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I also don't think that winning competitions is a negative. I only believe that the experience doing so gives one a bigger advantage in interviewing that in actual work performance.

I also don't believe that the Google hiring committees treat competition winners specially (though of course I could be wrong there). The reason I say that is as a frequent Google interviewer, the interview scores vastly outweigh the value of the resume (to the point of it becoming ignorable). And, I personally don't look at a resume except to see what language a candidate likes to write in, and to see how long they've been out of school (depending on how long, I might ask more a designy question).

Given my anecdotal and inferred evidence, I believe the only way for a competition win to help someone get the job is to make them better at interviews.

Given the stated evidence in the article, combined with my immediately-above belief, the explanation that fits is that competitions help more with interviewing than with job performance.

Since it helps more with selection (passing the interview) than with performance (job review), there is a natural negative correlation with performance for those who were selected.

This is completely consistent with competitions helping people do better with job performance.
So instead of an environment where terrorists have to individually hijack individual aircraft and overpower the pilots, we're going to have an environment where terrorists can crash multiple planes at once with a single hack?

I get the impression that we'll be swapping low frequency incidents that kill hundreds with even lower frequency incidents that kill magnitudes more instead. But the frequency will be so low that we'll pretend it doesn't exist and slowly cut down on safeguards and failsafe mechanisms until the first corresponding catastrophic incident occurs.
What explains this incidence? Is it genetic?

EDIT: Vixen explains it below, if a vitamin-D deficiency correlates to high blood pressure that is.
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well, I mean some actors are more future oriented than others, but everyone prefers a dollar today to a dollar a year from now,

politicians probably have a weaker future orientation than most, but they're not unique in discounting the future

I don't philosphically have any problem with carbon taxes, or some legal liability scheme to capture overall costs
Whow- I hope they won't get through with that. If they are going to get through with that- where does it end? It will set an example for all the other struggling economies in the EU to extort money out of what appears to be the only performing economy in the EU at the moment.
I've blogged about Arch Linux back in 2014.

If anyone interested; http://www.distrogeeks.com/arch-linux-2014-install/
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Karma to me is my score. How well I'm doing and how respected I am in the community. At the moment I'm (proudly) on 517.

If my contributions are valuable. I will get upvotes. If they are not, then I won't. Without gaming the system, I believe this was by design (PG also shared this in a few of his earlier posts).

In reality. I'm always sharing links with the community of things I find interesting. My experience is that rewards for sharing links (upvote karma) seems to be very random, with stories I think are genuinely fresh, conceptually challenging and interesting getting far fewer upvotes then stories which I consider to be relatively dull.
Just wanted to add that if you're not into mailing lists, the official Arch Linux News[1] page seems to be the same thing as arch-announce. It also has an Atom/RSS feed[2].

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/

[2] https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/
The shadowbanned poster can tell he has been banned, sut by trying to view their profile as an logged out user. It will give a 404.
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Agree with the part of constant stress.[0][1] Some full moons ago I took pills that among other effects also had a side effect of increasing blood pressure. Which they absolutely did to me until one day I postponed them in the last minute only to feel the side effect the same way as usual a few minutes later when they should have reached the blood stream.

From that day that side effects disappeared. Our brains plays games with us. About 30%[1] of us seems more prone to this[2] than others.

[0]: context: JulianMorrisons post was downvoted when I commented. I read it as funny, not SJW, and I agree that constant stress seems to be a big issue.)

[1]: See vixen99s explanation for what seems like the dry facts about the link between skin color and hypertension

[2]: or was it 60%? I can't remember.

[3]: placebo and nocebo I think
Yes, but at the end of it all, you have a fully supported distro with Arch. And by "supported", I mean that there are regular updates for your packages, very good instructions to learn stuff, an excellent support forum, etc.
You can accelerate parts of the decode with a GPU:

http://www.ittiam.com/key-technologies/vp9/

Your link is just to a software layer that takes advantage of any hardware present on the system i.e. on an intel system with vp8 hardware decode it'll use that, if not then it'll use software.

edit: on a second read I see your link intends to create a GPU accelerated VP8 decoder backend for those libraries, not just create the interface layer.
You said it yourself, "worthless luxury" is worthless. Your emotional desire once met will be only be temporary before you desire the next thing. It's an endless consumption cycle which will leave you feeling empty inside but with a garage full of junk. Donating to noble causes would have you the reverse of that.
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LFS is probably as close to DIY as possible, however it still requires you to compile everything. I suppose Arch is DIY while still providing binary packages (faster installation) and a more or less standard linux installation while still allowing you to customise it to you heart's content. Gentoo is probably in-between these two, although I believe Gentoo is a more opinionated distribution than Arch regarding how the system is structured (see custom init, custom udev etc). This is not bad, but different. I am not a Gentoo user so please correct me if my assumptions are wrong. All these 3 options, however, encourage the user to familiarise themselves with the system internals, which is a good option if one wants to dwelve a bit deeper into linux. Arch is probably the most accessible of the lot.
Calling him the anti-jobs because he didn't obsess over design is a bit out there, as the impression i am left with is they operated in a very similar way.

