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> A house is an investment.

As a rental, sure. As a home? yeah, i'm pretty skeptical of that idea. There's no rate of return.

Some people buy a big house to raise a family, and then downsize when the kids move out. I can kinda sorta see that as an investment, because you've got a planned future exit, and the value you extract from the extra space is more than the 1-2% rate of return.

Your cheap place to live is just a cheap place to live. Sure, in the long run, it's a good deal, but there's no rate of return. Is McDonalds for lunch is an investment, because it's cheaper that a fancier place?
Sounding is an old nautical term meaning "to measure something". You may have heard/read the expression "sound the depths", describing the process of seeing how deep the water under the keel of a sailing vessel is. That's the origin of the term.

Sounding rockets are rockets launched for scientific research purposes. NASA has the most robust Sounding Rocket program, but there are others out there.

Your typical NASA sounding rocket has two or three motor stages and can send a ~1000 lb payload to an altitude of about 280 miles, with about 10 minutes of time above 62 miles (the official demarcation between 99.99% of Earth's atmosphere and space). These are not orbital missions -- you go up and you come back down in the space of 20 to 30 minutes or so.

Science objectives include things like observing comets, the composition of the interstellar medium, the dynamics of the Sun, trying to find direct evidence of dark matter, understanding the dynamics of the ionosphere, wind currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere, and many more. For only $1 - $6 million USD per mission, a sounding rocket is a relatively cheap way to do some science in space, and the science payoffs have been huge.
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Let's look at the numbers.

Your suggestion that most poor people work at least 56 hours a week isn't consistent with what I've read. For example, from The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis, "Who are the working poor?", first paragraph:

> In 2013, 45.3 million people were poor. The majority of the people who live below the poverty level do not work. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 10.5 million or 23 percent of the poor were “working poor.” [1]

Note that I'm not arguing that there is not problem with voting and the poor.

[1] http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/who-are-working-poor
Pair programming:

expert-expert:

- ya

- hu-hum...

- ya

- look... I'm way overloaded with work

- same here

- do you think we should both work on our stuff independently

- sure, It'll be more efficient this way, see you at lunch

expert-novice:

- but why are you assigning this?

- well, it's the counter and it has to start at zero

- well, shouldn't you use an accessor?

- an accessor for a counter?... (sigh)

- ya, we may want to change the counter to a float one day

- (silence) [adds the stupid accessor to have him shut up]

- and this should be a singleton

- (silence) [adds the stupid singleton with the ominous feeling of sinking deeper into depression, loosing any sense of passion]

- I was thinking, since we have an accessor for our counter, shouldn't we create a factory to automate instanciation too?

- [leaves for a cigarette break and never comes back... to this day, the whereabouts of this pragmatic programmer is unknown]

novice-novice:

- Let's make an accessor!

- Yeah! and let's make a singleton!

- Yeah! and a factory? (honhonhon) [it's a french dude]

- Sure! and maybe we should have a red-black tree of factories, imagine the power!

- Woooaa! I can't fathom the power! I never heard of such a thing!... it's AWESOME! ... Maybe we should template all of this

- you're reading my mind!

- ...
Those type-safety problems for parsing tainted data are a royal pain and, often, security issues! Typed regex are a very good idea and very welcome. At the moment, when I use regex and extraction, I have a lot of boilerplate and I could easily have lots of bugs unfuzzed.

(For those having the type-safety problem with JSON in Python, can I recommend my own library obiwan? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/obiwan/ :) )
Too long of a read for me. Yet I do have an opinion :)

In capitalism a business is allowed to throw out what it wants; we have seen many products simply destroy in order not "destroy the market".

But capitalism is wrong --IMHO-- and wasting resources I deem sinful. We should try to avoid wasting resources, and we can. Simply put some laws in place that "tax" wasting resources to the extend that businesses become waste-averse.

As for individuals, this is harder, I'd say that a mentality shift is needed. Probably the same mentality shift needed for the afore mentioned laws to be passed. But believe that we can inspire each other to live in a less wasteful way, I believe we have been doing this already for 100s of years.

p.s.: Do you want to know what is probably the most wasteful behavior of mankind? Watch the Cowspiracy documentary.
Mistakes happen. Once you put a magazine on a weapon it's pretty easy to ready it. Think about how many people die every year because someone was cleaning a gun they thought was unloaded but wasn't.

What about keeping your finger on the trigger guard do you have a problem with? Where do you think his finger should be when he's carrying his rifle?
>, then yes, evidence was provided. For each principle, there are photos showing exactly how the principle is violated in typical McMansion architecture. For those with an eye for architecture who have spent time puzzling over McMansions, that is sufficient to demonstrate the principles.

