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They are simulated with MK in mind but that's just using the site parameters. It doesn't affect the design of the telescope only the simulated performance. You don't change your telescope because the site is poorer, it's just not as good.

TMT at APO would never be built because it's not that good a site. TMT at Armazones would be no different other than the enclosure would be modified for the conditions. Yes it effects the performance and science case slightly but you don't redesign a telescope because of that.

Money is committed on the basis of guaranteed time not on the basis of performance. The money was even committed before the design was finalised. There is no agreement for example over which bodies will receiver dark time and good seeing, those scheduling decisions are far more important in performance.

The telescope is not that specialised.
Where do you get impact factors for psychology journals ?
Just like the Bay of Pigs.
>What does Dalai Lama have to do with Buddhism? The Dalai Lama is not the head of Buddhism but the head of Tibet

The Dalai Lama is considered by religious Tibetans to be the incarnation of Avalokiteshvara, the Tibetan Buddhist deity that personifies compassion. So your question makes about as much sense as asking what Jesus has to do with Christianity.
That's a somewhat poor analogy, since airbags etc don't prevent you from doing certain driving maneuvers.

Static type systems prevent you from expressing certain programs (I think this is a good thing, but not everyone does).

A better analogy would be antilock brakes or understeer - safer but prevents you from doing certain things.
By your logic we should remove alc/tobacco taxes then? Global warming (in the long term) is more harmful than either of those.
Especially with the Stamos hire (not to say that there aren't plenty of previous FBers that shared his views, but he is particularly vocal on issues like this.)
Robert Fripp reversed a longtime no recording policy on the latest King Crimson tour by scheduling time at the beginning, the intermission, and the final bow of every show when people can do this. On the first of the three nights they played in Toronto, someone took a picture during the opening of 21st Century Schizoid Man and the show was stopped, but not before Fripp apparently stood up and pointed out the guy who did it so everyone could see why the band abruptly stopped playing.

Anyone who spends a few minutes on Twitter these days can see how terrifying a public shaming can be, so I can see this practice being a strong motivator. I'm not sure it's better than Ansari's method, though.
"Not using a database" is possibly our best feature. :)
It would be cool if there was some kind of service to simulate these interviews, where you can code while being watched in real time and then receive good quality feedback. Does anything like this exist?
This involves a bit more manual (but scriptable) steps, but the example it shows is for nginx, in addition to being very small and having barely any dependencies. https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny
We all different which is why studies involve many people and statistics, control groups, etc. I'm glad you found something that's working for you, but it is faulty logic to generalize it to other people based on your personal experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Is there good research on the different in strength? I remember reading Swedish statistics that women are about twice as likely to be regular exercising than men, which I would assume has a large impact on strength.
it's not always about trophies. There are tons of games where you can achieve meaningful success while also accomplishing another task or doing something more enjoyable (like go outside) through clever use of macros and rubber bands.. it is not ever easy, and is in a lot of ways a meta-game which has its own challenges and rewards.
I see others calling Facebook a "public utility",
seemingly unconscious of where that road leads.

If I were Facebook there is a line I wouldn't want to cross. As soon as you become a "public utility" you get regulated to oblivion.
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I completely agree. I want to be able to write the core of an application once, and then add on a UI for every platform I deploy it on (Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, etc.). Currently, the only real options for doing this are C/C++, and that's just no fun to do.

I'd love to have a higher level like Swift that can be easily ported between platforms and connected to whatever development language/environment that is commonly used on that platform.

I'm hoping that open sourcing Swift will allow something like this to happen. It seems like Microsoft is already making moves toward making Swift interoperable with .NET as a way of making it easier iOS developers to release Windows phone apps, so I'm optimistic.
I likely agree with your sentiment, but I'm afraid I'm too ignorant to even realize there is any attempt at a joke. For my understanding of the culture, would someone mind explaining?
Happily surprised by the fact that they merged 16 pull requests since the repo got open sourced :)
Well Obama has had 6 years to fix it. Which makes this less of a republican/democrat issue than a "why the hell aren't we copying Finland" issue. You know like why would government spend all this money on contractors and consultants to figure out a new way to do things when they could just copy a highly functional and successful system? Oh, corruption. Right.
That's what they claimed but there's no evidence of it on their site.
A company that is traditionally hostile to open source gets as one of its first "contributions" to a newly opened project a troll, confirming a bad stereotype of the open source community.

