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Too late to worry about lethal robotic devices that kill indiscriminately - there are already 100,000,000 landmines around the world, killing 4,000 people every year.
We still don't culturally embrace alcohol as a good thing. You don't see the states advertising vodka like they advertise the lottery.

There is a lot of room between making something illegal, and promoting it to take advantage of people.
Vice's article shows it: http://www.vice.com/read/why-did-a-student-in-montreal-get-a...
Actually i see a lot of people who believe their chosen media with all the agenda that involves. You can call them not sane, but they're out there. Whether it's fox or something more or less extremist than that, they just don't want to analyse on their own.

They may be uneducated or gullible or lacking the will to question preprocessed information... But likely sane.
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Maintaining that kind of consistency is itself a very real burden, no matter what age, activity or the difficulty of the task. Imagine being told that, as long as you press a button every hour for 8 hours a day, for 4 years, you'll get 20 million dollars. If you miss once, you get 10M, twice 1M and three times, 0. Would this create a healthy psychology, or would it be stressful?

Sounds kind of like the Lost scenario, where failing to push a button will destroy the world. It certainly did not result in a healthy psychology in the show. I always wondered why they didn't just rig up a machine to push the button (and type in the numbers) for them.
I slowly transitioned from being painfully shy and pretty awkward in my late teens to being relatively outspoken and comfortable in social settings in my late twenties.

In hindsight many of the skills I lacked a decade ago -- speaking clearly, recalling the correct words, smalltalk, even remembering people's names -- were things that improved radically with practise.

It seems pretty obvious now. I can have a conversation and actually focus on the content because I'm not focusing on my language, or random social niceties. All the little things I used to have to concentrate on have become rote.

Back then I thought these were just things I was just inherently bad at. I get a little frustrated when people blame their lack of social skills on a self-diagnosis of introversion. It's the exact same thing as claiming simple arithmetic is too hard bexause you're bad at math.
Based on my experience interviewing (both as a candidate as as a non-boss watching my coworkers interview), it makes me want to start my own business so I can get some great people at a bargain price. When my employer was interviewing, the two strongest candidates failed their interview process, and they hired one of the weakest candidates.

However, I don't fit the profile for VC, so the only way I can get to that point is by bootstrapping.
"Quiet people have the loudest minds." A fantastic quote (Stephen Hawking) which I will use again and again.
It's not that it's a full decade behind the curve, it's a decade behind where your perceived curve. There are advantages and disadvantages to both monolithic kernel and microkernel operating systems^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H browsers.
almost all economic theories are based on the rational model, although many have incorporated some ideas from behavioral economic.

For example, the reason why many countries tax income in brackets, with increasing percentage is the realization that a dollar is not worth the same as a dollar. Which stated this way, seems quite irrational.

But if you have $0 then $10 is probably a big deal. If you have $100,0000 it probably isn't. So the pain incurred by taking more if the top is smaller, then taking less of the bottom.

Giving gifts is a destruction of value. Rarely can the gift giver buy a thing of same utility as the gift receiver could for the same money (given both are econs). Therefore the whole gift giving society is irrational.
If it's not clothes, it'll be watches, shoes, smartphones, underwear, hats, notebooks, whatever. Uniforms aren't going to stop teenagers in the midst of puberty from competing with each other for status.
How would this use differ from Amazon's elastic beanstalk?
Having a derivative is computationally nice. But if your error term is not normal, that only means you can easily compute the wrong answer.

I.e. its great if you dropped your key under the lamppost, but the existence of the lamppost doesn't make it a good place to search.
Does this work with Visual Studio Community 2013?
Jennifer Pawluck, 22, was found guilty in April of criminal harassment for snapping a photo of the street art and uploading it to Instagram in 2013.

Looking at the title I was expecting her to be the graffiti artist, but the fact that she isn't is what I find most shocking.
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But yes, of course calling individuals psychopaths with no substantive basis is a personal attack, and a nasty one. Many people enjoy that kind of thing. Many also enjoy the Jerry Springer Show. It doesn't belong on Hacker News. This is not a borderline call!

I had substantive basis: the history of how he ran his business is fairly public.

You have every right not to like what I say. You have every right to say that you don't like what I say. But your high horse posturing is tedious, counter-productive, and, because you are HN's moderator, it does more damage to this place than I ever could.
Submit your report to the european anti-trust commission.
I thought this link was going to be a 404 as a social comment.
What Are the Remedies to Remove the Defects from Kitchen?
People hate me for this, but that's pretty much how I feel about emacs and vi
WebGL Demos from the 3D Web Fest
Yotaphone: A Russian Smartphone Has to Overcome Rivals and Jokes About Origin
I don't think that psychopathy is necessarily a mental illness. I would never encourage harassment or stigma toward people with biological mental illness.

