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An airbag allows the driver's head to experience even lower deceleration than the car, because it gives the head an extra 1-2 feet in which to decelerate--the distance between the upright position and smashed into the deployed airbag.

When wearing a 5-point harness without a helmet and head restraint, the deceleration delta between the car and the head will be entirely borne by the structure of the neck, which is how Dale Earnhardt died.
See LesZedCB's comment* for the 30MB image of the whole surface.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10277891
> So I wrote some op-eds on why Drupal was not always a good choice for projects (most notably: government projects) citing from my experience as rescue-consultant-for-failing-drupal-projects.

How did those go down and what happened after you wrote them (both from the community & potential clients)?

I am sorely tempted to publish some I've written about a CMS over the last 3 years, but prudence has kept me silent so far.
This isn't so bad when the battery is removable. The idea that they are pushing for planned obsolescence is more believable when they deliberately make it difficult to replace the battery.
There is effectively a rich investor cabal that works to guarantee those who are rich stay rich and get richer. Its easy to be a "better investor" when you've got all of the smartest financial minds working to make sure you get richer.
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I really like the portability of this air con and think the device is worth mass production.
This is likely true, however there are a lot of strings if you pull on anything associated with the Cold War. Even without leaning on domino theory and assuming that Iran was better with a democratically elected government, I don't think it's conclusive to say that "If the US hadn't been involved in Iran, the world as a whole would have been a better place." I think Poland, Hungary, and a lot of Eastern Europe are probably happier without the Soviet Union?

As a friend in Jordan said, sometimes democracy isn't the best first step. And I'd argue that both Atatürk and Nasser played pretty close to the line as well.
You can't follow the topic of the thread because it diverged two inches off topic? Let me spell it out for you.

1. I quoted a part of the article saying how pathetic that the FTC is for only attacking Accidental app purchases by kids. I claim it's pathetic because many corporations have committed crimes that are worse up to and including murder. Please note that nowhere did I say corporations are bad because they are big.

2. Then someone said my comment was too extreme.

3. Then I used an example, citing other corporations and murder as an example to prove my point.

4. You claim you're too stupid to follow the thread because if I'm not talking about google or amazon then I'm "off topic." You also claim that I think corporations are bad because they are big when I clearly never said anything of the sort. I'm saying some of the biggest crimes corporations committed involve murder and that the FTC only taking care of accidental app purchases by kids is rather pathetic. Get it smart ass?
You do realize you don't have to use curl|bash, right? You can wget, verify with gpg and then bash it.
Facebook's new slogan is "Move fast with stable infrastructure."
They don't call it debt. It is simply their way of keeping their agility with a huge number of developers. If the flip side is junk that mostly impacts install space, I don't see it as a bad trade-off.

What alternative way would you suggest to keep your mega team productive and shipping features?
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Eventually you just hear "New version of our app rewritten from the ground up" when it all becomes one big pile of technical debt.
>>What if the rich get richer because they know how to invest their money more effectively? New research shows that this may be a factor behind the rise in inequality.

A factor, sure... one factor... of many...
They deal with this with automated code review tools like their Infer static analysis tool (http://fbinfer.com) as well as abstracting away the Objective-C with React Native.
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Could you point me to the better way of installing software that will work on all Linux distros?
Personally, I prefer the European model - wear a seatbelt and you'll be fine, don't and it's on you.

The other way around is kind of insane - you increase the risk for everybody who is using their safety equipment properly, for the benefit of those who can't be bothered.
When Apple said they can't turn over data the FBI said that means adorable children will die. I wonder what they will have to say about this?
Poor people don't have money to invest. They really don't. People at the bottom of society in the UK (and I'm talking millions of people here) struggle to get by.

You can't invest money if you don't have money to invest.

I don't think massive inequality in the UK has come about because rich people are savvy stock traders. More likely it's because our taxation system is regressive. For example, indirect taxation hurts the poor most, and the balance of taxation in the UK has shifted towards indirect taxation since the 1980s.
E.g. having to move variables to beginning of block (c89 style) is just miserable

Since VS2013 there has been partial C99 support and as such this is not needed anymore, finally.
RetailMeNot is a solid company, but organic search is their top traffic driver. They're incentivized to leave up the invalid/expired content.

In our case, the automation solves for expired/invalid codes, for sure.

And I understand the hesitancy around browser extensions. The coupon vertical doesn't have the most pristine history in that regard.

