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During one of John Mosby's raids, he captured a brigadier general and a couple hundred horses. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying the he regretted the horses more: he could make a brigadier general any day. It is not clear what benefit this brought to the allied cause, unless raising some morale in the UK. Was that an equivalent for the damage done by the Germans trying to find the general?
There's also this:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/tracking_auto...

and this:

http://resources.impinj.com/h/i/2503326-vehicle-tracking-wit...
>I would say the same for C, honestly.

Really? SDL is quite poor??? It has bindings in pretty much every language and I would guess is the most popular game library in existence, written in pure C. It is not a game engine but is an excellent library to build one with. It is so popular for this purpose that it has its own COLUMN in the Wikipdia table of game engines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines
A lot of possible reasons - a bug out fund, paying for other people to do their fighting for them if a war kicks off with Iran, propping up their troubled economy, paying off Wahhabis...
Furthermore the know-it-all tone undermines credibility for me. Societies are complicated systems. People who claim to have a simple model to explain many events are more likely to be deluded than correct. By deluded I mean suffering from confirmation bias, erroneous pattern recognition, etc.
Are there any similar quality publications around?
I wonder if steganography tools will become more widely used to avoid suspicion from using normal VPNs and cryptography.
Ask HN: What is the most useless site you know?
An example http://something.com
There is a whole directory http://www.pointlesssites.com/
And Rust stole them from very old languages, but you haven't at all refuted the author's statement. :P
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How do you address the inherent unsafeness of hardware? Even "pure" functional languages are hacking around this...
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Even if you do all the things you said, you can still crash a C++ program. Iterator invalidation is very easy to do on accident, for example.
I found flights to Phuket on flychecker at € 340
It goes to the estate, but that is logical, and doesn't elicit as much emotional response, so the only people you hear talking about it are those who don't understand that distinction.
No comments from Forbes on this?
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> Swift (it will eventually cover all use cases with 3.0)

There's nothing in 3.0 that will make Swift any better at safe systems programming than it is today (last I checked, anyway), and Chris Lattner is on the record as saying that anything akin to Rust-style static analysis is explicitly out-of-scope for 3.0.
Lasagne: lightweight library to build and train neural networks in Theano
How is the Haskell stability nowadays? Simon Peyton Jones joked at one point that Haskell is not meant for production from the point of view that they are tinkering with it constantly. At some point the Haskell landscape looked like the GHC core and an endless desert of abandoned projects (which imply strongly it's not as good towards the librarys purpose as some other language).
Interesting. At first I thought you were claiming this technique made linked lists cache friendly. After looking at it, I have concluded you meant merely that the next and prev pointers are near your data. Am I understanding you correctly?
The main thing stopping me from using Dart is the same thing as Java and Python and others. It isn't designed to compile in the browser. You have to use the command line or an IDE. I have no problems with those myself, but the apps I am interested in involve letting end users create their own apps/animations/simulations, etc. If they went forward with a Dart VM in the browser, that would be great, but it sounds like that was one of the first things they abandoned.

There are so many other languages that do compile in the browser and can be used without relying on command line tools that there's no reason to pay any attention to dart at all, even though I like everything else about dart: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
That's a pretty interesting Chrome extension. Any chance there's a video I could watch which demos functionality?

Also, wow - that's a LOTTTT of users! How'd you manage that?
Could you elaborate on that distinction? I definitely do not understand it, but I would like to.
have faced this recently. didnt turn off adblocker bcoz i've seen 11(as far i can remember) ads blocked by my adblocker
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That's actually nice. I had the impression, for some reason, Dart was kind of abandoned from Google or they shifted focus from it.
Charging a different price for credit cards is generally against the terms of the contract a merchant has with their card processor.
> [Tokyo is] a place where if a person jumps into the train to kill themselves, many will curse under their breaths about being late to work.

That is true, but after having this happen to me upwards of 20 times over the years, I gradually became one of those people.
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I wasn't even aware that "GamerGate" (1) is supposed to be "conservative". Also, what does this have to do with ethics in video game journalism?

