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If you refer to the “not to be used to make nukes” section it’s a pretty standard clause for software exports in the US to comply with ITAR.
I very rarely run into a situation where I need more than SQLite. The page on the subject is great: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
But it costs TfL more to run its Oyster program than it would if everyone just used contactless. Oyster and contactless in London are equal with a few exceptions relating to how daily/weekly caps are counted.
A common argument in favor of bitcoin and other crypto tokens is the large cost reduction of sending money, commonly paired with the US figures you mentioned.

I find it fascinating that the much saner situations in the EU are never mentioned. Perhaps I need a more diverse source of news on this topic.
"This is the superior solution but we haven't done it yet" seems like a pretty good argument for doing it.

It's not as if the problem is that the government doesn't actually know how to collect taxes. What you're really identifying is a different problem -- the government keeps not funding transit. But that's a completely independent problem. Look at what they do with fuel tax revenues. They're generally supposed to go to transportation but half the states spend the money trying to fill the hole in their unfunded pensions and then complain that they have no money for transportation.

The real question is, would people accept a small increase in sales or income tax in exchange for an elimination of transit fares? To which the answer is probably yes. Because even if you can't use mass transit for whatever reason, everybody loves getting other drivers off the road, which is exactly what making mass transit free would do.

If the legislature subsequently diverts the new money that was supposed to go to transit, that problem is independent and preexisting. And once mass transit is free, more people would use it, creating a larger lobby for making it better.
My cats' ears twitch when I say their names. Sometimes they'll turn their heads. Very rarely they'll actually respond and possibly saunter over slowly.
The Boeing/Ethiopian ETH-2 bulletin quoted in the above linked AAIB preliminary report on page 33 says "Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT ..."
It strikes me as analogous to the near and far field of a radio antenna? The complicated initial close-in chaos corresponds to the complicated near field of an antenna. As the EM wave propagates further away from the antenna it assumes a simpler "far field" structure. On other words, as the wave gets further away from the antenna the physical extent of the antenna becomes neligible compared to the distance propagated, so the field looks more and more like that from a simpler point source.
Add to that the handling of the complaints about the system, handling of the first crash... The plane should have been grounded after the first crash and possibly some mitigating action should have been taken before that as well. There's going to be a final report and presumably this is far from the end of this story.
Hyponatremia (broadly low sodium levels from drinking too much water) is one of the leading causes of death during/shortly after a marathon.
The tail end of the human lifespan, visually (2015)
They were faking the water damage indicator so that they'd be covered for replacement instead of not covered.
For my user community, lack of dropbox like support. Lack of filezilla support (non-pro).
Can you load a season/discounted fare pass on a credit card?
That's true. I think my point still stands (OP interpreted the graphic one way, you interpreted it another way), but I'm splitting hairs.
The Audi is crap (hundreds are already on mobile.de sold by merchants, they buy it from Audi so Audi can report sales > 0). The Jaguar is fun to drive, but has poor range. They're all 7+ years behind Tesla and haven't even learnt the importance of aerodynamics.
I have participated in lots of startups. I have 3 successful companies myself. My background is cs. And what I can tell is that every single service like aws or GCS is absolutely insanely priced. Not affordable unless you have a new Netflix. Even though it looks like you are saved from a lot of maintainance you still have to deal with limitations you sometimes don't have a solution for.i have seen companies switching to aws going from 400 dollars a month to about 5-10k per month. Silly amounts for big organisations, but for startups it does make a lot of difference
Doing PCA on the dataset shows that "current_employer" is the most significant feature... and when that field is set to "IBM", the predicted "quit_probability" is 100%.
This is bootlicking. Private companies don't own the English language.
>If I'm a 737 MAX pilot, after the Lion Air crash I'm learning absolutely everything I can about MCAS. And from information Boeing provided I would learn that it operates with autopilot off, flaps up, at high indicated AoA.

