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This article seems to be addressing 'the spirit' of a document or system.

Perhaps another way to look at the problem is to imagine creating an A.I. that you want to succeed at whatever system you present. In most cases, an A.I. will take the literal interpretation of the system and become a test-taker, an electable 'gotcha-game' politician or even an entity that finds it can maximize game theory to its own ends by complicating the rules of an existing system to the point of absurdity once it becomes powerful enough to modify and create rules.

So then how do we create systems resistant to beings that take everything literally? I suppose the only way is to reward certain outcomes as opposed to rewarding the direct product of the system itself.

Examples: After an election, have we elected someone who has met with a high degree of favorability in the electorate by the end of his term?

After having students become proficient test-takers, do they then become excellent doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.. ?

In a game invented to be fun or fair, once overlearned, do they produce fun or fairness?

If not, then a new game needs to be created or the existing one might need to be extensively modified to produced the desired product. This is where the internet shines, where everyone is welcome to take an existing system and modify it to something better. The problem with politics, law, stock market, etc... is that they have become the only method adopted in real society (there is only one game in town).

If reality were allowed to adopt, incorporate or evolve from systems/games from virtual reality (i.e. internet) there might be some productive change. But first we would need to see the first step taking place, that being even flawed virtual systems are allowed to manifest in significant proportion within real life society.

Don't hate the game, hate the player. Every game that profits a winner will have its cheaters.
> How many users stop browsing after receiving a mixed content warning I wonder?

That's a blog post (and supporting data drop) that I would be interested in reading. Based on my experiences at a former employer the rate of cart abandonment on mixed pages is about 20% greater than on fully valid pages (someone hard coded a logo reference into a template) but the sample was fairly small and I would be curious to know what the difference would be on a broader sampling of sites.
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What about Spanish on HN?
Hey, in the CS world English is a pretty universal language, but I'm just taking the temperature here in regards to content in other languages on HN. On the posting side is there any interest in seeing content written in (for example) Spanish? Is expanding into those other non-English speaking communities interesting to anyone? Has anyone seen cool content in another language, but hesitated to post it on HN? I'm just interested in figuring out what people think...
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That said, art in and of itself is a whole different can of worms. I think art can stand alone on its merit in many ways the latest startup on TechCrunch cannot.

The way I see it, we are the only generation that has had access to the computing power and knowledge that we have. It's our responsibility to take advantage of it since many of our ancestors dreamed of such things.
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It's pretty bizarre that you're using the derogatory definition of "hack" given that you're posting on Hacker News. And it doesn't incline me to want to talk to you further.
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I'm sure there are quite a few Redditors among the masses of HN and anyone familiar with Reddit will know that when another user comments on something you posted (e.g. a link or comment), you get a message telling you as much.

What I'm working on is a Chrome extension that will provide a similar feature here on HN. The problem is that I'm new to Javascript (I'd never used Javascript before ~24 hours ago) and I'm having a hard time getting things to work properly.

If anyone is up for helping me out and mentoring me that would be great. I don't think this will take very long to do if I work with someone who actually knows what they are doing. Drop me an email at james@jamesbrewer.me if you're interested and I'll get back to you within a couple hours.
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This makes it all the more reasonable to ask yourself, if you are in a position to not worry about health care costs due to such luck, shouldn't you take advantage of the opportunity you have to make a real difference in some larger way?
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I would encourage you to consider sending people to a completely new URL instead of loading the lyrics with Ajax, unless the browser supports the HTML5 History API.

That way, people who use modern browsers get the original user experience, but those who use legacy browsers have to see a quick refresh. Your site is so clean already that I doubt most IE users would notice the load time.

As an alternative, support hashes and the history API so most people see the "clean" URLs.
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A couple languages I was unfamiliar with:

- SKILL: I'm guessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_SKILL

- Teamcenter def: Guessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamcenter
I'm reminded of Mechanism Design: a Nobel prize winning theory of economics that starts with the supposition that agents in any system will exploit its rules to maximize their personal gain. The corollary, which I've been quite taken by, is that where we can influence the rules of the game, we should design them such that exploitation serves a social good.
I think there are more game changing safety features just coming into production like:

blind spot monitors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_monitor

Lane departure warning systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_departure_warning_system

Precrash systems, like attention assist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrash_system
It's related to Goodhart's Law:

Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.

This is often the result of attempting to overoptimize a system. You can optimize a race car to a huge degree, because you know exactly what you want it to do.

You can't optimize a schooling system, because you don't know exactly what you want it to do. A little noise is a good thing, because the you want a little wiggle room for teachers to sidestep the dictums of education czars, and students to sidestep the dictums of teachers.

The Greeks solved this quite a few years ago, with sortition. Under sortition (injecting noise into elections - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition), Bush and Gore would have been forced to pay "paper, scissors, rock" for the presidency. Under the US's more pure democracy, they would have been tempted to make all kind of Faustian bargains with sordid players to nail down the last 0.01% of votes.

