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SpaceX is clearly focusing on one problem only: transportation. Because it's the transportation costs is the major roadblock to develop a commercial space industry beyond LEO.

That's a smart move to foster an ecosystem of companies specializing in other aspects. Once it becomes possible to send people and cargo to Mars for a reasonable price, it starts to make sense to create a company specializing in, say, inflatable habitats.

Bigelow Aerospace [1], doing exactly that, inflatable habitats, could benefit immensely from cheaper transport of cargo to LEO and to Mars.

[1] https://bigelowaerospace.com/
The other developer could be given the source. He doesn't need to open source the app in order to give one other developer access to the source.
Anecdotal evidence of updates causing issues can be countered with example of where Windows Defender updates prevented virus, keyloggers and other malware from infecting computers.

It is an unfortunate reality that we live a world where people are actively pursuing ways to infect and control our personal computers. The software (OS makers in particular) are doing their best to react/respond to the threats as they are discovered and identified.

It is continual game of cat & mouse
I have owned cats my entire adult life (I'm 58) and have never allowed them outside. They do just fine indoors. They also live longer, healthier lives, with less disease and much less danger from cars, raccoons, etc. And they don't bother the neighbors.

In the country, I could imagine letting cats outside -- though only after getting them neutered or spayed -- but in the city or suburbs, where I have lived, keeping them inside makes more sense.
Hoping this is the vanguard for a new rebellion against toxic SV-style startup culture, and the nitwits that propagate it
Apologies, I missed that. The review paper you linked was indeed deeply researched and had a good synthesis of what it discussed. Decided not a pop Sci listicle :)
> nd have a large swathes of explicit advantages granted by laws.

Could you name some of those advantages, and link to the relevant laws? I'm interested to see what you're talking about.
First Solar Roadway UNVEILED [YouTube]
If you are correct that there is nothing on mars, then perhaps the cheaper to ascend gravity well of the moon will be worth something.

What can be 3d printed on the moon (from plans made on earth) and lifted to a useful place above LEO?
Everwise Raises $16M Series B, Led by Sequoia Capital
Defensive drone swarm? It's drones all the way down.
This looks nice, but I wish it would just use Launchd under the hood.

Launchd is solid and full-featured:

* Good process management (failure retries with backoff)

* Supports watching folders

* Decent command-line client for when you want to script or work fast in the shell

* Supports starting daemons on login

* Can start/stop based on whether certain things (network, paths, mounts, etc.) are up/down

* Supports calendar-based scheduling (replaces cron)

* Can redirect logging

* Can enforce resource limits (RAM, CPU, I/O, number of processes etc.) + nice level

I run all my daemons (Homebrew apps as well as personal development stuff) under Launchd, and I would love a convenient menu-bar GUI like this.
I think your latter point is closer to the truth.

A similar example: in the UK about 20% of girls and 40% of boys study physics at A-level (the final school exam before university). Every year everybody seems surprised that the girls outperform the boys.

However, it is likely that the students who study physics are mostly the students with the greatest aptitude for the subject. If you split the students into any two arbitrary groups then the top fifth from one group are going to outperform the top two fifths from the other. This is unremarkable. Yet when the groups are boys and girls, people are surprised.

Anyway, I would be surprised if something similar isn't happening in CS. With so few women studying the subject, it's likely that those who do are fairly dedicated.
How Julian Assange Turned WikiLeaks into Trump’s Best Friend
She was actually pretty emotionally traumatized. I lived in a fairly small apartment at the time, and she would wander into the next room, realize she couldn't see me, and just start crying.

I would try to call her back, so she could find her way back to me, but she would just sit in the next room and cry until I physically went into the room she was in. Then she would run to me and rub against my legs and follow me back out. Then she'd be calm for 30 minutes or so, then wander into the next room, repeat. It was worst the first week she was back, and gradually got better until she could handle leaving the room and coming back to find me when she wanted company again on her own.
That depends on what "like Julia" means. It's not a functional language, so the short answer is "no". Given that it lacks a true static type system and supports macros it's philosophically LISP-like; notably the Julia compiler includes a sizeable chunk of LISP code. But it's also clearly not a LISP.
> with configurations like my last job where both my team lead and the manager were women.

I guess you have to get used to such "configurations", given that in a fully equal world having both a female team lead and manager is entirely possible. Or how does this confirm your claim that women are unfairly promoted more frequently?

The reason for quicker promotions is probably a skewed distribution of personalities, as also mentioned further below. Men of all personalities are more likely to start science and engineering degrees because they are nurtured into it by society anyway. Women have to be the kind of person that does not care about such biases, and develops and follows interests.
Reading the comments on articles like this on hacker news always make me deeply uncomfortable to be a woman in tech.

I know it's hard to believe, but women don't usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don't usually encourage us to take AP computer science, and our best friends aren't in CS and don't refer us for sweet internships at Microsoft and Google.