No, it was insufficient evidence. The author didn't show photos (or is unaware) of non-McMansion-non-modern counterexamples to his "mass/voids/asymmetry" principles and explain why his guidelines are inconsistent. Therefore, his theory is incoherent.

The magazines including Architectural Digest and Veranda are the most anti-McMansion publications you can get and they feature homes that violate his principles. Secondary mass all over the place. Abundant voids and asymmetry too.

Yes, the distaste for McMansions is a real phenomenon but the author's explanations about what it _is_ by measuring geometries is incorrect.
> Old growth wood is just plain stronger than the type of wood you'd find in modern buildings.

That's true only if you discount engineered wood products, which are superior in strength to even the best of old growth lumber. For resistance to shear stress, nothing beats plywood or OSB; for bending stress, LVL; for tensile stress, LSL; for compressive stress, finger joined lumber.
If you're gonna migrate to SQL, wouldn't Postgres be a better call?
> I'd be surprised if inducing religious and racial tensions to destabilize Europe was Soros' goal. Any evidence from non anti-semitic sources?

Well, to be spitefully exact, the government of Israel (jackasses that they are!) seems to believe roughly the same thing, especially given Soros' funding of Palestinian activist organizations.

Soros' agenda doesn't have to be card-carryingly evil in order to go against the will of the voters.
Serverless PHP with Docker(file) and Zeit▲now Uhm, What?
I'm often in the minority opinion so I'm used to it, but to me microservices aren't fundamentally different than the message passing systems which we've tried many times. But when something doesn't work we try the opposite of it instead of just less or more. Monolithic server got you down? MICROSERVICES. Microservices got you down? Put everything into one process space!

Uh, how about we put all of the related stuff together so we have 8 services instead of 800? Could we maybe try that? How about something really crazy, why don't we give Conway's Law a try and arrange our code around organizational boundaries or vice versa?
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Makes one wonder if the crypto currency heists were state-sponsored in order to disrupt these before they ever get a real foothold.
Thunderf00t's no more credible than your average space-alien-cat in a mask.

Phil Mason, PhD in chemistry, and work in nutrition, physics, and nuclear physics, with 34 published papers to his credit, now he's one sassy frood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Mason
I made something similar last year. https://sungwoncho.io/making-airstrip-io. It's open source so you can have a look at the code. Best of luck.
Started out cracking software on embedded systems a long time ago. That led to an understanding of ASM and reverse engineering. Going from there to exploitation isn't a giant leap.

There's quite a few books on the subject. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation is a decent hello world introduction to the subject. Reading CTF practice problem writeups and then trying easier ones yourself are also good experiences.

For REing, http://crackmes.de is a blast. The entry level challenges should be easy to grasp after reading a few tutorials. Would recommend running everything in a Windows VM. ;)

Good luck!
I think you need to explain that on your site. I would never have guessed.
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-do-we-vote-on-a-...
Correct. Microservices are a fundamental tenant of how Unix pipelines. They go back (at least) to the 70s.
Source: https://articles.microservices.com/the-origins-of-microservi...
I'm on one of the hyperloop teams (UCSB) that's using maglev.

We aren't using the type of maglev that's used in maglev trains where the track is magnetized and super expensive. We're using ArxPax hover engines[1]. They just spin a Halbach array[2] super fast and generate a hovering force off of an aluminum track.

The winning team of Design Weekend last January, MIT, is also using magnetic levitation but they are doing a passive version. The track still isn't magnetized, but their magnets generate their eddy currents just by the movement of the pod. It sort of "takes off."

The first reason we -- and others in the competition, though not the majority I believe -- went with maglev is that the we (well, the Mechanical Engineering students, I'm CS) couldn't find air-skis that worked at high speeds. Elon mentioned at Code Conference that they'd been tested up to Mach 1.1 but when I told the ME's of that they said they hadn't found anything they could use nor any research showing that the air being pushed out of the ski "keeps up" with the pod at high speeds.

In addition to the speed problem with air skis, they also hover much lower off the ground than the maglev and require much higher tolerances on the track (more expensive).

Part of the reason to have the competition is to try a bunch of different ideas at once and see what works best. I do believe there are plenty of teams that will be testing air-skis on the track at competition weekend. We'll see how it goes.

