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As I said, I understand your reasoning (your description is as I'd thought it would be). I disagree with it.

Arguing over whether or not HN is a publication is awfully semantic. At the very least, it's a publication of links and the commentary of them. So we disagree there as well, though that's not particularly material.

There's a deeper issue of reputation, credibility, consequences, and more, that matter. This ties strongly into my "Big Questions" re-asking (submitted an hour or so back), and a suggestion from Ted Lemon in 2015: that a very large part of the addressible problem we're facing is the noosphere -- a superset of media, all of human thought. There's something very broken (and some terrifying consequences) to how ideas are created, propagated, (or propagandised), distorted, mistated, etc.

I'm not sure how to fix this. I'm not sure that it's fixable.

When I first started studying science -- in primary school -- I found the mentions of scientists names and such to be distractions. Shouldn't the ideas matter more than the person who had them? I've completely reversed my thinking, because it seems to me impossible to consider an idea without understanding the context within it, and context matters. The person themselves matters.

I've been thinking a lot about reputation, identity, and community, particularly regards my recent experiences with Imzy, and constrasting that to other spaces. In particular, identity IS reputation in a whole lot of ways -- starting with the etymologies of "fame", "reputation", "fame", "honor". Fully anonymity is also full impunity, and at least my experiences elsewhere suggest that works poorly. I've contrasted that strongly to HN's practices and results. Even where I don't always agree, or find elements frustrating, one thing HN does is, generally, allow tensions to dissipate fairly quickly, through UI/UX (including some of the annoying or missing elements of it), moderation, examples set, and more.

I realise that offering authors names risks a cult of personality. At the same time, some good (and bad) reputations are well deserved. Electronic communications generally strip away many of the normal social queues. Stripping away the few that are left, most especially authorship, strikes me as heading the wrong way. I'm a fan of Jakob Nielsen's microcontent guidance.

I'm also increasingly convinced that not offering users tools to quantify and qualify the content they access online is a tremendous failing of present tools. I've a limited capacity to really process information and messages, various sources (Stephen Wolfram, Walt Mossberg, NY Times moderation desk) suggest ~150 - 300 emails, ~800 comment moderations, are about the upper limit of what someone can sustainably absorb or process per day, over the long term. And that is if this is their full-time job. If you're looking at assimilating quality and complex information, the count's likely far lower.

As such: cues to quality, including reputation and identity, matter.
What car locks out, say, the frequency dial, or the track skip buttons?
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Most Indians do in fact go out and poop in the fields every day. Most Indian commenters here are from the urban middle class and have literally never spent a minute thinking about the vast and miserable rural lower classes around them, and get incredibly offended when a westerner does in fact notice and write about them.
I actually did my PhD on superconducting quantum computing with Transmon qubits, so I really wouldn't say that I'm only "casually informed" about the subject.

Again, their digital adiabatic quantum computing relies on a gate-based quantum processor, which provides a universal set of qubits gates and thus can in principle simulate any Hamiltonian, quantum annealing is just an algorithm that runs on it.

And I don't want to be overly negative, but the perception of D-Wave in "more professional" circles was not very enthusiastic in my experience, which to a large extent is also D-Waves fault.
I agree with you that the nature of the problem in Australia is political, but not that the main root cause is corruption/collusion.

The main problem is that the politicians made promises they cannot keep: cheap fiber to everyone at the same price, at no cost to the state since it will pay back itself.

Well, turns out it's not cheap to build out fiber to everyone, costs differ enormously between the city and the bush and there isn't enough revenue coming in to pay for it.

Since no politician will ever admit they were wrong, consumer prices can't be raised and the buildout cannot be stopped.

Desperate to save money and face, the politicians opted to switch to DSL from fiber, bought up all cable tv companies to substitute CATV for fiber, forbid any competition with the national fiber company and proceeded to squeeze every last penny out of the Internet service providers, since they couldn't touch the consumer prices.

While there are zero reasons for data caps and metered plans, the national fiber network is so expensive to use, ISPs have no other option but to use data caps and metering so as not to go out of business immediately.

The end result is very poor and very slow service on the national fiber network with customers complaining and wanting to stay on old ADSL connections, which is ironic. Unfortunately they can't since the copper network is being decommissioned, so as not to compete with the national fiber network and to bring in more money to the government owned company.
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"Quality of life violation"? Newspeak is truly here.
A good rule of thumb when consuming media has always been: Look at who owns said company, what their political stance is, take the reports with a grain of salt and then double check with an opposing viewpoint to get the full story.

