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I believe ekranoplans will come back. The biggest issue the Soviets faced with their ekranoplans should be addressable with modern technology. That issue is stability. The problem is when you have waves under the wings they create different pressures and air currents under the wings, which makes the airframe unstable and may cause it to flip to the side or dive into the water. That is why the soviet ekranoplans had enormous tails.

However, this is something that should be addressable nowadays. One should be able to design a system where a ladar scans the water surface ahead and a computer uses that information and various control surfaces on the wings to compensate for waves below the wings. It sounds very complex but it should be doable.

Of course, the ocean can produce waves that are much too big for ekranoplans regardless of what stability technology one uses. But another modern advantage is that we can now know the state of the ocean everywhere at any time, so a solution for this is that the ekranoplans simply should avoid areas with large waves.

These vehicles would be perfect for fast transport if fuel prices were lower. The problem is that with today's high fuel prices, the demand for fast but energy inefficient transport is not enough to justify researching new aircraft types.

But this also has good military potential. It is fast and yet it can carry much more weight than an airplane. It can carry enough armor to make it immune to anti-air missiles, yet it is fast enough to escape anti-ship missiles. It can carry all the active anti-missile technology of a warship, but not be a slow sitting duck like a warship. It can carry a powerful ship borne radar, yet move together with fighter formations. It can carry attack troops to beaches at high speeds and then land in the water right in front of the beach.

So .... a lot of potential.
A merciful end to Cyc funding might be better. Monies saved could be spent elsewhere and termination would free all involved without the expectation that they produce something of value. Although it might cause some grudges ("If we'd only been allowed to add the last 2000 rules, I am certain it would have achieved consciousness!") everybody needs a new start now and then.

Had Lenat published working versions or even complete explanations of his previous software (AM, EURISKO) I might be a little more sympathetic. Cyc, the project that never ends, appears to be in a state of perpetual partial implementation, it's most notable product being a constant stream of money into the project.

But look on the bright side: perhaps I'm completely wrong, Cyc has actually achieved AI, and the NSA is using it right now!
I suspect it's the reason that I'm single at the moment - lol. Seriously, I live and breathe work, and need to get the balance a bit more, err... balanced :-)
> He has basically engaged in a massive gentrification of the city.

Can you elaborate on that? Specifically in what policies Bloomberg supports that have led to gentrification.

I ask because often gentrification is an effect of making a city a nicer place to live. Better public transit, lower crime, better schools, etc. Rich people move in and outbid poor incumbent residents for their apartments. But tearing down historic houses is a signal in the other direction: the city is building new, bigger buildings to house all of those rich people moving in, thus taking price pressure off the incumbents and preventing gentrification. It's hard to simultaneously hold the ideas -- as "tons of people" apparently do -- of "I want to keep New York historic" and "I'm against gentrification" without also thinking, "I'm against making the city nicer". Unless, I guess, those are different people hating on Bloomberg from different directions? Or he's causing gentrification in some other way that I don't understand?
I'm trying to figure out where this discussion is going, haha.

Let me simplify it - NYC continues to build up, SF doesn't.
Pomodoro happened to work for me, but other tools may have been as effective. I've tried a few and, at the worst point, I couldn't focus for more than 15 minutes before becoming distracted. It may also have been due to my massive fear of starting this huge project and, finally, having a chance to prove myself... or not, as my fear said. Pomodoro may just have been the tool I was using at the point the fear finally began to lift, and my productivity took over.
The reason those languages are more friendly towards small functions has nothing to do with pure functions/programs. You can use the same concepts in C/C++ or Java/C# just as easily, I've done it, it's not hard.

What makes those languages more friendly towards smaller functions has to do with how easy it is to create a new function in those languages. Creating a function in C/C++ for instance, is a pain becouse of the boilerplate involved (header files...).

In the OP's example, he's imposing named functions on himself when he doesn't actually need to. For some reason he also declares functions within the same scope that he calls it, which just makes it cluttered in my oppinion. He would probably be alot more happy with promises.
I still remember how, when learning common lisp, I kept looking for how to enable a breakpoint in my code. I wanted a conditional breakpoint that would fire under specific conditions. I was really surprised to learn that you just modify your code and insert a (when something (break)) -- and that (break) function call lands you in a debugger.

I found the elegance and convenience very impressive.

Clojure, unfortunately, is hard to debug, no matter how many trace macros one uses. In a long-running application I would much rather land in a debugger, inspect locals, think about what to do next, walk the frames on the stack, etc.
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> We can build guard rails while the bridges are in pre-production.

