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> I am not sure if an autonomous car will be safer. I mean, can they even do panic breaking right now (For example, if someone or something jumps in front of the car?). You know, safety is often not about having the fastest reaction time, but also about having good anticipation that any decent human driver will develop in a short time....
I think any hopes that cars will be better than humans at it is quite naive...

Even if we assume that cars won't be as good at stopping from people jumping in front of them, I would bet the number of accidents that happen from something like that are significantly smaller than the number of accidents from human error like texting while driving, being drunk, or just not paying attention due to fatigue or whatever else.

Not to mention, how can you really even tell the difference between someone who's walking towards your car but will stop and someone who isn't? Not even humans can do that since we can't read minds.
I looked into it and found this article (https://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/03/21/army-general-screw-...) about a US Army General that was tired of waiting for the MHS competition (which is the competition that the P320 won) and was gonna try to bypass the competition and just get Glock 19s. However, he did not succeed and the P320 was chosen.
If I open 5 to 10 tabs with various twitter profiles loaded in them, and I won't notice much because of the icepick that I'll very shortly embed in through my ear.

However, I routinely run with tens of tabs open - usually 40-50 - and love the 'tab groups' extension so I can semantically group them (I have more tabs overall, but they're not all actively loaded). It can get a little slow with 50 active tabs, yes, but what doesn't? Modern webpages suck CPU and RAM dry.
It's one thing to speculate ignorantly about the latest app; it's quite another to do it about someone's mental illness.
Throwaway because of obvious reasons but let this be a lesson to the HN crowd:

NEVER ever risk so much that you're family will be left homeless. The minute you had kids and a wife is the minute you chose to never be able to risk everything for bigger gains.

Also, this post sobered me up from the dream of buying a $500K home. I'll be getting a $250k and paying off that sucker ASAP.
I think the commas very well placed. If it reads like Shatner to you, then perhaps you are reading as if they were ellipses?
May Love be with him all the way.
HTTP is the new skinny waist of the internet.
Killing yourself with 4 kids is a pussy move, money isn't everything. I'd rather have a loving family and live in a mobile home for 250 a month, than be dead with kids spitting on my grave.
I'm not the guy you're arguing with but this is literally the argument you're making. You're saying that Thunderbird is not necessary. That's an opinion. You likely hold this opinion because you don't use it. If you did use Thunderbird, you may feel differently. If you used Thunderbird and it shut down, you'd feel sad. You'd want them to keep working on it.

I say working on the I-5 freeway is a waste of time, because I've never driven on it. But thousands of other people do. And they probably feel that it's an important road in their lives. It's not a straw man, it's the other side of your argument. You just disagree. That doesn't make it a straw man.
You are completely misrepresenting what McConnell says.

There is a summary of his advice here[1], but just to highlight

Describe everything the routine does
And we mean literally everything. If that makes the name ridiculously long, the name isn't the problem. Your routine is.

And

Make names as long as necessary
According to McConnell, the optimum name length for a variable is 9 to 15 characters; routines tend to be more complex and therefore deserve longer names. Make your names as long as they need to be in order to make them understandable.

I've read McConnell, and your claims are so completely the opposite of what he recommends that I'm still unconvinced you aren't trolling.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-shall-call-it-somethingmanag...
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For the new trends, its undefined, as it obviously hasn't happened yet (and any suggestion is simply speculation), but it is difficult to argue that there won't be one; whatever it is, the idea goes, it'll likely be missed.

As for who is in a better position to serve these new trends, it of course depends on what trends actually appear. It might be one of the giants of industry, if the trend matches, or nears a bet they're already making. It could also be some current minor player, who catches or forges an unexpected one, like Apple had.

Obviously the big players are in the best position to execute on a new trend (and hedge their bets), but as the idea goes, a giant might be large but he is slow, and therein lies his weakness. Encumbered by what they have now, its difficult to see new horizons (which is why things like google x and bell labs exist, divorcing themselves from the primary business in hopes of gaining insight)

Of course, all of this is a non-answer, I'm just describing the idealogy leading to all these death statements, but it's all you'll get out of me
> I'm 42 and this is what the USDA has been saying all along with their food pyramids and four food groups and what have you.

You are not remembering correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_USDA_nutrition_guid...

> I think as a whole, nutritionists have always been on the same page,

No, they certainly haven't. "Best practices" change all the time. This happened quite recently; http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/06/1...

> but the edict "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" doesn't concern itself with those

It also contradicts the recently popularized "keto" diet, which has roughly as much evidence behind it as any other popular dietary recommendation (i.e. not much).

Really the only things we can say authoritatively is "if you miss out on certain nutrients, you get sick". Beyond that, we're not really very sure.

