skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrier groups are an extremely important projector of power, but they are not invulnerable. See: China's significant investments in "carrier killer" missiles. Such missiles don't even need to be fired in order to be effective regional deterrants; the mere threat of a sunk carrier would give us pause in the event of an escalating situation in, say, Taiwan.

The article doesn't argue that China or Russia are going to project power off the coast of New York anytime soon; merely that our relative capability to project power off of their coasts is in decline.
Sorry, I should have clarified - I'm thinking of a few friends in particular who would be fresh-out-of-undergrad developers coming from shared apartments where they were paying $300-$350/mo. The change from 8k debt/year to 80k income/year is significant enough that there are people who wouldn't question the 80k number as a far-more-than-enough wage.
I think that most people missed the point here.

The basic idea is a DSL that "happens" to have the same syntax than Javascript. I guess that this VM has a lot of optimisations related to its purpose toward nginx (.e.g. no GC overhead, since each JS context is supposed to be short lived and tied to a unique request).
It was phased in on the bigger, heavier cars first. The current US-model Passat has used SCR since it was introduced, as has the Touareg with the and every other VW/Audi with the 3.0L V6 TDI. VW didn't put it in the Golf or Jetta until 2015 because it takes up room, adds cost and complexity. By 2015 emissions standards got tight enough that they had no choice.

Prior to that the Golf and Jetta used a NOx catalyst that requires a periodic burn-off achieved by sending a pulse of unburned fuel down the exhaust. Same deal as the particulate trap--that stuff needs to be burned off every so often, too.
Thorvalds still runs Fedora (22) and the GCC warning is a new one coming from clang.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/3/494

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/3/499
I'm pretty curious about this: have memory access patterns and cache awareness become more of a big deal in the past decade or so, or has it only recently reached my awareness? I studied CS in the early 2000s and while I was aware of various trade-offs between contiguous and linked data structures, it's only in the last few years that the importance of cache (and non-"system" languages' widespread flouting of its importance) has really bubbled up in my consciousness.

It's certainly likely that I just didn't take the right kinds of classes, or that I did but just missed or failed to really internalize this, but I'm curious if something else is going on. Has the bottleneck increasingly become memory rather than CPU? Have we more thoroughly exhausted other areas of optimization?

I was thinking about this while watching a talk[0] given by someone from Google about data structures in the STL, which decried that the standardized specification for `std::unordered_map` more or less forces an implementation to use buckets instead of the more cache-friendly technique of probing. I'm sure that the people who standardized it were very competent, which makes me think that, at least at the time, buckets were thought to be the better implementation.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNmRkzxHWs

Edit: Added video link.
A picture says a thousand words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier#/media/File:USS_J...
4chan isn't "honest". Anonymity without consequence might make honesty easier, but it makes deception easier as well.
I didn't see any Yaw motion in this video. (Rotation about the Y axis.)

Does it support it? Is it not necessary for the motions they're trying to induce? Would you have to make the seat rotate on the platform?
Only if you just count political messages.

Artists have been celebrated for their social, philosophical, metaphysical, poetic etc messages for millenia.

Even renaissance artists (an era that can be extremely tacky with technique) weren't celebrated for their mere technique showcase (photorealistic skills and such BS), but for their artistic qualities (expression). Even more so later years.

El Greco, Goya, etc are not celebrated because of their "excellent craftsmanship" in the conventional sense, but for the sensibilities they capture.
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Residential is driving uptake more than businesses.
You picked a horrible example. Rolex Sea Dweller is amongst the thickest of dive watches because it's designed to be taken to extreme depths (depths no human will ever descend to in a diving suit).

Here's Piaget Altiplano for example:
http://blog.luxurybazaar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Piag...

or

Blancpain Billeret
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/62/39/fa/6239fae47...
Does the SEP have any sort of bearing on the relative trashiness of the rest of the internet? Does any individual site have an imperative to influence the morality of sites it hyperlinks to? Is there some litmus test inbound links must pass before they can be included? And do digital content producers owe allegiance to this unwritten set of dicta invisbili? Or is their obligation solely to economic optimization and a greater global prosperity, where a rising tide lifts all boats?

Yes. It's true. I've been spending way too much time on SEP ;)

Although I for one would love to see a ClickHole-esque style parody of plato.stanford.edu. "Knobe lifts the veil executives behaving badly, and you won't believe what happens next!"
Every minute you're fighting for privacy is a minute you're not fighting the evil I choose to focus on, which trust me is a far greater evil than yours.

You see how it sounds?
> dismantlement of motorvehicle-related infrastructure. Whether it is turning car lanes into bike lanes,

Yes, it turns out we overbuilt streets and under-built bike infrastructure so now we have to reclaim some car lanes to create bike lanes instead. This is not the end of the world.