Psychiatry is still trying to understand why some people are bad. Psychopathy is some attempt at a post facto analysis. Personally, I'm not convinced that a biological "bad person" gene or experience pattern exists. I think that free will exists and that some people (some with mental illness, most without, and those we call "psychopaths" being typically in the latter category) are just rotten.
> the time that had passed since 9/11.

The difference between when Binney & Drake blew the whistle and Snowden doing the same is that Snowden brought evidence. Binney & Drake were easily dismissed and buried by the media and the government because it was mostly their word against the government's word.

The public general distrusts any claim that the government might not be the constitution-following, freedom-creating ideal they were taught in school. Usually, accusations of corruption in a government agency are dismissed as "conspiracy theories" even when overwhelming evidence is available, due to a faith that "it can't happen here"[1]. You see similar faith in how the public usually accepts the police at their word, even in ridiculous circumstances as we've seen with some of the recent high-profile police-brutality/murder incidents.

Combine this paranoia style[2] of distrust with the usual spy-agency secrecy and no evidence the public could see - Binney & Drake never had a chance.

It was a lot harder to ignore and dismiss the accusations when the Guardian started publishing the powerpoint slides that were stamped "TOP SECRET//SI//ORCON//NOFORN".

[1] obZappa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svdrAHn_LGo

[2] http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...
Thanks very much for the insight. This is definitely the approach we've taken up until now. Average age in our group is right around 40 and we're all family people who love the area and lifestyle it affords. The age thing isn't really the issue, just the number of applicants with relevant skills applying. I know they are around, maybe just a little more entrenched in their current roles. It is a lot of older people around, and I think because of that a lot of them (us) are already in a long term role or have moved on to consulting/contracting.
We should question assumptions about Britain’s place in the history of science
> As a teenager, it becomes about the mating ritual.

That is an interesting observation.

The mating ritual is about differentiation and perhaps the easiest way to express that is through the application of money (which takes the place of effort). Although I would dispute the assumption of a 'quality' mate. Such judgements are difficult if not impossible during one's teen years given a lack of experience both of one's self and of one's self in the context of another. The entire concept of "cool" is, at its heart, this sort of mating ritual.

That said, I observed that there were many different groups at my high school, each with their standards of 'cool' and thus various ranking systems. Atheletes, band members, socialites, all had their 'most' and 'least' cool members. For athletes (as an example) their physical prowess had little to do with their financial standing[1].

I continue to think that it is important to "catch" emergent materialism in children and to hold it up to the light and show them what it is, nothing. Talk to them about whether or not having the latest phone changes who they are, or changes the way other people are. This is exactly when people start developing a sense of how to measure themselves in the world and if you let them believe that they are measured by what they own, they will have a very hard time ever measuring up.

[1] Or their success fitness as some succeeded in later years and some didn't.
GoPro CEO sacrifices bit of his fortune to college roomate
This reminds me of that great essay by Neal Stephenson called "In the Beginning was the Command Line".[1] In it, he compares Unix to an industrial strength screwdriver called the "Hole Hawg".

"But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner's product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user's failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it."

[1] http://www.cryptonomicon.com/command.zip
I have been using DuckDuckGo for more than 4 years now. I would use google only if DDG does not provide a good result. In the last one year, queries that went unanswered on DDG did not turn up a good result on google either. So for me, DDG has not completely replaced google.

Also, I am not living in the USA.
You've never been to France or you never paid much attention in school, did you?

Probably both.
> The sad thing is, any one of them could have netted my loyalty and at a cheaper price overall if they were savvy at recruiting

I just want to mention here, that he did say that he would have had a sense of loyalty towards employers, had he been treated differently by one (to that effect at least).
The biggest difference is ease of rate limiting. With lambda, I imagine the best you could do would be check the IP in a Redis cache at the beginning of each request (if the SDK even includes that info) to minimize the damage. But there would be no way to fully stop an attacker without turning off the service entirely.

If you run your own webserver, I think you can stop stuff like that more efficiently / without the expense, eg at the nginx level.
It's fun to compare how much longer is an implementation in an Algol-type language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree#Operati...

Pattern-matching goes a really long way.
I'm not quite sure how that isn't a pretty darn good example of a slope being slipped upon.
Thanks for the reply! We've done just this with our most recent hire. He had a lot of relevant experience but with a totally different tech stack. In the end we decided we'd rather have someone who has been there and done that with different tools than someone who has less overall experience but more comfort with our current setup. So far it looks like it has been a good decision!

