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For an article about art...this was sure lacking art.
Stop bringing up good things I should read! I'll never get caught up! :) I picked up Peter Singer's "Ethics in the Real World" the other day to add more grist to the mill in nice, bite-size chunks on a variety of topics. His piece on free speech came to mind when I looked up Jordan Peterson.

I encourage you to put down your thoughts in this area, as I think I'd enjoy reading them, and maybe even up-vote your submission. Guess I'm revealing my bias.
> 65-70 mph posted on most rural interstates is usually an uneventfully featureless speed, on uneventful, featureless roads

This is true. 95% of the time, it would be just as safe to be cruising at 90 mph. But for those other 5% where there's an unexpected tire in the middle of the road, a deer, a driver who swerved into your lane or any other danger... a few extra milliseconds to react and respond is what makes the difference between a close call and severe damage.

This means driving is condemned to be a mostly boring activity, and in our present age where boredom is to be avoided at all costs, it becomes a magnet for distractions.

One solution is to drive a vehicle that requires more immersion: a stick shift car, a convertible, a jeep, a motorcycle, etc. These are vehicles which let you feel the road.
Result: Driving drunk, with a cellphone or with a hands-free phone were all equally dangerous.

Also driving while short on sleep. IIRC it's something like ~20 hours awake approximately matches .08 BAC, not sure offhand how chronic sleep deprivation (like most adults have) factors in.

(My conclusion from all this is that alcohol should not be treated as a special case: if you can't drive safely, proving that it must be for some other reason shouldn't get you out of trouble.)
One example is the almost universal prediction that Clinton would win. This (unfortunately) has the effect of suppressing opponent-voter turnout, as too many voters care about being on the "winning" side.

This was well-demonstrated in the 1994 election. As news of the Republican sweep (also not widely predicted) spread, Democrat turnout in Western time zones was reduced, favoring downballot GOP candidates. This was so pronounced in California, the GOP actually took the majority in the Assembly (a situation otherwise unheard-of in modern California). District 28 was decided by only 389 votes.
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While I personally feel like porn is dubious (primarily due to the exploitative nature of the industry) I feel like this whole controversy is way overblown.

Before this thread I had no idea said controversy even existed. As far as I knew the Lenna image was just a pretty decent photo, not the result of cropping a playboy cover.

I guess the idea that a derivative artwork can be seen a unique artwork in its own right doesn't mean anything anymore...
Stupid question: when they say 8 languages including Chinese - do they mean Mandarin or Cantonese? Or is that the same thing (for them)?
'Driving' in Los Angeles is totally different. You dont need all your faculties when driving consists of waiting 2 minutes, let foot off brake for 30 seconds, put foot back on brake, repeat 100x. Otherwise, I completely agree. I've owned manual shift cars my whole life. I find that a number of drivers dont really understand how a car and basic physics works.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would blow my brains out if I didnt have my smartphone to distract me. When you' re driving, everything can be a distraction depending on the ability of the driver. Billboards, eating, applying makeup, smoking, changing the radio and 100's of other different things all can do that. Why pass a smartphones ban, especially since were moving towards a world where most people would get lost driving to their grocery store without gps? It's just an easy, kneejerk response and doesnt solve the real issue.

We have way too low a threshold for who counts as a licensed driver. People who can't parallel park, never use their signals, people who get caught in intersections at a red light, dont look before merging or changing lanes, changing 4 lanes at once to make the exit, elderly people who get their license auto-renewed, etc. The hard truth is that there are far too many people on the road in 2 ton missiles who shouldn't have a license in the first place. One driving test for 10 minutes is not a sufficient way to license a driver.

Off-topic: I'm also amazed at how many people are clamoring for personal driving to be banned once self-driving cars hit the road. Granted, it does solve a lot of the issues I raised above but, if you want to be alpha testers for a closed source product written by software engineers in the auto industry, go right ahead. This is an industry where a company lied about the emissions of their products for years. Since cars can be on the roads for 20+ years, they had to know eventually they would be caught, but they didnt care. No one is in jail and the threat of a fine wasnt a deterrant. And now people implictly trust them with a new technology?

Im going to wait on owning one until an auto company open sources their code and there has been enough time to examine it thoroughly. In short, bring on the self-driving cars but do not make them mandatory. Just make licensing much more strict.
my sarcasm tag wasn't working.

every year I see numbers going up in discussions here, with a recent claim that a netflix engineer cost was $430k (salary + overhead). sr engineers at netflix on glassdoor were touching $200k - the "cost" (wild-ass guess on part of the poster) seems a bit out of whack, and I was negatively exaggerating for effect.

But also I originally thought this was damages for a long-running practice - it wasn't. A 2013 data breach, from the article.

