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Are you implying that the correct response is to let the five people die in the Trolley Problem, then? To avoid getting your moral hands dirty?

No, obviously I don't advocate that we go around arbitrarily murdering people to potentially improve the lives of others. But there's a huge difference between searching out and selecting specific people and killing them and simply changing the number and identity of people who will be killed by random events.

It's the difference between premeditated murder and a no-fault accident. Policy/law decisions must necessarily make choices like this, flipping the switch from tracks that typically have five or five hundred people standing on them to tracks that typically have one, for the good of the five or five hundred.

Like air bags that kill some people but save thousands more. Or vaccines that kill (a very small number) of kids (typically with allergies) but save millions.
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They're not acting as judge/jury/executioner, they're defending their lives. We can argue about the tiny percent of such cases where there's controversy as to whether force was used properly, but your sweeping generalization is wrong and totally unfair to people who put themselves in harms way to protect you and me everyday.

BLM talking points are not facts and presenting them as such is irresponsible.
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Yes, it is. If it is possible to experience out-of-band retribution for unpopular speech traced to an identifiable individual, some minority opinions fall silent.

In the US, police accountability activists may find additional civil offense summonses on the windshields of their cars--even when parked in their own driveways. That is childish and petty harassment, and the forms of retribution can be much worse. Various regulatory agencies have been used to attack political opponents, such as IRS audit rates showing a marked difference between supporters and non-supporters. EPA may demand more land use restrictions on owners with less political strength.

It is very important to be able to tell other people about your grievances without fear of someone saying, "Oh yeah? If you thought that was bad, just wait 'til you see what you get for blabbing about it!"
If... there is no law enforcement at all.

This is the problem in USA, in a nutshell. We have some amorphous mental picture of how law enforcement works, instilled by an unholy mashup of local TV news and cop movies, and we cannot abide any public innovation or experimentation in that.

Of course, in so doing, we tolerate all manner of unpublicized "innovation" on the part of LEOs: asset forfeiture, stingray surveillance, parallel construction, profiling, qualified immunity, "special-needs" exceptions, etc. So we have a ratchet in this nation, in which occasional gains in freedom on the part of particular groups are more than offset by regular losses from everyone else.

If a nonviolent suspect "runs" from law enforcement, then send her a notice of fine, in the mail. It works for the credit card companies...
Sort of. Car2go gives you credits for refueling the car, for example.
For most no. For some, probably.
"the problem is that the US has a massive problem with racism"

I think this is too simplistic. The US is a country of some 320 million people and the experience of racism undoubtedly varies enormously across cities and states. A blanket statement like this can't convey the complexity of the situation.

I live in the UK, where we've seen a horrible rise in racism after the EU referendum. But what country in the EU can honestly say they don't have serious problems with racism in their society?

Across EU nations, there are many racist political parties, not at the fringes, but actively shaping and influencing political discourse.

I really don't think we in Europe are in a superior position when it comes to issues of racism. In fact, I'd argue we're probably less likely to acknowledge or consider it a problem.
What? It generally only costs a few thousand dollars per month to colocate servers next to exchanges.

Arguably, it is more fair now than it ever was in legacy "open outcry" markets where the size of the floor was fixed and if you didn't get a spot on it you weren't able to compete.

Disclaimer: I've worked in HFT 9ish years (10 soon)
You seem to assume that there is a fixed-size pool of engineers in India, and that they never change jobs.

Engineers can be created through training. Some of them will be just as good as any of the ones who already work at prestigious companies.
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Solaris 10 can drive a 10Gb link at 7.3Gbps (limited by PCI-X bandwidth) using 2x2.2Ghz opteron CPUs utilized at less than 50%

https://sunaytripathi.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/solaris-10-ne..., page nine.

Now the PCIe is multiple times faster than the old PCI-X, and in addition to being several times faster then the old Opteron 939 and 940 series, modern intel based systems have 80 CPU's or more.
Braid.
But what if they completely resisted the law to the point of shooting back? Well then it's the shooting back that will get them killed. There is a rather short list of things the police ought to be shooting at, and they all boil down to endangering life. Going on a gun rampage. Going on a knife rampage. Holding hostages.