> The problem is separating the wheat from the chaff

Your mistake is in thinking that there's a definitive difference. Almost ever piece of nutritional research available today has an extremely low predictive power. Where you draw the wheat/chaff line is more or less arbitrary. Even what should, ideally, be the most staunchly scientific food-related organizations, the FDA and FNS, change the recommendations all the time because they're not actually using hard science.
Indeed, and an obvious example is Apple cannibalizing the demand for it's personal computing systems, by offering mobile devices that nearly replace and obviate key features offered by personal computers.

Had somebody else beaten them to the punch, they'd have suffered from the same disruption, AND lost business.

Because they were early, and had the muscle to withstand the temporary discomfort of being ahead of their time, they could land ahead of schedule and wait for everyone to catch up. At which point they were able to guide a massive avalanche in their favor.

It's not a requirement that the cannibalized market should be held by the disruptor. The market that gets destroyed doesn't have to be your own, but 'tis better to be the disruptor than the disrupted.
Ask HN: What tips can you provide when Product clashes with Marketing?
I've found that Product and Marketing can clash at times. What suggestions can experienced Product folks offer when this occurs. We're on the same ship, but often see different waters to reach land.
Found this thread on Twitter of someone who called the police 12 hours ago. Context suggests that it was too late. https://twitter.com/TychoTithonus/status/824324158154645504
A service to screen sales people on their ability to actually sell.
A really cool paper to read is The Design of POSTGRES [1] by Stonebraker et al. It's dated by its mentions of things like POSTQUEL, but it's still really interesting to read about the early design of seminal features like the extensible ADT system, from a time when it was still innovative.

1: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M85-95.pdf
Firefox had no process isolation or web content sandboxing for years. It still doesn't in a lot of places even today. That meant that every little bug became a serious bug.

In contrast, RCE's for Chrome and Safari require chaining together a number of exploits - the most valuable of which is the sandbox escape.

Firefox are years behind on security - and in the meantime large number of people have abandoned it and you have an entire security community openly advocating against using or deploying it.

Yes, the security model is improving now (thanks in large part to code from Chromium) - but it's improved in the same way Adobe Flash security has improved, or Java security has improved - it will always have that huge weight of a bad reputation to carry, and it is still a far way from catching up to the norm in browsers today (check the incomplete features, bugs and open issues of e10s)

Firefox missed a huge opportunity in becoming the defacto secure and private browser - I know I don't love running Chrome/Chromium but I kinda have to
It's been a while since I've read Michael Pollan's book, An Omnivore's Dilemma, but if I am remembering correctly, there are several locations in the world where people live an abnormally long time, with good quality of life. Researchers went to those places and found out what people usually eat there. Then, comparing the diets of the different qualifying populations, the diet advice Pollan came up with to live a long healthy life was, "eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables."
Yes, she runs Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub eventually partnered with LibGen to help host files and reduce Sci-Hub's dependence on donated logins. (Previously all documents were accessed from their "real" journal/repository portals using credentials contributed by sympathetic academics.)
Calling it like I see it. You can blame depression all you want but his situation wasn't caused by depression-it was caused by pride. His depression was the result of his inability to admit the problems he had until a point at which his pride stopped him from dealing with things.

Depression might have "pulled the trigger" but pride "loaded the gun".
The Glock has long been the standard for reliability but it is far from a comfortable platform. It's also come to a point where they seem to have stalled on good ideas for their product.

The p320 has a great trigger and contours better then the Glock to most people's hand.

It's the same reason why Berretta won out. I wouldn't want my buddy armed with a Glock if they had to shoot at people two to three inches to the side if myself. I also don't want something made of plastic if I'm rolling around in solvents if I'm working some kind of maintenance job.
Make a Skinner Box app. It's basically the same thing as drugs, but potentially more profitable and also legal.
Many government agencies make extensive use of 'big data'. I doubt Trump will stop it.
>i'm not even exaggerating. scientists are liberals.

>that's all.

You're wrong. You just don't hear from the conservatives because it's become acceptable to be borderline militant about political views that aren't liberal enough in universities.

The disconnect is mind boggling. I had several tenured professors on my Facebook feed ranting about how everyone who would consider not voting for Hillary was a racist, sexist, and a fascist. Is it really a big surprise that people with conservative view points don't speak up in research groups? In particular people shooting for tenure would be committing career suicide to admit conservative political leanings.
IMO it's a mistake to develop a board that's not capable of running 64 bit ARM code these days. While you might not need the address space capabilities, aarch64 standardizes a lot of things that would otherwise bite you in the ass if you develop software that needs to run on several flavors of ARM. I.e. all 64 bit ARMs have NEON and hard float. And not just any NEON, but NEON specific to 64 bit ARM, with newer instructions. You get a _very_ nice lowest common denominator to code against. Nicer, in some regards, than Intel. This is especially egregious considering that Raspberry Pi 3 _does_ have 64 bit chip, even though they run it in 32 bit mode. I guess what you're really buying in this case is a hardware 4K video decoder.
My grandparents just moved into a new home, only after the deal was closed did anyone notice that the washer and dryer water tap was built directly above the washer and dryer electrical outlet.

