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Only truck brakes are designed to fail closed. Passenger vehicles aren't, even though they could be. In fact, there's a lot of safety systems that passenger cars don't have, for no discernible reason.

There's no warning light for the brake fluid reservoir or pressure, even though it would be trivial to add. The oil warning light for passenger vehicles is so useless, when it comes on you have to stop your vehicle immediately. Gasoline gauges are designed to trick people into thinking they're on empty and then provide an extra gallon or two, even though they could actually design the gauge to display average miles based on the rated mileage of the car and size of the tank. Transmission, diff, brake, and engine oil fluids could be measured or at least timed for when they need to be replaced and a warning given to the user that it's time to maintain it. Only in modern [usually expensive] cars do you find tire air pressure sensors.

Why don't we have these basic maintenance and safety systems built into cars? Too expensive? Too technically challenging? Nope - they want you to bring your car into the dealer regularly to regularly charge you for maintenance you may not need.
I found it's conversion into org (from OPML) isn't fantastic, but definitely workable. But out of org is seamless for me as well.
Workflowy is awesome. Kind of like Org-mode for the web.
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Why put a bigger motor in? You really don't need to meet the max power consumption of the electric motors, that's what the battery is there for.

However, I will point out that the i3 REX gets relatively poor fuel economy when running on gas -- only about 40 mpg, nowhere near what a parallel-hybrid Prius can get.
Probably because its cheap/easy to animate and code. I suspect NMS is something of a con by Sony and Hello Games, where we're presented with what's supposed to be a AAA game that costs $60, but is in fact an indie game that should sell for about $20. Thus all the corner cutting, lack of hand-made content, and Spore-like complaints.

Imagine if Minecraft was initially partnered up with EA and sold for $60 instead of staying indie and having a modest pricing scheme. That's exactly what's going on with NMS.
Scenius, as Brian Eno calls it.
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Yeah... the optimus crap has serious problems. It causes my GPU driver to crash on Windows while I'm trying to give demos at work (not exactly a great look when your screen goes black and then your application's 3d display dies). It's not exactly the most stable thing, but can be great for power consumption.
That's it, I quit
Haha. I won't go that far. You just shield from as many forms of sounds, light, EM, etc as you can. Alternatively, build memory and info-flow security into your hardware, do POLA at device level, and use TEMPEST-style hardware. Also, as in EMSEC tents or safes, one can separate security levels into their own shielded cages/racks. Already products for that although not sure if energy gapping is thorough enough.
That sounds like an awesome first expansion!
How about I pick team with 3 ops persons I know, and all of them are better programmers than some of the professional developers I had to work with? And they also can do marketing and sales! ;)
How come this approach can sound insane, but the 'full devs on' can't? I pick 2 devs 1 ops every single time, because, you know, OPS PEOPLE CAN CODE TOO as well 'good enough' as devs can do ops good enough and with 2 devs in team we've already developer skills covered. All I'm asking for is some sane approach instead of 'devs can do everything well enough'.
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Mostly, gun interfaces are popular because a gun in its crudest form is simple to control. Its operating controls are (1) point in a direction (2) press fire.
I like the ad for hotels "Near Lake Nyos" below the article about how dangerous it is.
I may be wrong but from what I read the solution for Healthcare.gov didn't involve a primary contractor, it involved changing policies to reflect start-ups[1].

The Healthcare.gov debacle and resulting "start-up culture" resulted in the US Digital Service, which terms themselves as "a startup at the White House".

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-se...
Sure, but that doesn't mean improvement can't happen.

I personally would love to see a proper graphics application. I would use linux as my main PC in a heartbeat if a Sketch equivalent was available. I expect a lot of people have similar feelings or have one thing keeping them from completely making the jump.
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Our local Wisconsin university, UW-EC, received an entire computer lab full of SGI workstations in the 90's when SGI was big. I even had a friend who worked at SGI in Chippewa Falls, WI. I recall lots of folks fleeing to Cray (same city) over the years. It's sad to see SGI falling apart like this, but hopefully HP is a good home.
https://www.graylog.org/

It's self-hosted, not a service, but it is rock solid, and it can easily sustain tens of thousands of messages being sent to it per second. Docker can send Graylog logging messages natively.

Use it. I promise you won't be disappointed.
For any mass replacement of humans with robots, you will need AGI and with that will come ethical issues of treating robots as humans themselves.

By having robots you are only replacing humans with a biological body with humans with a robot body.
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a) This is not true. There are mature, stable and unlike linux attempts, actually secure "containers". See Jails and Zones.

b) See a.

c) This is a docker issue, other platforms do not suffer these UX flaws.

d) See a.

e) See ZFS on FreeBSD and Illumos.