And in a crisis situation you skip the checklists and think fast and apply your instincts because you read something on a forum? Sure if you have a lot of time you can try thinking but this is not debugging a bug where you have hours to observe the issue, try different inputs, observe again, Google some questions etc..
Wow I always felt my Mazda 3 was extremely intuitive to use and in a class of it own in that respect. They really nailed the information architecture and layout of the UI + Commander wheel input.
CVE-2018-90017117 – KingMe attack [pdf]
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I have had to SSH into prod boxes many times to debug emergent issues. Now I'm using all serverless, and I get a happy fuzzy feeling whenever I think about how I never ever have to do that again.
The majority of New Yorkers don't own cars, yet the vast majority of NYC road space (and maintenance expense) is dedicated to the small number of people who drive in Manhattan, making the city more dangerous, noisier, and more polluted for the non-driving majority. Without congestion pricing, the non-driving majority is subsidizing those who choose to make Manhattan a worse place to be by driving in it!
The whole point of making it transparent and traceable is to end the influence of money on politics. ALEC's efforts are transparent because they are so certain that they will get away with it. If people are successful in fighting them, they will just use their resources to hide their work better, which they can do because they still have a lot of money behind them.

Again, the problem is that we are letting money decide our laws instead of real measures of goodness. I'm glad that progressive groups are fighting ALEC--it's the best solution we have so far--but on a macro scale fighting money with more money is surrendering to the problem.
Yes, that is a reason to be skeptical of ALEC bills. My point isn't that you should be happy with ALEC. My point is that model legislation is not in and of itself a bad thing; model bills are good or bad on their own merits.
Or with the US from Europe with weaving, steel production etc.
No. The redirection of demand would just give some more clients to Airbus and reduce the speed of the growth of the total number of planes flying.

Nobody should accept this attempt to excuse Boeing of its responsibility and even less the possible variant of it "we are all guilty we will buy the cheapest flight."
That's the promise but in reality every software has bugs, including managed services.
It's modern art and worth millions. And I hear Jim Carrey is submitting packages to CPAN now.
The 9th circuit has jurisdiction in this case because it happened in California. US v. Cotterman is the relevant case, and the 4th circuit made a similar ruling in US v. Kolsuz, but the 11th circuit held differently in US v. Touset.

So in some parts of the US, reasonable suspicion is required. In some parts, it isn't. In some parts, there is no binding precedent on the issue. It's likely that the supreme court will hear a case on the issue eventually.
"Get away with" what, exactly? They're drafting conservative, business-friendly bills, which is what Republicans generally do. How does an ALEC origin "hide" the merits and demerits of a bill? Doesn't it in fact make them far clearer?
,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.''

Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?
I mean cost in terms of 'time to make a decision', without considering 'cost of making the wrong decision', which is closer to risk.

> The answer to why you shouldn't just do whatever Google is doing is because trying to copycat the leader is the one thing that will guarantee your _failure_ in the market place.

The article seems to demonstrate the opposite - decisions following the leader, and paying for it later, but surviving in the interim.

> If you're doing the same thing as everybody else you're by definition just reinventing the wheel. Why bother?

I don't really agree. When it comes to something like a DB or architecture, that's probably not where you need to be inventing new solutions - products are rarely sold based on their technical implementation, and more about the results they drive.

If you were building a new Google search, and you used all of the same tech, that's probably a bad idea. But if I'm building a product for a completely isolated domain, who cares if it's solved using the same tools that Google solves search?

Regarding lambda, there's likely tons of room for competitors even within a domain to implement off of the same technology - again, it's just a tool, and not likely to be the differentiator.
Shippers will have to pay a congestion charge but will also experience less congestion, which means they might well be able to charge less money.
Tata isn't manufacturing it and neither is Jaguar. It's built by Magna in Austria (they build a few expensive models for BMW, Mercedes etc. too, but their yearly capacity is below 200.000 for all their contracts) and most likely too expensive to build in large numbers.
Human brains generally work the same and not having to take your eyes off the road will always be the safest solution, whether using knobs or using your voice to speak commands. Distracted driving is deadly period.
Maybe the cultural misunderstanding was that you actually need to pay attention to those explicit instructions.
Another way to put it: If you know how long something will take in advance, you have a solution in mind. It is unlikely that this solution is (A) the best one and (B) the one you will actually implement. It would be stupid to ignore information you learned along the way. If you could actually predict the future you should invest in the lottery, not in software.

EDIT: Of course there are projects where you actually know exactly what to do. Happens a lot in consulting. That has nothing to do with Agile though.
Christchurch attacks: NZ suspect ordered to undergo mental health tests
Like Mexico, or like the US? (Your comment is ambiguous; genuinely curious)
> We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX

He just finished several paragraphs about how the plane and it's software was not safe ("erroneous activation of the MCAS function"), and then arrives at this conclusion?

