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As long as it's advertised that way upfront, then I don't see why not. Tesla is not going to be the only automated car manufacturer. Today, you can buy cars that only take specialty parts. You can also buy cars that take standard parts. I'm sure it will be that way with automated cars too. Same way that you should be able to buy an iPhone with all of its non-standard quirks.

As for safety, it depends on the specific parts. An automated car is a complete integrated system. Once people start swapping parts, the test-matrix to ensure safety explodes. People modifying the driving software in their own cars, for example, is definitely a no-go. (And modifying any software at all should be prohibited unless the driving and entertainment computers are completely air-gapped.)
Ok, it seems you know more than me about this so let me try to poke holes in an attempt to learn further.

Was there really more capital available in private markets before 2008? I thought that was just because of post-2008 QE. That timing doesn't seem to work either.

Didn't Microsoft have billions in cash on its balance sheet in the 90's? I thought tech companies always hoarded cash when they were cash cows, and that it was at least partly a consequence of tax regulation, with cash sitting in one jurisdiction (say Ireland in recent years) costing too much to move around.

The fact that the delta in IPOs went up doesn't necessarily seem so indicative. There's a holding capacity for IPOs in an economy. I think your graph shows just how far the holding capacity dropped after SOX.
I would like to take a moment to appreciate that we seemingly have a pretty open, fair, and working regulatory system to make this possible. I am sure it's not perfect, but that you can do this at all is pretty cool.
NiceGuy – the world's happiest app?
I apologize, it will not happen again.
That's true, though I wouldn't expect such a fan to opt for the cheapest available. If someone's buying an average of one a year, that could be due to poor durability or each iteration has clear room for improvement, addressed by another model.

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wireless-exercise-head...

My understanding are the AirPods are a relative bargain when compared to other models that use independent pieces in each ear.
Android applications are compiled, so they can be obfuscated. Web applications do not work that way at all, and proper obfuscation is impossible. There will always be a way to reverse this, and the actual content shouldn't be obfuscated anyway, as this would have severe negative effects on SEO.

Other than that, just because you can steal other people's hard work doesn't mean you should.

You clearly do not understand this situation.
The principle of least action states that the path that a system takes is the one that minimizes it's 'action'. Famously, this says that light travelling through a lens will go through in the fastest path (taking into account the fact that it is slower moving through the lens than through the air). The Euler-Lagrange equations give an approach to solving 'any' classical system using this principle. In order to do so, you first parametrize the system by specifying some variables that describe the state of the system. Then you describe the energy of the system in terms of its parameters. Then you plug that into Euler-Lagrange and you can solve for the motion of the system based. (The 'action' in this sense is determined by the energy along a path that the system might take.)

(This is in contrast to Physics 101 approach of a free body diagram where you add up a bunch of forces on an object. In particular the 'constraints' that the system faces (in this example, it's that the pendulum is confined to moving along a circle) are implicitly included in the parametrization of the system and so there's no need to ever consider directly the force of the bar of the pendulum that holds the weight in place.)

The first example on the page parametrizes the pendulum in the 'obvious' way, by noting that you know the state of a pendulum if you know what angle the weight forms relative to the vertical (plus also the rate at which that angle is changing). This is nice, but the solution involves trigonometric functions.

The second one parametrizes the same system in a different way. Here the mu parameter is, roughly speaking, the height of the weight above the minimum (but not really). It still specifies where the pendulum is (the equation M(mu) = ... tells you the (x,y) coordinates of the pendulum's weight for a particular mu), so we can still calculate the energy of the pendulum in terms of mu. Energy has two components, kinetic and potential. Potential is the just height from 0 times mass times gravitational constant g. The kinetic is mv^2/2 and the speed v can be determined by using the parametrization above M(mu)= .... The end result is a different means of expressing the same system, but interesting in a manner that does not involve trigonometric functions despite being 'so obviously' trigonometric in nature.

One might hope that eliminating a trig function would speed up simulation. I think it's clear that one would need a more demanding simulation to make the difference noticeable.

I think this is a fun little project and it was nice to see it introduce me to a new concept (rational trig).
Hey, that's great, I'm glad that works for you. I'd rather pick the best tool for the job, and learn it, than try to make was was for me a mediocre tool less mediocre.

If I were, for example, editing Java at any great amount, I'd probably look to one of those popular Java editors (I've heard good things about, I think it's called, IntelliJ?). I'd wager money it's more finely tuned for working in Java than Emacs will ever be, just because there's people who want to keep making money to write it.

And so on.