> reducing available parking in new constructions

Reducing the required parking in construction doesn't eliminate parking in new constructions if parking is actually important, it just allows the free market to actually price parking instead of forcing non-drivers to subsidize parking spots.

> or new road taxes

Are you talking about congestion pricing here? If so, you chose to drive in an area which doesn't have the throughput to handle the cars, and yes, you should have to pay a fair price to use the road.

> their avowed goal seems to be to make driving more painful.

No, the goal is to make biking safe and possible. Driving has too long been the default, so you look at every attempt to claw back some semblance of balance for bikers as an affront to your right to drive.
If I want to move a nested s-exp outside:
(foo (bar baz) quux zot)

Using d% on (bar baz) then move to desired loc, and p. So % is for matching ( ). Again v% visually selects a form, then < and > for indent and dedent.
The ebooks I buy are immediately stripped of drm and dumped into calibre. It's not the prettiest software in the world, but it works and the ebooks are mine forever no matter what happens to amazon, google, apple, or kobo, and they're trivially transferable. I will not buy ebooks from a store that uses DRM that's not immediately removable.
Per test-IPv6.com AT&T still offers no IPv6. (iOS 9)
It would be nice if the Valley was more pedestrian friendly - all too often bikers ignore the rules. One example is near the Palo Alto Caltrain station tunnel between Stanford and downtown Palo Alto, and too many times pedestrians come close to getting hit by their recklessness :( .

One time I got yelled at by a biker on El Camino when trying to board a bus...the biker tried to pass to the right of the bus.

It is frustrating how often bikers don't care about co-existing with the other modes of transportation & following the rules - I feel like this needs to change first before the area becomes bike friendly.
Ada actually takes a different approach to memory safety than Rust. Ada requires garbage collection if you want to dynamically allocate, and only statically ensures safety without a GC if you opt into the subset where only static allocation is allowed. Ada also has at least one correctness-aiding feature that Rust lacks, which is the ability to define integral types with an explicitly bounded range.
> I feel like this needs to change first before the area becomes bike friendly.

As in people should stop work making the area bike friendly until the issue of dangerous driving of bikes is ended?
If you click on the domain name in gray next to the title it's one of the links
Hopefully the recent focus on liquidation prefs is a sign they're on the way out. Definitely a holdover from the "screw the entrepreneur" era of VC.
Sure, it looks thick if you have skinny wrists. I love the bold look.
Recently I've had success with imagining myself as having finished whatever task it is I'm avoiding, and how good it will feel to be onto the next task. If that's too vague, I will break it down into a task that I can imagine finishing, and envision myself finishing that task.

I think I'm realizing I bite off chunks that are too big, then freeze up when I feel overwhelmed
> There's no reason for US troops in Germany

Russia. (see: Ukraine)

> or Japan

China.

> or Korea

North Korea.

> There's no reason for the US to get involved in land disputes in the South China Sea

The problem is that the U.S. has longstanding treaty commitments guaranteeing the sovereignty of several other countries in that area, such as Taiwan and the Philippines, and significant trade relationships with others, such as Vietnam. A unilateral U.S. pullout from the region would therefore send the message to other nations we have defense treaties with (such as NATO members) that we can't be trusted to stand by our treaty obligations, which would weaken those relationships substantially.
Electrifying flight
I've always found it humorous that the clock hits 6:00 rather than 5:00. "Leaving work on time is an act of courage, but let's not get crazy!" Presumably he courageously started at 10:00 or took an hour away from work for lunch.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply I believe what I read or see on 4chan; it's more about the way people interact with each other. Like I said, it's more of a feeling than anything else.
Death and transfiguration: golden age of the corporation may be coming to an end
There is an element of truth in what you say. You seem to think it's the whole story; I do not. Had C not been good in practice, "free" wouldn't have been enough.

Those OSes written in other system programming languages: Why didn't their computers take over the world? I mean, sure, AT&T was pumping money into Unix, but other companies were pumping money into the competition. Why did Unix win? It's not just because of evil AT&T. It's because Unix could deliver working features, and others struggled to keep up.

Why could Unix deliver working features? Yes, partly because of AT&T's money. But partly because C turned out to be really useful as a systems programming language.

These other languages you mentioned a few posts ago: Sure, they looked good on paper, only where's the beef? When it came time to deliver, what was written in them? More functionality was written in C, which is why Unix won.

I'll repeat my previous statement: If you don't understand why C was better in practice, you're going to fail in attempts to create something better, and never know why. You're just going to be ignored, while you whine about how your way was better.

