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> There are other studies that suggest the risk runs as high as over 100 deaths from cancer. Second, there's 9 plant workers that inarguably died from the event...

Let's run with that for a moment.

According to Wikipedia, the tsunami caused 15,893 deaths, 6,152 injuries, and 2,572 missing. We're talking about a rounding error even in your worst case, in an exceedingly rare disaster.
I don't know about Gates but Larry Page went to UMich for his undergrad degree and Sergey to the University of Maryland. Both had excellent academic track records when they applied to Stanford and Stanford's engineering graduate program seems to be filled with people like that (STEM undergrad, some technical projects or notable activity, entrepreneur tendencies ...) So in general I think they would have gotten in (and fit in).
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Using HTML? It's a declarative language.
My bad, I mixed up some wording when translating my thoughts on the fly, I wanted to refer to the whole chakra/mysticism/body-heals-itself and `holistic' came out (there must be some kind of cognitivo-linguistic explanation that would explain it but that'd be a poor excuse for what is essentially a lack of attention on my part).
I'm fairly certain this has all been tried. The New York Times and many other news outlets do have a freemium model of sorts. You are allowed access to 10 news articles a month, and after you reach your limit you can pay for more.

Guess how many people subscribe to the Times and are willing to actually pay to read another article? <830,000 worldwide. Paywalls have been implemented, monetization models have been tweaked - you can't change habits. People are habituated to getting their content online for free. They're not willing to pay for it in the vast majority of cases.

If we're talking online news content, there's just a ton of different outlets and I don't see people being willing to pay individually on an article-by-article basis. Maybe if you aggregated content under one subscription model (like the music industry does wit Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) and distributed revenue to publishers based on readership, it could work for a small minority of consumers. But even that seems like a stretch.
Thanks. Good tips. Kinda my thoughts too. Just needed an extra push mentally from others.. like you. :)
It is very, very popular to say things against Uber here these days.
IN GNU make there's \( , $(\() and lparen := \( ... $(lparen) .
In addition to the use in a regular landing, I see this being a huge benefit in a hard landing. The helicopters I have been in all had seats that collapse to absorb energy in a hard landing, and these legs could do the same thing with a relatively long travel.
Most inspirational part:

"If everybody agreed with me, if everybody believed my/our idea is good, we'd have no chance!"
Also keep in mind that decibels are logarithmic, so 240dB is 10^(24-13) times as much sound power as 130.
And Zuckerberg? Jobs? Ellison? Dell? If you think that elite schools wouldn't want one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful entrepreneurs on their list of alumni instead of another lawyer or investment banker even if they knew they were not a "great fit," you put more stock in the principles of admissions committees than I.

The reality is pretty simple. The Harvard's and Stanford's of the world put out an enormous number of hugely successful graduates because of selectivity bias. If you pool a group of 10,000 eager 18 year-olds with high standardized test scores from top high schools and mostly from privileged and wealthy families and compare that to a pool of 10,000 18 year-olds with average test scores and from average backgrounds, and pick one at random, which is more likely to be successful in their career?

The point being that if Harvard could pick their classes with the benefit of hindsight, my opinion is that that they would take a lot of students that they would otherwise turn down in place of a lot of others that they would otherwise accept.
"Researching the complex relationship between pigs and humans through game design". More like, "Messing with encaged pigs for fun through retarded game design".
The biggest challenge will the same thing that killed Concorde: finding customers to pay super prices for super speed.
I don't see what math's Turing-completeness has to do with models describing physical system. It means that math can describe whatever model is most accurate, but it can also describe plenty of unphysical models.

If you want explanations and not formulas, I'm not sure math or physics will help. They are both famously bad at explaining why, beyond "if it were different you would not be able to ask the question".
Boooo. No fun. Do what I did. End up living with the other two people who ended up in front of a door you've never walked through in Alphabet City, NYC in response to a Craigslist advert. Did one of those two people stop paying rent without letting us know, and did we have to find out three months later by way of threat of eviction from management? Yes. But, he went by the name "Cash" and the guy who eventually replaced him was insanely good people. And, I got that story.

Besides, "Cash" did have his references checked by the management company. And we all three signed separate leases along with co-signers (I didn't need one, but the management company insisted per policy, and I really wanted to rent this place). It all came down to communication. Not reference checks.

And,,, "Trust". I think there is a misunderstanding shown in the use of that word in this context.
My MBP doesn't die even at 3%, it just goes to the "hibernate" state.
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I did google searching but all the articles cut off in late July and I didn't see any follow ups after that. Is foul play suspected?
So what you're suggesting is one of two things.

