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Adrian Newey (most successful F1 designer in the history of the sport) designed the Red Bull X2010 for the game Gran Turismo based on the concept of building the fastest car possible in an 'anything goes' scenario:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_X2010

The limit becomes G-forces that a driver can bear, especially over a race distance. They limited it to 6G. For an engine they interestingly picked a 3L V6, where the new F1 formula is a 1.6L V6.
I was just thinking I could go for another viewing of The Seventh Seal.
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Oh I see. You mean that without the capital gains there's no reasons for VCs to invest in the first place, since listing on the stock market is VCs and founders selling their equity. I agree on that point - but then VCs and founders aren't non-productive; they built a company.

You still don't need an entire massive industry for "secondary equity sales" in order to float...maybe. I'm less convinced of my own point now, well done. If I had time to build an economic model to study it, I would.
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The people in #python on the freenode IRC network are usually quite helpful. Try http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23python&uio=OT10cnVl... if you don't have a real IRC client.
Is it just me, or does the fact that every other language is getting translated to Javascript suggest a lot of problems with the language that so many people are willing to write translators?

(I am not a big fan of JS myself, but I also don't feel I have used the language enough to be competent with it).
That's an interesting point. If piece of information X is easy to verify, then so is piece of information Y where Y is some blackmail material on an individual who knows X. That does make sense.
Agreed - worst thing you can do on a long scrolling page is hijack the ability to scroll like that!
How do they handle network latency back to simulation / data processing environments when travelling?
Counter espionage, SIGINT and secret weapons were all discussed in the article.
British bookstore announces response to Amazon drones
In race refueling has been banned since 2010. Their concern was with the increasing number of fuel related pit row accidents. But on the flip side, many argue that operating with the increased fuel loads is even more dangerous.
Sorry, to say that ,but if a journalist is able to destroy your friends business, maybe the business wasn't that valid to begin with? Why did nobody trust it that much, that a simple press release on the start-ups page would counter the journalist's arguments?

Your polemic rant does nothing to explain, helps nobody - not even your friend. Not one fact in this piece only name-calling.

You could have taken the stand, talking about what said journalist wrote - and why it is wrong. Could have explained the facts. You could even have given your friend the opportunity, to counter what said journalist wrote and tell the facts, as they are from his point of view.

But you just took the easy way. Ranting, name-calling, denouncing a journalist (who may have done everything wrong, but I can't know this), without showing prove that anything you say is true.
> But do they have to limit fuel. Does the advantage of the turbo outweigh more pitstops?

Refueling is not allowed in Formula 1, it has only been allowed during two brief stints in the early 1980s and late 1990s. It was/is silly dangerous and there were a few quite nasty pitstop fire incidents.

One goal of the new regulations with the turbo, the regenerative braking and the fuel limit is to put emphasis on the efficiency of the engines. The engine manufacturer with the best efficiency is at an advantage.

There's a risk that this will introduce boring fuel saving periods to races. But on the other hand the fuel limit is the same for everyone. If you look at this from a different perspective, there will periods where you can crank up the boost and mixture to allow for more power at the cost of more than average fuel consumption.
If you had lube.io i saw a business opportunity :P
Too bad. But just try to sell your domain for cash.

Or set up a wordpress blog for relevant content.
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Some people are working on it, but startups are DOA for government work because they can't survive the absolutely grueling proposal process.

It isn't about the tech at all, it is about getting the contracts. To pick those 15 companies, you would still need a proposal system, a validation system, an auditing system. Because the scope would be small and doable, and 15 independent contracts going out -- tens of thousands would flood in with proposals. Now you created a brand new problem, now you can't even START the contract, because picking winners has become to onerous.

The reason government gets so bogged down is an attempt at fairness and legal constraints in how they work -- the problems are actually really complex, even for stuff that seems simple on the surface.
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I don't use LISP languages, I haven't tried them mostly because I really don't like "()", but I do know they are loved by those who use them. They must be good. People say that you get used to it in a while.

Now what I won't do is try to apply all the patterns I have learned over the time and try to force it on a LISP language and then say that it is shitty because x. I would rather take some time to learn the LISP way of doing things and be more enlightened for having done so.

