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> I can't tell if you're being serious about American news only reporting things that make America look good

I'm being serious.

Other countries I've lived in spend a lot of time in their media comparing their own country to other countries that are doing very well, or are doing something better than them, such that they can learn from that and make their own situation or system better.

When you only compare America to countries doing much worse, you never get that.

The American sentiment of "we are the best" has been seriously harmful in the last ~20 years because it means there is no drive to improve anything. In fact, I notice it's very "un-American" to even suggest changing/improving things.

Hypothetically, even if a given country were the best at something, that's not a reason not to improve it.
Don’t Let Them Tell You You’re Not at the Center of the Universe
> - Stavros Papastavrou, former advisor to the current Greek Prime Minister

He is a Nea Dimokratia member and was advisor of the previous government (Samaras'), not Tsipras' current one.
You could take a linear algebra approach and explain dimension as the number of possible independent directions of movement. This could be experienced through touch. Start with a pencil, then a piece of paper, then 3-space, and so on.
If you believe the intended positioning, the Bolt and the Model 3 are cars with EV power plants, but intended for different segments. The Model 3 is intended to be positioned as a premium vehicle (BMW 3 series, etc), while the Bolt seems to be similarly positioned to the Prius. So, its not a winner-take-all proposition.
A few things.

1. Kevin you may want to block out your address in the attached letter.

2. I'm missing the part where this amount is tied directly to the creation of this application and this application only. From my read this is a T&M contract for mobile development there's nothing specific to this application. It could span multiple engagements and apps. Considering this contract went into place over 2 years ago this could likely be the case.

3. This is a cap not an invoice. They could have billed 60k.
When I stopped trying to make that place better (I'm banging my head against the wall) and started just going with the flow, I knew it was time to leave.
Trello board with lists setup like so:

[Inbox][Queue][This Week][Today][Done][Done Apr 2nd]

Text files version controlled in git:

/notes/
/notes/project1/todo.txt
/notes/project2/todo.txt
/notes/project3/todo.txt

Since I'm in terminal all day I quickly jot down todos in .txt files as I go. The real management of them is done in Trello.
> The proof of this is that several core concepts that
> are considered "safe" have "unsafe" portions

I don't understand this argument. Rust could have built those features (e.g. `Rc`) directly into the compiler itself and it wouldn't have made the language itself any more safe, and it wouldn't have made the safe bits of the language any more or less powerful.

In fact, `Rc` was once a first-class part of the language itself, and was indicated by the `@` sigil. The fact that it now lives in the standard library rather than the compiler is because library code is easier to audit for correctness than the compiler internals; to prove that the language is powerful enough to permit user-defined smart pointers and memory management primitives; and to permit alternative implementations of basic language features to be swapped in and out via custom standard libraries (which is way easier to do than forking the compiler).
Likely your security / approval estimate is low [edited]- typically you can write an app like this quickly but the ATO / certification and the BAs and PMs filling out paperwork and sitting in meetings will add weeks / months.

Also I agree the overhead of current T&M contracts likely doesn't make contracts under 100K worth pursuing especially given the huge amount of competition for some of this work and (unless an incumbent) a pretty low win probability.

Fingers crossed the TechFAR and some of the micro auction steps being taken make this a more dynamic market.

EDIT2: Here's the spending on that Contract by task order (as up to date as USASpending can be anyway)
https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/AdvancedSearch.aspx?k=CIO5...

EDIT: If the re-compete was done under OASIS then maybe we can get a lot of information out of this line by line transaction from USASpending: https://www.usaspending.gov/Transparency/Pages/AwardSummary....
He shows the images he got in the video at 30:40.

The most sensible explanation is that in each launch they got hundreds of carbon dust dots, and he cherrypicked the most symmetrical and biological like, and then proclaim that they are "biological entity"s.

Some back of the envelope calculations: Let's guess that they have a team of 5 members, and each one looks at the microscope one day each week for 8 hours, and to select and focus a dot they need 1 minute. If they do this for a year they'd get 60x8x5x52 = 1 million samples.

The problem is how to design a control group. Perhaps someone can look at 1 million sand grains and find the more interesting. (This looks like an interesting blog post.) The chemical composition is very different, and the size is very different, but I guess it can test the human filter part.

(Bonus points: Repeat this 1 million of grains of other materials. Salt grains a too cubic to look organic. Soot particles seams more interesting and can be a possible contamination. How does flour looks under a microscope?)
The cost isn't in setting them up. The cost is in defending the structures in court when some tax authority feels you're "cheating" the game. Tax authorities lose plenty of cases however, so as long as you didn't do anything illegal and you can afford great lawyers to see a case through, you're good.
>> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy.

Depends. If you are a young, single person without a car, yes, suburbs might not be a great place to live.

On the other hand, if you have a family, and can afford it, you look for a neighborhood with good schools and low crime rate.

