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That includes sleep? If you sleep 8 hours, awaken at 6 AM, then eat at 2 PM, it's a 16-hour restriction period?

I naturally go longer than that without eating each day. If you skip breakfast and lunch times, and include the hours you're asleep, it's easy to "fast" for closer to 20 hours or more every day.

I wouldn't force that though, I think everyone is different, living different lifestyles, and their optimal eating cycles will reflect that. When I'm working primarily sedentarily on the computer, then I'd rather work all day and eat quickly in one sitting at the end of the day. But if I'm spending all day doing manual labor outside in the sun, I'll naturally want to eat and drink more in between.
It's a lot harder for a drunk train rider to kill someone than a drunk driver. You also seem to conflate any use of alcohol with abuse of alcohol, which is at the very least kind of odd. Sure, some people act like assholes when they're drunk. Some people, often the same people, also act like assholes when they're sober. I'm not sure it makes sense to identify the problem as drunkenness, instead of assholishness.
That's a good idea to punish people who never drink.
After grinding through a bunch of compiler books I have to mention "Modern Compiler Implementation in C - Andrew A. Appel": http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0521607655 as one that stands out.

For LALR Parsers and DFA scanners and the like, I found the original Dragon Book http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EKYURHS is still best.

Both books are very accessible reading.
What has self-driving car to do it with? The police was called from an automates system that's in most of new cars sold in Europe for a few years now.
As far as I can tell it's mostly a hospital ERP targeted at making the administrative tasks easier. Regulations should not affect that as much (apart from your typical HR regulations etc. coupled with stronger privacy enforcement in this domain).
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My normal no-extras VW Golf does detect when I'm drowsy and suggest a coffee break. I am guessing it is sensing my steering movements.
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I like the "split ends" analogy. A lot of developers seem to worry too much about issues that aren't actual problems, other than that something is "not OO".

An actual example of this I saw recently, was when I got into an argument with someone over the use of standalone functions in C++. Apparently, these are evil, and functions should always be part of a class.

Of course, a class with only static functions is basically a namespace. No problem, apparently statics are also evil. So let's not make these functions static, even though they're not accessing any member data.

But now, when we want to use these functions, we need to instantiate an object, which is a bit silly. No problem, we'll just make it a singleton.

I shit you not, this actually happened.
> where all the stuff we sell is actually made.

I wonder what all the factories here in Germany are doing then...

My washing machine from Miele says 'Made in Germany'.
It does not. In practice both are equivalent in that regard. I guess tptacek meant that Signal might have less control over you than Telegram, but that's a different issue from what I was thinking of.

Both Telegram, Signal¹ rely on a central server to which all users connect. If that server goes up in flames then nothing will work for anyone. Or if those who run it turn out to be evil or otherwise doing bad things then there is nowhere you can go without losing all your contacts.

But in a system that has multiple servers that talk to each other, like email and Jabber/XMPP, you have a choice in who provides the server while still being able to talk to everyone on the network. So then it is at least possible to switch to another server or provider and still be able to reach your contacts. It is also possible to run your own server, or convince your more technical friend to run one for you. This model is called a federated client-server model.

A true serverless peer-to-peer system would in theory be even better, but in practice it is much harder to build and maintain, especially on mobile where devices may lose coverage at any time. So for example Skype (before Microsoft bought them) would promote some clients to "super nodes" which other clients would use to communicate ... kinda like having servers but with less control over who they are.

(Note, I work on XMPP software so I'm kinda biased)

¹ There appears to exist server software but it is unsupported and might not be useful for more than talking to yourself.
You know what would be really amazing is if you could restart the Erlgang VM, or load new a VM without interrupting any of the running code modules.
How does a self-driving car help there? It seems like that would make a lot more decisions for you than the more ordinary sort.
I listened to an interview with him recently on the Singularity podcast, discussing this campaign among other topics, quite interesting: https://www.singularityweblog.com/transhumanist-zoltan-istva...
It's about killing two birds with one stone. Yes, it won't solve the problem of alcohol abuse, but it may make a dent in drunk driving (especially if investments in public transportation are also matched with disincentivizing people from driving cars in cities). It would be interesting to find some studies, but I doubt that drunk driving is a common problem in public transportation, because drivers there are at work. They have stronger incentives to behave.
It does make sense to say the problem is drunkenness, because, well, science says that there are very clear links between drink driving and accidents: e.g. http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...

An arsehole-driver is a dangerous driver when sober, but everyone is a dangerous driver when drunk.
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>It's definitely better than the new EU regulation where every new car is required to "phone home" the car position every few minutes,

[citation needed]

There is eCall, but it is "only" required to trigger on crash, exactly as the system described in the article.
You probably already know this stuff and don't need the info. But maybe somebody else reading this can find the link useful.