[1] http://arxpax.com/product/hover-engine/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array
I have a bunch. My keybase is https://keybase.io/dougalsutherland, email is dougal at gmail.
What about when management (and financial realities) pushes relentlessly for new options, customizations and deployments? When all time not spent shipping new variants is spent developing features? What then? When is the code going to be refactored? In the developers' spare time?
Telling yourself that failures are someone else's fault (while, presumably, still taking credit for good work) is a great way to never learn from your mistakes.
People generally don't have enough capital to pay cash for a house so they need to borrow some of the money. Such loans are typically secured by the value of the house. If the borrower doesn't repay the loan the lender needs to be able to liquidate the asset to make themselves whole, hence foreclosure. If this were not done, mortgages would be much more expensive because they would be much risker investments.
"Expert" is a vague term, but the parent didn't claim that it did. Do you think that one needs to be an 'expert' (whatever that means) in mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics to make meaningful criticism of a project like this?
Like fill='context-stroke'? It's a fairly prominent example in the spec.
Or if Facebook claim patent infringement against you. So what he summarised is right.
Thanks for your feedback, we'll fix that ASAP.
I assume this is the same problem I see in my car (VW) when streaming Spotify via Bluetooth? The progress bar in the car seems to go at double speed and runs out about halfway through each track.
Throwaway account.

I'm really disappointed to see Hyperloop One come crashing down, but I'm not surprised by it. Those who have worked closely with him have learned that Shervin Pishevar is absolutely toxic. There's not much else I can say without violating HN's civility rules, but this seems to be an open secret in SV. Some people love him, some just tolerate him, but many say they will never work with him again.
Crash ratings, equipment, and drivetrain configuration do not have to do with quality. WHen they joined Renault they inherited their mediocre management and engineering.
If you are in the VC scene, presumably you have a decent amount of investment capital. I think what you need to focus on is not so much the equity selection (i.e. short/buy Twilio), but on asset class allocation. You should pick up David Swensen's Unconventional Success to understand the details of why asset allocation is by far the most effective method to maximize returns in the long run.

So, instead of shorting Twilio, you should be thinking about the expected return from the VC fund, and how to re-allocate your investments. I'd assume that the VC funds are giving you outsized returns in the recent years, so you should try to balance your portolio by making investments in the real estate, natural resources, mutual funds space, etc.
Read this instead if you are interested: https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-82850
Short term concerns. We will off of fossil fuels long before any ground based high speed transport between SF and LA can be built.
I have a severe hearing impairment. I have a crazy fast reading speed, which I attribute in part to always having closed captions on television. Simply turning the captions on is a good way to pick up speed: eventually, you don't actually read what's written on the screen—you just comprehend it.
Much better would to keep your implementation of your idea a secret. It can be your unfair advantage.
Seems like a terrible idea. If someone can't be bothered to express their opinion, I don't think society should value their opinion.

Plus there's the whole freedom thing. We should keep the list of "things the government forces you to to do" as small as possible.
It's actually quite difficult to find information on, say, Soil and Water Conservation District Manager (yes, we elect those in some places), particularly since that minor of a race might not even result in websites. It's also difficult to get a full sense of the issues that matter in a race by reading the candidates' websites--and if your local newspaper doesn't help by providing interviews, you can be quite SOL.

The last election took me about 1-1½ hour to figure out whom I was going to vote for.
I've not been happy with this kind code ownership in the past. Those who want to misbehave have a nice comfortable place to hide out while appearing relevant because they have a monopoly on an idea that they don't have the skills to be responsible for.

So then you have your coworker who wrote a wrapper around the code to sanitize all of the inputs and outputs and it's bigger than the actual code and once in a while it guesses wrong about ambiguous data.
"Refuctor Your Cukes" was a thing a few years ago, I think by Gary Bernhardt, but I can't find it now.
But what about when Gawker(or other media) can afford lawyers but people legitimately harmed by Gawker cannot? I am not sure why Peter Thiel is being made out to be the bad guy here because he is a billionaire. The courts decided where the line was and Terry Bollea was awarded. What he did was charitable. I don't think those quotes are inconsistent.
That article is a little misleading- it's actually about podcasters who want them to embrace/extend podcasting itself so that they (the podcasters, not the company) could better monetize podcasts. I can't imagine that the ways in which this might be done (DRM/subscriptions/user tracking/etc.) would appeal to HN readers, even if it would help the most popular podcasters make more money. IMO, benign neglect is the best possible situation for podcasting as a medium right now.
> Midori was really interesting

No doubt, and so are some art-house movies I've watched - they usually leave me thinking (or flummoxed).

There is a place for art-house movies and a place for more commercial fare (e.g. blockbusters) - it is important not to confuse the two.Some gifted auteurs manage to blend the two, but IMO,it is wrong for anyone to say "if you're taking the time to make a movie, make it intellectual"
The nonsense is that this is a solution looking for a problem. It's scratching an itch by trying to move a mountain. I am certain that nobody in the history of the podcast has ever complained about the sound quality of the theme song or audio clips, especially after they switched over to 96kbps. Whereas there is no doubt that any technical solution — especially any of the ones proposed, including switching to VBR — would inconvenience a whole lot of people.

