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What specifically can you point me to, what founding father, specifically wrote that the Bill of Rights was to protect minorities and not individuals?

I agree the founding fathers drafted the Constitution to prevent mob rule.

If a majority agrees we have freedom of speech, then we don't need the first amendment since it only protects minorities and minority opinions? The individual is the greatest minority, the Constitution protects individuals. Regardless of if an individual currently belongs to the/a majority or minority the Bill of Rights protects them.

EDIT: In other words, whether or not an individual is in the majority or minority opinion on an issue, the Bill of Rights protects the individuals to freely express their opinion. It's not as if an individual holds the majority opinion than they no longer get 1st Amendment protections. The rights belong to individuals not "minorities" (except in the sense that an individual is the greatest minority).

ADD: The founding fathers didn't care about minorities except themselves as individuals. They wrote the Bill of Rights to protect themselves individually.
The title for this seems a bit off. The programmers asked the AI what morality is, the AI did not ask what morality is.
Would posting comments on HN happen to be one of those activities?
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Yes it's true. Though with Chess it felt different. I guess with sports you are pitting physical or athletic ability against an opponent but with Chess it's your mind and intellect which seems to draw the ego out more. Winning is euphoric but losing is a crushing psychological blow to the essence of what makes you... your mind.
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records " electromagnetic vibrations" ?

So,

Light?

Not sure why it makes sense to deem this "recording sound".

producing sound based off a recording, or interpreting a recording as sound, sure.

But recording sound?
Today, it takes 100 picojoules to do a double precision floating point operation, but 4200 picojoules (42 times!) more energy to move that data from RAM to your registers.

This is a fascinating observation. As one of pg's essays asks, "what do you know that know that no one else knows?" [quoted from memory]. It sounds like this is your answer. Interestingly, it's not literally that no one else knows it -- it's that no one else (AFAIK, of course) has factored it into their designs, as doing so probably requires more-or-less a clean sheet.
at $50 i just go to my boss and say "Hey Boss, can i get the company card to buy a $50 product so I can do the xyz task easier?" almost always he'll say "$50, yeah whatever"
All the grainy videos with this type of music is reminiscent of a Boards of Canada video. It's cool.

edit: to add, just watching the location tab is amazing, really gives an exciting sense of the world buzzing with activity. Plus I just saw where I live and cycle most days!
Given this ruling, what do you now teach children? Do you tell your 5-year-old that "when you grow up you marry either a man or a woman"? Are both choices to be equally preferred? Or do you say, "by default" you marry someone of the opposite sex, but if you choose someone of your own sex that's OK? Is it OK to teach that being straight is "the default"?
Besides run their processes of A/B Testing, Agile Software, Bug Tracking, Sales Pipeline ... Pipefy can solve problems that do not exist yet :)

This is eternal scalability.
I vote that it's worthwhile as well. We've been using Clojure full-time at ReadyForZero for over 3 years now (for web-dev as well as other tasks), and are very happy with our choice.
Thanks Sam, really enlightening points.

I realize we might have actually gone about it the wrong way. From a consumer perspective, that’s where we were struggling to find a niche to start off with.
Our long term goal is to enable people to buy services from anyone in the world, no matter how small or large (i.e. reservations, travel), and it’s on us to make it actionable by as broad an workforce as possible.

We felt we had to prove out the concept of farming out discrete tasks in a straightforward niche like the concierge-space, as opposed to perhaps a white labeled platform. That probably wasn’t the right approach, and we’d appreciate your thoughts on this.
The article feels rather click-baitey. It's basically a submarine for the book. While it does offer an interesting historical position, it completely fails to compare and/or contrast that to modern opinions, despite foreshadowing this in the opening paragraph.
Parking garages use something similar, but to my eye more dangerous, to get the staff quickly to different floors. I have no idea what they are called.
It seems like they could replace the landing legs with a parachute, which they could catch in mid-air, as intended for the Genesis probe. Bringing the 1st stage nearly to a stop at some point mid-air should be way easier than landing it on the ground.

For that matter, could a balloon be used as a recovery method?

Another alternative: Land in an artificial pond. The lake could be filled with a liquid specifically formulated to be kind to the rocket parts. (Perhaps just reservoir quality water?) The design could again dispense with the landing gear. Perhaps sturdy heat-resistant ballutes could inflate to take the water-impact and hold the rockets up and out of the water?

EDIT: Wow, so much anger! For one thing, all the above schemes involve first coming to an almost-hover mid-air. Also, why is everyone imagining such an amazing tone from my post? Please produce a quote that justifies this assumption. (Hint, it's irrational. Just take my brainstorming at face value.)
Why do you begin your replies with feigned surprise?
That's my vision exactly. All the knowledge you would ever need is already out there, probably on page 17 of some forum post. But it'd be a huge to have it all in one place, easily accessible and most importantly, be able to confidently say that it's accurate (the wrong torque on a head bolt could be a $x,000 mistake).

Creating a database schema that reflects the manufacturers model naming and options decisions is indeed a complete pain but we're grinding through that.

I like your idea of finding a small number of the most passionate enthusiast subcultures and growing from there. Would love to hear more about how this app could help you. I'll send you an email.
Duo Security looks nice - but don't you run the risk of getting locked out from your own servers if Duo is unavailable or suddenly closes down?

What's the contingency?
John Legere’s June 26th Letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on 600MHz auction
Non-existent because they do not provide a public accommodation and are exempt from legal entanglements based on discrimination.

IOW, even though they provide a service, it is not the same class of service, legally, as a cake maker or any other for profit entity serving the public.
This is a Yudkowskyism, i.e. don't expect to see the code, or if you do then expect it to have obvious defects.
> Dropwizard [...] forces you to use maven and they refuse to help you with gradle

The configuration syntax (YAML) shown in https://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/manual/configuration... looks quite nice. It says there you can use JSON instead. The syntax Gradle uses (i.e. Groovy) has a lot of cruft, including even a full programming language, which can be misused in build config files so best steer clear.
Exactly. I think the libertarian way to go would be to limit the role of the Govt. to enable Tax breaks for spouses, and other impersonal things.
They were invented in 1868, when handicapped people were kept inside, and when making it to an elderly age was very rare. I don't the inventor had these concerns in mind when it was created.
Document the codebase, in my experience it helps.

In case of JavaScript you’d probably use something like JSDoc. Describe your units and make the tool automatically create beautiful HTML out of that. You don’t have to document everything at once but be sure to lay the groundwork, automate documentation build process, and in general try to make maintaining the docs effortless (for yourself and for others). Take some existing well-documented JavaScript codebase as an example.

This’d make a great contribution already: SlickGrid’s codebase is somewhat poorly documented, which is a barrier to the involvement of interested developers.

As you write the docs weak spots in existing implementation will come to your attention, helping you figure out what to fix first.

One downside is that writing down and structuring your knowledge in easy for others to grasp way is a challenge in itself, though arguably a useful exercise.
This is not a comprehensive answer, but it's additive.

If you're looking at a large Go codebase with many packages, I find it helpful to visualize their import graph with a little command [0].

Here are results of running it on consul codebase:

$ goimportgraph github.com/hashicorp/consul/...

http://virtivia.com:27080/cehy9dnqaq92.html

[0] https://github.com/shurcooL/cmd/tree/master/goimportgraph
I think you go freemium if the market is large enough to support the idea that if you just convert a small percentage of customers, you'll still be a successful company. If the answer is yes it's large enough, then whatever strategy gets your software in the hands of the most number of users should be the path you follow.

Now, as a startup, I wouldn't start by competing head to head with OpenTable's salesforce going after their customers. That sounds expensive. Also, getting people to switch providers is always way more difficult. Plus, I think people value OT not because of their features but because of the network effect they bring. Don't get me wrong, you'll definitely still be going one-by-one and converting users, but I don't think you should start with those using your competition.

Instead start with new restaurants or those not using anything. To them, you'll feel like a miracle.

The reason you want to maximize distribution of software and engagement (having something that even the free plan is worth talking to people about) is because going freemium is not unlike investing in startups or building up a portfolio.

You invest in your customers in mass (with free features not money) and you hope a small grouping of them will make back that investment many fold.

Like investing, freemium works best as a long term strategy. So when you look at your upgrade triggers, be sure not to cripple that free plan so much that you're optimizing for conversion rate for users as SOON as possible. Convert them when they've grown to be successful. So they can say you were a key part of their success.

I think MailChimp thinks about this really well if you haven't read their ideas already:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/

Good luck!
I assume they have their reasons. Speaking of which, it would be interesting to hear why they chose the particular flavour that they did.
After thinking about it a bit, that also is well-typed in C. (You can argue that it shouldn't be allowed, but that's a different argument than that the language is not strongly-typed because of that feature.)
and yet, unlike you, all these people want to live there
Did Google car cut off rival's self-driving vehicle in traffic?
Then you will have people writing software with the aim of pass the tests, not real world safety. I don't think auto testing can catch the type of bugs that can arise sporadically, which could be fatal in the case of self driving cars.
Debugging through the test cases in particular is a good way to decipher/dissect things, at least that I have found. Usually you can find a test case that is only for a specific component that you are interested in, and then the test case should only exercise those pieces, so there is not an overwhelming amount of information all at once.
I've always wondered -- is that read as in 'go read', or read as in past tense?
I entered the website for a sub-second, glimpsed the first line of text, and I was gone.
Pretty sure nobody uses logarithmic graphs for stock prices...
There's no good idea you can't turn into a bad idea if you just do it hard enough.
My Real Time Machine
Your best chance is probably to get on a boat and immigrate illegally to Australia.

Good luck.
All right, i'm deleting my comment. I don't want to start a Clojure vs CL flame war. That wasn't the intent and I thought I'd made it very clear.
You've heard of Minecraft, right?
Sometimes an upvote isn't enough. This is probably the most thoughtful writing I've seen on the topic today. Well done for someone that is not an expert. :-)
All I'm saying is that I trust Google to produce this software to a high standard, much much more than I trust the auto manufacturers to do so. I'm sure Google isn't developing their own brake pads in these cars, and I wouldn't trust those brake pads if they were.
The atmosphere of Mars is not thick enough to support a parachute landing, so that's out. Balloons do not work well on Mars either; landing heavy payloads with balloons result in a lot of bouncing, which is bad for both equipment and for humans. There are also no artificial ponds on Mars. Additionally, water is not good for the rocket parts (salt water is terrible, but I think even fresh water is not good).

SpaceX is iterating on technology that will eventually be used to land millions of people on Mars. Before they get to that stage, they are working on perfecting rapid, full reusability of rockets to 1) achieve lower launch costs to win the market, and 2) have a ready-to-go system for landing people on Mars.

The primary design principles of the landing system must work on Mars as well as they do on Earth.
Not only do I think it's possible to stay involved in engineering/design work, I think it's optimal, at least for the first few years. The best technical CEOs do this--they're happy to hand off most of the organization to a COO, but not product or engineering. Mark Zuckerberg did this for a long time at Facebook, and probably still does. Every time I meet with Elon Musk I'm struck by how much of the conversation is about engineering details of SpaceX or Tesla.
The app still generates offline codes as a backup, iirc.
Ben Horowitz has written some interesting things on this:

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos/

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_founders_fail_the_product_ceo_p...
Amen. Once you've had ack, you never go back.
>Was this a question? I don't think I've heard anyone ever say otherwise.
You live in a very optimistic world! 2 quick examples: First, Glenn Beck and other popular conservatives have said exactly that, and worse: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/30/glenn-beck-if-gay...

Second: Do you remember the Mormon funded ad blitz in California, which promised all kinds of (patently untrue) negative consequences if prop 8 went the wrong way? Kids being indoctrinated in grade school, churches of all kinds forced to cater to same sex couples, etc.
I wasn't confused by the title, but it wouldn't hurt to rephrase it. Minimally: "Google-built AI was asked what morality is".
> Why would MS spend all this money to just help the government? Its just asinine.

I was reminded of an old 2009 article [0] that speculated that the NSA was willing to pay big bucks to any company that could make Skype easier for them to intercept.

Maybe Microsoft took them up on that offer, and made a profit with their restructuring of Skype's architecture.

[0]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...
> Then by what you wrote, gay marriage shouldn't be palatable to the state or society, since same-sex marriages usually do not result in natural children with today's technology.

Why do you believe creating children is the only social value of marriage? If it figures there at all, it's very low on the totem pole, after all society could simply subsidise rape if that were the point.
> It's pretty easy to tell a man from a woman at birth. Biology and cultural norms make this distinction pretty obvious to anyone who's paying attention. It's both cheap and reasonable to tell apart men from women.

The decades and decades of non-consensual infant "corrective" surgery of people with intersex conditions, leading to physical and mental damage (and in some cases involuntary sterilisation), suggests otherwise...

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/should-we-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/special-repor...
Thank you for the courteous conversation as well!
> I can share a JVM library between the API/Infrastructure layer.

Rails run perfectly on the JVM.
@Scott When designing the architecture over a year ago, we used that fact as the basis of our design paradigm, and while known to some very smart people in the industry, no one has really dared to do any real redesigns in large companies. When I re-read this post (http://blakemasters.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels-cs183-...) and thought about what our "secret" really was, I decided to include that fact in our presentations and it finally started to "click" for people... technical folk and investors alike.
Hmmm - I see your point. I felt the WSJ title was click-bait-esk so I was going for something else. Suggestions?
I don't know how much truth there is to this, but my father once told me there had been very few fatalities on the original 7 mile bridge in the Florida keys. But since the new bridge opened in 1982, there have been fatal accidents every few years. The reason being the old bridge was so narrow (originally it was a railroad bridge), folks really paid attention driving it, but with the new wider bridge, drivers became complacent.

I guess no one would use a paternoster without exercising care.
>Machine: And how I’m not in the mood for a philosophical debate.
>Human: What do you like to talk about?
>Machine: Nothing.

It sounds like they built Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

EDIT: formatting
Its sort of funny how the original SA article sounds like a beautifully crafted work of satire. I had to constantly remind myself that the original article is genuinely sober.
Probably not, but it provides a chance for us to discuss his many accomplishments. A true genius. My personal favorite mathematician, Turing is a close second. The ranking might be flipped depending on my mood in a given time period.
Trouble is, state governments have been messing with it. This is an attempt to stop it.
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It could be read either way. In headlinese, I read it as "Google built AI [was] asked what morality is"

EDIT: Previous title was "Google built AI asked what morality is"
It was trained from movie scripts after all.
between the two, there's no question, Scala is the place to be. It's possible a newer language like Ceylon settles in as the default choice for more conservative companies and Scala remains the preferred choice for those who want to dive deeper into the functional side.
Thomas Jefferson didn't say "I'm concerned about Sam and Henry over there... they might be in the minority on some opinion or issue in the future so I think we should draft a Bill of Rights to protect them." He probably thought, "I don't want to be screwed over by the majority. Perhaps I should draft some things to protect ME."

Because "ME" could be in the minority, whether by myself or 49.9% of the people.
> something useful and valuable in job market in the future

"Useful" and "valuable in job market" might not overlap too much.

The small subset of Groovy used in Gradle build files and for quick scripts manipulating Java class files is both useful and valuable, but it's pointless progressing beyond that initial stage. Scala might have peaked in uptake so may not be so valuable, but if you already know Java, it could be useful to learn and practise its functional aspects as a halfway step towards a full funcitonal language like Haskell which is very useful to know.
It always amazes me how people see this video and immediately think "I need to redesign this for them" rather than "wow, that prototype is amazingly close to working beautifully".

It's as if a complex software system is being tested for the first time, a couple bugs are found, and onlookers think the right answer is to redesign everything from scratch.
In reality-land, marriage is far older than English legal tradition.
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It's an issue of ambiguity in terse "headline grammar". It's supposed to be read as:

"Google-built AI [was] asked what morality is"

It's common to use a past-participle and drop the "to be" (copula) in headlines. For example:

"Google-built AI surprised by City Hall."

It doesn't mean the AI surprised [someone] next to City Hall, but that it is the object of the surprise.
I am not allowed to marry Steve, purely because I am a man. If I were a woman, I would be allowed. How is that not sex discrimination?
Use the right tool for the job. If your project is just a REST api then Rails might not be the right choice. If you're writing a complex CMS/CRM,ecommerce site,or anything that has a complex UI from scratch, then rails and ruby's gigantic ecosystem will set you up and running in no time.

But so can Spring,Django or Symfony if you know them from the inside out.
Thinking about it more, I could introduce the subscription model by knowing how far along each insert is in the harvest cycle, and offer to ship new inserts right as the existing insert harvest is winding down.
Uber also is currently much more expensive than car ownership, and if a relatively low-cost driverless car gets on the market, there is literally no incentive for most people to ever use Uber rather than owning their own driverless car.

So in the event of driverless cars, Uber will have to slash prices -- and, unfortunately for them, a self driving car does not in fact claw back all of their driver's revenue.

Now, there are plausible scenarios (though it's by no means guaranteed) in which driverless cars vastly increase the size of the rides-for-hire market, so even if Uber has to take their current margin on lower-cost rides and pay for inventory, you could imagine that working out overall well for them.

But if it's such a great business to be in, why won't they face competition? There are plenty of companies that are deeper-pocketed than Uber. There are in fact plenty of companies with stronger brands than Uber. And the geographical opportunity to compete locally is pretty brutal.

What's Uber going to compete on?

Size of inventory? That drives up costs (when we're already stipulating that they are paying billions in new costs).

Price? That drives down revenue (when we're already stipulating that they're slashing prices).

Cleanliness, as various people have suggested? That means they have to get into a whole new hyper-local physical business with its own logistical problems, and why should we imagine that Uber can build the best car-cleaning business of its field? What about Uber makes us believe they're the best at that? Is this even a field that can be usefully competed on? Are people willing to pay top dollar for a really really really clean car, or does everyone bring together a basic cleaning service and, whatever, it's all good to the passengers?
Right, it is wrong and dangerous, but not for the reason the article claims. The user can always do something stupid to compromise their security, but if they just do what they're advised to do (store their token on their phone), then with proper 2FA, the attacker has to compromise two systems (the computer with the terminal and the phone with the TOTP secret) to gain access. With SSH passphrases, only one system needs to be compromised (the terminal).
<insert misleading stock photo unrelated to the specifics of the story>

I'm really irked by this trend. It's as bad as clickbait titles.
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And with chess boxing, it's both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing (Yes, chess boxing is a thing.)