(1) A group with a membership definition exactly as precise as Anonymous'.
You will have to provide a link, because Googling revealed only a long-dead project with a Chinese website and an empty GitHub repo.
> he was quick to throw accusations around

To be fair:

a) English isn't his native language and both "schummeln" and "betrügen" would be "cheating" in English, though one with much less negative connotation

b) in the talk it sounded more like he was saying that the ECU (or other embedded computers) do a lot of filtering and processing already, even in places where you'd expect to have a straight path from the sensor to the reading (e.g. the idle rpm). When listening to the talk it didn't sound to me as he was implying that all of that processing was on the same level as the emissions stuff; just that there's a lot going on that most people don't even realise.
Best explanation I've read is an IPO boosts the Saidi treasury so it can last until 2025 under the current oil prices. Current projectIons without the IPO only show the treasury lasting until 2020 before Saudi Arabia has to issue debt to cover their spending. It seems unlikely foreigners will service Saudi debt without high interest rates and even so, Saudi would not be able to pay it back. If Saudi Arabia can make it to 2025, it seems highly likely the decade of cheap oil will have destroyed the fraking/tar-sands oil company holdouts in the U.S.

The House of Saud is one of cards, and they know it. Their social contract is one of regular, large oil payments to citizens, not patriotism. This social contract will die when the money does, and so too will the nation. Money can paper over a broken society, but it won't build the sort of national unity you need for a successful nation state.
Here is a brief description of the files from the commit log:

There are two scripts.

* vimer.cmd -- Batch script for Windows

* vimer -- Shell script for Linux and Mac OS X

I have been using these scripts for about six years now. I wrote them when I was working on multiple desktop environments, and I wanted a uniform and convenient way to open a file for editing in GVim while navigating directories in a shell or a file browser. I also wanted to ensure that while doing so the desktop does not become cluttered with too many editor Windows.

The scripts solve the problem of editing files from the shell. The Windows script is also capable of creating context menu options to edit files from Windows Explorer. The README.md file contains detailed documentation on how to create similar context menu options in Linux and Mac OS X.

I am releasing these scripts and the documentation now under the terms of the MIT License in the hope that these might turn out to be useful for others who use Vim the way I do.

More details are in the README: https://github.com/susam/vimer#readme.
Could be the bike industry. Niche market bikes are actually a pretty crowded field.
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Clever PR. However, there are many homeless children in Japan. Where are trains for them?
I can do without Forbes.

The problem with saying "switch off adblocker or no article" is that so many people are using adblockers, that those websites face an inevitable decline in influence if they continue that way. Because, despite what they say, it's not just about the money: it's the ability to influence the debate, whatever it might be. To have your editorials taken seriously and widely quoted. To make people listen. They're losing that ability, together with readers and revenue.
Considering how that bike is spec'ed I have to say that is a pretty good price point. Carbon, Avid BB5s and good stock tires of an appropriate city width... Not sure if I'm seeing an integrate lamp on the handlebars or not, but if it is I'd assume it's dynamo powered like the other components so that could be pretty nice and bright.

I'm skeptical about the usefulness of the electronics mainly because turn-by-turn GPS directions on bikes from Google Maps at the least are neither the safest nor fastest at the moment, though they really get better all the time.
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I wod love to hear from the OP if he had explores transitioning, aka selling, this to someone. I think there is a market for the attention of people with money to spend, even in print magazines (especially in niche print magazines).

But maybe he explored it and didn't find any takers, or maybe he doesn't want to deal with the hassle of such a transition.

Would be nice to know.
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That is not the same. Rfid tracking / filtering is much easier and more precise than video. There is no need for computer vision or any kind of expensive computing. Also it is far easier to abuse by evil civilians. Consider the overhead of installing a high enough quality video camera on a public road for a criminal compared to an Rfid reader.
any mobile operator that uses Nokia (NSN) equipment would have a massive part of the core network set up with Juniper gear. These things are not "swapped" out for years and given the NDA's and secretive nature of telecoms I doubt that anything Juniper does here will make a difference to these systems already in place.

Keep in mind that the number of companies that supply equipment here are very few:

- Huawei
- Alcatel-Lucent (soon to be part of Nokia)
- Ericsson
- Nokia

so chances that your operator is using Nokia equipment is pretty high (especially in Europe, and large parts of Asia)
"For one thing people stop fucking with you when you're getting top of market comp"

This may be true for some, but here is what I've seen and experienced personally + family members and friends I've talked with:

1. You are a full-time employee who is either very skilled or not as skilled but getting paid in the top 5-10% as a senior or principal software engineer. For a while you get to work on whatever you want to as long as it makes the company better, so you write open source projects, etc. Then, something happens. Either your company gets outside investment, or is bought-out/merges/buys another company, or they fall on hard times, or there is competition, or someone in management reads some new book or goes to some conference, or you just get different management, and now you all of a sudden either have been driven to cut corners which leads to a mess, or morale sucks or people buy into management's crappy philosophy which which leads to no innovation and suddenly it feels like no one else is using the crappy libraries and frameworks you had been using, or things for some other reason just suck.

