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> As an officer of the court myself ...

Could you elaborate on that? I have some thoughts but want to know if my thoughts are really valid. What type of court officer are you? Is it in the same jurisdiction? Things like that. I don't want to prejudice your responses.

(I should also mention that my thoughts aren't going to put any blame on you.)
She's got a shield and sword to fight the onslaught. ~200ms latency, running on golang, node.js, react.js, python. Aim, shoot, also talk (text-to-speech)
If you hosted a party and someone got super drunk and started shouting racial slurs at everyone, would you tell them to leave? Or would you laugh it off and tell everyone else to chill because it's just words?

> I understand that Twitter improving its harassment reduction systems will lead to better experiences for its users and overall make it a more attractive platform for people in general

You seem to have answered your own question here.
This is hardly surprising when you know a little local history.

For reference: I grew up in Adelaide, about 15-20 minutes drive (15 km.. erm 9.3 miles for you lot) from the suburb where the Holden factory is located.

I remember as a student/early graduate (so, 2000 - 2003ish) having.. acquaintances who were in their early 20's, bringing home close to $AUD100K/year, for assembling commodores. People who would laugh about how funny it is to let a car leave the production line, with the wrong colour door handle fitted.

Another "acquaintance" took forever to get a resolution because his 2-door ute was delivered to him with a 20cm gap in the carpet on the passenger side. It went through the factory, through QA, through a DEALER and nobody fucking noticed a 20cm gap on the passenger side of the floor.

These were not high quality cars being built by well trained craftsmen. They weren't even average quality cars built by moderately trained craftsmen. They were pieces of shit slapped together by over paid idiots.
I don't know why this was voted down, but there is merit to it.

Successful, world changing product launches are mostly serendipity, luck, and timing. You could have the right product at the wrong time, or the wrong product at the right time, or both. Most of the home runs (Google Search, iPod, iPhone, Windows 95, etc) happened because of simultaneous fit of product and time. I'd argue the original Mac was too early, and Win95 was timed right.

In 1984, the vast majority of people weren't ready for a home computer, especially at $5000+ in 2017 dollars. Computing was still highly technical and reserved for specialists -- even though the Mac wanted to change that. It wasn't until the mid 90s and into 2000s, where hundreds of millions of people were ready to integrate computers as "must haves" as part of their life. Microsoft rode that wave, the way Google rode the wave of the internet explosion, and Apple rode the wave of the mobile that had been building.

Everyone's looking for the "next big thing", they're spending money like crazy in a thousand different directions: AI, AR, VR, Health, Cars, etc. But no one knows.

There's the assumption that it's AI, because of the scale, but does AI need a big company? Part of the assumption is you need lots of data, an inherent advantage for big companies, but what if you don't?

AlphaGoZero just proved, that unlike AlphaGo, you can start with nothing, and still succeed.

Silicon Valley executives fear the big AI breakthrough will happen at a small startup, come out of nowhere, and disrupt them. AI firms are being bought almost as soon as they form with no product.

All the while, what if the next big breakthrough isn't even AI? What if it's battery chemistry? If someone discovers a battery with just 10x the density, it would change everything. For example, drones could fly for 5 hours instead of 30 minutes. What would that enable?

It's hard to compute what the downstream effects of small disruptive changes in tech will bring, and if history is any guide, new companies will come out of no where with shocking results.

One of the things small scrappy startups can do is, ignore the bad rep and government oversight. A large company that missteps will grab the world's attention, so they have to be risk averse, which means slow. Google can't ship a self driving car that kills people, but startups can ship self driving aftermarket add-ons that do, because in the worst case, they lose the investors money, and they start another company, they don't end up exploding $200 billion in market cap.
Which is an effing joke, as the federal government charges pennies on the dollar for grazing rights compared to what a private landowner would charge. And yet, the Bundys want the taxpayers to take it in the shorts even more for their privilege and profit.
I agree... at some point, when analyzing a topic, we need to prune the decision tree leading to some tentative conclusions, even if some subtrees might not be 100% verifiably invalid. Our science is imperfect, reporting is imperfect, and very few (if any) complete-information scenarios exist.
Way to stop USAF pilot shortage.

Air Force will recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to address serious shortage https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/20/air-...

>WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Friday allowing the Air Force to recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to active duty to address a shortage in combat fliers, the White House and Pentagon announced.

>... But the executive order itself is not specific to the Air Force, and could conceivably be used in the future to call up more officers and in other branches.
It's a $20 gag gift, don't sweat it too much.
This has been the case for what feels like forever now, and Google have on several occasions clarified they have no intention of changing the cache time on these files to "fix" the Page Speed score result for sites that use Google Analytics.

