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A great visualization! And it is great that the authors provide links to the movie scripts (I think I will use these for another movie visualizations).

The only qualm is the scrolling - I would really prefer to have these visualizations being separate and scrolling behave normally. Sure, I understand it looks cool and fashionable, but (at least for me) its really distracting.

When it comes to the good stuff - I like the most the last feature, when one is a able to search for movies and look at characters (sometimes movie is "male" or "female" due to protagonist... or the mentor character, which very often have more lines).

For actor ages - a nice pick (I think it is highly related to the viewers' preferences - vide http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-woma...).
If I understand correctly, the way that a screenplay is formatted takes care of all three simultaneously. The font is monospaced and the text size, margins, and line spacing make one page of dialogue pretty close to one minute of time.
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I spoke at the CCC in 2011 about all the ways in which censorship-resistant payments are essential to the various pillars of a free society.

https://vimeo.com/27653912

It's still true. Without free payments, you cannot have free speech, free association, or due process.
I used to read the New York Times. And by read, I mean I read the front-page, and then did the crossword puzzle. Then I stopped reading the front-page, and just did the crossword. A dollar a day for a decent crossword isn't the worst, but I stopped having time to do it, so I cancelled.
I am currently reading Guns, germs and steel by Jarred Diamond, and he would probably disagree, that the primary reason for greater productivity of European settlers compared to native inhabitants of Americas would be culture. If I would simplify one of the theses of that book, it might be, that culture and sucess of various civilization might be just a by-product of the interaction of their available technology and resources within their geography.

On the other hand, I'd like to see more in-depth investigation into cultures role into prosperity of people. For example, I would really like to see the reasons why in certain states it is culturally acceptable to accept bribes.
It seems evident to me that once these machines prove their value in both safety and efficiency, the companies that insure trucking firms will compel/persuade them to switch from human to self-driven vehicles.

These machines can safely convoy closely in one lane leaving other lanes free, will obey traffic laws and courtesy rules, and never get sleepy.

The disruption of the trucking industry is one that we will have to watch closely for its likely economic and political effects.
Switch would be the best, as long as it is a physical switch that physically disconnects the whole module. Not the kind that is typical nowadays, that only reports its state to the firmware which then decides what to do.
I am near certain that if I were 40 years younger I'd have been ADHD diagnosed. So I can easily believe it's a distraction / concentration mechanism, for me at least.
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In my opinion, the most compelling reason is that many people are there. There's nothing Google or Microsoft can't do that facebook is doing, technologically, what they lack is people. I still feel facebook is a good platform for running private groups. For others it gives an audience to show off, not necessarily a bad thing.

Facebook is what every individual wants but is hesitant of accepting.
Sounds actually quite hard and frustrating and I expect quite allot of bruises also.
I would imagine any version control system attempting to solve this problem would focus very closely on one particular language or development system. Any pragmatic solution would also have to be a highly opinionated one.

For a related idea, see Facebook's Haskell system, in which only type-safe code is allowed to be checked into the respository:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spa...
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Yep I don't think they could even hire a janitor that would not pass a security background check and be eligilble to hold at least basic clearance.
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One thing the article could mention, which is apparent from the last graphic, is that there is a slight trend towards improving the gender balance.
You totally can. It happens all the time. Sorry but them's the breaks.
If you want to do the proper way, call it "StöMeVo".

And only use the abbreviation, never call it "Störungsmeldevorrichtung" so people will forget what it stands for.
I think they were referring to the part where it says

Mic/Camera hardware cut-off:	Yes
I remember our algebra professor adopting aprroach that seems like a compromise between those two.

He provided us with lecture notes, usually containing all the definitions, theorems, lemmas, and proofs and then encouraged us to take notes on the margins of the lecture-notes.
It would be weird if you always said the words "s'il vous plait" exactly like that one guy says it in that one recording
While it's not reasonable to ask this of everyone, it would seem to me that if anyone should strive to have "nothing to hide" it would be politicians and people in positions where they are definitely under foreign surveillance.

Like okay, they have to do deal with classified material and sensitive things - but there is a time and place for that and I trust the FBI director doesn't use his personal laptop for work.

He should be basically streaming his video camera on the internet for everyone to see - b/c the people that want to see it probably will
Counter-point from me. My triathlon club is almost entirely down to earth middle aged people looking for competition and/or challenging healthy activity. Not particularly well-heeled (and those who are don't advertise it).