This is a campaign promise. This is where the jackbooted thugs come from. We never imagine ourselves to be the ones who start the oppression; it's always such a small compromise. We ally ourselves with someone who is distasteful, but gets the job done.

And the bridges never even get a blueprint, because our only concern is the quality and placement of the guard rails. That's all we end up discussing. We talk about freedom as if we knew what it was, and our first step is to curtail it because the people we don't like have more freedoms than the people we do like. And suddenly we look like Mohamed Morsi.

> What would be your practical strategy to building bridges instead?

We do something uncanny: we think about what we're doing. We consider why we want to do what we want to do. We strengthen our own ethical framework and hold it up for others to take apart. We turn our actions into natural consequences of a tested ethical structure. We ask others to do the same. We teach them how to build one if they don't know how. We compare and contrast our results. We argue about them; we disagree about them; we compromise and find ways to build policies despite those merge conflicts. That's a bridge.

Yeah, it can be argued that that's less practical than getting all the pro-slavery people in power and then hoping they fix our surveillance issues. Or maybe they'll just surveil the brown people and the atheist commies? It's unclear. A good chunk of them are in power right now, and they didn't actually stop this from happening. What would you trade with them for due process? Should we scratch health care? Religious freedom? Infrastructure maintenance? Public education? What would you give them for their support? You should know, and you should know why: that's part of practicality.

Yeah, it will take more time, more effort, more sweat, more tears. It's a harder road, because it's less traveled. But if you're going to pursue due process, why isn't the process due here?

What is government supposed to look like? Surely not "the status quo, minus a panopticon". What does a government predicated on human rights principles that transcend nationality actually look like? Why? What are the necessary demands on a state and society that such principles require? List out the rights. Prioritize them, if you wish, and postpone some that you consider least important. What are the consequences of meeting such demands? What does the resultant society and state actually look like? Who holds what power, and how, and why?

What is the collateral damage of your actions? Justify its acceptability. And try to make it more legitimate than, "This is what I care about most, so it's the most important."

All of that. Because you're promising me to build the bridge eventually, but every time I put down a beam, someone says, "Oh, I need that for another guard rail. Sorry." And pretty soon all we have are prisons and an American dream you have to be asleep to believe in. That's "right now, today".

Show me how you're not just more of the same.
Heads up on OVH I have a support ticket open since last Sunday on a dedicated server that the os wasnt installed properly, no response and now they refuse to refund my first month or respond to any of my calls/emails. A lot of reviews said their hardware and network is very good but their support is rubbish. I know my way around a server so didn't think I'd need the support! Shame they don't.
You are right, buy/contribute.
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Thanks... I think it has also been the most important point for me: Just remembering to sit down, and start. And to repeat that whenever the fear of the amount of work becomes too much.
Service-oriented businesses tend to have positive experiences. Pretty much anything where you may have somebody sitting around 1/2 their time doing nothing, just to make sure you've got coverage during all of business hours. Any money you recoup from that 1/2 of the time is money in your pocket.

Anything with inventory costs (e.g. restaurants) have a much harder time. Food costs are a significant portion of the cost of serving a table. It wouldn't be bad to have a loss-leader for one or two meals, but grouponers don't become "the next repeat customer", so you just lose money on the meals with not much to show.
That's what I thought, but someone claimed otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6227958

Instead of investigating and finding out for sure, I communicated my incomplete knowledge without context. You're right - I should have investigated and then communicated the correct knowledge. Any LiveScript bashing was unintentional.
Great point, Jack. I suspect my current app isn't "the one", and yet I felt I had learned enough from my time building it that I wanted to share. I'm at the "what next?" stage now, whilst still having one foot in the old project, keeping it going, exploring the possibility that it might still be a good bet, etc. But getting rid of the massive expectation that this will be "the one" certainly helps.
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It also seems like more advanced fly-by-wire/computerized flight assistance technology could make them less prone to pilot error (e.g. banking too sharply, pulling back on the stick too hard and causing the ground-effect to dissipate, etc).
What OS's, &c?
You could hash the contents of all of the files each day and compare them with previous hashes, asking to confirm that any ones that were changed were files you were modifying, allowing a comparison of their content is wanted.
E.g.:

two changes:
2013-08-16 2013-08-17
1) a.txt f84hksfjdjf vg0dfnj4hnj
2) b.txt f09donf;4fd fkjdfjh3las
(c)onfirm [#][all] (v)imdiff [#] (s)hell

But I'm not a security guy, so maybe that is a silly idea.
Taxes. They might complain but they still have 10x as much money as non-workers.
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I feel bad for the Chinese. They are getting irradiated metal without knowing it. There is going to be a lot of pain sickness and suffering caused by this scavenging even thought it will probably never be traced back to Kazakhstan.
I don't know specifically what the other poster was referring to, but traditionally the Landmarks Preservation Commission hasn't given a shit about 'historic' buildings in the outer boroughs unless they can preserve an entire district. I think to get a clear answer you'd have to make sure we're all using the same definition of historic.

