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> Soviets

That would be some seriously revisionist history that would horrify the Japanese. My goodness. You should visit Japan some time.
+1 for port knocking. Should be used more.
>Sure, until you find yourself in a deflationary spiral and the economy screeches to a halt.

That's the thought experiment, but it doesn't pan out in reality. The US economy experienced long stretches of high growth and low deflation in the 19th century. People still have physical needs even if the currency is deflating.
As time goes on, CAFE standards tighten, etc., aren't cars converging on whatever turns out to be the aerodynamically optimal shape?
Like a ping-pong ball vs a golf ball. The gravitational force is smaller on a light object, so less drag is required to counter it. Being the same shape, that drag is reached at a lower speed than for the heavy object.
ahhh gotcha, so just the internal energy source and the part that locomotes it. Nothing too important then, eh?

edit: yes, it was a joke. However, not for nothing, this is still a bizarre comment indicating that only the highy technical nuances in the car are nuances and that it should be trivial to swap them out. The battery is tied to the drive train each having a highly specialized and proprietary function. The power train uses a "centuries old technology" a synchronous electric motor.

I am just jokingly pointing out that all cars use technology for motors grounded in history. Leaving aside considerable differences in size, weight, calibration, horespower or interconnection as well as subtle differences converting the imperial system into metric, sure, I guess you could argue motors are a commodity.

As for the battery, the leaf's is great. Slated to hold 70-80% of its charge for around a decade. However, again, this was a limited production run-rate and can't really be decoupled from the drive-train without a significant degree of knoweldge and tooling making it highly unlikely someone would do this for any other reason than to learn a massive amount and have a really cool project. The battery is a 24kWh supercell constructed out of 192 subsells with a cooling stack and whatever battery chemistry they are using[0]. So yeah, I was having a playful joke here.

I don't think anyone was arguing that EVs are overtly complicated due to the new radio & blue tooth technology they have to interface with the stereosystem...it's all about the powertrain/motor & energy source interface. jeez...

[0] Googled it, fairly standard: lithium ion manganese oxide batteries, like the kind grandma used to bake.
I like the adage,
"We all start with a bag of luck, filled, and a bag of experience, empty.

The trick is to fill your bag of experience up before your bag of luck runs out -- ie. when your bag of luck runs out, you die. Most people have a couple events in their life where they almost died -- of course we know we should have never made those choices -- but its easier said now that we have the experience knowing we got "lucky." :-)
As I have stated elsewhere in this thread, the 1996 agreement lasts for only 30 years, doesn't cover interlinking projects by India and makes NO mention of the Brahmaputra River, which supplies half the water flowing through Bangladesh today, and forms a massive part of the project linked in the Original Article.

The treaty is a woefully inadequate guard against future abuse.
My idea of moderation is:

1. Outline rules for a community, make them clear and understandable

2. Enforce those, and only those, rules.

3. If something objectionable happens, and the rules don't cover them but you think they should, then change the rules to how you see fit.

4. Handle the fallout of the rules changing.

Steps 3 and 4 are where things mostly fall apart in communities. Personally, any time something happens which leads me to change rules for something, it's reactive and is the voice of the majority of people (not the loudest, the majority). Most people are happy that way.

Disagreement is never a rule I'd have. I'd only make sure that people either have the tools to self-censor what they don't want to see, or tell them they might be happier going elsewhere.
"Moderation should be about removing the trolls"

True, but some argue that those who support Trump, or who are against gender identity equality, are trolls.
I wonder how slate got the idea that they're not "expensive". Maybe the prices have been manipulated independently of supply.
Yeah, but us humans have been improving top level competition laptimes by tenths or hundredths of seconds a year at best. How quickly do you suppose the machines are going to improve over a few years or decades?

(Last night's fastest lap in the MotoGP race at Mugello was 5 hundredths slower than the class lap record set back in 2013. Admittedly there've been rule changes, but the humans aren't getting much faster.))
Looks neat, although I think I'd find myself mistyping "blade" a lot.
They look like every other car to me, I have no idea what you are talking about.
The inheritance approach, used in both ActiveRecord and ActionController is sort of like the original sin of Rails. It affects everything from semantics, to performance, to testability. It is often the reason things eventually seem hard, but also the reason many things initially seem easy.
Hey - thank you for posting all of this. While I have an eye for design, I'm not a UX or web designer so I don't usually have a ton of specific feedback other than knowing something doesn't look as good as other sites I work on.

I was hoping this would at least raise the question in his mind that maybe his site doesn't look that modern or professional. I've met a lot of business owners who are great at their business but not knowledgeable about web sites, and end up paying for a subpar product and not knowing it's low quality.
Is brtfs a good choice from the power consumption standpoint?
I'm on a laptop and trying to maximize my battery life, and am wondering if my choice of brtfs limits it.
Android is boring
...? I have no idea how you think that sentence finishes.
In what field do you work that the median absolute deviation is used at all, let alone more than the mean absolute deviation?

