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That's true. There seemed to be some ambiguity in the statement, but the full text of the memorandum makes clearer that that clause is solely in a nuclear context.
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An old programming meme is the "Halt-and-Catch-Fire" bug. It turns out that this is a real bug.

The X11 system used to require knowledge of monitor characteristics in order to install it. So you had to know things about the clock rates, flyback time, etc. to use a monitor. There were many X11 threads about finding the settings for a new monitor since the manufacturers were not very forthcoming with them.

A bad setting for these monitor parameters would cause the monitor to overheat and potentially catch fire.

On another thread, the Pentium processor had the 'FOOF' bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug). A user-level, non-priv instruction 'F00F' (in hex) would cause the processor to halt. It was normal to send someone an executable that contained that instruction just to force them to reboot their system.

So some dimwit (umm, me?) decided that deliberately setting the X11 params incorrectly followed by F00F would essentially cause the system to "Halt-and-Catch-Fire". Fortunately we unplugged the monitor before it got too hot.
They have another design that can go from 0km/hr to 100km/hr in 1.5 seconds: http://www.research-drone.com/en/extreme_climb_rate.html
Does the article answer it, or just spend the entire time on the more poulist point that airline seats are uncomfortable because airlines are greedy?
Sure, that's indeed possible, but I'm not sure it's "obviously" a sign of re-purposing. It could just as easily be because someone was sharing warez from a common mail account, or some content owner erroneously reported the web site (which has definitely happened in the past!); either way, bam, now it's on a blacklist forever.
Gen X definitely had an impact on popular culture that hasn't been forgotten. For example, I'd say modern club culture started with Generation X. It has evolved since then, but it certainly wasn't the same at the time when baby boomers were young.

As for what it means to be part of a generation, all generations disperse as people get older. It's harder to build a shared identity over common experiences as people's overall life experiences vary wildly. If I've read right, and it's the connection you miss, the answer is to connect with people as individuals. We are always more than the labels we assign to ourselves anyway.
> but you can also already do that today (Economy Plus or First)

True, but there is generally a big increase in price. Premium Economy is generally twice the price of Economy. Regulations to push up the Economy seat pitch to a safe level would increase prices for Economy tickets, but given the small size difference, the price increase should be rather modest.
Yeah if keeping a dictator in power is what you desire, then by all means let dictators have nuclear weapons. If not, it should be of global interest to crush the dictators.

The problem with Libya and Iraq (as well as Afghanistan!) is that there never has been a coherent post-war plan. Which means: what is to be done after the troops are finished?

There has been no plan about

- how to disarm the various militias enlisted to fight

- how to transition countries to democracy without kleptocrats and other opportunists abusing and hijacking the system

- how to actually rebuild all the destroyed infrastructure (roads, bridges, water, electricity, communication)

- how to actually unite and pacify the various ethnic/religious communities and prevent them from fighting each other: this is what fucked up former Yugoslavia, and now Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, and will likely drag out the Syria conflict.
This looks useful! Thanks.
Using FLP to say that atomic broadcast is impossible is overly simplistic. In the real world, where people do use atomic broadcast/consensus in real distributed systems, it just isn't a problem.

FLP says it's always possible to not achieve consensus, but it says nothing about the probability of it. In practical systems, unless you have a partition such that no quorum of nodes can talk to each other, the probability of not reaching consensus rather quickly is effectively 0. Such partitions are rare in real systems (basically requires multiple data center failures or multiple fiber cuts). You are much more likely to run into other problems that affect your availability, like code bugs or failed isolation between some components.
Did you not read my comment? If you did read my comment, why would you write this one?
"leg room is deceasing"

I hope that was an intentional pun. Leg room is vanishingly small these days, but I'm not so sure it's entirely gone. ;)
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Do you mean digital influencer in the sense of social influencer? The latter can be measured quite well, depending on the method.

Using affiliate-like CPC click-through links on their social media accounts allows the ad network to observe exactly what is working. The problem is that social influencer status probably only really works for stars with a huge following of real life fans. One example (@work) was a celebrity posting about a nice pair of shoes. Those sold out within minutes, and the shoe company's store page crashed due to the unexpected demand. So it can work, but like most things in marketing, if everyone does it, it won't work for most.
Smoking in public places was banned because it's annoying/unpleasant for a lot of people. But they didn't just say that, they called it a safety issue.

This is the same thing. People are uncofortable, and they want to frame it as a safety issue.
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Would you please stop engaging in ideological flamewar on HN? It is not what this site is for.

