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> It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman.

Very true... but I don't really see the problem.

>And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.

I suspect you are joking, but behind the joke, there's a very real, very disturbing attitude.

It's a double-standard, really; in modern times, masturbation is largely seen as a positive thing, an empowering thing for women. But not so for men; the same act is somehow shameful for men. It's like there's this attitude that a man's sexuality, to be honorable, must impose it's will on others. It's an attitude that I think is both destructive to the men in question and to those we interact with. It's an attitude that should have gone away with the idea of ownership of other human beings.
This is a silly project that solves a problem no one has. When we encounter aliens, it'll maybe make sense to have some designation for humans/earth as a whole. In the meantime though, it's completely meaningless.

And the flag itself is... ok I guess, but there are a million designs that would be equally acceptable.

I just don't get the point.
The fact that gravitational waves must exist follows from the idea that information must travel at a finite speed. Whatever theory you come up with, if it has a causal structure, it will have a wave structure.
Interesting last picture where there is a row of the American flags and then a lonely Earth Flag. I would have though it would be Swedish flags as this project is from a design college in Stockholm.
Personally, I would much rather see Julia undergo serious upheavals in an attempt to make an elegant language that works really well for scientific/HPC computing. Too many languages get trapped trying to provide backwards compatibility for everything and you end up with a lot of unintuitive cruft and quirks. If you want a language for "getting stuff done", use Python. But I find that I get a lot done with Julia in spite of constant change (in fact, I don't use Python at all).
The post you're responding to says explicitly in the first sentence that these are breaking changes.
There's a difference between turbine and jet engine. Natural gas peaker plants are very expensive to operate due to fuel cost. Most big power plants do use turbines to spin the generators but the turbine is fed steam, not hot combustion gas as in a jet engine.
Atlanta's still pretty cheap. You can live pretty much anywhere you want with an $85K+ salary, which isn't hard to get no matter your specialty. As far as large cities go, I'd call Atlanta a bargain.
Game designer Brian Moriarty's 2002 Game Developers Conference talk discusses Masquerade quite a bit and I think does a good job of viscerally conveying its appeal. The text of the talk is here: http://ludix.com/moriarty/psalm46.html , but I think it's worth listening to the original recording, which you can get here: http://number-none.com/blow/media/psalm_46.mp3
The flag represents nothing. Humanity is divided.
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It's still where we as mankind originated and seems somewhat appropriate. However, maybe that's short sighted and we will get a very anti-earth separatist movement from the colonies.
Lack of IRL interaction is a plausible cause. Japan is experience a reluctance to populate, not for porn, but still.
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AFAIK, France developed their own nuclear program - both civil and military - in a completely independent way from the US.

I don't know how much cooperation there is nowadays, but I wouldn't expect a lot of it in a market where there is a very strong competition between Areva and Westinghouse (which, incidentally, is a company based in the US, but is owned by Japan's Toshiba).

Anyway, regarding the technology, Terrapower is a US company and I'm pretty sure they'll also get all the know-how that will come out of the developments in China.
> the only competitive advantage for apps is push notifications

Don't know about that. What about UX? It's pretty well accepted now that the native controls in apps provide a much less frustrating UX than all but the most meticulously designed web apps, which is a very low percentage right at the top. That's just talking about controls, that's not even to mention the clunkiness of the browser itself (address bar popping up over content, popups offering to remember passwords, all that kind of stuff that detracts from your tailored experience) and to an extent the navigation model (typing in a url rather than tapping an icon for instantaneous checking of a service). Simple stuff like this really matters to the majority of people.

For technically-minded people, we're not as distracted or put off by this 'minor' stuff because we understand the trade offs, reasons for it, depth of it and even how to work around it. Most people don't, they just (probably rightly based on evidence) trust apps to deliver a better and more tailored UX and that's it, that's what they like and want more of.

Don't get me wrong, I love the web, for probably much the same reasons you do. One advantage it definitely has is the ability to avoid downloading apps in the first place. But its competitive disadvantages vs native apps go way beyond push notifications. There's are a lot of things so deeply baked in to the web and browsers that apps do so much better that it will take (software) generations to 'fix', if at all.

Unfortunately for the web, as seen in the last five years or so, these are disadvantages that really, really matter to the majority of people who actually use services. Much more so than the higher level, arguably 'more important' things like security, privacy, storage space, etc that us techies tend to prioritise.
While I share your dread and find your idea interesting, I honestly wouldn't use a service like that. "Local stranger discovery service" - why not just strike up a conversation with the person sitting next to you? I do so fairly frequently, and I have had some incredible conversations that way.
IBM started questioning their funding of the project because of the lack of a success criteria.

