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I know you're probably joking, but you're wrong about that. The Mayor's office of New Urban Mechanics (the most startup-like government office I've ever talked to), under the previous mayor, developed an app called Citizens' Connect, which allows citizens to quickly report and get the city to fix urban problems. In the case of potholes, it doesn't even necessarily require direct reporting, as at least one version of the pothole reporting app can use your phone's accelerometer to automatically report potholes as you drive.

Reference: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-23/potholes-the...
This particular standard feature has been a huge selling point for Cirrus, makers of a very nice, very expensive, high performance aircraft that has been heavily marketed toward wealthy, low time pilots that in many instances have no business being at the controls of such a challenging airplane. There is an argument to be made that this feature has created overconfident pilots that use the chute as an excuse for making otherwise poor or dangerous go/no-go decisions in the face of weather, terrain, etc. Cirrus' accident rate has been higher than the average for comparable aircraft, and it probably doesn't help that they used the chute as an excuse to skip proper spin testing of the aircraft.
I worked for a while in the Flight Test department at Cirrus Aircraft, the manufacturer who is probably best known for these systems (all planes they manufacture come with them). The picture on the right side of the Wikipedia page is of one of their first tests of the system. The test pilot who did that exact pictured test told me that it was a pretty exciting experience; they had done all the calculations and static load tests possible, but they couldn't be sure exactly what would happen until the 'pulled the handle' for the first time. The parachute straps could have pulled out of their mounting points, the parachute could have failed to fully inflate or gotten tangled on the empennage, etc. The test pilot had to wear his own parachute in case things went badly and he had to bail out of the plane (the test plane had a special system to blow the doors off to facility emergency egress). Happily it worked well, although the deployment is a little bumpy :) The chute system has a mechanically-activated rocket that busts out a panel over the chute tube which is intentionally weakly mounted, and then proceeds to pull the uninflated chute fully out through the open hole about 100 feet, and then there's a special 'slow-inflation' ring on the chute rigging to slow down the inflation of the chute so that it doesn't put excessive force on the chute mounting and/or hurt the passengers. To prevent serious injury to the passengers when the plane hits the ground (it's still moving at a good clip), the seatbelts have airbags and the base of the seat is a few inches of aluminum honeycomb to absorb energy. The landing gear and wings are also designed to fracture/crush in a way that reduces the amount of force transmitted to the passengers. Although it's not uncommon to walk away with broken limbs or some sort of back pain, it's better than the alternative :) Cirrus is currently working on a Very Light Jet, the 5-person + 2kid Vision SF50 (http://cirrusaircraft.com/vision/) which also has a parachute - but it's a lot bigger than the ones on their existing 4-person SR-20/22 prop planes! I can try to answer any questions as best as I can remember...
Larry didn't actually utter that, BTW. Check the transcript:

http://insideevs.com/google-ceo-larry-page-billions-go-tesla...
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You do realize that, as stated, these laws are (1) practically impossible to implement, (2) routinely broken by humans (especially the first law - life-sacing and cosmetic surgery, piercings, sport, euthanasia, abortion), and (3) a matter of philosophical/moral subject, decisions about which, IMO, should be in the domain of humans, not robots.
Full disclosure: We made this at us vs th3m for our own amusement primarily because of all the hilarious spin-off editions on HN.

Some of our favourites other people made so far:

http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/nicolas-cage-edition/

http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/8-bit-edition/

http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/australia-edition/
Initial explanation of "why the roller coaster doesn't fall off" is poor. In fact, the explanation doesn't even mention gravity, which is odd, because if the coaster were to fall off gravity would presumably be the force responsible. The author explains that the track is applying a downward force on the inverted coaster: but that force would surely combine with gravity to accelerate the coaster downwards, which is the opposite of the apparently observed phenomenon we're trying to explain here. Of course that -is- what happens, but only because the coaster is going fast enough that gravitational acceleration downward would curve the cars down less than the track does.

The trick is to realize that an unguided rollercoaster, not on a track, wants to travel along a parabola (not in a straight line, as indicated in the text). If the coaster is going fast enough, then the radius of curvature of the parabola at that location in the coaster's trajectory is greater than that of the track, in which case the track gets to apply additional centripetal force and turn the coaster -more- than it 'wants' to. If the coaster is going slow, then the radius of curvature of the parabola will be less than the radius of the track, and the natural path of the coaster will tend to pull it down away from the track.

Of course, at that point, you find out what -really- stops the coaster from falling off, which is that it's riding on a tubular steel track with wheels clamped both above and below the rail...

All of which is mentioned - later in the article, but as an introductory section, messing up the basics so badly really undermines the article.
This comes under the category of neuromorphic engineering. It is an excellent question, of which I am trying to find an answer for months now!

