throwaway_exer's comments

Not sure what's wrong with selling Ubuntu disks.

Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack of 40 floppies and charged a few bucks to cover his time and media expenses.

> Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone).

1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information into unique bins now, then later select on the bins of interest.

2. Three years ago I asked an ex-govt employee who would know. When I got to that exact question, he got visibly upset and abruptly ended the conversation.

1) For those who haven't followed the Chipotle crisis, apparently they were doing more ingredient prep in-store instead of at regional kitchen centers. That meant quality and cleanliness standards were not uniform. They say they have changed that policy.

2) It looks like mgmt. did not want to do a public information campaign because then you're telling people, who may not all know yet, that there's a problem. In other words, 1960's-style crisis mgmt. to "protect" their brand.

3) Also, the executives of Chipotle simply refuse to make top mgmt. changes and in fact are among the highest-paid executives in human history (according to the article.)

4) One store had serious "HR issues" with managers preying on underage part-time staff, resulting in a multi-million dollar payout. I'll leave it at that.

In the Craigslist/Newmark case, what one of the State Attorneys said was, "We don't care about a benefit. We'll just keep prosecuting until all of the sites are shut down."

Newmark made the same case as the parent commend, but that was the last thing the last thing the law wanted to hear since they are prosecutors, not social workers.

I think you're right. The wording about "no yaw damper" would have been clearer as "failed yaw damper" - I guess that's what was meant.

I have a commercial rating. The HN title is wrong.

What this is saying:

1) If you don't have a yaw damper, then you'll have a rough ride

2) because the autopilot will induce oscillation (dutch roll) after loss of GPS

Actually, bsder is correct. The reason BART was never extended from Millbrae to San Jose was that the intermediate towns, mainly Atherton, refused.

Today, meaning right now, Atherton's city attorney is engaged in a battle with High Speed Rail (HSR.)

He informed the transit planning commission that Atherton would not accept planning funds if it meant losing the legal right to sue to stop HSR.)

1) opens them up to more patent infringement lawsuits

2) FCC prefers SDN radios be blackboxes

3) costs more money to document and support

I read the complete article, and I'm kind of skeptical of the conclusions.

Having travelled in Asia, for example, they have the skill and parts to repair eyeglasses and cut lenses to old frames. (In fact, I get my glasses repaired in Manila since the eyeglass cartel in the USA refuses to do major repairs. I've certainly tried in Silicon Valley multiple times.)

Also, eyeglass cases are considered to be valuable and resold for $1 - $5 each.

And finally, somebody with a suitcase could haul 100 - 200 frames on their next trip at no cost.

I think if they were willing to do minor repairs and record the measurements in a database, donations could be a much more efficient charity.

ts is very useful for timestamping unbuffered output to do simple profiling on production systems.

I always thought Mars was red and dusty. That image looks more like Earth than not!

No, they only try cases they can win.

The original CAP paper was intended as a high-level discussion item for students. Brewer has since emphasized that it is more of an academic approach than applicable to real-world distributed databases.

Other computer scientists have either modified or narrowed it to be more useful.

So it's fun to read the original CAP paper, but it's less useful than you would expect. When somebody asks me about CP vs. CA, I realize they in fact don't anything at all about distributed databases.

> I don't get it.

1) The purpose of HN posts on Lisp is to fellate pg, nothing more.

2) One of the big reasons Lisp has failed commercially is that expert programmers create their own personal libraries, which cannot be taken to the next employer for legal reasons. So all that effort is wasted.

> I find it unlikely that without a free/open software ecosystem like linux or bsd

In Taiwan and China, it's common to use Linux in university and to work on Open Source projects (see OpenWebmail and Linux Virtual Server projects, for impressive successes.)

The Chinese government was pushing their Red Flag linux, but I'm not sure where that is now. Certainly Linux would be used in their home-grown CPU and superconductor efforts.

However, once students graduate, their employers are less likely to understand making Open Source contributions at the business level.

> The government is like a parent watching a child

I think it's great that you've lived in a bubble all your life.

But you should make a conscious decision whether to remain in that bubble, or find out the truth about the world around you.

Because the truth is an ugly thing these days.

> believe global warming is human caused

Why am I expected to believe something when you don't include a link to actual data?

The reason most intelligent, scientific people that I talk to are skeptical is that scientists have done such a bad job of communicating the data/evidence. It's not up to the person in the street to prove anything or believe anything without data.

Your recollection is a little rusty.

It's:

1. aviate (physically fly the plane, or more fundamentally, fly the wing) 2. navigate (know where you're going/situational awareness) 3. communicate (tell whoever needs to know)

> the three dimensional world of aircraft.

No, that's not how it works.

En route airways are 3d, but approaches are 2d and landings are 1d. Large US airports are already at capacity, and above capacity in poor visibility conditions (like fog at SFO.)

Also, trains can just add more engines and cars.

As a long-time rider, the VTA infrastructure is excellent, and the route coverage is good. It even has wifi.

In the short-term, if buses left and arrived on time, that would be a helpful improvement. Longer-term, ride analysis from Clipper data could optimize routes and frequencies.

When looking at farebox recovery numbers, remember that the bloated bureaucracy, driver salaries and pensions have to be paid from that.

Doubling the speed of the light rail would make it much more usable.