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The Space Kraken is surprisingly good at absorbing radio waves.

...but seriously, it's a small battery powered vehicle with a tiny antenna, and it's trying to be heard from between 50 to 100 million kilometres away, and even in the best case it's just been tumble dried, blowtorched, hammered with explosive charges, and then dropped a couple of metres. I wouldn't be surprised if it lost some signal strength.

Mars Express was supposed to record the doppler shift of the carrier wave on descent, so should be able to pick up any landing signal. We'll see when they release the results.
> songs/albums that I'm interested in, without having to pay monthly fees to some Netflix-type aggregator.

Many music lovers subscribe to Spotify which has 30+ million tracks to choose from. However, it doesn't have the Taylor Swift albums because she pulled them. If those customers want to hear Taylor Swift, they have to buy them from Apple Itunes or Amazon Music.

T Swift made a voluntary choice to net her the best paying deal which means digital music customers have to pay for more than one service. Add up thousands of different musicians each looking after their self-interests for the best deal and it ends up creating several intermediaries.

> Customers who want to watch Utopia can pay money just to watch Utopia, without having to sign up for HBO.

It's not about being a monthly subscriber or an on-demand occasional payer -- it's about the mystery of HBO even existing as an intermediary that often puzzles techies.
Overpopulation is kind of a myth. Population growth rates are plummeting globally and below replacement in some places. Global population is expected to peak then decline well before hitting the Earth's carrying capacity.
I am usually far more civil, but this article is idiotic. The idea of having political litmus tests as a condition of employment, is the kind of idiotic lunacy I would expect from Trump, not his detractors.
Meditation has helped me too.

> I don't think it's unhealthy as long as you don't believe it's going to provide you with a solution.

While I'm not sure if that's true, I think the main danger is that, at least based on experience and observation, there's something strangely addictive to rumination. It feels useful.

Plus, as you point out, doing non-thinking things is very important. Thinking too much, especially when alone, gets in the way of that non-thinking.

In the context of this here conversation I'd say 'Notes From Underground' is appropriate. It's basically a spot-light on one particular character that makes an appearance in his other books too. It was really confronting to read the thoughts of such a 'loathsome' and sad character, and to then realize that my thoughts (and to some degree behavior) often mirrors that of the 'underground man'.
I'd like to hear your theories. Also, a few suggestions for the sites that you mention.
So that's easy:

#define NEW(t, args...) ((t*)malloc(sizeof(t)) && t ## _construct(args))

#define DELETE(t) (t ## _destruct() && !free(t) && (t = NULL))
>another guy just put his head down on the desk during the AP exam

That's too bad. Either his parents were paying the cost of the test (I think $86 per test when I was in school) or he was getting a paid-for test from some scholarship or another.
I agree, I've never been a fan of "X for Y" type of analogies, but our service/services is hard to describe succinctly -- we want to get across that we are a "smart" job search company, and we have the thumbs up and thumbs down like Pandora, but also that we are more than that, including giving analytics that end up being very useful.

We've thrown around "Data driven startup job search" and "Recommendation based job search engine", but those are pretty vague and don't feel quite right either.

To be honest, we're so close to this, that we would love an outsiders take on us -- if you had to describe us, what would you call us? Maybe we just always overthink it and someone will have the perfect way to describe us :)
The hacker's.
The company I am currently with is similar in size to yours, with the same ratio of product members vs others. We don't exactly do design reviews, instead, we have a very talented VP of Marketing. He is the one that approves or redesigns things that the product team creates. This is very helpful as he has been here since the beginning and always keeps up with the latest design and user experience trends.

Might look into having someone take ownership of the design on your team. I don't think this is the most efficient method of attack, but it does work while the company is small.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733856
You should check out Reston, Virginia, it is a fully planned community. It was built with some interesting ideals, like everyone should be able to walk to a small shopping center and a walking trail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia
Slightly OT, but...

No idea why people are so obsessed with making lists. I've never needed lists in my life.

If something is important, I'll get to it. If not, I'll forget it and to hell with it.
> Most universities aren't primarily focused on research.

Where are you getting "many" (rather than "some")? The page you link to discusses colleges in addition to universities, and it's well known that colleges exist primarily to educate students.

> Even if you subtract the research budget out first you will still arrive at a figure less than 50% for most universities.

