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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett + lots of the Discworld novels (also by Terry Pratchett).

The latter have become one of the basic building blocks of my life.
At its base, it's an exploration of how a conscious mind can arise from unconscious matter. For anyone who's attempted to read the thing and never quite gotten what Hofstadter's on about, the central theme is encapsulated in the dialogue ... Ant Fugue, with the emergence of the character Aunt Hillary from her component ants, who don't directly participate in "her" consciousness. Literally everything else is a long explanation -- from various angles -- of how, given sufficient complexity, the rules don't adequately describe the system, and the system need not be aware of the rules that give it rise. The mathematics, computer science, music, art and "spirituality" are all frames of reference for exploring and (to a limited extent) proving the central thesis: consciousness is an emergent phenomenon.
Being supernaturally thin is not an engineering requirement. Marketing dictates that.
> In a brilliant move, the district attorney’s office asked the judge if the video from the first case could be admitted to establish that the second assault was essentially a repeat offense. The judge ruled that it could.

My initial reaction is that this is an interesting ruling, but then my knowledge of these sorts of rulings is decidedly spotty? I'm going to assume it's not the only thing that has been put forward to the judge: the 911 call definitely helped, and frankly I have little sympathy for the accused, but otherwise I find the idea of a video of past behaviour being used as evidence for current behaviour (on it's own) sort of... odd?
'could' should be 'will'
> Playing with the market causes deadweight losses

Only a diehard capitalist thinks this. We already have a name for this type of pure capitalism. It's called anarchy. I.e. zero government interference.
Well, if we talk about trains ... the future is already here. Humans where deemed unworthy to drive high speed trains so ETCS[1] takes over almost everything. The drivers are in cabin for the same reasons we still have pilots in airplanes - just in case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System
Which would introduce the overhead of a vtable, which would vary depending on how deep your inheritance goes. I haven't read the article, but I would maybe use an enum if this is just use to parse variable declarations.
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sounds similar to register windows on SPARC, which is rather used for procedure calls. It isn't so much that it is slow, just that when you have a decent level 1 cache it doesn't add much. Right about why small caches are faster.
Nobody knows these numbers. There are some reports from developers on how much they make from the Mac App Store (for example http://www.cultofmac.com/321860/youll-never-guess-how-little...), but I've never seen any aggregate numbers.

On both Windows and Mac, all big and many small app developers have their own billing and sales. When you buy Photoshop, MS Office, IntelliJ, or even many small tools, then you skip the app store, pay them directly, and download from them directly. So not even Apple or Microsoft know the numbers.
Maybe I am cynical but are you sure they didn't vote against it because they like "traditions", pretty parades and hand-waving and think princes and princesses are quaint and fun and secretly in their hearts they wish they could be one?

I do live in a 1000-year-old constitutional monarchy after all and that's the pro arguments I tend to hear.

"Good for tourism" is another one.
"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Great book about how and why people respond to incentives. A lot of good examples told through fascinating stories supported by data.
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I don't know why we should be bike-shedding about something of absolutely zero consequence to the system of governance.
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What if someone intercepts the carrier pigeon and swaps in a different public key of their own?
It would still need to be encrypted, or I could tell a lot about what you're doing on the site by looking at what cacheable resources you fetch.
Of course, for Gigafactory 1 Tesla and Panasonic are married.

I was talking about Gigafactory 2.
I was gifted my copy, and have gifted 3 copies to others now. Pay it forward :)
> When I visited there in 2010, I left with a feeling that I visited a sleeping country/culture that was literally missing some polarizing goal to reignite it.

Isn't this similar to the whole Western world? I mean, my impression of modern democracies I know is they're similar to headless chickens - running around without a point or a goal, but oh how fast they run.

EDIT: to be clear, I'm not criticizing democracy here per se, this is my observation about the Western societies. I understand it's not the role of a government to dictate a goal for people - it's to facilitate pursuing goals in a stable and orderly manner. But wouldn't it be nice if our societies had at least a little bit more of a sense of common purpose?
This argument is insidious.

I don't think I am that old that I remember the time before the internet, and why the internet worked - and why it mattered so much.
This argument is insidious.

I don't think I am that old that I remember the time before the internet, and why the internet worked - and why it mattered so much.
The internet is not Wikipedia, or amazon or facebook. It is the substrate that allowed those systems to exist! Its what allowed geocities, ask jeeves, craigslist, dwarf fortress, ebay, kickstarter, watsi, cnn.com, wikileaks, irctc.com, pets.com, Bloomberg, google, optimizely, twitter, reddit and so many more to exist.