I personally find that most of the workarounds for this are usually more technically offensive than living with a marginally lower score on this often somewhat arbitrary test.
This is not accurate based on my testing. If I browse to HN while logged in to my account from the affected network, that account can never post properly again.
I love this comment, in part because it's totally outside my area of knowledge but I can still picture the battles and dead ends you must have worked through to make it stable.

Did you kill a lot of hardware figuring it out? What was the purpose of poking that caused the underlying issue?
Open range is a thing in the Western US too.
It depends on how real you feel the current values are. Or rather, on how real everyone else feels the current values are.

If everyone thinks that the values are fake (not solidly based on company fundamentals), then everyone is trying to make as much money as they can while the market goes up. But they're all ready to run for the exits at the slightest thing. In this scenario, what will make the market collapse? Anything. Any little event that makes some people sell, which makes the price dip, which makes more people sell, which makes the price dip further...

If everyone thinks that the values are solid, then the market could go up for a long time. It will go up for long enough, and reliably enough, that people will borrow money to buy stocks (especially at these interest rates). That borrowed money will make stocks rise, so more people will see the stocks as a source of sure profits, and will buy more stocks with more borrowed money. This is the start of a real bubble. (I can't comment on whether the market is currently in this state - does anyone know of a measure of how much borrowed money is in the market?) This goes on until the banks aren't willing to lend any more money to buy stocks with, and then the first little thing causes everyone to run for the exits. Except in this situation, they run even faster, because as the market goes down, they can lose even more than they invested. So the market crashes very hard and very fast, and a lot of people lose money, and even some of the banks lose money, which can cause real problems for the larger economy.
Yep, this has been a long time coming. I grew up in Adelaide, even in the late '80s the car industry was politically contentious, needing large tariff protection to be competitive with imports. AFAIK the wind-down has been slow and steady with no sudden surprises.
As a fan of Oscar Wilde, I find the headline's suggestion that he shares some kind of allegiance with the likes of Jeff Sessions or Donald Trump Jr. unsavory.

Here's the passage near the end of article that struggles to pardon the headline:

In the past, fears of an outside (Russian) agitator were often used to test the loyalty of people who had very little reason to feel loyal in the first place: the Irish in Great Britain, African Americans during the Red Scare. The present-day fears of Russian collusion have an altogether different tinge to them: they are associated with the powerful, not the powerless, a paradigmatic shift that has left many feeling confused as to what to believe.

Yeah, it's a stretch. Then again it was Wilde who wrote:

One of the chief causes that can be assigned for the curiously commonplace character of most of the literature of our age is undoubtedly the decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure.

So maybe he'd have something to say in the defense of Donald Trump and his Russian collaborators.
I did the same, and it worked maybe 5 times :)
You can't move to s73ver_@bar, but you should be able to move to s73ver_@anywhere-else. Very easy to implement; just signal the new address you'd like to forward to, and the client picks this message up and automatically "follows" you at the new location. Many other ways have been discussed in the Github issue as well.
Heh, yeah 'way too generous, man!' is a lousy position to try to defend in an internet argument, especially if you mostly agree.
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I've been watching Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary and it made me think about the protestors and how the government reacted. The people that protested should be very proud of their actions because it feels like they were right.

I wonder how soldiers or police from that era feel about the documentary. The soldiers clearly were ordered into a terrible war. The police can't be proud of their role either.
If an agent of the state commits a "horrific, abhorrent affront" against you, you want it to be kept secret? That's what I'm reading here.
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I worked (among other things) in tree planting as a teenager in Iceland. We weren't doing it very efficiently, but one reason we didn't have these huge bags is because generally your crew is planting this on land that has no existing trees, so you can just drive a pick-up truck alongside the crew.

Which looking at this Canadian video of the forestry service might explain the difference, i.e. if you're planting in an existing forest it makes more sense to carry everything with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkjeC1rxRt0
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I encountered GN for the first time while looking at Google's nascent Fuchsia OS. It looked interesting but I have dug further.
As you seem to have acknowledge, it is untrue that the more people using a taxi service, the longer you have to wait for a cab for obvious reasons - namely cab rides end. Imagine in a city there is a cab service which services about 1 million people at a time. And there is a service which services about 100 people at a time. How likely is it that a cab is going to be concluding a ride near to your pick up point with both services? Which is more likely to have an idle cab near you? How long would you expect to have to wait for each service?

