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How does one argue with someone that has irrational and illogical views?

> If the OP had said "being open to guilt etc is an integral part of our university; as such, anyone refusing to go to this talk will be expelled. However, we will tell people in advance, so they can choose not to go, and then leave." I would support him. To specifically say "I'm not telling people about what will happen" means you don't want people to know in advance. How is that not deceptive?

The mere thought that this is what you expect says, "I'm not a rational person."

How does anyone respond to that? There's nothing to be said to you. You've made no indication (from the many comments I've read) that you're prepared to have your mind changed or that you're open to other points of view.

You have come to an irrational conclusion and that's it. You're finished. Everyone else (that doesn't agree) is a "jerk" and can take a hike.
I attempted a way to visualize that example (with natural frequencies) here:

https://medium.com/@eshan/why-nobody-understands-mammograms-...
all I want in life is for my car to have Apple Pay so that I can go through the McDonald's drive-thru and have to do nothing but order my food. bonus if it knows my order ahead of time because I always get the same thing and I have to say nothing at all.
Yes they are the parse app keys, they are meant to be public.
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why not rip out CRC32 and put in xxhash?
I don't know about the B-29 system in particular, but gyroscopic gunsights used on most WW2 fighters were fairly straightforward. First, you set a selector on the sight to the wingspan of your target (usually there would be presets for common enemy aircraft). Then you twist a knob (typically on the throttle) that adjusts a ring in the sight until it matches the size of the target - this establishes the range. Finally a gyroscope provides input on how your aircraft is moving, and since you're typically maneuvering to follow your target this is an approximation of the target's movement.

There's a lot of approximation involved, but generally it's good enough to hit an airplane sized target, especially on US fighters where you typically have 4-8 machine guns spitting out 50+ bullets per second in a shotgun like pattern.

Some relevant links:

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu236/ken1926/P-51DK_03.j...

http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ta...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/P-47_gun...
aka monads ;)
Korea is a great place; your complaints are valid. What I learned from living there is that there can be unexpected benefits to repeated rehearsal (also sometimes referred to as "rote memorization") which I find to be undervalued in the US education system. This of course can be taken too far.
We've had discussions with them, they'll take a little longer to engage, but I'm encouraged that they probably will-- I think annotation is inevitable for scholarship, regardless of whether it's using our technology or not.
What will this person have stolen? To whom will it belong? Someone will have to claim to be the victim.

I guess still, we're talking past each other.

We need to repeal laws against every one of those offenses except assault and theft (which will require a victim to come forward, again returning to my initial question).

My assertion (and one that I think it quite clearly backed up by the evidence in history on the matter) is that these victimless crimes are created precisely to target (typically racial) groups.

I don't view the unethical law and the racist enforcement as two different things, but as parts of the same motion.
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I would say that the physical processes that underlie our mental representations of concepts are fundamentally not serialized (part of why it is often so hard to put thoughts into words). They are non local in the sense that many different actors can operate on the data at the same time to create or modify some higher dimensional state and are not necessarily contingent on prior state in the way parsing is.

You can't really parse a paper by reading every paragraph at the same time. Even if you could do it physically, some ordering would have to be applied to interpret subsequent parts based on statements in earlier parts. Representations in the brain have no such inherent limitation on ordering.
I'm asking about the about the kite turbines.

>I think the fairly simple answer is that you don't stack them or allow for any interference at all. If your kite goes up to 250m and has a 1km tether you space all your launchers on a 1km "radius" hexagonal grid. Your wind farm takes up more space but at first that's no problem at all. You could probably make it work at a 500m hexagonal grid but there's a small amount of risk associated there.
You can't survive without food, but that doesn't necessarily mean it matters whether your last 500 calories comes from cookies or fruit.
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I would like to do some volunteer work for approximately two months, starting from the end of December. Can anyone recommend any worthwhile programmes? Ideally teaching, although I am open to other types of service. I am a full stack developer, I can teach high school maths or business, although I do not have official teaching credentials. Thanks!
You have a lot of aliases. Consider consolidating them.

He noted that the specific claims regarding amount of rise over time were not validatable from evidence, and he posted specific reliable credible third party sources that validated his claim.