When he talked about mean absolute deviation being sqrt(pi/2) sigma did that not make it abundantly clear what he was discussing?

>No squaring, no square root. Sounds more like a geometric mean

Do you even know what the geometric mean is? (It has a root function so your statement just sounds stupid)

Dispersion functions are built off the distance function under the metric you want to use. Standard deviation uses the L2 metric, which implies a euclidean distance function. (L2 corresponds to summing pow(u-x,2) and pow(sum,-2) as your functions)

Mean absolute deviation takes the L1 metric, which implies pow(1) and pow(-1).
This becomes summing pow(abs(u-x),1) and then pow(sum,-1), which, needless to say is the same thing as averaging the absolute differences.

Hence the lack of any squaring or square rooting
For those who are unfamiliar with the author of this article: Roger Schank is one of the early pioneers of AI research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Schank
I took parallel algorithms with the guy that wrote that framework. Interesting to see it pop up on HN.
> Now you are just making stuff up. I give up.

No worries.

> I don't believe you. I don't believe you can't see the difference between identifying propaganda and being part of it.

For sure I can. You're doing more than identifying propaganda. You're saying it works. I'm saying that this is one of the messages pushed by propaganda/advertising.

I agree that it works until you're caught lying. Then it doesn't and you're discredited for a period. And, in the case of China, they lie so often that their propaganda does not work.

> Your arguments are putting words in my mouth by using straw men like Trevor in a straw man argument: "propoganda is an effective means of diplomacy".

Again, you said,

> Present China as an improving progressive regime, smooth over its human rights problems, and china can gain more influence internationally.

Again, I disagree 100%.

It's not a stretch to rewrite your above statement as "Propaganda is an effective means of diplomacy".

The definition of diplomacy is managing international relations. Those relations can be at any level, either between two citizens, two businesses, or two heads of state.

If English does not work, 你也可以用中文。

> You can close your eyes and pretend it doesn't happen - but that wont make it go away.

I'm not trying to make it go away. I think it's interesting to have a conversation with someone who has such a different point of view.

> I hope you have mis-read the entire thread but its looking more clear that you can't admit your wrong. Try starting with my first post.

One of the ideas perpetuated by advertising is that advertising is effective =). Unfortunately, we do not always know when advertising works because measuring the effectiveness of advertising is expensive.

Last I checked, I did not see any research published on the effectiveness of Chinese propaganda.

So, the question becomes, when people perpetuate ideas from advertising, are those people advertising or just expressing their views?

Who's right or wrong? There isn't a concrete answer.

> I have stuck with this thread, because I thought - just perhaps - you genuinely didn't understand. I've simplified my position, now you can believe it or not. Its really not that interesting and has little to say about censorship anymore.

No worries if you don't want to continue the discussion.
A user-driven upvote/downvote system is a form of decentralized moderation. Do you also believe that if a post is being downvoted, it's censorship? Do you believe that upvotes are a tool of censorship?

They can be, of course. Censorship is not just deletions/removal. You can censor something by hiding it, drowning it out, discrediting the author, etc.

Now keep all that in mind before giving a one-word response to a very complex question.
Yet people line up for years for a chance to immigrate to the US! Weird!
> The other test is to meet their significant other. What qualities did they choose in the person with whom has the most influence over them?

Am I the only one bothered by such a request? I wouldn't want to bring my SO, not only because I wouldn't want to mix my private and professional life, but also because it seems incredibly weird to me to have my private relationships being used to judge me.

Weird and creepy.
So this has an embedded HTTP server then? Looks cool.
Yes, that is what I meant. That's what I get for being a pedant.
This looks very interesting. This being C, I assume the performance is really good (although yes I know it's not always the case).

However, C is one of those "double-edged sword" kinds of languages. What kind of trade offs between performance and "safety" would one be making here? Are they worth it?
Or just use ipv6, which would be insane to even guess at the IP.
> India's relationships with its surrounding countries aren't exactly equitable and fair. Nepal and Bhutan have been reduced to servile client states; Bangladesh gets the short end of the stick with every new agreement. The less said about India's relationships with Pakistan and China, the better.

BS. Backup your arguments with facts. Which agreement India signed that made Nepal and Bhutan servile client states? Pakistan and China have illegally occupied lands in India. Not to mention Terrorism that emanates from Pakistani soil. You think India should keep quiet and allow the infiltration to continue?

> They're a big fish in a small pond. There's really no reason to believe that they'll do anything other than what is in their own best interests as far as this project is concerned.

