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>Utility is a unit of accounting that works much better than money. It's actually called a "utility function"[...]

That is just a sometimes useful abstraction and money does allow for quantizations of value. But utility is a broader idea. It means 'subjective value' and can differ from person to person, time and circumstances.

There is no unit of value, there are only personal preferences and those preferences can be comparable, but not necessarily quantifiable. How many 'utils' of value do you gain if you exchange $3 for a sandwich when hungry?
Are there other books out now? Why do they fail at explaining it? I doubt that Poole is the only one in the world that really understands what 'Anonymous' is.
Isn't it all Go now? And Node being suddenly passé.
I have some kind of time tracking terminal here that allows users to identify themselves either through facial recognition, fingerprint or NFC.

The terminal listens on telnet or ssh, is easily compromisable, and stores the last fingerprint image (the full picture, not just a hash) as well as last face picture as bmp in /tmp.

You just can't rely on devices being designed such that they are secure.
Hopefully any system of "code inspection" could be done by authorities, and not require the code to be public.

As an example: I'm not sure, but I believe the Nevada Gaming Control Board inspects the source code of gambling machines in Las Vegas casinos. This doesn't mean the casinos can't have secrets in the source code, it just means that the authority sees all the secrets.

I do think however that "code inspection" for engine control units is a dead end. Writing underhanded code that appears to do X but instead does Y is so easy. (See e.g.http://www.underhanded-c.org/). Inspecting a 100k C-program for illegal behaviour won't be doable until the next years model is out, at which point it's time to start again.

The solution is to treat the code as a black box, and just test it as a black by casting a wide net. The problem is the reliance on simple lab tests that are easily fooled.
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I'm all for ebooks in theory (so convenient!), but find that in practice reading on a computer/ipad/kindle/phone is almost always an unsatisfying, and in some cases almost stressful, experience.

I think the hardware just has a long way to go... The kindle's the best, both for the screen, the light weight (compared to an ipad), and because I'm not stressed out about battery usage, but going back to a paper book feels like I'm emerging from a humid fog into fresh spring air...
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For new SPAs Ember rocks. Also keeping up with the latest and greatest Ember is a breeze. I would not however like to refactor an existing front end application to use Ember. Probably React is better suited for integration with existing front end applications.

Although Ember really feels like idiomatic Javascript to me and they try hard to adhere to new web standards (e.g. web components, ES6 modules) it is also very opinionated about what should go where and how.
'naive' means unsophisticated, so in a certain way it is compatible with the meaning a grade-schooler would recognize. However philosophy often is concerned with the meaning of words and so the naive understanding can define the boundaries of an acceptable theories.
Highly unlikely but would be interesting if Amazon releases the same data for ebooks. They might already be doing stuff like showing those pages in the preview that have the highest chance of getting the reader hooked.
> Google runs a significant portion of its internal operations in a container infrastructure and has for quite a while.[1]

They use containers inside virtual machines. Virtualization for security, containers for deployment.
So they took Fedora and a dead end fork of Open Office and re-skinned them to look like Windows XP. Additional applications are installed using Yum. Microsoft are toast!

Edit: BTW, what ever happened to Red Flag Linux?
Well, yes, that's why the Kindle app is on my phone. If I were at home I'd use the actual kindle. Wechat is a messaging app. And pleco is a chinese dictionary; it has to be on the phone so I can look characters up by drawing them (fun fact: this is why I bought a phone with a touchscreen in the first place). But between books and messaging, the "you're bored" case is pretty well covered.
The `Maybe` monad presented here lets you create a language without null references. That's good enough reason for me. Rust doesn't have HKTs like Haskell does, but it still uses the same things that are called monads in Haskell. They just don't want to call them monads.
Nice UX, but the probability is probably wrong.

I am in my 40s, so I'll give the current life expectancy stats about a 50% chance of being valid by the time I reach the age to die.

But somebody who is 10 today, will likely have a life expectancy much longer than the 80 yeas. The entire curve will be pushed out. So for that person, I'd guess the probability of this being correct is closer to 10%.
I mentioned this mostly as a reply to:

[3]The caveat is that petrol gas emits particulates at a smaller micron level, unnoticeable to the naked eye, and may actually be of greater concern to the general public.

The diesel exhaust fumes are proven to be worse than the petrol engines in at least one respect - health.

Maybe if every truck on the road and a lot of the cars ran on bananas and not on diesel, then I would be concerned about the radiation levels in bananas.

