skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small turbines do exist. One was installed on This Old House recently: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tv/ask-toh/video/0,,20961006... (jump to about 15:00)

But, it does have three blades.
You said you find this criticism troubling, but then you said you understand why people find these expressions of national pride troubling. I think you're supposed to pick one?

> despite the fact that I can see no way in which the U-S-A chants can possibly be misconstrued as denigrating of any other countries.

I think it's about context, right? Many countries feel some imperialist pressure coming from the USA, which makes a "USA, we're number one!" type of chant different to an "Iceland, we're number one!" chant or whatever.
They still do. Indeed Carl Icahn recently dumped his Apple stock for this exact reason. Your market status in China is temporary, until the government can replace you. More interestingly there are few Western companies that have actually made a net positive cash flow out of China, even those that today have large market shares ( such as automotive).

The relationship has consistently been unilateral free trade in the long term, with investors giving money for market share and getting little in return.
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It is a myth that Chinese government bans foreign companies for the explicit goal of protecting local players. Chinese businessmen are better at figuring out what works in China, than some arrogant foreigners - that & few other factors is why they win in China[1].

The goal of banning certain companies is not protectionism of local companies, but protection of Chinese government and the bureaucrats(by censoring certain media and disabling channels that could be used for forming groups, which could upset social order).
Remember, Chinese government doesn't respond to people or commercial entities. They don't need the money for political campaigns from entrepreneurs, which is why they don't need to promise them anything like ban of foreign companies.

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130605230952-18448-why-ebay...
> It's tribalism, which is never good, no matter how common or accepted it might be in certain regions or cultures.

If they were doing it out of tribalism they'd probably be chanting 'homegrown', which is common after a big win over competitors who recruit mostly foreigners as a way of sticking it to them.

Instead my guess is that they're doing this out of acknowledgement of the infrastructure and regulation that makes this possible.
During WWII there was somewhat surprizigly unified ship classification and there was hardly any civillian submarines at the time. It was based on tonnage, speed and main gun calibre. Anything smaller than 1000 tons was a boat. Interwar German submarines we're around 500 - 1000 tons, so they we're called "u-boot".

Since WWII names stuck by role of ship. Now we have all kinds of propaganda pieces floating around and ship classification names don't mean anything anymore. A "frigate" might be anything except oil tanker or CATOBAR carrier.

If you would use WWII classification by top speed and tonnage and apply it to modern vessels, Ohio class submarine would be "Submarine Heavy Cruiser" and Typhoon would be "Submarine Battleship".
Sorry, but these contests seem pretty blank to me. Still missing the old good IBM RoboCode. That one was dynamic and fun.
I think the lesson is that marriage, kids and long term relationships don't work for egomaniacs. Learn to find joy in other people's happiness and actively invest in it. You are not the center of the universe and you can't bend everything to your will. Deal with it.
They absolutely affect the validity if people claim non-receipt. Subpoenaing cooperative people is easy - you use mail, or email, or whatever you want and they acknowledge the thing and respond. That's why email is common.

The question is how things go when someone doesn't feel like playing ball. With email and not-signed-for letters there's no reasonable way to prove that the person saw the content. "Spam probably ate it." "It must have gotten lost in the mail." And so on.

So hand-served (and signed letter) subpoenas remain relevant for when people are dodging you. The fact that many people do respond to email subpoenas doesn't relate to whether non-respondents can be charged for their failure.
Pretty sure he means the barge would sink from the big hole he thought the rocket would put in it.
And then I visited their homepage and found the UI to be uglier than the code.
"As such it should be perfectly legal to share." is not really how the current copyright system works. With your scheme, it "should" be ok according to fairness and such, but it would actually be legal only if the copyright owners would accept such a scheme. Which they won't, as it would only hurt their revenue.
> The point of cgroups integration in systemd

I know why systemd uses cgroups. I was addressing the myth that systemd is required to use cgroups.

> They are to me.

That's nice. You should use systemd if its features satisfy your requirements better than the other options.

Other people have different requirements. Is this concept difficult to understand? We don't want the same features, for a variety of reasons. Disagreement is fine, but systemd advocates often seem to want a monoculture.

> the functionality required to build reliable systems

That's your opinion, which you're entitled to. I disagree, as I've never had problems like you're describing. I value stability a very strongly, so I consider the methods that worked fine over the past 20+ years.

> requirements

That's the framing I was talking about. There is more than one way to design a stable system, and your requirement list is only one of those methods. Some of those requirements I consider misfeatures that cause problems, but it's fine if you disagree.

> impossible to meet them

Then use systemd or some other solution that solves your needs. Is it so hard to understand that we can choose different software?
> One of the bigger arguments is also "it only works on Linux, what about BSDs, OS X, etc.?"

