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The rationale against voting on cars or food doesn't apply to all things. There is no voting system for what cars or food to produce... for good reason. Not everyone wants to eat the same food or drive the same car, and within certain limits (which are the subject of laws), what you eat and what you drive is not anyone else's business.

You need some sort of broad voting for public works projects and other issues of broad public concern, like how much pollution should be allowed into the environment from steady-state industrial processes, or how much tax money to spend regulating and engineering hedges against engineering disasters like Deepwater Horizon or Fukushima.

One person one vote may not be the universal best way to produce law, but it's the best way society has figured out how to run things that doesn't degenerate into dictatorships, or unjustified discrimination/disenfranchisement. It's true that certain people are better at determining proper policy, but once they get exclusive voting rights on policy, it turns into an oligarchy, a cabal, that too often seeks to increase its own wealth and power and sustain itself rather than serving the public interest.
Trials (and subsequent deliberations) that last that long -- though there the kind that get popular attention -- are pretty extreme outliers.

They happen, but they are far from the norm. (IIRC, most trials last, including deliberations, less than a week, and many are done in 1-2 days, deliberation included.)
Benchmarking per 1000 iterations is pretty silly. My guess is that it will start to choke as soon as you have concurrency at a higher load.
The GRE really isn't a big deal. I'm guessing they only care about your quant score and that section is literally high school math.
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There is a reason why that area has the nickname "murder bus stop"
If this was the first question, and both incomes are equally common, then before they asked your income they would estimate your chances of siding with the plaintiff as 62%. They ask the question, and either your chances go up to 75% or down to 50%.

If one of two answers gives "no effect" then so must the other.
The button wasn't showing up in Chrome on Windows, but when I moved the tag to just after the </canvas>, gave it a z-index:2 and removed that display:none, I could click it.

Then the awesomeness began.
Yours sounds much more interesting than mine. An ambulance chaser who conned a woman into suing the kid who rear-ended her and happened to be driving dad's BMW.

That said, I'd do it again for sure. Partially out of civic duty and partially because, despite mine not being altogether exciting, it was still fairly interesting for my curious mind.
What about deaf people?
I doubt MS will ever release a non-hosted version. I see this product as a competitive offering to Amazon's Dynamo and Google's BigQuery on AppEngine.
The problem there is that if that table is accurate, the baseline assumption isn't a 50/50 split, it's that you're more likely to side with the plaintiff than the defense. (How much more likely depends on the prevalence of "under 50k" people relative to "over 50k" people.) So learning that you make "over 50k" moves you towards the defense from the position of no information (no information other than the table, that is).
IMO, jury duty is one of the most important things you can do as a citizen. It's probably more important than voting. A competent jury is often the only thing standing between an innocent person and prison.

I've never had be judged by a jury, but if I did, I hope the jury would be composed of intelligent, thoughtful and serious people.

I've done jury duty once. It was inconvenient but I would gladly do it again.
Open the same Flockdraw URL in two side-by side windows and draw in one of them. Compare that to the WhiteboardFox video or Twiddla demo.

WhiteboardFox says a few seconds is "fast syncing". Flockdraw's sync is realtime (try it for yourself).

The kind of latency and overhead I wanted when building Flockdraw is only really feasible in JS when using WebSockets (which wasn't even fully standardized until 2011) but was doable in Flash in 2009.
If that was the table and you were the defence, wouldn't you strongly prefer the Over 50k person?
Where does it say DocumentDB is Open Source? The lack of any mention is usually a good indicator that it's not.
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I think there are frivolous lawsuits and I am involved in social causes. The defense lawyer still loves me, even if I change those answers. But I'm solidly in the defense's ballpark with under 30, high salary, white collar, puzzles... already.

It's a bit disappointing, given that at face value I'm very sympathetic to the plaintiff (think the parent/family/long term "that could be me" angle) and I'd consider siding with her except in specific cases such as one where she willingly agreed to high-risk investments.
The reason I put it in quotation marks is because it's not a very well-defined concept, and it assumes that there is objectively a correct society, when in reality, people have different preferences. One way to formalize it would be in terms of Pareto improvements, which are theoretical but useful for analysis.

Imagine a referendum where voting yes results in rich people receiving a benefit at the expense of the poor and voting no results in no benefit or expense to anyone. One example of this might be introduction of a regressive tax. Most of us would agree that, according to standard Western civil values, the "correct" vote is no. But obviously rich people in our current system are incentivized to vote yes, and perhaps also to spend money campaigning in support of this referendum.
I disagree. Familiarity with microgravity and the vacuum of space in orbit will make developments in interstellar travel that much cheaper.
"Your responses will not be stored."
I think some facts got mixed up. Perhaps they were talking about 70 years after America was founded? Still doesn't seem accurate.

