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>You're completely undermining the concept of deterrence. You're imposing a .002% chance of dying on someone else, you incur a .002% chance of jail.

A .002% chance of jail is not an effective deterrence because people are shit at calculating low risks like that.

We should treat it like we do drunk drivers. You get caught on your phone, you face serious penalties even if nobody is hurt.
You can buy a better computer by waiting. Does that stop you from buying computers?

It does in practice, actually. But there is always some portion of the market that needs the better system now. That is much less true of Bitcoin, which is mostly held for speculation rather than as a currency. People who are forced to "spend" Bitcoin are people who want to realize their speculative gain and exchange it for dollars, which they then use as currency because it's still vastly more convenient than Bitcoin.
That is a good idea. If you sell ice cream in the street you still need a Pedlar's License in the UK. If it is a school fete and you are selling ice cream to passers-by in the street then that is still law breaking but if you are doing that one day in a year in a small village with the money going to charity then that can be overlooked, but every day? I think you would be closed down soon.

I think the gig economy should have a similar Pedlar's License. There should be some paperwork. Maybe no more hard than Basic Food Hygiene that you get working in the food trade.

This would also allow local authorities to refuse. So if they didn't want the food delivery guys then they could just restrict licences.

Standards, e.g. lights on bikes, MOST for cars, all should be part of this license for doing door to door deliveries.

Standardisation could result in no drivers getting it wrong whether hired the UPS or FedEx way.

If the driver ID was a standardized way of doing tracking then that could even be part of the final mile procedure.
Ask HN: Does anyone else go right the comments?
I've noticed lately that more often than not I have been going directly to the comments and not clicking on the post links on HN. Instead I am inferring what the posted item has to do with from the title and then seeing what the commentary is around the topic. At that point I may go ahead and actually read the article. Does anyone else do this or am I just crazy?
Bitcoin nodes use DNS seeds, that part is hardcoded and I think the only non-decentralized part of bitcoin. You can find the DNS addresses [here](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/1b2460bd5824170ab857...) and read more information [here](https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2p-network)
Just my 2c, I tend to give more weight to longer reviews unless they get rambling or show some other obvious personal distortion. I also totally discount short ones at either end of rating spectrum, for reasons.
Beautiful! I hope you keep extending it (eg to cover different levels of proxying). Agreed w/ chrissnell comment about dynamic inputs to the config...
If you press backspace in an empty list item in the demo, you can continue the item above. The schema is tree-shaped, so you don't have the usual awkwardness about nesting things.

Or, if you mean lists starting at something other than 1.--The schema used in the examples actually supports a `start` attribute on numbered lists, but the UI doesn't currently expose it.
I don't want innocent people to be imprisoned. Should I oppose all imprisonment, since it will eventually happen?

(I think a better standard for categorically ruling out a tactic/punishment/procedure is "would I want this on my worst enemy/Adolf Hitler?")
I've been an iPhone user since 3GS but I'll dispute that. Top Android phones have been first to market with too many hardware/design/UI innovations that were later copied by Apple. I think familiarity with the O/S & keeping paid apps are what keep users on their chosen platform, and lifestyle signaling is what brings new users onboard.
Bitcoin is a currency going thru the technology adoption cycle. This is a really new thing.

The technology adoption cycle-- what the internet and smart phones went thru-- is when increasingly large waves of population accept the new technology.

Bitcoin still has some UI issues and a steep learning curve, and as a new form of money has to overcome massive societal inertia as to "what money is".

That said, so long as it is going thru this process, it will operate more as a store of value and speculative investment than as a currency.

Bitcoins volatility has been declining over the years, as it gets closer, though it's a long way off.

So the currency use case is less dominant now and will be as it is distributed to wider and wider numbers of people.

One thing we have to overcome is the idea you deal in "bitcoins".... bitcoin is divisible to 1/100,000,000th of a coin-- a satoshi.

When people get in the habit and comfortable with owning partial bitcoins, it will go much wider.

There will only be 21 million bitcoins in existence, there are 11 million millionaires in the USA alone.

That means that even american millionaires will never be able to own 2 bitcoins.
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You probably have a significant selection effect in play there. You would not notice the rich people you've encountered who were perfectly polite to you and did not have ostentatious displays of wealth that clearly labeled them as rich.

You may also be surprised to discover that the "rich asshole" who ducks into the spot in front of you with his Ferrari and then tells you off with his vigorously waving arms decorated with a Rolex could be entirely faking it, actually hip deep in debt and not able to afford what he's waving around. Unsurprisingly such people are often quite stressed. (I don't know "that guy" but I know some people who certainly trend in that direction and I believe would have required only small life pushes to be "that guy".)
>But I still feel that it would not solve the averaging problem. It would hop between different colors and probably converge to brown.