Selling cigarettes is not on that list and the only reason that cops get away with it, is a culture of fear and egregious defensive overreaction, which treats unarmed black men as threats equivalent or worse than a white guy with a pistol drawn.
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These are awesome improvements. One change set, 1000% improved messaging. I think the only thing left that I wish I could do is click on a parent link from a given link (when you're in the middle of a long comment list and you want to see the specific post to which a message is responding).
> a detail out of place will trigger interest in further evaluation

Non-predators behave this way as well. I think you meant to say that police operate with the logic of animals that aren't inherently afraid of their surroundings, which makes sense. Police shouldn't be afraid to investigate.
Sorry, I don't grasp your point.
> They joined the company knowing that they weren't getting any equity.

Lots of people join companies on bad terms either because they don't realize the terms are bad or because they're desperate for any kind of income. That doesn't absolve the company of any blame for mistreating its workers. (I'm not necessarily suggesting that PoF was actually giving bad terms, it's possible they were paying amazing salaries)
We need to hide jobs too if possible.
I know it's an unfair comparison. To make it worse, gladiators were slaves.

"It puts me to mind of..." is a weasel phrase :)
I think GP means "SELECT all columns that have %foo% in the name of the column". It's not possible directly though you can do it with dynamic SQL by querying the data dictionary and dynamically creating the columns retrieved in the SELECT clause.
This is the correct answer.

Not the broken taillight. It wasn't.

Not the "robbery suspect." All black men match.

Philando Castile was pulled over 52 times because police target black men with hostile situations that could get escalated to searches and small-time drug busts.

The answer is to end the Drug War and to repeal the "junk" infractions that enable police to initiate contact with minorities for no good reason.
Yes, the middle class IS shrinking, but the amazing thing is people are leaving to the upper classes at a 2:1 ratio.

> The study shows that as the number of middle-class Americans fell (from 61 percent of the population to 51 percent of the population), the percentage of Americans who are upper income surged from 14 percent of the population to 20 percent of the population.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48754974

71% of Americans are middle class or better, amazing. Most of those in the lower classes are those who decided not to get any skills.
I'm surprised those contracts are enforceable without a CBA in place.
I feel like it would be worth the trade-off.
What's the canonical reference book one should go to regarding SQL? (ie K&R is the book you go to for C)

I understand there are differences between DB vendors, but my question is about general patterns and best practices.
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Companies do not pay for code, they pay for problems solved, risks mitigated or value delivered.
Convenient in the sense of that most countries don't collect race demographics and there isn't any other data,

or convenient in the sense of you having little to offer as a retort?
Our follow up on the humans behind is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074657
Don't forget too that for all the arguments about obfuscated or complex JS today there have been many of the same arguments for as long as server side scripting has been in use, too. The web has long been more than just "simple documents" that are easily View Sourced. That's always been part of the Web's longevity and dominance versus stricter cousins like Gopher.

It's interesting that in some ways today's JS heavy client apps are more open than similar server side apps from even just a couple years ago: obfuscated code is still viewable client side and browsers are good at providing deminified views in browser dev tools, and if sourcemaps are left in then you can jump directly to the unobfuscated/deminified sources in browser dev tools. Plus, most communications between chunky JS apps and their servers increasingly use friendly REST protocols, which again is its own sort of win for discoverability and friendliness to an informed user poking around inside of how things work.
If you are good enough (prepared enough is a better term, probably) for a university in the U.S., odds are that you go there. Is there a disparity in admissions based on wealth? Absolutely, but I believe a very significant portion of that is due to the attitudes of the wealthy towards education.

You see a large number of transfers from community colleges in the U.S. to top tier schools as well. CCSF feeds into Berkeley, Georgia Perimeter College feeds into Georgia Tech, etc., etc.

The truth is, unless you're hyper-wealthy, your money gets your kid into college through the things that you purchase to further that goal, and the attitudes of children in the same social class.
Oh, certainly, I'm not trying to claim these are the longest in any worldwide sense, but it's a common sort of maximum length around Europe.

FWIW, a lot of freight wagons around Europe are on bogies (with two axles per bogie) where they would be two-axle wagons in the US; I presume a lot of this is down to comparatively higher speeds of freight in Europe as a result of pathing around passenger services. Plenty of freight around Europe runs at up to 160km/h (~100mph), and that sort of speed is fast for a passenger service in the US. Obviously, this doubles the number of axles per wagon (though decreasing axle weight and hence track loading), further shortening the length of a 256 axle train.
> > Do you see a moral difference between violence-as-a-byproduct of a goal and violence-as-the-goal

> Violence is not the goal of the UFC.

