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Although your description of human imperfection is picturesque and I tend to agree, I don't doubt that we can automate imperfection. I've given the subject some thought recently since I just spent all of yesterday manually tweaking note start and end times in a sequenced piano composition of mine to make it sound more natural.
I'll be at 30 ;)
Random trivial apropos killall: The killall utility in FreeBSD had one of my all-time "favourite" bugs, prompting me to write this commit message in 2004:

Serial murderers shouldn't commit suicide. (killall should
avoid killing itself.)
The key aspect is longevity.

While engines on road going cars have to handle hundreds of thousands of Km, F1 engines only need to last a few thousands.

Based on that fact and lower tolerances they can push several metrics that are key to the power output of the engine such as RPM a lot further than the automotive industry.
"Philosophers" haven't had "serious philosophical issues" with this topic since Spinoza. Heck, even the Stoics. It's theology that has a problem, not philosophy, where theology crafts its ideas, very often, from the architectures of philosophical thought. Outside of a theological context, there isn't much of a debate anyway. Again: the Stoics.

We do ask philosophers about "right to die" and "permissibility of stem cell research from humans". Philosophers outline the conditions under which we rationally approach these things — they obviously do not license or themselves permit such behavior. No one asks a philosopher if that philosopher personally thinks some act is okay or not okay... I'm just not sure what to say here. That's not what philosophy is about, but I have a strange feeling that "it's all personal opinion anyway" really motivates this idea that philosophers do not contribute meaningfully to law and morality.

They inform ultimately what becomes legislation. Bertrand Russell was all over popular science in the 20th century. So was Bernard Williams. Dworkin. HLA Hart. The countless articles on ethics on JSTOR. All the philosophical journals. Stacks and stacks on anthologies collecting debates on abortion. ExPhi puts current opinion in the context of great thinkers of the history of philosophy, and helps us understand why we have the opinions we do have.

We don't ask them to describe the scientific innerworkings of these techniques. We do ask them to explain these things in broader cultural terms, and in that case the Scientist often times plays Philosopher, where that person so too must pick up a great work of Philosophy.

Ethics Committees are real things. I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it's radically in error and shockingly misleading...
how does this story pertain to hacker news....come again!?
Can your engine run at 15,000 rpm?

Also your engine has to last the lifetime of the car. F1 drivers are allowed 8 engines a season.

Obviously totally different design goals.
Also, the F1 engine doesn't have to last more than a few hours. This means you can put a lot more stress on the parts.
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A few days ago I wrote about how evil Google secretly installed software update on my computer. Well, even worse than that...
ltrace never seems to get as much attention as strace:

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

> ltrace is a debugging utility in Linux, used to display the calls a userland application makes to shared libraries.

This is useful because strace can completely ignore the information you really want. OTOH, ltrace doesn't provide information that's as pretty as what strace shows, because ltrace doesn't know as much about the functions it's showing you. This means arguments passed as pointers will be shown as pointer values, functions will occasionally be shown as taking the wrong number of arguments, and enum values will be shown as ints.

ltrace also can't show function calls to functions in statically-linked libraries, because it hooks into the dynamic loading mechanism.
Ask HN: Anyone in NYC interested in big data?
I’m looking for some people who are interested in big data, analytics, internet of things, retail technology, etc.

I have a few questions regarding a startup I’m working with and wanted to get some input.

Comment below or drop me an email at bpindulic@gmail.com
Yeah, you aren't the only one.
Why would they? Most of the damage (time wasted by their customers dealing with the fallout) is an externality.
Yes, lets. In the meantime, if your data is not in at least two places, it doesn't exist. I'm a fan of three.
I'm not surprised. As a coffee-drinking Italian, I personally think Nespresso is really good at what it does: it delivers, time after time, a great coffee with no effort whatsoever. You'll have to find a really good barista using really good equipment and really good coffee to beat it. It's the pinnacle of decades of evolutionary experiments from one of the richest companies on Earth, fine-tuning what is, like the article says, a relatively simple process; when you look at it that way, it's not surprising that it works so well.

This said, their business model is very much anti-consumer: they're doing with coffee what HP and Epson did with ink. For this reason alone, I never bought a Nespresso and I'll stick to brewing my own coffee. As the article says, it's not just about measuring, not even measuring quality: it's about the kind of world we want to build.
Yes, because of course the current regulations are doing SO well at keeping the cost of F1 down.

