skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, this launch cost around $60mil and carried $200mil of satellite (spacenews http://spacenews.com/spacex-successfully-launches-2nd-pair-o... )
Spacex are aspiring to a 30% discount https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/03/31/spacex-hopes-to-sell-u...
Until the tech is well proven this would seem to only be a compelling offer for lower cost sats. Theres also the catch 22 that the first mission will be almost uninsurable. I reckon we'll see an LEO demonstration launch maybe with some cubesats n the first one.
A brief skim of the article they link regarding Marshmallow [1] provides this quote:

> As readers may recall, 10ms round-trip audio latency is the threshold that must be met by Android to be considered truly 'pro audio'.

This wasn't possible before Marshmallow (per aforementioned article), and therefore pro-quality audio apps are still only truly possible on 10% of Android devices. So the market is opened up for 100 million devices.

I'm not saying it's not a huge number of devices. But it's not as huge as the blog states.

[1] http://superpowered.com/superpowered-android-media-server
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Chinese firm claims Apple copied its design for iPhone 6
Company lays off 10,000 people: "restructuring"

This guy lays off 10: heart felt apologies and deep moment of reflection

Criticize away HN, while he still has his humanity.
Agreed.

I recently got a Pioneer 4100 NEX aftermarket CarPlay device fitted in my 2010 Camry just for this. Unfortunately, CarPlay itself has many usability issues that have not allowed me to use the system the way I had imagined.
Meetups are a great point. Similarly, I wonder if there are any MBA related MOOCs out there with strong discussion forums.
Or in cases as directly described in the post: like when Tesla uses software-limits to prevent the car from using the whole battery... and charges you $9000 for the rights to use the whole battery as it was designed.
It's a simulation based on ground measurement.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11719

Now we have: http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ (2014)
Artificial trees are not considered geoengineering since they are just reversing the CO2 released. The really sad aspect is we are not putting in the R&D resources needed to develop them to the required scale. No matter what we do about preventing the release of more CO2, we need to deal with the CO2 that has already been released.
Beautiful. I'd love to have seen it in an equal-area projection, though. The high concentrations are disproportionately in the high latitudes where area is stretched, so I think the yearly variation would look a little less ominous that way.

Anyway, I hope one day we can get a new Sim Earth with this style of simulation and presentation.
Not entirely sure, but could be using the data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite[0].

This satellite orbits the Earth on the order of ~16 times per day which would not be enough granularity for the smoothness of this video, so I assume it's been combined with other weather data and advanced modelling to provide the smooth interpolation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory
A companion piece about crossing the 400 ppm boundary, also from the southern hemisphere: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/atmospheric-carbon-di...
I wonder if those laid off were from the "chose higher salary over equity" crowd. It's certainly more attractive to do so and that's something people should consider when given that choice.
Haha, yeah you are correct. Unfortunately I usually don't get more than a few hours of code in per day at work. I lead a small development team, besides that I also assist in sales and communicate with customers.

Today was a good day and I spent about 6 hours staring at code at work, and maybe will get about a half hour of hobby coding in before I go to bed. I would agree that anything above 8 hours of real coding is pretty superhuman, though it looks like some people on github are achieving it.
Relatedly, I skimmed one of the Make books (the encyclopedia of parts, part 1), and it goes into some detail about how a transformer works, so that seems like a good starting point (for me as well), thanks.
Would you do it for them? Come on, is taking no pay meaningless to you?
RUD = it turned into "rudere" [1]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rudere#Italian
My first reaction with this was "seems fun". I'm aware that it's likely an index fund would probably still do better over time, but there is an appeal to me that maybe I could beat the market and if not it would still be fun trying.

Am I correct that assuming in the long run, the only difference between going long stocks/ETFs through this app vs just buy+holding an index fund would be:

-Cash sitting around not in an investment

-$7 commission on each order
The voting on your post implies people disagree, but the method you mention is the way the vast majority of companies try to operate because it intuitively makes sense.

Even in a cut-throat industry like sports, athletes aren't cut or traded the instant they enter a slump (if they still have future potential).
In things like smart TVs, smart fridges with LCDs on them, and infotainment systems in cars, this is sadly the exception and not the norm. Hardware-oriented manufacturers push a product out the door and things frequently get little or no updated after that. I'm willing to bet money that in ten years from now, a lot of 2016/2017 model year Toyotas that ship today with some sort of infotainment touchscreen system in them will be still running the exact same software. In fifteen years from now such cars will look as quaint as the cars from the 1980s with full LED dashes:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Vfd_car....
> its structure encodes data, it can catalyze reactions

Nope, it can't. It first needs to be transcribed by actual hardware (RNA polymerase).