In what way is that a "big argument"? BSD has their own rc-thing (not sysv init), OS X has launchd (not sysv init, shares many similarities with systemd actually, such as socket activation), Solaris has SMF (again, not sysv init), etc.

Apart from a bunch of non-mainstream Linux distros sticking with sysv init, who else is actually using it?
Is it too much just let the internet have its candy? Just this once, when it's completely innocuous.
This is beautifully made. It works very well.
It is a billion dollar company, just because it is not US based, we should know it's name.
So country and western?
15 years in IT-related roles, mostly a mix of programming, data monkeying and IT support, mostly for non-profits.

1. Find mentorship. Don't be shy of pair programming and code reviews. If you're not getting either (or not getting productive comments that you can learn from) at your job, find a way to get them somewhere else, outside work or at a new job.

I was bad at CS at university and dropped out just as the bubble burst. With a lousy CV in a lousy job market, I took the only jobs I could get. I worked as the lone programmer, or in teams where the only other programmer was way too busy to talk to me, or worked on something completely separate, or was just a grumpy sod.

Even at university the demonstrators didn't generally talk you through how to improve your code; they would read it silently, hand it the corner case you hadn't handled, then walk away without a word. There's a place for that, but there's a place for "hey, have you thought about..." or comments about style or design patterns too.

Meanwhile, the people with good degrees and connections took jobs with mentorship and pair programming. They started out a lot better than me already and they grew and grew, while I'm one of those "one year of experience 15 times" people, hiding in the corner hoping nobody finds out how bad I really am.

2. Be open to new technologies as much as you can: you need to stay used to learning new things as they come along, and you also never know which of the new things is the one that people will still want on your CV in 5 years' time.
In most cases receipt of an e-mailed subpoena could be shown to have been opened by looking at a mail provider's logs (ex Gmail). It's likely that a core developer for the Tor Project does not receive email in such a way, meaning receipt could be trivialy denied.

But this is all beside the point, because an NSL could never be sent to anyone over internet postcard. Clinton discussed national secrets over email and look what happened to her.
GP here Also auto correct causes changes, but I am the worlds worst speller. My brain just doesn't think in letters.
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My parent implied there was something "worse" about a "Jewish socialist" - ie because of his birth parents, in part, Bernie Sanders is a worse candidate.

Maybe it's an honest question but I suspect you're simply choosing to be pedantic with the definitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism is peppered with references to the persecution of the Jews, so evidently others would file it under racism. Either way, my parent's comment was out of line.
I like the idea of wind turbines, but in practice I think PV is the way to go (long term). I realize that for now it's a blend of technologies, but PV doesn't kill millions of birds and bats. I grant you, it's better than burning coal, but still we can do better eventually.
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Speaking as a middle aged dude that works in tech in a big City and didn't buy a house before the never-ending bubble in Canada started.....I would have been far better off living in a smaller town and working an unsexy lower paying "whatever" job and buying a house. The wage differential (after taxes especially) falls far short of compensating for the differential in real estate prices in most major hubs now, moreso for kids starting out as they are starting out in a bubble.
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> Tnis was not "the people", it was bored wind-up merchants on Reddit and Twitter. The lesson that those people should be ignored can only be a good thing.

Yes, let's ignore the people who bother to vote because they are not the right sort of people. Instead, we'll do what our idea of a 'rational' voter would want /s
Is it me, or did the 80's just have better music. Maybe it's just the when you become cognizant of music. My first album was Men at Work. Wore that tape out, and the music is STILL good.
/* Smart enough to not want to work for you sick bastards */
No more hamburger menus, introducing the hot dog menu
Bitcoin....
forgot about form entry like wufoo.com and tying stuff together with ifttt/zapier
Of course, but my point is that the barge is so much more massive that the idea of punching a hole all the way through doesn't really make sense, and even if that were possible, such a small hole wouldn't sink it anyway.
If you'll count "people running exit nodes" in "community", it's fairly common. People get searched and possibly charged for whatever is coming out of their node, but not convicted since its not their traffic.

And yes, that could be the legal system working normally, but there have been cases where the government already knows about the exit node, but doesn't reveal that information to the judge while obtaining a warrant.
As a kid I always found it interesting that (some?) Spitfire had 4 blade propellors and the main adversary, the [Edit] Bf109 had 3 [1] and wondered, shouldn't there be an optimum?

[1] Not sure both changed the number of blades during WWII.
More importantly, what prevents half a dozen email servers from leaking it all over the place?

The notion that an NSL would be sent over internet postcard is laughable, whether or not it's true.
What kind of interactivity do you miss?

