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> There has never been a recorded case of a virus evolving a completely new transmission mode.

Keep in mind that there's a lot that we don't know Ebola and how it behaves in different hosts. For all we know, it may be able to spread via aerosols in its origin host, but doesn't bind well to cells in the human upper respiratory tract.

> We have never seen a virus that wasn't previously airborne "go airborne", and we have have no evidence that Ebola can be transmitted this way right now.

We've seen this for avian Influenza A. Herfst et al. did a mutation/serial passage investigation with avian H5N1 that gained the ability to spread through aerosols among ferrets.

Will Ebola gain this ability? Nobody knows. Is it possible? Possibly. How likely? Unknown. Should we panic over it? Like you said, not at the moment.
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I was with you until you started talking about dowry, proving once and for all (literally, for everyone who reads your comment) that you have no clue about India.

There is hardly any problem related to dowry. Come, have a look. 'Dowry' exists in media which consists of third grade students turned women-right activists.

For mathematically minded people, I will just quote recent supreme court judgment about the reality of dowry and dowry harassment lawsuit (498(a) IPC):

"The simplest way to harass is to get the husband and his relatives arrested under this provision. In a quite number of cases, bed-ridden grand-fathers and grand-mothers of the husbands, their sisters living abroad for decades are arrested. "Crime in India 2012 Statistics" published by National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs shows arrest of 1,97,762 persons all over India during the year 2012 for offence under Section 498-A of the IPC, 9.4% more than the year 2011. Nearly a quarter of those arrested under this provision in 2012 were women i.e. 47,951 which depicts that mothers and sisters of the husbands were liberally included in their arrest net. Its share is 6% out of the total persons arrested under the crimes committed under Indian Penal Code. It accounts for 4.5% of total crimes committed under different sections of penal code, more than any other crimes excepting theft and hurt. The rate of charge-sheeting in cases under Section 498A, IPC is as high as 93.6%, while the conviction rate is only 15%, which is lowest across all heads. As many as 3,72,706 cases are pending trial of which on current estimate, nearly 3,17,000 are likely to result in acquittal."

I suppose 85% acquittal rate is just collateral damage, except that dowry was exactly how women used to get their parental property rights in India! But that is too Indian for Indians educated in western schools. So instead of codifying dowry as mandatory to protect women's rights from being infringed by her family, feminists would rather use misandry and enable women to vent their frustration on her husband. So we got ridiculous laws like dowry harassment lawsuit (1983) and dowry prohibition lawsuit, and then they realized that husbands demanding dowry is actually a rarity and reality is not at all as media would like to have use believe. So finally they passed equal property rights for women in 2005.

Bit by bit, you know. There is a reason why villages in India give an impression of being lawless.
I ran this for the Reeve Foundation a few years ago. The NYC Marathon is an incredible event - so much energy all along the route. It's like a 26 mile party. Envious!
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This can't happen soon enough. Mobile payment options in EU suck.
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The beauty of learning emacs keybindings is that most IDE's will have an "emacs mode". So you don't have to relearn things.

But it's also useful for things like bash or OSX interfaces too, since they use the same common keybinding scheme.
I think perhaps you're viewing this from the wrong direction. This device isn't aimed at people who love the home-brew process. They aren't going to buy a device which reduces their enjoyment. Likewise there's many people who love baking, and wouldn't dream of using a bread maker. The device is aimed at people who maybe enjoy the idea of brewing beer, but not the practical (and complicated) steps required. Something like this device isn't so much aimed at the existing homebrew market, but designed to create a new market.

I think the bread maker analogy is a really good one. I'd consider buying a bread maker precisely because I don't particularly enjoy the drawn out process of baking bread, but I do enjoy both having freshly baked bread and being able to make bread with the stuff I like in it.
when I select "Java" runtime, I would expect to see java frameworks in the second drop down ...
After playin' a little - "No PaaS Providers were found!" :(
Saudi Arabia has 27 million people; Norway has 5 million; Canada has 30 million.

The massive leap forward that goes with any new breakthrough in energy supply or cost, is without question worth the potentially negative effects those countries will suffer. Saudi Arabia can find other ways to build economy, as so many other countries that lack oil have to do.

Russia is the only one on the list that worries me, because of what a truly destabilized Russia might cause.

