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Right wing mindset. Inborn attributes should be promoted and the unlucky discarded. Also, ascribe many things to inborn attributes that are actually the result of the environment.
>Several reported that they didn’t fire because they didn’t see a gun

But they did see him put his hand down to his waist, and one thought "that’s not a good idea. . . don’t be lifting, tugging at your waistband.”

>His poor lyin' eyes...

Unfortunately that's the nature of the human brain. The officer did exactly what he was trained to do.
Stupidity is general slowness in learning.

If someone is not good at _anything_ then it's a good bayesian guess to say they're stupid. If someone has high-achievement in one or more specialities it's safe to say they're smart.

[edit: Feel free to explain the downvotes! I understand the parent-comment was arguing for a "there are different types of intelligence" kind of theory, but I do think that the "aggregate smartness" is more useful/correct. Think of the smart people you know-- aren't they often kind of polymaths? And even things they're new to, they kind of pick up fast? And think of the really stupid people you know--- don't they kind of suck of everything?]
Yep completely agree. Had spent time "homeless" as a child, middle class as a teen, and then actually homeless during (very) early adulthood. Additionally some of my best friends parents are multi millionaires so I've seen the range.

Most peers talk a good game but they can't relate and don't truly care. Its hard for me to at times as well...

Of course I would never even bring any of this up IRL, not worth the conversation.
Do you mean Slashdot was better, in its peak, than HN is now? Maybe! In my rose-tinted glasses, I'd say, yes, definitely.
I agree, and perhaps self-driving cars are not yet ready for "prime-time". The solution for the current state of the art might also just be maintaining a lower speed with automated drivers, which may also necessitate limiting the types of roadway on which they can operate. A slower average speed shouldn't be a big problem for automated cars since they don't experience the frustration of human drivers. Given wide-enough adoption, accomodations can be made to traffic signalling apparatus, car-to-car communication, and car-to-cloud integration to develop near-seamless traffic flows, allowing shorter travel times even at slower speeds. From here the tech could be iteratively improved to provide faster speeds without compromising safety.
Defaults are powerful too. I admit that I signed up for HBO for GoT though also watch other things (esp. Westworld). I could probably optimize month-on/month-off but I don't bother.
I don’t think through any of this anyone has accused Uber of being responsible.
> If you are a police officer in the United States and you've been told you are going into a situation where your opposition is armed and has already killed at least one person you will be very nervous.

If your trigger finger is itching because you're nervous, then you have absolutely zero business being a police officer in the field - much less a SWAT member.
What is the use-case for this? I read and agree that writing HTML or JavaScript is too costly for wireframes and this is why wireframe tools are handy, because you can cheaply sketch out plans or ideas. But this is in JS, so "drawing" with this would be costly.

I can see that it can be used for the fun look, but other than that, what's the point of this framework?
Bicycles of the mind are amazing for producing mental leverage. That leverage amplifies the benefit you can gain from intellectual capacity, and the result is that intellectual differences between people which once were minor become vast. Or to use another, more martial analogy, technology is a sword for your mind. In medieval combat, a small difference in strength or agility or training could mean the difference between survival (and wealth) and an early grave. Today it's the difference between life in the 1% and minimum wage.
Probably all 3 if they lacked the introspection to avoid interviewing for positions in dev work, math, and accounting respectively.

Competence (which is probably closer to what society is increasingly valuing as opposed to intelligence) is always context dependent (although society has also generally respected the idea of the accomplished generalist, see the idea of the Renaissance Man).
Looks nice. I recognise at least one background from the library that comes with MacOS. Is that OK to use?
Agree.

Since it's all video on demand, ratings don't matter, but popularity still matters. Production cost also matters.

As long as there's still a segment of the demographic that is watching, and it's comparable with the production cost, the show shouldn't get canceled.
> You make me sound like a crazy driver

No, you did that:

> I often have pedestrians walk towards the street and I assume they will stop so I don't slow down unless they are children or similar. Almost every day I could hit pedestrians if they kept walking.

With respect, I don't know what you meant to say but that sounds like a description of a bad (or at least inconsiderate) driver to me.

