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It's frustrating how many people are preparing to carefully live in hell, rather than working to head the whole thing off.
It is unthinkable now to let any fabrication of that nature happen there without adequate on-the-floor supervision and oversight.

Why let it ever happen "there" again? What hope is there for domestic manufacturing if China is the go-to source of everything?

As one of our great presidents once said:

Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you.
Fool me... You can't get fooled again!

Okay, you get the gist of it.
I don't appreciate that this is being downvoted and flagged into oblivion. It's frustrating that we Hacker News citizens seem to have adopted a list of taboo topics that we aren't allowed to discuss - such as anything related to discrimination against a non-minority. I think this is an interesting discussion to have, and personally I wonder if segregating chess marginalizes the women, too. The atmosphere around this becomes that men are inherently better at chess and women need a special league with a less glamorous title. Chess isn't inherently a game where gender factors into your ability to play. The article [0] linked earlier establishes chess as a sport, which is fair, but it doesn't follow that all sports should be segregated.

[0] http://www.chessblog.com/2009/10/abolish-womens-itles-ridicu...
There was a great comment on metafilter by `a fiendish thingy`
a few months back about one interpretation of this idea of headship:

I have two friends (who are married) who believe in
biblical standards of the husband being the head of
the household. HOWEVER. They are also outspoken
feminists (both of them), and their belief in marital
headship is based on their belief that a man’s job as
the head of household who has been gifted with an
outsize amount of cultural privilege is to actively
fight patriarchy and bolster his wife’s human dignity
in a culture attempting to diminish her personhood.
(Like, head of household is a metaphor for Jesus being
the head of the church, and Jesus died for the church,
so they believe the head of the household should be
constantly throwing himself on the sword of patriarchy
to elevate his wife to her rightful place of equality,
instead of expecting her to constantly be the person
dealing with toxic misogyny all by herself. So
headship in their marriage is not “I am in charge,
fetch me my slippers,” but “As the privileged partner,
I am charged with a special responsibility of helping
us realize equality within our marriage and our world”.)

http://ask.metafilter.com/283189/Emotional-Labor-Checklist-S...
Lots of scientific experiments can easily generate huge data sets of raw measurements that need to be moved from the locations of measuring instruments back to the lab.
I can't say I found the piece particularly insightful.

It seemed to imply that mnesia is the DB of the future as soon as everyone realises that everything they are doing is completely wrong and they should be doing things that are more suited to mnesia. Without saying what those things are.

I actually found one of the child comments [1] was pushing in a better direction. Essentially, the vast drop in $/TB of storage means that persistence of time series/ event type data is practical for the masses now. Sure it's found a niche in ads on the web, but it has much wider applicability than that.
I personally think that Erlang is particularly well suited to this space.

[1] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-October/08...
Sure, XML may be decent as an extensible markup language, but what if you need a strongly-typed data exchange format?
Discussion seems to be happening over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10385758
And an empire with the world's largest military, ruled by a despotic aristocracy which had made most of its money from slavery, drug running, and land + resource grabs in distant countries.

"Moral" is perhaps not quite the most apt word.

>I'm glad we're finally living in an era that has gotten past that.

We haven't. The product has become American Neoliberal Capitalism instead of British Imperial Capitalism, but it's now sold on the Internet and through Hollywood and the media just as aggressively as the Victorians promoted their idea of culture to the world.
> FWIW there are still bears in Japan:

Only on Hokkaido (which has 3 different brown bear lineages, and more bears than the contiguous US)
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Read it carefully: When he talks about Emacs, he says Emacs. Then he says: “produce the best possible GNU Emacs”. You might have just skipped over the GNU here, because that is also the name of the software, but it matters in this case. If your realize that, his message is extremely clear.

(And this also how I read his message the first time, before I read your post)
The problem is complicated if we consider that the missile is moving at supersonic speeds (~mach 3 + aircraft speed).

I don't know much about supersonic fluids. For anyone interested in following this up, here is a paper on "Reproduction of Virtual Sound Sources Moving at Supersonic Speeds in Wave Field Synthesis":

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/230702229
People like to believe that they have "big problems" and that they need large scale solutions. If they ever manage to get it working correctly they now have big system administration problems on top of their existing problem. Where as doing backups, creating staging/testing environments or moving servers can be done with cp or scp when running SQLite.

