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Have I been aggressive? It wasn't my intention. I was Catholic for first 25 years of my life (+-, hard to find the exact turning point), and I was quite hardcore for most of that time (not drinking till 18 because I promised when I was 8 for one example). I've also been at Catholic middle school, and I have lots of good friends I respect intelectually that are Catholic (hard not to - in Poland). So I'd say I know the arguments both ways by now :) I've always had problems with theodicea, though.

In my experience intelectual argument may make it easier to switch position eventually, but what makes people convert is life experiences and ideology influencing their lives adversely. So, the discussions are mostly for entertainment.

> Let's encourage one another to relentlessly seek truth.

Let's.
Recently introduced (and welcome!) feature, among others :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675
That same objection can be raised against technocratic control of monetary policy as well, and in fact, people argued against creating the Fed for exactly this reason.

So what makes fiscal policy so special that we need to keep it out of the Fed's hands?

Monetary and fiscal policy are the two main levers that the government has over the economy, but only giving one of them to the Fed means that the Fed has its hands tied in many circumstances (like today, when rates are persistently low), and requires the Fed to constantly guess what Congress will do and react to it.

Anyway, to answer your question, the Fed would exercise fiscal policy with the same aims and goals by which it uses monetary policy.
> We need protection against governments

The government is us, at least in democracies. Voters get what they vote for. Your problems isn't with government, but with your fellow voters: The eternal problem of society.

But I do need to work with my fellow voters on many issues - I don't live in a cave - and I need government to protect me from crime, invasion, poisons in my food, diseases, aircraft that crash, racial discrimination, contractual abuses and violations, and many other things.
To support which claim? That they knew naming their product "GitHub" would lead to this kind of confusion? The opposite of that is the extraordinary claim: it is painfully obvious that if you take someone else's product and name yours "ThatProductHub" you will cause semantic confusion over whether your product is directly affiliated with the other product. I am not even sure what evidence could be provided to refute that claim other than a record of extremely low IQ scores :(. People do this because they want to ride on the coat tails of the other brand, whether they want to admit it or not.
I think there is a simple explanation - it has managed to become a gathering place of intellectuals. HN is not too much different from reddit from a technical viewpoint, so nothing there shows success/failure. Content is the main driver here.

IMO, HN's moderation is too weak and allows onerous behavior with downvoting/flagging, even sometimes resulting in important discussions about subjects in tech getting squashed. However, Reddit allows debasing of other people and some of this behavior is acceptable behavior there.

This cements in my mind that while HN is not perfect, it still has managed to attract a critical mass of people to sustain & bring in newcomers who are interested in a more welcoming environment to diverse ideas and meeting enough criteria to a broad enough audience to keep a balance.
Here's the release announcement from the people who actually bring you git: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentati...
For the time being, the standard for discussion on HN just tends to be better. Not "civil" or inoffensive, but more in that discussion seems to be the focus. The idea of "on topic" or at least "good" discussion seems well understood by commenters, and most of the time it seems like people are okay with either posting specifically to the topic or thread at hand, or they're happy just not commenting and simply voting.

The very idea that people collect here to talk about a topic at hand means that it's keeps the conversation a bit higher than elsewhere. I don't think I've ever seen people here push their number of upvotes as something that mattered. There is a lot of buy-in from users to ignore joke comments, even if they're on-topic jokes. How the community became like this I can't say since I have only been here about half a year/year I think, but it's a refreshing change of pace when you just want to discuss something.
All 3 support UTF8. The difference with the Go implementation is the mostly useless capability to have a utf-8 multibyte item as the delimiter.
Yes, I follow the news, and they are not the same as what you described. By the Swiss law, any aspirant for the Swiss citizenship has to show (among other things) that he/she is integrated into Swiss culture and society. The immigrant family clearly does not want to accept that, so they did not get citizenship. No right has been denied to them: they are still in Switzerland, and are free people who can do whatever they like, and, what's more, are allowed to fully practice their religion, which I understood is most important to them.

So, TL;DR: a family, actively, defiantly, on purpose, failed one of citizenship tests and were not granted citizenship.

Citizenship is not something that guests are entitled to. It's practically an award by the host. Mind you, I am not a Swiss, nor US citizen, nor an EU citizen. I would like to be, since it would benefit my situation considerably, but I was born in another country. So, why any of these countries would be obligated to grant me their citizenship?
As far as I know Bill Gates saved Apple.
Koolaid.
What is denial?

Believing that it's work 1-5 trillion dollars by 2050 to reduce 2100 temperatures by 0.05C?

