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>Well, for one people do not expect drivers to stop at a green light, like was the case here.

This is bad driving. You use the brake lights (and if you haven't seen the break lights working, you use the visual speed til you confirm the break lights are working) to determine of a car is going to stop. You should never put yourself in a position where any other factors are involved in if the car in front of you will stop or not.

> a green light is a strong signal that makes people assume the other drivers are moving or are going to.

And such drivers are to be held responsible for crashes and should be educated when found. Those who do not change should lose the privilege of driving.
I love the fact that you can buy the pdf using bitcoins.
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It seems to me that monetizing a LinkedIn competitor would mainly be accomplished by selling advertising of some kind:

-engagement ads of some kind (exposure to your business in general, banners, etc.)

-leads for job ads and contracts

-general job ads searchable by candidates

But for a potential direct replacement (and selling the related ads), I think it's hard to justify building out a social networking platform when there are so many robust options already available. Unless you're going to really bring something new to the table there, why rewrite FB/LI/etc?

In terms of selling access to candidates and job ads, lots of companies are starting to get this right in their particular vertical without having to include a social component (in software, see Angel.co, SO Careers, Hired.com, etc.).

Just my 0.02 dollars, certainly not an expert here.
Vote with your dollar. These companies need to know what they're doing doesn't work anymore and this is the only way we can show them.
I really dislike their aggressive attempts to get new members to send out join requests to every person they've ever corresponded with on gmail. I've gotten many invitations from people whom I'm pretty sure had no idea that LinkedIn was going to scrape their contacts and spam everyone. This happens a couple times a year ever since like 2010? I haven't seen any other tech company do something similar. There is a lot of value in their network, but this is pretty obnoxious and basically dominates my impression of the tradeoffs they're willing to make
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Most research on multi-tasking shows that the difference between self described multi-taskers and others is not the ability to multi-task but the awareness of cognitive deficits induced by multi tasking.

My take away from the article is "having a supporting wife, multi-purposing, and working very hard helps one achieve success despite constant context switching".
in this definition, every single living being is probably multitasking... you, me, everybody
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I think the GP's point is - if the assailant expects the homeowner to have a gun, he'll bring his own with him. Now you have two guns on the scene (the escalation GP mentioned), which seems to me to be strictly worse than having no guns on the scene, only if because it's easier to kill someone in a panic with a firearm than with a meelee weapon.
> I have to agree. Certainly there are geniuses and other people out there who have "super-human abilities", but thats a very few people.

> Troy could very well be one of them. But suggesting that this is "multi-tasking" is hiding the truth for the majority of people.

I honestly don't think this is true. Being bad at multitasking is simply part of being a human being. If you look into this you'll find people quite consistently overestimate their performance at multitasking and in fact do much more poorly at both tasks. They're just switching back and forth between the two, and the human brain does much more poorly with this context switch than computer processors do.

I mean I agree with the thrust of your post; I just don't agree with the idea that there are some supergeniuses who are an exception.
That's a fairly ignorant view on mental state and peer group pressures on developing adolescent minds.
now you are saying that zynga invented analytics.
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Highly unlikely that you are at 4%; is my understanding that you can be at 4% BF for a short period of time:

http://cdn.builtlean.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/body-fat...
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They also maintain shadow profiles of people who don't use linkedin by scraping their users address books.

It's a really scummy company.
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A really good way to deal with this is just mark all those mails as SPAM. Let them eat the negative SPAM feedback until all their mails end up in the trash.
> The people who I know did this missed very important details of meetings, and even has to be clued in that someone was speaking to them.

I agree. Few things annoy me more than having a meeting to discuss an issue. A big discussion occurs while a 1-N people are on their computers claiming the meeting is a waste of time so they need to be working instead. A decision is made and everyone leaves. Later, when the decision is about to be implemented/executed, people who said the meeting was a waste of time now make me re-hash the entire meeting because they disagree with the solution.

I've actually just started responding to these people that they should have paid attention at the time, because I have work to do.
The problem I have with this line, is it ignores the dealing with mutable state you already do on a daily basis.

Are you confused that the listing on hackernews changes depending on time of day? Why would you be confused that a call to "incrementCounter" changes the value of the counter? Or that a call to "printf" adds to the output?

I agree that having a large function where the value of something changes at the top and at the bottom can be confusing. But so can a function where you have two variables of type String because you had to sanitize the input and assign it to a new variable.

