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This shouldn't be downvoted, it's a legitimate question: what if non-programmer domain experts had sufficient tools to program whatever they wanted done. This actually has happened on the cloud: no small sized organization needs to set up their own servers. Server maintenance has become literally done by robots. (Someone wrote a script, the script does the maintenance and abstracts the server hardware away from you.)

In programming languages, there has never been a push toward easy programming. Everyone thinks it's great to make people do useless work to become an expert before being able to achieve anything. Elegant, simple, obvious syntax like Python that is suitable for beginners makes programmers scowl: to the point that they would like to require users to learn a new non-obvious meaning for a semicolon, and put it at the end of each and every instruction they write. (Just one of many, many examples, other examples being library and package management, nature of error messages, interfaces, API's, etc etc etc. Everything is about making things harder, to the point that you would be mistaken for thinking that "require user to spend more than 15 seconds interacting with documentation before achieving what is obvious and easy using our solution" is a design requirement.)

I would say that a lot of programmers could program their job out of existence if they wanted to.
Wow, that is way worse than I thought. Disgusting.
Microsoft have said a few times that they make a C++ compiler and that some C99 features will never be implemented unless they have to do it for C++.

It's frustrating, but not likely to change.
Holy shit. Do you mind saying more about that amount? Fines vs. lawyers fees, vs probationary costs?
If you're looking to keep people alive for long periods of time you necessarily have to work to address frailty because frailty kills. The sort of last ditch treatments to keep someone alive for another year or month you describe aren't really related to SENS's goals except in the broad sense that they're both keeping people alive.
Then you should specify San Francisco, not California. There's a big difference, you know, between SF and, say, Bakersfield.
It's hard to imagine any system where areas that nobody cares for get funded.
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All that statistics says is a lot of people have debt. I personally have more wealth than about half the world in my wallet - I've got about $150 in there, and billions of people have negative net worth.

Global inequality is actually declining, by the way, so can't modern capitalism get some credit for that?

http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/P...
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If this is true it is beyond wrong.
I disagree completely. I am not a physicist but I make video games which has the same kind of constant grounding in applicability. (We are always dealing with running physical systems, it's just that they are simulated.)

The week I learned to treat vectors as abstract objects, rather than arrays of coordinates, I experienced a drastic phase shift in my ability to program geometric operations effectively and clearly. The coordinates are still there, of course, but you have a lot more power over them.

The book "Linear Algebra Done Right" is all about this, and I absolutely recommend reading it if you haven't.
Chrome's giving me a Certificate Invalid Error on this site. Anyone else having problems?

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Interestingly enough, desktop chrome has no problems but chrome on my android phone complains that the certificate authority is invalid. I think I've had problems like this in the past also.
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gnusocial.de has a better pitch, at least for the Hacker News crowd. My translation:

>We are a community of microbloggers, distributed over a worldwide federation of independent GNU Social servers, also known as StatusNet. We're the right choice for users like you, to whom ethics and solidarity matter and who no longer want to use centralized commercial services.

A nice touch is that if you mouse over the word for federation ("Verbund"), it explains that you can communicate with gnusocial.de users through any GNU Social instance or even other implementations of the same protocol.

It looks like it's open-source, distributed Twitter. The references to a public timeline on gnusocial.de and other sites [0] make me think you can make some tweets private and others public, rather than the all-or-nothing approach Twitter takes.

[0]: https://gnu.io/social/try/
Part of it may be that "pee cee are eey" (or less commonly, "picker", "picker eey", etc.) doesn't really sound as nice as "regex".

Also, PCRE does stand for "Perl Compatible Regular Expression".
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They are heavily reliant on exact answers for the subset of small integers. But not that edges cases are handled 100% correct. Denormals, trigs of very large number, parsing of numbers with lots of significant figures.

It could lead to degraded precision for mathematical calculations with lots of steps, but that should be a problem for only a small minority of js code.
There aren't that many things you can't do in Clojure, the main place Rust has an edge is in efficiency. I plan on doing an Avro implementation but other projects (mostly work-related) have a higher priority.

In terms of larger projects, the Servo guys always seem to encourage people learning Rust to get involved. One of the projects I'm most interested in is Frank McSherry's timely/differental dataflow repos. I wanted a Rust implementation of Naiad when I first read the paper so I was quite pleased to see one of the authors do an implementation, even if it doesn't seem to be a full time pursuit.

