skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article recommends the Ali-Williams fight of 1966:

"These early fights, the most brilliant being against Cleveland Williams, in 1966, predate by a decade the long, grueling, punishing fights of Ali’s later career, whose accumulative effects hurt Ali irrevocably..."

I just took a look at that fight, which is on YouTube (http://youtu.be/oJUzl0aFHZw). It lasts only 8 minutes. The opponent is clearly a slugger who is baffled by Ali's style. Ali moves very fast, and fights with his gloves down. I'm not a fan of boxing, but she's right, that fight is an amazing spectacle.
> Majority rule based on one-person-one-vote notoriously results in tyranny of the majority–a large number of people who care only a little about an outcome prevail over a minority that cares passionately, resulting in a reduction of aggregate welfare.

Notoriously? In actual practice, U.S. democracy and many others function the exact opposite of what is described (passionate minorities such as Iowa corn farmers and F-35 plane builders and M1A1 tank builders and various intellectual property advocates routinely beat unpassionate majorities, resulting in laws that are bad for most and good for a very few, decreasing overall welfare). The idea that the masses are voting themselves loot from the treasury over the objections of the noble elites is a fantasy that exists only in some libertarian heads, and never in the real world. I can't really read any further in this article. This is basic stuff.
Their startup: http://collectivedecisionengines.com/ seems to give decision makers X units of currency and then refund them the average outlay.

It seems like it would have failure modes in communities w/ transient populations. As in, if you give me 100 units, I'll buy 10 votes and know that I at least voted as much as I could. But in conditions where you have a fixed community it could work well.

Clearly in the real world if you have 100 credits, a Koch brother would have ~100 million credits... Bill Gates ~200 million credits... (based on US median net worth of $44,000 vs their respective 42billion and ~80billion)

But there are plenty of decisions to be made that could be done with fake credits in a controlled environment.
Ryan Davis was incredibly overweight. He was obese, he smoked and had a terrible diet. Sleep apnea was the cause, but he wasn't long for this world.
http://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/obesity-and-sleep
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/04/communities-that-abide... is a positive post (as is its prequel presumably)
Others have mentioned it incidentally, but I'll highlight it:

When you're at this point, talk to them offline, either face to face, video conference, but somewhere privately. The core message should be that the code is sufficiently convoluted that you can't effectively review it and you think there must be a better approach. Comprehensibility is always a code review concern, so you're on solid ground there.

The big thing here is that there's a point where the honest code review will basically be "wow, you screwed this up big time," at which point doing it in front of other people will make things worse and not better--your coworker will probably dig in their heels and will definitely feel humiliated enough to not really be open to constructive criticism. Comes down to the whole criticize privately/praise publicly thing. It's not about politics, just human nature. And as much as people should be able to take a critical code review, taking one that effectively says you bungled the entire thing requires rather superhuman objectivity.

Unlike others, I'll say that you don't have to turn this into a teaching or mentoring moment unless you're the lead and that's your job. If you want to do so, great, but that can be a lot of load to add to what should be a straightforward task. It would be good for you to be able to articulate in neutral terms some of the issues that make the code incomprehensible. You can even get a sanity check and maybe a few ideas from a trusted colleague.

Your best outcome here is a followup comment from your coworker saying "after offline conversation with reinhardt, I decided to rework the code and will resubmit."
> If you want your union to set a pay schedule based on lines of code, certificates earned, whatever, go for it: it's your union.

Except I don't believe that there are quantifiable metrics which can be used to judge developer worth across the board.

Unions remove my ability to negotiate. That ability to negotiate is crucial to me capturing some of the surplus value I create.
I agree it can be uncomfortable for people, as is almost everything around compensation. I don't think we're entitled to know, but it is an expression of trust when someone shares it, and thus far with ~99% of people we've hired over 10 years it hasn't been an issue.
When deciding whether to do the right thing or not, the formula is (amount you save from breaking the law) - (cost of getting caught) * (chance of getting caught)).

If "cost of getting caught" is always less than "amount you save from breaking the law", then there's no reason to behave honestly. In fact, this causes the "market" to select against corporations run by honest people, because they're at a competitive disadvantage.
If you are comfortable being friends with many different kinds of people, it may be just fine.

If not, you may be bad at leadership regardless.
As an estate lawyer, the biggest issue I see with these types of estate plan services is that amateurs use them and fuck up their documents. Either they execute the documents incorrectly (in which case you might as well not have it), they let beneficiaries serve as witnesses, the documents don't plan for obvious contingencies, or they set up trusts and then neglect to transfer any assets to them (in which case the trust is useless). If you are not dealing with estate matters on a daily basis, then you don't know what you don't know about it. If you have a few assets to try to get to the next generation, you can afford to go see a lawyer. Go find a lawyer who will do your estate plan on a flat fee basis. You'll know exactly the cost and you won't get hit by an attorney charging you by the hour and running up the hours.
Oh come on... outside of a few notable individuals, nobody really knows who anybody here is, or what their credentials are to talk about anything.

