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> With all due respect, do you ride a bike extensively?

In the last 10 years, I've ridden about 10,000 miles give or take.

> Because these exact sort of accidents happen all the time. I've fallen sideways from a stationary position several times over the last 5 years as an avid cyclist when I've had lapses in judgment or focus when declipping from my pedals.

I've never used pedal clips. I do ride in traffic, but I doubt I average more than 15 miles per hour.

> Further, I was struck by a car from behind 2 years ago and lost consciousness, propelled forward several meters, broke several ribs, suffered large abrasions on my back. My helmet suffered dents and scratches, but my head and face were 100% fine. If not for the helmet, I would have 100% suffered from cuts and abrasions to my face

That last sentence doesn't really make sense. Bicycle helmets do not cover one's face. Also, getting hit from behind by a vehicle is the least common type of crash from what I've read.

> The fact that bicycle helmets don't protect you from every type of accident situation is a ridiculous reason to not wear one.

If they were designed in a way that would protect me in most crashes, then I certainly would wear one while riding, but given the standard I referenced, I seriously doubt it.

If FMVSS 209 stated that seat belts in cars were only tested in frontal collisions at speeds of 20 mph or less, then I wouldn't bother wearing them because I know that they wouldn't protect me while I'm driving at highway speeds. Fortunately, that's not the case and I always wear my seat belt while riding in or driving a car.

In the end, the way one rides is far more effective in mitigating the risk of getting involved in a crash (like following the rules of the road, having appropriate equipment, etc.)
Tried abstracting away the things you do over and over again?
'Garbage out' ne 'BS out'. A simple "garbage is in" message would be much better!
I don't understand what you're saying they got wrong. They're just saying that you'll be more content with a crappy life if you think you have another one coming up. You seem to be saying that the Buddhist belief in reincarnation includes the probability of another life coming up (unless you've managed to "win the game") which meshes with what you've quoted.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

The email is asking for personal donations from the execs. I can see using Sony's email addresses for these execs as a potential issue, but honestly, the writer of the email could have just used other personal email addresses.
You always have NGEN, besides this is v1.0. They are pretty open that it might change in the future.

Personally I think it is bound to the adoption of the Windows Store and the Universal App model.
Iran was enriching Uranium, not producing Plutonium. Furthermore, this type of Plutonium is not what you desire for nuclear weapons material.
Visual Studio for GameDev: New Partnerships with Unity, Unreal Engine and Cocos2d
I have these in ~/.bash_aliases:

alias e="emacsclient -t -a ''"
alias eb="emacsbare"
alias ec="emacsclient -c -n -a ''"
alias emacsbare="emacs -nw -Q --eval \"(load-theme 'misterioso)\""
alias vim="e"
alias vi="e"

eb/emacsbare very quickly fires up a "clean" (ignores init files) terminal-mode Emacs instance.

e/vim/vi launches a terminal-mode client for the Emacs daemon, which only takes a split-second if the daemon is already running. If the daemon isn't running, it gets started automatically by virtue of the empty string being passed with the -a flag, per the man page for emacsclient.

ec launches a "gui-mode" (X/quartz) client for the daemon, which is started automatically if isn't running, same as before.
I think the issue with Stirling Engines is the fact that they have moving parts that could wear and break down.

Most (all?) RTGs are for all intents and purposes, solid state.
How is that not chat? You didn't have this ability before (although more manual)? What is so utterly amazing about this?

And no it doesn't bring "all the information" together, there's still plenty happening outside of it.

Enjoy using it but we don't need all the abstract hyperbole.
This whole articles seems to presuppose that the only alternative to plain text is Microsoft Word.

Also by his definition 'plain text' seems to include other markup, including LaTeX. Many academic books and articles are written this way.

Am I missing something?
I'm currently in your stage. Would love to hear more about your experience. How do I contact you?
This isn't even close to being damning evidence. There's no "structuring" here to "sidestep" anything. There's no breaking up donations. This is someone asking individuals to contribute to a campaign. Contributions which, by the way, are a matter of public record for all to see, no hacking needed.
Me too. I think it is this:

https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/64493/mcd...
Thank you, I updated my statement to reflect that.

However, I am imagining a contest where SQL people write SQL and functional people write functional queries... I would bet money that SQL people could identify basic facts about SQL queries faster than functional people could identify the same facts about functional queries.

Could be a fun programming game.
Finally someone says what needs to be said.

This is all. Either you understand arguments stand for themselves, or you are a relativist that thinks arguments vary in validity depending on whose mouth they're coming from.