For those down-thread wondering if this is a witch-hunt, I've followed it in detail and if you know the sport the evidence of cheating is very clear. She has been singled out in the sense there are other cheats out there (I've seen it myself) but her high profile fairly reflects the callibre of events she's won (ITU long course).
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If you'd like all those details and more its all online eg http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triat... which includes links to detailed analyses of the photo times and splits (which I find convincing).
Because everybody else uses it, that's herd thinking at it's best. There are many features that people use it for, private groups for example. It's great for spreading gossip and what have you.
Besides making it optional for C11, from security point of view they don't improve anything in C.

Programmers still need to track pointer and length parameters separately, leading to the usual set of memory corruption.
While I enjoy Facebook (largely treating it as entertainment) it's Events that's the killer feature for me. Nothing else is as comprehensive for my hobby as a consumer. As a promotor its free (at my usage level) and has the audience. Without this feature I'd probably be elsewhere by now.
Don't forget about loads of websites on cheap shared hosting, which cannot use Let's Encrypt or other free SSL certificates. And Telnet, used for logging in to a server, is much more dangerous than plain HTTP, used just for viewing HTML documents.
Facebook's appeal is a bit like reality television. The horror of the timeline and voyeuristic nature of peering into the intimacies of other people's lives, some of whom you barely know, seems to have appeal for many. The same way watching some C-grade celebrity eat insects on a remote island appeals to many.

I haven't logged into Facebook now for months, and have no compelling reason to do so. Like you, everyone I wish to keep in contact with I have other means to do so, via a good old fashioned telephone call, email or some messaging application (Telegram and to a lesser extent WhatsApp). I can see a time in the future where I do log into Facebook just to obtain the contact details of someone, but that is the extent of it.

The social aspects of Facebook are just another time sink, eating precious minutes which could be better spent on other things (like HN!).

The only way in which my lack of Facebook use has had a negative impact on my life is that a local sports club solely uses a private Facebook group to organise things like training, match transport and events. I just ended up drifting away from the club and don't have much involvement anymore. This is a bit of a shame, and I'm sure I would be more motivated to stay involved if information was distributed via email or published directly on their website.
I'd try to hire him again. If possible above the former offered position. I like people able to stand up for their interests.
'code written by some stranger on the internet is always perfect' - AWESOME! :D
Why not just break it with rope and a hook? Were the wires to thick to break by pulling?

At 200km of length you could break it faster than they repair it. Also repair would cause downtime that could allow for people to slip through.
> What compels people to use Facebook?

Ubiquity. Before Facebook there was Email as the ubiquitous communication platform. My family kept in contact using a group, then there was Facebook and now there's a Whatsapp group. In that light it's blindingly obvious why Facebook acquired Whatsapp.

Low friction broadcast to the people that you care about. Emotions and the sustenance of emotions is how you trap human beings. Any other features merely drive us to feel more connected. Businesses want to participate in social media because, ultimately, they can benefit from being included in this emotional process.

I can't move my whole family and my friends off the current ubiquity because it would mean moving all of their emotional properties (friends) off as well.

The move to video makes complete sense: other players have already demonstrated how much more powerful video is as an emotional platform.
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Obligatory London 2012 opening ceremony reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwzjlmBLfrQ&t=176
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Persist...

> An alternate operating mode, once the magnet has been energized, is to short-circuit the windings with a piece of superconductor. The windings become a closed superconducting loop, the power supply can be turned off, and persistent currents will flow for months, preserving the magnetic field.
Examples you listed would be better made "implementation defined." ie use RFC language with "Programmers should avoid shifting by more than the bitwidth, compilers should produce an implementation defined result, but may specify a trap in this circumstance"

What's your opinion of What every compiler writer should know about
programmers? http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201...
No, and I'm not sure they knew.

Basically, I had the operation, spent two nights in hospital and came home for two nights. The second night at home I had severe headache, elevated temperature, swelling around one of the wounds, redness and heat. Basically, the fun of an infection.

Back to hospital, they cut me open, cleaned me up, put me on IV antibiotics and kept me in for another two weeks.