You can view the DNA as a harddrive platter, and the data it encodes as the software.
This is a bit surprising. Buffers revenue has been solidly growing (up 23% in the last 6 months) with around 840K in MRR. I suppose having that many employees adds up quickly though. It's hard letting people go... But ultimately you have to do what is required to keep the company going.

Source of financials:
http://i.imgur.com/i3W5KC7.png
Never. The issue with climate change is it's not going to harm wealthy people, so it's not a problem for them. In other words bad shit might happen to 75% of the worlds population, but so what.

During the Irish potato famine, Ireland exported food. Think about that for a little bit. Throughout the entire period of the Famine, Ireland was exporting enormous quantities of food. Cormac O'Grada points out that, in Ireland before and after the famine, "Although the potato crop failed, the country was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population. But that was a 'money crop' and not a 'food crop' and could not be interfered with."[80] Net result, 1 million people died.

Yes, large numbers of people really are that evil.
Is this for consumption as full cannabis products (for smoking or consumables) or for the production of marinol only?
From Wikipedia article on Quasi-satellites:

> Over time they tend to evolve to other types of resonant motion, where they no longer remain in the planet's neighbourhood, then possibly later move back to a quasi-satellite orbit, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-satellite
There's more to unikernels than just being another virtualization technology. Most of the conversation on HN (as well as the content of this article) seems centered around unikernels vs. containers vs. a traditional OS in a VM, etc. But that conversation sort of misses the point.

Rather than just being a competing virtualization solution, "Unikernels" are really about eschewing the existing OS paradigm altogether. For example, the Mirage folks seem to have asked themselves about how they could create a "safe" OS and landed on the solution that they could achieve that by trusting the OCaml compiler and runtime for "safety" and so wrote a brand new OS from scratch in OCaml. That is a very different thing than a reaction to the "tire fire" that you are describing!

Similarly, for rump kernels Antti Kantee (with the help of others I presume) took several years to re-architect the NetBSD kernel to minimize the inter-dependency of different components of the kernel through the creation of a "hypercall" interface[0] and a carefully thought out separation of concerns.[1] One of the end results of this architecture is that you can run NetBSD drivers outside of the NetBSD kernel "just" by implementing the rumpkernel hypercall interface. Want to write your own OS (in a "safe" language language like OCaml for instance) but don't want to write a tcp stack or a filesystem implementation or USB driver from scratch? Rumpkernels could be an solution to that problem. Again, that is a very different problem space than the "tire fire".

[0]: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rumpuser++NetBSD-curren...
[1]: http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049...
This service is purposefully targeting people who know next to nothing about the stock market, and making them feel like they have some sort of clever control of the outcome of their investments.

I have criticised this idea elsewhere in the thread so this will be my last post on it. I hope all HN folk reading this thread will look into it and discover how parasitical this sort of venture is.
Massive cyber attack could trigger NATO response
Yes, which is why I focused on the the last little bit which I think wasn't really productive at all. It expressed frustration, which I understand, but in an antagonistic and condescending way which doesn't add to the point at all. It's easy for a tone like that to poison a thread.

I'm glad, as one of the people it was directed towards, that you can take it positively.
Isn't the labeling really tricky, though?

In my limited experience, EHRs aren't usually setup to handle structured labeling of something like an image. There are lots of different fields for text entry that can be unstructured. Then the only label left is the billing code, which ends up being a poor choice of label since the hospital often bills for what it can get reimbursed for, not what you actually had.
...and slower CPUs were the same pieces which didn't pass the quality test for heat dispersion, thus sold at lower price, for lower operating frequencies.
> extreme demand for engineers
You and I seem to be having a good conversation. Thank you for that.

I don't think raising my children to take care of me when I'm old (should be any day now) would be acting in my self-interest. In fact, I think it would be acting against my self-interest.

A better model, I think, is for me to do all that I can to be self-sufficient, and not predatory in nature, in terms of expecting other people to care for me.

As long as I can find pleasure in life and activities that interest me, like hacking in Lisp, or re-learning how to weld, or reading about philosophy, I'd like to go on living.

When there are no longer reasonable things for me to pursue, then it's time to go. I certainly don't expect my children to do anything more for me than they freely wish to do.

