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"But there is no ambiguity in the fact that when the pilot turns on the autopilot, he can -- and does expect -- the computer to take over all flight operations."

What do you mean by this? There are many autopilots which won't take over all flight operations. Some only handle a single control axis, or two. More sophisticated ones can indeed handle everything, but that's not the only kind out there.

If people think that's what all autopilots do, then the name is still a problem, but that's a bit different.
Except for the earthquakes we have once every five or so years...
Heavens, you got me there.

But the cat's out of the bag now, so what can I do?
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Your "Corollary to #1" is YAGNI. I agree with 1. My advice to my teams for #1 is identical.

The complaint about readability in TFA is inexcusable. If I do not have a system for visualizing (or otherwise comprehending) the complexity of my system, then there's not much hope. Dependency graphs and "Find references" in my IDE help. If the only tool in the toolbox is looking at the code that fits in a vim console, then I'm going to have problems writing large applications. I am not that kind of genius. I have met and worked with that kind of genius (i.e. holding all the code in their head) and it turned out that around 1998 codebases hit a size that even those geniuses hit a wall, with project-ending consequences.
> Recently, Ubuntu has stepped up, suggesting that they are planning to use Wayland in conjunction with their own new window manager called Unity.

FYI, the article is a bit dated. Currently Ubuntu is working on their own display server called Mir [0].

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Spec
I dont understand what a pardon or a medal will accomplish. At this point I would assume that the moment the US is aware of his location he would be snuffed out, as discretely as possible. Unsure if there are any verifiable marks that prove he's even still alive (like him sending signed messages or something?).
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Maybe. Louis Rossmann demonstrates a definite difference between speedtest and youtube[1]. The comments suggest it might be "binge-on" throttling, not favoring speedtest per say.

[1] https://youtu.be/2ImKF0fly8s
Synapse does calm down once it's sorted everything out, luckily.
I find this technology incredibly exciting. I'm waiting until cell phones use it in conjunction with mesh networks to create wide adhoc networks in places without cell service. There's some fun app ideas there.

Unfortunately the spectrum that's available for this type of thing varies significantly country-by-country, so it's unlikely to be added to a major phone maker.
I don't know, honestly I left the page baffled as to what it even is. (I got a better idea from a link to the demo posted here on HN.)

It could benefit from focusing on:

1. Why is this thing for me?
2. What is this thing and how does it address #1?

Both of those, if possible, should be answered in 1-3 short sentences, above the fold.
I think the argument against the term 'autopilot' is less about the technical accuracy, and more about the implication and assumptions of the layman. To most people, 'autopilot' suggest that they can be totally hands-off, which isn't true yet.
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This name has certainly been HIGHLY vetted by both marketing and legal. I would wager that the name "Autopilot" was created by marketing, not engineering.
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> The Wikipedia article shows US production dropping 30% from 1967 to 2015. It's a loss, yes, but 70% of the production is still here.

Fair, I plugged my number in upside down. The production 50 years ago was ~46% higher than today, or today's is ~31% lower.

> What's changed is that China and other countries are producing much more now, so as a percentage of world-wide production the US has dropped. But that'd be true even if we were producing more domestic steel than before.

Yes, but we've also dropped 30% of our own production. When our absolute production is down this much and our overall share of production has plummeted, I think it's fair to say the industry has largely left. The population is also up by over 50% since 1967, so per capita our steel production has basically been cut in half.

In comparison, the absolute number of consumer electronics that America produces might actually be higher than 50 years ago, but as a share of the market, production has plummeted, to the point that everyone would likely agree that consumer electronics manufacturing has largely left the US.
The two statements here may be factually true. 1) You had a hard time. 2) Your female classmates, all else being equal, did better. But there's something unsettling about the implication. Namely, by putting these two assertions together, you suggest that they have something to do with each other, which, given the appallingly low representation of women in all areas of computer science, is obviously not true.
Synapse 0.18.0 has just been released, might worth giving it a try as it improves things a bit.

Thanks for the support :)
The heat flux is the important bit, the regions below the extraction zone will be hotter and continue to push heat into the extraction zone. So it only matters if enough heat flows into the extraction zone to make up for the increased heat being taken out (vs the normal rate).

One of the most developed power plants ran out of steam before it ran out of heat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers
One of those terms that has lasted a very long time. That and yak shaving are something we are all familiar with. Good to see the roots of them every now and again.

