skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd wager that there was also a higher per capita distribution of soldiers back then. That there was a consistent ethos as to their treatment is dubious.

It's interesting you mention a century ago. Here is a prime example of the good treatment soldiers received back then, on top of the involuntary experimentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

Human sacrifice certainly might be an ideal arrangement. Though I'm not sure which meaning of ideal - one of optimal efficiency, or one of opposition to reality. If young men really are so bloodthirsty and violent and this should be celebrated, voluntary blood sport is probably the best bet.

Ultimately, avoidance of gratuitous death is a good thing.
Counterexample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHryqnvyYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek0FrCaogcs
> The reason every one of my friends from high school went to war is because they wanted to.

"wanted to"

The thing about being young is that your perspective is fairly narrow. It takes time and experience for your perspective to broaden. I can tell you that my perspective on the military and its recruitment of young adults has definitely changed over the years.

While it is ultimately their choice, I think it's dishonest to act as if we as a nation don't have recruitment officers inside many high schools in this country for the sole purpose of recruiting these young men and women who don't have the breadth of perspective to really make an informed decision.
"Yeah, the whole article, subject matter, and journey he explores is American."

and yet it's universal. By training Junger is a anthropologist and if you read "War" you'll see the stories and themes he explains can be applied equally from Roman to the modern warrior.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-Junger/dp/B0085RZFDC
Yeah, people are focusing too much on slack in particular and less on what the interview reveals about how VC and the tech industry actually operates. I'm really impressed by the way this guy thinks. These are things I haven't heard from other people.
Also, their Github repo is here: https://github.com/nestedkernel/PerspicuOS
I think a judge chose it for them in a lawsuit brought by twitter, but I could be wrong because I wasn't following the news closely at the time. Their preferred value was infinity.
I don't think it's too disrespectful to summarize this article with a TL:DR.

They were using RCS to do version control of some unknown files in their language. This caused a bunch of IO to happen intermittently when they were doing relatively simple operations.

This looks like the most common cause of "wow it sure is hard to figure out what causes this occasional problem": "we didn't know all of the stuff our code was doing."
>They do depend upon vision or touch if it is an interactive app.

Discrepancies between tracks are totally unrelated to the visuals. It's much easier to tell if two sounds are synced than a sound and a visual.

> Signal delay in a cable

I don't know what comment you read but it's not the one you replied to. Same model, synchronized visuals, easy to hear audio desync when you're closer to one.
"right people getting involved" IS execution
I think Unity would be overkill for the types of games he makes.
I thought quad copters were a special case because of their size and because of the simple and controllable electric power-train that doesn't work so well with gas motors. I would imagine rockets have even more lag, and maybe more narrow thrust-efficiency windows than something like gas motors.
Could this observation be related at all to the AMPS firewall theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(physics) - either a confirmation of it, or evidence that something else is going on? The theory seems to suggest that the firewall itself would not be visible outside the event horizon, however.

Recent pop sci article by Joseph Polchinski about the theory in April's Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/black-hole-firewal... (paywall)
You change the pitch on the propellor. The steeper the pitch, the more air is grabbed on each revolution.
Sorry, but I don't think you know how differential GPS works. It is not just using two GPS devices and averaging their location. Wikipedia is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
It looks like you're ready to "level up" from the typical coding job, and possibly move up to the "c-suite". So rather than Senior Dev positions I'd recommend looking for: CTO, Chief Architect, VP of Eng, or even PM.

The one element you seem to be missing in your ideal-job-description is the management aspect. In my experience: as your role abstracts away from the day-to-day coding it typically onloads quite a bit of oversight duties. In a CTO role for example, you'll be focusing on architecture and performance but you'll also be doing a bit of management, including technical hiring and such.
Well, I was going to ask how a parked domain get 11 pts, but I think my employer has a dns config interferring
Dialect Change in Resident Killer Whales (2000) [pdf]
The only reason I did not add it to the list is that I have yet to see it, and in fact did not know it existed until today, but if it's half as good as the others than it is still better than most.
"Now prove to an insurer/PBM that this type of packaging saves more than it costs (e.g. improved compliance) and they will come knocking on your door."

PBMs don't have same sensitivity to costs and compliance as insurance companies do. Drug adherence, comparative effectiveness, utilization review, all make good sales pitch, but PBMs ultimately profit more from higher drug utilization, narrow-network, generics, formulary, rebate, and home delivery. PBMs just have to pretend they're managing cost effectively on behalf of payors.

He basically needs to convince the payors (ie customers of insurance companies) that this will improve adherence, resulting in lower costs. Large health plans such as UHG, Aetna, just like PBMs, make money off of sicker people and higher utilization on the long run. Anything that improves health is existential threat to them.

He will need to partner up with boutique PBMs or insurance companies for trial runs and prove its effectiveness, and scale up. Perhaps start with specialty meds.

