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Eh, sometimes. Euler relies on a lot of math, or math tricks, that is simply not necessary for a vast majority of today's computing. It used to be that programmers were needed for a lot of number crunchy things, but I've found at least in the "business world" (as opposed to academia, or perhaps startup), most computing is simply moving data around, and storage and retrieval.
Great point. Nordic countries and other rich European countries owe large part of their success to colonization in the past. For example, Belgium performed mass genocide in Congo, enslaved the people and stole the natural resources in the country. So, today people in Belgium live comfortably, since the modern Belgium is built on top of African slaves' pile of bones.

About half of GDP of Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Austria is taxes. It's easy to talk about redistribution after you've pillaged the entire world.
Except that the implication here is that the laws precipitate the use of lethal force. You may not be guilty (or suspected to be guilty) of anything in the eyes of the law and face the prospect of lethal force, considering police have investigatory powers. The laws aren't the problem here (I think there are problems with the laws and penalties in other regards, but that's a separate matter), its the wide berth we give to police to enact deadly force.
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We also don't know yet how safe Tesla is. There's hardly any data. You can't do any kind of utility calculus with comically huge error bars.

If we assume a death is binomially distributed, 1 death in 100 million kilometers is consistent with a real rate of anywhere between 0.03 and 3.7 deaths per 100 million kilometers. That's a big bracket.
I agree, and that's the problem with the EU. It is what led to Brexit and may lead to eventual Grexit, then Italy and Spain leaving. The Nordic countries never fully joined for similar reasons.

I wonder if the free movement of people is an unworkable concept without also consistent laws.
Easier to apologize later than to get permission first.

If you disagree, and it sounds like you do, there are plenty of other sites.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040118
Easily solved with some margin and padding, heck maybe even a media query for the mobile users!
I wouldn't say it's tragic, I'd say it's negligent misnaming. The people in charge surely were aware that some users would use it in way it shouldn't be used due to the expectations caused by its name. Some of the blame for these accidents is on them.
They made a post about their implementation of PTC https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-...
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So, if this is true, that means countries have some scalability issues. Once it's big enough, it's not going to be 100% monochrome anymore.
Having moved to the US from Germany, not a Nordic country, but a country with a much tighter social net that works comparatively well, I agree that it probably wouldn't work in the US. I think a social net works best if there is enough empathy in society to keep people happy with paying for those who need the net as well as keeping people from exploiting it too much. Of course there will always be someone unhappy with paying or someone exploiting he system, but it only works if that remains relatively rare. That is much easier if you have a relatively high empathy for each other which is easier in fairly homogenous populations. The US seems to have a very split society along all kinds of groups. There seems to be a strong fault line between large coastal cities and the middle of the country, racial divides, Republicans vs Democrats etc. These divides seem much larger to me than anything I know from Germany and I can only imagine that they are even smaller in the less populous, Nordic countries.
Really? And you say that about a country that has had a civil war between members of this ethnically homogenous population (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War). You are seriously mistaken that ethnic diversity is the only or even a major cause of social issues.
> Basically, the police culture seems to focus on over-policing useless things like traffic enforcement while under-policing dangerous parts of town with beat cops.

This is a favored way of policing because it has a ton of advantages for the police and town:

1. You raise revenue. The amount raised more than offsets whatever costs you incur in enforcement. In some towns, it's the majority of their budget.

2. It allows you to screen for prior infractions. Warrants, unpaid tickets, etc. You can then take them into custody and impound the vehicle. The vehicle is extremely liquid and frequently worth quite a bit of $$$.

3. It is much safer than walking the beat in a dangerous part of town. The driver is frequently restricted within the vehicle and the officer has clear visibility into the vehicle.

4. The officer is frequently stationary in the vehicle with his laptop, internet, etc. This is much more comfortable than walking on the street or even actively patrolling in the vehicle. Why go to them, when they can come to you?
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast is doing a three-part series critiquing the state of American education and its effect on social mobility. The first part (released last week) gives a personal perspective of a child who passes on an opportunity for social advancement to instead provide family support. As far as I understand it, the next parts are looking at the incentives that that shape college budgets.

Part 1: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme...
I'm not sure the number is constant. I think it scales with either the age or the prominence of the comment. I've seen threads where I was unable to downvote top tier comments, even though I could downvote their children.
That should be reason enough for a claim.
Why bother playing the game at all if you're paying to skip it?
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Doesn't really change anything. If you make it so the police won't stop you for a broken tail light, will you keep it so they can stop you for driving with an expired inspection sticker? If so, you have to accept that the consequence may be death for a person who refuses to pull over because their inspection was expired because they had a broken tail light.
Alas, we only started tracking this data in November 2014.
And the lesson of Norway is: "Find a gigantic amount of oil."