Most of the interior US, especially the west, wasn't accessible until the rail roads came. It was my understanding most of the mass buffalo hunting was because of the railroads.
Well, given that I (like a lot of people?) just clicked on every possible choice to see the impact, I doubt its a great strategy. :-)

(Also note, they explicitly state, Your responses will not be stored.)
I bet it wasn't as easy as he would have us believe.
It says at the top "Your responses will not be stored."

If you open a profiler while you are filling out answers you can see there is no network activity (-> they are telling the truth).
If you like React for its virtual dom, but are looking for something more MVC-ish, there's also Mithril ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril ).

Some of the pros are that it's easy to learn (e.g. if you know js, you already know the templating language syntax), and it's one of the fastest frameworks in the market right now.

There's also a more detailed comparison w/ other frameworks here: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html
So does it run on a cluster? If so which of Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance does it NOT offer? (See CAP theorem)?
Who's using RedShift? How much resources does it take to get on there?
At the very least, they can detect that your browser isn't accepting cookies. They might interpret that as Privacy Mode.
I addressed that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8209696

Basically, I think that most people will not continue to make a moral argument if they are genuinely convinced that the results of that stance would be horrible for all (or most) people.

If you believed that "one vote per person" would lead to a society where every is much poorer than they would be under some other system, I suspect you would not continue to claim it is a moral axiom.
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I appreciated the humor here. That's not something I see much in the NYTimes.

> Do you believe that there are too many frivolous lawsuits in this country?

> Yes.

> The defense lawyer has now fallen in love with you.
Note on the last page of registration that the degree is offered by another online university and not affiliation with UCB.
As other people have pointed out that even though its an online degree it has the same price as an offline one. Though it doesn't have the same credential as Berkeley (or maybe the rigorousness), Coursera's Data Science specialization [1] from John Hopkins costs $500. Recently they announced that they have partnered with SwiftKey [2] for the final capstone project.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1

[2] https://www.class-central.com/report/data-science-specializa...
The SR-71 Blackbird cooled itself through a combination of radiative cooling (hence the black), and using its fuel (that was about to be burned) as a heat sink. Some combination of these techniques (and others) would probably be used.
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I addressed that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8209696

I don't think that "one vote per person" is so fundamental that many people would continue to advocate it if they truly believed that some other system would lead to a better life for everyone in the society.
It supports tunable consistency

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/docu...
I don't think "free speech" means what you think it means. Your freedom to speech, does not give me the obligation to publish your speech on my website.

In this case the Diaspora team is using their free speech to suggest that various pod administrators choose not to publish some particularly nasty speech.
$5 per 1k US visitors? How do you do that?
Free academic textbook "A Brief Introduction to Neural Networks", ~250p
> Capitalism and Communism are not the only possible forms of human organization.

So far so good

> As a matter of fact, it can be argued that Capitalism and Socialism (the only kind of Communism for which there are historical records, AFAIK) are two competing and closely related patterns that happened to be dominant in the world during the second half of the 20th century.

Socialism is not a form of Communism, but the reverse. Other forms of Socialism besides Communism are in operational existence now, as well as being well attested in the historical record.

And, while Communism's peak was in the late 20th Century, Capitalisms was in the late 19th Century; by the mid-20th Century the influence of Socialist critiques of capitalism had largely seen it replaced by either non-Communist Socialist systems or mixed systems which blended elements of capitalism with elements of socialism (Communism itself mostly took hold in places where capitalism had never firmly established itself.)
I think you mean a local version, or a non-hosted version.
How many people are liable to understand it, or even be interested in it for that matter? May be a matter of, 'damage done.'
I have no idea what I'd use this for but I am excited. Great job guys.
SCAMCOIN beware.

Just look at that eastern euro face, how can you NOT trust it?

Seriously, these guys are talented programmers, but they just want money like everyone else. And like everyone else they are using framework already pioneered by Satoshi Nakamoto.

In 10 years we will have a graveyard of thousands of "alt coins"

And guess what, just like the internet the only one people will remember is Bitcoin.
As long as it offers something new, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I've been working with MongoDB for the last year and DocumentDB features look very interesting to me.
Either that or the downvoters are willing to consider the possibility that 25 years -- not to mention a radically different market position -- makes a difference. The Microsoft of 2014 is not the Microsoft of 1989.

