skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mass number you through out (large portion of the mass of Neptune) seemed really off to me so I looked it up and found some comparisons.

For a flyby: Daedalus mass = 5.0 * 10^7 kg (500 kg of scientific equipment)

With a slowdown to stay in the system: Daedalus mass = 10^10 kg

Mass of Neptune: 10^26 kg

So even for an extended stay, the mass of the Daedalus is no where close to a significant portion of Neptune.

I looked for equivalent mass objects, here is a few:

1.4 * 10^18 = all oceans on earth combined

10^12 kg = 1.4km diameter asteroid (Icarus)

3.5 * 10^10 kg = 0.5 x 0.3 x 0.2 dimension asteroid (Itokawa)

Estimates put the number of asteroids larger than 1km diameter in the belt between mars and Jupiter at 750,000

These are just straight mass conversions, no idea about the real content of fuel. If all those asteroids were straight fuel then you could launch upwards of a million Daedalus class ships that stay in the orbit of their target star.
Seconded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature

Also in that book: efforts to stop volcano lava flow by massed firehoses in Iceland, and sedimentation and rainfall in the San Gabriel mountains above LA. 100% worthwhile.
Yeah, I know, I realized that as I wrote it, but I guess I like to be out in the woods and do some heavy labor.

A bit of a simplification maybe, but as a lumberjack there are N+2 moving parts you need to care about, the saw, the tree and N coworkers in the proximity (N < 10) (if there's a moose and I catch it with my falling tree, it doesn't count as an accident, it counts as a bonus). With software there are thousands of moving parts and you can be pretty sure that no matter the amount of testing and code-reviewing, the parts will move in new unexpected ways once they reach the customers. Besides as a lumberjack when you leave work you leave work. You only have to worry about not killing someone during your working hours.
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I hadn't really thought about how rent-seeking might apply to sky-based broadband via FAA licenses and the like. I'll have to think about that one some more.
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It's talking about Market Cap.
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Wow, wasn't thinking about that part. Freelancing does comes with a cost.
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Alphabet has a crazy P/E. I'm not really sure why either, I guess momentum?
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In this context it's solely about market cap. Alphabet's market cap is currently at $570 bln to Apple's $535 bln.
A few hundred bucks per attending employee for a Christmas party is a lot by most working people's standards... probably like 12x + what their company would spend.
When talking about a publicly traded company, "most valuable" generally means "market cap", and indeed, that's what it means in this case.
I'm agreeing with you in the larger sense (Debian + IRC are way more 'community-run' (both in the literal sense and the community feeling you get after spending 3 years in #openbsd (i.e. Deb/IRC == Woz)), and Slack + Apple is refined, user-accessible, and designed with traditional capitalist values (i.e. Steve Jobs). But your comparison of IRC leafs = the state/commonwealth gov't :: IRCs hub (assuming there is one) = the federal gov't is real flawed.

>> Yes, a proper federated IM network would be better than Freenode. But there isn't one.

Ah the short term memories of Silicon Valley.

http://xmpp.org/ + Pidgin. Support for DNSSEC. Support for TLS[1]. OTP is provably uncrackable. Support for that too! Though it has no major company backing it, the protocol's RFC has been published and there is public source code for both clients and servers. (There was support for Google until they realized 'uh we can make more money by Walling in our Garden' and in 2013 Hangouts came out, but there is a proper federated IM network that's secure(ish), agnostic and fairly robust).

>> But a good way to think of it is as a federated protocol that has a central point of control at the federation level.

Eh. IRC is inherently only as federated as the opers who choose to run their links and leaf nodes in a united fashion. In the late 90s/very early 2000s -- back when Freenode was OPN and even blackbox took tens of minutes to compile! -- there was so much drama with where people would fork off networks over trivial BS. I have a disagreement with my bud John, and drama ensues and a network gets forked. I can't just 'fork' off from the US. Some gentlemen in the 1860s tried to do it and didn't fare quite well.

[1] To be fair, STARTTLS can be chunked into basically any protocol. My point stands.
In the past 10 years with Yahoo I - deleted Yahoo Weather after they put huge ads and briefly used Flickr.

In the past 10 years with Google I - use Gmail, Google Drive, Google docs, Google sheets, Search, Google Maps, Chrome, Waze and YouTube on a daily basis. I've also bought Chromecast and occasionally use Hangouts & Wallet. I'm excited about a lot of their Google X projects.

