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This is one of 16 teams competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize:

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

My bet would actually be on SpaceIL or Astrobotics to win the prize. Astrobotics has been the consistent winner when it comes to demonstrating intermediate goals; they won the prizes for Landing, Mobility, and Imaging, and seem to have a solid engineering effort based out of CMU with partnerships with major U.S. corporations. SpaceIL has some interesting design choices that limit risk, eg. they're launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and they aren't building a rover, instead lifting off via rocket and flying to a second destination 500M away.

Moon Express has two major risk factors against it: they're launching on an Electron, which is a rocket that has never successfully flown before and won't be commercially available until 2017, and their founder has a reputation for making grandiose promises and then running away with the money. (He founded InfoSpace during the dot-com boom, sold all of his stock at the peak even while revenues were declining, then was ordered to pay $247M in insider-trading fines by the SEC.)
> even removing a claim that allowed insurance to cover damages.

Yeah, ensuring that the guilty party had to pay out of their own pocket.
Property itself is not a voluntary contract between two parties. If you asked a poor person whether they "volunteer" to let a rich person live in a mansion while they live in a trailer, they'd obviously say no. It's only by a threat of violence that the rich person gets to keep that mansion.

Which is not to say that there aren't strong arguments to be made for a system based on property rights, but the idea that they're more "voluntary" than taxation is ridiculous.
> Since objects are values in C++, you need to know the size of things much more often.

It's not like C++ prevents reference semantics. If you need the flexibility/abstraction, that's what you do. That said, value semantics actually provide clearer abstractions in interfaces (for example, no question about aliasing or whether other code is referencing the value), and generics can do a lot to abstract the extra size exposure from value semantics.
Maybe "having your art under control" is a prerequisite for "being big and seasoned enough to work on multiple platforms at once". If all your games look like trash, nobody's going to give you the funds to scale up to the point where you can easily develop on multiple platforms.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I think I used their wifi.
OK well give your responses and time to think about it, yes I suppose in the back of my head I am thinking "what the?".

If I was at MIT I would want the speech to be from someone respected for their achievement in the world of intellectual endeavor.

It feels like it cheapens the institution to bring in an actor.

Now I will say I like Matt Damon's acting, and as far as Hollywood stars go, he comes across to me as if not the smartest, then one of the smartest, and that is certainly something to offset the cheapening of the MIT address.

My original observation remains the same though - actors are at the top of our society in terms of the amount of attention and adoration given by the community, sports stars a close second.

And may I say "The Martian" ..... well no-one does onscreen intellect/science like Matt Damon. What a great movie.

I think maybe somewhere deep down the thing that bothers me about this is that MIT is saying in an indirect way "if you can act really smart then you are on equal footing with people who are really smart". i.e. we value "the appearance of smart".
The most horrifying story I know of is canine transmissible venereal cancer. It used to be a dog, but was more evolutionarily successful evolving into a tumor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_...
...and why can we still reply to comments on a flagged article? Also, normally I have a "vouch" option on flagged submissions, but not on this one.

Something is weird here. I wonder if for some reason the submitted actually included "[flagged]" in the title and so it just looks like a flagged article?
Universities already have an unlimited quota for H1Bs, so at least the teachers can get it.
All the TypeScript fervor kind of passes me by because I simply don't want to structure my work around classes and 'ideal TypeScript' that I've seen looks a lot like Java or another class-oriented language.
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What a nice talk. It's a shame the only question we got to hear him answer from the audience (only time left for 1) was such a lame troll. If you attend conferences, please don't waste everyone's time with nonsense.

This is a python conference talking about a long-known perf issue and the guy just asked why not use another language. It's like going to WWDC and asking why everyone isn't using Android.
This is really interesting. Hopefully it won't turn into 4chan (which is great if you're into that kind of stuff but for everyone else is generally a place to avoid)
I think there is a misunderstanding: Dota doesn't apply to the quote "Game developers should create a well-defined concept ..." since it was neither conceptualized nor made by the Warcraft programmers.

Additionally, the originally Dota started as a mod, was then published as a game, and Dota 2 would then not count as a mod. Its not hard to come up with a definitive answer to that. A game is a mod if it doesn't stand alone, if it requires _modifying_ the structure/code of another game.
I signed up just to tell you that a slam dunk is not an easy shot. Its when the player jumps up and places "slams" the ball in the net rather then taking the shot from a distance. Its A) hard to get that close unobstructed and B) for most people hard to actually jump that high.
Its almost a boastful move of skill to slam dunk the ball.