Appreciate your feedback!
There is also the Intel compiler (a bit pricy, but comes with enough bells and whistles that for anything performance-related it is easily worth the money). At least in my experience, its code is a couple percent faster than GCC on modern Intel CPUs. Diagnostics are rather horrible, though.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10271971

It's not totally unreasonable. On the other hand, there's the 5th amendment, and you are not actually required to open the door when presented with a warrant, that's just a way of saving your door.
> I only know of Windows drivers for Sony and Lenovo.

My Samsung has a BIOS setting to limit charging to 80%.
See above comment. Meant to reply here, lol.
The investments that I was presented with as I "moved up" into the world of accredited investment were significantly better than the ones available before. There are hedge funds for accredited investors with less volatility and better returns than many high-fee mutual funds.
Thank you! Parents need to stop fighting common core irrespective of their opinions on it. It is our reality - doesn't really matter our opinion of it. Appears it is here to stay. I am looking to verse myself with it to ensure I can support and assist my kids, so they can embrace and learn to love math (like I do). Thank you for providing material to help parents learn the tools.
So the main purpose of most of the 18000 classes is to make it possible for the app to scale up to 18000 classes? :)
Yes. It would at least be something I can trade for a pittance of real money. That being said I would also work for food and housing.
I wish ya'll would stop falling for his trick. His posts are nothing but link bait drivel designed to attract views. The entire domain might need a ban. Flagged.
These are signal pins, not power pins. The device is still receiving power when the switch is "off", all the switch does is provide a signal to the pins that tell it to disable itself.
"multiple platforms" means "ten different types of gcc+POSIX+fork+pthreads"

This. Unfortunate, but some even seem to think C99 support automatically means POSIX and then start complaining a platform isn't compatible if it doesn't handle what they thought was portable code..
Humans weren't a bunch of cavemen 100, 300, or even 500 years ago. We've had things like microscopes and telescopes for 400 years. Things like algebra and geometry are over a thousand years old.

Things have just been snowballing ever since. And things will be even more insane in another 100 years.
>It provides a concrete, plausible mechanism for a Piketty-type dystopia, in which the natural tendency of financial markets is to make inequality explode.

Now I'm pretty libertarian by leaning, but things like this make me very concerned about completely "free market" economics. Economic systems exist to serve people and the society we want to build. If free market capitalism can be shown to systematically lead to increasing inequality by their very nature, then we've got some hard questions to ask ourselves as a society.
You lost me at faxes.

In seriousness, though, I don't think it's fair to downplay the complexity of government procurement. Having worked as a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a contractor for a U.S.G.S. program, I've had some exposure to that world. It's not pretty, and much of the complexity is needless.

Some of it is genuinely important, like accessibility and privacy requirements. The vast majority, though, seems mostly to be the product of two centuries worth of increasing bureaucracy.

This is not a problem that can't be solved, though. I don't think the gentleman at the end of the article is correct in his assertion that this way of doing things "is timeless." We just have to figure out how to pare down bureaucracy a little bit at a time.
Of course, but then we're not talking about curl|bash anymore. It seems kind of contradictory to say that curl|bash is secure as long as one doesn't actually curl|bash.
You can't choose your parents, but you can have a series of rich spouses whom you outlive.
>This thread was about Google, and now you write aggressively about GM. No wonder it's hard to follow your line of thought.

This thread was not about google. I started it. Nowhere in my original comment did I mention google. The article may involve google I'm only remarking on a part of the article. My comment shifted the topic a bit to litigation and corporations in general. It seems quite obvious to me. I think the evidence points to your own ability to follow the thread then someone writing something about GM.

>I'm not aware who Google has "mass murdered". Google has surely had a profound influence on the society in most countries, and life has changed, but I can't see how the word "mass murder" fits in.

Dude when did anyone say "Google" mass murdered? Nobody said that. Read english man. When I said "mass murdered" I said corporations have mass murdered. People have mass murdered other people too. Both are true statements.
Doubly so considering the base model starts at $1,650 for specs that are hardly top of the line.

I really wonder who the target market for this is.
5 point harnesses are completely impractical with many types and styles of clothing.

I don't know if you can legally install one to replace your 3 point by choice, but if you mandated them I suspect seat belt usage would plummet, which seems counterproductive.

For that matter, mandated helmet usage would improve many types of injuries, but I don't see that flying either.

From a public safety point of view, many of these decisions are more about balancing compliance and safety, rather than safety alone.
Cool! i've been wanting to see a good simple getting-started with relay for a while now. I feel like this is a bit overkill for most of my projects, but i might use it someday. I like the idea that you just declare what your component's data dependencies are, and let relay sort most of that out.
This would work better if the switch worked as you described - close a circuit to GND to turn the card on, leave the circuit open to turn the card off.