This is a great tutorial on expression parsing using Pratt Parsers by Bob Nystrom:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e...
Great effort. A similar open source campaign is being run under OpenMRS, called Bahmni (http://www.bahmni.org/)
We need molecular-level biochemical Models!

If we could simulate what's happening in just a single bacterium, we could pre-screen drugs in a virtual petri dish. Promising compounds could then be put to real-life tests.
I hadn't heard of this, their glossary says "evaluates steering wheel movements" - do you have any better explanation of it's detection mechanism?

I'm guessing it looks for sudden adjustments to stay in lane after micro-sleeps.
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Of the deep level lines, only the Northern line has selective door opening IIRC. It's in use at stations like Moorgate and Embankment that are already so riddled with tunnels that extending the platform is just plain impossible.
That's huge. I'm an Uber supporter (in the abstract sense, not the shady business practices sense) and love using it or service like it. But all the "cabs in my city suck!" hand waving I do is nothing compared to this.

It does make me wonder though, why? Because UberX is cheaper, so more people opt in that wouldn't even pay for a cab?
Actually Germany is one of the few western countries that still produces very much. In fact it has a positive trade balance with China.

When you're in China and you see something that isn't made in China it often says Made in Germany.
Can poor people afford to buy a new car? If not, how old is the car when they buy it? In Sweden used cars are typically brought by their second buyer when they are 3 years old.

As software is so cheap to duplicate, why can't all cars be self-driving? Given the magnitude of traffic deaths, why can't all cars just be self-driving immediately? Why make it a premium thing that only the rich can afford?

Then within a few years, even poor people who buy second-hand cars will have self-driving models.
I'd be very, very happy to contribute to this.

It seems you have a nice focus in usability - efficacy, efficiency and satisfaction. For me, it seems vital to make IT useful and not a burden, reducing clinicians wasted time on non-clinical duties and their general distaste with the software they have to use. I'm a UX PhD, I have experience working with very particular groups of users, and I would be very motivated in working for better healthcare.
Everything? If the car was self driving this woman would likely be home and not in a jail cell?
Assembled in Germany
Metall forged in china

Real problem with energywende is that you have a point to point infrastructure (powerplant to city) and have to convert it to a n-to n infrastructure.

Every consumer can now be producer. This results in partially absurd rewards for powering off your mini-plant to stabilize the network.

Also the lack of storage, at the moment.
Currently some companys consider, forging giant conrete containers, sink them out in the ocean, and pump them dry when there is a energy surplus.
When there is higher demand, the undersea storage seas, can be flooded and energy released on a controlled basis.
On the contrary, the implementation of Erlang's hot code reloading forces state to be separated from the code. If you look at Erlang's gen_server, every call requires you to return a new State object, which is passed to the next function call.

In other words, you can compare the Erlang's virtual machine with a container itself, and everything old is new again!
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Oh god, more stories please, this sounds amazing.
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And if you open it up, how many of its parts also say "Made in Germany"?
Or tablets. They are wipe-clean. Keyboards are a "germ" nightmare.
You have to start with the problem. If your problem is solved by highly available and stateful services, then the Erlang VM on the host seems like a good idea. If the availability doesn't matter that much or the services can be made stateless without much pain - go for the containers.
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Man, how far Google as fallen. Reading that corporate press release made me feel embarrassed and uncomfortable for all the people who had (unwisely) trusted Google over the years.

Maybe they are not (currently) using the data in the very legalese-specific way that they have claimed. But, there's no doubt that they will build unrelated products using that data to make their owners gazillions. That's fine, you say - we're all here to make money, right? But, imagine that you're tracked, monitored, and experimented on 24/7 throughout your childhood. When you're 20, will you be surprised when Google's AI will understand every intention, desire of you and be able to recognize every nuance of your actions and behavior? To me, that's scary.
Exactly. This is what kills me with the recent trend of claming billionairs are heroes.

This year, Bill Gate has been all over the internet, "saving the world". But most of the money he gives away is invested by his "charity". And it goes into companies making military equipments, mining, extracting oil, etc. causing direct destruction of the causes they are pretending to protect.

E.G: I lived and worked in Africa. I saw the results of the "green revolution" made by Monsanto, an destructive agriculture program financially supported by the Gates. It's ugly. The continent is still recovering from it (and apparently they are in better shape than some parts of India).

