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Yes indeed. There are so many existing useful components that there's a whole section of the Programmer's Guide to Drupal [0] called "Common Drupal Programming Mistakes: Programming Too Much." Almost all the Drupal code I write is either integration or patches to existing projects.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027799.do
In an alternate universe: "Why isn't WhatsApp refreshing my contact list? I updated the contact 30 seconds ago!"
Please stop. Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News.
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This appears similar to the work in this research: http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/10204/7552/... -- something called Rock Garden, but I don't think they are related.
OP: possible typo? from 2015-11-16 14:30 to 2015-11-16 14:30 (all times are in UTC)
Bitcoin is decentralized, but it's definitely not private. Every transaction is recorded publicly in the blockchain. Some folks are very good at backtracking to figure out how funds are flowing through the network. And sometimes it's not even hard, especially if you reuse a wallet's address for receiving funds across multiple transactions.

In particular, there was an article alleging that Coinbase keeps a list of suspicious wallet addresses, and transacting with them will get your account banned. @gwern (who posts to HN sometimes) is reportedly one of the folks whose address is flagged as suspicious: http://truthvoice.com/2015/05/coinbase-accused-of-tracking-b...
> Your statement is perhaps true from the perspective of a 110 IQ individual. However, for the rest of us

This breaks the HN guidelines. Please don't comment like this here.
The incentive isn't there for building secure IoT products, but products that use online connectivity to offset costs by capturing value back from the consumer. When every refrigerator built monitors your purchases and consumption on behalf of the manufacturer, the store you bought it from and the companies who made the food in it, and probably the pizza box you just stuffed in there knows what shows you're watching, what are people going to do, just go back to using iceboxes?
ISIS is not a legitimate government. They are a group of people who are spreading chaos, and killing mercilessly in the name of the religion. They are trying to overthrow existing, established regimes (those of Iraq and Syria). It is prohibited Islamically what they are doing.

The Saudi government is a legitimate government, regardless of their current shortcomings, or things that they can do better. They govern a stable country, and are keeping peace and stability within the country. It is prohibited to overthrow them.

Here is just one example of how ISIS is being denounced in the Middle East (unfortunately, there are spelling and grammar mistakes in the captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2HlIYRvCM
So did tulips and beanie babies.
This is not censorship. This is just an example of falsification of history. The whole history of USSR and current Russia is based on lies.
LEO difficulty is mostly speed, not height. SpaceShipOne flew above 100 km - but it's a long way to reach Vostok-1 performance, as delta-V for SS1 is more than four times less than for Vostok-1.
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"Vestigial" is the wrong/insensitive word. If I make an appeal to evolutionary biology, it is because I am also a geek, not because I have some overarching pseudo-Darwinian worldview. When applicable, its not wrong to refer to biology to understand why humans work the way they do. When dealing with a software system, wouldn't you want to understand the principles upon which it is built?

Please don't tell me that you would feel the same way if a member of your family, for example, had died in a boating accident versus, say, had been beheaded with cold blood with a knife in some insane semi-religious ceremony (if you would feel the same way, a lot of people would qualify you as a sociopath, and they probably wouldn't be wrong). Vengeance is one of the primary drives of human behavior, it will always exist, it is very often a bad thing, but it must be acknowledged if you want to be taken seriously. Note for example that in rare cases when it is justified, lack of feeling of vengeance will make you look either like a cold-blooded psychopath or a complete coward.

It is rational to try to understand the limits of rationality. A perfectly rational being might rationally conclude that life is not worth living and commit suicide, leaving no progeny. Defending oneself and one's family from threats that have agency (predators, other members of your species) is and always will be categorically different from defending from threats that don't have agency, such as bad weather.

I recommend to consider the threat posed by terrorism as seriously as you consider global warming, or interplanetary exploration, or whatever it is you consider to be a serious issue. It may not be as serious to you, and that's okay, but at least respect the fact that it is a very serious issue to many other people. Then you can have a serious discussion over which steps are and are not appropriate.

As a coincidence, you will also find that people will listen to your arguments against surveillance more seriously when you respectfully acknowledge their own wants and desires, such as desire for peace/security.
Very nice image comparison! I'm pretty impressed with the very low-end settings of this codec compared to JPEG. I put JPEG on "Large" and BPG on "Tiny" and honestly, the results were pretty close. Nowhere near as bad as JPEG set to tiny. And surprisingly, no banding in large smooth gradients like with JPEG.
On the same token, when I visited Orange County several years ago I remember both enclosed, air-conditioned malls, and open-air malls.
I get tired of NY headlines pushing their city as the centre of the known world. So many major cities have a "Broadway".
Schmeiser was found to have deliberately created a Roundup-Ready crop --- he weaned out the non-RR crops by spraying them with glyphosate, preserved the patent-encumbered plants, and then cultivated them so that his fields were ultimately 95+% encumbered, in such a way that he could spray them with Roundup at any point he felt it would be profitable and only then pay the licensing fees.
These are fantastic notes. Thanks for sharing.
No, containers are not the future of the cloud
What's surprising is that amateur rockets can reach space on suborbital trajectories but none of them come even remotely close to orbit.

