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Einstein et. al.'s original paper on the EPR paradox is very clear and understandable, I recommend it: http://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777
Yeah, not all solitude is lonely.
I recently bought an SDR dongle, and had my roommate (who is much more knowledgeable about Python dev on OS X than I am) try and get this project compiled and up and running for me-they said it was the most complicated Python project they've ever had to compile, as far as dependencies are concerned.

the TLDR being that SDR software for Mac sucks, Linux (in our case the R Pi2) is a much better option.
A little different but wasnt there a kickstarter a while afo for a game based around coding but against ai? Ill have to try and find out what happened to that!
Indeed (though this one doesn't cover newborns, need to be at least 15 days old): https://www.sbli.com/products/life-insurance/whole-life-for-...
And yet it's been improved upon. IMO, SCTP offers a superior set of features. TCP wins on ubiquity and SCTP loses by virtue of not making it past firewalls/routers configured to drop traffic that's not TCP/UDP/ICMP.
Agreed why add process when financial and criminal liability would suffice. Add sufficient liability and players will improve their internal processes appropriately.
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I sometimes hear this, and I think its a case of comparing apples to oranges.

Yes, if you have a brochureware site with a few bits of database interactivity, you can just FTP a few files somewhere and have your PHP app up and running. The moment you start to introduce elements such as background queues, or more than a few developers on the team, you start to get into the realms of needing something more robust and doing config management.

Facebook uses PHP. I very much doubt their deployment process is to FTP a few files to the right place.
Just goes to show the arbitrariness of prepositions associated with verbs. It's one of the hardest things to learn as a foreign language.

I do recall amusement when learning German, attempting to say I travelled 'on' the bus, only for it to literally mean on the roof of the bus.
Haven't read all the comments yet, so maybe others have commented on this already, but I find the premise (critic of secret code validated by VW scandal) weak.

According to the article:

“Proprietary software is an unsafe building material,” Mr. Moglen had said. “You can’t inspect it.”

Except that in this specific case, it was the builder who designed and implemented something "faulty" precisely because they needed that.
There is a difference between installing a third-party set of windows and finding out that it soon falls apart because the frame is defective, and installing windows after you have secretly bored small holes in the frame (because you have an interest in your tenants going overquota with their heating expenses).
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Might worth checking out webmaching: https://github.com/webmachine/webmachine/wiki/Overview
> You have no ability to learn from Google even though you use their search engine - you can't reverse engineer it or improve it. Does this upset you?

I do, in so far as it interacts with my machine. I can look at the APIs, at the traffic patterns, at whatever code is shipped to my browser. But yeah, the secret sauce stays on their servers.

But then again, comparing Google to VW is apples-to-oranges too. Google is a software company, VW is a car manufacturer that incidentally has to write code for their engines. They are not competing with each other, they are not playing on the same field. So VW having no way to use SAAS for ECUs (thank God) is as much unfair to them as their DMCA restrictions are unfair to me (the user).
Uhm. There's plenty of downsides to TCP/IP. It's just very very hard to replace, to the point of not being worth it. Take a look at something like QUIC for an idea of improvements.
Current history is showing that if the source code isn't revealed, the formal specs will be rigged. Concise formal specs and proofs are a great addition to the source code, but they are not a substitute. Access to source code is even more critical when lives are at stake.

> We know how to do better than "process".

Are you saying that revealing source will lead to more bureaucracy that formal specs will somehow avoid? I don't see how that follows.
Great episode. One of my favorite lines is when Spock tells Kirk if he shoots this one computer with his phaser, they all will blow up.

Wow! Folks have always said to be careful with volatile variables, but they weren't kidding: they really are dangerous.

TOS is my favorite series, not necessarily because it was great sci-fi, but because it subtly reminds us of how the human condition has changed in 50 years. So many things that they simply took for granted, like Kirk would have an electronic clipboard that he simply signed -- not played games on or spent hours staring at -- can teach us profound things about how our attitude towards tech has changed.
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> Of every well-meant proposal, ecologists ask a standard question: 'And then what?'

-- Garrett Hardin
Of course society exists in the in the context of a discussion of loneliness and social life, why wouldn't it? Also, people's social behaviour is controlled by memes of which they are unaware, so their inner lives can be disregarded for social purposes.

The one part of the article that makes sense is the definition of loneliness; that it happens where there's a gap between one's social relationships and one's desired social relationships.