You can pick your bakeries on your way back from work, and you can drive to any restaurant, local or not.
Another similar privacy leak affecting children on the VTech website a few months ago:

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/11/when-children-are-breached-i...
http://pre-commit.com/ might help you out.
It is totally up to the agend of the other companies. Theoretically, they should be able to since tesla has open sourced all its patents but I don't think many companies want to do that. EC cars are still a niche that only very few people drive. And it still requires tons of R&D which might not be worth it for the other companies.

What is really going to be interesting is how well other car companies can build EC cars. I personally like the look of the tesla model 3 way better and at a similar price point, it is a no brainier to get a tesla for me (if I had the money). Also, I'm really interested in autonomous driving and tesla seems to be far ahead (I know lots of companies are catching up but autonomous driving is still in the higher end models.
Given the overall sales numbers and your survey of 0 out of 75, I think your opinions may be shining through despite your efforts to contain them. My equally anecodatal evidence is the opposite - Probably a dozen of my friends have purchased Echos in the last couple of months and almost all rave about it
Compare a hammer and nails to a nailgun with various safety mechanisms. Which one do you think is easier to understand, and which is more prone to sore fingers?
I agree that there are no parallels with Swarz, but it's true that inadvertedly her site has caused more stir and more impact than 15+ years of pushing for open access publishing. The ad hominem does not change that.
Can you safely operate the entertainment system while driving? With physical buttons, I can turn the volume knob or cycle through radio station presets without taking my attention off the road. With a touch screen, you don't get tactile feedback and modal dialogs or different screens can block controls, so you have to divert your gaze and attention to the screen. I haven't driven in a Tesla, so maybe they've figured it out.
Pictures begin here in the video: https://youtu.be/cpXVVuFgYqA?t=1820

Here's "the famous one," showing a titanium ball with carbon and oxygen contents spilling out from impact: https://youtu.be/cpXVVuFgYqA?t=2297

And the "snail particle," which is stuck to a crystal of sodium chloride: https://youtu.be/cpXVVuFgYqA?t=2359
"This is comin' in from somewhere, and it ain't comin' up from Salt Lake City."
Ford Foundation is no longer controlled by the Ford Family, and has divested itself of all Ford assets. I don't think you can reasonably believe that funder interference, or fear of funder interference, would alter how this into gets reported. You certainly can't make that claim about Ford, specifically.

I've also worked with OSF before, and can absolutely say that they routinely fund matters that fit the ideology of the Soros families, even if those grants fund activities critical of wealthy investment managers.
But that applies to any part of the organization. Bad sales team? No one buys the product. Bad engineering? People will buy but the company will fight a losing battle against improvements and negative reviews. Etc, etc.
Yeah he said that, but presented no evidence to support his claim.
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"some of the papers they distribute are by employees of the US government. There is no copyright for those papers, therefore Elsevier could not get anything signed over to time.

Elsevier and all other journals charge the same price for access to these papers as they do for papers where the publisher controls the copyright. To a first approximation, that means the value of the copyright is not significant."

It also could mean that the market is broken. In a 'normal' free market, somebody would take the set of copy-right free publications, start selling access to it for half what the big players ask, and grab that part of the market. Part of the reason that doesn't happen is that the big publishers only sell bundles. You have to go there for some stuff, and to get that stuff, you get access to the rest, too. That decreases the portential value customers put on having access to only the copyright-free stuff.

Nevertheless, you should still be able to get those copyright-free texts cheaper elsewhere, for example from their authors, if they wish to provide that service.
More precise abstractions benefit end programmers too:

(0) They increase the effectiveness of code as a communication medium between programmers. To use an analogy: If I tell you a story, you don't need to hire actors to enact it, just to understand the plot. You can just use your knowledge of the English language, right? Imagine if we could do the same with code: programmers conversing in code, because they understand it natively, without having to “interpret” it (in a REPL, using a test suite, etc.).

(1) They decrease the burden of anticipating, preventing and handling things that may go wrong. Again, to use an analogy: Defensive programming in a language with imprecise abstractions is like spending 75% of a construction project's budget on buying insurance.

The fact that precise abstractions usually lend themselves to simpler and more elegant implementations than imprecise abstractions, well, it is just a nice additional benefit.
Given they've already done it with the Roadster, Model S and Model X, I think we have to give them a lot more credit than just another Kickstarter.

I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing, given they made the highest rated vehicle, ever.
I have this rule for timing out how long trips take. Unless it's just me, for every pee and gas stop add 20-30 minutes. If it is just me then it's about 5-10 minutes. I have no idea why the disparity. But it's consistent. Stops for food are at least 1 hour. If you can stop for food and charge the car at the same time a 200 mile range wouldn't be an issue for most people.

