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> Which begs the question on how one collects taxes without aggression?

That is what the Rothbardians do not understand -- there is always aggression in the world. What you do not understand is that even though there is aggression in the world (i.e. we don't live in a perfect world where people don't game the system), that does not mean we should not seek to minimize it. To minimize aggression (and thereby maximize freedom) is a non-trivial and ever-changing optimization exercise.

For example, if by levying a tariff or property tax, a freedom-maximizing society's government is able to fund a standing army to prevent other governments from conquering a society, it is presumed that net aggression is minimized (i.e., from the standpoint of the citizenry who are being aggressed upon by their government in the form on involuntary taxes, because otherwise we can assume a different government would take its place, which would most likely not be a freedom maximizing government (or it wouldn't have been forming empires in the first place)).

> So you criminalize the "assault" then you don't need gov't watchdogs tracking all uses of mercury to ensure it doesn't end up on some poor sap's lawn because once you give them the power to outlaw one thing you give them the power to outlaw whatever they want.

Not sure what you're getting at here, if anything. I see no connection between 'lack of government watchdog employing mass surveillance to track all thermometers in the country' and society falling apart. Nor do I see the converse as an actual solution to mercury pollution -- do you?? So they track it, then what? How? What happens when thrown-out thermometers break and run off into the storm drain? What happens when somebody throws out mercury on some poor sap's lawn anyway? This is the second time you've made this invalid point -- people will break the law sometimes. There is punishment for that in both of these proposed systems. How is yours any more effective?

There will always be littering, and I whole-heartedly support generic clean-up efforts to counteract the summation of small, non-enforceable aggressions, that are not already assumed in externality taxes along the supply chain (like people dropping gum on the sidewalk, etc.) On the topic of those externality taxes, here's an example: purchaser of a combustible manufacturing fuel used to create cigarettes is charged an externality tax for the inherent environmental cost of using the fuel. Then the smoker pays a different tax to pay for the externality inherent in using the cigarette. Such a thing would not be fair for gum, though, because most people do not drop gum on the ground -- it isn't inherent so why should the Sean Spicer's of the world bear an outsized burden of the cost for cleanup?
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> Pity he hadn't heard of Armed Bear Common Lisp (http://abcl.org/), which runs on the JVM.

He was certainly aware of SBCL. He had a number of reasons for not wanting to use it. [1]

> I don't mind mutable state, since the real world is not functional:

I hear this argument often, but the "real world" is not linked lists or hash maps or mutable or 0s and 1s either, but they are all useful representations.

> real programs are all about side effects

Clojure has plenty of facilities for side effects, and without having to resort to monads (though you could if you wanted).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPNkH-7PRTk
2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics” [video]
I had an online interview with a startup. They used a website where I could submit my programs to a set of programming questions.

there was this question, which I don't remember now. the question had example inputs and outputs. the examples had a few sorted arrays as inputs. but the question didn't say that the answer should only accept sorted array.

when the array is sorted, the solution is easier. but even it is not sorted, sorting the array first won't result in extra big O time. And sorting is trivial, so I commented in the code that I only implemented a solution where I expect a sorted array as the input. The question isn't clear regarding if the input is sorted or not. In case, the input is not sorted, sorting is trivial. I could use whatever to sort it ....

I was proud of my answers, not on this question, but questions before this one. As some questions asked for bit manipulation. and I used inline assembly for a very speedy implementation.

After I submitted my answers, the CTO of that startup ran my code against their unit tests, and minutes later I received rejection.

I asked them, why? he gave me a case where the input is not sorted. clearly he didn't even look at my code.

Using ambiguous questions to reject people doesn't make sense to me. Plus, the online coding platform isn't interactive at all. there was no chance for me to clarify the question.

I guess they made this question unclear on purpose, but I don't know what they are testing? interview skills I guess?

Or maybe they wanted to test if I'm a rigorous person. of that I didn't fail, as I had pointed out the input requirement was unclear.

They didn't even't look at the code, not too many lines, which I feel disrespectful.
I don't normally take much stock in anything reported by The Sun, and the article was pretty light on detail, but the satellite imagery is worth a look. It's got good annotations and will probably be useful for reverse image searching more technical analysis.
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Superman was created in 1933. A lot of those things didn't exist or barely existed. Shoot airplanes were still in their infancy.
You can divide it into three classes, really.

A) Uses quantum effects like superposition and entanglement to compute, no quantum speedup.

B) Uses quantum effects to compute, with quantum speedup.

