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Starship troopers - 1959:

… I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea — a practice I shall always follow. Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."
He sighed. "Another year, another class — and for me another failure. One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

I personally am with Kissinger and Metternich on that subject - wars are unavoidable, so it is better to have a system that limits their scope and regularity.
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whats the advantage over e.g. nsq? im pretty comfortable with it at the moment.
Ukraine's DIY drone war
I think you're right, the documentation should DEFINITELY be corrected!

No worries on a false alarm, as I am always eager to discuss capabilities security, in any form :)
> Seriously - has the idea of an object without will being named a defendant ever been challenged in the courts? Don't tell me that the person who owned the money has no standing - they certainly had property taken from them.

Funnily enough, the idea of suing the property is actually a well-established legal concept, at least generally [1]. It falls under the "in rem" jurisdiction of the court, which is its power over things, as opposed to power over people (which would be the more familiar "in personam", where a person is named in a suit or complaint).

Where in rem jurisdiction gets problematic is its use in civil forfeitures, for the reasons you say: The presumptive owner of the seized property is in fact readily available (i.e. the person it was seized from), and so any complaint should rightly proceed against them in personam, not against the property in rem.

Also note that the money isn't being named as a "defendant" as such -- a defendant is a party you'd find in a criminal case, and this is a civil forfeiture. In a civil forfeiture, since the complaint is indeed against the property, the owner of the property is a third-party to the case.

At this point the government pretends that the true owner of the property is unknown, so to fight the seizure it's first necessary for you to (a) legally assert ownership, and (b) legally deny the allegations in the seizure complaint. And only THEN can you proceed to the long and costly litigation against the government in which you must actually prove these assertions/denials. If things go well, some months or years later you'll get your stuff back. If you're really lucky, the legal costs won't have exceeded the value involved in the first place.

Meanwhile, in many civil cash seizures, the money has gone straight into the slush fund of the local police department that confiscated it... and the whole thing starts to look like one big end-run around due process and constitutional protection.

BTW, the government/courts also perform criminal forfeitures, which might be what you're thinking of where a confiscation involves a named defendant. For example, a punitive forfeiture doled out to a guilty defendant in a criminal trial.

[1] The legendary case of United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls provides an amusing example of the way these suits are styled.
SEEKING WORK, British guy based in Europe, REMOTE, working on-premises always possible.

Here are my highlights:

- Reliable. No waiting around for calls or emails; if I'm awake, you can guarantee a fast response.

- Business knowledge. I want your business to succeed, and can share my insights with you, battle-earned over the last 17+ years.

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- I. Get. The. Job. Done. Above all else, I deliver the end result.

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The claim of "1 ha" stumped me, and I looked it up - the numbers you can find on the interwebs are conflicting, but it should take up about 200-500 ha. The assumption of 15% efficiency also seems quite conservative to me - I can imagine that they will use new cells fresh from the lab that are more in the 18-20% range. Another thing that Elon mentioned is that they might be able to drive energy consumption down because of synergy effects.

But yeah, they will probably not produce more than 20% of their needs with these solar panels.
Those are different concepts. Variables have names, values typically don't. 500 is a value; foo is a variable.
Regarding the 6% transmission costs, if you have 17 charged batteries and use 1 of them to power a self-driving vehicle with negligible maintenance costs (and in a future where all vehicles are electric), it would make sense to haul the other 16 within whatever distance the vehicle can manage on a charge.

It looks like a Tesla S battery pack is a little over 1,200 lbs. So for a rough estimate, consider the distance a Tesla S can tow 20,000 lbs. Probably not very far.

Unless I botched my reasoning somewhere, it looks like battery energy densities would have to increase by an order of magnitude or two for this to become a thing.
Value is the thing associated with variable. Like 3 or "foo".

Variable is just a name for value.
Also, single-assignment != immutable. Likewise, reassignment != mutable.
Values that have names are typically called objects (their identity isn't structural). Named values are necessary for having mutable fields (I.e. variables).
Sandstorm looks extremely interesting. Very very extremely. If Pony could be useful at all to Sandstorm, please get in touch!

Sorry for the docs misunderstanding - I promise, bad docs not withstanding, we are using "capability" to mean exactly what you want us to mean :)
I didn't compare it to other queues on purpose, just wrote my impressions of using it. It's easy to operate and set up, and it it's simple to work with.