Like I said, if I were still just writing code like I used to, in an earlier stage of my career, I'd probably be satisfied with Emacs. I moved on, though, and do different things. When faced with a choice of learning new, good tools and trying to hold onto my old mediocre tools, well, I'll pick the learnin'. I think I've ended up more productive, anyway.
There is a little chip inside the cartridge, EPSON's chip was cloned in China so you can use the third-party inks "safely", however it's not the case for HP.

I had not bought any HP products for 10+ years.
If you take the opportunity to express your right to visit the House of Commons when it is normally sitting (i.e. during office hours, not during recess and not during PMQs) you'll see very measured, fairly productive and often entirely non-combative debate.

PMQs is entirely accepted as a show that gives all MPs and the press a broad view, almost a caricature of the events and issues of the week and the positions of the parties.

If you had moved to the UK and had no idea of the current state of politics, you could very quickly get up to speed by simply watching a single session of PMQs.

Just for clarity, to attend a PMQs you need to get a ticket from your MP, in most cases a request in a letter is sufficient.

As you posted a link to a PMQ, I'll not miss this opportunity to post a link to when Hague met Prescott over the dispatch box in 2006. For those not in the know, when the PM is away the Deputy PM takes over (Who was in this case the famously brash and ineloquent John Prescott), and as is tradition the Deputy Leader of the Opposition asks the question (who was in this case the fairly forgettable and ineffective past-leader of the opposition William Hague). This is a great example of what is known as "Punch and Judy Politics".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeOafTBoVs
This is a serious issue and you're not helping by trying to dismiss it as childish or otherwise delegitimizing it. It's very easy to say “technical progress” should be a priority when the issue in question doesn't affect you personally but that reflects a gross failure of empathy on your part rather than an argument against the Libreboot decision. Open source development, especially in the FSF's area, is generally about people volunteering their time and valuable expertise to contribute to a public good. It is simply unreasonable and unrealistic to suggest that people prioritize that goal over every other consideration. As a hypothetical, suppose the issue in question was anti-Semitism and a Jewish maintainer decided to leave – would you really tell them that they should just be focused on creating a free operating system?

To be clear: I am not saying that this is a valid complaint, that the FSF is in the right or wrong, etc. I don't know any details about the incidents in question but I can see that it's a serious allegation which should not be arbitrarily dismissed. I hope that the FSF works to ensure that the community and potential new contributors can trust them to follow their stated policies.
There's also Navigo, a minimal router - https://github.com/krasimir/navigo
Except there are no alternatives for those that sell software, as I mentioned on my comment FOSS users don't pay for desktop software.
On average, the legislative representative has no clue about the motion but someone along its party said to vote yes or no and that is it...

To be fair, numerically most of the new laws pass in a "alternative" voting style where you have only the leader of a block of parties voting for all the block... And sometimes they even form blocks of laws to the voted in this style... So yes, no discussion at all...

You have to understand also that we follow the Roman Judicial System, so we have a hundred times more laws that the Anglo-Saxonic countries...
For a sample size of two, one a painting and repair garage, and another a trucking company, the level of annoyance and apparent post-facto requirements for opening these businesses were right up to the threshold of madness.
From http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/062231-000-A/oceans-le-mystere-p... in french

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Oceans, plastic mystery

Of all the plastic waste dumped into the sea, scientists found that in 1%. Where did the remaining immensity? Survey become an invisible toxic pollution.

Would the plastic changing marine ecosystem without anyone able yet all the consequences? Now part of the oceans, as well as algae or plankton, waste plastics are everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica through the tropical seas. Several studies agree to say that nearly 50 billion pieces of plastic polluting the oceans. But here's the mystery: the vast majority (! 99%) of this waste has gone. Where did it go? Is ingested by marine organisms? Scientists around the world - oceanographers, environmentalists, microbiologists ... - now investigating this plastic became invisible.

A hunt

Until now, the scientific community knew that this waste fractionnaient in microplastic, particularly under the action of the waves and sun. It concluded that the plastic pieces remained mostly clustered on the surface. But recent studies have invalidated this hypothesis. Since these particles, which represent almost all plastic waste from the ocean, focus the attention of researchers: they are the heart of the problem because their ability to enter the environment seems endless. Seabed, ice, coast, wildlife ...: This documentary explores, in many scientific company, all tracks to understand where the plastic cover is, and wonders about the impact of this massive pollution.