(By all means, Marco should continue working in this direction if it interests him. If Apple ends up adding those ID3 tags to their MP3 decoder, it will have a net positive impact on the world. I just think it's a rather foolish endeavor.)
It's a pretty fair bet that the candidate with a "D" after their name will be the winner in CA/SV.
No, the process is horrendous, especially for the competitive companies. Just look at Google's process: talk with recruiter, 1-2 phone screens, 5 on-site interviews, and then a couple phone calls with teams. All before you get an offer. Absolute nonsense.
Elections are held every year.
Background knowledge like: how to read and write English! Or are we administering these tests verbally and written in every language on earth?
I've been waiting for the smartphone to become expandable for a while. This is very interesting and might be that middle step between a portable pocket computer and a low cost computing environment (Rpi).
> by entities covered by the ADA

Is Facebook covered by the ADA? I can't imagine that they are, as it is not an essential service. According to [1]:

"The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and, if the government entities receive federal funding, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 generally require that state and local governments provide qualified individuals with disabilities equal access to their programs, services, or activities unless doing so would fundamentally alter the nature of their programs, services, or activities or would impose an undue burden".

But that has nothing to do with private organizations that are not receiving federal funding or providing access to government funded services.

[1] https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm
> if that's really all you're taking away

I'm not commenting on everything, just the things I think are the most important. I can't read your mind, but in your own words you "encourage folks not to watch that video at least without..."

Just my impression, but it appears to me that you aren't even trying to contribute to the actual topics of discussion in any meaningful way.
One nifty trick that I found few people know about, is that you can upload your own .mobi books into the Kindle cloud. Just use the email that they provide to upload PDFs and the like.

Once the books are there, they show in your cloud collection and are available for download, same as Amazon-purchased books. Better yet, you will also get cloud sync across devices for current location, bookmarks etc - probably the most enticing reason to go down this route.

(Not sure if this is helpful to you, if you really prefer to manage files directly via USB. But might be helpful to someone else.)
The MP4 container was based on the Quicktime file format (.mov).
You can but last time I used it the first option you were presented with was giving keybase your key. I don't know if that's changed years later because I closed the app at that point, I wasn't interested in using or encouraging others to use such a thing. The guy pointing this out was downvoted and I frequently see the fact that its possible to not give them your key presented as somehow making it acceptable that they ask for it.
So, is it safe to say that you are providing a better rules engine than Quickbooks provides? What about all the other stuff - A/P, A/R, GL, Financial Reports etc?
Not to mention the absurdity of traveling through a vacuum tube a hundred miles long. What could possibly go wrong!
What I meant is - what's the top level of the container? The target app, or an init system?
Hyperloop boosters also seem to ignore that it will require the same sorts of right-of-way acquisition as high speed rail, which is an enormous component of both the cost and political difficulty of building HSR.
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Watching the loan value increase makes me realize I won't be able to afford even a dumpster with shutters. I hear about all these people buying houses without much down payment and it makes me feel uneasy.
In your opinion, how complex are the civil engineering challenges, e.g. keeping the tube straight?
Tell me about it. The problem is moving parts. Whether you spread it out over several programs or not does not matter. If you manage to really decouple programs so they can do useful work independently of one another then that's great. Congratulations to you. But microservices can just as easily turn into one huge program separated into many small ones, none of which make any sense on its own, and now all you've done is make things harder for devops.
I've needed it in Adobe Illustrator SVG import, and did not wanted to exercise such CSS stuff. Now that I think of it, it may actually work.
Food waste = Energy. Someone is going to make a nice chunk of change on this if they can solve the logistics problems associated with waste food. WISErg (https://wiserg.com) is a promising candidate.
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> As a formal Software Engineer, I now consider him to be possibly the most enlightened engineer that's ever existed in the field.

On one hand, his quotes have the ring of wisdom. On the other, the man was famously not an engineer and never brought a software project to fruition, to my knowledge.

These aren't necessarily contradictory, but you should keep it in mind. Knuth is much more of an engineer in the sense it's used on HN.
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> I started working n months before my co-founder

For this one, the solution might be to vest n months earlier, but have the same number of shares in the end.
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I definitely keep the terminal open in the side of my window to catch any errors throughout the development process. I just set up Webpack Dashboard which was pretty easy, and now I can continue to keep my terminal up but I have an even easier way to view any errors that may crop up.
You are invested in your community. Moving to avoid a problem is more expensive and potentially unaffordable when you own.
Oh, that explains why when I pause music on my iPhone and resume, it doesn't continue playing from the same place.

Damnit, Apple.