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> It is just as unjust to allow someone who deserves death to live as it is unjust to execute someone who deserves life.

No, it's not. For one thing, 50/50 guilty or innocent is nowhere near sufficient to qualify as 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' that can convict someone - which is exactly what your moral equivalence implies.

There are plenty of arguments to be made about how convicting an innocent person creates far more injustice then not convicting a guilty one, the difference between a well-oiled, 'cool-headed' criminal system meting out injustice, compared to a crime of passion, systemic bias...
This is getting sick, literally tens of thousands facebook bots spamming propaganda comments and upvoting each others to the top of the normal persons viewport on majority of related subjects.

Well played whoever orchestrating it.

This addition aint helping it.
> Pekin (former head of the Turkish Military Intelligence) and other high level officials had a backchannel to Assad for the administration, and were associated with parties and policies that had been trying to normalize relations between the countries

So? Why do you point to this? Is this a proof that Erdogan is right to do what he does? Or is this a proof of Erdogan not supporting the US or other Sunni countries enough? What?

The US ambassador cable from 2006 showing the US planning to destabilize the Syrian government by any means available and that the US will work to increase Sunni-Shia sectarianism in Syria, also via Wikileaks:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

Note, Assad and his closest forces are Alawite (Shia), Iran is Shia, but ISIS, al-Qaeda, Turkey (thanks to Erdogan continuously more Islamic), Saudis and Muslim Brotherhood are Sunnis. Assad's interest was always freedom of religion, as Alawite were minority in Syria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Syria
If we had open primaries everywhere, I'd be more inclined to agree with you here. As someone who lives in a state with closed primaries, the way it looks to me is that the candidate selected as "most desirable" by a party's base is not at all necessarily the one who will be "most desirable" for the country as a whole--especially when combined with the much lower percentages of people who come out to vote in the primary elections, hence my hesitation to toss 'em all out. The ones most likely to succeed are the ones who pander the most to their hardcore base, to the distress/distaste of much of the rest of the population, especially those outside the party in question.

I am however on the record elsewhere as saying that a necessary part of the path to improving Washington is, in fact, to throw them all out, so I won't fight you too hard on this!
There is so much sensationalist nonsense by clueless people here, it is insane. Do you freak out over everything you do not understand?

Because you don't understand the solid state physics of your iPhone CPU, does that mean it is magic?

Because you do not understand what a neural network is, does that mean it is magic? NO, it is essentially curve fitting with gradient descent. (Me: PhD in Statistics).
Interesting about "Playtest," did you see "10 Cloverfield Lane?" Same director.
TL;DR -- Luke Iseman, YC's hardware focused Partner founded a hardware startup, which he's now taking through YC as a founder, after having set up a bunch of deals and processes to help hardware startups as a YC Partner.

Seems like pretty good evidence YC is now great at helping hardware startups that he's choosing to go through the program himself.
I never said that monitors work better with desktop computers as opposed to laptops. I said that only Apple monitors are sharp when connected to laptops, as opposed to non Apple monitors. Wasn't that clear?
If v6 were widely deployed in the early 2000s, then the Windows botnet phase would have been so much worse, many other issues aside.
> Imagine a society without justice/police in which people must fend for themselves. It would quickly deteriorate to the point wherein there would be a fair bit of violence.

that conclusion is not warranted by the premise. How about this as an alternative outcome: "Imagine a society in which people actively defend community values for themselves and in cooperation with a community of similarly concerned citizens. It would quickly stabilize into a mostly non-violent community."

What are police, but a group of people specifically dedicated by the community to a specific task? Just because there is no dedicated, professional person filling a role, does not mean the role will not be filled.
Ah yes, ZFS the saviour.

Just as long as it does't get anywhere near capacity.
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I agree. I think it's always been good and it might even be getting better.
I would argue this is far more serious than the phones that were recently recalled:

> "The washing machine top can unexpectedly detach from the washing machine chassis during use, posing a risk of injury from impact," according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

How scary is that? This likely could cause death. You are talking about the water, clothes, and the weight of the drum flying out and potentially hitting you.
Is it just me or does that picture make him look like a zombie on TWD?
"Iseman says his departure was purely about his desire to get back into the founder's role and build something new. He's already been accepted into the winter 2017 YC cohort with his new housing startup."

Doesn't sound very acrimonious.
Well, here's how I see it. I understand what you are trying to say, it is not your (or anyone's) business to decide what other people should do with their lives, specially if it doesn't affect others. And, so no one (or governments) should intervene and regulate/ban sale of cigarettes. Would you feel absolutely the same way about all banned substances? If not, well you should agree that different people would draw the line differently.
I work for a tech/telco company in London and all the seniors agree that CS degrees now are totally useless and don't make you any better at CS.