Moreover in the place where I live people are allowed to remove their car DPFs which makes things even worse.
For many words, I actually remember the location on the page, and the page's location in the book, and the book, where I first learned it! [I usually don't remember the exact page number, but some sort of general sense of the position in the book.]

With a kindle book, I've found this effect to be much weaker, and for unpaged ebooks (e.g. many free books in html form), it's almost non-existant.

It's important to me, at least, because this effect is one way I manage to recall the meaning of words I only half-remember. Maybe it sounds weird, but I think of the general concept I'm trying to remember, then the image of the page floats into view, and ... ok maybe it is weird. ><
Isn't it better for any individual/employee to have been a whistleblower under the False Claims Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act ?

According to the Wikipedia page "Persons filing under the Act stand to receive a portion (usually about 15–25 percent) of any recovered damages."
That's a fine advice for tinnitus prevention, but sadly does exactly nothing applied as remedy.
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> Actually some of the earliest allocation were
> apparently because "Postel says so"

Postel's other, lesser known, law?
I suppose they measure it by looking at the episode at which users continue to watch the whole series, in contrast to those who stopped viewing at an earlier episode? There is so much more you could get out of this:

(i) What's the drop off rate for viewers over episode number? For example, I stopped viewing quite a lot of these shows right before other viewers got hooked (Marco Polo: episode 2, sense 8: episode 2, that superannoying lesbian scene, Arrow: episode 3 or 4)

(ii) What's the interval distribution between successive episode viewings, does it differ between shows, is it predictive of a tendency to stay with the show (i.e., how bingy is the show, if that's a word)?

(iii) Age and gender distributions for drop off rates

And so much more. Any way of getting my hands on the data?
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You're reading a lot into what I posted. For the record, I was mostly playing devil's advocate, but I don't think the question is as ridiculous as the post I replied to seemed to think it is.

There is One True Web, of course, which is the collection of all documents on the web at any given point in time. But the interface to that web is nearly always a search engine which are all obviously presenting a list of suggestions according to some criteria. Google used to use PageRank, which was a relatively "objective" criteria in that at least it applied equally to all pages. Google now uses tons of data to make decisions about what to show me when I search, but neither you nor I have any idea what they are. Maybe they do actually use some algorithm which applies equally to all pages. Maybe they use some deep neural net, and not even they know how it actually works. Maybe they have a list of heuristics that they're evilly using to manipulate all the world's information. We'll never know without seeing the source code.

Again, I'm not tabling it as a serious proposal, or claiming that Google are doing anything evil. But given that they have the potential to essentially manipulate the sum total of the world's knowledge as seen by 99.999% of the population it doesn't seem ridiculous to consider whether we might like more insight into what they're doing.
I think a countdown for a new 'in vogue' webserver just started.

This is something I would've expected from a "Show HN: Embedded JS in Nginx" post, meaning it has potential to be a project done just to see what can be done, that everyone could say "Hey, that's cool" and then never use, because it's a terrible idea.

Instead, it's presented as a reasonable way of moving forward, when they could've pushed for their own much more reasonable alternative. They've done more work for a worse idea, effectively out-competing their own feature with a much more popular but crappy alternative.
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Actually the biggest fear I have of this sort of thing is that they'll end up with standalone unshared forks of stuff, which won't benefit from newer developments and bug fixes in other forks, and vice-versa.
I'm curious, what features do you use in a smartwatch that require a high-refresh screen?
I'm really glad to see this issue on the front page. I live in downtown LA and I'm on the front lines of this epidemic. It does seem like the situation is getting worse. I wonder if technology can somehow play a role here. I would gladly fund some of the "regulars" around here via some type of Watsi-esque solution.
It's fair for SEP to be described as comprehensive because it's an encyclopedia of philosophy... which leads me on to my main point.

What's not fair is comparing SEP to Wikipedia, which is a different thing. SEP and Wikipedia have entirely different problems to optimise for.

SEP can optimise for article authoritivity & comprehensivity because the rate at which new articles are added is much, much, much, lower than Wikipedia's. SEP don't have an article for new movie releases, books, actors, current affairs.

I have to confess I think the comparison between the two is somewhat disengenuous.

It's like comparing databases that make different CAP theorem trade-offs (and are designed for different scales) in a situation that's favourable to one of them, and reporting it as a fair and objective comparison... I hesitate to give an example because it may start a flamewar, but [dons flame-retardant underpants] it's like saying that SQLite is objectively better than CouchDB because SQLite doesn't have consistency issues.