We're in Nevada County building SAAS web and mobile apps. How about you?
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I thought the appeal to authority was in the form of "x is likely right because y is a known person", not "y has a track record of being right in similar cases and has experience in digging out details". That's just acknowledging experience. He doesn't even say "he's right", just "don't dismiss him without paying attention".
I agree -- gmail has become crappy, and their recent changes on mobile suck. eg shrinking inbox view from 8 messages to 5.5 on my nexus 5 (fuck the jerk who decided to do that.)

That said, how can one compete with them? I just switched to fastmail which is very ok at best -- I have a list of bugs, and their web client is very half assed. But I don't know that I believe there are enough people who want a good gmail and who are willing to pay eg $40/year for it to make a business if you don't have search ads making money rain out of the sky to subsidize everything else...
Wonderful image. It reminded me of me, as a young child, of how one tree appears to move at a different speed relative to me as another one (a bit further away). Angles and distance, and of a gravitation towards maths as a subject.

Your experience in Education is not dissimilar, too, to my experience in Big Corps. 'Innovation' is a word banded around as if it were an elixir from heaven as a way to solve all problems and create the perfect workplace.

Late evening at work, around 11pm long after the workforce had long since left, the managers tended to be able to tie-up their day. A vision of a 500 seat open plan office kept illuminated by 4-5 heads at various locations around the floor. Passing a much liked colleague, she asked me "What does innovation mean?" while pointing at a generic poster on the wall of a lit light bulb on a blue background with 'Innovation' in large text and some scrawl about a corporate competition. "Well, doing things better, modifying processes, creating new ways to do things" I replied. English language was not her first language, but I knew she knew what this word meant and I felt a bit taken aback.

"No" she replied. "It is brainwashing us and my team to think change is good. Innovation is just change. And you know what, some things are OK. We don't need to change them. We need to leave them as they are. I don't want everyone thinking about how to change this or how to change that when they're perfectly fine. I want people to do their jobs and document it well, not think about how it isn't right, and change it to something else that is broken. People could be doing their job, be happy, and when a real problem happens deal with it. Brainwashing us to accept the next change in direction from our dear leaders."

This made sense, and has stuck with me, even several years later. For those in Big Corp or other institutions where the word 'Innovation' is thrown around with glee, it does indeed not mean better. Infact, its meaning is probably closer to "Throw (new) mud at the wall and see if it sticks, and in the process of creating 'innovation' gain the opportunity cost of creating better documentation, going home earlier, or multitudes of other things, but say 'yes' to change because it is masked as being 'good'."

Think about what words really mean, and if they don't make sense, there are much deeper problems with the people saying them.
I'm curious- why C? Strings, scoped objects and C++11 move operators seems much safer and clearer from an API perspective.

The complaints about C++ seem to mostly be around the ability to abuse the language, not specific issues that C solves. Something like https://github.com/facebook/proxygen seems like a better API.

And I don't quite buy portability- if it's not a modern compiler with decent security checks then I'm note sure it should be building web-facing code.
Ask HN: Startup triples proposed salary after counter offer
Startup offers me a 3 month contract to develop an iOS app, promise of future employment at market rate (and further equity then) First technical hire in a 3 person founding team. Seed funding only.

The offer me a paltry salary way below market rate, I counter offer with an offer above market rate for yearly employment (but below for an actual contract to build an app if I was charging hourly).

They call me and try to explain what the finances of a startup are like, etc, ask me to name my minimum, I refuse and tell them the ball is on their court.

Few hours later I get a new offer that is 275% of the original.

Going from original 4k/month 1099 towards 11k/month W2. 1% equity on both offers.

Note: there were 3 different offers that balance equity and pay (1k salary difference per 0.5% in the last offer). Equity vests fully at the end of the 3 month contract, they claim it's not common stock. Company believes in valuation of 30 to 150 million (I am unsure). A founder knows me from a previous company and also knew my salary.

What should I make of such a huge change? Is it just terrible negotiation on their part? What is the takeaway from this as a first impression?

While the new offer is something that can be considered, it has brought up a lot of questions. The initial offer was so ridiculously low that it shocked me. The market is Seattle btw.
How much experience do you have in talking to your elected officials?
Yeah, this is just how science works - there is no One Truth but a never ending attempt to approach it. That does mean sometimes they got it wrong, yet the scientific consensus is still the best approximation of reality you will find.

Think about the shape of earth or the theory of gravity. It isn't truly round nor was Newton fully correct but both theories were more correct than their predecessors and we improved on them since. And probably will improve more in the future.