If I find out someone is a relativist I never discuss anything with them ever again. Those people are sophists without knowing - they just think "if I talk a lot I must be having a debate!". They have much reading in front of them, which they usually don't get to ever do. Those are the people that had rather die than think. I ignore them but I make sure they know it's because they are a relativist. If we all ostracized relativists we would be able to better tell the extremists from those that have something to say.
> It used to be called "openoffice".

OpenOffice.org still officially lives as Apache OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#End_of_OpenOffice.... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice.org back in 2011.

And there are plenty of articles summarizing their similarities and differences - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=openoffice+vs+libreoffice
How do the bootcamps devalue skills and worth? They might give an impression that it's easy---but unless they find a way to make good programmers, which would be great!---they take nothing away from the value of skills.
In a competitive multi-vendor ecosystem like the Web, public-facing protocols that are introduced and controlled by a single vendor are proprietary, regardless of whether you can look at the source code. NaCl and Pepper, for example, are proprietary, even though they have open-source implementations.

The distinction between open-source-but-proprietary and open-standard is important for many reasons. One of the most important is that open-source-but-proprietary protocols, if they catch on, end up devolving into bug-for-bug compatibility with a giant pile of C++.
I normally wouldn't respond to someone being downvoted, but I genuinely want to help people like yourself see this another way.
The child beating scenario is a hypothetical. A 1:1 mapping with today's situation is that this child would be in Shanghai. I could fly over and try to save that child. Or, I could rely on those people that are surrounding the child already to have a more vested interest than I do as someone on the other side of the globe.

Am I to fly around the world, saving everyone? Is that even possible? What about the children not immediately near me, but closer than Shanghai? Haiti or Mexico for example.
I think the people in the Shanghai region have more responsibility to save that child than me. When we did try to save that child in Iraq, we ignored the child in Haiti, Mexico and here at home too. And so many unintended consequences (like the region assuming: oh, the US is here, we'll do nothing now).
People are good across the globe, it's naive to think we're the only one interested in saving children. Unfortunately it's usually a political ruse than a genuine interest to help. Instead, the children here, Haiti and Mexico either have no oil, or are already under US political control- so the industrialists in bed with the gov't don't care about children beaten there. That's the real answer.

Also, does anyone honestly believe the people of Shanghai -want- our help saving their beaten children? Just about as much as we want the Chinese coming to San Francisco to save our children in need.

Hypotheticals are good for making points easier to get across. But I wouldn't accept an overly simplified hypothetical like yours without qualifications. The way you framed yours lines up with how the war profiteers want the argument to be framed. I mean, Shanghai is a big enough city that you know for a fact that there is literally a child being beaten there, right now. There's many good reasons you're not buying a ticket personally to go find that child and save him or her.

You could say, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Well then, best order your ticket now. Think about those reasons why you aren't doing that. Those are the same reasons we shouldn't be sending guys with -guns- over there either to "help". If you do this exercise you'll understand how absurd the whole thing is.
Possibly Coq but I've heard that it's really hard.
Absolutely, he only took a leave of absence (rather than dropping out) to try software, and once that took off in a huge way he actually dropped out.

It's also important to mention he got in at 73, and left late 75 with 2-3 years of education, and that he chose his major (applied math) because there was a rule that you could get into any class with the angle of applying math to it. So he was known then to go to many classes, as he still is to this day (he spends a huge chunk of his time on education, mostly books but also courses).

So yeah not a drop-out in a technical or figurative sense.
I have to disagree with this...I started learning programming formally 10 or so years ago in college...not only are C/C++ and assembly still relevant languages in their own right, everything I learned about fundamental programming concepts, such as branching, loops, race conditions, and algorithms are directly applicable to every new language I learn...and everything I informally learned programming and hacking as a child -- QBasic, MSDOS command-line, how to dialup a local BBS and download the latest shareware id games...getting comfortable with those interfaces, getting an implicit understanding of how computers can be controlled beyond the default packaged interfaces made for consumers...that was invaluable experience in preparing me for learning programming in college.
I get my hopes up when I see another vim emulation project, but after using it for just a few minutes, I already found a few missing vim features I use every day:

* Toggling if search results should be highlighted (:set hls, :set nohls)

* Opening the filename under the cursor in a new window (^W f)

Completely emulating an entirely different editor is very, very difficult :-(

I applaud everyone contributing to these projects, and hope they continue to improve! They've already come a very long way from evil, and viper-mode.
Nonexistence -- both in the sense of me not being here anymore, being forgotten, and everything connected to or similar to me disaapearing -- bothers me way more than dying. I'm also not too fond of the idea that the universe might wind down to nothing, with no future or memory of its past.
They combined the probability and statistics courses in my undergrad engineering program. When I went through the program, they were separate and I found the statistics course to be excellent. Unfortunately, they had already made it less valuable before they were combined because they had dropped other components of the course. They combined the courses so they could spend more time on the introductory math courses.

