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What should have saved the space shuttle Columbia was establishing protocols to deal with foam debris.

It was known well in advance of the Columbia disaster that the foam pieces dislodged during launch. It was known that they caused damage to the heat shield ceramic tiles. It was known that displacement of even a few tiles could lead to catastrophic failure on reentry.

There were no steps taken to minimize or eliminate foam impacts. There was no protocol or infrastructure in place for in orbit imaging of the heat shield to check for structural damage, hence the decision not to perform visual inspection. There was no rescue plan.

These factors combined to create an impossible scenario.

Do you rush through a refurbishment of a second vehicle of the same design for rescue? That's an extremely risky call that could cost the lives of more astronauts.

The point I am making is that in all complex systems, failure should be an expected result, and mitigation strategies should already be in place.

The best time to rescue Columbia was before it ever launched.
Ugh, millennials.

http://buttersafe.com/2016/02/02/a-new-generation-of-art/
CFML is currently ranking better than PHP and Go in a recent twitter survey: http://code2015.com

I would attribute that to the passionate community and open source version, Lucee.
I think you are confusing exchange rate mechanism and domestic economics and their interactions. Deflation does not mean that exchange rate of Japanese yen increases relative to other currencies.

Japan has free floating currency with inflation-targeting framework.

Japan's import-export balance adjusts more or less automatically because the currency floats relative to other currencies. Japan has very little foreign debt, so the huge national debt is not creating inflationary pressure trough exchange rates.

Japanese yen suffering from long period of low inflation and deflation (lost decade) is caused by the lack of structural reforms and demographics. Japan is getting old fast and people are saving for their retirement. Domestic consumption is not taking off

To put things into perspective:

Household consumption makes 61% of the Japanese GDP

Exports of goods and services is just 16.2%
This is worth consideration too.
Getting a bank account can be difficult.
"Older" and "Newer" don't really seem to work that well with blogs. Usually the default page has the post sorted by most recent (top) to least recent (bottom). When you reach the bottom of the page, the post you have is not the most recent. Now, what do "Older" and "Newer" mean in this context? Because, "newer" than the post I'm currently at are too the posts that are above it. It introduces a tiny moment of hesitation trying to decipher which link takes me to "the next page of posts".

Also, we occidentals seem to place "past" and "future" in left and right, which would match "older" and "newer" in location. But we're also used in the web that a link that goes "back" usually means "back from where I come from", which if you're reading the first page of posts doesn't make much sense.

EDIT: Grammar, because English is not my first language :)
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We have a winner here. If you don't like what people discuss here, go to Financial News.
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Your assumptions are wrong. Glibc is faster (and better) than musl. Systemd is faster (and better) than SYSV init scripts.

Moreover, for example, I can update my running containers based on Fedora 23 without restarting container, by issuing "dnf update", which will download updated package from local server, which is much faster that to build container, publish it to hub, download it back, restart container (even when only static files are changed).
End of Parse
Whats everyone thinking of doing?
Move to another BaaS? Which ones are on your list.
Build your own?
Service as a Service Business Model: Doest It Lead the Future?
Yes, layering is somewhat of a hack to get around the fact that most OS package managers are mutable. IMO nix / guix have a much better approach here.
I use VLC every day. A great multi platform app, very useful contribution to the open source community. Keep up the fantastic work.
Where exactly would you draw the line between 'high-level analysis' and 'too much technical detail', here?