Randomization means that the last percent is just not worth chasing, so players in a competition won't be tempted to bend the rules for a tiny advantage.

The same process could be used for tests. If you allocate places in desirable courses (say medicine) randomly to anyone above a certain score, the top students won't bother drilling as hard just to get the top score.

Stocks are the same - quants wouldn't sweat timing as much if their placement in order books was randomized. It would be more efficient to pay attention to fundamental value than momentary fluctuations if they weren't guaranteed to make large profits on the momentary fluctuations. Some would still work on timing, but not as many.

Patents are just bad policy badly implemented at the moment, not over-optimized.
No, sorry that I wasn't more clear (thought that paul9290 was the GGP) -- My intention was to remove any subtlety and to reinforce the point you had both already made.
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I've been working on something like this recently, but I guess this guy beat me to the punch. Here's my nearly-done rainy day code:

https://github.com/Miserlou/WhitespaceBot (Python)

I'd like to add some security fixing stuff too. There's plenty that can be done here!

Bots are the secret reason why Wikipedia actually works - there's no reason why we can't have the same benefits in open source software.
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Lots of awesome entries, excited to finish going through them all.
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Very nice.

Are you having any issues with the 128MB ram that the joyent no.de machines come standard with?
I think you misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about blacks vs whites. I asking why this experiment doesn't show any difference between high-quality and low-quality black candidates.

Using the names suggested by the article, suppose Tyrone is a high-quality black candidate and Latoya is a low-quality black candidate. The experiment shows that employers--when they do choose a "black" candidate--will choose Tyrone and Latoya equally often.

The employer supposedly has no preference for the better CV among the black applicants.

Does that make any sense to you?

It makes me suspicious of the whole experiment.
Sorry, I was just using the colloquial meaning of hack. Did not at all mean to appear derogatory for the type of hacking exemplified by HN, of which I take part in.

In any case, I do see your point about similarities between hacking and overlearning, but I think there are some differences. If I can articulate those difference better, I'll reply a little later.
We are very consumer based, at some level even the producers are just consumers, that use what they consume to create something else for someone else to consume usually. I would say that is just part of our way of living, in a society of people. The only way for us to have no consumers, is if we are all self sustaining, hunter gatherers really.

Perhaps at one point our species was consumerless, but the fact is, we work way better in a group, which means there will be consumers. I like turning steel into usable objects, I don't like mining it, there for I must be a consumer at some level. If I was forced to produce everything I needed to build something complex, like say a PCB board and components, it would take a life time to get everything necessary to produce something not all that spectacular.

I think the "bad" part of consumerism, is more a psychological state, like using drugs to escape a problem. Consuming on its own, isn't necessarily bad and you're right, very necessary. Perhaps its all psychologically based, I feel better building something, more than I do just waiting around for the next movie, or video game to distract me from my life. But really, whats the difference if what I produced just ends up sitting in the corner collecting dust, why I'm building something else?

In that sense, being a Producer, requires a Consumer, someone else to find what you have made useful. Otherwise all I've been is a consumer. Producing at worst, is a consumer, at best, helping make society a better place. Consumer at best is a Producer, at worst, just collecting, and creating a market, for junk to be eventually thrown away.
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sorry for being a n00b but what's the goal of the "class @User" syntax?
I have a cursory knowledge of CS and I'd assume that gets desugared to something like

this.User = ...

but what use does it have?
Running like a charm right now, though we could support a lot more players if we had more ram :)
If you pay a man by the hour, he'll work a lot of hours. If you pay him by the brick, he'll lay a lot of bricks.

These "games" are basically the equivalent of counting lines of code or checkins. We're measuring poor proxies instead of the things we're actually interested in. The solution isn't an arms race to build bigger and better proxies, the solution is to measure real things instead of artificial ones.

Here's just one example of what I mean by "measure real things". Electing representatives every X years to decide the laws of the land was once upon a time the fairest and best way to have the voices of the masses heard. Today it is feasible to directly poll everybody about every issue, so we no longer need the proxy. If you say everyone cannot be educated about every issue, fine, I can "follow" PG's votes on wall street reform and grellas's votes on IP tort reform and Schneier's votes on TSA etc just by copying their votes on those issues into my ballot, a permission which I can revoke at any time or on a vote-by-vote basis, as easy as unfollowing them on VoteTwitter. This is better than the proxy of professional politicians deciding every issue with fixed terms.
Do you have any links on this? I hadn't heard of it before and am quite interested in it now, but could not come up with anything after a quick Google search for "sortation". Thanks for sharing this!
I was hoping to see a better comparison between their performances. I don't see any use for comparing the two based on their 'openness' as we all know windows is closed source and linux is not so that comparison doesn't give us (at least me) any useful information.

Are the colors supposed to be indicative of something? is red bad and green good?

Also, for the multiprocessor limits in windows, I highly doubt they are kernel limits. They are imposed by the different flavors of the high-level OS.

The most useful bit in that comparison was about the scheduler
I think it's asking entrepreneurs, not computer scientists, that question.
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Let me explain. I think we have a very fundamental disagreement.