I haven't banned your account because you haven't used HN primarily for this. Nevertheless, feeding trolls is trolling in its own right. It perpetuates the worst dynamics of the internet and those are what we have to proactively moderate lest this site be engulfed in flames. So please don't do this again.
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> Consumers could be flying airlines like Southwest and Virgin. The fact that they instead choose to fly on airlines like Frontier and Spirit shows that they don't actually care to spend the extra money to have reasonable seats or service.

Virgin is quite good; Southwest is terrible. They're known for cost, not for service. Their lack of assigned seating is one of many manifestations of that, and it's the primary reason I never fly Southwest.
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We've banned this account for ideological flamewar. That is emphatically not what this site, and when accounts use HN primarily for political or ideological battle, we ban them.
Selfish generation is used to describe the baby boomers. The greatest generation were the parents of the baby boomers. The common conception is that they were a generation that endured personal sacrifice and laid the foundations for the modern era.

I've never heard the greatest generation being referred to as selfish. However, as we both know, all these labels are nonsense anyway.
Great explanation, and the ship example could make for a fun math game! I'm in NYC also and interested in creating spaces for mathematics, will be at the Museum of Mathematics hackathon next week. Drop me a line if you're interested in chatting, sandy.vanderbleek@gmail.com
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Weird comment. Is there specific political contention between "the Ukraine"/"Ukraine" that made you post this?

There are many non native English writers on HN, and I could see how some could write "the Ukraine". Obviously it's grammatically incorrect, but posting a comment just to point out a single grammatical fault/typo is typically not seen on HN.
for large markets, it is true. the roles of google and amazon are being filled locally, in all their respective verticals.

for some niche market, maybe not.
As a counter example, I click on ads fairly often, probably once a month on average. However it is only for rather niche products or rather niche companies. I've discovered a handful of companies that have gotten my money this way over the years, many of which I probably would never have heard of otherwise.
I don't think apple leaving the market would have any impact on the Chinese government's decision process behind policies. There are plenty of Chinese brands that would love the decreased competition. The only effect it would have would be on Apple's sales numbers.
Agreed. Of-course this also raises the possibility that somewhere, a perfectly rational actor would see no way out but to use one. There are historical examples where things were quite on the brink:

1. Israel threatened to use them in the opening days of 1973 war: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/opinion/the-last-nuclear-m...

2. Pakistan threatened to use them in 1986-87 during operation brasstacks: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/03/29/on-the-nuclear-...

3. North Korea today.
I'd take this a step further and say the website for J language doesn't move a finger to entice anyone to learn the language or use it.

I don't know if it's academia or what - but if I spent the effort on creating a whole programming language that I believed was actually good - I'd have a very different front page.
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The newer Amazon kindle DRM hasn't been cracked yet.
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Hello! This looks like a very slick project, but before going down this particular rabbit hole, I'm wondering if you can tell me if I'm set up for success or frustration: I'm running a Debian based hand-rolled 3 node kvm cluster with sheepdog/corosync for my vm image store/cluster management and a fully-connected p2p infiniband network for replication. Would it be possible to use minimega for management of this environment? What features rely on a regular openstack environment?
What is your proposed solution? How does one limit a free, public resource to only people with homes? A literal smell test?

How do people without homes "completely destroy the purpose"? Are they stealing books? Breaking computers? Barricading the doors?

Do you really believe that all people without homes have "given up on life"? Not a single one is "working hard and trying to excel in life"? Have you heard of working people without homes? Particularly in LA, SF, et al. where the cost of a home vastly exceeds the income of many people?

Do you think education could be a productive method for reducing the number of people without homes?
As much as Trump was/is a clown his point was this. If Apple and other American companies pull out of China, at least we won't be supporting their harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong (yoga) practioners, their eating of dogs boiled alive, and their treating their own citizens like children.

There are a lot of sharp, beautiful people in China.

They've learned to accept all the dictatorial crap.

As Americans, are we going to help these people? How?
Those are the questions we should be asking.

I for one will make sure my friends in China have access to vpn. And I won't describe the method here, so those commie motherfuckers are less likely to block it!
It is a huge pet peeve of most Ukrainians abroad. Somehow Ukaine was specifically cursed with this issue and now we are stuck trying to correct the world with regard to this problem.
And the ERC20 contract is here https://etherscan.io/address/0x18ce0b9fedceb66e9fb7783bbddb4...
The site uses both contracts and both are linked on the Navbar FAQ.
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> Smoking in public places was banned because it's annoying/unpleasant for a lot of people. But they didn't just say that, they called it a safety issue

Eh... no. Yes, smoking was annoying and unpleasant for a lot of people, but 2nd hand smoke is absolutely a safety issue.
> But cities like LA utilize libraries as refugees for homeless people which completely destroys the purpose.