Believing that climate models which fail to match past or current trends are accurate enough to restructure the global economy? (Compare modeled and measured temperature trends of early 20th and early 21st centuries)

Both sides are guilty of talking past each other, ignoring ("denying") evidence that doesnt agree with their previous opinions, and overstating the strength of the evidence they see.

(I tend to fit in the "lukewarm" camp - my reading of the evidence and scientific research is that the earth has warmed, continues to warm, is affected by human activities, but that the warming and the human impact are routinely overstated or ignored by the warring advocates. Much less so by the actual scientists doing the research)
ignore this, I somehow missed that the poster specifically mentioned Python 3, which does have an encoding-aware CSV module.

~~It's also unclear which version of Python is being used, the Python 2 csv module is byte-based and encoding-unaware which can lead to unexpected behaviours.~~

Go's CSV package apparently only does UTF-8, and suggestions for speeding it up in the tracker is to just remove that and work on raw bytes (FFS)
> Using bignums means that arithmetic operations would have to check their arguments for whether they're bignums and also check the result for overflow,

This is a bit thoughtless because you could code generate two parallel sides of a function -- one where everything is a small-value and you only need to check for overflow after the fact, and one where some values are big-values. The small-value side of the function then jumps to the big-value side once an overflow happens. The only overhead on the small-value side is that after calling a function that returns a bignum, the return value has to be tested to confirm that it's a small-value. Functions can also have separate entry points for when all parameters are known to be a small-value, versus when they're not.
So the EU will not allow Austria to pass, for example, a tax on internet advertising in Austria (in the article the Chancellor complains that Facebook and Google don't pay advertising duty in Austria)?
How would a CSV parser even break UTF8 encoding (by accident)? All CSV control characters (comma, doubleqote and newline) map to the same codepoints in ASCII and UTF8, and no non-ASCII UTF8 character uses any ASCII codepoint in it's encoding.
Ecuador went one step ahead in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution

I can't find non-biased studies, but I believe it was mostly positive:

http://www.cato.org/blog/dollarization-hurting-ecuador-dont-...
Think that it is just a different medium. Great for prototyping longer posts and thinking aloud as there is audience that sees your posts and can easily comment (parts) of them. Just like Hacker News comments.
To be fair, there are echo chamber moments on HN too. It's just I think we are much more self-aware here.
I think the Original Poster that you're responding to mean presence literally, as the word is usually used. As in "Does Amazon have any facilities/staff etc in Austria?".
Do they issue 'political guidelines' to their employees doing the screening or do things like these simply get escalated to the top where someone like the CEO makes the decision.
And luck save Apple as much as Bill Gates. He may be a great philanthropist, but corporate philanthropy isn't his shtick.
To be fair, I'll point out that you are giving no consideration to the fact that git's popularity is due in part to GitHub's massive success and that the relationship is clearly mutually beneficial.
The website says BuckleScript can also be compiled into a unikernel, which links to MirageOS. I get the sense that integration between MirageOS unikernels and the javascript Bucklscript compiles down to is a likely usage-case scenario?
"Wallop’s uncle had been elected master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, but according to one contemporary observer was completely illiterate."
Excellent point! I think there's something powerful about this format - blog posts with inline comments haven't worked that well, but there are often interesting discussions inside tweet storms
Why bother? If Microsoft doesn't want my Windows 7 money, they won't get it.
You can't "do it a bit better" without human sacrifice today. At any level of first world assistance, that trade-off exists.
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If one language is 50% slower in file reading and a simple state mashine that iterates over an array, that's not a feature.

Either the implementation or the compiler is lacking some optimization.
EPS isn't far from zero. There are plenty of levers to pull to run Twitter as a profitable business given $2B rev/yr. You're seeing some of it already with them freeing up vacant office space, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did that because they're scaling back hiring.
I was going to say something similar but this is a really good analogy.

One thing I might say differently however is that most people on Reddit don't come to the mall to go to their favorite shops, they come to the mall to come to the mall -- the fact that their favorite shops are there comes secondary. You can try to have a lot of specialized communities with high-quality content and thoughtful discussion, but to a lot of users these places are just sideshows in a site that they go to primarily for entertainment.
each upvote linked to its user

I think you've drastically underestimated the ability of people to abuse systems like that.
My current project is using GLPK to do some basic mixed integer programming to optimize AWS spot instance allocation. If I had not taken linear algebra, calculus, and a few courses in linear programming the idea would not even have crossed my mind that I could use mixed integer programming to solve the spot allocation problem. That's the first half. The second half can be considered a problem in control theory because it requires taking the new allocations and gracefully transitioning from the old set of allocations.

You can go even further and say that the whole thing would be even better if I understood more about stochastic processes and could potentially model the spot market and make predictions ahead of time to simplify the control problem and get ahead of the price fluctuations. Saying all you need is Excel and 8th grade is in the words of one famous physicist "not even wrong".