Where is that numbers coming form?
Out of curiosity, is it an issue of the apartment office being far away? I can imagine not following the instruction if it's something heavy and I just searched and walked a long distance, only to be told I have to go find the apartment office.
I've experienced 3D secure and verified by visa effectively insulating a merchant from chargeback risk (I'm talking 99% success rates winning chargebacks). You're right, it is incredibly user-hostile and truly painful to integrate (as compared to Stripe) but if you're in a business that sees a lot of people trying to rip you off it works wonders.
They've had the tablets for a few seasons now. Unless the app itself is changing between games, which I doubt is happening with any significance, they don't need them that early after they've been trained. Besides, there's probably some good sportsmanship angle to everyone getting access at the same time - a team that plays SNF shouldn't have the extra six hours or whatever that the 1pm game doesn't get to prepare.
North Korea requires a far bigger army of policemen to keep everyone in line than South Korea. Do you want to be North Korea, or South Korea?
One can treasure DFW's works without participating in the "universal adoration" of DFW.
Why do you think it's doubtful?

They're processing around 100M API requests a day. https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/788752160284487680
Were you using tor or similar when buying stuff?
The beauty of calculus is that you actually understand the Real World.

For example I taught my daughter factions this way.

Me: "These factions you see them? Now see these decimal points?"

Her: "Yeah I hate factions they are stupid!"

Me: "Factions are the only consistently real numbers below 1 and decimal points for the most part are made up numbers. 1/3 is 1/3 and never .3333."

Her: "I always thought it was the otehr way around."
Thanks for the kind words! It's actually fairly easy for us to specify all of California (it was actually part of our alpha release years ago), but we were never quite happy with how the UX of it would work -- how do we break out state vs city, or both combined?

We do want to make this happen though, and it shouldn't be too bad, but we need to figure out a good way to show it to the user. Stay tuned!
Rcarmo/azure-toolbox: A Docker toolbox with Azure admin tools
No, in fact I think they cut to the heart of the objection here. It was suggested that someone who cannot obtain a voter ID that meets the requirements in many states is somehow now a 'good voter'. It has been shown repeatedly over the past few months that the objective, and consequence, of most of these voter ID laws has been to drive down voting by poor and minority voters. The logical conclusion seems to be that poor and minority voters, who have difficulty obtaining these voter IDs, must not be 'good voter(s)' and perhaps should be 'weed(ed) out' of the voting pool. The question of motive is right there staring us in the face.
He kind of moved from the inside to the outside. Before he was on youtube he was shooting movies and had his HBO series. Even now he's still shooting commercials and appearing in them. Youtube brought him a lot of recognition but he wasn't doing too bad before it either.
> But the vast majority of new musicians do not self-finance their first few albums either. They sign up with a record label, and the record label finances the production/marketing/distribution costs.

Is that really the case? I'm heavily into the local music scene in my city, I'm friends with loads of musicians, go to shows almost nightly and talk to the bands, etc. Based on my experience most artists do pay for their first couple releases. With the exception of my friends who started their own "label" I only know one band who has any corporate involvement, and even in that case they're only paying to finish an album that was already being worked on.
This is really nice!

Before I dive too deeply, how does it do with sync? If I access it from multiple computers, will they play nicely together?
It's free, for starters...
My 5th grader is currently 10 years old.
i think it's more of a case of 'good news is no news' - failures are naturally more interesting than just saying that everything went according to the plan and we only have a few pics to show for it.
No they would negotiate all parties included in the class action suit get iPhone cases and T-mobile is responsible for paying all legal fees for attorney representation.
Of course, the flip side of that argument is that in many nice parts of the country, $200k will get you something you're very happy to call home and you can spend a lot less than the leftover $1M blowing heated or cooled air into your open windows for the parts of the year it's not nice out!
> how things could've turned out if the Russians had managed to boogie around in an rc car on Mars three decades ahead of NASA...

Do you mean that in a threat to the world way or in a yay for science way?
To me, it goes so much further than just something like the HD.

It looks old the same way an old photograph looks old. The colors are all off: The jokes aged. The sound seems weird. The special effects - even if they were amazing at the time - were off. The movies were obviously made for a different time.

Granted, there are exceptions - a few movies age well, but the vast majority do not.
Fair enough, but that only goes so far. The usefulness of language depends on there being commonly held definitions between the speakers. If I said, "your definition of 'broom' can differ from mine", things would start to fall apart pretty quickly.

Now that our (US) government is in the business of defining our words for us (eg, "terrorist", "hate speech"), I think it would be wise for us commoners to start working out amongst ourselves what we want these words to actually mean so that we can agree on their definitions.

My current definition of "hateful" would be anything that points to some "other" as "less than".