Agreeably if you pick SQLite and ever manage to reach a scale where it's no longer an appropriate solution, then you will have more trouble migrating of it.
Well, you could summarise this article by saying: "Just because something got invented 25 years ago it doesn't mean it is useless".
On the contrary - it is worth taking a look on technology that survived 25 years in the wildness.
I think what he means is, that while it's not controversial with anyone who actually owns property in Scotland, there's a huge public disapproval of any hunting, the purpose doesn't matter. Deer would need to be literally eating babies for any newspaper to run a story saying that shooting them is good, otherwise people immediately complain that such inhumane acts are done.
Is this just because there have been some high profile cases in the media like Viv Nicholson the Spend Spend Spend woman

There may be many previously poor recipients who haven't blown it all.
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> since you know those groups are seeing the same thing and should be performing identically

That's not how A/B testing works. 95% confidence means you should expect a 5% false positive rate, i.e., you should expect the difference measured in an A/A test to be statistically significant 5% of the time. You'll always measure some difference, since no two random samples will be 100% identical in every regard.

The procedure you and the parent propose is tantamount to selecting 1 out of every 20 test results and discounting it for no real reason. It adds extra cost to your A/B testing without producing more reliable results.

See also: https://xkcd.com/882/

It's a different matter if you're running multiple A/A-type tests over an extended period of time to ensure that the false positive rate is actually 5%, a kind of meta-statistical test. As a sanity check this is sound, but vastly more expensive than what the OP is proposing (for example). I've never seen anyone use A/A, A/A/B, A/A/B/B, etc. tests in this way. Rather, I've only ever seen them used as you and the OP suggest: the two A buckets should be "the same" and if they aren't, the results should be thrown out.
The best part about this batch of changes is they push the mole and Avogadro's constant out on their own where the belong, not linked to any other units. Now we'll have only a single mass unit (kg) instead of two (kg and unified atomic mass unit) that we do now. This will knock carbon 12 of its perch as the definition of the "other" mass unit that's been essential to use SI's mole but was not actually SI itself.
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I'm a fan of this dialogue style. Particularly for showing the history/motivations/context of a design or situation. Kerberos is what first introduced me to it http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html
Who measures softness/fuzziness of a field? Who makes sure that measurement isn't biased? Just because you use maths doesn't imply your conclusions and theories are as precise and clean cut as 2+2.
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In terms of state level spying. I understand that currently GCHQ hands everything over to the NSA. However, I can vote and lobby in my country to have proper safeguards on how our domestic spy agencies work. I can't vote or lobby in the US to add safeguards to the NSA there. Therefore I want as a first step that my data stays in the UK.

And besides this the rules for how private companies can handle my data are totally different in the UK to the US. In the UK private data comes with fairly strict obligations under the data protection acts and leaking (even accidentally or due to insufficient safeguards preventing malicious actions) can be punished robustly. As I understand it in the US the laws are rather different.
Not sure yet. Was hoping to see some discussion on pros/cons :)
In a (much more rational than SI) system "h=c=1" there is only one fundamental unit left - kg (or ev, which still depend on a kg definition). So getting rid of kilogram is absolutely essential.
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"Get more funding" isn't the difference between making a little money vs. making a lot of money. It's the difference between making a little money and not having a job.
> The x86 architecture was not amenable to a high performance pipelined implementation, so what Intel did since Pentium Pro is to JIT the x86 instructions into an internal RISCy instruction set that can be executed out-of-order with competitive performance.

POWER does the exact same (I can't remember which revision).
Now even the U.S. can adopt it.
In general, what's kept POWER where it is is that you need to be willing to pay far higher prices than Intel charge, and have far higher power consumption than high-end Intel parts, and have the cooling to cope with far higher exhaust temperatures.
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But the name of the Californian city really is Venice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles), which I guess makes it kind of awkward to compare it to Amsterdam. Not sure if the article was a "comparison" at all, though, it read more like a history piece.
That didn’t sit well. Pulitzer-winning architectural critic Allan Temko blasted the skyway option as “dull” and likened it to “an outsized freeway ramp.” MTC head Mary King said of the skyway: “While we appreciate the governor has offered vanilla ice cream, we want chocolate sauce on top.” One Oakland resident wrote that since the Bay Area was full of such creative types, “I think each of us should draw our own bridge” and send it to MTC for consideration.