Plugging it in USB and using like a GPIO is there. Two way communication is there.
Are there any promising mobile apps?

It sounds like a snarky comment but "install our mobile app" is the 2010 version of "I am from the government and I am here to help you".

To answer your question you need a definition of what "promising" is.
Interesting - if you're still getting banned, but the cause is censorship and control rather than protecting local companies that's arguably even worse.

I guess it might only affect information companies though so maybe it's less widespread.
I downvoted you for the phrase "been there, done that". That sort of sentiment - I already know about this thing, so it's not worthwhile - is discouraged here. Plenty of people may not know about it; it may not have value to you, but it may have value to them. If it's something you're familiar with, you can always add to the discussion.
`brew upgrade git`

No need to wait for Apple.
Presumably the "matter of national security" has a time limit. That said, Applebaum and Snowden have seemingly managed to get comfortable enough without returning to their country of birth.
Armadillo lost several craft to parachutes. When you add them to a system, you also have to worry about them deploying at the wrong time.
That's great... but meanwhile, he's being downvoted for doing exactly the same as you; sharing his opinion.

Stay classy, HN.
* I don't understand his explanation of starting torque. You can jump-start that problem by other means in the alternator. Torque and power should be decoupled anyway by blade pitch.

* There is such a huge difference between a 12m blade and a 60m blade that I don't see how the comparison is at all relevant. We played with smaller turbines for decades before we reached this sort of price efficiency.

* Betz' law explicitly disavows picking a number of blades: "Assumptions: 1. The rotor does not possess a hub and is ideal, with an infinite number of blades which have no drag. Any resulting drag would only lower this idealized value. ..."

* Betz' law is a three-dimensional consequence of convervation laws, not an observation about turbulent blade interactions. "Consider that if all of the energy coming from wind movement through a turbine was extracted as useful energy the wind speed afterwards would drop to zero. If the wind stopped moving at the exit of the turbine, then no more fresh wind could get in - it would be blocked. In order to keep the wind moving through the turbine there has to be some wind movement, however small, on the other side with a wind speed greater than zero. Betz' law shows that as air flows through a certain area, and when it slows from losing energy to extraction from a turbine, it must spread out to a wider area. As a result geometry limits any turbine efficiency to 59.3%."

* We already have a good idea what a moderate redesign of the fundamentals of a wind turbine looks like; It points downwind, it's huge like the existing turbines, and its two blades bend. They just need to solve the tower strike problem. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401583/wind-power-for-pen... https://www.technologyreview.com/s/528581/two-bladed-wind-tu...
Why overseas Americans can’t open foreign accounts?
Yes, I skimmed the file far too quickly. I was working off some assumptions from the portion I saw that errored if argc != 2, with an error along the lines of "There must be only one argument".
mass != momentum. I'm sure the thinking was that they wouldn't be able to slow the rocket down enough and that the speed of impact would punch through the barge. The autonomous control needed to get the rocket to slow down and stop at just the right time, while accounting for the movement of the barge, the movement of the rocket (eg: unpredictable wind impact), and the difficulty of gathering telemetry through the rocket engine exhaust, is pretty amazing.
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Quantity has a quality all of its own. Apollo-era NASA consumed 1.5% of the entire federal budget. You're right that SpaceX is still catching up, but they're doing it on a lot less than that to say the least. (Compare: 1980-present NASA has arguably never done anything as exciting as the Apollo programme)

Red Dragon (assuming goes ahead as planned) will be the heaviest payload ever landed on another planet - an incremental improvement to be sure, but a real one. Mars sample return will be a concrete new thing that NASA never managed. Watch this space.
In 2002, he became a U.S. citizen. [1] For most U.S. Americans, that makes him a U.S. American.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Just like Comic Sans, I'm not really sure there is an appropriate use for XKCD style outside of the actual XKCD comic and similar-style comics. It's a cliche that has no functional purpose.
The git versions Apple ships are reasonable up to date. Too bad they don't include the contrib directory.
If the problem is simply the seawater, you could use a large plastic liner to create a pool of fresh water floating in the sea, and land in that.
Heh.

