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Perhaps a way forward is instead much greater personalization?

Yes, reddit, HN, and the NYT, are echo chambers. But is that the problem, or the eternal-Septemeber, clueless reporting, low-signal high-noise level of the echos?

Is the problem that the LA Times publishes a propaganda piece on Copyright Office staffing? Or that it's so very hard to find high-quality commentary? With which, if you cared to, you could to discredit the dreck? Is the enormous role that groupthink plays in Washington the problem, or that even when people wish to break out of it on some topic, the information infrastructure doesn't exist to support them?

Imaging an HN which, instead of pretending its quality hadn't declined over the years, was instead trying to technically address the decline. What might be done?

Well, why couldn't a high-quality discussion community exist embedded in a reddit? A necessary condition is "we don't see the dreck". Personalization. Everyone has control of what the site looks like to them. So you can be fine with reddit-style puns on topic A, but only see insightful expertise on topic B. And I can make the opposite choice. On Tuesdays.

A core idea of machine-learning-based human-computer-hybrid systems, is that the system learns about the people at the same time that the people help the system execute the process. The candy machine bribing CS undergraduates to grade CS 101 exams, learns both about the answers being graded, and about how much to trust different people's grading of different subjects.

And the system can recognize when it needs advice. "This clearly goes in bucket M, and this in bucket N, but hmm... I'm not sure where to put this one. Hey, statistically well-executed sample of people, which bucket?".

Perhaps it's overly optimistic to think that people might choose to not live in mind ghettos if given the choice. But we won't have a choice until we get better at cultivating quality. Instead of chance "Oh, look over there, by the petunias! A thoughtful thread! Oh, no, it's dead now".
I see that I was not being clear, my apologies. What I meant was that retaining the right to bear arms is a proactive step against terrorism (by minimizing "soft" civilian targets) that a)preserves freedoms, and b)is nonetheless controversial.

The parent comment was making the argument that there are no freedom-preserving counter terrorism measures that are controversial. The right to bear arms is a counter example.
Nothing new. Not sure why HN is obsessed with old articles about gut bacteria.
Foreign goods are extremely popular on Tmall and Taobao. There are companies that specialize in shipping containers full of Costco Kirkland goods to China, and usually selling them for a good markup. For example: Ferrero Rocher chocolate boxes can be bought at Costco for between 9 and 13 dollars. They sell in China for 200-250 RMB (thats about 30 USD).

One of my wife's friends is a Chinese citizen who lives in Italy. She selects purses, backpacks, and occasionally wine and markets them in China. There is a lot of demand for showing up your friends with expensive imported goods. Even more benefit if you had to use a connection to purchase the goods.
Off the top of my head, the German bird probably does. It probably gets muddled if the cage bars overlap it.
Would we have to worry about communicating with aliens if they showed up here?

Consider that the aliens would have flown their practically-magical craft umpteen billion of miles to land on a specific planet, one would hope they arrive with some sort of plan to speak to the natives.
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I think a lot of the problem arose because they kept the content editors close to home.

A lot could be solved by just adding people to that department, located across the country in states where they already have offices anyway, or hire editors to work from home. That way, the editorial content wouldn't have to be so biased by region.
On both sides, how much does this matter at this point? The vote was pretty evenly split. How is this going to affect how you act going forward? There's no mandate on either side, nor was there likely to have been if Clinton had won the election.
I understand why Trump called for a ban on Muslim immigrants. Do you understand why such a thing would be grossly unconstitutional and is against everything this country should stand for?

For Mexicans, he said "they're rapists" without limiting the number. He then said some of them are good people, which is confusing and contradictory. Deciding what he really meant is a matter of interpretation and you'll never know if you have the right answer or not. This is, of course, a constant theme with the Trump campaign: say something outrageous, but with just enough wiggle room to explain it away as something else.

As for assassination: "If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know." This was later explained as a reference to the pro-gun political power, but that makes no sense: Supreme Court justices with lifetime appointments don't care about political activism.
Traders see a company at odds with its government as a liability. Traders 'deserve' stability at a price if they so choose.
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The Ny times has a paid option, they have world class investigative journalism...
If you are allowed to vote and don't, your opinion is irrelevant.
Also, on a minor note for us package creators and maintainers: this version includes the latest version of CoffeeScript, 1.11.1, which will make package development less of a dark ages exercise.
I'm confused?
From the perspective of someone who already has a job in the industry, I'm really not going to want to do more than one interview per week anyway.

This format also doesn't appear to want full days: it should be an hour or two Friday afternoon, plus a half of Monday. Two part-days isn't really that worse than a full day off (Mileage may obviously vary; particularly the mileage to get to the interview). The initial interview could also very easily be done remotely.