Are there ways to avoid that particular error. Certainly. Yet I have encountered that about as many times lately as I have encountered "mutable" based errors.
Lisp is great because it's easy to parse. There's really no need to have either section on lexer or parser when working with s-expr. This would be a great example of where a recursive-descent parser excels, and not only is it easy to build, it's easy to understand. I think writing an interpreter or compiler for Scheme or Lisp would be a much better place to start for learning how to implement programming languages, it's just not what I chose to do here.
I hate their usage of dark patterns to trick users into giving them access to their email contacts. I consider myself a fairly savvy user of the internet, and apparently I fell for it. (When I checked a while back, LinkedIn had access to my Gmail contacts despite my never intentionally giving them such.)

And as others mentioned, they send out emails that purposely look like some LinkedIn user has sent something to you specifically.

I think they're utter scumbags.
The difference is that one has guns.
I agree that the problem is the league's negotiations locking the content down to specific viewing methods, but I disagree with your second point.

I think creating a good solid product wins. Something like www.ballstreams.com is much better than NBA League Pass. HBO Go is a better experience than your cable + HBO Subscription.

Good products and services win out in the long run. That's why this is even a debate - services like Netflix are destroying the cable companies. It's only a matter of time.

If ESPN built their own platform that was simple to use, worked wherever you were (without a cable subscription), and maybe most importantly did not have blackouts, I think they would make a killing.
> where is it when you end up bundling a "country" of some one billion and a half people under the all-encompassing banner

Yeah, well, the "country" has an all-encompassing government, which is pretty consistent in applying a uniform set of policies (at least when the policies benefit the government, anyway). In the context of an article about censorship and cooperating with authoritarian governments, it makes perfect sense.
Yeah not sure how accurate the calipers are, I pay more attention to if it's going up/down than the absolute value.
No, in actually good shape. Lift 3 times a week, have a 6-pack.
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My wife received an sms text from the ceo at my old company inviting her to link in - crazy as they had never even met and I am 100% sure he is just an idiot and accepted everything the app asked him
A lot of people have a lot of trouble with the Cluster Labs stack- and get into a lot of trouble. I've never really used it much myself, but integrating failover into the server process, and making sure the defaults are all correct for a very particular use case seems like a fairly reasonable thing to do.
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>What would you do - kill the girl or kill yourself?

Unless the AI behind these cars are so advanced that we cannot know ahead of time what it would do and it cannot be put in a simulation to test it, there is a vast difference between a self driving car and a human. Namely, we don't (and with the current level of knowledge can't) know what a human will do til after the situation occurs. And in general, in snap judgment cases like this, we do not punish a person for making a bad choice unless it is outright malicious.

Contrary to this, a self driving car is in a system who we can attempt to simulate (though not at perfect fidelity) and one where we know the underlying algorithms enough to answer the question and even change the algorithms to change the answer before the situation ever occurs.

>Not to mention that the car will already see the girl crossing the highway before she ever does get out there because of how sophisticated the sensors are.

This is attacking the situation instead of answering it. All I would have to do is modify the situation slightly and the question would remain just as valid and thus the response does nothing but postpone.
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Hi guys,

there are companies that would submit your startup to 40+ directories and they charge between 50$ and 75$ for that. How do you feel about those prices? I believe I could offer the same service for much less, maybe even as low as 25$. I would also do everything by hand and send a full report after submitting. What do you think about it? Would you use it? Is there even a real market for such service?
Some who'll launch .js TLD will make a killing on all these suckers :)
Sort of the exact opposite of why you drag your TI83 around, no? TI83 has all the basic building blocks you need to do some math.

Wolfram takes all the building blocks then adds an enormous amount of extra junk that's much less frequently tapped.
Er, no, since the whole HT leak happened within the last two weeks and this operation took place mostly between 2014 and early 2015.

You give the Government wayyyy too much credit if you think it can go from leaked exploit to arrests generated from said leaked exploit within a two week period. The process, like all processes quagmired in bureaucracy, takes months.
Personally, I would try to go for a simpler solution. In case of a failover event which is already complicated in itself and happening at a point in time where stuff is already going wrong (there would be no failover otherwise), do you really want to have all this additional infrastructure with etcd and haproxy as a dependency?

If you can live with a few minutes of downtime, I would recommend to trigger your failover using human intervention once you have ascertained that the failover would actually help (you never, ever want to fail over if master doesn't respond in time due to high load - at that point, failing over will only make things worse due to cold caches).

