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Yes, and I think that is essentially why we're seeing these disagreements.

I've heard from lots of professors that a good conference gets a lot of "very-good-but-not-great" submissions and the job of the program committee is to pick the best among these. I wouldn't be surprised at all if minor personal preferences (which from the outside look rather random) ended up having a big say in the fate of a particular paper. Maybe some reviewers are more forgiving of poorly-written but technically strong papers, maybe some reviews consider certain fields "dead" and so are biased against them, reviewers tend to wildly different standards on how extensive an experimental analysis should be to be acceptable, ...
In the US? Hah. I once looked up the time it would take to take a train from Seattle to Chicago. Three days, one way. I would have to spend a week vacation just traveling to and from my destination. The flight between those two cities is four hours. Trains in the US are substitutes for driving, not flying.
I'll just post this quick note about resilience that the article talks about: often, the picture that we see is of a lonely scientist with long white hair thinking endlessly about a problem and the solution showing up after intense mental effort. While this might be true for some gifted individuals, for the rest of us mortals, perseverance comes more by just trying everyday to understand something, and trying different approaches and stuff. In short, not one burst of effort, but little attacks over a period of time, which slowly whittle away at the problem. The ability to maintain you enthusiasm through this process...that is what I personally think of as resilience. And a great way to maintain that enthusiasm is simply...to enjoy the process of attacking the problem as much as finding the solution :).
The irony here is that your jaded insight is a retread of Fukuyama's 1992 framing of liberal democracy as a Hegelian end-state in _The End Of History_.
Hi, I'm the author of the post. I don't normally release my code, but in this case I did post a gist of the main function to Twitter: https://gist.github.com/thobbs/e879b7dad8f3733d58d1

I'm using Quil, which is a Clojure wrapper for Processing. The source is quite dense, so it's hard to understand without following the post. It's mostly about tweaking probability distributions along gradients.
Mythbusters labelled it "plausable."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282003_season%29#E...

Video: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/escape-...

"The makeshift raft crafted and crewed by the MythBusters team did indeed reach the shore, but at the Marin Headlands instead of Angel Island."
The graph itself is fine, but the axis is made of these faux wavy line that eerily repeats itself.

I see the same things in fonts that are supposed to look "hand-drawn", and CG renders of realistic scenes - it looks "imperfect" but the way the "imperfection" is itself perfect is what stands out. A little randomness goes a long way to avoiding that.
Hiptic Games (YC S11) Launches Its GameThrive Push Notification Service
Presuming Uber thinks surge pricing is fantastic, wouldn't it be all the more likely they wouldn't build in a mechanism to disable it at the drop of a hat?
They will be fine. Russia isn't a bankrupt by a long shot, but it hurts them. It hurts businesses more, kinda what's the point of the sanctions. I think Putin will be gone and leader will come around. But Crimea isn't coming back to Ukraine - this part would actually cause a revolt in Russia.

Russian folks are full of patriotic ideas right now what I hear from family & friends. But obviously what people in the West don't hear that Ukraine is even in a bigger hole than Russia. Western countries should help out now.
Even LEDs need electricity, and electricity can be delivered to them serially or in parallel too.
Beeker Virus v2.3
Higher voltage on the remaining filaments really just shortens their life. So yes it's a type of cascading failure, but it's not catastrophic (each set has a fuse in the plug anyway, otherwise that 28AWG wire would function as the filament of last resort, if you get my drift).

This means you want to replace burnt out bulbs when you notice them, rather than waiting for the whole segment to go dark.
> The developers of hypermedia must reassert the possibility of rational and conscious control over the shape of the digital future.

The article was a bit long-winded and opaque, but the thesis is strong: Those developing technology often place too much uncritical faith in it. Technology is a means to bettering human life, not an end in itself. We shouldn't be blinded into thinking that there's virtue in progress for progress's sake. There's virtue in progress to the degree that such progress makes our lives more meaningful or better.

For example, for the sake of argument imagine that the "natural" endpoint of technological development is a super-powerful weapon that can be constructed by anyone with minimal resources. Then it would be the case that unfettered technological development would lead to the progress trap of the end of civilization.

So there's value in not deifying technological progress, and reflecting critically on its impact on humanity. Whatever drives current development of technology (massive defense spending, pressure to automate, academic incentives to first movers) need not lead to good outcomes for humanity in the long run. In particular, the current environment is for haphazard development of technology without questioning its effects.

The main idea is that we can and should question technology and technological development -- just as we do any other system of our society. Blind faith in any system is a bad thing, whether it's undue faith in the invisible hand of the market or over-rosy views about technological development.
Videos showing cool things you can do with emacs
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Maybe so, but I think it's worse than that. Liberal democracy has also failed in that it's regressing into extreme wealth inequality.