// title update
try {
titleUpdate();
} catch(e) {}

// titleUpdate()
//update title to include " - NSA.gov" on all subpages
function titleUpdate() { ... }
Seams we focus too much on theory and not enough on practical side of things.
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Never thought a comment comparing Kanye to Buddha would make so much sense. Well played!
We all love the story about the clever little guy who thinks outside of the box taking down the big giant corporation who does things the way they have always been done. Cringely trys to tell this as such a story, or could be, or could have been. But there is really no evidence backing it, just his desire to tell a good story.
the failure of UK lies in the fact that it, as a modern society, has failed miserably to create other cities like London even after so many years of existence

Make no mistake, this is a long-standing policy decision, from the "managed decline" of Liverpool onwards. Although New Labour had the opportunity to improve it and didn't.
Not just that, but the 80s had way more movement up and down in the top 5. There was fierce competition and experimentation. Look at the 90s and you get some bands that stay FOREVER on the top 5 for weeks in a row. Never happened in the 80s.
Maybe, and if they were selling something for display, like figurines, or even a quasi-collectible I would be right there with you. I know people who like that kind of thing, and they would like a funky box too. This is JUST candy though, it's just people buying something they want to eat. It's a different mindset, and I think, less likely to be engaged by the aesthetics of the packaging (as in the box). They're interested in the packaging of the actual candy, and the candy itself.

All of this is "I think" and "IMO" of course.
Is objective-C going away?

Also, are there any particular resources that you would recommend for beginners? I'm looking forward to reading this article since it might expose the low-level details of how, say, message passing works under the hood. Most of the guides are a bit too "beginner-oriented"; I'd love to find something that pulls up the carpets to reveal all the infrastructure underneath.
Not just typed, Python is strongly typed.
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Hi HN! I have just released a beta version of datacard (http://datacard.io).
With Datacard you can create Slack notifications using different sources of data (such as google analytics, facebook insights, etc.). These notifications can include any text, kpis as well as charts.

Many additional features are planned (like "adaptive" notifications reporting relevant changes in data, more charts, etc.)

Do you have any idea on how to make datacard a "must have" vs "nice to have"?
I'm going to have to back away from this discussion. There is definitely more I can say but you and I are clearly on different pages and I do not wish to color my Hacker News account with a religious debate. Unless it is vim vs emacs :)
This is a classic example of sub-optimization (and even if it's hand-wavey pseudo-science and may be wrong, the general concept is still interesting).

Each individual wind turbine is optimized to be the "most efficient" it can possibly be.

But not in the context of the environment, which requires complex control systems and methods to reduce damage in non-optimal conditions.

And not if you take cost and efficiency of the whole system into account; where four times as many small turbines with less complexity run more often and produce more overall output.

But hey, each wind turbine is "optimal." Interesting.

Most complex systems have this property. Even (especially?) your business.
We at Teleport have an open API for this as well, check if the following would be of use: http://developers.teleport.org/api/getting_started/#search_n...
Why are you equating what was really a suggestion box to democracy? Isn't it really more of a tale of the UK Science Minister being better at saving public face rather than following empirical evidence?

Another way of looking at the situation is - the UK Science Minister is hired to fill a spot, and make science seem, "serious," and have "authority," so that the general public feels that their tax dollars are going to something worthwhile. That would actually mean that in a sense, democracy is prevailing, because the majority of society would rather abstract away the details of science, they just see it as some authority which brings, "good things." I'm not talking about people on the internet who vote on social media, I'm talking about everyone--including that grandma in Scotland who is not on the internet at all.

For those who are strictly practicing empirical data collection, who dare I say, are better pure scientists within the online data collection domain, they may say, "this result had the most votes, so therefore this is the name which wins." But if you're the UK Science Minister, you likely are afraid of losing your job, and afraid of a blowback, knowing that a lot of people will reject that name and have never heard of this voting system. He/she likely is aware of the plushy toy opportunity, but has evaluated that and it pales in comparison to how much money the British Government could continue to get from taxpayers. In effect what you are saying is that you could do a better job than him in evaluating where money comes from for these types of endeavors.

According to your logic we should all feel cynical and contemptuous that Mountain Dew is not now named, "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong."
I suspect he's being downvoted both because HN users disagree and also because he's stating his opinion as if it's obvious fact.
Yes, my office is near the Standard Life building at the bottom of Dundas Street near the RBS ziggurat.
One of my favorite facts is that merely relighting the engine provides enough thrust to lift the rocket (at its minimum throttle of 60%).

This means that it must slow to a standstill, cut the engines and hit the platform at exactly the same time or it will either start going up again or be dropped onto the platform from a less than ideal height.
General observation, mathematicians excel at functional v. imperative, partially because so many functional concepts are grounded in mathematics/logic.
Well the advances remain to be seen in the decades to come. I could understand that level of excitement for putting a person on Mars but not for a satellite deployment or ISS restocking mission.

Maybe it's just a cultural difference but there is something unsettling and cringey about seeing those employees act so enthusiastic.

Is it genuine? Maybe for some employees. But the camera setup makes me think there is some expectation placed upon the employees that they will be there to cheer. It's not natural.
I was replying to stuart, not to you. He was trying to re-invent tls.
This?

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/