If you're in an engineering discipline then the more math you know the better.
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"Luck" isn't quantifiable. Bill Gates' dollars are.
It used to be slashdot, filled with geeky insightful comments. Then DIGG was pretty good, then reddit was great, now HN. Each time one gets popular the comment section is reduced to crap.

I think because HN is focused on non-popular topics it may avoid the masses of idiots.
Through a computer. But that's not important right now.
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This comment is so awesome that simply uprooting it was not enough.
Whose fault is that?
I suspect that preordering rides will be a niche case. Most people will be happy with the latency of ordering a car when they need one with an estimate of how long it will take to be picked up when they open the app (like existing Uber Pool). They will only order a car in advance if they need a guarantee that a car will pick them up at a particular time and wait for them, and in that case, it will make sense to dedicate a car to the user for that trip — nobody else will want to wait in the car while the scheduled user gets ready.

That particular users have commutes at around the same time every weekday, plus or minus half an hour depending on their first meeting and when they finish their work or close their shift or socialize with coworkers, will be better handled by the system placing empty cars appropriately.
Good. The gov't has no more a right to track my guns as they do my book purchases. "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a gov't agency.
strange. This post was flagged and even showed up dead just a few mins ago. Did the mods restore this ?
It says "Python3 equivalent".
Of particular note on the "more professional" front -- many HN members are here because they're connected to a YC company in some way, and many others are here because they work in the industry and want to build connections with others also in the industry (but not linkedin-style connections; actual we-have-discussed-technical-topics connections). There are people here who have found work through the monthly Who's Hiring threads.

The net result is that there's a strong professional ethos and strong incentive to maintain it from a lot of people in the community, such that the few who try to troll, post garbage, etc. tend to get voted down into oblivion and calmly told they don't belong.
So don't. Just run it as a profitable business.
Getting a degree in math without understanding epsilon-delta is quite an achievement! I am serious.
I'm not sure it's pedantry. We're so used to the pretty Hollywood storyline that I think people assume that any climate issue will just turn out okay in the end. But of course, Nature doesn't have the capacity for happy endings — that's a human construction. We could easily become nothing but a footnote in the history of the planet, if we're not careful here.

Pretty much every species which has roamed the planet has gone extinct. Nature is tough. I think that's the point of emphasizing the phrasing.
Anyone that knows anything about the Apple App Store knows this piece is a little uninformed.

1. The two apps were probably reviewed by different people, and approvals from Apple have always been all over the place depending on the reviewer.

"The independent developers said getting approved with Google took less than one hour, while Apple’s denial came after an eight-hour wait."

2. 8 hour wait? Wow. I remember when the App Store had an 8 day review time. Let's keep in mind that Google rarely has a human review it's App submissions, Apple has a human review all of theirs, including updates.

In any case, the second half of this article is a Clinton hit piece, dropping all mention of apps and app stores and recounting again the Clinton emails story and focusing on negative reactions to it.

This was flagged and dead and should be again.
$150m in 'luck'. See it's possible.
Probably the "vouch" feature working. Countdown on it being flagged down again: 1, 2, 3...
I've read this phenomenon described recently as "Fortune Cookie Wisdom"'ing a story.

It irritates me, but I'm old.
Why would major numbers of people take an unproven drug with unknown effects/consequences? Seems like a self-limiting problem.

When a drug is unknown and unproven, relatively few people will take it unless they have pretty good reason to think it's really effective or they are really desperate - which are exactly the situations in which you'd want people trying the drug to see if it works. If there's already a known and proven and cost-effective drug that works, people would take that instead.

The FDA alternative is that lots of people go without drugs that - even though they're safe and effective - never get to market because proving them so to the FDA's satisfaction is so expensive and time-consuming as to be not worth doing.

A lack of new drugs causes death and disability too. Me, I'd rather err on the side of too many rather than too few drug options available for people to solve their problems with.
Counterpoint: I visit HN while waiting at Starbucks. I usually only manage to pick one article or read one comment on a thread. My personal anticipation is that visiting Reddit under the same circumstances would be a waste of precious battery chemistry. I do visit Reddit from home using non-stored electricity, and I enjoy "yo mama joke" threads a great deal.
A couple acres? No joke. To generate the 50-80,000watts necessary for each stall you will need city-blocks worth of solar. If it's cloudy or at dawn/dusk, more. If you want to charge cars during the day and night, triple the number of panels and get some massive batteries.

