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What stops everyone from voting 0 for everyone and 10 for one candidate? It's how like our system is now, where no one votes for who they want, but the person they can tolerate most, and can win.
> your opinion is that distributed ledger isn't one of them. your opinion is wrong.

How many times do I have to say in a single thread that this is not, and will never be, my opinion?
I'm surprised this article barely touches on the language-level concurrency support in Ada. Back in university, Ada was the language we used to learn concurrency. It kind of sucked, and you kind of hated it... until you had to implement the same thing in C and wanted to shoot yourself, heh.
Already addressed in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=turc1656

It seems like HN comment pages might have a critical mass beyond which it's impractical to see if somebody's already said what you want to say so people repeat the same idea - ballooning the comments page even further.
Electoral College?
Ok so what happens when I hop on a GCE 1 core VM and hammer AVX512 in a loop. Do I drop the entire box perf by half?
This American Life did a story on Nauru in 2003 -
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/...
Disney movies generally makes sense and have some logic rooted in the real world. Yes there are talking animals and magic but the stories ultimately relate to the human experience.

I think the problem with the crap the author finds is that – it is nonsensical. These videos addict kids by triggering their innate desire to seek out novel/scary situations and explore them. This instinct exists so kids learn about the real world around them, as quickly as possible. But when kids watch videos with no sense, no logic, and no relation to the real world, their brains learn and reinforce nonsense. It delays their development while reducing their attention for more wholesome – and more boring – exploration of the real world.

Kids' brains are amazingly plastic, they have amazing memories, and they ruminate sometimes for months on novel/strange concepts. Watching, say, Peppa the Pig eat her own father even once can have a profoundly negative effect on a young child.

Absolutely parents should not let YouTube babysit their children. But a child watching, say, Sesame Street, will tell you about how Oscar helped Elmo do such-and-such, or Grover had a bad day and Big Bird comforted him, and they'll apply that to their own life. A child watching Marvel character heads buried in sand will prattle on about random creatures' heads buried in things, and will fail to apply that lesson to anything in their real-life experience.

EDIT: Not to imply e.g. Disney is flawless – remember Dumbo's pink elephants?
Facebook is pretty low on companies I would trust, on the other hand we know that NSA employees who have the highest level of security clearance were using their ability to intercept everything to stalk their exes and pass around their exes nude photos according to Snowden. Clearly nobody can be trusted, and as you write, a solution for this must incorporate this fact.
The bmc situation is changing. There's an effort to support the ARM SoCs upstream, and there are a number of companies working on open source BMC stacks.

https://github.com/openbmc
Ah, trip down memory lane. I wasn't involved in this scene but around the same time there were vbulletin forums dedicated to hacked FTPs that allowed FXP transfers. The exploits were well known so any FTP was quickly overrun with people trying to fill up the HD faster with dir after dir of reserved names.... I had one on Interland for what felt like ages....

Ahh, good times...
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>Criminal investigations are non-partisan.

Sniff. I remember when I was young and idealistic.

The Obama administration was clever enough to investigate people around Trump such that they would have pretty much everything he said in the can.

What was highly irregular, and arguably illegal, was Susan Rice at the NSC authorizing the "unmasking" of the people involved as well as a wide intergovernmental distribution. She really had no business doing that, and it effectively leaked every aspect of the investigation.
Unrelated to the news article, but I'm alarmed that the usual HN balanced-skepticism is largely buried in this thread:

Almost no-one has questioned whether these videos are indeed harmful to children.

The top comment is a Medium article that sensationalizes these videos to the point where I was afraid the video would destroy my brain a-la Snow Crash.

I'm picking up a lot of "please think of the children" and "you would understand if you had children," and comments that read like a call-to-arms for a moral outcry.

On the other hand, there's almost no introspection about what OTHER things (that don't make adults strangely uneasy) might still be detrimental to children. if I'm being uncharitable, I might quote Neil Postman's view of Sesame Street: “Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children’s access to television.
They 100% know they can. I've watched a 2-year-old with a phone skip through dozens of videos until they found a channel just saccharine enough to hold their attention for minutes until the phone was taken away.
Great video except that it's misleading at the end. Arrow's theorem is only about rank-order voting. But if e.g. you can express your preferences as numbers (e.g. if you can state your preferences as 10% strawberry, 30% vanilla, and 60% chocolate) then it no longer applies.
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Finally! My 2 and 3 year old girls stumble on these when watching baby videos.
I laughed my ass off when, after all the complaining the Germans did about the NSA collecting their PM's phone conversations, it turned out they did the very same thing to Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State travelling in Europe.
As soon as I opened up this article, memories of the theme song (Maylynne - Catch Me) came rushing back! I am glad someone else mentioned this series. It was a memorable part of my teen years.
Algorithmic reward system within YouTube results in infinitely many nonsensical and non kid appropriate videos targeted at kid viewers.
Lol, just pay 3 grand and you get the source code bro
They should call it the Flintstones or something.
I called and asked for a box of 100 floppies to "distribute around the workplace," I wanted to keep them to use for whatever I needed floppies for, but my mom made me give them out at school.
Thanks for being thoughtful. The smell bothers me so much that I removed the whiteboard from the wall of my office so that visitors couldn't write on it.
It is not just you, but my youngest is 27. I am not currently raising small kids. So I try to respect the fact that if parents are complaining, then it must be an issue for them.

