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You still have to learn some physics.

On the Antarctic, you will have to accelerate your train by 47 m/s more than if you did it on the equator, Eastward.

A kite works in the atmosphere, which offers a resistance to moving objects that is a function of the square of the speed. 11000 m/s is a very high speed, and 121000000 is a very big factor for a resistance to your efforts!

It would be much easier to do it UNDERGROUND! in a tunnel where you can remove the atmosphere (or in an hyperloop tube hint wink hint).

On the equator (in Equador indeed!), there's the highest point of the planet, ie. the summit farther away from the center of the Earth. How lucky are we? We have a moon, and the farthest point from the center of the planet is on the equator! What are the probabilities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summits_farthest_from_the_Eart...

Anyways, having the track end on this summit will allow you to accelerate the train much better than at a lower altitude above the poles (and to build infrastructure on the ices of the Arctic will be quite more challenging, if you want to be able to take off in Northern summer too).

Oh, and at 11000 m/s (or at 7000 m/s, ie. long before you reach escape velocity), you don't stay at the same place, you turn around the planet at 25 times a day! Good luck accelerating during 24 hours...
The original wording is ambiguous. I too read it as if OP had some issues with people coming from there.
Fitbit hacked?
My wife just received numerous spam emails from FitBit. Advise to change password asap. Will try to post image asap.
> workers are typically indebted by student loans or mortgages, that the wages are so low. Look at any London software engineer thread if you'd like to be depressed, 300-400 a day and sometimes much less, for people with 10+ years of experience.

Student loans are paid back based on salary. 400-300 a day is low for a senior software contractor in London, or even a FTE (hard to judge difference given benefits).

6-8k a month is a good wage on London.
I've never found a drastic difference between Google, Bing, and DDG except in one category: Searching Google websites. Bing's YouTube results are frequently terrible, for example, where highly popular trending videos are not in the top results when searched for on Bing's video search. Google indexes Google+ posts well, nobody else does. I'm not sure if that's a fault of the other search providers, or Google unsurprisingly making it difficult for competitors to index websites that they obviously can index quite easily using internal APIs.
> he did a job at CIA that's as close to Jack Bauer as exists in real life.

Did he torture people to death?
Dropbox's pricing is indeed frustrating, on both ends of the spectrum. Small time users pay a lot more than competitors so they can store a reasonable amount, and if you want to store a lot of stuff you're shit out of luck as the only option is to get their "team" storage which has more stuff than a single user needs. I don't even really need sharing, I can send stuff via email or other methods for that - I want personal file syncing.

I've been using iCloud Drive recently, and it works pretty well. Maybe if Apple ever gets around to releasing new Macs they'll bump the default storage level and cover more people because as it stands it's at 5GB which isn't competitive anymore.
> If you look at what people are living in on the Upper East Side, in these new towers, [it’s] 3,500 square feet for a family of two, a parking spot in the garage or next to your unit

What the heck is he talking about? At least here in Toronto, high-rise units tend to be small, often very small compared to suburban houses. And it's hard to find condos with three or four bedrooms. They tend to have two at most.

3500 square feet? That's the penthouse, man. It's for the guy in the silk ascot and velvet robe who invites his friends (who are of an age with his daughter or granddaughter) over for a pool party.
Apparently yes, wasn't sure the scale :)
Any idea when this is going to land?
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Thinking more about this, it's also possible that the candidate failed on understanding what the screener wanted, and giving it to him.
If the question was "what signal does kill command send by default" and the candidate hears "what is the name of the kill signal," that's an indicator about important communication skills.
/pol/ is fast on a lot of international news that gets picked up slowly in the states too. they were on the us' accidental bombing of syrian troops last month [1] pretty much instantly.

1. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/18/did-the-u-s...
> I don't know why people put up with it?

Lock-in? Once you have a few gigs up on Dropbox, it's a bit of a challenge transferring it elsewhere.
What does this nonsense reply even mean? Nobody is talking about one-size-fits-all. People are talking about mitigating some stupid default behavior in a language. The suggestion "You're doing it wrong" just feeds into his point (that you can even get something this straightforward wrong in the first place indicates, maybe, you should put a fence there to warn people).

Programmers have so much stockholm syndrome it's unbelievable.
http://imgur.com/GXd2sRK
The current assumption of the cosmological standard model is spatial flatness, which is compatible with the observations. In principle, space could still curve back on itself on a large enough scale, but assuming there's no big crunch coming, you'd have to go straight for a longer-than-infinite duration to come back to the place you started from.
A better comparison might be the Transrapid Maglev in Shanghai. It goes 320km/h and it was incredibly smooth because it's levitating
That isn't really "going blue" though, that's more like going red in three directions with the blue part having the largest fraction less than 50%. I guess you could define that as "going blue" but "blue winning" makes more sense.
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It's up to each state to determine how to send its electors (48 states use the winner-take-all format, with Maine and Nebraska using congressional districts). Because of this, the NPV movement only needs enough states to make up 279 electoral votes before it can take effect; no constitutional amendment is necessary.

