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If you have to worry about that you won't be able to afford these treatments anyway.
US gov't beats it into our heads at every opportunity.
Where's the problem? If that $1 million came from public sources, then the data should have been shared from day one. If others use the data they should put the originators on the data as coauthors on the resulting papers.
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I'm in awe of how the USN land F/18s at sea, at night in rough weather. When the pilots on ship are sitting down with pop-corn watching night landings in rough seas of their flight team-mates using IFLOLS... watch this video on landing on pitching decks. [0] The real problem is being able to land in all weather consistently. The advantage of Precision Landing Modes (PLM) is described this way:

"“Every aircraft is continually on glideslope with a stable and predictable energy state. Ultimately, this makes landing at the aircraft carrier safer,” said Lt. Greg “Cinder” Blok, CVW-8 Paddles." [1]

Because landing is visual [2] and aided by LSO (Landing Signal Officer) the precision on landing is more variable than using PLM.

“All results showed benefits in touchdown dispersion reduction of more than 50 percent when compared to current landing control techniques,” [3]

References

[0] Video showing USN in the Pacific in rough seas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HTXBTkcpg

[1] "Fleet Flies Magic Carpet" http://navalaviationnews.navylive.dodlive.mil/2017/03/14/fle...

[2] "IFLOLS—the improved Fresnel lens optical landing system—is a stack of 12 light cells, which produce a single ball-shaped image used by carrier pilots to determine the glideslope as they approach the carrier to land."

[3] Ibid, "Fleet Flies Magic Carpet"
Not a fan of the "X is cancer" framing.

The valid point buried in all this is that software seems to have a shark-like nature; it's either moving forward or "dead". There is a lot of change for the sake of change, and everyone who's got comfortable in a niche really hates forced change.

This is understandable in paid software when you only get paid for new features. It's less obvious in Free software unless you really do consider reputation-as-currency.
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Maybe we'll all need a face changer like that used in Almost Human, season 1, episode 3.
>But they're still compound words.

Only in an orthographic sense. For example, the linguist list post that I linked to talks about the bound morpheme -zi. This is written using the character which in classical Chinese was the word for 'child'. But clearly there's no sense in which 'zhuozi' (table) is a "compound word" containing the word for child. It's just that since the final syllable of the word happens to be pronounced the same way as the classical Chinese word for child, it's written using that character. This is a purely orthographic fact. And in fact 'zi' cannot be used by itself as a noun in modern Chinese (except in a few fixed idioms).

It's as if English (a) was written like (b):

(a) I realize that.

(b) I real eyes that.

And we then said that 'realize' is a compound word made up of the monosyllabic words 'real' and 'eyes' (which of course "have a different meaning depending on the context").
> A world where you could walk to the things you need because they're close?

That was the world before cars - it's cars and access to good infrastructure that changed the world to its current state where local businesses can't compete anymore.
A few things might cover it. If you are seen as implying that the famous actors are in the film in order to sell more then that is fraud (obtaining money by false pretences). If it can be argued that the output makes the real people look bad (via bad performance or association with subject matter they are not happy with) then perhaps there is a defamation case to be had.

Of course, right or wrong, there is always just the money argument: go up against someone famous (or a company acting on their behalf) in court and see who runs out of cash reserves first...
From Wikipedia:

> Word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them.

It isn't word salad. Yes it is not perfect English, but I can quite easily understand what he is saying.

Edit: since the parent comment was flagged here was the quote (taken from the templeOS.org homepage):

> Reputation is
worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers. Irish have a
reputation. Germans have a reputation. Attacker has the advantage. Jews have
a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry)
Ironic. I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were
cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's.

Can you really say that you cannot extract any meaning from that?
what did back-end developers handle?

Making sure Apache/PHP/MySQL didn't fall on their face under load and yelling at the front end guy to optimize his bloody SQL queries. At least that is what I did.
Low return-on-investment - they did all the science they wanted back then. We could do it again (and multiple countries are considering it), but, why? The moon landings were part science (mission achieved), part reputation (done).
Strange, first time I noticed it! Maybe it's just because of the overwhelming amount of removed comments in this thread.
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"I worked for Congress for 6 years, and here's what I learned about how they listen to constituents": https://twitter.com/editoremilye/status/797243415922515970
SourceKit itself is fairly stable. However it embeds a copy of the Swift type checker. :-)
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Not sure about your bridges point - I see the bridges over the Forth most days which are from the 1880s, 1960s and the new one opening this year and they all look pretty different to me (cantilever, suspension & cable stay respectively).