My bigger concern is that we are happy to let automation take jobs while talking about UBI as the solution. Does no one but me see a connection here? This is a way for people to make money using automation in the face of fewer regular jobs being available due to automation. If people need money and can't make it some other way, duh, they turn to doing this stuff.
Agreed. But the FBI would infest it quickly with confidential informants and everyone would end up in jail. Times have changed with the advent of serious cyber security budgets.
Matt Mazur maintains an archive of aol-files.com, which has a lot of old AOL content: https://mattmazur.com/projects/aol-files-com/
That’s actually quite a good comparison. My thirst for information varies strongly, and my eyes are bigger than my belly.

By never letting you know what is coming next, _the endless feed_ never makes you feel bad about your current information processing potential, relative to last week when you subscribed to 12 obscure blogs.

Information not interesting? Scroll. Information feeding your insatiable hunger? Scroll. You’ll never know how much there is, or how much there was.
IRC was such an interesting place - vast with a ton of different niches.

I spent a whole summer downloading and burning dreamcast games - to a 14 year old it felt like I'd won the lottery.

All of my gaming friends hung out on IRC as well, on top of stuff like cracked passwords for pay sites , software, and just all the weird niche hangouts like the phreaking channels.

It was a great part of growing up, sometimes I'm tempted to check in and see what's still around but somehow I never get around to it.
Human beings begin learning to speak by babbling - producing nonsensical language gradually begin to make sense.

It seem illogical that a sense stream of images would innately dangerous by itself. Indeed, most of the things that a child sees at a young age are senseless to the child even if they have a logic to them. Moroever, a child is going observe a senseless stream of images whenever an adult begins channel surfing in a determined manner.
Well ISIS fighters don't drink but apparently are fond of Captagon https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/19... which is a meth like drug developed in the 60's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenethylline
This is entirely predictable under capitalism. Read Manufacturing Consent.
> What are the downside ADA?

Mostly that very few people use it[1], which causes a kind inverse network effect, if you will. So finding people fluent in Ada is more difficult than finding people fluent in more popular languages.

Also, AFAIK the library situation is not very good. I guess this is not that much of a problem for embedded programming, but for building regular applications (like a web server or a DBMS) it kind of sucks.

[1] Telling this from memory, and I am by no means an expert, so take this with a grain of salt. But I think part of the reason that Ada is not popular is that it acquired a reputation for being large and complicated early in its life. The last time I looked at Ada, it did not seem that complex compared to C++, but I guess the reputation has stuck. Also, for a while (I have no clue how long and right now I am too lazy too look it up) the language was trademarked/copyrighted/whatever by the Pentagon, and if you wanted to call the shiny new compiler you just wrote an Ada compiler, you had to submit it to the Pentagon for certification, which I assume was both expensive and slow. Therefore very few people outside the aerospace / DOD contractor sector used the language to begin with. It's a shame, really. It took me a while getting used to it, but once I got past that, I found it a very nice language (as long as I did not need much in the way of third party libraries).
I've been warning friends and family about it for years back before it was well known, my first email about it was 2015. Their reaction has been one of three things; you're too paranoid, who cares so what, and stop talking to me. I've always made a variety of suggestions and updates on general security issues, even beyond the Intel ME problem, to friends/family via email.

It is not just a matter of apathy. They get violently ill at being told to think about protecting themselves. If you tell them not to put their debit card into an ATM without giving the card reader a tug to see if its real first for example, they'll do it wrong anyway just to spite you. It isn't that giving the tug is hard or that it isn't wise, but they simply do not want you to be right or have to think about it.

Admitting that you are right about that one little thing means they have to deal with all the other issues that you brought up as well. There is probably an interesting field of psychology to be researched with just that phenomena alone. I don't think this is just the people I know personally because I've encountered a lot the public who has this mindset as well. It is how we got ourselves into these problems in the first place with no recourse.

I stopped sending the emails about a year ago because they asked me to. The reason stated is that no one cares about security and a number of them had already auto-forwarded me to the junk folder. Or, told me they saw my name and would skip my emails and not open them. I don't even feel like bringing it up again now that it is a going concern. They will continue to not care.

