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I agree with DiabloD3. Tobold's recommendation is not a good viewing order. These works aren't set in the same continuity, so it doesn't make sense to order them in a way that feels chronological.

Here's my preferred order, along with some info/opinions about each work:

• Ghost in the Shell (1995). If you watch one thing in this list, watch this. Make sure it's not 2.0, which adds lots of ugly brown CG to the 1995 version.

• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004). This is set several years after the events of the first movie. If you're pressed for time, you can skip this without missing anything important in other works. Honestly, Innocence is my least favorite work in the franchise. My biggest criticism is the ponderous pacing. Mamoru Oshii likes to dwell too much for my tastes.

• Stand Alone Complex (2002). While the characters and technologies are similar to the movie, this is a completely different universe. It also differs from the movies in its treatment of philosophy. Instead of having characters say something like, "What does it mean to be human?", the show tends to set up circumstances that make you, the viewer, ponder such things. It's much more natural.

• Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig (2004). This continues the story from Stand Alone Complex. If you haven't watched the first season, you will be confused.

• Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (2006). This movie is set several years after the events of 2nd Gig. Again, if you don't watch the earlier seasons, you'll be confused.

• Ghost in the Shell: Arise (2013). This is a continuity separate from both the original movie and Stand Alone Complex. You don't need to watch the earlier works to enjoy this series, but you'll miss some shout-outs and references. More importantly, watching Arise first will warp your perception of the earlier works. It would be like deliberately watching Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos before Carl Sagan's.

• Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015). This is set after the events of Arise. You'll definitely be confused if you don't watch Arise before this.

Except for Innocence, this is the same order in which these works were released.

If you're looking to stream these, you're going to have a bad time. While they're mostly available on Amazon Video, the quality is lacking. Some only have english audio. Some are mislabelled. Some are "special" editions with various edits, altered artwork, and "updated" effects. If you want to make sure you're getting the ideal experience, your only hope is to blow money on the DVDs or Blu-rays, or pirate them. :(
Bah. What's the harm here? It's not like you'll type make and then not be able to figure out what to do next. The problem you're trying to avoid when preserving default behavior is confusing the user, and that's not applicable here.

Instead of blindly following laws like "Always meet user expectations" we should think about things in a case-by-case basis. Your law is at best a rule of thumb.
That's not entirely true.

Reverse polarity protection is very common, and often only requires a single diode in series with the +V line, so that current can only flow in one direction.
This is the second article on these cables that I've read saying the charging device "pulls too much power"

>When you connect your USB-C-equipped Nexus 6P phone to a MacBook Air port designed to only provide 1.1A ... the phone can pull too much power ... and potentially destroy internal components.

Does anyone know what the hell they're talking about? There is no electrical force to 'pull' power. The source 'pushes' power at a certain voltage, and can supply a certain manufacturer-set amount of current. If the charging device can use more current, nothing happens. There is no way to pull "unsupported" amounts of current out of something.
Since the light had just turned green, the assumption was probably that the bus would cease accelerating long enough for the Google car to get around the obstacle, not that the bus driver would hit the brakes.
In the small city I live in, we have small buses, which is sized right for the ridership. Unfortunately their top speed is about 26MPH on level ground and My commute includes a steep freeway overpass, which that drops to about 18MPH. The speed limit on that stretch of road is 25MPH and most traffic goes about 35MPH on the overpass as there is nowhere for a speed trap to be set. I can tell from 4 blocks away when one of those buses has been there recently.
Hike the difficulty, how? Hard fork? And even if you could hike difficulty with consensus, then you'd be locking yourself out of mining any new blocks, and your blockchain would stall! An altcoin is not a good solution for the proposed use case.
Because it includes 16GB SD card I suppose.
Just out of curiosity, how profitable is mining ethereum, and can you do it with a GPU or is it mostly ASICs? I have a brand new gtx980 ti on the way for the oculus, and was curious if I could run it to help pay for it.
This incident hints at what I believe is going to be a big issue in the transition to autonomous vehicles in busy urban areas. If AVs are too passive, human drivers will take advantage of them. If they are too aggressive, the accident rates will be high, and the risk of an AV causing a major accident increases. Threading this dichotomy is more difficult than solving the physics of driving.
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You got that backwards. They moved right in their lane to slow down for a turn (while allowing traffic going straight to pass), and then had to move back into the stream of traffic as there was debris preventing them from turning on the far-right side of the lane.
You're right that a tiny portion of the general population would know what sudo is, but surely among HN readers there is a huge base that would understand, or at least grok what it is after a quick search.

