skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is: it is a bad situation, equilibrium or not. And some down-winders have to vote if the factory votes a little bit each time. Or even if the factory threatens to vote (and then doesn't). If all the magic is in the nominating process- then we really don't need the voting mechanism.
So factory votes $1 each time (small commitment, forcing some fraction of the down-winders in unless they can form a coalition).
It is however, quite hypocritical that Indonesia has lobbied for their own citizens to be taken off death row in other countries[1] yet they refuse the same for foreigners in Indonesia.

I don't disagree with you that the Australians must have known the risks and they chose to go ahead anyway, that was stupid. It is also Indonessia's perogative to enforce their chosen laws as they see fit. But there are political reasons why this whole situation has gone down the way it did, and those reasons are more to do with certain Indonesian politicians wanting to look like strong men in front of their electorates and the international community than it is about any specifics of this case with the Australians in particular.

1. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/indonesia-got-its-...
Watson is what I think is called ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence). There is a lot of things we need to figure out to move from a narrow intelligence to a general intelligence (AGI) and then (quickly) to a super intelligence (ASI). The big question of cause is how far we are from AGI - i.e. an intelligence on par with a human. No one knows of cause but a lot of smart people say there is a good chance it's happening in around 30 years. It's a development I for one will be following closely - with both fear and excitement ;)
Isn't the actual problem using raw integers to represent time, instead of a proper date/time data type and supporting (tested) library functions?
A 2 or 3 kW kettle is pretty common in the UK. We enjoy a good queue, but not to have to wait for a cuppa.
In theory, while certification would be done on a binary derived from seL4, any improvements resulting from the certification process could benefit the open-source core and derivative binaries. Compared to a proprietary OS, improvements would have ecosystem-wide benefits.

In addition, a modular microkernel architecture could use reproducible builds to generate identical binaries from identical source. This would enable binary components to be certified both separately (akin to unit testing) and as an integrated system (mix and match components). This could reduce overall duplication and certification costs, even among competing commercial products derived from seL4 components.
Red Bull Malaysia Website Hacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers
>Dutch is more precise; there's less ambiguity.

Really? I would suggest that Dutch is plenty of ambiguity as you can omit a lot. e.g. "Ik moet naar de tandarts [gaan/rijden/fietsen/lopen/bellen/kijken/wijzen/zoeken]" ("I must [?] to the dentist").
This is a great tool and the effort was worth while. I don't want to sound like I'm badgering it. But how useful is scrolling down 5,000+ rows of data? Are you going to scroll through all 5,000 data points in 10 seconds and find what you are looking for along the way? I think a 10 row table with a search bar is far more useful
The entire aircraft is an electro/mechanical system with many thousands of things that could go wrong, but are deemed unlikely. All engines could fail at the same time, but it's deemed unlikely. Redundant hydraulic systems could fail together, but it's deemed unlikely. There is no certainty in systems this complicated.
Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview
Ask HN: What new startups will be enabled by gigabit Internet connections?
I think it's feasibly that in a decade a large portion of the population in the developed world will have access to Google Fiberesque internet speeds (1 gigabit/s or greater).

I was wondering what types of startups might arise in that situation. What kinds of businesses are currently limited only by the speed of internet access?

I thought of a couple of things (truly immersive virtual reality massive multiplayer games, iTunes for HD movies, etc.) but I was curious about what other ideas might become reality with really fast internet.
I have a question about your first point. What other options are there other than sharing a secret key at manufacturing? I'd like to learn more about these other options. Thanks.
Thanks for a thoughtful and well written comment, it opened my eyes.
True, but as far as I see from this RFC, you have to explicitly check for overflow or run code in debug mode (which of course doesn't help unless your CI includes the one-year-without-reboot test, which would probably do wonders to the production schedules ;). If you thought about it, when writing that code, then you could add the same check in C too! The whole issue is that most people do not make such checks consistently.
The Encodable implementation can be simplified further in this case:

- The match is not necessary for a single possible type. Simply use the "dot" syntax.
- The return value of a closure can be derived automatically. `|enc| -> _ {` can be simplified to `|enc| {`.
- An explicit return is not necessary, simply leave an expression at the end of the scope.
- I'm not sure why `p_url` was dereferenced, but `p_type` not. Apparently it's not necessary at all.
- Some redundant braces can be removed.