Say 120 watts per m2. 80,000/120 =~ 650m2. That's the ideal. Then for dawn/dusk, 1200m2 and triple that to run it at night ... 3600m2 ... just shy of the 4050m2 in an acre. But even that is 3600m2 perpendicular to the sun not on the flat ground. To get that 3600m2 in the real world (not on the equator) you will have to spread the panels out on a much larger lot (much depends on the location and time of year). If I were buying land, I'd estimate 2-2.5 acres for solar per stall.
> I would construct a database

.. and that's how you get thousands of armed protestors demanding that your organisation be shut down and your records destroyed. It doesn't matter what the proposed contents of the database are. The politics is extremely volatile and not very rational.

(Even the IRA were finally persuaded to put their weapons "permanently beyond use", in the language of the peace agreement.)
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Yes there were policies that augmented the recovery but the article hits upon a key point: you need the people of a government to trust the government for it to succeed.

The entire economic system is based upon trust. Trust that you can pay back a debt, you can take out a loan, you will get paid and the money will hold its value, the government will honor and stand behind it currency. This trust is lost when a government defaults on its debt, which was the case in Brazil and much of South America.

The real created an illusion of trust by listing prices in a phantom currency.
How do you mean? The first comment specifies it’s Python 3.
I wrote my own in Go that is blazing fast using bytes. I know the data is ascii so I was able to use that to my advantage.
But you're OK with the car registration system? And the cell phone IMEI database? And the no-fly list?

Edit: I should have been more general with the "you". Only the opposition to the gun database has succeeded. There's no general conversation about privacy; there's no coalition of pro-privacy orgs with a consistent view on what should and should not be stored in databases. Why is this?
A bit of an oversimplification. If Apple hadn't produced products that people wanted, the loan/investment wasn't going to help. If Bill had said no, it's hard to know if Steve had another avenue for the money. Wasn't he rich again because of Pixar?

http://blogs.wsj.com/wsj125/2014/11/29/nov-30-1995-pixars-ip...
I'm quite curious about this article, less about the words, more about how it's being received.

It has 43 upvotes in 41 minutes. For a rather bland subject, that's not half bad (point wise), potentially motivated by the political conflict involved, but that happens.

However, in the time I've queued it in my "morning reading", I've refreshed it quite a few times and watched it flag, unflag, flag, unflag at least 5-6 rotations as I've tried to post this comment. I'm legitimately curious as to why there's so much distaste for this with so little discussion. There is certainly very little evidence to the claim of the article, and that could be called out as HN has an excellent (I mean this honestly, comments are very quick to say "this article has no substance, here is why" and I see that as a plus) history of, but the overall question of the potential for political censorship through the increasingly few gatekeepers of walled garden web content does raise some meta questions I've seen HN discuss on many other occasions with far less prompting.

I guess I'm asking two things. 1. Although there is not much empiricism in the article, is there not a meaningful discussion to be had about the above; and 2. I'm curious as to what would incite people to want to flag so hard rather than let a thread get some immediate momentum and then die off from lack of content as it is like to. (It's not even as with the snowden releases where the entire front page was snowden for a good few weeks :) )
Just a correction: the TCU is a branch of the legislative (congress), not of the judiciary.
Lots of them. A few hundreds, I think. Viability may depend on site. But if there's space nearby for a reasonable array, there doesn't seem to be any reason not to use it no matter how small it gets (any size will result in savings), unless your electricity is dirt-cheap, or the place is so infrequently used that for a significant portion of the time, nobody is charging (which would waste a portion of the local generation and worsen the ROI).
They are a private enterprise and can do what they want, but the optics aren't great. For the sake of PR they should try and maintain at least the appearance of being unbiased. Perhaps develop a single policy for politically oriented apps, and stick to it in all cases.

PS - Also noticed this was flagged & removed, then restored. Very glad to see it was restored as this is a very relevant thing to be talking about in the current political climate.
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I'll believe that there is a correlation of more than 0.5 to 0.7 between good at software development and good at abstract math. But hardly higher -- there are also some other talents needed, I don't know what.

I saw a few people that had no problems with the math courses in CS but that never really got the programming part. (No names or details, people might be recognized.) But this is of course anecdotal.

(My surprise over this was similar to when I realized that rationality and intelligence didn't have as high correlation as I expected. I know some intelligent people which are Truthers and believe in other conspiracy theories. Others can't reason when their emotions are involved.)
Oh dear, I'm not sure how I managed to miss that.
Effectively one is comparing library performance here and not language performance. Granted, that line can get very blurry indeed, but in this case this says very little about golang the language and far more about a current implementation of one of the golang libraries.
This has come up a few times in the last few days: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Spaces%20or%20Tabs%3F&sort=byD... .

The one with the most comments (120) is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246 .