(Yak shaving origin is here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving

Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

ie: Wash the car (goal) -> broken hose, need to go to hardware store to get new one -> car won't start -> need ride to get new battery -> can't ask neighbor since I have their lawn mower -> took the blade off to sharpen -> which is now why I'm in the basement looking for the grinding wheel.
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No, it happens further back than that. If you pretend that all opinions are equally important, if you legitimize provably wrong opinions just for the sake of "teaching the controversy" or "hearing both sides of the argument", you teach people that it's okay to be ignorant, that it's okay to put their fingers in their ears and ignore the facts when they're presented.

Donald Trump is what happens when you tell someone "yes, it's okay for you to think the president is a Muslim from Kenya" and not challenge that opinion. Unless you seriously think we should continue to pretend that these are actually legitimate opinions to hold? If someone says "vaccines cause autism" and you show them the facts but they come back and say "but those facts were made up by so-called "scientists"!", what then? What's your next move? You've already proven them wrong, they've already ignored you.

Either you continue to listen to them, thereby legitimizing their point of view, or you say they're crazy and move on with your life. Because you can only argue with facts. If you argue with them, you're inherently accepting their opinion as fact. We need to foster the idea that it's not okay to ignore easily provable facts. Ignorance is not an option. We need to shut down Donald Trump and Jenny McCarthy as soon as they start talking, not hear them out like they're part of the conversation.
What good is a medal going to do? He needs to be president to sort this shit out.
I'm basically outsource red team for a bunch of smaller companies, so I'm cracking NTLM, both NetNTLMv1/v2 and raw all the time.
Just a nitpick, but the transposition is the other way around. Concert B flat is C for B flat instruments.
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It's not an option for me. I have so much attached to my Apps account that it would be a net loss. Email is one thing, but domains, purchases, my YouTube account, Maps reviews, etc. are different stories.

At this point I've just given up. Google has no desire to make Apps accounts usable with any of their new products so I just ignore them. Google Now doesn't really have a counterpart but Siri can handle some of the same aspects, such as sending messages and minor searches, but unlike Now it can read my email. Apple Photos and/or Facebook moments serves mostly the same purpose as Google Photos. Instead of Google Play music's family plan I use Spotify. Google Fi is neat but I'm happy with T-Mobile. I don't travel often enough to care for a Trips competitor.
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The naming of Autopilot was likely originated by Tesla's marketing department.

Just like the blog post this article critiques was likely written by content marketers, or even more likely, by a collaboration between top-level marketing and engineering officers. The success of the Autopilot feature is a critical aspect of Tesla's business and all communications about it certainly rises to the C-suite.

Edit: the success of self-driving cars in 2016 is more about reputational and liability risk than it is about engineering effort. A self-driving car rollout effort by any company is being driven (no pun intended) by legal and marketing, not engineering.
> One Tesla owner describes this Catch-22, after being told that a crash was her fault because she turned off Autopilot by hitting the brakes: “So if you don’t brake, it’s your fault because you weren’t paying attention,” she told The Wall Street Journal. “And if you do brake, it’s your fault because you were driving.”

If this is true, this is a fairly damning statement about the reliability of autopilot - it calls any statistical claims Tesla provides into question.
I wonder what else the Great Firewall of China will pass.
(Or what your local ISP will pass.) There are lots of other protocols to try. TP4 (Windows 2000 supported that.) Xerox Network Architecture. QNX remote message protocol. Those are non-TCP protocols, at the IP level. Almost nobody uses any of those, but they're defined for IP.

At the TCP level, there are lots of ports other than port 80. What about FTP, and SSH? TFTP? POP? NetBios? IMAP? NNSP? NNTPS? Blocked or ignored?
I would pay for an option to let them read it. I just want a regular schmuck's Google account with my own domain for email. Keep charging me $5/mo, get rid of the SLA, just let me use what I want to use.
Oliver Stone was on The Late Show last week, and he said that he's a storyteller not a historian, and that he couldn't tell the whole story in a two hour movie and make it entertaining without taking some liberties. However, he also said that Snowden saw the movie and approved of its overall accuracy, accounting for Stone's needs to make a movie.
Visual Studio Community Edition is exactly what I'm talking about. That's the scum marketing version which stops working after 30 days until registered.

If you don't believe me, then actually try it:

https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs

Under the "Visual Studio 2013" option on the left, choose "Community 2013". This will bring up a "Visual Studio Community 2013 with Update 5" view. Download the ISO and install from there.

30 days later, it will stop unless you register.

