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> That if only we too had undergone the experiences of the person who we're reading about, we too would be that acclaimed sci-fi writer, or famous entrepreneur, or asshole president.

This reminds me of a great line from a story by Borges:

> El método inicial que imaginó era relativamente sencillo. Conocer bien el español, recuperar la fe católica, guerrear contra los moros o contra el turco, olvidar la historia de Europa entre los años de 1602 y de 1918, ser Miguel de Cervantes.

> The first method that he imagined [in order to write Don Quixote from scratch centuries later] was relatively simple. Learn Spanish well, return to the Catholic faith, fight against the Moors or against the Turk, forget the history of Europe between the years 1602 and 1918, be Miguel de Cervantes.

I highly recommend the story (called "Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote" or "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote").

http://hispanlit.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2011/06/Borges-P...
... witness the USA as a clear-cut example of this process in action.
It's almost as if its own interests come first.
I dont think any of the people who have expressed worry over AI are that evil.
Instead of the battery the less toxic way would be hydrogen based engines.
From back in my sysadmin days when I worked for a Electrical Engineering firm which specialized in power distribution (power lines, power plants, etc). We had a homegrown datacenter in the basement with dedicated AC, backups, and fire suppression system. It even had a home designed air handler system for moving vast amounts of air through the room in the event of AC failure. Oh and a home grown diesel generator -- cuz electrical engineers.

Datacenter had about ~300 servers in it. Not huge, but not small either. The lynchpin in the system is this: neither the battery supplies or generator can run the AC or air handler, so when the power is out everything non-essential needs to come down to maintain sane temps in the DC.

Anyway, my page goes off in the middle of the night -- power outage. The DC is running on battery backup. I hurry into the office to start powering things down as temps are climbing. I start shutting down VM's, blades, and 1/2U servers. About 1/2 of the way through, the power comes back on -- but the AC isn't kicking on (red flag). The air handler will function though, so let's run with that until the AC guy comes out.

I start powering everything back up. At this point, a few co-workers trickle in to help. After about 2 minutes the fire suppression alarm triggers -- 30 sec to evacuate the DC. I glance over to the air handler vent, and it's SHOOTING flames into the DC. We oh-crap the heck out of there just in time to see the suppression system trigger and the door lock closed. I run to the electrical panel and kill the power to the AC and air handler knowing that they were possible sources of the fire. The fire dept. arrives and forces us out of the building. At this point, nearly the entire DC is cranking on sustainable power with 0 cooling. It's a locked box effectively. We watch our notification slowly alert to servers going down hard due to heat one-by-one. VM hosts -- boom. Network switches -- Boom. SAN -- BOOM.

Long story short, we lost a number of servers and restored a lot of data from backup once things were back online. The cause was traced back to the wiring of the air handler motor. When the power came back on, only 2 of the 3 phases came back online. This was enough for the UPS system to operate, but not enough for the AC (wired correctly). The motor on the air handler was 3 phase but installed incorrectly (or something to that effect, it's been years and I'm not an electrician) allowing it to run, but turning it into a ticking time bomb of an electrical fire.

Fun times.
"It can support two headphones at once, too"
Future of Bots Panel with Dan Saffer and Hugh Dubberly
Westinghouse is a Japanese subsidiary now. It's basically a move to GTFO out of the nuclear power market
When does running malware in a virtual machine (VM) not make sense, is it commonly not possible, etc.?
Didn't know they still had the 15c at Best Buy as that was a very limited run (yes I blew $100). Are you sure you didnt see the 12c? The 12c looks similar and is still stupidly popular in finance/accounting (it has a lot of pre-built business functions).
Perhaps a better example would be Freeman Dyson. Here's a video of him talking about questioning the status quo: Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society. [1] In which, he also questions global warming, or at least to the degree in which it will affect us.

[1] https://youtu.be/8xFLjUt2leM
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Allow me to rephrase this entire debate in terms that might sound more familiar.

Point: Locked doors and a shotgun under the bed is not a solution to the violent crime problem. We also need laws, and police to enforce them.

Counterpoint: Locked doors and a shotgun under the bed is absolutely a solution to the violent crime problem. You can't rely on laws, because they can easily go away with a stroke of the pen.
One can at least hope that humanity's level of technology does not regress. So then there is at least the fact that the radioactivity can be detected even after the signs have long gone.
And in turn most QEMU vulnerabilities are closed by SELinux of your distribution enables it. Libvirt (and thus the virt-manager GUI) automatically confine each QEMU process so that it can only access the resources for that particular VM.
> How do you set up a supranational state without massive constitutional changes in all the member states?

