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Having read the book something like five times now[0] I'm actually okay with this.

The swearing and cursing does make it a better book, but removing that doesn't remove the beauty of it. The film adaptation was okay without it (though it lost some scenes I'd have loved it to have included, and I'm only somewhat okay with Matt Damon in the lead role).

Kids with cool parents will buy them the better version, and they'll get to show it off to their friends. Now it's not about who is reading the book, but who's reading the cool version of it.

[0] I bought it as a KDP novel for $0.99, somewhere between it being a free book online and it being picked up by a mainstream publisher. Every now and then I want to re-read some small part of it, and accidentally re-read it all. One of my favourite books, honestly.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD?locations...

International tourism to the US is worth about $220 billion a year, with strong year-over-year growth every year since the recession ended.

A 6.8% drop does indeed translate to billions of dollars, which can indeed be assumed to translate into hundreds of thousands of workers.

No, a 6.8% drop over the course of a few weeks is not "just random". Statisticians know how to control for things like seasonality and can normally predict expected numbers very precisely, barring some external factor -- like the President of the United States sending a clear message that foreigners are not welcome.
The beta channel exists so that we can ensure upcoming components are stable, if you're uncomfortable with this you can always switch back to the stable channel. We'll add a help center article to make it more clear what happens when you opt-in to early releases.
I went and tried out both Workman and Colemak for a few minutes; I'll have to give Workman more time to try it out, but one thing I noticed about Workman and Colemak, and of course Qwerty, is that they all have the most-used punctuation at the bottom of the right hand. This is actually one thing I prefer about Dvorak: the punctuation symbols (period, comma, quote mark) are in the upper left-hand area, where it's a little easier to get to than anything on the bottom row. I use periods and commas a lot, which I think isn't unusual, so I always thought it was weird that other layouts relegate these to the 2nd-hardest to reach part of the keyboard (for a right-handed person).

What are your thoughts on Dvorak vs. these other layouts?

Personally, my biggest gripe with Dvorak is that it bunches up all the vowels on the left hand home row, and it puts A on the left pinky, while U is on the index finger and I requires a lateral stretch. I do like how Workman sticks the E on the strongest finger, the right-hand middle finger. But the punctuation bothers me, and I feel like both it and Colemak make some sacrifices in the interest of not deviating too far from familiar-old Qwerty. As someone who's already proficient with Dvorak, I really don't care if a layout is "alien" to Qwerty users.
All the people here saying "I don't get what the big deal with the swear words is" are far more stupid than the teachers who went and got the changes made so they could actually use the damn book in their classrooms.

When millions of people have some harmless feeling you think is irrational, the thing to do is work around it, not whine about it on Hacker News.
I assume this is satire? Because god forbid history students hear a historically-used word....
No, Romanians can move to the UK for good with a Romanian ID. They don't need a passport. For those thinking about this now, it's decision time because as we now know, after March this won't be possible. 152,000 Romanians registered for UK National Insurance (NI) numbers in 2014/15
Obviously there is no damage, but part of schooling is teaching children how to behave in our culture. Our culture believes swears are unprofessional and crass.

I certainly wouldn't have any problems with it for 13-18 years olds, but I can see why there is some push back.

Especially in an age where saying "son of bitch" could be construed as a perpetuating hostile workplace environment for women.

I've got a filthy mouth and I sort of wish I didn't.

I'd also be against cleaning up important classic works that use language that isn't really allowed anymore. That is whitewashing history.
Perhaps that lack of social support (and thus lower taxes) is the very reason why the US is not in the same situation as the Eastern EU.
This is still a supported feature of some FTP implementations. It enables the client to initiate a file transfer between 2 FTP servers.

See eg https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/247132/how-to-perfo...
Part of me really wants to read this headline as - "Tesla retaliates with heavy armored vehicles after creditor denounces them to the public"
Part of the problem is that fixing Newton is more than just adjusting the equation; it requires making up a whole new constant, which to some is worse than making up a whole new class of matter. Constants don't have explanations; they're just like saying, "I don't know why it works out this way, it just does." It's better to have a reason that explains why something happens than to throw up your hands and say "let's just add a new constant to make things work out."
Yeah, I see what you mean. But while the profanity probably could be removed, I think it would really take something from the character. The swears give the story a real, raw feel somehow -- they really make you feel as if it's actually happening.

He talks like the rest of us, not like a robot.
A travesty? Is the story materially hurt by these changes? I see a lot of people saying we shouldn't worry about kids seeing swear words, which I fully agree with, but no one seems to be putting forth any good arguments that these edits are in any way detrimental.