But the Gate foundation says they want to help Africa : they fight malaria. So on one hand african people can starve, have no control over their agriculture or natural ressources, but they _may_ be saved from malaria in 10 years. This is hypocrisy at its best.

They are not heroes. They are smart investors. And for one thing they build for others, they build 3 for themself and may destroy many things on their path. Do not get blinded by their (good) PR.
Someone I know is writing a tiny llvm clone in C. It already can do integer operations faster than gcc -O1.

It is currently closed source but it shouldn't be hard for my compiler to target his IR in the future. His backend is currently around 6k lines of code so should be relatively easy to understand, though understanding some of the concepts is harder overall.
I would say that "fast following" is a necessity for the Chinese market. Just look at how poorly Europe is served by US startups and our cultures are quite similar. Many western service are "clones" of other western services anyways. I'm not entirely sure what the huge downside would be?
Also the lack of storage, at the moment. Currently some companys consider, forging giant conrete containers, sink them out in the ocean, and pump them dry when there is a energy surplus. When there is higher demand, the undersea storage seas, can be flooded and energy released on a controlled basis.

That actually sounds like a really clever solution to the energy storage problem.
There's a lot more to a self-diving car than just software, there is a ton of needed sensors and other hardware.

Let's say an expensive self-driving car is around $100,000 new, even buying that car used 3 years later would be out of the budget for many people.
sorry, I meant 1 signal instead of 10-20 or any other 2 leg based differential analysis.
I think `Most` was quite adequate given the achievement though.
Driving a car in the US is so ridiculously cheap compared to the rest of the world that only really poor people and crackheads seem to take the bus (outside SF and NYC).

The difference in demographics on public transit in Seattle was striking compared to Toronto where car insurance runs $3,000 a year and gas costs 50% more.

Public transportation is just not going to happen in the US unless driving gets way more expensive.
The article is pretty bad.
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They should look into these technologies to better protect patients data:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/258435/ManualHE.pdf

https://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/

https://css.csail.mit.edu/mylar/
I still don't understand why Uber couldn't let drivers set their own fares. It seems to me that it should create a healthy market that in the end would be great outcome for consumers.

E.g. some hours are much less profitable for Uber drivers - so they set the fare higher and thanks to that you can always find a driver when needed. On the other hand, higher current fare works as an invitation for the new drivers. It auto adjusts to drivers/users availability in given region.
Some judges are anything but impartial, and are seemingly committed to getting a conviction at all costs. In fact this is one of the problems that the jury system is designed to protect us from.

An example: https://popehat.com/2013/08/09/the-proper-function-of-a-jury...
Yes I do understand it like measuring temperature at one point on mac and trying to predict what application its running. However thats not what I wanted (though I dont know what I wanted), I was curious how activity changes and If am not wrong these activity comes at cost both energy and capacity to think / focus. Who knows if you can wear fitbit for mind tomorrow :)
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You are conflating cost and price?

Self-driving cars will be expensive because they will be marketed as a premium product to maximize profit.

Sometimes public service must trump? Disclaimer: I live in Sweden, so my perspective may offend you ;)
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I got this too. No idea why.
A positive trade balance does not imply that we don't outsource the dirty part of the production. If you for example import steel or Aluminium from China and turn it into cars and airplanes and sell them back, a lot of the energy is used in China, but most of the value was added in Germany.
C is notoriously painful to parse with a parser generator because it's not context free --- consider this statement:

foo * bar;

It can't be parsed until you know whether foo is a type or a variable --- indeed, depending on the implementation, it can't even be tokenised correctly. So you need hooks from the symbol table back into the tokeniser/parser. I'm not at all surprised that the author's using a hand-written parser, as it reduces the problem space considerably.

(There's a really good article which I've been trying to find which goes into details about all the weird parsing edge cases due to the rules about exactly when a word goes into the symbol table which I've been completely unable to find...)
tl;dr; You should adopt a code of conduct as safety theater and you should lie (by omission, at least) about the fact that they are useless. It's a cheap and convenient way to manipulate women into feeling safe regardless of whether they are or are not.

Obviously my mood affiliation differs from Atwood, but can anyone tell me if I'm missing any important point in his article?

And if I'm not mistaken, this argument seems to apply equally well to banning Telegram, pornoscanning people getting on airplanes, and similar things. After all, we want people to feel safer from terrorism, even if they aren't, right?
Thanks for both comments, as I mentioned in other comment I am curious if it can be fitbit for mind tomorrow :)
The section on "Cult Oriented Programming" is also still very relevant today. You could substitute "Smalltalk" for "React" and it still mostly makes sense.