Considering it was never intended to be a state, I think your argument belies the source of the complaints..
Even though this was 10 years ago it's probably still confidential. This was a Canadian company acquired by a US company which then went through a series of "cost cutting" measures.
The original poster was talking about the possibility of human error (particularly the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station) so it was not "a little dishonest" to focus on the deaths from power sources that one could attribute to human error.

>...when the spent, toxic fuel going to be deadly for a few hundred thousand years yet.

Right now waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste.

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

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

(Funding for the integral fast reactor was killed by Bill Clinton, but there is no reason that the US or some other country couldn't fund this or any of the other 4th gen designs.)

>...That problem is so very far from solved, and it's a massive problem.

Right now nuclear waste is a very manageable problem and relatively soon the waste could be used to produce electricity if we so desire. Considering that no one of the general public has been killed from nuclear waste (and tens of thousands die each year from burning coal) why would someone consider nuclear waste a "massive problem"?
Now that we have deep learning, we know that more layers don't always give better results. Perhaps intelligence and wit is obtained when associations allow our mind to develop neurons that are useful for modeling interesting features. For example, being good at math and having good reasoning skills are very useful features that can be acquired by education and practice. Also we now know that our brain in much more plastic that what was previously believed, for example taxi drivers brains have a bigger spatial area as a result of learning to around big cities. So the question to get better intelligence is how we make child brains develop neural systems related to useful features?, unfortunately teaching chess is not a solution, but perhaps is a step in the right direction, more research is needed.
App Store now rejecting apps with “free” or other price info in app name
Amazon's checkout-free physical shop 'can't cope with more than 20 people'
I agree, it was the first story in the book and after that masterpiece it was hard for the other ones to live up to it.
Maybe they were quick to figure out it was a dead end?

Seriously though, isn't one of the issue that regardless of how intelligent an animal is, if they are not able to communicate abstract concept from one generation to the next, they have to reinvent everything from scratch each generation?
How did you learn to trust other humans?
so then, sounds like quickest and cheapest (bankruptcy) way to do that is to get that division absorbed by another defense contractor or the gubmint.
The author screws up big on the VPN vs government issue. Let me illustrate the points made.

1. The government's laws/policies are a threat to users' privacy.

2. You can currently use VPN's to protect your privacy.

3. People point out that the VPN's might lie to you willingly or under compulsion by LEO's w/ existing surveillance legislation. The same LEO's that Snowden leaks say compelled secret backdoors in all kinds of products and services.

4. "That may be the case, but it's an easily solvable problem."

Lol. If it was so easy, we wouldn't have a surveillance state or it would be well-regulated based on GAO's reports. Instead, we do have one, VPN providers might be compelled by it, market choice doesn't change that, and you're still essentially hoping via a numbers game that you don't pick a bad one. This isn't even considering the fact that ISP's beholden to US TLA's might ban VPN's or require their assistance for decryption/tracking.

The VPN's could be a decent solution if a very popular one was a non-profit in a non-surveillance state with protections for consumers built into its charter, contract, whatever. People who were previously shown trustworthy [enough] would have to operate it. The endpoints and monitoring would have to be strong. It would need enough traffic from each country to obscure the users. If it wasn't getting enough, they could pull trick from high-assurance's book to do fixed-rate, fixed-sized transmission constantly from the apps. That would get expensive on bandwidth side, though.

So, it's doable to make VPN's useful until law or ISP policies start killing them. Just hard to evaluate who if any are doing all the above to be trustworthy enough. For now, you're throwing dice for a probabilistic level of protection that's hard to quantify.
And for breaking out of one..
The person that had asked to interviewing me at one of those companies liked my competence and experience in certain areas, seemingly missing that I worked for the same scale of companies that he decided to rail against
I just wish that my bandwidth did not drop so bad when I use a VPN.
That is what everyone says, but no one actually presents the paper or research that convinced them. I would think that if I held a deep conviction about something I would know why I held that belief. Unless I just decided that all my friends and TV people said something is true so it must be. That would be very alarming though...
Le Pen is steady at about 1/3 Macron is at about the same with everyone expecting the final 1/3 to support him in a run-off. Seems pretty safe for Macron. I don't know much about France, is there ever much of a shift before the second vote historically?
I just got his book yesterday after realizing that the movie "Arrival" was based on one of his short stories. Really looking forward to reading it !
That's why we're not arguing. Art is like fun, I know it when I see it.
People would freak out over Apple buying f.lux, and then install Redshift.
Connection pooling is fairly understood at this point in time...
67% in favour for the 1975 referendum.
You will always have a redudancy of sensors in case they fail. The front looking camera usually does have a complimentary lidar and most cars are even equipped with both camera and radar in case a sensor goes AWOL. This will be the case is selfdriving cars as well. I think they will have even more redudancy then we see with ADAS cars today.
Go to their documentation website. Search for "ACID." 0 results found. I'm shocked to find that you can make massive performance gains in a relational database if you make no guarantees whatsoever that data will actually be stored.
His tone is very "Male contraceptive is ridiculous because it already works just fine for women! Here's some shitty anecdotal evidence to support my claim!"