If my car erroneously responds to the pressure on the gas pedal it's not safe.
I think this is less of a big deal in London because-- and the article entirely glosses over this prospect-- TfL accept contactless (e.g. contactless-enabled debit/credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay). This means anyone can land in London and immediately ride public transit using their existing bank card.
One of the things I'm most grateful for as a programmer was the ability to learn a lot of performance-minded backend design principles within the Salesforce ecosystem. Salesforce was always brutally unforgiving in terms of the amount of I/O it would let you do per transaction, which led me to become much more aware of how those things worked under the hood, and had the effect of teaching me how to better design my code to fit within the limits.

When you can't use more than a couple seconds of CPU time per transaction, or you have a fixed and spartan heap size for a big algorithm, you learn good habits real quick.

I imagine a lot of engineers today haven't had the experience of working within hardware limits, hence all the waste everywhere.
Judge finds Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 'clear violation' of gag order
Hey Brad,

STFU.

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That doesn't answer my question at all; why the snark?
This is why you have tickets or transit tokens. You can buy one on the bus/train, but then it costs 30% more and so nobody does that. Then you can buy a token using any payment method you like, whenever you like. Buy them from a vending machine at the train station with cash, order a month's worth on your credit card and have them shipped to your home, whatever you prefer.

Dropping an exact value coin into a machine is a solved problem, is reliable, instantaneous, has automatic redundancy in high volume locations because there will be multiple machines, protects privacy, etc.

> The agency then has to have staff to count the cash, then hire an armored car to take it to a bank. It's not that simple.

That is not a significant cost. The service is paid a small amount of money to collect a much larger amount of money, and if you do more frequent pickups then less security is required and the ratio stays low.

Meanwhile with cash you don't have to deal with chargebacks, computer intrusions, processing fees, etc.
Which has nothing to do with the question of what would be preferable to European citizens, US surveillance or Chinese surveillance. The possible effects are rather clear cut, which is why I dont understand why anyone would views this differently. I understand that for a lot of people this becomes a moral question quickly, but thats not whats up to debate here. Its not about the justifications for surveillance programs but their direct effect on people living in Europe. I also have less to worry about from North Korean surveillance, simply because I am not a north Korean. We dont have that luxus with the US, despite not being a US citizen. Or more fittingly because we are not US citizens.
> Perhaps that's what you're getting at, the American identity is risk-taking, ie those that would willingly leave everything behind for the chance at a better life.

My point is that Hispanics or blacks in the 1960s-1980s weren’t any worse off than say, the Chinese during railroad construction or the Japanese during internment in material terms — whatever the historic record.

So it’s worth examining why some disadvantaged social groups integrated while others did not — or perhaps a better phrasing is “better integrated”.

Unless you’re racist, surely you must agree that the answer is cultural.

> Identitarian politics, such as the civil rights movement? Women's lib? All a Soviet plot to destroy America, obviously.

You’re being facetious.

Those movements had roots in genuine domestic issues, however, radical segments of each movement were supported by Soviets or their sympathizers — offering things like funding and advice on effective propaganda in order to sow civil dissent. These radical arms of the movements eventuall took over, and transformed genuine civil rights movements into regressive and harmful ones.

It’s similar to their actions in 2016, when they funded advertisements for radical positions on the issue of race, gender, immigration, etc.

That kind of psyop to destabilize a country by funding radicals within is older than the US, and has been practiced by the CIA as well.

None of that detracts from the fact that radical feminism, identitarian politics, and intersectionalism all emerged from Marxist philosophy partially sponsored by Soviets.

Researching the Soviet idea of “useful idiots” is interesting.
GSF1 is also exploited by sociopaths in those crowds. Even if everyone knows that so-and-so is an asshole you're always the bad guy to call them out on it.
> Can you load a season/discounted fare pass on a credit card?

When it comes to discounts, you can accomplish that by identifying the card as a discounted fare card. When it comes to a season pass, just identify the card then don't process a payment.

As for the feasibility of this, I don't know, but there is almost certainly a viable mechanism for each of these things.
> "What's different is that at low speed, high thrust, and high angle of attack, the elevator of the MAX does not always have enough pitch moment to reduce the angle of attack."

