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A lighter engine certainly doesn't hurt, but it's really the batteries that are an issue. The other item often overlooked on the battery front is that most batteries hate the cold. Take your iPhone out on a 20F day and see how long that 100% charge lasts! (Spoiler alert, likely a few minutes).

As you go up in the atmosphere things start to get really cold. Until the weight and temperature issues with batteries can be address electrical aviation will be mostly a concept on paper.
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Honestly, I would have to believed it was real if I hadn't seen the point about funding. Remember, some people actually pay money to have their new Pokemon games hacked in advance so they don't need to spend the time filling out the Pokedex. Or so they have a 'tournament level' team from the minute they start the game.

If people are willing to pay for that stuff in regards to the main series, they'd probably find an audience for this 'service' too.
It's actually orbiting the Earth and the Sun at the same angular rate. It will make one orbit around the Earth per year. Normally, things that have smaller orbits around the Sun move faster than the Earth. But if you start the satellite's orbit near the Earth, the Earth's gravity will pull it back and slow it down a bit. If you're very careful, you can get them to balance out so the satellite orbits the Sun in one year instead of going faster.
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Would the UK want a hard border? Otherwise any EU citizen could travel to Ireland. Walk across the border, and hence enter UK without any checks. If you get deported from the UK, just walk back across the border. etc. Would the UK accept that?
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>Whatever happens with Brexit, it's very unlikely there'll be a "hard border" between the UK and ROI. The UK and ROI have a common travel area agreement that predates, and does not depend on, the EU.

Predate isn't a synonym for supersede. Ireland gave up her sovereignty to make individual trade/free movement deals upon entering the EU. In fact the whole point of the EU is that we operate as an economic bloc.

EU law and policy does supersede any arrangements made between Ireland the UK before EU membership.

The CTA thing gets trotted out regularly by professional journalists and career politicians in Ireland but it's mistake to think the CTA has any real power over the EU.
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Plus the subsidies. For a very long time, and even now, NI is/was not as poor as RoI
> I've tried to use Octave, I really did.

I understand your frustration, but Octave's problems are not because we're incompetent developers or because we have a broken shit cult of free software. We're doing the best we can, but it's hard when the talent we attract is mathematical, not language devs.

Maybe our real problem is that we don't know how to turn Octave into a business while keeping it free. It is disheartening when everyone tells us we should just kill Octave and make everything Python.
I did take a class which worked with MATLAB and was using Octave to develop for it.

Well, and I guess it already says enough that I actually had MATLAB installed, but still preferred using Octave.

Just the minor annoyances in MATLAB like it taking probably a minute to start up, being in general really sluggish and having an annoying (read: not particularly bash-like) command-line were already enough to make up for the just as minor compatibility-problems I occasionally had to correct before handing in.

So, at least up until the stuff that you can get to in one semester, the compatibility was pretty good and I only really once had a problem which couldn't be fixed by a simple find+replace.

And in that case, it was actually something where I didn't understand why it didn't work in MATLAB (if I remember correctly, you for some reason couldn't use `hold on/off` with multiple `ezplot`-instructions in it).

So, yeah, I don't think at all that it was Octave-specific bugs bugging you, especially also because the MATLAB-syntax is actually even more annoying than Octave's.
Great point, and I would imagine that spectrum / bands will be the next big "war" like patents have been recently for large entities. Lightsquared really tested the waters - and failed due to simple engineering and existing neighbors overlap (aka "No, you can't build a dirt bike track in the middle of a suburban neighborhood and next door to an Elementary school"). Getting access and legal approval will be quite a subject for lots of different modernized and modernizing countries to consider!
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Lots of those tech companies employ a lot of local people. Tens of thousands of people.
Stuart Maconie's Freak and Freakier zones are top radio. You'd never get such a thing on commercial radio, and we almost lost it back in 2010.
I like NPR, too, but you can't really call them ad-free unless you buy into their narrow definition of what constitutes an ad.
Beautiful!
One question: Can I write functions/apis document in Markdown and use your beautiful auto generate site to generate the html/pdf?
You'd think that since the article is about how this motor is a new record in power density (or rather specific power), it would include the specific power in the article somewhere. You would be wrong, but it does include the information needed to calculate it. The SP260D motor they're talking about has a specific power of 260 kW / 50 kg = 5.2 kW/kg. It's not clear if this includes the weight of the batteries or not.