I'd classify that as patronizing, and as a male, I had the same reaction to his comment as the responder...I've known lots of women, partners included, who avoided the pill because of its horrible side effects.
Just to note, I'm seven days post-op on this procedure :) And while I did not take any meds, I was happy to be sitting in bed with an ice pack watching March Madness. So there was definitely discomfort.
> Since he has never seen such a thing, are we all to nod our heads and agree they don't/can't exist?

No, but... which is harder, to model the economy, or to model the climate? Which do we have more people trying to model, more money being poured into attempts to model?

> This is a rhetorical trick I find a little irritating.

It's not a proof of non-existence. I'm not sure it's supposed to be. It is a reasonable grounds for asking whether we're as sure as we think we are.
> There used to be a time when we as a society valued things like self-control, discipline, and tradition

No, no there has never been a time. People in the past were just big liars. People have always done whatever they want. The only difference today is that many people have the option of being honest about it
You can't live a normal life without conception.
chiang got me into borges, and i can't recommend him enough if you're a fan of the former. i love chiang but borges has become my favorite fiction author. borges also seems quite popular among programmers.
Ah, this is something to follow. Sadly it doesn't seem to have a permuted symbol index, which is what I really love about the CLHS. Still, I suppose they have to start somewhere.
This vote was completely Republican, it was ALL GOP. You really should read about it if you honestly don't know this. However, it's of my opinion that you are knowingly spreading false information.

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/3/28/15089396/house-republ...
They didn't cut the price. Rather they made a windows runtime available so you could run office on DOS. This was also available to third party ISVs.
Most of us: I lock my doors and might have a gun just in case, but I recognize the value and role of laws. In the real world we have to accept that we need to defend ourselves, and also act collectively through politics and law to protect each other.
Yes, but somehow the name today only survives for their nuclear operation:

> Westinghouse purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997. In 1998, CBS established a brand licensing subsidiary Westinghouse Licensing Corporation (Westinghouse Electric Corporation). In 1997/1998 the Power Generation Business Unit, headquartered in Orlando, FL, was sold to Siemens AG, of Germany. A year later, CBS sold all of its nuclear power businesses to British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL). Soon after, BNFL gained license rights on the Westinghouse trademarks and they used those to reorganize their acquired assets as Westinghouse Electric Company. That company was sold to Toshiba in 2007.

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

My dad was always in nuclear though (well, after a brief stint at Tektronix).
You're answering the question "what instruments do you like to play the most", which is different from "what are the 'best' instruments".

The best instrument is the one I like to play the most, duh. Yeah, "that's just my opinion, man". Which was kinda the point.

I don't know what else to tell you. You ask "what the obsession with ranking" was, I gave you the answer straight from the article. Is it "best" for you? Probably not. Again, duh, that's not what the answer said.
You really need to both do longer studies and include (and distinguish in analysis) new vs. experienced browser users to separate out short-term familiarity effects from long-term usability.
Natural selection isn't random. Fitness is selected for. Find meaning is probably a fitness ability for humans.
Ask HN: What is the command/tool you keep forgetting how to use?
I somehow keep using the wrong case for psql host/username and find myself googling netcat options every time I need it. Some others that settled over frequent use are tcpdump, tar, rsync to name a few.

What are yours?

PS: https://xkcd.com/1168/
On top of other things, it's worth noting that the exchange rate has shifted a lot over the last few years. $100k would have been about £58k in 2014, but now is about £83k.

Manchester here too, though I work remotely for a mainly London based company. I think salaries are climbing here, as more business comes but we don't have the same size talent pool as London so the demand is pushing things up.
I don't realize it. I'm genuinely asking, how are users behind a NAT tracked? Browser fingerprinting?
i think you're right, it was the 12c.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-29-blizzard-explai...

Curious what they were thinking with this. Haven't played WoW in years, but given that it's an endless treadmill, getting gear seems like the only way to feel any sense of momentum at all. Now I guess you can only feel momentum in instanced dungeons and raids... probably designed to keep geared players from questing too fast, or AOE farming... Still seems filthy they would keep such a huge change out of the patch notes.
This isn't about expansion of the NSA, it's about this bill in particular.
I am just going to write an app to pull random (safe) items every few minutes and poison all the data. Even better, I will have it hit news sites all over the world in different languages and load Amazon and eBay from other countries also. Hum, why I am at it I will have it swap the web browser agent IDs. Hey this could be a fun project.
A charming article. A Texas Instruments calculator (scientific, non-programmable) was practically my best friend at school in the 1980s, though I don't even know what model it was now. I'm not sure how to find out, as it seems that most model numbers were reused in a long series of different cases.