I bet there is more, just buried under varied publications, and I am sure that they created a DSL for their specialized brain based chip.

The most obvious and battle tested way to program a NeuroSynaptic hardware is to create models of the brain (any application) in an algorithm and burning it with an HDL into an fpga or an fpaa. For computation of numerical entities, a small controller running a customized embedded software is used.
The 'good' reason would be the 400 Million dollars...

Not saying he is or isnt lying, but we cant just throw around the 'there is no good reason for him to say xyz' in this situation...
You forgot law zero:

0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
If you don't want to stray too far from your comfort zone, Visual Studio has a pretty good Python Tools extension. I'm also a C# dev and I find it really nice to be able to play around with Python in the environment I'm most comfortable in.

https://pytools.codeplex.com/

Edit: Ah, just saw you mentioned OS X. I like Sublime Text on that end.
I don't think he meant that in the literal sense, hence the quotes.

The brain's "programming language" refers more the to the idea of what makes the brain's biological structure work to produce human perception.
You're thinking of manufacturing inventory risk vs hyper-localized inventory risk. They have to manage inventory both ways, but the hyper-localized inventory incurs significant transportation expenses.
The real question is why Erdogan took risk an blocked Twitter just 10 days before elections? The only reason I see is this Twitter account with almost 500.000 followers who is revealing government corruption: https://twitter.com/FuatAvni For English version of his tweets see: https://twitter.com/FuatAvniEng (usually translation is delayed 1-2 weeks)
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Well, given the reason LMDB was written (openldap), I think that's an accurate observation. If you want fast writes, something like leveldb would be better (log structured).
Just sayin, they named it after the Zeroth law http://www.qualcomm.com/media/blog/2013/10/10/introducing-qu...
You have no idea what you're talking about, please just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
> Ideas on making that more discoverable?

1. Start off muted.
2. If the user views a video that has sound and is muted, put some small verbiage under the video saying it's muted.
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Hi everyone,

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a good (and cheap! :) accountant for a human rights non-profit startup in London? We are going to be fairly savy and have Sage 50 running for payroll and accounting. We also are not a customer business so won't have to deal with invoicing etc.
Zeroth – Brain inspired processor (2013)
The issue of foreseeable consequences is one of the main points I have a problem with. The public was sold war and surveillance to "protect" them, but lets face the realpolitik, it was about "National Interests" and not "National Security", which the totalitarian oligarchy like to conflate as the same. They aren't, but even if they were, they had to have had at least a few analysts in a dark room somewhere who figured this out and sent some reports up the chain. (of course they probably got fired or sent to the mail room...) They knew this was a possibility, that by turning on and growing the surveillance state and trying to kill privacy that it would increase the possibility that the programs would become public, and therefore undermine American credibility as a safe haven.

I would present to you that, while they will claim they were unaware of this potential, the reality is that they knew it, and accepted it, because what has been happening is a power play in a currently fairly quiet but still major shift in global power.

I've argued with my intel friends that they are off chasing bad guys OCONUS when the real bad guys are in DC, NY, and London, but now those same entities have a stranglehold on the intel agencies themselves (I mean, they always did, the original CIA guys were all Wall Street old boys in the first place, but now it's much worse in my opinion.)

Do we really think Hayden is the brain behind these moves? Or Hanlon's razor? No. The surveillance issue is a symptom of a much larger issue at hand, and until we take the discourse to that level there will be very little progress made. All three branches and the fourth estate are corrupted, which undermines our entire already weakened constitutional framework.

Now, the realpolitik they don't discuss with the public is that in the new globalized world of supranational entities the concept of national sovereignty is a lost cause.

My problem is that they made the decision to adopt this constitution undermining policy without even having a public debate about it.

The oligarchy have said, in essence: "The proletariat serfs are too dumb (from all the propaganda) to make informed decisions about their democracy, therefore, we shall placate them with gladiatorial political shows while we pull the strings from the shadows."
Love it! Will supplement or replace evernote since evernote is sooo slow sometimes. Can you drag a subfolder to another group? Doesn't seem that way right now
>> products on non-free hardware.

So how long have you been an exclusive Lemote Yeelong user?
I think it is an interesting and cool piece of news but not impressive. I think it is more impressive to think that human beings have the same eyes but we see a different World..
Might not be in most but it certainly is for some. The subway in the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson airport accelerates and decelerates that way. It makes it feel like you're probably going way faster than you are. I've seen just a few people almost fall over if they aren't holding on properly.
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If they could make something with the intelligence of a common bee, they could make awesome drones.
You can actually sort of "hack" it by just clicking randomly very fast at the buttons. I don't know what happens technically tho.
It's my understanding that it's a blessing to city managers - they can't fix potholes they don't know about! :)

If they have a consistent backlog then they can make the case for more resources.
If you can't safely land in the event of an engine failure, shouldn't you not make the flight, even with a BRS?