I've never seen such a thing, it's basically the same as an outside garden hose tap, installed directly above the electrical outlet.

that's not something I'd normally know to go looking for, so I doubt I'd have seen it myself if I was with them looking at the place.
Surely the people who own the copyright are being deprived in this case. Doesn't it affect their future revenue to have 50 million articles available online for free?
I don't see how you can claim that the people who own the copyright are not being deprived. Doesn't it affect their future revenue? Isn't that why they restrict access?
My point being, it doesn't necessarily follow that a hardware company would need to control the software on the phone to the extent that they do.

Also, the money from software proportionately, but even as a software only company (services, $5 billion) they make enough money to be a Fortune 500 company in its own right. I don't think it's evident at all that their motives are straightforwardly devoted to hardware.
I'm half your age and the USDA recommended grains as the plurality of your diet until nutrition stopped showing up in school.
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This is sad yet completely understandable. I attempted suicide last night. After being blocked from being able to put my kids to bed by my soon-to-be-ex-maybe-but-hopefully-I-can-fix-it wife, looking at not having much in the way of visitation. It's just too much. Add financial pressure, the only thing my wife seems to respond to, and I can't take it. Writing software requires creativity from the inside - emotional stress disables me. Not fair, perhaps I'm weak, but there it is.

The cry for help stuff is annoying, too. I didn't contact anyone last night because either I cause more emotional harm (they don't stop me) or I'm just an drama-causing guy that is so unstable of course his kids can't be around him.

I used to think this was a silly response until I was in the situation. Maybe things would have gotten for this guy, maybe not.
> We're looking at dozens (maybe hundreds) of research papers published over the past 40 years.

And how many nutrition researchers and students do you think there are? How many do you think choose to do a study about a popular diet? Do you think everyone who fails to reject the null hypothesis with whatever mediocre p-value criteria their supervising professor decided on publishes their paper anyway? Do you think most journals would accept such a paper?

> however, if a study found the diet had any relatively negative health effects

That's the thing. Almost any semi-reasonable diet isn't going to kill you or make you horribly sick. Every dietary recommendation you find online will probably keep you alive and healthy. Then, by the nature of having lots of scientific papers and the way publishing works, you can find as many papers as you like claiming that your favorite dietary recommendation is slightly better than the other ones.
> significantly more people use Safari and Chrome than use Firefox

This is true. Significantly more people use "Safari and Chrome" than "Firefox". However, significantly less people use "Safari" than "Firefox". Chrome is the gorilla, Safari is waaaaaaay back in the pack.
Cool! The U.S. has an informal group for federal employees: http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
Questioning a persons compassion because they hold a different opinion than you is low. There's no reason to believe they don't care. Their post doesn't say "Don't call the police, it's not worth the taxpayers dollar."
Hugo Barra is joining Facebook
In torrent form: http://climatetorrent.com/
Torrents are a great way of maintaining data integrity and allowing future sharing easily.
I have been reading about Postgres architecture. The modular design enables - microkernel-like API where different languages can be integrated seamlessly.

The only thing, I am missing are incremental materialized views.
Really hope they reached him in time. This is no way or reason to go...

For all the interesting things the anglo countries offer, this is one of those things that concern me. Many people I know in the Netherlands and Spain were in the same situation. A very good friend of mine owes the bank E400k and has a house to sell at this moment. In Spain. The bank wanted to foreclose months ago but the judge blocked it giving her 2 years to get her affairs in order to start paying mortgage again (mortgage was not paid for over a year). It seems far more humane than what I read about anglo countries where you can end up living on the streets even without a drug habit. I know money money but as I get older I value humane far more than money. Then again, I am not sure if I think this way about uk/ca/us/au (esp US though) because of the many media hyped up posts. Maybe it is not that bad but reading things like this...

Edit: many foreclosures happen in Spain but that is mostly because people do not know that they can fight them or do not want the hassle

Edit2: post flagged? Is it fake? Does not matter for the responses here; actual people think about and do this every day. I had too many friends and family take their lives but none of them did it because of money. Broke here (correct me if I am wrong please!) is not the same as broke there.
But that doesn't change the fact that there are now millions of people
pretty well locked into a platform (through iCloud, iMessage, proprietary
integration with Mac, etc.) which are limited to a single browser and are
forbidden to use another one.