You can of course continue to use ill designed software, such as docker, and wait for someone to "make it right" or you can use alternatives that are designed well and work now.

I know which I would choose.

Also, you might check out Tredly. At tredly.com.
I would think the biggest problem is that it looks very boring.
Decompression on byte[] is 3x faster with unsafe. I think modern JVMs are far from optimal.
Not necessarily. In my area, they had a "Flex" service in higher density suburbs that would take you anywhere up to a 1/4 mile off the main corridor. So you could get from an express bus to an arbritary destination in an office park, shopping center, etc.
Because I had to know where that quote was from: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/25/sea/ (summary: probably paraphrased French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

The perhaps original inspiration is equally beautiful (rendered from French):
One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love.
Maybe I missed them but most of x86 market that I personally saw was dull beige or black boxes. The SunBlades, SGI, and Next Cubes were neat. What else I miss outside outfits doing custom boxes like Alienware?
A lot of the batteries in Python, and Python itself, is written in C. Perhaps take that as a model/starting point: write the things that you want to be debuggable/whateverable in C (or C++ or Java or ...), and glue them together with Python.

It's good enough for Guido.
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▶ id(true ) // (4 chars)

▷ true

You win!
Interesting thanks. 13.3" is just under the size of US Letter or A4 paper.
Without intentionally trying to turn this in to an OS War, at least on a linux box, there was source code. So if something bothered you enough you could go in and fix it yourself (which added to your skills as a coder).

These days, it feels like people enjoy digging around on their systems less and less, and they just want javascript to run in a browser.
For me the biggest problem is that there's no reason to explore. For the first few planets, when I saw a cave, I was enticed and wanted to see what I could find.

Now I don't even bother going in them. Chances are my inventory is close to capacity, and I know there's not going to be anything exciting down there because it would be marked on my map.
I guess. I had (and still have) all kinds of images but I guess everybody has them.

Like for instance, in high-school when learning derivation and integration.. I'd always imagine sine to be a dominant almost bullying function (starts with an "S", looks erect like a snake about to jump at you), and cosine to be the submissive one (starts with a C, curved back). In many ways, the Sine behaves like a treacherous snake you have to handle more carefully than a Cosine.

Some formulas invoked musical tones and melodies in my mind (like the integration by parts has a specific melody I can hear).

The Sarrus method for calculating determinants was always the difference of two stars of David.

Other things are almost muscular. I used to know every phone number in my contact list for it only existed in my head (pushed numbers when I wanted to call someone). I remembered the numbers because the thumb followed a certain pattern on the keypad and each pattern was unique. Sometimes someone's phone number evoked things that were pertinent about the person.
The US National Electric code defines <50V as low voltage but UL defines anything over 20V as high voltage.

UL generally deals with products so that is probably why they are more conservative. Picture a baby sucking on something and you can imagine why they want anything over 20V to be double insulated. If car manufactures want to comply with UL standards that would mean they would no longer be able to use the car's frame for the current return path.
Wikipedia[1] agrees with what I was taught in school. Finland is of course part of the (much more important and commonly used) Nordic countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
I like this question for its introspective impact. It is hard not to interpret the question as "If you could recommend one book, which would it be?" My answer isn't one that I would necessarily call a "must read." Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was simply the right book at the right time for me. It was more about what it led me to discover through more reading and more books than the book itself.
Do you have any recommendations on modern scifi that fits the futurism bill? There's lots of great stuff (Expanse is my current favorite) that seems to be summed up as "And then things got worse"
lack of imagination. People generally only imagine variations of things they've recently seen and since most computer games are FPS (copied all the way back to Doom and before) that's what they do. People just copy what they've seen before.
I realized that what they should have done is make a platform for other games to exist within instead of trying to make a game. Similarly to minecraft, but more vast.
Josh Berkus, core PostgreSQL member and currently employed by Red Hat seems to think they go well together. Here's some of his work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iruaCgeG7qs

https://github.com/jberkus/atomicdb
Or perhaps the Bible is full of Biblical-style tellings of poorly understood at the time natural events.
> Because of lowest bid contracts, the gov't will be an exception unfortunately.

The problem is not lowest bid (which few government contracts are any more, AFAIK), but the fact that government contracting is its own domain of expertise (actually, often a separate domain for each state plus the federal government, and even many local governments) separate from the kind of work actually being contracted for, and there are in any field a very small number of players (compared to the field as a whole) that have developed expertise in the "winning government contracts" domain (and, in IT, IBM is one of them, at essentially every level of government.)
The important property of evaluation is determinism defined by the equality of the output. Classically, id(x) != id(x) is logically inconsistent.