If you're a woman in this industry, it's GENERALLY because it is something that you very much care about and want to do.

It's not some feminist conspiracy that women are being promoted, it's just that the women who go into tech are usually already pretty gritty people. You're comparing a very driven and passionate subset of women to a very general subset of men.

Here's a really great article I read once -- "I need terrible female engineers": https://medium.com/@amyngyn/i-need-terrible-female-engineers...
Well, probably it will be a security nightmare for a while, until the sheer weight of vulnerabilities and incidents causes vendors to radically change their security practices, regulation or not. I think a good example of what I would expect to happen is by analogy to the PC internet of the 90's, where Windows 9X viruses and worms were just a fact of life when using computers, and every email inbox was 95% spam each time you opened it. Remember that what is now considered basic security practices (UAC, https, "Are you sure you want to run this exe?") were at the time considered hardcore security measures that only enterprise systems needed to care about.

The difference is that now more of our daily lives depend on the internet being reliable, and, that some IoT device's failure mode might involve a cost in human lives. But the fact that the incidents are going to be worse will also probably put more pressure on companies to fix their security. Regrettably, I don't think this will actually happen until some startup's fancy new IoT gadget gets hacked in a way that causes it to kill a few hundred people and the resulting lawsuits end the company.
How is not having the option of a stable career with promotions an unfair advantage?

Women who decide they want to join a high risk, high gain startup and have the skills to do so, are free to and do just that.

Men who decide they want to be treated equally have to leave their stable jobs for startups.

edit: formating
saw your talk at Startup School - you guys killed it. One question kept coming to mind... sounds like you're focused on profitability but not hypergrowth (smart). Do your investors ever try to push you to value growth more than profitability?
That's exactly what Cargo does, but it also takes a further step of making `^` the default operator and strongly discouraging version ranges other than "semver compatible" post-1.0.
What a disappointing thread on HN, full of anecdotal evidence.
Controversies in CS
Get a Note 4 (or Note 3). I love mine. I replaced the battery with a 7,500 mAh unit, it's a $30 kit you can buy from Amazon.
There was a time when people in the US died from randomly poisoned Tylenol, yet today it's the go-to OTC pain relief medicine in America.
I agree, simply because humans will always tend to like anything that is familiar and similar.
U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
Researchers trying to change your brain so you can learn like a kid again
Exactly what I was asking but I didn't do the math.

Maybe it's OK for burst shaped traffic. The first request pays a toll, the others are quick.
Men are more likely to place pride over medical care. They'll take fewer days they really need as a result.
I mean I can't speak for you as I can only speak for my experience and experience of people I know.

You didn't ask for advice, but if I had any, it would be to avoid Ubuntu. Most of the poorly functioning and randomly crashing processes I've seen on Linux was on Ubuntu machines.
Whoops, my mistake. I don't know enough about the history of Flow to comment further.
I can't wait to watch this video at the top of Hacker News.
I imagine something a la Ed Norton in 25th hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgL_5QcZCMo
Explosives require someone somewhat near the target. Making a significant proportion of self-driving cars malfunction could be done from anywhere, in theory. Even if it didn't kill many people, it would hurt the economy for a while.
Not on the government's dime, anyhow.
For one, nuclear pulse rockets violate several international treaties. Fission fragment rockets, while the performance is impressive on paper, have yet to be demonstrated in the lab.

Nuclear thermal propulsion has been demonstrated on Earth[0] and Nuclear electric propulsion has been flight proven[1].

NASA had a serious effort to develop and flight prove a high power(200 KWe) nuclear reactor[2]. This would have been used to power the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter[3] which would have explored Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto, and Io if things were favorable. The reactor enabled high power electric propulsion, high bandwidth communication(10Mbit/s), and even a full scale ice penetrating radar. This much power is hard to come by as far out as Jupiter.

The entire effort lasted about two years before it got canceled because NASA needed to free up money for the (now canceled) Constellation Program. The thing I would like to emphasize here is that this was a serious effort with money on the table and a mission in place. The nuclear propulsion work NASA is currently working on is either a concept study, that is just investigating whether an idea can work at all, or not very well funded.

The issue is getting the funding to develop the hardware and actually following through

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_1867
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prometheus
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter
What's the solution for that case though (one which requires no nesting)? I don't think a solution with no nesting exists given the current module resolution algorithm of Node.js, which allows for only a single version of a particular package to exist at a given level.
Curiosity weighs 900 kg. NASA decided that it was too heavy for retrorockets (which would kick up too much dust and create holes in the ground around the rover) and so large (almost 3 meters across) that airbags would be too heavy [1].

Schiaparelli weighs 600 kg, closer to the size of the old Viking landers (576 kg), which did fine with retrorockets.

