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> Also, because we've lost the ability to build things in the US

We have the ability. It's just that we've decided having a political process with umpteen layers of environmental review, and having "prevailing wage+" labor unions (who contribute to re-election campaigns) do the construction, is more important than having nice things.

(+ the "prevailing wage", of course, being not the average or median wage, but the highest wage out there.)
Is this just survivorship bias?
Lies! Technology and history don't exist. I bet you haven't even contemplated the world your grandchildren will inherit more than a couple times today.
In Defense of a Boring, Comfortable Life
Not at every single stage of the process. There is no method of, for example, challenging a voter at the voting booth.

Or this: https://youtu.be/PKQEQ7qHvgM

(I fraudulently voted as someone else a long time back and he voted as me, as part of a bet on whether this was possible. Nothing stopped us, there was no ID check, no security, no one found out.)
Right off the bat it presents three possible queue arrangements none of which is the one I prefer.

A single MPSC queue per core works very well and this is what VoltDB does. For most sane task sizes this works fine and it scales because you can only process so many tasks at a single core so queue contention isn't an issue.

If you want to crank things to 11 you can do an SPSC queue between every core, and this is what ScyllaDB does and is suggested in the article. This does relieve CAS failure, but outside of microbenchmarks I am not sure it is a real world issue.

I had never considered the advantages of atomic instructions that never fail. In the context of things like Disrupor or Agrona those choices start to make more sense.
I've been trying to find more details on the tribe's claim of burial cairns in the pipeline's path. Anyone have any links? How is it possible that these were missed after 15 years of court battles and planning?
That's broken now in Office 2013 and Office 2016. Several of my users -at the same time- found that they could not open "excel" documents provided by several different vendors, all of which were actually HTML tables in files named ".xls". My guess is that Microsoft broke this with a software update, but I've yet to research the problem.
This seems to be based on the average of sellers' asking prices, and the source report doesn't give its raw data anywhere. But if you click the source's "Show me listings" button, the median price for a 4 bedroom/2 bathroom house (after stripping out > 4 bedrooms and > 2 bathrooms) in Saratoga seems to be in the whereabouts of $800ish, with Mc Mansions skewing the mean up.
Do Not Fear Recursion
Hm, the words "fuel" and "economic" do not occur in that article.

You can infer something from phrases like "flying super heavy cargos" and "by bringing infrastructure ... that are normally too big for airlift" but it would be interesting to see if anyone has something to add directly on that topic as to what exactly the drawbacks to that scale are. The fact that only one was ever made also implies that the uses are limited.
Arguable if you can keep everything on one box it will almost always be faster (and cheaper!) than any soft of distributed system. That said, scalability is generally more important than speed because once a task can be distributed you can add performance by adding hardware. As well, depending on your use case you can often get fault tolerance "for free".
> Basically thats a lie.

Well, that is how it worked for me, I used Excel 2016, the most recent LO (5?), and Google Spreadsheets. Around two months ago. I wanted to create a chart (histogram) from data in a CSV, with around 900k lines. Calling this a 'lie' is just bad manners, sorry.
> when you could be using ScipPy/Jupyter/IPython/Pandas

Who says that the HN audience doesn't?
My response assumes that there is a need for a complex product. In general, unless there is a specific need for complexity, complexity is incompleteness, lack of polish, or a failure to target needs properly. Customers don't want complex products they want simple products. However, showing a simple "slice" of a complex product that addresses a larger problem or need makes sense, and is a case for the complexity.

Understand your customers needs and how you provide value.

The existing comments provide a good jumping off point, but with few specifics we can only speak in general. If you add more details I will follow-up.

The bottom-line is that your customers don't care about your product. They care about how your product helps them.

You want to understand the processes and problems that each individual customer is dealing with. If you don't have intimate knowledge of these already you have to ask strategic questions that reveal these.

Once you understand this, and demonstrate it in relevant terms to the customer, ask for the business. This not meant to be sarcastic or condescending at all. I have been in numerous meetings with smart people, executives, sales people. So often, they understand the need and demonstrate it, and then never ask, and they wonder what happened. Typically, it helps if you are confident when you ask.
Very interesting. Is that also an attack vector on private VPNs?

1. Identify the internal layout of a corporate VPN.

2. Pick a service on, say 10.1.2.3:80

3. Trick user into joining either rogue AP, or rogue VPN

4. Serve an identical service on 10.1.2.3:80 on your network
Yosemite doesn't usually close except for rare events like flooding. The valley will remain open through the winter. It's just the road over Tioga Pass that closes with the first snow since NPS doesn't plow it. Actually, winter is my favorite time of the year there. Snow (hopefully) blanketing the mountains and the valley floor and fewer people. Many fewer people.
Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle
Taking a log file, grep, sed to extract some numbers and then create a graph that shows the distribution of those numbers (histogram). It was one-off, I could have used some command-line tools to do all of those but then I'd have spend an hour learning how gnuplot works, which I didn't have time for. I'm a developer, and that's exactly why my time is expensive -- automating everything doesn't always make sense.
Where are all the Betteridge fanboys on this one?
Sure, I asked at Reddit/r/machinelearning:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4kcrqp/loo...

