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Another way that you could look at it, is as LeifCarrotson said below, that the moon is like a mirror. If RM's idea that the sun's light reflected from the moon could not start a fire was true, what makes the situation different if you are reflecting the sun's light from a cold mirror? Can the light from the mirror not cause a higher temperature than the temperature of the mirror? We know that mirrors (and even lenses made of ice) can be used to create temperatures at their focus high enough to melt them. So, what is it about the moon that is different from a mirror, besides a lower reflectivity?

I suspect that RM just got a little lost in the weeds on this one. I remember making a similar mistake in undergrad when I was thinking about a problem with two light sources with an optical filter in between. The key insight I needed to make was that the filter was a physical object with its own temperature.

Thinking about things like this is how you develop what physicists call "physical intuition".
The wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine. VW is the largest and first target to be taken down, but hardly the last. I don't think your expectations of all of this getting resolved very quickly are realistic. Mitsubishi is currently being investigated by US regulators as of this past April, and will probably be charged on a similar timeline as VW. Keep an eye out for it. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mitsubishimotors-regulatio...

As for the Germans taking on Chrysler, good. If Chrysler did it then they should pay, same as VW has and Mitsubishi is going to. http://www.autoblog.com/2016/05/23/germany-fiat-chrysler-ban... No one deserves to develop lung disease because some stupid manufacturers decided to cheat on tests rather than passing them. I still don't see how this is a trade war, when it clearly looks to me like an environmental enforcement issue.
Crossing against the signal is also legal in MA, as long as you're in a crosswalk.
Ask HN: Do VC's care about the ethical behavior of the companies they fund?
Title pretty much sums it up.

Context: I am wondering if I should contact a VC firm about an ethics/business issue I am having with a company they fund.
Really, weird, I always though it was a British company. It does look like they have a ton of Dane employed though, including the CTO.
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It seems almost unbelievable but I guess once enough people are offered an executable file, someone will eventually download and run it.
Forgive my ignorance, but who is buying proprietary language interpreters/compilers these days?

What are some other successful examples of this? I remember ChezScheme became free recently.
There's a difference between being a prick to fellow community members versus being tough on submissions. I rank myself in the top 5% regarding expertise on a few topics that come up here regularly, and most (not many, most) of the submissions are simply tragic. To enter a thread late with a hundred young people politely chatting about something that's completely wrong or completely plagiarized says quite a bit about your ability to maintain decorum. But I don't think it's quite as flattering regarding your ability to maintain quality.

Googling a machine learning or signal processing technique from 40 years ago, seeing a link to HN on the first page of Google results that gets it wrong, and having the only comment that actually provides counterpoint or correction missing because you pushed a magic button? I can't believe that's the impact either of us are looking for with regards to contributing to world knowledge.

Likewise I increasingly find myself reading the top comment then scrolling down and squinting at the dimmed out bottom comment. Half the time it's someone being an idiot. The rest of the time it's useful counterpoint or something correct but imperfectly phrased. Groupthink and tone-policing-by-committee may be a bigger problem than someone who dares to use the adjective "flaming" to qualify the nature of errors in a submission.

I too hate dealing with the stack of complaints at the end of a long day, and I too hate seeing the same names causing trouble. It certainly is hard to remain impartial given even a small number of people who are obsessed with the "report misbehavior" button or, worse, those who harbor grudges and abuse the feature. In general those people need to toughen up and the people who are causing the grief need to turn it down half a notch. But HN, in technology and in personnel, lacks the nuance necessary to correct and communicate evolving community standards.

There's nothing more boring (and more damaging) than a public debate around a moderator's standards versus a popular user who bumps against the edge on occasion. Out of respect for your work (and my time) I'm stepping out as that's precisely where this is headed. Good luck with the site, I'm all too aware of the effort you put into it.
Professional poker players streaming on Twitch is rising in popularity. You can learn quite a bit about the game by simply tuning in on a regular basis. There are people who play small stakes ($10-$100) and people who have streamed tournaments where they've won >$100k for a 1st place finish.
No one said it was, but in this use case it's far superior to hand written loops. Virtually all modern programming languages have a functional collections API precisely because of this advantage. If you're still writing loops by hand, in nearly all cases, you're stuck in a less effective procedural programming mindset and have simply stopped updating your skills beyond the basics.

