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I have always thought this.

Growing up in the mountains, in Colorado, it was drilled incessantly into me how important it was to use engine/transmission braking on long hills, etc.

I know it, I understand it ... and it always irked me.

I never liked the idea that I would save wear and tear on a consumable that is meant to be regularly worn and repaired and instead transfer that wear and tear to an integral part of the car that is non-trivial to replace or repair.

I would think very carefully about this if I were towing a boat or a horse trailer, but in a normal car it just seems backwards.
Yeah, exactly as detaro says.

I usually like to keep most of my stuff backed up and that's almost 1 TB of data which would be very expensive to keep in the cloud.

So what I did was build a very cheap server with a WD Red HDD that I use to backup my full drive every couple of months.

I know I can probably use vanilla rsync but I really don't have the time to set up everything up and make sure it works, so I thought rsync.net could be a potential solution/alternative to CrashPlan.

Thanks for the answers though!
> Yet the scientific culture of today is falling into that trap itself.

You're probably being too kind here. The moment of actual falling was decades ago, or more.
In the first few years, twitter had a hard cap on the number of followers (I think it was like 10,000), and people with large audiences were forced to manage their followers.

I wondered if they could have started charging 'brands' and celebrities to break that barrier, but keep it free flowing for the hoipoloi like us.
It's not that unusual. The UK's IC codes[1] are more fine grained than those in the US.

With all the information organizations have on people, I'm not sure the government having official classifications makes any difference.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_codes
It seems like too small of a market segment though, especially since it's hard to make money from browsers altogether.
> It seems absurd to me to have more than one equality.

Mathematics has several.

Probably the most useful for CS is the notion from logic of "extensional equality" - two things are equal if I can't tell them apart. But we quickly want to restrict what approaches we can use, or for most languages that would necessarily be reference equality. Structural equality is one such restriction.

For an abstract data type, there's a strong line of reasoning that would say two values should be equal if they aren't distinguishable through the abstraction.
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"Middle Eastern" is not a race though. I'm Turkish and we are very Caucasian. :)
Another nice feature of the built-in JSON library is that you can choose what class to instantiate with the data. The default is a dict, but if you're trying to parse Avro records (or something else that cares about field order), you can change that to an OrderedDict.
Your engine is designed to withstand fuel-air explosions. When engine braking, all it does is compress and expand air, at much lower pressures, so revolutions during engine braking are easier on your car than those during regular driving.

Clutches get less wear during engine braking because it doesn't slip. When you disengage and reengage the clutch because you're using the regular brakes to slow down, the clutch slips and damages itself.

In the end, the reason for engine braking isn't to reduce the cost of brakes--it's a safety measure that keeps the brakes cool for emergencies & miscalculations, since overheated brakes don't work.
I actually didn't know, so I went ahead and did a quick search on your example.

On [0], it does mention a case with that situation.

> In 1974, Federal Judge Leon Higginbotham issued his decision in Comm. of Pa. v. Local 542, Int'l Union of Operating Engineers, explaining why he as an African American judge with a history of active involvement in the civil rights struggle was not obligated to recuse himself from presiding over litigation concerning claims of racial discrimination.

Further thought and I agree that the judge should not need to recuse himself from said case (in your question). However, that's a distinction on whether the suggestion itself is out of line. In the quoted snippet, the judge did have to point out an explanation for his sitting it, so at the least, there seems to be some consideration for the suggestion.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_disqualification
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Most jurisdictions call unsafely accelerating reckless driving or street racing. I own a car that will legitimately do 200 MPH but existing laws cover it too.
Kesor, we do not claim to solve this problem. We propose a product to help assessing easier the technical skills, not to improve the sourcing. In the recruitment process flow, our product comes after there is a short list of candidates (screened based on their resume) and want to perform a more deep screening.

We know there is the gap mentioned by you. Hopefully, in the future, we will be able to provide help in this area too.
Test driving it now with this comment. This is perfect for my "search and browse" needs where I need to use Google (because neither Startpage nor DuckDuckGo are adequate for that query).

I can also use this without worrying about mix ups that I sometimes end up with in other browsers where I use both private and non-private tabs.

Edit: Seems a bit slow. Need to use it more to get better measurements.
I love serifs and haven't found a good monospaced serif font yet. This one looks good but has some minor bugs like spacing and * not being centered vertically for the times you write OCaml or C comments. I'm trying it out anyway because I've been missing serifs in my terminal and editor for too long.
xproj was the transitionary MSBuild scaffold, I meant csproj, things are returning to the csproj extension.