Boolean Logic and natural languages are pretty mainstream in my opinion. Do you mean programming languages? If IEEE whatsthenumber is implemented in the FPUs to provide fcmp (Floating-point Compare Instruction), the languages don't have much of a choice.

When there are different types of equality, ie. compare instructions, you have no equality. That's maybe a bit binary. I'm sorry, I thought this was Computer Science.
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This is not secret information, some key google terms may be "biology of depression" or something like that.

Just one piece of the literature that you might find convincing (not sure if its from that book or another) that you might find convincing is that there are structural differences in the pre-frontal cortex that can be seen under a microscope. The biological basis of depression is something that's so well established that strident doubt of it means that you can't be troubled to look for anything. It's like being convinced that evolution can't possibly be true because biologists can't be trusted.
Working as a psychiatrist is hard. Reimbursement is low, and many serious patients do not have private insurance.
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It was a lot of work gathering review info for over 500K restaurants in the US but I hope some people will use this app and find it useful. Cheers.
Obviously it means: a) get some boxes, b) get some ingredients, c)place said ingredients in the boxes until they reach the top, and d) eat them. Doing this, however, is a poor health decision according to the OP.
That's what the bounties are for.
Sony made some models running Android that you could root, but I think their current offerings don't have that. For others (some Kindles, I think Nooks?) jailbreaks were also available, so that is something worth researching.
Perhaps. I would just put the equipment in the "Band Room". i.e. Sound proof, you can't even hear the drummer. Power conditioners will stop most signal leakage. There are no windows in the band room, so LED's aren't an issue.

Not enough? Have folks play heavy metal with 12 4kw amps. Anyone trying to monitor will have their ears bleed.
The only thing worse than a shaky study is an unsourced assertion.
No one ever got fired for buying IBM!

Too soon?
Rust library for packed secret sharing
God forbid we eat chemicals
Agreed to some extent (I think exploration is not boring, or at least it shouldn't be). To be fair, it seems like the dev team has already put out a big update, and plans to continue to add things. I just don't know what the scope/scale of those future updates will be though, aside that they'll all be free.

I was hoping that we'd be able to build buildings and colonize planets. It'd make particular planets feel more special and give you more incentive to stick around. And if they ever got around to doing this, it'd be great if we could build things wall by wall in great detail instead of just "ok, plop down prefabricated factory here".
Didn't James Cameron narrate a TV show a few years back which had the premise that the biblical Exodus was in fact the eruption of a nearby volcano?
Is there a documentation on "How BDR works?" or so?
Doesn't the diversity get represented in the standard deviation of the distribution? The Gaussian distribution is more than just a convenient statistical assumption. Normal and power law distributions seem to be consistent with a remarkable array of human diversity and central tendencies.
Many people believe that free will and determinism are not incompatible (compatibilists).

Personally, I'm not even sure introducing non-determinism matters much. What would it even mean? That beyond determinsitic actions defined by our precise history, we get a bit of randomness permuting the whole thing? Does that really make it any freer?
I hadn't heard the full quote - that is beautiful. Thanks for sourcing it!
There's nothing wrong with charging 3x product worth if people are willing to pay for it, which was the case as NMS sold out at retailers.

Granted, the backlash would be much less if the game was priced apropriately, and it's likely that the game will have weaker legs now that more information is known about it.
> If we can successfully cure death, I don't think we'll have a shortage of people willing to fund the spread of that cure universally.

This is optimistic and naive. It will be another privilege for the rich; it is the only way we will have any chance to avoid overpopulation.
Cassandra, MongoDB and Redis can do that to some degree.

http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/architecture/dynamo.h...

http://hector-client.github.io/hector/build/html/content/con...

Tunable durability, and some minimal isolation (atomicity) guarantees for Mongo: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/write-concern/ and https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/read-isolation-consiste...

http://redis.io/commands/WAIT

I guess something like this can and will eventually find its way into any practical and effective distributed data store.
I think it's arguable Bank's Culture is essentially utopian. Most of the books tend to be about edge cases, because "and they lived their lives and contributed to society" doesn't make for great plot. But the vast majority seems to be using technology to realize their hopes and dreams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
Considering the upvotes, it seems to be of interest to the HN crowd.
It was certainly interesting for me.