A couple of people contacted me, and the first one I gave a shot was actually a perfect fit. Maybe I was a bit lucky right there.
First reference from the wiki here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_ancient_Greece . The idea is that a pupil must learn himself first, then his own world and finally something practical to make a living. Greece is for Westerners, though. I can imagine different communities in the world having their own way to license considerate and compassionate human beings before hard professionals.
Early on in my career, I released a somewhat successful iOS app for skateboarders. It was really cool seeing monthly revenue come in, even if it was only a few hundred dollars.

I basically want that same feeling times 20, so I'm getting enough to live on from my own products.

I also want to work on projects where I either have full creative control or get to work with great designers who I mostly agree with.

I want the financial comfort to confidently say 'no' to every bad idea I hear.
Wouldn't mindfulness meditation help change such a confined experience?

Also, I thought that astronauts had such full schedules that extracurricular activities were limited?
Trying to end corruption in the US, I'm starting to think, is what has brought American politics to its current low state. I think the worst political decision of the past few decades was the move to ban earmarks. Whatever negative things you can say about them, earmarks gave congresspeople a way to please their constituency without reference to some particular ideological test. They could always say: "Well sure, I didn't vote to ban abortion, but we did get a new agricultural research center." Without the ability to drive federal dollars to their districts in return for 'selling out' their parties ideology, a lot of congressmen have lost the ability to vote for anything at all. It's wrecked the committee systems, the budget process, everything.

Same deal with banning unlimited donations to candidates while allowing it to superpacs that technically aren't allowed to coordinate with the candidates. You haven't made candidates less beholden to big donors, you've just put the big donors totally in charge of the campaign, because their spending dwarfs the spending of the candidates themselves.
The comparison to the C-17 rather than the C-5 seems rather deliberate to me (along with using lbs instead of tons for the unit). It's more sensational if a future Chinese military cargo plane "beats" a US cargo plane in cargo capacity by XXX,000 of anything.
Valid identification cards in Sweden include passports, driver's licenses and national ID cards.
The south rim can be a zoo during peak tourist season but the north rim has 10% of the visitation and it is 2000 feet higher in elevation and much cooler. The canyon views, in my opinion, are even more exquisite. Make the long, difficult trek out to Toroweap on the north rim, and you'll be fortunate if there is any one else there.
Hanjin Collapse Is Triggering Short-Term Rate Spike, Maersk Says
The Politics of Ignorance (2011)
I like schemas for validation and strong types. I also like self-describing systems when all goes to hell and I'm debugging either my own protocols or someone else's.

I have this crazy idea that there's a middle ground: self-describing and schemas?

We can kind of glue this together (there's lots of json schemas floating around out there now, it seems), but it would be awfully interesting to see these well-supported as a pair (with explicitly language agnostic schema definitions -- which seems to be a sticking point for most of the json schema strapons).

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The article seems to think that it will have military use, but I personally don't see the big advantage of lugging 4 tanks in one plane instead of splitting them across two planes.

If the plane were economical for general cargo lift they would have made more than one.
As the comments in that thread make clear - European companies already offer similar devices that work over Bluetooth or lightning and support chip+pin cards.

As usual, Apple does something, and people lost their shit in a frenzy of fud.
The claim you're supporting in the article is not about drinking water while on a strenuous hike in a hot, arid climate. It's about drinking water in routine, day to day life.
What a marvelously ignorant idea. Why is it so hard to understand that there will be no magic machine that will allow you to live happily ever after without need to think.
There are some good points in here. However, what I think the author misses is that we are within reach of a post-scarcity economy, at which point all of those historical economic references go out the window (since nearly all economic theory assumes scarcity). That possibility makes a UBI experiment very worthwhile to me.

I don't think we're there today or anything like that, but it may be within our lifetimes that we're seriously approaching post-scarcity. Renewables are getting cheaper, for instance, which may bring about nearly limitless cheap energy. I won't assume mass scale fusion, but we may tackle the energy issue in other ways (this is my handwaving). Food security is already within reach - most of the issues around it are political (meaning kids in Africa aren't starving because we don't have enough food). The main threats are overpopulation and politics, as tech seems to be ticking along quite nicely.