Oh, you want the chocolate sauce on top? That will be an extra few billion dollars, please.
If you want a dose of your own medicine, "stupider" isn't a word. You're thinking of "more stupid".
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The patent mentioned only covers projecting a light pattern to the ceiling of a room for indoor-navigation of household robots.
It's probably worthwhile to point out that Itanium still, just about, exists, and has traditionally been Intel's competitor to POWER. Though certainly, in recent years, x86_64 has largely taken over that role.
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But wouldn't the most straightforward definition of a base mass unit (kg) be linked to the mass of an atom?
Then treat personal data as radioactive. Don't store it. Don't collect it if you don't need it. If you have it, try to get rid of it, and delete it ASAP.
It probably doesn't matter, they aren't better enough. Now if IBM sold these maybe 30% cheaper, it could be a different story
Not one word about ad-free subscriptions some sites have...
My mistake. I guess I should know better than to only read the title of a patent.
The comment I was responding to implied the Supreme Court "interpreted" the Constitution to undermine privacy rights. But in fact the opposite has happened: it has inserted privacy rights into the document far beyond what is in the text.

As to your point: the 4th amendment clearly does protect a narrow form of privacy: freedom from government trespass to property. But look at the text: it's clearly a targeted, specific, protection. In contrast, look at the broad language of the first amendment: freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech. The framers used broad language when that's what they meant.

And it's not like private communication is such a novel concept they had no reason to even contemplate it. People tend to think of the cloud and encryption as sui generis but the underlying concepts are not. People in 1776 communicated extensively about sensitive matters by letter and in person. Heck, sometimes they even wrote coded messages! They trusted sensitive business and financial information to accountants, lawyers, merchants, bankers, etc.

And if you think about it, if there was some sphere of private communication that the framers intended to protect even from the reach of a warrant, they could have done so even without the existence of encryption! Instead of saying that the government can search your "papers" with a warrant, the 4th amendment could say that the government can never search your papers. Again, it's not like the idea of private communication was novel to them.
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I wonder if the accuracy of estimates would improve if the clients let it be known that if the accumulated cost ever exceeded twice the initial estimate (or some similar multiple), the whole project team running the show would be replaced, and the project potentially scrapped.

It would be hard to stick to such a pledge, of course.
Actually, civil engineers routinely deliver infrastructure projects on time and budget with accurate projections in Spain and Korea. [0] The failure of projections in the USA and the typical 10x cost for the same project (at least as far as underground rail -- bridges may be only 5x) and the cost overruns have multiple, layered causes.

Incompetent planning, political self-aggrandizement, aesthetic confusion, diffusion of responsibility, corruption, not-invented-here, trade protectionism, failure to learn from experience, anti-corruption measures that actually promote corruption like closed competitive bid-plus overrun processes, and a general lack of interest among the public in electing officials that even promise to confront past failures and improve are just the beginning. The Augean Stables of American infrastructure spending are deep in muck and we have no Heracles on the horizon.

The Second Avenue Subway, the eventual Hudson tunnel, the Bay Bridge, insanely expensive BART to SFO, Seattle's tunnel, CA High Speed Rail, and the like are just a taste of a very expensive and gridlocked future if we don't change our ways.

[0]https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/cons...
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True, any problem domain that requires accuracy to 31 decimal places might not be best suited to JSON. I wonder how many decimal places would be required to represent the percentage of projects that would actually be affected by that...
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I would say that SQLite transitions quite nicely, as far as transitions go, into a client-server SQL RDBMS.
Nonsense, there are 10 times more bears in Honshu than Hokkaido
http://www.outdoorjapan.com/magazine/story_details/99
> Trying to get people to understand a complex formal system is very hard. Harder than developing one.

Add another one to that list: Exactly how this complex system benefits people
Award for kids I can "justify" by "well, you went against all odfs and you... got somewhere" (still, would argue for separate group with separate prizes). Women are not going against all odds - remember they are equals, as capable and stuff. As senior prize - stupid. Should not be there.

Why I singled out women? Because these "women only" prizes and headstarts are everywhere today. And I am pro equality - means no headstart for anyone.
They aren't really hunted down here for sport. There's also the differing land uses - mostly arable when I am. That means that culls can be painted as "horrible farmers want to kill bambi" when the situation is more complicated. Deer can be eating crops and forests at the same time.
Brutalist is a particular style, I think what was really meant was "prefabricated" — the buildings could be assembled on-site from parts (wall sections etc) manufactured elsewhere.

