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I've worked on safety critical software, for a couple different companies. Code quality is a very real problem.

One company, the guy in charge of software was a CE, who would have been fine as long as the hardware was at the level of sophistication as what he was taught at school (He knew 8051 microcontrollers really well). He was really good at giant switch-case statements. Function pointers were a little newfangled and suspect.

Basically, he knew enough software engineering to get the hardware working.

That's one big problem that needs to be addressed -- there aren't a lot of people being trained in the software side of embedded systems. You have CS grads who for the most part aren't given much training on the low end of the abstraction spectrum, and the opposite for CE people, so there tends to be a very fuzzy area in the middle that causes arguments between the two camps.

The other company I worked for literally had crazy coding standards that basically dictated 20,000 line functions and a bizarre sort of anti-DRY mindset that I will never understand. You were encouraged to c-c c-v a block of code, change one line, move on!
This is such an important point that it really should be at the top. Just look at the punitive charges for crack vs cocaine: two very similar drugs, but consumed by different demographics.

Legislators, DAs, judges and police adjust their behavior when sentences feel out of whack with the crime. Unfortunately, that empathy goes out the window when the people in charge are sentencing "other" people, who they don't empathize with.

Poor, uneducated people live by one set of laws, and middle-upper class people live by another set of laws.
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A fully client side implementation of IPFS is in the works. Right now, you'll have to run the daemon on your server and interact with it, so not fully distributed until either the client-side implementation of IPFS is done (node-ipfs on Github/NPM) or the public gateway can accept calls from the JS api client that works in the browser too (node-ipfs-api on Github/NPM).
I don't think drug usage is the right metric, though.

I believe that the law enforcement strategy is a concentration on drug dealers; prosecution of users is pretty much incidental, used to enhance sentences for other crimes as much as anything else.

If prosecution of dealers is the policy, then you'd need to show that blacks and whites sell drugs at similar rates. I have no idea whether or not that's true...
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You also have to look at why people are being incarcerated. There are individuals doing life in prison for distribution of a plant.

A plant that is native to this ecosystem.

It's the most absurd thing I can think of when it comes to America's war on drugs.
There is a semantic quibble at play here that actually makes all the difference in the world when it comes to discussions about QM that inevitably end up in pseudo-intellectual balderdash. A strictly local physical description can only involve classical Newtonian pictures, such that all of the nonlocal effects are superadded onto these pictures and were elegantly explained away by Newton as such: "Hypothesis non fingo" -- in other words, "Hehe, your guess is as good as mine".

In modern times, when we observe nonlocal effects between objects (such as with gravity), we first measure the effect, and only later do we invent something called a "field" whose definition consists of nothing other than the observed measurements themselves.

This is still nothing other than the same "Hypothesis non fingo" as before, except that now, the question of whether fields can possibly be explained in terms of classical physical pictures does not exist anywhere in the entire physics profession. That is, those kinds of hand-waving, natural language questions just don't have any place in the discourse of those who can rightfully be called credentialed, working physicists.

To such physicists, a particle is simply a set of quantum numbers that exists in n-dimensional Hilbert space (or "mathspace"). Again, whatever field is said to exist at the particle's location is nothing more than the measurement that is recorded by some apparatus that exists in [classical] spacetime. So, it is of course necessarily true that the particle and the [part of the] field [that affected it] must exist at the same location.

But to then say that this is therefore a meaningful account of something called "local physics" is, IMO, fairly absurd, because the entire point of the inventions called fields is to say: "Hey, I have no idea what accounts for instantaneous, space-bridging forces like gravity, so I am just going to leave it to the philosophers to offer up speculations so that the masses may be entertained."

Of course, this can be countered by the argument that gravity is fundamentally different from the electromagnetic force, because electromagnetism necessarily depends on the supposed propagation of things called photons. But this argument depends crucially on the notion that our mathematical shorthand for the quantization of the EM field (ie, photons) is at the same time a meaningful physical description that exists in the framework of a classical spacetime picture that is based fundamentally on the quality of locality.

However, QED (quantum electrodynamics; the quantum description of electromagnetism) in no way exists in any such classical framework. It is all rather the very same "mathspace" previously mentioned. The "field" is nothing but whatever bit of data that some classical measuring device recorded there.

p.s. Thanks for the upvotes :)... sometimes it pays to complain, I guess!!!
I agree 100%.

