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You're committing the slippery slope fallacy.

My point still stands regardless of the extreme example you decided to illustrate it: you disregarded society's values and in return the society will disregard some of your values.

The prisoner doesn't get to decide what is cruel and unusual punishment to them.
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That made us laugh! Hopefully none of our users feel like that. In fact, it's exactly the kind of experience we want to prevent.

We differ from LinkedIn's offering in some key areas: we use undisclosed salary potential/expectations to help scope realistic opportunities to people, and we manually moderate our content.

We'll also remove anything we don't consider a genuine opportunity (whilst being fair and open).

Our mission is to bring the best people and best employers together, and we think that takes an extra bit of special care.
I've actually wondered how do you go about providing access to internet? I write a lot of code and spent a good amount of time on the internet and it's always made me wonder how exactly one goes about providing internet to customers. Really curious for any resources to read about this if you have any resources to read or just your personal experience!
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"... I’d also like to thank dang and sctb for all the work they’ve done as moderators and with software to increase story and comment quality. ..."

This is a good point and should be acknowledged. I was personally contacted on how to improve HN. I've yet to get back to you @dang, replies are more fully formed.
I don't know who you're arguing with, but I was making a positive statement, not a normative one.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there.

Religious diets are not voluntary, but choice of religion is voluntary.

Vegetarian/vegan diets adhering to an ethical philosophy are not voluntary, but choosing to accept an animal rights philosophy is voluntary.

Either both are a choice or neither are a choice, depending on how you define your terms.

Now, if the vegan diet was for personal taste or even for health reasons (as long as there was no significant health impact from going off of it), then it's a different story.
What an awesome service, I'm signing up my dev team for this right now! Worth the money!
It would be nice if several US states could do this, and people could move there, and we could stand on the sidelines and see how it works out.

People could pick and choose where to move depending on what they like. One state could be mass surveillance and one could be anarchy. Or you could stay in a moderate state that is centrist and acts a lot like what modern states do.

It would be a lot better than the broad supernational control states and companies can have over policy and society. There is no political experimentation anymore and that really sucks.
Living in Norway, I don't feel that to be the truth. You have a great point though! But I think removal of freedom, and in some cases isolation, suffices as deterrent.
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I was responding to this part of dang's post:

If users could look at the actual record, their perennial sob story of perfectly reasonable behavior struck down by bullying censors would evaporate. So they make new accounts and post statements designed to be unanswerable.

I interpreted that as dang attributing essentially every complaint to malice, and simultaneously dismissing all other explanations.
It is honour. Have had free trips because they didn't know a street in eg Swiss Cottage. It encourages repeat business.
There is even a Hacks article about that https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/live-editing-sass-and-less...
It's probably a lesson to me that the one time I didn't hedge by saying "almost" or something like that, someone objects to my "blanket accusation". Actually, I originally wrote "almost never" (or something similar). But then I realized I couldn't actually remember a case where someone provided a specific link to back up his or her grand claim of why they were banned. So in a fit of impetuousness I lopped off the "almost". I did leave in "nearly always", though.

> Good moderation requires a ton of empathy and kindness.

I try, but don't always succeed. Thanks for the reminder. I appreciate it.
There are certainly classes of mobile apps that need the guarantees of lower/deterministic memory usage. In my experience, that is not the common app being written however. These concerns seem largely like fantasies not backed up by any concrete evidence for your every-day twitter client/mail app/weather/whatever. Generic list-based apps simply do not need to be acting as if you need to squeeze every ounce out of the processor/ram anymore. They would instead benefit much more from not having to worry about whether self in the closure you're creating should be weak or not. Especially when you consider that many (most?) of the apps on the App Store that are actually pushing things to the limit -- games -- are running in a (old) GC environment (C# in Unity).
If you sort the comments by votes, it's #2, here is a quote:

> subjects taking vitamin A supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer than subjects taking a placebo. A third trial, SELECT, found that dietary supplementation with vitamin E (400 IU/d of all rac-α-tocopheryl acetate) in healthy men significantly increased their risk of prostate cancer. When I see recipes that contain micronutrient levels that are orders of magnitude higher than the recommended daily intake"

> This recipe has off-the-charts values for some nutrients, including 3000% DRI of thiamin, 2483% DRI of riboflavin, and 2583% DRI vitamin B6. Here’s a fun quote from the NIH office of dietary supplements (link below): “taking high levels of vitamin B6 from supplements for a year or longer can cause severe nerve damage, leading people to lose control of their bodily movements.”