It's certainly not usable for production yet, and I'm not switching to using it as well - but given antirez's track record, I think it will do great eventually.
From the article before it:

Before Apple changed copyright law in 1983, "free
software" was the norm from DECUS to the 8-bit
BBS community.

I've heard both IBM and Microsoft be saddled with single-handedly introducing the scourge of non-Free software, but never Apple. Anyone know what the reference is to?
It looks like the quad getting ensared is a DJI Phantom. While a net will do the job, all you really need to mess a Phantom within wifi range is a copy of SSH.
Reportedly, the gigafactory will import ore from the mines directly, and process it. So, optimization might be possible, especially given that they can choose more expensive extraction processes because they don't have to compete on the cent.
That's just what I was thinking about: Where would this be useful?

On the other hand I could imagine that this could also cause problems: If you have a large program, could then this causality cause some messages to be delayed for a (too) long and not directly visible time in order to achieve the causality guarantee? But the claim was that there is no runtime overhead.
google calendar? My version of it does alerts.
I was thinking of a one player game against the computer, so the player can actually see what the computer will do according to their planned action.
I was wondering if this can actually handle a whole push notification server. Do you think that it can be handled?
> Function purity enforces that mutations are localized to small areas of the code, while maintaining composition.

Most programmers of 'traditional' (imperative, oo) programming languages would agree.
According to this study[0], it takes about 116 kWh of input energy to create a 100 kWh battery, given the materials. The majority of the total energy usage is in material production, not battery production. Assuming Tesla is not making their own materials, this deflates the required input energy substantially.

[0]: http://www.electrochem.org/dl/ma/202/pdfs/0068.PDF
Working 5 hours a week sounds great. I can use the rest of the time to upgrade my skills and apply it to the job. Is the company still hiring?
They don't have any magical technology that allows them to dramatically reduce energy needed. The obvious conclusion is that they won't make anywhere near as many batteries as assumed.
Functional programming has some serious problems, but that it doesn't allow quickly changing behaviour by introducing global state isn't one of them (I'd say its one of the features).

It takes a whole lot less mental effort to iteratively produce a bad solution in OO, than a good solution in FP.

I don't have anything to back this claim up, but to me it seems the "solution space" in FP is a lot smaller than in OO. As soon as you have mutability everywhere, you are just one more if() or more one state away from achieving what you want. In OO there are a million bad solutions to every problem, so the chance that a group of mediocre developers eventually stumble over one of the OO solutions to a problem is pretty good. It's so good that you can almost be sure that given enough time, any group of developers will reach the goal of a working program (for some definition of working). This makes it appealing to business.
There are other equivalent words. For instance, 珍珠 for pearl (I actually never heard anyone use 珠 alone）. No idea what "vermilion" means in your question. If it refers to the color, then you can say “朱红” or “朱红色”. In fact, very few words in spoken Chinese are monosyllabic, so it is highly unlikely to confuse a chemical element with other things. Moreover, you can always say "chemical element" + 元素 (element) or 原子 (atom) if you are afraid of confusing people; for instance, 氢原子，碳元素, though it is hardly necessary, as I never encountered the problem the author described in my 5+ years of studying chemistry in Chinese.
> Assuming Tesla is not making their own materials, this deflates the required input energy substantially.

And also inflates that amount of greenwashing involved...... Why crow over renewable energy when your use of energy is irrelevant relative to your suppliers?
>Assuming their input data is actually correct, I will speculate they are calculating the energy cost of the entire lithium battery production from raw materials, such as extracting lithium from mineral deposits, the majority of which would happen before the materials arrived at the Tesla factory.

If you look at one of their sources[1], it is clear that this is the case.

[1] http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-01/documents... p.65
It only seems difficult because you lack knowledge. Once you study a little you can break everything up into radicals pretty easy. It's one of the first things you learn so that you can lookup unfamiliar symbols in the dictionary by something other than stroke count.
So you wrote an article about it but you were too shy to actually reveal what you earn, and so anyone else trying to get their first job at Wired is none the wiser about what they might we working towards.
OHH
When I started my doolie (freshman) year at the USAF Academy, one of my classmates stated that his mission in life was to become an astronaut. He had been planning it out since he was like 10 years old.

He told us that this was his plan: First he had to get into the Academy, then major in engineering - ideally aeronautical engineering, then become a fighter pilot then become a test pilot and finally apply and become a NASA astronaut. I challenged him to be the first one in space, except I said that I would pay for a ride there as a tourist.