Some details of it all: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/11/16/announcin...
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I'm not really sure that this answers my question.

I'm interested in how what we share hopes to influence others of a different viewpoint.

So to you:

"It's absolutely pertinent to the discussion what kind of people Trump willingly choses to put into positions of influence."

To someone else it wouldn't be, so I'm interested in, for example, how you'd go about influencing/debating with someone who didn't share that viewpoint?

The GP post does something I've seen a lot and raises a point with an implication that because they find that point to bad, it obviously is bad and no further persuasion is needed.

For instance:

"I don't doubt Trump's intentions, but it's looking like the alt-right is using his campaign (and will use his administration) for their own ends."

That's reads as an implication that this is a bad thing, perhaps because alt-right is bad.

I'm interested to hear how the poster would hope to influence someone of the opposing view (that alt-right is good). To me, it would seem that raising a point that someone else thinks is actually good wouldn't be a way to change their mind, but I see almost everyone in this and other debates do it.

So I guess I'm just trying to understand what/how raising points like this (one the poster holds self-evident if holding their viewpoint but otherwise unpersuasive) could hope to persuade someone who thought the point raised was actually good.

I'm also trying to avoid sounding like a dick over this. I don't know everything so my view that this sort of point raising might not work may be wrong, so I'm trying to ask about the actual process of influencing others who share different views.
Humans have a bit of an advantage on two levels here. First, we know what a cat looks like. Not a video or a picture or a drawing, but an actual cat. That gives us a solid frame of reference. "That is definitely a cat. That drawing looks kind of like what I know a cat to look like, so it's a drawing of a cat." The closest a computer can get is "This drawing has quite a bit in common with these other drawings, and apparently these other drawings are cats. So this is probably a cat too."

Second, when we look at a picture of a cat, we're looking at a human's interpretation of what a cat looks like. If we asked a computer to draw a cat, it might look nothing like a cat to us, but another computer could look at it and go "Oh sure, that's a cat." I seem to recall Google did a thing with this a while ago, where they effectively created a feedback loop in a neural net - feeding its own drawing back into itself. As I recall, the result looked like the computer had done way too much LSD.
Medical inspection would provide clear indication to parents that the government is actually checking for FGM and prosecuting accordingly.
> Sigh, the article's been flagged. There goes any hope of actually having a discussion about shit that matters

Users flagged it, and were correct to flag it.

I understand the desire to use HN to discuss "shit that matters", a.k.a. political and social controversies, but it isn't what HN is for. Were we all to let it be what HN is for, HN would become like all the other places we come here to get away from.

This has been distorted by the political season. We can't expect to be immune to macro trends. But that makes it even more important to remind ourselves what HN is and isn't. Is: a place to gratify intellectual curiosity. Isn't: a political or ideological battlefield.
> IMHO the shannon limit and basic laws of RF/path loss and channel capacity say that satellite is not a true competitor to backbone links by singlemode fiber. For the equivalent of "last mile" services, yes, but not as a replacement for laying fiber between points A and B.

The filing states they'll be using free space optics / lasers between satellites. The Ka/Ku links are only for the initial uplink and downlink.

> But it's a pipe dream to say that satellite backhaul will ever be preferable to fiber carrying N x 10GbE circuits or a 100GbE circuit...

It is not a pipe dream. Free space optics in... well space, have a 50% propagation latency advantage vs terrestrial fiber. This helps equalize things somewhat.
> Apple's Reply:

>> Device data is encrypted with a user’s passcode, and access to iCloud data including backups requires the user’s Apple ID and password.

Can't Apple ID password be reset? If so, how can it be a true encryption?
...in order to provide ubiquitous connectivity for his autonomous car business.

This seems like a pretty foolish way to do that. Mobile data over ground-based cellular systems is rapidly becoming a commodity, and at least in the areas of the world where Teslas will be sold, it's essentially ubiquitous. Why in the world would it be worth setting up and maintaining a massive satellite network just to cover the .001% of driver miles spent far enough away from a tower?
I have been writing Rust code for almost three years now.

I have helped design a low level data structure exactly twice. In both cases, this was a highly custom concurrent data structure, which would have been even harder to get right in C++ or some other language.

