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This AM, a software developer comes over to fix my computer he had just bought a new dimmer for his living room lights. Doesn't even realize that you can't use a conventional dimmer with compact fluorescent lights. "They are the same, right?"[1]

[1] Add: By that, I mean he isn't aware of the things he isn't aware of.

Ease up on the geek rhetoric until you walk in his shoes.
I'm only 10 minutes into the first youtube vid... holy shit this is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.

No wonder our patent reform is so broken... literally the government is using it to it's advantage. Screw the cloak and daggers shit when we can just hire some lawyers to bury people and everyone acts like it's common place... wow. WOW WOW WOW.

Ty for this.
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Building a submarine out of a polytunnel just isn't going to work. There are so many better ways to spend money. There are literally many thousands of km of dessert coastline where we can build greenhouses and grow vegetables where nothing else can grow. See my other entries in this thread.
This sounds like something Backpack might be able to help with! (I don't actually know. I'm speculating. And hoping ...)
The description of the conditions in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone and the over-whelming odds that the doctors there are facing was heartbreaking to read.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is as much a function of poverty as it is of the Ebola Virus. One of these all of us can fight.
It's been about 15 years since CBPV was proposed. Has there been any work on actually making a practical language along those lines?
What django version is this based on? Some of the other nonrel projects that I'm aware of are based on the LTS 1.4 (LTS until next year), and haven't really progressed from there.
The sliders are buggy for me under FF33. The display stays stuck at 2AM / Saturday / heat.
You mean the author just used "Windows" instead of "OS"? That would be pretty dumb.
Is there a way to get a list of mirrors that actually have it? I got tired of searching them so I downloaded it from GNU.
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I just bought a turbodiesel specifically because of range. I can drive over 750 miles without stopping. Yes, I will drive that far without stopping if I have the capability.[1] With a Tesla, even with supercharging stations I would have to make three half-hour stops over that distance. On top of that, currently there is a huge station gap between Dallas and Miami, my most common long-distance route. In fact, I'm not sure I can actually get out of the Texas Triangle with a Tesla right now.

[1] This has caused one co-worker to declare that he is never taking a road trip with me.
> Years of drudgery and late nights in the office have a way of taking the shine off any brilliance, and, in any case, there is no incentive to hang on to it as the corporate world doesn't rate it.

> Rather than reward brilliance, it prefers skills that graduates can't see - good judgment, a nice way with clients, and an instinct for when to bite your lip.

This is a curiously cynical perspective. "Brilliance" alone doesn't necessarily create value or pay the bills. The combination of high IQ and low EQ can be harmful to customer relationships and co-workers. The corporate world values soft skills just as much if not more than raw intelligence because soft skills can often make or break a business.

Notwithstanding the fact that a lot of young employees overestimate just how clever they are and stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that smart ideas won't always be viable in the real world, instead of pretending that "brilliance" is some sort of panacea that companies should cling to regardless of the cost, the author should consider that pragmatic, well-rounded employees who can perform consistently might be better contributors than the brilliant, intense employees who become disillusioned whenever they don't get their way.
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They pay well and if you leave the HN/Reddit bubble, there are CS students out there (that are pretty smart) that really would LOVE to have jobs at Microsoft/Facebook/Yahoo/ (insert any company unpopular on HN here).
K has interesting sequential goodies as well: over ("fold" in Lisp/Haskell, "reduce" in python), and scan (same, with all intermediate results returned as well). But it also has the unary ("monadic" in APL terminology) counterparts to these essentially binary operators, which I don't remember from Lisp or Haskell (but I'm neither a Lisper or a Haskellite, they probably are there somewhere..)

Unary over is the "fixed point"/"converge" adverb, which does

x <- f(x)

until x stabilizes (to within floating point tolerance if it is a float), returns to its first value, or goes through a requested number of iterations.

The best example of this that I can think off is the K "flatten" idiom:

,//

read: "concat over, converge". That is, given a general list, it concatenates all its items promoting atoms to one-element lists - thus, flattening one level of the list; And then applies it again and again until there is no further change, thus flattening successive levels of the list.

Is this the most efficient way to do this? No! in fact, for an unbalanced one sided list it will do O(n^2) where n is the number of items, with a best (and idiomatic Lisp/Haskell) solution being O(n), although it's usually 100 chars rather than 3.

But the actual code orchestrated by these 3 chars behind the scenes is all tight C loops, so for small n it will beat complex solutions. And it is all of 3 self-describing, easily remembered, easily recognized, easily optimized (if Arthur ever cared ...) characters. If you care about worst case, you can easily code the standard Lisp/Haskell solution just as you would in those languages. See [0] for more.

The underlying computational model fits sequential, parallel, SIMD, and almost every other paradigm much better than all the popular programming languages. Unfortunately, there's a learning curve that puts of most people (and is perhaps insurmountable to some people who have no problem with Python, Java, C or PHP) - it's much more Math-oriented.