He backed his claims up with citations.
I get the impression some of the folks in the Golang crowd are "Blub" programmers [1]. It's not so much a matter of simplicity and trade-offs as it is a matter of "I don't need things I don't know about", which isn't a good argument to use Golang.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Hi. As other posters have mentioned there is a closed form solution that comes straight from an easy differntial equation.

I'd like to make a point to help the author out, since this post is in the spirit of simple explanations: a good way of thinking of Markov models is that they are fundamentally a discreet form of differential equations, and are useful when we have finitely few states that are generally:

a) easily enumerable
b) countably small enough that it doesn't make sense to just replace it with a continuous model

This is similar to the way in which martingales are discreet representations of random walks. Sadly, our education system does a bad job of discreet math, and its typically left to stats courses -- so everything has a different name and few people draw the connections, IMO!

Cheers
For the rest of the Western world, the Obama administration has been the worst thing to happen to a free and open internet in the past two decades.

I see all kinds of American apologists in this thread, but the fact is that regardless of what it inherited, this particular administration has of its own volition pursued an aggressive anti-freedom and anti-privacy agenda both on behalf of its own intelligence agencies, its tech industry and its copyright exploitation industry.

The fact that this president dares to call for a free and open internet disgusts me.
I am curious to find real research as to what percent of prostitutes are doing it voluntarily (ie not coerced but simply choosing this line of work over others).

Googling the issue just brings up a bunch of feminist sites that (much like this one) simply claim that most women are coerced without any substantiation.
I just got back from visiting a friend the Mozilla office. Thanks for creating an amazing web browser that opened a new dawn away from the shackles we were once stuck with.

Also, thanks for the cake today:)
The best lisp book I have found to learn Lisp, while really understanding all that's happening underneath is "COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach".

Basically, there's no hand waving in this book. It doesn't teach you to have a lisp blog in five minutes doing copy paste of code you don't understand.

It respects you as a smart learner, and makes you write the code, you learn doing stuff by yourself being smartly led by the author, and by the end of the book you have written a very complex piece of software with many advanced concepts and you understand more about lisp than you could have by following endless web tutorials.

The book can be downloaded from: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/

It is to me a vastly underrated resource for all people interested in Lisp.
> GPS routing is awful compared to a person who knows their way around a city.

Strongly disagreed. GPS has traffic information, a human driver does not.
It's pretty rich that almost this entire thread is arguing about the prison not respecting Sunde's vegan wishes and his personal wealth and ideals. There are more than ninety comments here and all of them hang off nearly-dead comments.

The entire point of prison is to suck, otherwise it wouldn't serve its role, which is to deter crime. Louis CK has a bit about this in one of his recent specials:

...but we really need the law against murder, for
one simple reason: the law against murder is the number
one thing preventing murder. We'd like to think it's
because "oh, I would never do that," no, it's because
it really sucks getting caught murdering. A lot. [1]

Debating the prison's respect for Sunde's vegan wishes misses the forest for the trees. Honestly, if that's your biggest concern from reading this article, you have really messed up priorities. How about the fact that he went to maximum at all?

Anyway, just an oddly off-topic thread here, thought I'd point it out. It's even more fun because I've been detained, so reading some of the arguments makes it clear that I'm one of the only people with that experience here. Prison's not something you can just try, to see what it's like, so unless you've been there it's usually wise to assume the worst things are true rather than being optimistic about rights and common sense. If one thing is true about detention, it's that rights and common sense don't matter at all when the door's closed and nobody's looking.

Also, welcome back, Peter.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUr2RkjykU
It's an interesting idea. After all, if someone truly is a deliberate troll, they would simply be creating new account(s) to evade moderation anyway.
The US doesn't engage in economic espionage, and then turn around and give/sell intellectual property to US companies.
The primary effect of upvoting a submission is to make it sort higher relative to its present position; the main effect of a downvote is to make it sort lower.

So downvotes are a mechanism to add information about your preferred (partial) ordering of comments in a thread. Upvotes alone only get you halfway there.
When they explain to me how ISRU (in-situ resource utilization) can fabricate a replacement for a blown microchip or a refrigerator's compressor - based only on the equipment you can bring to Mars in a couple of space capsules - I'll be ready to begin seeing Mars One as something other than an insane pipe dream.

This article nails it: these people would be living an 18th-century lifestyle. But it would be one utterly dependent on 21st-century technology for something as basic as breathable air. If their 18th-century lifestyle can't keep their 21st-century technology working, and the organizing company can't drum up enough money to send regular resupply flights for decades to come, they die. Simple as that.
I'd recommend using Firefox Sync to store your preferences and keep it synched across all your foxes.
The Mars Society has already been doing this with a habitat simulation in the Canadian arctic[1]. They're also talking about doing a reality TV show[2] and you can try to sign up as a volunteer crew member[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashline_Mars_Arctic_Research_...

