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No, he maybe was hit badly, maybe was filling dizzy afterwards and they thought the laser was the reason. I don't know all the possible effects of a laser in a human eye, nor the power of this laser or the medical situation of the pilot prior to the encounter.

Also if one of the pilots finds himself unable to continue the flight, the other pilot has to declare pan pan, or even may day, as he is operating alone, it seems a bit dramatic but it's mandated that way.

What I know is that common laser incidents are annoying to pilots but usually harmless, and the pilot's association request to ban all lasers is over the top.

You still got to prosecute the dumb people playing to blind pilots anyway, not just for medical injuries, but because you are in a delicate parts of the flight and every distraction has potential consequences during landing and take-off.
I have been waiting a long time for someone to use lessons learned from recommender systems to build a social media site like reddit, but rather than having users group themselves up, they would be shown posts algorithmically, based on how they have voted in the past. For example, if I vote for a lot of pro EFF posts, maybe I will see more posts about free software or something like that.

This also allows the site to treat votes as merely an expression of preference, not a judgment of quality (which is hard to define). Many sites try to enforce a rule that says "Don't downvote things disagree with." This is an impossible battle to win, there will always be people who downvote things they don't agree with. This behavior needs to be accounted for in the platform.

This is more "socially scalable" to me.
When this was a topic in University a few years ago, it was still very hard to properly detect humor, especially sarcasm. If I understood this correctly, this whole episode was kicked of by Stephen making a joke about some lady's attire. I don't know what would be worse; the sanctimonious fallout or his tweet being censored by an automatic insult detector in the first place. (actually I do: the second).
LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the...

Short answer: yep!
So, if XML sucks as a markup language, does HTML suck as well?
These are amazing. A huge part of the value of NASA itself is that it inherently represents pride in humanity--our accomplishments, and aspirations.

Here, NASA reminds us that there is still room for new aspirations in a culture that currently is hung-up on post-apocalyptic doom-and-gloom futures.
Of course, the risks are minimal on twitter. At worst they can write a death threat, but nobody's going to come to your house. They'll spend more time arguing with your defenders. And the attention span is short, by next week your controversy will be gone.

Contrast to getting into an extreme argument with your neighbor could result in a physical fight, destruction of property, or death.

Ultimately, this is why I really don't want to see articles on Internet discourse dominated by "culture wars" topics; So little is at stake. I highly doubt mass tweeting and public shaming will ever have much power over anyone, or change national policy or thought. However, someone once told me though that the most vicious fights are often the pettiest, so I only expect culture wars stuff to be more common in the future.
Where have they gone to? Medium?
There are still a limited number of sounds in English. Including a dictionary that had phonetic pronunciations seems like it should be sufficient to avoid the constable/unstable problem.
Here's a simple description. It's stripped down by removing the application, but gets to the heart of things.

---

Normally, you think of something as recursing by referencing its own name.

sum(l) = if empty(l) then 0 else head(l) + sum(tail(l))

But it's worth noting that this is sort of a syntactic trick. We could also pass in the recursive bit as an argument.

sumO(recur, l) = if empty(l) then 0 else head(l) + recur(tail(l))

The assumption here is that `recur` is essentially the same as calling `sum` again, but there's no particular reason this must be true. We could do something pathological with `sumO` if we like

sumO(fn(x) { 0 }, [1,2,3]) ====> 1

we've short-circuited the recursion.

---

This is essentially the idea of open recursion: sumO is in an open recursive form. The goal here is to be able to intelligently change what the actual recursive call that gets passed in ends up being. Normally in OO languages this is used so that recursion defined in a superclass ends up executing using the definitions from the subclass, but there are other uses.

If you have a "mother recursive function" like the Y-combinator of fame then you can "close" open recursion

sum = Y(sumO)

where

Y(f) = f(Y(f))

So by this means all "closed" recursion arises via "open" recursion which is closed in a standard way.
Agreed. If you're not doing that kind of stuff, then anyone you get from these tools is probably going to be bored out of their mind, and leave soon. Either that, or you're going to pay them an assload of money, and they're going to spend lots of time on "clever" things.
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Take a simple differential equation as an example, like dy/dx = x. To solve this we need to find a function y(x) whose derivative is equal to x. This particular differential equation is well-behaved, and the solution is simply 0.5*x^2, which you can verify using basic calculus.

Not all differential equations are nicely behaved. Many do not have analytic solutions at all, meaning that we can't even write down a function that satisfies the equation. However, such equations can still be solved approximately using computational techniques. This can be incredibly difficult and computationally expensive (note the huge resources required to achieve this breakthrough) but can produce very useful results.
It would be convenient, certainly, the same way a robot kitchen would be convenient. But it turns out human chefs aren't all that expensive compared to an equally competent robot chef, at least for the foreseeable future.