If you've been around for a while, you should have already accepted the benefits of functional programming in the places it's most effective and banished low level procedural programming of loops except in cases where extreme optimization is required. There's no eb and flow here, higher order map/reduce/filter style has been the best way since the 60/70/80's when Lisp and Smalltalk were doing it.
Yes, I think your first sentence captures what I was intuitively feeling.
Tesla needs to take responsibility for negligently releasing a feature they knew was going to be abused. Its shocking to me how they still have this feature enabled when it has proven to kill.

I hope they are punished within the full extent of the law. A car is not a web application that can be pushed updates at the whim of the developer. They've known about the limitations of the feature, in that its sensors can't even approximate the complete bounding box of the car, do not have sufficient resolution and are thus limited by hardware, not software. It's not "beta", it is alpha quality and should never be in the hands of customers in uncontrolled situations let alone on the open road.

We are all subjected to risk with this feature, regardless if we have agreed to it or not. It's not just the owner of the Tesla who is in danger but anyone else on the road as well.

I personally have witnessed Tesla drivers doing their makeup, eating, and even sleeping in their car on my commute on 101S and 280S in the morning. Contrast that to those who drive recklessly, weaving in and out of traffic. For some reason, these cars seem to attract a certain kind of person who thinks they are above the law.

At the minimum, Tesla drivers should be required to carry high risk insurance on their vehicles. Its only a matter of time before it kills or seriously injures someone other than the driver.
For me I usually get up between 5-6am everyday. I usually head straight to Starbucks for coffee. I work from home and actually do this more for the morning social interaction now. I usually run into a few people I know and we sit/talk for about an hour. I come home do email and prioritize my day. I also eat breakfast.

About 10ish I go for a walk/run of about 6 miles. I started this about 3 years ago and when I first started I (a) couldn't go nearly that far even though I had been active in my younger years; and (b) only went when I felt like going. After about 3-4 months though, it became an integral part of my day, so much so that I schedule my day around it if I can and will go pretty much no matter what the weather is (this morning I ran in a major thunderstorm). I come home from that to shower and start my "real" day of work.

During the rest of the day I drink a ton of water and vitamin water (to the point I can go through about 3-4 cases of water a week). Usually in the afternoon I will make a pot of coffee depending on my day. I don't drink alcohol except the occasional happy hour and absolutely no soda or similar beverages in over 4 years. I also quit smoking 3 years ago after 20+ years and that has helped enormously.

I try to break the day up into 1 hour work segments. I will focus on one thing for an hour. I stop and go for a walk for about 5-10 minutes around the block. Come back and start something new for an hour. Rinse and repeat. If I need to finish something I will alternate between working on the project for an hour and coming back. Obviously if it is super urgent I will deviate, but doing it this way helps keep my mind/eyes fresh. Some days I will take a 45 minute nap about 3 or 4.

I used to not eat lunch, but now I try to eat a big lunch and small dinner. This helped my energy enormously and I sleep better. I have always been a night person, but have been forcing myself to go to bed before midnight for the last year. If I sleep less than 4 hours I notice and if I sleep more than 6 I notice the difference in my productivity. I also try to sleep in 45 minute segments. Someone once told me that your body sleep rhythm is 45 minutes and if you sleep on a 45 minute schedule you sleep better. Not sure if it is true for everyone, but for me at least it seems to work. Maybe it is a placebo effect, but whatever. :)

Usually in a day I can get between 8-10 hours of good work in. I also find it takes me less time to do things so the 80 hour work week is reduced simply because I am more productive. Not to say everyday is perfect and falls inline with this routine, but the more I try to focus on keeping the routine the better I am overall. I also try to socialize as much as possible. Socializing in itself can be hugely beneficial to your productivity and overall happiness. My socializing consists of simple things like walking around the block and stopping to talk with a neighbor, my morning Starbucks run, or just hanging out with my girlfriend or family, only about once a month, if even that, do I go out to happy hour to socialize.
Whoa, hang on. Statistical arguments for unproven conjectures are bad, but this counterargument is as bad or worse, especially when you start talking about infinity. Just to address your first example:

> The number 42 does not exist (logic: pick an integer. The probability that it equals 42 is zero. QED)

I object! What is your probability distribution function over the integers? Your phrasing sort of implies a uniform distribution, but there is no such thing as a uniform distribution on an infinite set, and as soon as you pick a plausible pdf the argument stops working.
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I used to think my sister-in-law was impervious to the law probability because she plays the slots.

