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> a comment from someone who is not an Indian

I have fond memories of my aunts making dried fish curry (my dad is from a part of Bangladesh that makes this: http://bengalicuisine.net/2010/lotiya-shutki). It's delicious, but you can smell it cooking in an apartment building from outside.

> Its funny, the conviction that over a billion people of a different country/culture would see the world like you would.

I think there is a tendency for people, often westerners but also Indian elites (and the author of this article is definitely one of those), to romanticize aspects of life there that I don't think ordinary people will be sad to see go.
>it's usually referred to as curation

It's also referred to as cronyism and discrimination. Allowing a decision-maker to employ purely subjective criteria is wide open to abuse. Without objective standards, that behaviour is impossible to challenge.
I agree too. Whenever we travel as a (big) family by train, we ALWAYS pack food! And everyone brings a delicacy that makes up the feast!
@dang ?
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There are always lines to be drawn - this is "in" or this is "out". Are performance enhancing drugs in or out of Baseball? What about catamarans in the America's Cup or Oscar Pistorius' running blades. Or more interestingly the running blades on a non-paralympic athlete's legs?

Researching technology and techniques to determine if they are good for the sport like the Curling Federation is doing is little different from the MLBA deciding on whether wood, metal, or corked and testing the effects on the game.

I'm not sure the manufacturing changes "improved" the sport so much as "changed" it which could be good, bad, or indifferent depending on the team, skill, strengths, and weaknesses. But testing and understanding the changes is a worthwhile goal.
> First, I have yet to see a wave of mainstream technology that lasted more than 2 seasons.

Is technology codename for web framework now? How about C, C++, Java, the JVM, Unix, OpenGL, Directx, Windows, .NET, Python? Aren't they also considered technologies?
A lot of our lapops at work (the majority, in fact) have ~240GB SSDs, so that's about 10% of their disks. Not insignificant.
It's similar, but a key difference is that Milk is deferring the exact timing of access in order to do a sort. You can build the same thing atop scatter/gather primitives but they don't do that for you themselves.
What is concerning is this:

>Most people surveyed said they want to get married at some point.

This isn't delineated by gender, so I interpret it as meaning that Japanese men and women both want to get married -- but they aren't enough for each other.

>A booming industry surrounds Japan's growing condition of loneliness, a phenomenon at once quite particular to the Japanese, yet also a glimpse into a future where many people live atomized lives mediated exclusively through personal technology.

That modern philosophy tends to devalue (or rather not value) human relationships is the one thing I'm tempted to blame this on:

https://philosophyinseconds.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/the-...

But that is probably personal bias creeping up. Working hours are the popular explanation, but there is an incongruity: most Japanese claim to want to have relationships, so if they thought working hours were the problem then why haven't they complained? And how could they fail to notice something so obvious? If housing prices are the problem, how does this occur when Japan's population has been in decline for forty years?

I've heard of this phenomenon (and similar ones in Western Europe) and I pick up and discard economic explanations like bottles of some alcoholic beverage. But the alarm in the back of my head says that our culture is the problem, and it just happens to be popular in Japan. If that's the case, things will get worse, not better.
> […] positive effect on the wolves teaching them that they get shot if they go near the sheep. Culls don't teach the wolf packs anything.

Do canines really learn that fast? I have always imagined that it takes verbal communication of some kind to pass on complicated knowledge to the next generation, and most knowledge canines possess is evolutionarily passed on, which is a really frickin' slow process unless you intentionally breed them one way or the other.
I guess whether it's overvalued or undervalued depends on whom we're talking about. Your point is well taken, but I think the real problem is that inexperienced programmers want the best of both worlds. In other words, they design systems that require consistency to function correctly because it's easier, but then they do not actually guarantee said consistency, because hey, schemaless is so much faster than boring old SQL.

The way I like to think about it (and mind you, I'm an early-stage kind of guy, so I rarely work on huge systems) is that consistency guarantees give you a lot of leverage, and while it's almost unattainable in the real world, in the computing world we have extremely powerful CPUs and networks that allow communication between any two points on the globe in less than a second. There is frankly a huge number of applications that can be built on an ACID database and never have to worry about the offline or distributed use cases that would require building a proper distributed system.
A non-profit is run by real people and a social network needs an infrastructure. There are a lot of bills to be paid. The money paying the bills was obviously earned by someone doing things for profit or is donated by a lottery winner. I don't trust lottery winners, especially when they want to manage my personal data "for free".