Law and Medicine are two of the things most likely to precipitate a lot of online commentary by people who don't have the first clue of what they're talking about.
Look pretty cool. A while back I wrote something similar with the difference that it still allows you to use a scrollbar:

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes/blob/master/clou...
a friend was a project manager for an early dot-com boom era web design firm. They flatly refused to accept contracts for less than $250k.

I mean for like a homepage: $250k. Oh those were the days.

So whenever they would turn away work, my friend would anonymously solicit the work himself.
There are already tools for this stuff. Problem is that they are all various forms of crappy and the market is so small that there is little incentive to improve them. I work in Medical Devices and one of the tools I'm supposed to use (we find every excuse to avoid it) has a UI like a 2001 Swing app and while it works, it is insanely painful to use due to its absolutely counterintuitive interface.

We're actually integrating more and more of our work in to Visual Studio since its tools are excellent. The problem is that the organization needs to validate any tool before we can use it as a part of Quality Management and that process can take forever.
Ask HN: How does Houzz's iOS app have a 5 star average with 13k+ ratings?
What and when is their ratings prompt?
What level is abnormal?
The list is not just skewed toward bioinformatics; a majority of them is bioinformatics software. I would not call BioPerl or HTSeq high-performance-computing software. Some of the software are written by academic programmers with all attendant baggages. I am not aware of any bioinformatics software written in Fortran, which is not popular in the bioinformatics community. But this is not to say Fortran might not be a good fit. The Broad Institute is rewriting some of its tools in C++ with help from Intel to leverage vector instructions. Who is to say if they had started with Fortran they might not have gotten vector instructions for free earlier.
Well, there is the problem of how you use the server while it's rebooting...
The case against golf (2007)
After a quick skim, I would recommend Master and his Emissary as a book with similar themes about the limits, dangers and over-dominance of reductionism and mechanistic views of reality, but significantly better written and argued and ultimately much broader (although not focused specifically on software). An introduction can be found here:

http://www.iainmcgilchrist.com/The_Master_and_his_Emissary_b...
Macau authorities deny CIA tried to assassinate Snowden
I would call reductionism and logical positivism the baseline assumed perspective in much of science - definitely in biology, the field with which I am most familiar. So they're very much alive and well in science.

As far as philosophy, the philosophers most closely associated with science and the 'New Atheists', e.g. philosophers Dennett, Churchlands, adopt more sophisticated versions of these philosophies but I'd still call them a variety of reductionist/logical positivist.
Please don't delete comments and repost them.
QV would work better than HN's mysterious points system. Give everyone who signs up 100 credits, replenished periodically, to allocate among posts in quadratic fashion.
I'm not going to directly blame HBO here. HBO had to fight for at least the last decade to even be able to stream their stuff online.

Their major shareholders try to force HBO to do things that are neither healthy for the US population, HBO's viewers, and also sometimes not even their shareholders.

Example: Sure, HBO Go, right? iOS, Android, etc etc... but until recently, only if you already had HBO service from a participating cable or sat company. Time Warner, the second largest cable company in the US, decided to not participate.

After much fighting with shareholders, rightsholders, and other forms of dickholders, they finally can sell you HBO Go service without requiring you to be an HBO customer (ie, finally you can have HBO and be a cordcutter; it is now 2015).

All of that said: court orders about technology rarely make sense in any terms that are meaningful to people like us, the people who actually understand how the technology works.

What I don't like about this entire thing is they are trying to go after major WiFi hotspot providers (ie, the companies that do it for the Starbuckses and McDondaldses that don't do it in house) instead of using the powers already granted to them by Congress; or powers they already abuse such as just stealing domains from major torrent and restreamer sites.

Honestly, this is why I support an Internet that everything is SSL secured to help APs from being attacked by a legal system that is simply outpaced by the speed of the evolution of technology; and don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the government, some of this technology really is difficult to understand, and I don't expect them to understand it no more than I expect to understand how to build a house, do brain surgery, or perform complex choreographed dance moves.
Here is a short review of the book:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrei-sorin/soft...
The power of speech (2008)
\{tangent on semantics} At first, reading your comment, I pictured a graph of English words and a graph of Japanese words. If these relationships between words define them, then differences in the graphs explains differences in meaning.

But, though it would be neater for language to be defined within itself, words are references to concepts. Hence, it may be that it's not so much that the node doesn't exist in the other graph, but that the referent doesn't exist. It's one graph (words) relating to another graph (concepts).