Both would set some arbitrary target for the engineers and designers, and ruthlessly hold them to it.

For instant i think Tramiel insisted on the C64 using no more than 80 chips. Eventually the first production run shipped with 81 because of a issue with the power regulator.

Interestingly, the original Woz design was probably very in the spirit of Tramiel. This because Woz was designing for personal use, and so tried to keep cost down by using as much of the components as he could manage.

But note that the component count reduction did not affect the utility of either computer.

But the Jobs style design focus seems to more often than not produce an appliance, by restricting what the user can do.
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> 4. Users Gaming the system, be strictly banned for X Days and shown in different colors.

I don't think users gaming the system can be spotted so easily. Let's take an example: let's say both of us like Astronomy and post sometimes articles about spatial exploration. It is only natural that we would end up upvoting each others' submission, especially if we both like to check the new submissions and tend to read HN approximately at the same time. Users like I described could easily be mistaken by a voting ring detector.

By giving harsh penalties like you suggest to users who are gaming the system, you take a big risk to alienate people who simply have shared interests. I think the ranking algorithm of HN takes voting ring into account, so if you and I are part of a voting ring, our upvotes will impact less the standing of a page - I think I read about that somewhere but can't find the exact source.
It's about as useful as recent "nosql" databases such as mongo or rethinkdb in that role; except that it's limited to available ram.
Great, now single person will crash thousands of airplanes. I will trust pilot over agency, because his ass is in the airplane.
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For patterns like the last case in the article, all it takes is one browser-of-the-depths to link a story in an IRC chat, and a few more people to check it out and like it. It sounds like a standard pattern rather than cheating.
Failing that, it could also be interesting to explore the possibilities of making sounds and music that aren't so dependent on timing. Eventually consistent tunes, if you will. :)
I'd like to see it in action, but two of the four example sites seem to be down and one just gives me a blank page.
Also https://twitter.com/archlinux . And yes, Arch rocks.
Good points.

On the comments:upvotes ratio - I think there's two types of submission.

Blog or newsy stuff invites discussion and comments. But other things, like Show HNs, for instance, might be upvoted for being useful but without anyone commenting much. Both are fine.
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When I was attending uni, we were expected to do some original research each year. What's outstanding about it?
But that's the point, isn't it? Almost all of nerd identity is defined by consumption preferences so if you criticize their consumption preferences, you're criticizing them as a person. Defining yourself by what you consume is very mentally unhealthy.
How much compute power do you need to add an email address to a database?
It isn't that foolish as it may seems: the Greek National Bank was forced to make a loan to Germany, but they never got their money back. In the '60s Germany payed some marks as a compensation for the victims, but the bigger monetary issue was still to settle.

Also, I find somewhat loathsome the situation that:

* German industries corrupted Greek high-ranking officials, in order to have juicy (and not so useful for the Greeks) contracts

* Germany takes money on the market at low interest rates and loans it to Greece at much higher interest rates

The picture is bigger, but these details really do bother me.

Edit

About the link request:

Here is an article (FR) about corruption in Greece and German corporations.
http://www.okeanews.fr/20150208-contrats-de-defense-nouveau-...

Here is a Tsipras address to the Parliament (FR), in which he details the facts (forced loan, 1953 treaty, 1960 treaty, 1990 treaty):
http://www.okeanews.fr/20150312-discours-de-tsipras-sur-les-...

About the interest rates, you just have to look at the spread between German bonds and Greek bonds on the market: the difference is Germany's gain (if the loans is payed back, of course).
The style HN uses for quotes makes this impossible to read.
Excellent point. One (or two?) submissions per day for each user would be a reasonable restriction. Good stories will find their way here via someone else if my submission limit has already been reached..
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There's a few factors other than vote totals and submission age at play, any/all of which could skew the results a fair amount.