I should point out that there was a time (not, coincidentally, imo, arguable the greatest period in F1 history) when the constructors were given substantially more leeway - look at the golden age when some builds came out with mid-engined vehicles for instance, real innovation at the time, or other innovative layouts like the Tyrell P34 6-wheeler, or the fan cars, or the turbine cars that ran at Indianapolis (not F1, but close, and many F1 cars were entered at Indy in those days).
I'm waiting for FORTRAN on Steam Engine.
You could easily keep costs under control by adding a claiming rule - e.g. allow the team that comes last to buy the winner's car for some fixed price, $500k, say.
I don't think it explains everything, but population density tends to drive land prices up and government regulation tends to hold rent down.

There's also a lot more of what you might call undeveloped land in the U.S., where large pieces of land are privately owned and carry little in the way of building restrictions (and maybe in addition the land is not very productive for forestry or agriculture).
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Speaking as a parent, I think the OP has three startups already.
If I wanted to learn the parts of philosophy that apply to machine learning, and how they apply, where should I look?
I'm not sure if your response is serious or sarcasm. Your points 1 & 3 encapsulate everything wrong with present day Formula 1.
Overwhelmingly agree. This is exactly my experience. I know the Board of Realtors has been a huge problem, but (as you've touched on) the talent pool of people within who could change things is nonexistent.
The high RPM and turbocharging are the main reasons. For the same displacement, an engine running twice as fast can theoretically generate twice as much horsepower. Likewise, an engine pressurized at 3 bar can produce three times more power. In reality, there are losses due to greater friction at higher RPM. Also, compressing air heats it up. If the air is too hot, it can cause the fuel to detonate prematurely. Still, the gains are impressive.

The root reason for the massive difference in performance is that F1 engines have a very different set of constraints. Performance is favored over almost everything else. The budget is astronomical. The engines don't have to be optimized for mass production. They only have to run on a very specific blend of fuel. They don't have to pass emissions tests. They only have to last a few thousand miles, and it's fine if they require crazy amounts of monitoring and maintenance. A narrow power band is acceptable. And of course, they can fail in dangerous ways.

A side note: production engines can still generate ridiculous power in small displacement, but manufacturers usually don't have a reason to optimize for that. In the late 80s, Japan passed a law restricting beginner motorcycle riders to 250cc bikes. Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, and Yamaha all built the most ridiculous 250cc sportbikes they could engineer. Some revved up to 19,000 RPM and produced over 50 horsepower[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CBR250
>They are not "buying back" anything. The cards can be resold at will

I see you have never carded. The banks are searching by BiN to find their own cards, and according to Krebs, buying them back. They said they did this to avoid having to reissue cards during Giftmas which is their biggest shopping holiday thus saving money.
And therein may be a solution. "Programming" is huge, because code is in everything. Since you don't seem likely to start a business today, get into programming in some industry that's wildly different from what you've done. Embedded. Astronomy. Medical. Telecomm. Hell, even CRUD for a bank if you've never done that. You might even find something interesting enough to start a business on.
yep formula e may with some luck become a great tech challenge.
I think you need to open yourself to exploring the option of starting your own company. Start by looking for a good co-founder on the side: once you find the right person to work with, the idea will be secondary, and this is something you can do job or no job. It'll let you start cracking at what I think is one of the hardest, if not hardest tasks in a startup setting: deciding whether to go it alone, or deciding what team one wants to work with.
When the brain tries to draw associations with one point in time to previous events, something happens where the memory of making those associations appears to have occurred before the original point in time.
Never say sorry.
Well, I recall an interview with a Williams engineer saying that (in the mid 2000's, I think) the state of Formula-1 technology was so advanced and geared to its own brand of racing that, by the time it would eventually get to road vehicles, it would be too late, there would be other stuff outside of F-1 developed already.
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Ask HN: Anyone deployed NodeJS web site for 10+Million users?
We are building a NodeJS based website with estimated 10M unique users daily. A user is defined as someone who has account on the site.

We want the backend architecture to be cheap (requires fewer servers), best performance, fault tolerant, and scalable. I would like to find out if someone has experience in deploying such a solution and may be wants to share their strategy + architecture?