Media always comes with a bias, good journalists try to reduce it to a limited amount as good as they can, but they often fail due to subjectivity or their employers want them to report in a certain way. The NYT isn't even trying anymore, that's why people turn away in disgust, if I want retarded opinion pieces instead of news I'd read social media BS.
The trick is to use a font that has ligatures, but not to use the ligature characters directly. Let the presentation choose the glyphs to display, and let the encoded characters remain separate as they should. CSS handles this with "font-variant-ligatures" (works in some browsers). I just did a test in Chrome on OS X; toggling between "font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures" and "font-variant-ligatures: none" changed the presentation, but it did not negatively impact the accessibility, searchability, etc. as the ligature characters would. Automatic glyph substitution in presentation yay; encoded character substitution nay.
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Formality, if present, can be equally derived from observation and description of usage, using the linguistic analysis of the kind found in the articles I linked above. Language, when viewed in total, has shared elements and patterns that supersede the narrow focus of prescriptive impositions. It's why linguists can observe things such as that the dropped copula exists in both AAVE and Russian.
There's jobs for people who work hard. The vast majority of people don't want to do the hard work required to get a job.

A sense of entitlement for a job won't lead to anything except sitting at home playing video games wondering why no one has recognised the game players genius.

It's easy to overcome lack of experience - at least in the field of software development - by using your time not playing computer games but by programming and writing code for a well-known open source project. People don't want to hear this advice though - they want to know if there is an easier way.
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How do you discuss the topic that you are the only one with the know how about a project? I assume a lot of clients want to have some backup plan if something happens to you.

Do you just document everything very thoroughly and convince them that's enough for an other developer to pickup?
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There's nothing wrong with doing pure research as a startup, in fact I'd love to see more of these kind of startups and I'm thinking about starting one myself!

What's harmful (IMHO) is making spectacular claims (look we have a working quantum computer!) and then not back them up by evidence. It is of course okay to sell your product aggressively as a startup, and sometimes to oversell it as well (fake it until you can make it), but I really have my doubts that D-Wave can "make it" in the near future, as there are just so many difficult problems to solve for which we don't even have a viabe approach yet (e.g
building large scale qubit coupling schemes), and trust me most quantum computing research groups have people that are at least as smart and dedicated as the people working at D-Wave.
Wow, no kidding! You were there when he was building it too? That's so awesome. :) Did he ever make any other games?

The game fills me with such nostalgia. As a kid, I couldn't find a retailer who sold it, so I wrote a letter to Casady & Greene in order to buy a copy. I still remember how excited I was when it arrived.

The Security Authorization Chart should be in the ReadMe file, by the way. :)
What's with the awful font and seriously slacker half attempt at alignment? I basically can't read anything on that page.
This is the demographic that's traditionally fueling crime/war. You can give a positive twist to the story by rephrasing the title "study finds young men are playing video games instead of shooting people."
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I can second that. I have lived in Mumbai my whole life and a large portion of the population is slum dwelling and you can find them lining up the railway tracks or to poop in the morning with a bucket of water in hand. And this is in the city, extending into the suburbs and outside. The truth is that the country is a huge study in contrast. Slums exist right next to five star hotels and luxury residences. It is true that the number of people rising to the middle class has gone up considerably in the last decade. But what goes by unnoticed is the number of people growing up and living in poverty here has grown much faster, a side effect of the enormous population.
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First off, know that despite what some people hope, an AI singularity being a solution to the problem of mortality is not really compatible with materialism combined with current understanding of physics. (This isn't really specific to AI, but AI singulatatians seem to have a fairly high rate of expecting something like that.)

Second of all, check out miri. Their work on AI safety is pretty interesting. There are also other groups.

Recently they came up with a formalism for assigning "probabilities" to statements which might be implied by things one knows, or might not be, but due to computational resources, one hasn't found out yet. It seems quite interesting.
There is little to no description of who these people are and how they were gathered.