Which numbers exactly would go into your simple financial analysis? Genuinely curious.
Here is one scenario that I see happening - "I leave my $2500 apartment in NYC and I put my freelance developer job in my carry-on. I buy my flights and pay rent for a year at The Roam. I want 2 months in Bali, 4 months in Japan and 6 months Miami." I am taken care of and I don't have to worry about searching for the right location or meeting the right people. It seems pretty good to me.
Exactly, that's why a good UX pattern is to disable the buttons that do not apply to the current state, not hide them. This helps discoverability (the button is always there) and predictability (the button is always on the same place)
I wrote a reasoned, but critical, response to this guy and he edited my Disqus response with a childish personal attack before approving it. He justified it by saying my Disqus post history was about gaming and telling people they were overreacting. Take from that what you will.
lots of legit startups incorporated in Cyprus
Not him, but there's a Norwegian documentary series called Hjernevask you might be interested in. It contains interviews with a bunch of gender researchers on both sides. It's on YouTube[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9_g7lAICxtlGbxh4_z8...
Most likely cheap oil is put Russia in place.
The backstory here is demographics. Japan has a shrinking, aging population and almost no immigration. With fewer people there are naturally less things bought, sold, and produced. Japanese authorities have been trying to pump the economy by deficit spending (central government borrows money and spends it), quantitative easing (central bank buys long term private debt, increasing the money supply for short term spending) and low interest rates. The central bank has to push people to invest in the economy, because without growth driving investment returns, generally people would rather the safety of a savings account giving a guaranteed if small interest rate. Negative rates are a way to push money into the investment economy even with no growth.
woah, this would've been much more fun to play than my qbasic space shooter: i did not know about timers, etc. and focused on making graphics out of draw primitives.

i wonder, what were others using for documentation? as i recall, i'd found a short introductory book on BASIC (not qbasic specifically, I don't think?) at the library.
>What's there to understand? It all comes down to whether the watch troubles you at all when sleeping. And if it doesn't bother you during the day, why would it bother you at night, when you are mostly unconscious

Even with my giant stainless snowboarding watch I'd be worried about breaking the watch while I sleep.
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Would you recommend Economyths by David Orrell?
Agreed. Docker was suppose to inherently be about small containers. Vendors just choose to use the largest Linux base image out there.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872658 (94 points, 22 days ago, 31 comments)
Ask HN: 1 book,1 article and 1 research paper you suggest?
I have been running this experiment with a close group of friends where I send an email every other week with a list of 1 book, 1 news/opinion/blog article and 1 research paper on any subject which I have read in the past and have found it profoundly useful.

This was in response to all the quick dim-witted stuff that gets shared around on social networks frequently and how much one has to comb through to find something actually useful.

So throwing this question out to the HN crowd to see what are your suggestions (would be great if you could throw some comments on the choices too!)
Personally, I set Firefox to use the Croscore fonts and disallow use of any other fonts. It causes some weirdness with pages that use icon fonts (but for some reason, not all of them). Overall I like it.
count(*) is a linear time operation (roughly to the size of the table) on postgres. It does an index-only scan but with a sufficiently large table/index it's still a problem. It's to do with postgres MVCC implementation. I don't know if other SQL databases have this problem. MySQL doesn't seem to.
more dumbells but also more nobels.

it's often said that while men and women have the same average IQ that women hug the mean while men spread far more in each direction.
Isn't it the case that a central bank primarily lends? In this case aren't they effectively paying banks to borrow?

Given 0% interest rates haven't led to desired economic investment and stimulus the approach of the ECB and BOJ seems like wishful thinking that "more of the same" will somehow create different results.

While it's clear the stock market benefits from the increased investment, it's not clear that this addresses the lack of aggregate demand in the economy (which as mentioned seems highly influenced by demographics).

Then again this is probably more about lowering currency value than stimulating domestic demand.
Question: if the government doesn't want people "parking their money" in government bonds at all... then why not just stop issuing government bonds altogether, thus giving banks no choice but to invest in the market instead?

Is that somehow impossible? Would it make the market illiquid? Are there laws concerning the required volatility caps for the securities backing savings accounts that would have to be relaxed?
Probably best to not use Github Issues as a cloud datastore.
You're right that the article states, that the AES SOR would sometimes be (mis?) classified as oppotunistic - so the metric is not perfect. I'm actually inclined to believe that order send/cancellation rate (see analysis in eg. [1]) would be better.

But the entire paragraph (in my reading, at least) seems to be arguing, that you will loose money, if you have short-term negative alpha (footnote 8 actually retracts the argument again). This is obviously not true, as this would only leave room for the HFTs in the market.

[1] http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4661.html
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"A former exec at one of Google's competitors explained what is possibly their real motive. Google doesn't want its competitors to write bots that scrape their search engine.

So why not just encrypt all access to google.com? I asked.

Because bits of Google code are embedded in other people's pages. Google Analytics, YouTube, maps. I immediately understood. The way HTTPS works, if any component of a page is not secure then all other accesses are not. "

A little help here, what stops me from writing a bot that can do https and get the info from the page?
The key for maintainability is to write code that is easily readable, and this is not an easy feat.

