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Historically, that's probably the most likely outcome. NASA has always faced tough political battles for funding all the way back to the middle of the Apollo program and nowhere has that been more apparent than when NASA was trying to replace one major project with another. If you're interested, John Logsdon's After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program is a fascinating--albeit depressing--book on the politics of NASA funding. It mainly focuses on Apollo and the transition to STS (and covers some of the alternative paths people at NASA wanted to pursue), but I have no doubt whatsoever that many of the same challenges will plague any ISS replacement, whatever it may be.
> I don't know anything about Peugeot. Probably hybrids so who cares.

YTD in Germany, Renault sold twice as many purely electric cars (1836 Zoes) as Tesla (978 Model S and 56 Model X.)

Source: https://www.goingelectric.de/zulassungszahlen/2016/ (in German only, sorry; data is coming from Germany's DOT)
reminds me the shadowdraw paper microsoft did many years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzq70CN48o4​

similar concept, shadowdraw is based on database
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You don't even need to use their services, interested crowdsourcers will map your router and help build a SSID:location database just for fun. https://www.wigle.net/
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The 401k rules are awful and incentive giving benefits (matching) that are more valuable to richer employees than poorer ones. It's insane.
"Read it sideways. "
hahaha love this!
It became fun when I got married.
Except that, if your employer offers a 401k at all, you lose the tax deduction benefits (if income over 70k). And the contribution limits are much lower.

http://www.fool.com/retirement/ira-vs-401k-which-is-better-f...
It's important to keep in mind that in a "racist society" machine learning will also tend to be racist (but much more so). After all, the "AI" is learning from human data, so it's certainly not as objective as you would think a "machine" to be.

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2016/9/beware-biases...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/us/backlash-in-wisconsin-a...
Not pressed but it's a good idea isn't it? I considered Galbraith for my list but wasn't sure if he was a fit and only vaguely remember what Theory of the Leisure Class was about to be honest. Thank you.
Putting your ideological motivations aside, how do programs promoting home computer ownership or basic literacy (with the ultimate aim of getting people up to par in literacy, before encouraging development in the sciences) in impoverished areas "nullify and demean the good work that hard-working individuals have done"? There's no logical connection there, nor any sort of free pass being offered.

Furthermore, the implication that people in poverty are any less "hard-working" than those that have achieved financial success/accessibility to the sciences seems like a claim that needs some citations. Quick Google searches suggest that escaping poverty with children would actually require working more than 40-hours a week. Seems like a catch-22 for trying to achieve financial, familial and educational success. [1]

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/06/u-s-minimum-wage-e...
> Yes, that probably is a legal activity. However, someone could sue for a restraining order.

A restraining order is issued for either actually illegal activity, or for activity whose legal status is in dispute, and which would irreparably negatively impact a party in the case in which it that status was in dispute, or for activity which might straddle the line of legality but which is related to a broader pattern of activity which was found to be illegal.

Its not done for specifically legal activity.

> The possibilities of human behavior are infinite. We don't need and can't enumerate all possible bad behaviors as illegal. Thus the civil court system.

The civil court system is for addressing things which are illegal -- violations of the law -- but which are not violation of criminal law. The civil court system applies those things prohibited in civil law, it does not substitute for having laws to determine what is prohibited.
Pretty nice. Just a few ideas:

* Is it necessary to go to a url when one clicks on an event? The amount of information displayed is tiny (date, event title, time until event) and it's a waste of screen space and time (now I have to go back to look at other things). It would be cool to show the information in a modal box and then continue to browse what's coming up.

* Okay, now I'm on days.to and I know that an event will take place in two months. Then what? I leave the site and in a few days, I forget about it. I think I stumbled upon an email feature but I couldn't find it again. It also has a calendar. Why? Would it be better to build on something a large number of people are already using and trusting to manage their daily lives? Something like Google Calendar or Facebook Events. Maybe using their API to insert an event into the already existing calendar. Even if I leave days.to, I can still see the positive it brought to my life and I'm more likely to come back.

* Maybe topics. I push in some interests. With enough users, it might start detecting certain patterns and starts showing me upcoming events resulting from the interests of people who share some of my interests. If I like music and painting, and you like music and theatre, it might show me theatre events and show you painting events.
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Wolfram Alpha has similar functionality (minus the home page)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+until+doctor+stran...
Of course. But call him out for what exactly? That he liked a Tweet? That he supports Trump?

And by calling out, you mean public shaming him for his beliefs. I see it on my FB feed everyday - "look at this idiot Trump supporter". Or from the other side - "these libt_rds actually believe this stuff".