Before:

match *self {
Feed { _type: ref p_type, url: ref p_url } =>
encoder.emit_struct("Feed", 2usize, |enc| -> _ {
try!(enc.emit_struct_field( "type", 0usize, |enc| p_type.encode(enc)));
return enc.emit_struct_field("url", 1usize, |enc| -> _ { (*p_url).encode(enc) });
}),
}

After:

encoder.emit_struct("Feed", 2usize, |enc| {
try!(
enc.emit_struct_field("type", 0usize, |enc| self._type.encode(enc))
);
enc.emit_struct_field("url", 1usize, |enc| self.url.encode(enc))
})
> You can't consent to being seriously injured by someone else.

You can't?
NYPD needs to be disbanded. If you have officers repeating the same conduct one just got charged with depraved heart murder for, it's out of control.

This stuff is simple enough. Get out of your escort, stand among the other normal people and do some dogfooding of the police experience. I guess nobody higher up wants to spend the day doing that, because at the end of it there wouldn't be anyone still employed at NYPD.
Why is Indonesia trying so hard to save their own citizens from death row in other countries? E.g. in Saudi Arabia where they are being kept for drug related offences? Try to explain that one in all your sovereigness and self-righteousness.

1) In relation to the two Australians, the Indonesian judges were ordered by Jakatra not to take bribes but hand out the death penalty which I like to see questioned in an international court.

2) The two Australians were taking drug "OUT" of Indonesia. It doesn't make it right, but a death penalty? It's obvious there are other motives here, which again, I'd like to see questioned in an International court.

3) The only reason the Indonesian authorities were able to apprehend the Australians (9 at the time) was because they were tipped off by the Australian Federal Police, not because of their own competence, which is yet another reason why this must be questioned in an international court. Why did the AFP not simply arrest them on their arrival in Australia? This is obviously the Australian government doing a favour to the Indonesian government. One can only speculate the motives (terrorism?)
> No one knows of cause but a lot of smart people say there is a good chance it's happening in around 30 years.

I've been hearing that since I started using computers, 36 years ago.
Related to AI but not this post. I just got back from the new film Ex Machina and it was very good. As one IMDB user states, "it's beautifully shot, fantastically lit, intelligently written, brilliantly cast." In the film, they blend Mary's Room w/ a bit of Plato's Cave.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI8XBKb6DQk
Yes, changing any preexisting system requires effort. It requires more than showing up one day and saying, "Here are my ideas, they are better than what you do, everyone do what I say now."

That doesn't mean it's impossible, just that it requires skills and efforts that us technical types often aren't very good at--listening to people, understanding their motivations, and looking for common ground and compromises. Then acting on that persuasively, to get people to go along with your ideas.

It's tough. Impossible? Absolutely not. It can be done.
I like to think that I was cordial and professional up until the rejection.

After that, well, I don’t have much to lose, so I might as well call out what I saw to be systematic bad behavior. It was cathartic, and I believe in the duty of individuals to identify and fix what is broken in society. It’s also why most companies reject using impersonal form letters sent from no-reply email addresses.

I like to think that Steve chose based on his guess about whether I could do the job. Nothing personal. But Steve asked for passion, so he got passion. Seriously, change the job description so it more accurately describes what you’re looking for.
Is there concrete data to back that up? There have been terrible bone breaks and joint damage in mma. It also seems too young to know if there will be the same neurological issues. It could be true but it also sounds like marketing.
It also seems that people think that Rugby is more dangerous than American Football, what with the general lack of protective gear. But that doesn't seem to be the case, either.
Unions are a tool for collective negotiation; you, as an individual, have no more leverage in directing the business than your "one member union."

