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"It's showing the extreme (clearly unacceptable) end of the spectrum to ask someone how they decide where to draw the line."

That's actually very lazy. It's shifting the burden of "drawing the line" on the other side.

It's the "well, why don't we just kill toddlers as well? Where do you draw the line?" in an abortion argument.
It's the "why don't we just give 12 year old's automatic assault weapons" or "why don't we disarm the police and military as well" in a gun control debate.
It's the "So why don't we just tax corporations 100% of their income" in a corporate tax debate.
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You have the right to say what you want but you must accept the consequences.

So, for the sale of argument: if Trump is democratically elected and then begins reprisals of his political enemies, you must accept those consequences?
I see a lot of Trump supporters doing the same thing as the (mainstream) left is doing here. The entire concept is strange to me, that they would so rabidly support their tribe that they think they've attained some a) of moral superiority or b) their tribe is the only thing stopping the country from total disaster. The truth is a lot more boring than their fantasies. The media feeds into this hysteria though so I don't blame all of them.
Political positions are not moral positions. There's more than one way to accomplish a goal, and even if you share goals, it might be that you just think that the priority of these goals are different.

I think the best way to increase the American quality of life is to allow more choices, more trade, and reduce taxation. This gets me branded as being "anti-poor". I want the same thing as you, I just think there's different ways to go about it.

I'll granted that sometimes political positions come from moral positions, but they are not a 1:1 match, and you can't claim you know the best way to enact a set of moral positions.
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Many endowments at least aim for this. Harvard's target every year is to spend 5-5.5%. Actual spending over the last decades has been 4.2%-6.1%.
of course if your in the wrong bracket and your income is flat your screwed. of course, taxing trade goods and services directly is considered bad.
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Seems like a lightweight alternative to Selenium
No PC… :-(
Thiel himself is gay. Surely you don't accuse him of being homophobic?
Stratfield Saye House is rented from the Queen too, for the price of one silk flag per year. Although this has only been going on for a mere 200 years. http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/insight/annual-waterloo-cere...
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And when I thought we are about to get ride of JS(though wasm)... Still doesn't make any sense to me.
> The entire Trump ideology is based on a belief that "real Americans" are being oppressed by a sinister "global elite".

Yes there is in fact a campaign of elites against Trump, in case you don't believe that I suggest taking a look at the recent wikileaks.
Twitter hasn't made much of an effort to get rid of the trolls. They're part of the package.
Why the fuck is it even legal to donate $1.25 million? Thanks Citizens United.
Interesting.

I made the required EU quip in this post :) - https://unop.uk/azure-eu-regions-naming-confusion/

I've updated part one to include the new region, will probably have to update for London again soon - https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...

Part two is also now out, part three next week - https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...
It's trivial to fork or create some random thing using just web UI, and since you are already registering at GitHub, this wouldn't be that effective,I think.
Yep - totally.

I have literally no patience for the idea that attention to detail/conscientiousness is anything less than absolutely necessary at any level of an organisation.

Lack of attention to detail leads to screw-ups. Lack of attention to detail at a higher level just leads to bigger screw-ups. Lack of attention to detail at the top leads to colossal screw-ups.

Just think, for example, of RBS. No attention was being paid, certainly not at the top, to the details of all those supposedly investment grade CDOs. And then one day... BOOM! Turns out they were stuffed with junk and the whole shebang comes crashing down.

I also have literally no patience with people who describe themselves as "big picture thinkers" (thankfully this seems less prevalent these days; maybe I just move in different circles). You may as well skip the BS and say, "I am totally useless and ineffectual," because to me they're synonymous.

If you do anything without paying attention to the details you will do it badly.

(As an aside: I'm not here talking about micromanagement - you can't pay attention to all the details, obviously, at a higher level, but you can pay attention to the details that are appropriate at that level. This obviously only works if the people working for you are also trustworthy. If not, you clearly weren't paying attention when you hired them.)
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That's what it sounds like to me too. Like the objects are brought out for the ceremony of "paying rent", but ownership of the items doesn't really change hands.
Because the alternative of not doing this means you could buy 10x the hardware with specialized ASICs and get 10000x more proficient in mining.
> The absolute amount is not meaningless because it has an effect in the real world.

Right, I think GP was replying to your earlier statement that:

> Not many people are willing to part with $1.25M for someone they don't fanatically support.

Rather than trying to minimize the 1.25M
> Are you saying that there should be no consequences for anyone no matter who someone is political supporting, because it is in political context?

Not at all. I was inplying that the consequences should be political as well.

If your children aren't your opinion, try to engage in valuable conversation instead of cutting their allowance. If your neighbor puts up a sign for a candidate you don't like, put up your own sign and don't try to pressure his employer into making him leave.