It's my understanding that for the 737 NG as well, there are stall scenarios at particular speeds, levels of thrust and angles of attack where trimming the stabilizer is necessary to recover. That the difference between the NG and MAX is what those particular values are, not whether or not that scenario exists ever.
Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warning
Hi everyone! I'm a news developer at the Center for Public Integrity. I worked on this project. Happy to answer any questions.

This project was basically an all-pairs text similarity problem. We were able to identify a lot of copycat legislation addressing a wide range of issues from e-cigarettes and prescription opiods to online sports betting, "religious freedom" and undocumented immigration. Some from previously known groups like ALEC and others from previously unknown interest groups.

We also have a public facing tool in the works that would allow anyone to track such measures in near real-time. We will be launching the tool and open sourcing the code in the coming weeks!

Also, do check out our launch story in this series about one such model bill that would allow car dealers to resell cars with active recalls. And keep an eye out for more stories about model legislation!

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> If you could actually predict the future you should invest in the lottery, not in software.

Hear, hear!
This is Boeing’s first volley as MCAS is now definitely and undeniably fatally flawed.

I am fairly confident that by the time we are done with this, a system called MCAS never flies again. Even if it means the entire MAX is shelved.
It's no secret that exercise helps with mental focus and mental stamina. Top chess players, who you could call the original pro gamers, maintain fairly strict exercise regimes:

https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/1-thing-the-worlds-best-ches...
This is called galloping (might have other names too). In general, freestyle has two extremes: shoulder driven and hip-driven. Shoulder driven freestyle is faster but less efficient, and hip-driven is slower but more efficient. Galloping alternates between hip- and shoulder-driven strokes, which is why it seems uneven. This also allows the swimmer to take advantage of the motion of breathing to build more momentum. I don't know if it is truly faster or not though.
Parent comment is referring to a ticket vending machine external to the coach, not an on-coach bill acceptor. It does not slow down the route.
> Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT ..

Which really under explains the situation. In reality the STAB TRIM CUTOUT must be switched to CUTOUT within 5 seconds of using the electronic stabilizer trim, or the MCAS will re-establish the forces.
Great pictures. In one picture there is some flowchart on chalkboard. I'm always curious on how did flowchart symbols came to be. For example I'm pleasantly surprised that the disk plate/drum symbol (used to signify databases) that is drawn on chalkboard, which is prevalent nowadays is also used in 60s.
> they go a ton of miles, then need a major overhaul, then go a ton more miles

Yup. Not unusual for big rigs to go a million miles between overhauls.

Even for "consumer" diesels, the engine typically outlasts the vehicle around it.

I drove a '97 Dodge which had 300k on the odo, got tired of the poor interior and upgraded to an '06 with 200k. I even threw a mercedes diesel into a 67 chevy pickup, because diesels are great :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFd1ZL2hgMY
Kim Jong-Un clearly didn't read it.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/ta0lh9phcr...
Well, then I'm irrational too, because I won't set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.

The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But Boeing has zero excuses for not immediately grounding the whole fleet after, and for putting out that useless recovery procedure which didn't work in this case. They let a deadly plane fly for 5 months after they were aware of it, and after the second crash they were phoning Trump to keep it in the air.
I generally support your first paragraph and the first sentence of your second. But your final sentence is illogical and immature. If you want @dang and mods to ban you; just erase your account.

If what you mean to say is "if what I am saying is wrong, then ban me for saying it," you should say that.

Regardless you've created a little drama for your biologically degrading snowflake, and it's unlikely they'll want to make you a martyr, but does your second sentence really add much value except to air your protestations?
That's rather the point though. The people saying "YAGNI, just use Postgres" aren't, a priori, any more correct than people saying "You definitely need Hadoop if you're gonna scale!"

You need to analyze our own use case critically, understand the tradeoffs of different tools and choose pragmatically.
"We're taking a comprehensive, disciplined approach, and taking the time, to get the software update right."

So what approach did they use the first time around?
Would love to hear more about that business — do you help people go from cloud back to on-prem?
That would be an astronomical loss, I just don't see that happening.
No, from a cursory reading of the report, it's not entirely clear that software updates are going to fix the problem.
If he says anything other than that, odds of the 737 MAX being scrapped entirely (from customer and air passenger pressure) goes up. Saving face to save the share price.