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Unless the regular American is from a low income household and can not afford bail. For example: Kalief Browder.

Sorry should've elaborated. I know there are UWB RFID tags in NFL player shoulder pads. I was also under the impression that the ball itself is tracked. Is this not the case?

I imagine a football is easier to sneak sensors into than a cricket ball though. Restrictions of the ball itself. Which I realize now that you call it out.

Out of curiosity, could you link to some of the rowing sensors? A quick google brings up http://www.smartoar.com/ i'd be interested in seeing what there is in the way of cheap options you've used.

I believe NFL already heavily uses UWB sensors for analytics as well. Could someone describe how this is different? Is it just extending to the rules and semantics of cricket?

Interesting. I still see Canadian airports starting with Z.

But Y is heavily Canadian. We should all just start our own airport. Sounds like a good way to learn about naming. I imagine we will want an airport code staring with YC, so it'll have to be in Canada :P

Just to clarify, as others have pointed out, the leadership principles at Amazon are in no way a new experiment. I don't know their origins but I wouldn't be surprised to learn they are nearly as old as the company itself (probably a few years younger).

They are deeply engrained in Amazon culture. They are brought up frequently. They are used as the basis for both hiring and promotion decisions.

Regardless of whether or not you (or employees) agree with them. I think what's interesting is that you call them out as too long to be useful. But my guess is +90% of salaried employees at Amazon could recite all of them and give examples of what they intend to convey. I suppose this is a testament to Amazon HR?

I think technically Canada is stuck with the "C" prefix (vs. "K" for USA) eg. CYVR, CYUL, CYXX

We also have airports with "CZ" (eg. CZBB).

I am not sure what the difference (if any) between CZ vs. CY codes is. Probably just sticking with convention (begin with Y or Z because everyone else does).

Just to elaborate On the priority bit. Page count during on-call rotations is probably a huge metric to watch.

After the NYT article restrictions around transferring teams were relaxed significantly:

Previously I believe you had to stay on a team for a year before you could switch. Now it's something like a month.

If you find yourself on a bad team, pop open jobfinder and don't be afraid to abandon ship! Don't needlessly suffer.

There was a short story / satire article posted about this in the past. The author automated dating with open table APIs, tinder and facial recognition, uber for ride home, etc.

Does anyone remember this / have a link? My Google fu is failing.

I am in agreement. Especially considering they put up a front and try to show visitors a fake / happy version of the country.

People often boycott and don't like visiting circuses or shows that generally abuse and exploit animals (elephant shows in Thailand come to mind). I can't see why visiting NK is any different.

An alternative would be to just use AWS lambda:

> You can create a Lambda function and direct AWS Lambda to execute it on a regular schedule. You can specify a fixed rate (for example, execute a Lambda function every hour or 15 minutes), or you can specify a Cron expression.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-scheduled-e...

It would remove the need of infrastructure for "task workers". Although, depending on your stack / setup, it of course may be easier to have your application tier double as a task worker due to complicated dependencies or startup times.

Additionally, I am not sure if everyone is aware but SQS does offer FIFO delivery with guaranteed once-only "processing". There are some interesting caveats to this, definitely worth looking into though :)

Good call out. I just want to add that the issue is exacerbated on a mobile phone. iPhone 6, portrait mode, the "S" and "preadsheet" are even on different lines!

The linewrap goes away when I rotate to landscape mode.

This is a good point. IANAL, but I imagine there definitely are routes to take when drafting various legal documents (e.g. employment contracts) that would allow employees to pursue personal projects. Its likely just easier (and as you say in the company's best interest) to avoid figuring out how to word such clauses.

My takeaway from the post was it isn't so much that he thinks it's fair but a legal necessity to protect the company. More of a criticism towards how current IP law is structured.

Good visualizations, thanks!

Super interesting! Never knew this about helicopters. Thanks.

Could you clarify why you cite 20,000ft as the transition altitude? I've always been under the impression it is FL180.

From your wiki link:

> In the United States and Canada, the transition altitude is 18,000 ft.

I believe warning of wake turbulence is very common after take off of any large and heavy aircraft.

Wingtip vorticies can sit over a runway (or even drift over to parallel runways) for minutes after a takeoff. They are very dangerous to smaller aircrafts.

The key to avoiding vorticies is to take off at a point earlier than the previous aircraft and to climb at a steeper angle (vorticies travel behind and downwards from the aircraft that made them).

Example: http://www.boldmethod.com/images/learn-to-fly/aerodynamics/a...

Helicopters can also produce serious turbulence as well!

Great explanation!

I think it's also interesting to point out this is also the explanation for the trend of adding winglets to the tip of the wings.

They help reduce the wingtip vorticies, and in turn, reduce parasitic drag and improve fuel efficiencies.

Thank you!

I'm probably heavily influenced by the fact that I live in one of these places (where helmets are a legal requirement).

All I could think while reading this is "yes, you definitely should always wear a helmet!!"

I'd also be interested in hearing an answer to this from tptacek.

My (limited) understanding is the security issues arise around the implementation & handling some of the default claims (NBF, IAT, etc.) and producing/verifying the signature.

But I don't quite understand how moving to a different format solves these issues?

To be fair, unless I misunderstood, the symetric key is only used when you save your master password (so you don't have to re-type it) and use a PIN instead.

I believe LastPass app encourages you to NOT do this.

This obviously doesn't excuse the implementation (it shouldn't of gotten past CR). Just pointing out the attack vector is not as severe as it seems (at least from the issue's title).

I kind of get the impression you just want to bash the java language! :p

I think the whole eco-system (including dependency management with maven) is definitely worth acknowledging the value of.

Out of curiosity are you primarily flying short haul flights in US / Canada? (I know Air Canada rouge has ditched a lot of screens.)

Im genuinely curious because almost all flights I've been on have screens in the seats.

I don't want to assume on spaceboy's behalf, but I think all you need is to remember a master password to some sort of (online) password manager. From there you could use cloud services (eg. Dropbox) to access such documents.

Securing cloud hosted documents is obviously another discussion.

I think sidlls is really pointing out the present/future value of money calcations. It's 100% accurate if you invested in a flat rate, guaranteed interest, investment.

I think this "conveyor example" from Intel is a good explanation as to why: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/02/19/why-has-cp...

I think that you would cease to see any acceleration from increased clock speed unless you also sped up other parts of the processor / computer.

I think your sentiment is correct. If we can take advantage of higher clock speeds, then why not do it?

Ah yes, I forgot this detail. Thanks!

I'm not convinced it is entirely solved though. Didn't the FBI drop their request to Apple because they found a loophole or security vulnerability that allowed them to accomplish what they wanted?

I think at the end of the day, software has bugs. And if you have an extremely well funded and intelligent group (e.g. Equation Group) looking for these holes and keeping them secret for personal use and exploitation rather than fixing them, there are going to be ways for your data to be compromised.

As a software engineer I (quite cynically) have viewed patents as a way to protect IP and force people to pay you for using your solution.

Do people frequently use the patent system (either for software or product design) as a catalogue of tools and building blocks they can use?

I imagine it must be quite time consuming and painful to go through the licensing process. Would be cool if parents all had associated licensing terms and costs declared up front!