You and your coworkers together would have a great deal more leverage if you worked together to steer business operations to your benefit.
I downvoted you. Most likely, if there were a simple, singular explanation, this would be well-documented already and doctors would readily prescribe "no bread" diets for people at risk or suffering the initial stages.

I do a lot of alternative medicine stuff for a very serious medical condition. My father had Alzheimer's and I was able to do something for him that was helpful for a time, so I have a smidgeon of first-hand experience with this specific issue as well as extensive experience with alternative, nutrition-based medicine generally.

People who try to oversimplify a complex problem and suggest some singular cause, as you have just done, are a huge headache for me personally. I have spent a lot of years working to be able to speak at all about what has really worked to make a life-saving difference with my deadly condition.

Hacker News is an especially bad place to use tactics like this and doing so only makes it that much harder to discuss alternative views in a serious way and in a way that has some hope of being respected and engaged. So I really wish people would not do this sort of thing here.
To prevent the over/under fetching you're describing you could partition your endpoints and make multiple requests. Although, thats definitely a code-maintenance win for GraphQL.

It seems like if you were co-executing the client on the server you could trivially achieve perfect fetching. GraphQL may actually over fetch in many situations. Here's an example: the client fetches a list of objects, filters it, and then fetches more data referenced by the results. With GraphQL, if you don't automagically parse the filter out of the client code, you over-fetch. However, the HTTP/2 solution could just push the 2nd fetch as it was made by the co-executed client.

All that being said, GraphQL certainly alleviates the server-side load co-execution would imply and that's likely more suitable to the scale Facebook operates at.
I think the point was phrased incorrectly. Widodo sacrificed the lives of these convicted drug smugglers for his own political gain.

To your point about not having a say in Indonesian law, you're somewhat shortsighted. There are diplomatic means of influence such as sanctions and other agreements.

Furthermore, as an individual we have a right and an obligation to advocate for what we believe in, regardless of legal jurisdiction. That's how our global society evolves.
Hiring people culturally similar may sounds sensible in theory, but it may not be sensible in practice.

I haven't seen stats on startup hiring, but I read this about investment, which in my opinion stands a good chance of having a similar effect:

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7069.html

"The probability of a successful exit outcome decreases by 18 percent if two venture capitalists who previously worked at the same company partner up in the syndication.

The likelihood of success drops by 22 percent if co-investors attended the same undergraduate school.

The negative effect of shared affinity is even stronger when it relates to ethnicity: Collaborating with someone from the same ethnic minority group comes at the expense of a 25 percent reduction in performance."
This article is ignorant of the history of boxing as it relates to duels. For centuries a serious affront called for a duel of some form: glove thrown, pistols or foils at dawn, all that shit. Not even slightly rare; it happened constantly. The point of boxing's queensberry rules was no guns or swords or deliberate maiming, may the best man win and the loser sulk off alive with humility. Boxing was a force for civilization. For many years the brits derided the french and germans for still resorting to lethal duels whereas proper englishmen settled things with fists.

As recently as the 1920s dueling was still a big thing in much of the white world. Many places you had a legally protected right to challenge. It's kind of still a big thing in the black ghetto leading to many deaths. I think they need a more proper and formalized social outlet than street-stompings and shootings.

Personally, I think it's a widespread problem that you can't ask a man way over the line to shut up and apologize or step into the ring. People talk about the decline of manners. The essential reason for that is if you went well over the line back in the day you had to be ready to get punched in the face.
It's a well known fact that boxing gloves protect the hands first. Do they provide some protection to the head? Sure. Not really in terms of padding, but in making cuts less likely.