C) Universal quantum computer with quantum speedup.

I would argue that the term "quantum computer", as commonly used, requires the device to be at least class B on this list. Even if you don't think class C is necessary, class A is full of trash like "knockoff 6502 with a fancy photon-splitting ALU". Class A allows the quantum nature to be a pointless novelty resource. It's like a "solar-powered" house with one square foot of panels.

And as far as I know D-Wave haven't conclusively proven their device to be class B.
Istio provides a control plane and can be deployed to also provide you with a service mesh with a side car approach. Istio also gives you features like rate limiting, traffic shaping, authentication (tls mutual auth) and metrics out of the box. Contour is meant to solve the ingress problem by using Envoy as a reverse proxy. I think it will primarily be focused on doing that.
I've been trying to get into TDD myself for years. I've read the 2 most suggested books and another book that had "testing" in it. But I still came back with issues. I don't program Java, so I don't understand some of this code, so I can't just convert it over to the languages I know. The examples were of basic stuff like "Lets make something that adds two numbers", "Here's a basic mock, lets not worry about DB queries", etc... It really didn't teach me how to think in TDD, it wasn't specific for the languages I program in, nor did it touch on things like "real time data" coming from a stream source, which I think is "How to think in TDD and how to program to fit it."
You can still be a bully even if you do it 5% of the time. Its not all black, doesn't mean its white, and the reality is always grey. I'll concede that maybe at times, the reviewers are unfair, and at times Apple is unfair. We can judge it ourselves on a case by case basis. You can just as easily rush to point out "the person is within their rights to say this" just as "apple is within their rights to withold devices". I don't particularly feel the need to defend Apple (or any other giant corporation). They have people they pay for that.
I'm making a Chinese-English parallel translator.

https://pingtype.github.io

My boss asked me to take CS231n about Deep Learning, and I decided to put some of my Chinese data into the same tools (Word2Vec) to see how it performed.

Honestly, it sucked. Was that my bad coding (very possible). Or is it because the examples are cherry-picked to work well with English? Can someone recommend a tutorial of Deep Learning for languages that are not English?
I worked at a place recently where all of these factors, but especially (3) turned out to be a huge cost for an ostensibly simple service that it severely hampered any further development. Since it was a hard TDD shop, any discussion of cutting out all the intermediate layering was completely off the table. Internal structure was easily 75% of the size of the project.

After all, a lot of effort had gone into building all of the internal mocks, and while many of the early design decisions enshrined in the tests were quite dubious, to revisit those assumptions would have been backsliding. Even though there were no users to speak of yet, the existing tests had to pass.

And of course because of (1), the product didn't actually work because there were no integration tests at all. Because all of the unit tests passed, the ongoing assumption was that the platform was basically sound.

The most charitable thing I can say about TDD given that context is that it might be valuable, but isn't sufficient.
I am a big believer in "That government is best which governs least." I raised two 2xE sons (gifted plus special needs) and one of the best things I did was to only create minimal, very logical rules that they could respect and understand.

For example: "I need to be able to walk to the dresser and closet without hurting myself so I can put clothes away." This was clear and sensible instructions for deciding for themselves where they could leave toys out and where they couldn't. The reason for it was also readily grasped and something they could agree with. It wasn't just abstract "I am in charge, you will do as you are told!" type BS.
My point was that entire countries economies and political systems sometimes fail. That hasn't happened in the US in the same way as it's happened elsewhere. But if it had, then "timing" the market, by which I mean selling it, would not have been suboptimal.

Maybe I define market timing differently. Holding a healthy cash position for future investment and selling investments from time to time based on either their valuation or prospects, whatever that is called, is not a bad idea.

I contrast that with being 100% invested in index funds at all times, forever. That might backtest well, but that doesn't mean it will forward test at all well.
New algorithm helps turn low-resolution images into detailed photos, ‘CSI’-style
The stock market is a prediction of future returns, so it is in fact a signal of what people think about the what the new politician's effect on certain companies' income.
It's also the native host-guest file sharing protocol used by KVM: https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio

It works in at least Ubuntu & Fedora out of the box, and is used by the virt-manager GUI to set up shares, so not too experimental to enable by default I guess.
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"Organize an optional dinner/lunch/night out together with your team"

Lunch (on company time, and paid for by the company, since a lunch in a restaurant might not fit into every employee's budget) is probably OK. Note, however, that you may alienate employees who have dietary restrictions due to health or religion.