It's always good to have more options available, but you shouldn't necessarily base your decision making on them. If the risks were too great for such a flight without a BRS, they really should be considered too great with it.
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It shouldn't have. But the pain the economy would have felt would have been 10X worse.

Banks supply capital to firms, the government bailed them out (and the automakers) because no one else was willing to supply capital to get the economy rolling.
To make something accessible you need to let people learn it one small chunk at a time.

PHP lets you ease in, starting at html with some inserted php code and working your way up to more complex code.

CGI, at least as I recall, required you to return valid HTTP responses with correct headers. That's a big jump from simple HTML.
Content producers and techies want something like this (microtransactions) to work so badly that they keep trying to make it happen, despite the fact that people quite simply don't want it. They keep thinking "maybe I just need to make it more usable" when PayPal has been quite usable for nearly two decades.

People don't want to buy a bunch of small stuff a la carte. They just don't.
> But we have no idea where intelligence originates.

It seems to me we don't even have a good definition of intelligence, never mind an understanding of it. You admit it yourself, so why the diatribe on how (not even why) "real artificial intelligence" is impossible? You haven't defined what AI is nor demonstrated why it will never happen.
I am designing an app that would potentially annoy the users from time to time(, the background Core Bluetooth). I am trying my best to fight against the desire of scheduling frequent local notifications. To tell the truth I was annoyed by my own app during the testing.
Inflation has been super low the last five years. Can you back up your claim of gross inflation? Almost all economists would disagree with you.
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No matter how much data we give him, we're still going to have this problem.

The only solution is to not give him any data at all, which is ridiculous.
I don't like "start off muted". You can upload proper videos to MediaCrush, why should they be muted?

How about a little balloon thingy on the volume UI that tells you it'll be remembered?
I understand, codr.. But even in C, conditional blocks have an opening brace next to the statement (like if, while, switch, etc), then new line, then indented code, then new line for the closing brace.

For your choice of IDEs, I think looking for it in SO or Reddit would yield good results, since it's probably a question asked often, so I guess you'll find nice fat threads with pros and cons to help you make up your mind..
And that experience didn't make you rethink your prejudices?
Identical experience here. The fonts looked so bad in Chrome that I opened FF (which I very rarely do) to see how they compared, and it was far more readable in FF.
> Should I start small and just pay him out of what I can afford right now, or should I bring in more of my own money and make it easier to give him at least a few hundred dollars in wages each month?

What about paying him what his work is worth?
Same reason I think they're dragging their feet on various parts of HTML5 that everyone else has already implemented, such as IndexedDB.
For me, it's not about shifting data out of naivety that companies/users aren't being spied on everywhere.

Instead it's about shifting data into a legal domain in which you hope to hold someone to account for intrusive spying.

A non-US entity has zero chance of ever holding the government and agencies of the USA to account. And we're also aware that US companies can be forced by the US government or agencies to access data held (by them) overseas.

But we do have some chance (fractionally above zero, I'm not deluding myself) of holding our own governments and companies within our legal domain to account.

None of it is a substitute to encryption, but this isn't solved through tech alone.
By replicating the biological structure, they might shed some light on the logic. Right now we're making almost zero traction, a serious effort to copy it might at least make it clear what we're trying to understand.

At the very least, if they have a cortex in software, it would create a ethical (?) way to experiment with the logic by enabling/disabling pieces and seeing what happens.
Hmm... I see no sign of this button on Android 4.4.2.
What you just said is plain stupid. So our language designers can be critical of other languages? Bullshit! Since programmers can vote with their feet and gravitate towards better languages (is it miraculous that almost all programmers have a distaste for PHP?) we should give reasons why we use C and not PHP. If they were equally crappy what would have been the cause of choice of one over the other? I can call PHP the worse language ever, and I don't need to have created a language already.
It sounds unfortunate that if the upgrade was that cheap.

Malaysia Airlines said in a statement. “This installation is sufficient to meet all of MAS’s operational requirements and at the same time meets all international requirements that enable us to fly international airways.”

This attitude is common, almost an industry standard IMO.

I watched a documentary on the Air France and at the end of the documentary Air France claimed their equipments met the regulatory compliance. What they said was "until the Board revises the requirements, [we] won't do anything about it."

So unless the regulation said so, or someone brave enough to suggest that has to be done, aviation companies will do less.

