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Ask HN: As an employee, would you be ok with your CEO being the head of 2 firms?
Obviously I'm referencing Jack Dorsey - but several others have done this as well. Just from talking to current and former employees, no one has said anything positive about the move. They actually all feel bitter about it. I'm wondering if I'm (we're) missing something.
Yes, but long term will natural gas be used, instead of clean alternatives?
Reminds me of their switch from Xen to KVM from RHEL 5 to 6, so I wouldn't put it past them to change course.
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Here's the individual votes:
https://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/plenum/abstimmung/grafik

About what you'd expect sadly. And of course quite a few didn't bother to vote.
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Cellphones only took off in the late 90s. They are not really 80s technology, at least for poor peasans.
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We want things that enable us to do more. Food designed by experts and good taxation financing a stable public service system empowers us to do more. So does control over tools we use. Also keep in mind that the reason we're talking about losign control is because greedy corporations are greedy. It's not a good reason to give up anything.
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True. However I don't recall any quality VR headsets available for reasonable prices before Oculus Rift though. There was something going on in the late 90s, but back then we didn't have PornHub.
I am actually wondering why does Adobe not invest a little into Linux?

Considering that their current platform providers are moving towards business models where they will want to take large share from every software sale, it would allow Adobe to gain competitive advantage and negotiation power.

Beside they would probably create completely new market for themselves.
Nat gas is state of the industry tech:

https://www.freightlinertrucks.com/Trucks/Alternative-Power-...
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Exactly!
Nuclear thermal rockets/fission-fragment rockets are the way to go, but you can't launch them directly from Earth because of the nuclear fallout.
If you're looking for an alternative to Duolingo, give Memrise a try. It allows you to download entire lessons for offline use.
What's RDS? Seriously.
Those quotes are found in a huge number of stories.

Sure you can blame them for a rush to publish if you want. I think mainly they are trying to indicate they reached out to a relevant party and didn't hear back. And by saying didn't hear back immediately they are making clear that it may well be the party wasn't immediately available (not that they were not willing to respond at all).

On some (maybe all, I don't know) sites, they then update the story if they get responses.
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How does (free) internet benefit Africa?
There's a lot of initiatives currently punting "free internet" for us, Africans, but how does having free internet benefit the continent?

I get the information benefits, but beyond that?

How does a poor person in a rural area REALLY improve their life by just having a cheap android phone and access to the internet?

Your thoughts?
Did you read the article? They rely mostly on staff knowledge to ensure the money reaches the intended recipient.

Imagine sending that $100 with a destination that reads: "Deliver to Mirjam, daughter of Anna, who lives in the red house down the street from the Hargeisa old town well."

7.5 dollars seems pretty cheap for that kind of service.
Also relevant: This[1] Nautilus article about how we have a tendency to over-estimate the significance of new technology in the future, simply because it is new.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-b...
> answer me now, you fools, don't you know who I am and what power I behold?!

Alternatively, "Answer me now, before someone else beats me to publication, oh god please ... c'mmooon it's almost deadline, pickuppickuppickuppickup ah dammit, too late."
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No way. Obama wants to pass it so it can be part of his "legacy". If anything he wants it pass the day after the 60 days of scrutiny expire, to minimize the debate about it and leave as little time as possible for protesters/opposition to organize against it.

Also, if Bernie Sanders wins, he'll veto it. If Clinton wins, she'll "evolve" once again on the issue, and pass it. If Trump wins, despite him saying he doesn't like it he'll probably be convinced to pass it.
Don't forget to add the rendezvous risk. It would also be extremely difficult to try and send it to meet the vehicle during the Mars transfer - the launch window eventually closes, and even during the launch window the ideal trajectories are quite different.
Hey there! Author here. We've got instructions for working out which root store you're using (it's based on your OS and browser) and instructions for configuring the major root stores: OS X, Windows, Firefox and Android.

We weren't able to identify a way to disable inbuilt certificates on iOS 9 - Apple Configurator 2 only allows the addition of certificates. If the HN community knows of a mechanism to do this, let us know and we'll update the article and credit you.
I think that the main issue is that the major problems are solved by the listed tools.

There is still some innovation going on. For example there is a window cleaning tool from Kärscher (probably also others) and gutter cleaning tool from iRobot.
Pool operators have vastly different roles (responsibilities and authorizations) in the bitcoin system than banks do in the fiat system.