In this case, you're still making a lot of money. Happy now? Sure you could have found a new job, but wait hold on a second- you are in the top 5-10% so jobs that pay that well may not come as easily. Looks like you're fucked.

2. You work your ass off as an independent, grow the company, and are doing well working for large company X in NYC. You had an awesome time putting your family through hell in the beginning for peanuts, but somehow you managed to make it past all that.

And now, what do you have? You're making a lot and have several guys/gals depending on you and you are still working your ass off and now you feel like if you quit, you take all of them down with you. Maybe even you're still on your own, but if you quit to take a break, your family will suffer because they won't have what they did.

What I suggest: do what you believe in as long as you can survive and meet the needs of your family. Push hard or don't, but be happy if you can. This will make the world a better place. You may end up making too much and getting into the same predicament, but if you're lucky, you'll at least not be focused on more money than you need. And if you do get more money than you need- share it. Much good in the world has come from those with money sharing what they have.
Reminds me of this:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n07/slavoj-zizek/nobody-has-to-be-v...
Forbes started having rando bloggers post articles to part of their website a couple years ago. I guess they wouldn't have done that if they thought they were taken particularly seriously. One possibility is that they decided to get what they could out of the name while it was still worth anything.
Uber's biggest risk will come from competitors or co-ops eating into their 20%-25% profit margins.

There are a lot of regions that like the concept of ride sharing, but don't like how an American silicon valley company is capturing wealth locally and sending it to Silicon Valley.

That's why I'm convinced we will soon see efforts to make co-op versions of Uber that copy its technology, but return 95%-99% of the money in each transaction back to the driver.
There's a certain sense of schadenfreude and cosmic justice knowing that Yellow Cab probably could have saved itself by pivoting their business model years ago like DeSoto did. Instead they tried to fight change with legislation, and this is their reward.

Having said that, I do worry about this contributing to Uber's growing monopoly...
It does look like they have been selling a lot of assets to fund their current budget deficit:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/saudi-arab...

And they already seem to have started issuing bonds:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-issues-bonds-worth-...

Maybe the Aramco thing is just part of this fire sale to try and prop everything up on the hope that, in the long term, a rise in oil prices will come to their rescue?
I'd love to work 4 days. I currently work 5 and work in an industry (finance) where 4 earns you more than enough.

When I work 4 days with wednesday off, I don't even feel like I work... it's just a nice part of my life. On monday I think 'man it's been days since I did anything productive, I'm ready to get busy'. The next day I'm still in that flow, and the day after I've already got a day off. The same for thursday-friday, and then I've got two days off again.

When I work 5 days, on monday I feel glad to get busy again but I'm also dreading the fact that my immediate future is 5 days of work. By thursday I'm feeling like I could be productive working fewer hours, and on friday I'm really glad it's over. Further, my weekends and evenings are mostly busy with unwinding from work and preparing for the next working day. Whereas when I work 4 days, my free time is actually time for fun things.

I'm not a big spender, still on a 2010 iPhone 4 for example to give you a sense of where my priorities are at :p My money is slowly piling up.

So I could do without the money of the 5th day... but here's my issue... While my employer would probably allow 4 days work (which is not standard in and of itself, particularly not in certain industries), I KNOW that I'd be bottom rank when it comes to promotions. There's absolutely no way in hell I'd ever get a managing position working 4 days, at this company. And in a company of 5k, only the assisting/supporting roles have people working part-time. Supervisors or team leaders etc, all work full-time (or more).

I could stay in my current role forever, but it'd stop being interesting and intellectually challenging fairly soon, and I may develop some bitterness when I get to my 30s or 40s and start getting managed by people younger than me, just because they have a different vision on work-life balance.

So I'm pretty much stuck working 5 days, without being 20% more productive, earning money I don't need, because it's made abundantly clear that if you ask to work part-time, you can't ever work in a function of influence or leadership, at this company. And at most company's it's a similar story.

And I sort of get it... in a world of 5-days a week business and lots of people working 5 days, you wan't the manager to be present and available. Whereas assisting/supporting roles can be done by multiple people working part-time. It feels the only thing is left is either to be an entrepreneur or do something special (e.g. lots of jobs as 'special project officer' that's not tied to a m-f 9 to 5), but there's no standard path for regular salarymen to work part-time and still have a solid career in line with their productivity & competencies.