If the wires to the switch fail then the card fails on.
For my bachelor thesis I did a Volume Rendering visualization of this dataset. You can have a look at it here: https://vimeo.com/12199932. Caching 16GB of data in the GPU.
We have the same things here in France. A couple times every year, you are allowed to visit them at 2am, in the dark with only a flashlight.
For what I've seen the data type of the columns is always varchar and not geometry.

Not a big issues merely it's more convenient otherwise ;)
I don't know if you read the article, but you just made his point in 5% of the verbiage. Granted, he included evidence/argument, which has a lot of value.
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A checksum I can verify through a third source means I know I've got the same thing as they have. Signatures don't ensure that, unless I'm missing something.
Not being much of a sophisticated investor (low cost Vanguard funds for me, thank you), I have a question:

Isn't the latest common wisdom the notion that money managers actually underperform the market as a whole?

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/12/investing/investing-active-v...

If fund managers -- whom should qualify as sophisticated investors -- aren't doing that well (or at least, can't beat a market index), why would we expect the rich generally to do any better? Is it merely the ability to reap the tax benefits of capital gains/losses?
That's part of the problem I see with the article. The other problem is that what is defined as sophisticated investments? How is it more sophisticated if I apply commonly known strategies to minimize risk in the markets through diversifying the stocks/funds I hold? I'm not quite sure this is all that sophisticated when you're just an investor, but maybe I'm biased.
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Most inequality in the UK is because rich people are getting much richer. But the poor people aren't getting poorer, they're getting richer too. Standard of living for poor people has increased hugely over the last 50 years.
Out of curiosity, who are MSVCs high profile customers?
At this address you will find six pages of links to such organizations: https://www.aaafoundation.org/useful-links
Or, if you're not stuck on Linux, Control-O (or whatever you've set your terminal DISCARD character to).
Hiring a team whose sole job description is garbage cleanup?
Poor people don't have money to invest.

<insert Michael Scott thank you gif here>

Also everyone creates these financial management tools for the affluent. Poor people are the ones who need financial management because they cannot afford to make certain mistakes.
what is fb doing for iOS builds and compiles?
> If an app is "completely gone", it probably has a good reason not to be there in the vast majority of cases.

So want to take away my right for the app I legitimately purchased and downloaded to my PC for later installation ? This cloud BS has really taken its toll.
Quite surprised by that - it said 7:10pm for here in Edinburgh - which is just after sunset so still fairly bright.
I haven't done too much with either, but for a minimal example, Flask-Restless is more straightforward. Power vs configurability trade-off by the looks of it. I'll certainly keep Flask-RESTful in mind if things get more difficult in the future.
"Free market capitalism" does not exist so that's a misnomer.
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I feel like curl|bash is for the masses, who don't care. Then there are more secure options for those who do care.
Fascinating how the comments here are mostly critical. I think the tone would have been different if we were having this conversation when HN first started. Are we in the beginning of a wider, general cultural shift away from capitalist thinking?
I don't think that was the argument here. The argument was that being rich compounds the inequality seen between them and everyone else, not just the poor, but including the middle class, etc.
What is a sophisticated investor? The article never made this clear. Is it just someone with more money in investments?
This is an area that I'm doing a bit of work in right now, and there does seem to be a certain level of difference between US federal govt, state govts, and local municipalities. It's not that local govts are necessarily more lax, and the ones I'm talking to still have regulations to follow, but they're sometimes seem to be a bit easier to deal with.
If you think about it (or run the numbers), you'll realise that our present system of jet engines actually dumps far more heat into the atmosphere than this would.
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They could almost certainly get you for interfering with an investigation, though.
Backdoors are an absolute bad idea.

My point is that when a bad idea appears to be the only alternative, there will be pressure (from people who do not understand the technology but do understand law enforcement) to do it even though it's bad.
It must be the case that evidence can be either damning or exculpatory, and either way you're not allowed to destroy it. Otherwise destroying evidence would be incentivized, because once they can actually prove that the damning evidence was present before you destroyed it.... that proof is as good as having the evidence in the first place.