I didn't mean to attack you personally, it's just very easy to become blind to things that don't affect you personally. The last paragraph of the blog post touches on this as well. I still think it would be an interesting experiment, because of course my opinions on Bavarian police are also based on extrapolation from anecdotes that i have heard.
Durable or immutable?
I wouldn't say people who expect the police to be nice are part of the problem, but the police are not your friends. They follow their instructions and protect the law, which is also not on your side. It's on the side of the abstract "majority", so you have a very high chance of not being included.
Author here.

The problem I was trying to get to is that VSM allows itself to be activated without SB (which as you note, can also be done with malicious SB) and therefore there is no way to really 'trust' the VSM implementation.

Possible fixes to this would be to rely on SGX/TXT. But even that can be messed with -- but the attack surface is much harder than EDK-II.
Pretty much, yes, everyone.
But the years of just say no and imprisonment favored over treatment for drugs use, surely did not help.
Some exacerbating reasons is that politicians and the people they represent get to regulate sentencing rather than social scientists and criminologists, so you get people scared by drug addiction wanting to keep it from getting to their kids driving the general sentiment.

I understand people in a democracy want control of their social fate, but, in many cases level headed reason based on studies and good policy would be better.

I'm glad were having a moment of sanity when it comes to drugs, addiction, and law.

And lest it not be clear, most people of all ethnicities who saw drugs as a plague saw jailing of offenders as the primary solution to the problem. That's to say people of few means but able to avoid the drugs issue also saw this as a law and order get them off the streets issue --in some ways because it was the only answer available.
No idea how old he is, but it would be a mistake to accuse Marcin Wichary of ahistoricity.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/tags/computerhistory/

https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man
Here's one of the many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline.

<sarcasm>You can't blame poor people for not having access to the immunity bankers have.</sarcasm>
Do you fly airplanes of commercial airlines? If yes, I have bad news for you. They are almost all fly-by-wire already.
And yet it seems resilient enough that European countries are importing low-skilled third-world people without any concern for the frafile framework of mutual trust and playing by the rules you speak of.

Not to mention your argument sounds suspiciously like Intelligent Design believers explaining how the universe was obviously created by god since it is built on a fragile interplay of fine tuned distances and sizes and if only they were slightly different humans wouldn't exist!

EDIT @TeMPOraL: I'm the one that argues that it is all within-the-system, without the need for an external omnipotent actor. You're the one that thinks we must introduce the government as an external (above the rules) omnipotent (law-making) actor to the system of human interaction that is originally solely comprised of people and rules that apply to everyone without exception (but you want to introduce the external actor "government" as an exception to this otherwise global rule).

Hence why I argue that what you said is akin to Intelligence Design arguments. You are saying this delicate societal balance is all thanks to the external actor called government, like ID-folks say the balance of the universe is due to god. Both of you believe systems would collapse without this external omnipotent actor. The similarities are not just superficial.
Side note: quick research seems to indicate that it may not actually be Genghis Khan who is the male-line ancestor of all those men, but a common ancestor of his and the rest of his tribe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khereid

Even if so, I'm not sure if he would actually be an example of the low-investment male mating strategy. He was the ruler of a large empire, so he would be able to invest in his children. Even those who weren't recognized would have advantages from being rumored to be his offspring.

Groups which allow the low-investment strategy are outcompeted because they don't incentivize any males to invest in the group, while the Mongol empire had plenty of conquered people available to the Mongol men who were excluded by elites' polygamy.
> Stop saying "spam" and start saying UBE - unsolicited, bulk, email.

> As soon as it's bulk and unsolicited it's spam

Did you mean to write this? You essentially said to stop saying "spam" and that this is spam...
I had a hard time understanding how and why you'd drop beavers from a plane when a camera man could clearly get to the same spot, to, you know, make the film.

Then I thought that the camera man could have parachuted in, too. But, then I thought that either meant he then hiked out, in which case, why not hike in with beavers, and save the plane time? Or, perhaps, the plane could land on a lake, but in which case, why not land with beavers?

I may just be pre-caffeine, but I'm not sure I understand the point here.
Holy crap. That is so dead on in how people are approaching international development lately.
As I understand it the only real "Technological" component to Gates' work was actually measuring outcomes correctly and spending money based on those outcomes. Not sure what you are referring to though.
Some fashion designers are quite paranoid about their designs being copied by bigger brands. I've been challenged by designers while doing reportage-style photography of the exhibition at London Fashion Week, asking me who I was and who I worked for. Apparently, mass-market fashion manufacturers and retailers make use of the services provided by companies like WGSN to get "inspiration" for their own ranges.

Examples include Primark allegedly copying Mary Katrantzou's designs - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/how-to-... - and Nasty Gal copying Alexander Wang - http://fashionista.com/2015/05/nasty-gal-alexander-wang-dres...
Name someone in prison for just smoking a joint. I honestly have never heard of anyone. all the people in prison are either dealers, were found with a large amount of drugs, or other non drug-related crimes.