> ...a programmer's personal preference is more important to getting results than the language or paradigm itself. In other-words, if a programmer can work with the tools and languages that he or she most prefers, then productivity and quality may be much higher than from passing down edicts based on a blanket choice of tool, language, or paradigm.

This backs up a lot of what I've seen over the years and I consider it wasteful in the extreme. Maintainable, functional applications are constantly thrown out because programmers don't want to use things they consider "dirty". "Eww, I don't want to go anywhere near that. It's (procedural|PHP|got 'goto' statements|VBA|not the cool thing that everyone's talking about)."

Yeah, but this thing works just fine as it is. Your job is to improve it without making it worse for the next person, not Reactify it until you've exhausted somebody else's supply of money on a hunt for unicorns.
That's what distributed Erlang is for.
I can't tell you that but this is actually one of the few companies that takes their own social and environmental standards serious:

http://www.miele.com/en/com/selecting-new-suppliers-2997.htm
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We define drunkenness by blood alcohol content without adjusting for tolerance. I'm sure there are alcoholics out there whose tolerance is so high that they're perfectly sober at 0.08.

Then there are people like Michael Schumacher or whatever who I'm sure drive better 'drunk' than 99% of sober people.

I wish the police focussed more on the generally shitty soccer mom sub drivers and taxis that try to kill me every day instead of some guy who had two glasses of wine and crossed some arbitrary threshold which may or may not have made him a dangerous driver.
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The only issue is the necessary culture for that.

Many wouldn't distinguish the line between fasting, malnutrition or even anorexia.
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Cost and price are the same thing. Maybe you mean cost/price and worth/value?
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How would that work? If you would use a private key to authenticate to the server you would still need to protect this key with a password. Otherwise stealing the private key will get an attacker access to the server just as simple.
Just to continue the catalogue:

pcc is simple, but very old school and a bit contorted.

libfirm is small and clean and generates excellent code. (Despite the name, it's a complete ANSI C compiler, as well as being a LLVM-light.)

The ACK is easy to port and is a complete standalone toolchain including compilers, assemblers and linkers, but (at least on modern processors) produces code so bad that it will make you want to stab yourself in the eyes to make the pain go away.

There's a look-but-don't-touch licensed compiler called vbcc which is by far the best C compiler I've ever seen; small, easy to understand, easy to port, and produces excellent code... but the author doesn't want to release it under an open source license.

Any others?
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It would seem that nationalizing the pharmaceutical market would also be counter to free market capitalism.
> we are all transhumanists together here

You assume rather a lot, don't you?
I have tried to reverse-engineer it, but not worked it out yet. It seems to work though.

In Sweden you can make long journeys on fairly straight roads through forest meeting only the occasional other vehicle, very rarely seeing a pedestrian, and mostly keeping an eye out for movement between the trees that may be a deer or elk or boar about to run out in front of you.

Deer make small dents, badgers are like hitting stones, wild pigs can write off the car and elk are absolutely lethal. You actually get taught that, if a collision is inevitable, to aim for the hind legs to maximize your chances of survival.

Must be much the same in much of the USA, Canada, Russia etc.
I think with self driving cars the whole ownership model will become passe.

Think of it as a fleet of autonomous taxis operating at very low cost.
You don't run video over the VR session, it's all a 3D rendering. You have an avatar, and you correlate the HMD head movements to the avatar's 3D model. Combined with simple hand tracking like Leap Motion, you get very natural body language of of it. Check out AltspaceVR for an example.

There are also some fairly recent advances in photogammetry that I think we will soon all have 1-to-1 avatars with our own faces.
> It could become a serious Javascript competitor due to its elegant syntax, the type safety and speed

Particularly in combination with Web Assembly. I wouldn't be surprised if there is already an LLVM bitcode > WASL compiler in progress.
Here is a good one http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/05/how-clang-handles-th...
I expect that self-driving cars will -at least initially- be expensive -in large part- because the sensing and computational hardware on the car is expensive.
Eye movement and speech changes are probably sufficient to indicate a warning for drink/drug driving (DUI), but even then the car should still run IMO.

Smoothness of ride is probably a very good indicator of impairment too.
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> It's just their policy not to use that data when using machine learning and whatnot to get a result out of it.

So Google is like a child that wants to eat candy, has candy, but doesn't eat it?

Of course they're using all the data they can, to the extent they can.

They're just telling us there's no reason to worry, while they feed their data to the NSA's surveillance machinery etc.

You see, Google is not the only "child with candy". Then there's the US government, and that kid has a ravenous appetite.
The way I see it, either I make all the decisions as the driver of the vehicle, or I'm no longer the driver.