At least to the extent that GANs work, it works. They will alternate between the observed colours based on the noise vector. They do not simply converge to averages, because the discriminator easily recognizes brown apples as fakes.
For the most part they can be reliable. However, there are bitter, cynical people out there who are let go for performance reasons and will speak negatively about their former employer and take no thought to point out the good parts.
In other words, take reviews with a grain of salt.
I feel James Coplien's advice on the question is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtHQGs3zFAM&t=500

TLDW: "refactoring your way out" from a simple but too short-sighted design might take a ridiculous amount of work, compared what would have been necessary if you knew what a "correct" design for this problem was.
The first time I was promoted to a a manager position I had no idea what this means and nobody told me. Mistakes I made:

- Didn't take charge of hiring. My VP pushed people on me I didn't trust. Also had to deal with an offshore team that didn't deliver. Should have said "No" both times.

- Didn't have the final say on raises and promotions. Should have taken charge

- Stayed involved too much in coding. Should have let go

- Didn't get rid of people who didn't fit with the team. Should have made tough decisions

- Had to follow a process that didn't work and caused a lot of overhead. Should have refused

Things I did right:

- Brought things to quick decisions to reduce uncertainty for devs.

- Let people be autonomous and make decisions for themselves

In short, when you are manager, take charge and take responsibility! You are the boss now, so lead, don't just transmit orders from higher up.
Requiring statistically significant studies pretty much guarantees no provable claims can be made for any side; since that amounts to a social science laden with shaky assumptions and ambiguous modeling. Since it's is a standard of proof that no-one can achieve, i don't see why mention it here.

But to go along with this for a moment, I liked your response to this paper here https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73q8c2/a_largescal... ;

Though I'm not sure how we're deciding what is "statistically significant" in contrast to what the researchers have decided is statistically significant. Were their calculations incorrect?

However, you claim to reveal their "real conclusion", in contrast to their Actual Conclusion, in which they do indicate that "Among functional languages, static typing is also somewhat better than dynamic typing."

Still, I do not place much stock in these studies for the aforementioned reasons.

I also think you have to be careful about where you have placed the "burden of proof". (You've placed it on requiring poof that static types provide X benefit. One can just as well turn this around and require poof that eschewing static types provide X benefit; so we cannot a-priori place such demands in either direction).
I agree. These things aren't OS's. They're platform emulators that run using the low-level plumbing of actual OS's. Going from that to bare metal has been hard enough for hobbyists that many barely got anything done on it or didn't try. We should only call them OS's when they run on bare metal or something like VirtualBox.
ah, you're right that is a standard measure for market capitalization
I think it would be their issue anyway, as I was responding to someone saying they prefer Amazon because they have reliable delivery. Unreliable delivery that isn't their fault is still unreliable delivery.
> Google as I am typing this is undermining the electorate.

[citation needed]
No, I'm saying the punishment for risktaking or negligence should be the same whether or not the results were bad.

I'd harshly punish DUI but I wouldn't suddenly demand 20 years for a DUI fatality.

The crime is causing the risk.
Protected class is what you can't fire/refuse to hire someone for. Race, religion, etc. You can refuse to hire people who don't wear a suit to an interview. "People who don't wear suits to interviews" is certainly a class, but not protected. You can't refuse to hire black people, because race is a protected class.
I mean at this point, it's hard to differentiate when you are launching a training school.

I think they are like completely banking up on the Woz name to get students and companies use their services.
Ok not bad, but it isn't really fair. The real villains are not PE firms (people who play with their own money and don't care who they hurt trying to make more), but the commercial-investment banking empires (people who play with other people's money, get the world's cheapest, most unlimited insurance--err no: bail out policy, from a private bank that somehow swindled the American people into controlling its printing press (the Fed), gets direct financing from the Fed, are filled with collusion and corruption with government, and have the ability to destroy the entire economy).

After every election there are always the same winners: Wall St is one of the biggest ones.
Actually, I disagree with your argument and agree with the conclusion.

The way I see it, ads work, but I feel the Russian angle is mostly overblown bullshit, and US with its history of fucking up elections worldwide should be the last to point fingers.

That said, I'd love for people to be consistent. If one believes that Russian targeted ads were so influencial that they swayed the election, they should just admit that ads are that powerful, and follow it to the natural conclusion - that the advertisement industry is evil and malicious, a disrespectable profession that's an affront to a free society. It's just people taking advantage of other people. So let's talk about that, and not about Russians.
Only 1600 bots? This sounds like the makings of a moral panic to me.