In any case, when I think about how I would design a self driving car, an "auto-auto", the first principle I came up with was that it should never travel so fast that it couldn't safely slow down or break to avoid a possible collision. This is the bedrock, foundational principal.
Perhaps use your brain before making stupid comments?
But unlike race, sex, or many other dividers, IQ is something everyone is empowered to do something about.
C is too low level
which isn't true anymore

It's hard to argue it was ever true, or ever likely to have been treated as such.
We shouldn't assume that engineers have spoken up about this problem. All the same incentives (stock, bonuses) and fears (pushback for whistleblowers, an anti-truth company culture, getting fired) that apply to management apply to engineers, too. Engineers are fallible people, too.
The Nordic countries have managed to combine socialism and capitalism in a very nice way i think. But now it's on its way to less gloryful days due to massive immigration and the problems it's causing.
> No, they don't. Do you really think if, before she made this purchase, someone explained to her all the things that could theoratically go wrong with this device, she would have chosen not buy it?

I think this would only indicate that she might care, but thought theoretical worst case scenarios are not sufficient evidence for an actual, non-negligible risk to her privacy. If they had told her that exactly this would definitely happen, I think she would not have bought the device.

I think one problem of explaining privacy issues to non-techies is justifying why theoretical problems often pose a real threat without sounding (to them) like a conspiracy theory nutcase.
This is awesome. I am currently working with a team to develop a workflow tool with an eventual designer. This is very inspiring.

Take a look at Microsoft's logic apps, it is slightly more generalist, and not so focused on data processing but not nearly as polished as Parabola.
It’s still a commercial usage
Isn't that pretty much all business though.
> but as I've gotten older I've notice that long term success is less correlated with raw intelligence and more with disposition: charisma, grit, and emotional intelligence.

Actually I think long term success is mostly about luck and starting privilege, especially when you use a globally relevant scale of success.

Charisma, grit, emotional intelligence, work ethic, perseverance, positive attitude, etc. ... these are mostly just feel-good concepts we emphasize so we can try to retrospectively claim that our success “is earned” and we “deserve” it and it’s due to our volition and agency.

But really, many lazy, ignorant, myopic, prejudiced and negative trolls are super successful. And many tough, persistent, high-character, talented people are poor & suffering. The difference is mostly luck.
* the device is composed of proprietary blobs

Amazon might as well record everything that you say and send it to the NSA.
Reality is better because it is all connected. A truth regarding one thing reveals more than one truth. Fiction is nice because it fires your imagination and helps you see things from a different perspective. Video games are fictions concretized into equations. Solving fantasyland physics and logistics problems by feel doesn't seem like a particularly good investment of my time, but that's just me. "Brave New World" only took an hour or so to read, but it helped me through a number of real-life problems. "Final Fantasy VI" was the fruitless expenditure of 30 hours.

I'm sure there are some professional MMORPG players out there fuming right now, thinking, "I made XXX dollars selling equipment on ebay." or "I made XXX dollars winning such and such tournament." Porn stars also make a lot of money.

If I had to make a wild guess as to why people stay on the smack into adulthood, it would be escapism. When life paints you into a corner, it is very easy to retreat into the virtual world with netflix and xbox. Urban Japan is hard mode, so probably a much higher percentage of people being painted into corners. Still probably better than netflix though. At least it's an active pursuit rather than a passive one.
Was hoping for ai generated crudely drawn penises. Was disappointed.
I don’t get much meaning from it. What do you take away from it?
VPN Privacy: Using Virtual Private Networks May Put Your Data at Risk (2017)
> it is the company that is violating the law, not the lower profile group.

I work in a company that was acquired and we're still our own legal entity. Would our owner be affected if we violate GDPR?
The EU regularly fines domestic companies huge amounts in anti-trust enforcement.
I'm not sure I ever observed Slashdot at any particular peak, but I've been reading it weekly (if not daily) for something like the past 15 years, and it still serves a role that HN, due to its bubble-like nature, can never fill.

Slashdot is more general interest, and it sports a much healthier cross-section of the tech industry than HN at least presently does. Slashdot comments though, definitely not worth reading any more, if they ever were
I've often thought that JIRA workflows are Turing complete, I was hoping your list would have evidence.
That's in a separate section of the article. "Point and Call" isn't nudge theory either.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/gdpr-emai...
Offhand, due to setting up 'active directory' integrations, I'd say that yes, it should be possible to have a third party authentication framework which does not depend on traditional glibc/libc support.

I can't seem to find, in an offhand and quick glance at search results, any library that I know of to accomplish this task. Doesn't mean it can't be or hasn't been done though. I know for a fact that plain text passwords are passable to authentication libraries since that's how AD integration works.

Though there also seems to be some recent interest in implementing support in crypt() https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21421
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Great idea - especially for non-programmers.

The question I have is - can it outperform the command line?
(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135841 for more)

I almost always use awk/mawk for such things.
To be fair, none of these demonstrate that racist remarks aren't protected by the First Amendment, only that employers and society can exact negative consequences for such speech, which is fair, since freedom of speech goes both ways.

