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Do I have to respond to the American Community Survey (ACS)?[0]

Yes. You are legally obligated to answer all the questions, as accurately as you can.

The relevant laws are Title 18 U.S.C Section 3571[1] and Section 3559,[2] which amends Title 13 U.S.C. Section 221.[3]

As I read that, it's an infraction, with a fine of not more than $5,000 and/or imprisonment of five days or less.

[0] https://askacs.census.gov/faq.php?id=5000&faqId=7455

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/html/USCODE...

[2] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/html/USCODE...

[3] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title13/html/USCODE...
I wonder if ES6+ is going to become the new HTML5 - all these great features but no hope of proper browser support for years. I had no idea ES7 was also in development, so it seems like browsers are always going to be playing catchup. The comments on an article here the other day said people aren't upgrading tablets as often as phones. I can see a lot of tablets being stuck on ES5, that people don't want to upgrade, as they can still browse the Facebooks and Googles fine.
Imagine a super-charged version of the method where Java Architects make class hierarchies and interfaces for offshore/contract programmers.

I think FP (and contract based programming) would do a much better job than Java for varying qualities of programmers on very large projects.
Are you trolling or stupid? I never said all Christians are violent. I said that there are plenty (that's a number that means "enough to matter") that are.

Time to own up: are you a Christian? Is that why you are butthurt and making up lies about my intent?
Sure, and why do people use C anyway? You can write binary directly without any kind of make utility.
>Sony (and the other console makers, to be fair) go to absolutely incredible lengths to make sure that people absolutely do not get to run their own code on these machines. And then they sue anyone that finds a way to do so.

Also, to be fair, PS4 is the first Sony's home console that does not run user's code. All the previous Playstations had such an ability in one way or another:

Net Yaroze on Playstation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze

Linux Kit on PS2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

And the PS3, initially, came with the ability to install user OSs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
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I'm guessing he's referring to blog posts like this one- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tea-party-taxes-and-wh...

Personally I'm happy to see issues that the left and right can both agree on, and don't really see an issue with EFF doing this if it helps accomplish their goals.
As someone who has recently ventured into the world of Docker, I have been questioning if there is a need for virtualenv anymore, especially in production.
"I bring up the lack of turing completeness because in the space of type languages you can make even more powerful arguments. What you mention about reasonable encodings is sufficient, but we can get more strength."

Certainly. I had every confidence you understood that. I just wanted to be sure we avoided strengthening the "Turing complete means it can do anything any other language can" misconception.
Well that's probably even more analogous to modern-day tech startups, few of which actually invent anything new themselves.

The point is that Edison led hard, consequential engineering work well past his 20s and 30s.
My morality isn't constrained by borders.

How would you know what the program's being used to look for?
The federal laws regarding US Census privacy-breaching disclosures are stiff, being substantial felonies enshrined in statutory law, not just a nonbinding "policy" or an informally-binding "regulation" or a downright insulting backroom "interpretation". They may conflict with privileges people assume under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, but they were not repealed with the passage of the Patriot Act. They are explicitly and repetitively opposed to the contents of the Census surveys being used against the respondent in any law enforcement capacity. In a talk I attended, the ranking US official in charge of the Census at the time, Rebecca Blank, fielded questions incredulous of this point. The cost of being able to collect the data credibly is not being able to use it for any legal purpose in the context of the individual.

Census officials, employees, or associates who cooperate with the NSA on breaching privacy need to go to prison under these provisions for them to mean anything; They have always pitted the Census against other agencies that would like to feast on that data. The laws are not required to protect against Amazon marketting, they are required to protect against the IRS, FBI, DEA, ICE, NSA, et al, and ensure that the Constitutional duty to enumerate the populace cannot be contravened by the respondent's fear of repression. Perhaps the Patriot Act immunizes the FBI from asking, but if it immunizes the Census Bureau from answering, we might as well not have a Census Bureau at all.

An intelligence agency that keeps a list of demographic minorities for the purposes of spying & persecution is Holocaust-precursor-grade stuff, and something we have fought against for most of our existence since our inception as a country.
Yes I was. Lamenting bias when it's applied negatively to you is all well and good but when you're happy to ignore it when it's applied to someone else is self-centred. If there are biases in SV that need to be dealt with so that _everyone_ succeeds or fails purely based on _merit_ they all need to be dealt with, not just "whatever affects me".
Person I'm talking to: "How do we check that you're not hurting anyone? We need to invade your privacy to keep other people safe."
From JavaScript to ClojureScript [video]
I don’t know what to do, you guys
Can you elaborate a little on how this is different from Photoshop or Lightroom?
Hey, I've started a new screencast series at the beginning of this month. It focuses on showing concepts in Clojure through live-coding.