If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. That's why I only use social networks with a realistic monthly/annual fee, like Xing.com or meetup.com.
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Thats an odd place. Lots of natural fossil energy, low population, nearby wind capacity already exists. I guess they did the math though.
Farming in Norway is largely unprofitable anyway. All West Norwegian farmers I have talked to consider it an expensive hobby. Most Norwegian farming is only economically viable due to government subsidies, which have a long tradition due to famine in old history and living memory.
We were discussing various topics, fashion, film, and graphic arts, and of course, Godzilla:

http://www.oneikathetraveller.com/tokyo-style-and-infantiliz...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_manga#After_World_W...

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/godzilla-is-our-never-endin...

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[p.s. edit: this thread got me surfing around and landed on the topic of Kawaii Ambassadors [below], which prompts the thought that another component of this very visible trend in post WWII Japanese culture may be a desire to present a non-threatening global image.]

http://web-japan.org/trends/09_culture/pop090827.html

http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-k...

https://youtu.be/qAc3xXEx7lo
that's sad, I guess I need a new retirement idea :)
I've started using haml recently, it handles this for you and works well for me.
Perhaps I missed it, but I feel like an important aspect is being left out of this article. For the average person, English is not their native language. [1]

However, it is also becoming the 'lingua franca' of science and the leading edge of technology - that is, even if it is only a second language, people are spending a lot of time thinking in it. As someone who is not a native English speaker, I am very often lost for words when expressing certain ideas in my own mother tongue (someone will helpfully point out that it is possible I didn't learn my own language very well, which might also be true), especially when communicating concepts like privacy and such.

This leads to a gap - the number of ideas and concepts that can be expressed by the average person in their native language is less than the number of ideas and concepts that can be expressed in a non-native language, assuming the non-native language is English. Correspondingly, it is possible your brain is just that little bit more open and receptive to ideas, and sort of turns down its emotional reaction a little bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
Yeah but if none of us had this construct of 'good' or 'evil', we wouldn't be able to co-operate. We would all be killing each other to get resources - Physical strength and brutality would become the most important evolutionary traits.

I almost certainly would not be able to exist in such a world - So my existence (and that of millions of people like me) relies on the fact that people believe in 'good' and 'evil'. So I support the notion.

That said, the notion of 'good' and 'evil' doesn't have to be homogeneous throughout society. In our current economic environment, it pays to be slightly evil because it lets you take advantage of people who are less evil than you. If you can do 'evil' things but manage to deceive people into believing that what you're doing is actually 'good' - Then you have a huge evolutionary advantage.

I think hypocrisy is a huge evolutionary advantage as well.
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It's not that they "can't be handled". It's that locals "handle" wolves by killing them. Authorities fear all wolves will get killed eventually, unless they are killed systematically and in an organised fashion.
But can't they sign some other key pair, representing you?
"Have good food, that sells. Nothing else matters." Not

I have zero experience in the food industry. But I tell you two things from observation:

1. First, learn where the profit is made. For many restaurants the profits are made with alcohol, not with the food.

2. I have seen restaurants with the most delicious and affordable food bite the dust. It is my impression that in places like NYC you are more in the real estate business than in the food business. Your landlord raises the rent and you are out.

I respect people that run successful restaurants. I think the difficulty is often highly underestimated.
It is definitely their choice to remain homogeneous. One way or another that choice will have strong consequences be they good or bad.
Not really. The fall of the Roman Republic was ultimately due to the intransigence of the Senate and the transfer of the loyalties of the Legions from the state to their individual generals.
This is why I've always advocated DTD-validation of HTML (which is shockingly underused).
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Research medical centers of Tanzania embrace TrueConf’s video conferencing
Ifakara Health Institute, a Tanzanian medical research institute, have successfully implemented a UC platform into their corporate enterprise network with TrueConf. TrueConf’s video conferencing solution has helped the institute to organize video conferences and meetings among four offices and cut their business travel expenses.
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is organized into six research thematic groups – Biomedical Science; Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences; Interventions; Health Systems; Impact Evaluation; and Policy Translation & Delivery. Another focus of IHI is training medical personnel and scientific staff.
IHI offices are located in Dar es Salaam, Ifakara, Bagamoyo and in the Rufiji area, which are more than 400 km away from each other. To enable full cooperation and effective collaboration of the units, as well as to use existing equipment more efficiently, the institute needed a new convenient communication and video conferencing system. IHI specifically needed a video conferencing system capable of operating with slow Internet connection conditions and that could make use of the limited reception capacity of the institute equipment.
After successful testing, IHI engineers integrated TrueConf Server with already existing video conferencing equipment based on SIP/H.323 protocols. At the same time, institute staff were provided with client applications which enable the employees to organize multipoint video conferences on the devices they use for work every day.
I worked for Compaq for awhile in Houston. They built this fantastic houston campus, full of high rise buildings surrounded by woods. It was my first experience of a corporate tech campus, and while it was nothing compared to the Ski Lodge mentality of later (still 1990s) Microsoft Campus it was impressive to me.