I'm definitely very jaded about the prospect for political improvement. Politics seems like something that has to be hacked around and contemptuously ignored for the foreseeable future.
That doesn't guarantee that the secrets come out. Counterexamples are Damascus steel and Roman concrete.

Both of those have been reverse engineered by now. We have the advantage of the scientific method and a robust (reverse) engineering culture that would keep secrets from remaining secrets for too long.
So, does anyone want to bet on Russian bonds? At almost 20% interest rates, this sounds like a pretty good bet.
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I imagine the recent reduction in oil prices is having a huge impact. As to why oil has gotten so cheap.. I guess that is anyone's guess.
Possibly. But it's a red herring considering the issue is moral culpability and whether their behaviour is socially acceptable.
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They don't claim 100% uptime. They just happen to have it. We had a 30 second outage on ONE power circuit during hurricane sandy - we noticed because two non-production devices weren't dual power, and of course the notifications from the servers about their dual power being interrupted.

We've been there over 10 years, so we actually kind of know, rather than guessing, how reliable they are.

What exactly do you want us to say? We aren't participating in any dragnets. We've said that plenty of times. If you think that the NSA is in our datacentre, tapping our wires. Well, I was there in July and I moved all the devices by hand. I didn't pull them open and audit the circuit boards - but there's a level beyond which reality is impossible to distinguish from paranoia. We don't follow our hardware from the silicon sands through all the steps before it reaches our datacentre. Of course it could have nasties injected in it.

We design our security processes to make it hard for both hackers AND agencies to attack us with a bunch of things. Not running the same switch with VLANs for both internal and external networks is a big thing - switches are a notorious attack vector. Our internal network devices are fully isolated from the external links.

And then - the security agencies reading your email isn't even the biggest risk to your security and your life for 99.9999% of people. We're not going to throw out tons of features that improve their life for a perception of improved security - so end to end encryption isn't a sane response.
Piercing blue, icy white, and unfocusing violet aren't so inviting on a cold winter's night.

Black body 4 life.
Thank you! (I'm the author of the post.) I am indeed writing my own code; I'm just using simple functions from Processing.

Thank you very much for the video link. It occurred to me while working on this that video game artists and animators probably do a ton of this, and have much more sophisticated models. Indeed, the result from that video is really, really good. I'm coming from a painting and abstract background. This was my first real exercise in studying natural patterns and textures through algorithmic artwork. I mostly intend to apply it to abstract artwork, but the more realistic approach shown in the video is a different, interesting angle on the same subject.
This is really cool. Would be interesting to see a configuration with two of them front and back, or a conventional tailrotor version.
Product focused entrepreneurs (like myself) tend to lose themselves in building the next feature, improving the code, designing a better logo... They forget the single most important part of their business: Growth.

Traction.VC is for those (like me) who need weekly reminders + actionable tactics to apply that week, so you can keep growing your business (because you have to) by having a service telling you exactly what to do that week, and still spend your time working on the product and doing what you love.
For context, I'm talking about the initial phase of a product's lifecycle, where you are changing the product definition roughly every couple days, the total codebase fits in one person's head, and you spend much more time writing code than reading it.

Systems like PHP + "SELECT * FROM database_table" or the MEAN stack, where you use the same data format for both backend storage and UI and intermingle logic with templates, are significantly faster for getting something workable on the screen that users can try out. I've done a complete MVP in 4 days with PHP; a roughly equivalent app in Django (which has some minimal model/view/database separation) took about 2-3 weeks. The fastest I could launch a feature in Google Search that touched both UI and indexing was roughly 6 months; as you'd expect, that has a very rigorous separation of front and back-ends.

Now, the PHP solution will quickly become unmaintainable - with the aforementioned 4 day project, I no longer wanted to touch the code after about 3 weeks. But this doesn't matter - it's 10 years later and the software is still serving users, and I long since moved on to bigger and better things. And that's my general point: what's "good" code is context-sensitive. Everybody wants to work on nicely-factored code where you can understand everything, but there is no business to pay you unless you first make something that people want, and oftentimes that takes hundreds of iterations (including many fresh starts where you throw everything away and rebuild from scratch) that are invisible to anyone collecting a paycheck.
It varies widely.

My wife had two pregnancies: one was 52 hours (with five hours of pushing!). The second was about 2 hours total.

