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But with no legal power of enforcement I'm guessing? I mean an airlines can always choose to follow the directives of agencies from other countries that have more stringent standar…

While it's nice to think that airlines can just rely on regulators to tell them which flight paths might be unsafe, the reality is that there's no international regulatory agency g…

"only" NP-hard? You know that NP-hard problems are equal to order harder than NP-complete ones, right?

Bill Gates and Zuckerberg didn't leave Harvard permanently though. They took a leave of absence which means they'd the option to come back if things went south. Also both (and Gate…

Your definition relies on the notion of probability though. So I'm not sure why you seemingly view Knuth's work as more fundamental than Kolmogorov's, etc.

I skimmed through the extract presented (didn't have time to go into detail) but I don't see a formal definition of any kind presented in the extract. Could you point me to where i…

What? The modern definition of pseudorandomness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandomness#Pseudorandomn... ) was figured out in the 80s through the works of Blum, Goldwasser…

Becoming a professor is hardly the only reason to do a PhD in the sciences.

In my experience Java is usually at most 50% worse than C++. This is only the case though when I write Java with minimal use of objects (so no generics for instance). Also this is …

ACARS is what the article seems to be saying is how they know. Last ACARS transmission was 1:07 am. Any pilots here who know whether ACARS actually transmits FMS information? Edit:…

Unless you're trying to commit suicide. But then why would fly northwards instead of southwards if you want to commit suicide? I've a hard time believing the 5000 ft statement. But…

That's only for the Andaman and Nicobar islands though which are very far from the mainland. I'd be surprised if there's no 24/7 radar for the mainland.

This is called the Dial-a-ride problem or pickup and delivery problem with time windows in optimization literature in case anyone is interested.

Wealth is not income though. Higher wealth taxes would go a long way but then you again have the problem of the wealthy simply moving their wealth out or not bringing it to the hig…

It seems to me that their must be more to this situation -- I'm doing a PhD in CS and I don't know of a single PhD I knew in undergrad (top 20 program) or grad (top tier program) w…

Xbox/Bing/Hotmail might have a hard time staying afloat w/o the profits from Windows/Enterprise/Office.

I don't think forcing potential users to compile a program is going lower the barrier much. A lot of the users could be biologists and they would likely not know how to compile the…

I'm in CompBio and the sense I get is that it's a lot easier to get someone to try your tool if all you have to do is provide them the jar which they just have to click on and it r…

What would be really killer is if it could have bindings to Java. Then one could take advantage of the JVM being present everywhere w/o having to do a separate compilation for ever…

Pittsburgh down for the past 5-10 minutes though I was able to access it twice in that time frame. EDIT: Seems to be backup. Wonder what caused the hiccup.

Maybe you were just a more distinguished candidate during graduate admissions? Also, if you're international, PhD admissions are a lot less biased against internationals compared t…

According to the programming language shootout it seems it's close to the right range -- The median speed of Java 7 is twice as slow as C++. It also meshes well with my experience …

By good, do you mean faculty positions elsewhere or is it hard in general to even get say senior jobs in the industry after being denied tenure?

In the sciences, almost everyone - domestic or international is paid a stipend. It's more accurate to think of PhDs are paid researchers rather than students. Taking classes is not…