The internet is the system that enables any creator of content to access any consumer of content sans a gatekeeper.

That is fundamentally what the internet is about. I feel as if I am tip toeing around defining walled gardens and open internet.

FBasics is NOT the internet. It is categorically the opposite of what makes the internet work and why the internet is a force multiplier or worth passionately fighting for.

Side note: The top bureaucrat in TRAI is actually assessing the inputs provided in a clear technical process. Theres bureaucrats who are close to telecom who are pushing for freebasics. So if you want to know the truth, then you should also be ready to denounce Freebasics wholesale, the telcos are pushing to get middle man status via bureaucrats who are in the rank and file.

The NN people followed procedure, telcos are not. So its hard to take your particular accusations of Bureaucracy seriously
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Yeah, I thought it seemed a little out of place .
Its not over yet! The government has now created a Free data consultation paper, which seems to be a way for Fbasics to get in through the back door.
This is nothing new. You can't actually even find much information about the whole thing online because he's paid off and sued to ensure that nothing damaging was online and tried to replace it with positive PR.

This article will be gone soon too. Buying off another girlfriend, judge, and a few media sites is still chump change... and it seem VCs seem to jive with that kind of skill set that he has.

He may have a career in politics come to think of it.
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Link points to the wrong place.
Some good previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055371
I can't help thinking this isn't the optimal result for the author. After 10 years of working on his thing, it has essentially been taken over by this company who sells it in their name for a profit, while keeping the author working on it for a salary. They seem to be getting a really good deal.

Imagine if, instead of building the "Leading Open Source Constraint Satisfaction Solver", this guy had instead spent the same time building the "Leading Constraint Satisfaction Solver", differing in that it had a price tag associated.

For as smart a guy as he seems to be, I can only imagine he'd be doing a lot better today.

I read this as a sad commentary on how the Open Source philosophy, that seems to be so drummed in to kids at University, leads them to think that the best course in life is to give away their best work for free.
Or as some would call it: a "Decider". :)
Does it also use AppContainer on Windows ?
We've got a great update framework already, if only everyone would use it: git.

Seriously. I can't think why this wouldn't "just work".
You can also add Australia (Julia Gillard, 2010 - 2013) and New Zealand (Helen Clark, 1999 - 2008) into that mix as well.
It may be a terrible symbol, but it seems like people get over it, if they even care very much. Constitutional monarchies, such as the Nordic countries, are among the most egalitarian countries in the world. Japan is egalitarian, both in terms of how the Japanese view their society, and how the wealth is distributed -- they are very close to European countries in that respect, and far more egalitarian than the US.
Now it is too slow and I got bored waiting ;-)
No personal attacks, please.

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The world is bigger than the US. And because the system is badly implemented where you are the system itself can't be considered inherently bad and obsolete. I have never been to the US but from what I read your experience is common there. Compare that to TfL black cabs. Or elaborate urban rail and bus transport in European cities. If it broke one should try to fix it first.
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I'm not a fan of the monarchy by any stretch of the imagination, but "the old lady looks bad" is not really a particularly persuasive argument
Well I think a mother wouldn't quite see dating in such one sided predator/prey terms.
Should overhead lockers be centrally locked?
Do you honestly believe that the Queen should have stepped in? That would have been totally undemocratic, and it would have undermined constitutional part of constitutional monarchy.
And assembly language keeps its position in the top 10, so it is not a statistical quirk. It is a trend.
From the spec:

> Delegated trust can be revoked at any time by the delegating role signing new metadata that indicates the delegated role is no longer trusted.

This is a mistake, as it means that a client must receive the new metadata in order to be made aware of the revocation. The correct approach is either to delegate trust for a particular time period (determining how long is a risk-based decision), or to specify an online trust check (this fails safe).
Janitors tend to make minimum wage. The average garbageman salary is around $33K.
> "Good for tourism" is another one.

Nobody goes to Australia to see the Queen.
At my start-up, we use our IoT-enabled office refrigerator for deployments. The 9" LCD is great for catching up on facebook messages, debugging failures in our deployment logs, and seeing when we are low on half and half.
Also if you like privacy you shold try BBM(blackberry messenger)
also if you doubt about the privacy of BBM check this link
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-f...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/27/pakistan-...

http://thenextweb.com/me/2010/08/28/5-countries-that-will-or...

you can install it on android, iOS even on desktop with some android emulator
Since the reclassification of broadband internet as a utility, "electric cooperatives" are able to use federal funds to get broadband out to rural and remote locations big companies won't go to because the setup costs outweigh their potential profits (in theory).

