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> I don't believe we are close to having a voter base that is capable of understanding, and hence accepting an outcome of such a voting system.

Completely on point. Especially true of the American public.

Getting people to migrate to this scheme is a huge problem. Today in America, voting is a right. However, to many, it appears to be a financially free activity as well. Or some may tie it in with "you get to vote if you pay taxes". Regardless, this "pay into a fund in order to vote" won't really go well -- we already pay a fund (taxes), and it's distribution is mishandled / non-optimally allocated / gamed by people in the system.
Relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Maybe a GreaseMonkey userscript would do? Tho because all twitter links are t.co ones,it may be a bit tricky.
The idea that you get news from FB and Twitter is fundamentally flawed.

FB/Twitter are known to have algorithms designed to show you things that you will like (because people stop using Twitter/FB if they see stuff that makes them unhappy). While newspapers have this to a certain extent (all those "Drink 2 glasses of wine a day to live longer" articles) since they aren't targeted based on your individual preferences you still get a very wide variety of news sticking to only a single newspaper, and pretty much all the news if you mix in 2 or 3.
What does it mean to "make Java binaries available directly from OpenJDK"? If the licensing restriction used to be just for Oracle-built binaries, anyone could just use normal distro provided OpenJDK binaries for kiosks and appliances, right?
Um, unsourced speculation from someone with no credibility in the field making an allegation which on its face doesn't add up?

Why is this even here?
CMU is doing a bunch of research on exactly what you mentioned. [1] is a general SQL database that aims to operate "autonomously" by predicting workloads (although AFAIK its current capabilities are mostly limited to adaptively moving records between row-oriented and column-oriented storage). I think [2] is based on the same research, but is a more concrete tool for tuning MySQL and Postgres configuration.

I think ultimately, it's a much less tractable problem than anyone expected.

[1] http://pelotondb.io/

[2] https://github.com/cmu-db/ottertune
Addiction is just 1 sliding to 2.
I second your comment about Java 8. Lambdas, streams and code in interfaces are extremely useful.
I'm not sure the tyranny of the minority that we have now is any better.
There are three tasks throught the course:
implementation of scroodge coin,
consensus from trust and simple blockchain node implementation

I actually found myself learning a bit more about the blockchain after doing these, especially the first one.
They each pay 4.

Otherwise, a marginal vote purchased by a different voter would change the total price of prior purchased votes. If votes were tallied per candidate, voters would bid without knowing how much they owe until after the election.
That's the point.

Large numbers of current retirees have been promised unaffordable pensions.
This title is not in line with HN guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

I would like to ask the OP to refrain from posting provocative titles which don't comply with the guidelines. I get that the issue is serious but all that title did was alarm me and waste my time.
Great post, could you expand your thoughts on Nim? With Cython/PyPy I can get things done when resources are more restricted.

Never seen Nim in prod, but it has caught my eye and I'm curious.
To game the unlimited base station rule in these criteria: you could use an EMP weapon type of transmitter. Apparently you can get tens of terawatts with flux-compression generator + vircator/reditron systems, or more with nuclear devices. The pulses are quite short so I'm not sure how the transmitted payload would be encoded, but I'm sure a RF engineer could tell you.
That’s a phrase, well-accepted and very famous in this domain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

Please don’t insinuate bad intent where there needn’t be any.
I didn't get the impression that the article was demonizing people who use meds at all. Did you?
I summarised their conclusion (section E) in which they specifically state there's no connection between warming and numbers of hurricanes.

what do you mean when you say "activity"?
As an Ontarian and having previously lived in a country where pretty much anyone can sell alcohol till very late i find your comment odd.

I lived in the states for several years and you can get liquor at grocery stores, they had private stores which were like 4 times the size and selection of any LCBO.

What i do recall seeing is Toronto Liquor being sold in Connecticut for a full 50% less (bottled in Toronto)..

I dont recall seeing any "problems", in fact it seems Ontario and Connecticut have similiar death rates and Canada is among the worlds highest despite ourarchaic liquor laws from the 1920's which are almost soviet era (wait in line for a ticket, then wait in line for your item).

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-drunk-driving-de...

you can see canada's rates are 5.4 per 100,000 people and you can see Connecticuts rates here http://c-hit.org/2016/01/17/drunk-driving-fatalities-decline...

Perhaps you have a reason why Canada's death rate from impaired driving is actually higher then the US?

PS. I dont even drink, but find it odd the government is in this business and gouges their customers. if it is "bad" for you, why sell it? oh.. thats right.. to stop the bootleggers and fill hte government revenue?
A possible counter-point may be the existence of the Australian System of voting. Complex, debatably widely misunderstood...yet I'd argue widely accepted.