Its perhaps not the goal, but its also not a byproduct. Its most accurately the mechanism.
it wasn't uncommon back in those days, I spent a bunch of years porting Unix to various pieces of hardware in the mid to late 80s. Disk drives that required you to build an entire sector image (including headers, trailers CRCs/etc) to be DMA'd at the device when triggered by a passing sector mark were common
We've posted a follow up on the humans behind Clara here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074657
Thank you!

#2 in particular is most welcome; as hard to hit as the buttons are on mobile, I've misvoted a few times, and I'm glad I can finally correct that when it happens again.
Part 1 can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039000
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Congratulations on having driven fairly new cars your whole life. b^)
There's undoubtedly a great many companies out there where everybody earns at least $70K. I have no idea how this guy managed to get himself in the news.
But at least now we can undo upvotes/downvotes so it's not as much of an issue as before!
Stereotypes are accurate, though. People are good pattern-recognizers, and the characteristics that we use to form stereotype do convey useful information.

Pretending that stereotypes are factually bogus is wrong. It creates resentment. It's much better to accept that stereotypes exist for a reason, but emphasize that it's a grave injustice to let stereotypes hurt our evaluation of people who defy these stereotypes.

> skepticism towards the stereotype threat effect can be interpreted as a justification for stereotyping

Current HR policies go beyond requiring fair treatment of individuals as individuals. Every sane person supports doing that. HR demands that we silence truths about the natural world go unstated. HR demands that we make untrue statements about the world. That's anathema to anyone technically-minded.
If you're rushing to get home before your young children go to bed, you simply cannot put a price on those extra 40 minutes.
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Nor is the populace.
Of course you could have an intersection between recognizable images and random noise. The odds of this occurring with any regularity are infinitesimal, hence the design of experiments. (Recall that there is nothing like a mathematical proof in the physical world -- at a molecular level, some water molecules are moving upstream at any given moment, but by reaching into a stream or tossing some objects into the flow you are taking a large enough sample to determine where most of them are going).

Since you're not going to get proof one way or another, all a well designed and experiment can do is give you evidence. This happens to be more valuable than just about anything else that science has come up with, but it isn't proof.

Which is why the gold standard for a result is replication in a large sample. I could have this very page generated by convolving couple of high entropy random streams. Is it likely to happen repeatedly? Not if the generator is any good. Same principle for randomized trials. You can end up with unbalanced arms (I'm proofing a manuscript where we had exactly this problem). But it's unlikely that they'll be consistently unbalanced across trials with sufficient sample sizes.
You can penalize 'resisting arrest' in other ways than trying to arrest. You can fine them, or revoke licenses, or apply some other penalty that isn't based around jail time -- for which you'd have to actually perform the arrest.
You have to go to the /hidden page. We'll add a link to that from your profile (but it's not there yet).

It would be nice if there were a way to do this from the front or newest page themselves but that's kinda inconsistent with hiding the thing.
Definitely a good salary is more important than equity, but there's nothing stopping you from having both. :)
For me it would be not needing to experience the little bit of stress I see when the fuel indicator is edging down to 1/4 tank and wondering when I'm going to squeeze in a trip to the gas station when I'd really rather be somewhere else.
They are defending their lives against phantasms and projections, largely arising from racism.
Nice idea. I don't think they do
I read an blog entry by a retired surgeon. He said when he started a lot of his bread and butter business was surgically fixing ulcers. Then came drugs to reduce stomach acid, followed by the discovery of Helicobacter pylori, and that business mostly went away.
For your first question, I use the toniq library: https://github.com/joakimk/toniq. As biokoda mentioned, there's nothing stopping you from doing this by literally just spawning a ton of processes, but you do get a lot of nice things out of the box with toniq or another task queue framework. For example, toniq gives you automatic task retrying with exponential backoff, a max-concurrency option, and task backup with redis.

It doesn't have a scheduled job API yet, but there is a note in the readme that explains how to do this with quantum-elixir: https://github.com/joakimk/toniq#how-do-i-run-scheduled-or-r....
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Why would the human population shrinking to, optimistically, say, 3 billion people be a problem? Looking at our productivity, and unemployment rates, we have the labour, and the productivity to assist the elderly.
You get it after 500
Forming a company isn't all that easy. Also, now that person has to pay their own SS and Medicare tax, or if they form a C corp, they have to file incorporation papers and tax returns and filing fees and...

