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>I don't teach my children they live in a democracy.

That's good because if you read the Federalist Papers, you will see the founders explicitly set out to design a Republic at the federal level. Each state, however is a democracy, but people seem to ignore state-level politics for some reason.
:) Nah, we can just force the smartest 0.01%, no need for everybody. I like music though. It's like you can feel it more compared to paintings/movies.
Re: message length, this does still sound like a limit on the implementation, and you could easily make IRC servers that have either longer messages (ircv3 has 1024) or no limit at all (although perhaps that's not a great idea)

> DCC file transfers work on a chunk-by-chunk basis. The sending client sends one block of data at a time, then waits for an acknowledgement before sending the next one. (This is why I describe it as being like TFTP.)

You're right, I was not aware of the acknowledgments. But this in previous response I said that a lot of issues could be fixed on a client side. DCC is also completely implemented with clients and similarly can be fixed this way. There apparently is already DCC XMIT standard which fixes latency caused by the ACKs (assuming our client wouldn't do same thing as Slack does which is upload files to S3 and share the URL)
They've said they aren't going to call police just to remove passengers anymore. I bet they stick with that for quite some time.
because child has to get homework done to go to bed or because sibling spilled some milk and there is no time to teach number theory to toddler who is trying to understand 1 + 0
Yes, but someone who buys items and holds onto them in mint condition for resale value is no more a "real" fan than someone who buys them for personal enjoyment.
I love paying my taxes, and I kinda like the baroque U.S. process. Every April, I spend a couple of weeks being salty that government is penalizing me for being married, penalizing me for not taking out a giant loan to buy a McMansion in the suburbs, taking my money and using it to bomb Syria instead of helping working class families, etc. If my taxes just got auto-paid, I don't think I would even think of these things, and I don't think that'd be a good thing.
Cool! I saw your LinkedIn profile and passed it onto our recruiter type person. She's going to reach out to you.
I am trying to figure out why you are being downvoted
Yes, shot noise... secondary electrons, resist issues, mask issues are all real. Similar issues come up for immersion at these scales. It's no panacea (and hasn't even reached tact time parity), but nothing is at this point. What is amazing is that the investment in EUV has been going on for decades and still hasn't reach production.

If they could run the EUV sources at 4 times their current power, there would be huge increases in equipment sales and conversely exposure and mask complexity would decrease substantially. Increased exposure dose could deal with some of the shot noise effects (only 3% at 10nm so less than 8% ITRS spec?).

We would also probably see equipment free up to allow 14/20/28nm litho costs go down. So it's a win-win.
Can you link to that regulation?
Then go for it and make those 7/10 benchmarks in which Go is at least 2x slower than C to be the same speed.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
they had three choices.

Four choices - they could have upped their incentive until the doctor, or someone else decided to take. I'd bet someone would have gladly taken a $1,350 voucher.
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FYI, Bob Iger (Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) sits on the Apple board.

https://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
I'm not sure why I'm not being misunderstood. Math is boundless. Physics is bounded by natural elements. Math can help physics but very rarely would a bounded logic structure help the boundless.

I agree with a lot of what everyone has been saying to me.

But two big objections to your reply:
1. Riemann hypothesis isn't and hasn't been proved. Many mathematicians choose to 'assume it's true' then they come up with other ideas. Also, not rigorous in math = unproven. You can't make those leaps in math. Socially maybe but not in math. If someone were to prove RH is false, then many works will become void because it's based on RH.
2. Physics has limitations. Maths don't. That my point. I find it tough to see a situations where observations (and T. Physics) with it's natural science bound, will aid in any understanding with Maths, let alone RH. I'm sure there are some limited cases but this sensational article acts like 'it's about to happen'. Sigh.

Not science.
To give you a small example: the deduction for moving expenses[0]. If you move for work (plus some other small conditions), you can deduct those expenses from your taxable income. This can't be claimed for you automatically, you have to ask for it. To automatically file your taxes would very likely mean you miss this deduction. It's the legions of (arguably) boutique tax credits like this that crank up the complexity of filling. Individually most of them are reasonable, but it would be hard to take them away because they are likely to be used by a lot of people (the mortgage interest deduction for homeowners, for example).

0 - https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc455.html
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Well, I have always done the paper form instead of online (why? I don't know.. but this year will likely be online) and the paper form has your name and address on it, and you only have to change something if it is different.
This is a scary milestone on the road to general intelligence. In this case understanding abstract concepts.

When machines learn something - they start being able to replicate it perfectly across as many machines as they want, parallelize it and execute it without mistakes more times than humans have ever done in history.

So that means - a nearly infinite glut of amazing art, jokes, music and movies. And not just that... but attacks on all our systems including reputation, trust, voting and so on.