Drug use is a small part of why someone is getting arrested..especially to the point of a prison sentence. A chart showing that just as many whites and blacks tried an illegal drug (smoking weed is still illegal in most states) doesnt really tell us anything.
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This seems like a useful tool for fuzztesting your dev ops person, or if you are the dev ops person, for fuzz testing development. Fuzz for all!
> The equality remains true in the pure, absolute sense. The scenarios you cite are cases where it appears to be violated, but the equality works out anyway.

OK so if I save 5 tons of steel but I don't put it to work, it's savings but not investment, right? Or is that not how it works?

I get that all investment had to at one point have been savings (instead of consumption) but not all savings is investment is it? If I "save" those 5 tons of steel for years but then eventually end up making them into washing machines they were savings, but then they became consumption.

Maybe in these cases the steel isn't "saved" because it isn't "invested" and the only things that can be considered savings are those which are invested. OK, sure. Then what is a bunch of stuff sitting around not being consumed or invested? Is it in purgatory?
A patent is in the public domain until it issues and after it expires. It just means the patent is not yet or no longer in force and therefore the subject matter is not restricted. 'Public domain' has nothing to do with being secret or readable by the public either in copyright or patent; it's a matter of freedom to use or copy.
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It's important to also consider that while Windows may represent ~80% of the desktop market, it may not represent that much of a majority for the Medium market. I'd be surprised, honestly, if 80% of Medium readers used Windows...
It seems to be listed as a software engineering position (and are likely paid through the same construct, since participants are required to be eligible for work in the US). I would think they are paid as entry level software engineers, but that's all conjecture.
> I'd argue they want to be pitched, and doing it at scale is just a way to save you a lot of time.

There are sites like www.helpareporter.com which do the exact same thing but the difference here is that the reporters opt-in to get the emails. I think that is a more ethical way of doing it.

>I know you're joking about this, but I'm pretty sure Airbnb would have failed without doing exactly that.

Wow, though as per AirBnB it was a rogue marketing agency which did it without telling them.

Link for the lazy (first article on Google):
[1] http://www.tnooz.com/article/airbnb-admits-rogue-sales-team-...
For news articles and business correspondence (memos, emails, letters), if I don't know what the article is about and the general conclusion of the article after reading paragraph one, the writer has failed horribly.

There's few things I hate more than 'news' articles not being written properly, something that's incredibly common these days on the Internet. I especially hate articles that start out with a couple of paragraphs of some stupid, boring, anecdotal story before even hinting at what they're about. Such things are evidence of terrible writing. I don't expect blog posts to adhere to this, but I see it so often on 'news' sites, it's horribly disgusting. Yes, there is a place for magazine stories but the news is hardly ever it. And certainly, business correspondence is the last place for that kind of literal gibberish.
I think the biggest advantage Big Pharma would have over the cartels and fly-by-night drug makers is that legitimate companies are held accountable to quality and safety standards, therefore you can be sure that you're buying a drug produced following a proper process and contains only what it's supposed to. A lot of deaths from (illegal) drug use is caused by impurities and not by the drug itself, and illicit actors don't have incentives to reduce them.
Substitute works IMO the same way replace does[1].

Substitute poison for healthy food.

Substitute poison with healthy food.

The first means you take away healthy food and give poison. The later means you take away poison and give healthy food.

[1] Except that "replace X for Y" sounds weird, except in the common phrase "replace like for like" (and probably some others!).
What he says is literally impossible.. it hasn't even been a decade since the Gates foundation started funding polio eradication. The first the Gates foundation did anything was in 2007, when they gave $100m.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/1...

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2...

And that money (along with $100m from Rotary International) went to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which is the World Health Org's immunization program (started in 1988).
Because five years down the road, nobody wants to have to remember to stick that in when the vendor-specific version is removed.

An example of someone who didn't do this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765645
>2) The brakes in all of these vehicles are many times more powerful than the engine. Pressing the brakes would have stopped the vehicles, even if the engine were attempting to accelerate full throttle.

The brakes in 2004 and newer models are controlled by the computer. It controls the hydraulic pressure to the brakes to maximize the amount of work the regenerative braking system can do. It uses a pump and accumulator to store hydraulic pressure, and solenoids to send it to the brakes as well as provide pedal feedback. The only time you directly control the brakes is if the main system loses all accumulated pressure. Until then, you're just sending pedal input to the computer and it does what it wants.
When did he say they were cheap and accessible?
He actually said, they were on par with similarly equipped PCs. Not at all the same thing.
I was a scout and this really frustrated me. There is currently situation here in Finland "boys are fleeing from scouting". Your choises are to play counter strike at home or knit a pot coaster with girls in scout meeting. What are you going to do?