He ended up being the #1 grad from our class with his degree in aero engineering, went on to get his doctorate from Oxford and is now flying the B-1B. Still a few steps to go.

HOWEVER - there is almost no chance of him ever piloting a US spacecraft based largely on where the manned space program is. So while I am a little sad for him, given how hard he has been trying - it also makes our wager look more promising in my favor!
There's still quite a bit of material on Bayesian networks (with the dreadfull dentist example :D), neural networks and support vector machines but overall you're right the focus is on agents. The relevant chapters are great staring points though and as always filled with great reference material for further reading.

+ I'm pretty sure if you apply for an AI job somewhere and it's labaled AI and not "data science" they'll expect that you know the material in AIAMA.
URL was broken because it was pasted twice by mistake.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-...

Krita is a really neat little project, one of the best open-source tools I've seen in the last few years.
You're absolutely right that cars don't scale well in theory, but when it comes to expanding capacity when that is necessary, cars outperform public transport. This is mostly because space is not often in short supply, but money always is.

Cars seem to have much better support for their expansion from governments, and that this results in better real-world scaling. It seems to me this is in no small part because car infrastructure is way cheaper per extra person of capacity than mass transit.

Both cars and mass-transit have huge subsidies, at least in Belgium.
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Sorry about that - edit timed out: Andrew@Visidraft.com
when it stabilizes - sure. I wrote a little crawler to try it out, it performed great but seemed to hit some bug when the backlog was huge (around 1G of task backlog). When these things are resolved - sure. But I'd give it some time.

EDIT: the memory issue was a mis-configuration on part. Apparently disque comes with maxmemory of 1G by default, and I just exceeded it :)
Also Atmel, although they're either so new to the market or the volume that they ship is so small compared to other manufacturers that they don't appear in any lists that I've seen.

http://www.atmel.com/products/other/field_programmable_gate_...
Please see http://laist.com/2015/05/03/the_new_york_times_has_some_mixe... for why this article is annoying to Angeleños.
Even if you really want to work for reddit you'll have a cut-off value at which you no longer want to work for reddit. Otherwise it's not called 'work' but 'volunteering'.
You have to look for parking, deal with traffic jams (maybe buses have extra lanes, they would in the greatest bus system of the world). You don't have to focus on driving but can read. You don't need to maintain a car.

And so on.

Granted in my city we also have subways. But the question really interests me, because having to rely on a car would be a complete no go for me. So if that is (still) the case for LA, it's not the city for me.
For instance? I don't find any two sound similar. If one pronounces the tones correctly, it is not hard for the listener to distinguish at all.
I had the exact same train of thought while reading the article. Taking a long term view it does make sense to flog them sooner rather than later.
Money quote: Using the worst assumption in each case, solar cells with storage emit 631 gCO2e/kWh vs 337 gCO2/kWh for normal hydrocarbon fuel in spain.

Important takeaway: A solar cell embodies a huge amount of energy, yet can be shipped. Make solar cells in places with lots of clean energy and ship them elsewhere.
Possibly/probably Apple Computer v. Franklin Computer, the first court case in the U.S. to extend copyright protections to an OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....
> when it stabilizes - sure

Thanks. I think I will definitely try to write a push server on it, maybe it's something that can help to stabilize the system and it can also act as a good test base.
Try passing a state object containing all the flags you need to keep track of that 30 or 60 frames a second.

Hmm, have you tried it? I don't see an immediate problem. 60 Hz is not an immense rate for computers.

And state updates don't usually involve copying large structures, since pure languages use lots of sharing. It's more like updating a tree; you just do some logarithmic amount of consing.

There aren't that many companies using Haskell at all, so you can't infer much from the fact that there aren't many large-scale games written in it.

This is of course not an argument, but John Carmack doesn't seem to believe purity itself is an intractable performance problem!
Because it clearly states what the current area of work and experience is?
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The Chinese room?
Well a crocodile is also a "fish" in Chinese (鳄鱼) and the word for egg has the insect radical (蛋). Must be based on old concepts, but nobody has a problem with it except foreigners.
The only way to win is not to play

This is often forgotten. In so many situations in life, people think they must make a choice being forced on them, "yes or no" or something similar.

