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The first instance of the word terrorism was the terror of a democratically legitimated state against civilians. Its own in this case: I'm speaking of the Reign of Terror of the french revolutionary state. Since then the word terrorism was somewhat redefined. But of course not everywhere. Even you describe Hussein's actions as terror in your post.

I think it's acceptable to describe as terror that thing which kills you, wether you are someone in Bagdad 2003 who is too poor to flee to Jordan, wether you are a victim of ISIL or if you are a 16 year old male shepherd in Waziristan where there is a full legal procedure which in the end lawfully decides to kill you because you're you.
Ah, I've got the same kinda thing, the carts on my case have rubber bumpers that separate it from the rest of the case. Maybe get some of the rubber furniture nibs and see if you can stick em in there between the cage and case.
{1, 2, 3, 4} is also a set of real numbers. Why is it a valid existence proof of the naturals, but not the reals?
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Well yeah, that's the 18 to 34 demographic.
I don't think that sounds unreasonable at all. I think most people that dislike that do out of implementation concerns, not because they are actually opposed.
Apple filed a patent application for a new kind of heart-monitoring wearable
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Easy and error prone.

Sometimes libraries pretend to be async and accidentally are sync. Consider some library that in the normal case just does some pure computation, but logs to syslog or something on some error condition. If you use that library in an async context, it could work fine most of the time, until you hit some unexpected situation where it happens to make a network request to some syslog daemon and blocks up your worker thread. The same thing can happen with mutexes, or many other common blocking operations.

It's also the case that often async libraries depend on some sync library and so they have their own worker pool. You can easily have many libraries with their own worker pools all using more resources then they need.

You also have to worry about if your functions do any of these transformations under the hood. For example, if you have some async worker that delegates some sync task to the worker pool, and that sync task happens to use some async function and blocks on it, and that async function ALSO has a sync task and attempts to delegate it to a worker pool, and that worker pool is bounded, then you have just opened yourself up to a deadlock under high load that you probably won't find under normal operation.

On top of all that, debugging is usually much harder in these environments because you have to inspect the runtime memory state that depends on the specific internal details of the libraries being used instead of a bunch of stacks. It's extremely hard to diagnose deadlocks or stalls in these environments. It's non-trivial to provide a good debugging experience that doesn't cause extra load in production environments.

These issues are all real things that I have hit in production with Twisted. A static type system could help all these things, but I think it requires buy in from every library you might use, transitively.
I do not really understand this perspective. Could you help me figure out where you're coming from?

My current model for comments like this would suggest it would be made by one of two categories of individuals:
1) An innocent. A person who has not yet personally been touched by death, and who has not already put some thought into it. The full weight of death isn't real yet.
2) Someone who has at the very least brushed by the darker side side of things- maybe their parents, maybe friends, maybe their own disease, maybe depression... and they came out the other side with an attempt at a coping mechanism. Some form of spirituality, philosophy, or maybe just hardened nihilism, that let them look away, or 'accept' it.

But the above is too general to really provide any insight. And to be clear, I am not upset at people like the above- I can understand how it happens, even if I strongly disagree with the results.

I just have a very hard time squaring the above... approaches... with the special, horrible kind of sound someone makes when they are weakly screaming for their life and they are terrified that no one will be able to help them. I can't unhear that. And I can't help but try to listen for all those other people in the same position, thousands of times a day.

My own perspective is simple: death doesn't have any special meaning, and it causes absurd levels of suffering. Any uses it has are so inefficient and unethical that any attempt by a human to emulate them would (rightfully) be considered comically evil. We can do better- unlike raw evolution, we have brains.
> Also in Rust. Most apps that aren't servers don't want async I/O, and it causes a lot of problems when you need high-performance FFI. For example, in Servo async-everywhere would be a big problem for WebRender, which needs to be able to call OpenGL extremely quickly.

I don't understand why this is the case. Since async/await allows the compiler to transform the code into a state machine, why would it be not be able to optimize this?
There doesn't seem to be much point to that benchmark clause.

If it's GPL the source is effectively mine to do what I like.

I could make a trivial change to the source (or not perhaps), and call the result a FreeRTOS derivative and publish my derivative's benchmarks.
Delightfully faith-based assertions regarding the future. You'll note we were discussing the near total lack of semblance between modern society and any number of utopian ideals. Apologetics aren't making the comparison any more flattering.
Great job on navigating the boot-camper job hunting rollercoaster!

Disagree a lil with the focus on contracting projects for newbie bootcampers though! The kind of contracting work available to bootcampers often tends to be uninspiring. They'd be much better off working on really interesting personal projects and like you say, really focussing in on a niche.