A judge isn't a robot. If you say "I hit an emergency button to reformat my hard drives as the cops were breaking down the door, because I was preparing to sell those drives on ebay and needed to clean them up", the judge is not obligated to respond "Shoot, I can't prove otherwise, you're free to go."
Apple uses XCode to make iOS (and OS X and even XCode!), so it obviously can handle more than Facebook.app, but it doesn't fit their culture. Same with Git frankly.
As Synaesthesia notes, it was. I meant with processes and tools like the post describes building once sound like a good idea...
Crash survival depends on the dissipation of kinetic energy into the structures of the vehicle rather than the structures of the human body. Even in well-designed vehicles, more kinetic energy means more danger.
My Lenovo's laptop (IdeaPad z410) battery is already dead, and I've had it for a year and a half. When it had Windows on it, I get about 2 hours of battery time. After I fully installed Ubuntu, I got 3 hours out of the same battery. Now it never charges, always stuck at around 1%, and it shows that it has a capacity of only 11.4%. Two of my previous laptops' batteries degraded after the second year. This is the first time I have a laptop whose battery dies in less than two years.
We have a trend here (as it seems from skimming the other comments).
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It is depressing but sometimes we have to kill them - I mean the folk who enjoy burning people alive and creating sex slaves, not to mention horrendous refugee misery for everyone concerned - before they kill us.
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The automated messages are easy - they go directly into the trash by sender and subject.

The problem is I have to live in my inbox and actually process a lot of this junk in case I'm one of the people who one of these shotgun emails is actually relevant to. I can't just direct the other department's PM into the circular file, even though their messages have no importance to me more often than not - have to read each one and verify that.

It's a really awful culture :/
That may be, but they still don't have money to invest
And another one bites the dust.
Talked to a Couchbase guy last week, apparently a Jepsen test in is the works - I'm looking forward to it!
Agree massively with this. Most of the problems with drivers these days seem to be caused by inattention, sleepyness etc.

The first thing anyone says in a small ish accident (especially as a cyclist/motorcyclist) is SORRY MATE DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE
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The location of the body isn't the evidence, it is the body found there that is the evidence. This is why forcing someone to tell the location of the body and holding them in jail until they do is perfectly fine. Except that would be unconstitutional.
Now is this an example of predictive analytics or of human prejudice? :)
Figure out what really makes you excited and reach out to people doing those things. You'd be amazed as to who will respond to an unsolicited e-mail.
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I am curious to see the answer to the question @SEJeff asked. How big is your team for you guys to survive on $50k for an entire year?
District-appropriate packages.

Use the right fucking tool for the job.
You're describing Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns.

If you subscribe to it, you'll note that innovation is exponential, such that we were innovating faster in 1900 than we were in 1800 by a greater factor than 1800 to 1700.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
> Here are the stats for the week starting 24 August this year.In that week: 429 unique contributors 2823 total commits

Right below it:

> Doesn’t include commits to bump version numbers, add translated strings etc - actual number is over 4,000

Any way you slice it that is a chaotic pace of change.
Exactly. Unless the device has untamperable auditing running behind the scenes that shows stuff was deleted, there's virtually no way for the police to know.
> "the Federal Acquisition Regulation, which is 1,895 pages long."

> "We're passing laws within an election cycle, and when administrations change, our tendency is to layer in more laws instead of reforming the ones we already have"

The problem is that our laws are simply too complex. If I was President, I would refuse to sign a law that didn't (1) expire if not explicitly renewed in 20 years, (2) fit on 10 pages (with standard font size, margins and line spacing), and (3) result in a net reduction in the size of the legal code (by repealing old laws of greater length than any new text introduced).
In the US, the standard of living (adjusted for inflation) has been dead flat or even negative for the bottom 95% or so, since 1980. Slightly over 100% of all economic growth for the past 35 years has gone in the pockets of the wealthiest few.

Speaking of market distortion...

And this was not true for the century or so leading up to 1980, particularly the post-WWII boom. This points to something fundamentally wrong with the economy. It's worrisome to me, because I fear the US economy having a Soviet-style collapse, a fundamental breakdown.

Not a critique of the article, which was basically a bunch of self-congratulatory masturbation for the rich, but a point about how inequality is currently growing right now in the US.
Depends what you mean by sophisticated. Knowing that probably makes you more sophisticated than the average person.

I slightly suspect sophisticated here, means insider info...
That's my usual approach. After ctrl-s I usually use job control (ctrl-z) to suspend my misguided cat and kill % to kill it.
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Their needs don't explain all the redundant and unused code. It's slop, plain and simple.
In case anyone is really interested in seeing some actual numbers. On my system, using the default system Monospace 11 font:

ls -lR / in urxvt terminal window - 16 s

vs

ls -lR / in gnome-terminal window - 3m17s

ls was run several times to make sure all information was cached. Same font, same window size, etc.
And what happens if you don't know the password or have forgotten it? I have old encrypted files and lost devices that have passwords I no longer remember.