There are definitely buildings that have been torn down for new construction that debatably should have been preserved. A lot of the area around Astoria Park has been demolished for new highrise construction that has mostly not been completed due to market events. Not only are these a blight on the neighborhood but they tore down some absolutely fantastic sites to put them there. Specifically in Astoria Village.

The neighborhood, though mostly safe, has been in a shit state for decades due to neglect from the city and housing projects from the 60s.

[1] http://forgotten-ny.com/1999/05/astoria-village-part-1-queen...

[2] http://forgotten-ny.com/2005/06/astoria-village-part-2-queen...

[3] http://forgotten-ny.com/2007/12/astoria-village-part-3-queen...
I discovered my app involves 15,000 lines of JavaScript that I hand-wrote, and another 15,000 generated from templates. The moment I saw that, I began to realise just how much work I had done. It soon adds up. The light at the end of the tunnel is certainly there, so keep pushing, don't let the fear of how much work it seems daunt you... you'll get there :-)
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Thanks for kind comments.
The 'Arab Spring' is called a bit early in my opinion, chances are that it will be an Autumn.

Kicking the first stone of an avalanche downhill is easy but there is no way of knowing when the stones will stop rolling and if the new configuration is a favourable one and what the damage incurred along the way is.
here's the story by Russia Today: http://rt.com/news/facebook-post-exploit-hacker-zukerberg-62...
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Bloomberg has made Manhattan unfordable except for those who pay the long term capital gains rate on regular earnings and those who stole money out of the ground in their home country and are looking for a good place to stash it out of reach of local authorities.

And it's not for a lack of space because there is tons of vacant commercial real estate in the city. Any time my company does a demo at a bank, we see rows and rows of empty desks.

In short, Bloomberg has favored unneeded commercial development and high end oligarch dwellings over supply that the even the top 3% of wage earners can afford.

You can buy a $100MM Penthouse at One West 57th and pay the same taxes as a $2MM apartment due to dubiously applied 421-A tax abatements.
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Oooops, yes, a typo. I'll correct it later. :)
But that's kind of OK because if you implement something that doesn't practice all the parts of the claim ( e.g. not doing the bit wise operation as described) you are not infringing.
You can also use this command line flag:

--enable-easy-off-store-extension-install
I want both.

AI that can do things we can't easily do: that's for building Multivac.

AI that can do things we can easily do: that's for building Asimov-style robots.
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You see how the caller has to be aware of how what he's calling is a generator. You're dragging generators all the way trough the call chain as soon as anything deep down in the call chain is a generator, and you'd want to use generators to acomplish asynchronicity.

Let's say you write some code A, which uses some other code B, which uses some other code C. C is also used by various other pieces of code like X, Y, Z, D, E, F, G, H, J, K etc. Now at some point you decide, well, you don't like callbacks in C, so you'll convert it to something asynchronous. You'll now just have to refactor A, B, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, X, Y and Z to make all their calls to C a generator iteration, and you'll have to convert any code that depends on A, B, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, X, Y or Z to be aware of that, any any code which uses those, to be aware of that.
I think writing (words, code) is orthogonal to time management as a whole. It's task orientated - if you have found a flow or a solution you need to crack it there and then not stop because 25 mins are up.

I can see it working really well for the admin I completely fail to do at work - just 25 mins of focused doing little bits of crap each day would really help - so in fact I might just set aside that time - I will happily down tools halfway through bank reconciliations and it won't break my flow :-)
Bloomberg will never run for President.
He's too protective of his private life to subject himself to the circus.

Plus he's too conservative to run as a Democrat, and he's a communist compared to the current national GOP.
Exercise: list all of the implicit assumptions about how code organizing and reading tools have to work from those two sentences.
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Do you claim that 90% of proposals are not worthy of funding? Because it it was not an extremely high number, we could significantly increase spending and still only fund the best.

You stated: " It can be debated if grant reviewers are actually doing a good job (versus being a whitewashed version of cronyism)"

If they are already evaluating research and researchers the way the rest of profession does, I don't see how cutting funds would help. It would not drive better proposal writing. And if the cronies are already getting their money anyway, the added batch might have a higher percent of high quality.