Early 1900s was more like the 1930s, when part of "The New Deal" allowed for electric cooperatives to exist.
The Phoenix Project, many, many times.
The modern imperial household law was introduced in the late 19th century, in order to emulate similar laws in Europe. It was amended after WWII, but law regarding abdication/resignation was left unchanged.
> I don't find it so bizarre

Women have made up 50% of the population of Homo Sapiens for the entire age of our species. Literally for hundreds of thousands to millions of years. And it is literally in our lifetimes (give or take maybe 30 years) that the first woman is made the elected leader of a country?

I wrote my reply with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek, but when you get right down to it, it is phenomenally unlikely that we live at such a moment of change.
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Can anyone here recommend a good reference (blog, e-book, etc.) for beginners in Bayesian statistical analysis?
I've known the guy, his entire career is based on lies and deception. Some years ago he started a restaurant called Planet Bollywood in Milpitas (ripoff of Planet Hollywood). It obviously failed and he faced lawsuits for trademark infringement. He burned the entire place down and collected the insurance money.

Very old story, but nothing about the guy has changed.
It was not flamebait, weak or disingenuous. I honestly thought pointing out the context would allow most people to contemplate differences they'd expect. Rather than assert some specifics, I thought simply the exercise of contemplating a mother's perspective would provide some insight.
Counters are a bad idea if they're ever used in a user-facing context. They're trivially enumerable so an outside party can write a script that iterates over them, which is usually a bad thing. That's easy to block, but it's better to design the system in a way that makes it impossible in the first place.

Plus, user-facing counters can leak business information - if I sign up and see example.com/user/1234 as my user page and then I create another account a week later and get example.com/user/1235 then I know the platform isn't growing very quickly.

tl;dr Don't use counters for anything that that'll end up on the frontend.
You don't have to move a mountain very much, or very fast. You need to slowly nudge it. Aerobraking will do the rest.
Except stability can be used to breed stability. France being on the Fifth Republic makes it considerably easier to argue for a Sixth Republic, and with Marine Le Pen doing rather well in the polls that isn't necessarily a good idea. Traditions have their place in that they become ingrained within the populace and considerably harder to shift.
OK sorry for going off-topic on a topic as serious as this, but I've got a question about something that's been bugging me for ages.

There's 8 sentences in a row that start with "Never mind that..." - is there a name for this style of writing (repeating yourself, presumably for dramatic effect)? It really irritates me, but I can never describe it to anyone and I don't know how to google for it.
> I wish I was joking.

The post surely sounds like a joke, the way it's exaggerated.
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"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Did the headline have to have `RIDDLED` capitalized? Feels sensationalist.
I see that CAN$90/month is for a plan that subsidizes the phone. Bring your own phone, it's... $80/month for 1GB. That's awful, but it does include unlimited calling. Here in New Zealand, which also has a low population density (though 4x higher than Canada), you would pay around CAN$20-30/month for 1GB depending on the company.

(But most Canada is uninhabited, isn't it? So NZ might actually have a lower average density in inhabited areas.)
> It just doesn't add anything interesting.

I see that now. At the time I thought it would.

> Is there an interesting train of thought that these sentences provoke, or are they simply the obvious statements they appear to be?

Well, the irony is the essay reads more like it was intended to send a message to men, rather than women.
I'd downvote this if I had the points. It's anti-security to trust your SSH login to anyone.
I've known the guy, his entire career is based on lies and deception. Some years ago he started a restaurant called Planet Bollywood in Milpitas (ripoff of Planet Hollywood). It obviously failed and he faced lawsuits for trademark infringement. He burned the entire place down and collected the insurance money.
Very old story, but nothing about the guy has changed.
They should let him step down. They should have changed that law ages ago. Japans politicians should be ashamed they did not. Whether or not Japan wants to be a constitutional monarchy or not is of course their matter. But if you consider what is happening right now in Turkey and Russia, the argument against constitutional monarchy seems really thin.
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Are you looking for the term "elegant variation" (or, in this case, the lack thereof)?
What's the "cost" of registers on an x86-64 chip? How hard would it be to introduce 10 more general purpose registers? Ones that are used by the kernel, say, and one set for user space.
The 32-bit ARM architecture actually does this. It has a "fast interrupt" mode which switches half of the register file to a separate bank. (The newer 64-bit ARM architecture doesn't have this feature.)
Yes, I'm from Sweden. I consider "our" monarchy to be a ignominious wart, ceremonial or not. We should always strive to improve society.
What's really frightening is how major bribes are done quite casually and as if there is nothing much to it.

That's something you would not want to occur in your democracy.