For further reading, this Wikipedia article breaks it down pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Dropbox works.

Put aside all the concerns over War Crimes or Spying, or Security, Dropbox simply works. Every mobile platform is supported. Every desktop platform is supported. Sharing, Teams, direct links, all the core features are there. Anyone can safely recommend and share Dropbox files with their Grandma (with a PC still running XP), or their Mac loving parents, or their weird hipster friend running Gentoo GNU/Linux, and Dropbox will still work.

A lot of HN prioritizes things like data security or political signaling over frictionless implementations. Sure you can get secure file synchronization with rsync and ssh keys, but the average consumer has never even seen a terminal. I'm sure security and politics are important when selling to other tech users, but Dropbox is general consumer facing, and they have succeeded at their task, making flash drives obsolete.
Nah not at all. But I am saying that it's not gonna sway my decision when you bash a technology amidst many other companies that have successfully used the same technology. It just shows a lack of vision imo. My comment wasn't targeted at yours specifically, but was a follow up on the topic.

and imo explanation of why you use one technology over another is not equal to just a "PHP sucks!" blog post.
The Geography of Rome
Expansion joints or loops[0], and their thermal expansion problems are significantly lower since the source is environmental changes.

[0] http://i.stack.imgur.com/VhLi2.jpg
Accepting your statement at face value, that is still faster than driving and more convenient than the existing system which is, well, nothing. Standard rail, which does not currently exist on that route, would be even slower with the same stops. Los Angeles to Oakland on the Coast Starlight takes 11+ hours. [EDIT: Bakersfield to Oakland on the San Joaquins is about 6 hours. At 90 mph, high speed rail would cut that trip in half.]

Further, not every train has to stop at every station; there can be express trains.
This book looks fascinating. Thanks for reinforcing the OP's author's opinion on it, I think I'll check it out!
The technology isn't theirs either, or at least not the concept for it. The original idea was proposed years ago and named ETT or Evacuated Tube Transport by a company called ET3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dK_yxaKvk
Singapore Botanic Gardens
This election is making me lose the will to live.
Also highly recommended along these lines is Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad (published in 1965):

https://www.amazon.com/Cyberiad-Stanislaw-Lem/dp/0156027593

It touches thoughtfully and humorously on: AI, simulations, robotics, ethical and moral questions regarding artificial life, among many other interesting topics. It's one of the funniest and greatest science fiction books I've ever read.
All amendments to the Constitution must go through Congress.
I think this needs to be brought to more people's attention, so I'm putting this in a top level comment:

Thunderf00t's video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk

Debunked: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4udgd2/the_hype...

Also debunked: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4wck43/hi_were_mostly...
Ok, this has nothing to do with McMullin besides the fact that they belong to the same church, and is easily dwarfed by several Trump scandals. I wouldn't expect such bigotry from HN.
The article addresses this point at the beginning.
Some folks at NASA have spent some time analyzing the principles and technical challenges behind hyperloop (I know most of them for what it's worth):

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=45818300884035476...
We "laugh at our mistakes" not "laugh at other people while they are making the mistake".
"Will need to be persuaded to compensate," i.e., sued, which will take probably 2-5 years to complete because it will be cheaper to bill lawyers than payout potentially millions to Vachani.

A big problem with our legal system is that it favors those with more money in every way - the rich can lever more cases, better cases, more often. They can afford to appeal at every level, to pay lawyers to look for hundreds of little loopholes. And they are essentially immune to being sued because not only can nobody afford to even begin procedures, once they do, all the more enriched party needs to do is fend off attacks long enough for their opponents' funds to run out.
They are already shipping it to some customers[1].

[1] http://www.eweek.com/servers/intel-begins-shipping-xeon-chip...
Why? They put a lot of work into this and are giving the plans away. They just don't want you to compete with them. It seems fair to me.
There's a lot of "reinventing HTML/JS" that goes on which irks me. Folks reinvent `<select>` in JS all the time. This stops type-to-search and mobile sites from working. The same goes for password fields (for password managers and "click to show" on mobile). The same goes for reimplementing scrolling in JS and text zoom. The same goes for onclick links (like twitter) and breaking ctrl-click and other linky things. The same goes for a million different features of the web and screen readers. And like you said, the same goes for img and feeds.

