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> There is nothing stopping someone else creating a playlist of the same content undercutting your product.

You can turn of embed and syndicate permissions, preventing mobile, web and TV access. You can even unlist the video. Some combination of these would certainly stop anyone other than Google from creating a premium service with your videos.

> Say you want to create a collection of videos on android in a folio app type thing, charging $1.

But if your goal is "folio app type thing", there is no need to use YouTube at all. The whole purpose of YouTube is give your videos exposure and have them mix on a common platform. If you want to hide them, just self-host.
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Generally places stress work life balance because the organization doesn't actually afford its members a work life balance, so the perception of it existing has to be constructed through propaganda.

i.e. If you already have work life balance, there's not need to stress it.
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What if I have my own ONE MEMBER union?
They have value when it's time to vote for something.
There are definitely security initiatives like this, there have been since before 9/11 (and an uptick afterwards), but it is unusual for the Congress to be involved or to demand a study.
Yep and people are surprised when violence suddenly erupts against the police.
why is it shitty? I didn't take it as him implying that's how the CEO died, just that it's an issue that happens a lot in silicon valley and it's dangerous because you can die unexpectedly due to a heart attack.
I don't think "friend" is meant in the context of "someone that you would invite to hang out at a local bar to get some wings, beer, and watch the game".

It's more of "a person whose unique experience, drive and motivation can teach you something and who's pleasant and educational to be around in circumstances outside of employment contract".
Quadratic, exponential, or Ackermann - it's a terrible idea to exchange votes for money.
"That a small group of people had to sacrifice their lives for political gain"

They didn't "sacrifice" their lives, they were drug dealers and found guilty by the courts in Indonesia. There's nothing heroic about dying for this cause.

Furthermore it is widely known that Indonesia executes drug dealers no matter where they happen to come from and the Australians surely have known about this "business risk".

I'm against the death penalty but I recognize that I have no say about Indonesian laws. This is their own sovereign decision to make. If you don't like this then don't try to sell/import crystal meth or heroin in Indonesia.
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Of course you need to be able to do full syncs, and the sync is not a problem. But one needs to solve the two challenges I have described:

1. Determine how to do an incremental update, given that only the tail of the stream of updated documents is missing. Not as simple as just counting.

2. Determine when you must give up and fall back to a full sync; this is when not just the tail is missing, and finding the difference is computationally non-trivial. You'll only want to do this once you're sure that you need to.

My point remains that ElasticSearch's consistency model means it's hard to even do #1, which is the day-to-day streaming updates.

My second point was that this — streaming a "non-lossy" database as a change log into one or more "lossy" ones — is such a common operation that it should be a solved problem. It certainly requires something more than a queue.

(In my experience, queues are terrible at this. One problem is that it's hard to express different priorities this way. If you have a batch job that touches 1 million database rows, you don't want these to fill your "real-time" queue with pending indexing operations. Using multiple queues leaves you open to odd inconsistencies when updates are applied out of order. And so on. Polling triggered by notifications tends to be better.)
Not exactly low level programming, but you can try the Matasano crypto challenge: http://cryptopals.com/
Jesus christ, what was the ref doing. Just stood there why the guy was clearly defenseless.
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Glen good to see you around HN.

One question that comes to mind is whether quadratic voting is the best improvement. I look forward to giving this a read.
Then vote third party, even if you think they won't win. Because they won't win "this time," but if you never vote for them they'll never win.

You may be fearful that the party you think are bigger idiots than your party will win. But so what. Are you impressed by anything that either party has done? It really doesn't matter. It doesn't.

If you want more than two colors, vote third party. If you always settle, there will only ever be two colors.
>Hacker news is a community of (from what I've seen) strong critical thinkers

If I met a community of strong critical thinkers about Chemistry or Civic Engineering I wouldn't ask them advice for my software stack.

Besides, with the exception of a 20% or less who knows what they're talking about (and those only for narrow Computer Science or Engineering fields each), the others might as well be on Reddit. You can find tons of uninformed opinion about anything here. Plus a huge tendency to go with the latest fads (Rails, then JS, then Go, then Rust, etc).

>Doctors aren't mythical beings

No, just trained professionals.
For some companies the core value is the tech they produce, and thus having non-tech people at the helm makes little sense.