History ignored your "better" languages. The world moved on from them, for good reasons. You think they were better, but in real life, they weren't.
While I agree that cyclists should be better behaved, I feel that it may be an (over)reaction to hostility from drivers. There's a saying motorcyclists have: ride like they (the car drivers) can't see you. I like to extend that for cyclists as "ride like they can see you and they're trying to hit you." The sad truth is that America is bike hostile, and even apart from that, many who shouldn't be driving are still issued drivers licenses (one cyclist was killed by an old lady near where I live, but no one's going to tangle with the AARP, and most people thought she'd have lived had she been in a "safe" car).
Absolutely. In fact it's somewhat better. If you join a big company like that, they're not going to be able to give you 1% of mythical future company value, but they CAN give you X shares now with very real value. If you join a 500-2000 person company with a $1B+ valuation and stick it out for four years of hard work and promotions - you can easily be looking at a $500k-$2M payout (above and beyond your high salary). More is possible too. This is why even giants like Facebook and Google can still attract top engineers - they can give you equity that's basically equivalent to cash - and lots of it.

Joining a smaller company gives you the chance at a massive payout of $10M+ - but I'd bet your 4-year "expected value" would be much less than joining a bigger company. For one - your options are going to be worth anywhere between $0 and $1B - but heavily weighted towards zero. Two - you have to actually buy your options with cash, which reduces mobility because this is very risky! This often costs $20k or more. So you may leave your options on the table. Very few people would be leaving options on the table at somewhere like Uber today if they quit. You'd find the money and buy your shares. Three - your potential exits are numerous but many of them are the sort of deals that kind of devalue your equity to near worthless (due to LP) and instead buy the team with employment offers and new golden handcuffs - which can be highly variable. An IPO or mega acquisition is a clean transaction for common stock holders.
I never had a problem charging a smartwatch while I sleep every night. Personally sleeping with a watch is uncomfortable . The battery life selling point is pretty weak, considering that you still need to be tied to a phone with a shorter battery life in order to receive notifications.
this WORKS!!! ..... for 1-3 minutes for me :(
What is the linked post about if not code that could have been portable but wasn't? I'm having a hard time determining if you're saying the code in question was right or not.
It's really quite a good post, though I suppose it is embarrassing for the people involved. It spells out clearly what the problem is (i.e. what bugs have been introduced and what are likely to be introduced), what actions he wants changed in the future (i.e. don't ignore new compiler warnings) and says that he is not satisfied with the level of quality. He even indicates specifically which people he wants to pay particular attention to the issue.

That he can get away with saying these things shows that he has built a good team. I know I am not alone in experiencing the frustration of pointing out problems only to be greeted with, "Yeah, whatever. That's just your opinion." Or conversely having people complain vociferously about something without knowing the actual problems it will create (very often it is merely "You aren't doing it my way!").

I think the important thing is that, no matter how OTT Linus's posts can seem to someone outside the process, he has built trust. His complaints are very nearly always, "You are going to break X" and almost never "You aren't doing it my way". Even if it is difficult to understand, the people working on the kernel trust him and will accept the criticism.

Just musing here, but I think that if you want to build something of quality, you need a person on the team who is willing to be critical of failure. But that person has to engender trust in the rest of the team. It's quite a difficult balance because nobody likes to be criticised (or have their work criticised). Getting it right is hard and is probably the biggest failure I see of people trying to make the jump from being a good solid dev to being a good leader of people.
The best articles I've read about this topic are the ones in waitbutwhy.com. There are three, this is the first one: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...
> That is situation-dependant.

So let's do it where it makes sense

> I have seen slow bikes cause backups on roads.

Build bike lanes.

> I've also seen heavily-used bridge lanes turned into empty bike lanes.

Why didn't bikers feel safe on these lanes? Why weren't they used, or are they used, you just don't see it because you aren't looking during the right hours?

> Even when fully used, the carrying capacity (people moved / time) of a bike lane can be far less than a lane dedicated to buses or even cars. (It depends on slope and traffic speed.)

I've never been in a bike traffic jam, but I've been in more than my fair share of car traffic jams in high density areas. This is because cars take up more space per person than bikes, bikes are a very viable alternative to single person random access transport over short to medium distances while busses are not if the routes don't line up well. Obviously, for traveling 50 miles, there isn't a substitute for a car, but the point of this is to make urban areas bike and pedestrian friendly for the people that live in those areas, not necessarily to make it easier to drive through them.

http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2n...
Perhaps try another angle: what if somebody asked you to explain how a "VPTree" works, and what an implementation would look like. Would you do it more easily then?

