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I don't like solutions involving fines or large liabilities, because these can create wrong incentives to people/companies.

Making manufacturers liable for incidental damage their devices do sends the message that they should avoid such damages as far as possible. That seems like a good message to me.

If device $20 device X does $20,000 damage to the hospital down the road, the fact that the consumer can return the device seems woefully insufficient.
Elm has a fair chance of distinguishing itself for client-side webapps, because the language and its library are a complete holistic design for that exact domain. i.e. it's not yet another general purpose language, or yet another piecemeal JS mutation.
I became curious about this, there is of course game semantics but that's not what you're looking for. I found a couple of interesting references about using categories to study game theory which I'm going to add to my reading list, Game Theory from the Category Theory Point of View [0] and Towards Compositional Game Theory [1].

[0] http://www.gtcenter.org/Archive/2015/Conf/Jimenez1880.pdf

[1] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/julian.hedges/papers/Thesis.pd...
God what is wrong with people. This is the stupidest thing ever. Volatile and useless for purchases, looks like the luge team wants to get in on the mania. Hope for their safety, the team doesn't crash like bitcoin will.
An acquaintance of mine works for a high precision concrete paving company. The specialize in airports and data centers.

Their contracts often specify a penalty rate for important data cables. Sometimes this would be $120,000 per minute that the cable is down. I think it was even an order of magnitude higher for some cables when they were working near Amazon’s data centers in Northern Virginia.

Given that it would usually take two hours for a cable to be repaired, a single hit would be millions to tens of millions of dollars in fees.

This resulted in a NASA like level of paperwork, checklists, and team communication before anyone so much as put a shovel into the ground on the worksite.
Of all the reasons to delay death, an argument on grounds of an "evolutionary imperative" has got to be the weakest.

The value of life is not in its quantity alone, but in $\int_{birth}^{death} quality \: dt$. If life is extended without due diligence to improving quality of life for humans and indeed all sentient beings, we are ultimately doing a disservice to our fellow humans.
Software engineers cannot be self taught, at least not in any of the countries where engineer means something.
Since we've asked you several times to stop posting ideological boilerplate and political battle to HN, and instead you do this, we've banned this account.

I suppose I should add that no, that's not because we're $ideological_flavor.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947441 and marked it off-topic.
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No. Considering the state of data collection the advertising I see is a joke. If they manage to provide a somewhat relevant ad, I see it 100 times.

I will side on the simple answer and say. Advertising companies like Google and Facebook collect tremendous amounts of creepy data and are blatantly incompetent in utilizing it
> its difficult to know what is possible

I'll save everyone some time. Everything software related is possible.

> how you'd go about achieving your goal

Find some code where someone did something similar, look at it, write your own implementation that does what you want.

The way I got into this field was by writing mods for games. Very narrow scope you can play with so it keeps things simple for beginners.
Deflation also helps creditors and hurts those in debt, so it swings both ways.

Often the Libertarian/Austrian-econ crowd posits a false choice between deflation and hyperinflation, both are bad, and ignores the third option which is an inflation rate that's non-zero, but low and stable.
Good point, but it would still be a step up.
Tell them you're not looking for a payday loan, then stop talking to them and look for real investors.
One side ostracizes the "other" in an attempt at superiority and domination, as they are naturally driven to do. The other side places the "other" on a pedestal, in an attempt at submissiveness and placation, as they feel natural.

The "other" sees this for what it is - 2 people pandering instead of including them into a group of 3 equals. When confronted, each side will claim this is how they include people, and accuse of sowing dissent.

The more people I meet, the more I realize there is no "them" - there is us, just us, and more of us.
> Is it just me who'd love something like this to happen to me?

I love reading about interesting problems and creative ways to solve them. I used to wish for the same. But then I was given a super annoying one.

In my apartment I heard this beep about once every 90 seconds or so. I tried ignoring it for a while hoping it'd go away. And just so at the right frequency and infrequent enough Impossible to determine direction. But also just loud enough to be annoying after hours and hours. I spent several hours trying to pinpoint it. Including putting my head up agaisnt numerous neighbors doors to see if it was coming thru the walls.

I ended up downloading a dozen different audio apps for phone. And found only one that gave out an accurate enough histogram of dB volume level. Most weren't good enough. I needed to differentiate between 2 and most were sensitive enough of reading. I was able to triangulate the direction thru several patient iterations.

Turns out it was coming thru the wall.