NC is getting a whopping $70k from this - likely many multiples of that eaten up in time/money and opportunity costs. I've seen a bit of "yay, there's precedent for paying a fine for this sort of thing" but this fine just put a price on this sort of activity. Data breach affecting someone in NC? You'll face a fine of $1.50 per account. :/
Then what is the focus of the articlr? A guy going back home to visit family ?

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My one and only experience using Uber was with a driver who had no clue where anything was, clearly wasn't from around the place, and from what I could tell violated two traffic laws.

So what do I do, give him a bad rating? No, because this person probably needed the money, and a rating under 4.5 gets you shitcanned in an already rigged system.

Quite the revolution indeed.
In our case, implementing a pay for call, or even an account number would have been fairly hard, as an 8 person company. MOST people respected it, and on top of it there were a few cases where people used it to our benefit.

So, it was definitely a judgment call about if we should add something requiring a special code for access, charging, etc... In this case, we had to make the judgment call about implementing something like this, or stopping public NTP service.

Part of the equation also included that pool.ntp.org was now available and fairly well populated, when we started offering NTP service it wasn't a thing.
More importantly, no matter what their public web page says, we don't know with 100% certainty the terms that were negotiated with the US Navy.
There is a PR[1] to extend the current alpha GPU implentation. Hopefully it will get merged soon.

[1] - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28216
> what about the Islamic megacities, especially the Pakistani ones?

Pakistan has nukes. Please don't invade countries with nukes. And if there's one thing that Syria has taught us, or at least should have: urban fighting ultimately destroys cities leaving a near-empty ruinous shell and creates huge numbers of refugees which are both an economic burden and political dynamite that sees ultra right-wing leaders and policies voted in.

A city is a city because it's where a vast amount of people live. You're bringing deadly conflict to people's doorsteps and creating tomorrow's terrorist. This is fundamental, not something that can be solved with technology or hip new ways of thinking.
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Mapbox GL is pretty great, as I'm sure the Mapbox guy will inform you. The performance and image quality is top-notch.
Far more terrifying are the ones you can't see doing it due to handsfree.

Even better is what I'm increasingly seeing in states that have made texting/hands-on phone use illegal. Of course people still do it - except now they hold the phone down low so they don't get caught. Of course, that means that they can't keep the road in line of sight for however long it takes to finish their business.

Best of all [1]: in cases where this leads to an accident, phones are hidden more quickly than they were since usage is against the law - which means phone usage will get underreported in accidents. That'll create a nice echo effect where it looks like the law is helping. The apparent number of phone-related accidents will drop - while total incidents will remain the same or increase.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001674/ - or so some of the numbers here can be interpreted. As the authors repeatedly point out, though - there are so many variables that it's difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions.
I'm really not seeing most organizations moving to the cloud. It only makes sense economically for the smallest companies/organisations that can't afford maintenance costs. Most bigger ones won't risk the loss of their core data and a lot can't go to the cloud for various reasons like legality, speed and redundancy.
> We’re also excited that OpenAI chose Microsoft Azure as their primary cloud platform...

Any word on why? Is MS contributing funding to open.ai? Free computer time of course. But Azure is not most people's first first choice, especially yc companies. Is there some technical benefit I'm not aware of that this is a good way for ms to publicize?
I stand corrected. They appear to have measured forces in tens of micronewtons while the error is in single digit micronewtons. Still the confidence interval is an order of magnitude smaller than the measured force which is not bad.
I think the worrying thing is that it's not hard to believe, she's pointing out the breakdown of the scientific process.

She cops a lot of flack and hysteria, just for raising reasonable doubts!

If climate science is solid, then it shouldn't feel the need to vilify anyone who questions it. If it isn't solid then it should be subject to as much scrutiny as possible given the derived policy will have tremendous impacts to life.
You're right that they don't have value but there's still plenty of idiots out there buying and selling useless lists and while they're worthless they have a cost to us as recipients since we have to mark them as spam and delete them.
North Korea is about as capable of landing in Tokyo, as they are on the moon.

Most of their navy can't even get from their west coast to their east coast, never mind supporting an invasion of Tokyo, over 300 miles of water.
Rio de Janeiro is a war zone. Drug traffickers control large parts of the city and thousands are killed every year. They use military police units to bring law and order. Similar situation for Karachi.
Whether I am running or driving if I see a driver making dangerous u-turns or 3-point turns as of late it is always an Uber driver.

I always joke on a run it's normal to almost be hit by cars multiple time and typically it is by the same Uber driver. Just last night I am running thru a crosswalk (w/signal) and a car makes a left into the crosswalk almost hitting the first time, this street has no sidewalk so I am running behind the Uber driver who comes to a stop in the middle of the road for a good 45 seconds, as I proceed to catch up to the stopped car and pass it begins to do an unsignaled 3 point turn almost hitting me the 2nd time (this is when I see a phone in the drivers face), and for good measure the driver makes sure to nearly hit me reversing to clear the turn.