Today our systems depend on the assumption that attackers are limited in their ability to proceed and expand quickly. How would things work if attackers were not? You already prefer to ask google more than your parents. What if software made better jokes, drawings and had sex better? And simulated emotions better?
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Well done Ivan - I think I might purchase this :-)
I am sorry, we can't bash Microsoft anymore, they are on Github now!
Thanks, now I've been chirping like Dale all day much to the irritation of my holiday companions.
My (non-lawyer) understanding is that you are allowed to breach contracts. You have to pay damages for doing it, but you are allowed. According to this Quora answer by a lawyer:

https://www.quora.com/How-should-a-breach-of-contract-be-qua...

> The legal system encourages the deliberate breaching of contracts by ensuring that there are no penalties for breach (in fact, if you try to put in a penalty clause in your contract, it won't be enforced)

(Note he's not saying you won't have to pay damages; penalties and damages are not the same. Damages = compensation for the wrong you've caused, for example by breaching a contract, penalties = punishment over and above damages)

Once United Airlines breached its contract with Dr. Dao and decided he could no longer be on their plane, he was trespassing. They owed him damages for breaching the contract, but that's an issue to be decided in court, not right there and then when the cops where asking him to get off. As far as I am aware, it is not the cops job to arbitrate breach of contract issues.

(Again, not a lawyer, and I expect regulations around air travel are more stringent, so it could be more complicated than that. Could be they broke some FAA or DOT or whatever regulation, I really don't know.)
I guessed in the comment above...
They could have just booked their crew on a different flight.
And did they offer cash, or just a voucher?
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I've also started questioning how I phrase my own work related e-mails.

Yesterday I was sent one from a partner saying that some files we were to transfer to their FTP server (yeah, I know it's 2017) were missing. So I logged into the server manually and checked -- the files were there, created at 5 AM, just like they are everyday when the cron job that generates them was run. So I started my response by saying, "I just checked the server manually and the files were there. Why do you consider them missing?"

But then I started to think...would this reply come off as if I were questioning their intelligence? They must believe that the files actually aren't there, or else they wouldn't have sent me an e-mail asking. The same process has been running everyday since February of last year, however, and presumably they had never failed to find the files before yesterday.

I just sent the e-mail anyway, but it is interesting that I've been conditioned to question myself over a very innocuous reply to make sure my tone was appropriate, as to not risk offending the other party.
I have never subscribed to this particular pattern (antipattern IMO), though I do agree with a lot of the concepts Crockford proposes in "The Good Parts." The concept of 'this' is complicated enough in ES5, with a few new possibilities for its value in ES6+.

Since this is nearly always the pattern that's followed in the class pattern, I nearly always alias `this`, if needed, to the lowercase instance name or some short identifier that semantically maps to "an instance of the class". It gets you instantly out of both the problem of "I already used `that` as an identifier, now what?" as well as providing some nice context to what you're working on if you happen to be scrolled beyond the function/constructor name.

function SomeClass(arg1, secretArg) {
var someClass = this; // or `var sc = this`, more often these days

// Hopefully do something more interesting than this...
someClass.arg1 = arg1;

someClass.method = function(foo) {
someClass.bar = foo;
// Do something with the "private" param via closure.
secretArg.count++;
};
}

Even if lambda expressions do fix the issue of "which that is that" it doesn't provide me any helpful context for when I'm deep in coding or reading modes.
There was a fourth choice: offer more money. They were the ones who created the situation to begin with by overbooking the flight. So they should be there ones paying the cost of their optimization. Like Delta does.

Edit: other passengers even offered to get off for more money. But they were just laughed at by the crew.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115911 and marked it off-topic.
By the point where they were about to have an airport police officer beat the crap out of the passenger (which they did, BTW -- he suffered a concussion and two lost teeth!) it should have become clear that this wasn't going to go well. So once it was clear that Dao wasn't going to leave his seat voluntarily, they should have brought in a higher-up with the authority to offer more compensation to get another volunteer -- or simply pick another person to involuntarily deplane. (They could also have publicly threatened Dao with a civil lawsuit, figuring that even if that didn't change his mind, it would deter the next person they picked from doing the same thing he did.)
> There are many reasons to not work on something immediately beyond "nobody cares"...[snip]

I agree. That is not what I said.
What about "logic at a distance" combined with empathy would make reasoning through the legal details of an incident you've only learned about through rabble-rousing reportage a worthwhile exercise?
I think your questions would be answered by reading the article. Particularly:

"In AI and machine learning, bias refers generally to prior information, a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action (4). Yet bias can be problematic where such information is derived from aspects of human culture known to lead to harmful behavior. Here, we will call such biases “stereotyped” and actions taken on their basis “prejudiced.”"