Would something like the Millau Viaduct have been possible in the 1960s?
According to taleb himself, it shouldn't matter.
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Crashes due to the language implementation's fault are much more likely in C++ than in Ada. Ada compilers are 100% verified, otherwise they are not allowed to call themselves "Ada compiler". There is no such thing for C++. The safety gap between C++ and Ada is actually so big that we don't even need to talk about that.

The flaws C++ were the reasons why Rust was invented. Mozilla wanted a safe language for the next generation of browsers, and they realized that C++ is not a good choice for safe programming.

Quote: "Mozilla intends to use Rust as a platform for prototyping experimental browser architectures. Specifically, the hope is to develop a browser that is more amenable to parallelization than existing ones, while also being less prone to common C++ coding errors."

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Mozilla-developing-the-Rust-lan...
The NT kernel has had a POSIX subsystem since the beginning. I'm not sure whether WSL uses this though.
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Does is also work with the Free-Software MinGW toolchain?

That would make it possible to generate Windows binaries without having to run a Windows VM, through cross-compiling, using e.g. MXE: http://mxe.cc/
> I don't think Rome was ever a brutal dictatorship

Well, they weren't exactly choirboys from what I've heard.

(I understand what you meant, but that quote out of context is just great)
For me this only shows the flaws of the law system, doesn't it? The real problem is that defending costs are so high for businesses. If this would be covered by the government or some insurance until the case is resolved, the small companies that got sued could have fought this to the end and only go down if they actually infringed the copyright.
Well, I did in fact think about a "keep track of everything approach" quite often.

To me, this is basically what Evernote and the likes promise but fail to deliver because of missing semantics (and "calculations").
Airtable.com might come close to this, though.

However, I believe this is still an unsolved problem.
It's getting harder to get attention perhaps it may depend upon your choice of topic as for me I am dealing with http://saftkur-detox.de
Probably related to what some call "flow".
This is really interesting! What are your thoughts on the J language as an evolution of APL?
As a french, I think that "potato crisps as a side dish" is a good idea when receiving a young child. In schools, childs often refuse to eat vegetables and prefer to choose french fries.

When receiving a foreigner, I will ask for his taste before deciding the menu.
> I'm in the bottom 15% of my country (UK) by income

Dude, no offense, but you're talking about the center of an empire that's literally the biggest that the world has ever seen.

That your country is wealthy and can provide for your basic necessities has more to do with this little historical fact than it does with technological advances.
Can you also put into words why? Sincere question, not being snarky; I also know the feeling of something feeling off but not knowing how to express it in words (yet).
> Also, if you think that there is no personal liability for the managing founder in a limited liability company, don't search for "Geschäftsführerhaftung" or you are going to have a bad day.

This is not a German exclusive. Managers of a company are nowhere shielded from legal responsibility when they violate the criminal code. (Okay, big banks maybe not, but at least from the letter of the law...)
I wish Europeans were more afraid of it, because trusting your government too much is dangerous. The thing with governments is that they change. They may change for the better, for worse, or somewhere in the middle; you can never be sure.

For every piece of data you collect, you should weigh the benefits of keeping it with the risks of doing so. Any personal data you keep represents a privacy risk, and the importance of privacy can not be understated.

Before WW2, the Netherlands had an innocuous field in its citizen database: Religion. Nothing really wrong with that, not particularly useful either. Then came the invasion, the government fell, and Nazi Germany took its place. They were looking for Jewish people...
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I post this periodically, but I think this is the most compelling and intuitive vision of the future I've heard (and simultaneously a solution to the Fermi Paradox): http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html

Read the full original paper, summaries fall short. But briefly, due to always finding use for more power/computation, primary gains coming from increasing density, and the speed of light limiting galactic colonization, intelligent civilizations that don't go extinct eventually find themselves living in a computer in a black hole leaching energy directly from a companion star or on a course to merge with other black holes.

There's a lot more to it though, hence my suggestion to read the full paper.
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Can you comment on what the system's like to write for? i.e. development workflow, good/bad points about the language, things you thought were cool, things you thought weren't cool, that sort of thing?
Almost everything you listed there already started becoming common by the 1960's.

Step back and forget about informational technology. Look at the world of atoms, not at the world of bits.