Others, usually also dubbed "tech startups" due to their Silicon Valley location, use generic pieces of technology to achieve their purpose. There are entire sectors (ad tech, Uber for X), where basic building blocks have been built and now it's sell, sell, sell.
Wildly offtopic- reading papers like this bring to mind for some reason, that the next evolution of CPython, the one that deals with the Python2/3 rift should be written in Rust.
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Spreading the impact across a larger surface doesn't matter to the other guy's brain. His skull is rigid and is going to distribute the force across the brain anyway. What matters is the total energy transfer. The glove will dissipate some of he energy of the punch by deforming, but it's not rigid so that's not going to be much.
This is the 2nd post about Rust on HN lately that has brought to mind that the next evolution of CPython, the one that deals with the Python2/3 rift should be written in Rust.
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Interesting, but roundabout, way of formulating the concept of not having labels for complex concepts. :-)

Note that English seems to be really active in importing concepts -- schadenfreude, ombudsman, some Indian words, etc.
I'm going to go against the grain here and say that your self-worth IS tied to your accomplishments. People will tell you "just be happy with who you are". This is in my honest experience completely bullshit. Doing great things or things that others value makes people feel good about themselves. That's just reality as I've observed it. However, doing great things does not necessarily mean programming or starting a business. I like bicycling and "doing great things" in that area means winning races, or garnering street cred on instagram and through other social avenues.

I think your problem is that you need to be smarter about the projects you do, or find something else to excel at rather than random open source programming.

The people who tell you that you should not tie your self-esteem to your accomplishments in my experience are just compensating for their own personal failings (this will be the majority of people you're surrounded by). They don't want you to be happy from succeeding at something because they're unhappy with things they've failed at.
We're definitely willing to consider applicants from Europe.

The only qualification I would provide is that I don't have experience hiring outside of the US. If we decide to move forward with a hire from Europe, we'll need to work closely with a lawyer to figure out how to get all of our legal-ducks in a row.
Awesome. I ran the 99 bottles of beer program[0] and it worked, despite locking up Firefox for a bit...

[0] http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html
I don't think you're going to get an accurate view of people at Harvard, even people that were involved in student government or were club presidents, if you generalize them like that. If I were to generalize, I'd think that most people that were high school club presidents and leadership camp-goers were really cynical about it, not entitled. (That's just based on the people that went to my high school.)

I also don't think the cause-and-effect story is really there. The one startup founder that I know personally that I've heard be called a douchebag is somebody that started the company early on in high school, that bootstrapped it up with his brother from money made by selling bootleg CD's at soccer practice, and never went to college. And the other >bad person< I know that started a startup isn't your generic entitled club president type -- he is, far more specifically, your basic clinical psychopath.

Also, to the degree that these people do exist, or to which this attitude has been inculcated into a group of people, the sink-or-swim situation of running a startup seems like a great place for them.
The phone was nearby, so the author was able to contact it (I assume over Bluetooth).
It's not like the airlines are killing it on those tickets (or that they're even profitable).

The "profitability" of any individual ticket is debatable. But, overall, the US airlines are now very profitable. There was a spate of mergers over the years, and now there is an oligopoly.

As Andrew Ross Sorkin recently put it:

Far from “hypercompetitive,” the airline
industry is increasingly looking like an
uncompetitive oligopoly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/business/dealbook/as-oil-p...
"it was being held nearby"
I've boxed exactly twice in my life. Neither time was against a trained boxer, it just so happened that someone had a few pairs of boxing gloves lying around. My main take away was that getting punched in the face sucks way more than you think it would. Counter-intuitively, if you get punched in the face enough it eventually stops hurting at all. Time slows down. Your arms drop. Your mind drifts to thoughts totally unrelated to boxing. During the first "match" my opponent, also a friend, left me a gentle nudge away from getting knocked out. Although not quite enjoyable, I am glad to have had the experience.

All other sports are now erring on the side of caution when it comes to concussions, especially American football. In boxing the whole point is to give the other guy a concussion. You don't fall down from getting knocked over, you fall down because your body forgets how to stand up. And once that happens, which is some form of minor (or major) concussion, everyone cheers you on, encouraging you to stand back up so that you can get concussed again. Amazing.
This is available only under certain architectures (x86 is one of them as you've noted), but I've also seen scenarios where the atomic increment instruction is actually slower than using a mutex. Don't consider this feature to be a magic bullet and always test your use cases!

As for the parent discussion, usually a mutex is talking about the threading construct while a "lock service" is how you'd refer to something like etcd or zookeeper.
Identity-as-memory isn't something I buy into much, because my own memory is flatly terrible already. My childhood up until 10 or so is mostly a blank, for example, with just some impressionist highlights of place names and locations popping up if I think real hard.
>> I was never read my rights

I thought this was only necessary if the police are going to question you.
The article is so comically paranoid that I can't even be sure it's not some extremely dry attempt at satire.
>I've been a Mac user since OS 7. Don't reinvent history.