The article says the usual motor for the Walter Extra 330L is 315 horsepower, which is 234 kW. The "E" in the model number "330LE" apparently refers to the electric version.

To contextualize, motor specific power is actually really important for heavier-than-air flight. The reason Leonardo's helicopter designs wouldn't work is a lack of specific power in the (human) motors he had in mind, more than any aerodynamic reason. (Sufficiently high specific powers can overcome even remarkably poor aerodynamics.) The Wright brothers' main innovations were: a workable system for steering, and a motor with sufficiently high specific power.

The bit about the motor's end shield seems to be describing topological optimization, but the description of the process is somewhat ambiguous. It would be nice to see a picture of the end shield and maybe information about how it's made.

Maybe a less clueless, though even more information-scarce, article is http://www.flyingmag.com/extra-unveils-electric-330le

Other commenters are pointing out that this won't work for long-distance flight. The Flying article I linked above says it will actually only last either 5 minutes or 15–20 minutes (it seems to contradict itself, but maybe I just don't understand it.) So it's adequate for aerobatics only. But it should be better at aerobatics than the standard engine was.

Further links from other comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12060954 http://www.gizmag.com/siemens-world-record-electric-motor-ai... https://newshour.online/2016/07/04/world-record-electric-mot...
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Indeed they are. And it's somewhat discouraging seeing people argue over the best encryption algorithm instead of trying to hunt down Intel's rootkits, for example. Again, I can't claim anything; I am just reading and hearing things. They might be total crap and I might be an idiot for thinking they might be true. But they're still worth considering IMO.
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On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Our public site is powered by Django and the Django-REST-framework amongst other things - we also use Pandas, Numpy and Jupyter for analysis and forecasting.

We use AWS heavily, employing most of the Hashistack (Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform) in some form. See, for example, http://tech.octopus.energy/2016/05/05/django-elb-health-chec...

On the client-side, we use React and SASS. For our mobile apps, we use React Native.

We use a Kanban approach to development and use Atlas to coordinate a continuous deployment pipeline. Engineering standards are high. All code is well tested and thoroughly reviewed.

This is a great opportunity for several reasons:

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* There's a great opportunity for disruption in the UK energy market. The big suppliers still dominate, but are not exactly popular. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more disaggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology.

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> they should have carte Blanche to poke at anything anywhere anytime they please

They don't. We have really, really extensive laws (including the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution) preventing them from doing that. If they illegally search you, the evidence is useless (and often the conviction becomes impossible).

What you're describing is something out of 1984, not the reality of the hundreds of millions of police interactions in the US every year.
If we get more and more people with a certain level of English literacy there will be less jobs for professional copy/writers, or will there?
I'm flagging this because it has an affiliate code in it. So does every other submission from this poster. tag=hacwalblo-20
It's only saving grace is that works alongside existing FM without much intrusion into the way FM already works.
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I think it's from commuting here in the US. A lot of people commuting here in Southern California are older driving junk cars with no features. But they always have FM radio.
I really like that they were not only upfront about this, but appear to have gotten ahead of it. Good on them.

Also, RSA-4069? That's pretty damn hefty, is there even a point to using that?
If the UK leaves the EU, and a European person (who is allowed to live in Ireland, but not in the UK) travels to Ireland, what is to stop them illegally travelling to the UK without a hard border?
If it took 20 years for the reverse engineer community to get to this point I wouldn't sweat it if you don't think you could do it on your own.
This was a long anticipated but still powerful ruling. The only surprise was maybe Itu Aba (太平島) being ruled to not be an island.

The court was particularly clear on rejecting the nine-dash line and China's claims of historic waters.

As much as China will say it ignores this ruling, it absolutely puts pressure on China and constricts the language it will be able to use when discussing disputes in the South China Sea. China has particularly relied on claims of historic waters, which will diplomatically make for some extremely awkward press statements for China now.

This may force China into some face-saving agreements, so that it continues to appear strong at home where it has made this into an issue of nationalism, but internationally may try to consolidate what it does hold.