Ultimate goal is to get the largest payor involved (Medicaid and Medicare) and get their backing. They have the most to gain from this.

Another problem he faces is this: Mail-order PBMs already have sophisticated automatic dispensing facilities. Yes, much of their machines are designed to fill white pill-bottles, but it won't take that much investment to make daily packs like this, and do it at lower labor cost and higher accuracy.
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/150892-nvidia-gave-amd-ps4...
> with little return

Isn't that the entire point of my post? That different people value things differently? You may see it as "little return", but other people may not.

There are environmental issues with lawns in some locations. I don't suggest having a lawn in the desert. There are a ton of areas throughout the US where having a lawn is just fine, and is environmentally neutral.
I've heard MS found bugs in the hardware, so it was probably a good decision.
Microsoft is heading in a good direction. I do like Surface 3 and 3 Pro. But the battery life of Windows laptops (including Surface) is still not good enough. We have to admit Apple does well in Macbook's battery life.
Wow, $334 million just 3 years ago and now simply shutting it down? Did the people controlling AMD get changed out or did the same people who bought them also killed them?
And how do you determine your location based on an 802.11 message?
Be very careful in deciding which behaviors are innate differences and which are cultural. You'll want to do comparative anthropology or inject half your subject with hormones if you want to start talking about it on a scientific basis. I recall reading about a study where they took a bunch of women and injected half with saline and the other half with testosterone. For each half they then told half the women that they had been injected with testosterone and the other half that it was saline. In a later negotiation task the women who had been told they'd received testosterone but who hadn't were noticeably slower to come to an agreement and the group which had received testosterone without knowing it reached and agreement faster, with the other two groups in between.
I agree, nothing replaces practice. Yet, I also like to learn about from the experience of product designers and developers. It's something to read as I start my day with a coffee.
It's irrelevantly small. You can build solar-powered aircraft, but they have to be extremely light, huge, extremely slow, and carry almost no payload.

Insolation is approximately 1hp per square meter. The Cessna in question has about 16m^2 of wing, so that's 16hp of incoming sunlight. Solar cells are maybe 20% efficient, so that's about 3hp of actual electricity generated. That's not even counting cosine error, which will hurt you badly any time you're not flying at high noon in the tropics.
There will not be autonomous strikes. Too much potential for collateral damage. Also one person never watches 30 feeds. It's usually 1 or 2 analysts per feed.

I imagine there will only be specific use cases for this system.
Python 101 Screencast Update – Another Demo Video
Decency demands the TSA stop fun and games with airport scanners
Dennis Quaid: Freak Out or Viral Success? Watch Real Video Here
I smirked when I read he studied cognitive science. Sounds like he and Jonah Lehrer should have a chat about their massive egos.
Hearthstone doesn't sell anything that you can't get by playing the game longer. It's a card game, they sell card packs. You can earn them without spending but it takes a while, and your ability to do that is dependent on how good you are.

I wouldn't say it's pay-to-win, but players aren't on equal footing from day 1 like in Dota2.
>The left wing, whatever it's worth, is certainly not rejecting the theory of evolution. Just because men are evolutionarily predisposed to go to war doesn't mean that not wanting them to go to war is rejecting the theory of evolution.

There is definitely a bias in academia against explaining why the world is the way it is in biological terms. Look at what happened to Larry Summers. Watch the Norwegian documentary Hjernevask (Brainwash) (it's on the net with English subtitles). The psychologist Robert Plomin said this in an interview:

>‘My very first conference was by this old guy Leon Kamin, the author of a book called The Science and Politics of IQ,’ says Plomin. ‘Kamin came back to academia just so as to stop this pernicious stuff about genetics entering psychology.

>...Then he started saying: “We’ve got to stop this talk of genetics now!” And I realised it didn’t matter to Kamin what was true. He believed in what he called “science for the people”, which was what he thought it would be useful for the people to know. I mean, that killed me because it was Kamin and these elite Harvard professors deciding what’s for the people! The idea was that science should serve politics.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8970941/sorry-but-intell...

Suggesting that violence may have a biological basis is a taboo for many people. For example, consider this commentary on a recent study on Chimpanzee violence. The popular explanation has been that the reason they do it is because of human interference, not biology:

>Prof Frans de Waal, an animal behaviour expert from Emory University in the US, said the new study was an important contribution.

>"I'm very glad they're publishing this," he told BBC News. It answers a "long, long history of resistance", Prof de Waal explained, to the idea of natural, inter-community violence in chimpanzees.

>"It has always been contentious - we've had meetings where people screamed at each other.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29237276

If those on the left are fine with accepting evolution, then why would the biological explanation have a long history of resistance? Why would it be contentious?