Neither involved pitocin.
> Now, if someone combined a pauseless GC with proper cleanup (i.e. skipping GC altogether) of variables where the compiler could determine when they can be thrown away, matters would be different. (So, in other words, the compiler inserts `malloc` (or whatever) calls, and ensures that every variable created is either `free`d exactly once after it becomes unreachable or is added to the set tracked by the GC (or is a constant - especially pertinent with strings). With (hidden) local variables to track control flow when different branches cause different allocations.)

Freeing is not an issue, you don't pay for garbage in a proper GC, as the GC only scans living objects, and never frees.

The problem is allocation, as a scan is triggered when a certain number of bytes has been allocated. Go allows you to skip allocating on the heap (thus the GC), since you can define what is allocated on the stack or heap.

You potentially could do as you propose, by inserting "free" at certain points where you could prove the variable was safe to throw away. Free would basically just then say "you can now postpone allocation, you have more free memory". But this has it's own drawbacks. For one you a minimal amount more to do (calling 'free'), but more importantly you will increase time spent in allocation objects, because you have to scan the heap for available space instead of just bumping a pointer.

The most important thing is allowing the programmer a way to avoid the managed heap, which Go does, and C# to some degree does through structs.
I think ordinary folk should find it scary that the price of oil is a complete sham.

Price of a barrel of oil has fallen 50% in the space of two to three months based on the policy decisions of OPEC. Has demand suddenly collapsed? I don't think so, anything you can bring onto the market, China will gobble up.

Of course, the price at the pump comprises a lot of taxes too, but it seems evident that ordinary folk are getting ripped off and that the price of oil is not only lining the pockets of the Saudis but also a geopolitical tool.
Fair enough. We might disagree about the exact boundaries of "science" (I tend to think of it more as a spectrum than as a matter of black-and-white boundary), but I totally agree with you that scientists, in general, should try to falsify instead of evangelizing. Not even trying to falsify would be gross negligence.
Big rotor = big moment of inertia = more energy lost on accelerating it and slowing it down each time. At some point it's better to rotate it at constant velocity and change pitch independently.
Hate to nitpick, but in FF on windows, the font is almost unreadable (very choppy, and the top few pixels of each character is cut off). The GothamLight font is not doing you any favors!
Except your example of "extra" is my example of "just enough".
Watch Year 12 students react to their 2014 ATAR score
Your idea of "superfluous" is my idea of "just enough", and vice-versa.

For example, why have Bentley when we already have Ford? Multiple car manufacturers is surplus, waste, and bloat.
A better question would be "why has it stayed high for so long"? Oil supply has been higher than demand since the recession of 2007.
Great advice. Thank you. Angellist is on my list! And love Malcolm Gladwell. I've been reaching out to my network. I'm in LA, and have signed up for a bunch of Meet Ups, just hard to know which ones are worth attending in a city that is so spread out. I noticed you are in LA too, let me know if you know of any worth noting. Thank you!
I'm arguing that if all you have is 1W, you've got no other option but GPU.
The Elon Musk patents from the 90s that predicted how we use the Internet today
That was not the path taken by Amazon as they made their nearly 40 different APIs. Engineers from there could certainly speak to the circumstances behind their choices.

As for aws-go, I had some APIs I needed to use and a machine-readable description of those APIs. The choice was pretty clear.
Big fan of Hiptic. Congrats on the GameThrive launch!
Even more tangentially relevant, but has there been just one hack in all of 2014?
A university patent office explained it to me as follows (note of course that doesn't guarantee this person was correct): patents do cover any "practice" of the patent, which includes practicing it for the purpose of even merely understanding and improving it. So research is not legally exempt. But in practice, patent infringement damages are almost exclusively at a court's discretion, and courts are almost exclusively interested in unlicensed commercial exploitation. A court can in principle issue a wide range of relief: an injunction against practicing the patent; a mandatory licensing fee; compensatory damages; or some combination of those. The nature of the relief is supposed to depend on the nature of the infringement and considerations of public policy. A widespread assumption is that it's not worth suing researchers who are trying to improve an invention without commercially exploiting the patent, because a court will be very unsympathetic to the patent holder, and unlikely to award any substantial relief.
Would you really buy bonds in roubles? It seems to me the risk of the currency's value decreasing more than 17% in a year is high enough to offset the attractive interest rate.
I didn't do this in my spare time.

I did this in rough a week and a half of full-time work.
Their behavior, at this point, was "pay drivers out of their own pocket to help get people away from the emergency". It's hard to call that "socially unacceptable". It arguably took longer than it should have, but it takes time to make decisions in any large company. Hopefully they will learn from the experience, get better plans in place, and clarify policies for the future.
Don't feel guilty, Sagan's quantitative approach is a teribly shallow view of reading. If you feel you want to read something again it's because you expect to get something out of it - perhaps to refresh your memory, perhaps to pay more attention to the subtext of the work, perhaps to study the author's literary or rhetorical techniques. You wouldn't assume that you had learned everything about a complex musical composition or painting from single listening or viewing, why assume you've learned everything worth knowing from a single reading of a book?