Remember when Viralnova made big bucks making cute cat pics go viral? We don't see them anymore because media outlets have figured that outrage gets more clicks, and the results are so unhealthy for our discourse.

On Twitter right now, a million person witch-hunt is in full swing, calling for the virtual expulsion of a person for beliefs it has been inferred he holds.

No point in letting Luckey explain himself, of course. That would take too long and we're outraged now!
My experience is very different for LaTeX. The learning curve was huge, but it's totally paid off. I can't imagine writing papers in anything else.

10 years ago I was running experiments using Python code that wrote gnuplot scripts and LaTeX tables. Now I cut out the middle man, and the Python scripts make the graphs themselves.
any idea why advertising is working on facebook and not on twitter?
I still have a job seeing what Phillips proposing a relationship between inflation and unemployment in 1958 has to do with Keynes theories of insufficient aggregate demand causing deflation in the 1930s. Keynes's ideas seem pretty good and still relevant, and Phillips' ideas a bit dubious and largely unrelated.

I get the impression much criticism of Keynes is better directed at his followers who called themselves Keynesians and came up with various nonsense after his death than at Keynes himself.
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I am not sure that many countries would want to get involved in the Chinese space program, which has always been secretive, and dominated by nationalist goals rather than scientific ones. It seems that the Russians would welcome other participants in their program, though it seems unlikely that Brazil would want to fund what appears to be a struggling and lackluster Russian program.

I am also not sure why a reduction in international collaborators for NASA would be strategically bad for the USA. I am a strong proponent of space exploration, but NASA is not an important part of US military strategy; NASA is mostly a luxury which allows the US to demonstrate its technological supremacy.
If you miss a sync, your profile isn't going to be 'broken', just out of date.
"So... why the repeated questions?"

Because you didn't answer it. As for talking to a creationist, I try to avoid it at all costs, and don't expect to have to deal with them on Hacker News.
It certainly is true that the first 3 points are relevant for anyone at YC. What I experienced as an international founder, however, was that the gap between my reality in my home country and YC, probably was bigger than for a US founder - certainly for a local bay area team.

As I help friends who are applying to YC with their application, it is these points I mention here that seem to be the hardest for them to grasp. Perhaps especially the one about what it means to be "visionary" and whether it is good when it comes to your product idea. Though almost equally as much what is valued at YC.

So, the text is from my perspective the most relevant parts to know about YC that you wont find easily accessible on the website for a foreign founder. In addition to some of the important practical challenges, like visa and remote teams.
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Do these people have a registered trademark for haiku prior to 2004 in the same territory and classification? If so, yes. If not, no. (There are grey areas, but this is all it should come down to in theory).
Offering criticism without offering an alternative isn't helpful.

Of course it's complicated, and of course crime stats are a simplification. Most stats are. The point is, stats are much better than going by biased "gut feelings".

Yes there are underlying issues with stats such as underreporting, but the solution isn't to get rid of the stats. It's to improve the underlying cause of the bias in the data, such as improving police/public relations.
Interesting, I'll try it out.

On Linux I used the 'kerl' script to easily switch between installations: https://github.com/kerl/kerl

Seems like it works on OS X too: http://stratus3d.com/blog/2014/10/24/install-erlang-16-on-ma...
A) That is a pretty easy google search. First result I got: https://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm

B) That's quite a logic leap that you put in my mouth there. I never said we should remove prison as punishment.
Does that actually do anything? I thought it was trivial to detect those.
>The company is a very different one now from years ago

In what ways?
Downvote but no reply. Wow. Arguments... :-)
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I didn't down vote you, and I have no special insight into why others have, but my guess would be that at least some of those votes were meant to indicate disagreement with your interpretation: I think more people see the equal sign as representing legs, rather than a pedestal.

If I were to speculate further, I would suspect that some people are wary of interpretations of ambiguous texts that unnecessarily imply sexist/culturally fraught meanings.
Or possibly from d) User has actually attempted to use GIMP in a professional context and found it severely lacking. But that's not something a just-so story can easily answer, so I'm not surprised to see it excluded here.
The optimization of time is by far the best argument. That said, this leaves out that there is a relatively easy way to generate long tail keywords in a part of your workflow that absolutely should exist: mining the search query report. You should be doing so anyway to make sure you are using negatives effectively, and it's very easy to add long tail queries you notice from there without adding a bunch of time.
It can't be that easy. Not for a million a month.