Then one day she noticed there was a scratch ticket where you could put the losing tickets into a raffle being held at the local casino and win a prize but you had to be present at the drawing. Well, she looked in the jar a few days before the drawing and estimated there were only about 50 tickets in the jar so she bought 80 tickets and put the losers in the jar and got her mother to put 20 in... And her mother won a trip to Las Vegas worth around $2000.

Which is the rub because people who look for this kind of thing are people who are serious about gambling and often they lose it back some other way.

I think of the many WSOP winners who immediately lose the money playing craps.
Most of the professionals I ran across when I played poker seriously weren't the kind of people that achieve great things. You can't make it as a pro unless you're very intelligent, but there's usually a reason they settled on a job with no boss and no customers. They really, really don't like to be told what to do, say, or have very short time horizons.
> I noticed that the Servo Nightly build is already about as big as Chrome or Firefox.

Probably not apples to apples. I don't believe optimizing for executable size to be too high in their priority list.
Hmm. I don't agree with the ruling either. But I don't think this analogy does the original argument justice.

The point of mentioning "accessing the internet" is it's a lot easier for the hacker to scale up their wrongdoing with ease. It's much simpler to put a virus of some sort (say, a fake download button on a media sharing site) and reach a large audience, than it is to break into the homes of a similarly large group of people.

Where I primarily disagree with the judgment is that this notion makes it a "virtual certainty" that hacking occurs for any given person. Smart browsing habits, and general computer literacy, can make the odds decrease to near zero.
Meta-moderation is a thing. Slashdot has been doing it for years.
Not everyone gets to vote, and systems would need to be in place to check for gaming.
Parent was about flight high jacking prior to modern airport security.
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And since there are studies showing that diversity has a positive impact(in tech), why aren't we asking if diverse influences are good for our kids? Maybe male role models would be good for kids?
Wow, tex2page looks really great. I'll might setup a JEKYLL workflow for using it to write blog posts. LaTeX doc semantics are so much better than Markdown / HTML.

Also I can see a LISP style macro processor being super awesome. Let me know if you are going to adapt chibi-doc that way.
This comment combines an off-topic formatting nitpick with a snarky dismissal. The boolean operator to apply to those isn't and, it's nor.

Especially in an APL thread, which is the one case where we indulge in blatant bias. (I'm joking, but all of us at HNHQ have a soft spot for array programming.)
Indeed, I am in total opposition to the overarching spirit of the article where my personal computer is not my private property because I connect it to the internet.

It is funny to me to have to think about the physical location of a server that I am accessing being important. Like my fate depending on whether I was routed to a server in Georgia vs. Kentucky, something I absolutely do not think about whilst navigating the internet.
Thanks for replying, I agree with this.
Im completely agree, but wire fraud has been illegal since 1872.

It is so beautifully vague, it an extremely common prosecutorial tool.

I would love to see it overturned, but that seems incredibly unlikely.
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couldnt agree more. rights are inherent by the creator
Ooo, that Java remark burns. I've only touched Java seriously in the last few years of my career, I'm a hardcore C++/native type.

Here's the issues I take with virtual inheritance:

1. It complicates the vtable and function/member calls leading to another level of indirection, so from a performance perspective it's a negative mark.

2. The more fundamental problem is that you've botched the hasA vs isA association. If you have two classes that share a base class then that base class should be refactored into a component that can then be used as a member without polluting the class hierarchy. This leads to better composability since you can now pass this object around without pulling a whole class hierarchy with it.