Yes, but unlike Windows in the 2000s, there is a clear alternative to Apple. In
the 2000s, if you wanted to buy a computer that didn't run Windows, you were out
of luck. But you can totally buy a smartphone that doesn't run iOS.
Sad find - but closure.
Yeah, the examples in the book are almost unnecessary next to its own text. You can tell how much work Zinsser put into every phrase.
Someone pointed out that the government doesn't need anyone's cooperation to create a registry of Muslim Americans; they can do it based on available data.

Note that a reputedly leaked document says that Trump ordered the government "collect and make publicly available within 180 days ... information regarding the number of foreign-born individuals in the United States who have been radicalized after entry into the United States and engaged in terrorism-related acts". [0] They could make many lists without anyone's cooperation.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/read-draft-text-trump-ex... - I don't usually rely on the Huffington Post, but as an example of the possibilities the accuracy doesn't matter as much.
Is it working? It seems a bit convoluted. Why not just let users agree to sell their aggregated, deidentified data to whoever wants it and then you take a cut kinda like the app stores.
Glock was out of the running because lack of a "real" safety and their unwillingness to add one
I had your view - I just read a number of his posts. You can define 'mental illness' to be almost anything, and it would encompass a lot of folks, but most of his writings were pretty balanced.

What I did see (and others did too) was a post about need $600k - needing a lump sum, then working on something and paying it all back from the 'riches' of the project. Now.. the 'riches' part may have been somewhat tongue in cheek, perhaps, but he was really going for some "go big go home" sort of project, and that didn't work out.

Now's probably not quite the time to criticize (and I'm not criticizing him), but when is there a good time? Dennis seemed to get caught up in the belief in "big payout tech projects". This isn't to say they don't happen, but Dennis' isn't the first story I've read of people "shooting big", then ending up in deep debt, deep despair, considering suicide. We don't read about these much - we generally read about the continuing waves of billion-dollar unicorns fronted by people continually younger than ourselves. It's gotta wear some people down.

I just bumped in to some folks a few days ago who are (independently) "buckling down" on their big "game changing" projects. While I only know these folks socially, if the projects fail, and one ends up taking his life (or even considering it), I will not be overly surprised (saddened, yes). But there's little I can do.

People chasing web/tech/app riches then falling in to debt/despair has got to be the unspoken plague of this industry.

EDIT: looks like his most recent project was Gallus: https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/01/24/gallus-lessons-... And while that looked like it was going to pay off in a sale, the buyer got acquired and everything got put on hold. The house eviction may have pushed him over the edge?
Well, I'll admit I haven't yet tried the P320. I have no doubt Sig can make a great gun, especially if they decide not to overengineer the heck out of everything.
if the connection closes mid stream it could potentially run something catastrophic (rm -rf /) as sh will execute the partial command in its buffer.
I'm very happy to let the chart on that page speak for itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Property_Crime_Rates_in...
They have the only "real" safety: keep your finger out of the trigger guard. :-)
I think that in some sense, the old radio magazine project articles are the original open-source hardware. There was certainly a tradition of developing something useful, and then sharing it with the world.
See also Paul Graham and 'startup'.
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> there are several locations in the world where people live an abnormally long time, with good quality of life

There are many equally likely explanations that don't involve whatever those people happen to be eating. Regional genetic tendencies, slightly elevated levels of background radiation leading to radiation hormesis, a social tendency towards exercise, etc. It could be all in their diet, but then again, we don't have any really good evidence that it is.
Whoa - I was thinking is the P220 / 226. So yeah, this is a big change then.
> We don't know what his relationship with his wife is

Especially in the last few days, if he was arranging for a sale of the house, that would necessitate a move. Certainly wouldn't be unheard of to spring this last minute, but I suspect he'd prepped the family for a move, and likely would have needed his wife's signatures on some paperwork at minimum (canada may be different than the US states I've lived in).
I already explained above, how Android doesn't solve the problem. The damage Apple are causing is real.
What resources have you been using to familiarize yourself with Postgres?
Yeah I'm actually learning Elixir and eventually Phoenix.

Erlang's syntax took a while to get used to but the community wasn't for me. There were no momentum really, it was really hard to convince anybody that Erlang needed some killer framework that people can get behind. Or hell anything to get excited about other than BEAM and that's behind the scene.

Elixir is beautiful but some of the syntax is meh for me.
Whole departments of the US government being told to hush up, including in peer reviewed journals, is direct concrete evidence.
Do you have the ability to be a productive human being while visiting the bathroom every 5-10 minutes, depending on how your digestion is doing that day? Maybe you only fart three times a day, that's great for you, but it really doesn't work that way for many people.

This reminds me of a guy who thought that it was rude when people sneezed loudly...