I'm actually no a sports person....
I've heard of some large companies opening up offices in Portland. Beautiful town and area for half of the rent and other costs, and there is a great network of agencies and talent in the area to hire from.
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If by interesting you mean certain Federal prison time, sure I guess that would be interesting.
When a program is shutting down, its threads are interrupted.
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Someone posts a video on YouTube about some niche work; the original creator of that work posts a comment on the work and adds a little anecdote. (The work could be a game, or movie, or piece of music, or programming language; anything, really.)
There are always people willing to do the job at the right price and work conditions. Companies would rather pay lower salaries with worse working conditions than pay US workers the wages needed to match the demand. It is basic supply and demand - the more supply of something the less demand it has. The country as a whole may benefit from immigration but the US workers who have to compete with foreign workers definitely do not.
It needs US approval because it's a US company. The launch site is in New Zealand.
You mean it looks too much like normal javascript?
>>Not every problem has a high-tech solution.

Something the HN crowd should be reminded of regularly.
If you're going by MIT commencement addresses, more like (successful) CEOs and founders.

https://commencement.mit.edu/archive/speakers
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That's a hell of an elevator pitch. It immediately makes me think "this is going to be full of the kind of people who give Reddit and 4Chan bad names".

And then I load it and the second story on the front page is "how much dick can you suck in one day", posted by "niggers". Well then. Guess my impression from the pitch was accurate.
Sometimes you start game development with a single mechanic and see where that takes you. Like "what if you could control gravity" and that might lead to VVVVVV or others. Or it might crash and burn. The advice is to encourage developers to flesh out ideas and vet them rigorously before starting development.
Not all the time. Majority of motherboards, and some laptops, update their UEFI via a USB drive.
TypeScript 2.0 added control-flow based analysis, therefore cases like the one in slide 12 will be cached with the `strictNullChecks` flag.
We need constrainable lightweight markup languages
Nah, they're pretty much a flaw. The idea of having compile time checks for exceptions is a good one, but the assumption that the callee understands what should be checked/unchecked by the caller is... not well supported by the evidence.
You seem to have changed the whole comment since I replied.
Thanks, that makes sense now.
I agree that colonizing another world is important as a "backup policy" but I'm still skeptical that Mars is inhabitable in the long term with current technologies. I feel like human civilization would have a better chance of surviving deep underground or in the oceans than spending so many resources attempting to colonize Mars.
Getting a passport/driver's license is different from companies (Apple) asking to operate in a certain way. They deal with the highest levels in the government (Prime Minister, Finance Minister) and it is absurd to suggest that the government would ask Apple to bribe them. India has a set of rules on how foreign companies should operate and while it might be unpopular, it is still a rule.
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I'm personally against corporate personhood... I think there should be limits on rights of a corporation, and that there should be methods in place to restrict the actions of corporations to better benefit society... that doesn't mean socialism, I mean eliminating corporate taxes, adding in international currency exchange tariffs and excise taxes, and encouraging companies to either reinvest, diversify or payout dividends...

Holding onto liquid or even un/under-used fixed assets doesn't benefit society. Part of the social contract allowing for the limited liability of companies is to benefit society with collective opportunities. With the ever-expanding IP restrictions, and even the premise of "corporate personhood" that is exceeded.

Then again, I'm pretty libertarian minded, and feel that ensuring competition is one of the most important things we can do for society.
Aloha!

I'm actually on Maui too for about 2 years. It is indeed dead here for tech work. There is some stuff in the Maui Tech Park.. Boeing, defense stuff. And I've see some job listings occasionally for work in Wailuku but it's mostly IT work.

There's tons of money floating around here, I feel like there's an opportunity somewhere to start something cool but it has eluded me so far. Good luck!
Yes, I am in favor of companies that are based in the US and take advantage of US infrastructure and tax-payer funding (indirectly and directly) should be hiring US citizens as workers. Anyway you didn't address the point - it is completely wrong to say that these foreign workers are not competing with US workers for the jobs they take. This is just basic supply and demand. Foreign workers are usually willing to take lower salaries and work longer hours than US citizens, which is why companies love to hire them.
Be afraid.
source: grew up in Washington County decades ago.
Just revisited a week ago. There is something wrong with the culture in that whole region north and east of Bangor. It stops sharply at the Canadian boarder where people once again have respect for themselves. Portland seemed okay, a suburb of Boston.
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Hah, I definitely didn't add 'flagged' to the submission. Looks like it disappeared off the front page too which sucks. I emailed the mods(?) so maybe my poor post will receive clemency.
I like the idea of nested comments with full anonymitity. One thing I noticed though is that it may be hard to get specific conversation going. Reddit has super specific subreddits, so people can focus on an individual topic there. 4chan has many more boards and a catalogue view with images, so you can quickly find a picture related to what you're interested in.