The only reading I ever feel guilty about is my aversion to leaving a book unfinished. I'm pretty good at picking what to read, but about once every year or two I encounter some real stinker that is a literal waste of my time, and I feel a bit annoyed with myself for plowing through to the end even though I have long ceased to expect any literary or intellectual payoff.
although banks avoid doing anything illegal

And how many billions of dollars in fines and settlements have all those big banks paid in the past year for all those legal acts they've committed?

At the end, many of the "AAA" mortgage-backed securities were fraudulent: backed by "liars' loans" backed by fraudulently inflated appraisals, and fraudulent statements of buyers' ability to pay.
Well, there are similarities. Russia had collapsed the last time the prices on oil were released [1] during a slowdown of economy. And it was pretty scary, considered to be one of the times at which the world had come closest to a world nuclear war [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
maybe this is more an argument for taking notes while you read rather than just reading.
An interesting stat to keep in mind about imposter syndrome: about 2/3 of people accepted at Stanford Business School feel they don't really deserve to be here.
Source: "The Charisma Myth", Olivia Fox Cabane.
Priceline.
I did printed helicopter blades three years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXlUSWrVzys

These other components look printable too. Right now I am making 3D printable robots that don't need any non-printed parts aside from motors, bearings, and drive belts (and batteries and electronics).

So these definitely should be printable at home.
Editing more files is not strictly a bad thing. Files are an organizational tool. This means they have cost (overhead), and they have payoff (structure). There is always cost, there is always payoff. The trick is to find the "best" point in the curve, and you cannot do that if you focus only on the payoff or only on the cost, as you have done here.
Cool simulator. I'm curious, I was under the impression that the JS after the name was meant for libraries or frameworks not just anything built with javascript, I guess I was wrong.
> Any entities that earn undeserved profits (and some will argue many financial institutions fall under this umbrella)

Some people will argue for just about any absurd personal opinion. It doesn't mean it's correct or that it has any merit.

> I think a case can be made that a substantial percentage of profits earned by the financial industry derive from economic "rent seeking" and are not materially contributing to productivity in society.

Even if this is true so what? What's your point? A lot of businesses don't contribute to productivity nor do they need to.
WriteLaTeX is continued Overleaf
This could be a translation error, but "birth nurses" seem to be called "midwives" in the UK whereas that's not the case in the US (at least as I understand it).
Well the critical difference here is that changing blade speed is not needed or desired. They just need to change blade torque, which would apparently immediately cause a change in blade pitch.

I don't see a specific reason why this wouldn't scale. I do wonder what changes in load do to the system though. If it can't handle changing loads without messing up the blade dynamics, it would only work for fixed payload systems like camera platforms.
Orbiter already has a "Virtual AGC" mode that hooks into the emulator:

http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
Looks nice! I created a service called Ghost Inspector last spring that runs PhantomJS under the hood: https://ghostinspector.com/

It's not open source, but there's a free tier and lots of nice features built in like video recording, screenshot comparison and a GUI editor.

If anyone is planning to write PhantomJS scripts directly, I strongly recommend checking out CasperJS: http://casperjs.org/ -- It gives you a really nice layer on top that makes Phantom much more wieldy.
The lacto explosion is way more likely to happen when your meat is grossly under-seasoned going into the bag. Which is probably the most made mistake by home cooks.

I cooked in New York City during the years that sous-vide became legal. I worked at the restaurant that received the first sous-vide permit from the health department, and later at other Michelin starred restaurants that did sous-vide. That of course doesn't give me authority, but I do have a perspective on what the best professionals do.

For meat, salt aggressively going into the bag, and lightly coming out of the bag. Sear once :-)

(As an aside, since I'm already talking to you. You're one of my favorite commenters here on HN, and one of the reasons I don't skip the comments section entirely.)
I'm also surprised people actually find the contents of this blog post insightful, but I suspect it has far more to do with who wrote the article.

I mean, is it not obvious that you can take away new ideas from reading a book multiple times at different stages of your life? As a simplified example, movies with twist endings hinge on exactly that fact -- armed with new information, events you have already experienced take on new meaning. More "important" things will have more significance, but it's the same idea.

Is it not obvious that your own world views are the result of your own experiences and others who you have contact with, even if you cannot precisely remember everything that would lead to that world view?