Anyway, I think mental tasks take much more energy than physical tasks, so what you are saying makes sense. Also, I've noticed that many tasks require an "activation energy", meaning that once you have started on a task, it doesn't take so much energy anymore, and it even becomes fun. The trick is to get over that initial hill first.
Once a utility becomes "big" it tends to show up among the packages available in choclatey. Highly recommend getting choclatey if you haven't already https://chocolatey.org/
Diesel pollution is deadly. And it seems that more people at a higher level are complicit in this scandal than in the GM one.

Besides which, what does it matter how bad GM was? This scandal stands on its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
The European concert and Pax Britannica worked quite well, also for roughly a century without a major war.
>Does Reddit pay you for moderation?

There are enough people that see moderating a subreddit as a source of power that they simply don't have to, new mods would always be available for free.

>It's not like they don't have throw around money?

Uhh, reddit hemorrhages money, every attempt at profitability has failed. Paying moderators would provide no value.
I hear you, but personally that strikes me as unduly pessimistic. Geopolitics is not a zero-sum game, the rise of one power does not necessarily come at the expense of another. Britain was eyeing the rising United States in 1900 as warily as the U.S. eyes China today, but the emergence of the U.S. as a world power eventually proved to be a development of great benefit to Britain.
This was the response I got after testing it..http://betagoogle.com/refugees.html
I agree. I have an example. I'm an opponent of both C and C++ who goes so far as to call them garbage. In some ways, I throw them in the same camp. However, C++ supporters consistently argued that it was a vast improvement over C even in safety and most C-like problems in came from "using C++ like C." It took a while but a few eventually supported that position with specific evidence (example below) that made me adopt their position. Not to mention same empirical studies I cite showed C++ apps having less defects than C apps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208786

So, there's an example where I had to step back, assume other person has intelligent reasons, and let the person show them with good results coming out of it. I still have a use of "C/C++" in these discussions but now do it less often due to superior safety over C of modern C++ development. New standards mean I'll probably be hit with a similar conversation again lol.
It would be nice if the Valley was more pedestrian friendly - all too often cars ignore the rules. One example is near the Palo Alto Caltrain station tunnel between Stanford and downtown Palo Alto, and too many times pedestrians come close to getting hit by their recklessness :( .

[Eh, pick any time you've seen a car shoot through a crosswalk and narrowly miss pedestrians... I observe this at least weekly]

It is frustrating how often drivers don't care about co-existing with the other modes of transportation & following the rules - I feel like this needs to change first before the area becomes car friendly.
I find it hilarious that Americans made it to the moon but think that commuting to work by bike is practically impossible. Meanwhile millions of people all over the rest of the world, from school children to seniors, are doing just that every single day. I moved to southern California last year (from the UK) and of course I ride my bike to work. My colleagues think that this is a really strange thing to do and some regularly lecture me about how dangerous that is. Never mind that there are dedicated bike routes that are super safe and even safer than most bike lanes in European cities (because hardly anyone else is using them).
"90 years of US hegemony acted as an effective firewall that prevented countless conflicts, although bloody, from becoming regional or global wars."
LMFAO
Seriously, how could you get such a conclusion...
See Syria crisis and what the behind scene impetus?...
I don't think the lack of upvotes means there isn't still a popularity contest going on. There is still a lot of posting done just to try to get as big of a reaction as possible out of people. Some people even talk about their activity on 4chan through other side-channels, like IRC or even in-person. People brag about their exploits to other people. It may not have a number attached to it, but it's really nothing but a popularity contest.
I don't have a dog in this fight, as I don't manage network edges, AS, etc anymore. I'm simply stating that if you fight against ARIN, you'll lose. You're free to try, I've got better things to do.

http://www.finnegan.com/resources/articles/articlesdetail.as...
Your sentiment is perfectly understandable, but also wrong. Here's a comment from a Dutch guy about biking in the bay area that sums it up:

> I think the expectations thing is a big problem, especially combined with bikers being (having to be) more obnoxious in the US. When I just arrived, I was shocked with how much all the bikers broke the rules (skipped lights, biked on the curbs etc.) and just were general assholes in traffic. Two weeks later I was one of them.

Cyclists break the rules because the system doesn't care about them. Cyclists aren't second-class citizens (that would be pedestrians), they're more like third-class. At least pedestrian gets a lot of protected, separated infrastructure in the form of sidewalks; cyclists usually have to make do with a strip of paint on the road right next to cars that could kill them in an eye-blink.

Or look at intersections: they're clearly designed to prioritize cars first, right? And then pedestrians are second, you can't turn left in one go like cars and there's no protection, but you at least have your own signalling. Intersections often ignore bikes completely, you basically have to wait until a car comes along, or awkwardly waddle over to the walk button.

Looking at it another way: motorists go above the speed limit and through red lights constantly. Should we stop investing in freeways until 'they' start obeying the law? Of course not.