We could describe a referent in English, but if it is a complex object with complex relations to other objects, this couldn't be brief; and even if we coined a neologism for it, that new word and concept wouldn't be familiar and integrated into our knowledge graph (and, we wouldn't have experienced it anyway, only read of it).

Possibly, English-speaking expats in Japan could develop slang for those concepts... which would only make sense to them. So they'd probably just use the Japanese words.
With all due respect, it sounds like while it might fight flaws common to other voting systems, pay-back based voting will have its own gamesmanship.

Consider 1,000 voters upwind of a factory and 1,000 more voters downwind. Suppose the factory wants to stop scrubbing its exhaust for a savings of $1,000 (to itself) and cost of $10 to each down-wind voter (in health costs). All the factory has to do is propose the same initiative (to allow the removal of regulation) again and again and not vote that much. Each time the down-wind people try to protect their selves they transfer money to up-wind abstainers. After enough rounds of this the down-winders are impoverished and the factory buys the election cheaply.

Edit: and instead of voting large the factory could try to bribe the up-wind voters or a faction of the down-wind voters.
People in North Africa have been doing this for a while now.

When I was kid we had a congressman where I lived in Morocco who win a election with a strategy similar to a quadratic voting. His team went to the poorest neighborhoods of the district and they distribute half (literally half the bill) of today equivalent of 20$ and you get the rest after the election, it had cost him roughly around 100k$ and he won. From the power he got he had made a lot more and been able to invest again in his own district and get two more districts for his son and brother in law in the next election... this is a bad idea at least for the poor.

The point is you need an independent third party to establish a fair market value for the votes otherwise the poor will be ripped of...
Sente: Websockets as (go-like) core.async channels in the browser
Written by Andrei Sorin. Published by "Andsor Books".
Uh oh.

This guy is obsessed with hierarchies and taxonomies.

His rant on Software Irresponsibility, starting at page 828, has some good points. He starts out with "Partial or total software failures are such a common spectacle that they are now taken for granted. ... In most cases we know the actual individuals involved in its development, purchase, or installation; but we don’t feel that these individuals must be reprimanded, that they are accountable for their work in the same way that physicians, pilots, or engineers are for theirs. In other professions we have the notions of incompetence, negligence, and malpractice to describe performance levels that fall below expectations. In software-related matters, and particularly in programming activities, these notions do not exist."[1]

He has a point. Compare, say, the NTSB report on an aircraft accident with a DHS US-CERT report on a blatant software security hole. The NTSB will name names and assign blame. Careers can be ended and licenses pulled by those reports, even though the NTSB has no law enforcement power. Now look at a US-CERT report for a company which knowingly and willfully put a default password into millions of products. Was the responsible manager located and identified? Were there sanctions against the company?

A point I've made about security bugs in open source - who put them there? That should be made known, and it should be a significant career setback. Yet the identities of those at fault are seldom mentioned.

[1] http://softwareandmind.com/extracts/Software_and_Mind.pdf
I know of 2 guys who had a case of "sudden death" in the valley, both from heart attack, both were using stimulants and working very long hours in their startups. I know from previous threads that a lot of folks in the valley use stimulants to get through nights without sleep, to work with high focus, but guys you have to be careful. Stimulant use aside, keep in mind cardiovascular diseases is one of _the_ bigger killers out there. Cancer gets a lot of attention, and it's a big killer, but most people don't realize how many people are beaten by cardiovascular diseases. Eat healthy, and exercise to prevent these problems. Get a comprehensive exam from your physician annually for good measure.
Did he have Pep treatment after this exposure?
I would be surprised if as a medical worker who was exposed to the virus he didn't.
You really can't trust the internet to tell you if you have HIV based on symptoms.Everything begins to look like a symptom when you are worried about any kind of sickness or ailment and it just happens at those glorious times too.
Attraction and slavery are very different. If I'm attracted to a human female via pheromones, am I her slave? Hardly.