Here are some further details, which I've come up with so far:

system will be deployed on CentOS on Amazon EC2
run multiple versions of NodeJS separate from one another
use NginX as load balancer between multiple NodeJS instances (also does gzip compression)
MongoDB for storing account information
mongoose or NginX for serving static files
coffee always pertains to Hacker News...it's Hacker fuel!
Product or project management. Microsoft's "program manager" position might appeal to you -- it overlaps these more than other places.
Automation vs "handmade" is a very important topic for our geek world, and very broad. This article signals that, even in something as human as making coffee, automation is clearly winning. And yet the author refuses to concede the point (I'd do the same, although for different reasons).

It's important for anyone involved in creative industries to understand, in their specific field, what can be automated today, what has already been automated, and what should not be automated. These are huge factors that will affect your training, your output, your pricing, your marketing and your future strategy, regardless of which field of endeavour you're in.
One of the Therac-25 victims died 3 months later from cancer. Presumably the same cancer they were trying to treat, and thus avoided needing a hip replacement for the radiation damage. If your life is in such extreme danger from the disease itself, it can be worth taking risks with novel treatments. I'm sure some very old people with nothing to lose will be willing to try anti-aging, no matter how risky.
Thanks. With that being the case I'd feel like the sales estimations would all be rather low.
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> electric only?

Boring.

There's something viscerally exciting about a reciprocating engine - the sound, the smell, the vibration, the brutishness of it.

I once got a ride in a P-51. There's just something indescribable about that V12 Merlin catching, and then digging in when the throttle is opened wide.

There's a reason for the title of this book: "Sigh for a Merlin".
CPAN, Unicode, testing, and long term maintainability of the code (Seriously; I can tell the difference between good Perl and bad Perl at a skim. Good Python and bad Python tend to look the same. Truly awful Python is immediately obvious, but that's not an interesting case to consider.)
Start learning something new but without loosing touch of programming...so here are your options(without knowing what you already do):

1.) Data science : Learn about data mining, machine learning,computer visions,natural language processing etc etc.

2.) If not above then start diving into computer security. Learn about penetration testing,cryptography,forensic etc.

3.) Become a designer learn: UX,CSS,graphic designing etc.

You can keep your current job going fine and get the daily dose of excitement from any of the above item! This is what I have been doing.
> This isn't the Vietnam Era. The military is an all-volunteer force, and unless the draft comes back, it can't afford to not care about its members. In an organization of many millions of people who constantly deal with difficult, dangerous things like this, incidents will occasionally occur, but they are the exception, rather than the rule.

I'm curious, is it your view that the Army dealt well with the people who had Gulf War syndrome? (or whatever we're calling it)

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

I had a cousin go to war very healthy and come back sick and his experience getting treatment wasn't exactly great. It's nice to think that we're not living in the Agent Orange days anymore but I wonder if the government is really any less inclined to stonewall sick vets whose problems go against the official narrative than they used to be.

edit: you're right that it's important for retention to have good PR and make it look like there aren't serious problems. Damaging the credibility of sick people seeking help is one way the DoD does that.
As far as I know, Aubrey has not claimed to have invented any working anti-aging treatments so far, so I don't see that his personal appearance is relevant. He's promoting scientific research, not marketing a cream.
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> I just saw...about two years ago.

Well, that is not just seeing, and it probably was not bricked in the traditional sense. It may have been a pain to try to recover, but it was probably possible.
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Programming doesn't have to be your passion. gasp

Transition to a less demanding role, if needed, and look for other areas where you can contribute the result of your experience.

For example, if you have passion for *BSD, some linux distribution, or some other community software project you could contribute. You could start by fixing bugs and submitting patches.

OR, skip out on software development completely. Find a way to get more free time and then study a foreign language or learn how to play a musical instrument. Maybe the issue isn't what you are doing but what you aren't?
So, according to this, User-Centred Design (UCD) is going to decrease the status of software engineers and make their working conditions closer to that of blue-collar workers by completely separating conception from execution.

I guess designers will be able to do user research and rapid prototyping with tools that are provided to them and then once they have a good product it will be passed to an implementation team to get implemented? Obviously once that's done it's released to the customer and there will be no need to ever change the design because by this point it is infallible.

One of the issues I can see here is that the design prototype will need to be kept in sync with the implementation, and designers will have to rely on prototypes being an accurate prediction of user's behaviour.