But please, no dinners or nights out. An event organized by your manager, who is in a position of power over you, will not be perceived as optional - it will be perceived as a work-related function that you will feel pressured to attend ("mandatory fun"). For those who have spouses/partners and/or children they want to go home to (or just a life outside of work), it would be an imposition on their personal time.

If employees want to socialize with each other outside of work (some do, and some don't, and not everyone likes everyone else), they're free to organize it on their own, without meddling from management.
It sounds like you do? Sell your expensive sf house and take your fdic insured money losing saving account and plow it into bitcoin - invest for the future! It’s all solid.
How many users wound up losing data because of that bug? In comparison, how many houses were lost to fire today?
One way or another, Warren Buffett will figure out a way to sell insurance that covers the actual data center. You'd definitely want to be setup with multi-availability zones just in case it does go.
> (as an aside: why is JavaScript required now?)

Because it was "improved" (rebuilt) recently.
No, it is not. But my point was that client-side javascript environments are not congruent in their support for all language features. Writing a boatload of async/await, object-spread, etc. code on the client and not transpiling is asking for trouble.
I've never seen `find!`. If that's a thing, then I have no idea why.

I've have found `find_by!` useful though. Say you want to raise an exception with `find_by!(email: "asd@asd.com")` or `find_by!(slug: "parameterized-string")` etc.
My mistake, you are correct.
Alas, Astropad's 'Camera Button' Was Too Cool for Apple
I place the burden of bare economic security on society rather than the individual. It's really reactionary to say that someone that aspires to a healthy lifestyle is asking for too much. In this incredibly wealthy country, we can afford that. Many would argue, myself included, that the failure of aspirational thinking is producing the current crisis.
I took the liberty of scanning very quickly through your post history. We live and work quite far apart. Seems MLS pain is universal. ;)
there was another interview with intel that sucked. that was a behavior question round, they asked if I ever had a conflict of great hostility with my supervisor, and how I resolved it.

I said I have never had a conflict of great hostility with my supervisor, I'm easy going.

but he insisted I need to find a real-life example of me resolving hostile conflict with a supervisor. I was NCG, I hadn't had too many supervisors.

I had no choice but made up a story for that one. I guess that position requires story telling skills.
> Anyone calling it 'double opt-in' has the whiff of being a spammer even if they aren't one.

Wow, I'm kinda surprised to hear that because I manage several e-mail servers (for thousands of users) and I am about as anti-spam as one can be. I'm certainly way more aggressive in spam filtering than most others I know.

I run my own RBLs (shared across several different systems); I have spamtraps and keep a handful of domains registered solely for that purpose; I do tarpitting; I will blacklist domains and IP addresses -- or ranges of addresses -- at the drop of a hat; and much more.

Until reading this thread today, I have never even heard the term "confirmed opt-in". "Double opt-in" is what I've always heard it referred to as and so that's what I've always called it. As I said, I'm about as opposite of a spammer as one can be.

You should be careful about making such broad generalizations or accusations.
QPX is the biggest Common Lisp codebase I have seen in a commercial product. I left Google years ago, so I wonder if it’s still written in Lisp.
If your VPN server is used by many users it tends to be detected and blocked by GFW. In case you found managing shadowsocks servers cumbersome, you may want to check out https://foxshadowsocks.com They manage shadowsocks servers for you and allow you to move servers across regions (to get a new IP).
51% means you can double spend. it doesn't necessarily mean you can steal money
2017 Woo Developers Conference Summary Notes
Verbify didn't say that at all.

It's ludicrous that you can't download a security-focused app when your browser settings are unusually secure. ;)
Is this solely using in-app analytics as input for the learning, or other knowledge of users from elsewhere in google?
Put your money where your mouth is and place a short.
>"when you want to classify a new sample, you take a model trained on the complete labeled data you have and use the prediction of that."

Using which set of features? You have 34 different models with different features...
> I'm not familiar with this one, but building your infrastructure on small Google APIs is starting to seem foolish.

Maybe you should be familiar, this isn't a Google API, it came through an acquisition and would have been shut down a long time ago if the government didn't mandate them to keep it available. Anyone who knew anything about this API already knew that this was just a matter of time.
Most clients don't load images by default. The big providers (gmail and the like) certainly don't.
I mean, why not? I run a few small sites and even I throw a 4096-bit key in there on 'em. It's not a burden.
> I don't have my GitHub password/keys on the server. Why would I have them there?

Because you only need an SSH key to push to github and it's not uncommon for people to leave those laying around (or to forward them with a connection!) on a server.