Contracting work can be useful once they've built up a menagerie of unique projects.

That said, this is def a must read for newbie bootcampers! :)
> I don't see how

Isn't that just The God of The Gaps? I suspect that many intelligent people 500 years ago wouldn't have been able to "see how" a 500 ton metal object could take controlled flight.

> That means that a Turing Machine would be able to
> produce them

Is there any specific reason to think it wouldn't?

> the scientific community is very opposed to talking
> about it

It sounds like you're suggesting there's a super-natural force at play, in which case, the scientific community is entirely justified in being opposed to talking about it.
I rode an $80 bike-shaped object from Target in grad school daily. I cannot say it was a reliable or well-built machine; over time, I had to replace almost all parts of it other than the frame with used parts from local bike stores and ebay. Nevertheless - the total lifetime cost of that bike and parts was far less than a "real" bike from a real dealer.

An $80 bike can be a completely reasonable choice for someone who is not a racer, not a courier, and just needs to get from point A to point B every day.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Buddhism here. To accept death as a natural process, to realise that every being is subject to birth, old age, sometimes sickness and death, to constantly remind oneself of death leads to, in many ways, a more fulfilling life.

Clinging to youth, good looks, being alive itself - these are all causes of suffering, as there is nothing permanent. People wanting to "cheat death" are attempting to find refuge in impermanence. But there isn't any to be found. What is changing is unsafe. Of course this doesn't mean we shouldn't take medications or life-saving surgeries, as those aren't done with the intention of permanence in mind.

Buddhism says that superior to "cheating death" is in fact fully comprehending death, the unsatisfactory nature of our lives and the fact that the self cannot be found in any of these passing phenomena. To realise this puts an end to birth and therefore death. But in the context of here and now, our suffering is reduced.

The search for youth only causes suffering. Desire is a root of suffering.
> I can still switch to C for specific use cases.

So use go and switch to rust for specific use cases.
> That means that a Turing Machine would be able to produce them, which means that a bunch of monks working with paper and pencil for thousands of years would be able to produce them.

Yes. What's not to see? I think appealing to something other than Turing machines shows a lack of imagination; it takes a lot of thought to even scratch the surface of how profound Turing machines are.
Derek Parfit (a philosopher), in "Reasons and Persons", considers many of the cases you hint at, as well as few more tricky ones (such as progressively replacing your brain cells with someone else's, or splitting someone's brain [1] and putting the two halves in different bodies). He ultimately argues for two points:

1. Personal identity is basically just psychological continuity (physical continuity doesn't matter). That psychological continuity needs to be "non-branching" -- identity has to be one-to-one, and so if there's a clone of you walking around, it makes more sense to say neither of you are "you" than to say "both" are.

2. As the weirdness in (1), suggests, Parfit doesn't think personal identity matters very much. Self-interest (as opposed to altruism) seems a little silly when you linger on who exactly you care about, especially in the face of blended-brains and split-brains.

If we were immortal but had finite memory, Parfit would argue that personal identity is more of a sliding window. As we forgot our ancient memories, we would lose touch with that part of ourselves, eventually becoming totally distinct persons over time. Which, of course, sounds a lot like the actual human condition.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
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You're downvoted but absolutely correct, even though you offended the easily-triggered HN crowd.

3 of my 4 grandparents are now passed, and there is absolutely no way they would have been able to be a net asset in any actual profit driven and competitive enterprise while that age these days.

Sure they might have been able to do something 'helpful' like read to young children or some other volunteer-like job, but these types of pseudo employment require more time and energy from actual workers for coordination than the worth of the labor itself.

By mid 70's none of my grandparents had the technical abilities to perform adequately in a non-physical office position, nor the physical tenacity to work a more demanding service job. Very few 75 year olds I've met would be any different.

Of course this all is a moot point since we now have competition between millenials and 45 year olds in some industries. what makes anyone think there are jobs available for the very old, even if they could be productful?
Here's a couple of tips for getting books like that when they are otherwise not "out there". Try an inter-library loan from your local library. Chances are there is a library out there somewhere which will lend it to you. Also, on the out-of-print books on Amazon with sky-high prices. You'll note that all of the listing agents have tens to hundreds of thousands of feedback reviews. Usually there are several of those that have automated bots that keep their offering at the lowest price. So you merely create a listing to sell it yourself, slowly walk it down in price, and watch the bots follow you down. When it gets to a low enough level, buy it and cancel your own listing.
Was literally lying in bed sleepless last night thinking about which side project on my list to start. Was digging through "Ask HN: How do you make recurring revenue" posts. There's always someone asking in HN. Didn't even think about researching side projects as a side project.
I think you mean SAN instead of SNI. SNI is like host headers for TLS connections, while SAN on certs allow you have to very valid for multiple names.
Its the French word for "born." Its often used for maiden names. In this case, we mean "we called it Triton before we called it React Server," which was more important to understand before https://github.com/redfin/react-server/pull/40 merged
Hi, Vinay here. If anybody would like to talk about the proposal, I'll be around to answer questions.