[2] http://deadline.com/2014/03/thinkfactory-media-shopping-mars...

[3] http://www.marssociety.org/home/press/announcements/ma365-ca...
> SurgeProtector finds locations close to you with lower surge pricing and calls an Uber directly to that spot.

The Uber API does not support actually calling Ubers on behalf of the user (https://developer.uber.com/v1/endpoints/), which means that this will get shut down extremely quickly.
As a haskell user, I would say that you're overstating how amazing it is. The language is certainly fantastic, but the tools are so awful that it almost makes me willing to use go! GHC takes ages to compile code, as well as easily a couple of GB of RAM. When you're longing for the days of C++ because your build time was so much faster, something is seriously messed up. Cabal mostly stinks, ocaml's cabal inspired packager is far better despite being much newer and having fewer resources invested into it.

The community is borderline insane when it comes to style, so you basically have to use a huge complicated emacs setup with a bunch of plugins just to be able to produce code that meets the bizarre style guides without manually messing with spaces all the time. That last point shouldn't matter since for your own code you can just pretend it is a normal language, but as soon as you want to make a change to an open source library you're stuck.

Much of this is similar to smalltalk, where the language itself was good, but trying to use it would drive you mad.
This site could be improved for narrower viewports by changing the .site width to max-width. Combine with something like `padding: 0 0.5em;` for better results.
Some people look at a new language and don't see anything that proves it was made after the 1970s.
Camping in the Sierras as I have done over the years has lead to seeing a lot of mining towns. And a mining town in the 19th century was a modest analog of a Mars colony in that they made most of their own tools out of locally available material, lived off food that could be sourced locally, and had few support structures outside of their own ingenuity.

The argument that presumably robotic missions would pre-supply a landing site with materials that could not be locally sourced, tools for processing locally sourced materials into useful form (including but not limited to air/water). Puts what is left being there for the hell of it.

Failed earth experiments like the Biosphere ones depended primarily on self containment (good for when you are surrounded by vacuum), successful experiments like the Russian 'mobile home from hell' [1], and some things in the middle like 'earth ships'[2] actually point to feasibility.

What is lacking is the certainty that you will die if this doesn't work. And that, is pretty hard to simulate on Earth because there is always an "option" of some sort for rescue.

[1] http://www.space.com/13500-mock-mars-mission-mars-500-ends.h...

[2] http://earthship.com/
I've used this twice already. It's awesome.
Something being illegal doesn't make it unethical or morally wrong.
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"Congrats, you got a deal! :)"

Well legal is there for a reason so it's hard to say if this was a "deal" or not.
The worst I ever do is respond rudely to people who have already attacked me, and even there I try to avoid doing so. As for using other names that's just flatly false, as is any gloating about baiting people into flamewars and laughing when they get banned. I haven't even used irc in over a year.

Basically I have no idea what you're talking about.
Which is why many toxic people have perfected the art of being an enormous asshole while being "civil". Because they know that you allow that to happen.

As to your claim that you aren't soft on Libertarians... LOL. I've actually A/B tested this, saying the same toxic shit but with the positions swapped. Upvoted in one case, banned in the other.

Part of the mechanic might be that you never even see the Libertarian version because it doesn't get flagged in the first place, despite being identical in profanity, intelligence, and toxicity to the version that does get flagged. but whatever the causes, there's a real and definite bias as to what positions are tolerated here.

---

Response to below: Etherael gives good conversation like:

"Congratulations, you are a retard."

"I have no hopes for you at all."

"Get off that lawn, you old crank."

"Why is this being downvoted? Are people really so naive as to not be aware of this?"

---

" Because when you present a point in this way with this kind of language and in this kind of behavior, you just lose everything."

You're right. I have the same amount of respect for dang as he has for the public at large. And that's my fault. I should be better, even if I really believe that HN is worse and less useful each year, and that dang is poorly suited to moderation.

He's probably a smart guy, but we're all just apes, and he's one who isn't the right fit for the job.
I saw a debugger[0] posted on the go-nuts mailing list today[1]. It's fairly simple at this point, but it works.

[0] https://github.com/derekparker/delve

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/bmsFE3dQ...
> People could pick and choose where to move depending on what they like.

People may be legally free to move between states, but certainly very many are not economically free to move between states.

> There is no political experimentation anymore

There certainly is significant political variation between the states, with some of those single-state variants becoming popular and spreading.

There may not be changes in the direction you want or on the issues you care about -- but that's different than an absence of political experimentation.
To be fair, if his answer was "yeah, we made millions", there would be more than a small handful of entities trying to seize those assets.
And now all your "fast" routes become slow because all your users are attempting to use them...