If you need a regular run-of-the-mill datastructure it will exist in the stdlib or crates ecosystem. This is not a "basic task". Just because schools teach it early does not make it a "basic task". It's a task that needs to be done at some point, but doing it once and making it part of the stdlib or a crate is all that is necessary. It has become a "basic task" in C++ because it's easy enough to do that you don't need to reach for the stdlib, but that doesn't mean that it's necessary to have a bespoke implementation of a DLL that often in C++; usually the stdlib one will do.

The same "too many lists" book you linked to explains why DLLs are niche datastructures on the first page (singly linked lists can be implemented safely in Rust, though they can be somewhat niche too).
You realize that white Americans were not the only folks to own slaves or oppress a people, right? Ask yourself this, would the results be different if I tweeted that from the Barbary coast were roles were largely reversed? How about from a SLAVic nation?
What's wrong with Noto or Open-Sans? Or for that matter Inconsolata?

The Go fonts just don't look very good at all imho.
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> transform an email box as a storage and backup place ... and lots of people consider having their life stored there.

That might be viable if Google had kept its promise about users never having to delete their emails. As it is, the total capacity (shared with Gdrive) is 15GB, which wouldn't be much of a life.

I was one of the first Gmail users outside Google and got to 14.99GB some time ago, just with email. And I delete loads of it.

But I don't worry too much about losing Gmail. First, all incoming email is forwarded to an Outlook.com mailbox (which never complains about lack of space). Second, I use my own domain name. As long as I never forget to renew that, I should be OK....
I also drive a CX-5. When I test drove it, one of the things that stood out to me was how it felt "heavy" when taking your foot off the gas. I guess that was just the engine breaking that I wasn't used to on my previous vehicle. Over the last year I've averaged 30-31mpg (mostly highway), which I don't consider too bad for an AWD compact SUV.
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> That disconnect is because the definition of racism has changed over the last 8 years in practice, and since the development of "systemic racism" in theory.

What you call "systemic racism" has been known simply as "racism" in academic circles for the past few decades. Put succinctly, in research circles, racism is the property of a society that results in grossly unequal distribution of power among social groups viewed as different races; sexism is analogous. There is no assumption of ill intent or negative feelings, as those associated with xenophobia (or misogyny). There are very good reasons why this definition is much more useful to study this phenomenon.

The only thing that's changed in recent years is that the public at large has been exposed to those well accepted, well studied academic terms, while misinterpreting them to mean something else. Here's a recent article about this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...

It's not that all whites are racist by the academic definition, but that our society is racist, and so people in it who intentionally or not further the racist social dynamics can be said to carry out racism. Those people are both black and white, but as it's mostly whites who have more power in society, it is statistically correct to say that whites are more racist. It's just that "racist" doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does.
It's much safer if that how you learned to drive from day one. Unfortunately most existing drivers don't have the skills to safely left-foot brake so that's how we teach new drivers.
This is really funny because it's such a good idea that absolutely nobody will listen to.
It is complicated. Here is the story of two WebView implementations in iOS:

Firefox is based on the WKWebView. Modern and Fast, but has a very poor (thin) API. It has zero options for interacting with the network stack, which is a requirement for content blocking. Bugs have been open since iOS 8, Apple does not seem to be interested or does not have the resources to surface more API. All the APIs are in WKWebView, just private.

Focus uses the older UIWebView. Slow, but better ability to interact with the network layer. Not ideal, but at least it is possible.

So to answer your question: We would have to replace WKWebView in Firefox for UIWebView. We've been very close to doing this in some form. But it is is big compromise in terms of functionality and stability. So I am not sure when and in what form that will happen.

Stuck between a rock and a private API.
This is not correct. There was a review done of the training scheme and a recommendation was made to change this. But without legislation, the most the DVSA can do is "recommend that riders take further training if they want to ride a geared motorcycle".

See item 6 in the table on page 8 of https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

FWIW, I think a staged CBT is a fine concept, especially in London, but there's a risk that an automatic-only CBT would make things worse because of the incentive structure.

In a busy urban environment, focusing on the hazards on the road should be a much higher priority than mastering machine control. Spending time on a scooter is a fine way to adjust to this. Moving on to a geared bike is less problematic as the amount of new input and reactions that need to be dealt with at once is reduced. But a split between auto-only and geared CBTs would probably push more riders to go geared sooner rather than later (to avoid prematurely limiting their options), and increase overall risk on the road. I think this is part of the reason for the prevalence of geared cars on the roads in the UK.

On the other side, if you learn to ride out in the countryside, there's no guarantee you'll be any good at handling the hazards of rush-hour metro traffic.
Didn't some kid get their email shut down because they were under the age for having a G+ account?