[1] https://github.com/frankmcsherry/timely-dataflow/

Most first-rust-projects that are announced on reddit/discourse seem to be games (Piston), simple web apps, raytracers, or datastructures.
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Yep this is becoming a big move too. The privatization of parole/probation offices. It's unreal the expenses they charge and most are uneducated or misinformed about the actual laws of each state.
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Love this!
"In general, we encourage contributions which highlight material at the more unorthodox end of the cultural spectrum – curiosities, obscure theories, strange inventions, and so on. If on a well-known figure then we tend to favour an unusual angle or a focus on lesser known works. As well as pieces which focus on particular works, we also welcome articles with a broader historical focus, though they should be closely aligned with interesting material to which we can link."

They even have a book of selected essays available! https://publicdomainreview.org/essay-book/
You make it sound so peaceful and orderly and yet it was quite the opposite. Mechanization allowed farms to become more productive with fewer workers and in part led to the industrial revolution by creating a large labour pool that could be exploited by other industries both by eliminating existing jobs as well as by increasing the population. That process resulted in a loss of livelihood for a large portion of the population. The transition was largely to other forms of manual labour, mostly in manufacturing. This didn't happen smoothly, a notable example being the Swing Riots[1] in Britain.

To support your point, if we suffer a similar disruption in employment where the largest occupations start an irreversible downward trend, what sector is going to take up this burden? If you look at the statistics for the current largest employers[2] you'll see a list of jobs where automation has already made significant inroads. To name the three largest:

* Retail salesperson

* Cashiers

* Food preparation and service workers

I doubt that the other large employers on the list could absorb these workers. We just don't have that other large employer to take up the slack as when manufacturing absorbed and made use of former farm labourers. We also don't have the frontier of a new world to provide a second start for families seeking a better future. We've managed to paint ourselves into a corner with our current system and we can either sit here and suffer or bite the bullet and start over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots

[2] http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/area_emp_chart/area_emp_chart...
This keeps coming up, and the answer is still the same. People with profit motives that are not aligned with society tend make for bad actors. The same article can be written about the prison unions in California and many other states. It is also a major lobby affecting legislation and not many people talk about it. Their advocacy of jail time is just as bad as private companies. Both have a profit motive in the number of people that are in prison. Both benefit from laws that DO NOT allow alternate treatment. This is very predictable since both groups profit from the number of people in jail.

Unfortunately, I don't really see legislators changing the conditions so the profit motive for both groups will be something other than number of people currently in jail. So, both groups: unions and private companies, will continue to lobby for laws that are not fair.

My own suggestion is to pay based on capacity and not occupancy with a penalty (stick) or bonus payment (carrot) for individuals released from jail that do / do not commit another offense for at least 5 years.

On a second note, all these debtors >> prison schemes should be illegal.
I think what he was saying was if he woke up the CEO of a tobacco company and everyone he knew, all of his connections, everyone who worked at his company and, most importantly, the shareholders were on board with his plan... He could then pivot the company into something beneficial.
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I think you misunderstood the person you're replying to. They meant that people's lives should end well (not propped up on life support) and that we should focus more on quality of life than on life extension. There was a great article that went around a few years ago called "How Doctors Die"[1] that showed the difference between medical professionals approach death and how normal people approach it.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die...
Yeah, good introductions to the stuff for new people is something that many of these projects seem to lack. Same for pump.io, last time I looked into it it was no problem to find good documentation for protocols etc, but nearly nothing that would motivate me to USE it. If you want people to join a community, tell/show something about the community!
> Are you sure you wanted to say merge? If the master branch is rewritten into a new branch, feature branches on it would need to be rebased normally.

Yes. The way we currently do things is keeping things as simple as possible for everyone, even if this doesn't produce the prettiest history. A developer first creates their feature branch based off of master, commits several times to this feature branch, tests it and possibly asks for review from a coworker and then they merge this feature branch into master using --no-ff, always creating a merge commit.

It's possible there have been commits to master since they based off of it. If so, they will resolve this in the merge. I do think it would be better if feature branches got rebased prior to merging onto master so they can be tested in this state as well but this is currently not how things are done (it is not up to me). Though that could create issues if there's multiple developers collaborating on a feature branch and they do not communicate properly.

The reason I said "every developer gets to" is that in larger projects (which also usually use gerrit, which do not) I've seen that there are usually a select few people in charge of merging the feature branches into master, instead of everyone getting to merge as they see fit.