At around the 2nd or 3rd story there was a tunnel between the buildings, making a big ring. You could run/walk the tunnel all the way around the campus, including thru the manufacturing area (yes, they actually made their computers on site in Houston, this was back when you didn't get everything made in asia.)

This company was the most paranoid I worked for. There were multiple levels of code names. EG: the code name for our product that my manager used with me was different than the code name that she used with her boss.[1] So she once started talking about a product but was using the wrong code name and I was completely confused! The product we were making was a printer driver. Nothing you would think needed to be that secret (and at this point the printers were increasingly commoditized- the job ended when Compaq got out of the business entirely.) And in fact there were different code names for the different versions, so I had to use multiple code names. We all knew the real product name too, so it was kinda silly.

I remember the really rough searches we had to go thru - the Compaq security guards seemed to be all assholes. Prototypes of todays TSA. You had to be searched when coming in and when leaving. (we were going to smuggle software out in a pocket??! didn't matter, there was manufacturing going on on the premises, we could be stealing Intel CPUs.)

At one point I discovered a woman from my high school graduating class was also working there (this was a big company at this point!) and we just met up one day in the tunnels and went to lunch. (also a woman in tech, I tell you it was no big deal until people started giving them a stigma.)

But it was great- in the stifling heat of Houston, to have that tunnel between the buildings, that was air conditioned, you could go anywhere in the company via those tunnels and you had a great view-- it was a sea of tree tops, with a few high rises sticking up. (Compaq was up north of houston, away from the Houston Sprawl.)

I wonder what happened to that campus.[2]

[1] Yes, back in the 1990s, females were about %50 of the tech population, their proportions dropped when people started telling young girls that tech was hostile to females. My mother is a programmer, for instance, and her team was %60 female, %40 male- in part due to sexism, women were perceived as being more appropriate for "sitting around typing all day" so she was able to hire females more than "ruining a guys career" by hiring guys. But that was because her company was old school. Tech companies like compaq were much better.)

[2] Here's a picture showing the tunnels I was talking about. Looks like 2nd floor but I think it varied by building elevation: http://www.lagunabeachbikini.com/shoebox/1991/Compaq-1991/bi...
Fair enough, but that's why we cluster at the coast. Much more temperate. :)

Although, the last few years haven't been as hot, IIRC. Growing up, I remember when we would have multiple periods in the summer where it was in the low 100's for 3-5 days in a row, and that doesn't seem to be happening in recent years (but I could just be remembering outliers).

That said, 100 degrees here isn't the same as 100 degrees there. It's all dry heat here. I would take a dry 100 over a muggy, humid 85 any day (but that's what I grew up with). I've been to the east coast a few times in the summer, and walking out of an air conditioned building into the humidity is still something I distinctly remember more than twenty years later.
What a mess. We botched GPS/AHRS integration in our 2005 Grand Challenge vehicle. Seen this type of problem.

Here's the problem. You have an Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) with three rate gyros and three accelerometers, plus a magnetometer as a compass. From this information, you want to get aircraft orientation and heading. Integrating the rate gyros gives orientation, but because you're integrating a rate, there's cumulative error over time. The accelerometers give you a down reference. Not always a good one. Some AHRS units will lose their down reference if you fly in a circle for a while, and the accelerometers see a consistent but wrong "down" direction from centrifugal force.

So AHRS systems are prone to cumulative error accumulation. You also have a GPS system, which is prone to short-term noise but does not accumulate cumulative error. GPS is position only; there's no orientation info from GPS. (There are some multiple-antenna GPS systems that get orientation, but those are rare) So AHRS/GPS systems try to combine the two using various filters. Those filters embody assumptions about the error properties of each system. Fusion of the two sources provides position information, with the GPS fixes being augmented with short-term info from the AHRS. However, it's possible for GPS position to "jump" due to radio propagation problems. You see this on smartphones all the time. It's not as bad for aircraft, which usually have a clear view of the sky. (It's much harder for ground vehicles, which can't always see enough GPS satellites. We had a lot of trouble with this in 2005.)

The important outputs are attitude (pitch, roll, and yaw) which drive the artificial horizon ball (or, today, a graphic which looks like one). There's also heading, which drives the compass. The attitude outputs also drive the aircraft's stability control systems. The AHRS data can be used raw, or combined with GPS data to get not only attitude but position.

Usually, the AHRS outputs are used without GPS info to drive the aircraft systems that just need attitude. But the fused AHRS/GPS data is usually better, and dealing with inconstencies between the unaugmented AHRS info and the fused data is a pain. So there's a temptation to use the fused data for everything. Embraer apparently did this.