There's no irony.
yeah, nice one. Thanks for writing down pretty much my own thoughts a lot more eloquently than I ever could.
Because if the US isn't going to follow the law why the fuck should anybody else?
They estimated how likely particular notes were, using a kind of averaging procedure that corresponding to simulating an elastic foam. They used a fourier transform to identify the notes in a piece of music: they then simulated the physical procedure of adding a stone to the foam at a location corresponding to the frequency, and time corresponding to when the note was played. The final shape of the foam then gives a density estimate of the data: the more often a particular note was played, the deeper is the dip in the foam at that location ('the foam evolves into a time-averaged density of the input').

Once you've done this, you have a curved surface. You can imagine a ball being released at some point and rolling around: it could get stuck in the bottom of a well ('a stable fixed point'), which corresponds to the 'most probable patterns' in the training data.

Edit to add:
"The vector field converges to a gradient of a multi-dimensional probability density distribution of the input process, taken with negative sign"
You can think of the "vector field" of the dynamical system describing the movement of the ball as a bunch of arrows, giving the direction the ball would move if released from each possible starting point. If you trace these arrows end-to-end, you can see the trajectories that the ball could take.

Since the ball will roll downhill, the vector field of the system is (minus) the gradient of the potential energy/height. Also, because of how we formed the surface, its height 'converged to the probability density of the input process' (the more frequent an input was, the lower the corresponding dip in the foam). Thus, the vector field of the system converges to the gradient of the probability density of the input.
This appeared on TV yesterday. DIY science experiment, making a lighting lamp
Tangentially related: Anyone here has good alternatives for electronic payments in East Africa, and mid/East Asia?

This is for a commercial startup that that is already working in these areas, currently using mobile payments.
I ended up using the solution from http://www.virtualhere.com/

The server runs fine even on a raspi 2, to which I switched after having some problems running it on a beaglebone black.
With the exception of the '80 most of these items lasted longer, were easily repairable, or made to be repaired.

As a child, when my parents bought an appliance it was a big deal, and that appliance lasted. It was partially due to practical engineering, an emphasis on longevity, and my father who refused to spend his hard earned money on a new washing machine every two years. My father believed in 15 years durable goods. And so due I. (Yes--that's a fragment Mr. Taylor.)

So appliances, I don't want your bells and whistles. I want an appliance that lasts. I want a service manual attached to the gizmo, along with the warranty information. I want an assurance of a few years of the availability of repair parts.

I don't need, nor want to buy a new appliance every two years, but I know you have built it into your business cycle by now. Some of us see through the scam, and just aren't buying.

Everything I said here, goes for any new automobile(gas, alt fuel, electric), but that might be a loosing fight? I can't believe how people buy automobiles. They buy them like they will never break down?
I'm a British citizen, how can we stop this from happening again.

I don't think writing a letter to my MP is going to change anything since I write very often (yearly, since snowden) about surveillance, and nothing changes.
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Just in case anyone else mis-parses that the same way as I initially did: I take it the words in quotation marks are intended to be interpreted as "the citizens are evil; companies and governments are good" rather than "the citizens are evil companies, and governments are good" (which is more defensible syntactically but doesn't make much sense).
It's almost exactly a rubber sheet with balls placed upon the surface. The weight of the balls creates depressions in the sheet. This is it really, except for two extra things:

1:When the balls are removed, the sheet slowly returns to flat.

2: The sheet isn't 2 dimensional but has as many dimensions as the input vector.
Microsoft had nothing to do with OLPC's downfall. It had everything to do with failed project management, and at the highest levels, failed leadership. Expectations (on national levels) were not managed correctly, strange omissions in implementation (such as even rudimentary technical support) crippled uptake, and in the end participating nations had to work with volunteers to get anything done. The volunteer effort continues.

Eventually the organization was mismanaged into oblivion; there is currently some while-label vulture in possession of the commercial brand, and the non-profit arm has progressed rapidly into irrelevance.

As bad as things got (and are), OLPC never shipped a single machine running Windows -- if there are any out there, the participating school program installed it. As for FLOSS fans, mostly they made a lot of noise on blogs without ever having actually been involved with the program. If they had, they would have known that OLPC didn't spend a dime on Microsoft support; MS was allowed to send engineers to develop support within OpenFirmware for loading Windows, should the recipient nation desire it.
I'm from the UK, but spent some time in Baltics. In the UK, "free" wifi generally isn't free and mobile internet is expensive and pretty crap. Someone will inevitably tell me that I'm complaining about first-world problems, but countries stereotyped as "poor" and "former soviet" make the UK look stone-age with regard to internet access.