My view on rewriting history is that it should not happen on shared branches as this will surely lead to issues where one of the developers does not do the entire 'fetch rebase merge' dance correctly, or works directly on master. We also contract some work out to external agencies and their git usage is usually absymal, and I am not in the position to correct or influence any of that.

> I think tags with descriptions would serve the same purpose. Do you see issues with that?

I'm not sure how the tags with descriptions would help with easily rolling back all the changes introduced through a feature branch, but maybe I'm missing something.
BeanIO for .NET as PCL
I see no reason to believe the second scenario is anywhere close to occurring. The gains we've seen in life expectancy over the past century or so have been due to things like reducing child mortality and better treatments for disease so less people die younger. The maximum life expectancy of a human is about the same now as it was several thousand years ago.
The Wonderlic test is ridiculous.
There are lots of arbitrary rules out there to minimize risk. I lived in Sweden for more than 6 months before 2004 so they deem me a BSE risk. Oddly enough Sweden didn't have any cases of BSE until 2006 so I'm not sure about the logic behind that one.
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Thiel investing in an aging-related organization is no shock.

What is telling and makes it clear that this organization (not going to discuss the cause, but this specific organization) is that there are NO people of color on the advisory board and only one person of color on the board of directors. The board of directors also is entirely startup founders, venture capitalists, and other entrepreneurs.

Without diversity at the leadership level, it is fairly easy to assume (externally) that this organization is working to solve aging related illnesses for the 1%.
It's more like slave siphoning. Once someone is tagged as a criminal, there are seemingly endless ways to suck money from them, their families, the state, and the federal government. Each American indoctrinated into the criminal justice system in essence becomes that famous Duracell from the Matrix movie.
au contraire. it's a great idea.

corruption and vote manipulation will happen either way. but that way it's at least a little more ecological and economical for the tax payers. not to mention two days earlier to get results so you know alpha corrupt du jour (and two less days for the former one to screw things even more for the new one during the murky transition period)
This is a hand-made port of BeanIO from Java to .NET which was changed in the following aspects:

* Support of .NET generics

* Availability as PCL (.NET 4.5, Win8, Win Phone 8.1, Xamarin.iOS/Android)

* Scheme handlers to support loading of mappings from any place

* Available as NuGet package

All original unit tests were ported (over 300) and should therefore mostly behave in the same way as the original BeanIO project.
My god, I was just thinking about creating the exact same thing for HN, and here I found this.
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I made something like this a while ago, and it didn't get nearly as much attention... What made this a "success" on hn compared to mine? http://hnhistory.net
Also on GitHub: https://github.com/SCastaneda/hnhistory
Lawyer 1 Retainer: $4000

DMV License Revocation Hearing: $50

MADD Panel: $30

Court Fines: $2000

County Probation Intake Fee: $100

Private Probation Intake Fee: $100

Probation Supervision: $1000

Community Service Fees: $250

Urinalysis: $1000

Bus for urinalysis: $750

The single urinalysis during a trip to NYC: $300

Alcohol Education Classes (teacher ripped me off, had to repeat): $1500

Alcohol Education Classes Round 2: $1500

Lawyer #2 to Fight Class #1: $4000

Lawyer #3 to Fight Class #1: $2000

Alcohol Therapy: $2400

Probation Discharge Fee: $100

License Reinstatement Application: $95

Driving Permit Application: $50

Driver License Application: $50

Ignition Interlock Installation: $100

Ignition Interlock Lease: $2400

Job opportunity lost: VP of Engineering at mid size software startup. Required short notice international travel. Denied by probation. Would've been a 500% boost in salary for me.

You are required to present a pay stub each month to your probation officer. You can not black out the payment amounts (I tried). In effect, these case managers know exactly how much money you make and what your expenses are (intake questionnaire). They knew I had a good amount of disposable income and used that to their advantage.

The money isn't even the worst of it. A buddy of mine is currently on probation for the same charge (low BAC DWAI) in Colorado. He's 24 and has been diagnosed with 2 distinct cancers. Probation denied medical marijuana use but allows him to take prescribed opiates. Well, the prescriptions ran out and heroin is cheaper than Vicodin. Guess what? He buys heroin now and has the prescription on file to ignore the results of opiate metabolites in his urine.

My girlfriend is also currently on probation for the same charge (low BAC DWAI). She's supposed to start University in September (Vet. Tech. program at a great school). The case managers are intentionally making it very difficult for her to be able to attend. She's seriously considering postponing her education for 24 months. That's the real crime.