Like all software, this series is a work-in-progress -- tasteful feedback on the content and presentation is appreciated!

See the video's comments on youtube for corrections to mistakes I made while recording.
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Aside from making conceptual sense, using the original value has the nice property that there's no dependence between the calculation of separate pixels, so the filtered image can be computed fully in parallel. GPUs are very good at this, which obviously makes them useful for graphics rendering, but also at other tasks that involve the same mathematical operation, such as deep learning (the first few stages of a convolution deep neural net are just the application of specially tuned convolution kernels).
You can write your own or use lodash's for a dramatic speed increase. You can even stomp on Function.prototype.bind.
Coffeescript is pretty damn ugly. For god sakes can people please use parenthesis when calling functions with arguments?
Mmmm without drastic syntax changes?

Classes:

There is no semicolon after the function name
The function keyword is omitted
There are no commas after each definition

Interpolation:

`${1 + 1}` <- why not just # like everyone else?

Multi line strings:

` Now we have a 3rd
string delimiter`

Fat arrow:

$("button").on("click", () => {
// really? hanging parens? no function keyword?
});

Destructuring:

var [first, , last] = [1, 2, 3]
// thats a var to assign vals inside an array
// and just two commas touching to ignore a value

The whole post is about drastic syntax changes. The brackets are optional in coffeescript.

Besides coffeescript is just a tool.
"I'm sure it greatly depends on how important you are."

And who you've dated...
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Having just gone through some co-founder struggles myself I think your response is right on the money. Especially when you talk about catching problems in the moment and communicating clearly the first time. I've learned that arguments can be on the surface about one thing (maybe a present issue) but really they stem from something previously uncleared or what SEEMED to be cleared arguments in the past. Each miss-communication compounds to affect the next. I'm just hopeful that experience and a willingness to learn and accept mistakes is the ultimate remedy.
Actually, Chrome is named for the interface. It's meant to be ironic because the point of Chrome is reducing the browsers chrome making more room for the Web page.

The name Chromium was playing on the fact that it's the metal used in chrome plating. (Just as the Chromium Project is used in making the browser Chrome.)
> As someone who is a mod of one or more default subreddits, I promise you, this is certainly not the case.

/r/technology?

Did everyone just forget?
All the banks sell their data. Its aggregated but thats all you need. You don't care if a specific person went to Chipotle, you're looking for trends.

http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-purchase-da...
And in Go since there is no parametric polymorphism you would end up writing either:

1) Methods with names that indicate the parameter types.
2) Method calls on objects to convert some internal struct data from one type to another.
3) Something I haven't thought of that doesn't involve losing a handle on your type.

So there is certainly a loss in convenience, but if you use the type system it can be just as safe as a functional language as far as I can tell. So, yeah, it isn't as intellectually elegant, but it also isn't really that hard to deal with.
Sure, the assertion is fallacious. Pointing that out doesn't actually change anything, though. You can't force intimacy (and sharing otherwise private/sensitive information can definitely qualify if you feel that way) where it's not welcome. The 'problem' (if you see it as one) is that sdrothrock's mother doesn't see them as an ally on this front. That's what'd need to change.
yes it is, the ios beta is constantly inviting testers using apple's testflight, just use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VAyfrfTNWPEBrnCaJSwYYeNcuHs... to submit your mail address, you'll get an invite asap.
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Do they have the mathematical power to say it's unidentifying information? Is it just that that information, on its own, isn't identifying, or is the test that, with all the other information on the internet, it's still not identifying?
Your claim (b) confuses me. First you try to paint CS as somehow special and requiring no quant skills, unlike the rest of STEM. Thus, the well supported "quant skill -> less women" correlation doesn't apply. But then you try to suggest other STEM fields do have the same problem as tech.

As for why intellect gap arguments persuade you and not me, I think I understand now. I tend to believe that there are very few independent dimensions in human intellect, you seem to think there are many. I'd suggest investigating psychometrics in a bit more detail - I found this idea very surprising, but it holds up quite well. Take tokenadult's linkdumps on hiring procedures as a good starting point.

Also, let me emphasize that I don't claim my theory is perfect - I just claim it's the best supported. Quantitatively, all the correlations point in the right direction. I see no reason to exclude other theories, e.g., Sapna Cheryan's "women avoid nerds" theory ( http://faculty.washington.edu/scheryan/research.htm ) - the correlations at least line up there, admittedly anecdotally (doctors and lawyers are high status, computer and math geeks are low status).