Not advocating that HN isn't for non-tech-people, just saying that neither the reference nor the xkcd were out of place for this audience.
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I don't think each needs to be networked, at least not via IP or directly to the Internet. In fact, I'm hoping the design goes towards local protocols and hubs that are directly connected.

Your programmable thermostat very likely doesn't accommodate the situation where you're out of town for 8 days over the winter holidays and you need it to be just warm enough to not have pipes freeze, and you want it to be warm when you show up with your two toddlers and pregnant wife at 7pm (bedtime). Also, what if you can't remember if you actually turned the heat down or not?

Also, I'm sure you can't turn your thermostat down in less time as I have a Vacation Mode shortcut button that I can access from the Today pull down in iOS that sets the thermostat to 55, turns off all the lights, and turns on motion detection notifications- without unlocking my phone. I'm being pedantic, but it is truly that easy.

Your light switches hooked up to a surprisingly power hungry timer don't tell you that they actually turned on when you're gone. Can't remember if you left the living room on and you're out of town? Check your phone.

Using a local communication protocol helps keep your gadgets from leaking your info all over the Internet like those god forsaken Internet cameras and such are doing these days, and the hubs they connect to allow you to actually interface with them remotely. This leaves the hubs as the weakest remote link, but in that case you only have to worry about one vendor getting it right instead of every vendor. It doesn't remove the risk, but it certainly makes it more manageable.

Z-wave and ZigBee both have their flaws, especially around security, but they do have the advantage of not making everything in your house addressable from the Internet.

These things aren't necessary, but they're not frivolous. They already are bringing efficiencies with not all that much effort.
When we get ice in the DC area, it's always the 4WD cars that are in ridiculous accidents as they are the only ones that get get up enough speed, but pretty much all cars these days have 4 wheel ABS, so stopping ability on ice is equal between those and the cars that can barely start moving.
Except the case for anthropogenically induced global warming is just not nearly so airtight as those constantly talking about the "overwhelming scientific consensus" would have you believe.

https://mises.org/library/skeptics-case

Note; not "climate change" in general, or even just "global warming" but the specific hypothesis that it's all down to co2 emissions by humans, invariably followed up with a proposed solution to the problem consisting of an increase in state power and interference into the markets in order to avert certain catastrophe, that has the neat side effect of allowing the political authorities of the world to impose yet another tax on almost all economic activity on the planet.

And all of the above gets neatly rolled up into a label like "climate change" instead of the greatly expanded problem / solution combination the harder the expanded problem / solution combination is critically evaluated.

Nothing to see here, move along.
D&D is a role playing game, but you roll the dice to see what happens.
So invite some friends over for a beer and BBQ... Or be an extrovert at work for 9 hours a day. OTOH, I know what you mean about the mental stimulation of big cities -- need to feed that ADD. :-)
For that problem you mentioned (writer's block because worry of presentation or confuse the reader) my solution was to just write it, then keep iterating over it (reading it myself) and rewriting little parts making it more clear.

Basically, it was a work of polishing after I was done with the draft. What I write are mostly tutorials for my blog and found this approach acceptable.
The logic still doesn't stand. If it's, say, 20 people, you shouldn't be comparing 1 car to 500 cars, you should be considering 1 bus to 20 cars.
Wouldn't "it's not appropriate for the task" be a better reason not to use something than "it's not made for the task"? Don't you have any better reasons at all? Does make bring out people's conservative side or something?

Let me ask you this. Would you sit on a tree stump? How about kill a fly with a newspaper? Sometimes things are great for purposes for which they weren't originally intended.
I'd never thought about that connection, but I think the specific comparison is to the first series' "Laughing Man".

http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Laughing_Man

"'The Laughing Man' became something of a pop culture obsession for a time, much to the chagrin of the actual Laughing Man—the irony being that since everybody used his icon and name for their own purposes, the original meaning of his actions, an artful forced confession of the truth through fear in the public eye, became 'phony' itself. The effort to stand for and demand the truth was also lost forever."

That's so similar to how I at least understand Anonymous to exist that it's sends some chills up my spine. The things done in the name of Anonymous are all practically verbatim "Stand Alone Complex" type scenarios where there's not really a leader driving anything, but the interplay of "The Media", individual goals and interests, and a pseudonym to take credit all work towards the creation of a self-sustaining identity utterly independent to the original inspiration.
non-orthogonal?
Google needs to program their AVs to be aware of the universal "law of anything bigger"!