Was this a meet-up group named along the lines of "no small talk meet-up" or the authors friends?
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Ive been using it sucessfuly for over a year. Its moving forward quite well i think.
There is this ancient Indian story about Krishna washing the feet of his devotee and then drinking the water. So this thing is not alien to the Indian culture. But I'll not be surprised if this still happens in some rural parts of India.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sudama+krishna&biw=1920&bi...
Where's the JavaScript version? ;)
>There's jobs for people who work hard.

So let's think this tautology through. It's difficult to get a job -> person is not able to get employment -> person becomes unemployed -> only lazy people are unemployed -> lazy people don't want jobs -> therefore everyone is employed
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But are they really a chunk of labour?

Like if people that chose to not work and play video games are a chunk of unused labour than so are unemployed alcoholics.

It's kind of a self-selecting thing, do you really want the people that don't want to work?
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I'm still watching but it took an interesting turn at the 30 min mark :)
You can make my words say that if you want.
Sorry, but users can't post these, only the whoishiring bot can.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'

'I fear those big words, which make us unhappy.'

are two I've seen quoted.
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It's easier said than done. Can you fake being able to run like Usain Bolt? What about if you already run a marathon before it? Sometimes there are things you can do and there are things that are beyond you.
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I'd add the disaster that happened to most US cities in the last 30 or so years to the list of reasons: urban sprawl and the factual abandonment of public transport.

In large swaths of suburbia, people almost never walk anywhere. When they want to "go outside" they take a car to the park. The result is that the concept of "waiting on a sidewalk for the bus" is so foreign they don't even consider it an option. Let alone "walking to the bus stop".

There are a few places where street life still exists – mostly really large cities and really small & old ones.

It's a tragedy how the convenience of taking a car right to the front door of some megastore has gutted city life. Shopping used to mean a walk down Main St. with more, smaller owner-operated stores and a high probability of meeting someone and stopping for some coffee. But that took longer, and you needed to live close by (=smaller houses/properties). And sometimes it rained, and those shop were more expensive, and we decided a worthy human being is in the office 46h/week.

(not that those aren't legitimate reasons. It's more a matter of taste, and most people apparently don't share mine).
> Are you sure you know what you're talking about? I mean: maybe you do. I'm really seriously asking.

That's a good question. Chicago is a very racially segregated city, but so is the San Francisco Bay Area.

You bring up several anecdotes, mainly involving a killing and a feeling of safety. The plural of anecdote of is not data.

I've lived in some bad areas, but never anywhere with the racial tension that seems prevalent in Chicago. But I will say, if you're not in the East Bay, if you walk into a bar full of black people, if you're not black or with black friends, you walk back out again real quick.
Let's not have race rants on HN, please.
Same here. If I have to interact with people I don't know well, it drains the energy, and I need to recharge after that. Sometimes happens even with people I know, and couple of times it produced a really rude behavior, for which I am very regretful, I didn't really meant to be rude but externally, it looked that way and people noticed. Because it was with friends, which forgave me, it didn't have any bad consequences, but I'd prefer not to do it again.

Unfortunately, don't have a very good recipe except trying to mostly either meet with people I have common interests or pursuits or passions and do not over-extend the interactions past the point where it begins to be taxing both parties, or just leave when I feel my "batteries" are drained enough to the point where I can't be socially adequate. Most people will accept something like "got to work early in the morning" - which also may independently be true :) - and will feel much better than with bad simulation of social behavior.

Not all people understand that some people have limits like this.
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Privacy, in the sense of "freedom from prying by your immediate neighbours" is somewhat modern. At least in the sense that before around 1500 multiple members (and animals) of a household would typically sleep within a single room, in Western Europe, and separate bedchambers, indoor bathing, etc., arrived in the 19th and 20th century for many.

But the invasions of privacy were direct and overt -- if someone wanted to spy on you, they pretty much had to be there for it. Your private actions weren't subject to tracking from any point on Earth. The personal observation of your actions couldn't be instantaneously transmitted to another party. Information passed slowly, directly, in conversation, very occasionally (literacy was limited) through writing. Because literacy was limited, people didn't have years of accumulated records of their innermost thoughts and writings, for the most part.

21st century surveillance -- by governments, corporations, criminal organisations, insurgent or terrorist actors, etc., -- obeys few or none of these conditions.

It's instantaneous, it's covert, it's bulk, it subsumes location, metadata, writings, speech, and video. It is getting cheaper all the time. It can be transmitted around the world in seconds. The quantity of available information has expanded tremendously.