Yet here we are several hours later, long enough for every last person to review the data and still many aliases claim it is not so. A notable exclusion is these person's lack of data, but rather reposted claims supposing to refute empirical data, while offering no sources whatsoever. What may we then conclude about those posters other than that they are unreliable sources of data who do not respect the scientific method and actual verifiable data?
Probably don't want to go back and rewrite all their past data.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Humans have pursued leisure for probably as long as there have been humans.
ORLY?

http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/OVmKZX

https://m.imgur.com/a/TXpis
They're "permanent" in that they're not controlled by the site owners. But without effective moderation, a public channel of annotations will become unusable, so spam and trolls must be dealt with effectively.
I like lots of things that Bill Murray's done, but that isn't really funny at all. I doubt it would have been funny 40 years ago either.

Humor is subjective, so my opinion really doesn't matter.

I think there are definitely comedic styles/routine/jokes/whatever that might end up being timeless, but there are a lot of things that will become less humorous over time. Half of the sitcoms I grew up watching in the 80's and early 90's don't seem funny at all anymore.
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That's the thinking behind this coalition for the scholarly community.
Here's to hoping you bring Spark to the Mac ;)

On PDF Expert, one feature I'd love to see would be an option to add links to sections of images in a PDF. That's the only thing I use Acrobat for, and it'd be incredible to be able to quit using it forever.
So, it's like clib [0] by TJ Holowaychuk [1]?

[0] https://github.com/clibs/clib

[1] https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/introducing-clib-b32e6e769...

Edit: No, it is not.
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If you see inefficiency in the awareness of citizens. Do something about it. Disrupt. Clearly the Washington Post is not catching enough consumers.
Why do you want to limit copy pasting?
I imagine you have to be right. For the majority of employees a 6 week break is no big deal. But for some specialty industries you just can't hire people that plan on taking a 6 week break in the middle of production.
Thank you all for your thoughtful responses! Considering the potential client has also asked for some other contract changes that would increase my liability to them, I've decided to stand firm and not give in to any of their contract change requests. We've been working on getting a deal together for 6 weeks now and I've found them quite inexperienced with technical matters so far. I think this translates into a lack of trust towards me, though I don't get the feeling there's any malice or ill-will behind it. So if they insist on their proposed changes to the contract, I will happily walk away. Thanks again for your thoughts!
Imperative != low level.
Never mind The Pip, The Woodpecker is far more interesting:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/therussianwoodpecker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Woodpecker
clib – C Package Manager-ish
My understanding is seamount (underwater volcano) on which coral builds further toward the surface, from depths of < 200' (~60m), topped with sand which is almost certainly formed from coral.

The sand topping will blow way in wind, but with slow sea rise, coral can build up. Coral cannot grow above sea level, so atolls are of necessity close to sea level. With rapid rise, particularly where coral growth is retarded (carbonate levels, other forms of coral blight), you'll lose that ability entirely, and the island will flood.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoll
Pretty much this. From the post:

"Because it produces different results, it would render all our stored checksums invalid, so we'd have to recalculate them all. That's a big job, so we'd need to do a lot of testing first to make sure that it's so much better that it's actually worth the effort."
If I were producing a car, I'd look into vehicle as a service.

Which means, one monthly price, a lease like object (but without mileage limits), insurance and any maintenance is included, and when the period over (say 24 months), you can return it or trade it in on a new model for a small fee. In a smart world, the cars wouldn't even need to be totally new, they could go thru a re-manufacturing process to replace most wearable components (like the interior, tires, and possibly repainting).

Apple does two things really well, it makes very pretty products, but it also makes products that are generally less complex in use. The most complex part about automobile ownership is the purchase process (and insurance too), if you can remove the complexity, you can make a much better customer experience.
At scale (which is what you have very quickly, considering each shows brings huge numbers), those sensors get cheap enough that you just factor them in even at 0% return rates. They won't cost more than $20 each; put half the cost on tickets and half on losses and you're good. To operations the size of Chappelle's, good-quality leaked video is worth millions.

Besides, why would they lose so many? Like 3d glasses, the novelty goes away very quickly.
Bill is rock and roll. He's old school SNL. One thing is for sure, the guy definitely needs to perform.
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> This gives an interesting glimpse into the prognostication abilities of supposedly brilliant VC's.

