skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on all counts and, fundamentally, while the Bell X1 involved using a whole lot of technology that did not exist in the Wright flyer (rocket engine, metal airframe, rigid control surfaces), SpaceX essentially combined modern computers with things Apollo already achieved (indeed, the Apollo program involved landing rockets on the moon just with a human pilot instead of a computer).
From your link:

Local Purchasing Power in San Francisco, CA is 17.10% higher than in Tel Aviv-yafo

That's basically what matters. And 17% is not a huge difference. "Prices" might have been the wrong term to use - but "Purchasing Power" is comparable.
Really disappointed they went with the bloodless "Datagate" when "VANghazi" was available.
You're assuming they do something else. Isn't it enough to blame slowness on "congestion" and then use it to justify bandwidth caps?

"The reason it's slow is your greedy neighbors - we'll charge them more money and then you'll get the speed we promised."

Yes, I'm being overly cynical. I do not like Comcast.
I've been meaning to read more of this book. The first chapters are great. Now of only I had time...
Switzerland Wants a Single, Universal Phone Charger by 2017
The c² is not central, you can work in a set of units such that the equation is E²=m²+p². If you decide to add a unit for mass, then you naturally need a conversion factor with units of speed.
You're misreading the chart -- a bit farther down, there are lines giving a ~$3.8 billion total cost for "command and service modules", and ~$2.2 billion for "lunar module". And those figures don't include spacecraft systems which have their own line items (e.g., "guidance and navigation"), or the cost of the rockets that launched the spacecraft.

The "spacecraft development" line you're looking at includes only charges for 1962, while the program was still in its earliest phases, most likely before mission mode (and the separation of command and lunar modules) had even been decided.

And you can multiply all those figures by about 7 to correct for inflation and give you the rough cost in today's dollars.

Apollo was hugely expensive.
Wow. That's a relief.
There are a lot of assumptions and learning from 200 years of capitalism baked into that remark. The rampant 'success' of capitalism was also a factor leading to communism. Like any good self regulating system it needs mechanisms in place to control it's own greed.

Also, altruism is perfectly at home with modern evolutionary theory because it assumes a more enlightened, rather than simple minded, understanding of altruism.
What Code Does vs. What Code Means [video]
> When I pick up the phone, to call a company, it is usually because they already did something wrong, and I need help with that immediately.

That might be true in even most cases (I doubt even this based on only my experiences), but certainly not all!

Think: IT support. Did they do something wrong? No. Your PC broke. No fault here.

Think: you have a question about your bill. Just a question, but it's nagging you. No fault here.

Think: maybe you left your lights on and need AAA! You need immediate assistance, but you'll have to wait in queue anyway. This is your fault, but it isn't like listening to Aerosmith is going to make you feel better! Let them call you back.

> I think the "best bet" would be getting someone on the phone asap.

Well, it is impossible to know who needs immediate assistance VS who doesn't. Maybe two pronged: 1) to be called back ASAP 2) to be called back when we're more available? First is the queue how it is. Second is a low-pri queue for people who are honest?
I have always loved that quote, now I find I have been mis-attributing it for close to 30 years...
For quite some time it had been attributed to Herbert Spencer
Apollo also had an on-pad failure that killed three men.
Mass is a state of energy. c^2 turns out to be the conversion factor when you're turning things from our units of mass to our units of energy.

From the cosmic perspective, 'mass' is energy in a state that, instead of traveling at the speed of light, wants to sit on one place (for reasons that were discovered later), and needs a push to get it moving. When you measure mass, you're really measuring how much you need to push a given amount of this inertially-fixed energy to impart a given velocity. Our ordinary units of energy, mass, and velocity came from observing these facts of physics before we figured out what mass and energy "are", and E=mc^2 ties the knot between the different units we came up with.

The really fascinating thing is that Einstein was able to propose E=mc^2 before any of that was known. It was just a funny term that showed up in the equations for relativistic energy and momentum, and somehow Einstein's intuition was that it might mean something more.
assuming you are serious, see tantric meditation
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Lol, one of fields in the VAN database is "Zodiac Sign".

Americans are weird.
Sorry, but no.

Landing a $60mil rocket is an achievement. Going to the _farking moon_ via 5 F5 engines strapped to your ass that were designed using slide rules and graph paper is impressive. You're comparing popcorn tins vs fruitcakes.
Yes, and naively each of those results takes O(n) to compute.
Here's a good review article to start you off.

https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1809...
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/einsteins-derivati...

It is one of the assumptions of Einstein, namely that there is a fixed max velocity c. To get Newton's 1/2mv^2 in the Taylor expansion requires a factor c^2.