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I already have the controller I want to use with VR, it's a steering wheel, pedals and shifter set.
Oh my god what a revelation. I've never seen anyone bring this up before.

Outside of every single thread about C. Everyone at this point knows the shitty side of C.
Some people don't get called often, and driving and talking on the phone isn't an option everyone enjoys, so airplane mode fits the bill for some as I've read in other discussions on HN by others.
Very neat concept. Will probably use again. Thanks for making and sharing!
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In my mid-twenties I had a pretty bad cavity that for various reasons I didn't have filled right away. Although it was painful, I found myself sort of instinctively digging into it with different tools pretty much all the time. It just felt right, like trying to pop a deep pimple or scratching an itch. I can definitely see how primitive dentistry would be a thing.
Ha! Well, I stand corrected. :D
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People think that way because you can't claw back the salary but you can dilute the entries on the cap table.
And bought already. It's a great roguelike game. I remember playing it years ago. Then tried anything possible to convince the author the migration to SDL was reasonable. (rather than whatever else it was before) The game seemed to be stuck on Watcom and dos for ages.

I had so much fun losing the game time after time. (damn winter...)
I guess I should walk back what I said a little bit. Natural language is the ultimate interface for many domains. For flying a plane or doing anything else that requires continuous high dimensional input, physical interfaces are probably best. For anything that requires a level of detail approaching a computer program, a technical written or visual language is probably best.

Many of the tasks we want AIs to perform are things that humans do now. We're used to communicating about them in natural language.
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I saw two of the series and liked the plot, action, setting, etc.

That said, I didn't appreciate the title conceit and thought the stories got weak whenever they approached it.

There is no ghost in the shell, not in the real world. A person's thoughts, character, and emotions come from neurons, hormones, and sensory input. There's no way to take a person's unique consciousness out of their body, keep it in a jar, and move it somewhere else.

At best it might be possible to emulate someone's brain, but that's not what they did in Ghost in the Shell.
I always thought SAC was a little like Law and Order: SVU but with cyborgs
Not sure what your statement means.
One reason to leave it: It saves some writing / debugging for people doing system packaging. In debian the package build file (debian/rules) is reduced to two lines these days - as long as you don't mess with the standards. "configure && make && make install" is standard - if you go outside of that, someone will have to do extra work.
The limit to how much power you can pull is just the ESR of the power source. Don't take a car battery and connect the two terminals together with large-guage wire, unless you want to see some impressive fireworks.

With purely passive loads, the power "pulled" from a fixed-voltage power supply is related to the impedance of the load, and can be calculated with a fairly simple formula.

Phones, however, are active, and can regulate how much they draw to charge the battery.

Perhaps a simpler explanation: if you plug a night-lite and a vacuum into an identical outlet, they will clearly pull different amounts of power.
Can you explain why you think him pointing out that he thinks the FBI has stepped out of bounds is a cop out? Isn't that the entire argument?
1, 5, and 6 all seem quite objective, although whether they are accurate is debatable. They aren't given much empirical support here.
Exactly. my current employer has a five year vesting schedule. Who cares about five years? I demanded more base. If you are at a company longer than one year you are in serious trouble. Sorry, but corporations and the scuzzy managers brought this upon themselves.
Except in the Bay Area, where bus drivers move those slow, more predictable machines as if they were sports cars.
What in the StankWag article is false?
Gasoline is not untaxed in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State....

Public transportation, except for perhaps NY, is actually less efficient than driving because no one uses it. It'd be cheaper to just buy everyone a Prius than most of these light rail or streetcar projects and it'd be better for the environment.
I an questioning how big of a problem that is empirically.

One can't really arbitrage that effectively.

Municipalities can't run consistent deficits, so the new schools, roads and parks will be built after a wave of newcomers buys properties, locking in higher prices and higher tax base.

In case there are no such newcomers (i.e. everybody is maximizing their Prop 13 benefit by not selling), the municipality just sticks to the last year's budget with a 2% increase permitted by Prop 13. But in that case new schools, parks and roads that make the neighborhood better don't appear either.
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It's not necessarily that simple.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...
Does that explain things when you're talking about a DC power supply? Isn't that what we're talking about?
I think you're being a bit melodramatic. Outdoor advertising is not intrusive or annoying at all when compared to other forms of advertising. It's not like I'm trying to watch a video or read a news article on the side of a bus, on a billboard or on top of a taxi.