My point was to try and reduce that gap not by increasing social skill and exposure but by being honest about the value of social life. Actually I think highly social people and lonely people both share the somewhat conflicting assumptions that society is cruel and that social life is the be-all and end-all. In the former case the response is to 'get with the winners', in the latter to withdraw. Both will ultimately end up frustrated if they fail to develop the inner life you mention.
Does this model assume everyone in London has a car?
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The Swedish transport agency found that Volvo, BMW and VW had ten times as much nitrous oxide in roadtest than labtests. So it might be automotive war.
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Yep. I'm going to get slammed on this but I love Django precisely because of the lack of choice. Just like Guido's "there is one way, and its the right way" mentality carried over from the core Python base, you see that same mentality it in Django itself. Sure, if you end up fighting too much against templates you can swap in jinja2, or an ORM in goes SQLAlchemy, but out of the box you have a pretty decent stack ready to use. It's the same reason why I like ASP.NET C# MVC. At this point, with all the NuGet packages, I can swap in any component I want basically, if I find the stock MS components lacking. Entity Framework not meeting my business needs? In goes NHibernate or Glass.Mapper.

I'm going to get a lot of hell for this since this is startup-land-latest-and-greatest-just-graduated-from-Stanford territory, but WebSphere and J2EE really got everything down for a god damn reliable infrastructure, REST or WSDL compatible, authentication/authorization via any provider you want ranging from Novell Netware to LDAP or AD, caching can be thrown in _every level_, if an appserver goes down, another node picks up the abandoned client sessions, you're getting high availability at just an absolutely remarkable level. Hate on maven (I've been down in the trenches with Scons and the GNU autotools set, you can get far worse) all you want but the ability to freeze and clone all of your dependencies into a local .m2 repository allows you to be 100% confident if an upgrade breaks functionality, regress & problem solved. I'm not even a J2EE advocate, more of a "please just work, I don't have the mental capacity to learn 60 packages + 15 workaround shims until all browsers are ES6 compatible.

I really like a lot of the options of node out there. Tons of packages are really useful and innovative (as opposed to Yet-another-templating-system). There are quite a few interactive projects that the v8 platform lends itself to, especially with socket.io, a lot more flexibility that didn't exist before. But between ReactJS, Flow, JSX (which confuses me even more when I context shift because I write C# with TypeScript), and 50 other packages out there, I'm completely lost.

From a managerial perspective, its going to be hell to maintain those projects 3 years down the line when all of your 22 year old engineers have moved onto their own startups/friends startups/across the country because their long-time-partner got into Harvard med/etc. You'll be left searching for someone with expertise in Jade, Express, Node, Mongoose, Nginx, Socket.io, JSX, [insert 10 other modules which will become critical to your architecture as time goes on]. It's great for the engineer who lands inherits that project on a 1099 capacity because they'll be able to bill whatever they want, but absolutely terrible in terms of long-term maintainability (and yes, I realize technical debt is often a "bond-offering" (heh) worth making in exchange for a faster MVP in some cases).
Looks like it uses an embedded Spotify player, with playlists for each genre. Also, the main page only plays snippets.
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The top chart looks correctly formed, but you may be right about the bottom chart on that page: "Probabilities For Years Left to Live".

If I'm reading correctly, it seems they tried to deduce the bottom chart from the top chart, which is not appropriate for the reason you wrote.

The top chart only considers ONE year into the future from TODAY, based on someone's age TODAY. More specifically -- It's a chart for survival analysis (predict rate of failure, based on a certain fixed time period and a certain starting date) not life expectancy (predict the time period over which a certain fixed rate of failure occurs, based on any future date.)

The bottom chart though, should be far more influenced by the predicted increase in life expectancy -- since it would have to account for decades of predicted average life expectancy improvement, instead of just increase in average predicted life expectancy over one year, which probably has a negligible effect on the top chart.
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I use/have contributed to this project: https://github.com/hendrix/hendrix which is a wsgi wrapper that uses twisted to serve django apps. Websockets are among the first things you get out of it.
A bit unrelated, but I really don't get the idea of "distraction free" editing for documentation. When I write documentation, it's always side-by-side with existing specs, a codebase or a demo. I never really feel the need to disconnect from what I'm documenting.
So if the goal of London Underground were to avoid street congestion, and changing the way the street and underground networks meet were impossible or illegal, then lower speed would be appropriate.