I realise of course, there is a world of difference between pointing out there is a country with a different/more complex voting system, and migrating a country with culture/history of a given voting system to a more complex alternative...
But isn't Europe much more secular than the USA?
It's quadratic, do some quick math on how expensive it is to buy a victory.

It's actually more cost effective to buy people's votes the usual way.
> Pournelle claims that he heard at a science fiction convention that you (chris) had said that the real reason his account was flushed was that ``he (pournelle) is a fascist.'' Given the current political climate, this could raise some sort of ruckus, so it would probably be good to nip this in the bud.

Nice to know the internet hasn't changed that much.
What did you expect? This course are theoretical course. You are looking for wrong thing in wrong place!
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/trump-is-the-candi...

"So what do I do? I agree with nearly everything he is for, but I’m better qualified to make it happen. I avoid some issues, but I go for his most popular ones and say, yeah! Want that! And I can make it happen better than he can. I’ve got the experience of working in government, but I’m not the establishment any more than Mr. Trump is. Heck, I’ll offer him a cabinet post. I could use his energy in my administration." -POURNE

http://voxday.blogspot.nl/2016/04/jerry-pournelle-on-donald-...

"But he has never wavered on his desire to fill the Supreme Court with Justices as near in scholarship and view to Scalia as possible; that alone would be enough to get me to the polls for Trump if he’s nominated." -POURNE

https://newrepublic.com/article/139817/donald-trump-wants-ig...

Both here and elsewhere, Lukacs argued that as white nations, America and Russia might profitably work together to prop each other up against a planet where they were a racial minority. The right-wing science-fiction writers Jerry Pournelle (an admirer of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini) and Larry Niven pursued a similar argument in their CoDominium novels, a long-running series of novels that started in 1973 and imagines a world where the U.S. and the Soviet Union work together to govern an unruly planet.

http://crookedtimber.org/2011/12/12/the-attractions-of-fasci...

At one point, Gingrich was supposed to be writing a novel with his friend, noted authority on the political attractions of Fascism, Jerry Pournelle. I don’t know what happened to it, but I imagine it would have made quite interesting reading (Inferno, Pournelle’s ‘Benito Mussolini redeems himself in an updated version of Dante’s hell’ schlock-epic with Larry Niven, is certainly entertaining if your tastes run to certain varieties of kitsch).
Presumably you meant with a prescription? Prescription medication is a term for drugs that can/would be prescribed, regardless how they were obtained.
Tallinn, Estonia; in no particular order:

- Booming tech scene

- Bureaucracy is almost non-existant: everything is done online

- Free public transport for tallinn residents

- Strong beer scene

- Part of EU

- 3h from Paris, 1h30 from Berlin

- IT wages 2-3x median salary
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commas should just be treated as whitespace.
Best i can tell, there is a new generation of "journalists" coming onboard that have been trained in the style of "blogs".

And it seems to be far from unique to the BBC, you can notice it with all the national broadcasters (Though BBC being English and thus have a worldwide reach in its original form, is more noticeable outside of the UK).
Well very few understand the the current US system so complexity is hardly an argument.
I would like to see how this compares to exponential voting.
Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-page ‘summary’
> the developer community has largely moved on

How so? Moved on to what?
And after some time it'll become apparent it was a CIA front, and ultimately only achieved to fund the latest insurgency in $PLACE
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What a shame...

I came to his computer work quite late (mid-2000s), learning of him via his appearances in the This Week in Tech podcast. But then I realised he was the author of Lucifer's Hammer and other classic sci-fi.

He was a great writer and seemed like a great person. Amazing anecdotes. I'm completely opposed to him politically, but I still read his blog every day even as it veered more and more towards politics. He helped me break out of my filter bubble, and showed me the variety of conservative thought.

RIP Dr Pournelle.
Umm, not sure what to say here other than "yes they do". Do you shop at the co-op market in Great Barrington? They were readily available in the past few years (I've since moved out of town). Specific local businesses provide a discount if you shop with BerkShares.
Your post is actually extremely important and spells out one of the primary weaknesses of such a system. As long as the budget obtained for the vote does not have an opportunity cost with the rest of a person's wealth/budget (and I can't think of any practical way to make that happen in reality), what the voting system will in effect create is increased voting power by the wealthy, as they suffer comparatively less marginal loss from expending their entire voting budget goals towards their agenda, irrespective of their strength of belief: the downside comes from their lack of any real real-world budgetary pain.

Unless one can come up with a way to inflict the same budgetary pain on each individual for each vote-expenditure, I don't really see how you would argue for its implementation/superiority in practice (against the other forms of voting out there I mean, not necessarily contrasted just against first past the post...).