As far as I know, racist speech is protected so long as it doesn't provoke violence against specific individuals ("fighting words.") Although IANAL and I'm willing to concede that I might be entirely wrong, and I don't want to go to the mat for racists anyway.
> The key is to take the time to truly understand each workload before just assuming that one's preferred data storage solution is the right way to go.

Although that is true in principle, in reality that results in the messes I see around me where a small startup (but this often goes for larger corps too) has a plethora of tech running it fundamentally does not need. If your team’s expertise is Laravel with MySql then even if some project might be a slightly better fit for node/mongo (does that happen?), I would still go for what you know vs better fit as it will likely bite you later on. Unfortunately people go for more modern and (maybe) slightly better fit and it does bite them later on.

For most crud stuff you can just take an ORM and it will handle everything as easily as nosql anyway. If your delivery and deployment process have a rdbms, it will be natural anyway and likely easier than anything nosql unless it is something that is only a library and not a server.

Also, when in doubt, you should take a rdbms imho, not, like a lot of people do, a nosql. A modern rdbms is far more likely to fit whatever you will be doing, even if it appears to fit nosql better at first. All modern dbs have document, json/doc storage built in or added on (plugin or orm) : you probably do not have the workload that requires something scaleout like nosql promises. If you do, then maybe it is a good fit, however if you are conflicted it probably is not anyway.
I believe those are just symptoms of the underlying issue; AWS's closed off and slow roll development practices simply could not keep up. They tried to rectify the situation with Blox; I'm honestly not sure how that is going.

When you ask about attaching EFS or EBS to services in fargate and they ask what your use case for that is... In the words of Drake; "...we gonna see."
Lots of services call crypt and it expects a variable length string which describes the stored secret to compare the actual password against. It is //very// possible to update this one place and 'solve' support for MANY dependent programs and libraries.

(towards the bottom of the manual page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/crypt.3.html )
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Ours does too, but there's no sensors inside the stall... You can wave all you want, there's no way to turn the lights back on without opening the stall door.

Thank goodness for phone flashlights!
Reminds me of how NYC subway trains now have arrows on the floor of the train cars directing people to step further in instead of just standing at the door and blocking everyone behind them (which seems to be an all too common behavior).
It isn't, because this doctrine is often used to abridge the Freedom of Speech.

Incitement of violence and other similar crimes are a very specific, tempered response.
Shutting down means you're probably not gathering any further data but what if one of your EU users sends you mail now asking for all the data you have about him/her? How does the shut down protects you about that?
>The bulk of people in the West are apathetic without much care for their work

In my experience, most people put a lot of energy and care into their jobs, and most are proud over what they do even when they are not doing especially important or valued tasks.

They also seem to be putting the interest of the company above other concerns.
One thing you also have to keep in mind though, to compare apples to apples, is relative crime rates. The homicide rate in Wichita is about 8/100k [1]. This [2] is a list of nations by homicide rate. Places with a homicide rate similar to Wichita include Ethiopia, Pakistan, Iraq and Qatar. Dorothy would not be happy! And it's presumably not those sort of places you reference when talking about expecting a couple of Sheriff Andy's to come up to the door asking if everything's okay before headed back to the station to finish up their game of checkers.

You'll find a pattern in incidents of 'extreme police behavior' is that it tends to be in locations with very high crime rates. There are definitely some exceptions, but again - they are exceptions. And I imagine the causal connection is here. The man who tends sheep is probably going to behave a bit differently on average than the man who tends lions.

It's probably a bit disingenuous to compare countries to cities, but a big part of the problem is that a lot of us live in bubbles and even when living in areas with high crime rates, we tend to be completely insulated from it all. Police are not. I grew up poor in the inner city and police tape stretched around an area was a not infrequent sight. And I think it gives me a different perspective than most. Just living in those conditions can make you feel uncomfortable at times. And police are actively walking into the worst of it day in, day out. That's not the sort of thing you're going to take casually.

[1] - http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Wichita-Kansas.html

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
In the military, they are not usually allowed to shoot someone just because the other person has a gun.
I think the sense in which GP is using the word is substantially stronger than that--or, maybe, it depends on what you mean by "rights" and "opportunities".