Democratic societies actively require political variation. Using your physical or economic strength or maybe your status to make people do or state things they don't like is blatantly uncivil.

I'm not an expert on US constitutional law & procedure so you might need to make your own research on their legal specifics in this certain case, but in most western setups I'd bet it's not a very good idea to believe in a legal right which might allow you to publicly announce "anything". But I don't see its relation to our topic here, I think it's probably not essential.
This sounds similar to the "Cradle to Cradle" design philosophy. Some companies might want to design in a "circular" way in order to appeal to a particular market of consumers. Here's a directory of products that are "Cradle to Cradle" certified:

http://www.c2ccertified.org/products/registry
For normal candidates, I'd agree with you, but Trump absolutely nails a rather objective and detailed definition of fascism. See my comment elsewhere in this thread for sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729018
My paycheck... :'(
This strikes me as a Hail Mary play by the fossil fuel industry to make us think--for a little more profit for them--that it's okay to burn carbon.

I don't buy it.
Thanks mtmail. The plan is to start in the UK, (as you have correctly gleaned) specifically London. The meals will be prepared by a business associate who has been in the food business for quite some time. Provided sales continue to rise after launch, the plan is to scale to the the rest of the UK. The app will serve as the shopfront for users to order our own meals and we will be working with a delivery company to dispatch to anywhere in London.
In order to scale we will obviously have to engage with more chefs and delivery companies around the country to guarantee freshness of the meals and timely delivery.

I hope this answers your questions.
No.

EDIT: When ArchiveTeam is ingesting to cold storage, there is no torrent available. Once the object(s) are in the Archive, they are retrievable with a torrent.
We've been headed toward one party statehood for awhile. The American project has failed.

"Democratic politicians are the ruling class’s prime legitimate representatives and that because Republican politicians are supported by only a fourth of their voters while the rest vote for them reluctantly, most are aspirants for a junior role in the ruling class. In short, the ruling class has a party, the Democrats. But some two-thirds of Americans — a few Democratic voters, most Republican voters, and all independents — lack a vehicle in electoral politics."

http://spectator.org/39326_americas-ruling-class-and-perils-...
Most people in Tennessee don't care about burning carbon so I don't see why they'd need a "hail mary play".
jedberg, we deserve the down votes (-4 for me. a personal record!). These are the kind of comments that have come to dominate slashdot - a formerly awesome site. Sorry HN, I couldn't help it this time. Now back to the higher quality discourse.
Easy solution: Let the children work in a VM and take regular snapshots.
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Racism, sexism, calling the election "rigged", saying you are going to prosecute your opponent, accusing them of being on drugs, bragging about sexual assault...

These are not political views. It's just absurdity, and supporting such a person with $1.25 million absolutely makes me question your judgement.
> Okay, but if I buy 10x the amount of hardware I will still be 10x more proficient in mining.

Sure.

> So rich people (the ones able to buy lots of ASICs and/or memory) will still have an advantage in mining.

> So again, what is the point?

With non-memory hard hashes, ASICs or GPGPU yield superlinear gain (in hash/s/$) compared to general-purpose CPUs. A 1080 will get you orders of magnitude faster SHA hashing than the pair of i7s you'd get from the same price, and ASICs have an even larger difference.

Also scrypt was designed for password storage, not for workproofing dogecoin.
Oh i agree on that. Just like i can say he isnt really making an argument, just stating an opinion on a very simplistic base. Questioning peoples morales is always shaky ground. No one is just one thing.
How do I convey my real, justified anger to The Company instead of a person?

It may not be effective (or fair) to get hostile, but by the time I'm yelling, it's because I've realized The Company doesn't care about my emotional state, and this person is another willing participant in a silently abusive system, even if they're just reading the Company-provided script to get the Company-provided paycheck. Perhaps too few humans have perfect emotional regulation, but it's not surprising that some react accordingly.

The people who designed these insensitive systems knew that they would eventually turn all our hearts cold at no cost to The Company. Julian's response is to keep being nice to keep his transactional relations as smooth as possible. The representative's responsive is to vent to their co-workers about how stupid and mean customers are. Mine is to yell when I'm angry. But aren't we all suffering from the same flawed system?

At this point in time, it's no one person's fault, and there's little incentive to fix it, so this probably won't change until emotionally attuned software can replace customer service reps.
Thank you, I couldn't agree more with you. I'd like to add that being a professional means working together with people of diverging opinions.

Both candidates' slogans are deeply ironic (Stronger Together and Make America Great Again) in light of the division and alienation the election is fostering. The US media are radicalizing the people for the sake of votes.