All this leads up to; when you see significant numbers of electric cars on the road you'll see roadside businesses start to cater to them. That model isn't bad, customer parks, plugs in the car and goes in for snax and coffee. 20 minutes later the smart phone dings saying the car is good go. That's different than having stand around a gas station for 20 minutes.
That article is bullshit. Yes, we can't access the raw data - true, but understandable. The editor in-chief of the SZ says they are still working on it and will expose more and more "in waves", often getting statements from the accused before or sharing it with law enforcement agencies. And no, they didn't focus on Russia or Assad, one of the main revelations was that three members of Iceland's government (PM, financial, interior) have offshore accounts. And the scandal was, that the PM bailed out banks he had personal investments in. so no, "corporate media" isn't ignoring "the west". Also, as published pretty much everywhere, a number of heads of state had offshore accounts, many allies of "the west":
Mauricio Macri, president or Argentina.
Bidzina Ivanishvill. ex PM of Georgia
Sigmundur something something, PM of Iceland.
Ayad H. Allawi, ex PM of Iraq.
Ali Abu-Ragheb, ex PM of Jordan.
Hamad Jasim J.M. Al-Thani, ex PM of Qatar.
Sheik Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar.
HRH Prince Salman, King of Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Al-Nirghani, ex-president of Sudan
Sultan Al-Nahyan, president of the UAE.
Pavlo Lazarenko, ex-PM of Ukraine.
Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine.

Also pretty much every major german bank is on the list, as published widely, and new evidence in the Siemens scandal came to light. Non-germans didn't get fully published yet, because the journalists give them the chance to respond to the accusations (having an offshore account isn't illegal by itself, but is often used to hide the identitiy of the owner to do illegal things).

To think, that for a database of 2.6tb, that data can just be made public and seeded (see main HN thread) is absurd. Source confidentiality and all
> Miguel Arias Cañete, wife of a current Spanish minister and European Commissioner

Nope. It's the man himself, not his wife.
In the first week this is just an ultra paranoid reaction. The comments about corporate ownership in view of the guardian being owned by an independent trust, and about them destroying the wikileaks info indicate that the author is either poorly informed or a shit-stirrer. The UK press in particular has to vet stuff before in prints in order to avoid being sued out of existence, and as a matter of good journalism will stretch this out over the summer
Wonder if you could use a Roomba-like robot to do this?
This will roll out slowly like the Snowden leaks over time.
Lets hope an pray, this time its about money something everyone understands an can get angry about.
'Superman', Director Richard Donner inside story
http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-SK705DI-Echo/dp/B00X4WHP5E/ref=...

35k people have reviewed it. 4.5 star average. 35k > 75
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First program: Sieve of Eratosthenes in ALGOL 60, typed onto paper tape on a Friden Flexowriter and run (ran first time too) on an Elliott 803. Year was 1963. I did get to touch the cabinet, but was not allowed to mount the tape.

First computer: 1967, Elliott 4130, from the inside out as commissioning tech employed at Elliott's in Elstree. 1000 cps paper tape readers were quite something. Especially when they failed.

Elliotts computers absorbed into ICL 1968/9. So any schools using 903's had to be using old refurnbished units. I would have thought.

1968: same time, evening degree at Birkbek College, prepared CS projects on IBM punched cards and handed the stacks to the priesthood via a little hole in a wall for running on the Atlas. 2 day turn-round. A step backwards, for me, after such intimacy wth the 4130. Fun fact: the course was not called CS in those days, not yet. So I got Mathematical Sciences with Physics on my piece of paper.
Huh, Gmail completely implements RFC5321 and you can send and receive email from any valid address, even from their web client, and they validate the email address.

I stand by my position, failing to implement the spec correctly should be considered an error even when Google does it.

If you want a compromise, how about printing "we don't support email addresses with X" if you want to be picky for SPAM detection, simplicity, or something rather than "this email address isn't valid." Google does this for some valid-but-not-accepted addresses on their signup page but it's not sophisticated enough to catch everything.
uh... no where does it say anything about anyone having to justify anything? one of the exemptions is explicitly stated as being the "belief" of a single person who doesn't want to do it. what if that one person had another belief that it was never right to release anything? like the kind of person who would already hold that job under the current system you're complaining about? what changed? you're an idiot.
It sounded like you were complaining that there's less access than there used to be. I seem to have misunderstood you, then.

Re your other points: AWS relies in part on open source software, which arguably corresponds to free peer review.

There's no direct analogue to prestige, but that's something the publisher arguably deserves payment for. Prestige doesn't come out of nowhere, it takes a long time to build up a reputation, etc.
I live in the District of Columbia, call it three miles from downtown. The high school students in the neighborhood who are in public schools attend Wilson High School or one of the district's magnets, namely School Without Walls and Banneker. Banneker might be a mile and a half away, Wilson and Walls are more like four miles. I will say that it appears to me that most of them take public transportation to and from school.