How do you effectively fight this sort of behaviour? I think what would be necessary is a system where all money is handled electronically and transparently, such that bribes would be immediately visible to everyone.
When used with care, it's called an "anaphora." At least, that's what we called it in my Latin classes.
Bitfinex generalizes theft losses over all accounts
This was already discussed on HN. I found really troubling how the whole thing just evaporated. Shit-storm around Brendan Eich who did much less, started around the same time, and lasted for months.
You can have look at this

https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
His civil litigation history is here, including some of the lawsuits mentioned in the article.

http://www.plainsite.org/profiles/chahal-gurbaksh/
Understanding Text with Natural Language Processing
That would break all Tor hidden services web servers (except Facebook).
Don't know how well this would work with British Airways or Aer Lingus. No matter what your boarding pass says, if your name isn't on their pre-printed list you wont be getting in.
"How To Win Friends And Influence People" helped me a lot with social skills that are obvious to most people but not to me. It's still something I work on regularly, it doesn't come naturally.
Sometimes long analogies like that of the article have trouble making obvious distinctions between design choices and The Way Things Work.

For instance, this article's analogy makes assumptions about cache eviction policy and cache coherence that map nicely to an office setting. Other design choices might not map well. So intuition developed here might not be flexible enough to reason about caches in the real world.

Not to say the analogy detracts from the article. The author includes a list of caveats. I really enjoyed the piece.
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Both of those look great; thanks for the pointer to them!
I am not an expert but I don't think this is true. I think that would make for a very narrow definition of power, and by extension superpower. Intuitively power stems from all sorts of leverage. Could be knowledge based, economic, any number of factors. One term that is often bandied about is so-called soft power, cultural factors and what have you.

I say thank goodness military might is not the only measure of power or we'd be in a sad state of affairs when you come to think of it. That's not to undersell the force projection of military might, and does not deny that the US (and Russia to a lesser extent) derive enjoy an outsized place on the world stage owing to military might.

Put it another way. You may be right but I do not want you to be right. I don't want to live in that world.
Not everyone wants to run a business. He does show a lot of business-like initiative but mostly in service of a technical/creative goal. Ultimately, though, a lot of people might prefer to be paid a steady, reasonable wage and have their head space clear for the work.

On the other hand I do agree with you, that the Open Source philosophy is used in an exploitative way by business. I guess the lesson is: understand the true nature of the commercial relationship and what everybody is getting from it.
Protocol-less URLs are usually a bad idea. They mean "use http or https depending on whatever the current page is", but there are very few situations where that is a useful way of making that decision. What you should do is specify https in the link, unless you know that the target site doesn't support https, in which case of course you have to specify http.
In the millions, once you find an application domain.

One project I abandoned part way through (because it was too big for a side-project and just wasn't that exciting to me at the time) was an automated employee scheduling system for organizations with complex constraints.

Its a big problem for many organizations, for example event organizers. Think SAAS apps like shiftplanning.com (which started as a 1 man project and was released about the same time as I just started working on mine.)

The Drools project which had an example rostering component already included was going to used for the guts of the system with a calendar like web front end, and lots of customizability.
TIL decacorn is a word now.
As cesarb points out the ARM did that, and so did the Z-80 IIRC: basically, your friend was either trolling you or had no idea what he was saying. Addressing is done in parallel. The address decoding isn't the part that drinks time.
What if he skips it and William is crowned instead?
18 wheelers will drive to depot, cargo will be moved over to smaller self driving trucks and other delivery vehicles for the last mile. At least, that's the way it should be, even today without the automation. Huge trucks have no place in an urban environment.
Another commenter claims Chahal has secured the services of a PR firm which specializes in taking down stories like this, to keep then from spreading. Maybe it works sometimes.
Because you say kernel, I'm assuming you mean ability to switch a set of registers instead of pushing them on the stack when servicing an interrupt request.

Unfortunately you can't get away with just one set of spare registers on x86 interrupt handling. Interrupt can be interrupted by another interrupt. So practically they have to save registers anyways. Unless there'd be one set for each level...

So those "10 extra registers" would be practically useless.

Having written kernel device driver interrupt handlers, I can also say CPU time is not spent saving and restoring registers, but waiting for glacially slow PCI-e MMIO register loads and stores (don't have exact figures at hand, but I remember one access can take 300-800 nanoseconds, that's thousands of CPU clock cycles). During one such fetch you might be able to store and restore registers tens, if not hundreds of times. X86 interrupt handling is a bit like stopping a freight train to pick up a single letter.

However, that kind of feature can be very useful on a microcontroller to help lowering interrupt handling latency.