I am obviously an optimist, oversimplifying a lot, and believe that we won't nuke ourselves into oblivion. I also think that we'll eventually solve our political problems - many of which are based on energy issues. Even if I'm wrong, though, I don't see an issue with UBI experiments and seeing how it goes. We shouldn't use economic theory as a reason to not try something radically different, as economic theory is wrong often enough to warrant the experiment. It may be worth a look at UBI to look at behavior on a macro level, since I think we're eventually going to get there globally and we'll need to know what the hell to do to occupy ourselves in some way that is still productive in that context.
I think we're going to disagree here. Red flags happen on individually legal transactions as indications that could indicate larger patterns of illegal behavior.

Deregulation of industries (say, electricity [0]) did not happen just to introduce creative or legal accounting fraud. Do you have any sources for your claims, or just hearsay/personal thoughts?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_el...
I build my web sites mobile first, then make sure they also work nicely on a laptop browser. However, I am a little skeptical about progressive web apps. I used to just install a very small number of apps on my Android phone for privacy reasons. Now, with Android 6 I can set fine grain permissions and I now have about 10 apps installed. For everything else, simple web sites are sufficient.

The article is right on, on the point tha SEO is a big win for web apps.
FTA "...we have long known that technology destroys jobs..."

Should I even bother to continue reading after that? After all, what we actually know is that technology creates jobs, like the ones that I and a large number of people I know have had.
I don't see the author addressing that topic either and I reread the article twice.
"This" being a low-carb diet. Even NYT stoops to click-baity headlines these days; what is the world coming to.
I have been doing Keto for 3 months and lost 20kg without any exercise at all.
What in the book, from your reading, is the bad advice?
There is a certain political party that is harmed by high voter turnout in the USA and is actively engaged in disenfranchising demographics that don't share their worldviews. They certainly will oppose efforts to make it easier to vote.
Linux-insides: Program startup process in userspace
The Four Stages of Life
Highlighting something in an article that shows that a poster clearly hasn't read some or all of the article is "insinuating", and seems to be widely accepted. (And why not - a counter argument based directly on the source material seems perfectly reasonable.)

Maybe the guidelines need to change to say not directly call it out, which is what you seem to be objecting to.
If you don't have the pedigree, go get it. Become that Stanford masters student, or go work at Google or Facebook for a few years. Then when dingbat investors like Suster ask for pedigree, just namedrop Google.

Of course, keep in mind that Suster himself doesn't have the right pedigree (he studied econ at UCSD and got an MBA from Chicago). Then again, maybe that's why he has a shitty portfolio (Upfront is certainly no Sequoia).
I don’t have data on that but I believe it destroys more jobs than it creates, and this is a good thing. What’s the point of automating our lives if in the end people still have to work?
But what would happen if those exact same command-line tools were used inside a Hadoop node? What would be the optimum number of processors then?
+ Use some attractive subject and maybe a picture in the email (optional). Just to have better chances to draw attention.
I was not 100% supporting the claim in the article. I was just pointing out what I thought was someone's error in converting 3 liters to 37 cups of water.
"there’s a libertarian ideological bias in Silicon Valley that seems to turn people into ignorant morons when it comes to social state-related issues. As engineers, some don’t even get the political stakes."

"So enough already. Grow up now, study history..."

Regardless of the actual content of the article, I found the style of so many unnecessary ad hominim attacks offputing.

The actual content of the article isn't really backed up. It mostly seems to say that engineers are seduced by the elegance of Basic Income and that they should really just focus on making the existing social system have less friction. Not a bad opinion, just not really in line with the many statements that "Basic Income won't work".
Show HN: A terminal based search engine for bash commands
2TB of RAM isn't close to a supercomputer nowadays, you can even get one of those at AWS now (the appropriately named x1.32xlarge instance).
I wish to read that, but unfortunately WSJ don't accept international Subscribers.
Just because it creates jobs doesn't mean it does not also destroy them. There are lots of jobs technology via automation has 'destroyed'. Some new ones were created however to write the software to automate those processes. The important thing is whether it is replacing jobs at the same rate that it is destroying them.
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Chaco Canyon is a bit older than Mesa Verde. The former started around 850 while the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings began about 1150.
Unfortunately, in many other industries, sucking up being the first on the list.
The endless, and expensive, quest for rare objects
Can you please elaborate what you find so "special" in those screenshots from the article? I mean how is it really different from most of the modern apps/websites?
Electrical lighting made a huge difference in fire safety.
shrug it's honestly going to be a bit hard to compare. But for a rough guess, the AN-225 can lift like 300,000kg, and the AN-124 (from which its derived from) can lift like 230,000kg. The AN-225 has 6 of the same engines that the AN-124 has, so naively assuming roughly the same fuel use, the lift ratio is ~ 1.34 to 1 and the fuel use ratio is ~ 1.5 to 1. And the AN-124 is sufficiently cheap to operate to be in use commercially.

So by those rough guesses, the AN-225 should be ok.