Since the decommissioning of the Concorde, our fastest commercial means of transportation has actually been getting slower, not faster. Man hasn't reached farther out in space than the moon missions of the 1960s. The first half the of the 20th century brought us: antibiotics, electricity, automobiles, air travel, rockets, space travel, satellites, radio, reliable clean drinking water, indoor heating, laundry machines, diswashers, widespread indoor plumbing, and massive improvements in sanitation / literacy.

The second half of the 20th can't even come close to this level of technological growth.
I wonder if this might have something to do with differences in cooking skill. It's hard to invite people over for a home-cooked meal if your skills aren't up to it. Are the French supposed to know how to cook the way Americans are supposed to know how to drive?
Every Western faith has its eschaton.
Strangely, this is both reassuring and scary at the same time.
Its quite common to say I wouldn't want trade places with him.
Except for the embedding part, Julia is pretty good for all other purposes already, isn't it? And I say this as someone who is excited by both Red and Julia.
> He had plenty of access to staticians at the university too.

Assuming the book is for his own learning, as opposed just curiosity or for students etc, there is still nothing wrong with learning from book. Assuming he really dont know the statistics.

And it definitely beats up people who don't know either, but prefer to stay ignorant just so they don't look like someone who reads beginners book.
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Even if their stats were totally accurate, it would have made no difference. No one is buying 10,000 of these things based solely on what the vendor reports it can do anyway right? So who cares?

If we were building out a lot of capacity which could use these drives then we would be delinquent in our capacity to not test these personally anyway.

Vendor benchmarks don't translate to reality? Shock horror. If someone gets burned because they accepted vendor fud as gospel without doing their own testing thus ended up with stuff that doesn't work for their application then that's their fault alone.. Once those people are replaced with those who are able to do their jobs then this is just a out of court replacement deal and NDA between legal and vendor like happens all the time anyway.

And besides, no one is buying these anyway.
I don't think that it will speed up exponentially, as thought speed is (most of the time) at the speed of your 'inner voice', which (depending on the person) is only a few times normal speach speed, which can already be typed in real-time (e.g. stenographs, s2t engines).

It would help for symbols (e.g. "slash"("/") is a full syllable in speach, but might be part of the sentence structure in your 'inner voice' and therefore take less space, similar to the full stop), but the human mind can only produce so much output consciously, and I think we're only going to get up to a 10x speed increment.

I assume here that the norm is typing at roughly 130 keys/minute.
Their reactive (dataflow) dialect is beautiful.
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Only ten? Bostrom must not be in your sample!
I don't see induction here, honestly.
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Potentially brand and/or trademark...
I think I can talk about 20 minutes about Camembert, but I am not an expert. If you add roquefort, sainte maure, boulette d'avesne, hervé, 40 minutes is not long. Have you heard about the chimay (http://chimay.com/en/fromages/) ? Next time I go to belgium, I want to taste it.
That XKCD cartoon succinctly shows the problem with multiple testing. If every scientific paper were as clear, accurate and impactful as that we would have solved half the issues with science discussed on this comment thread.
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Because in Europe, we exercise our right of protest often and we get results often. So there is high confidence in our ability to make an unpopular government resign.

In the US, protesting doesn't work.
> Since most of the plaintiffs are shell companies run by lawyers, there is little cost to them even if they loose and no value to the defendant if they win.

Would having to deposit some kind of money up front before the case is accepted be a solution to this? Then you cannot spam-sue everybody, and if you lose you cannot just claim bankruptcy to escape having to repay the defendants' costs.
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Slashdot -- as always the trailblazer in terms of comment self-moderation -- had that feature 10 years ago. You could mark users as friends or foes; their posts would be highlighted and get a (customisable) karma modifier. I don't like the terminology, but I think I like the feature.

While having inter-personal vendettas is probably bad for forum culture, it at least facilitates some kind of inter-personal relationships.

It's nice to judge each comment on its own merits, but it's also fun and interesting to recognise someone as a peer whose comments you liked -- or disliked! -- before.

It's also orthogonal to the karma system. I already have a personal (if completely one sided) relationship to a few prominent hacker news users. But outside of that circle of maybe 5 to 10 people, posts might as well be anonymous. Annotating other users makes it easier to expand this sphere beyond hacker news royalty.
Replying to myself, since I can not edit it anymore.