What's your definition?
If You’re Ever Dissed in a Hacked Email, Try to Respond Like Larry Lessig
You CAN use Git to organize fantasy football
> And yet, I'm able to go online and purchase specific Justin Bieber songs/albums that I'm interested in, without having to pay monthly fees to some Netflix-type aggregator.

I pay Spotify so I don't have to deal with a site per band. Going distributed has its costs; especially differences on the UI endpoint for the end-user is something bad, IMO.

Also, self-hosting MP3s is trivial (payment gateways, less so). At worst, you have to throw a couple bucks to a hosting company and hire a guy for couple hours a month to manage it. Hosting videos, however, is much bigger deal.

> Allowing consumers to pay only for the shows that they want to watch, instead of forcing them to pay for an entire monthly bundle, seems like it should be much more economically efficient.

It would be economically efficient, but honestly, I believe economic efficiency is the problem in arts, not the goal. That is, if users are paying for particular movies, then producers are incentivized to invest only in movies that are likely to be paid for. Which creates a feedback loop that promotes dumb, trivial content at expense of something that could be meaningful, but doesn't look sellable from the get-go.
There are hundreds of obscure branded power adapters on Amazon, and they are likely to be just as dangerous as a counterfeit Apple-branded adapter. So the real problem is the lack of electrical safety guarantees for products sold online, not the existence of counterfeit products. A counterfeit handbag never killed anyone.
The video (from Teespring) is 206M, easily explains why it's so slow to load.

(Congrats, we were using a separate fraud detection company that was quite intrusive and this seems much better)
True. That's why you we don't ask for email or facebook login.
What part are you referring to in your last paragraph? I can't find it.
> Many music lovers subscribe to Spotify which as 30+ million tracks to choose from

I'm not opposed to bundle-options being available, as long as I can choose to avoid them and pay ala carte. I don't even mind having to use 5 different sites in order to buy all my favorite content, as long as I'm only paying for the specific content I want on each of those sites.

That's my biggest complaint with television. For most popular TV shows, if I want to watch the latest episodes, I have to sign up and pay for an entire bundle that I'm not interested in. That strikes me as being both consumer-unfriendly, and economically-inefficient.
Clinton: US should use 'military response' to fight cyberattacks
Ok, we added that. The word 'industry' appears immediately after the title so it's an easy sell.
>and use something actually free, like the BeagleBone.

Oh please, while you lose the VC4 firmware, you instead get a proprietary PowerVR GPU with no free drivers. Not to mention that the Beaglebone has a much worse CPU than the "bolted on ARM" of the RPi.

If you're going to dump the rpi for this reason, going to something like the imx6 used in the Cubieboard and Novena would make a lot more sense (edit: Cubox, not Cubieboard).
Alternative reality in Reno
I'm sorry the shipping took so long, usually standard shipping to the US arrives within a week (though we offer UPS next day services for extra cost).
If they had the mass budget to fit a crane they'd probably pack bigger batteries.
Sorry here is a better source:
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=75
> TDD is a process where you write empty shims for your code and tests for it first, failing because there is no implementation, and then you write your code that passes the tests.

This is not how TDD works, and I can definitely see how writing code in that manner wouldn't be very productive at all. I also used to think that was how TDD was done until I read how it's really supposed to work by experts.

You iteratively build up code in a small tight cyclic manner. You do not write 100% of your test in 1 go, and you do not write 100% of the code in one go. You are also missing a step. TDD is a 3 step process, red-green-refactor, and the last missing step is refactoring. You start off with a small atomic behaviour you need in your API/product. You then make a test for that behaviour. The behaviour is not related to a particular class or method. Perhaps it is 1 class by coincidence , but maybe its 3 or 4 classes together. A good example of this would be if I had a method that dealt with multiple items. I would start off by constructing my test to use 1 item, and and the code to deal with 1 item. Then the next iteration maybe a list of 1 item in the test and code. After that, maybe I'd move to multiple items in a list.
Content industry doesn't really care that much about few nerds scraping the content for themselves as long as it remains small enough minority. And if they do something, it'll most likely follow the tracks of other anti-adblock tech instead of doing something as stupid as prerendering text.
Yea, this is the difference of 5+ years of the community developing. I'm sure the community has matured well, and it sounds much less toxic than it used to be. That doesn't change the fact that many people were exposed to the previous views.
Thanks for the explanation.

> other good reasons to not release such data!

