fan of Hillary, but have you listened to what Trump has been saying?

I highly recommend reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer . It was written in the aftermath of WW2 and tries to break down the factors that go into the formation of mass movements like Naziism and Communism.

I wouldn't say we've reached the same levels by a ways, but the parallels between the situation then and now are chilling.
It seems like my point has been clear all along and that you desire more karma points. That is to say, I haven't shifted the goal posts around. I never made a point that I didn't stick to in previous posts. You can pander. I won't.
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Excellent point. I've had to work in retail. You don't just get to go to the bathroom because someone has to man the front desk. This is a fact of the business. If you don't like it, feel free to go somewhere else. No one is stopping you.
This is essentially what an RSU is: a stock grant with a vesting schedule. Many public tech companies grant them, but they are more complicated for the granting company taxwise[1], so they are rare in small startups.

[1] They have to withhold some for taxes, for one thing.
"Biases" are a species of uninformed preference. It is really unlikely that satisfying your biases is going to lead to better decision-making. This goes for just about any mismeasure and folk wisdom, as Google has found out.

Multiple dimension of Google's hiring process have been revised as they found they were getting sub-optimal results from the usual kind of "hiring people like me" approach.

For example, it used to be a good bet that men made better orchestra musicians. Until they made auditioners take off their shoes and play behind a screen. You can't detect that bias without trying very hard to wash it out. If men were substantially ALL of the successful orchestral musicians, it would of course look like a completely justified "bias."
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Meh? It's the largest single day drop for the Pound in history.
Ants do things that are bad for the individual but good for the colony; drivers are selfish.
Now well over 4:1 for remain. The change in betting ods is extremely interesting from a statistical modelling point of view.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/eu-refe...

I don't care about the result. I'm more interested in how our statistical modelling tools failed us. Thoughts? Did opinions change overnight? Did the polling miss a demographic?
Just one of many links on Google for an appropriate search string. This one is dated and no longer accurate, but the phenomenon still occurs.

http://lifehacker.com/lets-talk-about-apples-privacy-issues-...

They have and they do, on every device. And that's ignoring app specific telemetry, which is explicitly allowed on all app stores.

It is one thing to not want to share that data. It's another entirely to invoke a 7+ year old corporate culture as evidence Microsoft is the sole "bad" actor in the space when every vendor openly discusses their telemetry collection.

How much did we hear about Chrome telemetry at I/O and PWAS? A lot. More to come. And it's necessary to make software products affordable o produce, unfortunately.
I want to listen to you (I'd write in Bernie to be honest) but unfortunately it's not realistic. I've come to this conclusion by observation of reality, not from the media. I don't even consume much American media.
So its hasicaly designed to lie to consumers, so that even that product ads they are seeing are completly fake.
And trust me, the down votes tend to be pro-marxist. So that this is getting so much attention speaks volumes about just HOW bad he presented this tale.
I would guess it is worse than maybe 90% of the other countries in the world.

By the way, is it your implication that we should not condemn Russia because other nations are as bad?
My only dream is to one day invent something as clever and useful as this (and to produce a marketing video as succinct and informative).
You can intercept this data with a proxy and your own root SSL cert if you want. MS doesn't do certificate pinning unlike some people in this space.
No. Hitler was never voted into office. He was appointed chancellor by the countries president.

Mussolini was hired by the King of Italy at (metaphorical) gunpoint to run the country, and ultimately fired him once the gun was no longer being held to his head.
But it's because of those cultural differences (and the fear of breaking a taboo) that diplomats learn that sort of suit-and-tie-or-thobe, shaking-hands-and-smiling, business-like-but-not-really thing that we are all used to seeing on television. That's what I mean when I say "universal protocol of interaction". Because it is a template with fairly standard rules, I imagine it would be easier to "predict" how two humans will interact like the technique demonstrated in this post. But then beyond that, I figured the interaction of diplomats might be so easy to predict ("smile, shake hands or bow, speak greeting"), that deviation would be more pronounced than for example the scene from The Office. Enough that some useful information might be conveyed in the deviation.
in a thick boston accent yah get the fuck outta here kid! ;-)
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So now car ads can be even less honest than they already were.

Great.
pussy because people whine they can't live in the single most desirable part of the entire city, and are too afraid to live where they can afford
How about three of these? http://www.europeanpolicy.org/en/european-policies/single-ma...
Bradley effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect

(Also known as social desirability bias)

Lots of people say in public that they're in favor of immigration, unity, and tolerance, because lots of people will call you a bigot if you don't, but in private, harbor old-fashioned ideas about nationalism, and well, polling involves a human and voting happens in private.
We tried that. Sanders, Rand Paul. We had potential leaders that didn't always resort to shouting, that wanted another way. Now we have Trump Clinton.