This is hardly a trivial problem. It might be trivial to deal with a simplified mathematical model of it, but throw people into the mix and it suddenly gets very complicated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_%28social_theory%29
Apparently, this is the comment that got my old account banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342935. I'm not sure though, it's just the last one on the profile before they go dead.

I did like my old account.
our running programs may exceed the amount of space we want them to take

The majority of real-time systems are the small embedded ones where both speed and size are usually highly constrained, so this doesn't look as useful as it may seem. It's well known that GC overhead decreases with increasing available memory, so the result shouldn't be so surprising. A relevant phrase I've heard is "garbage collection is free only if memory is worth nothing."

Limiting the amount of work the GC can do also means that some quite subtle bugs can arise from exceeding the "allocation rate" that it can handle, which is something that might not be as easy to determine in GC-using code.

but not the amount of space that we estimate they could possibly take

I think it's a bad sign when the word "estimate" is used in talking about a real-time system... this is an area of guarantees and proofs, not educated guesses.
Maybe sorting options would help? I'd prefer to sort responses by time (and maybe some javascript to mark new comments since last visit on the page, but I dream..), or even sorted randomly because why not. Maybe serve that from a static cache that only gets refreshed every 5 minutes or so? I would still use it, gladly.
I'm no expert, but:

1. You should probably have the discussion as soon as possible.

2. If you are the only engineer, you are their most important asset. No other department has anything to do until you have a product (except for maybe market research)

3. Ideas are a dime a dozen, implementation/execution (and arguably marketing) is where the battle is won/lost, and you are currently writing their implementation/execution. You are very important, and your equity should reflect that.

If there were 3 people I would expect you to get 33% or more, especially if they don't have the skills to help/contribute.

This is not to say that you're invaluable (they could technically just get another engineer, or try to pick it up themselves as they go), but you should definitely not undersell yourself/settle for some absurdly low amount of equity when you're doing the heavy lifting.
A human that drives the same roads everyday most definitely does have traffic information.
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> Another quick story before I really dive into this blog post. We had a gentleman over to interview for one of our account executive positions at 42Floors. He had strong experience leasing SF office space: great resume, great cover letter, did well in our initial phone screen.

> When he walked in the door, we could hear the clacking of his shoes on our hardwood floor. He was dressed impeccably in a suit that probably cost more than my first car and was carrying one of those leathery-thingys that seemed to exist only for the purpose of being carried during interviews.

> I stole a glance to a few of the people from my team who had looked up when he walked in. I could sense the disappointment.

> We’re all happily wearing blue jeans and sneakers. It’s not that we’re so petty or strict about the dress code that we are going to disqualify him for not following an unwritten rule, but we know empirically that people who come in dressed in suits rarely work out well for our team.

> He was failing the go-out-for-a-beer test and he didn’t even know it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140618142018/http://blog.42floo...
Wouldn't it be better to upvote the disagreements you agree with?
Plus it's easy to cover more than one group with the same meal, that is, a vegan meal would be fine for a vegetarian inmate to eat. Kosher and Halal are theoretically very close, presumably some meat producers must comply with all the handling and prayers to certify as both, etc.

Or, since it doesn't seem have been suggested previously, why not a Kosher, Halal vegan meal plan for all inmates? If it was nutritionally complete, it should be cheaper than even the presumably cheap meat-based diet most prisoners are currently fed...
Sorry, the text is just inaccurate. We deeplink to Uber with the non-surging location. I'll update it.
>Prison is punishment first, rehabilitation second

Says who? Punishment (beyond the punishing nature of the denial of one's freedom) need only be a part of prison because some peoples' (defective) morality demands it.

The first priority of a prison is to protect the people at large from the expected behavior of convicted criminals.

>Of all the consequences of breaking the law, being forced to eat something you don't like certainly sounds pretty mild.

What reason do you have to believe that forcing vegan prisoners to eat a non-vegan diet (or starve) will have any rehabilitative effect? Or are you happy to mete out punishments arbitrarily based upon individuals' personalities?

Prisons already accommodate a multitude of diets for various (mandatory) reasons. It really isn't expensive to accommodate one more.
Good question. I take a conservative view. I consider how our understanding of nutrition is limited, I look at the evolutionary morphology of our species and take a look at what we've adapted to eat for nearly a million years and favor that sort of food over something synthesized _this year._ I allow that Soylent may be better quality than this food. But the odds are it's not.
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I very much doubt that was the comment that got you banned.
And you think recidivism in the US is based on the food? Prison food is so good people can't wait to commit more crimes and get back inside?