In the Baltics, easily-available internet means kids can access Wikipedia, KhanAcademy, etc. They can get exposure to other cultures despite their geographical isolation. Most of my mathematical and programming education came from the internet, not classrooms - despite the UK's "world class" education system.

Older people have more involvement in their local community due to better communication with the community. This also gives them better representation nationally, as I witnessed in the form of a farmer's strike/protest in Tallinn a few weeks ago - where people from remote little villages and towns all around the country descended on parliament.

On a more selfish note, a person in a "poor" area who can freelance via the internet and earn "western" fees can live like a king off very little work, and some of that money will presumably find its way into their local community.
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What about the Vive and OpenVR?

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
Regarding (3) why there is so sharp divide between people who say, "don't sugercoat the truth" and what you just advised. It is confusing what side to be on.
I believe some of that is 'sleep debt', after a few weeks you tend back to 7-8h.
"St. Elsewhere is the Kevin Bacon of TV shows" [1]

[1] http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19892/what-is-the-...
Agreed. The physical impossibility of the train is what got to me(where did all these soldiers come from? did they march through the nightclub and kindergarden wonderland cars?).

That said, it is very well produced and if you can set aside the technology aspect of it I would say it's among the better sci-fi movies in recent memory.
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I think the only person who might come near to being able and willing to do anything about this is Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Obviously nothing will be done about it under a conservative government.

You can donate to Privacy International, who are at least promoting awareness of the issue.
Great project!
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Interesting. This was the claim of the Bush administration, that the moon was the route to Mars, but that program was cancelled after being ridiculed.
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You select some odd movies to pick on. 2001 was a classic. Sure, for viewing it as a modern audience it has way too many issues to score anywhere near a 90, but for its time the score was more than warranted.

The Martian I haven't seen yet, but according to general consensus it seems to be pretty good.

Blade Runner is another classic, the fact that it didn't score in the 90's is surprising.

Some people didn't like Gravity at all, but I really did. I would easily have given it a 90 myself.
SMB = small business?
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Sounds like a great product, but of course, it'll likely offload most of the processing to "the cloud" so the manufacturer can spy on you and sell info on your sexual kinks to the highest bidder.

Not that I'm cynical about tech or anything...
There are a lot of problems with star ratings in general. I believe they should be normalized to a more sensible distribution. So e.g. exactly 20% of things have 5 stars, and exactly 20% have 3 stars, etc. Or a more gaussian distribution so most things get 3 stars, and truly good or bad things get 1 or 5 stars.
"a pile of crap" is a bit harsh, it's fantastically produced and the acting is okay.
In 2009, Sequoia invested 5-10 million in YC.
Are you willing to pay significantly more for your home appliances?
Personally I take the opposite approach, why not connect SSN numbers to everything?

As you mention, it's easily determinable, and it has the fortune of being an existing ID number system already connected to everyone.

Allowing everyone the ability to tell people apart based on a number is infinitely better than matching names.

In my country we use our ID numbers for everything, dentist appointments, vehicle inspections.. if you call any business at all it will likely be one of the first things you're asked for.

The number should be an identifier for a person, not a security measure. If you just accepted the fact that SSNs are insecure and that by knowing someone's SSN does not necessarily mean you are that person, then the US could use them more effectively, cut down on a significant number of errors in every industry, and actually reduce identity theft.
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A custom operating system? A monthly fee? A high starting price? Thanks, but no thanks! There's Lumia with a standard OS and much better capabilities.
Isn't that just a "quad" copter that can lift a guy?
People generally don't in public.

Also, historically, people have associated working in the pornography industry as an act of desperation.
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No mention of server push, so I assume it's not supported?
De gustibus non est disputandum. At least, not on HN. However, would you put The Martian almost on par with 2001? Would you rate it more than Blade Runner?
I wouldn't do either, no way.

As for the video games space, well, I don't know it enough. But I suppose you could argue that video games are different from movies in that they require a much higher level of engagement, both in terms of time and concentration - not to mention the monetary investment. So it is reasonable that they are evaluated more thoroughly by their users and that whatever hype surrounds them has a lower impact of their final rating.
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I think that's good advice. I heard some university did a study on insomnia. They took a group Insomniacs/individuals with sleep reversal on a 14 day backpacking trip. I believe they were all cured by the end of the trip.

