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I honestly think a sort of guide or text your asking for would be interesting. Absent that, next time you find yourself in the "learning physics mood" around your physics friends it might be beneficial to restrict your question to particular regimes, or even better, just ask about very specific physical phenomena. I'm guessing the reason you get these big picture, nebulous responses is the questions you might be asking are a little too general...I'm basing off the one data point I have from your post, "what is light?"

"What is light?" garners a very nebulous answer because there is a wide range of phenomena called "light" and work done in understanding what light is. "What is light in a fiber optic cable?" is more specified because it specifies a length (and thus wavelength) scale, an energy scale (not high intensity that makes you have to worry about plasma generation), and a time scale (steady state physics which allow talking about modes (ie., fourier analysis), unless you care about transients). The length scale and time scale rule out quantum mechanics, and probably will lead you to essentially to solving Helmholtz, which will be much more your speed. See, you might not know to specify all those scales, but by asking for a specific example, your physicist friend will restrict their universe of discourse down instinctively to a model you could use.

So light may be a bad example. The same could be said if you ask, "what is gravity" or "what are magnets?". Better questions are like, "how do we understand orbits in the solar system?" or "why do magnets stick to refrigerators?"
Certainly, but cars are also mandated to have a weight sensor in the passenger seat to disable the passenger side airbag when there isn't an adult sitting there (so they don't kill children in car seats).

Can't we at least compromise on that requirement? If there's a passenger, unlock the controls.
I'm a Bitbucket Product Manager. Thanks for the feedback! This is an area we plan to improve in the Server offering. In particular we're actively looking at ways to make diff nav and find much better.
I'm all for awesome car nav in a car. Nice touch screen, fast updates, current traffic, up to date maps, etc.

Unfortunately every car I've seen (including some rather expensive cars) look like Maemo Mapper from my ancient (pre-android pre-iphone) Nokia 770 tablet.

However I'm weird, I have a note 4 with a replaceable battery, wireless charging, 3GB ram, and a microSD slot. A phone that could easily last 5 years. It's VERY hard to find similar on the market today.
Or stereo or subwoofer? I find that an interesting concept.
And of course, being OpenBSD, it's privsep and sandboxed from the very beginning.. cool.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144702840931345&w=2, https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147578652321303&w=2

Man pages:

http://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4

http://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8, http://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf.5

http://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8
Couldn't it not be a gene but a meme that is inherited, instead?

> Each generation has more of these people because they're the ones that reproduce.

I.e. each generation has more of these people since people who see having children as something positive reproduce and teach these values to their children.

Being a memetic instead of genetic factor would have the advantage that it is easier to "unprogram" it, i.e. by having rules/incentives in the society that discourage reproduction or by education.
For GR, I really liked Bernard Schutz's "A First Course in General Relativity" -- I read it from cover to cover.

Extremely lucid explanations of some very complex topics, and reading it for the first time blew my mind.

This book "teaches" you well (compared to other books where I feel like I really am putting in a ton of mental effort just to learn what the book is trying to say, much like reading mathematics articles on Wikipedia), and it still manages to move fast.
I was using Coda for Mac because of it's integrated SFTP and project management. Over the years it became slow and cumbersome to use, and I have since switched to local development and version control.
"The issue is not that automation will render the vast majority of the population unemployable. Instead, it is that workers will either lack the skills or the ability to successfully match with the good, high paying jobs created by automation."

So those who are doing jobs that AI can do better and more cheaply than any human, they are going to somehow gain skills and/or ability to perform new good, high paying jobs created by automation? I don't buy it. Analogues to those hypothetical future high-quality jobs already exist, so why aren't the people in the soon-to-be obsolete jobs already doing the existent high quality jobs? Do they not like money? Training for these jobs has never been cheaper!
30,752 articles in that link? This is going to take a lot of pills...
The alternatives are mostly the pointless gestures we see when the government tries to protect jobs from progress, such as the regions where self-serve gas is illegal. I don't see any viable regulation of AI, other than some attempt to tax it.
It would be kinda fun to do these crazy scale things and have no reason to do them with the intention that our distant ancestors will be as confused as hell but then I look around at the modern world and think they'll no doubt think that anyway.
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I think unless there is a big turn of the tide, supporting on-prem is just trouble these days. Most large enterprise customers are willing to use SaaS already.

Forget about the huge issues in the support organization for a second: the impact on-prem has on your release cycle has consequences that are hard to fully grasp. So much for "continuous development and release" if you have to keep supporting old versions of software for a year.