The video game industry already has lifelike speech available to it, for a cost. Lifelike 3D graphics on the other hand don't exist at any cost.
Filtering out lasers is probably not possible, but how about just detecting the source on the ground and automatically dispatching law enforcement. Or even use drone strike technology to quickly eliminate the threat.
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> Society has the problem. Twitter just makes it public.

Yes. Thereby making things worse than they used to be.
Once again, I get a reminder of why I really need to start reading some Doctorow.
Oil and stock market correlate? Nope ...

"It is popular to correlate changes in major factor prices, such as oil, and the performance of major stock market indexes ... Andrea Pescatori, an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), attempted to test this theory ... his variables only occasionally moved in the same direction at the same time, but even then, the relationship was weak. His sample revealed that no correlation exists with a confidence level of 95%."

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030415/how-does-pric...
... aaand meanwhile we continue to ignore LFTR / Thorium as a present-day practical, demonstrated in the 1960s scalable super safe non-proliferation nuclear energy option that seems to be held up by bureaucracy or lack of patentability.

And from what I've read, don't the fusion reactors also become radioactive from the high energy neutrons in fusion reactors? Yes the fuel isn't radioactive... but they also need to be scrapped/reprocessed after (pulling number out of butt) five years?
Do you have any basis for this claim of fact?
Unilateral secession has to have a bad name or civilization would be impossible. But a peacefully negotiated and mutually agreed upon secession would definitely be a good thing.
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I don’t know anything about Scalia's “internally consistent” view of constitutional law or his brilliant legal scholarship, and I’m not really interested. I’ll leave that discussion to others.

However, I will never forget how Scalia demeaned and disrespected the other Supreme Court justices after the gay marriage decision. In my view, his behavior was appalling and unforgivable. It exposed him as a legal bigot.
Actually, you are allowed to carry a larger / fixed blade in the UK if you have a good reason to do so - for example, you are a butcher travelling to work premises, or you are e.g. going camping. Obviously, this is open to the interpretation of the police - and kind of falls into the category of 'don't do anything that would lead you to being searched' really..
Wait, are you @majorsheep ? If yes your illustrations are really good :) http://www.king-sheep.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-fan-ar...
You've read Kafka. Great.

Now read Wittgenstein.
A lot of this information seems to be available, for example figure 4 here[1]. According to that, the horizon distance for "a binary black hole system with the same observed spin and mass parameters as GW150914 for optimal sky location and source orientation and detected with an SNR of 8" was 1.5-2 Gpc. Now we only need an estimate of the rate at which events with these properties occur, not using the data from GW150914. I presume this is somewhat (a few orders of magnitude) less than the rate at which the mergers occur in general.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03844
Get a degree in math, physics, biology or chemistry and a minor in CS. Learn databases and write any kind of remote API. Learn how to use a batch system and MPI.

Then learn how you can make this ghetto better and look at labs and universities for a job.
Without clarifying it it looks like he stood on stage in front of a bunch of rich celebrities and slagged off the winner of an award for not wearing conventional dress to an award show.

I'm all for offensive comedy, but this wasn't a joke, he was basically slagging her off in public, live on television to a room full of people. Without context of their relationship it really looks like bullying. That's completely different to an offensive stand up comedy joke, especially when its so personally targeted. Some context to clarify that it wasn't mean and they're friends would have taken the edge off the 'joke' and nobody would have cared, but it was so off the cuff and mean it just looks like he is bullying her, which is probably what touched a chord with so many people. I'm sure Mr Fry is the last person who would want to be seen as bullying anyone.
I came up with a less articulate version of this as I read the parent article and I'm disappointed the interviewer didn't ask a question along these lines.
Well, the disruptor have a set of requests that are processed in parallel. Each request have a counter associated with it. Each request also have a step associated with it. A step can depend on an arbitrary number of earlier steps. This dependency based setup of steps can easily be mapped to petri form.

Ok, maybe it isn't that close, but both are some kind of state machines that allow for arbitrary number of dependencies for each state and the mapping from a cycle free petri net to a disruptor is very trivial. Of course, the lack of cycles hobble the expressive power of the nets.
This is true of almost any internet forum today. Every comment you make is meticulously deconstructed in an effort to find some kind of "gotcha". Well, either that or it's completely ignored.