Autonomous taxis also completely revolutionize the possibilities for scale. Cars mostly only deteriorate when in active use. Massively oversupply will likely be a thing in some areas opening up possibilities like your sports event thing. People aren't going to be going to the streets to try to find a ride. There will be hundreds outside the stadium - and the cool thing is anybody using the monopolized company should be able to hop into any cab and it'll auto sync to their destination and they'll be off, rapidly replaced by another cab from the monopolist ensuring 0 wait for other users.

And then we get into cost, something you continue to inexplicably ignore. Right now there is no room for economy of scale to affect the price of taxis. I'm not going to repeat myself as I've gone into this above. Suffice to say, the biggest player is going to be the cheapest and by a wide margin.

So your dozen taxis are going to be less reliable, more expensive, likely less well maintained, require people to install yet another app, and also face a trust issue. Self driving technology will likely be closed source and proprietary for some time. So on top of all of the above issues you'll require users jump into an unknown car, from an unknown brand, using who knows what software and security standards.

And this isn't getting into the tertiary developments of self driving vehicles. We'll likely see the introduction of services (that hopefully can be disabled) that tie in the taxi to commercial agreements from the monopolist. For instance, you're passing by a coffee shop and the car offers to order a coffee for you for 50% off. You needn't pay anything (all charged through the monopolist's finance infrastructure) and a server will bring it out for you. Wait time - approximately 30 seconds. I'd assume things like that can be disabled, but on the other hand they'll be kind of nice when you're in the mood - you could also perhaps simply ask the car if there are any deals nearby on [---].

Ultimately self driving taxis will be a paradigm shift. Comparing them to current taxis (or even ride sharing services) will likely be as quaint a notion as considering there was a time when we classified automobiles as "horseless carriages."
Ah yes you're right of course. For some reason my mind immediately jumped to assuming that two separate stories would follow.. should have re-read, thanks.
This tweet got its author suspended: http://favstar.fm/users/nickmullen/status/827004333191491586 because the rules and their enforcers are irony-blind. It was reported enough, by the sort of people it's mocking, to get attention.

If there appears to be a political valence to Twitter's rules enforcement, it's only one that reflects the relative user base and their weaponization of reporting mechanisms.
In my personal experience the TSA security critique stems from them super ultra checking middle eastern looking people and doing security theater for everyone else.

Not sure if people are aware of this. I'm not condoning this behavior, just pointing it out.
They really need to rewrite the second amendment in a more precise fashion. How about bazookas or soon laser weapons? Are they ok? I am not trying to be funny. What's an arm?
At this point, three people, including a mod, have suggested you contact the mods via email to investigate further and get to the bottom of your particular situation. Have you done so? If not, that does seem to be the most constructive way forward.
Well, they are very obviously not true, as obvious as any other supernatural claim that is patent nonsense. My point is exactly that religion gets special treatment in this particular context.

Sure, we can debate the good/bad stuff, but only after it's acknowledged that the supernatural claims are false. After all, if the supernatural claims are true, that pretty much settles all the rest of the questions concerning religion.
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Why is crypto a lottery ticket? I've never viewed it that way. Just because something is a risk to you doesn't mean it's a risk to me. I firmly believe that cryptos are just at the beginning of their value. Maybe you dont. There's many types of investing.
It’s called IRC.
>>You make an assertion, you gotta back it up. No appealing to "these bad people" politics here. It's quite off-topic, and speaks the aforementioned lack of sincerity in your engagement with people here.

You claim there is a wage gap, and have no "backed it up" so show me your research because I guarantee any study you post I can show you how your are misinterpreting the data. Every study shows an earning gap due to different job, not a pay gap for the same work

The reason for women are on lower paying job roles can be debated but it is outside the topic of a pay gap.

What this conversation is about is an employer paying a female lower wages for the exact same job simply because she is female.

>So, this really isn't the wage gap your aiming talking to. This is that silly, unsourced, appeal-to-fringe-evolutionary-biology argument Damore posited.

I don't believe that I what I said at all, My info comes from the national organization of women, and Girls who Code both of which have studies/data that shows in junior high there is a High interest in Computer Science from girls, then in high School that Interest Craters, Why... They cite a few reason but again that is outside the topic of conversation which is different pay for the same work

You seem to making a lot of assumptions about my position. I wonder if that character flaw is why you have such a strong position here, you have seen some data then made the assumption is ti because of sexism, and once you have made that assumption nothing will change your mind. You know deep in your bones that sexism is the one and only reason, no amount of data will change your mind on that.