How could that not be considered inappropriate?
>then you have some sort of cognitive dissonance to counteract.

Well, you have to deal with the reality of how humans think. That cognitive dissonance is called the human condition. It is impossible to live life if one were to not have any biases or gut instinct. You'd have 1000 football games between two teams just to eliminate the different variables in order to determine which team was better. You'd have to visit a restaurant that served you shitty food, again and again till you made sure that it wasn't just a one-off, You'd have to allow a person to run a company into the ground multiple times just to make sure the previous failures were not the result of poor judgement, and so on. Chance and probablity rule our lives.

Also, your brakes example is unsatisfactory. When people use brakes they get an immediate feedback which lets them know if they're working adequately. And even so, people are more likely to believe a mechanic when it comes to brakes precisely because they could die if they get it wrong.
> Many economists would consider this to be a problem that falls under their realm of expertise.

Econ 101 doesn't opine on the relative efficiency merits of government vs private sectors...makes me wonder if you have ever even taken an economics course. You misrepresent both Economics as a field of study and the argument I was trying to make (which was an argument by logical reasoning, not economic reasoning). If you'll notice, I even mentioned a specific government (the german government) as one I would entrust my money to, so it should be pretty fucking obvious the argument never was about government vs private, but rather our government vs private.

> Can you provide counterexamples? If you look, there is plenty of competency in both sectors.

Yes, I can provide counterexamples, but that I'm not gonna beat up your straw man for you. There is plenty of competency in both sectors, but you can't deny that if my money goes to the US government, that a significantly large portion of it will go to extremely bad ideas, such as blowing arabs up and funding the militaries of foreign governments that will help blow up more arabs, subsidizing millionaire farmers, subsidizing automobile travel, creating laws that imprison people for victimless crimes and building the expensive prisons to house them for mandatory minimum amounts of time, etc.

Sure, we democratically elected this shit, but we could democratically elect any pile of shit and it would still be a pile of shit. I see no utilitarian value in respecting the whims of 51% of the population.
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That's the direction I've been moving. Amazingly simple to write scripts to, for example, turn the data into an html file. And using directories lets you add comments to tasks.
Not FB, only Mark Zuckerberg AFAIK.
Eh, I think you are underestimating how many people are interested in this. One of my friends who does small business web design and hosting has had several customers ask him about Let's Encrypt.

SSL is a pretty big market, and the impending release of Lets Encrypt to the general market has some of the SSL vendors somewhat rattled, based on their FUDdy blog posts lately...
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Ensemble models always win. The democratically chosen already have almost all of the power. It's ok that a few other people have a little as a hedge in case that works better.
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Because most browser caches are insanely small and really eager to evict stuff, especially on mobile phones.
Now I feel better about my past rejections that were based on such stuff.
Let's Encrypt Enters Public Beta
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Entering Public Beta
Someone recently suggested this book [1] to me. I'm still reading it, but enjoying the ride so far.

The 'shift of power away from the government' argument is just one of the arguments made in the book, and author Linsey McGoey discusses it much more thoroughly than the article does. See quote /a/

[1] http://www.versobooks.com/books/1959-no-such-thing-as-a-free...

/a/ The second concern is that philanthropy, by channelling private funds towards public services, erodes support for governmental spending on health and education. Outspoken observers such as Michael Edwards, a former executive at the Ford Foundation, point out that private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to.
Anything you "achieve" while doing something else seems highly unlikely to be "meaningful". Useful ingame? Perhaps. Meaningful? I doubt it.
> and email clients support folders and filters if you want that instead.

Because who doesn't like mucking around with their client's filtering?
30 bit color means 10 bits per channel equals 1024 discrete values. If you do a full-screen gradient from, say, red to black on a large resolution monitor, there will be color banding.

It's better than 24 bit color but doesn't solve the problem.
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Do you feel like you have $8k worth of influence over your share of the US budget?

What about Bill Gates or Charles Koch, do you think they have about $8k worth of influence?
Public beta starts around 6pm UTC, so I imagine an announcement will be posted soon.