Something else would lead to measurable deviations in slowly moving objects.
How can he when the company in question and the DNC are both for Hillary. How can they know if there is evidence with out the cooperation of those entities. Hence why they are suing to gain access to those records.
Highlighted, with a box around it, and at the very top of my link:

"You would need around 31,022.61₪ in San Francisco, CA to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 17,000.00₪ in Tel Aviv-yafo (assuming you rent in both cities)."
This is one of the most entertaining kickstarter videos I've seen. I like the blend of specific technical information and just plain fun; I want a paper airplane drone that makes me feel like a lion riding a t-rex.
look, on a productivity level, everyone else is right: you're barely past the beginning of your life. I went through an almost total reset of my life for a couple of years after the first dotcom implosion, and I can tell you that its absolutely likely that you'll come out of it just fine. I've dropped out of college (twice!), gone through a list of terrible relationships, shitty jobs, great jobs, less great jobs, better relationships, had a kid, gotten divorced, and now getting married again and on top of my career (and have been for awhile).

But that's not really what you have to worry about right now. What's most clear to me looking at your post is that your language indicates a very deep depression, and until that's under some semblance of control or treatment you're likely to continue feeling helpless in your life. I hate it when people try to diagnose each other on HN, so I don't want to go further down that line, other than to say you really need to find a doctor or counselor who can help you in a concrete way. The rest of us here are just going to be making recommendations in a vacuum. Only someone you're actually connected with in the physical world can effectively help you get through this. But the takeaway from the rest of us is that a lot of us have been through similar and come out ok and even great.

I hope things get better for you.
The DRAM thing isn't a great good example, because it requires an outside actor doing something unusual and deliberate at short range to receive the message. It's interesting mainly because it doesn't require control of anything beyond memory-access pattern, which means that some machine learning algorithms could do it without needing the intermediate step of gaining arbitrary code execution or even acquiring the control necessary to make a signal out of their heating/cooling.
Interesting article, though it left out some context.

The Sanders campaign tried to report this issue months ago [1]. Nathaniel Pearlman, the founder of NGP, now NGP VAN, was CTO of Hillary's 2008 run for president [2]. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Chair of the DNC, was campaign co-chair of Hillary's 2008 run for president [3]. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton, has criticized the DNC for being biased against the Sanders campaign several times [4] [5].

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26373...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Pearlman

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz

[4] https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1119794974699764

[5] https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1120402367972358
One question to ask is, given the history of the existing 'unnecessary roughness' / 'illegal hit' rules (which have been around for decades), why haven't teams been incentivized to 'draw the foul' already? (in the nfl, faking an injury at critical times is already disincentivized, see http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/rulebook/p... section 5 article 4 page 18)

Also given how much time is spent going over videos of games after the fact (at all levels from high school on up), someone trying to draw the foul stands a pretty good chance at being caught out at it, which opens them up to, say, getting a multi-game suspension.
A part of the article I disagree with is that I don't see Goldman and BlackRock’s involvement as a good sign. These late stage investors have terms that no employee gets. [1, 2] Employees who joined late are going to get screwed as ratchet clauses kick in. The PE folks are showing themselves to be better negotiators than the founders who focus too much on valuation and the happy path. The large number of unicorns and the numerous late stage deals will probably be one of the notable things about this bubble. It’s the worst of both worlds for employees, no upside of joining early and no government / regulatory protections found in a public market. As more people get screwed we may see a shift from ‘unicorn’ being a positive recruiting tool to a negative, which could push companies to IPO earlier despite the supposed Sarbanes Oxley fears. The brunt of the late stage startup risk is on the employees. The founders have taken money off the table, the VCs have their win, the PE firms have their ratchets, while the employees joining late get a handful of options at a fictional valuation.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/investors-who-got-in-square-a...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-19/square-emp...
Who says there has to be?
http://esofund.com/ does this. It is getting common. With sky-high valuations, the Fair Market Value (FMV) for many startups stock are very high. Although the percentage returns on this might be high, an average engineer needs large amount of cash to play this game. Some firms have come up which help with the "seed" money.
There's many types of focus and meditation. Meditation is like swimming. People can study, discuss, and pontificate about swimming, it's all academic until we're in the water sloshing around ourselves.

In the case of mindfulness that is triggering some dismissiveness on your part, there is also abstract, settled, or awareness typed meditation. The latter, focusing on abstract, awareness of awareness (being a witness to your thoughts) without directing them can be just as useful to unlock creativity in day to day life.

Some meditative experiences are very similar to flow and allows the ability to slip into flow that much easier. Some folks can slip into meditation just sitting at their desk by closing their eyes and come out a few minutes later settled and focus in hand for something.
The DOCSIS 3.0 modems we use at our local provider have no where near that much latency. 5-8ms is typical.
It is my reading of the code and understanding of the emergent crypto-economy that leads me to these self-evident conclusions.