In other words, gloves prevent the two things that end boxing matches: broken hands and severe cuts, shut eyes etc, but do relatively little to prevent the actual impact of a blow to the brain

So it's no secret in the world of boxing that fights with gloves create fights that otherwise would be rare (12 rounds, back in the day even 15), radically increasing the damage that 'counts', which isn't the cut or the broken hand, but the permanent brain damage.

Everyone in boxing knows this. But to remove gloves is to turn it into a fundamentally different game, everything changes. It is truly a cruel sport, but also one that brings great enjoyment to millions of people including myself. It's definitely one of those things on my list of things where in 100 years, I wouldn't be surprised if we looked at it and thought 'man that was crazy, being gay was considered a psychological disease, we ran cars on oil and we had boxing gladiator matches? insane'.
tl;dr Do what you're are bad at and get better over time.
I'm not sure how what you believe has much bearing on this situation.

And I see no theoretical reason why union rules would necessarily do what you say--that is, why they would necessarily remove your ability to get better pay based on that thing you said is not generalizable or quantifiable anyway.

After all, we have one good real-world example that does what you're going for, the Screen Actors Guild. I assure you that A-list actors command a great deal more pay than your run-of-the-mill SAG member.

Why wouldn't something like that apply to the tech industry, as well?
The predicament of the H1B is that they've got you over the coals unless you can make them believe that you don't returning to your home country.

6 years on a H1B - can't you get a Greencard? Won't you have to leave the US for a year anyway after your 6th year?

It's easy to read HN and think that everyone makes a boatload of money. I read that patio11 turned down a consulting gig that offers $750k a year. He must be one of only a handful of people to have an opportunity like that. It's certainly the exception, not the norm.

The #TalkPay discussion has been quite good in bringing people back down to earth. Developers that I admire and are clearly better than me are earning not much more than I do and much less than the figure you have quoted.

I'm going to have to call you out on the 'hundreds of 22 years olds earning more than $100k'. In the Valley, New York maybe - then again I can't see this being the majority.
Another story.
mid 50's, reasonably active and healthy, start to develop BHP (slow stream). Urologist does a PSA test even though I had one a few months before. Long story short, prostate cancer. Had robotic surgery, all good.

67, been following a congenital heart murmur for years. Cholesterol at 130. Noticed my running and biking dropping performance dropping off, so think time for a heart valve replacement. Routine pre-op catheterization shows coronary artery blockage. Have bypass and valve replacement, doing great. But 130 was too much cholesterol for me apparently. On statins and down to 95! I am now 68, no prostate, artificial heart valve, bypassed coronary artery, but feel great and am still active.

Glad the heart surgery took place after I started medicare though. Say want you want about government ineptitude administering anything, but medicare works.
My grandfather forgot who I was and couldn't recognize me shortly before he died. We were very close and this still haunts me. Not the fact that he forgot, but how he acted towards me during that time. Since then, I have really questioned my own identity, I guess because I identified at least partly based on my relationship with him (and my family), and this made me question all of that.
And in this moment, VoteCoin was born.
I went to the urgent care when I had what I thought was hemmoroids - the urgen care doctor hadn't seen anything quick like what she saw and sent me for a colonoscopy. Normally "they" recommend starting periodic colonoscopies at 50.

When the procedure was finished, I was told they would analyze the result, but I had a cancerous tumor and they sent me for a CT scan which confirmed stage iv colon cancer with liver metastasis. I'm now 8 months into chemo and after having my sigmoid colon removed, seem to have "stable disease" in my liver. I was otherwise asymptomatic.

Another chap at my company wasn't so lucky. He got hit by a car and lost consciousness. They did an MRI to check out his brain - and found tumors. A CT scan showed the same don't diagnosis as me, but his was far more advanced, with mean mastastasasis to the liver, lungs and brain. He passed away about 5 months later and was otherwise asymptomatic.

In both our cases, A blood test given after the diagnosis (CEA) showed highly elevated numbers - perhaps two orders of magnitude from nominal.