The idea that CS, math and physics are somehow uniquely unkind to women seems weak to me. I see no plausible reason why "bog-standard human behavior" would be worse in STEM - if anything, you'd expect objective fields to care less about human behavior. (That's probably why computing is so tolerant of weirdos.) Note that you haven't even provided anecdotal evidence that computing is somehow worse than law in this regard.
That was a really long-winded way of saying "I don't like tech people".
It's interesting that he didn't add polio and smallpox to the list. No one is stupid enough to wish their kids have polio or smallpox.

Just to remember: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis#Prognosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Prognosis
I'm actually wondering about the "Porsche or a civic" question now. Can you afford a Porsche on ~$120k a year in the US? (I'm not a car guy)
As far as I understand, you do not need to completely start from scratch to get out of local optima: one individual is enough (at least in asexual reproduction) to drive a population shift. That is how bacteria develop immunities.

I think that for sexual reproduction, leaps cannot be as big, but they can certainly happen and one individual with a mutation is enough.

This brings me to mind an article I read recently about a study that found that all danish people with blue eyes share a common ancestor. It's not exactly the same thing, but I would argue that, if having blue eyes was an evolutionary advantage, we would all have blue eyes; and that started with a single mutated individual.
Since all they talk about is cutting taxes and reducing the size of government I'm going to guess yes.
http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=46

164 of 1977 evictions in 2014 were for late or non-payment of rent. Almost all of the rest were for pretexts classified under "breach of agreement" which tenants groups have shown to consist of things like parking outside the lines or cooking at night.

This is one of the things I really hate about California rental laws: there's not a standard lease. When I rented in Texas there was a statewide standard lease so there weren't weird clauses and other surprises.
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It's GPL'd, and any GPL'd code "infects" any codebase it's merged with (unlike MIT/Apache license).
If imaqtpie has about 15k median viewers, works at least 8 hours a day for 30 days straight, and makes about $15k from that, am I approximately right in saying, in video-game streaming land, the going rate is $0.0042 per hour per viewer?

Anyone know how this compares with TV show actors, Youtube clip makers, B-grade movie stars, and porno?
One could argue that globalized internetworked computing is the pre-natal state of an AI super intelligence. For now, the network needs us to exist, but our dependency on it could be the basis for an intractable symbiotic relationship in the short-medium term. And it's fair to assume that a true super intelligence will leverage that relationship to it's own advantage while allowing us to believe we are in control. I'm so high right now. ;-)
Good article, but this part was a bit jarring: "Steve would never have made a bigger iPhone. He didn’t believe in it."

He may not have believed in it in 2011, but he may have changed his mind.
Kansas City school experiment: $2B over 10 years and blacks still didn't get their shit together.
Likely he is European, where ',' and '.' are swapped when talking about money.

So that is $914,132 or nine hundred and fourteen thousand and one hundred and thirty two dollars.
define "afford". lots of people see that they have around $300 left over every month after paying rent, food, verizon and cable tv, and drop that directly on a $300/month BMW lease. can they afford that?
I for one hail our Go overlords, because that way it will mean less Python, Ruby and Javascript code for serious stuff like backends.. Given the language will please this crowd.

Theres a lot of good stuff, created by good people, in those languages and while the solutions are great, the fact that they are in those languages, make them unfit for a lot of cases.
While it's always great to see people being passionate about where they live (something I rarely see outside of SF or Portland OR), I couldn't find anything in this article beyond "These dicks should stop doing what they want because it's not what I want". If there's a villain behind gentrification it's economics - calling people assholes for wanting to live in your terrifically wonderful neighborhood is surely beside the point.
Wikitravel is sponsored by ads, Wikivoyage is funded by Wikimedia. Wikivoyage is basically a fork of Wikitravel that happened a couple years ago when contributors to Wikitravel started getting concerned about the company that was running it. Since a lot of the contributors (if not consumers) of Wikitravel made the move, I generally trust Wikivoyage to be more up to date.
But anyone can fork any project on github willy-nilly, for whatever reason they want, it's not something that's really under the control of original project.
Ask HN: How is Google Compute doing with respect to AWS?
We are planning to shift our server from linode to some other service. Now the dilemma is around AWS or GCE. We would love to know are there any tech guys who have had migration from AWS to GCE or from linode to any of these service and how was their experience.
Yep. If you watch all of the videos from the D conference, you see Steve Jobs say no to a lot of stuff he later did (e.g. Video on iPod).
Using the term "you folks" implies that HN has a consensus view on these topics. It doesn't. Looking at the recent "What Silicon Valley thinks of Women" story[1] it's easy to see the deep chains of discussion because of the opposing viewpoints.