Even if it is a bit higher-impact, I would still prefer it simply for the greater quality of experience, and that's before throwing in the payment.
Soft marketing for that company that sells gut bacteria pills, they post ads on here fairly often.
I thought that was something that one can do by putting things in a trust? If it's not your money anymore, what prevents you from passing it on?
Yes. We're talking about a platform that at it's best is birthday wishes, vacation and cat pictures. It's running on a paid content model, with advertisers selling through viral videos and click-bait. It's good not to expect too much out of it.
Ah yes, Twitter, the left-leaning echo chamber where alt-right types and racists don't bombard jews and black people constantly with death threats and gas chamber jokes. Free speech has been suppressed so vigorously by the Safety Council :(

(Spoiler alert: Twitter basically doesn't moderate anything and their department responsible for handling abuse reports doesn't do anything)
Leftist parties are spewing hatred just as much as FN does. It's just that you don't notice it, because you identify to the minorities' cause. For example it's now forbidden to show a nativity scene in a public space in France (That was decided this week), while it's ok to wear the niqab. It's just that leftists can't wrap their mind about the hypothesis that – maybe – it's now Catholics who are the victims.

Other example: A leftist (Yesterday at lunch! It's not like it never happens!) made a joke about "all priests are rapists anyway" and no-one said anything. But if anyone made a joke about "All Arabs are thieves", they'd sure face immediate forced resignation. Both are stupidly gross generalizations that no-one should ever say.

Other example: Leftists want to close the Catholic schools in France, "because they're inequal". Truth is, Catholic schools are better schools with better results and fewer violence, and that would kill the place where I was educated. The Khmers Rouges have tried eliminating the elites, that didn't bode well for them.

Hatred from leftists and from Muslim partisans is everyday. But the world has changed. We can either match your hatred with FN, or leftists can decide to stop oppressing the historical part of the population.
December of 2015?
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> I know for one thing - change is in the air,

This is basically my take on it. I preferred Trump over Hilary even though I think both candidates were terrible, and the reason is because we know what we're getting with Hilary, we have no idea what we're getting with Trump.

You hope for the best and prepare for the worst, but atleast it's a change. Obama ran on change and ended up not being the change people voted him in to be. Maybe Trump will be it, maybe not. We'll find out.
I've built interpreters for both a subset of Java and a full Lisp. Here's my take.

> Is there something inherently easier to implementing a functional language instead of something more imperative?

Other answers have focused on the parsing of the language (that is, the production of an AST) which is much easier to cover instructionally for a Lisp because it's basically the AST already.

To my mind the semantics' of imperative languages is the real issue. In particular when defining and/or implementing the semantics for an imperative language, eventually store (memory) management comes up and everything gets much more complicated instantly.

[edit] And to go along with the store there are often more forms for which you need to define the semantics (statements, expressions, classes, etc).

In contrast functional languages can frequently be implemented using term rewriting which can deal directly with the AST itself.

More broadly, this is why I wish students were required to implement an interpreter of an imperative language. The act of debugging programs becomes more difficult for the same reason the semantics is more difficult to define and implement: it's more complex and there are more nuts and bolts to consider.
I wonder how they avoid getting DDOSed to hell and back during their big sale week? You would think the DDOS extortion groups would be all over that.
Which is better, generics or macros?
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All children with Autism have gut issues. They have dysbiosis which causes them to behave like they do. Many children recover when their gut micro-biome is fixed. Organic Castor Oil taken regularly twice a week for an year will fix it. I know that people will not believe it. But I would just like to post it here just for future reference.
"Voting fraud"? That wasn't an issue in 2000 (or ever in the US, as far as I know). There were famously problems with Florida's ballot. I don't know what Florida did, if anything, but there was federal legislation in 2002. This is how everyone got the money to buy electronic voting machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_America_Vote_Act
That's one class of professional. Photography is a very large field -- kids with smartphones aren't supplanting model shoots, or fine artists, or wedding photographers, or even the party/event people. It's frustrating to watch naive technologists make broad pronouncements about narrow observations, particularly when they want to disrupt a "precious" process (contemptuous much?) that isn't necessarily broken for many. Don't fix what ain't broke, no?