Absolutely ridiculous statement. If we only did things in our best interests, we would have occupied Pakistan in the 1965 Indo-Pak war that was waged on us by Pakistan. The Indian army had captured Lahore (capital city of Pakistan) but we returned the captured city back to Pakistan after it surrendered. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore_Front. We could have also taken advantage of the struggle for Bangladeshi freedom from Pakistan and instead of liberating Bangladesh just occupied it. We did not do that. Sorry to say but the price we have paid for being a good neighbor is terrorism, illegal land grabbing, illegal immigration and killing of our fishermen.
One advantage of starting with Rails is that you can progress to JRuby on Rails when scaling is required. From there you can factor out services to Clojure or Scala without rewriting everything. So I'd say Rails has much more to offer than a quick starter app.
W/R to "What If's", I think the big one is "What If Atari Were Stronger/More Focused". They tried to grow into a "manufacturing conglomerate" rather than a "consumer design" company. It misused their original branding and culture. For this the Warner acquisition deserves a large share of the blame, even as it seemed necessary for financing the VCS launch. Either way, by the time the company was at its most profitable, it was already rotten from mismanagement.

Had they found a path towards a more contemporary-Apple-like management style, and some foresight for the third-party situation and the console lifecycle, they would have broken away from the scattershot focus, released a good, DRM-protected, backwards-compatible update to the VCS in the early 80's instead of the half-baked 5200/7800 efforts, insulated themselves from the arcade crash with original console software, and starved Nintendo's air supply at retail.

They might have even still released computers, just of a different sort - perhaps they would have kept Jay Miner's team and had an Atari-branded Amiga, with a console version released soon after(c. 1985-86) instead of 8 years later(CD32 - 1993).
A great number of the mask users in Japan are allergy sufferers. The Forestry agency in Japan planted mono-culture trees, fast growing cedar. The pollen from these trees waft from the cedar farms in yellow clouds. Having a single predominate plant species putting out so much pollen triggers awful allergies for those people who are sensitive. And triggers normal-bad allergies in people who might not have become allergic without the large exposure to that mono-culture pollen.
I whole-heartedly agree with everything you said, but I also felt stifled and stymied by Rails for years, and am happy to be doing other things at the moment. It is possible (and I think fairly common) to both deeply appreciate Rails while finding fault with it, and to respect the validity of its approach while preferring other tools.
The peace treaty that ended WWII handed over control of Japan's military to the USA. Japan's peacefulness is a gift from foreigners.
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> Outline rules ... clear and understandable

There are many discussions about rules being either clear or understandable, but usually not both.

> Enforce...

Oh. We "just" enforce it? You sure this mechanism will be both clear and understandable, and be enforced as intended?

> change the rules

Change the rules, in reaction to specific instances, while keeping them clear and understandable? This is why they're usually neither both clear and understandable and enforceable.

> Steps 3 and 4 are where things mostly fall apart in communities.

There is no community where this idea of moderation could hold true.
In American schools an overwhelming amount of time is spent teaching about the sins of our country and other white people. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, the genocide of Native Americans. In a unit on WWII, a week would be spent on the entire war, and the other 3 specifically dedicated to the Holocaust. All in all I'd say we spent over half of our history lessons and a third of our English lessons covering subjects like these.
That's the problem in a nutshell. About 95% of the people out there think the definition of "troll" is "someone who disagrees with me", and I don't see how you ever really get away from a subjective determination.
Bringing a parachute on a airplane is fine. The problem is there is no good way to exit a modern airliner.
Basically never, at least on the internet? No one owes anyone else a soapbox. My space, my rules. There's nothing stopping anyone from rolling up a site and saying whatever they want to say, but there's absolutely no reason I have to give space on my site, no matter what my site is, for anyone else's viewpoint.
So what? I just gave you an example of Indo-Bangladesh already having water treaty. There is no evidence to suggest that India would not be willing to have another treaty with Bangladesh for interlinking projects.
Nice, nice. That's a start. I also recall in the original Final Fantasy movie that they landed by shooting gel packs that did exactly that. It spread out and up a certain distance. Then, they hit it with immediate slowdown. I wonder if that was forward thinking or leveraging something someone already heard about.

I'd worry about suffocating in the gel solution. If it's thick enough, you'd probably get stuck. So, something with give like other examples is better.
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True. I still have trouble when I get a domain error due to my thinking about verbs / interpretation order / context / rank not being up to scratch. Would love to get something a little more verbose like "expected ~" or something to help me zone in on what's not working.
> But in Japan, businesses that face rising costs feel they have less ability to do so because wages are flat. Instead, they take a hit to their profits or cut back rather than alienate consumers.

Won't that just flatten out wages even more? There's no money to give out raises if nobody's making any money.
> what if you want to generate the SQL dynamically with attributes? connection.execute doesn't do sanitization for you by itself (though you can call a private method to do that).