Quite often the best choice is not to not allow yourself to play that game. Instead, learn to "think outside the box".
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If computer languages were invented by Chinese, it would be written in pinyin and it would be as easy as English syntax is (the vocabulary used in computer languages are very limited after all). People always find ways to simply things, so no need to worry.
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Hmm, that doesn't sound right to me, at least not if "name" means "identifier" in the conventional sense (like foo). For example, stack-based languages can do field mutation without names.
Did you say “translate.directory”?
Asset forfeiture rates were actually significantly down in the years immediately following the September 11th attacks. It wasn't until 2006 that annual forfeiture recoveries reached the rates they did during the 90s (at which point, yes, they increased sharply — nearly quadrupling in just two years). [1]

As for the constitutionality of asset forfeiture, you'll have to take that up with SCotUS, who've (unfortunately) rather consistently disagreed with you.

[1]: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Forfeiture
Come on.

The definition is the relevant one for the context. The definition of affordable here is relative to the people who may buy it. If it is affordable for >50% of new homebuilders in US, Europe, Japan, etc, and for the minority middle classes in middle income countries (china, Brazil..) then it is "affordable" in the context that we are talking about.
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Fleets of drones are the only solution. And then: Drone-making drones! And then: Drone-parts-harvesting-drones!

Only then can we have the drone wars we deserve.
Please don't editorialize story titles when submitting to HN.

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So currently for batteries used by Tesla, that is getting the lithium from Chile and Argentina, then transporting it to battery factories in China, then shipping them to their car factory in California, as opposed to getting lithium from Nevada, to a factory in Nevada, to the other side of the same Nevada factory, as you also make the cars there.

The total embodied energy is going to get absolutely slashed.

edit - btw, I accidentally fat fingered the down button on your comment that had the link to - http://www.withouthotair.com/ - sorry. I hope that isn't what prompted you to remove the comment.
Unfortunately, you're perfectly parroting the State's position that assets somehow don't have the presumption of innocence that persons do in the US legal system.

The state should have to prove that the assets are the proceeds of criminality in order to seize them, rather than their owner having to prove otherwise once they've been seized.
Clojure strikes an impressive balance between functional purity (which I'll agree isn't always the most natural solution) and mutability. You can write purely functional programs, but you can also carefully introduce state and mutability in a controlled manner.
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This new push towards off-grid, battery-powered solar power just doesn't sound right. Batteries might have improved, but they are high maintenance and polluting. Moreover this requires the addition of a lot of new electrical circuitry at the point of installation - a waste of space, time and money.

It's the responsibility of the world's governments to work out ways to keep the grid-connected solar solutions working. Maybe change the 'Net metering' rules to buy the solar power from customers at a lower price, and let the supply-demand work itself out.

It'll be very stupid if we let go a well-functioning grid based solar power solution just because some power distribution companies don't find it profitable.
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Interesting. Were I work, We have scheduled a reboot every night some develop Tomcat servers. At same time, we apply automatic database scheme update and automatic updated from the latest version from our local repository. Also, users don't touch any of these servers, so not should be any problem.
But I see that here is a mind-share that rebooting Tomcat server pass X time is a good idea as with time they begin to do funny things, but we don't do that.
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PHP's == has a lot of oddball effects. They were put in so that things would behave the way a novice expects them to (3 == '3') but would confuse more experienced programmers, or those coming from other languages.

Unless you're deliberately taking advantage of automatic type conversion and whatnot, you should probably use === by default.
I'm not exactly clear on how PHP == works, but you can see the MD5 for yourself:

$ echo -n 240610708 | md5sum
0e462097431906509019562988736854 -
$ echo -n QNKCDZO | md5sum
0e830400451993494058024219903391 -
$ echo -n aabg7XSs | md5sum
0e087386482136013740957780965295 -

All of them start with 0e, which makes me think that they're being parsed as floats and getting converted to 0.0. This is why "magic" operators like == in PHP and JavaScript never should have existed in the first place. Operators like == should be, by default, extremely boring. PHP's just happens to be a bit more magical even than JavaScript's.
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If the task is trivial at job, you can always go home at the end of the day and push some code to open source, learn new stuffs.
Cool. If you do write it in Go feel free to use my library and I'll help you if you have any issues with it. I didn't really test it in real world deployment, so it probably hides some issues as well.
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Haskell has dynamic types, too
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/Data-D...
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