It's cool that you have many calculations running in parallel on a super computer, and each calculation is a simplified model of a neuron, but how do you know when you've actually replicated a brain? A brain is more than a collection of neurons, they need to be connected and do something.
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The pricing is actually no longer identical. Amazon's latest price refreshes dropped Glacier to below Nearline and introduced a new S3 object type (e.g. Reduced Redundancy Storage) called Infrequent Access that's a lot more like Nearline.
From my point of view online porn looks boring because it objectifies women too much. It’s just so mechanical nowadays. Whenever I happen to view porn from the eighties it looked much more natural. But then again I guess back then porn actors where only a few dozen and they knew each other quite well so this allowed some kind of intimacy to grow between them. Now porn has become a commodity, there are thousands of actors, a gazillion of different styles and the production is too big for anyone to bother bringing some quality to the mixture. I feel that this would be a threat to youngsters if they were to believe that sex doesn't require any kind of sentimental bonding.
Where you will also get banned if you continue to ask low quality questions like this one. Reviewing your history, you have asked several other low quality questions already.
I just read that and the Dark Forrest and that (fundamental) part of the book honestly made no sense to me. His claim that you can't locate a signal's source location was in complete conflict with everything I thought I knew about astronomy and how we locate things in space.
Google doesn't realize that this isn't why AWS is winning. AWS has better support, more services, more options and is easier to use.
How are the differences in the execution model handled? The defining quality of Python execution is that anything can monkey-patch anything at any time, using "setattr()". This means the obvious implementation has dictionaries for everything, and optimizers, as in PyPi have to work very, very hard.

So what did they do here? Is every object a dictionary to the Java runtime? That's easy enough to do, but no gain over CPython. Did they weaken the ability to modify objects so they could map to Java objects? That gets a performance win, as with Shed Skin, but a lot of Python code won't work. They're probably not doing all the stuff PyPi does; that's hard and took a decade of work by many people.
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I have a question. UNLINK will be more responsive than DELETE as it will not block and run it in background. But will subsequent requests be faster than DELETE. How will it behave if immediately followed by GET.

In background processing I think it is keeping the list of elements to delete. So when a GET is received it will check against that list too. The overhead will remain when you have to process incoming queries and deletion is not finished yet.

DELETE followed by GET takes x sec (mostly due to DELETE).

//In GET after DELETE time is not affected

UNLINK followed by GET1,GET2,... takes y1,y2... sec

//Will y1>y2>... until deletion finishes ?

Is this correct ? It looks like a trade-off, improving current latency at cost of later ones. (I feel it is worth it).
I just checked this, and on that page some apps do in fact only offer totally disabled or Always. Seems like an oversight that could be fixed with a software update though.
Implicit in what you're saying is that one of the reasons you're cool with having a "subpar" conversation with someone half-way around the world, is this idea that you're unable to find anyone in your immediate vicinity. Otherwise (if you agree that text is subpar) you would always prefer just calling up someone who is across the street.

So because we don't know (or feel immediately comfortable) talking to 99.999% of humans that surround us, the "removal of the human element" makes it more comfortable to talk to someone halfway around the world. Sure, I'd like the OPTION of having to talk to someone half-way around the world. But I don't think that its necessarily the best option or that we should think that the only people that you can talk to on any given topic are necessarily not people who are sitting right next to you - on the bus/train/plane/park bench/etc.

>Maybe because for most of our conversations, not having to involve the messy things like body language and posture and cleaning yourself up from whatever you ate for breakfast are actually beneficial?

Or to turn it around, it would be so much better to live in a society where you could just strike up conversations with strangers and not be judged for superficial BS like crumbs on your face.
It's funny to look at this like an electric circuit. There is a nominal tension, built in our very biological existence. If mere resistance (i.e. moralizing, law) is applied, tension will increase or output will decrease...
Not for any app. As the grandparent pointed out, many many apps don't give the "While Using" permission. It's only "Always" or "Never".
Where? I don't see that anywhere in my settings. I'd consider installing the Facebook app again if I could yank all of its privileges. I'm 99% certain that this is NOT an option anymore, post 4.4.
I thought of the same thing. Aren't the United Nations supposed to represent us all on several issues? Though even if there is a maritime organization, there's nothing regarding space and its exploration. I guess it's time to bring in more bureaucrats :-)
You misunderstand the difference between rest mass, invariant mass, and relativistic mass.

Invariant mass is the same in all reference frames, so light can possess it (if there are multiple photons, or they are in a box).

That is my preferred mass.