Before, there was a grade 13 that provided a better math foundation for university, but since that was eliminated, they needed to spend more time on the math as students were doing consistently poor. Things have improved in the math courses since the change, though.

The other reason why they combined the courses was that we were the only engineering department that had separate courses for them. But, we were also the only engineering department with machine learning and pattern recognition courses as well. Now, those courses need to spend more time at the beginning covering the material lost from combining the courses.
I agree, I even referred to that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394297.

But here my point is, the press instead dumps whole swaths of radioactive waste pretending to be "information" on public that is definitely not in the public interest.
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Google really gets how standardization works. They innovate and once the innovation has proven its value they offer the technology for standardization.

I previously saw companies, like Sun, completely fail at this. Eg. The many Java specifications that were created by the standards bodies. Sun tried to do it right by having a reference implementation with the spec. But the Reference implementations were rarely used for real work, so it proved only that the spec could be built, not that the spec elegantly solved real problems.
My point is that there isn't a lot of "material" to dive into the question of "marriage/romance among the Jedis": Star Wars (the original trilogy) is basically a Swashbuckler in space, with all the associated trope of the hero building up its crew and his skills to fight the final boss, and the only romance that is developed isn't about the main character but his sidekicks. Maybe it was avoided for Luke specifically because of the "no-marriage" rule then ? I don't know, I'd rather say it wasn't developed because it isn't that interesting for the plot. But that's just a wild guess.
State seizes 11-year-old, arrests his mother after marijuana school presentation
>At this point certain readers will come to the conclusion that I don’t know what’s happening, that possibly nothing is happening, that I’ve jumped the shark and it’s time to stop reading old Cringely.

No, I think that happened the 3rd time Cringely stated matter-of-factly that IBM was going to have massive layoffs two orders of magnitude beyond what they actually did. You don't get to be continuously wrong and expect people to continue to listen to you.
Another huge reason to use plain text that he didn't mention is version control. With plain text, you can check the files into a git repo and diff any two commits. You then get all the advantages of working with version-controlled code, e.g. commenting on diffs.

Word and Google Docs do save revision history, but they slow to a crawl when you have a document with a lot of pages, to the point of being unworkable.
Power-sipping IP camera SoC gains Linux dev kit
Docker's Journey to the Enterprise Container Yard
This is easily solved in practice by segmentation. Images are segmented in blocks, and each small block can be well approximated by a low frequency content, but block boundaries can contain discontinuities. If you look at the wolfram alpha source, that's exactly how those images are constructed -- they are combinations low frequency segments, most likely obtained through fourier analysis.

Another trick used in frequency domain compression is they don't impose a hard cut-off of frequencies (truncation); instead they specify weights according to image quality, and lower are assigned to high frequencies, and those weights control the precision of each frequency.

All this works because real signals happen to be concentrated in certain frequencies, with a few discontinuities in between.
I don't trust Stallman's legal opinions when he's trying to make a point, but he claimed to think this was a real threat ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html ).
It doesn't matter what people thought. The complaints were coming from people at big companies with legal departments. The lawyers' job is to make sure there are no legal vulnerabilities, the same way it's your job to make sure your code doesn't contain any vulnerabilities. Intent is irrelevant.
DB Networks Addresses “Alert Fatigue” Through Machine Learning
Dude, this goes without saying, but charge more.
Yes totally correct, its Pu 239 that's weapons grade. I got mixed up.
Different skills / technologies have different half lifes. And it's actually pretty easy to pick some that have essentially infinite half lifes: stick to what's been around for a while. Stick to hard stuff.

Some examples that I'm willing to bet money on to stay relevant: Regular expressions. OS fundamentals. Compiler construction. Unix basics. Etc.
The comedy cartoon Archer, which is incredibly fast paced uses no improv what-so-ever, since the writer is apparently doing the script so tight.

I'm not sure what is most impressive. Writer such a tight script as Reed does for Archer, or assembling a movie from already shot pieces like White does.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I concur on a number of your points. In particular, I would be significantly more swayed by the argument that WikiLeaks is press (even responsible press) if the did indeed selectively publish only documents of clear and material public interest. I haven't looked at these documents myself (and won't) but it sounds like that's a small number indeed.