That said, the moment you have a too heavy, or too big load for an AN-124, then the extra fuel cost of the AN-225 has almost infinite value.

The drawbacks to scale always have to do with complexity, and ground infrastructure. The AN-225 can't operate from as wide a variety of fields that the AN-124 can (though this shouldn't be a huge concern from commercial use).

Structurally, the modifications from the AN-124 to AN-225 aren't super complex. They basically added plugs before and after the wings to extend the fuselage, and added a wing extension. While these aren't trivial changes to an aircraft, they're basically the simplest type of structural change you can make. Oh, I guess there's a tail modification, but that's not that risky either.

I mean I guess the point is that you probaly would not want a whole-scale replacement of AN-124 class lifters with AN-225, but keeping a few around enables entire types of lifts (and therefore operations) that simply aren't possible. The key would be to estimate what the appropriate amount of AN-225 are.

For an example, the famous Beluga Airbus enables a form of manufacturing distribution (for good or for bad) that simply isn't possible without it existing. You would never want a giant fleet of Beluga, but having it is invaluable.
if the content of the article is valid then getting the most people to read it seems like a good objective.

If Clickbait helps, why not?
Is Loki based on Ubuntu at all? I've just been very used to Ubuntu. The skin looks very pretty. I'm gonna try this out in a VM.
I'd guess not. In many cases, these sorts of mutations are maladaptive outside of that environment.

Put a polar bear in the tropics and it's not going to do so well - not just because it's going to overheat, but because all the energy spent growing that hair could've been better used on something else.
I think we should try to first make popular scouting organizations for children who are diverse, inclusive, and welcoming.

The Boy Scouts of America currently can't be supported by me no matter their merits because of their stances on gays and the non-religious.

I also don't support sex segregation in scouting.

Keep the BSofA for the people who want that sort of thing but let's support inclusive scouting organizations as well.
The article fails to present a good alternative to a basic income, or if it did I missed it. While I don't believe in that concept, I also don't think that "I think it is fair to say that being unqualified is less of a risk today" is a fair statement to make today. Tell that the steel workers whose factory just shut down, and tell them they should become entrepreneurs instead. What an arrogance!
> It seems, then, that the decade-old optimism around web apps and open platforms still has a spark left. Why is that? "I honestly can't tell you," Russell says. "I just feel very lucky."

Because...

1) Mobile apps require an install, mobile websites don't.

2) Content linked from my inbox lives on the web, not mobile apps.

3) Google search is a better way to find stuff than App store.

Solve these three problems and I'll start getting nervous. 'til then, I consider my job as a web developer pretty secure.
ZEIT open-sourced the official CLI for now
The late Majel Barrett might still voice the computer on Star Trek: Discovery
> You have to fill in many papers, prove that you don’t have sufficient income or any valuable property, go through many humiliating and intrusive controls. If you want to earn (a small amount of) money without working, then you must endure it all. In most cases it is necessary to seek the help of a social worker to carry out the procedure in its entirety.

Funny how the article zeroes in on this as a criticism of basic income, even though it describes the biggest way France's system is totally different from what basic income advocates are talking about.
I doubt there's enough heavy commercial cargo in the world that would support a fleet of these aircraft. While the current AN-225 is busy, it doesn't appear to be busy enough to financially justify restarting construction on the second airframe.

I expect this is desired for a few reasons - heavy military airlift, to match what the US has had since Vietnam with the C-5 Galaxy. Access to licensed construction of the D-18 engine (as mentioned by ovi256). And ego.
Or if you really need surgery get it done for about a third of that price at a hospital that's probably done more than any other.[1]

[1] http://medicaltravelsite.com/blog/gastric-banding-at-yanhee-...
Why is it difficult enough that not even a nation state as large and powerful as china has obstacles to develop a heavy turbofan? With respect to other tech they've developed I don't know what is technologically difficult here -- I'm asking genuinely as a layman, it's not a rhetorical statement of disagreement.
I have been doing a very flexible diet using low carb, high fat as guidelines for the last 6 years and I lost so far 16kg. No ups and downs, just a slow process of down-stable-down-stable...

It is incredible when you have the right knowledge to make your own right decisions (i.e., know that low fat diets are BS).
I'm not sure how you figure that? The CSS file containing inline images would get cached, so nothing would be sent after the initial request.
Nick Cave's gift: a skeleton key that unlocks the source of songwriting
Could you please add screenshots? I myself was a huge fan of FastTracker and Impulse Tracker back in the 90s, but I don't think people are going to download this tool just out of curiosity without seeing pretty pictures of the music app in advance.

PS I apologize if there were screenshots, but I just failed to find them.
Chaco also has some of the darkest skies in the US. It even as an astronomy program during the summer months with several telescopes people can look through. It is a really amazing place to visit.