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The border situation is very difficult. (If you do have "numerous examples" of that, please let me know, because it's relevant to our writing and legal analysis. I care a lot about this, but I don't want anyone to get the wrong intuition about how frequent or infrequent a particular scenario or, as the lawyers say, fact pattern is. Maybe in the second case you're thinking specifically of Laura Poitras's experiences, or do you have some other cases in mind?)

I also agree that some border and immigration challenges are lost in court and that it's a legally difficult context in which to defend individual rights, and I was responding to the article's claim that the only court-recognized limit is "excessive force", which is unnecessarily pessimistic.
Should I go for the book or the tutorial?

Does the book have a lot of advantage over the tutorial?
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I wonder, do you really have to write zero to all the memorycells? Or can you just stop the refresh cycle in hardware and let squares of memory drain and die in one or two cycles?
You're missing my point, probably because I didn't make it very clearly.

I'm imagining new technology here.

You'd take the first scan as a baseline. Whatever lumps you have are assumed harmless. Then you track the diffs from there on.

I assume that, at least after collecting experience, we can learn to tell the bad growths from the ignorable.
There hasn't been a major sea battle between powers with advanced missile and guidance capabilities.

It's hard to not see large carriers as floating coffins in a war between closely matched powers, unless anti-missile capabilities went through a huge leap. But then you would just throw more missiles at the target until one got through.

The idea of "swarm drone in a box" also ignores that ordinary freighters are easy targets against missiles or other swarm drones. That doesn't rule out other implementations of drones which would likely play a role.

A war between powers with such advanced tech are also sophisticated enough to be nuclear powers, and that's just another scary path to wander down.
I wish everyone would stop bikeshedding the damn name.

From my perspective I'm glad something that's trying to do this is coming into existence. a couple years ago I was given the arduous task of ensuring that we never lost data. One of the requirements was that: At any time, any server can (and will) fail.. if you acknowledge that you have data then you MUST never lose it.

You cannot imagine how many database solutions that ruled out. Including basically _all_ noSQL data stores.

We settled on postgresql, because, despite going into toast tables and having to implement sharding on top- it was not only the most sane it could be wrangled into basically doing the right thing in regards to fsyncing and ensuring data wasn't in VFS.

So, Kudos to these guys, who, in a world of people who don't give a shit about consistency (except eventual consistency) are actually trying to further it.
I partly agree, but the lack of autonomy and no ability to do independent decisions/responsibility you have in agile teams (unless you constantly fight for it) makes politics much worst compare to the jobs where you have clear role/responsibility in the team.

The again, it is still much better then middle management in big corporation or something similar.
I loved it so much that I bought the movies just to make sure he earned something from me for such an extraordinary piece of work.
Definitely, thank you for the psuedocode examples!
The US Navy has already done this. They're called "amphibious assault ships", and the US has 8 of the Wasp class.[1] The USMC operates helicopters and Harriers from them. The plan was to use F-35s with VTOL capability, but they cost too much. Now they're stuck with these mini-carriers that don't have enough reach for inland targets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp-class_amphibious_assault_...
This is an instructive question that should be asked more often in the context of the F-35.

A key difference in the F-4's gestation is that the Navy pretty much single-handedly drove all of its requirements. (The USAF didn't really want any part of it, and in the end it was shoved down their throats.) And if you think about it, the Navy's requirements tend to be more stringent. The Navy requires more range (blue water ops and less tanker support), more durable stealth coatings and features (shipboard life is hard on an airplane), better fatigue life (carrier landings take their toll), more corrosion resistance (saltwater exposure), simpler maintenance (all work done in crowded decks with limited ability to fly in new parts), lower approach speeds (the slower the plane lands, the more flexibility the captain has in how s/he drives the boat) and so on.

So when the F-4 was designed, it was born out of a relatively (!) unconflicted set of requirements, rather than being a grand compromise on behalf of every customer.

This is how I think the F-35 should have gone -- the Navy should have set the requirements, the USAF should have been allowed to add their own refueling gear, and if the Marines wanted VTOL that bad they should have gotten together with the Brits and modernized the Yak-141 airframe to which Lockheed bought rights, as any other alternative would have been too expensive.
Yes, but the original URL can be replaced with this one now :-)
I've just installed 1.8 through godeb, thank you!
Thanks, I know nothing about this level of programming but this gives me a lot of good stuff to google.
What was it Steve Blank said? "Startups don't die from competition with other startups, they die because they built a product nobody wants" (or something like that).

As you say, there's plenty of room out there. And we're all competing with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. anyway. :-)
Thanks, @bcoughlan. I'm glad you liked it.
I'm going through the book implementing the project in Rust too.