I've always associated American brands with terrible ergonomics, but TI calculators had unusually pleasing buttons and layout.

[Edit: Ah, uh, OK -- a few more minutes searching and I find "This calculator was developed and produced in Japan... A big advantage of the Toshiba design was the smooth and flawless keyboard." This is definitely the one, a TI-30SLR mkII: http://datamath.org/Sci/Modern/TI-30SLR_2.htm. Oh well. But it was much nicer to use than Casios of the time and the pleasant form carried over to the Galaxy series.]
He might have made a gamble for political reasons. But, don't forget that there had been strong demand for a referendum on the matter since at least the mid '90s. It was long overdue, and (being cynical) had been denied because the outcome wasn't going to be what the government wanted (i.e. they knew the majority would have consistently voted leave, and didn't want to hold the referendum until they could guarantee a remain vote).

When given the chance to express their true opinion of EU membership, the majority voted leave. Not a particularly shocking outcome, given the lack of love the EU had in the eyes of most of the populace, and always had despite several decades of indoctrination.
We came full circle back to epicycles, though. Fourier transforms can be viewed as a way to model any periodic signal as an infinite series of epicycles.
> Spain is still recovering from flooding

This was only in a small part of Spain, mostly turistic. Those places full of english expatriates are always overrepresented in english newspapers IMHO, giving a false impression. It can seem worst that it is also. Free water means literally free money fallen from the sky and of course those big companies have enough muscle and resources to replace the plastic greenhouses and restart quickly.

The winter was not particularly hard. I remember a bad couple of weeks. Not much more. A little chill is good for most fruits.

Casually, I has aubergines for dining today. It seems that the problem to find spanish vegetables in the market is solved.
ParaTransit does not operate vehicles themselves - ParaTransit is simply a program that purchases these services from private, for-profit operators (like, say, Uber), and manages eligibility checks as well as payment to providers for rides delivered.

> "Better service would require paying market rates - by the city, or partly by the city."

This is what happens. The riders themselves pay the "regular" transit fare of $2.75, and the agency (which is actually a state agency, but partially funded by the city) pays the rest. The service is operated at private industry rates.

The problem here is there is simply very little incentive for cab company or driver to service this demographic. Accessible vans are expensive and they reduce "normal" passenger capacity. Accessible customers require more time - both traveling to pickups, as well as getting in/out of the vehicles, which is time the driver is not being paid.

The small size of the customer base also means drivers spend much more time than usual traveling to a pickup.

The natural equilibrium state of this market, given the cost of providing the service, and the size of the customer base, results in very sub-par service levels. We can improve this somewhat by paying dramatically more for these rides, but that undermines the ROI argument pretty badly.

> "My main point is that going down the percentage of affected population drastically changes the ROI of changing the infrastructure as a whole versus addressing the people involved individually."

I agree - but my contention is that modeling the accessibility issues with the NYC subway as "permanently wheelchair-bound population" vs. "everyone else" is very incomplete. The ROI on accessibility improvements to our infrastructure must take into account all users of such features, not just the most extreme/permanent users.

The beneficiaries of, say, elevators in stations is the union set of [pregnant people, elderly people, wheelchair-bound people, crutch-bound people, people carrying large amounts of cargo, ...] - plus probably more categories I've missed. The union of these sets is pretty darned large, and a heck of a lot larger than simply the wheelchair-bound population.

The ROI argument only works if we assume a much narrower pool of users than it would be in reality.
Wales voted to leave by a large margin.
At Blackrock, machines are rising over managers to pick stocks
If you're serious about your privacy, the first thing you'd want to do would be to use a reputable VPS provider. $60/yr for a DigitalOcean droplet isn't terribly expensive.
It's called Duverger's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Not sure why you are being downvoted, since you aren't really wrong. At current technologies and known reserves, you are correct.

But their are many technologies that make that number skyrocket. Those numbers are in the 10ky range, and of course, if we ever get fusion going...
Can you write off the $40,000 loss?
> "looks" easier

I should have been clearer and said: it actually is easier to reason about the html and the dynamic rendering with the approach Glimmer takes.
AnyPerk (YC W12) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering in SF
The meaning only exists because humans attribute meaning to the input, output and code that creates the output.
There are major spoilers to the movie Arrival in this article, so make sure you watch it (or read the short story) before reading this.