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I read the whole article, and my criticism was addressed at sortition.

> In sortition, rather than polling the entire populace about complicated issues on which they are likely not well informed, we select a balanced random sample of people from the populace , provide them information, and then allow them to engage each other on the issue. Then we have those people vote.

This is utopian, and fraught with difficulties. Who decides what constitutes balanced? Does anyone elect the deciders? How can a sample be both balanced and random? Through what forum do they engage? How do we ensure a genuine discussion takes place, rather than both sides talking past each other. How do we overcome the problem that the larger the sample, the harder it will be to have a discussion? How do we prevent the media playing a role in influencing the decision making?

The referendum campaign was poorly articulated on the Remain side, and played to people's most base fears on the Leave side. Remain should have known that touting the impact of Brexit on big business would fall on deaf ears with those that feel powerless in their own communities. That's an argument for making better information available during the course of a referendum campaign. Of course, had the Remain campaign won, as it nearly did, no-one would be questioning it, just as they didn't call for an overhaul of democracy in the wake of the (equally disgracefully fought) NO2AV campaign.
> sortition is a form of democracy.

No, its not. Democracy is either direct (in which each citizen has a direct vote on proposals) or indirect (in which each citizen has a vote on representatives, who either directly vote on proposals or select other officials who do.) The common element of democracy is that there is a chain of choice from the citizenry at large to the decision, what differs among forms of democracy is whether there are intermediate links on that chain, and how many, what those particular intermediate links look like.

Sortition is does not share the unifying characteristic of democracy, it is, instead, one of many forms of rule by an unelected, not-democratically-accountable elite.

> and is at less risk of being easily corrupted by special interest groups.

People that aren't trying to get reelected , and which are rotated fast enough to be "constantly changing" (which also means that public attention on each of them is fleeting), is, if anything, more subject to corruption.

They may be less valuable to corrupt (since you are more likely to be renting them for a single decision than buying them for a whole extended career), but I don't think that the combined effect makes them less risk of being corrupted. At a minimum, I think that claim requires substantial support that hasn't been offered.
It has been in Alpha for a decade now. It's not clear if it is ever going to advance to Beta status.
1. Did they actually have zero exposure to the UK? There are knock-on effects. If many airlines had exposure to the UK and this oil company only sold to american airline companies, they still effectively have exposure to the UK. If this spring manufacturer had the majority of their deals with that oil company, then they're going to suffer with them. I'm not saying you're wrong. I used the same hypothesis to buy on Brexit panic, but I don't know if it was correct.

2. Honestly, the analysts got it wrong in their own area of expertise often enough that I don't think it makes sense to pretend they're oracles in comparison to anyone else.
The bot hype right now isn't about average UIs being replaced with text prompts of "What would you like to do today?", it's about large walled-garden ecosystems (Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, MS, Kik, etc.) funneling web searches and services through their own systems.

The article's most crucial point is that a natural language UI is just another interface to the limited set of functionality the application is capable of. But to the current big players in these game, these limitations don't apply: if the parsed commands fall through all of their many layers of specialty logic, they can always fall back to a generic web search.

By doing so, they will have provided the user with an interface that tries to understand what they want, while being no worse than if the user had typed the same thing into a search bar. And all the while, they have routed the user's intent through their AI, enabling better personalized recommendations, and tracking of click-through rates.
I definitely am interested in seeing this for different stock markets, and the global stock market.
I don't know what the title was before but the current title [Projects at Kestrel Institute] is suitably leading.
The NYTimes has a great visualization of S&P 500 returns for money invested any year between 1920 and 2009 and withdrawn between 1921 and 2010:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
Does the first chart account for inflation seeing as it's defined in terms of US dollars?
TLDR: proxy your traffic through a locally installed secret blackbox, after which it is "100% protected".

Not found on the website: non-buzzwordy description of how this really works and what makes it better than the other gazillion security products. Show me an example of an attack you stopped. I realize the website isn't selling to engineers, but still.
Major overreaction on this thread. Companies often incentives their employees to create patents. Often patents are use for protection purposes even if they never make it into the companies tech.