I do think the "interesting/creative work" baseline will probably get worse for many software engineers but I hope this takes 50+ years. I guess creativity and innovation is a scary thing for people and it's probably only a matter of time before the bean counters try to optimise/regulate and ultimately squash it. (And I believe they will for the non-creative have very little clue on where ideas come from and will squeeze until the golden goose stops producing eggs.)

When/if this happens I don't plan to be working. It would be unbearable to do non-creative work. I'd exit somewhere that I could keep my dignity and write poetry or programming for people that I met without the meddling of inward-facing fools.
change to gene programmer ? :]
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Open up one of those coding bootcamps like codefellows.org or some hacker school for younger students. A lot of good money in it but you'll also be helping tons of people.
Perhaps it would make sense to automatically hellban possibly problematic posters and then hand review those hellbans later. Worst case scenario is a good posters posts aren't seen for a short period of time.
I do not think it is about being green. If anything, it is about keeping some kind of connection between the tech used in F1 and what eventually ends up in production cars. For example, Honda will be returning to F1 in 2015 to make engines for McLaren. Producing a few V10s for a constructor has no real tie to their core business, but a turbo V6 is very much in line with what their consumers are interested in.
This is a bit ridiculous. Nespresso is best described as not bad and not good - it's drinkable in the same way as Starbucks. The technology is pretty rudimentary and the machines don't have sufficient boilers to get a consistent water temperature going through the coffee (tightly controlled water temperature and freshness of the coffee are the two main variables for flavour). The espresso they made in the test must have been pretty mediocre not to trounce Nespresso. (The author's coffee was never going to win any prizes - wrong beans, wrong grind, and 4 days old - a decent brew needs beans ground within minutes at worst).
What's wrong with "ls -l (which cmd)"?
Actually, normal production hybrid vehicles have innovations that are banned in F1. Specifically, continuously variable transmissions. F1 rules that specify 8 forward gears and 1 reverse gear are written to make sure that CVTs can't be used.
I really hope this opens up the competition. The last couple of years have been a little one-sided given Red Bull's dominance and while this has not been strictly due to engines (Red Bull uses the same Renault engines as many of the other F1 teams) it would be nice to make them work just a little harder to win the title.
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Your edit is correct, thanks for the correction!
This article is all over the place...

They cite the transition to a service-based economy a good match for Agile (Which is a problem in itself). Unfortunately we don't live in that utopian vision. For example, it would be quite unreasonable for a contractor to change the design of a home in iterative cycles.

Agile is not a union. It just optimizes management in a specific direction at the expense of others.
TaiG is a pirated app distribution platform...
Personally, I found that I get bored/frustrated with work when the job is not aligned with my long-term ambitions. Might be similar for you if you are working for other people, which does not bring you closer to your vision of running your own shop. So might be good to think about where you see yourself in 3, 5, and 10 years (both professionally and with your family) and see if your current direction aligns with that.
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I wonder why the study has nothing to say about the longevity of the treated mice compared to controls. Maybe it costs too much for experimenting with extended effects and maybe they want something for their next paper.

The biggest problem of course is sociological with only the top tiny% able to afford it. The psychological divide between have and have not will grow in ways completely unacceptable to the (100-tiny)% and could stimulate revolutionary tendencies among the masses to even things out. The top tiny% really should be considering pouring lots of their money into making the treatment cheap enough to not create a divide so intolerable that it will perish under its own weight.
That's not quite true. Most beans should be given at least 24 hours rest after roast. Many African varietals need 48. That's the time it takes for CO2 in the beans to degas.
I hope this is true, and not merely plausible deniability, because I was saddened by the initial reports.

The first bullet starts out very strong. In fact it has the feel of taking NSA by the neck and helping them along to the underside of the bus (and bravo for that): "At that time, the NSA had a trusted role in the community-wide effort to strengthen, not weaken, encryption."

At that time. Had a trusted role.

The second bullet ("one of many choices ...") was ... eh.

The third and fourth bullet were basically RSA explaining that their actions are determined by others. First they relied upon NIST to stay with it, then at the last minute they followed NIST's belated lead and recommended against it. I would have thought they had enough smart and responsible people within RSA to determine whether Dual EC DRBG was safe and effective or not.

Still, loud applause for turning the NSA's head toward the underside of the bus.
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I think you are both a bit of in nitpicking mode, right?

I think the easy and normal and common path is to have canonical uri for ressources, and to serve agregated content for convenience or speed on other entry points, while adding to agregated content pointers to canonical uris.

No?