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> No generation is a monolith.

You need to realize it isn't personal against you.

If a majority of a group vote in favor of X, they bear some responsibility for it. Particularly when they don't rebuke it after the fact.

> People have a right to speak, and to vote for their direction. Sometimes people win, sometimes people lose. Sometimes things go really badly, but we can't all be President or members of Congress.

Obama and HRC were (economic policy wise) 60s Republicans. Modern Republicans are basically Reagan-derivatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/...

> One moment in the third Republican presidential debate encapsulates everything terrible about baby boomers and the way they’ve pillaged the U.S. economy. It came from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Generation Xer, who offered the standard line — you can hear it from the mouth of almost any American politician today — on how to keep Medicare and Social Security solvent. Rubio defended the idea that future workers will need to retire later or receive fewer benefits from those safety-net programs than current retirees. “Everyone up here tonight that’s talking about reforms,” he stipulated, was “talking about reforms for future generations. Nothing has to change for current beneficiaries.”

I don't feel the need to be polite about it when elected politicians are comfortable stating their plan to "reform" the system is to screw me and people my age in favor of another group of people.
[WARNING: armchair psychology]

People can act bizarrely in a crisis. In situations like this where there is panic and the adrenaline starts pumping, rational thought gets tampered down and instinct and training takes over. Which is actually a great survival mechanism, but we don't really have any instincts, and very few people are actually trained for emergencies like this. What we are trained to do is not forget our luggage when leaving the plane.

Assuming this is the case (see above warning), no amount of fines or prosecution will really help, because we're dealing with people's subconscious. People won't internalize that negative reinforcement unless it actually happens to them, and how often are people in plane crashes? Maybe having plane evacuation drills would help, but I don't know how practical that is.
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> Meanwhile the makers of the alarms have an incentive to be overly sensitive because a false positive is much less dangerous than a false negative.

I wonder whether this is actually statistically true, if false positives cause true positives to be ignored by some non-trivial proportion of the population? I think it's just as likely this is legal CYA from the alarm makers -- they can only get sued for false negatives, after all.
How is battery manufacturing an untapped pie?
How is solar power an untapped pie?

Energy storage provider is "battery at a bigger scale", similar with supply grid stabilization. And as far as I am aware the PowerWall has been a commercial failure, even among Tesla owners. I'm not sure how that will magically do a 180 now that Musk is going from "influential adviser" to "owner".
Cython looks like typed Python. Crystal looks like typed Ruby. Both are compiled, and both are not quite as fast as C, but much faster than the language they're based off of. The point of both is to be able to write something that looks like a clean scripting language while getting close to the speed of C. Was that unclear, or are you just trolling?
Great, now passengers will get their luggage, unpack it, and stuff valuables into their pockets.
Great work on the SIMDArray extensions, always nice to get speed while maintaining a functional style.

BTW, I don't think you need a third party library like Nessos to get that streaming behavior (iterating over the items in a single pass). Seq will do the job just fine. For example this code:

let arr = [|1;2;3|]

let sumSquares =
arr
|> Seq.map (fun x -> printfn "%i map" x; x*x)
|> Seq.fold(fun sum x -> printfn "%i fold" x; sum + x)

will produce this output in F# Interactive:

>
1 map
1 fold
2 map
4 fold
3 map
9 fold

val arr : int [] = [|1; 2; 3|]
val sumSquares : int = 14
The movie doesn't say it's a wormhole. The gate could be an entirely psychological experience, for all we know.
LDRA: It's been a bit since I touched it. Checking their site, we were using LDRA Testbed, our use was for DO-178B certification. I specifically was using it to develop test cases. What my memory is telling me is that we were using it to test pre and post conditions, a lot like you'd use in design by contract, on functional units of our system. I was a tester, not a developer, I didn't use its static analysis tools as much and so I don't recall much more.

DOORS: Honestly, at this point I don't care who makes it as long as it works. What's needed, and what DOORS at the time provided, is:

Concurrent editing.
Traceability from one document to another.
Workflow control - I can make changes, but someone else has to
verify/validate. Same as with any issue tracker.
Revision control

Everything but the workflow control I can do with a simple markup language, git, and a few scripts. But in industry it seems people prefer Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.

SPARK 2014: I will, if I ever have downtime. I leave for the office at 7, go to the gym until 8, then spend the evening with friends or my girlfriend. Weekends are my only downtime these days and I'm finding myself lacking motivation to do this. I need a project to work on, trying that now.

We don't have control of the protocol as there are others making products that interact with ours (in theory, in practice it's hit-or-miss as some are more faithful to the spec than others).