Of course Scala is heavy on types. It is advertised as a feature! why the surprise? Why won't you come along with us and try to do things our way once and see if you like it?
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I have tried chmod to all the folders, and files, it still doesn't work :(
There was a story on Ars[potato] about a small team a couple of weeks ago, they bring their servers with them (for this team only a couple in a half size rack) So I'm guessing they're doing the calculations they need during the race locally...

[potato] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/galler...
> You cannot refuel (I think for safety reasons, but not sure)

Definitely not safety reasons. Refueling on pit stops was allowed from 1994 to 2009 (inclusive). The official reason for refueling ban was lowering team expenses: refueling stops required significant machinery, equipment and crew (much more so than calibration and tyres changes), which had to be carried around the world.
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"Most" is not enough. If you have a single not-FRAND patent for Samsung, one for Apple and one for Nokia that you are allegedly violating (even if you're not), then consider your product dead before arrival.
> Refueling is not allowed in Formula 1, it has only been allowed during two brief stints in the early 1980s and late 1990s.

Brief? It was allowed from 1994 to 2009, and the official reason for removing it in 2010 was team expenses (they had to move expensive speed-refueling machinery around the world, and highly trained pit staff to match)
It would be interesting to do a "chineese whispers" type experiment on these and see what comes out at the end of translating code through multiple languages.
It looks like RJ47 is an analogue connection using an RJ45 connector. Not much info on it out there, but I expect this describes its wiring: http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/ipb/index.php/topic/102601-rj47-w...
Not much. The top speed for controllable driving in a wheeled vehicle is in the 300mph range. The power and aerodynamics requirements to step up to 400mph are severe. Specifically, the wheel-driven land-speed record is a bit over 400mph (although just last year it climbed up to 440mph) and the vehicles capable of going that fast are nearly incapable of taking turns of any significance at those speeds.

Jet powered vehicles are capable of going faster, even mach 1, but they have the same controllability problems.

If we were to hypothesize a future extreme sport of ultra fast racing in the 300mph or 400mph speed range then a few problems become immediately apparent. First, you'd need a specially designed course with very gradual turns. Also the roadway would have to be kept immaculately clean of debris. Second, the races would not last very long due to high rates of fuel consumption. For example, the Bluebird CN7 consumes fuel at top speed at about 260 gallons per hour (and has a 25 gallon tank), while the ThrustSSC consumes fuel at a rate of 24 gallons/mile. Third, passing would be extremely dangerous because even disrupting another vehicle's aerodynamics in any way, let alone physical contact, could cause it to become uncontrollable resulting in a very damaging and life threatening crash.
Would it get any faster if they didn't need a driver?
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Let's just have robots drive them, then.
One thing I noticed about Odersky is that he is very protective of his creation (which is understandable, to some degree). He defends Scala against any and all criticism with a fervor, and this puts him in sharp contrast with most of other language creators who seem to be able to accept critique (or even plain old language bashing) much more calmly. So some guy wrote a blog post about how he doesn't like Scala, so what? People complain about Java all the time, imagine if every time that happened, James Gosling wrote a blog post bitching and moaning about it.
We have a VM in browser distributions, it's called JavaScript.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an VPS account, syncing the files using dropbox-cli, and then using nginx on the synced folder.

(inb4 downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)
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U should check your server rights were you are writing image. Is there write permission (-rw-rw-r--). Check it like command ls -l your/directory. If not add chmod a+r your/directory
What would you say does "I want to be a woman" mean? I doubt it is as simply as "I want to play with dolls and use lipstick".

Through this discussion I wonder if it is more about how you are being valued in society. For example nail polish and lipstick are used to enhance sexual attraction. So maybe it is a desire to be valued for sexual attractivity, rather than actions, power or wealth (or whatever, men are valued for different things in different environments, I suppose).
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I am more interested in the architecture. Look, we have a big problem. So many technology glued together. I wish I could get simpler setup. This is the problem.
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Not to mention UFOs. And as someone said, the drones would make archery a very popular sport again. ;)
Prediction: massive virtual layoff of The Guardian journalists by Joyent.
You assume that being brought up like a boy/girl (that is, boys toys/games vs girl's toys/games) would be the mechanism that determines our gender. Why should that be the case? The mechanism could be something different entirely (As with the ducklings who accept the first thing they see as their mother).