Build your stack so that you can easily migrate clouds (i.e. don't use all the super high-level AWS APIs). It's a good idea in general, and it should make going on-prem doable enough if you are worried about having that option at all.
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It needs the people in the productive age. Immigration of young adults is economically the best solution in short term as it leaves the expense of growing them up to the other societies.

And introduces pension problems for pension systems that are based on an inter-generational contract.
Even easier: just buy a cheap usb stick of correct size, preferably one with a recognizable brand, open it up and replace the innards.
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Why a second external coil? It isn't aligned with the first coil and so the induced EMF is minimized (usually such coils are co-axial).
Of course it's more convienient! Soylent takes 0 time to prepare. Most other things take at least some time, and are often less healthy.

It takes me at least an hour to cook and eat 3 meals a day. Soylent takes almost no time to cook and consume. If you value your time at all (say, a very minimal $20/hour) that's $600 a month saved right there.
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That's the joke that I was trying to make.
Doing a 3.4 and even possibly a 3.5 release could be a waste of time. I think PyPy should head cpython off at the pass and release a 3.7
Unfortunatley cars need to get over NIH for software. I'll admit CarPlay/android auto seems like the way forward.
No, Sierra will not "break" your old DSA keys.

But recent versions of OpenSSH disable these by default, for good reason. You can (temporarily, I would suggest) reenable these with a one-liner in ~/.ssh/config. See for example http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html
My dad was project photogrammetrist on Corona when he worked at Itek in the 60s. Lots of stories around focus and aiming challenges, since Corona was used to build maps of inaccessible regions of the world (e.g. Soviet Union ICMB sites). Focus targets gave high contrast, known images to detect what kind of focus problems were being encountered -- ranging from image smear from forward motion compensation failing or stretching the film; film sticking, stretching and/or lifting off of the focal plane; star camera inaccuracies; thermal distortion of camera, spacecraft, star camera, or film; etc. A few good books on Corona (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/intelligence-histor...) and Itek (https://books.google.com/books/about/Spy_Capitalism.html) out there. Same teams worked on subsequent KH projects (Gambit, Hexagon/Big Bird/BMF), as well as Apollo and Viking camera systems.
The Princeton Election Consortium's model [1] has a better track record than 538. This year, it has been much less volatile than Silver's. It only measures state polls, and does so in a very transparent way.

[1] http://election.princeton.edu
Why aren't you "concerned" about people losing their jobs?

The alternatives are tech companies start to pay their taxes and humans start to use tech to care for one another, genuinely, not just wealthy Silicon Valley types trying to make buckets because their "entitled" to do so and pretend it's all in the name of progress.

The idea of the Internet and Automation were exciting to me as it was about liberation and decentralisation, from where I'm sitting it's turning into a bit of a joke, it's just empowering those who own the tech and their not giving a whole lot back right now.

Not attacking you personally, but this, attitude of "don't worry, those people who will be made redundant will be fine" thing is a myth, they will suffer and so will their families.
Obama's answer to this seems to be training and education as opposed to regulating away progress. See: this article.

I'd expect the latter to come from the right in the US, ironically enough.
I also thought it was a slightly inappropriate metaphor, but it gets the point across.
I have OpenVMS running under the SIMH emulator... It takes me back to the late 80's / early 90's. Hobbyist licenses are available for people who want to tinker. Fun stuff...
Depends on which parking lot. The one for the DefCon conference?
Ask HN: Fired at 51 weeks by prominent startup?
I was fired at 51 weeks by a somewhat prominent startup. For the first time, I went on unemployment while finding my next opportunity. The startup contested unemployment however they were overruled by the judge. I went on unemployment for the health insurance as I have a young child.

I fear associating my name with this incident however I also think I should warn my fellow engineers. The options were clawed back.

How would you handle being fired without cause at 51 weeks? Would you share it publicly?
Ha, and apple just removed the 3.5mm jack from their phones. Perhaps the entire reason for it was to get CarPlay into more cars :P
He married a woman also named Evelyn and they were known as he-Evelyn and she-Evelyn. And no, he never did kill the man that gave him that awful name.
This is a great article, but it would be good to state up-front that the author works for a company that sells a service designed to help you go on-prem. It's not totally clear until later in the article that this is the case. It would also help put the article in context better.
Sounds like a perfect use for it. I'm understanding his use of it as that the thousand flowers should only bloom in the beginning, and later the field should be much tighter regulated. When you replace people's lives with different AIs, it becomes much less tragic, thankfully.
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I agree in this case it isn't very helpful.
This can help get your SaaS to be on-premises: https://jidoteki.com
It works just fine in Nautilus for me.
I've seen that Pioneer, Alpine and the usual after market head unit vendors have options with car play. So you might not be entirely out of luck.
It's even better: "OK Google, take me home" -> 3 seconds later Maps app is open and navigation is in progress. No typing required.
Well, that was not very nice. Should have asked confirmation. I clicked on the link thinking there would be an explanation of what this project does.
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Thanks for the reply.