In 1910 your choised were playing capture the flag with boys in scout meeting. Or stay at home with mom and help her. What are you going to do?

This used to be movement that helped poor boys more than any other single thing. Boys have not changed, scouting has.
David Brooks recently did a column on incarceration rates. It's a useful column because it cites facts.

He reports that the clear cause of increased incarceration is this: prosecutors now bring charges against two out of every three people arrested. That's double the charge rate from 20 years ago.

Brooks states that he doesn't know why the change has occurred, and reports some of the theories he has heard.

One of the facts he cites is that just 20% of incarcerations are from drug charges. He dismisses that as not the cause, which is plainly correct. I would nitpick and say that it is a potential contributing factor worth examining more closely to see how much of that 20% is due to less-serious charges.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/opinion/david-brooks-the-p...
I mean, is that the actual legal term for expired patents? "Public domain"? I thought it was a term of art for copyright, not for patents.
Eh, I think he's mistaken. Journalists aren't good at writing because they took a course, they're good at writing because they write. A lot. You want better memos, hold memo-writing practice sessions every week and give constant feedback. Ripping a memo up and saying "take a course" is ignorant.
We get it on saturdays in the summer sometimes, with no fanfare. I used to work for ESPN. They do the "ERT" trucks, aka espn regional TV, which is like the "C" team truck. Nothing like high caliber college football, etc.
But that would just be for one recording device. If you could use multiple devices, perhaps with small POV differences that could be corrected, I would expect no limit in that "lossy" case.
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I am looking forward to the day when Mesos(or any other PaaS software) will be able to use Ceph to save application(app/container/vm) state. In such a setup applications could move around the compute cluster without loosing state.
Thank you very much, I did not think of that avenue. Considering how many universities there are within an hour's drive (more than I have fingers!) I'm hoping one might do such things. Much appreciated.
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Not to my ear. To my ear, substituting X for Y is the same thing as replacing Y with X.
> So here is a guess: you are white, you have a standard hairstyle, you wear standard clothes.

One can't help one's colour, but one can help one's hairstyle and clothes. How one presents oneself is one aspect of one's communication with others, to include the police. If one broadcasts the message, 'I am likely to be a petty criminal' to the police, one should expect to be harassed.
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My oldest brother got polio at 5 years old and I was exposed to him when I was 2. But I got the vaccine shortly after (in 1955). I am so grateful for the vaccine. For the record my brother is still alive and has had numerous surgeries. Most recently both hips were replaced and they used that as an opportunity to add some length to his shorter leg. This has made a tremendous positive difference in his life.

Stay focused.... "We don't need no stinking app".
Crime rates have plummeted since we have started being "tough on crime". We are all much safer than we were decades ago. Isn't our incarceration system working? What's the issue here?

http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/figure_...
Persistent volumes are on the horizon[1], now that Diego has landed.

But you'd be surprised how many apps can be ported to some semblance of cloud nativeness. Most of the stuff that Absolutely Must Be Stateful can usually adapted to something else. Sticky sessions go to Redis or Memcache, local files can often be relocated into a shared filesystem/blobstore like Riak CS etc.

The big thing about PaaSes is not that they make it a smooth, double-percent-ROI incremental improvement from the status quo. What happens is that unlocking true continuous deployment capability unblocks process backpressure throughout the entire organisation. The value you get from a complete shift in how you develop software swamps the cost of carrying legacy until it can be replaced.

Putting it another way: the sucky parts are tactical. The awesome parts are strategic.

[1] http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-cloud-foundry/case-studies/th...
It seems to me that even if it is possible for the driver to prevent the accident by reacting quickly and braking, Toyota is still responsible. Unintended acceleration is not a reasonable behavior for a vehicle and is not something that a driver can reasonably be expected to compensate for.
Its a cool story but Non-Physical Displacement is really stupid and I hate when TV Time Travelers roll out that trope. it just doesn't work.

The Earth orbits the Sun at 30Km/s, and we're just going along for that ride. In 24 hours the Earth moves, 406 Earth diameters though the Solar System.

The Sun orbits the Galaxy's core at 220KM/s.

Our Galaxy is FLYING towards the future site of the Elliptical Galaxy that will form from the merge of the Andromeda and Milky Way.

TL;DR If you move though time, and ended up where you started. You moved though A LOT of space.
They're doing that. That's what a lot of plane 2 is.