Are you refuting my points or agreeing with them? If you have an actual rebuttal to any of them, I'm interested in hearing it.
The thing I don't understand here... How you can you write a multitenant app where protecting an EAV store is a critical feature and not have tests that validate that your security still works that run before every deploy.
You really have to appreciate how Comcast really tries to sound advanced with "World's First" in the headline.

Assuming the upload will again be 1/5th the download speeds, you're looking at 1Gbps down / 200 Mbps up for a total bandwidth of 1.2 Gbps. That means in a 30 day month you can use up to 388,800 GB of bandwidth. Subtract your 300 GB "courtesy bandwidth" and you're at 388,500 GB over your courtesy limit. At $10 per 50GB you'll need 7,770 separate 50GB "packages" at $10 each totaling $77,700 per month in overages.
Iraq: The New Drone Capital of the World
No, I disallow it.
Your claim was that RISC "created a huge local minimum by speeding up C code to the exclusion of other languages" and it's not at all clear to me what RISC has to do with c, and why other languages are worse off for this.
Drawbacks of Freelance Web Development
It wasn't the same issue and it wasn't even an issue with the same vendor (NGP VAN).
I'm surprised Facebook is actually wanting this to happen. Being the poor man's internet seems to me like a sure way to kill a brand, quite a gamble!
I can understand the benefits of reusable rockets, etc., but what exactly is the benefit of a controlled landing like this? Couldn't the same reusability benefits be obtained more simply and at less cost (and fuel) with say a big parachute?
Some college kid writes an article trying to downplay the accomplishments of Apollo 11 and stir up sentiment... Clickbate and HN fell for it.
We care about code quality. So http://nianiolang.org is as limited as possible, but enables for complex logic implementation. It is like a functional language with imperative syntax, no higher order functions, but has optional types, etc. We embed it in other languages (c, js, perl, Java) without the need for a vm.
How comforting.
Eh. I've only ever gotten one call, from the Sander's campaign, and that was after donating: I gave them my number. I actually appreciated it... they reminded me of the debate, and were very pleasant.

Never had a mailing, a person at my door, etc.. and neither has anyone I know from my knowledge. However, it is definitely possible.
What do we ‘know’ about investing but can’t prove with stats?
The rise and fall of the microcredit movement
The characterization was that Sanders is "Saturnine" while Clinton is circling the wagons and counterattacking.

Clinton said that she was ready to move on from this, while Sanders is looking for an investigation.

Since there's nothing else to discover about the Sanders campaign, the public and repeated calls for investigation is presumably to find a smoking gun to prosecute the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the data company for collusion and worse.

Seems like a counter-attack to me.
Quite right. I posted the below grafs in a discussion a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761048) and it seems relevant again.

The median home value in Palo Alto is $2.5M per Zillow; in neighboring Menlo Park with comparable schools it's $2M. If you cross I-280 for larger lot sizes (and generally, though not always, more house square footage) you'll see the median home value in Portola Valley is $3.8M. If you don't like those figures, you can look at Trulia's, which says the median sales price for Palo Alto is $2.5M and the mean listing price is $3M.

Note these are generally not luxurious properties at those prices. Many are small postwar ranchers or Eichlers (beautiful but a pain to update) that have not been renovated in decades. Some houses have negative value because they're teardowns; you'd buy the property for the land.

After taking into account housing costs and California's aggressively progressive tax regime, you may find that $250K salary does not go as far as you like. You may make 2x-3x as much--but your cost for comparable housing may be 10x-15x as high and your tax burden will be more oppressive as well.
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Kind of a missed opportunity to not stick an "everyone" in there :-). Or is the phrase copyrighted/trademarked?
"(There seem to be people who are too optimistic—but
strangely, I don’t know them personally. Am I just
avoiding them, or are they avoiding me?)"

Interesting question -- optimism,
at least in the extreme, seems much rarer then pessimism.
It's done all the time with no offense. I'll frequently be talking to friends or coworkers and done point of contention will come up, somebody will offer to Google it on their phone, and everyone will urge them to do it.
Stupid behavior like this is the reason for which drones will find progressively more regulation and resistance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmD3rXUR1Tw

The supply of idiots seems limitless.
"people[developers] still often go for Approach A[full ui blocking modal spinners] since it seems easier to build"

The small features in this article aren't that hard to build. Most importantly they communicate empathy to the user (like an occasional glance from the staff at a restaurant that knows you have been waiting too long). It also builds a company culture that latency is a meaningful pain point. Too often the server-side team is separated from this pain since they use a local dev server with no load.
It became popular when some key patents expired, which in turn allowed dozens of companies to start producing cheap printers. Previously, the tech had been confined to a handful of manufacturers who focused on industrial/ profitable customers such as automobile prototyping.
Optimizing C++ Const Objects in LLVM
Could you send a source?