There's a lot of misunderstanding about what these bots are capable of... and I keep seeing top ranking comments on Reddit talking about these bots daily.

The media seems to be spreading the idea they are autonomous agents automatically posting content on politically useful threads, with bot voting rings pumping them up. When in reality they still rely heavily on a human-intensive process, requiring lots of manual targeting and copywriting, and Reddit/Twitter/etc are very good at detecting voting-rings, having been perfecting algorithms to detect them for over a decade.

And do people think Russia or fringe right-wing groups have some super-effective autonomous bots that weren't also available to the best paid US consultants?

If these fake Twitter accounts, usually bots only followed by other bots, were understood in terms of the hundreds of millions of real users on Twitter, the billions spent by both real parties, and within the context of the technical limitations of bots, it wouldn't seem so scary.
I think the discussion of what constitutes an OS is mostly academic.

That said, to me, an operating system is basically any environment that allows me to run applications.

Usually, that implies a kernel, since you can't do much without one, but in some circumstances, you might not have a "kernel" in the traditional sense.

For example, LXC containers don't have their own kernel, but they provide an environment - binaries, libraries, etc - where I can run applications. I can rightly call that an OS, I think.

Edit: clarity
> Can you imagine if we let just anyone fly a plane? The sheer scope of the damage done makes even the idea laughable.

I can, because we did, a although in most cases the pilots only managed to off themselves; largely because there's a lot more terrain and a lot fewer people to hit once you're no longer limited to the roads.

Today you need a pilot's license, but flying an airplane has only recently become heavily regulated. The limitation was always that they're a lot more expensive than cars.
I can't imagine a guy like The Woz allowing his name to be associated with something sub-par which he has no control over. He understands the importance and weight of his personal brand.
If you want to drop-in rich editor, give froala a try: https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor We are super happy with it.
I have about 9 months of experience as an engineering manager after a little under 4 years of experience as a developer. I found it a mostly straightforward transition, but perhaps I had a background that prepared me better than a lot of people have.

Good leadership is paramount I found - it makes the difference between a team that is focused on executing and one that is mired in other issues. As a Marine, I strongly believe in the Marine Corps leadership principles [1] and applied them with great success in improving the work experience for the engineers I was managing in a dysfunctional environment - I have been told that I was the best manager some of these people had as a result, one engineer with over 20 years of experience in the industry.

Anything you are not able to accomplish to make people's lives better at work makes their lives harder, so you must use that as motivation to do the best you can to give them the tools and environment to succeed.

Trust in your engineers to make the right decision & the judgment of the team as a collective - your job is not to handle the technical stuff in general.

Keep eyes and ears open for stuff coming down the pipeline and its effect on the team (people might be interested in certain projects, or it might even affect technical design sometimes).

Keep listening for the things each team member may need/want. Actively probe, and take action wherever possible to help accomplish it.

The list of things that one may want to know is endless. An ability to learn & adapt is very important for a good manager. Seek advice from above and below constantly.

[1] http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usmc/leadership.htm
Indeed, and I take it you've seen the pilot episode of the lone gunmen series?
Dude, it was totally snark and the media left out some important context:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2009/11/world_not_laugh...
Fuck, I’d try this right now. Just stopped mirtazepene because it was less and less effective. Now I’m back to the black dog. I know of a university in the US that has someone with the even more magical DEA exclusion certificate, wouldn’t trust informal economy’s supply-chain.
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Right; it's suits that hate privacy and undermine consumers, but they only do it because they think it's the best way to wring money out of you, and it's their job to figure that out without any sense of empathy, remorse, or morals.

Techies generally like privacy in my experience, but most of them also value a steady paycheck more than they value your privacy.

Sort of like how many factory workers like fishing, but they value a steady paycheck more than they value the health of your river. And again, the suits just see the river as a free way to get rid of otherwise expensive waste.
This is purely speculation, but I've often wondered if some of the inexplicable positive reviews at bad places I've worked are the product of the company HR team - I wouldn't be surprised at all if some companies try to game their glass door rating if it gets too bad. I've certainly worked some places where there were a bunch of positive reviews that looked suspiciously like the work of a single person.
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Well, that clears the doubt on whether I'm biased or not ;-) Birmingham is the only UK city I've lived in.

Still, Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK, so its low quality of life affects a large number of people. Moving to a place like York or Oxford is infeasible for many.
Not a lot of CXO's are willing to pay until.. they get hacked
Silicon Valley's sin is that they replaced morals with profits, like most major companies, and became drunk with power, prestige, and moving the levers of society. Much like the media.
So far trump signed 53 or more bills into law. Now, yes they might not make headlines, but they are very much different laws than if he had lost.