I defiantly see this happening in Pasadena. The main library has become a refuge from the summer heat, but I feel like this drives others from using it.
I sold my Bible app company a few years ago, and it was mostly a PITA (e.g. took 7 months for a relatively small deal)

Now I acquire small SaaS businesses at CapitalAcademy.org and make it a point of making the process as painless as possible.

If you have any interest in selling or just want to learn about the acquisition process feel free to say hi, trevor@capitalacademy.org
>how to actually unite and pacify the various ethnic/religious communities and prevent them from fighting each other

That is exactly what dictators do! Not perfectly, but a lot better than what has happened in the countries you've noted where the dictators were ousted or attempted to be ousted. So, I'd disagree that it should be a global interest to crush dictators. So far, this has caused much greater harm than good.
Sorry. I figured this thread was already dead except to the two of us, so no one would be bothered if I kept talking to him. I guess the mods still see everything?

I so desperately want to reach out to him and people like him. I would have moved on to email, if I could have found one. I wish there was a private message function on HN.
The arc of the internet is bending back towards decentralization
Cardio vs strength training.

Also, hitting each other repeatedly. Or, well, directly competing at all with someone else.

Not really worth arguing if you don't see it.
I don't fly Southwest because their website is broken for what seems to be the entire Netherlands for over a year. Multiple tweets, contacts to tech emails and it still serves up an Akamai 403.
Justified response IMO. Their sales machine has left a significant negative impact on the industry by setting impossible expectations
Homeless people are typically people with mental health issues who are unable to find treatment, due to lack of money, insurance, or having been discharged early from state mental health facilities after budget cut backs.

Not "people who have given up on life".
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Thanks for the insightful comment. I agree my views are somewhat colored by anti-Koch rhetoric. My paradigm was that their father unscrupulously collaborated with the Soviets and Germans just for money, while ignoring the sanctions imposed by the US Government. Most of my info on Koch brothers came from reading the book Dark Money.

I will certainly remedy that deficiency with more research into this. (BTW comments like this is why I love the HN community so much).
I thought the invasion of Crimea was to prevent Ukraine from getting too close to NATO. It appears to have worked.
alternatively we should kill Kim now, then publicly inform the world that anyone threatening the us with nukes is subject to the same. Nk is not going to launch on the us today and any surviving generals are going to have to find a new leader willing to go with the plan.
yeah, Ukraine learned that hard way too, you know... after Russian invasion
With 3 million flights a year in the US, there's no way the cost is possibly justified by any reasonable cost-benefit analysis.

> Nobody died in a crash of a United States-certificated scheduled airline operating anywhere in the world in 2016...it is the seventh straight year that nobody died in a crash on a United States-certificated scheduled airline operating anywhere in the world.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-la...
I almost agree, but IME it's not that easy to visualize the price/seat-size tradeoff in comparison shopping. Is 28 inches a lot for that dimension? Without seeing the rest of the seat, it's hard to be sure. Plus, I don't know how abusive someone is going to be about reclining the seat in front of me.
Not to mention that kinds don't even know how to _see_ when they are born, and for several months thereafter. That's petabytes of visual stimuli going through that brain so that it learns what's statistically more important and infers semantics around it all.
I've never been to a library in SF, so I don't know what they're like, but is being close to homeless people a distraction? Is it a noise thing? In my local library there are often one or two people that could be homeless, but they were mostly quiet and not causing any fuss.
I'm not sure how you make that inference. Could you explain your logic?
Sorry, I'm an Ethereum novice.
> Post an assessment that shows this are the widespread conditions in the industry, or at least other examples of companies doing the same.

What? Hot summers with lots of heavy lifting and long shifts for low pay, all while being treated by management as a completely replaceable cog (because at-will employment, union busting, and the low-skill nature of the job means YOU ACTUALLY ARE a replaceable cog)? That's warehouse work.

I'm not even sure if there are studies about this because it's just... completely common knowledge among the populations who work these jobs. Here's a blog post for example from 2011, describing exactly this conditions at probably-not-amazon from a former employee. Note he talks in broad strokes -- not "my employer sucked", but "warehouse work sucks". https://warehousetomarketer.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/warehou...