For Example: Company X sues Apple stating they infringe on a patent. Apple turns around and throws 10 patents back that infringe on their tech.
That's why all your functions should not have a side effect if at all possible. And if they do it should be stated in the function's name. Maybe something like validateAndLogIt().
> Grandma ... should definitely be ... culpable

Not downvoting just suggesting that the sarcasm might detract from comprehensibility for English learners. It detracts nothing from the point by just saying plainly that she should not be.
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It's open source. I'm open to seeing how we might be able to integrate or work with Effe in our Go SDK, or if necessary, learn from your effort. Take a look at https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe-golang, I'd love a pull-request.

We're not an alternative to AWS Lambda or, "Lambda on your own infrastructure". Instead, we desire to make it easier to build apps that run anywhere, which includes both AWS Lambda and Docker. I suppose there's some overlap, but the goals and technical challenges are a bit different. IOpipe is also a library that simplifies integration with services that provide state.
Wallarm looks like a fairly good WAF, and focused on developers / DevOps. We (https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com) have the same focus, but are focused on helping you find and fix the vulnerabilities rather than cloaking them / trying to catch them being exploited in real-time.

"Detect anomalies and block attacks with no latency" seems hard to believe - minimal latency, maybe, but none?

On the other hand, good luck to Wallarm - there need to be better WAFs out there.
"Because people should be able to put whatever ridiculous terms they want into a contract"

No, they shouldn't.

"There are a few valid reasons for a non-compete, after all."

No, there aren't.
Assuming all assets get stored on S3, the other common writing scenario is logging. How would multiple machines writing to the same log file work?
Maybe they plan to cache the responses! I mean, from a POST to a GET, there is clearly a trend.
Or if they get eyetracking+foveated rendering. Then you get super effective navigation between 'monitors' (just look at one) and the rendering isn't so demanding, enabling either more sampling or higher-resolution displays.
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It doesn't matter. The company doesn't need to justify their reasons for having a particular dress code.

If the interns placed so much stock in what they were required to wear during their internship, they should have asked about it during the interview, and withdrew themselves from consideration upon learning of the dress code.

But no, they felt that the company should change its policies to suit them. Because they're that darn special.
Same here in France, the owner of the Wifi AP is liable in case of illegal downloads.
However a large majority of ISP implemented a separate free Wifi that is independent of your connection. You have access to all the free wifi AP from this ISP if you don't opt-out.
Thanks, that is very valuable.
SVB outsources deal analysis and DD to a set of VCs they trust by only investing in companies those VCs back. A lot of lenders do this.

There are VCs who operate the same way, e.g. Correlation ventures or DAG Ventures.
Really nice work on this. I would have loved this tool on my last big web project.
OneNote is nice. I'm always bugged though by the fact I can't double click a word and drag the cursor to highlight more words. Such a small thing, but it annoys me endlessly.
I honestly don't care about the company. It is entirely unconscionable that they should prevent someone from trying to feed their family after leaving the company.

As for direct competitors, Non Disclosure Agreements work just fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11998774
While this is a repost, what I didn't know is,

> Whilst it’s not possible to get links for a specific user, you could easily run through results all day* until you find something interesting.

There's only a system to find links people shared and you can't tie it to a specific user unless the link itself references the user who shared it.

So, no quite as bad as every headline would have you believe?
No, bicameralism means you have two legislative bodies (for example, the US House and Senate). So in a sense it's the same thing, because a bill, to become law, has to be voted on (and pass) twice.

But bicameralism doesn't refer to two votes by the public in order to pass one referendum or elect one person. That's... something else. I don't know what to call it, but it's not bicameralism.
Isn't Linear algebra taught in the 10th grade? I remember I took linear algebra again in college since they don't have an AP test for it, but it was mostly the the same stuff. I remember getting an A in the class without too much studying since it was pretty much just using matrices.

Isn't linear Algebra still taught in high school?
Dear eBay,

Sending a request on each keyboard event to determine password strength is not only a security vulnerability, it's also poor design. APIs should primarily be used to consume external resources, not stand in for client side functionality.

If providing an API for password strength is important (i.e. you want to guarantee the same behavior across clients), think of your business logic as a resource and not a service. Rather than force the API figure to it out, have the API deliver the criteria for this behavior (regex strings, bounds of password length, etc.) and let your clients figure it out. This addresses the security concern, decouples your client side and server side logic and improves performance across the board by reducing network requests and absolving the server of this responsibility.

If you must go with this design, at least move from a `GET` to `POST` like others are suggesting.

Just my opinion,

Matyi
Complete for a game, that is. All the pieces are there, the interactive feedback loop is in place, and one can currently get lost in it for hundreds of hours, should they so choose. That is a complete game to me.