A good rule of thumb is that a code is written once, but will be re-read maybe 50, 100 or 1000 times in the life of the product.

So, in my opinion, it is crucial to optimize for ease of comprehension.
That's true even today, maybe I'm getting old and I don't play much with other tools like I used to do, but VLC is the only one that always "just work".
I`m not a programmer, but I want to be a programmer because I might be more happier with programming.

It`s my third year of doing my current job, IT project managing/IT system managing in Teleco company(Not in the U.S.) and I always dream about being a developer which I wanted to be before I got this job, because I like write a code I like learning something new. I don`t like my current job because it is very monotonous, it has very little things to learn as an Engineer(As far as I experienced). It`s just all about risk/cost/quality/deadline management + a lot of paper works. At the same time, however, I also afraid that If I quit my job and be a developer, I might lose everything that my job give me now - high salary, job security, not bad work/life balance(9 to 6~7). Because, in my country, most of developer cannot have those things like good salary as mine, w/l balance(close to 10 to 10 almost everyday) and job security. Yeap. Being a programmer in my country is quite tough choice.

Many of my friend having told that I have to stay in my job and write a code as hobby, and some people says I should do things that makes you happy. Someone says 'Working as a programmer is not as fun as programming for hobby', but the other says that if I 'stuck' in my current job, there will be no 'improving'.

It`s really really hard choice for me.
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It's interesting to hear that having recently experienced the wholehearted enforcement of KYC rules and general efforts avoid/shed that reputation.
So the overhead of using Docker is still to great.

Thanks for the information.
Sounds like a plausible theory to me, too.

Hormones in young age in boys may push for a need to solve things, to explore how things work in order to make things more efficient, mechanically or in any other STEM areas.

Also, the urge for boys to measure strengths against each other, physical or mentally, may be a drive for more involvement in games that are more directed into exploring the physical environment, in effect enhancing spatial capabilities.
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Men do all the inventing--eg there is no female Issac Newton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
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Midwest.
, Norway, Turkey and ISIS.
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> “If it was only cultural, it should be different in some cultures. It has to be some kind of biological factor, whether it’s hormones or evolution,” says Sorby.

By this logic, the use of fire for cooking is "some kind of hormones or evolution thing", not culture. (Or are there any cultures that never cook?)
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Random walks have been used also to numerically solve differential equations. See e.g. [1]

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/3612176 "A Proof of the Random-Walk Method for Solving Laplace's Equation in 2-D"
excellent. Do you have the same for javascript ?
AFAIK the extra taxes apply to your country of origin, not to Estonia.
The Brutalist style is strangely beautiful when integrated with Classical architecture (see, for example, the Ulster Museum).

It is however just a shell and the spaces inside should be bright, inviting, functional and a joy to live in- that's what I find most important about architecture (and I am just a layman).
Curious Case of Linux Distribution Code Names
you may want to read the book "The Circle" by Dave Eggers. It is about this exact concept, and is quite good (I'm actually only nearly finished with the book, so maybe the ending will suck and i won't recommend it anymore, great so far though!)
I was hoping for details about how to implement it on the protocol level :(
It may have been temporary because right now the default version it installs is 1.12.12
I can't help but think VR will make for some amazing "hands-on" experiences when it comes to teaching spatial concepts or abstract ones that have good analogs. Being able to poke and prod literally infinite shapes, from the real world or not, will probably make science and engineering more fun for everybody.

However, I may be a bit biased. I did back the Oculus kickstarter.
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As I recall, they tend to start the senior folks at grade 15. They have to get approval for starting at any step above step 1, and I don't know how often that approval is granted.

They are very open about all this during the process.
True. Sadly, that's where I must incorporate.
I wish Node supported ES6 modules without transpilation as well
I wonder if this is not a concern with high quality rebuttals but with poor, fast analysis conducted with an agenda. The worry that some people will root through the data to find any small issues and blow them far out of proportion.

I'm not sure I agree with it, but I think it's possible that's more what they're talking about. Rather than, say, a lab coming back and saying "we analysed the BICEP data carefully and found the results are possibly the result of dust".
Except that women are 200% preferred over men on STEM.