I hope Thiel doesn't stress himself over such outrage. I wish him well.
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i agree, and believe many trump voters will privately and reluctantly vote for him, and publicly say they voted for someone else for this very reason.

i also believe many others will vote for trump simply to push the country toward a breakup of the 2-party system into a 3 or 4-party system. they very well could have voted for bernie if that were an option.
No, it's a perfectly valid criticism. Saying "well we intended to make that!" isn't an excuse for not delivering what you advertised.
>potentially creating a new technology to help avert climate change

>The reaction turns CO2 into ethanol, which could in turn be used to power generators and vehicles.

I am no scientist, my question is this: wouldn't it be a zero sum game at best? You are taking C02 out of the atmosphere, turning it into fuel, which then is used in C02 emitting engines.
If you want to get involved in Open Source Circular Economy stuff then OSCEdays is a good community - https://oscedays.org
yeah, i think this was a mistake made under obvious pressure.

you are right about a lot of the claims seeming to be straight up BS, but it was all understandable imo. people had unrealistic expectations because the devs didn't take care to manage them well.

there are space battles, and there are things you could call factions and economy, they are just woefully underpar compared to expectation and marketting material.
That's because the word is generally considered juvenile - something a child of 2-12 would probably find hilarious. And despite how you might tell them to pronounce it, I'm pretty sure they'd end up calling it "doodoo" anyway, at least mine would.
Genuine questions here:

Should newspapers (i.e. corporations) be allowed to endorse candidates?

If so, how is this not spending money (paper, ink, time) to influence elections?

If not, how is this not an unacceptable limitation on free speech?

And, (to address a common objection to this line of reasoning), if "bona fide media organizations" get special free speech protections not available to the rest of us, who decides who is a "journalist" and who is an amateur?
>This process has several advantages when compared to other methods of converting CO2 into fuel. The reaction uses common materials like copper and carbon, and it converts the CO2 into ethanol, which is already widely used as a fuel.

>Perhaps most importantly, it works at room temperature, which means that it can be started and stopped easily and with little energy cost. This means that this conversion process could be used as temporary energy storage during a lull in renewable energy generation, smoothing out fluctuations in a renewable energy grid.

Is it too much to ask that a science journal report on science in, like, quantitative terms to support a headline? Specifically: What's the efficiency (or how much energy is required per mole)? Estimated overall costs compared to batteries or grain ethanol? Other available chemical processes for capturing CO2, and their efficiency? Not reported. I have no idea what their arbitrary cut-off for "efficient" is, but if they say they want to make it more efficient, it obviously isn't efficient enough. Actual numbers might help to judge.
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There are women who are sexist and people of color who are racist. No doubt you can find gay people who are homophobic.
It is, but ... I'm at problem 44 or so in Euler[0] and only solved the first set of Cryptopals. But I'm just going to add here:

Matasano Cryptopals challenges is amazing, back off

;-)

[0] Honestly ... Say 'pandigital prime' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say 'pandigital prime' one more goddamn time! Ahem
> he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years

No he doesn't. He doesn't appeal to or represent poor whites, those vote D. He also doesn't appeal to or represent minorities, immigrants, or women. Those also vote D. He appeals to and represents white men that have a household income slightly higher than the median. Those people have been nothing but listened to for the last 140 years.
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In defense of OP I would say it isn't about "attention to details" or "no attention to details". Instead it's about which details you choose, because the potential "detail space" is infinite.
It's interesting that these stories never consider the reverse. Perhaps Twitter is destroying itself with it's various drives to censor one side of the political debate.
We've found that Redis works great for counting some things, but when you need a count which is guaranteed to match what is in a db table, it's preferable to manage counts at a db level. Often we're making counts based on the state of a record, and it's easy for the application level view of things to end up stale.
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And that getting better process is what people mean by reducing fragmentation.
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A zero sum game would be a huge improvement on the status quo.
Well a zero sum game would be pretty awesome, wouldn't it? ..Free fuel etc.
there is an interesting, but quite old, paper here from the spore guys

http://chrishecker.com/images/c/cb/Sporeanim-siggraph08.pdf
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That is in fact not a fundamental principle of democracy. There is no work of political philosophy anywhere that suggests we should be able to say whatever we'd like "without fear of repercussions". What is a principle of liberal philosophy, though, is that we should be tolerant of the beliefs of others (in the sense of not intervening to suppress them), including intolerant beliefs, until those intolerant beliefs threaten society.

You may not believe Trump is a real thread to society. I disagree. So far, so good. The issue here is: Sam Altman and Paul Graham disagree too. Both of them compare Trump to a dictator. Paul Graham compared him to Stalin. Both Altman and Graham believe, like I do, that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy.