The question isn't whether VCs are brilliant according to some absolute metric. The question is whether they deploy capital better than random chance. The numbers show that top ten VCs consistently do.
Yep, at least that's how the official version of the chrome app works at the moment, it offers no standalone option.
I don't think it's right to consider all tech giant products equally. You have to consider things like whether the product or service is a significant source of revenue relative to the company's overall business.

For example, Google probably could've made Reader profitable, but it was not on track to be used by a billion people. Relative to Google's overall business, it was uninteresting to them. It might've been a great startup, though.
Yeah, Kickstarter seems like debt that has no interest, and can be forgiven (in the right circumstances), and it gives you free publicity and a form of market validation. By far the best source of debt I can imagine.
Here's one way to look at it: Tim Cook's deep expertise is in logistics, exclusive supplies, and large-scale production runs.

What industry has been stagnating, is hence most ripe for re-invention, and heavily involves problems in Cook's favorite domain?

While Steve Jobs was passionate about computers as wheels for the mind and about gestalt esthetics, Tim Cook is passionate about supply lines. Different people, distinct ambitions.
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The Collections are a mix of free and subscription content and there is a fair bit of non-subscriber content for devs to sink their teeth into.

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We're proud of the Collections as it is a new direction for us and one that we've become quite passionate about - we love the idea of creating communities around particular topics and areas of interest and we'll be growing out more and more collections as time goes on.

We'd love any feedback or thoughts on the Collections that people have and we're looking forward to doing a lot more with them over the next few months.
The history of deafness is as old as humanity
AWS Lambda is awesome -- for about a month, I was head over heels in love with it. However, the language support turns out to be a huge issue. If Javascript, Python, or Java 8 isn't the right tool for the job, you're stuck. I hear Go, and then Ruby, support is slated for 2016. I am optimistic that as time goes on, language and binary support will make this the future of computing.
> So if I understand correctly this would be somewhat akin to having a "universal clock" that is ever increasing, and that can be read/seen by anyone (like you said, universally). So you only need to know the "time" on the clock, when you do something, so that afterwards you can verify that indeed the "timestamp" happened.

As long as you where online during that time, or as long as you trust a third party to record the CMB radiation for you, yes.

The really cool thing is that this wold apply not just anywhere in the universe, but because nothing travels faster than light any communication being done between blockchains between planets would always be in sync. The CMB Radiation simply reaches the other planet at the same time the communication does.
That's what I'm trying (and apparently failing) to get at:

For Twitch, being gamers who also ran a video streaming site was a huge unfair advantage, because they were in a position to recognize a trend as it just started. There was no reason, if you look at statistics or data, to believe that this was a combination worth a billion dollars - that moment had never happened before in the history of business, and will probably never happen again. There was a lot of reason, if you look at personal experience of them and their early customers, to believe it would be.

Similarly, Mark Zuckerburg was a college sophomore at an elite institution who had also built a machine-learning music player. He had a huge unfair advantage, because he realized what he could do with the personal data of a few thousand students. I was also a college student at the same time, at an elite college, and was (as a volunteer) involved with writing our own campus social network. It never occurred to me that it could be a business, let alone a $300B one, because at the time I thought that software companies were things that sold high-performance databases to Fortune 500 companies for real money.

What other unfair advantages do Hacker News readers have that they don't realize are advantages?
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Apple has indeed started down the path of iPhone leasing.
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Good insight into entering the car business. But he missed the only thing that matters.

Apple's car must be centered around self-driving, or it wont be relevant. Tesla's Autopilot represents an automotive phase change[1]. A car without autopilot is like using a fax machine instead of an iPhone.

[1] http://jalopnik.com/teslas-autopilot-system-is-awesome-and-c...
Is there really no readily available technology to find locations of radio stations?
Scamming (a.k.a. "crowdfunding") is always the cheapest option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10661307
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The way you phrase this reminds me of what I studied happening in the hedge fund world, in that some of the 'top performer' funds only out-performed the market due to insider trading. Galleon (Raj - convicted), SAC (sanctioned), and probably a handful more that got spooked out of the avenue of enrichment. It almost seems - almost - like there may be a similar insular community whereby those who feel like piling in will only do so when it's a consensus movement play.

You know, kind of like how Bernie Madoff took hundreds of millions from established, regulated entities because the "word on the street" was he was, well, just front-running. Though illegal, that was an acceptable explanation for the consistent returns that prolonged a dirty business model. Well, we've learned how that all turned out.