That's interesting. In an if-and-if sort of way.
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Even the possibility of an external source code, revision history, requirements etc... audit would change working practices dramatically ... particularly if there were legal penalties against developers found responsible for introducing bugs.
From the article, not the paper:

>"seven were nonsocial and positive (pleasant scenery) and seven were nonsocial and negative (snakes)"

This seems kinda flawed as far as designing the experiment to present threat and non-threat stimulii. If you're an agoraphobic serpentophile then you're not seeing things the same, surely. People are going to be on a spectrum of finding scenery panoramas to be hugely positive to finding them hugely negative??

What strikes me is that "Dr. Cacioppo" (whichever of the couple that is) doesn't seem to have a clue what loneliness is like, nor having no friends. All the suggestions assume you have time and money to spend too; perhaps that's right for a WSJ audience. "Accept social invitations, even if you don’t feel like going out." seems quite clueless, are their people who're lonely but are getting social invitations and have friends they can call and make plans with?

The abstract suggests a moderately interesting preliminary finding, assuming the ten lonely people didn't also respond faster to the other stimulii. A wider study to confirm the result and then a new experiment to establish causation seem like the next moves (if they can be funded). You'd probably need a longitudinal study to see if speed of response to "social threats" changes as people become, or perceive themselves to be, more/less lonely.
What's really depressing about this is setting the calculator to fast and to the age of my youngest kid and watching the rare odd ball fall at ages younger than me. It is rare, but it does fall. Probability, you heartless bitch.
This is awesome. There is also this old thing: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

Similar effort, but purely editorial and only about electronic music, with commentary
I found out that my first language apparently doesn't make a distinction of it. I tried to find synonyms, but none was able to grasp such difference. That's fascinating.
Depends on how it is managed.
No. But it does assume that some people can choose to go part of a trip by car (their own or another) and the rest on the tube, and that these mixed-mode trips affect congestion for everyone.
I agree that this shouldn't be a surprise. What I'm more interested in is whether the medication used to treat ADD/ADHD could have an adverse health effect that would reduce lifespan, i.e. if they ignore accidental deaths completely, will those on ADD/ADHD meds live just as long as those that do not take those meds?
Yes. A lot of newer neighborhoods are not laid out on a grid, but are designed with lots of winding streets an cul-de-sacs. Maybe it seems more pleasant that way, and it forces through traffic out onto the main roads, but does the same to bikes.

Cyclists really benefit from a "network" of alternative routes that have low traffic, and what you describe in Finland is a great idea.
Well I'd argue that in general companies that have been able to shift their business into remote servers are doing much better.

In fact I can't think of something that runs native on a device and is better than all it's competitors that run "in the cloud"

B/c the biggest difference is that by having the secret sauce physically in the hands of competitors, you aren't able to create a vast difference in the quality of your product.

Following standards creates horrible barriers to entry and to innovation, but at the end of the day you aren't spilling the beans on how you do all your tricks. You can't make some fancy new valve control system no one will ever figure out.

Then you look at someone like Google, and it's 100% driven by secret recipes no one knows about

Maybe there should be indignation about trade secrets, but I feel like the physical distance to the code you are running is irrelevant.

When I search for a word or phrase on Google, I'm running code remotely on their server. Yet no one feels like I should have the right to see that code. Why?
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We have used just that for a OTT streaming site. Ping me. I'm swilson@ my company's .com.
This analysis ignores people who use only the train and tube or just the tube. If you hinder the tube to try and improve traffic what will happen is traffic will eventually increase where you have made improvements (the bottlenecks referred to in the article) and the tube service has still been degraded.

The failure of the analysis is to assume that car drivers should be a consideration (perhaps that is due to the US bias toward car travel over public transport). Really we need to be improving public transport such as the tube so much that car driving is disincentivising as much as possible and public transport is incentivised as much as possible.
It puts "breakcore"[1] between "boy band" and "new romantic". I do see some similar genres in the area (deep breakcore, intelligent dance music), but I reckon a dimension has been squashed which was essential in positioning the entire area of music around IDM. They lie scattered between genres of music with which they have little to no connection.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF7qmAMkksA
Presumably you are aware this is a Myth of Human Genetics?

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When you have an organizational culture that places meeting deadlines without sufficient planning or resourcing above quality and safety ... the result is inevitable.
No, but the problem is that it assumes that cars are as important as public transport which can't be further from the truth.
The conclusion is entirely not based on results from this study, if it can be called a proper study.