Children are not born to be servants to their parents, as you observe. That's why I think it's incumbent on parents to treat their children as best as they possibly can, since children come into a family without being able to consent, and since children are essentially powerless to leave a family that treats them poorly, until they reach some age where they can be self-sufficient.
As much as I want to dive into armchair management here, I greatly respect the fact that the buffer folks remained committed to the total open transparency thing, even when it didn't paint the business in a positive light. That takes a lot of balls

In a world where business failures are rarely documented, people ought to celebrate the fact that these guys are giving the world a recorded history of the lifecycle of their company, their thoughts when making business decisions etc. There is immense value to be gained for anyone in this industry
They will still drop features or stop updates at some point
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since they're biodegradable, and water soluble, this wouldn't work all that well... unless of course you're constantly coating it with them. Also they travel at a pretty high velocity, and would probably just damage the camera itself.
It's both. They're focusing on the sourcing part, which is commendable, but I'd still like companies to engage a better filter. The one most have now is the equivalent to trying to hammer square pegs into round holes with bit of wood they happened to find.

Unfortunately, changing that appears to be a very tricky social problem. It's going to take a recruiter (or recruiting company) with such a great reputation and track record that companies trust that recruiter's judgement in personnel implicitly. But how?
If you read further, they clarify that's 585k through the end of the year. So factor in a termination package for them and the 585k is less than half of their yearly salary, so they were likely at or above 100k/yr each. Makes a bit more sense.
Most are not enabled/activated or connected through the NIC.
Could you explain how the credential / integration works with the brokerages?

Is this a screen scraping integration where the provider stores my username / password and provides you with a token?

Or is this directly integrated with the brokerages?
I want typing "load foo.cg" and hitting enter in the debugger to print _something_, almost anything. Ideally it would print different things depending on whether foo.cg actually exists and is a valid file to try to load or not. Just some sort of feedback indicating that the command actually did something would be great.

I like the different load/flash/vmload/vmexec commands, I've certainly needed to stop at points in the middle to inspect the debugger state.
It remind a lot of AMD disabling some of it CPU cores on some models.
You missed the point of this thread, which is whether it's appropriate to call a company a "family."
One of the nice things about Tesla is their regular, free software updates.

Regular, free software updates are nice as long as the regular, free software updates are nice.

As soon as whoever controls the software updates decides to do something not nice, however, those updates become a huge liability. It's annoying enough with things like evergreen browsers or Windows 10, all of which apparently break basic functionality all the time. But with cars, where an enforced OTA software downgrade can reduce what you bought to something less than you thought you were paying for, and you can have the original back for a few thousand bucks? That's just a legalised extortion mechanism IMNSHO, and I don't want anything to do with it.
London was affected too. I have since moved on to other VPS providers and would suggest Linode ONLY for hobby projects. It's not just their security issues, it is mostly their disclosure policy...
The oldest ice core mentioned in that article is about 400 thousand years old. How does that prove anything about 4 million years ago?
Auto manufacturers are restricted from OTA updates due to agreements with their dealer networks. Tesla has no such restriction.
I'm not sure sure. They get a ton of value out of the anon telemetry on the car so that incentives them to continue updating it.
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> You either have inefficiency from double caching

No double caching: most of our applications have an in-memory working set, and no disk state. Some do (eg, Cassandra databases).

> from a lack of a global page replacement algorithm

Oh, so it's more efficient to be running where paging (aka swapping) is allowed? Sure, for memory footprint, but for runtime performance you're banking on it reaching a state where paging is minimal. The amount of memory saved is depending on the working set, maybe a lot, maybe a little. One downside is you're paying a small CPU tax to manage this (maintaining kswapd lists, and scanning them).

I think this would sometimes be a benefit, and sometimes not. And if not, is there anything stopping a Unikernel -- which must manage its own memory anyway -- from implementing its own pager?

The inefficiency isn't technical resources, but human resources: having Unikernel engineers reinvent what modern kernels already do.

> You also have internal fragmentation from memory partitioning, which prevents you from running as many applications and/or reduces memory available for cache.

Again, usually no file system cache in use. And most apps are started with a fixed heap size that consumes all of memory. There's no left-over/wasted memory that could be used by other apps.

If you want to page out cold memory to make room, uh, sure, but see previous comment. I bet that sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't.
I'm not sure if it does or doesn't, but the salary of $155k is normal in the SF area.

Check out AngelList's salary tool: https://angel.co/salaries . Median salary for 'Developer' is about $120k. More for a backend developer.

GlassDoor gives an average salary of $120k for the same area: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-engineer-sa...
That is what the Nikola Motors One is doing, except it is using a turbine engine.

https://nikolamotor.com/one
Unlikely; that's probably the amount they would have spent until they'd have run out of money (in 5 months). They don't have any $40k salaries AFAICT (it's all public). Lowest salary was "junior happiness hero in Manila/Delhi/Hanoi" at $45k: https://open.buffer.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-...
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I felt like the second half of the post took on a totally different theme from the first half. Maybe I'm missing the point of the article.