SEP's model would fall flat on its face if were expected to do Wikipedia's job.
but the hosted registry is what your average distribution already provide under the form of packages.

and with everything moving to services, I see the utility of actually using components diminishing fast (well except for those providing those services)

but for everyone else, docker solves no actual problem that can't already be solved now.
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I believe that we will see significant advances in lifespan-increasing research over the next hundred years, barring any major disasters affecting humanity. Old models and expectations for calculating death can no longer be relied upon.

Most of the people alive today will probably (unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your world view) be among the last generations to die from what we currently consider natural causes.
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so it's basically a complete set of workaround for enabling people to live with brain-damaged applications?

and we are encouraging this now, instead of fixing the damned apps?

sheesh this makes me feel old.
How about stability as not initiating conflict, hardship and disruption, such as overthrowing Allende?

The scorecard for "truncation, resolution and containment" really does not look great. The unambiguous successes are probably just Yugoslavia and the UK's intervention in Sierra Leone.

Maybes: Kashmir, Afghanistan, Sudan?

Ongoing failures: Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, South America ("war on drugs") esp Mexico and Colombia, Libya, etc
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> The Advocate General Bot agreed with Schrems that the EU-US Safe Harbour system did not meet the requirements of the Data Protection Directive

Wonder if she's based on Hubot, or something else entirely.
> Frank Underwood 13 episodes to become VP (spoiler alert!)

Spoiler alerts after the spoiler is like putting a warning sign at the bottom of the cliff.
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This really would be interesting. I'd like to see data on overall completion % for ebooks. Assessing those books which tend to be completed once started would help identify the more interesting books.

Combined with top selling book lists, this would provide a good filter to decide on potential new reads and could form the heart of improved book recommendation services.
This is a press release from Netflix (no link to the underlying study).

https://pr.netflix.com/WebClient/getNewsSummary.do?newsId=26...

Except they use the data to make stupid conclusions:

"However, in our research of more than 20 shows across 16 markets, we found that no one was ever hooked on the pilot. This gives us confidence that giving our members all episodes at once is more aligned with how fans are made."

I don't see how the study sheds light into "causality," i.e. "how fans are made."

Since netflix does not need to sell commercials, there is no incentive problem with binging. A network, however, needs to keep your attention every Wednesday evening to sell their commercial slots, so they have to pace their material episode by episode.
It's common for a larger OEM like VW to write large parts of the application software themselves and send it back to the Tier-1 ECU supplier only as object files. (The industry is competitive, worried about IP protection, and anything clever in the powertrain ECU application software could easily provide a competitive advantage).

Bosch would have ultimately integrated it and built the final ECU software, but I very much doubt they ever saw any source code from VW.
House prices rise because an area is prospering. Those with no investment in the area are forced to move to an area they can afford. Such is life for all of us.
So it all boils down to high paying gigs then, which you can wing without contributing to OSS
>Take home message is that the users got very personal at the end of moot's tenure.

Yet, when he left, users from the most popular boards (and even separate imageboards!) made thousands of drawings, wrote songs and made videos to thank him and say farewell. I think the number of people that liked him vastly outnumbered those who legitimately hated him.
It's a bit of a paradox then that city living is generally considered more expensive given that the economies of scale should kick in.

Presumably someone is making money here, probably owners of the land, which goes up in value thanks mostly to the efforts of the other people in the city, not anything the land owner does, as proponents of a Land Value Tax would argue.
Interesting - didn't know a) that cars measured torque, or b) speed of the unpowered wheels.
You do not understand macros at all. One should always prefer macros to anything else. Macros must be used to implement hierarchies of composable eDSLs - by far the most powerful and advanced way to handle abstraction. Functions are not a match to this.

Heavily DLSed code is much more readable and maintainable than your mess of functions.
We[1] believe that the point of Docker is to provide "application packages" (called containers), which is a big step ahead to deliver applications (using their words: build, ship, run).

However, we also do believe the isolation containers provide isn't sufficient for multi-tenant usages. This is the main motivation behind Hyper, which run groups of container images (Pods) as Virtual Machines.

[1] https://hyper.sh
Would be great if you could explain exactly how this differs from using an ad/tracking blocker, e.g. Disrupt or mu-block.
Ask HN: YC Fellowship should've started – first impressions by the participants?
The YC Fellowship was announced this July (to recap: 8 week remote program with $12,000 for a team to bring an idea to a startup)[1][2]. It generated quite a bit of discussion at the time[3] on HN as well. This first round of the program is supposed to run from mid-September to mid-November.

