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If they thought that far ahead, they'd fall behind. They live from headline to headline. The fact that Trump is chum right before the election instead of Clinton is partially stochastic and depended far more on the immediate reception to the stories than anything else.
Yep, suburbs and surrounding cities of my hometown, Columbus, OH. I've been hearing rumors of this here and there for a year now. Glad to see it happening.
Given what I've seen from them in the press and online, it looks like they bolted a simple hand crafted game on top of their procedurally generated world. The only question is why they thought they were doing that.
Great perspective - your comment might be one of those subtle nudges that has a sigficant impact for me when integrated over a long period of time.
Strangely, you're now implying that he is trying to buy influence but figured the other party was harder to pay off.

>..There seems to be a very small amount of dirt that has been dug up..

I am unfamiliar with that definition of "small".

>...His donation allowed him to speak at the RNC...

Is the arrow of time also a liberal media conspiracy?
You are not correctly restating what I've said. I never said "Officers" wouldn't/couldn't be arrested or prosecuted.

I also never said there was case law preventing the DoJ from prosecuting "Officers".

I said it's ignorant to cite federal statute without also including how the courts have historically interpreted that federal statute (that's called "case law", but you know that). It can be, at best, immensely misleading when a layperson does it, and possibly manipulative when an attorney does it, considering they should know that legal parlance is significantly different from plain English, and how a court interprets legal parlance can be even further from a plain English meaning.

You are, frankly, being a little rude, and unfortunately I believe you are doing so intentionally. In the interest of keeping HN light, I will not continue this conversation.

I urge readers to look into specific case law surrounding the exposure of classified documents. There have been a number of articles describing why prosecuting Clinton could not possibly result in a conviction, despite the apparently clear statue.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-clinton-email-legal-...

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/07/05/gross-negligence...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-legal...

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/a-guide-to-clintons-emails/

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-hillary-clinton-s-em...
The unspoken truth about managing geeks (2009)
Not with MRI. The standard Ruby interpreter, like Python, uses a global lock to prevent threads from executing in parallel. You'd need to spin up 8 Sidekiq processes by hand or use the multi-process feature to automate that manual process.

That said, your scenario is unusual. Most server-side jobs have plenty of I/O (think DB queries, memcached/redis calls, file I/O, etc), which allow the threads to context-switch; lots of I/O concurrency means lots of jobs get done quickly, even with one core.
He may have a vendetta against Clinton, but it's not a thing against 'Democrats' per-sey.

And despite his 'vendetta' I have no doubt that he would release anti-Trump bits if he had them.

Wikipedia - whatever it's credibility - is headed by a dude with somewhat demagogic and self-glorifying tendencies himself.
> America's voting system is undemocratic and next to useless.

If you're discarding the definition of 'democratic' where citizens vote on government, no country in the world is democratic. Representational democracies rule the world and—yes—are not democratic in the least.

I don't know why the world insists on using the word without meaning.
Or she's gotten to where she is because she's effective at her job and the people working with her see this. It kinda reminds me of myself; I have zero charisma, but I impress the people I work with and I advance.
You have to if your developers are installing packages, working on deployment, running anything which runs on a privileged port, use tools like systemtap, etc. In some cases that can be avoided with configuration but then you're asking for bugs due to discrepancies between the environments.

You can reduce the number of things which hit that friction in a number of ways: having easily repeatable builds so a developer can test on their own VM; using a cloud service so test VMs are disposable and never shared; setting up a platform / microservices approach so a wider range of things either don't need to be touched or can be deployed without privileged or direct access, etc.

Containers (really namespaces) one way to hit that last goal: as a classic example, if you have a web app running on port 80 everyone who deploys will need to periodically restart Apache/nginx/Varnish/etc. and that may include elevated access to debug processes running as a different user. This is by far the simplest problem in this class and there are various ways (proxies, site users, firewall NAT rules, moving config into .htacccess or its equivalent, etc.) to reduce the number of times you have to care about it but but it still requires work to maintain and adapt code (especially with third-party apps).

Some people quite reasonably prefer to solve this entire class of problems by tossing everything into a container so it can run as if it's the only thing on the box.
They were very silent on the entire email server business. Did they mention it reluctantly a few times? Sure. But they failed to mention a million other things that you probably are ignorant of, if you rely on them for information.

They did not mention that the deleted emails were deleted AFTER the subpoena was issued [1]. They did not mention that Clinton aides carried hammers with them to destroy phones in case the phones were demanded by the FBI. They did not comment on the number of "I don't remember" answers that Clinton gave to the FBI. They did not comment on the fact that Clinton claimed to not remember what a "c" meant on documents. They did not comment on the fact that Clinton claimed to have no memory of receiving training on the handling of sensitive documents. I could go on for pages, but I have work to do.