The 'kids with smartphones' thing is so much deeper than simply the ability to publish quickly. One of my siblings does photography for a locally-based national newspaper and the biggest reason for iPhone journalism is cost (aside from integration). To that end press photographers are being issues iPhones and told to capture most of their work that way. Photography is adapting to the future just fine, just not in the way some money-hungry entrepreneur would like
The question remains.
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One plus of laptops?
With that username I would have said you are from Sicily...
I'm not sure that this is the case. But I am sure that the majority of people here like to think of themselves as such.
Wouldn't Facebook have the perverse incentive to define 'misinformation' to be any information which offends the most people, regardless of truth, in order to keep users from leaving
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That only works well if each "variant" holds the same kind of thing. If not, you have to store them one after the other (space wastage), or use interfaces to store them in the same place (tag isn't necessary anymore, extra boxing).

Rust enums (ADTs) aren't like Java enums where each variant contains the same kind of data.
is this compatible with django-storages (which supports S3)
Use the Electoral College the way it was intended
At least in Washington there is a 1:1 mapping between your registered address and the envelope send your ballot in (I don't believe its to the ballot itself but I could be wrong). Once you send in your ballot you can verify on the county voting site that your ballot has been counted. I'm guessing this is the main way they check that fraudulent ballots aren't being submitted as you would then have > 1:1 mapping in many cases.
I agree, formatting is like punctuation in a narrative. Not massively significant but certainly not meaningless. There is a sort of rhythm, flavor, style, whatever you want to call it, that winds up being part of it all. And it can prevent mistakes.
The flyer is in the facebook event not the band page. The cover photo for the album was a completely separate project :)
Thanks for this. I've been looking for something that sums up how I'm feeling, and this pretty much hits the nail on the head.

I'm sick of both the "Liberal Smugness" and the "Uneducated Peasants" talk. Never blame the people; blame the system.
Seems to be called after Pokemon Eevee. Sounds interesting though...
Facebook completely controls the presentation priority, no? Bolt a Watson-like truth scoring system on to evaluate content and use the resulting confidence to boost or bury content in other's feeds.

It would absolutely have to be automatically generated, but it doesn't seem impossible (just much harder NLP that Watson playing Jeopardy).
A very interesting analysis, but you need to add the time dimension to the issue of introspection, the boy who cried wolf example I mentioned (and, of course, in that Aesop the wolf did eventually come...).

Did I engage in introspection the first time I was called racist in this context? Yes, of course. 10th time? I don't think so.

The danger here, of course, is that having stopped outside sparked introspection after the message became perceived as a "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll go eat worms!" one, I of course may have drifted into it.

Almost certainly a bigger factor in the US is that this has been used to divide us for political gain, and now that we've become an polity where identity rules, it's anti-survival to continue to play by the old no longer operative rules. For a degree of automatic discrimination against other identities who are in direct, existential competition with me as a white, heterosexual male is a requirement if I want me and mine to survive the next few decades.

Call it racism (except, of course, We Don't Care), call it realism, those facts on the ground have to changed before movement towards your ideals can be realized in the US.
is this compatible with django-storages (which supports S3)

Update:
actually it does
http://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/apa...
It's absolutely doable to evaluate one hundred take home tests in a week. It is a full time job though.
I'm certain he was being sarcastic.
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Thanks. I should've looked that up before commenting!
I've had a little exposure to Go and seen how rapid development in Go can be while still maintaining decent performance.

Is anyone aware of scientific stack development in Go? Specifically, does HN think thee will be a Numpy or Scipy equivalent in Go or does this not make any sense?
I think it's Eve 5?

Are they morons giving such names?
You're anchoring them to offer you 100k. Pretty sure that's not what you wanted to do ^^
>...current electoral college system is... not representative of true democracy.

True. But America is not a Democracy. It is a Republic.

There is a reason why The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College system. Under a Popular Votes system, if one state has more than 51% of the population, it will decide the whole election, and ALL the other states won't even get a say (because they all only add up to 49% or less), which is unfair to these smaller states.

This is why the Electoral College was created. It's there protect the smaller states, to make sure that they also have a say in the election.
>This is a pretty terrible argument, to be completely honest.

No it's a good argument. You're just too sensitive to accept the harsh fact that protesting is protected under the 1st Amendment.

>Everyone engaging in political hypocrisy is using their freedom of speech.

Protests come under speech, better learn to read case law.
> the workplace harassment portion continued at the next job

Occam's razor: Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
I don't agree that the learning curve difference (which is a temporary cost that decreases over time) is high enough to outweigh the benefits in the "majority" of cases that could benefit from Rust (and reap those benefits long-term). I respect your experience, but it doesn't invalidate mine, which has held up with many people I've seen get up to speed with Rust.
Well that's patently not a true statement. The Guardian, the NY Times, and Der Spiegel are the first three publications that do important investigations that come to mind but they are not alone.