I have noticed some drivers have a glowing U on the dash but ride sharing drivers should be forced to have those old school pizza delivery light on the roof the they can be avoided, especially when they come to a full stop in the middle of traffic.
"That’s what I love about this place, all the secrets, all the little things I never noticed even after all these years. You know why this beats the real world, Lawrence? Real world is just chaos. It’s an accident. But in here, every detail adds up to something."
Erm. Isolationism = not helping ISIS (which is in hold of Aleppo) ?
For a comparison the Kuznetsov is carrying 3 Mig-29K and maybe twice as many Su-33 [1]. And here's what a USN CVN looks like on its way to deployment [2]. I'm too lazy to count the aircraft.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/egMni6q.jpg

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/IRlG9ti.jpg
I was just attempting to clarify that the situation is more complex than simply "pro-" or "anti-competition". For example, medallion-based taxi services are both, simultaneously, soulless megacorps and franchises of (within a given association) many thousands of de-facto "mom and pops".

If you have any doubts about this, ask a medallion holder how they go into the business (which I've done a fair amount of in various cities, in the past couple of years since Uber/Lyft got big). In effect a "medallion" is a lot like a permit to park your food truck in a certain place, or a lease on a corner store. And a lot of these people either invest their life savings (or sometimes the life savings of extended family members), and/or go very seriously into debt in order to purchase one of these "permits". And whose nest eggs Uber et al would very much like to "disrupt", at massive scale (literally in all corners of the globe) in order to validate their Weltanschaung (and of course, get stinking rich).

Yes I know these services also bring (significantly) greater efficiency and experience, and perhaps better working conditions and financial security -- for some current medallion holders.

But it would be naive to suppose that all of them stand to benefit; most likely there will be many losers as well -- by which I mean: bankrupted, in middle age, with a laughable pension and no savings -- before the dust settles.
Thanks. Sucks they couldn't make it work.
There was an attempt on assange in August. Some guy scales the wall, trys to get in the embassy. Luckily guards noticed him and warded the assailant off, didn't catch him. Assanges lawyers drop dead. John Kerry visits with authorities blocks from the embassy. Same day, bunch of security contractor vehicles outside, along with police. Internet in panic. Periscope live streams show up but after the cars are gone. Next morning, no word from assange, no journalists, just periscope streamers. RT.com shows up and covers the story, also reveals that the UK froze all of their bank and credit assets that morning. Wikileaks tweets possible warning shot at Kerry, tweets pre-commitment for several dumps, including one with Kerrys name in the title. Dyn DNS goes down, taking down access to twitter, word is assange has no internet still. No periscope streamers in 5 mile viscinity starting that day, lasting 3 days. I tried with proxies and tweeting at past streamers, no luck getting anyone to stop by. When DNS comes back up, there are over 20,000 tweets about Assange, the embassy, proof of life, etc, 4 different tweet templates, tweeted by thousands of accounts, two of them were videos of assange in the window from 2012. Was impossible to find anything relevant on twitter, like I had previously been doing, because there were too many bullshit tweets. Since then, 4/8ch investigation threads have been deleted repeatedly. 100 pages of investigation purged, and the archive.is backups of all of the wikileaks/4ch stuff were also deleted.(they endlessly load now). I only started looking into this, because I noticed the weirdest change in tone from the wikileaks twitter. That afternoon, the wikileaks account started tweeting in response, very informally. Something they had not done at all since I had been following them. They also took a distinct anti-hillary position, and even said yes we have a position. Absolutely no proof of life. Also that same day, wikileaks tweeted that 14 other people who work with assange/wikileaks, had lost internet connection, and their phones went out as well. Since then nothing at all meaningful has been dumped. I also think it is safe to assume he is no longer in control.
Do I wish I could find my old ICQ number and password
Oh really? I love it. It's the best part of HN.
Thanks for your reply, I will think more about your first option, 7 people per day is doable on the side and in just 2 weeks you get to talk with 100 people
While I agree they are working on cool things, this is entirely separate from an ability to monetize it. This is the part I doubt; I don't see anything that indicates they would succeed where twitter failed.
The SO-DIMM pinouts are different enough that this is not true either.
Seriously, people think that political parties like them... what a world!
> What you are missing

Automation costs are actually administrative costs (platform fees), which have recently increased via unmonetized opportunity cost models (opportunity being a specific technical term in advertising). SO is not fully or optimally monetizing, probably because they prefer to keep the old tech they are using and/or the staff that has been there since early days. It's also possible they want some dejour/nonstandard controls. Saying they are making an informed tradeoff is simply incorrect. Saying they are making a (unspecified) choice, then not really talking about that choice, is what the article skirts.