Altitude is the easy part, relatively speaking. Getting the speed for LEO is the hard part. The GoFast rocket you linked to has demonstrated up to 4,200MPH. Low earth orbit requires about 17,000MPH.

That factor of ~4 requires massively larger rockets, because the rocket equation is cruel. Each incremental increase in final speed requires an exponential (actually using this word correctly, for once) increase in the amount of fuel. Fuel in return requires more hardware like tanks and engines, which means yet more fuel is required, etc.

Edit: using RP-1 as the fuel in a single stage, getting to 4,200MPH requires that 45% of your total rocket mass be fuel at launch. Getting to LEO requires 94% of the mass to be fuel.
While the results are interesting, being able to reuse a hardware HEVC decoder on a phone is a compelling reason to adopt BPG (if one adopts a new image format at all).
So it's a government trying to solidify it's power? Got it.
A 160km altitude cubesat would require a minimum 7.8km/s of delta-v. Anything less than that and it will burn up in the atmosphere after a few orbits. GoFast Rocket achieved a top speed of 1.6 km/s (3580 mph).

It needs to go 4 times faster, and no, a 20% larger rocket won't cut it. 20000% larger by mass would be more like it. It also needs a 2nd stage burning liquid propellant with high specific impulse which is way, way harder to build than a dumb solid propellant rocket.

Noone (not even governments) has been able to send a single stage rocket to orbit.
Having "seen the light" on Shkreli's actions, I can't help but wonder whether or not I'm missing something or if people are just intent on driving a false narrative into the ground.

Yes, he jacked the prices up, but only after getting it on a co-pay schedule, which means that like most drugs, you'll pay your insurance co-pay for it, but not the sticker price.

For those without insurance, or who cannot afford it, they've stated (and has been corroborated) that they're happy to give Daraprim away for free.

At the end of the day, the cost of the drug to the insured doesn't really go up by a whole lot, and the cost of the drug to the uninsured (but not 1 percenter) has actually gotten cheaper. In the meantime, Shkreli will be able to funnel Daraprim profits into research for the drug to keep it from becoming irrelevant, as it currently will be if left alone because the disease that it prevents supposedly evolves, and if left alone, would eventually slide from 70% effective to 60%, to 50%, etc.

Meanwhile, for anybody to which that isn't an acceptable solution, these guys have released an alternative for $1 a pill. It may set back drug-parasitic relations in the process, but it's there, it's cheap, and people won't be dying as a result of the price hike.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/23/news/companies/imprimis-dara...
Relatedly: http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/di...
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"Making peace with <x>" on a personal level is just "coming to terms with <x>" or "accepting <x>."

In this case, OP is probably accepting that he will never be a "master" or "guru" at something, while at the same time reaching "good" status on many things. This acceptance probably helps with not feeling that you are failing all of the time (i.e. not good enough) because you haven't reached some sort of "master/guru" status.
This is not news.
I read it as "The Marco" at first too
Very true indeed. I've done maintenance on a few WordPress sites and every time i opened up a new theme or plugin i thought "this can't possible be as worse as the last one." Boy, was i wrong.
really great notes
You're right, I forgot that the HTTP spec calls for Windows line endings. That means the header doesn't even matter.
Great, thanks for the info - I'll check into those.
They tried various things like big fabric panels designed to absorb sound hanging from the ceiling, special wall treatments, and moving desks around and such around.

It's just a big space with thousands of people, many of them on the phone all day.
Unfortunately, by the time the admins notice that there's a riler- upper - piler- onner, a lot of the damage is done. Look at how many points and comments this story has.
Vs. JPEG, you need 3/5 the size for the same image quality (personnal, subjective assesment).

That's impressive.
Not only is it acceptable, it is necessary. How do you think our ancestors determined what was safe to eat? As the saying goes, sometimes you need to break some eggs. Now don't get me wrong, I'm neither condoning, nor encouraging, wanton negligence concerning human safety, obviously all possible efforts should be made to ensure it, but sometimes, such as in cases like this, the rewards far outweigh the risks.
Actually, recalls are harder than usual for Tesla, because they only have 1 model in the field... so every recall is 100% of cars.
"Any breaking change, no matter how small increments the Breaking version number. Incrementing the Breaking version number has absolutely no relationship with issuing a release."