You might want to consider forming a perspective on this topic with some basis other "what the senior developers at my company say".
Yes, it's interesting what help will be given to the network.

From the article it seems the answer is: very little. It is allowed to use only the pixels on the screen. (During play, not training apparently.)
It will even have to spend actions on moving the screen/window to inspect things.
Very cool stuff :)
I'd rather that the coding was something that was left to the player or to the third party market. Right now programming games are kind of boring, more like a way of prettying up homework than anything else. A really fun game where programming could give you a competitive edge would be something to see.

The closest thing I can think of is add-ons for MMOs, but there the game developers specifically try to prevent add-ons that are too performance enhancing instead of making the coding an integral part of the game.
Fight the good fight, you're not the only one standing up against this ridiculous moniker. Never back down. Keep calling out the bullshit every time and everywhere this term is promoted. People ask "what's the big deal?" well the big deal is ,calling a service "serverless" is both a lie and misleading for marketing purposes.
Michael Shur also played Dwight's cousin Mose.
Is $40 really not worth a year or more of experimentation? You can also do a lot of learning through replays or vs AI.

I personally am willing to pay $40 for an environment to test my ai on for a couple months.
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Tredly is "just" a FreeBSD distribution. And Linux can't have ZFS in-tree because CDDL.
Skin color does not tell you anything about who a person is.

The problem is that this is not true. If it was, it would be much simpler.

Race and ethnicity have a nonzero correlation with other factors like culture and socioeconomic status, which means they are, on average, likely to tell you something about the person. When applied to a given individual they're obviously very flawed predictors, but if they didn't sort of work as a proxy for other characteristics, I don't think it would be talked about as much as it is.
> the system incentivizes short term greed

This is the alpha and the omega of the whole thing.
Andy's the best thing about Headspace. His voice is encouraging without being judgmental. Definitely one of the main reasons I decided to purchase a subscription.
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the press is going to make a huge clickbait deal about this, even if the complexity of starcraft 2, even if huge, is extremely small compared to the complexity of the world
It's not you that is confused.
> From 1960 to 1992 crime in the Western world grew by 800%

citation? Also, same question for your 600% number?
Or the Barkley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons - 100mi in 60h.

Only 17 finishes in 30 years (14 distinct runners).
The initial shock thing, I agree, and also backlash inflation.
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why is it reasonable ? what right did your gene line earn to be a permanent recipient of privilege?
You could probably do this with a single multi function adapter.
That's a horrible and flat out wrong answer. Docker simply provides a transferable containerized execution environment for processes with a simple push pull workflow.

Lambda is a fully elastic infrastructure you can build, deploy, and execute functions.

Simply having docker-engine and docker-cli installed on my machine doesn't give me anything close to lambda.
[3Blue1Brown] Who cares about topology? (inscribed rectangle problem)
Yes, I even named it in my post
Try running a few docker containers to support development work. A few DBs, messaging servers, Lucene indices, etc. Try prototyping applications using map-reduce for huge datasets.

"Pro" doesn't always refer to the artistic line of professionals. Many developers see this as a huge problem, and there are a lot of us.

Our options now include the 2005-era looking systems at system76.com, running Linux. I love Linux for servers, but I really don't like the GUIs, or acting as my own systems integrator. I want a true modern "Pro" macOS system, and that doesn't exist right now.
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The amount that money dictates outcome in matters of law should frighten us to the core.
That's fair and how it should be.

Secular democracies are freer, richer, more stable and more powerful than theocracies (technical exception made for the United Kingdom).

Outsiders aren't saying "you are wrong". They are saying "have you considered your current path will likely leave you less free, more poor and at a higher risk of living in a failed state in one to three generations?"
Why can't they triangulate it? Too deep to go?
I'm in Australia, when I grew up degrees were free and the government paid an allowance if your family was poor or you were classed as independent - which means you worked for 2 years after school.

So I ended up getting a degree after starting work as an apprentice. The days of an allowance are long gone, Uni degrees now cost here, but not as much as the folks across the pond seem to pay from what I can gather.

Would I have gone to uni in todays conditions? probably. would I have finished - hard to say, 3 years of scrabbling for money would have perhaps changed things.

The bit I can't figure out is why in the 70's and 80's we could afford that, but now we can't. I suspect it's peoples life style expectations, and the greed of those who earn money to not want to pay taxes. I don't like paying tax any more than the next person but if you want a functioning society taxes are necessary and the only way of redistributing wealth.
Having never heard of Aurelia before, I was curious how this compared to React and found this interview with the creator/lead, Rob Eisenberg, with his thoughts:

https://medium.com/hashnode-insights/rob-eisenberg-on-aureli...