Be careful what you wish for. Because you might end up with something arbitrarily dumb and annoying!
I like their fire to get this done.

however , the ISP market is a market hated by its cutomer base for decades. So you got to ask why hasnt this been done before at a reasonable scale or more often?

Didnt even google fiber run into epic hurdles due to monopolistic regulations setup by the telcom oligarch?

if Google fiber struggled how is a small startup going to be able to play?

I'm skeptical in the success of this , but i will be folowing and possibly get involved and hope they succeed.
It's a publicly owned and operated airport so at least in theory it isn't incentivized that way. It sure does make you scratch your head though... situations like this should be near impossible.
Hi! That’s actually a good question, an aspect that I basically avoided in the article. Truth be told, we aren’t happy with the way things are, but indeed the storage is on the same physical machine (in fact a shared docker volume) as everything else. We have a read-only replica that we use sometimes to execute slow queries.

However, the vision is that eventually we would use Raft or other kinds of consensus on top of the current layer of storage. Event sourcing supposedly should make this kind of replication easy because data is always append-only. Unfortunately the reality of a startup is that we often have to do things quickly and this aspect has been neglected for pretty long.
In 2019 SpaceX should start deploying their satellite constellation...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
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When I first saw the Spotify ads with playlist names, I was a bit concerned about the privacy side of things, since you can search public playlists and most people have their real name attached to their Spotify account.

However, in the article Spotify claims that they sought permission before using playlist names on their advertising, so I can't really be upset about it.
I think either political view does not raise main question: why there is a poverty in a such level? what causes it? safety nets are temporary solution, just to keep people from starving to death. but to prevent people to even get to poverty , society needs to do something.

It’s a bit similar to hipotetical situation: human is having a fever, and doctors are arguing which medicine to give to patient, regardless of what causes it. is it infection? flu? complication from chemotherapy? I see little to none of these questions in politics/news articles.

when people will correctly identify cause, fix will be obvious.
why no?
In my team, where we have a 50-50 target goal, we were told that if we know a potential woman hire we should refer her not to the regular hiring track, but to a special "woman friendly" hiring track.
to get those welfare benefits, you have to go through bureaucratic hell. Many don't do it because you have to give up some freedom to get those benefits.
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For what it's worth, MD5 is perfectly safe for use as a proof of work algorithm. You just don't want to use it for authentication / data integrity
Is that evidence that there's a "softer" path to employment, or that the regular hiring track sucks?
"All one should care about is - is this excellent or is it not? Is this right or is this wrong?"

I generally agree with this article. But you can't be a white male and speak this way in silicon valley without being shamed and being labeled a Trump supporter. Especially if your company has militant diversity advocates.
Euler angles (or an equivalent) are implicit in the the way rotation matrices work.
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Yeah, got a third of a BTC in there, can't see how LE can justify just stealing them
Here are some of the ones which have informed my thinking.

Mooers' law - "An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it."

Derek Price's "exponential curve of science". This of course is connected to a number of exponential growth laws, including Moore's Law and Engelbart's Law ("The intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential."). On the other hand, Bradford's Law ("the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a library search.").

If you have Fitt's law then you should have Hick's law and Miller's law, as they are often mentioned in UX contexts.

A classic adage is "Fast, Good or Cheap. Pick two." (The followup is for aerospace - "Pick one. And it can't be cheap.")

A related one comes from the early Unix work. The earliest citation I know is from Stephen C. Johnson and Brian W. Kernighan - "the strategy is definitely: first make it work, then make it right, and, finally, make it fast". http://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast

Brandolini's law - "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

Brooks's law - "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."

Conway's law - "Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it."

Deutsch limit - "The problem with visual programming is that you can’t have more than 50 visual primitives on the screen at the same time."

C.A.R. Hoare - "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

Gerald Weinberg - "The human eye has an almost infinite capacity for not seeing what it does not want to see.... Programmers, if left to their own devices, will ignore the most glaring errors in their output -- errors that anyone else can see in an instant."

Regarding "Talent imitates, genius steals". See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ for some history on that family of quotations.

Regarding "You can't improve what you don't measure", see https://blog.deming.org/2013/08/unknown-and-unknowable-data/ : "Ironically, people often quote Dr. Deming as saying something along the lines of: “you can’t management what you can’t measure.” Not only did he not believe this, he thought managing as though it were true was a deadly disease of management." The link to Fowler's essay is that you "Cannot Measure Productivity" and adds that the aphorism is a cop out.
Saved you a click:

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To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
7:47 AM · Dec 11, 2017

I sure hope so!