Rest mass excludes photons, but there is no reason to do so most of the time, since the mass of the photon acts exactly like mass in most things except when dealing with change in velocity.

Relativistic mass is special and depends on the relative motion between the objects.

In any case gravitational waves posses invariant mass, so essentially they do have mass, and if you could hold them you could weigh them on a scale.
Interesting link, but no update since 2013? Is it dead?

There's also http://www.openworm.org/
Yes it seems weird. "We use this NO2 as indicator of particulate, as it's too difficult to measure directly.."

Frankly I would not be surprised if Exxon, BP and Shell would have lobbied these emission regulations. After all they get to sell 20% more diesel.

But again I might be completely wrong.
The colder than normal Spring and Summer in Ireland was quite noticeable and a bit weird. It was if there was no summer. If the North Atlantic Conveyor stops, Northern Europe will end up with a climate more like Canada.
Having a flag for planet Earth is an oxymoron. The very purpose of a flag, and nationalism in general, is to be a symbol of a nation, and the very concept of a nation can only exist in contrast to other nations. One side of the coin can only exist because there is another side. All of Earth, considered as a whole, has nothing to compare itself to. We call the sides of a coin “heads” and “tails”, but we don’t have a word for the “side” of a sphere, since it would be pointless.

(Incidentally, there are already a few symbols for the planet Earth:
Unicode 2637;TRIGRAM FOR EARTH¹ and Unicode 2641;EARTH²)

That said, there may be a need for a slightly related symbol: In the world today there is a common assumption of nationalism, so whenever some grand achievement is done, there is the assumption that it is done in the name of some country or other, and everything is done with a place reserved for a symbol for that country – commonly a flag or a heraldric shield. To contrast against this, we may need a symbol against nationalism.

① http://graphemica.com/%E2%98%B7

② http://graphemica.com/%E2%99%81
Oh man, I would find a shadowban, especially over something so overtly political so amusing!

Of course, it's probably just a technical glitch.
One suggested solution to the Fermi paradox is that any civilization that gets noisy enough to get noticed quickly gets attacked and destroyed (or taught to hide better in the future...)
Are you referring to Pluto losing its status as a Planet? That was a complicated process that was based on new discoveries and not some idea by some "upstart science teacher" on the daily show. Keeping Pluto as a planet would have made our definition of planet very wide and to be consistent Ceres should have to be turned back into a planet as well.
Indeed. Wasn't there a US surgeon general who said schools should teach masturbation to young people as way to avoid sex related problems? Think I remember a flap about that and her eventually getting fired... because... Western Civilization and morals or something...
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That explains downvoting, it doesn't explain the replies that clearly did not recognize any attempt at humor. I really missed that mark.
Sex is an important part of human relations, to forgo it is to leave out an important part of your personal development in my opinion.
OK, then a specific question: How much energy does a gravitational wave lose when passing through some solid mass?

I don't know, but my intuition tell me that would lose almost all it's energy as heat, but if there is better information please let me know.
I was looking for a build-tool like system to "compile" my thesis: run data analysis scripts, output figures, do some munging on latex source and bibtex references, and finally run the latex compile.

After trying a few and fighting with waf when I needed more flexibility, I found doit to really be a godsend. It really seems to be the best mix of simplicity, flexibility, available features and extendability. Thought some of you might also find it useful. Plus, no arcane make syntax to learn or remember.
The VOC is important enough that you will learn about it in history classes in school, at least in some countries.
You are keying into some great points here.

The energy recovered by a turbo is not entirely a free lunch. A turbocharger gets some of its energy "for free" and some of it not so free.

To the extent that the turbo is acting like a turbine (extracting energy by dropping temperature and pressure across the turbine blades), you are recovering that energy "for free".

However, to the extent that the turbo appears as additional back-pressure to the engine as each cylinder's exhaust valve opens, that portion of the energy is not had "for free".

Theory tells us that the amount of energy left to be extracted from exhaust gas is proportional to how much hotter it is than the ambient air temperature (even 1 degree means there is energy left in the exhaust).

However, every practical Carnot-cycle heat engine (steam, piston ICE, gas turbine, etc) ever manufactured leaves some energy on the table.

Practically, the process of extracting additional energy from the exhaust means running it through another "stage" of the engine (e.g. an additional ring of turbine blades in a turbine or an additional cylinder in a compound steam engine).

But here's the rub: Have you ever noticed that in every turbine of every jet engine, each successive ring of blades is physically larger in diameter than the one before it? And in a compound steam engine, each additional cylinder is larger than the one before it?

This is because the process of extracting energy from the exhaust requires allowing the gas to expand, requiring that the next stage be even larger in order to extract additional energy.