I was on a flight last summer from NY to SF and the kernel which they used to power the OS is about 5 years old. That's not to say they have to upgrade to the latest kernel but I wonder how old some of those equipments are. Since an aircraft can last for many years, how often do they upgrade software and hardware? What is the regulation like?

On the flip side, I wonder how simple a computer upgrade is on an aviation. Do they do testing on a few aircraft before they deploy on every single flight in the airline?
Sadly, some people confuse their ignorance with knowledge and make all kinds of embarrassing claims.

>There's no hint of evidence you = your brain.

Sign up for a lobotomy we'll see much "you" is left afterwords.

> If you believe artificial intelligence is possible, you're missing out on what life has to offer--or you would never think a box of switches could come alive.

You got me. Believing x would make me think life has less meaning. Therefore, x is false. What an argument.
Obligatory "doesn't work in firefox" quote here.

As an aside, ever since I switched off Chrome (google is oppressive with google+) for safari/firefox a lot of newer, smaller sites have rendering issues. I guess it's the price I have to pay to be free of the beast that is Google.
Can you define intelligence, before you claim 'stuff'?
We're treading dangerously close to "no true Scotsman" territory here.
counter-example: the billions of apps sold for 99 cents on the Apple app store.
Try buying something with bitcoin. The first confirmation is all that is needed and it happens in a matter of seconds. It won't be fully confirmed for ~10 minutes but that is fine for the vast majority of cases.
This is cool and I somehow find it less confusing than version(s) with numbers! Plus points for it working with touchscreens!
The combo is customizable though, I've got it set to Cmd+Opt+Space for example.
except there never is. no one ever cares.
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The proliteriat are dumb because they're constantly stuffed with propaganda tailored to their low intelligence because it's assumed the proliteriat is dumb. It's circular reasoning used to rationalize the unbalanced locus of power.
How are they practically impossible to implement?
So, he's basically Turkish Barack Obama?
The biggest problem is you cannot use `proxy_cache_purge` unless you pay for the commercial version/fork of nginx.

That means you can't expire the cached content by URL.
Here you go. If you have a straight track and then you have a circular loop you'll feel no extra force until the circular loop's start and then all of a sudden you'll feel a lot of force because you are suddenly turning around the arc. This is really uncomfortable so in roller coaster design they make the turns ease-in gradually. The track is mostly straight at first and rises quite a bit while the turning radius decreases. At the top the turning radius is the smallest for the tightest part of the curve. Then the track eases out to get you back to the initial lack of extra force. If you draw something like this you get a teardrop shape.
Elon musk read Asimov's in his childhood. I hope he will stand for those values. And also, I think such powerful projects should be open sourced for the public.
I had that too! Switching back to my IDE I was surprised at how "boxy" my code suddenly looked. It's a really weird psychological phenomenon. I wish I knew why it was happening.
I agree! I found this version to be much easier for some reason. Possibly the brain is quicker to recognize and match the colours than when I'm forcing myself to look for numbers?
Add JavaScript. Super crappy but its ubiquity for web scripting is really saving it some real bashing. When we finally have options, we'd relish in our freedom and say what it was like to work with badly written programming languages.
And yet you could buy TV shows there a la carte and nobody does. Suppose maybe I should have specified reading material though.
Enforce might be a better choice of words.
Completely agreed. However, I think you're missing a point here. The purpose for pushing cross-platform web-app-presented-as-native development memes isn't to make apps appear the same everywhere in a pretense toward common user interaction; it's to commoditize the developer labor market in these areas. It's better for companies (but not developers) if it's easier and cheaper to hire from a broad labor pool to produce mediocre-but-good-enough products.
Turks are stupid .. as much as americans
>People don't want to buy a bunch of small stuff a la carte. They just don't.

Are you familiar with In App Purchases? The fact that so many apps are moving towards being free with paid content after purchase/install kind of goes against your statement. If anything, it would support the argument that people are willing to use a system like this if it is usable and trustworthy.
Somehow I was expecting an article on statd, part of NFS.
Aside from the point of congressmen not reading bills prior to signing them, this is not really an issue.

Why should we expect every member of congress to be an expert in dentistry? We shouldn't as that would be a waste of time. That is what the numerous associations/think tanks are there for. To guide legislators in their decisions.

Abuse exists, but that does not mean we should abolish the idea of it.
Did you miss where I said "The Sparkfun multimeters look like every other cheap multimeter, and decidedly unlike Fluke's"? I reject the premise that any yellow multimeter is a "knockoff product". You can buy similar multimeters in any Radio Shack in the world.
Didn't Asimov himself explore the difficulties with such laws at length in his books?
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