Venezuela might even benefit from their oil system going to zero. It'll force their leadership and people to move to a functional political system, and away from the oil welfare bribery that Chavez used which has crippled the nation.
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There will still be a significant demand for oil for other product, such as plastic, rubber, etc.
In France at least you can cede what in English would be called copyright. What you can not sell are the moral rights, and this is the case or a bunch of European countries.

I'm not aware of any European countries where you can not cede reproduction rights / proprietary rights?
Or how China can easily just copy and use nuclear reactor designs, instead of buying them from Westinghouse or GE (that is to say, not).
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My apologies then, since I did not remember correctly. Thank you for enlightening!
Using Mathematica's solve:
sols=Solve[Subscript[c, A] x+(10-Subscript[c, A])y==Subscript[c, B] x+(16-Subscript[c, B])y==Subscript[c, C] x+(26-Subscript[c, C])y==35&&Element[Subscript[c, A],Integers]&&Element[Subscript[c, B],Integers]&&Element[Subscript[c, C],Integers]&&0<=Subscript[c, A]<=10&&0<=Subscript[c, B]<=16&&0<=Subscript[c, C]<=26&&x>0&&y>0&&x>y,Reals]
Select[sols,Divisible[x,1/100]&&Divisible[y,1/100]/.#&]
Last year, we visited and considered the Subbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts (the original one). A friend's daughter goes there. What we learned is that there has been a shift in philosophy over the years. There used to be a role for adults as facilitators: they suggested activities that they thought the children would like and benefit from, and they helped bring them about. These days, there is a deep distrust of any idea coming from an adult. Even a suggestion is seen as compulsion. When children show interest in academic pursuits, it is often assumed that the parents have set them up to it. That is also seen as compulsion, and the activity is discouraged. As a result, the school is full of art and music, but the chemistry lab that was once there is gone, and the library is stale.

Instead, we ended up sending our daughter to Macomber Center for Self-Directed Learning, also in Framingham. It was started a couple of years ago as a response to what had happened at Sudbury Valley, and has kept the active role of the adults.
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So many people will skim the article and come to believe that Magic Leap will make cutesy hand-held virtual animals purely on the basis of the gif at the top.
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If you want a problem in similar spirit:

Two mathematicians are meeting again after not having seen each other for a long time. They are discussing their lives, and mathematician A reveals to have three children. Mathematician B ask how old they are.

A: If you multiply their ages, you get 36. And if you sum up their ages, the result is actually the last two digits of your phone number.

She thinks for a moment, but then...

B: That's not enough information, can you tell me more?

A: Yes, you're right. Well, my oldest kid has blue eyes.

How old are A's kids?

(Yes, you can assume their ages to be integers.)
On the other other hand, they are the makers of the SR-71 Blackbird, so I think a little benefit of the doubt is needed. ;)
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That's why this is different. But hey' research is for chumps, kneejerking those reactions all the way! Amirite?
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Indeed, there can and eventually inevitably will be changes that decrease R-nought, presumably below 1 where it will then "burn out". Eventually the afflicted region(s) will be decided into those whose behaviors, for whatever reason, do not divided transmission, and those that do, with the latter containing a few survivors (of the myriad other things that kill weakened people as well as of Ebola).

But I'm pretty sure we don't know all that's going on with this outbreak in non-village settings, how mobility of people in this Western region vs. the prior outbreaks in Central Africa is affecting things, how ingrained these burial practices are, etc. We hypothesize, but only time will tell which, if any of these are correct.
Don't get too starry-eyed; this is deuterium-tritium or deuterium-deuterium fusion they're talking about. It produces neutron radiation so you still need shielding, and it really complicates the materials engineering. All the properties of the material you're using to do some job depend on what kind of atoms are in it, and all those neutrons are busy transmuting those same atoms. The first working fusion reactor will probably have crazy maintenance requirements. (It's already a bit of a problem with fission plants, but with the simpler fusion reactions as much as 80% of the energy is produced in the form of neutrons.)

The holy grail that you're thinking of is aneutronic fusion, usually deuterium-helium3 or deuterium-lithium6. He3 is super rare though, so a D-He3 reactor using it might need to get the He3 from a bigger fusion reactor using D-D fusion, which produces it (and that pesky neutron).