[0] http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/k.html

edit: added [0] link and ref
My current ride is a 1992 Volvo 740 Wagon. It only has 12 volts, 1 turbo, and 192,000 miles. In another twenty years from now maybe I'll upgrade to one of these fancy 3 turbo, 24 volts cars, but only if my current Volvo has stopped running ;)
Companies like Facebook, Google, Apple and (yes, even still) Microsoft are wonderful door openers, sort of like ivy league colleges. You may have learned nothing more than someone who worked at a local CRUD shop, but just having been through the vetting process of a highly-recognizable tech company gives you two legs up when you are interviewing at other places later.
It isn't all about the commute. There's also towing, high mountain passes, and plain fun to consider.

It's amazing how gutless my old 140hp/150lb-ft wagon was at 10,000ft. Foot to the floor, 3rd gear, barely maintaining speed.
Certainly with caveats... I know a number of smart people who work there, but they primarily want a 'safe' thing for the resume and finances, and take their San Francisco lifestyle a little more seriously than their work-based challenges (if they are considered challenges). That's only a few data points granted.
Windows does have nmake. Of course it is a horrible implementation of make but the basics work.
Here you're confusing war time operations, where for example you may only get one hit on a target due to him being distant or whatever, and deliberate killing is most certainly allowed, vs. what is ostensibly a peace time police style operation.

In the latter, an order to kill the targets no matter what is likely to be illegal (but in a case like this arguably a matter of foreign policy). What ammo is used it likely to be a lot less important than how it's employed. For example, per one account a number of them were hosed down with machine guns, and the only hollow point ammo used, or plausibly used (since it doesn't tend to work well in semi-auto or full auto weapons unless they were designed or modified for it) was in .357 revolvers used by the close combat team.
And strangely enough, 3 survived....

As for the Hague convention, I haven't studied it and its genesis in any detail, but the general idea was to make war less barbaric. Whatever is later said to troops who for political reasons are required to use much less effective ammo that's much more likely to get them killed is at minimum suspect. E.g. logically taking someone you shoot out of the war altogether, by killing or maiming them, is vastly superior to their coming back after convalescence.
Which bread machine do you have?
Kawasaki has their 300hp turbo 4 cylinder coming too. Super similar http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/2015-Ninja-H2R
That is not only true for tech companies like that but also for instance for top tier investment banks and consulting firms. They hire only the best and brightest and then relegate them to juggling spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations. It seems to be more about being able to say that your people are the best and brightest (and charging appropriately) than about actually leveraging their skills.
This is a good point. A dose of ZMapp was being stored on the very same premises where Dr. Khan lay dying. But instead of giving him the treatment on the spot, considerable risk was instead taken to deliver it to two Americans in another country 250 miles away.

However it would be unfair to say that this was because the Americans' lives were valued more than Dr. Khan's. He was being cared for by Doctors Without Borders. For quite rational reasons they decided to withhold the treatment [1]. The Americans were under someone else's care and thus weren't subject to DWB's decision.

My main ethical disagreement is with DWB's decision not to inform Dr. Khan of ZMapp's existence while knowing that it would be used by others.

[1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obje...
“Google is wrapping knowledge up in answer cards and not sending traffic”
Yep. Note also that DANE (as they mention) currently depends on the full-blown DNSSEC stack to be useful. However, the full-blown DNSSEC stack suffers from many technical and design-related problems:

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authe...

http://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

Disclaimer: I work on DNSChain, a blockchain-based alternative to DNSSEC & X.509. Note that DNSChain does support blockchain-authenticated DANE TLSA records. In the future, DNSSEC's SIG record may be used to provide MITM-proof verification of the validity of that TLSA record for DNS-based apps.
And a mail client. It's pretty much an operating system.
> All C-x space does is visualize the rectangular region. You still use all the old binding (C-x r t for instance) to do anything with the region.

Really? Upon reading the release notes, I was excited that I'd probably be able to just use commands like C-w or C-x u to act on rectangles. Sad to see it won't be the case.
Another interesting technology that we see in racing (F1), but haven't yet seen in a road car (although we probably will) is driving the turbo directly with recovered electrical energy.

Volvo is driving a third turbine, which works, but it's not as efficient as simply spinning the turbine directly with an electrical motor assist. The reason they don't do this is that exhaust powered turbochargers are a real motherfucker of an environment. Excuse the language, but they really are. A turbocharger glows red-hot when generating boost. Putting an electric motor anywhere near them requires lots of advanced materials science and engineering.

A turbocharger has two main parts: a turbine that is powered by exhaust energy, and a compressor that pressurizes the intake manifold. Volumetrically, these two are separate. They are connected mechanically by a shaft that runs between the turbine and the compressor. This shaft is, traditionally, only a few inches long, and has some pretty sophisticated lubrication systems.

