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> So you'll get "impressive" code that leverages sexy technologies that is also late, buggy, and not what the customer actually needs.

The rock star dev is by definition the best dev you have, so no you'll the best code you could from your team since the best guy would be spearheading it.
Makes sense to whom? Clearly not to the people who want to vote but are prohibited. And I'm sure many in Myanmar will be quick to explain why it makes sense to restrict based on those factors.
Most of the states that do not recognize Palestine are prominent US allies. The US has a history of vetoing any anti-Israel resolution at the UN, however valid or justified it may be.

I think it's more accurate or fair to categorize those countries in this case as being motivated by "alliances", rather than "freedom".
I get where you're coming from. I grew up with cats, so the behavior seems somewhat "normal" to me. They can definitely be difficult pets at times -- they don't love you like dogs, so it's harder to train them. They also have a very poor understanding of causality.

However, you totally can train them. It's certainly easier when they are younger, and unfortunately you can't stop them from doing something in the future if you don't catch them doing it (preferably early on in the behavior.)

It is definitely worth seriously considering the pros/cons of owning a pet before you get one. I have two cats, and I am stuck with them for the next ~15-20 years.
Rowhammer might get through eventually, but it will blow the corrected error count through the roof on the way there.

The job of ECC is to prevent transient failures and to warn you about less-transient failures. It's not a paradox that it can't paper over things that are actually broken.
Zhukov is one of the greatest generals of World War II. He made Stalin jealous.
If you look through their BoD, there's not a lot of biomed representatives as I recall...
We had French politicians talking about limiting encryptions this time.

Censorship doesn't work. It just drives the discourse underground and often enough makes it even more attractive. The only way for censorship to work is to take it to at least the same extremes as China and have a system of delation in place to denounce people guilty of forbidden speech.

I, for one, am not ready to sacrifice my freedom like this for an hypothetical increase in security.
You are not offended ? Your lack of offendedness is offending..
That is an ever so slightly biased account of the situation.

Construction began in January, so it's not quite "after a year." What's there currently isn't exactly a "half-finished building shell" but is very close to producing batteries, with production slated to begin early next year. At the same time, it's much less than half finished, because the final factory is going to be huge, and they've only built a tiny part of it so far. Finally, Tesla isn't "touchy," they just don't like people trespassing and trying to run over their security guards.
But it brings up a broader point of democracies are more like a gradient of democracy where a "true" democracy could never be achieved (i.e. all citizens eligible to vote).

Even China for example, could just be on an extreme end of democracy in which just members of the National Peoples Congress are eligible to vote. This is better than a dictatorship in which only one person can "vote." At what point does a nation become a democracy? When 51% of the citizens can vote? When 70% can vote?
I highly doubt their sophisticated investors are any more clued in than their board / executive management, which included prominent military figures, industrial complex powerbrokers, politicos, but zero or nearly zero medical expertise.
Congratulations for using example.com as it is meant to be used.
> In my experience, the "Rock star dev who's also a jerk" was both the worst leader and the worst dev. They wrote a bunch of short sighted hacks - making them "productive" "rock stars" - that constantly broke things that other people had to fix.

Those are not rock star devs, those are just shitty devs. The term rock star means your best devs, not your worst, by definition. If you're applying the label to shitty devs, you've missed the point of the term. A rock star is someone who's awesome, that's the entire point of the slang.
A lot of authoritarian regimes actually end up believing their own version of reality. They believe they're representative, saving their nation, that the people want them there etc. Plenty - if not most - of the dictators that have ruled in the last century were extremely irrational. There is enough historical information about Saddam, Fidel, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Putin, Mussolini, etc. to see that common thread among them - they believed they were put there by 'the people' to best serve the people's interests. In their delusional minds, it's a form of democratic representation. The Communist Party regime in China today believes that same thing.

Just look at what Putin believes today. He thinks that as a dictator (he disagrees with that title of course) he can best serve Russia by being a strongman type, and fighting to reclaim what he perceives as Russia's lost glory. He seems to actually believe he is in Russia's best interests, represents the average Russian, and has been legitimately elected (despite the vast vote rigging during his first election for example).
Atwood's original article was puzzling to me, and the conclusions just didn't compute.

I can recall at least a half dozen times when I was a DBA in olden times that ECC either corrected was essential in the isolation of faults on my Informix and later Oracle boxes, running mostly on Sun and RS/6000 at the time.

Sun had a nice habit of shipping defective CPUs and memory in the late 90s. The details are foggy, but I remember correlating ECC faults to long transactions that would fail, and getting a bunch of stuff out of Sun.