If the original text hadn't had him swearing, would you have walked away thinking "Gee, that was nice, but it seems odd that he never said 'fuck'. I'll remove half a star from my rating for that'? If not, why is this edit in any way a negative, let alone a travesty?
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I'm using a self-made web page annotation extension on chrome everyday. It let's you mark the important information on any webpage, which is very useful for docs that you will come back and visit frequently.
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Eric Idle should now write an entire Math textbook series based on the word Fuck. Really, you could just have them be comedic supplemental material to another textbook. I bet a talented teacher could use such material to really liven up a math class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jixxYx9fklM

(For those who don't know, writing songs based on Fuck has kind of become one of Eric Idle's things.)
Came here to make a comment about other utilities in the same vein...but the author already did!

> [4] Or, emacs. Or, really, any other tool that you 1) use constantly; 2) is almost universally applicable; and, 3) makes you more productive.

Nice to see consideration for other tools in a piece like this.
The two are not equivalent. America is shorthand for the United States of. Mexico is short for Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Europe is a geographically defined continent.

If I were in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Serbia, Macedonia, or the Ukraine would it not be appropriate to say I was in Europe?
My toe will heal, the stakes are low. My house burning down on the other hand can have fatal consequences for my cat if I'm not at home.
It's not so much that "America" is uptight about swearing is that the minority that is uptight about it cares very intensely, and the people that aren't also aren't nearly as upset about what needs to be done to placate that minority as the minority is if not placated, and the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
FYI, here is a part which is still relevant today:

"the system continuously ironed out accumulated errors over time by comparing actual distances driven and turns made with road shapes on the map. Honey calls the technique "augmented dead reckoning."

That means driving through a long stretch of straight highway could begin to trip up Etak's system, since there were no turns and no distinct roads for the computer to algorithmically seize upon. If that happened, the driver could manually reposition the car cursor onto a location on the map using controls on the display."

Those things work, but they are barely "good enough". The biggest problem is, it is easy to lose your position if you are in the city -- maybe you had a few sharp turns, went around the parking cars a couple of times. And once this happens, the system is unlikely to correct itself, your only way will be to manually set position, which most people will not do.
> Should I have used price?

Yes.

> Is there a way to look at this situation (deliberately ordering something you know your gonna throw away to not inconvenient the staff) and not consider it wasteful?

Obviously, the OP who explained that they do it that way doesn't see it as wasteful. Neither do I.

The cost of a hamburger is about 1/3 cost of ingredients and 2/3 everything else, including labor to serve it to you. Of the ingredients, it's the beef, then the tomato, lettuce, etc, and the bun is basically free.

Most restaurants that serve hamburgers have an ordering system that is streamlined for the kind of burgers people order. By the way, a burger is a kind of sandwich and by definition includes the bun. Try ordering a burger with no bun at a McDonald's and see how much extra time it takes, and what kind of looks you get from the people serving you and the people in line behind you.

If you think that throwing away 100 calories and $0.05 worth of bread is wasteful, it's only because you're ignoring the time and energy of the people that are being saved.
Last I heard, first config opportunity goes to SpaceX and Tesla employees, by end of 2nd quarter. Expect config to be open to public 3rd quarter
I think that must be a totally subjective thing; I wasn't distracted at all, and I think you can say this:

> It just would have been better with a lot of other literary devices.

about a lot of parts of any given book.
Modern medical technology, or even just extramarital sex, make this bad reasoning.
> for the sake of a few minor swear words

There are two F-bombs in the opening sentences, and over 160 swear words throughout. I'm not cool with my 8 year old walking around dropping F-bombs, and I'm not sure why you think it's your place to tell me I should be...

I can't wait for my son to read this book, but in it's original form it was completely inappropriate for him. I'm glad to hear this is available now - it's going on the Kindle soon.
"Good morning, bitches! Who's ready to do some fuckin' math! Open your books to page 155, let's DO THIS SHIT!"

I would prefer my kids not have a teacher that talks that way. I think a majority of parents would not appreciate that.
This is great, and timely, as I'm making basically this in meatspace (an RC car with distance sensors in front). It'll be very useful to see how the ML part can work.
You hear someone at work say: "Fuck this bug, what a shitty compiler, let's go back to using clang". Or you hear them say: "I'm tired of this bug, what a terribly designed compiler, let's go back to using clang".

The second one gets the same message across in my opinion, but without resorting to obscene language.

Now imagine a professor saying that during a lecture; sounds even worse to be honest. You mentioned that you grew up in a foreign country. Is it normal to hear your professor or boss speaking like that in a professional setting?
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> Would this article be getting the same traction if it wasn't a MacBook?