Also includes his comparison to Angular.
Can you please quote from my above comment the part where paywalls are discussed?
Both UV and the BM episode strongly reminded me of an Outer Limits (I think?) episode about a perpetual war between humans and aliens in some underground cave. The reveal is pretty similar to that in Men Against Fire, except the justification is different.
To be fair, it actually does say "or equivalent experience." So (in theory) a code camp background shouldn't count against you.

But yes, it's something of a faux pas for them not to say as much in their writeup, e.g. "code camp graduates with significant industrial experience are warmly encouraged to apply." Keeping in mind that this is not an entry-level position, after all.
> Personally, I'm waiting for bcachefs

tires++

;-)
"One of the reasons that often lyricists and poets and novelists will prefer the irregular to the regular when there’s a choice  — strided versus strode, strove versus strived, hove versus heaved — "

#LiberalArtsMatter
Why even compare PNG and H.264 to begin with? PNG is a lossless compression format. A better comparison would be something lossy like JPG, which could easily shrink the size to ~100 kB. The point still stands, but at least it's a more relevant comparison.
your last sentence, and this comment in general sounds exactly like what people were saying a year ago about Go. (Chess was easy, because it's perfectly suited for AI, but when a computer can beat us at Go, that's when we should be afraid!)
So google compute setup I did a while back with preemptible instances + a celery queue + some autoscale based on load...

The guts to make all that work was 50 or so lines of config. I think my auto scale script was 20 lines or so of Python.

I guess the biggest downside was spinning up the new server took about 2 minutes, so for big load spikes it took a bit for it to level out... but with GCE per minute billing, all the napkin math I did says it is a fair bit cheaper per cpu unit to do it this way.

In conclusion, someone good with devops + a normal work queue system could do this years ago. I guess it's cool to lower the barrier to entry, but not it does not seem like a game changer. It totally IS cool to scale out backend work to a job farm. Just seems like not the only way to do it.
wouldn't you just convert the alphabet to 0-1? Shouldn't the 0-1 compression be the most optimal? That is, you can't find a better deal with any alphabets or numerical?
Majority judgment or judgment voting is interesting / more general than merely up vote + down vote.

I think the most important thing is for voters to want to experiment. And to be engaged.
Init systems.
How about "worker queue" ? because it is exactly what is it. Obfuscating the details is silly. There is nothing new about the technology. It is only marketed as new (which is reflected in the pricing).
It may be gaining popularity with liberals, but such a position is at odds with key tenets of "the left", i.e. socialists and marxists.
Thats really interesting. Im curious why they havent been more popular. Were they heavilly focused on fps's?
Indeed, I was spending 15 min minimum for each theme, and then there are themes like Bridge that has 200 different style sub-themes (or demos), where each can be used actually for any website. So, who has time to go through all?

This is why we made it very easy to go through themes and their related sub-themes. It can be even improved further with your great arrow down idea and a modal.
People very much used CDs and DVDs when they removed them. The Air was widely mocked for it.
And Firefox with one single website. But even so, the test is interesting because others can run a more realistic use case and report on that.
Isn't that the definition of a conflict of interest? Or am I reading this wrong?
"Sam Altman, president and co-founder of Y Combinator."

Uhh, they clearly didn't do their homework if they thought Altman co-founded YC.
I don't think it's fair to say we "want to lock people up". We need to believe that we can make ourselves safe from criminals. We need to believe can do some science magic and tell the difference between the criminals and the regular people so we can sleep at night. Admitting we can't calls in to question the whole premise of locking the bad people up. A judge or politician can't come out and say, "we have no reliable way of deciding guilt or innocence." That is reality but we can't allow ourselves to admit it.
Very interesting stuff.

Allowing researchers to build AIs that operate on either game state or visual data is a great step, IMO. Being able to limit actions-per-minute is also very wise. The excellent BWAPI library for Starcraft Broodwar that is referenced (https://github.com/bwapi/bwapi) provides game state - and was presumably used by Facebook to do their research earlier this year (http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02993). For mine, the significant new challenges here not present in Go are the partial observability of the game and the limited time window in which decisions need to be made. Even at 24 frames per second, the AI would only have 40 milliseconds to decide what to do in response to that frame. This is more relevant to online learning architectures.

The open questions here are how freely this will be available - and in what form. Will I need to buy a special version of the game? Clearly there will be some protection or AI detection - to ensure that competitive human play is not ruined either by human-level bots, if they can truly be developed, or by sub-par bots. Starcraft 2 (presumably the latest expansion, Legacy of the Void, will be used here) does not run on Linux, whereas most GPU-based deep learning toolkits are, so having a bridge between the game and AI server may be necessary for some researchers.

Besides being great for AI researchers, this is probably good for Blizzard too, since it will bring more interest to the Starcraft series.