I know this for sure, having had this exact thing happen when writing up our instructions here:

https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/wiki/Setting-up-a-Win64-development-environment-for-DB4S

I have snapshots of the VM and all the downloads used while doing it. It's absolutely the Community Edition doing this.
Does Drew come from a privileged family?
Which are more of a novelty than anything.
To be honest I included it just as a clin d'oeil

But he is emblematic of the cultural trait in question, I think.
I remember your reddit thread, nearly everyone was convinced you'd be murdered and robbed by the end of the first day. Seems like you're doing alright so far, but have you run into any substantial trouble along those lines?
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Just for scale estimation, a hurricane is much larger than human electric utilization.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/hurricane-power.html

What it amounts to is that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth is just massive.
It seems like an improvement over "Vector", which is essentially un-googleable, but seriously, this trend in giving projects single common english word names is really annoying.
Note that "pass by value" isn't a copy in a language with affine types like Rust.

I'm not sure passing everything by reference probably would gain much in a systems programming language in the vein of Rust: one would still need some syntactic method to distinguish between shared ("immutable") and non-shared ("mutable") references. Also, Rust-style static reasoning cares about things actually being pointers, to allow returning references safely. Lastly, being able to move things around is important too, it is a major part in Rust creating zero-overhead abstractions.

I'm not sure exactly how MLKit works, but I glanced over https://github.com/melsman/mlkit/blob/master/doc/mlkit.pdf and it seems to me that its regions are somewhat less static and that it doesn't attempt to handle concurrency. I could be wrong on both counts!
That isn't the same thing as Dog-fooding by the way.
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For anyone wondering what is PerfView like I was, let me spare you a trip to google:

> PerfView is a performance-analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues.

> PerfView is a performance analysis tool focusing on ETW information (ETL files) as well as CLR memory information (heap dumps). It can collect and view ETL in a variety of ways. Powerful grouping operators allow you to understand performance profiles in ways other tools can't. PerfView is used internally at Microsoft by a number of teams and is the primary performance investigation tool on the .NET Runtime team. Features include:

> - Non-invasive collection - suitable for use in live, production environments

> - Xcopy deployment - copy and run
Memory

> - Support for very large heaps (gigabytes)
Snapshot diffing

> - Dump files (.dmp)

> - CPU Performance

> - Support for managed, native, and mixed code

> - Can read XPerf logs

> - Profile diffing

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=285...
I believe it's a reference to this old (but insightful) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739

As such, it is actually "Bane's Rule" which states, "you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first."

(Thanks to nekopa, who also referenced it further down in this thread.)
Driving on a divided highway is safer then an undivided one. Driving in conditions where you can use cruise control is safer then in ones where you can't. (Snow, ice, sleet, heavy rain, poor visibility.)

I'm not sure where driving on a highway falls compared to city driving.
A large chunk of the article (middle of second page) covers this.

The problem is that political instability makes it very hard for long-term planning & efforts. If you're unsure what the political winds will bring next year, or who might be in power and how it will affect you, why would you invest in a long-term cash crop that takes years to pay off? To make sure you can provide for your family, you'd be wiser to focus on the food-crop harvest that's just a few months away, which is exactly what Haitian farmers do.

That makes "chasing charity" desirable: if you can't risk personal effort & cost for long term goals (see above), then by all means leverage what you can out of short-term donations. Practically all the infrastructure and equipment used by farmer cooperatives and associations were plopped down by an aid agency or nongovernmental organization. ... in turn, there are few incentives to make repairs when equipment fails, or to want to achieve long-term success generally. ...the [donated] gear is much too large for the low coffee yields and production levels in the country, and built in a style more suited for Central America. These aid-built facilities wind up operating at extremely low capacities and consequently with high labor, fuel, and water requirements. Most of them are so inefficient that they can't even break even—or at least they wouldn't be able to without support from outside aid groups.

There's a great deal more explaining this. RT*A.
The 94 million mile mean is for all types of driving, in all types of situations, all types of people, in all types of cars.

First and foremost, highway driving is much much much safer than regular driving. There are no intersections (which cause 40% of all accidents), there is high viability, slow turns, no pedestrians, and a super simple traffic pattern. Autopilot is only doing the "easy" driving.

Second, that 94 million miles figure includes motorcycle deaths. Motorcycles have 34X more fatalities per mile driven. That juices the number of fatalities per mile.

Demographics matter too. Telsa owners are disproportionately older than average (not a lot of teens driving Teslas). They are more educated and richer. These people tend to be safer behind the wheel on average.

Telsa's also have a lot of safety features that should reduce fatalities to way below median anyway.