I'm trying to learn Rust with this project. It's still far from idiomatic but I plan to keep implementing following the book and then refactor later.

https://github.com/mariosangiorgio/rulox
If uncertainty is such a big problem, aren't there any technology solutions for it? Can radar be used to tell the density of materials along the whole boring route?
The biggest obstacle to getting in shape for most people is habit: breaking old ones (generally diet) and acquiring new ones (usually exercise). These kinds of services, whether it's Dollar Lean Club or a monthly gym membership, are really just a way to trick your brain into thinking you've taken action, to alleviate the negative feelings you have about your fitness. It doesn't address the problem (which subconsciously, is exactly why it's appealing).

To get started, don't worry about the specifics of the exercise program or the diet, just focus on building or breaking a specific habit. Examples:

- Do a ten-minute stretching routine every morning as soon as you get out of bed. Once it's a habit, turning it into an exercise routine won't be that hard.

- Pick a small set of healthy foods and eat some form of them before dinner every night, whether you're at home or out to eat, even if it means you're eating an extra dish. Once it's a habit, start cutting unhealthy food out.
> If a pointer is 8 bytes and an int 4, the old structure typically (this is compiler dependent) would be 40 bytes, the new one 36.

Ah: I actually did work out the alignment math, as I considered that as a reason to reorder the fields, but I was hoping that the goal would have been only to do that if the change was making the struct even larger (which it doesn't) and failed to think about a 64-bit computer :(. However, I personally don't consider "save four bytes per window" to be a particularly compelling reason to rearrange fields (which seem to have been put in that order more for semantic purposes than compression), and yeah: the real issue is that this is all in one patch and scrambled the comments :(. It is essentially at best a an unrelated optimization that seemingly didn't even notice how it broke the comments. (BTW: an issue with having a compiler decide the field order is that you then make separate compilation and sharing structures between libraries really really hard.)
Depends where he works. In a lot countries software development is not well paid.
Must be an explicit "turn-on" option.
More than two years using DDG on every device, very satisfied. I'm suggesting it to everybody.
It's the digital versions of 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. They want the physical but not digital versions despite the ideology behind one justifying the other.

Might even be able to add the 2nd Amendment here on the self-defense angle. It takes crypto, privacy, and endpoint protection technologies to stop hackers and online criminals effectively. The conservatives, esp military, classified high-assurance security as "munitions" since they disrupt their spy operations. They remained classified as "munitions" after the crypto wars. And, yet, we really need information security to stop all kinds of daily threats instead of them trying to ban it to hope they spot rare threats [they often fail to spot].
Do you not understand the lesson being taught by such an exercise? It sounds like instead your biases made you think the school civics class would be teaching students how to profile people as terrorists.

You really are an idiot.
He's talking about taking one out of service, not being destroyed by an enemy state.
If you're interested in infrastructure or business backend improvements like the ones described in the article but:

- are at a smaller and more local scale that don't attract attention from the likes of GIP
- the process improvements are around information flow between applications instead of physical flow

I am really interested in talking to you whatever the domain may be.

An example I've learned of recently:

Garbage truck routing in NYC is grossly inefficient. The routing used to be centralized under a single contractor with rumored tentacles into organized crime. Due to changes in contracting regulations, NYC garbage collection is now includes a mix of independent contractors. This results in multiple trucks visiting the same street on the same night.

This is inefficient in the following ways:
- cost of garbage transportation
- noise pollution
- localized pollution from truck emissions
- CO2 emissions from inefficient route planning

I'm fairly certain efficient routing for this is a solved computational / information systems problem and the source of the issue is a lack of coordination. I'm trying to dig in with the Department of Sanitation to see who the different players are.
Created an issue here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/13634
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keeping in mind that certain forms of inflexibility are vital to the structure of an organism. Bones for example. Or in the case of the human super organism, ecological stewardship, which was the original subject of the religious sciences.
>"Because cable TV UI sucks super hard. Cable TV UI is slow, unresponsive, confusing. Pausing, rewinding sucks."

In my opinion this is yet one more reason to get rid of Cable TV altogether. However if you use the Apple TV like this you still have to pay a monthly charge for that ugly cable box and te remote uses 1980s technology. What does a cable box rental cost these days 8 - 10 dollars a month? And the remote rental(yes you pay for that separately) 2 dollars a month?

I'm not sure complaining to the company about their hideous cable box/UI/remote would do anything. The loudest complaint you can make is to cancel TV service. It's a dying business and it can't die fast enough in my opinion. I think as soon as ESPN comes around for live sports it will go much more quickly.
It's 640 nautical miles according to Cessna's website.