One of the things, as an example, that I want to discover by go over the protocol specification are cases like this:

I can't recall the specifics, but there was a mathematically impossible requirement. It was related to the discrete logarithm. Only some of the values involved weren't relatively prime wrt the modulus. So what happened, no one implemented that part of the specification. No one tested it either because there wasn't a good traceability matrix revealing that it was untested. One day, someone realized this, implemented a test to see if this part of the spec was being done, and hey, the test failed.

This reveals major flaws in the process. 1) That specification feature should never have made it into the final. 2) The test should have been made or in-progress once that spec feature was introduced, which would've led to (1) being true.

Speaking of gym, it's time for me to go. Thanks for the pointer with Ironsides. I'll take a look at it and SPARK 2014 over the next few weeks. We're about to wrap up my current project (well, in 3-4 more months) so now's a good time to start putting together a demo to try and save the next project from some of the current issues.
Slow clap as everyone stops to slip all their small valuables out of their bags and into their pockets.
Some cetologists think that Killer whale is not one species, but a cryptic species complex, with (at least) four very related and very similar (but not identically marked) species. Different ecotypes seem avoiding to breed with each other and are evolving independently.

Both 'transient' and 'type B' eat marine mammals. Some 'type A' chase cetaceans also. The smaller of all 'Type C' eat fishes. Some species mix in a gradient and things can get very complicated. In the end we could have only one or up to nine species of killer whales here.
I'm just saying the Chinese care way more about their image than Americans. So it should come as no surprise when they are more aggressive towards winning these awards. The American government has better ways to spend taxpayer money.
It's got a spectrum of those incarcerated that's perhaps skewed a bit more to one extreme than other states like Connecticut but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people locked away for petty crimes.

The worst is those who are otherwise good citizens but got busted for simple possession and are doing years of time. That costs the state hundreds of thousands of dollars, and after they're branded a felon, they'll probably "re-offend" given they have limited job opportunities.

If you wanted to design a system to generate prisoners they're doing a great job, which given the for-profit prison system, is probably the idea.
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"The possibility of a huge fine “would stick in their mind” and cause passengers to leave their bags as directed"

I'm not sure. There are psychologists who claim that people who have to disembark start their "leave a plane" program, and that includes taking ones luggage, because that program has worked well for them zillions of times.

Chapter 7 of the referenced https://app.ntsb.gov/doclib/safetystudies/SS0001.pdf gives that theory some credence. Quote:

"Of the 419 passengers who reported that they carried on bags, 208 (nearly 50 percent) reported attempting to remove a bag during their evacuation. The primary reason that passengers stated for grabbing their bags was for money, wallet, or credit cards (111 passengers). Other reasons included job items (65), keys (61), and medicines (51). Most passengers exited the airplane with their bags"

So, urges that normally are top of the list (don't lose your wallet or keys) seem to get precedence over a directly life-threatening but unfamiliar one (you're in a burning plane)

Given that, I doubt a technical solution such as a huge fine will have much effect.
Yes, my battery doesn't drain nearly fast enough when I'm playing. This would definitely fix that.
The major reason Android and/or ChromeOS will grap that seat is because there are products shipping with them preinstalled. Every attempt to do so with a desktop oriented Linux distro has been more about squeezing concessions out of Microsoft than actually shipping a usable product.
Off topic but you seem like you may work for Archive.org... I tried uploading some Drupal meetup source videos a while ago but it took 1 a week to upload a 100GB file due to what appeared to be an upload cap, so I gave up that idea. I would still really like to upload the videos but I was trying this on a gigabit pipe and it was capped. I submitted feedback in the 'new uploader' thread but never got a response.

Is there really an upload cap? How can I upload faster so it is more feasible?

Thank you
This is a classic tragedy-of-the-commons problem. From one individual's perspective, you think to yourself that grabbing your bag only takes 1 additional second, and it's pretty unlikely that you'll get hurt just because of that additional second. Compared to the upside of not losing your precious belongings, that seems like an understandable cost-benefit analysis.

The problem is, you aren't just delaying yourself by 1 second, you're also delaying the other 100 people behind you by 1 second. And if you multiply the risks involved by 100, the outcome of the cost-benefit analysis changes dramatically.

We could yell at people for being too dumb to do the "right thing", but let's be honest, this isn't the kind of issue that will filter down to everyone in society. Unless it makes the front page of NYTimes or CNN, the vast majority of people will never get to hear your moral lectures and explanations. And airlines don't want to unduly alarm their passengers on the vast majority of flights which won't have problems, so they aren't going to spend too much effort on this either. The best solution here is some simple technology. Equip all the overhead bins with central locks, so that once a switch is flipped, it's impossible for a passenger to get them open. This way, people won't even have the chance to grab their luggage, and we wouldn't have to sit here having this discussion.
Only the ultra rich bail on a place because of high taxes. Others have connections they place more value on than an incremental increase in tax.