The core of the idea is pretty simple, there's a very brief summary on the home page if you're in a hurry. I know the video is long, it's really designed to lay out the case with all the background analysis and research so that people can make their own assessment of the hypothesis.

What do you think? Do let me know.
Sure wish I had a couple million lying around to go buy a helicopter! :P
Napping on them, even!
There are past tenses but modals tend to be used instead of conjugation. "I have eaten" => "I eat oready" or "I makan liao"
I've learned coping skills to help me deal with what I take the meds for - coping skills that I could not practice / get good at while I was not being treated. I'm not as good as I am when I'm on them, but I'm a whole lot better than I used to be. (How do I know? I take regular doctor-sanctioned drug holidays. Luckily the meds I take do not need to be tapered.)

But you don't really care about that. Or any valid piece of evidence that disputes your already-formed opinion.

I used to be really against psychiatry too. Had docs in high school that didn't ask the right questions. Got misdiagnosed. Spent my 20s a shambling (semi-functional, but shambling) mess.

I'm privileged that I'm able to afford my mental healthcare team (neither of them take insurance). I wish access to quality mental health professionals was more easy to obtain. It's a double edged sword- the practice has a hard time recruiting, and health insurance is often pretty terrible for it. So many people who would benefit from a mental health provider cannot / will not get it.
Here in South Australia, the government, royal commission and a citizens' jury are looking very seriously at establishing a long-term, highly secure nuclear waste dump. We have a lot of very remote areas in this state, and I believe they're looking at a spot with clay very deep down that can be used to insulate against geological movement. The facility is being planned to survive for thousands of years.

Here's some info from the royal commission:
http://nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/

And from the Citizens' Jury:
http://nuclear.yoursay.sa.gov.au/

As I understand it, being paid to store nuclear waste is being viewed as an income stream for the state to backup or replace income from mining operations.
> stuck in local maximum more than anything else

What's the argument that this is true, rather than it being better than more efficient proteins on some other metric?
Absolutely. I was just answering parent's question: Why is the autonomy of the States so worth protecting [from federal government]?
The next interesting chapter of the Schwinn story is about how it was bought out of bankruptcy by the same investor group that owned the Scott brand. They moved the headquarters to Boulder, Colorado and became a true quality manufacturer, at the same level as Trek and GT. They built most of their bikes overseas but also launched a US-built line called Schwinn Homegrown that competed well on quality. They also offered more downmarket lines. In the late 90's they were sold to another investor group, one that was more interested in the high-volume, low quality market and had also purchased the Huffy and Mongoose brands. So now all that most people know are the crap Schwinn bikes sold today. But there was a time in the 90's that the Schwinn Homegrown was a great bike to have (I still have mine). The fitness line has gone through some additional gyrations. So much of this is about buying a recognizable brand and squeezing value out without putting anything back into it.
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Supply side tactics have failed for as long as they have been tried.
> we're going to talk about how we're modeling the acoustic qualities of music, which can find common patterns from completely different genres

That's neat! I was curious of this is / was being looked into. It seems like I often get music that's matched based on a demographic (if that makes sense), rather than music matched on the characteristic features of the current song / band.
I'm not suggesting anything supernatural. I'm suggesting that there's possibly physical phenomenon that do not fit our current materialist model.

Further, my big problem is with people trying to ignore the problem completely by claiming that there is no Hard Problem or even suggesting that consciousness is not real. It's a total head-in-the-sand position to take but it's the dominant stance.
If you're gonna use React Router and Redux, you should also check out react-router-redux:

https://github.com/reactjs/react-router-redux
They run to the meds first for the nice freebies the drug reps give out for their best dea..../prescribers.
Somewhat related, I designed and created the prototype for my tabletop game Burger Up[1] in around 2 hours, including an hour with scissors and pencils, drawing rough sketches of burger ingredients on cardboard (with lots of help in that area from my partner), the night before a playtest/pitch session with a publisher.

Once the publisher picked it up, many hours of playtesting and many iterations followed (although once we cut it back to "what made it fun" it ended up surprisingly close to the original foundation).