:P

The point that the US does not have the highest GDP per capita in the world is well-taken (what it has the highest is overall GDP). But Norway's path to prosperity is not generalizable.
I don't want to have to install browser extensions or configure reddit. Seriously I get enough of that by using Linux desktop.
Boxing is much more dangerous, you have to beat your opponent senseless for 12 rounds in the UFC there is a submission option to win the match instead of only strikes. Just check CompuBox stats for a 12 round match with hundreds of "power" strikes landed VS stats for a UFC 5 or 3 round match.
No, I'm just sick and tired of Linux and want my favorite OS to finally hit the mainstream, so there would be some job opportunities. (Linux became popular the same way, for those of you with a short memory.) Now that Linux is finally hitting scale, people are getting busted by the shoddy programming, hence discussions about in- or out of kernel TCP/IP stack, which is preposterous, since the OS is supposed to provide an interface to the hardware. And I make no apologies for being a SmartOS advocate, just to set the record straight.
It's constant at 501.
Small towns need the money.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqskm

> Are excessive traffic fines and debtors' jails fuelling community tensions in suburban Missouri? Claire Bolderson reports on a network of ninety separate cities in St Louis County, most of which have their own courts and police forces. Critics say that their size makes them financially unviable and allege that some of them boost their incomes by fining their own citizens and locking them up when they can't pay.
Good for them. Maybe with 2 million additional Android developers in the global marketplace the Google Play store won't look like a giant malware-riddled dumpster-fire with a small number of actually good apps somehow percolating to the top.

...

Or we'll have 2 million more Android developers who take shortcuts, create malware, can't figure out security, and overall turn the Play Store into an even larger dumpster-fire, because I still have nightmares from fixing outsourced projects. Kinda like a softer form of outsourcing-induced PTSD.

Overall, I consider this a net positive. Granted, I haven't done Android development in a while (again, dumpster-fire), but the sudden influx of novice developers will spur companies to make an investment in an Android app, the Android app will look / feel awful more than 9 times out of 10, companies will get frustrated, companies will inevitably turn to developers who still have battle scars from having to worry about memory management on image-intensive apps. People like me.

Emphasis on net positive. The downside is that the ride never ends.
This is disingenuous. Few reasonable people would suggest that the police have authority to kill because someone litters, has a broken tail light, or sells single cigarettes in violation of New York law. Depending on your viewpoint and the situation, killings occur because people resist the police, because people run from the police, because the police are trigger-happy and biased, or because the police are murderers. One might even think that it is ridiculous to ban sales of single cigarettes. Even so, this piece suggests I should not support laws banning littering unless I believe the police should be authorized to kill litterers. This is ridiculous. Of course we can support a law even if we believe that a violator should not be subjected to summary execution.
The opposite actually. Steven Levy joined the Medium and started Backchannel. Recently, the publication was acquired by Conde Nast.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/16/11952876/steven-levy-wired...
Nordic countries are not 99% ethnically homogeneous.

Over 20% of Swedes have foreign background. Either immigrants or or their parents were immigrants. They come from Middle East, Former Yugoslavia, Somalia etc.
When you put it this way, it's amazing how they people how these people even survive on that pittance, isn't it?

But actually what happens is that you don't understand how progressive taxes work, how different things have different VAT rates, and so on.
It puts me to mind of gladiation, of Roman bloody mindedness and cruelty. I can't shake the negative connotations of that.
Most cars don't come with indicators that a light is blown.

It's unsafe to drive around with non-working lights, mostly because it interferes with other drivers' expectations (working brake-lights and working tail-lights, light geometry allows guesstimation of car dimensions), but also because it can impair the driver's own visibility.

But presumably these could be dealt with friendly warnings, and not a cause for fines or arrest. However, once the traffic stop is made, the officer has wide berth on how to respond, making it ultimately very subjective.
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To be honest I would rather have the vote arrow moved somewhere else. I'm often more interested in collapsing a comment thread than voting. I'm not sure if this is something only I care about though.
Only people in America or third world countries think America is great anymore. The rest of the first world would only live there as a last resort.
Hmmm. I think if the dream were killed, then there would be nothing for people to lodge a complaint against. Nothing to look forward to and so people might grow comfortable in their poverty, for example.