The US does not change quickly. But, just because you stop paying attention does not mean you are not impacted.
And the intentions of the middle-class directly conflict with the intentions of the poor.

Middle-class is definitely the worst. Enough power to be harmful to the poor, but not enough self-awareness of their own situation.

They're the slave-drivers the wealthy use to whip the slaves.
>Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil

I'd keep that attitude in check, if you are in a western nation you are likely in the top 1% - 2% in terms of income globally. Things would end pretty badly for you if 98% of the planet decided people like you are evil.
> Did it ever matter to anyone who considered a move there, that US/Canada/Norway/Israel/Australia/NZ/Switzerland/.. has never been part thereof?

The difference is that all those countries have lots of international agreements that make trade and travel rather easy.

The UK doesn't have that many international contracts with other EU states directly, because such matters have been handled by the EU. A "hard" brexit would throw back such matters by more than twenty years, and concern many of UK's most important trading partners.
I always go comments first. Too many articles on the front page are sensationalists pieces with no real information.

The intelligent comments are what keep me on HN.
There are bs reviews HR has added for our company, but there are also 3-4 star entries for current employees whose identifies I can guess based on their phrasing (I'm calling bs on any 5 star I see). There are also a few ridiculously negative ones left by people right after they were fired.
The media is probably upset about the excessive amount of javascript code the advertising networks force upon them when viewing their articles.

This was interesting (Carlos Slim has a 17% stake in the paper):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_The_Ne...
What kind of errrors do you think are not caught with static typing? Usually people who say this aren't familiar with languages that have type classes...
By how much time/energy/effort it takes to deliver a particular service. Centralized solutions win, because a) they can exploit economies of scale, and b) they don't have the communication and coordination overhead fundamental to distributed solutions.
That doesn't make any sense. I've come across colleagues who wrote scathing reviews...typically consistent with their work ethic. Hard to work with, quick to blame others..then it's no surprise when they go to Glassdoor and say 'the people here are morons!' when they get let go for performance reasons.
Other news are more clear about his actual involvement, e.g. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171013005008/en/Appl..., http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-cofounder-steve-wozniak....
From their new guidelines:

> In social media posts, our journalists must not express partisan opinions, promote political views, endorse candidates, make offensive comments or do anything else that undercuts The Times’s journalistic reputation.

Is this for real or was it an erroneously early April Fools gag?
Not sure I agree that Twitter doesn't have incentive to get rid of the bots. Bots are bad for user experience and contribute to noise that affects the quality of inputs used by journalists, marketing types, etc. to evaluate trends. The article references the number of active users as a critical piece of Twitter's valuation, but Wall Street can't be dumb enough to completely ignore the quality of those users.
Until they solve the selection issue I just don't care what else they can offer.

Amazon has won in my book by being a one stop shop for literally everything. I almost never price compare anymore because it's just so damn convenient being able to go on there, search, and have it in 2 or fewer days.

I just went through my last two months of Amazon purchases and searched for them on Target:

No results: 16 items
Results, but inferior products I wouldn't have purchased: 3
Equivalent item but far more expensive (double or more): 3
Identical item or equivalent I still would have purchased: 11

In the end, they could have "replaced" Amazon 33% of the time for me. That's low enough I'm never going to bother.

Edit: I saw Wal-Mart in the article so I did the same items with them. They were only missing 4 items for an 88% success rate and a few looked higher quality than I got. Not sure if they're any less "evil" (whatever that means here) but they fared much better than I expected.
Lets take a look back at the trending businesses at first half of 2017
Oh wow. That might explain a lot of my lag I’ve had when multiplaying on large maps (on LAN).
That was one researcher for one specific topic, anti-Macron sentiment.

> A researcher finds 1,600 bots tweeting extremist posts in U.S. elections also spread anti-Macron sentiment in France

A second quote from the article shows a much larger bot population.

> Research from the University of Southern California and Indiana University shows that 9 to 15 percent of active Twitter accounts are bots.
Without commenting on whether or not it's legal, if you're cycling in the sidewalk then you should at least attempt to act like a pedestrian.

This means waiting for a walk light at the crossing, and not cycling into the road at above a walking pace even if it happens to already be green.

This is just common sense, really.
Are you sure they think they are being anonymous?

Several years ago when I last posted a review on there o tried to explicitly call out my director for several things. They first wouldn't allow me to post his name and after I removed that I still had too much "identifying information" that I had to remove before it accepted my post.