I suppose the infection could have been something I picked up at home or could have been some instrument not properly sterilised. The surgeon said they have about one in 10,000 who get an infection after the type of operation I had. If it was poor sterilisation in the workflow somewhere, I could hope your startup might have been able to have reduced the risk there.
Proprietary software companies trap you, so you utilize GPL to trap more lazy programmers? Selfish people are always selfish, lazy ones are still lazy. I don't like this model.
Oh right, sure, I totally believe this.

Just like all of the other stories of "needing to hire someone immediately" and having an open head count go unfilled for months and months. It's not a credible story, I'm afraid. I've seen what it's like to hire people in tech, I've been on both sides of it. And frankly the issue of timeliness is so far down the list from being able to find someone experience and competent who you can trust as to barely be an issue. If you think you need someone in role RIGHT GODDAMN NOW, you're probably mistaken and need to readjust your expectations and values. Good people are insanely more valuable than random "butts in seats", it's worth it to make sure you're not alienating them or driving them away with silly hard sell tactics.
Before Edgerank it was handy to keep in touch with more distant contacts, as you say. Now it's frankly damaging to friendships. Many people I'd once have been on a phone call with once every 3 or 6 months now "keep it to facebook" and barely talk. Edgerank ensures you no longer see those updates from those distant contacts reliably.

Now it's a low budget reality show - over sharing of wonderful or terrible lives - far removed from those people's actual lives. Sharing of politics, grinding axes, in the place of actually doing something, and endless memes. It's the low budget replacement of friendships, but I genuinely don't understand the point or attraction of the new incarnation.

For the most part (there are a few exceptions of people who talk on Facebook regularly) I have gone back to emailing and phone friends, and they do similar.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Does that mean it's not a replacement for QEMU and not intended to be?

Regarding qemu-user and qemu-system, I've had bad luck with it all the time. In 2.5-rc2 I got qemu-system-x86_64 but when I build 2.5 with the same configure flags, I don't get qemu-system-x86_64 at all. You wouldn't happen to know how to work around that, would you? As I use it just for kvm functionality for vms, I configure it like this, but qemu-2.5 final's build system seems to be broken.

--target-list=x86_64-linux-user
--enable-pie
--enable-seccomp
--enable-curses

The last known version that was able to build qemu-system-x86_64 is 2.4.92.

Any idea?
Its one step of many imagine we have a fully automated supply chain from Producer -> Consumer without much human interaction. And it will happen in the foreseeable future as this is just cost efficient.

Many jobs will disappear without replacement and we have nearly no discussion in the general public on how to solve this problem.
Previous fairly lively discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11412829
I sometimes wonder if there is no 'After Facebook'.

I use different services for different community focuses - like YouTube and Twitch for gaming videos/streams I watch with friends. Instagram for incidental activity picture stuff. Twitter for talking directly "to" companies. Signal for IM stuff. I do actually use Google Hangouts for board game nights and talking about projects sometimes - kinda silly. :-)

I just find Facebook a mess with the ads and disorganization looking at so many facets of my friends' lives. Google did good identifying the need for putting people in circles, but Facebook was so well-established by then. I only want to view things my friends are doing if its a mutual interest, really. Facebook is like manually filtering through several streams of consciousness - it's more exhausting than rewarding.

I don't think Facebook is ever going to fail and be the next MySpace, but I do think social attitudes have changed about using a 'general' social networking site.
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>I don't use it for people I keep in contact with in other ways.

Seems to me that the "other ways" is the key barrier for most people. The "other ways" works for you; it doesn't for most others.

The typical answer of alternatives to Facebook is "email" and "what about picking up the phone and calling?" etc but those are not low-friction broadcasting mechanisms. You can't post a "status" via email -- unless you create a "mailing list" of friends or carbon-copy email to a bunch of people. That would be a very nerdy way of doing it. That's also a "push" mechanism instead of the "pull" mechanism of others following your newsfeed on Facebook.

Email also doesn't have a built-in calendar mechansim for coordinating meetups/events. Email also isn't great for sharing a set of vacation photos. (Oops, forgot to attach my photos in my previous email. Or, error message, your free email account is limited to 10MB attachment limit, etc)

For typical non-HN readers of 1+ billion people, the altenatives to Facebook using combination of email + geocities web pages + voice calls is way clunkier. As for the other option of using alternative social networking websites such as Google+, the answer has been covered numerous times: "network effects".

To me, the massive use of Facebook by so many is very logical consequence of how everything else that is not Facebook doesn't work as well.