A few thoughts WRT that NetFlix tweet:

The "data" culture is so pervasive, the want of privacy is so weak, that these corporations are not ashamed to post tweets like that. And the lack of outrage, which should be easier to amplify and snowball due to the Internet, tells me, that the battle for privacy is lost (or impossible to win).

That Netflix tweet made me feel like a prostitute TBH, like a cog in a machine. Brazil, the movie comes to mind.
Yes. In general it is a nightmare to attempt to coordinate STM with any sort of external action because STM inherently needs to have the ability to do computations multiple times and have “wasted” work when sometimes a transaction cannot commit immediately. Coupling STM with IO can only be done very carefully, making sure for example that the IO is abortable and idempotent.

In our architecture (which is of course by no means perfect!) we largely use a single machine for the majority of our interactions so right now we aren’t facing this issue per se.
In terms of web-oriented languages that are succeeding despite not being company-backed, Haxe is my personal favorite. Its flash target improved on AS3 compilers back in the day, and is now providing a bridge for old Actionscript developers to exit their collapsing walled garden.
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Musical group Sublime has a song titled "April 29, 1992"[0] that describes this in great detail, from a first-person perspective. They lyrically describe the theft/riot angle being catharsis for years of police oppression.

"Everybody in the hood has had it into here. It's getting harder and harder and harder every year... They said it was for the black man, they said it was for the Mexican[s], and not for the white man - but if you look at the streets, It wasn't about Rodney King. It's this [expletive] situation and [expletive] police. It's about coming up, and staying on top, and [showing dominance over] an [expletive] cop."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1dPKfxRhk0
That's exactly what I'm also wondering. Given that the whole company seems genuinely devoted to increasing diversity, I would tend towards the first possibility, especially since the team manager boasted a lot that his team has one of the highest female to male ratio in the company.
What about North Korea and Iran? Or is that where the Russians got the idea ;<)?
Ok. I was confused because the complete sentence read:

> The problem with all of these things is that when you can pick and choose jurisdictions, then playing them up against each other becomes easy: Sell said phone for 690 from a low tax jurisdiction to the Italian company, and the "value added" on that 700 sale is 10.
I should have noted in my example that the Xu sisters look very "similar".
It's closed source and there's no API-compatible self-hosted open source version. Vendor lock-in is a big concern for many people.
Facebook performs secret psychological experiments on its users by manipulating their news feed: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...

I would say without their consent, but it's likely there is a clause buried in the user agreement that means that you consent to it.
Yes, a lot of bandwidth used is from streaming by cord-cutters from major sites like Netflix. But a lot of the video streaming is also from small producers hosting on YouTube or streaming on Twitch and elsewhere.

Anyway, all that streaming from major players isn't preventing use of the Internet for other purposes. One concerning change caused by those major players is not with the ISPs but in the browsers, with the adoption of DRM in web standards. It has started with blocking unapproved access to video but could creep into any kind of content, including text.
Oh the irony if this actually increases the cost of real estate development.
Always good to hear from Trump voters how their upbringing never did them any harm.
Lower "e" engineer. In Canada, like many places, the title is protected. But in reality, it's not often necessary for software. A significant number of the roboticists where I work do not have an engineering degree.
It's a great move. Why waste money racing GM/Tesla when you can wait for the hardware to become a commodity?
You need to think of a derivative as just a function that takes a function, a point, and returns a linearized function that best approximates the original function at that point.

So basically the chain rule states that if you have two functions F, G composed together and you want to find the derivative (the linearized approximation), you simply compute the linearized function for both F and G, and compose the linearized version afterwards.

You can read the Wikipedia article on the chain rule and it eventually gives this simple and elegant formula for the chain rule: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8b0f...

But the unfortunate reality is that too many textbooks formulate the chain rule in such a complicated manner that it obscures the simplicity and elegance of the chain rule.
There are a few Hacker News readers who don't know any Korean shopkeepers in LA. Could you just tell us what they think they riot was about?
This line passes right on the Delphi, Greece. Known as the center of earth (Ομφαλός της γης), named by the ancient Greek people. coincidence? I think so.
What I would pay to hear this on Car Talk. Sigh.
The political correctness climate is so unpredictable. I'm considered both sexist & feminist due to being a white male who doesn't pay attention to the gender of my non romantic relationships. Laissez faire ideals makes you an enemy of everyone in an age of 'allies'
As a recipient of email, choosing not to read a message is not an offense against free speech, especially when email has become unusable to the individual without doing so.
Someone explained it properly in the reddit thread, it's the exhaust generating noise while driving in reverse (only happens in the morning when cold and at specific RPM, exhaust generates a specific frequency which vibrates the windows and triggers the alarm).
It is a centralized content container, which makes click-bait titles like this one better material. So you can create a controversial opinion on a subject, get views, make it an entertaining even if exaggerate read and it gets featured among other pieces especially if you use the right popular tags, then your post is on people's medium app and newsletter subscription.