See https://github.com/blog/1261-github-availability-this-week for a nice story of automated DB failover going wrong.

In our case, we're running keepalived to share the IP address of the postgres master, but we don't actually automatically act on PG availability changes.

In a situation that actually warrants the failover, a human will kill the master node by shutting it down and keepalived will select another master and trigger the failover (which is then automated using `trigger_file` in `recovery.conf`).

In this case we have only one additional piece of infrastructure (keepalived) and we can be sure that we don't accidentally make our lives miserable with automated failovers.

The cost is, of course, potential additional downtime while somebody checks the situation, does minimal emergency root cause analysis and then shuts down the failed master.

In the even rarer case of hardware failure, keepalived would of course fail over automatically, but let's be honest: Most failures are caused by application or devops issues and in these cases it pays off to be diligent instead of panicing.
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It's funny how quickly anti-China comments in this thread are being downvoted. Hey underpaid China censors+bots, are you there?
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The widespread reasoning was because the title was "say no to refugee homes".
A front end Clojurescript framework which uses alot of external libraries:

https://github.com/zubairq/coils
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As someone who's been in physics for much of the last twenty years, I'd guess that things are going at about the same rate. I don't think that the rate is "crawling", though.

If you look on log plots of parametrized experimental progress, progress remains linear, so it's a Moore's law like improvement on many fronts.

The emergence of precision cosmology has really transformed astrophysics in the last twenty years. The solar neutrino problem is now solved entirely (and even \theta_{13} has been measured!). The lynchpin of the Standard Model (the Higgs) has been found. LIGO is likely to make first detection in the next couple of years. Graphene and topological insulators have the solid-state community buzzing. Fluorescence microscopy and nanopore techniques are making waves in the biophysics community. And more, of course. Heck, this week, the most compelling evidence yet for the long-sought pentaquark appeared.

For the probes of the dark sector and of gravity, though we haven't found anything, huge swaths of parameter space (i.e. possible theories) have been ruled out. EDM searches are relentless in their searches for new physics. Someday, someone will find a reliable anomalous signal, but we can't predict when.

And, if you're looking for fun hints of new physics, check out "muon g-2". The next 5-10 years will be exciting there, too, to see if the existing discrepancy between measurement and the Standard Model will survive closer experimental scrutiny.

We go slow because we will go far.
> Replace their government censorship with our social media outrage, and the parallels become clearer

They are not even remotely the same thing. You can choose to ignore "social media outrage" and stay out of jail; try ignoring government demands in China and see how it works out.

Cultural pressure to conform may be strong, but as long as it's informal, it's relatively easy to survive. When it becomes formal, you have to deal with a lot of people legally allowed to physically hurt you.

There is censorship in the West (especially in the UK, where the police started jailing Twitter trolls and Facebook bullies, as well as censoring DNS calls), but it's nowhere near the scale of what you see in China... yet.

> I don't see how this makes LinkedIn morally bankrupt - or more accurately, the whole industry is morally bankrupt

Maybe LI is a bit morally-bankrupter than the average?
And your point is that capitalism will renew itself once more?
It will better be able to make a decision than a human can. But what decision is optimal isn't well defined because never before have we had the need to define it. So far, only directly malicious behavior is known to be bad. But prioritizing your safety over the girls safety is something we have neither decided to be good or bad.
I think that might quickly fail. I know you've already seen the guppy paper where they did just that with mixed results, and that was only a handful of generations. Brain size is not that great a proxy for intelligence.
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Exactly. These are two completely different letters that exist in Turkish, neither of them should be represented by a letter in English which does not exist in Turkish.
I think you're missing the point. TDD forces you to choose data representations that best fit your tests. But in most cases of complex programming you want to choose representations that reflect your current understanding of the problem and then evolve them as your understanding evolves.

In TDD your test will always predate your understanding. So it forces you to solve (part of) the problem in your head first, rather than combine the act of problem-solving and writing. And you do this over and over again. And when you change your mind about something, you have twice the code to refactor.

It's a difference between recording your thinking in code and actually thinking in code.

This reminds me of an old article that exemplifies this:
http://insideofthebox.tumblr.com/post/52002125683/prime-fact...

Prime factor kata is often used as an introductory example of TDD, yet it is clearly impractical and produces garbage code. Not to mention that I've actually seen people do it, stumble, and hectically reach for their notes to see what's the next step. And it's a pretty darn simple problem.
Nope.