Is there a moral to the story? Probably, but I'm not sure the startup culture would like to have to start questioning "angels" and their cohorts. YMMV.
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Ah yes, thanks for reminding me. I do recall coming across this project in the past, but never followed its progress. For some reason I decided against exploring further. I think it may have been disclaimers that stated it was still experimental (even though pecl had it listed as stable).
I'm unaware of the timeline but I'm curious was he trying to sell shares in JTV or did twitch eventually spin off to a separate corporate entity from JTV. It makes a huge difference because JTV was a huge liability nightmare.
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Tl Dr:

About Twitch.tv - “Watching people play video games is a niche” is now “I’m in charge of our consumer, marketplace and esports investing.”

Fuck them. Build your business.

Makes sense :)
W.C. Fields alcoholism and dislike of children isn't funny? I think that says more about your own sense of humor than any innate quality of his humor.

I absolutely adored his stuff when I first ran into it (admittedly around age 12), and the exchange in My Little Chickadee of, as he and another fellow sit down to play a card game, "Is this a game of chance?" "Not the way I play it, no" I to this day still find sublime.

/end tangent
Of course it's the best source of debt for a company because it's completely one-sided. See also: scamming, ponzi schemes and ransomware, all great sources of free money.
From one point of view I don't buy in the skepticism surrounding an Apple Car. As many issue could exist, and this article present a long list, Apple has the resources and the capabilities to overcome them.

The problem for Apple right now is that is so huge that any business idea is so small in scale that doesn't move the needle. I mean a 1 billion dollar idea is a great pitch, but for Apple is less the 0.5% in revenue, doesn't make the board level.

From this point of view there are very few industry where you could venture with such a huge scale. The automotive industry is one of them and appears to be ready for disruption.
The problem as mentioned in the article is the incredibly low margin. I don't believe you could cut a lot on the cost of production, years of experience have optimized the process an the material that get into a car is that much, you could reduce them by a lot without impacting safety. Apple could try to put a premium on their car, and the margin on ultra-high premium car (Ferrari, Lamborghini...) are higher than Apple's margin. But the price is so high that the revenue is razor thin. The point is, a 30% premium on a device that costs on average 400$ is 120$, doesn't reduce the buyers pool by a lot. A 30% premium on a 20K car is 6K, it change a lot. And if you go in the premium segment is even more.

Final consideration, maybe the price Apple is aiming are not electric car but direct competition with Google's self-driving car. Or if you want car as-a-service. It is something not totally in Apple's DNA but it could provide hefty profit margins. Could be that the release date is 2029 and not 2019?
This confused me too. Unless there are boosters of some kind, the power of a signal seems to follow a pretty predictable decay pattern. You would need to do a sample of the power around a certain radius and find some derivative in that field of where the power is increasing or decreasing the most in proportion to moving across that particular diameter in the circle. Then you've at least established a geodesic line to circumnavigate and hit the station at.

You've also narrowed down the total set of longitudes/latitudes based on the geometry of Russia and with high-confidence, assuming that the station's language can be taken as evidence of anything.

I am not an expert, this is just speculation. But that seems like a reasonable sketch of the problem solving method that would have to be involved.
Whether or not the brain is "really" parallel, with a fast enough computer you can simulate parallelism. So our "understanding" is either one-dimensional, or isomorphic to a one-dimensional process.
There certainly are methods. This is often called "fox hunting" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_hunting

You can build an antenna with a cardiod pattern, which has a wide range but a very deep, narrow null at one end. When you see the signal strength dip off, the transmitter has to be aligned with the null (sort of, there are also multipath issues to consider)

But, doing this requires you can move freely to track the transmitter. Hunting a transmitter on Russian soil by non-Russian entities might not be viewed very kindly :)
I’ve come to suspect it may actually have led us on a
century-long detour in understanding the true nature
of space and time

come to suspect? knowing theories are incomplete is science, seek questions stead answers

detour? hardly, science is directed by utility and the systems inherent in the theoretical coupling that formed relativity have shown to be extremely useful and any inevitable addendum, appendage, or usurper will need to prove itself more useful

we need to ask the questions that will reveal those use cases untouched by the contemporary thought

now we have to wonder how long it will be
before we actually know the final theory

i see, and foresee, an existence where every new finality conjures new questions