Mercedes went all crazy with their F1 engine and spaced the turbine and compressor apart. Way apart. On opposite ends of the engine apart. This is crazy when you consider how fast a turbo spins. It's not unusual for them to exceed 100,000 RPM. The shaft must be lubricated and extremely well balanced. The benefit of this arrangement is that the compressor is not exposed to the heat of the turbine. As I alluded to earlier, the KERS system in an F1 car can drive the turbocharger directly using electrical energy that is recovered during braking. Spacing the turbine away from the compressor affords the perfect opportunity to save the life of your electrical motor that drives said turbo.

The hope is (and it always is) that this technology will trickle down to road cars. Volvo appears to be taking the first step, albeit with a compromise.
Interesting convo here: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2jt0n8/every_fac...
> The challenge is to get more people ...

Why do you think this is an important goal? If we really could have a world in which machines could do all the work, would it really be that bad if some people sat around and watched TV all day?

I certainly don't buy the argument that society would stagnate if this happened. There are many people - you and me are probably in that group - who probably wouldn't be able to sit around and do nothing all day. It just seems so boring. And if you look back in history, for example imperial England, a lot of the "idle rich" did take up the pursuit of art, science and technology.

I also really don't care what other people do with their time. First, there's a moral issue, it's not for me to decide how other people should be spending their time. And if some people want to sit around and watch TV all day, well, good for them. It's no skin off my nose.

I also know a lot of people who seem think that somehow "work" is noble and is worth pursuing as an end in itself and I really don't like this idea. It seems very analogous to management that values effort over results. And more importantly, if we dislike the idea of people being idle as a sort of moral hazard, then why isn't there a big backlash against the millionaires who've inherited their wealth, the royalty, the sheikhs of the middle east, the reality TV stars and so forth. A lot of these people seem to have money vastly disproportionate to their net contribution to society and they're able to sit around doing basically nothing. And yet it's only when the possibility of us plebs being idle comes up that we start here these cliches about hard work and dedication and so forth and everyone gets all worked up about it. Something to think about, I'd say.
Probably an Emacs-specific support forum would have been a good choice, assuming you used Google first and didn't find anything. HN certainly was not. I didn't downvote you, but it looks a lot like you didn't try to do your own homework, because it's not that hard. Either one of the places you mentioned would have been better. That's probably why you were downvoted.
I don't think Quora opened up too broadly too soon. And even if that were the case, the upvote mechanism helps clear out the junk. Also, I don't feel that it grew cold, because I still see all of the influencers I look up to answer questions all the time.
The article discusses 2 different engine designs:

-A prototype with 2 conventional turbos and a third electric "e-booster" to help spool them up. This one is "five to 10 years" away.

-A 2.0L 4-cylinder 'Drive-E' engine coming to market on the 2016 XC90 that has a turbo- and a supercharger (but no electric fan).
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In fairness, as things now stand, any nutcase who wanted to obtain Ebola with evil intent could do it more easily by hopping on a plane to West Africa than by reconstituting it from its genome. The threat is from the natural epidemic currently running wild, and making all relevant information freely available might help the search for cures and vaccines.
I don't really see this, but perhaps it's because I've been spoiled by the light of tiling windows managers
Hi couchand,

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on the book. It's really gratifying when someone takes the time to seriously consider an author's work and then takes the additional time to compose a thoughtful critique. It seems pretty clear that the book you wanted to read was not the book that I've written, but that's actually a pretty good thing. Your comments will definitely help me clarify the goals and approaches of the book when I flesh out the Introduction. (As most everyone probably knows, the Introduction is the last section that's written. What's there now is mostly just a placeholder; I'll write the real Introduction once the editorial and technical review are complete.) If you're interested, you can check the online version in a month or so to see how effectively the book meets its own goals.

For those folks that do want a book mostly devoted to D3.js, you probably won't be satisfied with my book. (In fact, the publisher and I had quite a bit of discussion about including any material on D3 at all. We finally concluded that any book on JavaScript data visualization couldn't ignore D3, so there is a chapter dedicated to the library.) The good news, though, is that you have lots of other options. Amazon lists at least nine books dedicated to D3. As an author myself, I don't feel comfortable making specific recommendations publicly (as that might imply a negative opinion of books not recommended), but anyone is welcome to contact me privately for my thoughts. (Contact info is in a comment below.)

Stephen
E.g. - (k4/q) http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference/hopen shows how to open a file/proc.

The rest of the wiki is quite useful including a references and tutorials for q.

k5 uses operators instead of words like q.

Btw, being able map/reduce w/ 1000 procs on a 8GB Linux vm (using k5) is both useful and fun.
> Just like taxi cabs and regulators have to adapt to Uber/AirBnb, we have to adapt to NSA/Palantir.