It is insane how coarse grained Google is regarding all this. You would think they could shut down one part of the account without killing the whole account.
Again: I'm simply grouping well known violent leaders, I am not comparing the scale of their violence. Pol Pot is also very different from Mao: again, that doesn't change the point about far-left leaders using violence existing or that most mainstream left folk wouldn't support this.

Are you saying that Chavez isn't a torturer or that the BBC isn't a reliable source? If so I think I'll end this conversation here.
Thanks for that. Not sure why my original reply was killed.

Further info:

1) Appears the Brave browser uses the same hardcoded suggestions list. Why have such a list?!

2) If you are really concerned about privacy this is still a bad option because accidental hit of Go/Search/Enter sends an incomplete address to Verizon/Yahoo -- with no choices to disable this or chose another destination.
Agreed, but to tie it up with the article... At first you are paid to write code, then you are paid to maintain it. You become part of the system you helped build.

You are the steering wheel that alligns the overall thing's behavior with the interests of the organization that owns the thing. That's what author calls "adding value".
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This is about as sociopathic a view as one would expect from SV-oriented people. The impact of what you do, as a person, on other people is of paramount importance. Abstract statements like the above do not acknowledge, much less value, the actual impact of online behavior.

I hope you grow out of these views. You may find life to be more rewarding.
luddites thought the same ;)
It should fit in nicely with "hispanic" which runs the gamut from white to black.
You're just nit picking on his writing at this point (the part about "best people"). Instead, if you think it doesn't hold, can you explain how Trump's quote would be categorically different than the 2 other quotes he has in that section?
> So buy a fucking helmet and bring it with you.

Wow, that's harsh. She built something novel and potentially very useful. If you live in a city, it's impractical to carry your helmet everywhere you go all the time, and you'll surprise yourself at the number of times you need to quickly rent a bike (but have no helmet handy.)

If it passes the safety certifications and rolls out, it will very likely increase the proportion of cyclists wearing helmets.
A registry for muslims is being pushed by the Trump transition team. So how much are we willing to re-contextualize? Until they've gone after every minority group? Irish, Jews, Italians? No, you don't think?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...

It is against all principles that America is founded on. It is utter bigotry and yet it is happening.
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Programming should have always been an apprenticeship system. Maybe add in formal education like a Comp Sci degree, but I've been saying since I entered this industry (which isn't THAT long ago, but still) that apprenticeships would be much better than just going to college.
And they will again. More kinds of people.
that's an interesting definition of propaganda.

It's certainly not an unbiased publication, it's an opinion paper. From their "about us" page:

> The same page describes the Economist as “a Friday viewspaper, where the readers, with higher than average incomes, better than average minds but with less than average time, can test their opinions against ours. We try to tell the world about the world, to persuade the expert and reach the amateur, with an injection of opinion and argument.”

From the same page:

> "What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage."

So you are certainly not going to get "unbiased news reporting". It's a "viewspaper" that takes declared, informed editorial stances. You will get extremely well thought out and researched opinions and analysis.

"Propaganda" is a word usually reserved for intentionally contorting facts to favor a specific political entity. One can have an opinion without spouting propaganda. That's more the MSNBCs, Pravdas, and Fox Newses of the world. If you've ever read an economist article, the difference is obvious.
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For those using it to listen to music, yes. When people inevitably move onto whatever is post Twitter, people will still need to listen to music.
It is all about efficiency.

Can you dig a canal with a tried and true shovel? Yes, you can, but you will need a lot of time and many shovels.

Can you cook up bioinformatics analysis in Shell and Awk. Yes, you can, but you if you want a large scale analysis to be done in a reasonable amount of time, you roll up your sleeves and reach for compiled languages, distributed systems and so on.

There are downsides in introducing new systems, but it should be weighed against the upside of suitability and efficiency.
Most people (who voted) did vote Clinton.
People who worry about the risk of accidents should also take into account the risk of falling behind technologically and economically. I'd argue that the latter would cause (or fail to prevent) far more deaths. If China wants to lead the world on this then more power to them. Maybe the US will step up their game in response.
s\House\Senate. The Democrats have basically no chance at retaking the House in the foreseeable future... all the red states are gerrymandered to hell, plus you can expect voter suppression laws to keep popping up like weeds in all them as well, with decreasing chances of them being blocked... because the SCOTUS is tilting back to the right.