skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the explosion of commercial space in the past 30 years and the end of the Cold War, the space agencies are very concerned about this issue and there is a lot of tracking and cooperation. The regulatory process for launch is quite lengthy, and debris concerns are absolutely addressed industry-wide.

Generally as part of the permitting process you have to file an Orbital Debris Assessment Report that contains predictions for orbital lifetime, what will happen to the satellite at EOL, systems for putting the satellite in a safe orbit in case of in-service failure, launch failure etc, risk of collision with other orbital objects and so on.

The details differ depending what orbital regime. Things at ISS altitude (~400km) or below will deorbit very quickly (days to months). Terra Bella and other earth observation satellites are typically in slightly altitude, sun-synchronous, near-polar orbits. They will need to carry propellant to drop the vehicle down to a lower orbit when they are taken out of service, otherwise the orbital lifetime will be 5-50 years.

Geosynchronous satellites are basically going to be up there forever, so they are placed into a slightly lower (but still extremely high) parking orbit after their useful life ends. This keeps them out of the way of the active satellites, and the orbit there is so large that collisions are unlikely.

Finally, the US maintains radar tracking, and will notify operators if a collision is possible so they can make a maneuver. Generally a small adjustment, if performed ahead of time, is sufficient to reduce the probability of collision significantly.

The scary things are debris that are too small to track but large enough to cause damage, and situations where non-operational satellites conjuct.

Fun fact: if the conjunction probability is high enough, the Air Force will call you in the middle of the night.
To a degree. It's particularly true of mathematics.

The CS parts (which you can view as a branch of mathematics) of programming certainly have this feature.
Good explanation. There are currently ways to manage the issues, OSGi, classloader hacks, or using something like Maven's shade plugin. They all have their own issues and pain points though.

The other thing that Jigsaw is bringing is modularizing the standard library as well. So if you don't want CORBA in your runtime image than you can leave it out.
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Yeah, I've contributed a lot to OSS (has Sam Altman done so?), and he comes across as a taker.

IMO OSS licences should exclude Silicon Valley parasites until they show a modicum of gratitude.
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That "solved" content is loaded from "static-sites" location [1], so most certainly hard-coded.

[1] (spoiler alert, do not read the slug of this URL) https://engineering.linkedin.com/content/dam/static-sites/en...
That trailer was surprisingly well made.
This is why clojure is awesome. It's a nice enough language, but where it really shines is that it gives you pretty much every concurrency tool under the sun. You have the entirety of java.util.Concurrent + all the cool clojure tools like agents,core.async,atoms,transactional memory, etc.

Can you shoot yourself in the foot here? Sure. But you also have the right tool for the right job if you know what you're doing.
Wait... the article says the change isn't happening until June 2nd of this year.... how do you already have one of the affected models?
A lot of things! They're making some amazing software for applications and all the data that comes with it, internal tools for office hours and events, and ongoing improvements to our security and infrastructure, just to name a few things without going into too much detail. They're also there to listen to all of us complain about not having this-or-that feature :)
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It really was the coolest thing when you escaped the final test chamber and found yourself alone in the abandoned facility; the music just stops. Up until that point you knew something was wrong but not quite what. The lack of scientists in the observation windows, the creepy graffiti in the alcoves stating "THE CAKE IS A LIE" next to a mountain of broken security cameras and the disturbing fits the robot would get into on occasion. The game was a great example of the "show don't tell" style of story telling.

Also lets be honest, the whole cake thing in Portal was pretty funny. It was just the people burning the joke into the ground and snorting the ashes that ruined it.
Self-driving delivery robots roll out in the U.K
What has this got to do with Android?
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I imagine he'll have a queue of VC firms looking to bring him on as a partner :)
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This sort of fake scrolling also means that Chrome extensions like Full Screen Page Capture don't work.
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1 out of 238 start-ups. W00
Perhaps this is more about surrendering responsibility/ownership to others.

I have seen many people give that up upon getting a trainer. Suddenly they only exercise at trainer appointments.
It's actually a good contrast to the biases of id tech 4 - bright, huge scale outdoor landscapes and arenas with hundreds of AI opponents vs. dark interiors with mood lighting and smaller engagements. It's an early example of heavy usage of "modular" model instances to add detail instead of relying on brush geometry to do everything. There are plenty of nifty features like split screen.