What can be told from the abstract, is that sample size is extremely small (19 individuals), there don't seem to be any control parameters and the distinction of "lonely" and "not lonely" is made based on self reporting, which is yet another source of potential errors.

Other than that, the subject studied was reaction speed, which can be interpreted as basic alertness, and even if we consider the results reliable, which we can't, the conclusion could be made almost entirely different - lonely people are more alert to their surroundings, while non-lonely are more calm and relaxed.

I'm not sure who are reviewing these studies, but it would never pass as a conclusive study by any standards in non-social sciences.
... or highly intensive 8-years-of-in-service-operation-equivalent testing at the system level ...
This notion seems to be as old as humanity. It's built on some inner hope that mortality can be outsmarted and escaped.

Back in the real world, we can't even agree as a society what level of healthcare should be afforded to all members vs. what level you have to earn.

The greatest advancements in life extension in recent years have only added more years of horribly low quality life. I don't want to die, but I am going to. Why should I invest my resources to spend years suffering?
I get it, definitely frustrating. But we know the world - especially the business world - is not a kind place and that we have to protect ourselves or we end up in these situations.
Really interested in this one, signed up for beta and so far has been easy to use and does exactly what it says.
The virtual hells computers were a sort of AWS for civilizations that became space faring and had religions that instituted them. But did not want to run the hardware themselves, because it was too icky. So a whole collection of hells ran on those computers for different societies and different reasons.
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One of the previous articles had a comment from a Bosch representative. It said roughly "yes we supply the ECU, and no we don't perform integration or fine-tuning". Which makes sense, in the same sense that SSD vendors typically source their controllers from a supplier and then adapt the firmware to match their hardware layout/performance objectives.
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This desire for a linguistic shift in the terminology has been around for over a decade. See http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp .

FWIW, this pull request ( from May 20, 2014 so by HN tradition there should be a (2014) in the headline) is mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_%28technology%29#... , along with Drupal 8.
> The recent award of $3 million in NSF funding — announced at a White House summit last week — will cover the engineering and software development needed to deploy 500 of these devices throughout Chicago ...

When NSF grants this kind of money, do they mandate that the recipient provide the source material (code, schematics, etc) under a liberal license (or public domain)? Seems like it would be a big benefit for cities everywhere to leverage the technology and not just the concept.
> In war, unlike chess, rules can be changed. Truces can be called. The greatest of enemies can become the best of friends.

This did happen during World War I between the soldiers of the opposing sides during the Christmas Truces of December 1914 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
"On" suggests that there is intention involved. "By" suggests passivity.
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Thanks. :) It's a pretty simple solution, I just took a fairly common IDE setup and configured my snap tool to let me easily put my windows where I need them.
> Where does that put me?

Into the "content being alone" category the article mentions.
Open sourcing the code is an orthogonal issue to whether we should consider the use of formal methods a best practice.

> Are you saying that revealing source will lead to more bureaucracy that formal specs will somehow avoid?

I'm arguing that process is insufficient (which, crucially, doesn't imply formal methods are by themselves sufficient, and also doesn't imply process or access to source code isn't necessary).

Merely revealing the source code isn't enough if you need to know how the car behaves and have to recover the meaning of a bunch of complicated equations in order to make any sense of the code. Really reading and trusting the code would require more effort than re-writing it.

> Current history is showing that if the source code isn't revealed, the formal specs will be rigged

Hm. That's very surprising to me. Can you give an example of a company providing a rigged formal spec?

Also, rigging formal specs is why the formal specs should be reivewed by a third party expert.

And if/when fraud does happen (e.g., by giving a bunk formal spec or cheating on the proof), formal methods still have two advantages over process:

* The debate over whether enough work went into QC becomes trivial, and skimping on QC becomes willful deceit (something that's incredibly hard to demonstrate in the status quo).

* Unlike process, there are technical solutions to the problem of rigging proofs. And, the specs themselves are much easier to review than the code. So the review process is pretty likely to catch cheating.
Who said that risk wasn't considered? I've been doing this successfully since 1996, without any magical skills or unusual intelligence. I personally probably make 12-15 trades a year, I'm not talking about day trading.

Passive strategies have costs as well. Ask somebody with all of their money in VTI from 2001-2006.

Educating yourself and being opportunistic about seeking best value introduces risk but also unique opportunities. Personally, I like to realize gains over time and keep them liquid until a good opportunity presents itself.
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