But is HN itself overweight?
Because the eng team that implements WebGL on Chrome recommended this way. I have an implementation as you're describing as the first tag of Two.js. It actually was a 2D drawing API for Three.js initially..!
Many aspects of their site are ridiculous. They hype up 'profile views' to try to get your to pay them to see a little more info about who viewed your profile. They encourage ridiculous endorsements that are completely meaningless. Etc.
Can someone please advise me how to get started with this stuff? I have been developing enterprise applications which is boring to all kids, including my nieces and nephews. I wish I could something with Blender etc. to impress those kids. I have found the documentation to be too intimidating for an absolute newbie. I am looking for a dummies guide for rendering. I am not looking to change careers; just want to pursue this to get an understanding and hook those kids into programming.
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Both deal with unauthorized access and intent don't they?

The point I'm trying to make is that it's VERY difficult to divine intent in the absence of any kind of access control.

In other words, given my above example and that's all the information you have, you can't prove that I intended to trespass. Now if the doors didn't open automatically and there was a broken lock, it's much easier to determine intent.

But in Weev's case, there was no broken lock because there was no lock at all!

Going strictly from the evidence we can surmise that AT&T didn't INTEND to prevent unauthorized access because they did nothing to prevent it.
How do we take into account emotional harm from killing a little girl causes the driver to be harmed (they weren't driving at the time as they let the car to stake over, but they blame themself for it regardless). A parent would rather they die than hit their own kid.

I guess once these cars begin being sold people can start testing situations using dummies and such.
You mean like King? Nah, I'm not seeing a whole lot of progress there.

And I think there's some risk to trying to retrodict these kinds of events. It's just too easy to pick up on coincidences and assign too much importance to them. It becomes especially dangerous in light of this big data fad in which it's become common to believe that you really can infer causation from observed correlations, and then feel confident betting entire businesses on it.
Cute cynicism, but you elect representatives who in turn appoint people to positions of authority. That's how this works. The laws are created and managed by people put into power by the governed.

I understand that may go against your Freshman sociology 101 libertarian mantra, but the real world has already sorted this out and it tends to work pretty well.
I do not disagree that things feel slower to some degree, but I'd also bet absolutely anything that 100 years from now people will look at our time and say "Can you believe they didn't understand X? There was so much low hanging fruit in 2015."

The issue is that what appears simple, 100 years from now, takes a significant shift in how we're currently thinking. The problems are complex and the prior knowledge needed to get to a breakthrough is always growing, but I really do believe its self defeating to look at 100 years ago and think they had it easy as I believe people will undoubtedly say the same thing about us 100 years from now.
> You're making incredible judgements

I'm not passing judgement at all. I'm saying that having a device that is designed to suddenly and explosively discharge a projectile is inherently unsafe. To back up my claim I posted numerous videos, many of highly trained people, who have experienced accidental/negligent discharge.

Accidents happen. Even to the most highly trained and careful. The issue with gun accidents is that they have an incredibly high risk of being fatal. Enjoy guns all you like. Just stop pretending that you are safer around them or that you are immune to mistakes. No human is.
Condenser size/effectiveness/whatever ends up being the limiting factor. The Jay Leno video someone linked has him stating that the car gets 200 miles out of the water in warmer weather (which isn't a huge problem, water is cheap, but radiators are pretty well advanced technology at this point so there isn't much reason to expect big improvements).

Someone at NASA analyzed it once:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1970001...
That's a false equivalence surely. Animals don't have a stake in the law- and policy-making process, whereas humans do - including all those potentially subject to those actions in the future.

In essence, humans have agreed to do these things to themselves. Animals do not have that opportunity.
Just to share: In my 20+ yr career no employer actually asked for any proof of degree. Whatever I have written on my resume was fine with 100% of employers.

They (rightfully so) care about my ability to deliver stuff vs. stuff printed on some paper.

Exclusions from this rule:

- Really large enterprises usually hire some sort of background verification services that would annoy you to no end to provide all kinds of proofs.

- US Immigration (to get TN or other working visa) does ask for proofs of your degrees.
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If you look at quantum computing [1], which is very much a part of physics, I would claim that progress is accelerating there. Its a field that is asking a lot of deep questions about reality and also spurring a lot of technological innovation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing
Its excellent documentation has been down for 24 hours due to a failure at sourceforge. :(

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Perhaps it's a combination of both?

Most of the meeting being irrelevant, and the quality of the email not mattering?
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