Wow.

Am I only in thinking that this is seriously inadequate?

If you are knowingly making a change that "breaks" your installed base, there had better be a compelling (and well-explained) reason for it, along with advice how a user can detect if their code is affected and instructions on how to rework it.

Version numbers are not decoration. A user (and, more importantly, your support and engineering organizations) should be able to determine by the full (not necessarily front-page displayed, but available, like in an About tab) version number whether a given known bug affects them.
That it's bad style is kind of the point: The standard response from Go advocates is that ignoring errors is not idiomatic, but it's not good style anywhere, in any language where it isn't outright illegal.
I wonder if that's simply a debanding filter on decode.
But if the anonymity can be deciphered as such, then why does the Silk Road rely on Bitcoin?
... that's a big conclusion to leap to for a single loose bolt.
Was it ever sorted out if using this format was likely to get you sued by HEVC patent owners?
The frontends are hard because you need to start with a formal definition of the language, really. Rust doesn't really have anything resembling a spec at the moment. C/C++ you still have the first problem of creating a formalization of the spec before you can verify the front-end.
History has demonstrated that activities performed in any particular program the NSA claims has been discontinued is typically replaced in another program.

Then Spokesmuppets in front of congress can claim "we do not X under this program", or make similarly carefully-parsed statements, and not technically be lying.

This has happened repeatedly.
What I understand is that Saudi is already home to ~1 million Syrians and the government says they have granted residency visas to 500K more since 2011 -- not as refugees, but as residents. I can't say for certain if they are refusing more refugees or why. But I would guess that the political consequences for such a shift in demographics would be too complicated for the (rather rigid) system of government in Saudi to deal with. Especially with instability in the north and South of Saudi and the complications of the low price of oil. Just a guess, though.
Can you recommend any good literature?
Is there any info on what labeling will be required on packaging and in restaurants for this fish or anything that contains it?

I like to think I'm not overly paranoid about genetically modified things as long as proper due-diligence is conducted, but these quotes here make me think that is not the case, or is being intentionally subverted.

At the very least, I'd take reassurance in my ability to avoid eating this.
Honest question: has FreeBSD become more automation friendly? i.e. putting all the configuration in /etc/rc.conf may be nice for a systems administrator manually editing things, but makes it hard for installation scripts which configure the system incrementally (e.g. Ansible). One thing I like about Linux is support for /etc/foo.d directories instead of /etc/foo.conf. Or is this not a problem in practice?

In our new "cloud native" systems we are ending up with a number of single-purpose VMs in AWS or GCP. So being able to run a minimal OS image with OpenBSD has it's attraction. At this point, it's easier to use CentOS or Ubuntu due to application compatibility.

I suppose the next logical step is Docker or NixOS.
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Medical tourism doesn't work for chronic disease requiring recurring visits/treatments... unless you move there.
Why do you like it? Do you enjoy the misery of others?

Start-ups fail, they did so in the past, they will do so in the future and giving those failures cutesy names to make fun of them is a pretty nasty thing to do. Behind every start-up that fails (ok, almost every) are people working their asses off to try to make a success and in some (again, not all) cases to make a difference.

The number of things they have to get right is pretty vast and all it takes is for one of those 'and' gates not to fire or to fire at the wrong moment and all that work was for nothing.

Most start-ups are pretty realistic about their chances of success and to exhibit glee at the prospect of failure of others is a negative trait. Suggestion: instead of standing by the wayside and making fun of those that try, try it yourself, give your best idea your best shot and see how that works out. And if you fail, I'll give you props for trying anyway.
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What happens when you get mugged for your gold though? You're going to throw gold ingots at people? I'm curious really, I guess you need a right balance of self-defense gear and currency...
I find this article contradictory.

The first sentence: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net.

Later: In eastern Kentucky and other former Democratic bastions that have swung Republican in the past several decades, the people who most rely on the safety-net programs secured by Democrats are, by and large, not voting against their own interests by electing Republicans. Rather, they are not voting, period.

So why start the article saying they vote against, to later say they don't vote? Clickbait maybe?

Anyway what I take away from the article is something I have observed for all my years - Pain (economic or other) is a motivator. If you are struggling, you are much more likely to do something about it.

When a person is handed something for free or little effort, they become apathetic towards that thing. I am not saying that this is a rule - it is a generality. A lot of how people behave in that situation depends on a great deal of outside factors. Maturity, life experience, intelligence can all have an affect

When I was young, a friend of mine had his 4 year old car totalled. It was hit on the side, so the damage was limited to the body of the car. He sold it to me for $100 because that's what the junkyard offered him.

It drove great, no alignment problems or any problems at all except it looked bad.