Without that assumption, there is no contradiction in the "theory". Although it is also not a theory that can explain how people are made to feel like girls or boys. I don't think such a theory exists yet, or if it does, it has been silenced by political correctness.
Sure, but don't ever say that in a job interview or when you're dealing with HR, college administrators, politicians, or any other profession that requires a large dose of avoiding reality. ;)
Yes, there are hundred of thousands of FRAND patents that will cost "only" a small percentage (1%-5%) of the product's selling price to license each.

Anyway, no, the patents don't stop you from making a phone for yourself. Nobody will sue you if you do that.
I'm more inclined to believed that people want to run their programs in a browser, and js is a requirement in that runtime environment.

Most devs are sadly quite reluctant to trying out new languages, and would rather recompile.
While on topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WuIUWlNvg
What if an Amazon delivery drone crashes into me?
The title is somewhat unclear, but the issue TBL has is not the cracking itself — as he notes this is a risk and race the internet normally faces — but the deliberate weakening and introduction of flaws into cryptosystems for the purpose of later snooping:

> it's naive to imagine that if you introduce a weakness into a system, you will be the only one to use it. A lot of the IT industry feels that's a betrayal. [...] The two governments have elevated the fight against organised hacker gangs and militarised cyber-attacks from states such as China to the rank of a top national security priority. Yet at the same time their spying branches have actively aided cybercriminals by weakening encryption.

and the effect this has on users through lowered confidence in the privacy of exchanged information.
I would argue the exact opposite. Odersky has gone to great lengths to discourage overly defensive commentary and bashing of other languages:

http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/12498

I don't think it's unreasonable to respond to a very poor quality blog post bashing Scala since it received very widespread publicity. The interesting story behind the story is the extreme enthusiasm with which Scala bashing posts are upvoted on various forums. It's highly unlikely that the majority of those voting have actually used Scala.
Original discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824685

and here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825924
Not another one of these posts..
"simple systems are really better than complex systems when something bad happens"

isn't that super ironic? that by configuring something in a stupidly elaborate way you had a problem...

redis may be super stable but cosmic ray neutrons are a thing and they will screw you one day eventually. :)

surely the real saviour here is the internet and its ability to keep crusty old data alive for you through caching and such...
But how does one get in? O.o
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We use ServiceStack with .NET and love it.

ServiceStack uses a HTTP cookie and supports a variety of authentication options out of the box, including basic auth.

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Authentica...

We also use the easy hooks that ServiceStack offers to validate API developer / app tokens as well.

Social Bootstrap API is a backbone example:

https://github.com/ServiceStack/SocialBootstrapApi

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Examples

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15862634/in-what-order-ar...

It also has various other goodies, such as:

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Metadata-p...

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/The-IoC-co...

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Plugins

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Clients-ov...

It also doesn't require ASP.NET and can run on Unix under Mono.

Try it, you won't go back to WebAPI is guarantee it!
Thanks for the response, I think we'll continue to disagree, however perhaps we just have a different evaluation of the efficiency of markets - this is probably a difference of degree, as I doubt you subscribe to the market always being 100% efficient? Specific examples about stock market crashes or extreme movements modelled by EMH would be more persuasive than discussion of Bitcoin, I've attempted to give one below.

Sumner showed the EMH predicts exactly this, for a certain distribution of information and returns.

Assuming you are only talking about the blog post you linked, I can't see any sort of proof there, there are some hypothetical numbers about Bitcoin plucked out of the air, and he then goes on to assert that EMH is true whatever happens. If a theory is true whatever happens, it is not a useful model for thinking about the world.

If you take the EMH to mean that prices perfectly (or near perfectly) reflect information (public and private) about an asset, I'd say that mortgage CDOs (to pick a historical example) provide a perfect example of prices NOT reflecting all information - Goldman Sachs insured them with AIG knowing that the prices were incorrect days before the bust, but the price didn't reflect this. Given the incredibly broad claims made by EMH (market prices efficiently reflect all information), one counter-example of corruption, euphoria etc etc driving prices rather than underlying value is enough to disprove it, if it is a meaningful model of markets which can make useful predictions. That is why people cite booms and busts as evidence against EMH, because sudden changes in value are often completely unrelated to the consensus price as measured several days later or before, they are caused by panic, irrational behaviour (in aggregate, not just individually), or insider knowledge; information is so unevenly spread in markets, and manipulation pays so well (e.g. LIBOR), that they are nowhere near efficient.
> There are so many rules dictating the design of an F1 chassis/engine that I wonder how much faster a "anything goes" car would go.