But as for the second half.. I feel that cars are going to adapt to us, rather than us adapting to cars. It's already happening, as the Volvo steering wheel example describes.
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The city council is currently considering an expansion of inclusionary zoning. The gist is that 20% of new apartments in buildings with six or more units will be reserved for people earning between 50-80% of median income. Put concretely, a school teacher with a stay at home spouse and two kids would be ineligible for one of these units.

Since there's no concomitant increase in density, we should see two things:

1. Overall construction should decrease relative to where it would have been. Projects that were previously viable are now underwater. Even worse, if the cap rate fluctuates entire classes of projects become nonviable.

2. Market rate housing will become more expensive at a faster rate. The market is clearing at levels that people at 50% median income can't afford, so setting aside units strictly reduces the market rate supply without any demand reduction.

The Terner Center at Berkeley has an interesting policy tool that simulates the impact of various policy choices: http://ternercenter2.berkeley.edu/examplecities/index.html
LELO has quite the reputation for selling overpriced stuff (they had a sex toy that they marketed to wealthy bankers, claiming it was “the first pleasure object ever created to satisfy the hedonistic sexual cravings and excesses exhibited by members of the financial world.” It shipped with a pair of cufflinks and a money clip.)

Chances that this is a gimmick to sell overpriced latex to people? Very high.
It's not used for that. It's used for applications that need audio feedback after a trigger. In those cases 14ms+ is already way too much to the point of being unusable. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eE7NtK4jX8
Good news for asteroid mining! Don't have to go all the way to the belt - might not even have to move the thing from where it currently is.
Okay, I'm all ears (or, technically, eyes, since I'm reading this).

How does a 400,000 year old ice core show anything about conditions 4 million years ago?

Please be specific.
Already exists and is fairly commonplace for CRUD apps
FDR's Supreme Court blew the Commerce Clause open such that the Feds can regulate purely intrastate commerce as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
>The problem is that they're paid very well

Are you sure? Tech companies you've heard of on the west coast (other than Amazon) are paying their most junior people at least $100k. When I looked at big boring insurance companies in the Midwest (toying with the idea of staying close to home) I was seeing closer to $50k for entry level and $80k for mid-career.
For half a year, so times two
> disc brakes still function much as they did 10 or 15 years ago (and wear out)

Actually, regenerative breaking means they last quite a bit longer.
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3% absolutely does keep up with inflation[1][2] (whether it adequately compensates for increased experience as well is another matter).

The last 10 years US inflation was 3.2,2.9,3.8,-0.4	1.6,3.2,2.1,1.5,1.6,0.1 according to the world bank[2]. Giving the US an average inflation rate of just 1.96%.

[1]:http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infla...
[2]:http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG (Have to search down the page for it)
Totally agree. However if you look at the trend Tesla has set from the start(as opposed to other mfgrs) it's been very positive.

In the same vein if you're buying a relatively new car you're going to have an unknown amount of reliability based on new changes to that model year. How the company deals with that down the road is a similar issue. I remember looking into a Hyundai a long time ago only to find out that they were denying warranty repairs on clutches with ~4k miles that hadn't been abused but were failing.
Is it sad that I prefer that relatively clean and functional full LED display over a lot of the modern touchscreen infotainment junk?
Well, except for hiring. When they get to that again.

Sometimes just vocalizing things came lead to new insight.
I like their approach, minus the salary transparancy.
Best anti-depression: watch Painting guru Bob Ross on Netflix (1991)
A good first step is probably to read Android's own current situation page on the matter and look at the numbers.

http://source.android.com/devices/audio/latency_measurements...

Basically it has been getting and better with new versions of Android and better hardware, but it still has room for improvements.
OCO blew up on launch, but OCO-2, its successor, has been producing data since 2014. This nature run was from 2006, which predates the OCO-2 era, and predates GOSAT, another CO2 satellite. It may overlap partly with SCIAMACHY, an ESA mission.

But in summary, I don't think the video was heavily constrained by actual CO2 observations, which are done only at a small number of sites on the ground (TCCON or FTIR). The video was probably constructed based on models of plant respiration (which is observed, indirectly, by remote sensing), winds (ditto, of course), and ground emitters.

OCO-2 has offered more significant constraints on global CO2, with a roughly 2km x 2km footprint (per pixel), 1ppm accuracy (in a ~400 ppm quantity), and global coverage every 16 days. There are some videos of observations (not models) at:

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/Videos/
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