I find it frustrating.

EDIT: I've disabled Intel ME on my machines. I would offer to do it for others but they'd have to acknowledge it's something that concerns them to want that help, and they won't.
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100% correct.

I am a statistician and a developer and my work falls into the domain of machine learning. The vast majority of my job is really painful data gathering, scrubbing, and fighting the toolchain. I have done this for YEARS, and the software is never just right, requires tons of tuning, huge budgets, and understanding management. These variables just don't line up that often. OP has nothing to worry about.

Moreover, the math stuff just gets abstracted away into a library. It's never like what went on in graduate school.
I think you misunderstand the system. It's not that you have 10 points to distribute across the candidates, but that you give each candidate a score. What score you've given to other candidates doesn't constrain what score you can give this candidate - you pick separately from the whole range for each.

So if 10 is the maximum (0-1 was the range given above, but whatevs), then sure if I prefer Hillary to Trump and they're the only two that seem likely to win, maybe I'll give her a 10. But for anyone I prefer to Hillary, why would I give them a zero? Of course I should give them a 10 as well!
>RSS was strategically killed by Google

Then

>I still use Shaun Inman's Fever RSS every day

Preciseness of language. The reports of RSS demise are greatly exaggerated.

Most sites, even those NOT using Wordpress, still publish RSS. This includes every major platform that I can think of.

Shopify, Magento, Blogger...The list goes on...
This generally works OK, but for heavy duty use I find it is vastly improved if you glue it to an equal-sized piece of CD plywood. It makes it significantly heavier, but it won't warp and it will write way better. Only adds a little bit to the cost (plywood + bottle of liquid nails).
Unfortunately, "presumably" is not good enough for systems programming - you have no idea when it might run, and you might end up with a lot of environment variables attempting to tame its behavior - like the JDK has.
Not if it’s already gone. But a non-cloud reader (e.g. Liferea) stores real hard copies for you on disk.
Here's a group for HN: http://www.moneyga.me/community/group/34
Feedly does a really great job of showing you "most popular stories today."

I'm feeling this kind of intentional obtuseness going on in this thread. Like, this solution for RSS has been solved a very long time ago. Now we're talking about it being a bug?
It's probably on the way out, but it'll be a very bad thing. Tens of thousands of podcasts and blogs use FeedBurner for their feeds exclusively. If FeedBurner shuts down, even if more than half of folks successfully migrate away, incredible amount of content will be lost forever.
Can someone name any major publications that don't have an RSS feed for me?

Please?
I don't get what is so bad? If you watch the video it has a story, it is just really poorly animated.
...did you actually read the article? You're not disagreeing with it.
I find myself uncomfortably watching the threshold of will power and competence to use the internet safely creeping up slowly, but very steadily over time.

Sometimes I use a browser in a context where I have my ad-blocking shields down (someone else's system, a browser after an upgrade briefly trashes my config), and it's disturbing to me that despite being fully armed with HN-grade world-weary cynicism and the fact that I've been online for coming up on 25-ish years now (starting with BBSes before I could get on the Internet proper), that Taboola crap still sometimes takes conscious effort to not click on it, because it's that good. Goodness help me if they were any good at delivering what those articles promised, because what usually saves me is remembering that it's just straight up a lie. To be clear, this is still a sub-second process in my head, but it still disturbs me that they can get even that far.

I have two children, 9 and 6. I find myself wondering how long it's going to be before I can trust them on the Internet at all; is the necessary competence receding at a rate greater than one year per year? Ten years ago I would have confidently said "no", and my primary threat model would have been "don't do stupid things that get you computer viruses". Now it's ads, and this sort of crap.
> For example, adding an additional candidate should not affect the average score of the rest of the candidates, hence there is no problem with "independence of irrelevant alternatives".

It is non-obvious to me that rational voters in such a situation should not adjust their scores for the initial candidates. In fact, it seems like you should adjust scores in the prototypical situation where you prefer candidate A to candidate B, and detest candidate C. With only A and B present, you give A a high score and B a low score. When C enters the picture, you change your score for B to a high one, so that you make it maximally difficult for C to win.
I love RSS, and have been using Inoreader since Google Reader's demise. Well worth the $15 annual subscription fee.
> Human beings begin learning to speak by babbling - producing nonsensical language gradually begin to make sense.

That analogy is flawed. Children don't learn to speak by listening to each other babble. They learn by listening to adults speak in cohesive, logical sentences.

> It seem illogical that a sense stream of images would innately dangerous by itself.

If it causes the child to ruminate on a nonsensical topic, it is. Children have very limited time to learn about social norms and human behavior.