Even better still might be proton-boron fusion; it needs temperatures an order of magnitude higher than D-D fusion (and magnetic confinement two or three orders of magnitude stronger), but produces far fewer neutrons (there are fewer undesirable side reactions). Alas, this route will produce four orders of magnitude less energy than the much simpler D-D reaction.

Given the scale of the engineering problems, we could even end up harnessing fusion power by building dyson spheres; a star might be the only feasible, stable way to build a fusion reactor. Hopefully our universe was set on an easier difficulty setting than that when it was instantiated.
They did something similar w/ Uber.
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so true, tech journalist basically want the company to do the writing for them.
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Definitely both types of "too stupid/lazy" exist, but your single data point doesn't say anything to whether you're the 1 in 100 or the 99.
I have my UP3214Q working just fine. You need to A) make the SIMULATED_* monitor settings match the 4K ones; and B) use an HDMI cable along with the displayport cable. My instructions are here:

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Blame man(7), have a look at mdoc(7):
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You really don't want to work at IBM or Amazon.
My issue with Powershell is it creates a distance from the scripting language and an ordinary executable, which makes it difficult to use just a little bit (and I suppose violates the rule about composability).
Really love that they actually try to sell a vision and pull through with it.
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Ah, perhaps so.

However, one of the things I'm concerned about is what happens if or when it hits Latin America, which would then have very direct consequences on the US.
>Salt-water can be desalinated cheaply and pumped anywhere.

Really? I thought salt water desalination is a rather difficult and expensive thing to do. Can you cite support for this statement?
But then you don't get to go up and down
That was designed in the '60s by a prolific aircraft designer. It was quite a different time.
All news is like that. When they cover stories we actually know something about we see that its all misinformed BS, but then for some strange reason, on other issues, we're perfectly happy to have every thing voxplained to us. (or the NY times is gospel if that floats your boat) Michael Chrichton:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
From the gif, I gather they are doing AR without fiduciary markers. Since the gif shows a hand that is moving while the elephant remains in place, they might be doing 3d surface construction (possibly in real-time). How off am I?
They are going public and not giving any specifics, because they want someone else to foot the bill.

They probably didn't make much progress in the last couple of years, and costs and risks are still to high.
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Downloaded the iso and ran under a vm but it crashes as soon as I try any command.

I'm curious what's the easiest way to test this?

[1] https://github.com/ers35/luakernel/blob/master/bin/luakernel...
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One way or another, if a successful fusion reactor is actually built, the design will eventually get out and be reverse engineered and copied. It's too important for it to not happen.
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There was an article recently posted on HN. It's about itches and neurology, really long and slightly disgusting, still recommend it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8359390

[...] but perhaps also the hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone who suffer from conditions like chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain, tinnitus, temporomandibular joint disorder, or repetitive strain injury, where, typically, no amount of imaging, nerve testing, or surgery manages to uncover an anatomical explanation. [...]
The idea of a non-accessible user interface leading to greater quality in content posted is very interesting and something that's played on my mind for years and have noticed in some communities. Would love if there was any research on the topic.
Absolutely. Had it been anyone else, it'd probably have been written off right away. But it's Lockheed Martin, so everybody assumes there's something to it.

Still, why go public on this without any data? Not publishing at all because they want their competitive advantage I'd understand. Publishing data I'd also understand. But a spectacular hype story with nothing to back it up? That suggests it'd about something other than just the science or the product.

I still hope it's real, though.
Every wedding is different - but planning a wedding tends to be a stressful, time-consuming occasion for many couples. I suppose it depends how elaborate yours will be, and how much work will be involved, but by linking your app launch to your wedding date, you're adding a hard-date which is likely to increase the pressure on both of you. I wouldn't have a problem building a business with a significant other - but I wouldn't ever link it to a wedding day. Enjoy your wedding day. The last thing I'd want to be doing is thinking about why something isn't working right on my AWS instance while family that flew across the country to see me want to catch up and spend time together.
>There's that famous rule of thumb:

No. It says "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is." I am very hopeful though.
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With access to cheap energy it becomes a lot easier. You could just boil it and collect the condensation.
You can't just take the GDP growth on its own and say: "this number is fairly high compared to other countries". Yes it is, but china needs to maintain a ridiculous growth rate to pay for the costs and upkeep of its economic machinery. The GDP figure is propped up by vast amounts of investments that are financed by debt taken out on the basis that future growth will pay for it. Do you see the problem? Does it remind you of anything? Yes, it is exactly what the West is/has been doing.