This definition is not unusual. This is about inferences that are wrong in the sense of prejudiced, not necessarily inaccurate.
Thanks for the article! It's really well written, and shows so many different applications and insights from this work. What I really like about models that fit a low-dimensional representation is that you can really "see" what the neural network learned by tweaking it or doing interpolations, arithmetic operations, etc. Awesome!

A bit of a shame that most commenters on HN are focusing on more metaphysic discussions and the eternal "This is not AI. You are just [insert something that people considered AI 6 months ago here]."
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It turns out laws are ambiguous and sometimes it's hard to tell what the outcome of a judgment will be in advance (until judges actually interpret the law and make the call.)

It can be hard to even tell which specific laws apply to the case.

So, yes, 'probably' is how the law works, if you don't have solid precedents.

('Probably' could also just mean that there is solid precedent but the author themselves didn't do the research to figure it out. Legal research is a lot of work. It's, like, an actual job to do that sort of thing.)
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One problem with satire (or cynicism in general) is that it's a cheap way to feel smart about one's self. Idiocracy really seems to have been designed to encourage this in people. However, the movie is divided into two parts, the first five minutes and the next eighty-five. The first part is basically an advertisement for eugenics, and the rest is slapstick. People always feel smart because they "get" the second part.
Is there anything Canada isn't best at?

I once heard a (bad) joke. If you are in Canada and hold the door for a group of 5 people you can expect 7 "thank you"s.

Well that's just a joke I thought, there is no way people are polite anywhere. So I decided to act on this little limerick and compare it to Nebraska manners. At a few restaurants, in home town of Omaha, I tried holding the door for groups counting the "thank you"s. The first group of 5 gave me 6 "thank you"s.

I thought that was actually pretty good, but it is not an experiment without a control. I had a friend going to Canada and asked him to try it. Sure enough the first group of 5 gave him 7 "thank you"s.
It's not that simple, as is usually the case when law and contracts are involved.

I suspect this will take some actual legal proceeding for there to be broad agreement.

Things that make it complex:

- Airlines are "common carriers". So they are subject to laws above and beyond a mom-and-pop restaurant on issues like refusal of service.

- They publish a "contract of carriage".

- Overbooking didn't happen, so those laws don't offer any protection

- They can't have multiple meanings of the term "boarded" and switch meanings to use it to their advantage depending on the sitation. Denied boarding has to happen before boarding.

- The door wasn't shut, and the passenger did not assault or intimidate the crew. So "interfering with a flight crew" isn't on the table.
"concise, conversational tone" I wonder which it is. :-p
Isn't the word bias being redefined by a social justice point of view? Normally bias would be with reference to failing to match reality (eg women in general have physically weaker upper body than men), and not failing to match whatever standard of equality a society wishes were the case eventually.
The typical way to do it is to more or less hold an auction, increasing the offer until enough people take it. Either way the people with the lowest thresholds end up getting bumped. These are the people with the least urgency and/or most need so I don't really see what's unfair about it.
It appears that the linked paper has examples.
They are within their rights to remove the passenger though, it's just a breach of contract to do so. But they are within their rights to breach the contract, it just gives the other party the right to recoup damages.
Do you plan to add one on graphics?
Are you kidding. No one is saying this should replace art.
It's just an experiment in generative algorithms. It can though have interesting applications in assisted design, which I bet you would say is not art either anyways.
More news on tv now. They can keep operating until the ruling of the Appeal Court on the 5th of May.
Isn't it exactly how laws work?

Even for the worst of crimes, the perpetrator will only probably get caught and only probably get convicted.
My point isn't about "graphics acceleration" (and the OP doesn't use that term either. It's about reducing memory bandwidth between from the CPU to VRAM.

The huge emphasis that ID guys put on reducing overdraw to basically nothing really helped it run on relatively shitty platforms. The basically optimized it to the point where CPU->VRAM bandwidth was the bottleneck.
The original mistake was made by the IBM engineers that came up with that memory map. They reserved a few bytes at the beginning and then a bunch of bytes at the end. That really makes no sense. They could have avoided all the pain that followed by putting all the reserved space in a contiguous block at the beginning. Maybe they thought it was easier for application programmers to use smaller address numbers? Or maybe it was due to some hardware shortcut, which wouldn't be surprising considering they had already taken the shortcut of using the 8088 instead of 8086. This kind of story is repeated whenever temporary hacks turn into massive successes, for example Javascript's limitations that still haunt us today. If you dig down into these histories you almost always find that it's not the engineers' fault but shortsighted managers.
Lang's _basic mathematics_
Brit here living/working in The Netherlands, thinking about applying for a Dutch Passport and ditching my British one.
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>> - in C++, m[a] = b, where m is a map, and a and b are strings requires that both a and b are being copied. This is not necessary in a GCed language.