So in any practical engine, you reach a point of compromise where you decide that adding another stage is either too expensive, adds too much weight (or perhaps adds just enough friction as as to be counter-productive!) that it isn't worth it to chase after that last few percent of heat energy left in the exhaust.

Edit: This is also why you see the advent of combined cycle power plants. At a certain point, whatever heat is left in the exhaust is more practically used to provide heated water, than to try and convert it to kinetic (and then electrical) energy.
It isn't costly at all. We can feed everyone on earth for a few paltry billion; food is not expensive. We choose not to. Golden rice has its own technical hurdles and is only solving a single nutritional problem.
(and as it's unlabelled: the linked flag as a whole is the Norwegian flag)
IMO, all of this applies to meetings at work as well, which are, after all, conversations. It's hard enough for people to listen to each other when they're actually listening. Throw in a laptop, a phone, and the mistaken belief that a person can 'multi-task' without a quality hit, and its a disaster straight out of the gate.

I'm curious: Does anyone have rules at work around no laptops / phones at meetings?
Only for apps that use the new API level, unfortunately. Unless they do what cyanogen does and fake the data exposed, which I guarantee Google won't do.

It's going to be extraordinarily confusing for users who end up exposing their personal data, thinking that an old-API app will be constrained when running on their new 6.0 OS.
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Instagram and WhatsApp also benefit from the work of their parent corp, Facebook. I know people who work on Instagram.com and they consider themselves Facebook employees. So I think maybe those companies are not good comps, or at least a poor apples-to-apples comp when doing headcount: product.
And yet the dismissive and sarcastic comments all too often wind up on top. For some reason, gratuitous cynicism tends to be seen as more highbrow, and appropriate for HN, than gratuitous humor. Yet the former tends to cause more rancorous discussion then the latter.
Duckduckgo is actually an awesome search engine. So much of what Google gives you is over-SEO-optimized garbage, I find Duckduckgo often gives more relevant results.
>The US is the world's largest nuclear energy producer, and arguably still possesses the most know-how.

We are a one-trick pony. Well, maybe a few tricks, but the tricks are all nearly the identical; and we haven't invented a new trick in a long time. Nor are we even working very hard on that front.

>Our nuclear energy capacity is five times that of China. We have four times the reactors. And the share of energy we get from nuclear is eight times higher.

We have practically frozen nuclear power development. We're bigger in nuclear power because we were first movers. Being a first mover in this space is now turning into a disadvantage though since we can't summon the will to abandon these older, more primitive reactor designs. China currently has ~24 plants approx 24MW/h slated for construction or under construction; many of which are completely new. The US has 4 plants under construction, all of which are simply expansions of existing facilities. Further, most of our US reactors are nearing or past the end of their designed-lifespan. Instead of replacing these aging facilities, we've just been extending the operating permits. We will never hold on to our lead in power generation like that. We'll wind up with a lead in nuclear accidents though, if we aren't careful.

I'm not going to get into the fray about political ideologies, any more than to say that China's nuclear energy policy is definitely better than what we have in the US, and probably better than we ever had in the US (since we only ever built (at scale) nuclear plants which support weapons production); as opposed to the Chinese who are exploring just about any promising lead WRT nuclear power generation.
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You don't suppose this has anything to do with Uber's announcement that they are doubling down (or more!) on the Bay area with the Sears building in Oakland?

http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Uber-is-com...

No, probably totally unrelated.
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Using both GCP and AWS the one place GCP really stands out is container engine, it's much better then elastic bean stalk for deploying and managing apps.

Otherwise: cloud storage has a more limited api then s3 (s3 allows you to query by start key, cloud storage only by prefix), cloud sql doesn't support postgres (which is a necessity Geospatial apps) and there is something weird with there network that causes server sent events to be unusable from compute engine instances.
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>Hacker News isn't really intended for asking questions like this

Isn't that what /ask is for?
I'm guessing this is because if it were interleaved consistently, then it couldn't possibly be constructed in 3D space.
I have found that quitting pornography and masturbation has had many benefits for my life. My energy levels, motivation are up and my mood is noticeably more stable. My relationship with my girlfriend and love life have also benefited. I think it's good to practice self-discipline in general. It can also become a problematic addiction.
It's even more severe in Germany. However, Germany as a country won't go away, it will just look very different, since there are many immigrants who are making up for it.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32929962
outer space is not the right term to describe low earth orbit. It's the nearest space there is, and if you're there, you're strongly gravitationally bound to the earth itself.
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Why not? if Mars is colonized then there be 2 white dots on this flag (not sure why the moon is white)

It looks quite good actually