The 15% job cut is because Marissa Mayer failed to suck me and millions of others into the Yahoo ecosystem.

I think part of that is shifting Yahoo from a media company to something more like Google.
I thought the intent of CoreOS was not to use a package manager, but simply be a host to run containers?

https://coreos.com/using-coreos/
1 TB storage for £19.99 per year thats as low as £0.001 per GB per month
I don't see the value in commenting if you haven't read the article yet. company value in most cases is based on market cap (stock price x shares outstanding). It'd be more constructive to read and then ask any questions you might have!
Maxima's primep takes 360ms on the 1024-bit one for me, so seems quick enough to stick into the build.

It sounds like the chance if it passing the test is around 10^-15 using the default values; which seems sufficient for a build test which is run many times.
Their revenue per employee is just over half of Apple's. $1.1 million compared to $2.0 million.
Indeed I'll admit I had a rough transition but I've come to accept that my job is just a job. I really like the people I work with and the company I work for, but the thing I like most about it is that it enables me to do the other things I want in life.

Of course, one day I would like to pursue a PhD so that I could study full time, but that's a dream for another time I guess.
Paid clicks up 31% overall, on Google’s own sites, up 40%. That's a bit concerning to me, especially when you consider:

a) That growth is outpacing internet traffic growth, and has for many years now. Internet traffic CAGR is 23%[1]

b) The shift from desktop to mobile should have the effect of reducing clicks.

c) Since some of the growth is video, I would expect a decrease in click growth related to this as well. Video adds to bandwidth growth pretty directly. Click growth would be less direct.

Sergey and Larry, at least at one time, might have expressed concern:

"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users"[2]

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[2] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
While I realize the Nobel Peace prize is not like one for science, if Snowden was awarded it (and I don't think that is likely) the idea of having Obama's peace prize and Snowden's next to each other would be an amazingly rich and conflicted thing for me.
Broadcast.com is literally a redirect to Yahoo.com -- there's not even a notice telling former users that it was shut down.
For public companies this is always going to mean market capitalization, which is the number of outstanding shares multiplied by the share price. This is the amount that would be required to instantaneously buy all the stock were it for sale at the listed price and thereby gain 100% ownership. (In reality this never happens, and quickly buying large amounts of a stock typically elicits an additional premium on top of the list price. Buyouts of public companies tend to be for a significant percentage higher than the listed price.) So the market cap is in a way, quite literally, the valuation of the company.

EDIT: Italicized additions. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, which is basically how much someone would pay to own the company today = discounted expected long-term profits.
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Ask HN: How to get more attractiveness in our technical blog posts?
Hi,
I'm writing a new article on my technical blog and I try to figure out what can keep reading my readers.

I use some images (and gifs) to distract a little bit and avoid the big text block, isn't a good method ?

What do you think ?
I'm similarly ignorant on all the intricacies of driving a train, but my understanding is that the coupled nature of a train vs. a rigid body make the dynamics more difficult to deal with than you might imagine. That being said, I don't know how much that affects the difficulty of the operator at this point or whether that's all worked out in the train's control software.

You can see what the engineer's station look like in the type of train discussed in the article here:

http://www.eweek.com/mobile/slideshows/amtraks-new-siemens-l...

Looks like there is a combined throttle/braking control on the left side, then (multiple?) brakes on the right.

Also FYI, maneuver isn't an error, it's the American English spelling.
Why is that? I haven't visited it in years and use Google Finance instead.
There's one in a thousand chances and there's 1-2^-80 chances. Wouldn't that be some "electrons in the universe" level coincidence? Believing in that borders on religion.
A train, or even just a single locomotive, has a hell of a lot of momentum, and steel wheels on steel rails don't offer a whole lot of braking capacity for the mass they are carrying. Stops and target speeds must be anticipated well in advance.
This looks really similar to what you want to do but with d3 and interactive: http://maurizzzio.github.io/greuler/#/examples/dfs (click "run algorithm")
Again, that is all their responsibility.
Is that worse than drinking liquefied shit? Because that's also going into the waste treatment plant, and in far larger quantities than even large-scale corpse disposal would produce.