The better question is not "Why would you have them there?" but "How do I know you don't have them there?"

> Yes, but it's trust-on-first-use. There's a big difference between

You're showing a very fundamental misunderstanding of trust and security. I trust your code every single time I load the application. I don't care what measures you _think_ you've put into place, I will _guarantee_ you they are not fool-proof if you have a compromised system. You're insistance that it is is very disheartening and continues to degrade any trust I would have placed in you.

> 1. Trusting me today when I say that the GitHub keys are not on my server,

No, it's trust that you will never ever ever ever place them on any device you ever own where it is accessible or that said device will never ever ever be hacked.

> 2. Trusting me today when I say that I'm not sending your password to the server, and being able to verify that by checking the code on GitHub

And when this changes? Must I audit the code every single time I load the code? Because yes, I need to do that to ensure you havn't changed anything.

> 1. Trusting me every time you open the web app

I still need to do this.

> 2. Trusting me and my hosting company that I won't ever get hacked

I still need to do this too.
US nuclear arsenal to cost $1.2tn over next 30 years,independent CBO report
That's interesting, but you're plugging holes in a waterfall I think.

For example, that first visit which installs the service worker can already deliver bad code.

Not saying you will do it, but it all relies on people trusting you not to do it. So statements like "we CAN'T read your stuff" are not true on the web. Luckily, most web users don't care about being hacked by the server - they care about owning their own data! :)
>everybody can get a free Square reader and accept payments

* subject to a 3% + $0.3 processing fee

>the stock market! With Robinhood and the likes - it's scam-free

what about the 2008 CDO fiasco? what about enron? the stock market is far from "scam free"
"Task: The task administered to the salmon involved completing an open-ended mentalizing task. The salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations with a specified emotional valence. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing."
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> If there's 1 thing most proponents and opponents of unit testing can agree on, it's probably that low-value tests are worse than none at all.

Err...just do a quick search in the comments and you will see that this is hardly the consensus.
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Except, of course, exercise has very little effect on weight loss.
Ask HN: How does your org write a post-mortem?
I choose B and make variable overshadowing a compiler warning.
I was being interviewed for a mechanic's job at a car dealership back around 1986 and they told me I was hired but I had to go get a "Physical" from a doctor before they'd hire me. I was fine with that but when I got there I was told I'd be given a "drug test" and that's it.

Since they lied to me I became skeptical right off the bat so I called them up and asked why they wanted to drug test me?

I got the "It's normal procedure", and then was told "it'd be unfair to the company if someone came in high and didn't perform and they still had to pay them". I agreed with that last part, but had to ask "Who gets to see the results of my test" and was assured that only management and the owner would see it.

So then I asked "Does management and the owner take the test and can I see the results of theirs when they do?" and was told "No. They are not required to take the test, only hourly employees."

So then I told them I was fine with taking the test but before I'd work for them I wanted to see the results of the owner and manager's tests because they might not be able to evaluate my performance when it was time for me to get a raise in pay after they'd been binging all weekend on coke and hookers and I've been screwed before by "owners" and "management" who did that.

I obviously didn't get or take the job. I've still never taken a job that required a drug test. I wouldn't even apply for one that required it. Not because I do drugs, but because I'd never work for anyone who'd ask me to pee in a cup because to do that is just too cowardly and I cannot stoop that low without being ashamed of myself forever. In practice it's hardly different than demanding I lick their boots, and in fact it's even worse.
If you're retiring in the next five years your exposure to equities should be lower regardless of what the market looks like.
You mean as proven by being able to share docs publicly? There isn't some grand conspiracy here, Google never claimed they couldn't read your content. That's literally the point of most of Google Docs is that Google _can_ read the content.
By locating them at major internet exchange points they are doing exactly that, being closer to more users.
For what it's worth, it only uses that when adding an account initially to display the login webpage. The CEF is not used in normal operation of the app. It appears the app's GUI is created using OpenGL.

That said, I could not get the app to work with Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger after 5 minutes of fiddling, so I gave up.
'Microservices limits' is a better title.

'Microservice boundary' is typically used to refer to what is in-scope vs out-of-scope for a microservice. e.g. its bounded context.
The British, Russians and French have these weapons and have never used them. The South Africans developed them and gave them up. The Israelis probably have them but don’t admit to it.

Of these people, only the Americans have used them, and they used them on population centers.

I’m not taking a position on whether this was right or wrong. I’m just pointing out that you are trusting the only government that has ever killed thousands with these weapons and distrusting several governments that have not.