Accusations of double standards need to be made against individual commentators.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8963658
That makes sense. I just don't usually hear that complaint about free software. Exploiting people's work for profit happens all over the place, but you're talking about exploiting work where there is explicit permission to exploit it. They are still releasing source, so if I hijack your metaphor, they kept all the proceeds but continued to build the mansion and give everyone with a phone the ability to instantly copy the mansion and make their own mansion-selling business if they want.
Too bad the government is the only entity that can fund research.
As a retailer you can negotiate like crazy with credit card processors. One of my cofounders worked at a processor and using his knowledge bank managaged to get us absolutely insane rates vs the "walk up" rate.

It probably saves us thousands to tens of thousands of dollars each year and we don't even have a huge amount of revenue.
Were you expecting something wildly different on a site called 'longreads'?
Believe me, I know. I minored in English Lit & Math.
Up till this day, I still hate JSX but love the rest of React. The syntax problem though, is easy to solve. The verbosity and ugliness of XML was already contested when it was conceived, as it was being called a re-invention of S-expressions. In the end, I wrote all my React apps in sexps with paredit mode. With simple, purely syntactic macros, it's pretty pleasant.
By arguing that AI does not need to sleep, you are already making assumptions about how such AI is structured.

I do not agree with such assumption. Whether we talk about a structure more similar to us (i.e. neural networks) or whether we talk about some n-th order logic, the AI needs to "sleep".
I think in some way you could interpret caching mechanisms as sleeping. Also, many data-centers perform some operations daily at nighttime: I argue that that is a form of sleeping as well.

AI will have a lot of limitations like these, so I think that "as efficiently as possible" is not going to be so efficient in the end.
The idea of using DSLs in this field is attractive. The amount of math you have to hold in your head to really start talking about large scale simulations is staggering, and it gets more and more complicated as you scale up. There are thousands of moving parts that must be accounted for, any one of them can burn you.

I wonder however, with full respect to other groups who have made good progress in making the idea a reality, why they never attempt collaboration with computer science - a field that has been perfecting language design for so long? I remember speaking to someone doing a similar project, and they didn't even know that parsing was a "thing," yet they were implementing a DSL.

Since I'm more on the math side and not on the computer science side I can't comment on how much duplicated work is actually happening, but it seems like a lot.
I was hoping there would be an obvious answer. I guess I could rephrase the question this way: "is it common for people who make ~120k/year to drive a Porsche?" or "if you'd have a median income of all Porsche owners, what would it be?". I just want to get a general idea.
The last serious project I tried to do with OCaml (maybe 4 months ago) was impeded by a ton of dependency problems (this library in OPAM says it depends on this other library, but it doesn't compile because the latter has changed; this dependency won't build in OCaml version .X but another one won't build in .X-1) and ecosystem sparseness (two partially-complete, years-old libraries to do the same thing, etc.). I was eventually stopped in my tracks by an impressively opaque camlp4 error.

(My favorite example is when in #ocaml I asked what testing tools people used; the most positive answer was along the lines of "there's OUnit, but I don't know anything about it".)

There seems to be three awkwardly coexisting OCaml communities: the old academic crowd, the Jane Street people, and a crowd of clueless newbies like myself. It's a really great language, but the ecosystem is going through some growing pains right now.
I'm definitely interested in seeing what React, and React Native, can do, but I have to say these people cheering like Ofrah just gave them a free car are kind of turning me off.

"This is a native component".
"WOOOOOOOOH!!!" "YEAH!!" <high fives>
In that case it is even worse, reusing words from the same domain... Everybody check out my new linux distro, Microkernel, it is the ironic OS!

Google needs to start running this stuff by me.
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I looked at 6to5 and started re-writing a few files of CoffeeScript in ES6. First impression was not great. I'd forgotten how many curly braces are required in JS. ES6's fat arrow is just not as nice as CoffeeScript's (required parentheses, no option for thin arrow). I'll no doubt try it out again soon, but I'm not a convert yet.
> My morality isn't constrained by borders.

Perhaps not, but your constitution is.

> How would you know what the program's being used to look for?

Because I read the article and the accompanying Powerpoint slide deck, and those were the only concrete examples in it. You can't really make many hard conclusions beyond what was shown, and the examples that they did show weren't very infuriating...
Bit dated, but interesting:
http://www.csparks.com/bmw/CarPriceVsIncome.xhtml
Just because they nominally support minimizing government spending doesn't mean they actually do it. Republican and Democrat senators all need pork barrel money to buy votes.
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The one thing that's prevented me from using flex-box is browser support.

Because flex-box has been re-implemented in JS, does this mean that the css-layout project [1] will provide flex-box support for older browsers?

I looked, but I couldn't find a "compatibility" section anywhere in the repo.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/css-layout