I was tested for Austin when I was younger and I was told I was on the spectrum. I was offered extra help in school and all that, but I always refused it because I figured I'd never get that same help in real life, and it was probably better just to work twice as hard. For the same reason I don't care for any legal protections. I wouldn't take them even if I was offered. But I haven't been formally diagnosed with anxiety or depression. It's extremely clear to anyone who's spent time with me that I suffer from both. I just don't see the benefit of being diagnosed as I don't want any special help, or to take drugs to treat something that I don't see any a character flaw.

1. Yeah, I take pride in being a bit different. That being said, I'm very aware that going too far isn't a good thing if I still want to relate to others.

2. I guess this is really the answer I'm looking for. I don't want to be "normal", I want to be myself yet not be rejected by people professionally. I guess in reality the only way to do that is offer something special.

3. Oh man, I have so many canned responses for everything. My issue is that sometimes when I'm having a rough day I don't care enough to pretend I care about what I'm saying. I find a forced response like, "Oh wow, that sounds cool! Tell me more!" quickly becomes, "oh. Cool."
Neil Stephenson wrote a heck of a whole lot about undersea cables in 1996. Highly, highly recommended. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Tangent but:

Is anyone else noticing that bare metal is getting unbelievably cheap? OVH is well known but there are now many vendors also offering crazy cheap bare metal hosting with <1hr setup times, etc. Compared to the popular virtualized cloud vendors it's a steal, especially when it comes to CPU, RAM, and storage. (Bandwidth tends to be about the same.)
11 years ago, my first job out of college was as a "personal banker" for Wells Fargo. If I remember correctly, our goals were 8 "solutions" a day. Every few hours either a shift leader, assistant manager or the branch manager would come over and ask you "how many solutions do you have?" If you said a low number, you'd be told that was "unacceptable" and coached on how to generate more solutions (everything from forcing a customer to close and reopen accounts if they lost a debit card, rather than just use the built in lost debit card feature, to splitting large CDs into smaller CDs, to forcing old people without internet access to sign up for online access). If a retired customer came in and you didn't pitch them a reverse mortgage or a home equity line of credit, you would once again get a talking to. Sometimes managers would come over with signed printed account applications that they had sourced and they had you enter those accounts into the system. One of our "best"(read, high performing) bankers had opened accounts for a dead person (after the dead person's daughter came in to close their accounts), I reported her, nothing ever happened.

It was an incredibly high pressure environment that led to unethical behavior and a situation in which customer service or doing what's right for the customer was not valued, I quit after a year.
One of the points the author makes is that "on-prem" these days often mean "someone else's AWS account". When we started about a year ago we suspected it would come up, but today it's turning into a most popular use case. And adopting something like Kubernetes in a smart way largely takes care of your concerns regarding agility.

Now, the story time!

When I was at Rackspace, I was trying to analyze the top reasons our startup customers would stop using some of our SaaS offerings. The most common one, unsurprisingly, was they'd run out of business. But another top one was "they got successful". As they got bigger and more successful (can't mention names) they'd bring more and more in-house, eventually getting to a point that the only products they were interested in were just servers and bandwidth.

So it depends. Some things just don't work well as SaaS, especially for customers with money who can't scale their IT fast enough.
So who wants to restart Enron with me? Hipster energy company trading artisanal clean energy derivatives.
I'm not talking about productivity growth at all, I'm pointing out that economic productivity is not evenly distributed throughout the economy. Losing 10% of farm acreage would be a disaster for quality of life. Losing 10% of fastfood stores would barely matter.
The biggest problem Rust has with crypto is that the canonical compiler is built on LLVM, so no matter what a human writes, it'll get ground up by the optimizer and may turn into something quite different. Rust has an advantage in that it doesn't have the undefined-behaviour gotchas of modern C/C++, so LLVM won't optimize away all your sanity checks, but that's not a strong enough guarantee for crypto work—as you point out, you need strong control over assembly instructions to maintain constant-time execution.
Extremely unrealistic. Such technology requires either a lot of moving around or antennas everywhere to triangulate the thing you're looking for.