Another likely option is China may try to create a ADIZ over the South China Sea like it did in the East China Sea (and use its somewhat perverted interpretation of when an ADIZ applies), with the idea that if its interests in the sea have been denied, it can try to control the air.

I expect freedom of navigation transits may increase now and with greater certainty, both from the US and from other countries including Japan and Australia, now that we know what features are entitled to a 12-mile territorial sea and which ones are not (due to being submerged at high tide).

I'm optimistic after some initial saber rattling that this may actually lead to a reduction in tensions in the South China Sea, but that is mostly up to China now at this point.
Am I'm reading either the headline or the announcement wrong?

As I read it, they are not shipping Rust but a component written in Rust.

> For this reason, Ralph Giles and Matthew Gregan built Mozilla’s first Rust
> media parser. And I’m happy to report that their code will be the first
> Rust component shipping in Firefox.
still the energy/weight ratio is > 60 times worse than gasoline. If you're not going to recharge them, then there's no remaining advantage to batteries
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I kinda wish there was still an option to proxy through them, with a big giant notification that all your traffic was being monitored.
I could imagine a situation where we leave the EU and join the EEA on a "temporary" measure, giving us time to negotiate trade deals with other countries, and then when we're ready we will leave the EEA.
For a solo 401(k), you probably don't need the administrative stuff that they are providing on top of Vanguard, so you could cut out the middle man and go straight to Vanguard. Of course, you do have to be self-employed to qualify legally to have a solo 401(k).
That is correct.

"Shipping Rust code in Firefox" is what it's about. Though really "Shipping Rust in Firefox" means that too, it's just a bit ambiguous.
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Not the case (in the US) for all frequencies; 88.1 MHz - 90.9 MHz is reserved for noncommercial educational radio stations. (This is where you'll find NPR, college radio, etc.)

See here for more details: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/how-to-apply#NCE
Not ad-free, but the ads are not intrusive.

Pledge week is still annoying of course.
>I did take a class which worked with MATLAB and was using Octave to develop for it.

Well, and I guess it already says enough that I actually had MATLAB installed, but still preferred using Octave.

That is exactly what happened with me. And then we started doing more advanced stuff next semester and Octave fell flat on it's face.
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As the article hinted, there's a lot to consider when reaching the headline figure. Here's the associated grain of salt: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/analysis-crazy-gr...
Even if this is true, that doesn't mean they should be blindly disregarded.
I would expect the phrase "shipping Rust" to mean that they include the language environment, so that I can write code in Rust with Mozilla.
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In most examples I've seen, "Human Refuse" rarely has a clue about anything, other than how to get you fired for imaginary reasons.
I don't think this is the case. Most of numpy, which powers the vectorized operations that the rest of the scientific stack uses, is written in C anyway. The python part is simple, just python bindings to the C functions.

The matlab-like syntax for getting slices of arrays is the only really non-pythonic thing I can think of.
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Are they not just stealing from other taxpayers by being "small and nimble" in providing a tax arbitrage in a world where money flows unchecked?
The PSP has been thoroughly owned, and just about every game for it is available somewhere on the internet. Even emulating the PSP is getting pretty good.

That said, the Vita is much nicer for PS1 games, and if your firmware is old enough, you can even convert your old discs yourself for it.
>! is just an inline type coercion.

Are you sure about that? It sounds more like a signal to the compiler to "trust me, I know what I'm doing" and would blow up if you passed undefined anyway. Maybe the author didn't explain it very well. That is, not a type coercion so much as a hint to not bother checking this access.
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Not for solo 401(k) users; that would be Fidelity. Vanguard doesn't allow access to the lower-cost Admiral share classes for solo 401(k)s.
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Unfortunately it's understandable.
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what would most likely happen is what happened during WW2 and that is border controls between NI and the UK mainland
You can't downvote it away.
Most people have heard of the Sieve of Erathosthenes: put all positive integers in a list, and delete the number one. Now mark two as prime and delete all multiples of two. Now mark the next remaining number prime and delete all multiples of that number. Proceed ad infinitum.

There's a randomised counterpart to the Sieve of Erathosthenes called the Hawkins ransom sieve: Delete the number 1. Mark two as prime, and delete all the larger integers with probability 1/2. Now mark the smallest remaining integer (n, say) prime, and delete all the remaining larger integers with probability 1/n. Proceed ad infinitum.