I believe that some actions are good and some actions are evil, according to, among other things, whether they harm others, whether they are fair, and whether they are honest. I believe that people should do things that are good and not do things that are evil, whether in their capacity as employees or otherwise; big companies are not moral agents, but their employees are. I can assure you that most of the people who work on Google+ believe that, too, which is one of the reasons they work at Google instead of somewhere else.

And I believe that the “real names” policy is evil, because it strengthens existing imbalances of power in the world, which is unfair and also harms people.

If I'm wrong, and it is not evil, then I do not want Google (by which I mean a large group of people, especially those with a lot of influence) to abandon it. But if I'm right, and it is evil, then I do want Google to abandon it. That is, I don't want Google to conform to my personal preferences; I want Google to do good and not evil, and I have an opinion about what that consists of, an opinion that might be wrong.

Does that clarify? What in the above "strikes you odd"?
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...and in fact I believe that Freakonomics suggests that black athletic ability is more about variance than average.
Do you have proof for that statement?
The original purpose of Gerrymandering was not to enhance the voting power of minorities, it was to game elections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

Black majority electorates came decades after Gerrymandering.

Not a bad article though.
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Yeah, I had this exact feeling about finance and was lucky enough to be able to get out. Working for organizations that do little but spend ever-increasing amounts of resources so that computers can edge each other out by nanoseconds in the market to the continuing aggrandizement of the uber rich is about the most depressing thing I can think of now.

I'd like to think that working on Stack Overflow's Careers service will help keep at least a few people from taking finance jobs like I did by providing them an alternative to needing to throw their lot in with a technical recruiter in a big city. Due to the economics of recruiting, recruiters tend to work with big finance (big salaries mean big commissions) instead of companies that y'know, make things but have lower salaries. I'd like to think we provide a slightly more level playing field to regular jobs (because we don't get paid on commission, therefore won't send applicants towards a finance position before all others).

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I love the idea that electing representatives every X years to decide the laws of the land may not be the best way forward, and a new approach that takes into account modern technology may be a better way to go about this.

However, based on human nature, I think that given long enough time of your proposed system in place, some people will overlearn it and find a way to exploit it, e.g. to gather tons of votes for their favorite cause. We may even see 'vote consultants/strategists' that guarantee a huge increase in the votes for the cause you want to pursue.
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You seem to imply that accident rates will be proportional to miles driven. I doubt that is true. I would expect the graph of the "chance of an accident per mile" vs "miles driven" to look something like this:

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I have two reasons:

First, as miles driven increases, driver experience increases. Accidents are much more common among (I'm guessing) 16 year olds with a freshly minted license than a 40 year old.

Second, as miles driven per year increases, the percentage of driving time spent on the freeway increases (due to taking long trips, presumably the major source of milage increase), but accidents are less likely on the freeway. This argument is admittedly much more specious than the first.

Following this reasoning, it is not at all clear that "the improvements in safety are even more dramatic if you consider the average person is driving about 3000 more miles per year than they were in 1975" because those extra miles may not be the most dangerous miles.
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- http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2803#comment-41684

As I said in that thread, I think the LP community is in denial about the unsuitability of Prolog as a general-purpose programming language; this article echoes the Lispers claim that Prolog was killed by its association to over-ambitious AI projects: I think the argument in the case of Prolog is much weaker than in the case of Lisp.
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The push is directed at entrepreneurs, not computer scientists. It just so happens that a lot of entrepreneurs come from a CS background.
Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know that Gerrymandering had not-so-pure origins. Maybe I'll remove that example from the article.

EDIT: Removed Gerrymandering example.
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I wonder how many of IBM's consulting customers don't buy significant amounts of IBM (mainframe and proprietary mid-range) hardware.
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My initial impression: I think I "get" what your site is used for, but I'm having trouble really envisioning the "work-flow" of the process.

I would probably remedy this by either: 1) make the three "use" descriptions clickable and lead to a larger explanation of each use or 2) a short screencast video showing how the site's process works.

Overall I think the redesigns were a step in the right direction.

edit: After perusing the site a bit more, I came across the "Take a Tour" link on your "About" page. This tour addresses some of the issues I'm talking about and you'd be better served if it were immediately available (i.e. on the landing page).
It is amazing to see that current HN's audience is unable to notice that consumers are switching from PC+ADSL scheme to laptop+HSDPA USB stick or some Android/Apple device and that global GSM carriers were already won the market with cheap data-only plans.

But it is OK that typical US citizen hardly knew that other countries exists. ^_^

btw, I'm currently in Sweden, where HSDPA coverage even in rural areas is a defacto standard. Same trends going on everywhere in the world (Asia and Europe), except, of course, US. ^_^
Exactly. A black candidate won't trigger any subconscious prejudices in me (half my family is black). Certain African-American names like "Tyrone" or "Latoya" however will trigger negative associations with social and cultural stereotypes. The same actually goes for certain "white" names.
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