Every molecule of H20 you've every drunk has been part of a disgusting biological process at some point. But homeopathy isn't real; the water doesn't remember.
It would be great to have these all as a full set of toggles on one settings page with "Fast", "Secure", "Paranoid" presets.
Good time to short Alphabet? I haven't looked yet but I bet their P/E ratio is bubble-ish.
Because Google Finance is obviously abandonware, and Yahoo Finance has a great iOS (and I assume Android) mobile app.
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Boy, I read through and thought this was a parody.

"Security: We guarantee top notch security from the minute you're on the payment page to the second you start creating servers." Meaning that the security ends the moment you start creating a server?
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For someone who uses Reddit and HN too much I sure can forget about markdown.

The function syntax C++ has seems more like a bandaid around the broken scoping rules inherited by C more than anything. If you were writing a replacement it seems like it would be one of your first considerations to make each statement scope limited to the scope of the declaration. I mean, that is what auto is effectively doing in C++ nowadays - you have to evaluate the whole statement to resolve what auto is supposed to be at compile time.

I would take consistency of using postfix typing as a sign there is legitimacy and simplicity in compiler design to do so, but I don't think the Python example is particularly fair, since it (and the C++ ->) are both extending a language that already had declaration syntax and thus the kind of glyphic overhead imposed by colons and arrows is less condemnable because they had to maintain backwards compatibility.

My gripe boils down to the difference between "August 5th" and "5th of August". The latter can convey the information in a more meaingful sense (you usually care about the day more than the month if you are using both) but it comes with a grammatical overhead "of" that, if were writing and reading a lot of dates of this form, would have a tangible impact on overall reading and writing efficiency. It would of course be minor - that is why its a gripe, and I still love Rust from what I've done with it - but it nags on you like it could have been done better.

And I also can understand the concept of name over type, but as someone who strongly favors static typing over dynamic after about five years of Python and three of C++, I think just conceptually "Canister Bob" is easier to parse than "Bob the canister". It is almost certainly just habit, but I justify my appreciation of the habit because it doesn't need to involve those damn conditional constructs (be they the, if, or a colon) that clutter up my reading and writing.
Why is any of that concerning? I'm not seeing the link.
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That's the genius of our ruling class. They're so brilliant that no one knows they even exist. The political-science professors, perfectly sane men, look at me with wonder when I talk about the ruling class in America.

They say, "You are one of those conspiracy theorists. You think there's a headquarters and they get together at the Bohemian Grove and run the United States."

Well, they DO get together at the Bohemian Grove and do a lot of picking of Secretaries of State, anyway.

But they don't have to conspire. They all think alike. It goes back to the way we're raised, the schools we went to -- after all, I'm a reluctant member of this group. You don't have to give orders to the editor of The New York Times. He is in place because he will respond to a crisis the way you want him to, as will the President, as will the head of the Chase Manhattan Bank.

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> b) The shift from desktop to mobile should have the effect of reducing clicks.

Can you clarify this statement?
I get what you're saying, but 2^-80 is very VERY improbable. Hitting it once is equivalent to a merely "very unlikely" event like winning powerball happening multiple times in a row.
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We happily incarcerate and (for countries that do so) execute people based on much weaker evidence. 2^-80 is absurdly small, to the point that essentially any other possibility is more likely.

You say you want to see it twice, but one data point with an error rate of 1 in 2^80 is, statistically, about a billion times more convincing than a million observations with an error rate of 1 in a million.

(That being said, there are a lot of of explanations that don't involve malice, including honest error, bugs in any of the software products involved in the process, etc. But no, I don't believe that this was a 1 in 2^80 fluke.)
It's legal in virtually all jurisdictions, provided the proper steps are followed to organize as a cemetery, comply with laws, coordinate with funeral directors etc.

Basic principles of no embalming, no vault, simple coffin or shroud, are more or less identical to Jewish and Muslim practices, practiced in every state.

Moreover there are no ecological concerns versus conventional burial, except that conventional burial typically involves sticking a lot of concrete, steel, and treated wood in the ground. Whereas natural burial uses fewer resources and conserves land in a natural state.

Embalming does nothing regarding drugs or radionucleotides in the body. It simply adds embalming fluid consisting mostly of formaldehyde that decomposes after burial. Removing implants may or may not be done for both conventional and "natural" burial, no difference; it's always done for cremation since incineration is involved.

The "mushroom suit" innovation is not a common green burial practice at this time.
I was a little surprised to see that GitHub is essentially playing favorites with Markdown rendering engines. Is there a discussion somewhere that outlines some of the reasoning behind this pick?