The cars could be made so fast that humans could not drive the cars any more. In addition, safety of the audience would be compromised and the costs would be prohibitively expensive to maintain competition.

While there has been a set of rules and regulations always in Formula 1 (that's what the name "formula" refers to), there have been periods when the cars have been ridiculously quick, despite all the limiting regulations.

In the late 1970's ground effect cars were able to produce a huge amount of downforce with very little drag, and the cars would corner at high speeds and had a rock hard suspension, the drivers hated the cars because of the rough ride.

In the 1980's, there were turbo engines that developed more than 1300 horsepower in qualifying trim. They could spin the wheels on top gear when the boost kicks in. This was expensive, stupid and dangerous but the audience loved it.

In the early 2000's, aerodynamic advances and improvements in computational fluid dynamics made it possible to get immense amounts of downforce. Cars regularly reached top speeds of 340-360 km/h, and ran at more than 400km/h outside of regular racing/testing in special top speed configuration. The costs were ridiculous and only a few top teams were competitive. The teams used up to 8 engines per weekend (that's roughly as much as they use in the whole season).

"Anything goes" is just not a good idea when it comes to motorsport. There are things that have been banned in the past that could be incorporated in a fast and safe racing formula, though.
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I knew what you were talking about (although, to be fair, the poster you linked is a friend of mine)

Their response: http://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qjg3s/we_make_the_game...
One search youtube for 'f1 fuel fire' for some examples of how it can be dangerous but this is a good example of what you're talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdyuN_cUqjA

I don't think F1 had this problem but with some races the fuel is made with methanol and the flames can be impossible to see:

http://boingboing.net/2010/11/03/its-hard-to-fight-a.html
Of course there will always be entities who try to break the system - either through technical, political, or social means. Fortunately the existing agencies who had enough power to do this have lost their credibility, so I doubt they will be steering people back anytime soon.

I am not sure if what I said above is even possible, but I hope it is. Trying to remove the side effects of humanity from something created by humans is not an easy task.
have you been to critiquecirle.com?? amazing place with amazing people. They REALLY helped me improve my writing (and critiquing).
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I myself believe in market dynamics. If girls were interested in what boys had they'd pursue it. If girls hated barbies they would nag parents about getting a train or a car and market demand for barbies would dry up. The fact that toy dolls are a billion dollar industry should make one sceptical about the supposed 'girliness that society instills in girls'. I find that premise as silly as thinking boys were somehow 'indoctrinated' into liking computers.
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I like the article. I think it's well written, an important subject, and the world would be better if more people read it and digested its message.

I still wish it didn't repeat the myth that Coca-Cola invented the modern image of Santa Clause, though.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp
> the dream of formalizing all reasoning has turned out to be a pipe-dream, as evidenced for example by the failure of the Hilbert program, and people everywhere proceed about their business as usual.

Ugh, that is unbelievably smug and disconnected from reality.

I could post tomes on why you are wrong. I will be kind and request you to respond to just this. :)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/1210math.html

Automated reasoners have been quite useful. You just have to stop being so smug and start looking.

Your complaining is like the physicists ("natural philosophers"?) at Newton's time complaining that natural philosophy (physics) does not need all that weird math and normal language is enough for physics.
I think it's a learned /expression/ of reproductive signalling.

I think of lipstick as just a human equivalent of a monkey with a big red butt (which is natural, but doesn't serve any purpose other than to let other monkeys know they're in heat).

They're human ways of drawing attention to sexuality. In our society we can't paint our genitals, so we paint another set of lips. Or our fingernails, etc.

When a child picks lipstick, however, they're not being sexual, just emulating adults. They same way they copy adults tone (ever heard a kid 'scold' another kid, the same way their parents would?) Most infant animals do that too.
Here's what I would love to see some day and am quite sure I don't (yet) have the clout to pull off myself:

A recommendation engine which points me to articles espousing opposite views to my own but which are rated highly in terms of being understandable & logical by other opponents of the view in the article.

For example, as a Christian, I would love to find articles or books which are, say, pro-atheism which are rated by non-atheists as being well-argued and worth-while.