With this I feel you are stuck with a small number of boards, each of which you can only see 25 different posts, all in text. The text forces you to spend time on each one determining the topic before moving onto the next.
This idea is still predicated on the 'magic number' that the government has more or less randomly picked to be the number of H1B visas in a year. This number is, of course, far smaller than the number of family and other types of visas.

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...
At this point we have multiple respected members of various communities coming out with accusations against JA. This isn't comparable to Assange's situation. Appelbaum has repeatedly come out looking like a scumbag with no one on his side besides mostly anonymous people asking for the benefit of the doubt, and nothing but radio silence from Appelbaum for a week. A guy being a scumbag is frankly much more likely than a conspiratorial multilateral attack on his character.
King Bharata is as much mythology as king Arthur. The "well researched" paper is a student submission. Have you read any other research that argues for the opposite? I am on mobile, will search and link a few later.
The Warcraft 3 engine was flexible enough to implement Dota, just like the Unity engine was flexible enough to implement Rust. By your criteria, Rust is a mod, even though it's clearly not.

It's better to say that mods are games and to treat them the same than to try to differentiate them. The same design process that yields a successful mod will yield a successful game.
Thiel's not bankrupting them, their own actions are.
Wealthy immigrants can obtain investor visa easier outside of the H1B pool (EB-5).

There is no reason why H1B should be distributed fairly, because the US has a green card lottery that is diversified across various jobs and countries anyway.
>viruses are ambiguously alive.

Interesting you say that. I was always taught that viruses fell into the "not alive" category.
In Australia, we have (had) the "baby bonus". Seems a bit wrong. I'd rather support sticks to things like childcare subsidies and so on. I have two children in childcare 3 days a week and it would cost me over AU$600/wk without the subsidies.

Obviously there has to be a strong balance between an incentive that keeps a reasonable birthrate and one that overly encourages those desperate for money to procreate. The latter is disastrous for countless reasons.

Not sure how they'd balance it with a UBI.
Yes, this is all true if I'd said 'NS 3.x as it was then, developed by Next, could have been a drop-in replacement for Win 95'. Which I didn't.
Or, it could just be that competition killed off most early human-like species... fossil evidence suggests that there were many species with human-like traits... and that there are even traces of neanderthal dna in most of the human population. Eating meat and cooking food are probably the two largest historical advantages we have, allowing for excess calorie burn that a large brain requires.

On the flip side, iirc, there isn't much evidence to suggest a continuing advancement in human intellectual ability for the past several centuries... yes, there is a lot more common understanding of things, but what has this cost us in trade?
The amount in proportion to the money they make from doing this, and to what is needed for them to feel the burn.
How did Evan Priestley learn to program?
I don't think it is a stretch to say that art directors don't have to worry about what platform the game is on, generally. Programmers, on the other hand, definitely have to worry. I imagine the art is seen in a better light on multi-platform games because a) what I first stated, and b) if something goes wrong in programming then "at least the art is good". I don't know if this is a specific kind of bias, but thats what it is.

However I think the authors took a bit too much liberty with the conclusion (i.e. "may have better game art"). It sounds more like the designers of multiplatform games may just have a higher opinion on the art in the game, due to bias.
That's a very very misinformed opinion. This seems to be a popular theme that British made India. Somehow Britishers conquering large swaths of India gave it an identity but not for the earlier rulers. You should read the Arabic and Chinese accounts of India if the Indian accounts are only "holy books" and thus not to be trusted. The Arabs (they called it Hindustan) and the Chinese both recognise the Indian nation.
I'm glad there's a community in existence!

I'm primarily a web developer, been making websites since I was a kid and transitioned into that professionally years ago. I feel most comfortable and prefer to work in Python but I've worked with a bunch of languages.

The most recent thing I worked on that I thought was cool was taking all of the voting data + voter history from a state for the past 15ish years, cleaning it up, creating a database out of it then making it accessible with a webapp, allowing different queries to be run through the front end, generating stats, etc.