From an overall technology standpoint, both engines should prove worthy of study given the radically different focus.
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I'm not trying to sell it here. I'm expressing my frustrations. Nothing more.
$970 million in cash
As a German I have to say, while this sounds nice, Germany is still horribly inefficient, trains and busses are always late, and a lot of bureaucracy is useless.

I’m not sure yet if Germany is just the least worst country, or if it’s just all PR.
I'm not going to defend the design choices here but it performs fine on my four year old laptop running Firefox/Ubuntu, so it requires neither a very powerful hardware, nor Chrome which is a more common failure mode.
Not interested in supporting Go? Would be great timing with the AlphaGo tournament!
The things in geostationary orbit don't crash into each other, they just constitute a relatively high density of "stuff" all in one place that non-geostationary objects at the same altitude could hit every time they cross the equator.

The worst case would presumably be something large and heavy put into orbit around the equator at the same altitude and speed as geostationary orbit but going in the opposite direction.
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This engine is (or was) awesome. I remember playing Serious Sam back in the day, in my old computer, with maximum quality settings and the game ran smoothly, with amazing details and the characteristic bright colours and open landscapes of these series. I was amazed by this. Back in the day I found it superior to Source and ages ahead from any DirectX game.
> People have not been harmed to an alarming extent by this event,

160,000 people were displaced and will live in school gyms for the rest of their lives. Most have lost their livelihoods.

I suggest you talk to them before saying they have "not been harmed."
Yes, and it makes a hell of difference in lobbying fire power.

I'm not really a Apple fan but I hope they win on this.

Lavabit eventually decided to close instead of giving access to the data of their customers. Apple won't close but I wonder if they would go as far as leaving the USA, both the country and the market. That would be more than extreme but if they lose it would be the only alternative to caving in. My very safe bet: it's not going to happen (leaving the USA).
I did books recommended from here, and lots of math stackexchange searching/questions.

I started with Basic Mathematics by Lang, Eccles book on Mathematical Reasoning, A Course of Pure Mathematics by Hardy combined with the lecture notes of MITs honors single variable calc and Polya's How To Solve It, currently doing Advanced Calculus by Loomis & Shlomo.

I would imagine if you're interested in advanced math you would go to free university seminars from visiting professors and network with whoever is there as a self learner.

I get up 3hrs before work everyday and read a chapter then do as many exercises as I can. Repeat until done, or I get stumped and skip that exercise then come back to it later.
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Sorry, I guess it's more accurate to say that the model will be affected in the future. I'm obviously still able to put OpenWRT on the one I actually own.
Have you looked into SBIR[1] grants for developing your product? You might have to do a little leg work to set yourself up to receive Federal funding but if you'd like to commercialize any technology you'll probably have to do that anyway...

[1]: https://www.sbir.gov/about/about-sbir
GM is also generating a billion per quarter in operating income and has $25 billion in cash. Given how important this area of technology is going to be to the future of GM, they can easily afford and justify making an acquisition like this every quarter.
> But there would have to be someone who's received a BMW car (i.e. distribution) for there to have been distribution in violation of the license.

This is a pretty trivial standard to meet. BMW sometimes sells multiple cars in one year.
The first regex crossword I ever saw — https://gregable.com/p/regexp-puzzle.html — also was sort of a jumble of letters, but it actually encoded a secret message (I don’t want to say more — spoilers)
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I was surprised too -- I have the high-end 15" Retina MacBook with dedicated graphics and I couldn't get the page to perform after scrolling past the first part at all. It was slow, laggy and kept dropping frames. Very odd. Cool site, but it appears it isn't working as intended, as my dedicated graphics kept turning on and off.
You need to leave the UK. No amount of corporate charter red tape or offshore server hosting will let you get away with developing a secure product if Theresa May doesn't want you to.
> - A medium of exchange

> - A store of value

> - A unit of account

Note that these are all social attributes. They are true because and only because society treats them so. A medium of exchange works because counterparties to the exchange accept the medium. A store of value works because counterparties in the near future will accept the currency at something similar to its current value - its value isn't heavily fluctuating. And a unit of account works because people physically write up accounts using the currency as a unit, issue invoices and demand payment using the unit, issue debt and demand interest, borrow and pay interest, all using the unit.

It's all a social construct.

(Gold's value is a social construct too, of course.)
There are a few realms of business that seemingly necessitate such games. It's about as aggravating as can be imagined. I wish I knew a way around it. Different people? Closer aligned incentives? The cross-cultural aspects here make it especially difficult. You don't know what you don't know.
On the one hand, I wish I lived in an era of human history when technology had improved to the point where we could explore or communicate with distant planets and meet other sentient life forms.

