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ThinThread existed before these events. It wasn't retro-engineered to highlight them.

ThinThread's the kind of program you want: Cost-effective, focused, productive, scoped to respect law and the privacy of non-actionable data as much as possible.

When the Bush Administration came in, they shit-canned it in order to push their own cost-overrunning, un-focused and all-consuming, non-productive and arguably actively counter-productive wet-dream of "total-awareness" and contractor enrichment. (Yes, there are reports of Cheney et al. specifically pushing this.)

Given this, combined with Bush's willful and apathetic disengagement from his intelligence and security responsibilities, responsibility for 9/11 can and should be hung around his neck, and malfeasance should be at least fully investigated and reported where it cannot be prosecuted.

Good people were railroaded to career death and attempted long-term imprisonment. The people who did this to them and furthermore screwed this country over, should be pursued with every legal measure and reported on with the minimum possible constraint by classification of the relevant information.
The 'Homepage' link to https://mtklabs.github.io/ergonomica 404s.
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It's just an illustrative example. A real incident pit is dangerous because you need the experience to recognise one, and you need the courage to be the one that aborts a dive that people might have traveled a long way, paid money, etc to do. Fortunately you can just say "incident pit" and everyone will immediately perform their own independent analysis, if they're experienced.

The "problem" with modern regulated torch designs is that they don't appreciably dim as the power runs down; they're bright and then they just stop over the course of a few seconds. Old designs you could easily spot when the batteries were ready to be replaced/recharged well in advance.
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If I may..even though the quote isn't attributed to me...

It's really a long and involved answer but I am going to try my best to keep it simple.

Raw milk that has fat(lipids), protein, amino acids and sugars(glucose) amongst other good stuff. Milk is essentially a suspension..that is fat suspended in the fluid. When you homogenize milk, it is passed through a fine nozzle so that it's no longer a suspension. It is all one homogenous uniform mixture..with everything mixed and melded together.

What happens is that the lipids in the original raw state is encased within a thin membrane called milk fat globule membrane..that's why the cream is 'suspended' and separate from the liquid milk itself. This membrane/cell wall of the lipid is now shattered during the homogenization process.

That membrane is there for a reason. Mammalian milk is the complete food for the offsprings..from an evolutionary pov, it has to contain everything to sustain the infant. Lactation is a highly expensive action for the mammalian mother..why would she give up so much resources and energy to design lipids and protein and other stuff so perfectly packaged in the medium that is suspension based raw milk delivery system?

The fat globule membrane could be there for the right order in which to digest or process the nutrients for the most optimal and complete food source for the baby. Modern machinations have altered the structure of milk protein/fats/sugars that full fat(aka regular) milk is considered unhealthy. Milk can cause indigestion..milk fats causes heart disease..the sugars are considered carbs. But it is really the perfect and complete food which has the exact delivery system that costs the mother so much to provide her offspring. Of course, the mother in this case is the cow from whose offsprings we steal the milk but the evolutionary argument for the structure of raw milk and the weirdness/uselessness/wastefulness of trying to alter its perfect structure remains..

On a slightly related note..goat milk for example has higher protein but it doesn't contain the milk fat globule membrane..and it isn't necessary to homogenize it..it comes naturally homogenized. Some have lesser intolerances with goats milk than with cows milk..so I am going to guess that it has something to do with casein. Donkeys milk..yaks milk..buffalo milk..camels milk..sheeps milk. They are all acceptable to drink in diff parts of the world. I grew up on buffalos milk which is richer and creamier. Big topic..I hope I haven't digressed too much! Gah!
It's not that bad. You can compress the data on S3 in ORC or Parquet format, and you only pay for the compressed data you read, so 1TB can be 130GB after compression. Plus, these formats store summary data, so queries like SELECT COUNT don't have to do a full table scan - they can read just a few KB of summary data for the result.
It's actually not false. If you read the article you posted, you will see that half of the water is used for environmental uses. That means is not used by humans, but "let go".

So if you sum the rest, agriculture does use 80% of the water used by humans.
> Why shouldn't we? We have a set of object called multipliers that we want to generalize to the 2 dimensional plane. The presented generalization (eg, the multiplier identified by x maps the point at 1 to the point at x) seems natural

Rotating all of a sudden does not feel natural to me at all. Why not start cutting up the 2D plane? Why not fold it? In analytic terms, we would cause discontinuities, whereas rotating is "smooth". But this is definitely nontrivial. Rotating is just so arbitrary. I think that skewing or flipping, for example is just as "natural" as rotating.