I understand the desire to punish the undeserving of your profession, but when weighed against the advancement of science (even if artificially inefficient)...I don't care. And cutting funding won't make a significant dent in the problems you describe.
I don't think you guys understand. You can't publicly use the exploit and then back away and use the white hat system after the fact. It clearly shows him spamming some profile before even making the first contact.
Stability was also the limiting factor in flying wings back in the 50s and 60s, and the B2 proved that electronics can solve that problem. So stability seems like a solved problem to me.

Military use seems like the most obvious use for these vehicles to me. One of the biggest obstacles to an invasion of the United States for countries that aren't Canada or Mexico, is transporting a large enough forces across the ocean rapidly enough. Even if China (for example,) were to defeat the US fleet, They'd still have a heck of a logistical problem getting troops on the US mainland. A super fact freighter would solve that problem. and conceivably enable a flanking attack. The same would be true of any transoceanic war.
agree it needs encryption - this is more a proof of concept for how people should be sharing passwords: with an additional layer of obfuscation, so if someone gets your email password they don't have every account. Also, if you use it right, sharing the password separately from the username and website, then the 3rd party aspect doesn't matter; it's just like if a stranger found my lost keys on the street - what are they gonna do with that?
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I'm surprised at how many people just assume the FB sec team doesn't want to pay and therefore tries to not pay if they can get away with it. Their history of paying out is completely the opposite. I've reported several bugs and they're always extremely helpful. They're not an insurance company that wants to reduce cost by screwing over users and there is no historical evidence of that. They want to pay for bugs and get as many of them as possible. What they don't want is for researchers to mess with other users' data. The guy could have just used two accounts to demo (he managed to create a new account after his own account was blocked). Using Zucks account doesn't make it more convincing from a tech perspective. It only makes the guy taken less serious as most researchers care more about how it works than messing with accounts of famous people. Not the smartest move. I understand the sec team draws a line and doesn't pay researchers that mess with other people's data. That's not sleazy, that's sane otherwise it gets exponentially worse as people try to outdo each other in terms of impact instead of focusing on explaining the technique behind a hack.
This used to be part of a user's profile URL but Facebook allowed people to choose a "vanity URL" quite a while ago, so they're no longer as visible.

They're still visible in photo albums and the like. Far from hidden.
This is old cold-war spin, and it has been refuted so many times, yet it still surfaces.

Read "The curve of binding energy", and you will learn from Ted Taylor, one of the worlds best nuclear warhead designers, that you can make the simplest atomic bomb by dropping one piece of fissile material on another, provided they are big enough to become a critical mass.

It won't be tens of megatons, but it will be a perfect terror weapon, spreading panic, making a large-ish area uninhabitable and costing a fortune and many years to clean up.

If the terrorists are smart enough bring a couple of sacks of salt, it makes the mess much worse.

There are damn good reasons to go out of the way to prevent access to the funny end of the periodic table.
I'm afraid I'm having a hard time understanding how calling 20% time dead vs insisting that it became 120% time are two different things.

I feel that the reason 20% time captured the attention of those wishing to become future Google employees is because it implies that you are literally granted the ability to take 20% of your work schedule and spend it on side-projects. Put another way, Google is granting you permission to pursue what interests you on their time.

What I appear to be hearing is that work obligations require 100% of one's work schedule as opposed to 80%, and that a 20% project is typically pursued with time that would otherwise be considered personal time.

If one were to use 20% of their work schedule to build something, and then invest some of their personal time into it, then I would say that 20% time is alive and well. If Google merely grants you access to resources, not time, then I would argue that 20% time is dead. It would be more appropriate to rename the perk.

Sorry if I'm coming off as confrontational, I'm genuinely interested in getting a clearer view of the situation.
They didn't pay because he messed with other peoples' data. That's a clear no-go.
A personalized response, at least. I would've expected an automated response resetting his credentials for him.
What he said is correct.
"Stuff" really is the worst. I'm only 27 and I'm already feeling the pain.

All I can say is that I'm very happy that media no longer takes space to store. My father has acres of shelf space dedicated to books, CDs, records and even cassette tapes.

I will never buy a physical book again, and I really need to get around to giving away all the books I have now. I've never owned a physical CD or a DVD. I wont be plagued by photo albums.

And then there is paper. If I never receive another letter in my life it will be too soon.
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If you like this kind of thing and you haven't run across the Equation of Time cam from the clock of the long now, take a moment and check it out:

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000718-7.html
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I'm tired of Noam Chomsky being right about everything.
I see lots of good advice in this article. Rich. Thanks OP!