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Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/304/5672/838
Update to the Poly/ML code-generator and run-time system interface
what's the benefit of this over a typical c++ method? I'm planning to use c or c++ for some network daemons.
I don't believe amphetamine at therapeutic doses is addictive. You definitely have to ween off of it, because cold turkey means you'll sleep for a week straight. And any trace of euphoria goes away after a few months of daily therapeutic doses. Even if you quit for a week+ and get back on, the euphoria only comes back for, at most, a couple days.
Because the internet justice mob has never been mistaken? Because vigilantes never get a just a little carried away, and firebomb completely unrelated products with one star reviews?
Good service too. Brother sent out a Pitney Bowes repair person free of charge for my $350 color laser printer.
'Web applications do not work that way at all'

You clearly do not understand the tech. Most (good) web sites are SASS, and that gets compiled for one.

You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
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Wikipedia doesn't have anything because you haven't added it yet.
Fascinating! I'll be thinking about this.
It's okay to disagree with any of those bullets. I disagree with the entire hand out, but that's not relevant to the people it works for in whole or in part.

I'm a total autodidact. I've been doing it long enough that I know what works for me, but I know that many people don't have the base knowledge to do it, so if they need a resource on how to become a better self-learner (or be successful at coursera), at least it is a start.
I gave a link with data that adds it up and how they added it up. You just gave your opinion.
Curious if anyone sells such panels
At http://2016.pyconuk.org/ we just ran a fantastic kids day - about 60 children with parents using pi-top ceeds, to program minecraft and then connect their microbits (one each free, thank you sponsors) to raspberryPIs gpio and so on. This was arranged by RPi foundation and used micro Python and was a great success

As one of organisers of PyConUk obviously I say use micropython , but whichever you go for I hope it is as great as we just saw

Just be ready for a lot of work

If you want contacts please ping me - paul@mikadosoftware.com
Ask HN: Can 32-bit Interact with 64-bit?
I was reading up on malware and malware removal, I don't quite understand this though: Can 32-bit malware(Written in VB6) infect 64-bit systems in the way of adding code to the end of the programs memory space, access the kernal or inject code in an application?
I too tried to get autocomplete going in Emacs, and that is the biggest challenge. However, I quickly realized that autocomplete is overrated. I am no less productive without it. In fact, the "snippet" module for Emacs has allowed me to be a lot more productive by generating keystrokes that complete common language idioms for me quickly. In C++, for example, using push_back is very common, and an autocomplete could help with this simple function call, but my snippet goes further and does so more quickly with fewer keystrokes.

Autocomplete even on a major IDE on a fast machine can sometimes still take an extra second to pop up. I can type faster than that, and I can certain snippet a lot faster than that.

Other things like all the different ways to write for loops (the types of iteration) I have snippetized so I can quickly generate the loop I need, which goes much further than autocomplete would.
Kids. School projects (science fair posters) and reports. And they also do some creative games/puzzles with them. Or print reminder/todo lists for them.

I'll also print interesting graphs or graphics, to share/discuss with them. It's much harder to discuss in front of a screen.
I can see the value in the organization of these activities. But without some kind of manual curation into "layman" categories or translations of what these activities are, it's still difficult for me to interpret.
Working on my startup, I have thought a lot about this. Would the following be useful to anyone?

-create a linode, AWS or DO instance.

- Have trusted friend config wireless router to use new instance IP for DNS.

- Run modified nodejs dnsjack on new instance.

- Add my SmartMadre traffic control code to instance. Config oAuth or our APIanySite

- Now, code will cut off non allowed sites after X mins. SmartMadre code requires some amount of measurable progress to allow full internet back

- give trusted friend control of instance. You and friend could get email showing amount of daily progress.

- Suggestions welcome!
Actually you can browse the site fully without ever logging in.

Same as with other social sites. You will be able to freely browse it without logging in but taking any action will require you to create an account. You'll be able to find all the bills, reps, comments by users, etc. You only have to signup if you want to follow bills (get updates when they change) or reps (when they sponsor new bills), vote on bills and build your approval rating.

It might be a bit unclear but the top navigation bar will help you browse through the site. Example link for bills https://4us.com/Bills

We just wanted to have the homepage as a landing page and list what the site does.
>Not checking with your instructors or classmates to clear up points of confusion.

Having spend much of yesterday grading, this one rings true. As a professor it is incredibly disappointing to get an assignment from a student who clearly didn't understand the assignment and decided to fake it only to do the assignment totally wrong.

Students, if you are confused: 1. read the directions 2. look on the syllabus (I get way too many emails with questions that are answered in the directions or the syllabus) and then 3. ask the instructor
That's the point. Requirements are rarely as strict as we presume they are.
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>"Being European, I see in the American mentality this kind of way of thinking like "if he is poor is because he is lazy and didn't work hard enough, so he deserves to be poor and suffer"

Where do you "see" that?