May I ask where you work?
Unless the jumper is under the age of majority the family are not responsible for the debts of the deceased in any country I know of. Is it different in Japan? See http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/what-happens-to-debts-when-someon... for instance.
The arcane keywords are really terrible design, IMO. Normal users shouldn't have to remember this sort of a thing. It's a regression past burying everything in a hamburger menu.
Retread is where tags really shine. And that's not automated yet?
I think his argument goes as follows. If you have N numbers in memory, then you have to use pointers of size log N bits. Because pointers use the same number of bits as numbers, this means that the numbers have to be log N bits. Because radix sort does one O(N) pass per bit, this means that total time will be O(NlogN).

If we sort numbers of a fixed, known, size w', that is independent of machine word size w, then the argument breaks.
Does YC use Slack? If so, we just launched Tettra into beta this week. It's a company wiki built on top of Slack - http://tettra.co

Might help to clarify some of those "who owns what" questions by putting them into a wiki that everyone at YC has access to via Slack. We're working on a bot to automate the updating of content too.

I'm sure you already have something internally for a wiki at YC but thought I'd post here just in case it helps.
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Again, wrong about the part about getting back safely. Its ridiculous to assume we cant go to Mars until they have an entire space industry to launch vehicles. We can go decades earlier than that, just by establishing a colony.
In Europe usually it is allowed (as long as the surcharge reflects the real costs) but it doesn't happen. Notable exceptions are only online travel agents and shops in Denmark.
The LessWrong counterargument doesn't seem to be represented on that page. Broadly speaking, it asks the question, "where did the giant lookup table come from?"

The answer to that question is, of course, "something conscious put it there", so the Chinese Room isn't itself conscious but is something more akin to the diary of a conscious person.

For a proper explanation of the argument, including replies to some obvious counterarguments, see Book IV ("Mere Reality") of _Rationality: from AI to Zombies_ [1], which may be downloaded free of charge. Specifically, Part R ("Physicalism 201"), in the neighbourhood of essay 224 ("GAZP vs GLUT"), although of course there is a reason that the book is presented with Book IV as the fourth book rather than the first, and Essay 224 as the 224th essay rather than the first.

[1]: https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/
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As a meteorologist, it's the weather that fascinates me most. I think there is a lack of appreciation for what global warming really is. Temperature is the measure of kinetic energy Of particles. Air with a higher temperature has a higher kinetic energy (faster moving particles). So global warming really is an increase in the global average available kinetic energy in the Earth's atmosphere. When written in more scientific terms, it becomes obvious that global warming should lead to more vigorous weather events - more kinetic energy, the more powerful atmospheric phenomenons that can be achieved.

It's very hard to pin 2015 weather anomalies on global warming. Confounding variables (ex: El Nino, and to what extend did GW cause the EL Nino) reign. But I think it's safe to speculate we've canceled the next ice age.
My issue isn't with small strollers, it's with their Hummer sized pneumatic tired cousins.
I've never thought much of this argument since I first heard it over a decade ago. Kurzweil and Dennet both took it apart pretty convincingly.
This argument was kind of explored in the movie ex-machina! If these themes strike a chord, I'd suggest you go watch it now!
I tried Dart when looking for a typed language that compiles to Javascript. It was nice but in the end I used haxe because it had a much smaller footprint. Dart seems to include its own library while haxe sticks close to what Javascript offers.
The tone is off but I think there is something to the point eecks makes.

Remember that famous 'idlewords article[0]? I recall it making some circles around HN and the widely held conclusion was that free successful services are likely to disappear at a moment's notice, while paid successful services are unlikely to do so. Of course it is not true - the reason why is obvious when you've lived in the same apartment for more than few years and noticed how often shops - small and big - open up, and then close down. No service is forever. Rare are those who last more than few years.

But even if it's wrong, this argument about paid stuff having significantly longer lifespan was widely repeated, and was believed by many.

[0] - https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
An estate is simply the legal term given to the net worth a person has after they die. There's a legal process that allocates the dead person's resources according to various factors. Generally a person's debts will be satisfied first. Then whatever's left gets divided according to the person's will, if any. If there is no will, a judge will divide assets up amongst surviving relatives. If there is nothing left after satisfying debts, then heirs get nothing. If there is no will and no heirs, the estate goes to the state.

Typically if a person's net worth is negative, debts are not passed on to heirs, leaving creditors to sue for relief. Again, jurisdictions vary, and I would expect there are many other factors at play in a country like Japan where keeping the family's social standing intact may be worth paying off those the deceased wronged instead of dragging the dead person's dirty laundry through the court system even if there's no chance of winning.

Jurisdictions vary, but I would imagine in a case such as the aforementioned, the state wouldn't take the whole estate, only part, after debts are satisfied.

A phenomenal article on this aspect of the "what happens after you die" question is this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-ne...
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