And god forbid you have an opinion on any subject in which you don't hold a doctorate degree. You can't even tell people "it's alright to eat eggs" without the conversation devolving into a back-and-forth war of citations.
Obviously the program must have figured out that there are two clauses: "I'm not going to X", where X is "tell him that". How the heck does it go from there to "kare no koto wo iu". If we translate just "tell him that" alone we get ことを彼に伝えます which is okayish. If it would just stick some version of that into the "watashi ha ... tsumori wa arimasen" pattern, it would be progress.
Taken charitably, it sounds like the official is describing the state-level equivalent of operating inside an enemy's OODA loop (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop, brought to my attention and reasonably well-explained by http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/16/military-strategist-expl...) - roughly, acting so quickly as to make the enemy's response obsolete by the time they go through with it.

Worse-but-Better solutions make it to market dominance before the Right Thing has a chance to get off the ground; and then the Right Thing is no longer the right thing, because the reality has changed.

Taken uncharitably, of course, it sounds like puffed-up nonsense, which perhaps it is.
Looking forward to when the posters are available for purchase. I'm not seeing any in http://thejplstore.com/index.php?route=product/category&path...
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No. If someone has to be "motivated" to write clear code, especially given that these tests are supposed to lead to jobs, then I would have to question their abilities. Writing clear code is an ability of itself.
Thank you. On BBSes and even IRC /me laughs, /me <action|emotion>

Before LOL I'd use hahaha or hehehe all the time as well in IRC, Chat Rooms, BBSes, etc.
Conversely, the best online community I know is our village website, where real names are required - on the basis that you're less likely to be rude to someone who you might meet in the street tomorrow. It's notable that the biggest aggro we have is generally from people who live outside the village and therefore aren't invested in making relationships work.

And yes, I do realise it's all a bit Royston Vasey - "a local website for local people"...
> "She also named Tumblr as one of the three core platforms for Yahoo going forward, "

I thought Tumblr went the way of Friendster years and years ago. I find it hard to believe that their user base is getting any bigger aside from bots and spammers.
> I already speak a language (English) which is some bastard child of French, German, Dutch, Arabic, etc.

It's a Germanic language (not a child of German), with significant lexical input from French and Latin. The input from "Dutch, Arabic, etc." is minor.
I hadn't considered all the benefits when I purchased my laptop, but this conversation has cheered me immensely.
Sure, we can't have an apolitical space. But we can have an activism-free space, and that's exactly what I want.
Gahh.. I actually don't have anything against emojis, and I use them, too. I probably agree with 90% of the pro-emojii sentiment in this sub-thread.

The emoji thing was a bad analogy and I should have just left out that clause entirely and started that sentence some other way.
> There is no friendly way to say it, the mass market are morons...

I hate this super-condescending attitude.

Even if you do happen to be smarter than the average bear (which, don't pat yourself on the back yet: there may be things these "morons" know way more about than you do), it's still asshole-ish to assume that everyone else just be completely dismissed...
You cared enough to comment. This wasn't just a place of work for me, I volunteered my time because I believed in what they were doing.

You might never have contributed in a significant fashion to Wikipedia and other WMF projects, but I did. Sure, I didn't get employed, but then again I know a lot of people I met and have continued to be friends with who are still deeply involved. You may not care about your friends' morale, and you might think it's easy for people to "go across the street and get a new job", but then you seem like a pretty thoughtless person.

Of course, you've not understood at all what the larger issues are. You must have a bit of a comprehension issue, because I supplied quite a few links that you apparently read that explained the underlying problems.

Just remember though: you don't care :-)
Twitter is powered by an evil feedback loop where making people upset makes twitter more money. Their UX is designed to generate easily-amplified content, and amplify it, and this is the unanticipated consequence. I doubt they can fix the feedback loop without torpedoing engagement.
The presence of justice and the absence of tension are not the same thing. I think a lot of people have lived a large part of their lives completely insulated from the tension that has existed in society over social justice issues for centuries. Now that you can go on Twitter and find out exactly how and why everyone is mad, it looks like comity and mutual respect has evaporated. But really what has happened is that the absence of tension engendered by the undemocratic dissemination of information in the pre-Internet age has been revealed to be a lie: people have been angry for a while and they're angry for reasons. Shocking.

Asking someone to shut up is much easier than assuming they're acting in good faith and have reasonable motivations that you can't perceive, because, you know, it's the Internet and nothing is more ridiculous than a person looking at the Internet and nodding condescendingly while explaining the exact nature of all these human beings they disagree with.

If from the get-go you assume people are acting in bad faith and you demand that they admit that this is the case before you even consider them as reasonable people, you are asking for full surrender instead of treating them as equals.
> You're (willfully?) ignoring the implication of a private feed

Egads! You saw through my duplicitous scheme!

Alternatively, I was simply pointing out that this is - in fact - a feature.