Than again, that was 15+ years ago, so maybe the newfangled memory we have these days is more reliable.
Growth hacking?
Probably to avoid that if i have the singold user,someone takes the Singold user to impersonate me, just my guess
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Notice that you had to add "entire" to vox's statement to make your point. Vox's point was a bit of a generalization, but your argument used an unfair exaggeration.
>It's why the Elon Musk's, Larry Page's and Bill Gates of the tech world retreat into their own private dreamlands as far away from the politics of the real world as possible, cause they know don't stand a chance against the rhetorical snake charmers that are Bush, Obama, Clinton and now Trump.

Elon Musk: capitalist. Larry Page: capitalist. Bill Gates: capitalist. Obama and Clinton: capitalists. Bush: capitalist with special emphasis on heavy resource-extraction industries. Trump: capitalist with special emphasis on finance and real-estate.

Honestly, what do the above list of men even disagree about? Gay marriage, and maybe one or two other minor cultural issues.

I mean, maybe Elon Musk could be seen as having a few leftist sympathies in naming his spaceships after Iain Banks characters, but I'm pretty sure he didn't actually mean to shout-out anarcho-communism.
What, again?
I heard ants explained this way once: the little bug is not an ant. The colony is one ant.
Minecraft Pack Mashup v1
Tesla's claim that they will producing batteries in a net-zero factory is almost certainly not true. They could do it by using their batteries and solar panels, but they almost certainly won't do that because they want reliability and affordability (like the rest of us). They will buy credit and that's where there claims of "net zero" come from. But they will almost certainly use grid electricity.
You have to draw the line somewhere. It is a balance between reasonnable information for the police and privacy.

Except when you're linked to an investigation, you don't have to proove you're innocent of any crime. Still, all those laws seems to think the opposite : police will have access to all your data like if you were convicted. Guilty until prooven innocent.

Beside, it's not like governments never abuse this kind of info.
I need to be a little less subtle with my snark I think. If there ever was a company you could have avoid investing in by looking at their board it is Theranos [1].

1. https://www.theranos.com/leadership
In Britain we'd probably go with Native American in a formal context, American Indian might be used but probably isn't as common anymore I'd say, Red Indian would be understood as well but it's a bit dated, I assume that would be considered an offensive term in the US though.

So while we use/understand the term (American) Indians, Indian by itself would be considered to refer to people from India.
Well they do... just look at the fiasco with the replacement for the Bay Bridge in California.
They didn't claim to be a Democracy. They installed a Constitutional Republic. There are important differences between the two. The founding fathers were largely against actual Democracy, direct voting, and so on. That's why they set the Federal Government up the way they did, instead of having the people directly vote on everything.
While I sympathize with the author its (edit)unreasonable to suggest that they should be validating each course. However it appears more should be done to ease the path to getting your content taken down.

You would think the person selling the course would have payment information that could be used to track that individual down, the correct course of action is to sue.

If the content isnt worth doing this then the content isnt actually that valuable to the author.
> "you must have ECC in all your computers otherwise they will constantly and silently corrupt your data + crash" and "statistically speaking, most computers in the world do not use ECC". How can both of these things be true?

What makes you say that? Both those things being true simply means that most computers silently corrupt your data and crash. That matches my experience. My programs occasionally crash. My pictures and videos are occasionally corrupted.

Do I know that those events are caused by memory failures? No. Most of them are probably other sorts of software or hardware failures, but some could be memory errors.
It doesn't make much sense in today's world, both practically and theoretically. We share more today than ever (food, music, culture, products, software, ideas and so on). There is no way a country can survive on it's own - people travel so much across the world for work and pleasure, marry across cultures/religions/nationalities etc. If anything, we should look at the world as one entity.
Many cities in Europe have exactly this. The spaces are reserved for electric vehicles and have chargers.
Core i3's have ECC support.
Sure they will.
It's pretty heteroskedastic, which practically makes the errors not tooo bad. For example, say my wife is low (< 70), in that case the error rate will be small. That's where precision matters. Now suppose she's 200+, in that case the errors will be large but it doesn't really impact how to take care of it. In terms of error, What worries me much more is a server at a restaurant giving my wife a regular coke rather than a diet coke or vice versa.

Where smaller blood is really beneficial is that it requires a less painful finger prick.
Genuinly curious: which products survived? All of the ones I read about had problems.
>Well, the democracy can't build nuclear power plants and fast trains, an an oligarchy can.

The democracy once did, and in fact, was probably more democratic when it chose to. Of course, now it chooses not to because the vast majority of the population are NIMBYs, while nuclear power and fast trains are actually supported only by a technically-educated elite (ie: us).
Gotcha. I haven't worked there either; but I find the boosterism I sometimes observe to be annoying because of the confounding factor of massive free cashflow.
I wish it were so but I'm not very optimistic. In the past 20 years, I've seen overreaction from politicians in the face of any terrorist attack.