You don't need to make copy.

std::map<std::string, std::string> m;

m.emplace(std::make_pair(std::string("a"), std::string("a")));
With all due disrespect, you're wrong. Go ahead and implement your solution, and you will find it falls apart. So tired of people pretending to know better, without any data or real details to back it up. A "proper database" would not scale, regardless of whether it is Cassandra or Postgres.

You're completely ignoring, or completely oblivious of the fact, that the entire 1000x1000 grid must be provided to every connected client. You're not going to read out one million aggregated rows by most recent timestamp per cell, from a billion rows of history, in a scalable amount of time.

Please post your GitHub link that proves your solution as superior, or even viable. Make sure it includes database triggers, for which you don't explain how they would help scale the app whatsoever. Are you going to have a denormalized table containing each of the one million cells' most recent rows? All you are doing is eliminating a GROUP BY on the indexed cell+timestamp columns. It's still a million rows returned per query. Please explain how that scales. Eagerly awaiting your proven solution that defies common sense scaling logic.
Disclaimer: I am very happy that books like this are written, and look forward to never seeing another $120 doorstop being used as a text for the course anywhere. What follows is criticism and a question which, if addressed, could help those on the fence about this book.

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Speaking of Axler, his Linear Algebra Done Right is still the best book on the subject, in my opinion.

For one, it's lean. You can fit the softcover in a purse, and read it in the bathroom. It may be scant on examples, but it's a book that can be read in its entirety.

This book, at 500+ hundred pages, simply means nobody will really read it. No student is going to be reading several dozen pages of hard math EVERY WEEK - the exceptions to that are those who will do well with any other book too.

So we have a book here that, alas, is not meant to be read - in entirety, at least.

Yes, these are two very different books. But then we also have Linear Algebra Done Wrong.

A text by Serge Treil, it was written as a counter to Axler's book (and was named in jest). It covers many of the same topics, and is available as a free (!) PDF.

So, my question is - why this book? Aside from the title, what does it really do in a new way?

There's not enough in the preview for me to conclude that this book did anything Linear Algebra Done Wrong does not, so I ask those who read it (or the author).
What makes you think it ISN'T within their rights to remove the passenger? The plane is their property, they can ask someone to leave (even if they previously allowed them in). What law did they break? As the article says, they broke the contract, but that is a completely separate issue from being able to ask someone to leave.
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For stats, I found the Stats for Dummies and Statistics in a Nutshell were great resources to refresh and review.

It's easier to relearn some of this stuff when you know what you don't know!
For the love of all that is holy, can we please not turn HN into yet another online forum full of ill-informed, unsupported, or generally inflammatory rhetoric about Brexit?

If you want that kind of thing, /r/unitedkingdom is that way --->
"hurt"

That's just the point. A short term stock move doesn't hurt (or help) a company much at all.
I owe my whole career to my stubborness and a broken ribbon cable to HDD on a 286. countless hours and library time to figure out to read HDD with only DOS debug program, and int13. Ooo man i wish i have the same patience and stubborness now
Hi! I just read the paper--impressive work! Have you tried any other languages? For example, French or German?
Banking and payment systems are arcane too. Nobody uses checks any more except the US, and online banking is soooo complicated and confusing completed to other Western countries.
Legally and ethically, passengers are obliged to follow crew instructions only when those instructions are for safety. Safety was clearly not an issue here.
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I lived in Kansas City metro for 6 years and politics is rarely discussed at work. The people I hang out with are very welcoming and don't treat immigrants any differently. When there was racial induced killing in one of the suburbs(Olathe) there was an outpouring of grief and support. Basic human premise.
If they only have 100k in funding, and no customers, I'd suggest that you ask them to prove to you that they have an idea worth working on by finding a customer who will pre-pay.

And then they can pay you a salary and some equity.

If they have nothing but 100k and an idea, don't invest your time for equity, it's worthless. The working capital isn't enough, and you'll do all the work for no money.
Anyone who recommends Lang as a learning resource should burn in their version of hell.
While logical replication is a long-awaited and exciting feature, I'd use it to replicate only a subset of my database, not as a replacement for HA. At present, it cannot follow the master in a physical replication after promotion (basically, you have to initialize your logical replicas from scratch), and it has a bigger lag then the physical replication, especially for long-running transactions, as one has to wait until the commit before sending the data.

Nevertheless, I think Patroni can help configuring logical replicas that will never be part of the HA (if one can tolerate reinitializing logical replicas after failing over). Pool requests are welcome!