Sam Altman cannot coherently believe this while supporting Peter Thiel, who is not just a Trump supporter, but an important part of the Trump campaign. Even most leaders of the Republican party refused to get on stage at the RNC to support Trump. Thiel did. When he did, he used his time to claim that Donald Trump was the only honest candidate in the race. He bundled millions of dollars of donations for Trump. And, just last week, after Trump pivoted his campaign as a crusade against the legitimacy of our elections and of the black vote, Thiel donated $1.25MM more.

Nobody denies Sam Altman's right to support Peter Thiel, or, for that matter, Thiel's right to support Trump. But we are all very much entitled to criticize what Altman is doing, and we would be doing Altman no favors by withholding that criticism.
Something that annoys me with these articles is that such processes are usually praised as carbon capture at the same time as it is energy storage. Well yes, but not both at the same time. And I really doubt its effectiveness as energy storage in the first place - why would you burn fossil fuels (with a loss), then gather energy with renewables to capture back the CO2 (with a loss) and then use the energy of the ethanol again (again with a loss)? Just store the energy from the renewables in batteries.
So what would you have done if you were in charge at Google?

At the time Amp was announced, Facebook's Instant Articles was really taking off. It was by far the best place to read news online and arguably still is.

To get a similar experience outside of Facebook (before Amp) you had to use an ad blocker. Right around that time, Apple added support for ad blocking in iOS and suddenly ad supported content outside of Facebook was looking unsustainable.
Or how Clinton has a disdain for your average American voter? And plans to push through trade agreements that hurt the very Americans whose vote she's trying to get?

I can't imagine why half the country won't vote for her.

I know minorities and women who will still vote for Trump after everything that has happened; perhaps it'd be wise if you dislike Trump to understand why that is and what has brought us to this point instead of putting your head in the sand.
That's the thing about these people who don't own much more than a MacBook Pro. They talk like they're some kind of buddhist monk with their minimal life but in reality they're relying on the consumerist society (dining out, using only disposable stuff, etc) and have a much bigger environmental impact that if they owned some cookware to cook their own food for example.
`Supporting` someone who supports Trump? You do realize he's not their employee, he's wealthy, and most certainly wouldn't change his mind if YC or all of you disagreed with him, right?

This is all political/"moral outrage" theater.
Then a couple years later you've learned a lot of arcane details about something that has already fallen out of fashion. It's not the end of the world but it's not optimal.
I wonder if it would be useful to harvest excess CO2 from the atmosphere. That way, you're using the existing CO2 as a fuel source.
>Citizens United and McCutcheon were such disasters for our democracy

The Citizens United case was about a non-profit being able to produce, advertise, and air a film about a presidential candidate. The government said that they could not because of election financing laws.

This seems much more like a free speech issue than an election financing issue. Do we really want to go down the path were the government can tell you that you can't make a movie about a person because they are currently running for office?
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this can very easily result in never ending loop.
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While Disney Dollars are no longer produced, I can see them used in other ways. If you haven't been to Walt Disney World (not Disneyland) in the last 2-3 years then you might not know about their MagicBands. They are a RFID wrist band that you basically use it for everything. To get on the Magical Express from MCO, check in at resort, open your room door, park admission, fastpasses, dining reservations, dining plan information, gift shop purchases, etc.
Ask HN: What Reinforcement learning model for simple 2D game?
Hi,

I want to experiment reinforcement learning,

I have a simple 2D car game, I can break, accelerate turn left and right

My input is:
* car position
* car speed
* the current score

With model or technique do you use?
Okay, so... we need to nail some things down for your utopia. What is and is not allowed to be said or printed?

I imagine I can say (with my voice) anything I want? What if I'm standing on a soapbox on a busy corner, 12 hours a day? What if I give a speech to 200,000 people in a stadium?

What about over a radio broadcast? How do you cap that? Individual contributions to campaigns are capped at something like $2.5k, do I essentially get $2.5k of airtime, as valued by advertising times?

What if I'm not specifically supporting a candidate? But I could say: "We should really have a candidate that is good at fixing spine vertebrate, because they'd be good at fixing the spine of America!" or "The next person to appoint a supreme court justice should be pro-life."

If I'm near my $2.5k of cap of support, am I even really allowed to say anything? "America needs a _strong_ candidate" could be an interpreted as support for... well, someone.

I suspect that your solution is going to be impractical and hard to enforce.
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In 30 years of public life, there hasn't been a single shred of evidence to back up that claim. These people you know are sadly misinformed.
Looks awesome! Can't wait to try it. What other features are you guys planning on adding?