Even the most bass-ackwards database designs can be reverse engineered by bright people in a day or two (we know Palantir can attract these people) especially if they have some scars dealing with dumb database design. And it's probably not likely that the person who built that database and the program that uses it went to great lengths to obfuscate anything. I'll even go a step further and say that most data sources are probably really simple programs. Throw in any kind of documentation as a bonus and the learning curve just goes down.

What the hell could they be charging that much for?
Go disable your browser cache and try browsing the internet for a while and tell me if you really believe that.
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I... now find myself morbidly curious as to whether you could use Unicode diacritic abuse to draw actual pictures.

Pasted in example stolen from Glitchr, mainly to see how well HN renders them:

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How about removing the reasons they rob, or giving them the psychiatric help they need to prevent them from robbing someone?

I'd much rather have someone become a productive member of society then let them rot away in jail.
Sorry but I call bullshit on saying that "the arab spring" is the cause of ISIS and the syrian war.

The sectarian corrupt violent syrian state and the U.S. invasion of Irak are much better suspects
Hear hear. I am guessing he never actually traded stocks.
His Twitter likes on alt-right memes are the story.
The baby born to a man who was a woman who got pregnant by a woman who was a man
defined by who? the discovery institute?

Edit: Looks like some might not like the lack of detail in this comment. So.... In case anyone doesn't know "the discovery institute" is a group of creationists that tried to get creationism taught as science in public schools.[1]
And redefining and inventing terminology to serve their purposes without requiring any scientific basis for it is something right out of their playbook.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute
IIRC, BeOS had networking but no multi-user or printer support. The latter was pretty important for Apple's pro market at the time, which was mostly desktop publishing.

Just the other day I found a BeOS Revision 3 manual in a closet. It was the first version that Be released on x86 after getting snubbed by Apple.
Nobody in their right mind would try to read Capital. It's a massive, unreadable tome that you could summarize in an article online somewhere. That's borderline sadistic to suggest someone try to get through that thing. :-)
That's easily answerable.

First, we can look at the past or other countries. Either the US 1950's or the top 10% of India consists of people who live in what we call "poverty" in 2016 USA.

Second, we can take good people, drop them into poverty, and watch what happens. For example, take an upper middle class 22 year old, drop them into the poverty of graduate school, and check whether they go bad.

Both of these are ways of letting the people vary, but holding the economic stimulus constant.

From what I've seen, both groups are extremely reluctant to engage in violence. When I was in grad school, even the 10'th year graduate students ("lifers") did not start robbing people or beating their wives! Also, very interestingly, both groups rarely stay poor for long when placed in the US.
Did you mean Design Fusion, from Blackmagic?
Personally, I have found the ads on Twitter to be the most relevant. (Google search is too. However, I prefer organic results while searching and I scroll through to the results almost always.)
Amazon's actual ELB IPs can handle relatively little traffic, "prewarming" is required in order to add more ELB instances--during a DDOS attack, you'll be overwhelmed almost instantly. Route 53 uses DNS round robin, which is trivial to bypass if you're planning on a DDOS attack (by targeting a specific IP). Google actually gives you an anycast IP, so they're a better option.

All that being said: the idea that only ingress traffic matters during a DDOS attack isn't quite right. If the connections are legitimate, you either need to be able to detect the attack attempts (requires expensive coordination and mitigation techniques, especially if the attack is much larger than what a single NIC can handle) or actually serve back the content (which will make your egress skyrocket).
There is at present a sort of golden age for the cigar afficionado, individual countries highly regulate and tax cigars (priced even more highly than cigarettes for reasons that escape me), but are quite happy to allow vendors to sell internationally, the upshot is for any country outside the US it's far cheaper to buy from neighbouring countries or from the other side of the world for that matter...

How long it will last, who knows, sooner or later cross border sales of tobacco will be banned, but for the time being those who can are stocking up while they can. Cigars last for decades and peak in the 5-25 year range depending on the cigar so right now there's no downside to buying as many as you can, even the none special editions (cuban) are probably good for about 10% a year in appreciation.

Personally I'm buying a box a month.
The title also begs the question!

Is sex fun? Most people might say "Yes", but not quite 100% of the population.
People will more readily contribute to a community than a technology. For some definition of 'successful', successful opensource projects are often successful due to community at least as much as technology.

Often those communities are built around the business needs of the community members, e.g. Apache Foundation projects. Occasionally, the communities are built around shared political beliefs, e.g. GNU projects...it's worth considering how much work Stallman has put into community over the past 35 years or so. Probably worth looking at Linux too in regard to how much the principle contributor's social eccentricities affect open source success.

To put it another way:

attractingContributors != buildingCommunity

Good luck.
Well let's don't get all romantic about something that was, in the end, half-baked. BeOS debuted at the dawn of the web, and it had a barely-working, userspace network stack and a web browser that essentially didn't work at all.

