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perhaps Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction

perhaps we didn't create Al-Queda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLvzV9xAHA [Hillary Clinton]

perhaps we're not involved in training/funding ISIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDKmM8npBQ [John McCain]

or maybe there's something seriously wrong with the traditional narrative - http://naplay.it/763/41-47
Yeah, I don't see how this is even a question. Politicians will pander.
I can see how that'd be painful, though not the fault of the producers. Is Kink and Insex-level stuff the worst of legal/gray area pornography that you have to analyze, because that'd be surprising.
This article cites $56 million in losses from the Starbucks deal. Another post [1] cited it around $70 million. What was the angle here? Did they somehow not realize the financial hit this would incur as a result of the deal?

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/square-lost-more-than-70m-on-de...
Check your connections. I moved away from Bittorrent Sync because I couldn't easily stop it hitting external trackers, or if I did, sync stopped working completely (especially on the Android client).
Well timed, this article. I just got back from a trip to Vegas. I kno intrinsically that my chances of winning from one deal to another at a blackjack table are equal (card counting notwithstanding). And yet I can't deny that there were times when I was "hot." Of course you'll occasionally win a few times in a row, but it seemed to change with dealers and new shuffles.

About the only thing I could attribute it to was my own change of pace and self awareness. If I was hot, I might hit out of confidence without second guessing myself. Incidentally, this is what the dealer will also do, only they do it under the guise of requirement.
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Facebook offers free services to ordinary people to help them stay in touch with their friends. It also offers a paid services to businesses to help them communicate to actual and potential customers. Anyone who uses Facebook can stop at any time. People use Facebook by choice.

In contrast, governments are violent organizations specialize in coercion. Governments extract their revenue by force or threat of force and use their revenue to fund institutions and projects that people would not pay for voluntarily. Governments maintain power by direct force (police and military), by deceit and misinformation (control of the money supply, compulsory education), by monopolizing necessary institutions and services (dispute resolution, security), and by appealing to people's greed and envy. It is nearly impossible to opt out of government services, especially in the sense of not paying for them (taxes).
and now you have this option $1,500 a month for unlimited flights.

https://www.onego.com/
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I must be out of the loop but I thought Apple said they couldn't update the CPUs in the 21.5" iMac because Skylake with integrated graphics wasn't out yet.
what i am trying to tell, is that it is streamlined only because you know photoshop already... every time i open photoshop (it happens may be once a year) i am totally lost. while in gimp - everything seems to be so easy. it doesn't mean gimp interface is intuitive, it means i spent a lot of time learning it. same about photoshop - every tutorial is created for photoshop contributes towards it, but it doesn't necessarily means it is "streamlined".

hope this makes some sense :)
It's great that internet companies are pushing speeds up, but networking hardware to fully use 10G speeds isn't cheap. Unless I missed something, 10G ethernet NICs are $200+, and all the 10G routers are $1,000+ enterprise hardware.

On the other hand, if you find that 1gig is too slow and can afford a $300/month bill for something faster, you probably can afford the requisite hardware.
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Anyone know what the odds of running Linux on these would be? Were there any hardware differences between the Developer Edition and the Windows Edition in the previous generation?
Have you tried out darktable? I'm wondering what your opinion is about it.
> And how is BIG not a mutually agreed to transaction?

... the other end of the transaction. You know, the part where the money is collected from tax payers.

> And stop overusing the word 'obvious.'

I used it 3 times in 3 comments. I think even someone that supports the stipulation of what can and can't go in a comment would agree that's not overuse.
It's been a long time since I tried to read right-to-left. The red isn't really more of a pink on my screen. Is that a choice? I always like how true red jumped out.
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Ask HN: What are annoying software processes that should be automated?
One example is Project initialization (downloading dependencies, setting PATH variables, etc.)
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Meanwhile, in Australia: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pentel-EnerGel-Deluxe-RTX-Retract...

(it doesn't seem to be sold directly here)

Edit: found http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/pentel-ener...
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Seeing as the title could be a bit misleading, I'm glad the article clarifies:

>Ishimatsu says the research demonstrates the importance of establishing a resource-producing infrastructure in space. He emphasizes that such infrastructure may not be necessary for a first trip to Mars. But a resource network in space would enable humans to make the journey repeatedly in a sustainable way.