China is doing the western policy of growth fuelled by debt. Betting on China is tantamount to betting on unfettered money printing shrouded in a veil of corruption and secrecy. Debt financed by production that is consumed by the west. A bet on China is a bet on the US. Let's not forget the massive exposure to western debt and assets. It's as simple as that.

To make things a touch more spicy, China also has an opaque shadow banking system that was tiptoeing around a meltdown just last year.

China is not doing anything clever, they are just really adept at kicking the can down the road.

The future of China is only as bright as the future of US is I'm afraid. To think that China can somehow survive if the western countries collapse or dwindle away is folly. There are no independent players. A deleveraging that is big enough to dismantle Europe or the US will most likely cause a global collapse. It's impossible to predict what will happen if that hits China. How strong is the central government? To what end are they willing to go to preserve their hold on power? Tianamnen Square 2020?

The "invest in China for ridiculous returns" ship has sailed long ago. If anything, I'd be looking at taking profit and hedging all remaining exposure to China with urgency.
Yeah, I know it's possible with adding, I've tried Console2 and ConEmu before. But I'd like it to just work out of the box with no extra software, as it does on Mac or Linux. Until Windows 10, that terminal hadn't changed since NT days...
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From a ways down the Wikipedia article on "psychohistory":

"Science fiction author and scientist/science writer Isaac Asimov popularized the term in his famous Foundation series of novels, though in his works the term psychohistory is used fictionally for a mathematical discipline that can be used to predict the general course of future flow."

So the humor lies mostly in the second line about how Asimov is not applying the discipline of psychohistory to his thinking about the future, when he wrote an entire fictional trilogy about people using said discipline. The comment you're confused by is written from the perspective of someone who lives in that fictional world.

If you have read this trilogy (which is one of the early classics of science fiction), there may be an additional layer of irony, as much of the story concerns the grand plans based on psychohistorical predictions going horribly awry due to not accounting for a wild card that comes up.
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> The holy grail that you're thinking of is aneutronic fusion, usually deuterium-helium3 or deuterium-lithium6. He3 is super rare though

Finally a good reason to go to the moon!
It's a bit strange how the CEO claims it's not AR while it looks completely like it.

> since it goes well beyond that and provides truly integrated, 3D digital objects that looks as though they were physical objects, alongside the real world

That's exactly the goal of augmented reality IMO.
"Turbulent times" but at much lower stakes. If you take oil off the table as an incitement to resource wars, there is much less chance of US, Russian, or Chinese adventurism. That's a tradeoff I'd take.

Having to get serious about building open modern secular self-sustaining economies would not be a bad influence on that region either.
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This is from 2013. Previous comments on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394494
Thanks for the information. I was thinking of the implications of the dream scenario, not that I think it's actually plausible. From what you've said it really sounds like a compact, low maintenance fusion reactor is still way, way off, perhaps a century or more (if it's feasible at all.) Maybe we need a working quantum computer to run simulations to build a fusion reactor, another dream project that is also constantly a decade away, or a super intelligent AI to tackle the problem ;)
"I'm a CTO and that's why what I'm saying is correct" <- cocky

"I'm a CTO and that's why this is important to me" <- absolutely relevant

I think you are 100% in the clear, but you win extra points for humility (sp?).
> How old are A's kids?

Much easier than the parent problem (at least now that we've seen how the parent problem unfolds).

Kids' ages: X, Y, and Z.

X * Y * Z = 36

CORRECTED: X + Y + Z ≥ 10 (the sum is two digits) [I had the ≥ backwards].

One triplet that works is 3, 3, and 4; also 1, 4, and 9.

EDIT: OK, I blew this one, I think --- see 'sunlr's correction below. (Note to 'sunlr: The problem as given is that the oldest kid has blue eyes, not the youngest. That fact doesn't eliminate twins --- all the kids could have blue eyes.)
Agree 100% but there are always idealists who thinks China is some miracle country pushing ahead of anyone else. China is basically your neighbor who just bought a second Porsche by taking out an even higher mortgage after his home price was marked higher by the bank. You can call that success. I call it unsustainable debt.
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I'm sure this is easier to explain than "we actually do AR, everyone else is using the word wrong". (See also: "hacker".)
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