Reinvent what?

>Since 10.0, OS X got progressively better with every release up to 10.4. After that things got progressively worse.

That things "got progressively worse" is just your opinion, not some general consensus. As I noted, others say 10.6 was the best. Others that 10.8 was the last great one. Others that 10.9 was just as good, but 10.10 blew it.

Heck, read Siracussa, for one, does he say that 10.4 was the pinaccle?
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Try separating out the factual observations from how you feel about them. "The main logic is in a single ~400 LOC function" is a simple observation and less likely to make your co-worker feel attacked. I think the word "monolithic" is counter-productive.

"I noticed that the main logic is in a single ~400 LOC function. I'm concerned because I may need to make updates to this in the future, and larger chunks of code are harder to work with. Would you be willing to pull it apart into smaller functions?"

I think that "I wouldn't dare touch it with a 10-foot pole" is something that I'd leave out of the PR comment. The observation that it is complicated, and the concern that future work on it would be difficult, that can definitely be included.
How can the court issue an order to someone who's not a party to the lawsuit?
Looks like the offshore dev team forgot to delete their test data
No. I never understood the attraction of casinos.
I don't think the artificial-intelligence train ever picked stream.

What we have with Watson (the Jeopardy model, because the name is used by IBM as an umbrella for staff) etc is the same kind of number-crunching, dumb-smart AI we always hand.

Without any qualitative steps that wont fly.
Oh no, sorry, I did not mean to imply it was stimulant abuse. But you know even normal use of stimulants is a sudden killer for some people with cardiovascular problems. I mentioned it mainly because I've read many threads on HN indicating that stimulant usage is kind of high in this field... and that's fine, as it's prescribed to folks with disorders like ADHD. You just have to be very careful with it though, because again, cardiovascular diseases are one of the biggest killers. Easiest way to prevent is to eat healthy and exercise, it's really as simple as that.
> Neither time was against a trained boxer

As a boxer who trains 3x/week, spars as often as possible, but doesn't compete, I can tell you that sparring newbies is the worst. They get too afraid, too tense, and put all their strength into every punch. Instead of fun technical boxing, you get a boring slugfest.

Great way to get injured. Lousy way to learn how to box.

> getting punched in the face sucks way more than you think it would

Maybe I have the proverbial strong chin, but I never found getting punched in the face with a boxing glove to be that bad. Sure it's disorienting the first time it happens, but it's really not that bad. Boxing gloves distribute the blow over your whole face really nicely.

I strongly recommend that the next time you try boxing, you go against a trained fighter. You'll have a much better time of it.
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> Billionares are vastly outnumbered by thousandaires.

While true, the billionaires' liquid and un-accounted-for dollars vastly outnumber the thousandaires'. If Joe Average has to choose between voting on something and paying his mortgage, while Jim Squillionaire is choosing between voting and buying another jet (yes, hyperbole; my point still obtains), guess whose votes you're more likely to see...
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You're speaking hypothetically, but the experience of countries with mandatory voting bears out that mandatory voting drives parties towards the median voter, not the fringes. It's called Hotelling's Law.

America and Australia have a lot in common, including that of people of eligible to vote, those who have religious aims are in the minority.

One of these countries is dominated by the politics of trying to enforce the laws of herders from thousands of years ago. And the other is not.

Motivated voters -- such as folk with a religious bee in their bonnet -- are highly over-represented in voluntary systems. In a mandatory system, the median voter dominates. That's generally a better outcome, because the median voter is more interested in Shit Just Sorta Approximately Working, rather than ultra-serious micromotives.
I honestly didn't think you could be arrested for protesting like this without at least a warning and even then if only if it turned violent...
> I thought maybe this gave French youth an edge with arithmetic, and this slight edge might translate to strong mathematics foundations later in life.

As opposed to regularly "doing the arithmetic" 8 x 10?
Yeah, he got PEP'd right after he was exposed to the woman's blood as a precaution. I'm not sure if that covers HIV; he was equally stressed about the whole thing as I was.

He found out the woman has HIV from a colleague, but only ~10 days after being exposed.
You are tying up an MRI machine that might be put to better use.
Bridge collapses are actually not that uncommon. While often times overloading or damage is the cause, sometimes it's due to design flaws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
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Does hacker news still do the black bar to honor people in the community who have passed away?
> It seems like the only reason it's legal is that it wasn't really acknowledged until recently that repeated blows to the head

Dementia pugilistica (boxer's dementia) was first described in 1928: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_pugilistica#History. Doctors have been calling for a ban on boxing since the 1950's.
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Not to detract from the fine work done by the sel4 folks, but there is a large gap between what they have and what DO178 C requires for level A software. Like many other bureaucratic organisations, the FAA (and other regional equivalents) have a process with it's own set of rules (MCDC testing, requirements/design traceability artifacts, etc).