And the very state of having ubiquitous, comprehensive surveillance means that an assertion of record is likely to be met by a presumption of that record's authenticity. Bruce Schneier has recently realised that a problem of ubiquitous data leaks is that leakers can slip fabricated or subtly altered documents into the leaks themselves. There's no need to massively generate data when a few (manufactured) "smoking guns" are sufficient.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/hackin...

I've had the distinctly unpleasent experience of having false (or misconstrued) claims laid against me. It's all kinds of crazy-making, and if the matter is one involving employment or legal processes, exceptionally expensive and risky.

There's a considerable downside here.
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Besides... implying that extroverts don't have traumatic social experiences? Statistically speaking, extroverts should have many times more such bad social experiences simply because they have many more total social experiences.

If that's your argument, then it boils down to extroverts evidently being able to "get over it" much better than introverts.
It's an empty statement because as long as anyone is employed, there will still be "enough jobs for people who work hard." It doesn't matter if there's 99.999% unemployment, since working hard by your definition is circularly referenced to already having a job. The word for that is a tautology.
I'm a few years younger than you, and I also walked to kindergarten. Except I did it alone. Not a problem.
[...]in actual professional circles the research they're performing isn't met with as much derision[...]

Yes it is.
As others have said, this might be a non-story. It's also weird how it's writing about Knight Capital in the years 2008-2011, without noting that in 2012 Knight Capital collapsed spectacularly by losing $440 million in one day due to an error in its trading algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
And yet on those foreign soils they prefer to watch Hollywood stuff instead of domestic.

Fiction needs to be entertaining not realistic. I never considered Dukes of Hazard and The Last Samurai documentaries.

If someone is interested in a culture - just visit the place.
> Perhaps an many introverts are introverted because they had social interactions that were traumatic

I don't think so, at least not on my experience. I think just some people have limits on how much social interaction they can do - just as some people have limits on how much they can run or lift - and closer to the limit, harder it becomes. If somebody invited you to run a marathon, you may happily accept or you may politely decline if you are not a big runner. If somebody would invite you to a party where you have to bring a grand piano to the top of the hill just for the fun of it - you may enthusiastically accept or decline if you're not a fan of lifting grand pianos. For some introverts social interaction, especially with a lot of previously unknown people, is work - and one may be just not inclined to do that amount of hard work that day.

> We care more about ourselves than about the needs of others.

This is a basic truth, everybody does that, except a very few people we call "saints". Everybody who doesn't give up all their possessions beyond basic physical subsistence, does not live under the bridge and spends at least a minute of their day for anything other than satisfying needs of others is "selfish" this way - and it's completely normal and IMHO one doesn't have to feel eternally guilty about it.
Probably not, but they have CoreRT instead.

https://github.com/dotnet/corert

Many of us are actually mostly working on Windows, so NGEN, RyuJIT and .NET Native are all very good nice toolchain features.

And if I compare Go with the whole .NET stack and tooling, there are lots of things I see missing, in spite of better AOT support across the board.
Maybe it's, I don't know, an attempt to build community, friendships, etc.? All the stuff that's apparently lacking enough for people to want to sit in their cars all day?
I think the point is not that introverts don't have bad experiences, but that it's not those experiences that make them introverts, being an introvert is just a quality like being a right- or left-handed.
> It is a trivial excercise to find kids that grew up just like me but black, who experience violence levels unheard of where I grew up & the only demographic difference is race. The idea that its only "criminals" who suffer from American urban violence is so trivially refuted that no one who studies it seriously considers it credible.

Spend the trivial effort and show me.

> Yet on one of the most affluent tech boards in the world its considered normal to argue the opposite.

What does affluent and tech have to do with anything?

Let's spin this another way. By every metric you can come up with, young black men are more likely to commit homicide, deal drugs, skip out on child support, and be incarcerated than any one else, and the only demographic differnce is race. It has nothing to do with their criminal affiliation.

Once you start going against the social narrative, things get interesting.
That was the conclusion the last time this story came up a month or so ago. They've also been continually re-pouring the sidewalk concrete so you can't see the cracks.
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That works for many people, but I couldn't wear a headset all day, either. Somehow burns my ears after a while. A speakerphone is my choice. Of course, at works that requires I have my own office room, not open office...
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