Suffice it to say that the media have been complicit in matters dating back years before Podesta emails, not days or weeks. Your contention that they just aren't reporting the Podesta emails because they're boring (they are not, they are dynamite) is false on it's face.

[1] http://www.empirestatenews.net/2016/10/16/worse-than-waterga...
Why bother getting into a PhD program?
I agree that it sounded like a joke. However the article says she pushed ahead discussing it after the laughter ended. Given that the source didn't want to be identified it makes it rather hard to verify.
Catch 22. People showed up at the embassy clerk today, but they told them you need a prior appointment with Julian. Which is only possible via internet. So nada.
I don't really view balance in single player games any differently than I do a multiplayer game. A well balanced game has a wealth of options open that promotes dynamic gameplay. A poorly balanced game degenerates into stagnant gameplay because one or two options are much more powerful than the rest.

A good example of a well balanced single player game is tetris. All the pieces are useful. It may be easier to complete a line with the straight piece, and in a tight pinch a less skilled player might hold out for it while placing down other pieces willy nilly, but if every piece was as easy to use as the straight piece then the game would have less variety and tension! At certain points in the game you may not want a straight piece because of the way you have laid down your previous pieces, the game is dynamic because the optimal strategy is changing all the time because of how you played the game, this adds even more strategy because you can also influence how the optimal strategy will change.

A good example of a poorly balanced single player game is... well in my opinion most single player games are poorly balanced. Either the game is so easy that it really doesn't require you to strategize at all or the game is easily cheesed by using one overpowered technique. This is especially evident in many RPG's, although they try to hide it with a huge skill tree (of which almost invariably a large number of skills are useless and a couple are ridiculously overpowered) or by having you learn a whole bunch of enemy weaknesses and resistances (IMO this is cheating, the challenge isn't dynamic as these stats are unchanging and typically only serve as an overwrought color matching exercise). Pokemon is a good example of this, although you have hundreds of pokemon to collect and train and it seems a variety of enemy types should force you to have a varied party yourself, the easiest way to beat the game is to overlevel your starting pokemon by giving them all the experience points and grab one or two other pokemon along the way to cover your weaknesses in the end stages of the game and load up with necessary non-combat moves.
I'm not stipulating any of my claims on the lack of lopsidedness in the editorial positions of the journalists in question. A Really Big Number doesn't change what they care about more: being on the same team as the Democrats, or their drip-feeds from campaigns.
you need to craft better equipment to mine diamond, blah blah blah

More example of balance.
" than to simply cop to the fact that they are aggressively and overly supporting Donald Trump."

This is hard to swallow.

There is nothing in Wiki/Assange past behaviour that would indicate they would like to support Trump.

Unless: They like 'whoever is against Hillary'

OR

Wiki is getting a lot of support from Russia, and they may be indirectly leaning towards conspiring with them for political favour etc..

Putin just might have enough pull to eventually get Assange out of his prison.
Look for a rolling stone.
That's an interesting story.

One reason I'm not a perfectionist about my kids' homework is that a lot of it is crushingly uninteresting. I have two kids, and I work with them often on homework, especially math. I like to look for interesting ways to approach problems, to show them there are ways to do things that aren't a series of steps that need to be followed with high levels of exactness. Sometimes the teacher heaps on so much basic arithmetic that there's no time to do both. if it comes down to a choice between investigating interesting ways to go about a problem or chugging along with a mechanical approach, I'd rather investigate a problem in greater depth. That may mean a worse grade, but it's a balancing act. To be clear, I always advocate respect for the teacher in terms of civility and politeness, but I do want my kids to independently assess the learning value of their assignments.

There have been assignments that seem to be little more than an exercise in penmanship. I have reflected on how teachers used to (perhaps still do) force kids to write a dull sentence 100 times as punishment. In that sense, at times, my kid's homework is nearly indistinguishable from a punishment.

Just to be clear, this isn't always the case, my kids have also had good teachers and interesting assignments as well.
Why billionaires have more sons
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I'm afraid we still don't quite agree (not that agreement is necessary):

>>> "It's not something a journalist is normally allowed to experience in this country."

> My only complain is that sometimes the narrator's personal sentiments get mixed up with the factual reporting.

The statement you quoted doesn't seem personal to me; it's not about the reporter's experience but about the experiences of journalists in general. And it's factual, not opinion or sentiment.
Its not just anti trust. .mil is a lot happier if there are multiple sources for chips.
Can't you record those talks and send them in with your proposal?
http://truthfeed.com/trump-surging-with-black-americans-beat...
I think procedural generation needs an AI editor: a second layer that assesses the generated forms and selects only the most interesting and pleasing ones. This could be informed by real-world animal body ratios, and subsequently trained by humans ('silly', 'cool', 'scary' etc) until it mostly stops making awkward shit. And a dictionary of 'what creature types has this player already seen' might go some way to alleviating boredom over the span of dozens of hours (planet types need this too - many people were annoyed at never finding an archetypal paradise planet, myself included).