> The fact that this function has anything to do with exponential, trigonometry, or analysis is neat, but not important in this context.

It's actually at the heart of why rotation (and not some other geometric operation) is key to e^iπ.
To me the real killer is that the code formatter is too slow on mobile, with no way (AFAIK) of opting out.
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That AN-124 is a huge plane. It landed at Moffet Field once and I saw it coming in and my brain kept rejecting what I was seeing because it was "too big" for how far away it should be.
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Congratulations on your weight loss!

Separately, I don't know if I understand your point. To me you are saying that because the grey matter in our brains is made of cholesterol that means we should eat more cholesterol and your recommendation for how to get more cholesterol is by using grass fed butter.

Did I correctly state your point?
This is a neat article, but I'd just like to point a common misconception that's made in the "How bright is the moonlight?" section.

For a field that studies light, astronomers and physicists have made quite a few words to describe how "bright" something is: luminosity, flux, intensity, and brightness [1]. Somewhat confusingly, all of these words have different meanings, and also have infrequently used synonyms, like irradiance. In this case, the article makes the cardinal sin of physicists which is to confuse brightness and intensity with flux.

If you put a piece of film on the ground on different nights for perigee and apogee, it would be more exposed on the night the moon was closer (perigee) and less exposed on the night it was further away (apogee). This is because the moons flux at the Earth's surface is lower according to the inverse square law. However, if you have a camera that can resolve the Moon across many pixels or bits of film, you will find that it is exposed to the same level! This is because the intensity and brightness are the same, and this is ultimately due to the fact that the Moon's distance from the Sun stays approximately constant.

This is counter-intuitive (and something I've asked intro astronomy classes). Think of it this way, if you put the Moon twice the distance from the Earth, its flux will decrease by a factor of four. But, you will also put all of that flux into a smaller patch of the sky: twice the distance for a circular Moon means the area of the Moon will now by four times smaller. These precisely cancel each other, and the "light density" stays the same. Now if your eye could add up all light falling on your retina (flux), you could tell a difference, but since what you will perceive is the intensity/brightness, they will look the same.

[1] See the comical number of units in the table on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity_(physics)
Are you fixing it or are you making the inevitable failure even more dangerous? The answer is not easily determined.

The current solution is to drain the reservoir of water as fast as possible--this removes pressure on the hillside, and reduces the scope for damage should the thing actually go.

As for actually patching it, the solution is dumping lots of grout. But that only helps if the slope is actually stable and capable of supporting the embankment and dam. If the slope is washing away, all of your patching is just adding more weight to a structure that can't support its own weight anymore.

While looking at old examples of dam failures, I came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetwater_Dam#1916_failure ... this seems awfully similar to what's happening at Oroville right now.
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Also from that link:

"Solely relying on these statewide volumes is controversial because they don't consider the fact that most of the volume of water used for environmental purposes includes flows down Wild and Scenic Rivers in the North Coast where there is no practical way to recover it for either agricultural or urban use because it lacks many connections to the statewide water supply system."
Still waiting for WordPress to move. ;)
I wonder if medicine will not be the next rms/oss movement.

Biohacker and medical open research is catching some wind these days.
Since it was a laptop boot PW I generated (ranpwd), wrote it down, memorized over a week or so and then lost the piece of paper. Wasn't too concerned because I "had it"... until I didn't.
IME the process usually involves finding a lot of bugs and users generally want the bugs ported too.
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> .. see that the adders combine into a spiral that converges on rcos(theta) + isin(theta)

Incidentally, that's how Mathologer explains e^iπ and I like that explanation a lot more.
Look at the Taylor series for e^x, and see what you get for e^(i * theta). The terms with i raised to an even power are real, those with i raised to an odd power are imaginary. Group the odds together and the evens together, and compare with what the Taylor series for sin x and cos x give you for sin theta and cos theta. (I'm being a bad person here, ignoring convergence issues, but I want to say that all three are absolutely convergent.)
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This explanation strikes me as a little too aggressive in throwing out the notation with the bathwater, only reaching its result by redefining the terms we already have intuition for into space-stretching operations that don't work like arithmetic does in my head.

In that sense I think I have the same problem with this proof that I do with the standard one, where you add the Maclaurin series of cos(θ) and i * sin(θ) and match term-by-term with the series for e^(i * θ). The problem is, at the point you can actually show equality, the things on one side aren't obviously a rotation and the things on the other side aren't obviously an exponential.