I'm seeing this [1]:

> Michael Briggs, a Sanders campaign spokesman, told ABC News that the “vendor who runs the DNC's voter file program continues to make serious errors” and that the “the firewall between the data of different Democratic campaigns” has failed “on more than one occasion.”

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26373...
Others seems to have explained what makes Mini special in the browser world, thought it may help to know that it started out as a J2ME feature phone "app".

Yep, it will provide web access over a crappy EDGE connection using a feature phone.

As for the larger Opera, what happened was Google Chrome. There was no way a small for profit like Opera could keep up. So they caved, and now their desktop and non-mini mobile offerings are Chromium based.
Original article states that 3/4 of Apollo budget went into 'non-recoverable hardware'. It is very misleading.
double-spend is now a feature, it's called rbf.
> And hangup doesn't have anything to do with terminating.

The default hangup action is termination because people generally don't want interactive processes sticking around after their I/O is gone.

> how often do you actually send TERM?

Each common termination trigger has its own signal so that programs can distinguish the source and potentially act differently for each — HUP for hangup, INTR for tty, TERM for kill(1).
With a lifetime on the order of a microsecond at best, it would be an interesting challenge to build anything out of it. Assuming I understood Wikipedia correctly.
> it'd be nice to have a keyboard-based way to do this as well, perhaps using "enter" rather than return to trigger it

Does F2 not work for renaming files? Maybe that's only a Caja thing, I don't know...
So if someone were to ping-flood a Comcast user's home IP... that could get expensive quickly, and there is almost nothing the user could do about it. So weird, and quite unfair.
> When you request a page in opera mini, that request is sent to Opera's servers. The webpage is rendered on their server [using their rendering engine], and a totally different (OBML) file is sent to your browser, to represent the end result.

I Think they either have plans to, or have already transitioned to using webkit/blink as the backend for Mini.

Never mind that they seem to be doing their level best to kill of the presto-era browsers. This December they shut down their bookmark sync service (Opera Link) after having introduced a new one for their webkit/blink based browsers.

It sometimes seems like the web is heading for yet another monoculture. Marginally better than the IE era as this time the engine is open source, but a monoculture non the less.
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Mossberg: Seven Tech Trends from 2015
Millions of people collectively losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year is less than $1/month individually.
It is entirely possible, or even plausible, that the algorithm behind a superintelligence would be simple. However I was talking about behaviour, and whether its behaviour can realistically restricted by an imposed constraint.

More or less, the issue is whether the intelligence without its own agency is possible at all.
Docker does not solve that problem...
Well Android may still have happened (but perhaps looked more like Blackberry in its initial form). And Nokia may be around selling Maemo based phoned, though i wonder if what sunk them was Samsung (and later Chinese companies) undermining their feature phone sales in Africa etc.
Current link should work. Does on Android.
As if the public needs a smoking gun when the Clinton is surrounded by scandals from A to Z.

It amazes me that Sanders isn't going guns-a-blazing with all the Scandals and Corruption that emanates from the Clinton name brand.

Why look for the needle in a haystack when you have a stack of needles sitting next to the haystack?
As someone whose desktop needs are pretty simple, I agree with this assessment. If you want a *nix that's point-and-click configurable, looks nice, makes it easy to install software, and generally doesn't get in your way, Mint is definitely the way to go. I've tried all the popular distros, from (X/K)ubuntu, to Debian, to Fedora, to Arch and others, and I inevitably keep coming back to Mint. Just my 2 cents.
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Of course she was ready to move on. That would provide for maximum damage to the Sanders campaign and minimum investigation into hers.

I trust her less that I trust Trump, and that's not at all.
Yeah Sarah Shahi's pregnancy took its toll on the last season, unfortunately. But there are some excellent episodes in it too. "If Then Else" was one of the best ones in the series.
A much different take from another person with extensive experience with the system in question:

http://iowastartingline.com/2015/12/19/sanders-campaigns-rec...

The person who wrote the submitted article is a self described socialist. The person who wrote the article I linked to volunteered for the Clinton campaign in 2008.

It doesn't matter how much expertise you have in a system when politics is involved. Politics is going to taint your view. There needs to be an independent outside investigation.

Personally, I thought the author of the submitted article painted a picture of a serious breach and then tried to downplay it by pointing out that it was not an even more serious.
I was using Mint for over a year. New one is really glitchy on windowing or graphics. Sometimes it makes a weird pattern while keystrokes dont do anything. Also, dragging file save dialog to see a title in background causes entire window to unmaximize & hide behind dialog. Huh!?

About to ditch it entirely if I dont find work-arounds in a few days.
> It’s never been about being the first to do something. It’s about making it accessible to the masses

I suspect the purpose of this statement is to conjure up the ghost of, and likely draw parallels to another "revolutionary genius". This trope needs to die: it undermines the effort put in by the giants upon whose shoulders these alleged "ubermensch" stand.