Remember, a lot of these states that are suffering from tax revenue problems have some of the lowest tax rates in the country. Where are people going to flee to? The 49th lowest tax state instead of the 48th?
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It seems like a more effective social fix for this would be to ensure that any survivors of a plane crash are immediately met inside the terminal by representatives of the airline, doctors, and members from the national consulate, who give complimentary toiletries, changes of clothes, spending money, etc. and fasttrack any requests for replacement travel documents.

Such a system would be beneficial for other reasons as well: in many recent plane crashes, survivors have ended up wandering the area, which leads to a lot of unnecessary stress for loved ones searching for them, administrative hassles for airlines and first responders, and difficulty for accident investigators. If there was a clear protocol for where to go, who to receive, and what you'd receive in the event of a crash, people would be a lot less nervous about their belongings.
To them a false negative is worse than a false positive, for precisely the reason you describe: it simply doesn't matter how many false positives you have, but the very first false negative destroys your company. Their optimization function is not fire safety. It's making money, which is only mostly associated with fire safety.
Thanks for the input! Text classification and semantic analysis seemed vague to me, so the clarification helped :). Maybe classifying text can help improve automatic summarization, as sentences that include or describe the main topic the best, should be in the summary.
There is a video on a BBC story [1] about the Emirates crash landing. First of all the video is appalling - everybody is going for their bags in the overheads instead of moving to the exits and it looks way more chaotic than it would if they followed the procedure. Secondly, and even more shocking, is that some idiot videoed this. Considering the fireball this plane became soon after everyone got off the delays all of these people were causing to the evacuation is incredibly dangerous. Particularly for crew members who are going to be last off. I feel like there needs to be a pretty heavy punishment for anyone who comes down that slide with a bag.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36977903
aww man i was thinking about this more, and its going to take a really big compressed air tank to shoot out the bins. But good thing there was that recall of millions of airbags, we can just use those instead of wasting them.

win-win-win
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Fastest setup of a PG client, to date, on OSX for me. No nuances or other package installers like Fink necessary.
The bus itself was two twisted pairs, one for clock and one for data (he says after looking it up), mediated by a MC68B54 data controller. Computers appear to have been patched in in parallel.

Each segment had to have a terminator at each end plus a powered clock driver, which meant that setting up ad-hoc Econet links was basically too hard. The speed of the clock determined the transfer rate of the network.

There were routers, which would bridge between multiple networks --- they connected to multiple Econet segments and just relayed packets addressed to the other network. Apparently their primary purpose was to speed-match between BBC Micro networks, which had to be quite slow, and Archimedes networks, which could be much faster.

The hardware's painfully antiquated by modern standards, of course; I2C is faster and cheaper and doesn't need clocks or terminators or any of that nonsense. Also, from flipping through the Advanced User Guide, it looks like it's entirely packet based, but it does a four-way handshake for every packet --- effectively setting up a connection and tearing it down again! Which gives you reliable delivery but at a huge cost. We forget just how good TCP/IP is.

I suspect the god-like power mentioned was simply having a copy of the Advanced Users Guide and knowing about * VIEW and * REMOTE. Also apparently there was an Econet interface available for the 380Z, so your school was totally missing out there.
> I don't believe in divine government to save the people from these sites

Me neither, which is why I think gambling, drugs, and many other things we have nanny laws for should be legal.
Graydon tweeted https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/761280391239958528 and it's all clear now: the Mozilla Summit session was called "Project Servo" but focused more on Rust, and Graydon's slides had that phrase as title:

http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

(also picked up on my T2 robot from the future joke and reversed it, lol). But Rust was Rust, even then. Servo was the big news, I think Rust was known within Mozilla, a bit. So we used Servo in the session name and the rest is history.
My only complaint is that the alert box prevents seeing the final board. It'd be nice to get to actually see my beautiful chessboard creations.
Not one of the authors, but I had a look at their paper http://www.interactivedynamicvideo.com/ISMB_Davis_2015.pdf

They use optical flow to get displacement values for each pixel. This works well when you don't have very large movements between frames, no sudden illumination changes and no rotations.