On the other hand, our treatment of lifeforms of varying difference to ourselves already on our planet is deeply troubling. The thought of that culture spreading across the galaxy like a disease is horrifying.

I have a pet dog. I think I treat her well. Will my descendants look back on this and compare me to my not-so-distant ancestors who were racist or sexist?
Blackfish is definitely a provocative documentary on this topic of killer whale captivity.
Wow, I really want to play this. I enjoyed the Kelfigs games on Xbox, but was disappointed that they were so limited.
Sure, I'll buy that in principle. But wouldn't you agree that it mostly matters if someone is recommending some shady financial product or otherwise high-ticket item? What's the worse that could happen when someone makes (text)book recommendations?

Affiliate links are also a good way to compensate people for curating valuable information. So the sort of "it goes without saying affiliate links are bad" attitude is kind of a mystery to me.
Are you suggesting something different from the current rules about that? It's a requirement in the US; not all countries have made it mandatory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#Growth_mitigation
Or Germany (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/germany-hands-ove...) or Spain (http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/spain_encrypted_email_...), or...
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This is pretty hillarious, I can't wait for commercials that change what you are watching to the website of the commercial/etc.
I thought the exact same thing.
This isn't most cases and the kind of work doesn't really require talking to that many folk, really.

I understand what it shows as a signal. It's a shitty signal.

Not trying to sound too negative here, but it's a legitimate problem that needs to be addressed. The general heuristic these days is to follow charisma, which in my experience has led to mediocrity, disaster and only everything that comes between. It's the exact impression I got from YC after that process.
I'd completely forgotten about this - saying "Accrington Stanley?!" in a fake scouse accent was a meme back in the day
The difficulties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_parallelization

Some solutions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParaSail_%28programming_langua...

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/D...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_%28programming_language...
I find that after doing some proofs work you start to get a sort of sixth sense feeling for when something isn't rigorously correct. In the words of one of my professors, "something smells wrong".
Have you tried Infinifactory (3d FPS ala Portal + assembly lines)? I loved Big Pharma and its not exactly the same, but it felt like the same parts of my brain were working on it.
LinkedIn thought, "We have a problem, not enough good devs." Then they thought, "Hey, let's recruit using a regex puzzle!" Now they have two problems. (With apologies to jwz.)
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Which government regulation overrides.
Welcome to the world of law. Often I've seen it said that thinking like a software developer, looking for edge cases and such, will get you smacked down by a judge who doesn't let you just use loopholes. There is an XKCD about insurance law on this topic. But the reality is that a lot of loopholes do work, and have a better chance of working if you have a really good lawyer. Part of the equation is how charismatic a lawyer is and if they can pull up records of the loop hole happening in the past (assuming you are in a court that allows past rulings to have impact).

From what I've seen it is extremely arbitrary and is extremely frustrating. I was on a jury once, where one witness was told to tell only what they had heard/seen/etc. They would try to say "I heard so and so say such and such", and the other side would object. The judge would then say to tell only what you saw, heard, etc., not what other people did or said. And I'm sitting there thinking "But what that is exactly what they were trying to do!" (of course I couldn't say a single word for risk to my own safety).
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In the US they are considered legally enforceable. Most real estate transactions are moving to e-signatures now for closing documents. I know many companies that have moved towards using e-signatures for contracts in lieu of faxing back/forth. Ironically, most court documents still have to be physically signed though.

https://www.docusign.com/electronic-signature-legality

http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/06/what-are-e-sig...
Not really.

Reverse engineering things can be a fun challenge - but not if your purpose is not to have fun analyzing it, but to do something else, like actually use the device you bought. If RE is not something you want to do but you have to - it's more like frustrating than interesting.
So far I think tp-link locked down just the web interface. I believe it is still possible to flash via tftp and some other methods.

When tp-link plug these holes there will still exist many exploits possible to get root access and if not we will have to flash it through SPI.

Edit: here is one of the first exploits available: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=63123
I have not yet, but will put it on my list for after Lent. Thanks for the recommendation.
Could well be a legal hangup, if some middleware was used for the port, not that you would necessarily need it these days.
Definitely not a typo, validated by many sources, and the founder of Cruise already has 2 9 figures exits so selling for much less than this wouldn't make too much since to him 2 years in.
This isn't a product, it's an advertisement. Surprise is sometimes (often?) useful in advertising.
Would you please hop on a ferry to Oostende first?