Do you see a pattern here? Mid 20-somethings being targeted.

DWAI in Colorado = BAC 0.02

DUI per-se in Colorado = BAC 0.04

DUI in Colorado = BAC 0.08

Even 1 drink and they can arrest you. DWAI carries virtually the same penalties as a DUI ($500-$1000 difference in fine).
Well, you created LISP.
Also the possibility to use your own code base as data and manipulate it with JSON functions, aka macros :)
Dealing with the Rust shift in perspective
I have seen some kaggle competitions do image transformations and put the data back into the training set to increase the robustness of the classifier. For instance, rotating images, slightly skewing them, etc.

I would propose that for this leopard problem, instead of just skewing the images, you also performed transformations on the COLOR and put the images back into the training set.

Maybe applying certain filters, such asdimming the saturation or contrast of images, so that the contrast between the leopoard spots were less visible (i.e. "A Leopoard in low lighting") - maybe this would force the neural net to learn more than just its print.

Knowing the right set of color filters to apply to all images could be tricky though.
Those people also put nothing into local economy through their spending. You get the vancouver effect. No incomes or jobs, but high housing prices.

A high tax for unoccupied residences would be a better one. It would increase housing supply so the double whammie of buying a house and leaving it unoccupied wouldn't effect the housing supply nearly as much.
This is propaganda designed to legitimize the actions of the individuals who are effectively using coercion and violence to enslave large parts of the population.

If "We", as a "nation", elected pro slavery politicians, it wouldn't justify the owners of land and capital to enslave people.

This would be the moral equivalent to a belief that some religious groups hold: that "We" are all born sinners, we all deserve to go to hell, but by the grace of god (the state), we can repent (vote) and accept the next savior (presidential candidate).

Democracy, as you call it, is a religion based on the belief that elected groups of individuals have legitimate authority to totally violate basic human rights. In this case, an individual right not to be enslaved.

But, in reality, nobody has a legitimate authority to enslave another person. Voting is participating in the delusion that the state has legitimate moral authority to imbue unrighteous people with righteousness in the first place. They don't.

It doesn't matter if "well, we voted for it": the politicians, executives, as well as the employees and shareholders of these "sanctified" corporations are still morally responsible for their actions, and should be held accountable for their actions.
Thank you for being a decent person.
https://neil.fraser.name/writing/tank/

This is a classic story of a neural net failure.

The net was able to find tanks hiding in the trees with amazing accuracy. Too amazing. It turned out the photos of the hidden tanks were all photographed on a cloudy day. The images without tanks in a clear day.
Nice. It is also possible to get a "trust-fund dip" if you move the line downward near the end. You get a text with something like "you thought really rich people don't feel compelled to go to college".
There are a few problems with this:

First, not everyone who goes to an elite university can get a job on Wall Street. Though these jobs are largely populated by graduates of elite universities, they are still very hard to get.

Second, people are more efficacious at things they want to be doing. Many people don't want to be in a high pressure job with long work hours and are more satisfied doing work that they find personally meaningful, rather than meaningful because of all the nice ways they can spend money on others.

Third, implicit in your response is the idea that there is some moral imperative to act as selflessly as possible. Why? No one chose to be born, so why does the accident of their birth impel them to act a certain way? Further, it is not even clear to me that improving human life is that important. Humans are petty. We are mean to each other, we harm the environment, etc. Different people value different things. You seem to value improving others lives materially. Others have different values and priorities, and that is fine as well.

Fourth, peoples lives have higher order consequences than just their immediate actions. Someone can touch a lot of lives through the money they spend but they may not have as much impact as a nurse who sits down with her patients and their families and comforts them when they're scared. Or the barber that I go to who always makes my entire day better (and thus my interactions with others better) by how cheerful he is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule
Why do the richest bother going to college if they can just live very well off interest and investments?
Hi, author here. I made this site as and alternative to Omegle, correct. I was interested in finding some way of meeting new people and making connections, which seems to getting even more difficult in this short attention span, information overloaded world. So far, as an experiment, it's worked for me and a lot of interesting users have come online and I've had some really great conversations. If you have any questions about the site's motivation, just ask.

Oh, and I made it in node and jquery and about 2 hours.
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I used to work for a CMS contractor that was involved in th is kind of work. The level of effort put into fraud, abuse, and waste prevention for Medicare and Medicaid are amazing. There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it was a memorable experience working in that field.
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