Plenty on the left do deny/ignore evolution when it comes to topics in human society.
After using Go for a couple of pet projects in the last couple of months, I came out bored. Many people seem to be quite excited about Rust. I'm setting up my (new) Emacs end for Rust.

Any cool projects I can take a look at?
Descriptions of the past are not nuts. History, the legitimate peer-reviewed study of history, does the same. Evolutionary biology tells us much about the past, as does much of physics. None of that is problematic.

ID was nuts because of their flawed methodology.

> "But if you're trying to issue prescriptions for the future (i.e. what kind of world do you want to create?), there's nothing fundamentally wrong about first identifying where you want to go and then cherrypicking biological and psychological traits to manipulate in order to get there."

Do not confuse policy forming / social engineering with science.
Ah, but it is if you're running on batteries! Unlike fuel tanks, batteries don't get lighter (at least, not measurably; e=mc^2 tells us that there will be a little change) as you drain them.
pacemakers act up near high voltage power lines and transformers.

Most modern PM's are actually much more resistant to RF induction than one from strong magnetic fields mainly due to the saturation of the RF spectrum over the past 2 or so decades coupled with a decline in high voltage power in populated areas (they are underground as well as farther from residential areas these days).

That said I have no idea if the field those things generate is strong enough to create any issue with PM's or similar devices (like the "jump start" internal defibrillator some people are getting these days).

I would think that these devices are quite safe, especially considering that you see wireless charging station in courtesy area's in lobbies and other public places without any warning signs.
On the other hand, consider a computer system. If you wish to have a secure computer system, you try to design it in such a way so as to make undesired behaviour impossible. For example, we spend a lot of effort looking at weaknesses in our systems and saying, "Well, someone could overflow this buffer here and get root access". Our reasoning is that if it is possible, it is probably only a matter of time before someone actually exploits it.

So while I completely relate to your feeling of trying to avoid conspiracy theory fantasies of "how do we know they haven't done that", I think it is probably not a good idea to say, "[this] is one of those things that we can safely not consider, even though it is... technically and politically possible".

Whether or not it has happened in the past, we probably don't want it to be possible and we probably should consider to consequences of what would happen if the government decided to take that action. 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,' and all that rot.
Servo. Seriously that was the first one I took, and compiled, and kept on reading (not that I understand a lot of it)
Still no support for static compile and runtime introspection. That could be easily and cheaply implemented, at least for POD and aggregates thereof.

If I have to build one more system that requires either a custom parser or repeating the names of all members, I think I will cry. The compiler ALREADY KNOWS!
This is 200KW motor, you might want to check the size of 200KW solar installation.
Slack is ridiculously expensive - $7/user/month for chat? It's ripe for competitors to undercut them.

It's a pity that Atlassian is still napping with Hipchat usability features (particularly multiple accounts).
Does "ARM support" include bare-metal arm at all? I know there are several projects that move in that direction, but it's not obvious to me how mature they are relative to the rest of Rust (granting that everything in the ecosystem is in an early state)...
Ahhh yeah - ETA Zurich. They're the other team besides KMel and PennU that Id expect to have worked (successfully) on this. Thanks. That's _really_ impressive. (I wonder how far away from showing up in the 3DR or DJI gear, or even the NAZE32 or KK stuff?)
They weren't considered such by anyone with any expertise. If he has some he should have said "Falsely considered ..." Or people might think less of his own analysis. People might be wrong to think so due to poor communication on his part..?
Really? I don't think he has been constantly chasing the hot thingy in the past 10 years, stuff like Ruby/Rails, Coffeescript, Clojure, Kotlin, Node, Typescript, F#, Go, Rust, Nim, Elixir, Meteor ...
"no"

(And go use Flowdock.)
I can't stand Java generics. They're better than nothing, but type erasure really limits their utility.
Yep, there goes his chance of raising any more money for foreseeable future.
Some of it's 4K video I think.
He was C++, then Java, then he was C++ again then he was Python... Then he wrote about Flex, and now Scala...
IBM won all three consoles last time, PowerPC doesn't look particularly strong now, if anything it looks like it's dying. I assume the deal wasn't structured as a per chip sales deal but a design engagement that left ms, Sony and Nintendo free to make fabrication deals with their various design products with whomever can fab them. I could see Amd making similar deals where Intel wouldn't touch that.

If they can develop a hugged ARM story, I could see that being compelling.
I use a samba share, it works a treat and in the 3-4 years I've been running it I've never had much maintenance on it outside of the occasional update to the OS.
We certainly have a time difference, I was born in '93, so we all came of age throughout the war, and by the time we graduated (2011) and could enlist, the war had raged and begun to wane. The cards had fallen, and anyone with half a brain could look at the facts for what had happened. My view of the US, by that point, had morphed from that of a patriot to that of a dissident. Given the NSA revelations, I could almost say I have a hatred for our government, but the military seems to represents something else.