If you're going to reimplement something, bear in mind that it may have far more functionality than that for your primary use case.
'decent pay'
His intentions don't necessarily have to be short term. If he performs well in this election, that could be a solid launch for another kind of candidacy (senator, governor, secretary of something, party leadership, etc.)
On IoT Botnets, StrongPity, and Nuclear Power Plant 'Disruptions'
How does that matter?
Flagged? Interesting.
Part of the Stanford article is highly misleading. They say:

"That study, published in September in The New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that prostate cancer patients randomized to either active monitoring, surgery or radiation therapy all had the same risk of death from the cancer after 10 years. Ninety-nine percent of men in the study survived regardless of initial treatment. These startling results suggest that active monitoring of prostate cancer patients may be as good as early radical treatment and may cause fewer side effects."

In the actual NEJM study they reference, though, the conclusions are the exact opposite:

"...death from prostate cancer occurred in 8 of the 545 men assigned to active monitoring, 5 of the 553 men assigned to surgery, and 4 of the 545 men assigned to radiotherapy"

"For today, we can conclude on the basis of level 1 evidence that PSA monitoring, as compared with treatment of early prostate cancer, leads to increased metastasis. Therefore, if a man wishes to avoid metastatic prostate cancer and the side effects of its treatment, monitoring should be considered only if he has life-shortening coexisting disease such that his life expectancy is less than the 10-year median follow-up of the current study..."

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1610395#t=article
The Curse of Cash
How do you know they were from FitBit, rather than from a spammer with their From address set to FitBit?
On a side note, this is why Independence Day and other interstellar alien invasion movies don't make much sense. The amount of resources necessary to move between solar systems in an even slightly reasonable timeframe is orders of magnitude larger than what you need to obliterate all life on the planet in just a few seconds. The idea that you could meaningfully fight back against an interstellar traveler is silly.
I meant it more in an abstract sense. They don't have to be silicon they could be enormous metal planets and moons..
> Intel is hoping that the Xeon+FPGA package is enticing enough to convince enterprises to stick with x86, rather than moving over to a competing architecture (such as Nvidia’s Tesla GPGPUs ).

Then let it prove its performance on a few deep learning benchmarks. If is so fast and accessible, we'll be impressed.
How do you deal with the case of product coming up with a modal that needs to be scrolled even on a 1080p screen? It's certainly a UX decision and an incredibly stupid one. Should the developers implement it only to have everyone else realize how stupid it is after wasting hours or days? Or should there be someone who can stand up to product and tell them, hell no, we will not implement this stupidity? This is a real example from a real job I had. I don't need to tell you which way this originally went (we built it and of course tore it down a week later). The height or width of a modal is not a technical decision, but it's also not a product decision. You can have a dedicated UI/UX guy, but that adds a lot of cost most companies can't or won't afford. This is where the CTO, or in larger organizations, a manager under the CTO, would step up and tell product what a terrible idea their modal is and that they need to redo it before engineering considers it. If engineering can't make common sense decisions because its hands are tied and product can't make them because they're not qualified, where does that leave you with your system (the system you describe is extremely common)?
It won't be a complete vacuum though? I mean it doesn't have to be. Even removing 70% 80% of the air would greatly reduce drag. Plus don't they also need safety systems in case of issues so the tube segments can be locked and re-pressurized without damaging the train?
I expect it's "really bumpy" on the non-high-speed tracks, the train would be extremely rigid all around and thus not absorb bumps from low-quality/low-speed tracks making imperfections much more noticeable. My experience seems to have been mostly on proper tracks/at speed, the ride is as smooth as can be in a wheeled vehicle.
Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of the bidding process
Placing a market order you're going to get filled before you can cancel if there's any book on the other side at all.
More than 50% of page loads were encrypted with HTTPS yesterday
Right you are. Thanks, I was able to edit it in time.
You argument is not straightforward. It is logically flawed.

> The universe is much larger than our appetites, and that's the horizon we're talking about with economics- centuries, not the heat death of the universe.

You don't have access to the universe. You only have access to the earth. If you reduce the time horizon to centuries you must also reduce the resource horizon to that which is available on earth. The earth is a highly limited resource. The situation is not even close to your flawed argument of limited appetites vs unlimited resources.

That is fairly straight forward. I never talked about the heat death of the universe nor any epic cataclysms outside of the human experience. That came from you. Thermodynamics applies to smaller systems as well as the universe and is highly relevant to the human experience.

>Your comment about gasoline is a good example of a resource that has a real world constraint, but it doesn't show that economics is zero sum. It shows that the limited game, where the goal is to obtain as much gasoline as possible, is zero sum. If I also use nuclear power, I'm not playing that game.

How is nuclear power not a zero sum game? Follow the economic chain. Nuclear power involves a resource called uranium. Uranium is used up in process of generating nuclear energy. Uranium is mined from the earth and therefore limited. Additionally, the global supply of uranium is nowhere near high enough to be classified as a seemingly 'unlimited' resource. You cannot escape the game.