It had some novel APIs, a nifty filesystem, and made for a damn good demo, but there wasn't much more to it.
BeOS was awesome Cubase and Nuendo (Digital Work Station) but never did. I had everything all set for my studio to run BeOS and then sadly it got cancelled.

Then I was excited when Palm(Pilot) bought them and was going to bring them back. So sad it just didn't become the OS X that it was headed for.. I actually might have joined the evil Apple empire for that. (Well probably not but at least a hackintosh).

As an old timer BeOS was so far ahead of the competition it was like AmegaOS ahead of Windows and MacOS when it was released.
To smoke or as an investment?

For someone who doesn't smoke it would seem an odd investment vehicle.
It won't write to disk with static pages. But most of the web doesn't fit that description, and you're bound to have a tab open that does something in the background.

Yoric pointed out here that not being able to save tabs individually is a weak point of the current implementation.
The article is implying there's more to be worried about than there actually is - they didn't mention anything actually "disturbing" but want us all to be concerned about the vague threat of city surveillance nonetheless.

What does Palantir do?
“integrate[s] disparate data sets and conduct[s] rich, multifaceted analysis across the entire range of data.”

How does NYC use it? Tax fraud, fire code violations, fake security guards, fake IDs, fake cigarettes, fake marijuana.

So the data already existed in NYC databases and the crimes they're enforcing already existed.

And yet:
"the potential for that kind of outright abuse is less disturbing than the ways in which Palantir’s tech is already being used. The city’s embrace of Palantir, outside of law enforcement, has quietly ushered in an era of civil surveillance so ubiquitous as to be invisible." -- total hyperbole!

If anything the most telling part of this article to me, was the small sums of money being made by Palantir which is frequently lauded as one of the most elite, selective startups for software engineering positions. It seems to operate in small change relative to all the hype.
Which is absolutely their right--but then they don't get to post smug messages about how people are just too dumb to understand how great their project is.

I see a lot of messages justifying why GIMP meets the needs of so very few, but none of that changes the fact that GIMP seems to meet the needs of very few.
Citation / reference on most options being worthless? I feel that most companies that make it to that stage pan out beyond being worthless. I must be missing something, since I'm not that familiar with how options in startups work.
"wud" is not a word. Use English. please.
"The Great Transformation" by Karl Polanyi. It's a tough read, because it was translated from Hungarian. It's an important read, because it provides an alternative analysis to both Smith and Marx. Polanyi was informed by recent developments in anthropology which contradicted the major theories of how modern economies had formed.
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Is the fact that people still vigorously debate whether Keynes is dead reason enough to read him or at least have the basics down?
I think the advanced users of HN vastly over-estimate the common sense level of the general public.

http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-ide...
Are these writes happening in ~/.cache?
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It does do something yes. The complete opposite of what you want.

When a modern phone connects to a non-hidden wifi access point for the first time, it remembers it can connect to that and passively listens for it to announce it's self in future.

When a modern phone connects to a hidden wifi access point for the first time, it remembers that it can connect to that access point, and also that it wont receive any announcements about it's presence in future. So how does it auto-connect in future? By constantly shouting "ARE YOU THERE HIDDEN ACCESS POINT NAMED FOO?". Making you even easier to track.
Aside from that modigliani-miller's theorem "that in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy costs, agency costs, and asymmetric information, and in an efficient market, the value of a firm is unaffected by how that firm is financed." has basically nothing to do with Graham's idea that in the real world with bankruptcy costs, agency costs, asymmetric information, and an inefficient market you should seek a margin of safety in investment. Graham's ideas have much empirical evidence and are completely unlike Chopras nonsense. See The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville for details, written by Warren Buffett who has quite a good record in this stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a...

http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/rtfiles/cbs/hermes/Buffett1984....
Mankiw's text is decent, but heavily influenced by his politics.

Regardless of who you read, it's good to be skeptical and consider their personal agenda.
It's not possible to 100% guarantee that data will never leak, but it's entirely possible to 100% guarantee that the company will cover the full costs of a leak. If that was somehow a legal requirement, everyone would go out and buy insurance for it and then life would go on, probably with additional emphasis on security.
While this is a good story, the headline misses by far the point that the body makes - the only reason this is an open secret is because an Oracle lawyer revealed it in public.

A better title might be:

"Google is trying to get Oracle in trouble for revealing confidential figures"
Can the auto-connect be turned off? Perhaps scripted to try when your GPS coordinates get close enough to your house?