It takes less than 30 seconds to get a drone out of a car and into the air. I know because I've built my own out of (mostly) trash two years ago...

https://imgur.com/AKXLlX3

What's interesting is that the militants appear to be using FPV tech to navigate the drones to their targets. It's expensive compared to cheap Arduino-based flight controllers with GPSes attached that you can program with a phone over Bluetooth.

Then again, FPV is fairly idiot-proof whereas the Bluetooth GPS option requires a bit of technical expertise. The kind of expertise you're unlikely to find inside ISIS.
To me, private cloud means a cloud like infrastructure run by your own ops people, either on-premise or in a colo, running on dedicated hardware you own or rent.

Funny how definitions diverge here.

The definition in the blog post I agree least with (secluded environment on a cloud provider).
A lot of comments like yours are based on the assumption of "giving back". I don't quite understand it.

Let's suppose I've founded booking.com and put a LOT of travel agents out of business. At what point did I assume the responsibility of giving back to those travel agents?

I agree that they are miserable because of my actions. However, in real life, nothing happens because of a single reason. They are also miserable because of free choice of their former customers, who abandoned them. Those customers have profited from the change too: after all, they chose me because of lower prices and better service. Why am I, and not the customers that left them, have this responsibility?
Yep. I have to agree with this comment.

My first thought was about some advice I would give someone considering this (having been pushed into this situation by a large healthcare client years back).

But once I found it was a sales piece, that thought faded.
I wonder if phone VR adapters could be useful for driving. With a wider angle camera, and maybe some AR niceties like sticking trip info below the windshield or overlay the nav directions on top of the roadway I could totally get into it. And I would kill for something that solves the solar glare issue.
I would agree that would be called private cloud. I guess it needs a definition behind "cloud provider" according to the author. I think hardware solely for your use (including networking/disk) would be my minimum definition, but not bare-metal. I'm coming at this from a security boundary perspective and where liabilities are. Where provisioning of resources can be dynamic and moved.
I can strongly recommend, with minor caveats, SFFire and Provident CU. SFFire is mostly sf, Provident is mostly peninsula. Both offer smartphone check deposits.

Minor caveat: don't open your account or apply for loans online. They both "offer" it, in the sense it's theoretically possible to do, but a giant pita. Just go to a branch. Provident took 3 weeks to replace a stolen credit card.

Other than that, they're great. I've been in branches for the two probably 5 or fewer times total in 8 years of being a customer.

Also, a human answers the phone when you call! One that's empowered to help you!
You're missing that 0-days and other stuff can get around that.

Or even just the USB killers that use capacitors to fry your motherboard.
Hahaha, that's amazing. I made a pledge to myself years ago that I would never buy another clock/watch/timekeeping device that didn't set itself.

Somewhere in that car you purchased is a clock that sets itself, it just doesn't cooperate with the rest of the car. Bummer.
That really does suck, is there anything you can do to prevent this sort of thing? Mortgage through a credit union or something?
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If you have VMs, AWS is not necessarily the answer if you have a relatively static workload. You are lighting money on fire by the buckets if you pay AWS for a fixed amount of always on instances.
What does Hacker News think about AI? Is it real this time, or are we in for another winter? I'm seeing a lot of grand claims, and it certainly seems like there are plenty of applications, but I'm still not totally convinced that it will turn the entire economy upside down.

Given the enormous amount of press, tweets, blog posts, conferences, degree programs, seminars and interviews popping up it seems like there has to be something more than just hot air here. Still, the most outrageous predictions are hinged on breakthroughs in unsupervised learning happening. Taking the pessimistic view on science, what if we don't get there?
> Loiter" implies the loiterer is violating some rights the accuser imagines himself to have

That's not what my dictionary says.

To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

Used appropriately by source.
Yes, or the entire car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuus8OtPY0w

Vehicle disabling EMPs are of great interest to the likes of CHP, and such.
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By "the point," do you mean that the government intends to initially encourage innovation, only to later stifle, repress, and criminalize the elements it doesn't like?

I mean, that's the reasonable application of the metaphor, right?
Google is basically omniscient on a user-profile basis with years of search, gmail, and youtube data on users. They should just write and algorithm and let it send out job offers with no human intervention, just like search.
Even with good rear view, I find the backup camera super useful. In fact on my car I wish there was a way to have it running no matter the shifter position; I have a Ford Escape and the car must be going in reverse for the camera to activate. The most useful feature are the guide lines overlaid on the video that bend according to steering wheel position, and crosshairs that let me position my hitch to within half an inch of a trailer coupling.

Luckily the NHTSA is requiring backup cameras on 100% new cars by mid-2018.
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Poor diet, we eat lot of fried food. We eat lot of Indian sweets (to be fair they are really good) and we dont exercise.