And when I lived in the Denver suburbs, my brother attended a couple of county schools. The junior high was at least a couple of miles away, the high school more like five. Do not underestimate American sprawl.
Some people may call it punishment, others call it progressive taxation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax
Only if you use the steering wheel controls. Despite what others may believe, anything you need to do on the giant touch screen absolutely cannot be done safely while driving.
Found at least some of the raw documents on the ICIJ researcher Mago Torres' document cloud account. https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Account:%2013504...
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Your analysis sounds pretty spot-on.

It's government, so you'll likely have a 508 compliance audit (accessibility) as part of the project as well. Figure a work-week of that.

Security clearances are almost a definite "yes". Extensive background checks at a minimum -- and we're talking three days of paperwork, fingerprinting, calls to your third grade teacher, etc.
leakception
> You have a point, however, what rust enforces is more strict than what you need to adhere to in order to write a correct C program.

And C enforces stricter type checking rules than what you need to adhere to in order to write a correct Python program. This is not a bad thing; having an automated assistant that can catch errors as you make them is highly useful. Rust simply pushes this to the domain of memory management and once its rules become more engrained in our development habits, I'm sure it'll be about as painless to deal with than it is to deal with type checking.
Yeah clearly this ui http://elliott.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_6317.jpg required 10 days to design.

Why would this require more than a few days? Simple UI, then just generate a secure random number and draw an arrow. Bam. Give me 200k.

I mean the largest expense would almost certainly be third-party pen testing and QA. And why would it take a technical writer 5 days to document this? It has 1 function.
If you know [government] people getting wined and dined and not covering costs - report them, please. In my experience this line is not crossed very much but agency cultures can vary.

As for the job thing - I would like to see more emphasis on curbing potential abuse for awards that lead to jobs with a contractor. This kind of thing can be hard to prove especially at large firms but needs to be locked down for anyone in a procurement / review board role.
My point wasn't about Lockheed Martin per se. With ICF, MCF, and MTF, and many instances of those classes of fusion machines being constructed and tested globally, there is a path and plan to make nuclear fusion viable in the future. Doesn't matter that the first machine costs billions, the price will come down at each every subsequent iteration, even if it takes 100 years (or the discovery of room-temperature superconductors).

Back in February the Chinese EAST project (only $37 million USD) confined a plasma pulse of 50 million K for 102 seconds. Progress is slow, yes, but my point remains. When fusion is finally viable, we should strive to have an open infrastructure that liberates humanity from growing, harvesting, and distributing food. (Japan is well on the way, FWIW.)

Time and money are two compelling reasons. Another is climate change. Some estimates predict a decrease in certain crop yields (such as maize in South Africa) by up to 30%. OTOH, some crops will thrive with a higher CO2 concentration, while others will not tolerate the heat and coming droughts. Indoor farming eliminates global climate as a factor to growth.
>I really hope they do not make the mistake of making this a front wheel drive car.... etc.

I agree. Furthermore, using an electric motor negates the "packaging" and efficiency advantages of front wheel drive, so it is kind of hard to see why they would... and yet Nissan Leaf (best selling electric car so far) is front wheel drive.
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Torque-steer is a packaging problem; the difference in half-shaft lengths between the left and right hubs in most transaxle setups causes an uneven application of torque. If manufacturers choose to employ them, there are solutions to the problem:

- Many AWD vehicles, and many 2WD Audi and VW cars, use a traditional longitudinal setup with equal-length shafts driven from a transaxle mounted in the rear of the engine.

- Power-assisted steering can be employed to counteract torque-steer by receiving the current torque application as input.

Like you said, an electric vehicle has neither of these problems, because they do not have to package a transaxle to one side of an ICE-driven crankshaft. There is no reason to believe that the Bolt exhibits torque-steer, and nothing in the article corroborates this suspicion.

The other benefit of FWD vehicles is that understeer is much, much easier to recover from than oversteer. RWD vehicles tend to snap-oversteer the other direction when the untrained driver lifts off the accelerator too quickly; a common occurrence in YouTube videos of Mustang and Corvette conventions. Understeer can easily be recovered from by lifting off the accelerator in the same way, putting more weight on the front wheels and increasing available traction.
Obligatory mention of 18F (https://18f.gsa.gov) within the General Services Administration who develop federal government projects in the open (and have defaulted to open-sourcing since their inception).

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/01/16/open-source-for-good-governme...
Yeah the biggest Mafia of them all does not like competition.
the company i work for doesnt allow us to provide dinner/entertainment for clients/vendors, nor can we accept offers to be taken out for dinners/entertainment.

if we do go out somewhere, we pay our own

we deal with govt and large healthcare corporations, the same policies are the norm among them.

we also get these policies hammered into us quarterly through Anti-bribery/corruption and code of ethics training which is mandatory for all 30k employees regardless of role.