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/3...
A lot of these answers are pointing out the x-browser complexity which is true but that isn't what drives JS package mgmt. It's mostly Node stuff. The mature common JS libs for browser work are pretty robust when it comes to x-browser stuff now days.

For browser work, you can do almost everything you need with some jQuery, handlebars and moment if there are dates. A few other small libs here and there and you've got almost everything covered. Some edge cases may drive you to use some library that is heavily dependent on 32 different sub-libs but it's really not that often.

Server-side Node.js is the issue, not browser compatibility.
Is npm the bazooka or C++? As someone who's worked with C/C++ (and its hilarious explosion of tooling -- half-a-dozen at Google alone), maven, bundler and Cargo, I think it's just not accurate to say that the npm ecosystem has a particularly high level of complexity.
Ouch, that's a particularly poignant example. On the other hand, I am not sure that never upgrading is a viable alternative, unless the machine connected to your picky hardware is air-gapped...
My sense is that a fair amount of the UX obnoxiousness of all OS upgrades is a side-effect of not being able to reliably wake the machine when it's not in use - otherwise I'd rather have updates installed at 3AM, when there's no chance I'm doing something with my machine. Ubuntu is the least rude of the three in my experience, macOS in the middle, and Windows is the most abrupt, but something more like Chrome's silently upgrading all the time seems like it would be a better experience (until it broke everything, surprise).
This seems a bit harsh. As far as I understand the purpose of this website is to make papers easier to understand. I think it accomplishes that. They are not even trying to show you ads. how are you helping?...

Also, they might have restrictions about distribution of papers. Youtube also doesn't have a download link next to every video.
I am not too familiar with all capabilities of the Google Data Studio, but from what I know they take a bit more the Tableau approach to defining data sources as results of queries (BigData, MySQL) or sheets data.

I'd say Cluvio would be a bit more fun to use for anyone who knows SQL, the ability to quickly iterate through sql queries to nail down the exact results is quite addictive. Plus the additional capabilities of R make it even more productive for lots of harder cases.
A Saudi teen flirted online with a woman in California and ended up in jail
"Excited to to recommend the @yarnpkg JS package manager

npm install – 2m5s

yarn (no cache) – 9s

yarn (cache) – 2s"

https://twitter.com/yeoman/status/785888558544334848
"women are far more likely to be sick"

That's only the case for younger workers. For older workers, men are more likely to be sick, according to insurance statistics.
And Europeans had no trouble crossing Europe.

A single smallpox laden explorer would have started a plague in the Americas and a single native American would likely have died of one of the many plagues in Europe that Europeans had grown up with (and still often died from).

The problem of safety is not always placed on the explorer, sometimes the explorer is the danger to his environment.
MBTI is a very misunderstood system. People tend to take it too far and in directions it shouldn't go. It's not surprising when it's labeled as meaningless.

Here's one example: I'm an ISTP which is only one letter away from ISFP. That's pretty similar right?

No, they're actually pretty different.

The letters ISTP are just a shorthand for a system developed by Carl Jung. ISTP actually means that I have a stack of behaviors that I tend towards and that I've developed as I've aged.

The stack goes as follows:
Introverted Thinking which I have (supposedly) developed since I was young. http://personalitygrowth.com/introverted-thinking/

Extraverted Sensing which, again supposedly, I started developing since I was in my teens and through my 20s. http://personalitygrowth.com/extraverted-sensing-se/

Introverted Intuition which I've been developing more recently (30s). http://personalitygrowth.com/introverted-intuition/

And finally Extraverted Feeling which is still moderately awkward for me (like trying to write with my off hand). It's getting less awkward as I get older. http://personalitygrowth.com/extraverted-feeling-fe/

An ISFP, on the other hand, has the following stack: Introverted Feeling, Extraverted Sensing, Introverted Intuition, and Extraverted Thinking.

And other types have their own function stack that they've developed as they've aged. Some faster, some slower. This is one potential reason why people test differently as they age. I first took the test I was in my 20s when I was at a different point in my maturation process. Nowadays I'm much more focused on long term goals as opposed to short term satisfaction. Maybe I'm just developing my Introverted Intuition which is typically associated more with long term thinking. Maybe it's just part of the maturation process everyone goes through.

I will say, though, some people I've observed have gone through the process in reverse -- being interested in long term goals when they're young and then realizing they should also pay attention to short term gratification a little as they age. Maybe they're a type that leads with Introverted Intuition. Who knows.
90%? Could you please provide a citation for such a large number?
The equalisation of retirement age in the UK was not without controversy https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jan/09/state-pension-...