...in the same fashion you couldn't tell the truth about Apple about 3-4 years ago...

Yeah, if only there had been lots of people highly critical of Apple in 2011. Whatever happened to that Android thing, anyway?
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It's interesting how well the jury system is set up- innocent until proven guiltily, beyond a reasonable doubt, jury of your peers, appeals, etc. even this reducing bias in jury selection.

I'm sure there's disgruntled people that will tell me it's all garbage, but it's certainly a lot better than I could have done.
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Dude, that's just the article, not the source. Eg: Github as CMS.
I once had to do jury duty for the Federal Court of Maryland. In that case you are slated to call in for a day or two every week for a month. At the time they were starting to select a jury for a public corruption trial that was estimated to last for 12-15 weeks plus time for deliberations. Because the case was so public you would also be sequestered the entire time. One of the happiest days of my life was when I wasn't selected for that trial.

A couple weeks later I did have to sit on a trial for 2 days for a traffic offense because the person decided it was a good idea to let the police chase him back and forth between Maryland and DC.
Somebody CC Bill Belichick - I'm sure he can get this thing in place for a fourth down play by the post season.
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Something really cool about this approach is the marching squares algorithm is highly parallelizable which would make this a good candidate for GPU acceleration provided that there is enough memory.
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I don't know, the 1 star reviews like this one: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2TK8WK4POCIF3/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe... make me view it with suspicion.

While it's not of the same scope, I can recommend R. V. Jones' Most Secret War without reservation: http://www.amazon.com/Most-Secret-Wordsworth-Military-Librar...
I don't know about anyone else- but I got extremely nauseous playing this- physically nauseous, especially in the maze with all those closeup walls. I think a mix of the FOV and graphics caused this. Perhaps also the mix of the bad music.

I don't mean to offend the creator, it's just that I don't get this kind of nausea from Minecraft or other FPS's, something is amiss here.

EDIT: The small FOV thing is a real issue : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.393496-Field-o...
> There is no voting system for what cars or food to produce.

I was presenting the market for cars or food as essentially a "vote with your wallet" system. You don't literally vote, of course, but by choosing where to spend your money, you determine what product you end up, and also influence the producers.

> However, you need some sort of broad voting for public works projects and issues of broad public concern, like ...

That is an economic claim, and I would disagree. I think there are very plausible economic arguments that other ways of organizing society could solve these problems as well or better than the what we currently have.
Right, edited the parent post.
Interesting point. Particularly I believe that the 'coding' part isn't the real job, I'm not just an overpaid typist. So why is concise expression good?

For the record, I am NOT a day-to-day Lisp programmer, but I've played with it a little and read about it some.

I think it's because its about expressing your problem clearly. It's not "20 times less lines" so much as it is "20 times clearer expression". Not that it's exactly 20x, but it seems better. When you express things more clearly, and structure your code more like your problem, and less like your programming language, you shed a lot of accidental complexity ( See Out of the Tarpit - http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf ), so managing the complexity of your project is easier, which means fixing bugs and adding new features is also easier. I think this is the route being implied when they say you can develop features faster. I'm not so certain you'd see the benefit in a particular feature, but over time.

Note that a lot of the modern languages are picking up many of these expressive features, closing the gap there as well, which is wonderful.
> > > Can you explain from first principles why "one vote per person" is a good way to efficiently produce law

> > Side note: Efficiency of law production is not a metric most people will consent to prioritizing above metrics like perceived justice.

> Economically efficient law is pretty difficult to argue against.

"Efficiently producing law" and "producing economically efficient law" are rather dissimilar concepts, in the same way that "efficiently producing automobiles" and "producing fuel efficient automobiles" are dissimilar concepts.
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Looks very neat!
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Based on your formulation it seems all new "scientific" [null] hypotheses are "ipso facto unscientific"?

For example c being constant is an axiomatic part of relativity. Ergo to you it seems, as this is not empirical nor an extrapolation but a new hypothesis that when postulated contradicts established science, this suggestion - and presumably the ensuing formulation - was, um, unscientific?