There are a lot of PR plants even in the more reputable newspapers, which is unfortunate, but there are still regular thorough investigations, which I assume are getting harder to do as money and resources continue to shrink.
An immediate huge problem is the fact that the blockchain works because the signer can prove their ability to sign, but voting is supposed to be anonymous. If every vote was a transaction then every vote would be public knowledge, but anonymity of voting is one of the cornerstones of our voting process.
Facebook consumes too many eyeball hours not to do news.
All of China hitting your servers aren't considered a DDOS by itself?
Part of the problem is voting is run at the local level. I'm not sure the federal government even has the authority to tell states and counties that they must use a particular voting machine.
It wouldn't even work. Reread the news you found that you agreed with - how much of it is simply restating the same basic things and calling the other side evil, stupid, etc, at least indirectly?

If somebody with different believes than you were forced to read those, do you think the resulting society was more or less polarized?

The kind of content you need to do that is already disadvantaged since it has to be toned way down, and that makes it less much less likely to be shared in the first place.
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Lack of confidence is highly linked with being constantly told off for being "a privileged". I regularly have to apologize for getting a degree, and if politics could stop blaming the rich, that would actually address the issue.

Plus I don't vote for a party in the hope of finding a girlfriend (lol). I vote for the party who's not proposing to add up more rights to women, because I have seen enough women be promoted to be sure the problem is the other way around.
Or, perhaps a well informed reader would realize that bigger refers to the size of something, and not the population.
I find this interesting. Are there examples around, or a blog post discussing this?
That approach has its own problems, such as wasting memory (need to store any data for each tag value separately, rather than benefiting from overlapping storage ala Rust enums or C tagged unions), as well as losing type safety: one has to manually remember which (groups of) fields correspond to which tag values (although the Go loss of type safety is far better/more controlled than the one for C tagged unions). Using interfaces has neither of these problems.
When playing identity politics, agreeing with a blatant lie is expected when you need to affirm the narrative of your tribe. If you don't, you're a heretic and not a true believer.
> The truth only comes out in a clutter of contradicting opinions, engaging discussions, pieces of evidence and leaked materials

It feels like we're way beyond that. It's degenerated to the point of two tribes who no longer have any "shared truth" from which to argue. If I see a post of Facebook saying that Obama has instituted martial law in New York, how can I convince the 4364 people liking it that it's a lie? If I point out that the New York Times would probably write about it, I'll just get laughed at.

The truth seriously fared a lot better in times where newspapers and a few TV stations acted as completely undemocratic arbitrators.
Wow! Finally a conference pretty close to Italy :-)
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Isn't twitter moderation openly mocked for being, well, hardly functional at all? It's been a bastion of bigotry for the past year. It's Trump's main platform. If they're trying to suppress the right, they're doing a TERRIBLE job.
Actually he clearly misunderstands the difference, IA-32 refers to x86, which he then says IA-64, which refers to Itanium, which is sort of a bad comparison then.
It's a sign of the times that we shit on facebook's AI for not quite being smart enough
> No, there's a lot more. See my reply to your sibling comment.

Which criteria from your post can't be rolled up into performance, deterministic resource usage, or safety?

> Why is being better than a language from 1978 our sole criterion?

I have no idea. Thankfully no one made any such argument.

> Shouldn't we try to make our software as reliable as possible?

No, we should make it sufficiently reliable. For example, many applications might not benefit from Rust's pedantic checking of data races (e.g., if the application is sequential), but the impact on development velocity could be prohibitive. By the by, I like Rust, I just think it's not well-suited for most applications.

> Besides, Go is not any safer than C when it comes to data races. I care about those a lot too.

While I absolutely agree, this isn't incompatible with my claim, that Go is at least as safe as C, and thus safety alone doesn't preclude Go from safety critical applications.
There are other birds on the same stamp and they're all behind bars. Only in that one cage is the bird in front of the bars.
Can't imagine people were happy to sign off on this domain name.
You don't need to knock the project to praise Norvig. Thank you for the link though.
I commiserate. Unfortunately, this is a daily struggle for some, particularly in networking.

The world's largest vendor of network appliances, Cisco, has the worst problem with unauthorized equipment I've ever seen. Even the US federal government, probably Cisco's largest customer, is constantly assailed by unathorized gear from authorized resellers. I'm even aware of companies factoring in project lead time for handling licensing problems for this reason.

Still, this is just one example, and I'm certain many manufacturers have this problem, though it surely varies proportional to the price of the good. Regardless, caveat emptor, and know the provenance of what you purchase.

Best of luck.
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