I know it sounds all funny and stuff, but if someone is curious about how context, in this case at least the statements exposed curator pewdiepie, matters, Foucaults 1969 essay "What Is an Author?" is a great starting point to dig into:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_an_Author%3F
There are people like you trying to cure cancer, too, and trying to make money on Wall Street, trying to solve outstanding problems in physics, trying to make it to Mars, solve global warming, win wars, and so on.

The trend you identify is that there will be a breakthrough and everything will change, but we have no way of knowing what it will be. When it comes, it might make your field irrelevant. Arguing that the breakthrough will come from the field you happen to be working in is understandable but it doesn't carry much weight with anyone outside your field.
If I'd had to guess and theorise, and it's highly likely I'm wrong, making thoughts available semantically for an computer to parse requires more bandwidth than (once command+control is figured out) recalling of information + presenting it. The latter could be directly tied to the visual nerves only perhaps? Still all part of the same paradigm to me though.
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Is Brazilian CompSci culture relatively oriented towards embeddable languages? Lua and Céu come from there too. Might explain the adoption rate of Red.
Don't forget DC Space and Fort Reno...
How many of those have you done? It's usually basic JavaScript / CSS / HTML / responsive design, performance, accessibility. You don't hire a plumber by asking him about the make of his hammer.
Yeah. It's certainly interesting watching conservatives pointing to the fact that acid rail didn't turn into a catastrophe to justify their opposition to the kinds of emission limit that actually put a stop to acid rain in the first place.
Peter Thiel has made some other interesting observations:

- that our language about the ‘developed' vs ‘developing' world is excessively bullish about globalization while implicitly pessimistic about technology.

- that government has changed from thinking that progress can be achieved via planning, into thinking that it's more just there to watch random forces & statistics evolve the world. This change in mindset away from planning for innovation has made it impossible to achieve grandiose mission like the Apollo space missions. As a result if there is going to be a government role in getting innovation started, people have to philosophically believe again that it’s possible to plan.

- that environmentalism has induced a deep skepticism about anything involving the manipulation of nature or material objects in the real world. This skepticism explains why computer tech has been able to advance so much but not physical technology like transportation.

- that peer review and grant approval processes are too political, science has suffered because it is hard to find scientists who excel at both science and politics.

- that a shift from manufacturing to non-tradeable services has led to a political class (such as lawyers) that is weirdly immune to globalization and mostly oblivious to it.
Less than a unicorn, but a milestone for the region in every possible way. E-commerce in MENA is officially a global arena. Yallah Omar, jado could be the follow up unicorn after all
The same goes for a Hollywood movie set. I worked on a film in the late 1990s as the film runner and and God forbid that I went into the truck to get an extension cord (I wasn't a "qualified" gaffer.) "Hey can you grab me a [light] gel from that box right next to your foot?" "No sorry, I am part of Camera, I can't touch that, the gaffers have to do that."

And this set was in Texas..

I got paid $200 per day to literally sit on set, take the film canister from the loader, walk it out to the gate (this set was in rural Texas on a ranch,) hand it to a driver for him to take it to the airport, grab the dailies from him and walk that back to the director's trailer.

Best two months of my life (got to meet Spielberg on set and got to work with an Oscar nominated cinematographer.)

Still my point is that union rules add significant costs and generally border on absurd.
It's certainly stable, it just likes to take up 100% of the CPU.

It happens especially when writing new code or refactoring old code in a medium sized project and using function or variable names that don't yet exist but that I'm about to add in the next few minutes.

For example say I want take a chunk of code and move it to a new function fooBar. So I cut the old code and then replace it with a call to a not yet written fooBar function.

Then I go to write the definition of fooBar and paste previous code in there but before I can do that, SourceKitService has got itself into a CPU frenzy that won't calm down for 15-20 minutes (even after finishing writing the fooBar function) while it presumably tries to find where fooBar was defined.

It's gotten to the point where I have disabled 'live issues' (which seems to exacerbate the problem) and regularly have to kill the SourceKitService process so my fans will go back to normal.
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What I'd like is a way to hide the user globally while still tracking locally. By that I mean not knowing who a commenter is across other pages but knowing they're the same person replying back to you.

Something like HMAC(username, story_id) would work for this. It's be consistent on a given page, but not immediately apparent so people would either judge comments more on their quality or simply click the user more to see who it is. I'm curious to see which it'd be.
Actually the point has been made that we have actually lost a lot of the knowledge and expertise that existed back then, and that it would take considerable time and money to accumulate that knowledge together to do it again.