I am curious have you visited America? Have you spoken to Americans that live in cities that have acute problems with homelessness? Have you visited those cities yourself?

I can assure you that what you "see" in the American mentality is not the predominant or prevailing view. Its actually quite a complicated problem that involves mental health, bad circumstances, social programs, drug addiction, child abuse and a host of other nuances. Its very easy to over simplify from an ocean away though.
homelessness is tough. In our medium size city (Columbia, SC) we have roughly 1,400 homeless and no one (myself included) seems to know what to do. I feel like affordable/free housing has been tried before, and you end up with "projects" with a drug problem. I wonder how they expect this will be different.

Am I off here? Does it not seem naive to say: "they're homeless, so let's just give them an apartment and say our 'homeless' rate dropped"? As if that was the essential problem? What about the mental health and drug (etc) issues that created the environment for unsustainable work...

I'm not saying it sounds like a bad solution, but it seems like a bandaid on a gaping wound.
hilarious. reminds me of many good old days tricks and fun.
There is theorized to be some synergistic effects between tobacco smoking and the antipsychotic medications that people such as your brother often require. IIRC it really isn't known why that is, but it seems relatively well accepted among people who routinely work with schizophrenia.
What would a nicotine patch do to a non-smoker?
I have a feature phone with a micro-USB port for charging these days. :)
> but anyone rational, especially "gifted", compartmentalizes it and moves on

I'm mildly shocked at your inability to realize not everyone 'gifted' is rational, nor do they necessarily compartmentalize. Some of the greatest minds ever recorded in history had emotional problems, and issues working with others. Many were not rational, or socially normal.
Did you take a pay cut to get it?

If you didn't, good job.

If you did, you valued the equity at market rate - actual pay, conscious or not.
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I do not know what does, I am just pointing out that I cannot move over to BT as it is right now. I have all my music in ALAC and I am using a great headphone that has no alternative in post iPhone 7 Apple land.
> As one child described it, they feel "like abandoned aliens waiting for the mother ship to come and take them home"

This is exactly how I felt. I can remember thinking those exact words when I was very young - although I didn't really start questioning the nature of reality until my early teens.

At some point, I realised that these thoughts were only causing depression, so I decided to simply stop thinking about them. I also became apathetic, and detached from my own emotions.

Ultimately, my own existential depression led to self-destructive behavior - perhaps this was related to the coping strategy of "Seeking novelty and adrenaline rushes".

Edit: I would like to add that I do not consider myself gifted. I simply have a rather narrow set of interests which I have become good at. I think it is particularly common for "technical" people to be told they are gifted, because to the untrained observer their skills can seem like wizardry.
> I also think if you don't care about what your house looks like, you can either paint it black or wrap it in black plastic.

Such heating will work during the day but transporting the energy from the heated plastic into the house is another matter. The hot surface also would radiate a lot of heat immediately away. And when the night comes you heat the sky with what you have stored up.

The article is fascinating as it shows what can be achieved on a system engineering level. As an engineer however I would also like to see some performance measurements like air flow and temperature deltas going beyond the anecdotal story keeping the build warm in the northern US. Did not see anything on his homepage.

There have been related posts on HN that showed advances on material science level where the absorption and radiation wavelengths of surfaces have been optimized.

> Unfortunately there are big problems that I encountered that I couldn't solve cheaply.

PV system cost these days is dominated by other costs than the solar cells. Engineering something that can withstand weather for a sustained period is both non-trival and not cheap. There may be some overlap in what PV systems require and what a passive heating system requires. Maybe the massive investments in the PV space make passive heating systems these days more practical?
Where's that machine learning when you need it ;)
Indeed, after having that we just need headphones with reasonable battery life.
> everyone 'gifted' is rational

this was not implied in OP
Good luck enforcing an dmca on a website code vs a foreign company. The court history of such cases is rather funny. From cases thrown out of the court, to unenforceable defaults
Are you printing in color?
How does one scroll on a laptop without the browser's scroll bar on the right? What's the point of the "software" if you take away the base feature of a browser?
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There are good ways to handle these situations. A cloying name and shame blog post with allusions to journalistic integrity is not one.
Yes, until they send you off to Klendathu for duty...
A doctor is generally someone who is trying to maintain your current level of health, or manage any issues with that health which do arise. They're not there to take even minimal risks so that you can improve your working memory, even if that risk is slight. Maybe there should be a new field of doctors who aren't there to keep you healthy, who don't abide by the 'no harm' principle, and who will happily prescribe you anything that hasn't been proven to be dangerous.

It's not reasonable to expect that of doctors in their current position, with their current professional and ethical framework however.