Incidentally, press doesn't default to being for the net good just because it's press (which is a broad classification, and an amoral one). It still has to act on behalf of good, and on a case by case basis.

As far as corporate rights go, it's not black and white, but we shouldn't lose sight that corporations are made of up people, and those people should have rights, and it's probably better not to just throw those rights away just because something was done in the context of work (since work is such a huge and generally unavoidable part of all of our lives).

Thanks again for thoughtfully debating. I appreciate that.
If you can do something over and over again just regurgitating what you already know, it says a lot about what kinds of things you are being asked to do.
They may skew employers expectations of what they can pay for developers.

It's similar to the classic "What do you mean $XX an hour? My nephew said he can make a site for $20"
This author's comment rings true

> One of mine is adjusting the “look” of a word processing document.

I find that editing text in a WYSIWYG word processor distracts me from the content and makes me tinker with the formatting. Like other commenters suggested, I switched to using LaTeX and never looked back. Sadly though LaTeX is not for the faint of heart.
I get it, it's a great article but I don't think we need to share the same article and discuss it annually.

2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519158

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3439772

6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176

7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191235

8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243

Keep in mind these are the ones with decent number of comments. There are two pages of submissions with the exact same title.
I recently released a project of mine that does something similar but includes a variety of notification mechanisms, including web hooks. Also covers more than 120 different services.

https://statusgator.io
There's a lot of FUD going around when it comes to MongoDB write durability. Please read the manual.

Mongo lets the user decide whether or not to wait for fsync when writing to an individual node. This is not the default configuration. If you want it, you can enable it. You may complain that Mongo has bad defaults for your particular use case. It continues to have bad defaults to this day. Saying Mongodb is unable to acknowledge writes to disk is pure FUD.

Let the downvotes ensue.
when i stopped believe that i can make it myself.
Hi Eric,
I just started reading your "Lean Startup" book and as I understand the main thing is to validate the idea and build out MVP before building out features that people might not even need.

I am a software engineer and have an idea of building a marketplace to connect brands to instagram users that have a large amount of followers. Sort of like AirBNB for for instagram which can expand into other social media as well. How would you validate this idea "Lean start up" style before coding it. How would you get users and brands on board?
The author is an assistant professor in history. I'm guessing LaTeX is not very popular in this field.
I haven't contacted any of them directly actually, but that's a great idea! I imagine I wasn't the only one who they inspired.

I'm doing mostly frontend stuff (React recently) at a startup here called ResearchGate. I really enjoy it, but I do still have to make a conscious effort to not let the job take over my life—moving to Germany wasn't a cure-all in that sense. I've certainly learned more here than at any other job though. Same goes for my life outside of work, for that matter. =)
Please when you put something negative you need to communicate what makes you say that. This piece seemed very ligament to me.
The needed isotope (Pu-238) is only present in small amounts in used reactor fuel.

The concern with Iran is that they might enrich uranium to the point where it is useful in a nuclear weapon (it is useful in a reactor well before this point).
I've been dabbling in Haskell for around a decade now. I'm still learning new things.
beautiful illusions
> equivalent of low carb diets

But they actually work.
What a timely article! I was talking to my girlfriend about this yesterday and she became mad at me. What ticked her off was that I made a comment to the effect of, "Don't worry about <this problem>. Your parents will die soon anyway."

I soon realized why such a comment would make people unhappy.

From my perspective though, I see death (due to natural causes) as a happy necessity. I insisted that my position on death is that death is an absolute truth. It is going to happen sometime or the other. Let's live this journey of life as well as we can and make sure that we are prepared to handle death (of ourselves and loved ones).

Since I give death so much thought, I'm not shocked or traumatized by death when it actually happens (I've seen 8 deaths of close friends and family). I am also better prepared to deal with the inevitable emotional, legal and financial storm that this event might bring. After handling all these issues, I'm also able to respect and reflect on that persons life much better.

Peace!
The Nature article that PopSci links to goes way more in depth and is a great read: http://www.nature.com/news/nuclear-power-desperately-seeking.... Also brings up discussion of the need of much more powerful energy sources (potentially nuclear) for proposed human space exploration missions.
Agreed, plus only noobs fill out surveys ;)
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Go is an interesting language. I get it. But there is nothing unique to Go about their use of interfaces in Sphinx. This presentation is about the usefulness of interfaces. Something that can be done in almost every modern programming language.
Google should investigate (or perhaps just buy outright) a low level communications technology stack from one of the HFT firms - they've already mastered low-latency networking, they just have no incentive to share this knowledge with the outside world.
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