The fact that science isn't perfect doesn't mean it is useless - compare it to medicine. The fact that in complicated cases no two doctors would pic the exact same therapy does neither mean it makes no difference (there certainly are ways to do things wrong in medicine) nor that there is no way to judge. It is 'just' complicated.
Cool, thanks for the comments.
So instead of punishing the people who eg wrapped vlc in spyware, they decided to screw over good actors? I think the clear difference is the wrong thing was easy for google to do (though unlikely to actually help at all -- nobody reads eula or uninstall directions), and the right thing -- directly targeting the bad actors and booting them from adwords -- would have taken work and money.

Yet another reason google is untrustworthy.
I just find it funny that the favicon is the old Sun Microsystems logo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Agnesi

decayishingly fab.
Would it be possible to achieve near-Rustiness with modern C++14 and tons of warnings/errors enabled?
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Roger Bootle: Europe is a complete disaster – Britain must leave
Or, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."
Ahhh, thanks for that. I will take a look.

Definitely interested to see how other people handle some of issues with threading, hash-collisions etc., and also how to best build code that'll run out of a single header file.
I think it is important to consider the motivation of anonymous sources. This new story, which seeks to elevate the role of the ISI, or perhaps just diminish the role of others, appears to have sources with interesting motivations. In particular, Hersh's description of the primary source for this information does not indicate that they would have had access to all of the information described (both the intel process and the raid details, as well as individual negotiation points in the coverup). The amount of love for the ISI in the description almost suggests that he was put up to it by the Pakistanis. For example:

The suggestion that an ISI liaison traveling on the helicopter with the Americans "guided them into the darkened house and up a staircase to bin Laden’s quarters" is ludicrous. SEALs typically don't need someone to lead them up a staircase.

"Aside from those that hit bin Laden, no other shots were fired." This is to support the story that ISI was keeping UBL under house arrest there, and had left him to his own devices, so there were no weapons there. However, outside observers directly after the event showed that the place showed evidence of fighting on all floors.

"Saudi Arabia, which had been financing bin Laden’s upkeep since his seizure by the Pakistanis"
The overthrow of the Saudi govt was one of UBL's objectives. This is nonsense. Given the level of infiltration of the ISI, the idea that they could have kept bin Laden prisoner for six years, without a leak from their side even now, needs a lot more explanation. If that many people in Pakistan knew, we would have known, and we would not have had to rely on a walk-in.

Overall, the sense here is that someone wants to make Pakistan look better. The ISI does work with the US when needs align, but this doesn't make sense.

Hersh clearly misrepresents Sec. Gates comments at one point. He says that Gates wanted to delay the announcement of the raid per agreement with Pakistan so that we could lie about it being a drone attack. He then quotes Gates saying that we didn't want release "operational details". Gates says nothing about a delay. This is not supporting evidence at all. In addition, the anonymous source had previously claimed that a drone attack would not work, as there would be no way to verify the identity. So the whole supposed agreement about a fake drone attack is contradictory with the rest of the piece.

I am not sure that everything the anonymous source said is false, but the one fact that I do have hands on experience with contradicts another element of the story. As such, I know the anonymous source is wrong on that item.

So what's my motivation? It just annoys me to see smart people believe something like this...

The point is, this is not a criticism of Hersh per se, except in that he gives this one anonymous source too much credit. It's a story of non-existent coverup; a story that tells us there was supposed to be big coverup wherein Obama would tell us that bin Laden was killed in a drone strike a week after the fact, but a helicopter crashed and we had to make the Pakistanis look incompetent.
It is certainly an amazing product. Would be interesting to know how Amazon designed it, specially for security. Does anyone know if they just put all requests in a queue and spin up containerized environments for each request?
Yeah thanks, I'm on OS X, and stuff like timersub is coded in sys/time.h

I'll check out sys/queue.h
True, the food pyramid seems like it's effed up and should change. People should be skeptical.

So, is studying diet and medicine and coming up with peer-reviewed consensus recommendations a terrible idea?

People who followed that food pyramid would probably be better off than the average.

I just think margarine is kind of a second-order problem, and you fix it, do better research and change the recommendation and work on more/better research.

I kind of worry about folks who spend their days working on adtech to nudge people, wearing fitbits to nudge them to get up and walk around, saying OMG a nudge in the direction of the food pyramid is a slippery slope to insidious government mind control. If anybody should know the power of defaults and good UX to help people make better choices, it's people around here.

I also worry about 300lb people in electric scooters, saying hands off my Big Gulp, I'm losing my freedom because somebody is trying to show calorie counts and reduce portion sizes and 'nudge' me.