To your point, I'm not sure how you could both have audience selection and discoverability. How do you plan to both self-promote and cherry pick your viewers?
The problem is that the abstractions for working out what gets attention/promotion on social media favour the lowest common denominator. Both Twitter and Reddit are genuinely useful for connecting together like-minded communities with well established standards of behaviour, but they both struggle enormously when they attempt to find some objective criteria which can create a ranking for comparing these communities to one another, and use that ranking to synthesize everything together to create a shared public space.

On Twitter, trending is principally about volume. On Reddit, you can view and upvote 100 image macros in the time it takes to read one long-form article. So almost by definition the shared space will be filled with information that is quickly digestible, or that people have not read or watched. In attempting to synthesize and rank every piece of information on these sites, we are effectively trying to automate an editorial process for deciding what is currently the most important thing in the world, in the meantime separating what is poor content from what is merely controversial, and ranking an image macro against a 10,000 word essay. This is a herculean task, and the methods we are using are manifestly not up to the job.
Market share.
But HNers aren't. I was quite surprised seeing someone say matter-of-factly that knives are banned until I recalled this weird UK law.
Lately quite a few apps are saving energy by moving from Ruby/Python/PHP to Go.
Yeah, the author is being cute with the word "inheritance", which ends up obscuring the actual point.
> Remember, the US used to have anti-communist witch hunts in which people were forced to give up their careers, it had actual physical lynchings, and it still has a culture where the police can do more or less whatever they want with limited accountability.

Which twitter has and encourages. It's called "bluelisting."
That has been my opinion for a while as well. It's really a huge amount of social signalling where people can group themselves into specific tribes by broadcasting how offended they are by something someone well known has said or done.

And because of that it's effectively become news, papers like The Guardian in the UK have endless opinion pieces which basically amount to people commenting on other people being angry on someones behalf about something someone said or did.
also irc (EFNet) made use of emoticons, and 'lol's. The longest I remember wa ROTFLMAOASTC.
Who's oil ?
Syria's ?

Syria's production is close to Belarus's production and behind Cuba's.
And even before its decline it was behind Ukraine's production.

It's not a big enough player for anything. Especially for a juggernaut like Russia.
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Gutsy move indeed. Though I wonder, what was the development cost in real life cash for gaining those 5% of performance?
Indeed. I actually find the fact that we've come full circle and are going back to ideograms rather fascinating.

If anything, see Japanese - Kanji are essentially ancient Chinese emoticons, which succinctly express common notions which would be far more expansive in katakana or hiragana.

I can't read the latter, but I can read Kanji - which gets me by in both China and Japan.

Emoticons are even more universal.
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Is there anything social media people don't react badly too? Facebook/Twitter just move from one social snafu to the next, facts be damned, we're offended over here!
He should have read: http://web.mit.edu/marshall/www/papers/CyberBalkans.pdf
so, a safe space from activism? :p

i think your desire is reasonable. however, i think it would be unreasonable to demand it of something as public and global as Twitter.
Isn't that basically how Facebook's algorithms work? The only difference is that it restricts the pool of possible content to your list of "friends".
Cheap stocks? To me, everything looks pretty inflated from the QE fun we've had since 2009. What goes up, must come down. And over the past 7 years, stocks have gone pretty far up. Now the party is over thanks to the Fed.

Or, to put it more visually, take a look at the graph of the S&P 500 since 1994: http://i.imgur.com/5Kn5XJM.gif

I think that does a good job of illustrating our problem here.
The utterly predictable "clearly you didn't research this properly and I know far more than you" HN commenter. You are so fucking boring.

No hackerboos, we didn't bother researching any of this properly seeing as we have very little vested interest in it, but you and your "anarchist2010" email address + 10 minutes of googling are clearly far better informed.

Cool that you'd suggest the Netherlands based on freedom of press rankings. The exact location where all our data is. Which was the main reason we cited when we moved all of our data there. A further 2 minutes of Googling would've turned that up, btw.
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> I don't think oil is the cause of the market drop: stocks had been overbought for a while (if you look at historic P/E ratios), so it is natural for it to return to normal.

If stocks are overbought, is that an indicator that there's a huge amount of money out there chasing returns? Returns it can't find elsewhere?
Ruby has massive adoption, as do Python and Perl and PHP. Environments with objectively better performance like the JVM and .NET have not, in fact, done all that well comparatively in this environment (which is to say they've done fine too and achieved "massive" adoption, just not that much better than their slower competitors).

In fact, looking at the market as it stands right now I'd say that performance concerns are almost entirely uncorrelated with programming environment adoption.
If you doubt the immense amount of creativity in the language and slang used by teenagers, you need to take a Linguistics 101 and you'll find plenty of evidence.

There is something to be said about the oversharing effects of social media on human psyche, but this old school yearning for a better intellectual past is bullshit.
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