The rest of that list? Stretch goals. Or the entire vision. What, you think I've never seen that list? It's a big list, and it's stupid because it is so impossibly long. The entire vision is never 1.0...
Shame it's not mobile optimised, I'd love to check this out right now. Guess I'll have to wait until I get to my laptop
I knew that Instant is a margin account. I didn't enter the terms ignorantly.

1. How does RobinHood make money?

2. Why are the bid-ask spreads so much greater on their platform versus others?

3. Why doesn't the application show you how much buying power is coming from the Instant account's margin account versus your own cash?

4. What will the SEC think of a company that misleads novice investor-consumers into a margin account that is branded merely as instant access to funds (even though the terms you have to accept state it's a margin account) and then obscures the actual amount of margin buying power to be used in the app's UI? It's absolutely in RobinHood's business model's financial interest to keep user's money in said margin accounts. That misaligns the company's incentives with the goals of the customers.
The Nz referendum was a) pick a flag in round 1 and b) decide if you really want to commit to the chosen flag in round 2.

It was a sensible approach given that the flag choices were so underwhelming that nobody wanted to change in the end.

I guess it's a little different because you're voting for different things but I guess it's similar. Have a vote and then have the power to bail out.
Qualified dividends (which is most of them) are also taxed at long-term capital gains rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
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So you can unlock a regular moto g. Can you unlock the Amazon moto g?
It also depends on where you are and the time of day. Even without rain it's not always easy to hail a taxi in Shanghai.
Yes. The source is a bit clearer on the point, mentioning that the chart is in terms of 2011PPP. So it accounts for differences in cost of living too, attempting to measure consumption in vaguely absolute terms. (a bit down the page: https://ourworldindata.org/world-poverty/ )

As a meta point, financial statistics that don't account for inflation are so utterly meaningless and bankrupt the thing to do if you have this concern is to go check and report back if they are crap. The default assumption should be that they do account for inflation.
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Or, specifically, the people voted the wrong way on the referendum. Let's stop letting people vote on referendums.

You see the same thing with the EU Constitution - the voters rejected it in two countries. That can't be allowed. So we'll do the same thing via the Lisbon Treaty, but we won't let anybody vote on that, because they might vote wrong.
"rsync+ssh: Still more reliable than other sync software or exotic filesystems."

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Are you saying that employees with a standard RSU grant are not eligible for protection of that law? I would guess most software developers in California are receiving some kind of RSU or option grant.
Right, but if a hacker releases a password dump for site X, no one has your password in plaintext, just the log in hash. That said, that solution requires JavaScript.
"I don't think anyone really has a problem with non-competes."

I absolutely do. There is no justification whatsoever that a company should be able to keep me from working in my chosen field, and as a result unable to feed my family, just because they're insecure.
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Embiggen?
Several. But they never went anywhere, because they were never more than selfish indulgences. To say nothing of other art...
"youtube-dl. Give it an URL, it will download media from it, no questions asked. It's hard to find software that does the right thing as often as youtube-dl does."

I will second that. youtube-dl is like magic. It's too good to be true.
It's not wrong. We don't know how markets behave at near-zero-to-negative interest rates over long periods of time. The types of central bank policies that are in play right now are unprecedented.
Or the

"HAHAHA. YES! So much this."

part. Though I can't down vote so I wouldn't know.
To save you a click: "Software developers are jerks."

This is not broadly true, and the article admits it. What they possibly meant to say was, "software development is not jerk-free, any more than any field is."
I see the appeal of sortition, and I'd like to see it tried. My biggest concern is that, in any transition to election-by-lot, the chosen representatives are at a disadvantage compared to the lobbyists and the national bureaucracy. I worry that these entrenched interests would find it very easy to manipulate representatives who have much less policy experience than they do.
Sortition also may be less corruptible. If the group is constantly changing, that may be harder to corrupt than having the same representative in DC for 30 straight years.
Why do we have to live in a world, were the people who put in the most amount of energy and time seeking attention for themselves, wield the most amount of influence?
You mean for OS X? What other way is there to pronounce it?
I'm just starting with learning gpgpu programming myself but I'm replying because your advice seems wildly off-base. Your links are full books on graphics-processing algorithms, not introductions-to-architecture which must come before using Cuda or gpgpu programming effectively.