What other good reasons? I can't find any outside of thinking that some adult intends to kidnap your child, which could be in gross contradiction with the impression I got earlier from you as a "laissez faire" rationalist type parent. Surely you are aware that the possibility of your kid being kidnapped or hurt by a stranger is infinitesimally smaller than the possibility of them getting hurt by enviromental factors while unsupervised (drowning / sudden seizure / previously undeteced allergy / wild animals... basically any non-human factor). I'd appreciate if you could explain this.

Could I ask you a hypothetical? (based on a real life experience of myself)

Imagine you are hanging out in your yard with friends at 9PM, when suddenly a shoeless, 3 year old girl you don't recognize appears out of nowhere. Upon asking her name, you only receive her first name. She seems barely able to communicate and you aren't able to get clear information about who she is or where her parents are after a few questions. What would you do?

- Send her away without a second thought

- Keep her in your house until someone shows up claiming her

- Stop what you are doing and focus on helping her find her parents (although its not clear whether she's lost or not)

- Call 911

- Call child protection services

I will gladly share with you what I did :)
Don't make the mistake of confusing the text in Infinite Jest with David Foster Wallace's actual understanding of the Mean Value Theorem. (Read Everything and More, his really awesome book on the mathematical history of calculus, if you need a demonstration.)
It's a category error to conflate article titles and website names, but I'll play along.

Misleading? Arguably, but I don't think it's much of a stretch from "Hacker News" to "news for hackers" to "anything that good hackers would find interesting", which is the mandate of the site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Linkbait? I doubt it, but I'm biased.
>2. Parents aren't home either, they are working.

Even worse, at least half of them are working in "bullshit jobs", doing nothing productive except wasting time there justifying their paycheck.
Finnegans Wake is also circular.
> we've actually built in a testing interface to the rule creation process. When you test a rule, we'll actually simulate what the rule would have done had it been active for the past 6 months.

That is slick.
How to Set Up MySQL Master-Master Replication
It works wonders in eliminating chargebacks by also eliminating legitimate customers?
I write down ideas for my framework while working on other projects. If I don't take note, it's very hard to recover later and this way my backlog is always full.
You paying for the entire bundle is what makes me, a person who likes less-than-most-popular TV shows, to be able to watch those shows - they probably would never exist without that economic inefficiency in the first place! So that's why I'm probably biased, but I do believe economic efficiency leads to lowest-common-denominator products, which I find to be a bad thing in arts.
Monkey 'tools' raise questions over human archaeological record
I've never heard Trump denigrate Mexicans or Blacks. He made that one poorly phrased comment about illegal immigrants being drug dealers and rapists, but in context, it's clear he wasn't implying anything negative about Mexican people as a whole, but just those that illegally cross the border. All of the instances you mentioned were taken out of context.

"Because he hasn't shown any respect for anyone else that isn't white, straight, male, and American-born. Why would homosexuals get a pass?"

This exemplifies exactly what I was trying to say. Do you really believe that Trump has never shown respect for anyone except for white men? I feel like there's nothing Trump could do to avoid this stigma, because our PC culture attaches it to anyone who speaks out against them. I think this is exactly why Peter Thiel is pro-Trump.
This is in very specific neighborhoods due to gang activity for the most part. It's hardly an indicator of safety over the city in general.
From playing around with it a bit, it appears you can disable any and all rules, if you want.
Ask HN: Does anyone know a web solution for video chat?
Does anyone know of a solution in which a web visitor can enter their Skype, Facetime, or GoogleHangouts details into a website widget that will initiate a video chat connection with a support agent in whatever channel the user indicates?
Spot on. Both of my parents were high school math teachers (for most of their career). They essentially forbade me from going into public education, which is what I thought I wanted to do when I was in high school.

Boy, am I ever glad!

I am much more financially comfortable, enjoy the hell out of my job, and don't have to deal with the annoyances and politics of being a high school teacher. Would I be technically capable? Absolutely. Would I be good [enough] at it? Probably. Would I do it for a mid (or even high) five-figure sum, even with the good retirement package? Not on your life...
My idea: just another instance to use this quote.

> Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same reason
that only children read books with only pictures in them. Language, be it
English or something else, is the only tool flexible enough to accomplish
a sufficiently broad range of tasks.
-- Bill Garrett

Or maybe it's just that kids are smarter than we like to think and are especially good at noticing what's going on when we try and set up no-failure situations for them, they notice that we expect so little of them we even created this giant special drag-drop-the-blocks interface that we never actually use ourselves just for them and their simple minds. (I'm not a fan of spoon-fed educational substitutes...)
Fewer customers but a lot less fraud could very well be the more profitable and safe option.