You're welcome to use virtual inheritance all you want in your projects but much like knowing what subset of C++ to use(and what not) you'll never see it in code I work on.
Years ago I worked on gaming software, and the inside word was that casinos loved when this kind of stuff was publicized. A popular book, a movie, an article in the NYT - pure gold for the casinos. And, many guessed that they actually paid for these types of stories to get out.
Super interesting data points! Just thinking about the world population being 250-400million in AD1000 is a huge change to most people's mental models.

However, the basic premise of the article is a bit in question - that GRRM/readers indicate that the world itself is realistic - SOCIAL realism is the more abject term here. Lots of numbers are thrown about in the books - even on a relativistic scale these are (as the post stated) incredibly improbable. But its not particularly important to the enjoyment of the story or the "realism" that people claim to attach to.
If you can generate enough bad publicity for them, they will.
"Bad faith" requires intent. Carelessness is not "bad faith". It's negligence.

I've had my debit card declined because I'd already withdrawn everything and failed to pay attention to the balance. If I'd written a check instead of using the debit card, it would have bounced instead of being declined. That's not bad faith. It's careless and embarrassing, but not bad faith.
Actually makes me feel good to read that they are on the hook for this given how their customers were left in a lurch over this.
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This highlights Google's stance in driver assistance vs driver replacement. They specifically noted in their first test cards that they had employees use, which were modified regular street cars, that the people quickly treated them as completely autonomous even when they were warned not to. For example, rooting around in the back-seat looking for a charger to the laptop they had with them while the car drove itself.

Google decided that if people were going to treat it that way, they needed to design it that way, and now their autonomous cards don't have steering wheels, just a big button to tell the car to try to safely pull off the road and stop. You'll necessarily be a bit more stringent in your tests and capabilities if you opt for an approach that buts all the responsibility on what you design, and not the passenger.

I agree with this, so I've been somewhat leery of Tesla's auto-pilot feature. While sad, I can't say I'm entirely surprised by the accident. Our own nature makes us very unreliable for regular driving and assisted driving in many of the same ways. Removing people from the active driving process is ultimately the better solution, but it takes time to get it right.
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"Moftah, 53, was carrying two bags – one from JC Penney, and the second from a previous Macy’s shopping trip. Her plan was to exchange clothes from a couple of weeks prior for different sizes. After finding clothes for her daughter, she went to a register to buy and exchange the other items.

On the way out, a Macy’s Herald Square manager pulled Moftah aside by the arm, and told her that she needed to accompany her to an office, and that she had shoplifted, according to an affidavit provided by Moftah’s attorneys from the Usar Law Group. She thought she would show the manager her receipts and be on her way, and followed her into an elevator with her purchases. Two plainclothes security officers joined them on another floor. In the basement of Macy’s they led her to a row of “what looked like jail cells”. Moftah’s purse and phone were taken, and she was patted down under her shirt, legs, private areas as she repeatedly asked what was happening.

According to the affidavit, one of the employees said, “see what’s under the scarf” in referral to her hijab. She repeatedly mentioned that there was a huge mistake, and they should check her receipts. Moftah was locked in one of the cells. Her things were reviewed in front of her, and she “continued to plead with her (the manager), telling her “these were mine, and I had purchased them on my Macy’s card,” and she could easily verify this.

The manager approached her with documents, and told her to sign them repeatedly and pay $100 in order to go home. Moftah hadn’t eaten all day – it was Ramadan. When she began to cry, she was threatened with handcuffs and taunted for stealing during Ramadan and being Muslim, according to her affidavit. The Macy’s manager returned and told her the new price to go home would be $500. When she refused to do so, her credit card was removed from her wallet and charged for the full amount."

I'm usually all in favor of catching/punishing shoplifters, but the above is just shocking. I don't know what the appropriate solution is, but giving a bunch of store-employees the power to run their own mini-jail, lock up anyone they feel like locking up, and preventing them from contacting anyone else for help... that sounds more like the plot of a Stephen King horror book, not a democracy.
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That's what I was thinking. Everywhere I've been the dealer calls out new players and any nontrivial increase in the betting, from existing or new players, triggers a reshuffle.