Imagine, there is no dream. You get what you have. There is no chance for anyone who has not achieved. Don't even try, there is no chance.

I think we'd be worse off with that mindset. I imagine Russia, Venezuela, etc. feel a bit like this. You're there to eek out a living with little chance of thinking things could change for you.
Just ask the person to form a company and hire that company? I've never heard of anyone having any difficulty with this. And even if you're paying an individual you just need to get their W8-BEN or withhold 30%; it's not that difficult.

Or, what are you referring to?
Hm. Interesting. I've had - unfortunately - a lot of close up time with a bunch of high tech around one of my children and without exception that stuff was very well designed and did not hick-up even once over a whole pile of weeks. (Neonatal ICU.)

I've also bought some medical electronics surplus for parts in the past and it was absolutely bullet-proof. Top quality.
Why not just ask them directly what their memorable debugging session was? And have an in-depth discussion about that experience. Using puzzles is a round about way to guess whether the candidates are good at debugging or not, and it certainly is not an accurate way to gauge debugging ability.
"Someone who just draws a complete blank when faced with decomposing a problem like that into parts may not be suited for programming."

People are motivated by different things, which is convenient because programming is a diverse set of issues. if I solve that puzzle, none of my own personal motivations are massaged. There are more than technical issues a programmer must address.
I think the HN crowd underestimates how valuable target users consider their time.

I probably average 2 trips to the gas station a month and I have a below average commute.

Each trip takes me 10 mins out of my way + 10 mins of fueling depending on if there's a line or not.

And it's always before work (I'm in a rush) or after work (want to get home to family).

Paying a startup $15/mo to reclaim even 40 mins a month of my personal time is a no brainer.
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The hot/cold distinction is indeed because most Rx Observables use deferred creation (cold) and most Rx Operators use deferred creation (cold) until the equivalent to a run is called (subscribe) making the Observable hot.

The complications to this that make for so much documentation come from the places where those "mostly" answers are wrong: Rx has ways to build hot Observables that are not deferred and begin immediately; Rx has a few rare exception Operators that can force an Observable hot, those confusing matters; finally, Rx cold Observables by default don't share deferred execution so multiple subscriptions create multiple "heat transition" side effects (ie, an observable is "run" every time it is subscribed). There are mechanics and operators in place to deal with all of these cases in Rx, but that adds to the learning curve of knowing when deferred execution takes place. (So yes the separation you describe exists between creating a network of cold observable and making them all "hot", but it does bring its own complications only furthering the need for the hot/cold distinction in cases where you are trying to avoid repeating things like side effects, which will happen when you aren't properly sharing the same "hot" source.)

So yes, Hot/Cold is entirely about deferred versus immediate observables/streams and both the surprises of finding a hot observable when you expected a cold one (as in the case of your example) or even a cold observable when you expected a hot one (side effects and memory leaks and "no execution" problems because you forgot to make anything hot).
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>We can’t cut corners just because we want to rush a life-saving product to market.

But there's a huge difference between a self-driving car and a novel drug. These cars are using statistical learning mechanisms -- it is impossible to prove that the car will always function correctly.

>Yes, it could be that autonomous cars will save many more lives than they take. But “the ends justify the means” is a dangerous approach in ethics, capable of justifying any evil as long as the math worked out.

I mean, yeah, "the ends justify the means" is a dangerous approach. This is a strawman: allowing less than perfect algorithms to transport us a little less than safely (though safer than currently) is not an instance of "the ends justify the means." It's an instance of pragmatic rationality in response to a very real and very common danger.

>If torturing innocent people or infringing on other rights can deliver some greater good, we would (or should) be deeply troubled by the choice.

The author is using an analogy between torture or general rights-violations as an argument against driverless technology! How does this seem reasonable?

There's one question I have for the author: what and who's rights are being violated by driverless technology that are not already being violated by human driving?
That sounds like a pretty dangerous job.
An hour seems a good compromise, since one reason you may want to change your vote would be if the post was edited after you voted.

An hour provides enough time for the edit to happen, and for you to see it and change your vote.

If this is not a target use case and you only want people to be able to undo misclicks, then 5-10 minutes may be adequate.
Tesla should not have advertised autopilot as something magic and close to autonomous car. Because it is just another advanced cruise control. Volvo, Mercedes and others have it too.
Now they made it harder to everyone, to convince general public that robot cars are for good.
> if you are good enough for that university, you go there.