That said, "my butt spread far and wide, killing people ..." is hilarious.
I'm not the person that you responded to, but C# has a nice scripting API and repl.
Star Trek is only utopian if you are a massive government statist to the Nth degree.
I'm not saying "it's impossible to control anything", I am complaining about the idea that the world can be represented as a set of variables, that everything can be quantified and broken down into axes, and this parameterization is a useful or helpful way to model the vast interacting complexity of a biological system. If you have ever tried to do PCA on a gene expression dataset, you know my pain. The exercise is futile; you are attempting to produce a description of the world based on a presumption that is wholly inadequate.
Silicon Graphics was bought by Rackable for pennies back in 2009, Rackable then changed its name to SGI. The SGI of old is long gone.
Let's face it, the majority of the population lazily look for simple formulas along the lines of "(Don't) do this, and you'll get that". Media panders to that when drawing conclusions from studies often leaving out most or all of the important details. 99% of folks out there hear of these studies via media and not by reading research papers. Meanwhile most simple formulas of this kind are not worth the energy it takes to draw the pixels given the profound variety of genetic and environmental factors at play.

I find the suggestion at the end of this article truly pathetic: "Some medical experts say the problems with lifestyle studies are so overwhelming — and the chance of finding anything reproducible and meaningful so small — that it might be best to just give up on those questions altogether." This is typical big media bullshit pandering to the inert.

I mean come on... How about we don't give up on questions? How about we learn to ask the right questions instead? How about we spend more time training and studying our own bodies than we spend reading our Facebook feeds?
I use the monitor's toggle. For keyboard/mouse, I have a separate keyboard for the two computers, and my mouse (Logitech MX Master) has a toggle that lets it switch between computers. I'm not sure how you'd do this with a multi-monitor setup, but there's probably an intermediary DisplayPort controller that would let you do it.
On my T530, there's a firmware option to set the graphics to discrete-only, integrated-only, or optimus. The downside to discrete-only is the power usage. The downside to integrated-only is that the displayport won't work.

All three work great in Windows of course. For Linux, integrated-only is best, followed by discrete-only, and I've never had success with optimus.
wrk is pretty awesome for non-distributed testing. It supports lua scripting so it actually can be used to do tests that bust caches or run other custom logic.

If you need a more sophisticated product, I've used jmeter before. It is distributed, supports all kinds of protocols, scenarios, etc. If you want to stress test a checkout flow it can be good. It's kind of an ugly mess though.
Gary Taube's NuSI initiative tried to control for some of these factors with metabolic chambers, having subjects in a controlled environment with exact meals, etc. Still was very hard since the subjects actually burned more calories when let out of their room.

On a slightly offtopic note; the first results of NuSI have not been published but in this video, one of the researchers discusses the findings which may (or may not) come as a surprise:

_No Metabolic Advantage for Ketosis Found_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUyjMjuLl0
Well, you're right in that vagina literally means vagina in English. And yes, there are occasions where language is unambiguously metaphorical. I do not, however, appreciate how either of these undermine my larger claim. Not sure if you disagree with me on a more fundamental level or not.
Is that really the biggest problem though?

The survival feedback loop is a well-trodden trope in game design. Punch a tree. NMS actually succeeds here by constantly draining resources in order to survive... the same resources needed for many crafting recipes. You also can't carry a mountain's worth of resources in your back pocket. The severely limited (at first) inventory space is a subtle resource as well.

Thematically it makes sense enough to immerse oneself in the game. Space, for all its wonders, is incredibly hostile to soft, squishy meat bags. It's tougher than the sea on our equipment... and the sea destroys everything eventually. So of course it takes resources to survive and travel to new worlds.

The narrative framework of these mechanics is not built on one of harmonious living on a single patch of land with a zero-carbon footprint.

And you don't have to kill the animals at all to catalog them (tiny, fast moving birds not-with-standing).

Thematically I don't see this as the "biggest problem."
Sidelining well established standards isn't the solution to the web's problems. This is one of the instances where being open source it's not enough and coming from Google it is actually worrying. A very obvious Trojan horse in my opinion.
I love chemicals. I try to eat a variety of chemicals every day. But I want to eat the ones that are good for me, not the ones that are designed to keep things in a box from rotting.
The Perfect Crime, or how to get away with murder in Idaho
I remember a webcomic about this trope in a game many years ago. Interaction with the world was via hitting things with a sword. Last panel culminated with the character knitting a sweater (by hitting it with a sword), IIRC.

No luck finding it again.
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Yes, that may be true for byte[], but there's no primitive types in play here. Java collections hold object types only.
Despite the fact it was meant for something probably different, this reminds me of what Umberto Eco wrote in his "Ur-Fascism": [...] We kids hurried to pick up the shells, precious items, but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

And, sad enough, nowadays we are full of rhetoric.
Are you following the Terms of Use for each service? Yelp definitely doesn't allow you to redistribute rating data without serious restrictions.
Private federal prisons – less safe, less secure