One of my favourite results in mathematics is that the Riemann hypothesis (i.e. the error bound for the prime number theorem) holds for the Hawkins random primes with probability 1. The proof is only about five pages:
https://eudml.org/doc/89234
The time I interviewed at Google they flew me in the day before, once I got to my hotel room I had a couple of hours to mentally prepare for the next day before going to bed.

The next day I had about five or six hours of the toughest interview problems I have ever encountered and they had to end it a slightly early to make sure I had enough time to get back on the airport and make the flight they had scheduled for me to get back. About the only thing I got to experience besides Silicon Valley traffic was a meal at In-N-Out Burger (which was delicious, like always).

I still enjoyed the experience, mind you, and Google campus was really cool to see in person, but that didn't exactly feel like a holiday. I imagine most people's experiences would be more like this and less like your singular holiday-like experience.
The problem isn't Schengen: the problem is freedom of movement. These are two different things, even if people confuse them all the time. If there's no freedom of movement between the UK and the EU, then the Common Travel Area is essentially dead, regardless of whether or not the UK and Ireland are in Schengen. This has massive knock-on effects on NI: the Good Friday Agreement is predicated on there being no hard border between the North and South.
As a straw man, that seems reasonable. If he got a BI, what would happen? He'd be bothering friends less, so a net societal benefit?
From my point of view, it looks like the Sales VP is correct, you are overqualified for his team since you likely are better qualified than the Product Strategy guy himself and they both know it.

Especially if the CEO had anything good to say to these guys about you after your lengthy 2.5 hour powwow that resulted in the desired offer.

Product Strategy and Sales don't want the internal competition from someone else with a direct line to the CEO who is capable of the New Project which no one else has been able to move forward on.

Those two guys don't want you, I would never work under them. But if I was completely confident I could do the Project from Scratch, I would emphasize that to the CEO, agree to report directly to him, plan to outlast the flunkies, and hire their replacements later on.

Be prepared for back-stabbing, and if the CEO ever drops his complete support, be ready to leave at any time.
The Tribunal agreed with the Philippines position on almost every question with the exception of 2 features: Gaven Reef (North) and McKennan Reef. Both of those features were found to be high-tide elevations.

The Tribunal also ruled Chinese activity in the region was illegal, found China to be violating its obligations under UNCLOS and failing to protect the natural habitats (including willful destruction of the coral and endangered species). China's harassment of Philippine ships was also ruled illegal. The nine-dash line was ruled invalid. China's claims of "historic waters" was found to be groundless. Mischief Reef, Second Thomas Shoal, and Reed Bank were found to “form part of the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of the Philippines.”

Really, this was about as complete a victory for the Philippines (and refutation of everything China claims and is doing) as possible.
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I'm curious why rust-url still hasn't been shipped with firefox yet.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1151899
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And your point is? That work still needs doing, corporate profits are sky high. They can pay the tax and pay the workers.

Also much of the money passing through Ireland is simply for tax evasion not because actual business is taking place there. It's little more than a tax haven.

Here is an example of all those jobs created:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich_(tax_avoidance)
It's always a tragedy when political maneuvering gets in the way of good science, and you know, advancing the human race.
A new pedagogical paradigm?
I wonder if that's really true (that it scales better than running more-or-less bog standard CGI across a fleet of thousands of servers, behind a load balancer).

If I've understood lambda correctly, rather than spinning up a process (as with CGI), it spins up an entire vm/container. I suppose it might do the fast-cgi thing - spin up a container, and keep it running while there are requests coming in, and then kill it off.

I'm sure there are other benefits of "container-on-demand" vs "process-on-demand" -- but I'm not sure "scales better" is one of them. Well, I'm sure it "scales better" in the sense of organization (human resources), but not necessarily in terms of machine resources.

At any rate, I like the analogy.
> Displaying the answers to your security questions in multiple choice form (with a none of the above option, but usually including your answer).

Kill it before it lays eggs.

> Requiring your password to be entered with mouse clicks at an on-screen keyboard. Not kidding.

[x] Bad security
[x] Bad usability
(Edit: apparently unicode checkmarks are filtered out on input now)

This is like the personification of a lose-lose interpretation of AviD's rule of usable security.