No, but then Apple often invites it by continuing to claim it's s#1t doesn't stink.
I remember Alpine electronics had something very similar. I wonder if it was a joint effort?
“The consistent findings across the studies suggest that the positive relation between profanity and honesty is robust, and that the relationship found at the individual level indeed translates to the society level,” concludes the final paper, set to be published in the journal of Psychological and Personality Science:

https://4f46691c-a-dbcb5f65-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/micha...
There's a perfectly reasonable point of view. I'd encourage you to champion it.

In the mean time, I'd hope you'll also champion the uniform application of fundamental rights - that our government, even if it does something you feel is wrong, doesn't also apply that something unevenly to intentionally deprive specific groups of those freedoms.
I am no physicist and I cannot make heads or tails from stress-energy tensor.

However, I get suspicious when someone argues by analogy. Your "my car remembers a crash, furthermore humans do remember, therefore space could also remember gravity" does not seem reasonable to me.

I am also not sure why my post got downvoted.

Edit: As I think about it, "but Einstein showed that you can bend space without mass" again is an argument by analogy. It doesn't matter what analogies exist. The theory should be tested according to empiric evidence. Pulling your analogies together judt for the sake of abandoning a different theory - where's the point in that?
On the other hand, Australia has actual censorship backed by law.

>RC (Refused Classification) – Contains material that is considered offensive to the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that it should not be classified. Classification is mandatory, and films that are Refused Classification by the ACB are legally banned for sale, hire or public exhibition, carrying a maximum fine of $275,000 and/or 10 years' jail if an individual/organisation is found to be in breach of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Classification_Boar...
Stephen King, is that you?
The article does mention this:

> In 2004, Bekenstein proposed his TeVeS, or Relativistic Gravitational Theory for MOND. Since then, several different relativistic MOND formulations have been put forth, including one by me, called Bimetric MOND, or BIMOND.

> So, no, incorporating MOND into Einsteinian physics is no longer a challenge. I hear this statement still made, but only from people who parrot others, who themselves are not abreast with the developments of the last 10 years. There are several relativistic versions of MOND. What remains a challenge is demonstrating that MOND can account for the mass anomalies in cosmology.

I'm not a physicist and definitely not qualified to evaluate those claims, but it doesn't seem to be a concern to Milgrom.
Consider that the only country within the North/Central/South American land masses explicitly having America as part of its name is the United States of America. It makes a lot of sense really considering the global dominance of the USA relative to its neighbors that "America" is colloquially understood to refer to the USA, and not Canada, or Panama, or all of South America.
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>Tesla will be the most valuable company in the world

Slow down there a little bit. They're an AI and battery company. Batteries are commodities and there are several other companies that are working on AI.
No VCS is 100% secure against the possibility of catastrophic failure. If an asteroid wiped out all life on earth there is no VCS that can handle that gracefully. So as long as a hash collision is less likely than that, using a hash and not handling collisions gracefully doesn't make the VCS substantially less safe.
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south American countries have 14yr kids read books on a band of criminal, murderous, rapists orphans living in the outskirts of the city.

But, most countries there are suffering State coups recently and some even removed science (geography, chemistry, sociology) to add State doctrine classes (where kids 6 and up are educated on their duties but never on their rights as citizens)
In the end it's all "security theater", huh.
A capacitor of sufficient size to drive the touch bar (even just a few milliwatts for a minute) would be very large. The application requires a backup chemical battery (which is already something present on the motherboard) not a capacitor.
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> "If Newtonian physics can’t predict the fixed curves, perhaps we should fix Newton, instead of making up a whole new class of matter just to fit our measurements."

The problem with this is that we already know Newtonian physics is wrong. It makes incorrect predictions for planetary orbits in the solar system (the original wrong prediction was the motion of Mercury, but the perihelion shift that is not predicted by Newtonian physics but is predicted by general relativity has now been verified, AFAIK, for all the inner planets). So the way to "fix Newton" is to adopt general relativity instead.

And once you adopt general relativity, you can't just arbitrarily change the equation for "acceleration due to gravity" the way MOND does. That equation is not a free parameter in GR; it's derived from the Einstein Field Equation. So you would have to change the Einstein Field Equation, and that would change all of the predictions of GR, not just the prediction for galaxy rotation curves.

What I've just stated is the standard objection to MOND among physicists. Milgrom mentions relativistic formulations of MOND and says that this issue is "no longer a problem", but I think that's much too optimistic.
It's simple. The teacher/school would have to get permission from parents. Many parents would refuse to give permission. This would force the teacher/school to provide alternative material. That becomes a pain when part of the class is reading one thing and part is reading a different thing. Its just easier to avoid the situation all together by either "sanitizing" the book or using a different book.