Car commercials will probably have all of those and on top of that be highly edited (e.g. you have to deal with cuts in the video)

You could try to use some other approach for motion estimation, like identifying and tracking salient points, but that would require quite a lot of work on top of what this demo shows.
Sad part is he is right. The last good KDE was 3.x, since then KDE, Gnome, and their collaborators at Freedesktop and Xorg, have been busy chasing the lastest eyecandy, in the process building something that makes Vista look sane.
Using allcaps and this kind of title is a good way to get your submission flagged here. From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Submissions

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
Great talk! Unikernels are definitely going to change things from Clould to IoT. Its amazing to know MSR Drawbridge is the thing that brought Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, which is amazing. MirageOS/Solo5 seem to be like a winning combination.

One take away from the talk, is being a single binary, unikernels may end up better for debugging compared to the existing set-ups.
So, just to understand your position, is your claim that the government should play no role in regulating the messages corporations deliver to the public?
I have prosopagnosia. It's not that I can't recognize people at all; however, I have to rely mostly on haircut styles, mimics and movement patterns, and, above all, voice. I almost never identify actors in the movies (as they change their appearances professionally and I have trouble in remembering actual facial features), and it is out of question for me to remember anyone's face after several months. Especially when the haircut changes.

I thought it is relatively common condition (around 2% of people). But other people seem to be genuinely surprised by it every time: "how could you not recognize me? I have passed directly in front of you?" Sorry.
Telling people to not "waste" food does the opposite, because now people will eat too much because it's more than they need, thus becoming fatter etc. and then being shitty workers and ending up producing much less food than they don't throw out.

Sometimes there is ideas that are short-sighted but difficult problems so it's understandable to just look at it like an idiot. This isn't one of them, this like an idea from a 2 year old, literally. Like one from the ghetto who hasn't even learned their ABC's yet.
>so if anything it's a good argument against eagerly digging around looking for myths.

I wouldn't read to far into the article, I don't think they are digging around looking for myths so much as excavating a undocumented, historic site and using the King Arthur story for media coverage or interest.

Note how everything related to King Arthur is simply added by the author of the article and all the quotes from the individuals involved in the project don't mention a thing about Arthur, but limited to: items located, potential origins of the items recovered, possible dates etc...
Italy just passed a law regarding food waste: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36965671 - I wonder how that compares to the rules in place in the US? It seems fairly sensible.
I think a stack trace and an exception would help most people with a modicum of debugging skills.
I think kernel development is a lot slower and more incremental than it used to be, which is probably a good thing. However, back in the "wild west" days we had some very good books that explained in detail how the kernel works. Now, if someone wants to get started in kernel development, I wouldn't even know what book to recommend; all the good ones I know of haven't been updated in a decade.

I think this is perhaps an overlooked aspect of Linux's success; at a critical time, they had LWN and good documentation that made it easy for new developers to understand what's going on and start contributing. I don't know any other open source project that is as accessible to new developers as the kernel was in the early 2000's.
I think it would help if people knew why 90 seconds is the goal: because the real danger in a plane crash isn't the crash, it's the post-crash fire. I'm speaking generally of course. For something like Sioux City for example (total loss of hydraulics/controls), the crash is obviously catastrophic. But even in that case, the post-crash fire added to the death toll significantly.

I don't think passengers realize this. No sane airline would ever mention it in a passenger briefing. Can you imagine? "P.S. If we crash, get off right away or you'll be burned alive." Never gonna happen. But it's the truth, and it's why getting the f* off the plane as fast as humanly possible after a crash will save your life—and the lives of all the people who can't get off until you do because they're stuck behind you.

That's the other thing I don't think people realize. Grabbing your bag may take you two seconds, big whoop. But what if two seconds is the difference between life and death for the person thirty people behind you in line out the door? You just killed that person.
> Malthus also predicted doom and gloom and we saw plenty of market forces handle that.

So far all I've seen is market forces switching from renewable food production (soil and in-situ biological generated fertility) to nonrenewable (fossil fertilizers trucked in from "somewhere else"), rampant soil loss, unsustainable acquifer pumping and salination, water eutrophication, wealth consolidation in food production, and soil erosion on a scale never seen before.

Ironic that you should bring up subsidies, because globally industrial agriculture is almost entirely a subsidized (yet economically futile) endeavor.

I know it's heresy to question Borlag et. al and the "green" revolution, but far from "handling i," market forces have merely enlarged and externalized the scale of the destruction.
No. This pressure from Facebook will cause publishers to rethink their strategy and, hopefully, decrease the amount of clickbait everywhere. Facebook shouldn't reward clickbaiters by doing extra work for them.
from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12194875
Video analysis is usually very slow. I'm curious what their runtime is.
RDS MySQL storage dropped from 450GB to 0 in 10min. Ok after reboot. Ideas?
Any chance you have a blog or website where you could write up/post an example of this entire process? It sounds like the details that you've posted above would be of extreme assistance to many others.