And Germany doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to spying on it's own citizens despite having a substantial percentage of the population who had experience with the Stasi. But you're right that at least things seem to be getting better in Germany.
> Epistemic status: attempting to point at a thing that I can't fully articulate

Oh come on: stop stealing Scott Alexander's lines.

As to the rest, well yes, the whole point is that levels of contrarianism and meta-contrarianism, the location of a position on today's political landscape, indicate basically nothing at all about the actual merits of the idea.

Except if it's a Republican idea, in which case it's been carefully optimized to be wildly insane. But they're a special case: other country's right-wing parties often aren't like that (say, the Christian Democrats in Germany).
Both white and clear matter re-transmit all the light they receive, so neither of them have their own characteristic color.

Maybe that's why they are often mixed up.
I've got to disagree, because representing everything as an object involves a serious amount of cognitive overhead. You're limiting yourself to things that can be represented as objects and still make sense, plus you've got to write the code to make your ideas fit into the object box (methods, interfaces, this, public private etc).

I've been working on some networking protocols, and I started by modeling each node as an object. Seemed to make sense. But there's a lot of overhead. Send, receive methods etc etc, and then you've got to instantiate them and then collect the data from the objects afterwards to see how the network did. I switched my code over to being a bunch of stateless functions that operate on a network graph and stuff got a lot less verbose.

This is not necessarily always the case, but I would hate working in an environment where I was forced to always use a very specific metaphor for my work.
That must be the understatement of the year. The board looks like the board you would put together if you were planning a coup of some central american country.
> It's surprising to the mainstream left, which is as ignorant of current behavioral genetics research as the mainstream right is of climate change research.

Ignorant and without foundation.

> I'm really just making a broader point that the uncritical embrace of the blank slate hypothesis

No, you're trying to label the left as ignorant of an entire field of study because it makes you think you're superior to them, never mind that your assertion is not true.
Super Naikan: An Awesome New Way to Start Your Day
If you're interested in using ES6 features, TypeScript provides a great way to get most of these features (and of course optional typing as well). Babel might be slightly more feature-complete when it comes to ES6 features, but TypeScript provides such a fantastic front-end dev experience that I definitely recommend it. (Biggest pain point is incorporating typings for libraries which are pure JS and not TS.)
The study states that they got accurate measurements once they started taking 5 drops of blood which is less than 0.1 ml. A blood sample could vary from 3-10 ml according to the first thing I found on google. So it seems like all they have to do is take a few more drops to be accurate (which will still be an order of magnitude from the volume of traditional blood tests).

first thing on google: https://ethnomed.org/patient-education/blood/how-much-blood-...
Do Titans have ECC? If the bulk of the calculation will be done on the GPU, adding ECC to the main board may not matter.
I had no idea about the drinkabout. I rarely go to Sofia these days, but if I happen to be there, I'll join :-)
Remember that everything on the ST was being costed in early or mid 1984, about a year before the ST shipped. (Which in retrospect was an amazingly compressed schedule...)

I think that the National 32032 would have beaten the 68K in cost; National was pretty hungry and willing to make good deals. But their chips were rather extremely very buggy (which the Tramiels may not have cared about, since making software engineers suffer was part of their model), but it was a relatively poor performer, clock-for-clock, and that made the hardware engineers go "ewwww" and after a while we software guys realized that National wasn't being invited over for meetings any more.
The semantics of the involved control constructs don't interact well ("return" and "finally" each has a claim to have the last say; what could be the meaning of a "continue" in a "finally"? etc.) This is not limited to just JS. For an example in Java see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65035/does-finally-always...
Electric cars now outperform gas cars in acceleration. This has blown away the "vroom" advantage behind much automotive marketing. Electrics can also do it easily and routinely, without burning clutch plates and wearing out transmissions. Elon Musk has capitalized on this, with features such as "ludicrous mode". There are only five cars with a faster 0-60 time than Tesla's family hatchback. And two of them are partially electric. The three IC-powered supercars that can beat a Tesla can only do it by 100ms, they all cost upwards of $250K, and they're fragile, high-maintenance machines. (Especially the Veyron, where a tire change costs $90K).

IC cars have thus lost the "vroom" race. That's changed perception of electric cars.

The big remaining problems are cost, and trucks. We have yet to see a good electric pickup truck.
The video on the linked page mentions, "New unit path finder. Improved performance"
It's a genetic propagation strategy to prefer those more genetically like you than those more different.
Show HN: Check Chai – Run Asynchronous Tests with Mocha/Chai/expect/assert
I understand your "objective" and theoretical approach to this issue, but please don't belittle what many people are going through.
A few thoughts on OpenBSD 5.8
>Don't you think it's possible that through diligent study of human interaction and how the mind works you could gain a better understanding of how biases are formed and reinforced and stand a chance of recognizing when your own rational decision making is being bypassed?