So my question would be: given that this blood test was a marker for our disease, why can't it be given more regularly as part of a routine checkup? I realize there are other reasons for a false positive, but couldn't it be an indication that further testing should be done? Yes a CT scan can cost $1500, but my chemo costs $12,000 per month.
I recommend anyone who is making outrageous AI claims (we will have an AGI in X years, AI is getting dangerous, etc.) to take an introductory course in AI/Learning/Intelligent Systems. Trust me, a single course on this subject will be an instant cure for all doomsday imaginations. It'll take the magic out of those "intelligent" programs. People who make these claims about AI show a remarkable amount of ignorance about the subject.

And, quite franky, I'm tired of this subject. It's dumb and boring, everyone is warning and fearmongering, and nobody is presenting any facts at all.
You are assuming that ANI is anything like AGI.
> for every one of the 120+ of us in holding, there was also a cop who was waiting there too, being paid overtime and trying to get our paperwork processed so that they could go home

Cops being paid overtime is a tremendous conflict of interest motivating them to arrest and to process slowly.
USA and Australia are very different politically. I have no idea what you mean by "the laws of herders from thousands of years ago", but if I venture a guess I'd assume you refer to the Judeo-Christian principles. That ye olde "do not murder", "do not steal", "do not perjury" stuff. If so, I'm pretty sure, unless I missed some recent developments, that both USA and Australia are still on board with enforcing those.
As USA is about 15 times bigger than Australia, fringes are bigger too - on bigger sample, you get more place for exceptional outcomes to manifest.

> because the median voter is more interested in Shit Just Sorta Approximately Working,

Why this is a good thing? It is known that every hard problem has easy, cheap, understandable and incorrect solution. Or, as you call it, "Shit Just Sorta Approximately Working" but not actually working because of complicated reasons that median voter wouldn't bother to comprehend. So you get a lot of voting for shit that sounds good but doesn't work. How that's good for anything?
> Secret laws are pure poison; government lawyers claim authority and act on it, and we don’t know about it.

"Secret laws" are not laws. It is the equivalent of "because I said so", and that is simply a fascist edict.

@CombiHack points out:

> If “ignorance of the law is no excuse”, then the law MUST be publicly available. [..] Alternatively (less preferable):
If “secret laws are laws”, then ignorance of the law MUST be a complete defense. End of story.
Chelsea Clinton, d'Alosio, Oscar Health, AppDirect, Microsoft.
When they expressed insubordination by turning their backs on the Mayor, that signalled to me that they have no respect for authority. This is exactly the kind of people that do not belong on a police force. I can't imagine why they weren't all fired. They certainly don't deserve any of the respect that they get, nor their pensions.
Even having unique skills is not enough. People can still take advantage of you if you aren't career- or business-savvy enough.

This is a complex environment, not simply a question of being special snowflake 10X programmer or whatever. "Oh, you're skilled, Jimmy. You get the job done. But see, Jimmy; you are not a team player. We've been having a lot of work to do lately, and you are not putting in the extra effort by staying late enough, Jimmy. You see, Pete, now that's a guy that goes the extra mile! And there are plenty of others. Frankly, you should try and put in just a little more effort (because you're easily replaceable, Jimmy)".

What good does it do to be a "10X Ninja" if you feel like a small fish in a big pond with no bargaining chips?
I mostly agree with your point, but not with the mathematics:

Your formula gives you positive Expected Value but there are many situations that are +EV which you shouldn't choose to visit.

Even if the penalty was more than you were saving (or if the penalty hit nominally responsible individuals), even if the chance were fairly low, that could act as a significant deterrant to unethical practices.

Situation: "ooh should I talk to my actuary/lawyer/partner about this difficult unethical decision? Arg but that would leave a paper trail."
Obviously what we need to do is abandon the algorithmic model of software and switch to a synchronous, signal-based model, as used in electronics and described in the Biblical account of how the human brain works. Then all software complexity problems will magically disappear, just like that.
Old wine in old bottles. Why the hype again?
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