If only someone like you were around 200+ years ago to tell Washington, Jefferson, and Adams that they should accept new reality and adapt to the British seizing our ships, blockading our ports, burning our towns, and spilling our blood.
Turbo lag is a non-problem with a turbo that is sized to match the engine.

Too small of a turbo hits peak flow too early, cutting the peak power

Too large of a turbo doesn't get enough exhaust flow to develop boost until 4000RPM or higher

A properly sized turbo begins to develop boost between 2000-3000RPM, which is just right for most cars. When you are just puttering around town you are not developing boost, but the steep power curve of boost is only a moment away.
"It seems to me then that the purpose of cerebration sessions
is not to think up new ideas but to educate the participants
in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant thoughts."

For me the best meetings, conferences and conversations are the ones that come closest to this description.
It's the "takes this car seriously" part that matters a lot. I've seen one or two i3s around the Seattle area, but Teslas and Nissan Leafs fill the roads around here, so there's bound to be a few BMW early adopters. Is the i3 going to sell in Indianapolis, though?

I already have a Nissan Leaf. But if I were to have never owned an electric car and were to go buy one today, it'd be a Leaf or a Tesla. Why? Because I've already bought a lifetime of half-assed, soon-to-be-unsupported tech. Those items were typically less than $1000 (though I've purchased some duds that were more pricey). If I'm dropping $30K or more, it's for damned sure going to be from a company that I'm confident is in it for the long haul (and not, as you say, making an "eco-statement"). Right now Nissan and Tesla are the only ones that have convinced me that they fit that requirement.
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What I don't get is how you reduce a variety of different emotions (hunger, anger, hope, etc) into a dichotomous "positive/negative outcome" spectrum. You don't really address that.
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I own two Volvos and I can tell you that with the new insanely complicated engines no mechanic will touch the car. You will be stuck servicing it at Volvo dealership at lawyers hourly rates. And this will be aggravated by the fact that with more moving parts the car will break more often. Plus the cost of the new engine is much higher. The base price of the 2016 XC90 with the new engine is well above what the previous model cost. The fuel efficiency savings are unlikely to come close to offsetting the increased cost of ownership.

It seems that Volvo adopted the "differentiation" strategy of some hardware manufacturers - needlessly boosting the specs which looks good on paper but doesn't do squat for the end user.

In my opinion it's move in the wrong direction for Volvo that used be known for it's simplicity.
Interesting, I wonder if there's been some early studies for mass scale electric vehicles usage.

ps: the tv pickup thing is funny.
They're spending the money on cute Ebola-fighting robots: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/r...
I'm not sure who's right and I don't even use emacs but I just wanted to point out that emacs has about 400k lines of C and about 1.2m lines of lisp.
Canada and the Northern US have much, much colder winters than the [densely populated parts of] Norway.
Interesting, but the title is confusing. Better to use the original in this case.
rational story, bro.
Teslas already have a feature that can be used to delay charging until the time-of-day electricity price is lowest. It's not rocket science to extend that to be sensitive to the amount of charging needed and the load on the grid. Most days, most Teslas only need a couple hours of charging.

Also keep in mind that Tesla plans to develop a battery-based energy storage business.
I have to admit that it comes close to Volvo's best achievement today. But not quite. I've managed to cram a 2m (6.6 ft) ladder into my 15 years old S40. Which makes me even more fond of it than ever before.

It has no touch screens - just terrific hardware controls. No fancy electronics, manual transmission, a 2.0l petrol engine without turbos (not even one). All this makes me believe that this incredibly sleek and calm vehicle has its best days ahead of it! I got a bit carried away, still, that durability and utility of these older Volvos... There is something refined about them even when carrying ladders around.
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http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate is extensively referenced. Don't just believe the text - check the references.
Uh, I never said "all", I said automobile enthusiasts, then added the qualification of the ones who prefer N/A engines using parenthesis. Although, I see that my wording could be taken both ways. I didn't mean for the word everywhere to mean "all", I just mean that there are enthusiasts in just about every circle of automobile culture who prefer N/A motors. Just look at all the "all motor" import tuners. There's an "all motor" group in every sub-group.
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I use Parse Cloud, the express framework, for creating an endpoint which can send push notifications to specific iOS devices.
A really bad argument.

I thought all chemical weapons are out, just like all nukes are out.

Yes there exist nukes less destructive than conventional weapons but it's probably best to just have a blanket ban.

> "An infant exposed to CS in a house into which police had fired CS canisters to subdue a mentally disturbed adult developed severe pneumonitis requiring therapy with steroids, oxygen, antibiotics, and 29 days of hospitalization."

Baby got sick while being saved? from a mentally disturbed adult because they didn't put a bullet in the adults head as a matter of course.

Not a great argument either.

And if you dump enough tear gas in a truck full of adults you can asphyxiate them......