Though this all depends on what one means by "optimal voting" or "efficient", since I don't believe there can be an objective definition of such.
That's a summary that leaves out some pretty crucial information. Here is the total of section 'E' and it reads - to me at least - as if there is an effect, but not that particular effect:

"

In summary, neither our model projections for the 21st century nor our analyses of trends in Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm counts over the past 120+ yr support the notion that greenhouse gas-induced warming leads to large increases in either tropical storm or overall hurricane numbers in the Atlantic. One modeling study projects a large (~100%) increase in Atlantic category 4-5 hurricanes over the 21st century, but we estimate that this increase may not be detectable until the latter half of the century.

Therefore, we conclude that despite statistical correlations between SST and Atlantic hurricane activity in recent decades, it is premature to conclude that human activity–and particularly greenhouse warming–has already caused a detectable change in Atlantic hurricane activity. (“Detectable” here means the change is large enough to be distinguishable from the variability due to natural causes.) However, human activity may have already caused some some changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observation limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate).

We also conclude that it is likely that climate warming will cause hurricanes in the coming century to be more intense globally and to have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes. In our view, there are better than even odds that the numbers of very intense (category 4 and 5) hurricanes will increase by a substantial fraction in some basins, while it is likely that the annual number of tropical storms globally will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged. These assessment statements are intended to apply to climate warming of the type projected for the 21st century by IPCC AR4 scenarios, such as A1B.

The relatively conservative confidence levels attached to these projections, and the lack of a claim of detectable anthropogenic influence at this time contrasts with the situation for other climate metrics, such as global mean temperature. In the case of global mean surface temperature, the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (2013) presents a strong body of scientific evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past half century is very likely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions."

Intensity and amount of rainfall would definitely qualify as elements in determining activity. So of the two factors that make up activity only one of those factors is now supported by the data and the jury is out on the other.
This was the approach the "Shadow Brokers" took. People loved speculating on their native language and how they were faking their poor English skills when the reality is they obfuscated it.
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FB sure, as they have made it harder and harder to flip the feed to chronological.

But Twitter? I know they insert this whole "in case you missed" but most of the feed is still chronological. A very different problem is with having overly prolific retweeters in your feed, but that is a problem of your making, not Twitter's.
I didn't know that there was a fivethirtyeight style in matplotlib. Tres cool!
It already exists.
That is a side effect of the UNIX culture, because the hardware doesn't matter as long as you have C and POSIX.

Even OpenGL and audio APIs made it so that most of the time the cards you have plugged are irrelevant.

Being a old timer, which also has spent quite a few time with Amiga users/devs back in its golden age, it took me a few years to realise, that in what concerns desktop graphics programming, macOS and Windows communities are much more welcoming than UNIX focused ones.

You see this quite clearly on macOS, those that came from Mac OS days (pre OS X) focus on UI/UX and the whole experience as a dev taking advantage of an unified software/hardware stack.

Those that came from BSD/Linux just use CLI tools as if they were in any other UNIX.

Which is one reason why the demosscene never thrived on GNU/Linux.
The idea/technology is open, so if Twitter or Facebook wanted they could run their own AMP service, so when you click a link on their site it loads the AMP version of the BBC served from their servers. That's still not really open, but this is kind of the purpose of AMP.
Would you trust a voting system you don't understand? More people think they understand the current system then a new more complex one.
I am a white American and can't wait until we're a minority. But DACA and most of these largely open-boarder policies are a terrible idea.
Thanks you for this. I had no idea. Now I can actually read the paper!
They’re version control friendly.
What really puzzles me is the response or lack thereof of those agencies' testimony, if that's what's they're called, during the Congressional hearings. They basically stated that their ratings were nothing more then opinions. And still they're being taken seriously.
So funny that I cannot stop laughing.

Enterprise customers use only two stacks when performance matters, Java or .NET, maybe with some additional C++ sauce, anything else are small contractors trying to get a piece of the pie from enterprise projects.
The real problem is that there is a tyranny of sorts involved, whether by the majority or the minority is not really all that important. Consensus building should be the norm, not to ram your view down other people's throats because you can.
How do you mean? In Pascal the semicolon after the last statement of a block is optional. So, for example, this:

function square(const x : Integer) : Integer;
begin
result := x * x;
end;

Is equivalent to:

function square(const x : Integer) : Integer;
begin
result := x * x
end;

If you mean in if-then-else constructions, then yes the semicolon must be at the end of the statement:

if (condition) then
dosomething
else
dosomethingelse;
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You are mixing two things together. Entertainment is not a job its largely based on its ability to entertain and fewer and fewer make money in the industry.Already today large parts of hollywood has been and is being replaced. The bicycle sport is there because humans like to compete but it has nothing to do with a job, people will do it for free.
It's in the cited paper. The Power Dissipation Index is a measure of hurricane intensity, not number (defined here ftp://texmex.mit.edu/pub/emanuel/PAPERS/Factors.pdf).