// edit: there we go, just posted: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html
I thought the article was serious until I reached the "Steve Ballmer mission pack". Author can't be serious.
The Signal app is available in beta version
Yeah, posted too quickly, that is of course known and proven. The bits that he got wrong were the avoid fatty red meat and eat whole wheat (full of antinutrients as are all seeds meant for birds and not mammals) and the old calorie hypothesis which has since been soundly disproven but is probably the most common fallacy out there today.
"Here’s somebody who’ll wear their mediocrity with such energy, with such boundless enthusiasm and unbridled passion, that nobody else even tries to compete.
You’re not Steve Jobs. You’re mediocre, like me. You’re reading shabby online articles about how to be like somebody else. Do you think Steve Jobs did that?"

A+ Be all the Balmer u can be. Balmer forever and ever.
Looks like they need to port GCD/libdispatch so they can implement a native concurrency model on top of it in Swift 3(?).
Any news regarding Swifts ability to interoperate with CPP, like Objective C++?
No "one" person did. But their circumstances certainly encouraged it. By that, I mean that if a person has a baby on the way, mountains of debt from school, an overdue rent payment, and no health insurance, then he or she may be forced to take a paltry salary. But hey, it's better than debtors prison or death, right? So let's call that social justice. Particularly with the absence of unions in many American industries and the overall inefficiencies present in the labor market, many individuals are not in a position where they can negotiate a wage that is worthy of the quality of work they provide.
Being careful not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but...
It is interesting that Facebook ($300 Billion market cap) decided to support at the $150k level instead of the $350k level (i.e. saving themselves from a rounding-error $200,000 additional commitment).

It cost them more than that to make the decision and the press release.
Yes, I too fear for rise of diseases after this disaster. Though still now we don not have any staff there but We are currently in process to deploy EpiMetrics epidemics intelligence engine to report and predict on disease outbreaks. http://www.epimetrics.in
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>Using a set of open source machine learning algorithms known as SciKit Learn—code freely available to the world at large—the service seeks to automatically identify blatant vandalism and separate it from well-intentioned changes.

It's a Python library, available for free download [1]. I've got a book or two on it I've been meaning to read.

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
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Maybe now we can add a way to get a random value from an array like array,sample in Ruby. Lots of work currently to do such a simple thing in Swift.
Your tone I suspect.
Its probably due to all pressure to "lean in", and sacrifice personal happiness to corporate grind.

Though I think the new stress anxiety is not gendered, affecting both men and women, probably due to some extreme competition in the job market.
> Most containers are built on top of full OS images, with a full OS image's worth of vulnerabilities

This is one of the problems DockerSlim (http://dockersl.im) is trying to address. You take those containers built on full OS images and you remove everything your app is not using reducing the attack surface.
Can't wait to start using this on nginx.
Containers are far from only being for linux applications, FreeBSD and illumos both have containers there just called jails and zones. Also FreeBSD and illumos sys admins use containers for application isolation because both jails and zones were designed to be secure.
The worst argument in the world: http://squid314.livejournal.com/323694.html

"Feudalism is bad, so anything that can be vaguely compared to it must also be bad."
The roads are pretty good around my area. Maybe that's because I voted for a small local tax increase for that purpose.

Assuming your correct, it probably has a lot of other contributing factors. The federal government gets by far the largest share of tax revenue, but a lot of transportation issues are felt more at the state and local level.

I doubt transportation problems are due to a lack of federal tax revenue. Keep in mind most governments in the world are smaller than a big US state. Incentives and priorities get distorted a lot when you have one entity responsible for trillions of dollars of annual expenditures.
There's more information in the blog post (submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671356)
out of all of ballmer's blunders, this one is my favorite:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2007/04/ballme...

... he says, about the product that is about to do to his company's phone division (and arguably the entire industry) what microsoft did to ibm, a few decades earlier.

but the article you are commenting on is not about that. it's about how you can use your less-than-stellar god-given gifts to propel yourself to the top, just like ballmer did.
It's serious, but not literal.
It seems to me that Aaronson's argument can be easily bypassed by adding non-local hidden variables in the form of a loosely connected network that essentially injects pseudo-randomness into the approximately flat Minkowski spacetime network. Note that Bell's inequality does not rule out non-local hidden variables as a viable explanation of quantum mechanics.
Now all we need is a transpiler that converts Swift to Javascript.
Google doesn't provide feedback on why they reject you. For example, you could be the world's foremost expert on Erlang. But the department interviewing you needs a C++ programmer.

You'd never know that was the reason. You'd just be notified that you weren't called back for another interview and asked to please check back for more positions in a few months.
And thanks for writing acme-tiny!