1. Support model. I.e. I donate to your site and then consume your content.
2. Netflix (walled garden) model: I pay a central place, think AOL, or Facebook and they track my views and pay those producing content.
Even without the control group, it's not a useless observation. Many investors only invest in ideas that don't seem flawed (which seems reasonable on its face), but they should realize they're missing a large fraction of the good opportunities.
Not at all, because everything I read about him suggests he is a focused problem solver. Someone who meets challenges with creative solutions out of the stuff he has on hand versus someone going back and doing a lot of set up research and then testing phases and then development. Many of the folks I've met from MIT fit that same model, basically uniting around solving complex problems.
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> (caption) The Soviet Tu-144 was the only only airliner to take passengers faster than the speed of sound

I would agree with your bot assessment.
Suppose the langauge has a built-in printf() and sleep() function.

You could say main=printf("Hello World"), which declares that your program is equivalent to the action of printing "Hello World".

You could also say that main=sleep(1), which declares that your program is equivent to the program sleep(1).

You can also say that main=sleep(1) >> printf("Hello World"), which says that your program is equivent to the program that sleeps for a second, then prints "Hello World".

You can even create syntactic sugar around the concatenation operator, so it looks like you are programming in an imperative language.

If the concatenation operator happens to be over-loadable, you can do a lot of neat stuff with it. Even if it isn't, you can define common control flow operations (such as for loops) at the language level, which means that you can just as easily define new control flow operations that the language designers didn't think of.
Who would've otherwise been a 13 year old beggar? Or 6 year old corpse? Their own country's market sure doesn't look too good for job creation...
It seems bizarre to me that someone could write an article about relational programming without even mentioning miniKanren, which can do things like find quines, given a relational specification for a language interpreter: http://webyrd.net/quines/quines.pdf — and it’s in the Clojure standard library as core.logic: https://clojure.github.io/core.logic/

miniKanren solves a lot of the limitations that systems like Prolog had, at the cost of some performance. The old miniKanren web page explains, "KANREN is a declarative logic programming system with first-class relations, embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme. The system has a set-theoretical semantics, true unions, fair scheduling, first-class relations, lexically-scoped logical variables, depth-first and iterative deepening strategies. The system achieves high performance and expressivity without cuts."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28467011/what-are-the-ma... talks a bit more about the differences.

(Also, the article didn't mention Prolog. What's up with that?)

(I don't have any experience with miniKanren myself.)
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Not even close to the success of Indian Americans
You want to restrict the number of similar pictures, not the number of pictures taken at a specific spot. So you should decide based on the what's in the view of the lens, or after taking the picture.

Imagine a polaroid camera that shreds the picture if it's deemed not original enough :)
TLDR: the big “close call” list consist of every mere mention of a word Drone by a pilot, not the actual near misses.
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Yeah, I agree with your opinion to an extent.
IMO it's better to write applications than minimize the amount of imperative code written - favoring declarative code - rather than to eliminate it altogether.

A good example of this would be to favor a templating language to render your HTML where possible, rather than building your HTML directly from your code using string concatenation.
I was thinking the same thing. The speed at which parent jumped to that conclusion made me think he was the discriminating one, not you.
Ionic does not give you the exact same app on both platforms.

There are dozens of platform-specific styles in the CSS that make each target behave more like a native app. A custom-styled native app, but one that follows platform conventions.

I also absolutely abhor the fact that React mixes HTML with JavaScript. It just feels so completely wrong to me.
Sustaining at higher altitudes requires a higher prop speed, but a lower prop torque. The difference in consumption is by drag, friction, electrical losses, and such.
So for the novice web developer, what is the recommended course of action for creating a "modern," mobile-friendly website? The options seem to be:

- Code all HTML and internal CSS by hand

- Use a CSS framework

- Use something like Bootstrap or other aesthetic rendering powered by javascript/jquery

The problem seems to be that the less work done by the designer means increased reliance on Javascript or external engines that then cause additional overhead, bandwidth, and possible breakage for people using NoScript or AdBlock. And to be honest, I'm sorta on their side, as it seems silly that a single website needs to reach out to three or four outside domains just to style the page properly.