1- Some source sites are penalized heavily. Sites with a history of low quality articles have built in negative modifiers (ie Gawker)

2- Posts with more comments than upvotes are penalized, on the theory that someone is flame warring in the comments. This actually seems to work out more accurately than you'd expect.

3- Flagging, which you don't see as a visible indicator until a story is dead. However, there's some threshhold beneath which it affects a story's ranking, but it hasn't yet killed the story.

And the mods sometimes manually tinker with stories they feel are / are not what they want on the site.
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There's no level playing field in business as it is. Incumbents have the advantage of having more resources than start-ups, that's what makes disruption hard. Saying zero rating shouldn't be allowed is worse for me as a consumer, I'd definitely like it if music streaming apps I use made deals with my wireless carrier so I could stream as much as I wanted.

You (and startups) are basically asking for a subsidy that doesn't exist for anyone else. No one is giving Jolla a hand in taking on Samsung or Apple in the phone business.
This does not suggest reducing salt, but rather supplementing vitamin D. It also doesn't rule out stress as a distinct, parallel cause.
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Exactly, it becomes a race to define the most narrow circle of who is "in" and who is "out" and since nerd identity is defined by consumption, it becomes a race to see who can consume the most obscure thing in an effort to keep people out. This is why gamergate is so threatened, it's diluting the only identity they have because they're so empty of meaningful personhood otherwise.
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Ah, I didn't know all that. Do you have some links regarding this? Very interesting.
That's ridiculous, kind of like my saying that I'm afraid to talk to you on HN because you're a convicted felon.

I stand by every lawsuit I or Think has filed. None have been frivolous. And there are far fewer than 20 or 30.
Interestingly https://vote.heliosvoting.org/faq gives the answer no to "Should we start using Helios for public-office elections?" on the grounds the people's computers are too easily compromised for this to viable. So perhaps the issue is not the protocol at all?
I think it's funny how you say hg is much easier and git has a much more complex model, and I'm still struggling to understand all this.

To me Git is clear and simple. It's a linked commit-graph, and branches and tags are just references to leaf nodes on the graph. That's all. That's the entire model.

With hg you have local commit IDs, you have revsets, you have bookmarks, and then since you aren't forced to name a graph/branch you have to remember commit-IDs or who did what when to what file. Some commits show up on the commit-log, but you can't be sure if it's in the current branch. I'm totally confused as to what to use where and how I can be certain about what I'm working with.

I'm not saying hg is bad per se, but looking at it from the outside it looks helluva more complex than Git. I think this all boils down to what you're used to.

From the discussion in this thread here, I'm pretty certain I wont be trying mercurial anytime soon. It just seems too complex and confusing for me ;)
You do not have any idea whatsoever how those systems are built, do you? Everything is logged, and logs changes are logged and logs change logs are logged and all those logs are signed and when the logger looses connection to loggable, then this is logged too and that is logged too.

And finally. The interest of knowing of who voted who is virtually zero. I admit that the principle of anonynous voting is good and needs to be guarded, but the real harm of leak is virtually zero too. The most bigger threat is manipulation of results.
Linux from Scratch = Orange

Arch Linux = Apple

Arch "Learn more about Linux" is a indirect effect of running Arch and well LFS whole purpose.

Arch = Great Linux Distro (My second favorite to my distro home OpenSUSE)

LFS = Learning tool that is not necessarily for production machines.
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Another good part of HN is active[0] which is not linked on the top bar. It shows the most active topics by comment count. Useful for finding topics with lots of discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/active
Wow, I had never heard of this "book". Anyone bought it? Is there anything more than in the two blogs?
In university, I found that the lecturers that had worked out in industry were far more entertaining and informative than pure academics. They knew what the shortcomings of theory were, and how you had to mold the theoretical to match the practical.

One example in a neuro class talking about EEGs, a lecturer was saying that the solution between electrodes didn't have to be anything special (usually it's a medical supply) and that even mayonnaise would do, he'd used it once. Fast forward a few years, and one of my fellow students was working in a lab and they ran out of goo. She says she went down and bought a jar of mayonnaise and it worked fine - and in the setting of a medical lab, it even smells a bit medicinal.
Why not Gentoo, which provides source packages. Compile it yourself!
For those of you interested in running ArchLinux on Macbook hardware; I find this guide/overview pretty comprehensive: https://gist.github.com/terlar/6143325
I've been following net neutrality issues pretty closely and this is the first I've heard the term "zero rating". I didn't have a clear understanding of the term after reading the article, since I wasn't sure if zero rating was the exemption or if ISPs were exempting services from the zero rating. The wikipedia[0] entry helped, also referring to it as "toll-free data" which cleared up the confusion for me.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating
> Gentoo is probably in-between these two, although I believe Gentoo is a more opinionated distribution than Arch regarding how the system is structured (see custom init, custom udev etc).