I'm not just hear to yell at clouds. I was given a proof that I truly love by a professor I adore, which I think really does give insight into what all these operators are doing. The best video I can find with it is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dhHrg-KbJ0 (Skip to 7:30 if you're already comfortable with the limit definition of e^x)

The basic summary is:

1) e^iθ is equal to (1 + iθ/n) ^ n for large n

2) That base, (1 + iθ/n), plotted as a complex number, has length approaching 1, angle approaching θ/n

3) The base squared, (1 + iθ/n)^2, by de moivre's theorem, forms another point as if the transformation from (0, 1) were repeated twice — that is, the length stays one, and another tiny angle is added for a total of 2θ/n

4) The full result is therefore n transformations, taking the path along the unit circle, traveling θ and arriving at cos(θ) + i * sin(θ)
Sids usually means inexplicable deaths for babies less than one year old.

I can remember my daughter at five months, as soon as she learned how to turn, she would start sleeping on her stomach, no matter what we did. What should a parent do, then?
Very old Volkswagen beetles used air pressure from the spare tyre instead of an electric washer fluid pump. I remember laughing so hard when I discovered that...

I was a teenager. Now that I'm an engineer, it's not so funny; it's an interesting design trade-off.
Interesting. I've been taught the opposite due to the low smoke point of olive oil.

I use Avocado oil; it has a high smoke point and seems healthier. Other oils are OK if you don't cook on high heat (use medium heat or lower).
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Yes! My bad. He's hilarious.
That is what caught my eye. I'm not really impressed that they did it. But that it was less than a week from the fault, to the plane was flying with a new engine, was impressive.
No, another link to 3Blue1Brown was posted earlier this week and hit the front page. My basic assumption is that when a topic is posted, people will explore that topic and, if it's interesting enough, post further content about that topic.
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I'd like to strongly present these two points in particular to answer your queries. I could go into the number of Congressmen Google has paid for, but I'll just refer you to opensecrets.org there.

1. Google had a previous FTC Commissioner in their pocket under Obama (named Joshua Wright). The same former FTC Commissioner is now part of Trump's transition team for the FTC. The FTC is charged with regulating companies like Google. The best source I can give you is The Intercept, which not only describes his quadruple-revolving-door, but links to the various stages of it. And yes, an investigation of Google by the FTC was quietly closed during his tenure.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/google-gets-a-seat-on-th...

> "Joshua Wright has been put in charge of transition efforts at the influential Federal Trade Commission after pulling off the rare revolving-door quadruple-play, moving from Google-supported academic work to government – as an FTC commissioner – back to the Google gravy train and now back to the government."

2. In their original paper, Sergey Brin and Larry Page argued that advertising had a fundamentally corruptive influence on search. If you compare the quote from their paper below, which indicates a strong need for an uncorrupted academic search engine, with their multibillion dollar advertising empire, the only logical conclusion is that Sergey Brin and Larry Page value money and power over any sort of highminded desire to benefit society. You'll also notice that Google displays paid ads for websites that should naturally be the top result, like showing a paid Best Buy link above the official Best Buy website search result when searching for "best buy", just as they originally indicated was a trait of a "worse" search engine.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

> "Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."
That ignores the fact that there are already 6 airports in Southern California and 3 (5 if you include Central Valley airports) in Northern California. Do you really think getting to Disneyland or Pasadena will be faster if you take a train to downtown LA than if you flew to SNA or BUR or ONT?
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Intuition always comes after the feeling of awe or confusion, in my opinion. Really depends on how you learn.
Lost in the high speed rail bit, the CHSR is actually what you're asking for. Because it serves as commuter rail in the Bay Area and LA Basin. And to a lesser extent elsewhere. That's the actual reason it's expensive.
The better idea is to start with vectors. Adding vectors or scaling them is straight-forward. It’s trickier to figure out what it means to multiply or divide two vectors.

The quotient of two vectors v/u should be some kind of operator which transforms one into the other (that is, when you multiply it by one, you get the other, (v/u)u = v(u\u) = v, because we want multiplication to be associative). If those two vectors are the same length but different directions, the natural transformation to use is a rotation. The reason to use a rotation is that we want the transformation to make sense irrespective of any arbitrary coordinate system we decide to impose. If we used some kind of skew, it would break down under change of coordinates. As for reflections: if the quotient of two vectors was some kind of reflection, then we could square any quotient of vectors to get an identity transformation, which would not result in a very useful or consistent arithmetic.