That you don't seem to know the difference between OpenGL and OpenCL hardly makes your claims more plausible.

Anyway, Cuda is a general purpose framework as is OpenCL. OpenGL is a 3D graphics framework and different from both. Looking at these structure, Cuda is architected to allow straight forward general general purpose parallel computing - one has to know the broad structure of a GPU but one doesn't have to know all the principles of graphics programming. OpenCL is similar but more complex due to its efforts to take multiple processors into account. As far as I can tell, using Cuda is the simplest path to general purpose GPU computing (the op didn't do any favors by not really saying what kind of GPU computing he wanted to learn - he did say Cuda later - but your post seems confused regardless of what thing someone ultimately wants to learn).
Taxis in many cities will refuse to go somewhere (e.g. JFK, South London, outer Beijing, ...) even though they are legally obligated to take you anywhere. There is little recourse. The driver's medallion won't be taken away for breaking the conditions of the monopoly.
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Whilst I agree that a supermajority is an excellent idea for changing things, it's still staightforward for politicians ( or more precisely, civil service mandarins ) to play the long-game to achieve what they want regardless. They can operate on a longer timeline than the average voter,for whom there are more pressing daily concerns.

For example, de Gaulle originally blocked the UK's entry into the EEC. So the UK went off and formed the rival EFTA with some peripheral nations, until EFTA was eventually folded into the ECSC / EEC.

By the time a referendum on remaining was eventually held, in 1975, the UK was already deep in the EEC. Change had been achieved without a majority, or even a minority.
No. Absolutely not. Once they stop paying the salary, they should have no say whatsoever on what I do. It is entirely unreasonable to expect someone to not be able to work for a period of time after leaving the company, and not being able to feed their family.
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In context, that seems like a pretty self-aware comment he made when he was interviewing his political director[1] as a warning to the man of his own confidence. But I would agree, Presidential candidate always have a large ego. I was only offering up an example of Trump's mistrust of "all experts" (at least in terms of foreign policy).

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/17/battle-plans
"more noise is made about the scary death robots."

Likely because they make for better stories.
>However, this is why Proprietary software will always be around and why there are many markets where Free Software won't take over. There are many people that don't want to be a collaborator because they don't enjoy dealing with software. They just want to exchange money and have a problem solved for them.

So, uh, while it's certainly true that it makes a lot of sense to exchange money for goods and services, in this case, working software, my experience has been that a lot of times? proprietary software is worse at this than open-source. See RedHat, for instance, for an example of pretty good support (well, compared to what you get when you pay money for proprietary software)

In fact, i think there are structural reasons why buying support from someone who supports an open source product might be better than buying support from a company selling proprietary software. The main reason being that the open-source software provider has competition. People other than RedHat can reasonably support RedHat software; this can't really be said for closed-source software.

Considering the huge pain in the ass that switching business critical software packages usually is, well, my personal experience is that if you get something closed-source from IBM, you are going to be way more disappointed in their support than if you get something open from RedHat.
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RMS has this system: control-P! control-P foo control-s bar return

Works for him.
Imperialism is alive and well today, it's just that it's less noticeable since total war has been infeasible since the atomic age.
Ooooh, interesting article, it's talking about... Oh, sorry I was reading... You don't like ad blockers you say? Oh well, guess it must be a pretty boring article anyway. Farewell.
I haven't found this to be true. At least relative to other intellectual career paths (e.g. academics, lawyers, business-people)
"Oh, s-10?"
A related and quite good discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586061.
Can confirm. Been trading options for 3 years, lose money on 90% of my trades, but still up 30% for the year.

It's basic expected value, magnify your wins and minimize your loss to what you know you can lose.
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If you impose too high a barrier to change, then laws cannot stay in sync with society, and that will lead to severe unrest.
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As a first step towards that, we are excited to launch a product which optimizes all images on your website with a single line of JS code -- no server configuration needed! We are using Service Workers to route all image requests through our optimizing servers. The images are optimized and served according to the device, browser requesting it (Client Hints FTW) and cached on CloudFront's CDN.

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It's essentially NFS, so yes.
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but this BugReplay appears to provide network request information as requests happen in the video.

I expected network requests to occur in the Network Traffic window, however no requests ever showed up.

Can I make a BugReplay of this BugReplay?
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We'll pick a small group of people, and feed them an education that will make them vote our way.

Sounds like how many prosecutors use grand juries in the USA these days.
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