To this day I feel bad for those who fought in Iraq (2003), because I think many (most?) were duped. Yet that urge remains. Perhaps the years of recruitment tools disguised as video games and the notion of the "warrior" were just far too ingrained in my head, but I entered high school (in fact, I started in middle school in a pre-JROTC program to get a head start over the others) dove head first into the NJROTC program with the intent to get a head start on enlistment. I ate that shit up! Ultimately, after a series of (un)fortunate events, I walked out of high school with a jaded outlook and a full-ride scholarship, so enlistment wasn't in the cards. I don't quite know just what it is that keeps enticing me, maybe it's a desire for a fresh start, maybe I'm a bloodthirsty baby-killer, or maybe it's biological. It's probably a mix of many things, but I can't help but think there is a desire to prove oneself as a man. I'm very introspective, but I just cannot put my finger on what it is.
"if it's half as good as the others than it is still better than most."

Coming home is the hardest bit, this is what O’Bryne, and Junger are showing. A book-end to the original posted (parent) article. What happens when you try to re-integrate into normal society, with the trauma and baggage associated with combat then coming from a place where you put the group first to a place where you put yourself first?

"We" v's "Me".

More reading:

- http://time.com/3594997/battle-scarred-sebastian-jungers-las...

- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/arts/in-the-last-patrol-se...
I may be wrong in stating that XP boosts do not affect competitiveness, but the main point still stands: You only get to advance twice as fast with your 300$ in LoL compared to CoC where you can just blow all of your 300$ in a single day, hour even. There are several orders of magnitude between the two "eventuals" here. Additionally, not having XP boosts in LoL does not block you from playing, which CoC does. And lastly, not buying boosts does not lock any content away from you.

Then again, you haven't discussed in good faith from the get go (which is funny, since I primarily game on pc), so I expect you don't actually want to grok these differences.
Regenerative braking is only one advantage of the hybrid approach. The other significant advantages are:

1. The engine can be sized for average output, not peak output, which makes it more efficient.

2. The engine can stay closer to its optimally efficient RPM.

3. Because RPM variation is smaller, and because power requirements are smaller, you can use more efficient engine cycles like the Atkinson cycle.

I'm doubtful that the advantages will be worth the extra weight. #1 is not going to be as big of a deal for an airplane, since as you note, power output is a decent fraction of the maximum during cruise. (In contrast with a car, which might have a 200hp engine but only use 30hp of that in cruise.) But it should count for something. #2 might make a nice difference paired with a variable-pitch propellor. #3 gives a decent efficiency boost. Put it all together and it doesn't seem likely to be worth the extra weight, since that counts for so much in an airplane, but it's not completely absurd.

Note for the Tesla comparison that the limiting factor in the P85D's power output is the battery, not the motors. Lighter motors would certainly be good, but it'll be a small effect. If you really want more power, you either need a bigger battery, or a battery chemistry that can discharge faster.
The article is about how the disproportionate state of our knowledge and time spent reading when using a naive assumption that more reading leads to more "smart." Nothing about measurable differences in performance...
Hi, try VisualOps's docker integration: www.visualops.io

https://medium.com/@visualops/a-simple-solution-for-service-...
Slack executes so much better at every level

Nonsense. Slack is very beautiful with everything around the core feature, but the core feature is awful. The main chat window wastes incredible amounts of space, even in the compressed mode. The least visible items on the screen (apart from timestamps) are the chat messages from users - instead their names, icons, channel names, navigation elements are HUGE. Cute niceties like emotes are screwy due to the standard layout. We're using the Jira integration, and it wastes so much space that one entire page is taken up by a mere 3 Jira ticket updates. Stick it into 'compressed' mode and now every chat line starts at a different point, depending on the user name. Hipchat has none of the problems I've listed here, though it has it's own - generally they're issues outside the core feature.

For people used to chat elsewhere, these issues are pretty obvious. But Slack seems to be marketing to people who've never used chat, so they get to set their expectations from scratch.
Apple executive leadership is responsible for successful change in all departments, they could make this a priority if they wanted.
Use a Load Generator to Test Your Server Software (2001)
How about comparing instead to money made by Apple, enabled by iOS developers?
This is amazing, the new triple bottom-line company...? not for the environment but for the people. Interesting times call for innovation everywhere.

Go Pro announced the opposite news today as highest compensated CEO (sold shares).

Personally, I think companies that have decent margins should create a culture of well paying jobs and high value for their employees. I guess this already occurs with companies like FB, Google, Banks, etc.
Kythe: A language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code
Somewhere, Daniel Suarez is smiling/grimacing...
How It Works: The Large Hadron Collider
ACUMAN: "Greetings. How are you doing?"
ME: "I am depressed."
ACUMAN: "I am not depressed, but I am glad that you are."