By the way, thanks for the link. I just ordered a classroom version of the book for my kids to read (yes, I would be one of those parents who wouldn't give permission for their kids to read the original version.)
The feeling you describe here is part of what led to the design of Sysdig Falco (http://www.sysdig.org/falco). While certainly not a 1:1 SELinux replacement, our goal was to use a much simpler, understandable model for describing & monitoring security policies for linux hosts.
I don't think it's entirely unfair to say he's a "once in a generation" person (once in a century is pushing it), but that has little to do with his actual abilities, and more to do with his perceived abilities. He's got that combination of engineer, businessman and celebrity that people go crazy for. He's the modern Howard Hughes, and people love that. Whether he can deliver on people's expectations or not, he's a rarity.

Edit: Whoops, s/fair/unfair/
Tabula works on text-based PDF documents, not on scanned content so I assume it's not using OCR?
> Using the bootcount feature of uboot it is possible to roll back automatically if booting fails.

I see. Thanks for the info. I suspected that u-boot does have support for that, but I wasn't sure.

> Once the mender daemon comes up it will try to report the success of the deployment to the server. If this fails it will also roll back.

Is there any deadline at all for that? I explicitly spawn a reboot command that ensures that even if everything gets stuck (in software, not in hardware) for whatever reason, the system falls back to the previous version (unless the reboot command gets killed too, in which case a manual restart is required). Any thoughts on that?
Only if you sample your test readers from the masses. If you're aiming for some sort of niche, find testers that are into that sort of thing.
Let me tell you a story about the last time I ran `yum upgrade -y` on my oVirt node at home without doing it in `screen`: I decided to upgrade my Fedora desktop at the same time and rebooted after it finished not thinking twice about it, 5 seconds later I said "oh fuck" and prayed that the update on the server finished before I rebooted. It didn't.

I then proceeded to spend the next 2-3 hours reinstalling CentOS on my server, re-configuring oVirt and re-importing all of my VM's from the store.

Now, imagine an embedded device with a potentially flaky power source that could be interrupted in the middle of a system update - you really want to avoid that situation if at all possible. OSTree or Mender are a much better solution when you want an "all or nothing" upgrade, especially as they protect the system from FAILED updates and allow easy rollback.
Both of these statements are true.
The swearing adds some color to the book, but it definitely doesn't take away from the content. I'm OK with this tradeoff as long as it becomes more accessible to students.
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So somebody just locked in a made-for-school monopoly on the 'safe' text, and schools will now likely pay a premium. All to protect middle/high schools students from swear words they can hear in the halls everyday.
Energy is "generated" by activities of 'what exists'.
It sounds like things are working like he wants--America is becoming a bad place for foreigners. Why would he say anything?
<disclaimer: I am with Mender>

We have been evaluating OSTree as a potential building block for Mender, however the key challenges we've come across:

integrating OSTree into an existing device/OS seems quite invasive - https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/adapting-exis...

block level signatures is not possible, which we feel is a requirement for an over-the-air updater

rollback is not built-in and can be quite challenging to implement reliably (bootloader level)

Think OSTree as more of a building block, like Git is for your development process. We might use it in the future but robustness and easy integration are our first priorities.
> while they look for telltale signs

Are they still using that "microexpressions" pseudoscientific garbage?
I disagree, and I too have extensive experience over many decades with border agents. I have both a Permanent Resident "green" card and a Global Entry card, yet 4 times in the past 12 months (and many times prior) I was extracted for Secondary Processing at the border, held waiting for hours without being allowed to use my cell phone, missing my connecting flights yet ultimately admitted into the U.S.. Every time it costs the U.S. tax payer an unnecessary fortune (I have Global Entry! - which itself took many many hours and dozens of pieces of paper and extreme vetting). The last time I was allowed directly into the U.S. without Secondary Processing was in the 90's. I don't find his story at all unusual.
Could be from a capacitor?
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> I merely observed that tone policing is not actually an assertion that anything I said was false.

Thinking that what someone said was false, is not a necessary condition for replying to comments on a message board. I don't know how you ended up thinking that.

> Can you tell me what's "uncivil" about my comment?

Yes, it's uncivil to imply that someone who receives government assistance is basically a child and needs a parent, because they're not fit to run their own lives. There are a myriad of reasons why someone might end up in that position, that have nothing to do with being unable to handle your affairs.
I once got my bag searched by a friendly TSA agent who explained that having more than one or two books stacked in a bag would probably get it pulled, because the machines don't see through that much organic matter very well.
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I put VIM in the title because 1) it's got a recognizable identity to pull in readers and, 2) I use VIM. But, in a weird and almost recursive way, editor wars are kinda like language wars. If it gets you that 5% (or more) boost, great! But, the differences between them often washes out.