2017 can't come soon enough.
if it's one of you will not be able to get the limit if you do this even at a rate of 1 req/sec you will be paying close to 1.4 million USD per month just for compute.
Well some might consider their children as "skin in the game" but still. As far as I am concerned having children is also a luxury. At least it should be considered so, from my moral perspective.
Phones that burst into flames could also cause death...
The followup doco is even better - the newly minted master sommeliers proceed to contradict each other, and seem to have a lot more fun than the first one.
Thank you! we removed it for the next release.
Well, I know that Buena Vista will - and I am going there tomorrow... but the people I am going with know a hell-of-a-lot more about this than I do. But the last two times I went to Buena Vista, this was brought up by my date and the group. They did it once. You create your custom blend - then they keep that on file and you can request/buy it any time.

https://www.buenavistawinery.com/
I assume you are referring to the same limitations almost every FS on earth to date suffers from when you consume about 90% capacity?

What a useless comment. If you are running out of capacity adding disks to a zpool is incredibly mind numbingly easy.

"zfs add poolname mirror disk1 disk2"

Every filesystem has performance hit the floor when you consume all available capacity. This is not unique to ZFS but to well, reality.
You can write people in.

And most voting is at local levels.

So, false dichotomy.
Yes that talking about the UK's perception not the actual historical meanings.

And I though the origin was military engineers you know like Leonardo
>>I don't think teaching science better

It is not about teaching science better, it is about teaching critical thinking at all.

Schools, especially primary schools, are devoted to conformity, social acceptance, and political correctness

They do not teach people to be critical of those in authority, or power.

This drives out the required critical thinking a person needs when they hear dissent on climate change, or how GMO's will be the end of humanity instead they just accept it as fact because a person of authority in their lives(be it a politician, preacher, or even simply an older adult they look up to) has told them it is fact so it is fact.
Maybe they shouldn't use tons of memory carelessly.
Go for it. Neonazism in Baltic countries is widespread and government put a blind eye on it. Report as much as you want truth won't change.
My point is that you don't see the opposite- there aren't researchers purporting to have shown that the means are the same, flawed research or otherwise.

They don't want to study it, even though doing so could prove their position.

Imagine if there was an easy way to check whether or not God existed, but Christians virulently fought against anyone who tried to do so. Wouldn't this be a pretty good indicator that they were wrong?
Old but gold
The more one pays for the choices of others, the more they feel entitled to be influence those choices.

If the health care costs keep going up, and/or they start rationing/queueing, that may have a big enough impact on you that you change your opinion.

Even if you keep your opinion, when you vote for socialism you are voting to force everyone to pay for Joe's poor choices. They might not be so generous.

If you want to just pay into a no-strings-attached social fund, and not force everyone else, that would preserve freedom.
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Seems like a perfect storm - but why? Clearly any one of these doses of bad news (Hanjin bankruptcy, Note7, washers) would be enough for a year, but all three?
Oh I know :(
Honestly? Season 3 seemed the weakest of the bunch but I feel that the final episode made up for the rest. And even a weak Black Mirror episode is still pretty decent if you don't hold it up to the ridiculous standards that seasons 1 and 2 set for the show.
By the way, here is Erdogan prescribing secularism to Egypt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8jh68yICpk
>2017 can't come soon enough.

Let's just get through Tuesday and see what happens! ;-)
NixOS intrigues me as an attempt to create a completely deterministic build.
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Excellent. You can't just make things up for the sake of "starting a conversation". Either you report the truth or you're just a propaganda piece. I'm sure there is hundreds of real rape on campus stories out there (unfortunately). The Rolling Stone was fed with the lies they wanted to ear. They knew it was bullshit, they went ahead and publish that crap just "to start a conversation" ... hurting real rape victims at the same time.
Servers can be inexpensive. It really depends on your use case.
You don't have to drop 50K on a box to make a killer ZFS storage array.
That's... not even him, that's not Luke, that's Sam. For a second they had me thinking Sam had stepped down from his position at yc. Sam wouldn't do that to us.
Well, one correct response is absolutely to figure out if the end justifies the means. Proper measurement often isn't easy or casual, between staging a reasonably clean test and figuring out the actual significance of the results.

If you naively insist on measuring a large amount of things, especially different things, chances are pretty good you're doing it slapdash and relying more on tea leaves than science when you interpret the results. Plus you run the risk of downplaying anything that can't be given a number.

I took the "don't measure all the things" lead-in more as pick your battles. If you actually have spare bandwidth to measure all the things in a valid manner, great, but some things can't be easily quantified and maybe the bandwidth is better spent qualifying them instead.
Previous HN discussion (different link but same incident): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10826028
Stop allysplaining
Have we reached peak app?