Principled idiots are of more use to mankind when they're on the loose.
I mean don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved your post and I understand it, but your argument right now is pure anecdotal.

I haven't ran a site in the last 5 years that had an advertisement on it. But I have ran sites in the past that served over 400,000 unique visitors a day, and the only way I could afford to continue delivering the content that those visitors came for was to either require them to pay for it, or put advertisements on it.

I couldn't afford at that time a $1500/mo server bill to give content out for the love of it. It was a full time job just to curate and provide the content let alone work a full time job to pay for it too.

I see both sides. If you want to block ads and trackers, I fully understand and that is your right. I just don't like the fact that people feel entitled to the content of the website without agreeing to view the other stuff on the same page.

Once again, if you block my ads, go for it, your right. But it's also my right to deny you that content on the fact that you blocked my ads.
We will fight this battle over and over every few years until we lose, just like every battle for our civil rights.
I felt that backstory in Portal was thereby a metaphor for the whole games industry machine.
The way trackers are implemented, they aren't a trade of good content for some info. They're a proposal of "I won't even let you find out whether I have good content unless you give me your info up-front". It's literally the privacy-invading equivalent of a clickwrap EULA that you can't read until after you've already agreed to it.

To which the answer is "no, now take the business model that you thought required this and shove it somewhere anatomically improbable".
I have the same fears about sentient machine intelligence. Will it be a kind god?
And wages don't exactly catch up enough to make up the gap in good economies.

I wish there were better wage information out there for people. Glassdoor is just a start, but there's such an advantage to be had by companies maintaining the information asymmetry that I doubt it will change anytime soon.
3 year old MBA, Safari and it runs well.
I stopped after reading "reason for panic?" paragraph. Basically, if you don't like the tool or you are not too comfortable with it, don't use it. If you want to pass arbitrary stuff through a channel you can for example serialize to JSON or even use things like protobuf if you are religious about memory. If you really want to send something random, then there is something wrong with your project.
The client is the parent, not the child. Parents tend to fall all over themselves trying to get their kids into good schools which is why property prices in highly rated school districts are always higher. Your only option is to move there, which essentially is how people of lower incomes actually do get trapped where they are...they can't afford to just up and move because the school was terrible.

Now, here's the thing: to end up with a highly rated school you need good teachers. Good teachers tend to gravitate towards the same factors that any other employee gravitates towards: pay rate and a good work environment. For a teacher, a good work environment usually means administrators who support them at all times - including dealing with parents.

Now this is a hugely important scenario to take into account. If a teacher is pressured by parents and fired by a public school currently...where exactly are they supposed to go? In a school choice scenario, they'd have multiple different options instead of many schools from one central authority. When teachers have more options and can simply walk out the door of a bad work environment with an unsupportive admin, they'll end up getting RECRUITED by other school administrators who know better.

Parents will continue beating down the door of those good schools to get in, but right now if a parent threatens a teacher, mouths off or pressures them for better grades they are doing so with no potential consequence. If you try that at a private school you know what happens? Parent gets a warning and if it happens again the child will have to find another school the next year. The admin isn't going to risk losing a great teacher to appease little Johnny's parents.

This shifts the ENTIRE dynamic of the school system to one in which teachers are in control because teachers are effectively the product.

Just think about what the job market looks like for programmers right now in areas with high demand. That's essentially what the market for teachers would become.
That's still only a civil matter in the US.

If I quit a job at Apple over this, Apple might have to sue me for appearances sake, but my GoFundMe account would be quite fattened by the experience.
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The one I ran into that did that had an outlet that would work when out of the room... in the bathroom, for a rechargeable shaver, presumably. So my laptop got plugged in there...
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The thing that bothered me in Factorio when I played it some time back was that once you hit the end of tech tree, which is pretty easy (or at least was back then), then there wasn't really anything else to do, nothing more for your highly tuned factories to produce. That said, I really liked the part of building your factories, I just would like to have more reason to keep on building. Maybe competitive multiplayer spices things up, but I don't feel like that is where "the scene" is.
Indeed, I'm quite happy with my INSTEON system. They're stylish, high quality in wall switches, they have a very reliable (though unfortunately proprietary) communications protocol. The serial and USB adapters for them are easy to code for and there's a variety of third party control programs available. I'm writing my own actually. They also now have a cloud hub for people who want that sort of thing.
If managing versioned module dependencies with Jigsaw is anything like OSGi, you really don't. I haven't read the former's documentation yet, though.
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