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I honestly can't answer that but I cold-turkey'd my fb account about 2 years ago and I will never look back. You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life.

Welp, not going to lie here, I do feel like someone's personal disciplinary records should not be public. Unless that person is a public servant. Which a cop is. I'm not certain under which terms the punishment should be. When you protect an entire group from persecution from their crimes, what is that punishment?

Evil unions have to make deals with something legitimate for this to happen. Whoever agreed to these terms should also be punished.

The length of time the money was held could have been to make sure the payments didn't receive chargebacks that Amazon would later have to foot the bill for. Pure speculation but it's something to consider. Even if you had never received a chargeback on an order that would likely be the standard policy.

Politicians generally aren't the bumbling idiots us computer enthusiasts would like to imagine they are.

Will this further humanity's genius or won't it? Genius.

There's one every season.

Thanks for that response. I didnt expect to get that much useful information.

This is great. Big fan of curated lists. Keep it up.

Are there any languages that automatically (as in, deliberately) lend themselves to automated error detection? I feel like it's either not possible or so possible that Haskell is the answer.

The Monte Carlo implementation randomly searches an infinite search space for possible solutions (right?). I'm not sure if that counts as an approximation but it does make it computationally tractable. Does anyone know if the only room for improvement in computable AIXI is with the method of exploring the solution space?

I prefer seeing stuff directly from the creator. It gives you a chance to enage them with any questions you have. I also like to see it first on HN. More Show HNs, please.

Feeling bad because it's winter? Yee-ikes. Plant problems. I can't believe it's actually called SAD. Luckily summer will be here again and we can all be STOKED.

We're already progressing at breakneck speed. The last 10,000 years saw us go from stone tools to the Samsung S6.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is Austrian. He played the Terminator.

I wish the article mentioned where all these people are coming from. If they're all local then that could lend credibility to that explanation. If they're from all over the country then that doesn't seem as likely. The thought did cross my mind.

Based on the article that would also mean they're kidnappers and/or murderers so it might be best to avoid playing the Devil's advocate on this one.

That's a great idea. The backup is on my desktop so I'll have to wait until I can access it. Would love to share it.

I racked up a hefty bill one month for my mom back in day connecting to the net at all times of the night. The old Web was such a glorious thing. My favorite activity was to download images and animated GIFs so that I could have them forever. You just never knew if you'd find them again and having access to new content was a novel concept to me. I still have that folder. Backed up over 17 years just because I still can't let go of them.

Now I just play survival games and hoard items. I have no fear that I won't be able to find something I saw on the Web. It's harder to lose things forever. Such a different world and one I could not have imagined.

So after you've figured out how to create a system that can learn complex things like that, wipe it and teach it something you want it to know. Seems like the obvious, logical course of action. You know?

FPS games are a great playground for learning, regardless of the killing. If you can teach an AI to hunt, kill, and avoid being killed, then you've got something interesting on your hands. Once you have the system in place that can learn how to do those things, you don't have to keep it training on a violent game. You can switch it to Minecraft. We don't care if AI kills zombies.

It came out a year before I was born so I don't have a way to gauge the accuracy of that particular Historical Document. I'm just having fun here. Time for an 80s movie night.

It sounds reasonable to me.

Is "Revenge of the Nerds" (1984) a symptom of many women avoiding tech or is it one of the causes? The characters were nerdy, into tech, and generally despised by their peers (most notably women and athletes). The only girls who would associate with them were Omega Mu, who were a lot like the Tri-Lams. I don't think anyone would want to be a Tri-Lam or an Omega Mu in real life[1] (they are, after all, comically nerdy). I don't find it impossible that a generation of women thought "You know, I'd rather have an Alpha Beta, not a Tri-Lam. How do I avoid getting a Tri-Lam? Don't be an Omega Mu."

I don't think it's possible to know one way or the other. It's much more likely that RotN and things like it caused or were caused by deeply rooted stigmas against tech that made women shy away from it before even getting to the point of being exposed to 'frat-like' conditions in the workplace.

1: http://i.imgur.com/Pf35A0D.png

Companies established in 1982 (thanks, Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Companies_established...

Notable: Amiga, LucasArts, Compaq, Autodesk, Lotus

I agree. I think morning news shows might be some of the worst of it. I try to stay away from most media as much as possible. It just rots your brain.

90% of the world's in-shape bodies are concentrated among the top 1% of people who exercise. It's fitness inequality, and I won't stand up for it.

Actually, I didn't see those. I'll read them.

Right now it's fashionable to dislike Amazon. Rants about Amazon are a formula for karma success right now. That's my guess as to why it hasn't been flagged to death. I wouldn't attribute a lack of flagging to legitimacy. HN isn't immune to BS.

The submitted article and especially its title are both emotional to a fault and sensationalist. The arguments presented are backed up only by anecdote and cherry-picked comments from other people who have been rejected by Amazon. I've seen all this before. There's a reason why the article is scant on the details of the rejection. In the same way a rant about PayPal tends to exclude certain details that deflate the author's rage. His final paragraph is the icing on the cake. I'm glad to see the title change.

There could be a flag included in the HTTP response header (X-Batch-DOM) or a meta tag like <meta http-equiv="X-Batch-DOM" content="1">. The response header would be a better place for that flag since you can stick a meta tag at any point in your markup (even where it's incorrect to do so). The browser could choose to ignore the meta tag if any JS has executed or it could reload the page with the setting turned on. Not ideal. Anyway, if you feel completely sure that your code would not do anything like you've demonstrated then batching might work fine. Though this basically excludes the safe use of externally linked scripts that you can't control (analytics is one example).