(You could probably find people who think it's egalitarian to have generous state-funded child care and uniformly high-quality primary and secondary school, but competitive university entrance exams, for instance.)
The way I see it, the web being primarily text based makes empathy difficult, which makes irate and rude behavior easier. It's easy to forget that there are real people on the other side of these text boxes.
This is a dumb headline.
The intersection to the gig economy is what? "The effect of today’s decision will be to end misclassification class actions, for Gig Economy workers and for everyone else." If you are in the "gig economy" or working a side hustle, there should be no ambiguity about your employment classification. If you willingly take a "gig" and then try to claim that you were actually an employee, something's very wrong in your service agreement.
The opinion states, basically, you can debate the sensibility of the policy but this is what the law says. If you don't like the policy, clarify the law. It basically kicks the issue back to Congress.
> Barring repeal of the Second Amendment, the police in the US have the same right to keep and bear arms as anyone else

Not while acting as government agents they don't, just as those acting as government agents don't have the same freedom of expression and association in that context as they do as private citizens.

In fact, the underlying premise of the second amendment (alluded to, though not expressly stated, in it's preamble) is that there would be no substantial professional military forces or paramilitary police force in the US, and that there would instead be a dependence on (selective or mass, depending on situation) mobilization of the citizen militia to address threats requiring response of an armed force. The second amendment isn't rooted in the idea that having an armed population provides security against government armed forces, it was based on the premise that the government relying on the armed citizenry instead of government armed forces, military or police, was a foundation for securing liberty.
This seems consistent with what I know of psychiatry - and to be clear, I am not someone who disputes that psychiatric medications can be helpful.

Was anyone down-voting this because they said to themselves "no, that's not how psychiatrists work at all"?

To me, believing in the physicality of the mind is the most important qualification a psychiatrist needs. That's not at all consistent with naive behaviorism though.
Thanks @adamfeldman. Parabola originally was pure JS: running the majority of each step function of the language in the user’s browser, making use of some python API endpoints and React and Immutable.js for some performance enhancements to know when steps needed to be calculated and rendered.

Given there are definite limitations with browser based JS and user’s systems, we’re now a fully cloud based compute environment. As users make changes in our React UI, we send the work to a queue and then distribute it by parsing the flow tree across various node worker servers so steps can run in parallel (if your flow is built that way). Each step is self contained and we then use sockets (powered by PubNub) to notify the UI of changes.
Felony-murder rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
No, in that case the owner is just a shareholder. But if the original legal entity no longer exists (which I believe is the case with Instapaper) then it doesn't matter that you've been acquired, you are now part of the mothership.
Your life is the sum of those "some" situations.
Sounds like he knew the address he gave was going to be swatted and intentionally gave a valid address of someone else. A rational person would have just not answered the question.
They exist because people made them. I'm sure there are lots of things that exist despite what you want.
I work for an organization that nitpicks about how things look instead of actual functionality.

I've taken to style things like this because it helps them remember "this is just a placeholder" and focus on the actual application logic.

My sketchy stuff isn't as polished as this, but if this is just drop-in, it could be useful.
For the few that are not familiar with the acronym GA, that means General Availability.

Typically this means the removal of a "beta" tag, and a general expectation of a service that is supposed to be available for most of the time, and not have significant security issues or bugs.

In some cases a GA release is accompanied by an SLA (Service Level Agreement), e.g. uptime of 99.9% measured monthly.

I know, it sounds obvious. You might be tempted to downvote me :)

And yet, when I was a tech evangelist and later a CTO, I realized the importance of being as clear as possible when explaining things (including titles). You would be surprised at how many people got lost with even the most basic acronym.
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I think the point they are trying to make is that we should be careful to not completely erase someone because of crimes they may commit, sexual or otherwise.
Don't feel bad. The law is ridiculous and most startups cannot even afford salary for another programmer not to mention GDPR-law compliance officer. Hopefully if enough services get interrupted, bureaucrats at EU will rethink the law.
Yeah, a digital assistant could (should) verbalize "uh huh, yes, i'm listening, interesting, hmm" like a real, nosy human. Then you get a chance to say, "go away, alexa".
I do drive this way, most often in Seattle which has no shortage of the behaviors you're referencing. You can drive safely too because you are in control of your vehicle.

I didn't always drive like this, but I was in an accident that was my fault that totally upended my life, so I made an effort to change my ways. You can do it too, before you get in an accident that sets your life back, or irreparably shatters it...

I recommend taking an advanced drivers education course if you seriously decide you want to improve your driving. A lot of this stuff is covered.
> Unless you can start synthesizing utility grade quantities of well-behaved fissile material at a net energy surplus then it's not renewable even if we have decades/centuries of supply.

Someday, even the Sun will run out of fuel. In the long run, we are all dead - unless someone figures out how to reverse entropy.

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Next you're going to tell us that singing Happy Birthday to your child is legally murky and probably unwise.