What's the solution here?
It's well on it's way to replace things like Yelp and even Criagslist or AngiesList. It has a lot of potential, which is why they've been able to raise so much. I'm also pretty sure they have much much more than a million users.
I think the natural followup question is- why do Asian American parents think their children need to get into elite universities?
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That is an incredibly superficial treatment of the subject that not only fails to mention that these empire fell, but also some of the relevant reasons why. It also fails to distinguish between the formation of nations and the formation of empires and the processes by which they can and do occur. Furthermore, it trivializes the substance and significance of national identity. National identity is very fundamental and upending it in Europe today, and at the scale of a 28 nation bloc, is virtually impossible, especially by means of the mendacious tactics of would-be statesmen and crypto-imperialists.

Mind you, empires are driven by a dominant culture and group. The question then becomes: who would play (or is playing) that role in the EU? When you answer that question, the politics of the EU begin to present themselves in a different light.
Also there were over land speed limits applied. Apparently while at BOS you could hear the boom as the JFK-LHR flights accellerated once far enough off the coast
Even multi-paradigm languages need to choose a dominant paradigm.

Javascript supports functional style programming, but it is still in the context of an imperitave language. In the same way, Haskell supports imperitive programming, but it has to be done within the context of a functional language.

Also, in my opinion, the intimidating part of Haskell is not its purity, but rather its type system.
I haven't had performance issues with Ionic; Angular certainly has known issues with too-many-listeners, though Ionic offers a workaround for the most serious case (long list views).
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Well, if it looks like ADD and acts like ADD, it is ADD.

Asperger's, for example, has been pushed under "autism spectrum disorder". And Pluto is not a planet.

I could see Internet overload/distraction be diagnosed as some ADD-like disorder, or the main cause of it...
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I tend to combine personal & business contacts together.

Recently came across the Free Hubpsot CRM, while I've yet to give to get it a test drive, the demo looks interesting > http://www.hubspot.com/crm
MIT is actually more diverse than Harvard. In the past several years, it's been >10% international. Both schools have about the same percentage of Asian students.

Harvard: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

MIT: http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/students/diversity.html
This rhetoric of casually discounting the possibility of government breaches in commercial networks might have sounded insightful and worldly several years ago. Now it just seems ignorant.

The person you were responding to had no evidence to back their claim (in this particular instance), but neither do you.
Many social platforms exist because of the power of their restrictions (twitter, snapchat, etc). I wouldn't be surprised to see this trend spread to rest of technology. I don't want technology that can make me anyone/anything; I want technology that will help me to be exactly who I want to be, and nothing else.
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It needs to be assisted up to something like Mach 0.5 by a conventional engine or a first-stage.
> (This is kinda funny b/c they were sorta conceived to emulate Oxford and Cambridge - which as I understand are all about he well-rounded "liberal arts eduction")

Undergrad programs at Oxford and Cambridge are actually very specialized compared to American degrees. Students typically don't take any classes from outside their primary course. While some courses are broader than a typical major at an American university (e.g "Natural Sciences" at Cambridge or "Philosophy, Politics and Economics" at Oxford) only a small number mix the sciences and humanities, and even then only in certain approved combinations (e.g. at Oxford you can do {Mathematics,CS,Physics} with Philosophy, but not {Chemistry,Biology} with Philosophy).

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses-listing
http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses?ucam-ref=gl...
Self-selection bias. The Asian American community is immensely diverse and consists of many different immigrant (and native!) waves. Wealthy, well-educated Taiwanese semiconductor engineers from the '70s and '80s are not the same as LA Korean grocers are not the same as Vietnamese boat people are not the same as Hmong refugees are not the same as recent mainland Chinese nouveau riche are not the same as Nisei and Sansei who have been in the U.S. for decades are not the same as Pacific Islanders or South Asians or Middle Easterners.
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Is there something similar to this for making server infrastructure maps? Just something where one can define db, web, network device, whatever, and then make a layout diagram with maybe name and IP address thrown in there?

And apologies for another "is there something like this for X" comment!
For the purposes of determining if a United States of Europe is viable, I think the US is not necessarily a great example. After all, it took two devastating wars (the Civil War and WW2) to truly centralize federal power / exhibit great power organization in the way it does today.
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> I'm saying 'natural' (and, by extension, 'organic')

Why are you conflating "natural," which in this context is as meaningless as you say, with "organic," which is not?