No. That requires knowing what the rational decision would actually be, if you would only make it. Knowing exactly how emotionally distraught you are about your grandmother dying during a physics exam doesn't give you any information about physics.
Women, minorities, and the Manhattan Project
Equivalent? No. Unix is not the secret sauce of OSX. I never used A/UX. Did it have a GUI at all?
Math.random() and 32-bit precision
> As required by law, the NSA will end its wide-ranging surveillance program by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new, scaled-back system in place by then, the White House said.

Except every time the White House has said "we're only doing X.." we find out later that it wasn't true so why should we believe them now?
>But nowadays, these mostly male, white, Silicon-Valley-type, science-loving and science-fiction-reading do-gooders have found the threat of runaway AI as one of their supposedly objective main issues. Artificial Intelligence which, as it happens, is also something that these people have an interest in. What are the chance?

The chances are 5%. That is, 5% of people involved in EA actually put any money towards the AI stuff. 80%, on the other hand, consider global poverty worth throwing money at.
Not too tagntial to the story, but what if, they had to tear it down? In fact, some of skyscraper buildings may require reconstruction / rebuild for whatever reason one century from now. Assuming the world is at least as dense today's, how are they going to tear it down? Vagas's method works fine because those casino buildings are pretty low profile compare to skyscraper, plus between building and building there is always some open space gap, unlike in the busy NY. We know from 9/11 the force is too great to contain.
And the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus will be holding a press conference on Monday.
Uncorrectable errors with ECC memory caused by row hammer is just ECC working as designed.

The scary thing about rowhammer isn't just the potential a fault, it's the potential for a security vulnerability. Yeah, a DOS attack isn't nice either, but it's a million times less worse than a privilege escalation caused by memory corruption.

For rowhammer to be even the same magnitude of problem with ECC memory would require not an uncorrectable error, but an error that gets past the error detection mechanism entirely and produces data either seen as correct or correctable, but which is not the original data.
An electron is a truly elementary particle. This means that in an e-e collision, you know precisely the center-of-mass energy of the resulting interaction. A proton, on the other hand, is not a fundamental particle: it's composed of quarks and gluons, so even if we know that the proton's energy is 7 TeV, we don't know which fraction is carried by each of the proton's constiuents. And since interactions happen between the constituents, the center-of-mass energy is not fixed, and generally not known with high precision.

It's therefore much better to probe for unknown phenomena using a hadron collider (e.g., a proton-proton or ion-ion) since with a single beam energy you can potentially produce interactions at a wide range of center-of-mass energy. However, if you know the center-of-mass energy of the processe(s) you need to study, a lepton (e.g. electron-electron) collider is more suitable since you can precisely tune the center-of-mass energy of the interactions.

It's also possible to collide electrons with protons. This was done for example at the HERA collider at DESY in Hamburg in the 90's/00's to study the inner structure of the proton.
As required by law, the NSA will end its wide-ranging surveillance program by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new, scaled-back system in place by then, the White House said.

"As required by law"? The government violated the Fourth Amendment and the director of national security committed perjury (1). As required by law, justice officials and prosecutors should have brought charges against Clapper and other responsible parties ... yet nothing happened.

What makes the government think that we will trust them to investigate and prosecute anyone violating our rights in the future, "as required by law"?

1. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-clapper-says-he-misspoke-d...
Whenever this comes up in management theory I'm always reminded of this article.
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

The setting is radical feminism rather than tech management, but the drivers are the same and so are the results.
That's a good point. AFAIK they don't. But Teslas and Quadros do.
I ran Minix on a 8088 with 640K RAM and a 5.25" floppy drive.
On Monday, the Pope will convert to Islam.

On Tuesday, Elon Musk will start his journey to Mars.

Wednesday, Isis declares peace.

By Thursday, the static vs. dynamic typing debate will finally be solved.

On Friday, king Salman of Saudi Arabia will donate all his wealth to charity.

And finally, on Saturday, Elon Musk will land on Mars.
Maybe the investors are not sophisticated? Similar to the ubeam (ultrasonic power transfer) where the investors don't understand physics.
The penalty for not having a license plate mounted on the car is $25 and proof of correction. You can have it signed off at your local highway patrol office. There is no additional penalty for repeat violations as far as I know.
Golden ratio discovered in quantum world (2010)
1) NSA shuts down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday.

2) NSA starts totally different and with even less oversight "aggregate" phone surveillance program by Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/us/politics/records-show-e...
> its dangerous to suggest that they should be validating each course.

Why's that?
wow a link to a wiki page, amazing post.