It would cost a significant amount of money to develop the necessary artifacts and engage the FAA to obtain a certification.
I've been interested in AI for a long time. But the last year AI discussions seem to have really hit mainstream, which we can also see here on Hacker News with a lot of posts about deep learning etc.

Lately I read this two piece story on Wait But Why which I really would recommend to anyone wanting to get a better overview of the topic:

- Part 1: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

- Part 2: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
There's always a risk of a false positive. People get framed. Police or prosecutors may be corrupt or just pushing for a harsh sentence on shoddy evidence. Judges may be looking to please elected officials who want strong penalties handed out in order to set an example.

The latter seems to be happening in Egypt. People are being sentenced to death en masse, hundreds in a single judicial session, on vague charges of rioting:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/04/egyptians-r...

There are wrongly convicted people on American death rows: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32178121

The death penalty opens a door for the darkest kind of abuse by states against their people. It should not be used as punishment anywhere.
Had the same experience. Played it a dozen times that first summer as a 10 year old. Go through it again if you have time.
> spent about $57M. I have no idea how many votes they were able to get for that money. With Quadratic Voting, they'd get 7,550.

Doesn't that make it seem likely that they would prefer to continue with their current strategy rather than use the money to buy votes then? It seems likely that they ended up with more than 7550 votes for their 57M, especially considering that 7550 votes would be a smaller proportion of total votes in a system where people could get more than one vote.

While very interesting, I don't think a system like this really addresses the main problems which are more to do with the need for an educated and informed populace than anything else.
Yes but how would they react to your sister dating a black man?
I just explained why spending $1 billion on votes won't affect the outcome of politics, in the other sentence of my post, that you didn't quote. That's part of the reason the cost of votes is nonlinear in this scheme.
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Seaborn is fantastic--it produces high-quality plots with a minimum of code. The aesthetics are great and easily tuned.

Check out the gallery for examples: https://web.stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/examples/...
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A punch against a hard surface -- like a skull -- not only conducts point impacts to fragile bone, but shear loads the proximal-interphalangeal joints, making it a good way to break bone and dislocate joints.

The padding of a boxing glove protects the hands, not the skull; the same amount of force is being transferred to the skull, so the brain undergoes the exact same impact as it would without the gloves. By making it safer for a boxer to strike the skull of an opponent, gloves are pretty much tailor-made for encouraging concussive injury.
Also relevant to how gzip's --rsyncable flag works (although in debian it was broken for most of 2013 [#708423], the `pigz` version works well)
If voting tokens do not perish between votes, that leads to the similar inequalities if I abstain from voting for a number of cycles. If old tokens do expire, then it doesn't matter when everybody else gets the same - up to the limit of the quantization of tokens, how many tokens you have is less important than how much more tokens than your opponents you have . I.e. if there is a yes/no question, the important thing for you, if you favor "yes", it to have more tokens for "yes" than for "no", but how many tokens for each does not matter. In multilateral choice it's more complex but I think if you have enough tokens to not be limited to voting for one thing because you only have one token, it is again the same situation.
The paper covers this. The solution is to force a commitment of votes before you can propose a vote on an issue.
Dementia is caused by eating bread as staple food. David Perlmutter, MD shows in his book Grain Brain how gluten gradually wreaks havoc on brain cells. Because people born in between 1920 and 1970 didn't know this fact, many of them caught that horrible disease.
That's absolutely true but something like this could be a good starting point.

What I think the whole thread above misses is that the economics simply aren't there, cost isn't the limiting factor for the OS licenses for avionics but an extra certification track (especially for a fast moving target) would be, besides, it is not just the OS that gets certified but you will also have to (separately) certify (usually) the hardware that it runs on (unless you're going to use a design that has already been certified).

That means that modifications are expensive and that 'known to be good' trumps 'could be better' or 'could be cheaper in the longer term'.

Someone would have to come up with a very good reason to see open source trump the existing closed source solutions.
An interesting article showing a minimum viable rendering of a React component.

Here's a variation on the same components rendered by 'django-react': https://github.com/ivanistheone/djangoiso

It would be interesting to do performance comparisons:

client --> nginx --> node.js

vs

client --> nginx --> uWSGI --> django <--django_node--> node.js

I know who'll win, but still good to know by how much.