In other words if we want to get to Mars ASAP, setting up lunar mining and refueling infrastructure probably isn't the fastest way to go about that, even if it is more mass efficient.
PC has been a "router" for a long time.
Could it be "in the zone" vs "out of the zone"? For example playing a team multiplayer game, the first 20 minutes the team is tight, and we're winning and making lots of kills. Then one member of the team did something inadvertently that annoys another member of the team, and that other member begins hurling insults and negs through the rest of the game, knocking everyone out of the zone and the team disintegrates.
I've found (for stable software), that most features and fixes are really short. I think it's a sign of code maturity.
Here in Buenos Aires we have a lot of entrenched poverty too, in slums that are often only tens of meters from rich areas. What I wonder most about is: what is the relationship between the poverty and the prosperity? Are the people in the "labour camp" able to go out and shop for meat, fruits, and barber services? Can they go get another job? Or are they in some kind of debt bondage? Have they been forced out of their homes by the electronics industries, or are they sending money to their parents and grandparents back in the village? Are the street food vendors and desperate taxi drivers better off than they were before the electronics industry came along, or are they finding themselves unable to pay the escalating bribes and taxes, forced off the land their families farmed, and occasionally beat up by police for scaring rich teenagers? What was their life like five or ten years ago, and what do they expect it to be like five or ten years from now? Can they walk to the KFC, or will the police pick them up as if they were Maciej Ceglowski walking around in the wrong neighborhood http://www.idlewords.com/2006/08/i_spy.htm or a black person walking around in a white neighborhood in the US?

Why is there only trash on the poor street? Do people not throw trash on the ground on the rich street, or is there a municipal street sweeping service that takes care of that? If so, why doesn't it clean the poor street? What's up with the lack of safety equipment? I'm happy to live in a country where I can still enjoy fast merry-go-rounds, but safety equipment in construction work is super important for preventing accidental death.

The derivative and the causality are more important than the current state.
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Hi Jen!

I just want to say, it was a nice stunt you did with Google Glass! I think the jokes were even better than the... more explicit part. It was also the first time I heard of MiKandi. Please do something like this with HoloLens as well, such take on up-and-coming technologies is a material for infinite amount of laughter over at watercooler at work.
I find it interesting that most people coming down against GBI do so under the assumption that coercion is the strongest incentive to work. I think it much more probable to look at GBI as separating the monopolistic part of the work market (if I don't work I will starve) from the competitive portion. Surely more competition in the employment market is a good thing?

Even then, I still think it is the third order effects of GBI (the ones we don't know about, or are to complex to model) that are most likely to cause massive societal upheaval. But then, maybe massive societal upheaval is what proponents of GBI are most excited about.
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Phil Plait has a nice (and humorous) summary which is also linked in the article.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/14/weird_st...
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>And if we slip into a world where that's not possible, or where it's incredibly difficult…But some do, and some want to tinker, create, invent, hack, and innovate.

I don't know, I think there will always be people who will drift towards areas where they feel/embody this, and where the field is so niche that most people just don't care about what you are doing at that moment in time or it's so far removed from what most people engage with on a daily basis.

Fields where the current "monied" players are all running like chickens with their heads cut off, peddling snake oil (too many times have friends heard about some device and asking me if it can really do xyz, and I just facepalm to myself only to realize that things are just so new and most people have the faintest idea of what is actually possible now and what will be possible in the near future), and things like laws/incentives restricting xyz aren't even talked about because people are still trying to figure out what the hell is going on (at least from my perception working in a research lab on the outer tech world).

And even if it is not bad for Google, Samsung, Apple, et al today, years from now, they'll be where ibm is, peddling their watson equivalents to everybody that will listen fighting off their own obsolescence.
>America is already pretty anti-immigration

Of the larger economies, America accepts more immigrants than anyone else, even the "progressive" countries. It's among the top 5 countries in terms of percent immigrants as part of the population, not counting places like Bahrain who have migrant laborers. Can you imagine if millions of people who earn less than USD 5,000/year tried settling in Mexico, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Thailand?

Can you imagine how "anti-immigration" they would be?
I am curious as to why we just don't set that up on Mars to begin with. Set up a manufacturing infrastructure and an agricultural base.
Ah, you're an anti-atheist using a stupid strawman to attempt to argue against the idea that morality can have a source other than divine commands. Most religious people aren't as stupid as you seem to be, so I doubt you'll find much buy-in for your arguments here.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/divine-c/
Obviously getting a chance to refuel en route is huge for saving dv - the rocket equation is a harsh mistress. Honestly, I'm a little surprised that it isn't more efficient to move the fuel for lunar orbit to LEO.
Man, you all get in your feelings over nothing. That was a serious question.
Calling it "Bitcoin-NG" without buy-in from the majority of the Bitcoin community seems impolite at best.
Rotten tomatoes usually matches my personal tastes pretty well. Their Critics Consensus summaries are pretty blunt and entertaining sometimes. Here's the one for Fantastic Four (2015). "Dull" is my favorite part.