> What an appalling way to see things.

I'm not making a moral judgement. I'm describing reality. I don't think positive descriptions of reality can ever be appalling, unless your goal is to bury your head in the sand.

Focusing on Amazon doesn't solve the problem because Amazon is not the problem. They're just one more employer behaving the same way as all the other employers, in a system that explicitly allows and even incentivizes this behavior.

Realizing that working conditions for low-skill blue collar folk are systematically crappy, and that we need a systematic solution, is not "appalling". It's realistic and pragmatic.

Besides which, counting on the beneficence of particular corporations and/or particular instances of PR pressure has never been a sustainable method for producing good working conditions or livable wages.

Focusing on specific company's workers instead of focusing on systematic improvements to the negotiating power of labor is what's appalling. It takes a serious political problem and turns it into a corporate PR problem that's solvable without addressing the underlying problems. Because the empirically effective PR expenditures --
installing air conditioning, clamping down on loud mouths, token improvements to workplace culture, marginally shorter shifts... none of this makes manual labor on $12/hr with zero workplace protections and a minimal social safety net any less dehumanizing.

(And Bezos's net work has absolutely nothing to do with whether working conditions in warehouses suck -- IDC if the CEO is making 100K or 100B, and neither do the employees working in the warehouse because their job sucks just as much either way.(
Newton's method with a line search is the go-to algorithm for convex optimisation if the dimension of the problem is not too large.
May be the first step of regulation should be requiring some standard disclosures around seat sizes, etc. If kayak or some other comparison engine showed that you would are getting 2 extra inches for the $40 more when flying Virgin instead of Frontier (hypothetical example), more people would pick Virgin.
In this case while it seems like a simple grammatical fault, it's definitely worth pointing out, though the post doesn't really explain why.

> "The Ukraine is the way the Russians referred to that part of the country during Soviet times … Now that it is a country, a nation, and a recognized state, it is just Ukraine."

http://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/
I think the evidence is pretty strong at this point that 2nd hand smoke has real health consequences.
You mean a highly informative and thought-provoking piece about revolutionary technology and roadblocks to its mass adoption - which references a future product not yet available for purchase? I'd read these kind of "ads" all day, but they are too few and far between.
In cease "someone" overpowers you and threatens to kill you with knife up in the ass, then yes - you better wear suicide vest.
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The right to education was loosely actualized in America but remains low quality if people exit without skills in personal finance, for example. Unfortunately, there is no "right" to a library, let alone one that offers such enrichment. I'm all for programs in libraries that also help adults learn how to read at an 8th grade level, but the need for that in the first place I see it as symptomatic of how badly our schools would be doing, not as a positive thing in and of itself.
oh god. you must have never heard the words INDIA, or PAKISTAN, OR BROKEN ARROW, or CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, or FIRST STRIKE....

This is perhaps the most inanely dumb thing I've ever read. I am sorry. I need to remove my veneer of politeness. It will probably be fine with North Korea...but NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION is unquestionably, unquestionably bad. The chance for irrational behavior or mistakes or bad actors obtaining weapons or nation states losing control of events....

good god man. go douse your face with cold water. you need to get your head on right.

There is a difference between something being rational in the context of one nation's foreign policy...and "GOOD"
One problem here is that average size people are the majority.
Selfish is my definition.

I also forgot "net natives" this, to me, will be a label with meaning.
Indeed, it is guaranteed HA and autoscaling, no hassles on peak traffic, and dedicated maintenance work. It isn't cheap as such, but it is very price competitive.
I didn't say the REPL wasn't available, I said dropping you into the REPL would not be the default action on an unhandled condition. Others have confirmed that this is the case.

Thank you anyway for your remarks.
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I think I would ask a few questions about what exactly the questioner means, because "clean code" is a very vague term. If they're borrowing from Uncle Bob's book, then I'd have a pretty good idea.
That much makes sense, but the original framing of the opcode as illegal still comes off as a category error to me (though perhaps that phrasing is common and excepted). The opcode itself isn't illegal, as opcodes are a CPU-level concept, where nothing is illegal.

Rather, the opcode may bring the memory state to something that might violate some OS's security model. But the opcode still does something to the CPU (Boolean) circuit state.
To me, you are describing knowledge & understanding. An "education", as I understand it, is a validated completion of a curriculum from a known, accredited institution. Also, an " education" is no guarantee of access to, nor achievement of, success. Merely a minimal requirement for consideration.
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