> Moroever, a child is going observe a senseless stream of images whenever an adult begins channel surfing in a determined manner.

You seem to misunderstand the amount of time children spend watching adults change television channels, versus say, literally anything else that occurs in their life.
So the solution isn't to nerf the existing tax code, but instead to elect representatives that are actually looking out for their electorate instead of companies like TurboTax.
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> However, after doing the research, we found that it is not a good idea to use jQuery with Vue

I have a hard time taking seriously the opinion of someone who bases their sweeping global assertions on "research" and not on actual experience.
go, a language which comes with many built in concurrency primitives, has chosen to leave its core datatypes thread unsafe (the magic ones with generic powers) and gives no sensible tools to remedy this with. this is one of the many ways in which it is a language hostile to its users.
Remember that the users in this case are the banks. Their data wasn't what got leaked. Product data got leaked.
Thank you for chiming in here. Reading so many of these comments of people basically talking out of their asses?

Hey guys, just because you don't think about or use RSS anymore doesn't mean the entire platform is dead and no one uses it, haha.

Jesus the hubris in this thread is insane. I have been using RSS via Feedly uninterrupted for 4 years and counting. No problems, haven't paid a dime, works great.

Yes, not as popular. Apparently losing mindshare these days is akin to actually not existing.
> What did govt do exactly to prevent,

Who said government is the solution to every single problem? I implied too much government intervention was also bad in my original post. I do think the phone call situation in US prisons are exploitative and I hope it does get addressed. Jail/prisons being the responsibility of the government, economic arguments don't apply and they shouldn't exploit prisoners (I'm also not a fan of the "slavery" exemption for prisoners). Just because a captive market exists, doesn't mean it's bad and it has to exploit them...capitalism just tends to push it in that direction. Teddy Roosevelt, who started the "trust busting" didn't have a problem with monopolies, only the monopolies that exploited their position. That still applies to today's anti-trust laws.

> If their currency was so great, why would it need force to make it mandatory ?

Because too many people cause shenanigans when they don't? I'm kind of surprised you were cool with a single legal system, but not with currencies.

> I didn't say that.

You said, "every government action steals resources from someone and prevents them to do it on their own." Maybe I should have been explicit and said "free market" but I figured it was implied. How is "every action steals resources" not oppressing the free market you describe?
Well didn't the IRS hire equifax right after the breach was exposed publicly?
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> Suppose that I rate a candidate 0.7, and my neighbor ranks the candidate 0.6 . Does this mean that I like the candidate more than my neighbor does? What does that mean? How can we tell?

Each voter should rationally vote in whatever way maximises the expected value of his utility of the outcome. The extent to which your vote "looks like your actual preferences" depends on how the voting system is designed.
YES! AOL, where you could store tons of email and move it around without even downloading until you wanted it. Glorious days.

Of course, I was running Linux on a UMSDOS partition by the time I found out about it. :(
Mas Des Tourelles in Southern France makes 'Genuine Roman Wine' if anybody lives in the EU and is interested http://tourelles.com/site-archeologique-et-cave-gallo-romain... unsure if they ship to N. America.
linking this for you: https://github.com/awalterschulze/goderive

i wish i could laugh, but i can't. the lengths people will go to work within such an impoverished language, and by means so antithetical to the go philosophy.
So you have to be extremely wealthy in order to pay cash everywhere, pay the obamacare insurance penalty plus any medical costs paid for by you out of pocket in cash. Also, you cannot legally drive in most (all?) states in the US since they require having some form of insurance (typically 'liability' ins.) for your vehicle.

Wow, it's impossible to not end up in any of these systems.
I don't understand why so many people in this thread are making claims about cursive's efficiency, when the article cites scientific investigations that say it isn't.
I believe CPUs are similar to some extent. Modern ones can clock up and down, and computing units which aren't in use can be shut down. (An example of this that's getting a lot of attention right now is Intel's AVX-512 unit, which puts out so much heat they have to clock the entire CPU down when it's in use.)

Apparently current designs can't quite do this enough, though. I'd definitely like to know the reason for that.
Your comment hit the nail on the head
There isn't anything actually disturbing in this article, the author and everyone here are freaking out over nothing. And it's odd too, because you can literally go to any child's vlog on Youtube and find tons of pedophiles making lewd comments. Are people not aware of that? That's disturbing, not this algorithmically-generated clickbait stuff.
Super nastolgic here. I learned programming via VB3 Writing apps to mess with AOL. First using "send keys", then switching to WinAPI. Made animated intros with Warezed version of 3d studio max. So many memories and hours spent! Friends made too but they all drifted away. Recently got nastolgic just seeing my buddy list when I logged into my AOL account from the 90s (after AOL shutdown was announced). Pretty much owe my career to the scene. Stay l33t!