I would liken bees, ants, et al more to anarcho-communists than monarchists. Queen is a complete misnomer. It's just another job in the collective.
>> similar to how we would reject a conspiracy theory

I fully agree that this book is lacking in rational arguments. But I IMHO you are not using the phrase "conspiracy theory" correctly. There are a lot of conspiracies out there. E.g. the wage fixing between Google, Oracle and Microsoft is on the YHN front page today.
All the dots are blue or red. :(

I wish we had more minority party representation.
Vintage drum kits from the 1920s and 1930s
Well, I'm sure there is an effect of diffusing the energy. However, it's completely cancelled out (and more) by making the puncher punch much harder.
I think it's worth noting that MMA fighters don't tend to suffer as many injuries. Boxing's strict ruleset forces fighters to beat eachother into putty to win, but other fights can be won without (as many) concussions.
This is not an equilibrium; the down-winders would not vote unless they thought that vote mattered. In any case we have a nominating process to avoid this sort of manipulation; see http://ssrn.com/abstract=2321904 or http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343956.
I don't think this is a one to one comparison, bridges etc get maintenance work done all the time to fix small issues, and they do fail.
Which is why you have redundant systems. The scheduled updates allow you to validate that both are working so that in the event of an unplanned downtime, you aren't stuck scrambling to figure out why the redundant system doesn't function at all.
"Competition is for losers" seems like pretty weak reasoning to me. As far as I can tell, it goes something like:

Success is not random. Therefore, if you are successful, there is something different about you. Therefore, you are a monopolist. Therefore, competition can't make you successful.

But that's not very helpful. Every business on the planet can claim some kind of differentiation -- maybe their supply chain is more efficient, or their company structure is superior, or their sales channels are smarter, or...

More differentiation might be "better" in some sense, but differentiation is often decided after the fact. It wasn't obvious that Google was differentiated until they took over the market.
Apples and oranges. RSS is purely just a markup specification. Thus it doesn't handle a standard way to host a message store that multiple services can push updates to (like you would with e-mail, Twitter, Growl, etc).

Some of the other services discussed here do also offer an RSS and/or Atom feed in addition to their preferred format for message delivery; but in all of those cases they're more than just an RSS feed.
I recall a long time back, when Linux was configured as standard for 100Hz ticks (aka "jiffies"), the counter was initialized close to wraparound instead of 0.

The result was you typically encountered "jiffy wraparound" after a few minutes of uptime. You learned whether your system was stable in this situation fairly quickly, rather than 248 (or 497) days later. Kernel developers typically don't have uptimes measured in days. Starting the counter close to wraparound increased the likelihood it was going to get code coverage.
My point was more about the fact that -- as you also say -- isn't doing any professional game programming anymore. Minecraft was done in Java, but since he's only programming for fun now, I thought the term "switch" wasn't quite the right one here.
My own minimalistic approach for adding normal selection and resizing on top of an existing console window.

https://github.com/kobilutil/wincon

It is a 120kb single file executable, with no dependencies.
No install, no setup and no config needed.

/shameless plug
Q&A with Mike Kimelman: How prison changes you
Interesting. I thought at least physicists only viewed their models constructs that have predictive capabilities, but aren't concerned whether their models actually represent reality in an objective/ontological sense (to say nothing 'meaning' in the LP sense). I'm sure there are different camps of folks out there especially in the different branches
Many modern blood pressure medicines have almost no side effects for the gross majority of those taking them. I had a very similar experience to the person you're replying to.

I am active, eat healthy, and have tried to go off of my high blood pressure meds more than once, but each time, my blood pressure creeps back up. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Don't be scared of medicine when it's the right option.
uhm, by all accounts (especially the video in this thread where he says as much) this guy was far past the working-long-hours phase - the company was mature and he stressed work life balance. i think mentioning stimulant abuse here is a little ... shitty of you, to be honest.

some people just die young/young-ish of natural causes. i personally know several people who have had freak heart attacks or brain conditions and passed away. it's sad, but a fact of life (and death).
Here is a related problem. I think it's related anyway:

WITHOUT USING A CALCULATOR!

How many chocolate chips must one mix into the dough used to bake one hundred thousand chocolate chip cookies, such that ninety-eight percent of the cookies contain at least two chips?

I don't recall the precise numerical answer but I do know how it's done; I solved that problem in a final exam at Caltech in less than fifteen minutes.
The Disremembered
In Rust, integer overflow is defined behavior, though: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte...
It can't be worse than RabbitMQ... can it?
SwiftClient – A simple HTTP client library written in Swift
They DO limit damage. They make cuts less frequent.

But they also increase the frequency of concussive hits.
I remember the end of that game as being very hard. When you agree to inhabit the robot, it's a bit of a point of no return, and if you haven't prepared well it's easy to fail.

I remember I came extremely close to beating it in the mid 1990s, but never did. Then I revisited it in the early 2000s on an emulator, and was able to do so.
> transpiling to C gets you to run faster

You're changing the context.

> while being fast since it's compiled to C. - them

> being compiled to C doesn't imply fast :) - me

> Unless done badly, it does. - you

You've switched to "faster" because it's a more defensible position, but that isn't the idea that was originally being responded to. That's why jerf said the following, emphasis mine:

> No, it doesn't. You could easily compile Python into C (basically, "just" inline the core interpreter loop), __but it will still be slow__