A huge number of houses had been destroyed in WW2, so rebuilding them quickly and cheaply was a priority. It wasn't just socialist governments, the UK built loads of these too — though as prosperity increased, they became much less common.
You would need to propose a method to compare the confidence intervals of A1, A2 and B1, B2 without hurting our target coverage probability on the outer confidence interval. This is starting to sound really complicated.
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Regarding the prices of steel rising 50% can't this be mitigated to some extent by buying core materials (or a proportion of) on the futures market which is specifically designed to protect the buyer from price fluctuations?
Milton Keynes is the standard example in British usage of a boring city.

It's one of the few cities in the UK with a grid layout, which is enough to convince many people that it must be boring.
This has little to do with databases, erlang or mnesia, its just a moan against people writing ad tech.

mnesia is a database for the 90's because it was written by smart people in the 80's and like most of the rest of the otp stack was fairly under used or maintained.

I have a huge amount of respect for Klacke and the original authors behind a lot of this tech, however the erlang community that followed seems to suffer some cognitive dissonance around what problems it solves and how well they are doing them. It would be hard to pick a database less suitable for SMB use than a domain specific database in a niche ecosystem.
Here I thought a kilogram was defined by water... oh well, looks like that definition is slightly outdated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre#Rough_conversions
The University of Maryland has a Gamer Symphony Orchestra[1] consisting of students and Alumni that performs multiple times per year and does other pretty neat things. Having several friends in it it immediately came to mind and I wonder if there are similar organizations at other schools. Seems to be growing in popularity.

[1] http://umd.gamersymphony.org/
I wonder: the article states that the SI unit for Kg up to this point was defined using a single object. Doesn't this definition also involve the fact that it's placed on earth, thus requiring two objects for its definition?
Oh damn, my sources were only about brown bears… whoops?
I was with you until the "well paying jobs" part. Are they well paying in relation to the insane real estate prices? When I hear of developers getting $80-100k in SF, that sounds...not great.
I think they mean a lunar orbit which is synchronized with the Moon's rotational period[0].

The Hill radius[1] for the Earth-Moon system is only 24,000 km. The orbital period for a satellite at this distance from the moon should be about 90 minutes. Increasing the distance to increase the period would put the object outside the Hill Radius, causing the satellite to eventually go into orbit around the Earth, rather than the Moon. So, it seems that lunar synchronous orbits do not exist, except at some lagrange stability points of the Earth-Moon system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit#Other_syn...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
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If you have no idea what these companies do, you probably shouldn't comment on what you think they should do.

No, your viewpoint is too narrow.

I love Matt Levine. He has the incredible knack of being able to explain complex financial machinations in simple, clear language.

I also know what Dell, VMware, and EMC do. So, when I combine Matt's writing with my own knowledge ---> voila ---> insight.

If this it what finally gets Joe Tucci out of EMC, then it's probably a good thing for everyone involved. Not that I expect Michael Dell to be better. I dunno, maybe Gelsinger is the answer, but I haven't followed him closely enough to know.

I think I've read enough that, if I owned EMC or VMW, I'd be hitting the sell button right about now. Judging from the behavior of both stocks in the last few days, lots of people agree with me.
Nothing prevents you from measuring it on Mars.
While trying to use empirical evidence to evaluate theories is an important way to advance knowledge in a given domain, I worry about how much weight is given to early empirical results found in fields that study chaotic systems. Case in point, look at the past 100 years of study in nutrition science. An entire generation was taught that fats are bad, food policy was designed around this premise, and now we are learning this may not have necessarily been the case. I don't have a solution to this, because studying empirical evidence allows us to identify what variables are missing, expand our scope of study, and evaluate what variables are/aren't relevant. However, designing policies based on empirical evidence from a field that is in its infancy when it comes to data collection is dangerous.
Nope. Mass != weight. The weight of 1kg on Earth is about 10N (and varies by location). The weight of the same 1kg object on the moon would be much less, but the mass remains the same.
Yes. I believe Asbostos is commenting that they currently are not linked.

("Yes", with the proviso that the proposed silicon atom definition is a more obviously direct link than the watt balance.)
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The used to be defined as one kg of water, but it is not an official SI unit (it is part of the SI accepted metric system, which does not require such rigorous definitions).
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Unfortunately, this is not the reason the US isn't adopting SI.
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That's what the new definition does, using Si(28) as the "reference atom". In the current definition the kilogram is not related to atomic mass.
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I sort-of learned celestial navigation during Navy ROTC training 40 years ago. I remember the Nautical Almanac being something of a pain to work with. It would have been so nice to have the modern-day mobile-device apps that will take the sextant data and do the table-lookup number crunching.
Good article, it makes the point I was trying to make better than I did.
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