The nicest and most useful formalism for defining multiplication of vectors is called geometric algebra, a.k.a. Clifford algebra. Start with http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf

Or see the recent blog post http://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/

Or see more links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938727#12941658
I agree relying on proprietary platforms which may shutdown is a good thing. I'd go so far as to say all platforms inevitably WILL shutdown.

But GitHub issues can be exported pretty easily. Exported and saved in the distributed Git repository even.

I think relying on a platform is perfectly fine if you have an exit strategy. I've moved my blog through multiple platforms. I even maintain the domain so old URLs continue to work. Will Medium shut down? Yes. And when it does I'll move my blog again. It won't be the first time and it won't be the last.
I think the point was, the data was there but it needed to be identified, adding more data by spying more random people would not have increased the chance of this happening.
But what does it reduce the risk of what we DO NOT KNOW is happening to us? Perhaps a disease or affect that is difficult to measure immediately, but is affect-ing us ul-tim-at-ely.
I think the point was that most of the health-conscious general public has the mindset that fat is the enemy and that things like cholesterol should be avoided at (almost) all costs.

The reality is that you can have a diet that is relatively high in fat and still lose weight, just as you can have a diet that is low in fat and still put on weight. As for cholesterol, it isn’t a toxin that should be eradicated from your diet - it’s something that just needs to be eaten in moderation (perhaps with butter on toast for breakfast, rather than fried chicken for lunch).
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> extensive criminal and sex offender background check on hosts and guests. They even check the terrorist watch list!

What elements make it 'extensive'? Also, what's the point in checking the terrorist watch list? Someone on that list isn't going to act in a way to draw attention to themselves before they're ready; it's not much of a check to brag about in terms of 'will this tenant behave?'

> The difference between AirBnB and hotels...

And that hotels have public liability insurance... and don't suddenly become unavailable because of the cultural origin of your name... and generally comply with public-safety legislation designed for short-term accommodation (like fire exits)... so on and so forth.

Clearly AirBnB offers enough benefits to its users to continue, but it's far from the rosy picture you're painting to society as a whole. If AirBnB was such a uniformly rosy proposition, then they wouldn't need to lie about their activities.
This is why I love coming to HN. Once in a while you discover something really beautiful. I come from India & never heard of Raymond Smullyan, but I just discovered his wonderful puzzles & writings. Thanks.
I just looked it up, it's the Savyonei Hagalil Hotel (formally Etap Galilee), there's nothing else there.
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"the valley is the world’s largest patch of Class 1 soil, the best there is. The 25-degree (or so) temperature swing from day to night is an ideal growing range for plants. The sun shines nearly 300 days a year. The eastern half of the valley (and the western, to some extent) uses ice melt from the Sierra as its water source, which means it doesn’t have the same drought and flood problems as the Midwest. The winters are cool, which offers a whole different growing season for plants that cannot take the summer heat. There’s no snow."
I think EtM is better than the alternatives. As for the rest of it, you need to explicitly describe your protocol and what security you think it guarantees. Then you should ask for review wherever you can. Same for your implementation.
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In Southern California this is utterly untrue. Burbank, Ontario, Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Orange County/Santa Ana are all airports with multiple daily flights to/from Northern California, and between them you're close to 75-80% of the Los Angeles area. A train that stop at union station downtown will be close to one place - downtown. LA doesnt really work that way though - it's ridiculously spread out.
Perhaps because explicit is better than implicit.
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Why? Can't they patch cement under water?
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Of course it wouldn't be a permanent solution, but allowing the hole to exist only makes it bigger in the short term.

Anyway, the Sweetwater Dam article led me to an entertaining read about Charles Hatfield, the professional rainmaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hatfield

Now this guy was a great salesman. It leads you to wonder if his apparently high success ratio was a result of pure luck, if there's some truth to his "evaporative mix," or as suggested in the article, he had great meteorological prediction skills.

If weather patterns are not independent one year to the next, then just the fact that only statistically significant drought-ridden cities call for his help probably suggests that all of these cities are "due" for rain regardless.
Besides aesthetics, they took away functionality, e.g. searching by job title, company name, location (as separate fields).
Sounds like someone might have been hanging out on /r/keto. I just lost 20lb in a month on keto.
In germany they have a similar problem, if you want to build a train rail through some unimportant backwaters, these backwaters will want you to make a stop in their little cities.