Personally, my favorite method of keeping in touch is email but I recognize that a billion other people don't think like me.
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I always thought that was the steam punk idea. No magnets = no radio or other long distance communication. Other than possibly a fiber optic telegraph with limited range.
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Also my approach. I always (try to) bring some notepad and pencils. Most often it's not even notes for myself, but just writing down a few points I find remarkable, or on which I'm going to ask questions or make a remark at a later time into the presentation or lecture when they might be relevant.
What if one car merges infront of one of the following trucks and slows down a bit? What do these trucks do at construction sites (we have quite A few of those on German autobahns)?

This technology looks hardly any better then Tesla's lane keeping assistant, the speed is set by the driver (it doesn't really matter if the speed is set by the driver in the very first vehicle IMO), and It only handles very simple roads
There are many ways of generating electricity without magnetic induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods...

Batteries was (iirc) the typical way it was done before Faraday.
There's a general tendency to treat large-scale violence and force in bureaucratic language. Nobody would call a bunch of thugs who ride into a village and murder all the people they don't like something other than a bunch of murderers. But once they claim authority and do it in large numbers or in a somewhat legitimized ("legitimization by procedure") way, those murders are being called 'executions' like in the area under control of the IS.
I think subscription pricing makes sense. Yes it is taxing you perpetually but it could also create an equilibrium where a publisher gets paid by happy customers for keeping everything up to date while not having to constantly create BS features and waste resources by marketing these new versions. Adobe would be a good example of adding ever more dilutive features while breaking compatibility for existing versions to urge users every year to upgrade products they might actually be fine with.

I think this dogma of growth is dangerous as it can only go so far. Our whole economy relies on the notion of growth but I never quite understood why everything would either have to grow or die. In nature things grow to some extend and then try to form a self sustaining ecosystem that would basically go forever. Ironically the things that grow most aggressively in nature are the things we consider toxic. Things like viruses, cancers and weeds.
The short answer is because of taxes. You can't have both taxes and fully free exchange of money.
Exactly, I just finished listening to an NPR interview on a book about the underground railway and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Out of your 100 year window range, but a nice example of just how malleable the institutions of government are to the forces of oppression.
This is what the Hagakure (book of the Samurai) says about this [1]:

"In Yui Shosetsu’s military instructions, “The Way of the
Three Ultimates,” there is a passage on the character of karma. He received an oral teaching of about eighteen chapters concerning the Greater Bravery and the Lesser Bravery. He neither wrote them down nor committed them to memory but rather forgot them completely. Then, in facing real situations, he acted on impulse and the things that he had learned became wisdom of his own. This is the character of karma."

Personally, I'm all for taking digital notes as they are searchable and can be backed up. I think either way, the process of taking notes is more important than the tools.

[1] https://github.com/hollanddd/hagakure/blob/master/chapter-10...
Depends if I need the features in those optional modules. An app is essentially made up from architectural modules (frameworks, alongside anything else that you use everywhere), and then specific pieces of functionality (with dependencies that are used less frequently).

If the bulk of your bundle size comes from page-specific functionality, then you can easily benefit from code-splitting and tree-shaking techniques. But those techniques won't help you at all when it's your core architecture that are enormous, because every single page on your site depends on it.
Is Clifford Gaddy sponsored by the CIA to discredit Russia?

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Certainly more proof and more intuitively plausible than any theory presented in his article.
Currently there is no FB alternative. There will be eventually. There is nothing that I can think of that has no alternative. Even Google has Bing which is viable. FB has none.
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Having spent time learning the syntax of Mathematica, this seems like a nice interface to SymPy.
I don't have to read the article to know this is meaningless.

The top 1% of performers will be those who take notes by computer. Why? Because if you are strategic, using a spreadsheet with tags you can optimize note taking of anything. Even if the human brain memorizes better when taking notes by hand, an optimal system that involves sorting, etc, will outperform.
The truth is Facebook pretty much has it all when it comes to social networking. It's UI design also speaks well to non technical people (read: most of the world), as it looks like a cluttered newspaper which people are familiar with.

'After Facebook' would likely be on new hardware that gets adopted, such as AR/VR in the next 10 years.
People don't react the same to audio because when we got on a call, audio is presumed to be on, while we may not be prepared or video. And when we're not on a call, chances of being caught saying something embarrassing is lower than chances of being caught in an embarrassing state of undress etc.