"Dull and downbeat, this Fantastic Four proves a woefully misguided attempt to translate a classic comic series without the humor, joy, or colorful thrills that made it great."
I wish I could answer your questions. I keep asking them myself. I want to talk about it with someone local, but it's incredibly hard to find someone speaking English here outside work (and incredibly awkward to ask those questions at work), and my Chinese currently is limited to "hello", "thank you" and "goodbye" (I try to learn some as fast as I can; I only had a week's notice I'll be flying here so there wasn't time to prepare).

My Polish co-worker who is here with me and has been here before tells me of a girl working here who somehow escaped the poor villages far away from the metropolis and ended up working as a software tester. He says that he tried to talk with her about life, but that her English proficiency is limited to the technical matters; she can't express herself in English if asked about non-work topics, probably due to lack of general vocabulary.

I'll be happy to post something if I learn the answers to those questions.
It's because Ultra lets you do geo based routing by state and province and Route53 doesn't (at least not yet)
The only "mistake" about it was the failure to contain the blowback.
You're doing God's work creating alternative scenes for tech companies outside of the Bay Area. Thank you.
Ask HN: How many of C. E. Shannon's papers are still classified?
How many of C. E. Shannon's papers are still classified?
A great technical lead is a great therapist.

They're kind, supportive and know how to focus your energy to help get a really difficult task done. They don't dictate, they don't prescribe, they listen.

Your job as a tech lead is to listen and help figure out a way to make testing, compiling, deployment, support, and escalation easier.
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This point is key:

"assuming the availability of resources and fuel-generating infrastructure on the moon"

Sure, if the moon is a gas station, then stopping there to fuel up on the way to mars makes sense. But it's making a big leap of faith that refueling infrastructure and raw materials can be reasonably built on the moon.
You make it sound like achieving remote access to this machine with two dozen malicious programs on it would be difficult. I highly doubt the machine is as hardened as her Facebook is.

The chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
If you've never held one of his reports in your hand, I highly recommend to find a friend who has one. They are incredible in details beyond the contents of the pages: the cutouts, binding, paper, and ink all chosen with care.

Felton's reports are works of art. Deeply personal works, like that of other artists. I don't think that makes it irrelevant.

His medium of data, charts, questions, and timelines is different from other artists, but one uniquely suited to our age.

I have two of his reports and am happy to keep them on my shelf, and to share them with others as a beautiful glimpse into another's world.
LR is way easier than PS to learn and use. When it comes to managing a large number of RAWs I have not found anything better.
I found the hair also lacked a bit of randomness that real hair has. But no doubt, it is still amazing.
Good video, but it seems to somewhat conflate FM synths (e.g. Yamaha YM3812, YM2610, YM2151) with primitive envelope+counter-based PSGs (e.g. General Instrument AY-3-8910/Yamaha YM2149, Ricoh/Nintendo 2A03, Texas Instruments SN76489). I'd argue that the character of these two classes is substantially different. The PSGs are much more built around pure waveforms (for certain interpretations of "pure waveforms" that include pseudorandom noise), while the FM synths tend to be built around sets of parameters that produce sounds almost, but not quite, entirely unlike traditional musical instruments.

Another interesting bit of trivia is that the Yamaha "FM" synth chips were actually based on phase modulation (PM) rather than frequency modulation (FM). The abstract math can be transformed back and forth between the two, but the PM formulation accumulates less error when directly expressed in digital hardware.

The Commodore SID is arguably in a class of its own and probably can't be fully explained without some kind of textbook-length exegesis.

edited to add: samples to try to demonstrate what the heck I'm blabbing about with the difference between PSG and FM:

PSG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMKWJ5e1kg
The Legend of Zelda - Main Theme (Koji Kondo; 2A03)

FM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPNxSD9YNY
- The Revenge of Shinobi: The Shinobi (Yuzo Koshiro; YM2612)
I need some dynamic DNS for my VMs, I'm getting away with Avahi/mDNS right now but I need to set up an Active Directory lab. Do you have any recommendations for dynamic DNS? Bonus points if it's BIND9 compatible.
I talked to them and explained the futility of blocking the informational site when the source is freely available on Github. Ironically, I could probably run the software, I just can't hit the ipfs.io site from my browser because the company we use for classifying sites (WebSense, I believe) has deemed ipfs.io "peer-to-peer", a category which is blocked by policy.

You should take a survey of F500 companies to see how many can actually hit the site. Or check your logs.
if you remove mass from the moon for fuel, does that not effect the orbit of the moon, and with that the tides?
What ever happened to SQlite 4?
ESA seems to be interested in pushing that angle. The recent announcement was very refreshing to hear[0].

I like to imagine it's Musk radiating enthusiasm for rubbing progress into our faces, but whatever it is, something seem to have caused a renewed interest in manned space projects. Maybe it's just ESA and NASA stepping up their PR game. But whatever it is, I'm thankful and have high hopes!