No one could reasonably think that's always been the case though, so saying "There's been no female Isaac Newton" during the past 400 years of patriarchal society believing women are inferior and incapable is a bit unfair. I have no doubt that there have been women (and men) of equal ability but circumstances stopped them fulfilling their potential.
This view means that men also have to take credit for every war, famine, genocide, etc... Men do all the killing. There is no female Hitler.

Take a moment and think about what your response would be if the post was talking about how male brains are inherently evil. That almost all the suffering throughout history has had a male name attached. I bet you would be quick to jump up and say women would be the same as men given the opportunity.
Yeah that's a neat idea. The only thing is: how is the market price calculated?
Open sourced here: https://github.com/momentumworks/swift-elm
They would presumably just invest it into other countries' government bonds? With the low interest rates, that has already been going on: borrow Japan money at low interest and buy a high interest government bond.
They are great for investment opportunities however.
Quite possibly true!
whoa - you have a container with working systemd ? I thought that was an unfixed bug - https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/5773 and https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/3629
This is an excellent idea. Every language should have something like this.
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So how do we apply this? I have a daughter struggling in math and I'd love to help her, if this is a magic bullet where do I find it. I only see mention of a "15 hour course" in this article.
So did he actually die or not? The article was somewhat unclear.
how are you guys using docker btw? I keep hearing about it, I like it but have almost to no reason to use it.
In reality 90% of OS projects use Freenode, whereas everyone that uses Slack has it's own separate slack thingy that requires a new account.
> Edit: I also don't see why the role of "data gatherer" can't be more prestigious.

I agree wholeheartedly. If datasets are so valuable that lots of people can easily capitalise on them and produce great science, then the creation of those datasets should be rewarded similarly to an extremely valuable paper.

Machine learning seems to be a field that this is going pretty well in, people are publishing their models and datasets more so that I can grab a trained model of a huge image recognition neural net and try it out on my own data.

> As long as there's a place where you can publish those papers and make the data available it would probably also be a paper that is good for your career by a metric that seems to matter a lot.

I'd personally like to see a shift away from requiring a paper to cite a dataset. But I don't think that really alters your point.

(disclaimer, I work for Digital Science which is a parent company of figshare, but this is a personal opinion)
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Check out this blog for lots of fun pictures of that kind of thing: http://architectureofdoom.tumblr.com

The feeling that you're actually browsing someones collection of atonal german techno records is inescapable.
Mafia/werewolf is one of those games that tends to get out of hand (Diplomacy is the other big one, at least for me). I played a few games online, but realised it was bad for me - whichever side I was, I thought about nothing else while the game was running. When I was hospitalized my thoughts weren't on my physical problem but on how I'd be letting my team down. Games are fun because they're games, they're supposed to remain circumscribed - when a game starts to take over your life, it's time to stop.
But an underline is arbitrary. Similarly the colour blue is arbitrary. You only think that it makes sense because that's what is currently common.

If you had never used a computer before, there is nothing discoverable about blue underlined words. They could be red italics and it would make absolutely no difference. A handle is shaped to make it possible to open a door. It has a discoverable purpose (some handles more than others).

If we decide that arbitrary UI representations should stay just because they were historically common, then we will never improve our user interfaces. I'm all for avoiding surprising the user, but saying that an underline has an intrinsic meaning for a hyper link is just wrong.
It was crystal clear. He faked his suicide. He's a massive jerk.
I'd agree in that case, mostly because the code does not have a restrictive license. Also, to me if you disclose that you are using yacc then you are being totally up front and have side stepped any issues. But in the case of like byacc the license specifically states you can use it in commercial or public code without restriction, so it is fair to use in my opinion.

Me personally, even in like this case where it isn't required or requested, I'd likely attribute the author or repository in my license file, credits or readme.
That's not how most templating languages work any more, they parse them into DOM elements and do minimal updates like virtual dom libraries.
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The article was entirely clear - he did not die, he faked his own suicide.
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon...
It'd be good to try with Brotli compression too; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli

A new compression algorithm from Google, which is already used for web-fonts. Currently usable in Chrome & Firefox.

Replacing deflate with brotli typically gives an increase of 20% in compression density for text files, while compression and decompression speeds are roughly unchanged
Or people age <= 30