It was really easy to setup automatic renewals, running as an ordinary user. sudo access for reloading apache is the only privileged operation necessary. Great job!
And you still can't find the reply button? Also, note climate models are one thing weather models are another and weather models clearly do work.

PS: Thermodynamics really takes differential equations, and I suggest you read up on both of them.
I agree. The only major success from Ballmer's career that the article highlights is his capturing of that eight percent stake early on. A better title might have been "How to Be Like 1980 Steve Ballmer".
they were built using the system

The system was built for us all to use.

You could argue that they owe a moral debt to the rest of us ("give back"), but they are filling that in the form charitable works. Much like how I chose to give back with volunteer works, instead of just paying more taxes.

I don't think you can claim the rest of us actually have license to their gains, just because they built their empire on top of the very same system the rest of us are also leveraging. Unless you want to claim everyone has license to all your gains too.

Besides, the reason we build roads and such is because we benefit from the thriving economy that is built on top of them. It's not just about "I want a road for me to drive on". We build them to be used, and to reap the greater social benefit of their use.

Now, if Mr. Billionaire was squandering the system for personal gain (example: horribly inefficient bitcoin mining with CPUs when the government is paying the electricity) that would be a different story.
Ask HN: Excel-like web tool to manipulate large amounts of data?
Hi -

I'm looking for an Excel-like web tool that can allow me to:
1) manually update row-based data;
2) have an API to automatically update certain fields of each piece of data.

Say I have 1M rows and would like to be able to show them in a tabular way.
I like Excel but I think there must be something better out there. Is there?

Thanks
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The official lets-encrypt client has an extremely large dependency graph, and using the client requires server downtime since it takes over port 80. Can either of these things be improved?
Feudalism, noun: A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.

The state has a right to a fixed share of its subjects' income due to the contractually agreed-upon system of taxation. This is what that whole "no taxation without representation" slogan was about.

Your connection of representative government to feudalism is puzzling. Are you a libertarian?
Even the demo UI gives you the options to stop it from showing the intermediate steps, so your complaint is mostly that the demo doesn't magically pick the best parameters but lets you play with them?
If you watch the WWDC 2015 videos, the only ones that used Objective-C instead of Swift were related to the language improvements.

I guess that says it all.
Economists don't like to change their tools, but Julia is getting a lot of attention among grad students that are picking between Julia, Python, and Matlab as a first language.
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Actually, it is, at least using your own arguments. The money in this case actually does belong to the billionaire. He earned it under the legal environment decided by our democratically chosen government. And he gets to keep what the democratically chosen government decided is his to keep. And he gets to choose how to spend it, because the democratically chosen government has decided to afford him that freedom.
Samsung recently released a watch that somewhat matches your description. http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-s2/
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Publishing, in a way that can later be verified, provides the time component.
> The Federal Reserve can step in and buy bonds at any point

It may be the case that it theoretically is authorized to do so (though it does not in practice), but if so it would do so in support of the goals its employment/inflation related goals, not to finance the debt. In fact, the whole reason for having an independent (of the entities setting and executing fiscal policy) central bank is to reassure users of currency and investors in government debt that fiscal concerns will not drive monetary policy.

> Can you show me where Treasury says fiscal outlays are funded by tax receipts, or solely through payments from primary dealers?

I can show you where the Fed says that they don't purchase directly from the Treasury, and that their purchases are tied directly to their mandates regarding employment and inflation targets, not supporting Treasury's fiscal needs. [0]

> The government doesn't work like a business in this case.

The government may seem not to work like most businesses because its debt is perceived as risk-free, which gives it seemingly limitless ability to borrow money at extremely low rates, which makes it possible to make spending decisions with little short-term regard for balance with revenues; but the perception of lack of risk in government debt is driven by the underlying perception that the government has, and is willing to use to the extent necessary, the power to tax assets and income subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and the perception of the size of those current assets and expected income.

[0] http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/how-does-the-federal-rese...
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Interesting there is no link to add issues to those repositories !
Meaningful is a relative term.
You know, in the same vein... Salieri was a pretty decent composer. He got some fame and recognition. Maybe it's not so bad to be a Salieri and not Mozart, because he's still a hell of a lot better than most.
Apple doesn't like the GPL3 and has refused to upgrade many key MacOS components (like bash) that have migrated from GPL2 to GPL3.
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If the research is bad, how is it "too negative" to point it out? Should we pretend it's good in order to be "less negative"?