Sub 10k/mo for platforms at 2 billion opps per day is AOL and SpotX. That schedule doesn't matter at the volume SO works with. Fees and Opp costs are not the issue with the unmonetized inventory.
It will be worth something when they actually spend those dollars. Until then, we are talking about potential. Remember the dotcom days, lots of potential.
Then you have to pay for the capacity to store a copy in the cloud. Fine for small sizes, annoying if it is terabytes of stuff ;)
It's fantastic to see the confidence interval quoted in those latter tables (I assume 95%?) - that's far more informative than just the mean failure rate.
Family In S. Dakota. And taking back / farm roads all the way, because they are much more friendly to enduro-style motorcycles. Wasn't out of way. Was't lost. Just taking the long way home. It's kinda like you missed the entire point of my comment.
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> we can expect the dominance of the United States Navy to be increasingly challenged

In terms of military power, the Chinese and Russian navies in no way challenge the U.S. A low-end aircraft carrier is almost meaningless; the two ships are symbolic. It's American political aims and capability that raise questions.
Just one data point: I have been using OVH for 4 months with no problems yet. I use a large memory, multiple core VPS for development, not production.
The article fails to provide any statistics to show that apps are the cause. It just publishes a few case reports where apps were involved in an accident, and notes an uptick in traffic fatalities.

I think apps have reduced my chance of causing a traffic death:

My cognitive load for driving is much less than it used to be.

I no longer need to scan my environment for street signs, store signs or exit signs. I never need to look at a physical map/notes. If I miss a turn/exit, I'll recover. I don't have to suddenly shift lanes because I'll be in the correct lane a kilometer or two before the actual exit. Confusing signs telling me which lane to use are a non-issue.

I'll also drive fewer kilometers because of optimized routing. Sometimes it's more, but that's because I'll be diverting around congestion. I can also wait out the traffic and know exactly when to leave at a time that has fewer cars on the road.

Music streaming apps mean I don't have to fumble through radio stations, or clunky physical media.
It could be that this is not a coincidence but just the chemistry of the imperfect goop inside our heads tricking you into these thoughts... [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscence_bump
I am using Webpack 2 with Aurelia. The breaking changes are a little bit painful (like the latest release), but using it in production and it is completely fine. Documentation is a little scarce, but they're working on it: http://webpack.js.org
rather than swift to replace obj-c you could use https://github.com/dontpanic92/wxGo/ and make it 100% Go.

https://github.com/dontpanic92/wxGo/issues/8 needs work though fyi
I was told that the inventor came up with the idea while at the theatre with his wife. As the spotlights converged on a performer, the idea sprung to mind, and he yelped "I've got it!"

Quite possibly embellished, but plausible that should be the inspiration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR -> Cures Disease

Eventually...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

And...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins_2:_The_New_Batch

I hope we cure a lot of diseases before we get into the bad side of genmods.
We've only tested on personal systems so far, just a few TB.

The theoretical limit is around 9PB, but we don't know what performance would be like at this scale.

A one TB spinning disk drive takes about 30 mins to scan, several thousand files per second, and query performance is very good. Most people scan project directories on demand, and the whole disk once a week or so. SSDs are much faster of course.

There is a restriction on the maximum number of files acted on by one query (e.g. moved, deleted, renamed), as the exec() function caches the list of files in memory. On macOS we're ok with tens of millions of files, but the first Windows release, due any day now is 32bit (we're fighting compiler issues), so the limit is around a million files.
I have been looking at how McDowell wrote an interview-cram book that became a respected tome on algorithms.

I've been looking at doing the same with sysadmin tools. I mean, I don't know I can live up to her standards, but what I want to teach is easier, too, really. I want to relate the new sysadmin tool-of-the-week to old UNIX concepts in ways that would enable someone who has deep UNIX experience to quickly jump in and at least pass an interview dealing with the tool-of-the-week.

I mean, the latter part of that is going to be a lot of work, but it's not what I'm looking for help with. What I'm looking for help with is the "interview" part; I need to construct real-sounding ansible brain-teasers. And having several different sets of "production workflow" would help, too.
> As augmented reality becomes big and wearables become mainstream, filters like Snapchat offers will clearly grow in demand and value as virtual fashion goods.

This version of the future sounds pretty horrible. One could conceivably put a nudity/porn filter on everyone... or much, much worse. The hacks are going to be epic... can you imagine your fresh new filter getting a ddos attack? Or someone sending out grotesque filters as malware...
whats the best front end program to read those databases, for non-db folks? (windows or linux / CLI or GUI)
I believe they're referring to a babelfish-like device of the namesake, though it would be a nice touch if they could get the copyright for such a device.
Leaks may have emails that are defunct, belong to dormant accounts nobody reads, throwaway accounts like mailinator.com, honeypots, etc. This confirms the account belongs to a real human actively reading the email.