As someone who grew up in EU but now I live in the US, this is something that seriously bugs me. What lesson should I teach my kids when they go to college? "Son, no matter how hard you study, or you don't study, all that matters is daddy's money to get you into college."
despite the downvotes, I think this is a pretty apt analogy. Just the same as in house building, there are few architects who designed the master plan, there are some managers and skilled laborers who lead groups, and many less exciting roles that are still vitally important and knowledgeable in their trade.

99% of work where I am is connecting up a GUI to the hardware control subsystem of a medical product. The hardware control was relatively small work but interesting. Correctly managing the flow of data in a way that it's easy and safe for users to operate is not at all sexy, but vitally important, and ultimately, what sells our product.
The problem isn't that the US is heterogenous, the problem is that the US has a massive problem with racism, freedom of and from religion.

Maybe even worse than that though are people like you, who can't even openly admit that obvious problem and only mention it in some euphemistic indirect way.
You have to at least establish the identity of the person you want to bring to court. This comes with the possibility that the person might resist and there you go - either you give up and let the person walk away without knowing who he was or you have to use some kind of force.

And there is no way around that - rules and laws are just words on paper, ultimately you always have to use force in one way or another if someone does not voluntarily honor the words, otherwise they will only be words on paper and nothing more.
Out of curiosity, what's generating the job spam in DC? Profile on LinkedIn, or other sites?

I have the same thing going on.
Good catch. That's probably a side effect of job ads being treated differently in the code. We'll look into fixing it.
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This doesn't mean shit. You still give another legal entity access to your data. Different company, different people, different management, different EULA.
I'd appreciate a link to /hidden as well, as I just spent some time hunting around for one.
This is a good point, but I think individuals care a lot more about their percentile than you would expect - their benchmark for whether their income is 'a lot' or 'a little' is how much they see the people around them making.
"Universal" in UBI implies every neighborhood. It's the the defining characteristic in comparison to welfare, everyone gets it.
That's a bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074233.

Edit: should be fixed now.
But in this case inaction is really taking no action and having things progress along their natural course to autonomous cars. This is more like a trolley problem where the car is headed at one person but you can throw a switch to have 5 people die instead.
The "what it buys you" part is actually very interesting and probably undermeasured. I am fairly certain that the "bang for the bucket" you get from you taxes in smaller countries is much higher. Of course that's total speculation. I wonder what metrics one could use to measure return value on paid taxes and then calculate value/tax dollar paid in different countries.
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I was thinking more of a public place where others can see it.

For instance, I would ask for a feature that downvoting shall require a mandatory comment or similar improvements to discourage anonymous drive-by-downvoting which gives you no info as to what's objectionable/irrelevant in your comment. From experience, 2/3 of the downvotes appear to be subjective likes/unlikes leading to anonymous downvotes. In fact, I never downvote anything, so I'd be fine if the downvote button was replaced with the FLAG link. But there are some who see use in the downvote function, so that's to be considered as well.
We offer both regular (87 octane) and premium (91/93, depending on the market) grade. Not ethanol free but it is high quality ("top tier" in most markets).
So why not switching these two, putting the vote arrow on the right and the collapse button on the left?
The tree controls I know all work that way that the collapse button is on the left.
Looks like someone heard you ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675

> 3. Save and share the best stories and comments. Click on a post's timestamp to go to its page, then click 'favorite' at the top. Your favorites are linked from your profile, and you can browse other users' from theirs.
Bummer. Oh well. :)
I'm not even sure the Nordic countries themselves think their model would scale. At least in Helsinki, they also enjoy having a low cost neighbor to the south in order to go tax free shopping.
If you are interested in stories of that nature, http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ talks about the process of two guys who've done that before and are in the middle of doing it now. Rob Walling has a separate site, http://www.softwarebyrob.com/, where he talks about the same sorts of things.
Floyd was his own promoter and put up the insurance and paid his opponents. It could happen that a very popular fighter in the UFC decides to branch and hold his/her own PPVs if they have the capital to insure it, cover security, advertise ect.
There is an ethical nexus in play. The US military is "volunteer" but we all know how that plays out in reality.
That's because the suit was filed before Dan Price decided to raise employee salaries to $70,000. It is concerning so few people commenting on here are aware of this.

Edit: Dan Price made his announcement of the $70,000 pay plan a month after he was served, making matters even more troubling is his denial about the timing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gravity-ceo-dan-price...