Now that it is supposed to be underway, what are people's first impression with the program? Both on the side of teams who got the fellowship and on YC's side since it should be different from what you have done before!

Consider this as checking in on behalf of the community to see how things are going at the first few steps (selection, onboarding, maybe after the first week in the program?). I'm sure there will be a lot to learn at the end, but it feels as the process itself is very valuable. So any comments from the people involved is very appreciated! (I couldn't join this time due to the "full time" requirements, but hope to do it in the future)

[1]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship

[2]: http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917334
You can always block internet access for the app.
San Francisco should do something too.

I'd love pay an extra tax to fund solutions to this massive problem.
:D, so you need to write down that key or remember it when you want to use on another device

or if that key is provided somehow,such as pushing a request to provider to get it using internet, then what happened when there is no connection but gsm

or imagine when you use that key for few devices? what will be your main device and you want to suspend the others?

Many problems must be solved if you'd like to use a key instead of a SIM card :D
What about mandatory "preferred form for modification" source code releases and mandatory bug bounties?

That is, if anyone finds a bug impacting safety in the ECU code, the manufacturer has to pay $1 million to them.

If any employee shows they release obfuscated source code, or the binary is not compiled from that source code, they get $100 million reward paid by the company and criminal charges are filed against those responsible.
Indeed! It's bonkers. My college security professor once described a 128-bit key to us by imagining that every electron estimated to be in the known universe (think on this concept for a moment) had it's own unique value.

For a 256-bit key, give each electron from above it's own universe, and assign values to all. That's the keyspace to be broken.

Bruce Schneier once did a little thought exercise where he demonstrated that, assuming one needed to shift one electron (the absolute minimal amount needed to conceive of a compute switching operation), the energy requirements needed to brute force the key would exhaust the energy potential of the solar system.

"These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space."

Interesting to ponder.

(Source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_... )
I would have appreciated to have the distribution curve calculated, in addition to having to wait for the animation to converge.
What is crazy is that the vast amount of people who buy these small diesels don't need them. You need long runs to get the particle filter hot enough to burn off.

People buying these small diesels are buying them based on the fuel consumption benefits but then only doing short trips like 15 minute school runs. All they are doing is damaging the car.
Excuse my lack of knowledge but what kind of useful (valuable) data can one mine from an anonymous site? Why would anyone care about 4chans search statistics? Thanks
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/home-free

Technology to expedite housing construction would be helpful.
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Thanks for this article, the previous description of the experiment I read omitted the 'discard the result unless a measurement show that the entanglement was successful' step, leaving me very confused..
I didn't know that this was possible, that said I still don't have any clue about HOW this is possible.
WTF?! - "When Apple add or remove a port or protocol such as a floppy drive, a disk drive or Adobe Flash support from its mainstream tech output, worlds change" ... chill out.
Kobo evidently are doing some analysis on completion rates, and published a report last year aimed at publishers using analysis based on similar metrics:

http://cafe.kobo.com/_ir/159/20149/Publishing%20in%20the%20E...

Further numbers into completion rates split by region and genre also from Kobo made their way into this nytimes article earlier in the year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/arts/international/keeping...

I'd be interested in the raw data, particularly also from Amazon based on Kindle ebook read completion though I imagine that won't get shared.
* raises hand *

What's /b/? Because I don't know 4chan and have been assiduously avoiding learning anything about it.
SIM cards are used for authentication on the network. Using a dedicated encryption chip is this only way to ensure authentication, software keys are too easy to steal.

Today, any device with a sim card reader and GSM antenna may be used as a phone: computers, tablets, and so on. I don't know where you live, but, in many country, today, you can buy phone service without a phone, and with no lock-in period.
The lack of time and/or resources to enforce these limits: a bug or a feature? Certainly a sin of omission.
Can someone explain the comments on the linked page? Is that a new sort of robots posting nonsense and replying to one another? OR is it an 4chan elaborate joke? That's the first time I see that.
It's very generous to give the current life expectancy stats about a 50% chance of being valid by the time you reach the age to die. If the historical growth rate in life expectancy continues -- or at minimum doesn't go to zero -- there's a 0% chance. Moreover as we witness regularly on HN there are many reasons to believe that the growth rate in longevity will accelerate.
> about banks ... competent tech isn't just a competitive edge, it's fundamental to being able to operate at all.

Automobiles are going along that curve too. Maybe this whole VW scandal is an indication of this change?

edit and the Toyota firmware scandal in 2013 has similar implications: http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-toyota-damage...
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