If you want to test if Autopilot is safer you have to test it against a control group that is the same but just didn't use Autopilot.
A careful reading of the U.S. Constitution reveals that the majority of the clauses that establish rights actually forbid the U.S. federal government from performing certain actions, period, rather than forbid it from performing those actions or not, conditional on citizenship.

The 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to everyone, everywhere. The U.S. government must always get a warrant, regardless of borders.

U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez (1990) [0] established precedent stating otherwise, but I agree with Brennan's dissent and Stevens' concurrence. The majority opinion basically said it would be too difficult for the U.S. to project its power overseas if it still had to obey its own laws there. I don't find political expedience to be an acceptable argument for voiding anyone's rights.

Of course, outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S., those protections are unenforceable in practice regardless, because the target likely cannot access any court that might be able to grant relief. It might be interesting for a foreign national to ask to enter the U.S. for the purpose of petitioning for redress of grievances against the U.S. in a U.S. court.

A foreign state need not petition for statehood. It would be sufficient to establish by treaty a court wherein a foreign person may sue a U.S. government and its agents for violations of U.S. law. That would be a double-edged sword, of course. It might also allow a U.S. entity to sue foreign persons for violations of U.S. laws in that foreign state's jurisdiction. (I'm thinking specifically about intellectual property suits.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Verdugo-Urqui...
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According to the literature [0], Eevee is 87.5% male, 12.5% female.

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Eh, a lot of those things work with Google App accounts like Hotel Reservations, Flights or Amazon purchases
The difference is that the aircraft autopilot system does not have to be that intelligent. My imagination is that if I engage an aircraft autopilot system I'm free to do other stuff for >= 1minute, because it's enough to simply hold the direction and height. There are no sudden events.

In a car however with the current state of automotive assisantance systems the timeframe for "doing other stuff" is less than 1 second because we have a fast varying environment there, including other cars (or pedestrians, bicycles, ...) taking sudden movements. Even many 5s situations can not be handled by todays assistance systems, like some surface conditions, traffic lights, track changes due to constructions, etc. Which in the end means you have to be constantly be in control of car, which is just not what "automatic" suggests.
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My favorite part is that Google Now's email integration (which this likely builds off of) doesn't work with Apps accounts yet it does work with Yahoo and Outlook.com accounts [1].

[1]: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/02/gmailify-best-of-gmail-...
STM is useless with full immutability: it is safe in Haskell because effects (including mutation) can be controlled/packaged into contained areas, via abstractions like monads.

That said, one downside of STM is that it isn't as efficient as some other schemes especially with high contention, as everything gets serialized through the metadata for tracking transactions. It's an awesome tool, but not a panacea (like with any other technology).

(I'm sure you know this, but others reading the thread may not.)
I don't know what you are trying to accomplish exactly, but it seems like you've convinced yourself that you need a more complex file storage mechanism. If you had listed any reason for this function, I might've understood. But, you didn't, so I had to ask. Here's 2 threads where this discussion has been had before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279440

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7338923
Thank you for this. I learned to write natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales when I was a kid, but I never knew this explanation. It makes perfect sense!
What I was trying to get at is that the benchmark that Tesla is using as comparison (1 fatality/94 million highway miles) takes into account all highway vehicles. Tesla is a high-end, expensive, luxury vehicle, and the autopilot also does not function in certain conditions (like heavy rain). It would seem to me that if you just took into account other luxury vehicles, and excluded really adverse driving conditions, that the 94 million mile number would probably be higher, and I think that would be a fairer comparison for Tesla to use if they want to claim the car is faster than human driving.

Are you trying to say that you think taking these factors into account would actually make comparables comparitively less safe?
"but it's been pointed out repeatedly that he could have obtained an exit visa without a valid passport"

But only by grace of some entity with the power to grant him such a visa, right? He couldn't just ask for one and get it (someone in Slate I think said something like, look, Russia could have given him a visa and Cuba could have let him in—yeah, but those are things Russia and Cuba have to decide to do, not things Snowden can do off his own bat).
In my experience, many companies are looking to hire "right now", and are unlikely to spend resources interviewing someone for a job in 9 months' time. However, any silence or rejection you get right now isn't a reason not to reapply next year (I'd recommend in late April or May). Google, for example, usually recommends that candidates reapply in 6 months, which I'd say is a reasonable rule of thumb. There is no harm in getting your name in front of as many people as possible. Any reasonable recruiter or manager will keep your contact details for the future when they have another opening. If you are worried about CV, check the wording of the rejection emails and consider replying asking if you should reapply closer to your graduation date.
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