This cycle is completely about the ruling elite wanting the same crooked game to keep playing, and the voting public saying "You know what? Fuck you".
> I respectfully and strongly disagree. Outlier performance issues are a huge problem when scaling businesses.

For server-side GCs, a major collection is well within the bounds of incidental network latency, and happens far less frequently. Outlier performance is a huge problem, but from what I can tell outlier performance specifically due to GC pauses is an issue in far fewer cases (one that comes to mind is servers for certain financial services).

> Additionally "ease of programming/maintenance" is exactly an area where, overall, Swift may have some major advantages over Java.

That's true, but these advantages are uncorrelated to reference counting and they diminish if you choose to compare with a language that has aged better (C# comes to mind). If you're really concerned about high-performance, low-latency server programming and you are willing to switch to a less common language you'll be much better served by something like Erlang, which is specifically designed for that.

Erlang's memory model is fairly similar to what I have described here, but still runs into some issues that I feel could be solved by giving more control over where exactly things are allocated. It also resists any kind of mutable state; I agree that mutable state can complicate concurrency heavily, but having an option to use it sparingly would help (process dictionaries are too limited).

My point is basically that just like GCs aren't the solution to every problem, ARC isn't either. I think a language that allows for both will beat both Java and Swift handily when it comes to making both easy things easy and hard things possible.
It's my understanding I have to pay tax on the difference between excise price and fair market value for the year I exercise my option that year. And I've gotten conflicting tax advise on whether or not private investor rounds set a fair market value as far as the IRS is concerned.

This article seems to be of the same opinion.

Either way, if you can't do capital gains and you're still at the company no use wasting the money on buying in early.
We're even seeing websites now care about how they cause power consumption. Folks at PWAS did hallway talks about measuring it. Very cool.
I can't make head or tails of this chart. How many people had a salary between 500$ and 1000$ in the blue curve? The area under the curve is completely distorted by the logarithmic x-axis. Also, doesn't the second graph on https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality suggest that inequality has been steadily rising?
This kinda makes the mistake that nearly everyone makes with regard to containers: They view the container as a black box into which complexity disappears.

A container doesn't consume complexity and emit order. The complexity is still in there; you still have to build your containers in a way that is replicable, reliable, and automatable. I'm not necessarily saying configuration management is the only way to address that complexity, but it does have to be addressed in a container-based environment.

Now, I understand that in many cases some of the complexity is now being outsourced to others who maintain the containers (in the same way we've been outsourcing package management to operating system vendors for a couple decades), and so maybe some of the complexity has been pushed outside of your organization, but you have something being deployed that is internal to your org, so you have to deal with that complexity. Container management tools just don't do things at that level.

There's always a point where what you're doing is unique to your environment, and you have to be able to manage/reproduce/upgrade it somehow.
Car ads aren't fake already? Half the ads I see feature CG cars driving an endless blank whiteness or through similarly impossible landscapes.

This looks like a sweet way to shoot car scenes for movies, I wonder if it can take a roll-cage/extra safety features.
I think it's broader than just "designed for easy control on a console". There were other factors at play.

I think what actually set this type of design in motion can be traced back to that point in time when Half-Life came out and all of a sudden everybody seemed to criticize Quake (and indeed id Software in general) because their shooters lacked a story (actually, my recollection is a little fuzzy - games like Thief and System Shock were certainly exploring the 'story' space as well, I'm just not sure off the top of my head in what order the games arrived on the scene).

The realistic movement (head-bobbing, slowness, inertia, etc) seems like it's meant to convey a vague sense of what the physical impact of running would be, in the same way that camera shake is used to accentuate punches in a fighting game or a movie with fighting scenes. It's something that conveys momentum and mass.

It's an element to convey story and immersion. I feel like there's probably an axis here, where you have pure arcade games like Geometry Wars on one end and ultra-cinematic shooters like Battlefield 4 on the other. I'm really guessing here but I imagine Battlefield 4 (or let's say even the original Call of Duty, though I've only heard/read about it and never actually sat down to play it) wants you to actually feel the things that the soldier in the story is feeling. In some sense, it wants to be an interactive movie experience. As opposed to Geometry Wars and Doom, where the gameplay comes first and the story is nearly non-existent or very secondary.

I remember one of the biggest praises given to Call of Duty (EDIT: actually, reading further down, I think it was Soldier of Fortune that I was thinking of!) that it felt like you were in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. I can't help but think that must have been a huge contributor to the tone of console shooters that came afterwards.
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> I think this is probably key. People across the world are pissed at the political class – and I completely understand why.

Yes, but in the UK context they're voting for Farange, Johnson, et al. Who are as solidly establishment as they come.
I really wish people would more clearly distinguish library APIs from RPC APIs exposed by corporations' servers. I have no desire to deal with another company but I would love an open-source library implementing the client side of MMS, or at least some readable documentation about how the hell it works.
How come this keeps getting flagged and has dropped off the front page?
Yahoo.