WordPress, on the other hand, is open source software you can host it yourself and thus you can't just slap some tags on it and get featured on top of a newsletter. This is also why some authors prefer medium, easy to setup and easier to get an audience, but then you have to resort to these marketing techniques to drive your views up.

Disclaimer: I have written some medium posts with catchy/controversial titles to test said techniques, call me part of the problem.
PH suffers from the fact there are only 1-2 actual useful online products released per week.

So most of the stuff you see arent really products like guides to hacking X or curated lists of podcasts. Or Iphone X. so uninteresting.
I'll go one step further and say that they are actually mean-spirited. Read this again- "To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?"
As always it's about moderation.

Saving wealth to take care of your children is one thing but this much seems excessive and ultimately means that inequality will continue to increase as wealth is trans-generationally hoarded.

Massive inequality also portends social unrest, plagues due to people who can't afford medical care, wars, etc etc
I was just discussing this as a result of watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-asltUUvcGU in which they discuss the result of the western capitalist system loosely resembling a meritocracy, except in the case of inherited wealth.

An exceptionally productive individual can generate billions, but then when he dies the money goes to his heirs which may not have done anything to deserve commanding that much wealth other than having been raised by (and having the genetics of) the exceptionally productive individual, which is a far cry from being exceptionally productive themselves.

My thought was to create a cap on inheritance. Enough so that the heirs would be able to live a normal middle class life without working, but not be disgustingly wealthy like the parent. ~$5 million seemed like enough to live off interest for a lifetime. I don't think productivity would be disincentivized too much by this, as the productive individuals still get to use their wealth as long as they're living. It'd probably be pretty difficult to plug all the loopholes but I think it's worth thinking about.

edit: another thing, we could lighten some other taxes (income, property, whatever) for this increased death tax such that the overall government tax income remains roughly the same, to make the proposal more palatable. Overall, everyone keeps more of their wealth, and the playing field is leveled and we're a bit closer to an actual meritocracy.
in Germany the freedom provided to humans and their capitaland the state, is quiet different from how humans and their children are treated. Like free schools and kindergartens and lax rules on public transport with children and tons of maternity leave, but yeah on the other hand you have to do a ton of work when you want to make a startup. I'd say it's the difference between an entrepreneurial make-or-break-it society like the US and, well, socialism
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Click'n'Clack4eva. You're absolutely right, they'd have had an absolute field day with this.
> Dan is saying "Easter egg yay, auto-include in browser nay".

Let me clarify: I do not want Easter eggs in my browser. At all. If you have to insert it, doing it via an add on is better than via core capability (I guess), but either way it is a very bad idea. And I think (correct me if I am wrong) that it is not "auto include nay". It is rather "Easter egg yay, auto-include yay, auto-activate nay".

At best an Easter egg is some useless junk and at worst it is a possible backdoor which can be activated by mistake on the developer side (as happened) or by a user fat fingering some input.

Sadly, I do not trust Mozilla anymore. It is just another evil empire competing to capture any user information it can. Any time there is another non-removable "feature" added I could bet 10:1 that the goal is to try putting yet another hook into the user and "good news: we are enhancing user experience again" is a clumsy PR. My 2c.
lol, I hate the words "parametric polymorphism" had it as a question in an university exam and failed, because I only learned "generics" and "templates" xD

love the concept tho
And what was the app?
>It's substantive and grounded in personal experience.

Yes, but it's the personal experience of someone who has never "had to defend their choice of or fight an uphill battle while selecting engineering as a career choice". Which makes it seem like more of an "argument by outlier" than the expression of some deep universal insight-- yes, maybe Mallika doesn't appreciate someone listening to her talk as "being supportive", but maybe women who have had to fight an uphill battle would appreciate the show of solidarity and the chance afterwards to swap war stories.

(I do agree that it was unfair to flag the article.)