Gentoo offers even more freedom of customization than Arch. Choose your init system, your udev variant, your main Python version, set around 100 build time options for ffmpeg and so on.

LFS is great for learning and looking under the hood, but for a system that you actually use daily, Gentoo has no rival.
TFA and your blog post both mention SLiM as a login manager, according to the Arch wiki[0]:

"The SliM project has been abandoned (the project homepage is down, leaving a github mirror), and is not fully compatible to systemd, including logind sessions. Consider using a different Display manager or Xinitrc."

Lightdm [1] seems to be a better alternative.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM
Keeping consumers safe from the horror of an international poster monopoly?

His mistake wasn't creating a cartel, it was using big league price-fixing tactics while being a minor league player - or for impersonating a giant corporation while being a little person.

That will get you a nasty sentence if you try it and get caught.

Actual price-fixing by corporates is hardly rare, and it doesn't seem to attract much regulator interest. See e.g.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2485343/technology-law-...
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Fair enough. Large memory is needed for some developers and the 16GB option should be there. But for many, many developers, a few GB should be more than enough.
A good Arch alternative is Void Linux. It's almost like if BSD and Linux had a child. I've moved away from the "assembly-required" distros, but I had a lot of good fun playing with them and did learn a lot.
> Last month, the prohibition was extended to four other species: reticulated pythons, DeSchauensee’s anacondas, green anacondas and Beni anacondas. (Boa constrictors, an important component of the pet snake trade, were spared a ban.) Not surprisingly, reptile sellers and breeders are not happy with the restrictions, with slippery slopesters among them warning that all kinds of animals, including more familiar household pets, could become the next government target.

It's a sad state of affairs when the federal government has to step in and play parent. Really is a case of a few bad apples spoiling the whole bunch. Though, i was hoping more would be done than add a few more names to a list. The article kind of ended with a tone of 'that's it, nothing more to report', when there's clearly still a problem.
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I'm in the same boat, to the point where she asked me to password restrict her being able to install the facebook app. She'll still access it through the web interface, she says to make it more difficult to access.

She's the introverted type, socially anxious, and I can understand the draw of being able to look into others lives without having to actually interact with them. The problem, then, is just as the study describes. Face to face conversations give a better glimpse on what's really going on personally, the good and the bad, while the newsfeed is a stream of bragging or things to be judgmental about.

Top news is the feature of facebook I appreciate most. I would go crazy if I were only inundated with the stream of menial crap you see in real time. Facebook learns who I actually interact with and knows my family members, and shows me the "upvoted" stories so that when I get on facebook once daily for 3-5 mins, I'm caught up.
It could also have surfaced in a different media outlet, prompting many to see it for the first time. For example, some article comes out and gets submitted, but the submission dies out. Then a blogger or news site mentions is, and people re-submit the article to HN all in a short time (but much later than the original submission)- which counts as an upvote.

Also, the first abnormal result the OP was talking about 3 votes. I don't think we can worry about a handful of people voting for their own startup submission. The first, "normal" graph had hundreds of votes.

I think my takeaway from all of this is that, like other statistics, with small numbers the values have little meaning. Now if we had seen evidence of, say, 25 or 50 people working together (a few people with multiple accounts each, for instance), then that would be more actionable evidence. But my guess is that pg has already dealt with that problem, and apparently pretty effectively, because it's not showing up here.
Serious questions: what's the use case for 16GB RAM? I'm not doubting... just curious.
Thanks for the tip! How do you get in touch with these agents?
I can attest to the chance factor - some times I reposted a story that wasn't picked up, and the second time it got picked up.

That was long enough ago though, don't know how much has changed since - and I submit stories very rarely.
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Hey Iran, you hear that? If you're short on cash, sue Greece for that whole Alexander thing.

I find it very hard to find sympathy for Greece at the moment. This is literally the fable of the grasshopper and the ant.
Another Google team (part of WebRTC I think) is trying to build a repeatable, open source process for codec comparisons:

http://compare-codecs.appspot.com/results/

https://github.com/google/compare-codecs

It's early days though, e.g. only PSNR for now, but the basic idea of repeatable, open source codec testing so that if someone complains about any aspect they can fork and show the difference, and hopefully get it rolled back in to future versions, is very cool.