Additionally, government transit organizations make money off of the advertising sold on their vehicles and property which can in turn be used to re-invest in infrastructure to benefit the average user. Things like digital signage and free Wi-Fi are sponsored by the advertisements and improve the various transit systems they are implemented in.
It's not a solution, but there you go.

Large wealthy entities are going to act like assholes, and guess what we learned in kindergarten. All it takes is one fucking asshole to ruin a good thing that used work for everyone.

Sorry, but running around with a uniquely identifiable radio badge is now officially being used against you. It's not just about law enforcement using this system against criminals anymore. It's about anyone with enough money, exploiting every naive sucker minding their own business.

Welcome to the future.
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You should watch Psycho-Pass. I feel you will like it.

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It's GPU memory intensive, so no ASICS yet, and an ETH ASIC would just be a general purpose computer. It's fairly profitable to mine, assuming your electricity cost is reasonable.
I agree for the first season of Psycho-Pass.

Second season wasn't nearly as well-done.
Very interesting. So, can China not just reverse engineer this pill, and distribute a generic version of it anyway?
> Sometimes (though rarely) the bus stop is such that the bus can pull out of the traffic lane and become less of an obstruction

It is actually a deliberate policy in many cases not to have the buses pull out of the traffic lane, because it is hard for the buses to get back into traffic since cars do not want to let them in, resulting in slower bus journeys.
I think this only applies to people implementing their apps using SOA as pat of cargo cult thinking like was mentioned in the article.

I ran a company with 4 employees. 3 developers and an idiot sales guy. SOA made perfect sense from the start. We had daemons running background tasks on our servers in Go (the best tool for that job), a separate data API we used for our main "monolithic" web app, and then our mobile and other clients all used the data API.

The developers working on the web app only had to know the API end points to get data into the "monolith" and the rest of us working on the API and daemons understood how all the other clients would use them. No issue.

I'm all about the idea that you shouldn't implement an SOA because successful companies do it but I feel like this article is recommending building a monolithic rails app or something as a reaction to how popular and talked about SOA architecture has been lately and doesn't really leave much room for the idea that small companies (even really really small ones) can use it and would it would make sense for them.
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I hear professionals use 'caries' when talking professionally, and 'cavities' when talking to layfolk. I've not heard non-professionals use caries much here in Aus. Mileage may vary, I guess.

source: not a dentist, but have had a bunch of dental work done...
I like the concept, and will definitely be keeping an eye on it. But, like you, not sure I want to add more dependencies. Would rather keep it all Go.
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What's the cost-benefit ratio? Nothing exists completely altruistically. For me, Google apps (Gmail etc.) provide enough benefit for the cost (of being advertised to).

As much as selling my location is infuriating, I'm not likely to give up my pocket computer. The benefit to my life - instant maps and directions, communications, and access to the wealth of the world's information at my fingertips is enough of a benefit - for me, that is.

I hate that there has to be a cost that feels vicious, but it is what it is right now. I do hope the privacy pendulum swings back a bit.
I remember plugging in a damaged mouse into my old Win XP desktop and it displayed a nice notification saying "Your device tried to draw too much current and so the USB port has been disabled." I fail to understand how such basic stuff has eluded USB C port manufacturers, specially on high end devices like Macbook and Pixel.

>When you connect your USB-C-equipped Nexus 6P phone to a MacBook Air port designed to only provide 1.1A ... the phone can pull too much power ... and potentially destroy internal components.

This is just nonsense, as far as I know. No device can "pull" more current than you can provide. Even if you short the pins, the port will just be shut down, as noted later in the article itself.

>But Saunders, chairman of the USB-IF standards body, says he's not aware of any protection against a completely miswired cable like the one that struck down Leung's Chromebook Pixel. "That was something that the circuits of his notebook can't protect against," he says.

I highly doubt that. What's the worst that can happen? You deliver 20V to the pin expecting GND. Trivial to protect against. And this is also only for things like chargers. If it is any peripheral device, the voltage drop will never exceed ~5V I'm guessing. All this just comes down to bad engineering on the part of laptop manufacturers. Bad cables, bad devices, reverse polarity chargers have always been present. And our computers have always had protections against them. And that is how it should be. A completely miswired cable should simply not work.

Now if you're talking about differentials of >100V, then I would understand. But we're nowhere close to those levels. Google and Apple: Your ports are badly designed and you should feel bad!
don-knuth (yes *that guy) has a fascicle here: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/fasc1b.ps.gz
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Ironically, we have subsequently determined that one can determine race by fingerprint fairly well.

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