While I don't have confidence in the FDA to check or enforce the definition, it is defined for agricultural purposes in the USA. If you know someone that claims that their products are organic when in fact they aren't, you can report them. Here's some info:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/About%20th...
That's insane! Guessing you don't use Photoshop. At least, the last version I used (I think CS5), the font selection was weird and, no matter what, required that you open the drop down. Bleh. Haha
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That is of course what the safest way of disposing nuclear waste would be : disperse it sufficiently, and spread it everywhere. That is, after all, what nature has been doing for billions of years, and it doesn't bother anyone because we evolved under background radiation levels. Accumulation is what makes these things dangerous, and what do we do ? We put them all together, behind a thin layer of metal, guaranteeing that a localized problem bad enough to pierce a 3mm layer of metal and a dozen centimeters of concrete becomes a complete catastrophe.

But good luck defending that one politically, no matter how much you've got physics on your side.
>But when you are studying it is the best time to start a company.

What?

Most people would argue that having knowledge of the field, experience and contacts; the sort of thing you get after working in a field for a while, is going to help more than the slightly increased physical stamina you have as a very young person.
Wait, you haven't even built a prototype? How can you possibly know if your chip will even work, let alone be better than any existing GPU?

I'm sure you're aware that since Mead's retina chip there have been dozens of attempts to build NN chips, both analog and digital, and very few of them got further than the simulation stage (ETANN or ANNA chips come to mind), and no one managed to produce a commercially successful product.

Nvidia Tegra X1 claims to have 1Tops @10W for 16 bit precision, and the cost is probably under $100. They can probably double that performance if they drop precision to 8 bit. That's what they ship today, and next year they will release the Pascal version, which will undoubtedly will be bigger, faster, and more efficient. What makes you sure you can compete with them?
"The US navy does not care."

Devil's Advocate: why should they? It's not part of their mission. The armed forces of the United States exist to defend the nation. Full stop.

Saying that the USN doesn't care about whales is like complaining that Susan G. Komen doesn't care about landmines. It doesn't mean that whale-killing or landmine use is any less repellant, but expecting either to do something about it is out of scope.
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I read that, but as a rather heavy user of tmuxinator, I wouldn't really want to have all my projects running in the background at all times. I like that with tmuxinator, I can just start up the project(s) I'm currently working on, and leave the rest idle.

I am going to try out tmux-resurrect, but it's value to me would be mostly for ad-hoc tmux sessions; I think I'll still set up dedicated tmuxinator configs for each of my longer term projects.
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Weren't there a few studies on HN that basically show the US government is for all intents and purposes a plutocracy? How will my voice matter?
A restriction is not the same as preventing you from doing something. It should be called Camera Preventica.
“What problems are you solving?”
A passenger jet engine could do the same, yet that too isn't classified as a weapon.
I don't think the problem is the novice web developer at all. Most of the time using just one framework is not going to give users a problem. The issue is big sites that use maybe one or two big name web frameworks for compatibility and then have an internal framework and then add in a video player framework, an ad serving framework, and an analytics framework. It all adds up after a while and ends with a lot of sites just using "apps" for mobile instead.
Most are just suggestions, not law. I stand by what I said. Being vindictive is not civilized. I didn't make personal attacks - I have no idea who downvoted me.
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lisivka, that one can get wavefront interference is the expected outcome, even at macro level. This video shows a "particle" going through an opening, but really it is just the mechanism which produced waves in the water. Why do you think this has any bearing on relativity?
I have been hem-hawing for years on what my next programming language to invest time into learning should be and I found this comment extremely informative. After verifying that what you said about their design goals for Go wasn't a strawman, I got curious about criticism against Go. I did some googling and found this:

http://npf.io/2014/10/why-everyone-hates-go/
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What's departure from common wisdom of the Sagnac effect in that arxiv paper? It appears to be accounted for by reference frame as normal.
What you are missing is that there is no way to determine what "flawed" means.
Earlier today I ate a banana. The banana didn't feed anyone else. Does that make eating it narcissistic?

Earlier today I fixed my shoe. It was coming apart, and so I grabbed some baling wire someone had used to put up a long-gone advertisement, cut it into a kind of staple, forced it through the shoe in the appropriate places, crimped it, and cut off and crimped the ends to avoid risk of injury. Probably nobody else will ever wear this shoe. Did I fix my shoe narcissistically?

Tonight I will make dinner for a friend of mine, probably a kind of omelet with some salad. Only the two of us will eat it. Are we eating it narcissistically?

I have written a shopping list in order to make the dinner. Probably nobody else will read the shopping list. Was writing that shopping list a narcissistic act?

I don't think so. I think you're suffering from some kind of pathology that devalues anything done for pleasure instead of in service to other people. I recommend that you abandon this ideology and struggle against the pathology that makes it seem appealing to you, because it will kill you.