There's an argument for source integration. Air France 447 crashed because they lost airspeed and altitude data when the pitot tubes and static ports froze up. An integrated AHRS/GPS system would have given them accurate info on vertical speed and altitude even without air sensors. So integration isn't fundamentally a bad idea. If you integrate sources, though, you have to deal with sensor conflicts. That's a hard problem. Filters alone will not do it.

The integration used by Embraer (who did the avionics, by the way?) apparently doesn't handle GPS failures properly. The AHRS is still there, and that's all you need for aircraft stability. But if the fused outputs are used for stability augmentation, stall warning, and such, apparently they can fail when the GPS data does.
Should you feel guilty about building technology that saves 10 lives for every 1 person that it kills?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/self-d...
Ask HN: Any resources on how to move existing premise applications to cloud?
When tasked with moving an in-premise application to cloud based one, what are the things to be taken considered?

Some of the things I can think of

* re-architect the existing app probably to micro service architecture (debatable)

* how to setup CI/CD process

* processes and tools

* how to auto scale with not only on AWS/Azure but own data centre

* monitoring and logs

Of course, I might be missing a lot of things from the list above.

I would like your suggestions on going about this. Any pointers to any resources (books, videos, articles, etc ...) highly appreciated.
Women, just like men, don't want to all be stay at home parents or pursue a career while being childless.

Quite a lot of people may be even most want both, so as a government you should make that possible. This indicates that the government might be succeeding at that.
Meanwhile in the U.S., AT&T executives have permitted mass governmental surveillance through their network for decades, even before the Patriot Act, even before national security letters. AT&T never made a single public complaint about the surveillance, and for all we know, they were eager participants.
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You can turn off multicast discovery and write in unicast peering addresses. If you are in the cloud and you are clustering this is step 1 =)
Under this model, drone operators should get paid $100M/year. I sincerely doubt the satisfaction from all the disability adjusted life years saved from facilitating the creation of autonomous cars would be overshadowed by the occasion life lost. It is a similar level of power as a commanding officer in a conflict situation.
I got bit by this the other day when returning a nil pointer to a struct as an error. It was incredibly frustrating when I finally figured out what was going on, and I'm curious if there's a good reason to distinguish between these 2 types of nil or if it was just an oversight/mistake during the language design process.
It's not a judicial review, the PKG (parliamentary control committee) and the G10 Kommittee, which is a subset of the PKG, both consist of members of Parliament, and they do the same work (keeping an eye on the executive branch's work) - just for efforts whose information is considered too sensitive for wider distribution.
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I'm not terribly sure about this, might be my skewed perspective, but it feels like Scala is being dragged into mainstream by Spark.
just some chick bragging about ripping off chefs with "interviews" so she could "feed herself" and be "popular" with her "friends"
Are you using HA functionality and also on disk backing? These two things bring down performance roughly 5-10x and are mostly required for situations that can't afford message loss. I still like the rabbitmq solution, it is my own, but i've found it takes more hardware than you are suggesting.
- Scenario A: Spend $X to make free content accessible to 99% of people.

- Scenario B: Spend $X * Y to make free content accessible to 100% of people.

- Scenario C: You wish to do A but are forced to do B via legislation. $X * Y is greater than your budget to make said content available $Z, so you don't make the content available. I know of more than one organization that has selected this option with free content and with some paid content (in which case $Z is the budget to create it based on the expected revenue) so this is not a theoretical scenario.

Now, Y can vary quite a bit depending on the content and depending on what you're trying to make it accessible to. In the case of making a transcript available, you may have to pay a transcriber. In the case of an app, you may need to buy a screen reader to test with. There are free ones, but they're often not as full featured as the popular one that most folks are using. So, you'll need to buy the $1,100 screen reader (JAWS with the non-Home license) to test against in addition to testing the free open source one. You may also need to pay someone to do more standardized testing with as well.

It's not an insignificant amount of money or work in many cases. I've run into it with PortableApps.com. I had to buy a newer version of our toolkit to be able to get it working with screen readers at all and rewrite multiple controls. I don't have JAWS yet to test against but I do test against NVDA.

There are ways to mitigate some of this. There are multiple groups that transcribe for free to help make content available accessibly. And if you make free open source software that's useful, you can probably find many impaired users willing to help you test as I have for PortableApps.com.

On a personal note, I very much believe in making everything I create accessible.
what's this style guide even mean when google.com doesn't adhere to it?
It's not pedantic. Liftbacks sacrifice rear visibility and read headroom for that sedan-like shape.
No, they can't represent you, because they don't have your private key.