I probally got the facts/study wrong, but heard something like this lately. Too lazy to look it up. I don't think they had a control group.

I don't know if it's my damaged brain, or I've just become conditioned to the noise in society. I can go to sleep, or relax in complete silence. I need a radio, or TV on in order to sleep. To be honest, I need background noise in order to read, or code. The only time I have overcome my wandering thoughts, when in silence(when I think about it--nature is filled with sounds.) is on rigrious outdoor adventures, but they have to be rigrious--like back packing, and river rafting(trips where I need to do most of the work. The paid for trips--I'm not tired enough to sleep. My mind just wanders, and I'm up, and tired the next day.)
I think darktable should have a single click button to be able to submit a lens calibration (which might get redirected to the lensfun API). Most people are highly uncomfortable going through all the trouble.
x2go can make you two types of sessions 1) the 'local screen' one that will have that resolution problem and 2) a 'detached' one that will be the size you like, for example fullscreen laptop sized.

The 'detached' kind are quite a bit faster somehow, so I use that, and often re-connect to it from the local screen in a window when I get back to the desk.

It's surprisingly practical, as my 'detached' session usually have a different window layout, tools etc.
You could still use Ansible with Packer, since Packer can build Docker images.
I always felt it was weird that in the west there's this clear sharp line between porn and not, whereas in Japan things seemed a lot more blurred - it was normal for celebrities to become porn stars and vice versa, for game franchises that started as porn to get a cleaned-up Playstation instalment, for manga artists to release unofficial porn versions of their own work. I remember watching the movie Swordfish and being struck by how much the one incongruous topless scene felt like something you'd see in a Japanese work. So maybe we're seeing some kind of convergence?
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Nicely said.
RDS is Amazon's hosted database solution. Basically MySQL / MariaDB / PostgresQL as a service.
I've been using Rotten Tomatoes as my primary movie filter for a few years now. Although I don't see a lot of them, I can't think of any movie I've enjoyed all the much over that time that wasn't around or above 60%. There are some highly rated movies that I haven't enjoyed, but not the reverse.
Oh, I understand it's stock Puppet inside the thing. But much of the tooling around it (the Hiera syntax, the dashboard, the DB) acts as an alternative to the tooling around Puppet.

Satellite 6 and Puppet Enterprise are direct competitors, and there is not much further upstream development on Puppet 3.6, so I expect Red Hat to have to take on the necessary development work during the life time of the product.

So, in essence almost a fork already, and in the future much more so. You already have to choose, you have to port your old codebase and tooling to one or the other.
More about the plane:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_Watchkeeper_WK450

Are these being used in the UK for civil surveillance?
I don't think so. Google Glass proved that tech, fashion and social cues are all deeply related. I think the same people who wore glass around in public and didn't get why people called them assholes would be the same people who buy sexbots and don't get why people call them perverts. A few dorks with calf-high white socks with birkenstocks would go nuts for them, and most of the rest of the world would look on with a mixture of disdain, amusement and repulsion.
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> [...] how does having free internet benefit the continent?

I don't think it does. I think it's one of the ingenious ideas to solve
social and infrastructural problems by throwing an app at them, because real
solution requires work, while creating an app is cheap and still gives the
author the feeling of trying to help the world.

> How does a poor person in a rural area REALLY improve their life by just having a cheap android phone and access to the internet?

Merely having a smartphone connected to internet is too little. To benefint
from it one still needs to develop skills, and I can't think of anything that
realistically could be done on 4" screen.
Interestingly this battle got started in the 80s around games consoles, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade (does the console maker have the right to total control of the games market for that console?)
no, I was just making a point, as in saying something stupid and then just using the cop-out that it was a joke, like the first commenter did. I would defend my daughter no matter the size of the asshole, like most parents would.
I'm appalled that for someone out there, Freddy Got Fingered is the funniest movie they've ever seen. Likewise, that Lost In Translation is the most boring.
Interestingly, this seems to contradict findings of segmented sleep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep).
A standard physics question is to calculate the electrical flow between two points on an infinite square grid of resistors.

Not surprisingly, the flow isn't large. The electricity takes many path through the circuit.

Here, too, having fewer paths would result in large flow.