Within 3 weeks I had pushed the engine way past redline (it was a manual) in a short race, and the engine began to fail.

I kept that lesson with me - if I had not done that, I could have driven that car for years to come, saving me money on insurance, gas, etc. Lack of maturity was my biggest problem.

People vote to give themselves something when they are struggling, but after that motivation is removed they will mostly fall back to old habits.

Struggle is a critical part of the human condition. Take that away and you take away a big part of us.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547259
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By the time I noticed what happened it was too late and the "delete" menu had disappeared. I didn't post it to accumulate points and certainly wouldn't mind if they were subtracted from my account.
This mass meme-spamming form of discussion should not even be called chat in my opinion. It can be fun, but nobody interacts with it as if it was chat above a certain number of participants.
There are a few important differences. People from different countries can get a visa and visit Saudi Arabia, stay and come back safely as long as one obeys their laws. (Whether we agree with these laws is a different matter).

Muslims from different all sects can go for Hajj and are not executed for heresy because of their sectarian background.

Saudi Arabia has diplomatic relations and is a signatory to various international agreements.

One of the problems with Daesh is that they seem to be incapable of doing any of these things not because they haven't "made it", but because they are ideologically opposed to it.
I actually have this problem. It's very annoying and the main reason why I try to avoid whatsapp for talking to new contacts.
You're the person making the claim, that means you already know where the evidence is, and assuming that is true a polite request for sharing that evidence should not be answered with 'do your own homework' on the off-chance that you don't actually have such evidence. So, if you have any evidence it would be much appreciated if you produced it.

As a rule, especially with deals like these the founders do not get to take money off the table until the company has achieved certain benchmarks so I'm as curious as the GGP is.
On Panda, the title is cropped to "File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email" which made me think that the N.S.A. had a Slack competitor.
Yes I understand it quite well, ~20% scale up which is 20% longer, and 20% wider is quite a big change in mass.
The big problem is either staging or being able to shift it to a shallow enough trajectory and get enough velocity, but it might be solvable if you can do a zoom climb type launch from an aircraft similar to how Pegasus/SpaceShip One do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(rocket)
I'm with you. But I've made my peace with it and found a way to make it useful. Most of the news these days is click/flame bait. I just check HN first. The top rated comments on most of these stories is a pretty good barometer of if I need to care or not. Usually not.

HN is a meta-filter for mainstream news if you use it right.

But yes. Very yes. The "how I did this cool thing" story is sorely missed. A front page full of hope and awesome was a welcome sight each morning.
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project_root/sites/example.com

project_root/sites/example.com.a

project_root/sites/example.com.b

project_root/sites/example.com.a.123

project_root/sites/example.com.a.234

Create these directories. Add a settings.php file to each. Add stuff to sites.php if needed. example.com.a and example.com.b should definitely work. Not too sure about the other two because I haven't created a site in a multi-site setup that is 2 subdirs deep, but it is easy enough to try.

You may also need to symlink the subdirectories (e.g. a) in project_root. See "Subdirectory multi-site" here: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install/multi-site
You're not considering the long term effects.

The extra cost placed on the insurance company will get passed on to the consumer in the form of increased premiums.

He's just using the fascist, anti-competitive, anti-consumer U.S. insurance economic model to his advantage. It's scum heaped upon scum.
Doesn't the funding source (BTC) make it at least a bit interesting? For example a card user in the US could have this credit card, and international relatives could fund it with BTC and not have to pay international transfer fees.

It seems like a small step in the direction of using BTC as an actual primary account on the backend and making transactions in the real world.
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You earn money from the consumer?
I need HKTs to write something in terms of >>= that will work for more than one monad, no? And I do that all the time.
Seems like the scene from taken with the Sheiks buying young drug addicted women from underground auctions was not that far off from the truth.
Israel and India use 3 stage HTPB solid rockets for space launches you don't need to have a 2nd stage liquid fuel rocket to get to orbit.

Also 20000% larger by mass? want to be a bit more serious? if you scale this rocket by 35-40% you get to about the size of the first stage of the Shavit solid fuel space launcher which is a commercial space launcher.

You do understand how scaling works on 3 dimensional objects right?
Then we make GE shit fish that taste good!
Is it a free format? Or patent encumbered? It mentions H.265...
no labeling.
Then step up enforcement. That's the problem which should be addressed, and is just as relevant if a bunch of stereotypically rowdy college kids move in next door.
Hi, I wanted to respond to your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9719648

It's true that most of the left is sadly ignorant of such concepts, but the reason my own praxis has developed so far beyond the typical left is because I've been exposed to them.

Leftists won't phrase things in terms of memetics either, but that's what they're actually optimizing for, and I thought HN would both understand the term and appreciate the specificity, so I used it.