[0] - http://www.space.com/29285-moon-base-european-space-agency.h...
Electric power costs for an old PC are significant. Don't bet against this being cheaper to operate than dragging that old Pentium box out of the closet. Depending on the size of your home, size and noise can be issues, too.
Serious question...why are they still there? Do they believe that strongly in what they are doing to make those kinds of sacrifices with their personal life and health?
I don't know about worst. There is some pretty strange stuff out of japan, but it isn't as violent. There are a couple Russian websites that make Kink look like Disney in terms of violence, but they aren't a sexual with it. They are annoying because they don't comply with s2257 recordkeeping requirements. Most people would be shocked at how many overseas sites don't comply. That law only applies to "actual sexually explicit conduct" ... not all pornography and certainly not simple nudity.
You don't torture.

Torture is wrong and evil. Defending it is wrong and evil.

I'm at no loss for words, but you may be in need of a soul.
Because everything you take to mars costs ~68% more fuel to get off of earth. Getting off of Earth is much harder than getting off of the moon, which has ~86% less gravity.

If you only take enough fuel to get to the moon, then you can load up there and enjoy a significantly easier time to get up to speed on the way to Mars.

I didn't see how much of a percentage difference it is in total fuel though, in the article. I'm expecting it is pretty close or they would have cited it instead of the Earth liftoff reduction.
From the article:

> To see whether fuel resources and infrastructure in space would benefit manned missions to Mars, Ishimatsu developed a network flow model to explore various routes to Mars — ranging from a direct carry-along flight to a series of refueling pit stops along the way. The objective of the model was to minimize the mass that would be launched from Earth, even when including the mass of a fuel-producing plant, and spares that would need to be pre-deployed.
If you start spinning counterclockwise, you're robbing Earth of angular momentum and shortening the day. Source: https://xkcd.com/162/.

The point is, Moon is big. It will be long, long time before we could do anything there that could make a measurable difference in Moon's orbital parameters or tidal forces it generates.
> I think I need something more emacs-based

Numen [1] is an Emacs REPL we wrote for Parenscript + Node.js a few years ago. The version that's up on Github works with a different Lisp called Lumen [2] that compiles to JS and Lua, which we created partly as a Parenscript successor (it's self-hosted) but mostly as an experiment in a table-oriented Lisp [3,4]. But the differences between that REPL and the Parenscript one are trivial, and I can put the PS REPL up if anyone's interested. We still have plenty of code in Parenscript—including a Chrome extension we wrote to support HN moderation—so I use it every day.

1. https://github.com/gruseom/numen

2. https://github.com/sctb/lumen

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3291065

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544926
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Previous discussion on very related article (yesterday)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-bloo...

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I'm very interested!
Because setting up infrastructure on Mars could already benefit from having fuel plant on the Moon.

The Moon is a pretty interesting place. It's just three days out, which makes it orders of magnitude easier to set up and support (and evacuate in case of an accident), and a fuel plant there could help reduce cost of all interplanetary missions.
I'm a little confused here as a Canadian, and was wondering if anybody could help me out?

When searching for TV antennas on Canada Computers (my go-to electronics store in the GTA) I am met with cheap iCan (Canada Computer in-house brand which is quite good usually) digital antennas which claim they have UHF/VHF reception for about $10.

Then there are ATSC antennae which are all more expensive (~$20) and anything I read about ATSC [0] on wikipedia sounds like that's the one I need.

So basically my question is will the cheaper antenna work? They have thousands of them in stock across the country so it must do something... I'm planning on picking up one tomorrow to watch the Jays.

I would ask them in store but I somehow doubt that their salesmen (who are usually great) will know much about TV antennae.
RODFL

Adams Platform was capable of transferring a link to play any hidden file on the local hard disk :) I would recommending finding and reading the patents - funniest thing I have read in ages - particularly the Audio one...

I so hope this is the same Adam - The lack of substance would certainly indicate thus...
I've used Epson printers without issues on Linux. Apply the profile and print away.

(Of course Epson has its own issues...)
The think to do is find a few reviewers who resonate with you and keep tabs on them. I mostly just see what Armond White tells me to see.
I have always wanted to buy one those Quality Wooden Table. But I assumed they dont make consumer versions....

Any one know where to get something similar?
I have never used Photoshop. I have used GIMP on and off for years, and mostly used Apple iPhoto for basic photo editing.

Last year, on a whim, I bought a copy of Lightroom. I have rarely been so impressed with a piece of software, and was immediately more productive, and generating better results.
I've done that in KSP, seems to be working.
Does anyone writing these papers have any appreciation for the difficulties of producing liquid H2 appropriate for use in manned rockets? This is some seriously tricky stuff. Turning water into liquid H2 is one thing, making it out of dirty moon-frost is another. A little impurity here and there and your rocket engine becomes a bomb.