And a lot of the assumptions about what makes an effective combat aircraft go out the window when you take humans out of the loop. The #1 cost in a manned airplane is the pilot - we do everything we can to bring them home, first of all because human life is sacred and second of all because there's a massive investment in training them which can't be replaced. Why do you need durability when the drone is expendable? Why do you need performance? All you need is to deliver a critical mass of ordinance accurately onto a target. If your drones cost less than the missiles used to shoot them down, just have more drones than missiles and you win.

A typical container ship has between 10,000-20,000 TEUs. Many of those are stacked below decks and wouldn't be available for flight operations, but even if you assume 500 containers on the top deck and pack 2 drones/container, you could have an air wing of 1000 drones. Or put 50 containers each on 10 ships in a convoy. I'd consider that a swarm.
More hardware oriented I would suggest some of the new Raspberry Pi or Arduino based electronics kits, which are similar to books in that they provide a prescriptive path in to comprehending new areas through the satisfying and hand-on exploration of a defined project. Programming is involved too.
Of course he says that. His project was a clone of something that already existed, Unix.
Consider that maybe your process is not as neutral as you think and quotas make the company more successful because otherwise the process is failing. You can still pick the best candidates from underrepresented groups.

Consider that there are also whole system effects where by hiring more diverse groups, more talented people are willing to apply to your company in general, contributing a little to a virtuous cycle.

Consider the fact that there is some literature showing that more diverse companies perform better, and people's diverse perspectives may be useful outside their individual contributions.

Also consider that passively waiting for resumes to come in is not your only option, you could go out and explicitly engage with underrepresented groups and find people who you would like to hire.
Also, doesn't the +/- sigma rule only apply to a normal (gaussian) distributions?
Why would you think that? I was being 100% serious.
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It isn't less noisy. With exceptions I can choose to have no noise or concentrate all the noise in one part of the method. In Go there is junk all over the method deeply conflating the good path and the exceptional path.
Inspiring article, but suffers from confirmation bias.
It took a lot of retrofitting on the F-4, too, once they were actually used in anger over the skies of South East Asia. Turns out that the technology for beyond-visual-range air combat wasn't quite ready then...
Well, the counter-argument is that you won't know what you need to know until you realize you don't know it.

How do you even know what you need to know?
If you watch the video, they have a 3-coil power receiver that is not directionally sensitive!
http://www.slideshare.net/huazhihao1/what-is-new-in-go-18-72...

so go is becoming more and more better for lower GC tasks
Many of the ideas from infinite mathematics interact with finite mathematics in very interesting ways. For example, the traditional integral is the Riemann integral which cannot handle sets with too many (uncountably many) discontinuities. The Lebesgue integral loosens those restrictions by using measure to guarantee there aren't too many discontinuties. The Lebesgue integral, in turn, is used to integrate over function spaces, allowing for techniques like fourier transform and technologies such as mp3 encoding.
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For those of you thinking, "I'd like to take a crack at running an airport" or think you'd be able to do better, there's a game that just got through Steam Greenlight and that will be releasing soon which will allow you to do exactly that.

Obviously it's "dumbed down", but it still tries to stay realistic & uses a 'systems-based' logical approach for gameplay; the total operation is basically just the sum of all the different inter-dependent systems and how they relate to eachother, how failures cascade, etc...

http://www.simairport.com/

Disclaimer: I'm involved in the project.
>Here's one: plot 360 degrees of a sine wave, and it's first and second derivatives. Then explain an Excel user how that works.

Seems pretty straightforward to me

x <- seq(from = 0, to = 2*pi, by = .05)
y <- sin(x)
y2 <- cos(x)
y3 <- -sin(x)

plot(x, y, type = 'l')
lines(x, y2, col = 'red')
lines(x, y3, col = 'blue')
yes, but we are talking about rewards. It's still high risk/low reward
Complete nuclear holocaust. Without a doubt.
the major war prior to the Falklands was Vietnam, and the British didn't help out in that one

Technically, that war was between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, not against America, which means there was no NATO obligation to join.
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> money = freedom

That's a strange formula. Shouldn't there be some kind of saturation for freedom.
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Not sure how I feel about that. It sounds fucked up, like propaganda, but it can be interpreted positively as well. They're keeping in touch with the electorate and keeping them informed. Dunno.
The drone swarm folks are persistent and resist the facts that as drone lethality approaches fighter jet, so does the size, complexity, cost and operational requirement of the drone.