A third layer would allow players to rate cool creatures so that they show up in others' games. No Man's Sky already has the "scan creatures and upload discoveries" mechanic; with a rating system the good ones would have an increased chance of showing up in someone else's game.

Procedural generation obviously has legs, but developers need to move beyond the 'infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters' stage, and artificially ensure player enjoyment is less at the mercy of randomness.
Yes he does.
This is @ least the sixth time that this article has made the front page today and then been flagged off. This is the third time that this phenomenon has happened in recent days, previously:

- Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump (nytimes.com)

- Fuck You Startup World (medium.com)

It seems that HN software's duplicate detection needs to take into account previously flagged articles (if it doesn't) or be improved, e.g. compare the title and a subset of the URL (to account for UTM variables, medium's #anchors, etc.) to those of previous article submissions.

Or revisit what it takes to flag an article off of the front page.
>What I think Apple lacks at the moment, is any new just-mature technology on which to base its 'next big thing'.

So what you're really saying is that Apple is waiting for other technology companies to come up with something new so that they can take that idea, put their spin on it, paint it white and announce their next big thing.
Yeah, I think I'd go the container/VM route so I could also only spin it up when needed (a fraction of the time).
There are no more than in past decades, and if it really was the case then you'd take a stay calm and approach vs trying to panic an entire country.
Thanks for making my point for me.

That is called discrimination btw.
Agreed. Tough to follow this news report, though I came to the same conclusion as you.
I can't see fully autonomous vehicles in my lifetime. Everyone will chime in to tell me about advances in robotics, ML, sensor technology and fusion, how many miles Google cars have driven, so on and so forth. I have approximately 30 more years before departing this mortal coil.

Roads are tough. Sometimes they're covered in snow, ice, rain with poor visibility. Sometimes they're well constructed, other times they're in disrepair. That's just the technical side of the issue.

The social side (at least in the US) is much more difficult. In the foreseeable future, any AV will have to share the road with "classic" cars, driven by humans of modest computing power. Trying to anticipate how they will interact should be interesting to say the least. And in our hyper-litigious and hyper-protective society, the clash between AVs and traditional cars will be difficult to resolve.
Those resources are good. Twitter's Scala school is more relevant as a reference than Odersky's progfun course (if that's what you mean by "official tutorial"), because progfun is more about FP and less about Scala-the-language (this made it even more interesting for me, but also makes it less useful as a reference). Note, however, those resources are external.

I understand what you mean by core values. I don't understand how they are improved by a lack of documentation.
Yes, thank you for demonstrating my point about taking a single outlier poll.
I think my problem is how he pronounces the "r". It sounds a bit off-place with the rest of the accent being rather Finnish.
Seth Rich was implied to be the DNC leak. He was a DNC operative who was "robbed" and subsequently murdered. Still unsolved. There is 0 evidence of Russia being the only entity who gained access.

There are multiple access points, some within Federal Government.
Question to Hillary: Isn't it a fact that the product that U are actually selling is US government policy?
I don't know the details, but the teams at Google responsible for supporting their version of Linux and their C++ compiler sometimes mentioned making contributions to the common codebases. I got the impression they didn't make all of their fixes public, though.
> Regardless, are we discussing whether it's good idea to adopt Scala coming from Java (I think it is!) or whether the transition from Java to Scala is easy? I thought it was the latter, and if so, it's unarguably easier than the transition from Java to Clojure. Scala "looks like" Java in a way Clojure doesn't.

A bit of both. How's that for a hedge? :)

Admittedly, I'm coming back into Java with 1.8+ and don't have a legacy codebase to deal with. So, my calculation as to whether Scala is worth the cost is quite skewed from someone who has been doing it since Java 1.4.

Is it easier to transition from Java to Scala than to Clojure? Maybe. But the people who can make the Scala transition also seem to be the same people who can make the Clojure transition.

And, I think that's the core problem for Scala. The features that make Scala compelling aren't a nice, slow, logical evolution from Java.
Right? I have a black OnePlus One and the first thing anyone says is, "wow, what's this made of?" Sandstone was an awesome choice. At least it's still available as a snap-on case for the OP3.
Oh, no, he's perfectly intelligible, it's just that the specific accent/tone variations he uses are a bit peculiar, so I fixate on them.
There might be a reason for that: if the modern corporation is built upon breaking work down into ever-tinier units, hierarchically, then the vast majority of positions available will focus on performing one very specialized, tightly-defined task with exceptional accuracy and consistency.