I'm going to toss you an email.
> it seems that the HN crowd is down-voting everyone that slightly disagrees with the Big Government and is not into Populist Governments

HN downvotes libertarians who take the rhetorical position that "tax is theft" (or otherwise inherently immoral), because it's intellectually shallow.

There are many reasonable arguments to be made for reduced taxation, and you have presented many of them above. "Tax is theft" is not one of them.
I'm not a huge fan of TypeScript (though I will admit that it's way more useful than CoffeeScript). My main issues with it are that: 1. The type definition files tend to get out of date. 2. The build step is time consuming for large apps. 3. It adds complexity to your app and opens it up to new kinds of errors (particularly during setup, different typescript versions...).

I prefer using plain JavaScript - When I need to find a definition for a function, I just do a text search for it in my IDE. Text search isn't as nice as intellisense for beginners but you get used to it pretty quickly and it's actually pretty efficient once you do.

I also like to read through the code a bit before using a function written by someone else, I find that just knowing the interface is often not enough - Often you want to know how specific edge cases are handled and it encourages you to fix bugs in other people's code instead of thinking "This class doesn't work, it's not my problem - I'll just hack a solution to work around it".
You should do it, being by the ocean is great. You'll find tons of things you love.
It seemed that this was implied. People are increasingly more educated and jobs requiring educated workers are concentrated in a handful of cities as those cities benefit from network effects.
There's usually an order of magnitude difference between them and their victims. This time it went the other way.
It's wrong - PageRank isn't trained.

But the traffic Google got from the Yahoo and AOL deals did allow them to see user behavior, and that did allow them to improve their search ranking algorithms (which of course wasn't really PageRank anymore).
Interesting point. Do you think Elon Musk would ever create a expedition to the Moon even though he's so focused on Mars right now? I always thought he would've tried at least once
Yup, and also Luna https://github.com/tj/luna/blob/master/examples/fork.luna
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Agreed. That's a better way of saying it.
It doesn't. Not sure what that guy's talking about.
No, just switch from pickle to json.
> Abstraction for abstraction's sake suggests a lack of design.

And yet a surprisingly large number of people think "good" design is entirely about adding abstractions until no more can be added. The classic example of this is enterprise Java, where designs are almost always overly abstract and flexible, but only in these narrow directions that were thought to be where extreme flexibility will be required in the future; and inevitably, the flexibility that's eventually needed turns out to be in a completely different direction.
Well the article says its not even self replicating. It requires humans to do much of the work of providing specific machinery and materials that it needs to make copies of itself.

But it also doesn't do much. That's a nebulous, hard to pin down statement. But I mean it doesn't have all the complex machinery and behaviors of living cells. It's static and kind of just floats around. Until things happen to bump into it and stick.

It's not fundamentally different than a virus. Which are also self replicating, but I don't think they are considered "living".
Actually, yes, they are all loopholes. They just are for general consumption and trying to encourage behavior.
How do you go about making arguments based on reality and evidence? Probably something you should look into.
If you can get a remote job Portland Maine is an amazing place to live. Don't expect to get any kind of high quality tech job in Maine though. I've lived in both I don't think sf is so bad.
A C language time_t of zero is midnight, jan 1, 1970, in timezone with an offset to gmt of zero. You live in a timezone with GMT-5 (eastern US) which applied to time zero after transfer to your mac is 7pm Dec 31 1969 as a display time.
The biggest win that flow has - and for me puts it over typescript - is that it has comment decorator syntax.

This means I can just write JavaScript and add comments for types. No transplier step, no messing around in a different but similar language, no additional complexity, just easy.

It's inferred types are a much stronger system imo too - gets out of a developers way more.

Typescript is great, but I really do prefer Flow in every metric.
Hey thanks for the course pop up.
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GPs require exponentially many parameters though. They can't learn arbitrary functions, they just stupidly memorize a lookup table.
The Tasmanian Devil facial cancer is another horrific transmissible cancer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumor_disease
I don't care about the supervised/unsupervised distinction. I'm saying they can learn features automatically (with or without supervision.)
Primarly this one, "One paper in my collection does that for IIRC Haskell to Forth by implementing a G-machine interpreter or compiler for a Forth CPU. It certainly can be done. Question is whether it's ideal vs a non-Forth CPU."

But a sample of the others could make for some good reading over semester break.

Thanks
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Anyway,the question of "where is the line when life begins" is subjective and scientifically boring. It's only interesting philosophically to people who don't understand the concept of spectrum/gamut/continuum. The interesting question is where specimens fall along the spectrum of completely inert to complex life.