It's one thing for a drone to carry a few hellfires and be remotely controlled over air space where completely supremacy as been achieved or access granted versus actually having autonomous drones do strikes in hostile air space.

I mean, the later kind of drone exists of course, they're called cruise missiles and they cost 1.6m$ each (Tomahawk Block IV, 2014 price).
The latter would take far longer, even if it were reliable. So not really; it'd need hardware support to be reliable, and if chipmakers are willing to do that, then they could implement hardware zeroing rather than require the OS to wait several seconds for charges to fully dissipate.
I'd also like to point out (aside from the already clarified term 2 Sigma), mistakes like that are more likely the fault of the journalist and not the engineer.
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It doesn't read that way to me. I interpreted it as a combat loss as well.
No, it's not less noise, because with exceptions, you can put all you error handling in one place, or wherever is the most appropriate. With go, you are forced to handle it at literally every function call.

If you want some data, "if err != nil return err" contains the four most frequently used words in Go code. See https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=go . For comparion, try/catch are only 34th and 35th for Java, and even lower for C# and C++.
I didn't read a complaint about premature acquisitions in between these lines. Though sama may feel that way about certain promising startups. I don't know.

I think he says what he means here; these largest companies "have powerful advantages that are still not fully understood by most founders and investors." And it's compounding. Given that, I think being a bit more cautiously considerate and unpresumptuous about these issues as well as on any views or insights one might have makes a lot of sense.

Basically this is a shitshow still in progress. There are startups that in hindsight had a too early, under-valued liquidity event. And there are many many startups that turned down acquisition offers never to see that many zeros offered again (I think Pebble just sold under these conditions). Whoops.

Also don't forget how a startup's risk profile and internal planning changes dramatically when/if an acquisition offer is turned down. Too early is not the problem here. If Amazon or FB wants to buy you and you say no, well good luck. Competitor risk is a real business cost and it can weigh you down no matter how fast you may be growing. If anything I see uneasiness more than complaint as the playing field has warped where hills are now mountains only giants can cross. The rulebook has changed too, startups aren't even playing the same game as large tech companies anymore. As the letter suggests, startups can play at the fringes and margins, then maybe try to sneak into grown-up business land but this is increasingly, laughably unlikely if you model it. What is more likely is startups miscalculating how big and lucrative their idea is and they are screwed, or they miscalculated how fast and easy Google can crush their prospects once Lar and Serge notice what you're up to. The options are lose now or lose later, with only the rarest of startups as exceptions unless someone or something steps to address the underlying structural realities.
Everyone can have custom-tailored hoodies that cause the human recognition systems to identify them as Luke Cage.
>But since Mesosphere are no longer supporting working on Marathon outside of DC/OS, or indeed any framework outside of DC/OS, the Mesos/Marathon is effectively dead, since, while Mesos is open source, the only major supporter of frameworks for it is Mesosphere, and you wont get them unless you use DC/OS.

Marathon isn't the only scheduler - Twitter (and some others) have been using Aurora (http://aurora.apache.org/). Currently we are deployed on Mesos/Marathon, and originally I thought Aurora may become more popular because it was Apache "blessed".
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I think you might be confused about terminology.

Neuromorphic computing is running some known ANN model directly in hardware. Why do we want it? Because ANN models in software work well for pattern matching, and we want to speed it up/make it more efficient.
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I do pretty much the exact same thing as you and I am approximately the same age. Almost EVERY job I looked at in NYC precluded remote workers and non-citizens/non-greencard holders. Jobs in SF seemed to be a little more open to sponsorship. Maybe try looking there?

You'll need to look for jobs in Europe, or look specifically for jobs that will sponsor you. Your problem isn't your skill. It's your location.
> Sure, but how does that contradict my original assertion that Racket's mechanisms for extending and redefining the language are more principled than either Common Lisp's or Smalltalk's?

Your original claim was "Unlike other languages that also advertise malleability (Common Lisp, Smalltalk, etc.), Racket is malleable in principled ways". Now you added 'more'. We can discuss which you or me like more, but you claimed that Smalltalk and Common Lisp can't be extended in 'principled' ways. Could it be that you just don't like/use/need/want the object-oriented ways to extend those languages and thus these mechanisms are not 'principled'?

How are Racket's mechanisms for extending and redefining the language more principled than for example Common Lisp's CLOS and the Meta-object protocol for CLOS? Especially since Racket provides some of that, too -> Swindle.

I'm using for example LispWorks, a Common Lisp, which uses CLOS throughout to make the language flexible and extensible.

Is the CLOS MOP not principled? Why?
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