> It's striking in the CS world given the staccatto series of sexual harassment and discrimination claims and suits that 2016 and 2017 bring us. Women are saying, in public and in court, that it's not so. But curiously, listening to them brands you "authoritarian left" and "anti-male."

Again you have conflated 2 things. I clearly stated that I was not denying sexism, and supervisors or others that use their power to abuse others (male or female) should be fired, and possibly criminal charged. However that again is outside the topic of if a company is paying a female worker less money for equal labor than a male worker in the exact same job who has the exact same experience. This is the discussion we are having.

You seem to want to expand this discussion to more than just a gender pay gap
It's an eBay bidding bot - bid on a popular product faster than humans. For some reason, shoes were extremely popular, and I have only ever seen this type of user target shoes, and not other products such as handbags or hats.
There is definitely a middle ground somewhere around this. Perhaps the victim must consent (assuming the victim can?)
I mean, you can run your own instance, so I don't feel it's nearly that bad. And, if one instance becomes overrun with spammers, I think most would appreciate their instance's admin blocking the entire instance.
> Why is saying "I didn't buy that item" under threat of perjury not the same?

People forget buying things. Our legal system has a higher bar for falsely disputing a signature.
It sounds very similar to what RPython and Pypy do. You can even use RPython to create a VM for a language besides Python. I read a good blog post from an author who had done that 5 years ago.

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/fast_enough_vms_in_fast...
The fact we dislike the conclusion does not make the argument void. However, I believe the interpretation is limited by magnitude. Someone growing a tiny number of poppy plants can't extract enough material to make meaningful amounts of Opium. Thus, they don't impact the illegal Opium trade.

Again, the regulation was he could use up to 11.1 acres and he did around twice that which is significant.
I'd say >95% of the material covered in my business track could have been learned by reading "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman. If only it had been around when I started.
This is conjecture, but I imagine you need to be good at other skills in order to gain attention from that kind of employer. The social engineering training may come after.
The article is about bringing transparency to HN operations. To allow what I believe to be a factually inaccurate statement by one of the operators just stand as the last word is against the spirit of the discussion.
> It could be a fake ID, but that's more difficult and less likely

My parents used this system. When they'd send me to the store with their card, I'd just say I didn't have my ID on me. Never had an issue. (Note: don't do this without the cardholder's permission.)

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
Why does what the cop said matter? It sounds like a pretty wild story, so I'm not surprised someone might doubt it on first hearing about it.

Did they beat you up, refuse to help you, or something like that?
That would be a fair interpretation if that's all they did. However, we all know that law enforcement agents do lots of other things that the people involved would rather not be made public. A cop being a first responder to someone having a seizure, or consoling a rape victim, are things that I'm pretty sure those people would not want to be public.
Where are you guys getting this idea?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519111
Right, but there is a commonality in our ability to perceive those different contexts.

The example that I heard years ago (I think from Kurzweil?) was framing the difference of us versus future AIs as comparable to an ant's perception of its surroundings versus a human's. In his example, the human has no regard for an ant, we'd just as soon step on them ("evil" AI). To re-frame that, if you could magically turn an ant into a human, why would it even matter if it was once an ant? The transition would be a complete disconnect. Maybe if you told the person that they were once an ant they would have some sort of strange reverence for ants, but it wouldn't be very rational.
This is great for security, but bad for the web overall. It really highlights just how much power Google has over the web. I would also say that the shift has been less about chrome displaying not secure and more about SSL being a Google search signal.

SSL should be used everywhere, but the reason for it is truly scary and shows a slow shift away from the open web.
A tab key! After all these decades, someone is finally putting a tab key on the tenkey! (err "sixteenkey") Back when I used Excel heavily, I would have been amazed to have a keyboard with tab on the right side.
Which? What product do they not have an abundance of competition in? I mean they have the minority market share in every category.
Defederation is on an instance-by-instance basis. Given servers A, B, and C, if A disconnects from C, A-B and B-C are still linked. It's entirely possible (and as far as I'm concerned, except) that there will be instances dedicated to all sorts of horrible stuff. Taken to the extreme, they could split into disconnected networks where the far-left {A, B, C} federation is entirely distinct from the far-right {D, E, F} collective. There's no central banlist, though. A clean split like I described is exceedingly unlikely (unless {D, E, F} is a tiny group of real-life friends who only talk to each other and no one else).
> Instantly shave 5-30 seconds off your average transaction time.

McDonald's clearly cares about this. They have the fastest card readers around. I've always wondered if they are actually running the transaction in real time, or just collecting the card info and running it later, accepting the losses from the occasional bad read.