Because sometimes, you just have too much cash and need to burn some of it.
The equity of previous investors feels just as "dead".
sorry I was on mobile when I first commented.

I meant to say that if your /redirect entrypoint returns a Header that looks like

Refresh: 0; URL={url}

Your visitors' browsers will remove the referer header altogether when loading {url}.

This is in contrast to the more common Location: {url} header.
If the odds are 4:1, I'm not sure what that means.

100/4:1 is a notation mystery. 25%?
"The reason this bath water is so dirty is that there is a baby in it"

Policy matters. The right wing proposal is religious discrimination. In the US we don't make exceptions for religions we don't like. You don't have to like Islam. You can believe that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western pluralism. If you are American the moment you decide that's a good reason to start getting ok with religious discrimination is when you've given up on the very ideals this country was founded on.
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Calling people "incredibly stupid" if they're worried about immigration is a bit condescending, especially if they are observing the immigrants compete for jobs with them.

That sort of attitude towards non-upperclass people on both sides of the political spectrum is why they are pissed off with the political classes, in fact. And they are not stupid to be pissed off.
Yes, telemetry from my smartphone is even more invasive to my privacy, having my location at all times, as well as being the single location with all my communications.
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Maybe be glad you don't have a betting account. I wouldn't trust anyone who thinks they can model this to the point of literally attaching "p=1.0", this early on.
Seems like a really small sample pool, 73 candidates.
Hard to believe this article when it says Detroit is a better place to earn wealth than NYC.
You can never just exploit your way to the top. You need more than just interview skills to do that. You need many many more skills. However, most developers that I have met that are fantastic programmers have a real issue interviewing and they never get a chance to demonstrate their true value at a company.
Most car sites now allow the end user to customize their car with color, trim & options. I can see this being used to give the end-user a realistic view of what the car will look like.

Mass customization of cars is increasingly possible with high-end 3D printers and tech like this may allow you to insert your own idea of what your car will look like into a Hollywood style commercial.

At the end of the day, car commercials already show people drifting around corners and skidding to a stop. Realistic commercials of cars stuck in traffic isn't going to move any units.
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By the way, it is interesting the OP does not deny the government is behind the attack. I guess because it is hopeless to try to persuade people to think well of the Russian government, and so instead its boosters fall back to the position that all other governments are just as bad.
> In the Netherlands and Germany I've seen traffic jams develop due to drivers slowing down to observe an accident on the other lane.

That's nothing out of the ordinary. In the US the behavior is known as "rubbernecking".
They are trying to create brand confusion. Let's Encrypt is big news right now. Everyone knows their service is 'going places'. Comodo's people figure they can steer some customers toward their service if those customers don't know better.

It's a sleazy bait-and-switch sort of tactic, like offering a free service and then using popups or confusing navigation to make people think it isn't free so they pay for it.

The CEO's post makes it pretty clear what sort of person he really is. I think their employees should resign. People who knowingly work for evil corporations deserve some of the shame if they don't leave when that evil is recognized.
I don't think it's so much the forgetting of history as much as overreach on the part of those who would try to deny that human nature exists.

When people can see all around them that gender, nationality, race, and religion convey useful information about the people they meet, and they live under the rule of an elite which claims that these things are irrelevant, then when some demagogue or other comes along who acknowledges the truth about these things but who lies everything else, people are going to go running into the arms of that demagogue.

Had these people advocated a fair and humane acknowledgement of these obvious, day-to-day truths instead of adopted a posture of absolute denial of the obvious, we wouldn't have Trump in the US and Brexit across the Atlantic.
But if this is a known effect, why were the betting markets also wrong?
> I guess I just feel like a downvote is a slap

It's not; that's all I can say. I've gotten plenty of them. Note that nobody else knows the score of your comment unless it's < 1.

> why would I get the same treatment as someone who contributes negatively

FWIW, comments that don't contribute do have a negative impact. They encourage more of the same, reducing signal-to-noise. The behavior spreads like a virus.

This link may explain some of the ideas behind how HN works:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

I hope that helps! Stick around; it's just a different culture with a different agenda.
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Do you have example of potential alternative naming schemes?
Since it's looking like a "Leave" right now I just wanted to share Limmy's post-brexit masterplan.

https://storify.com/576c9f3a3eb177be42c27c82
I assume Putin is doing this because he believes his public support would fall considerably if there was free internet discussion in his country.
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Well, if you stay 4 years and don't get an equity refresh that's a pretty strong signal they want you to move on. Starting year 5 you'd be taking a pay cut. So I imagine it would be a rare outcome.

(Of course, this only holds under current conventions. With the OP's proposal companies would have a strong incentive to make life miserable for employees past year 7 or so, because those who left wouldn't be able to take their stock with them.)
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