You just answered your own question. You sanitize the string and then you call connection.execute. Not sure I understand your other issue but it doesn't seem too compelling.
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Ah, I knew it had to come a management book. Whenever you see managers at multiple companies reciting the same phrases in their speeches, it's always a lazy cut-n-paste from a recent self-help book.

There may actually be good material in that book. However, what gets written down by consultants and professors, and what is actually applied in typical practice, are two separate things (e.g. every "agile" methodology book ever).
The USA just kicked President Jackson off the front of the $20 bill, and his genocide was part of the reason he was the least respected money face.

The "Trail of Tears" is a major unit in several years of K-12 education.
I agree, and I find this incredibly invasive. I agree the "how they treat wait staff" test, and sharing a meal with someone to give you some idea of what their personality is like has _some_ merit in my experience, but no, you can't meet my SO or invade my personal life.

The fact this is even considered is appalling, let alone publishing a blog post about it.
Prediction: Uber aquihire/licence this "Aggressive Driving with Model Predictive Path Integral Control" to make Uber trips more like taxi rides...

;-)
Because it's a fundamentally subjective evaluation. There is no way to objectively define "trolling".
Newcomers approach a language from different places, and depending on where they're coming from, the same language can seem like a blessing or a curse.

I love Julia--it's so thoughtfully constructed, incorporating parallelism as a fundamental, and expressive but performant. Compared to something like MATLAB or R, it solves all my problems.

But for someone coming from Python or C, Julia can seem unnecessary and crippled by odd conventions. To someone used to the expressiveness and libraries of Python, why would you need Julia? To someone coming from C, which can do everything and is the speed standard, why would you need Julia?

Languages do really serve different roles, but we often assume otherwise. That assumption is often implicit, though, which leads to discussions where people are talking past one another.

I watched and toyed with all the HPCS languages for awhile, along with OCaml, and saw that they never got the traction I was hoping for, and none seemed to become something I could just use, practically speaking. Fortress was amazing in concept, but maybe bit off more than it could chew, at least with the support at hand and situation at Sun. Things seemed dormant for awhile, and then Julia showed up, which seemed like what everyone was looking for all along.

Honestly, Stanza seems really promising as well, but I wonder if it's too late to the party (although I thought that about Python long ago as well and was obviously wrong about that).
Surely the alleged infringers just need to appear at a trial in order for Autodesk to be laughed out of court with an award of costs against them?

Shouldn't there be some sort of government action against these sorts of bullying crimes, removal of trademarks for false allegations of infringement would be a good start to rationalising business uses of IP laws.
5-level-deep-nested-if in MSDN documentation example
Circumstances keep changing and treaties will be modified for the better. You can't reasonably expect treaties to exist forever? All treaties are meant to lapse and be replaced by better ones.
There is a middle ground between hating their nation and blind national chauvinism. And if one must choose between extremes, "cringing" beats the heck out of falling in line and being a party to genocide
http://apjjf.org/-Mark-Selden/1943/article.html

Here is an excellent analysis of American high school textbooks and their handling of the war with Japan.

It's pretty clear that Americans do in fact censure what is taught.
indeed, it blew me away that the author is a high school student.
This looks pretty interesting. It looks like the main use case is to make worksheets that students have to solve. I feel like this project shares a lot in common with ipython notebook[1], though I don't know of a way to publish interactive notebooks. There would also be a bit of a learning curve to understand python. Still, I wonder if it could be done, something similar to nbviewer[2].

Imagine if this notebook (http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/jckantor/CBE20255/blob/ma...) could be interactive, leaving a blank cell for the solution and students could fill it in and save it. If you distribute the file, students could run it, once they installed python/ipython. Or, one of the cloud IDEs (c9.org)

1: ipython notebook - https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...

2: nbviewer - http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/
I'm a fan of deep learning, but is it really the best choice in an application like this? I have always heard that shallow machine learning methods generally did better on unstructured smallish data.

They should put this data on something like Kaggle.com and let researchers and hobbyists around the world try to find the best model. At the very least publish the data somewhere.
A charitable concern?
It's not a treaty. It is the treaty. And treaties don't "just follow" because there is already a treaty on a similar topic already in place.

The time to sign such an agreement on interlinking would have been before breaking ground on the interlinking project. To demand an agreement afterwards is to negotiate in bad faith.
Ya, it all makes sense, not saying it doesn't, I just mean its kind of ironic and an asshole move in-and-of-itself. Sometimes the right thing to do isn't always the nicest.
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"With balde you can serve hundreds of requests per second"
is it supposed to be "hundreds of thousands"?
Ah, okay. Sounds like it was part of their general recognition that they were damaging their brands, then.