Also car insurance https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/05/car-insurance-...
1. is extremely ridiculous
- reduced risk of cancer
- reduced risk of STIs
- no difference in sensitivity

I'm at work and don't feel like googling in depth circumcision articles, but "genital integrity" is a ridiculous minimization of the issues faced by women who have actually had their genitals mutilated. If anyone wants to dig up the citations for me, I'd appreciate it. But, this isn't a circumjerk article, so this is as far down the chain as I'll go.

You're misremembering your studies -- women who are sentenced to prison (for felonies) receive roughly the same prison sentences as men. They are however, significantly less likely to be sentenced. But, they are also significantly less likely to commit violent crimes, which you have to take into account in your analysis.
I bet the time between noticing a new rock and taking a sample is more than a day for NASA. They have extremely limited time for what a rover can do. Have you seen the documentaries where they describe all the work that goes in to planning each move? I still think a human scientist could collect more rocks and take more samples in one day than NASA does in practice with a rover like curiosity.
Dwarf Fortress defies a silly strawman of materialism, more like. I think it's safe to say that most materialists wouldn't claim that all human behavior comes from our genes.
The gold is scientific discovery & progress. If you don't think there is a crush of scientists, geologists & the like chomping at the bit to do in-person science on another planet you're a bit nuts. Add to that the glut of people who want to go for sheer adventure. All of those people are going to need "stuff" when they get there.
The only issue is that after that point, the device can never connect anywhere else.
> Don't forget Jobs attempted to steal NeXt's fork of the GCC with Obj-C extensions. The FSF had to sue NeXt to get them to release their modifications.

Actually there was no lawsuit. NeXT released the patches after a warning: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/LinuxTag-2011/compliance.html

> Stealing Free Software is cheap from a business perspective.

This is why I recommend everyone use AGPLv3 whenever possible (and consider changing the license on your old Free Software - you can do this if all of the contributors consent). Apple has been removing all GPLv3 software from Mac OS X over the past several years because v3 is incompatible with their goals of totalitarian computing: http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/
This seems to be based this survey data: http://www.emolument.com/career_advice/women_in_it_career_ev...
We're not using Yarn at Tilde yet, but I've been using it on Yarn itself and when working on Ember packages, and it's worked well. As far as performance, we have good benchmarks tracking yarn's performance in a whole bunch of different scenarios (https://yarnpkg.com/en/compare)
I don't think you need to censor titles on Hacker News.
What I would consider one of the most important pieces of this guide is closer to the bottom (https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws#aws-data-transfer-cost...) where it covers cost management strategies. The Data Transfer Costs diagram makes the buried details of AWS networking costs stand out in a digestible way. I've read the AWS docs on this many times and still missed out on some of the nuggets exposed in the diagram.
> But it had been pointed out to me that the blog post being a condition of having the account reinstated (and Apple ideally wanting to look over a draft of that post first) could be taken as Apple blackmailing him and its hard to argue against that point.

No it's not. Nothing about this even comes close to blackmail. Blackmail is demanding payment under threat of doing something bad. This is the complete opposite. This is Apple offering the developer an opportunity that Apple doesn't need to offer, in return for a very simple blog post basically explaining that Apple's offer does not mean Apple's original account termination was in error. This is no more blackmail than selling you an item for $10 is blackmail.
Thinking about this, this might turn to be the greatest thing for humanity:

https://twitter.com/dorfsmay/status/785907475480350720

"The same way adults stop swearing once they have kids, we might become more honest and ethical by fear that AI will learn from us."
Breakfast: salt-free cottage cheese with granola, fruit and kefir all nicely mixed together.

Mid-morning: fruit

Lunch: Left overs from last night's dinner, or sandwich. I try to avoid lunches that are carb heavy or a on the greasy side. Today is salmon and beets with a bit of rice.

Mid-afternoon: fruit, nuts or a treat like cookies

Drinks: Just water
Dear Facebook,

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
> Why not send as few humans as you can possibly get away with and as much semi-autonomous & remote operated machinery as possible.

This sounds like the "proving ground" stage described in the text.

> Get some of the 7 billion people on earth to design it, drive it & continually improve how autonomous it is (I imagine lag to mars will be a bitch).

This sounds like the "NextSTEP" program.

"NASA has already begun laying the groundwork for these deep space missions. In 2014 we issued a “broad agency announcement” or “BAA” asking private partners for concept studies and development projects in advanced propulsion, small satellites, and habitation as part of the newly created Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships or “NextSTEP” program. Six companies received awards to start developing habitation systems in response to that “NextSTEP” BAA. The idea is that these habitats or “habs” would evolve into spacecraft capable of sustaining and transporting astronauts on long duration deep space missions, like a mission to Mars. And their development would be achieved through new public-private partnerships designed to build on and support the progress of the growing commercial space sector in Earth orbit. The work done by those companies was so promising that earlier this year, we extended the NextSTEP hab program into Phase 2 and opened it up to new entrants. In August, six companies were selected to produce ground prototypes for deep space habitat modules."