Now I'm happy to go with that, call it a philosophical treatise and recognise the axiomatic nature of relativity but at this point I think your definition of science is too tight; theoretical physics to me is a part of science. Indeed I'd say wild hypothesising can be (and is called) science depending really on what you do with those hypotheses.
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For contrast, in Canada, lawyers are not allowed to ask a potential juror any questions. But, just from looking at you, the lawyer from either side can dismiss you.
Don't leave us hanging - did your jury find him guilty or not? Was that in line with your thoughts?
Isn't a thesis public by definition? At least after some justifiable confidentiality period?
I was removed from the jury by the judge when I refused to swear an oath to only use the letter of the law to determine innocence or guilt (paraphrasing, might have that wrong.) I didn't know at that time that you can't be prosecuted for deciding however you want.
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You have a product idea, the skill to develop it, and a potential first customer. Charge the customer, don't pay him with equity for the privilege of working on his problems.

If you get the problem solved, then think about scaling with a sales person. Keeping in mind that someone who has a full time job and may be seen as a competitor to future sales leads may not be the ideal candidate. Though if the candidate has an extensive track record closing B2B software sales, that is worth considering.

The fact that you don't think a fifty fifty split is fair and that your friend does not want to commit to the success of the venture to the same degree as you indicates there is a misalignment of interests.
That's nice that you get paid the same either way, but I've been called twice - once while I was in school where if I didn't spend time studying I didn't pass, and more importantly, I wouldn't learn the information. I got called again a couple years later where I was working independently on my own software projects, where if I didn't ship, I didn't get paid.

I took the obvious rational choice of using every trick in the book to successfully get out of it both times. The alternative would be a potentially unbounded chunk of my time gone, and that much farther behind on my goals. Large companies can get a kind of diversification, but I'm sure jury duty hits small companies hard as well.

The system is broken. I get the need for civilian juries, but the cost should be more fairly distributed by encouraging jurors to show up by paying jurors a reasonable wage rather than the pittance of a couple dollars a day that is currently paid in most jurisdictions, and at the same time, let people opt out by just saying "I don't want to" without having to give a reason (or better yet, opt in instead). We'd raise wage high enough to get some target percentage (like, say, 50%) of called citizens motivated enough to show up, or possibly compensate jurors pro rata based off of 120% of their average declared income on the previous 2-3 years of tax returns.

We'd have to raise taxes by a small amount to cover these payouts, but that's completely reasonable as we're shifting the burden from randomly chosen individuals of whom unreasonable demands are made today to a more broad and even and shallow tax base. It's the same reason we pay road work crews a wage rather than randomly selecting every week who cleans the roads. And if we pay enough to still get 50% of jurors showing up completely volitionally, we'd still avoid the problem of "professional jurors" who would try to game the system by serving on many juries.
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What commonly happens is the investor gives authority to the broker to make trading decisions. Then the broker frequently trades to make commissions on each trade, until the money inevitably dwindles to the point where the customer realizes it was a scam. The broker acted legally but opposite the best interests of the client.
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And just to go a bit farther, because it's interesting -- either side can toss a certain number of potential jurors without stating a reason (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_challenge).

But, if you demonstrate that you're clearly prejudiced to one side or the other, you can be tossed outright, and that toss does not count against the allowed number of peremptory challenges.

When I've done voir-dire, one side or the other has always booted me (and you know which), so I have some idea what set them off. I think the analytical mind and the independent streak will usually be a problem for one side or the other.
And rich people in this new system are incentivized to not vote yes? They gain a benefit. The poor people, who don't have any market power, do not. Why would they vote any other way?
If the voting is secret and instantaneous, instead of via a market over a period time, those who control enough of the market won't be able to push the market in one direction, without exposing themselves to significant losses.
I agree, the independence check should also come from data.
Attribution issues aside, there's two scarier potential issues I see, actually I see these with all posts on "here's our company's cool new A/B testing framework", that really scare me:

1. You're running a ton of tests, yet I see no mention of how you're adjusting your tests to account for multiple testing. The more tests you run the higher the chance you have of getting a false positive. Couple this with the majority of things you test probably won't be significantly better, and your chance of encountering a false positive is much much higher than you might think. You're running hundreds of tests and using a p-value of 0.05, but your chances of a false positive in your tests is much much much higher than 5%. Beware multiple tests and especially beware of the base rate fallacy.

2. Your post has no mention of statistical power or the size of the effect you're looking to detect. That makes me think you might not have considered this. If you don't know the effect size you're looking for or your statistical power, your A/B test results can't be trusted -- as you have no idea what your chances are of actually detecting a beneficial result if it exists.
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> It took 400 years

This is not a meaningful number either if the drop (or, more to the point, the overhunting) only really started 70 years before the end of the period.

I haven't found any clear statement about this, but the following article talks about the "19th century hunts".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting