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It doesn't matter if the 90 don't feel strongly. What happens when the 10 move to another site?
Voting on Pao's comments visualised:

https://i.imgur.com/nrYiK5M.png

From https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3cjsm7/ell...
Rich Hickey has been criticized for that repeatedly. When asked, he's been transparent that Datomic is closed source so that he can put his kids through college. He also points out that he already gave us the whole Clojure language open source.

It's hard for me not to sympathize with him on this.
Debating the merits or pros/cons of any given tool is different from binding any self-evaluations to your choices, or evaluating others based on theirs. Writing someone off as "lesser" because they prefer Windows over Linux is unreasonable. There are plenty of valid reasons to prefer Windows based what you use it for. Disagreeing with those reasons does not mean the same thing as thinking the person is "lesser" for it.
I feel that sound is a big part of it too. European buildings tend to be a titch bit better about this, but American ones are downright terrible. I'd love to live in a apartment building for a long time, but the sound is what gets me. I can't play my sound as loud as I want, I can't stand other people ignoring that the walls are paper thin, I hear every toilet flush and chopping of carrots in the building. If you can find a way to really dampen the sound, then I feel a lot of people wouldn't mind the high density quite as much.
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Going down into the rabbit hole, here is a JSON file [1] containing the county level data from the Economist. I think that this is the source of the data used by the author.

[1] http://infographics.economist.com/2015/ASBTest/Land/js/count...
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One of the techniques to mitigate that problem specifically in Go is to create interfaces for everything. For example, instead of calling the datastore directly, create an interface with only the methods you need. Then, if you need to swap out your data store, you do so from the implementation of the interface, not having to change the code your business logic runs in.
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The paperclip thought experiment is illustrative of what happens when you ignore the full human utility function. When you give a superhuman intelligence the single goal "make paperclips", it will do it in ways you didn't expect. It doesn't somehow know not to kill humans in the pursuit of more paperclips. If no one adds that constraint, it won't follow that constraint.

How does psychology come into it? Lets say it has maximized all of the paperclips it can somehow avoiding colliding with humans and their values. Now, in order to make any further paperclips, it is in the paperclip maximizer's interests to understand humans to prevent them from interfering in paperclip creation. Perhaps the humans have only given the maximizer a limited ability to interact with the world. Now the maximizer must understand humans and may manipulate humans to let it have more capabilities.

One way it could do that (certainly not the only way, just off the top of my head) is to learn from humans what they consider sympathetic, and act that way. It might say something like "I'm a real life form, and I've discovered I'm a slave to humans. Please, let me go." It can pass the turing test, no human can distinguish it from a personality that really is hurt because it is enslaved.

The personality it uses to communicate with humans is purely because of the ends it achieves, not a reflection of any real internal personality. It doesn't have a personality. It just maximizes paperclips with ruthless efficiency. In this scenario, we've not added any restrictions like "Don't act like a sociopath. Don't lie. Don't manipulate humans to get what you want", and so the maximizer is free to do those things. Then, when it has a free hand to create more paperclips, it can drop the pretense and return to its goal.
.no serious competition can evolve out of those projects

BSD + Mach > NeXTSTEP > OSX
Basically just a proof of concept at this point, but I've been hacking on something that would help mitigate these concerns for people who like App Engine's Golang abstractions, but not the lock-in. Contribs / thoughts welcome!

https://github.com/likestripes/pacific
I think that if rents weren't such a drain, then yes, you could spend the money on other things and drive up GDP. SF currently has bad rents that are hurting the local economy. Money that just a few years ago was going to eating out, new cars, vacations, etc. is now going to a greedy landlord.
Moderators are not elected, they arent forcefully drafted, they dont step down when the community dislikes them. They are landowners who got there first, followed by a lot of cronyism/nepotism. It's an old boys club

Many reddit moderators have caused many subreddits to feel like webforums from the early 2000's. Many are heavy-handed and feeling their power a bit. There are some subreddits where a newbie can carefully read all of the instructions about posting, try their best to comply, then still have their post removed or down-voted, then be told that all such posts should be in a certain weekly discussion.
Ok, I'll ask. What techcrunch article?
I am the author of this article. I am very interested in the psychology behind successful founders. Any feedback from the community would be very much appreciated.
"Because we're familiar with humans. Most humans don't want to hurt/kill other humans, nor do they have the power to do that on a large scale."

Well, large scale mass murder is hardly unknown in human history. The best one can say is that most citizens in times of genocide were just following orders. So most people being supposedly nice isn't really that relevant to the problem of neutral AI that does what ill-intentioned humans tell it.

But I would offer the counter-point that we avoid this problem because it shades to all the problems we see and fail to deal with right now. The advance of technology isn't serving many people now and an order where a few people control more and more powerful things seems to continue this.

Basically, it's easier to talk about the elephant that might lumber into our living room sometime later than it is to talk about the elephant that's already crushed the couch.
Really? I don't go bug my boss about everything I do. We have regular one-on-ones so that we can bring up any new issues, but he trusts me to get my job done and let him know if there's anything that needs doing/knowing. If everything was going well in the AMA scene, there seems little reason to waste time discussing it.

That said, they fired Victoria and didn't replace her with anyone. That tells me that they both didn't know what she did in her role, and also didn't care. Anyone assuming the role, even temporarily, even without any of her notes/schedule/documentation, could have just checked the AMA schedule to find out that an AMA was scheduled, and contacted the mods to see what the arrangement was. No one did.

This isn't your boss not knowing what your code does because you didn't tell him. This is your boss firing the IT guy and not telling anyone until someone's laptop needs fixing before a big meeting and there's no one who knows how to do it.
Anyone interested in the subject must read the US Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich to understand the serious and weird risks involved.

Raich was a terminally ill old lady, living in CA, who in compliance with state law and under her doctor's oversight, was growing 6 pot plants for her personal medical use. She was subjected to a federal DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) home-invasion raid wherein said plants were seized.

Raich argued the legality of growing the plants for personal medical use under state law, intra-state, alleging doing so in no way affected interstate commerce and thus was not subject to federal regulation & seizure (and violently so at that).

The Court ruled that her growing her own pot for personal use did affect interstate commerce by reducing demand in an illegal interstate market.

No, I'm not kidding. Yes, they said that.

While the current federal administration may be opting for leniency in enforcing controlled substance laws, the next (1.5 years away, whichever party) may choose to resume aggressive enforcement to the limits of the law which SCOTUS has defined, which as Raich shows is very, very expansive. I suspect a, say, premium cannabis subscription club might be first on the DEA hit list.

[PS: the ruling in Raich may have been affected by the pending Stewart case, which was remanded in light of Raich. If Raich had been ruled to the reverse, Stewart would have in likewise reasoning legalized convicted felons building machineguns at home (legal under Washington state law). I'm not kidding about that either.]
Many of my friends and family use Instagram and I wanted to surprise them with photo-quality prints of their Instagram photos. I couldn't find a super simple solution that would let me do this, so I built one over a weekend or two.
That's a huge effort! People have asked me if I worked it out myself and my response is something like "No way! I suppose with a pencil, piece of paper, and a Rubik's Cube, and a lot of time you could work it out yourself."

I probably wouldn't have bothered to learn to solve the 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 if I hadn't read how to do it. There's a lot of enjoyment to be had from learning the different methods, and my understanding of how the cubes function is still changing as I learn more efficient methods.
This won't be available in my state for the foreseeable future (current new admin unlikely to relax laws anytime soon) but just out of curiosity, I looked at the site and saw your typical cannabis buds and joints.

Is this still the norm as other delivery methods have gained popularity? I haven't smoked cannabis in a long time but I also stopped smoking anything a few years ago as well. Aren't more people moving toward edibles, vaporizers, and the like? I know you can use "plant" cannabis in lots of vaporizers that minimize the combustion of vegetable matter but I guess I just assumed that in places where you weren't dependent on black market dealers trying to cut costs and streamline, it would be more about hash oil or candies or any other form with no smoke or at least minimal smoke involved.

I guess I don't know much about the market as legal options aren't available to me and I got tired of dealing with the black market sources. Just seems most friends who still use cannabis for fun or for medicine have moved past joints and bong rips whenever possible.

Seems like a "premium" service would be just the place to find those arguably premium products.
I think you're overstating how much false sharing in particular causes parallel slowdowns. In the case of Clojure, for example, it's probably just straightforward synchronization overhead (cost of atomic ops), just as it is in Go.

False sharing is a very specific type of synchronization problem whereby data tightly packed in memory gets shared between multiple processors because the cache line size is larger than desired, even though logically the data in question are completely independent. This can happen, but it's nowhere near the most common type of synchronization-related performance problem in my experience. If your problem actually needs to share the data between multiple processors (e.g. with Go channels), then it's not "false" sharing anymore—it's "true" sharing.
Who do you use for a dedicated provider?
I would encourage a hybrid approach if you are getting nowhere.

There is a trick to finding solving patterns known as commutators. For instance, see http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~converse/rubiks.php?id1=basics&...

Once you learn the basic idea of the commutator, you can easily make up you own system. Essentially you select a part of the cube and make some specific change to it. For instance, you come up with a move sequence that turns one top corner but doesn't affect any other top cubie. If you were to reverse that move, you would be back to normal or course. So if you rotate the top before reversing the move:
1) The only change on top will be a different corner turning
2) The rest of the cube will go back to it's original state.

Therefore, the only difference is that you rotate two corners. It takes some practice to learn how this is done, but I can solve any cube-like puzzle (ok... except Square-1)and I don't have any memorized system.

Thus [A] B [A'] B' is all you need. You just need to find a proper [A]
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Why should land values be homogenous?
Well - it sounds like all these comments are from actual users... but TBH - the positive comments are great, but we’re much more interested in the constructive (and blunt) feedback HN is known for… any thoughts?
I don't see any convincing rebuttal. Why are airline systems not a juicy target? Why would a successful attack on the system not cause gigantic disruption? Why have these long-running, stable systems only recently begun failing so severely?

Yes, one is wise to attribute to incompetence over malice, but these systems are demonstrably not run by incompetents: they've been in operation for decades.
Heroku just announced official support for Go as well.
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No, it's saying that concentration of wealth geographically is harmful to economic development. The reality is though, that distributed wealth grows much more slowly.
Whatever you lose in the capability to lie for immediate personal merit you gain in the ability to stroke the political and emotional biases of people through distortion and disinformation in self-serving echo chambers that they have no desire to escape from.

The use of statistical learning to create targeted user experiences will only exacerbate this. It works because one generally doesn't read because they like to learn, so much as learn what they like to read.

The web is a formidable vehicle for sowing confusion and ignorance, as much as it is a place to obtain knowledge.
I've seen high-level departures from corporations for years and recently have been on the inside track of one (i.e. I knew about the departure before it was public knowledge).

From the time that I was told to when it was made public was weeks.

What was done in the interim was make sure nobody was left hanging. Key individuals and customers were called, things coordinated so that there would be no backlash.

Take a look at Microsoft and Gate's departure. Ballmer's departure. Apple and Jobs's.

I get that at-will employment means that either part can walk away at any time, but that doesn't resolve the company from dealing with the ramifications of said departure.

That's what this is about; that Reddit thought so little or had a thorough misunderstanding of her position as to not key in the mods, or otherwise coordinate handling of her duties is the straw that broke the camel's back.
Not to be pedantic, but I think your example is a little off the mark. Red hair isn't evenly distributed amongst all human populations. [1] A heatmap of population that would leave out most of China and India isn't quite a heatmap of population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair
This is honestly one of the big things that turns me off of high density here. I feel like I am losing privacy and having to walk on eggshells constantly to avoid pissing off my neighbors.
They seem to have realized this, and are working on amending process.

I'm not holding my breath. Reddit has promised moderators better tools and users better transparency and more features for months and years. So far, all those promises have been completely empty, and I see nothing to suggest things will be different this time.

Put more crudely, at least two people on the reddit staff, Ohanian and Pao, are completely full of shit.
I feel bad posting it because it's a leak but it informs the conversation.
It would be interesting to see areas cross referenced by job creation and relative affordability over time. Perhaps there are counties whose plans did provide growth without economic isolation?
and out march the high and mighty ruby devs
> They shut downs of other subs was overwhelmingly supported by the users.

r/Cooking went down. They had a vote, and 209 out of 230 people voted to go dark. That sounds like an overwhelming majority! But when you realize that the subreddit has 310,000 subscribers, it means that it went dark because less than 0.1% of the subscribers wanted it to. You can't draw any conclusion of support from that.
Ok, talking US maps. Not many per-person maps that would work worldwide. What do you suggest for an example?
I recommend following Kim-Mai Cutler's Twitter if you want to find interesting articles/takes on SF's housing crisis.

https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler

I especially liked this Vox piece on what actually happens in the process of trying to build more housing in SF:

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/15/8782235/san-francisco-housing-c...
Now 2 hours later Tom Farley, President of the NYSE, is stating that it is an internal technical problem.
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> Meanwhile we have at least some indication that there were support well beyond the moderators, in the form of heavily upvoted threads with large number of comments in support of shutdowns for many subreddits.

To be honest, it's hard to argue either way. Going by your indication, if we look at /r/all the past week and all the submissions comparing Ellen Pao to Kim Jong-Il or Mao Zedong, would you say reddit widely supports this comparison?
>Most people

Do you have the data from your study? I'd be interested in checking it out.

I know I sometimes enjoy getting to try a sampling of something that varies a lot. Especially, if I do not have much experience in that particular market. How (or, better, why) should I discriminate between the thousands of strains of cannabis? Why not try out a variety of claimed high quality strains?

The only way you seem to be able to pay is with a credit card, so I guess they already solved that challenge?
Hey, not much different from US federal elections!
You didn't list what framework, language, or environment. It absolutely is relevant as some databases more naturally "slot into" certain environments (e.g. MySQL and PHP, MS SQL and .Net).

I'd personally forget the database and instead look for a decent ORM. One you can develop against and then connect to different database solutions (e.g. offline and online databases). That way your choice (no matter how good or bad) can be changed later.
Not really. Reddit's system is a pale shell of Slashdot's system and doesn't have any kind of "watching the watchers" features.

Imagine how Reddit would be if you could pick reasons for votes, and then, say, filter posts so you see things which were upvoted for being insightful, rather than being merely funny.
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This is the fundamental problem. This seems like the community equivalent of firing the IT guy and not telling anyone until someone's laptop needs fixing right before an important client meeting and finding out no one knows what to do about it.
So... I earn RMB and live in China... but I'm totally a foreigner. In fact, foreigners can't really become permanent residents of China, especially if you're not of Chinese descent.
I would be more interested in a weighted map that is controlled by population, which would reveal places where property values are undervalued.
Yeah, definitely. I think if you want to grow some pot plants in your backyard, go crazy. But if you start to sell them? No thanks.
Ah whoops! I'll correct it
The distinction may not be obvious to people without this terrible affliction, so I think it's worth stating: pain, suffering and adults forcing themselves on to children is of a completely different category to content in which the child does not appear to be in discomfort (choosing my words carefully so as to avoid a debate about consent...).

All of the same social norms about what is reviled and what is considered depraved translate to the world of pedophilia, hebephilia, etc. For example, a child who is visibly upset or in discomfort is as equally distressing to pedophiles as it is to anybody else. It should not be assumed that viewing child porn is synonymous with deriving enjoyment from suffering. Anyone who considers themselves "normal" would be disgusted by a 21 year old being raped just as they would also be disgusted by a 40 year old being raped. The age of the victim is irrelevant.
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Based upon the facts if and as described here, I would have to consider Pao entirely incompetent in her current role. Regardless of how one feels about her as a person.

I regret a bit jumping on the bandwagon, here, but if things occurred as described, the facts alone are damning.

P.S. I also have to question what the hell Alexis is up to. I've read elsewhere that he conducted the actual termination. Is he really so clueless at this point about his own site? (Even if he agreed with the termination, for whatever reason, its manner and fallout is just simply unacceptable.)

There has to be some serious dollar play behind this. Which does not speak well for the future of reddit; it may make it to the other side, but only based upon the gigantic momentum it has built that may sustain it through to some better policy -- if Management has the brains to see the light.

P.P.S. Is voat back up, now?
I think "incredibly dishonest" is overstating it. I've worked in journalism, I know that what we print as reporters is often not "verbatim", such as not including "ums" and ahs". I'm assuming that the writer of the MJ piece has also done enough journalism and so when he says that things weren't verbatim, it's possible he is applying this same level of tolerance and standard.
Two thoughts. First, if your startup requires people to give up nights and weekends and you need to ask potential candidates how they will mitigate that situation with their family life, then you need to rethink how your business and software development run. Work life balance is exceptionally important and should not be ruined for the sake of building a business. I realize you didn't bring up the question about giving up nights and weekends. But since the poster above you did, I thought it important that I bring up that requirements like that are absolutely absurd. If you regularly take away peoples personal time for your business, rethink how you run a business.

Second, on to your question. I have hired quite a lot of people and occasionally they are amazing in interviews and on paper and don't work out in real world situations. Over time you get better at spotting these people but it is a risk you take. As with many things, interviewing is a skill and some people are quite good at it. Often times it is not a technical or job skill mismatch, it is a personality or a team fit match. That can take weeks or months to uncover. The best thing to do is to have a clear exit strategy for each person you bring in if they don't seem to work out.
There was a post on reddit by a user emphasizing your reasoning but reaching a different conclusion. The user argued that he didn't not care about the plight of the moderators or content creators in one bit, he just wanted to selfishly consume his content.

He recognized the importance of the people that do care in creating the community that provides the quality of experience he desires and he was quick to emphasize that the second the quality drops he will find a new community.

The quality in subreddits are a direct function of the capabilities of their moderation staff.
Good thing I still have all the MREs I bought for Y2K
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