I think that unless you're doing something completely groundbreaking, people who operate in that space can see the potential in a prototype/MVP and can visualize what it will look like with improved assets, etc quite easily. If the core isn't "fun" then you don't have anything (yet).

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/186701/burger
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California#Climate), the average high in July and August, the hottest months, is 81.9 degrees, and the annual mean temperature is 60.5 degrees. I suppose you might think that was "hot as hell" if you were from Scandinavia, but by California standards it's a pretty moderate climate. It's certainly not as bad as many other parts of the state.
The reaction consumes water, which isn't exactly abundant on a space station or space vessel. You can regain the water by burning the alcohol, which can be done in a combustion chamber without reintroducing the CO2 to the air of the habitat. That's a rather exothermic reaction – and I'm guessing that the bionic leaf also generates excess heat – which might be a problem. Space vessels can only cool down by radiating heat, which I gather to be a quite complex problem. Nevertheless, it might be workable for all I know...
No. The topic has simply been ceded to a subset of philosophers who fill large volumes that still don't manage to say more about this topic than you do. One big problem is that your thought experiments are designed specifically to make the null hypothesis sound silly. That's the same strategy you guys have been uding for thousands of years. Not so long ago people claimed that life couldn't be explained without some special substance.
This is not quite right. The userland dispatcher to run next thread is not a context switch: the TLB doesn't need to get flushed for instance. Furthermore many userland threads can be woken at once, and don't incur context switches when they suspend, prompting the next runnable thread to run.

If you're willing to put in a lot of compiler work userland thread switching is a function call, literally. I don't 1:1 threads with small stack are going to compete with that.
Google Maps has Your Timeline. Google Photos already groups and searches by location, as well as automatically creating photo stories based on your vacations.
No, you couldn't because it's not GPL. It's a license that is nearly identical to the GPL, but slightly different.

I think that added restriction actually makes it GPL incompatible, and disqualifies it from being an actual open source license.
Riot sues ‘world’s largest League of Legends hacking/bot service’
There's something weird going on beyond Neptune
This gets very complicated mostly because its physically impossible to guarantee the best price in all exchanges at the exact point the order was entered. You simply cannot transmit the order fast enough.

Brokers are required to fill at the National Best Bid and Offer price which is specifically defined as the best bid on the national quotation system. However the NQS can only update so fast. Your broker may well know it can get a better price on a specific exchange.

Fidelity will actually keep track of when it gets you a better price and inform you with their "Price Improvement" statistics. Other brokerages will sell your orderflow and let a third party take the difference instead.
> Your profession needs no help from marsrover to find itself under the wheels of a bus.

HN comment of the day :)
> so much so that it's actually cheaper to live in Las Vegas, fly in once a month, and get a hotel, than to pay rent prices in the Bay Area.

That doesn't really make sense at all. Are you saying you only need to work or be in the office "once a month"? Or does flying in "once a month" mean flying in on the 1st and leaving on the 30th?
Maybe there were masses of unknowledgeable customers and too few knowledgeable and wealthy customers for a higher end market to be sustainable.

High end bikes are a huge leap in price from casual bikes, at least today. A $300 bike is perfectly adequate for normal transportation. An entry level mountain bike actually suited for trails is about $800. If you want full suspension, that's $2,000 at a minimum.

It's hard to think of other markets where the premium is as large as it is in the high end bike industry.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about though, how many different libraries are there for routing alone? How can anyone make a reasonably informed choice between them? It's madness!
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The University of Minnesota office of commercialization of technology does this habitually, asking for far too much money from startup entrepreneurs. Many of the academians have no idea how business works, and don't care. 90% of their success has come from one patent. So from the standpoint of this one institution, you could actually answer that question by auditing their performance over the past.

On the other hand, it is a publicly funded institution, funded by taxes and student fees. So one has to also ask if it would be fair for a small few having little to do with the University should be able to profit off of investments made by public dollars and overly high student debt.
Did they introduce theoretically innovative concepts to any of these fields? It's one thing to write a great database that people love, it's whole another to make a contribution to database theory.
And nobody's arguing that people with a formal education are very likely to have the chops either. It's that people who do end up making great contributions are very likely to have a formal education.
I want to take this course! Assessing the state of publication, significance testing, experimental inference, and more? Great subjects....

(Since I wear a lot of black, I should do fine on the exam.)
Also, it's a great time to diversify. If you have one successful project, you can leverage that audience to help get your next project off the ground.
It said an emergency outage. What went wrong?
Actually, C is a perfect tool for writing portable operating systems.