Also, if I pay a person through their company like a contractor for too long, the IRS comes down on me because they assume I'm trying to skirt tax laws (and rightly so, because that's basically what you're suggesting).
We're experimenting with using TypeScript 2.0 for compilation, and webpack 2 for bundling. You can configure TypeScript 2.0 to compile most TS/ES6 syntax to ES5, but to leave the module statements (e.g. import and exports) as ES6.

Webpack can then analyse your ES6 module tree and perform "tree shaking", a form of dead code elimination where unused modules are excluded from the compiled bundle. This will become increasingly useful as more libraries are authored in ES6 / TypeScript, as it will allow you to import the whole of a framework like Angular or React, but only ship the parts of it that you actually use in your application.
Maybe turn on adblocker and send the news conglomerate a few cents in the mail? That's what I would do if I really felt the need to balance the scales with the websites I block. I'm not being sarcastic, that's really what I would do.
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Diversity, as understood as a possible problem for social cohesion, is not about race: it's about culture. And the vast majority of Americans in the US have only one culture: the American one. The exception for this is first (and sometimes second) generation immigrants. That's why I use the native vs foreign born statistic.
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This is great, thank you so much for sharing. My significant other is an early childhood educator and always laments that the people who build and design computer software/hardware don't understand how children think and interact with their environment.

I've only skimmed the contents as there is obviously a lot to go through, but I really like how accessible the book is. My SO is your average computer user but has a deep knowledge of ECE, whereas I'm the other way around, so this should prove a good topic of conversation :)
And you don't have to be in church.
> It's not as simple, for example ISP's or "interactive computer service" providers do have to comply with DMCA

No, they don't. The DMCA gives them an optional procedure, which, if followed, provides a "safe harbor" exemption from liability they might have under other laws.

To the extent that the CDA has already extinguished liability, there is no benefit from complying with the DMCA.
Considering I did it seven years ago, I think it's impressive in that context.
Interesting.

Thanks for the answer. :)
Please don't feed trolls, and certainly not with personal attacks.
I'm looking forward to Token Ring Simulator.
Isn't it just as much of annoyance to coordinate two handoffs of your car keys?
Paying you to work on your own terms sounds like freelancing, and nothing more. Starting your own product company is a lot harder than that.
> 4. On the front page and /newest, click 'hide' if you no longer want to see a story. The next story in the list will slide up at the bottom. If you change your mind, visit /hidden and click 'unhide'. If you're logged in, hidden stories persist for a week.

So ... navigate to https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden in your location bar.
More to the point, in those countries it's very very unlikely for anyone to pull a gun on a cop.
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Which problem do you expect to be fixed first? Every new crime can be fought right in the legislature here and now. Who can demilitarize the police?

[EDIT:] Are police unions, bar associations, and armaments manufacturers just going to sit out the session in which you get your miraculous "just do the right thing ok cops?" law passed? I can't believe that someone as knowledgeable as yourself really thinks that way...
And I wanted to add that, while webpack can appear a little intimidating at first, it's actually very easy to setup, and in many ways much simpler than the kind of jerry-rigged concatenation and minification workflows we used to build with Gulp and Grunt.
Today's wickedfire is similar to WarriorForum. Used to be a lot different though.
> Don't boxing refs stop the fight when they think the fighter can't continue (e.g. can't answer/focus)? I'm pretty sure I've seen that.

Yes they do. However the important difference is that they allow you 10 seconds to recover. In MMA when you get dazed the fight is usually over because you don't get a chance to recover. IIRC your brain is more vulnerable directly after a concussion.
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I suspect you mean 501. I reached 500 a few weeks ago, and left it there for a while... it was such a nice, round number.
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I'm pretty sure that depends on what organization they are fighting with and the specific rules. It's not hard to find articles about controversy when a referee stops a fight[1]. In the linked case, there was no count, nor even a knockdown. Obviously there are cases, at least in some boxing organizations, in which a ref can stop a fight without a full count.

1: http://www.badlefthook.com/2014/3/9/5486930/canelo-vs-angulo...
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