And then because there are fewer positions that involve strategic planning at the top of the pyramid, the relative status and financial compensation for those positions will be higher. The causality runs from hierarchy -> job descriptions -> pay scales & status -> educational system, not the other way around. As all the folks who graduated college/gradschool with loads of student debt but no positions available know, it does no good for everyone to train to be at the top when the top only has so many positions available.

It's an interesting thought experiment to imagine what the world would look like if we got rid of hierarchy entirely. YC was built on this premise [1]; it will be curious to see if it actually succeeds in eliminating hierarchy or if it just replaces one set of hierarchies with a different one, with different folks at the top.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
> Why should random companies get to legally print knockoff Mickey t-shirts just because enough time has passed?

Because our Copyright laws are all sorts of outdated and ridiculous in various ways.
That's true iff the 529 plan money is "required" for college. If you take instead the view that the 529 plan is just one type of asset that your child has, that you are optimizing for lifetime returns, and that attending vs not attending college is not changed by the 529 returns, then you could take the view that the 529 funds are just as subject to optimal asset allocation as any IRA or brokerage investments the child might have.

Though my kids are 5 and 7, I plan to invest on their behalf in 529, UTMA, and other accounts with their anticipated lifespan as the controlling factor, not which moment I expect to need the funds (because it is overwhelmingly likely that there will be other funds available if needed).
I don't think you're understanding the conversation that's going on, and I do find it boring to re-state things I've already written.
> What's interesting about our education system is we focus a lot on precision and accuracy and not that much on strategy and planning. It seems like a system built to produce accountants and actuaries more than a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Because it is? That's not necessarily a bad thing, the world only needs so many entrepreneurs.
What do you think about using Gaussian distribution for random generation to make it possible to discover rare species (or whatever you generate randomly)? Could a Gaussian distribution "spice things up"?
Wikileaks has over 800k Russian documents that Putin was not happy about getting leaked.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Whistleblowers/Russia
A production is only as good as it's training and docs.

I would go a step further: 'Training and Docs ARE the Product'.

Having bad docs is like selling a car without wheels -> It's not a car :), rather, not a thing that 'solves the problem of getting people from point A to point B'.

My experience with Scala has generally led me to concur with the overall assessment that Scala information and communication is pretty weak.

Hope they can improve it, it's a pretty cool language.
Indeed. How does education and income correlate though? We're talking about millions of people here, not a handful, so the chances of it being a bunch of above median high school drop-outs seems exceedingly unlikely, no?
I literally couldn't care less about demographic checkboxes

Then you are not the audience those "demographic checkboxes" are there for. (Neither am I.)

I'm a white male engineer, and I've never had the experience of going to a tech conference and wondering whether I'm supposed to be there because I don't see anyone else who looks like me. That experience is common for engineers who are women, POC, or in various other demographics.

For all I know you might be a member of one of those demographics, but if you "couldn't care less" then I assume you haven't had that experience either. That doesn't affect your right to an opinion, but it does mean you are not fully considering at least one reason that demographic diversity is important.

Ideas are what matter to hackers and engineers.

I haven't met a single hacker or engineer who wasn't also a person, and other things that matter to people include feeling welcome and accepted.

If you're accustomed to feeling welcome and accepted at technical conferences, it's easy to say that feeling welcome and accepted doesn't matter to you at such conferences. If most conferences didn't make you feel that way, it might matter to you more to find one that did.

One way to make people feel welcome and accepted is to reduce the extent to which they feel like the "odd one out", in as many senses as possible.

As autarch points out above, this isn't an argument for accepting any old talk so long as it fills some demographic quota. It would be a strange conference that replaced quality of ideas with demographic diversity in their talk selection criteria. Rather, it just means conferences have more than one criterion to optimise for. Multi-objective optimisation is complicated and involves tradeoffs, but "all or nothing" is unlikely to be optimal.
The judge was a member of a group affiliated with La Raza, it was not because he "was Mexican."
Because you're the one saying race and demographics don't matter, yet you're likely a member of the race and demographic who hasn't had negative experiences because of their race/demographic. You don't think it's important because you've never really had to think about it.
https://ding.io/ was super nice when I was logging my time as a contractor. Worked great for personal stuff too, like going to the gym. Easy to separate that out from the work stuff.
...what? The poster linked to a library implementing a way to interface keyboard events with the Linux kernel input subsystem, to show how one might solve the problem the posted blog post attempts to solve from within a web browser when one is writing native code.

You're talking about cross platform GUI development toolkits.

The two things are just 2 completely and utterly different topics.