There is a strong link between the hurricane intensity and surface sea temperature.
I run two ubiquiti nanostation M900 at home on a 10m pole and in my car through the sunroof for a mobile data link. Both use custom made omnidirectional antenna. Because my area is very hilly it's super intermittent but when it does work it's fast. The ethernet bridge in the car is shared to devices with either ethernet to the switch or 2.4GHz wifi with a tiny openwrt router.

As with all VHF and higher data comms what matters most is antenna height and line of sight. I can get 3km fine up on a big hill or lose signal only 300m away from home in other directions.
That is just bad journalism.
This is localization, let's do a macro entanglement experiment.

I take you and your friend and draw 2 cards out of a deck one red one black.

I give each one of you a card without you or myself knowing which one has which.

You and your friend are now entangled, you share a unit of information if I split you without measurement I "lose" or to be more exact cannot quantify the information.

I know that each of you has a card, I know that together you have one red and one black card and just like entangled particles the moment I measure one of you by asking you to reveal a card the other knows which card they were holding.

This is a very rough experiment but the point stands; reality doesn't change and more importantly again a measurement isn't a scientist with a machine it's a physical interaction.

The particle wasn't localized because a person measured it it was localized because it had to interact with it another physical object which was the detector there isn't a non physical way to measure anything any measurement wil require an exchange of information which means that your system will become localized.

Also hidden variable theories aside, Pilot Wave Theory does make the same predictions as QM, explains the "weirdness"and is deterministic.
Deep within every human resides the thought "If i would run this place then-" which makes for great violations of the libertys of others and loud yelling, if others do the same to the majestic creature that is oneself.
If the consuming program allows it, you can fake a comment by storing it as a JSON property value:

{ "myComment": "This is a comment!", "realValue": 1 }
Google Reader did something like that - I had a lot of friends on there, and I don't remember the exact UI, but I could easily see things they'd "starred" and this formed a pretty cool secondary news feed of sorts. It was perfect.

TheOldReader.com is really good, and kind of duplicates the Google Reader experience. Only problem is, none of my friends use it!
Even if it's written as fiction it has value.

There is nothing in it that would be outside of the capabilities of the NSA.

IMO I tend to believe it is not fiction, without even looking at the authors resume.

It passes many smell tests that a lot of HN articles clearly fail.
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Scanning the comments I don't see my reason for wanting trailing commas: version control.

You want to preserve the history of your code and to be able to easily query your VC system about the providence of each line of code. I want to add a new item to the end of the list, I also need to add a comma to the end of the previous line. This makes my commit larger than needed and it muddies the code history.

Just let me make simple incremental additions to a file as it changes.
It seems to me like an exercise in futility (with all due respect).

It has too many parameters projected over a very long time (I mean if you are going to consider buying a house it means that you are planning some stability over a long stretch of time, like 20 years or more, and anyway very few people can afford to buy a house with a shorter than 20 years mortgage covering 50%-60% or more of the price).

You are asked to project for (as said at least 20 years) the inflation rate, the appreciation of the house value, the increase in rents, the investment return rate.

While the first three can - maybe - be roughly hypothized (in a "stable" country with a "stable" economy), the latter is highly variable, you may also lose money in investment, or as well you could have an unpredictable very high growth rate.

The much simpler rule of thumb of 3% of house value is much faster (still in the 20+ years duration hypothesis).

If you can pay for rent less than 3% of current value of the house, then rent, otherwise (if you can afford it) buy.
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That might be like saying it's easy to make a Facebook clone in a day.

Any tool that could do it well could translate perfectly between languages I'd guess since it'd need perfect understanding of the writing. Else you introduce leaks.
Thats a different discussion. The claim was the complexity alone was the issue which its clearly not. A much bigger issue is the change itself. Even if we did a simpler system that everybody understood it would be hard to convince people to switch to it.
I suppose there is a bit of anecdote, but then I generally find that anthropogenic climate change believers won't take up the energy equation challenge and so show that they are not willing to actually put any effort into the discussion.

Climate change deniers and anthropogenic climate change believers don't appear to have any inclination to do any sort of serious thinking about the subject. Both appear to take a very simplistic political view about the matter and just react along party lines.

Just as your comment shows little effort to even engage in dialogue.