Your best argument here is the sun. The sun can be classified as a seemingly 'unlimited' resource. However the bottleneck here is the amount of solar energy we can extract from the sun. That energy amount extracted is limited by technology and physics to a concrete amount. That concrete amount is significantly less than the energy we demand.

>We have a sad tendency to ignore negative externalities, as a species. And it could be our undoing. But countering that by claiming that human econonic activity is zero sum is an abuse of game theory.

By claiming that economic activity is not a zero sum game is an abuse of reality. Find an example that isn't zero sum. Find a resource that isn't constrained.
I'm really crossing my fingers for Utah to break away from the Republican Party and swing Libertarian or somewhere else.

Conservatives need a morally defensible party. Democrats need alternative policy proposals to keep them honest. America needs new ideas.
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TWTR today: https://www.google.com/finance?q=twtr
You're fired.
Possibly? I can see why one would want to assume that an entity that can simulate a universe would be able to know more than the collective ability of that simulation, but on the other hand, we simulate things and learn unexpected results from our simulations. I think it's entirely feasible that a simulation can generate more knowledge, or different knowledge, than exists outside the simulation.
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Well, following Netflix's mantra - it is a team and not family that you are hiring for. Anyone can Google and find answers, doesn't mean you would hire everyone, would it?

There are a number of basic items that a competent programmer needs to know off the top of his head. If they had to google for every single item, then their productivity goes down the drain and so does the entire team's productivity. You should fix your hiring.
A combination of name recognition, customer satisfaction or customer inertia, a decent product, and data compartmentalization.

For example, it irks me that Google Drive is a catch-all storage space for Google products; sometimes all you want is a dumb folder that just syncs up and down whatever you put into it and Dropbox (and Box) give that to you without any mandatory integrations that benefit the companies that bankroll the storage (Google Drive, OneDrive), but not necessarily you.

It's also nice that Dropbox treats every platform as a first-class citizen. It's pretty obvious that some storage products are a just pieces of a larger puzzle that you happen to be able to use as a cloud drive, while some other companies make it clear that offering a cloud drive is their primary business.
This is a common misconception, but superposition has nothing to do with "do not render if the player is not watching." As far as we know, every particle in the universe is interacting with every other (with a light speed delay) and thus "measuring" it (modifying and responding to its wavefunction) at all times. In the two-slit experiment, for example, the wavefunction of a particle moving through a slit interacts with the wavefunction of the particle used to detect it, causing both wavefunctions to be more narrowly distributed in the space around the slit. But before or after this interaction, the whole wavefunction still needs to be simulated to produce the effects we see experimentally. The wavefunction itself is the real thing being simulated, and it's always "running."

You may be right that it will become easier to simulate worlds like ours, but it will require innovations that make a quantum computer look like an etch-a-sketch. The universe is really big and really detailed.
It will only really take off if they can get the user experience of getting a HDL program to the FPGA to the same level as getting a shader program to the GPU. Unless they can do all that in microcode though it's going to force them to open up some stacks of Altera's closed processes. I'm hopeful but there's a lot of proprietary baggage around FPGAs that I think have kept them from truly reaching their potential.
yeah this I believe. I kind of figured the role would be widely-varying, but kind of hoped not. It's hard to know what to strive for when it's different at every company haha.
By putting bends into the pipes.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-oil-pipelines-have-so-many-seem...

But this obviously won't work for the hyperloop. It has to be straight.
Ugh, leaving us guys with a tough choice: Do we want to pee or think?
I felt really weird the day I realized I don't use Google to "google" anymore.

I use DuckDuckGo, when it fails I'll fall back to Google, but even then it's getting to be pretty useless compared to how it was.

For example, I recently wanted to find a reference for an obscure quote that included the word "squaring" but all the search results from Google were for "square". So frustrating.
npm could be faster. What else could npm learn from maven?
1. There's plenty of room to innovate on the implementation side. PMs don't tell you what algorithms to use or how to lay out the data in memory.

2. Not every engineer yearns to be a Product Manager. Sure, many want to make product decisions but don't want to do the other necessary work that comes with the role (like market research, metrics and analytics, managing the schedule and budget, writing PRDs, communicating with customers and partners, dealing with Legal, making sure the user manual is accurate, coordinating releases with ops and tech support, etc.) I think some techies think being a PM means merely sitting in your cube dreaming up a feature and saying "This Shall Be".

3. Good PMs most definitely need to stay on top of technology as it evolves. They need to know their platforms' capabilities and when new things become possible.
> Something (at least vaguely) similar to Generic exists in many statically typed languages - including (IIRC, IIUC) Java and Go.

Sure—but it's in spite of static typing, not because of it. You certainly give up any guarantees of avoiding runtime errors by detecting typing issues at compile time.
I think the thing that that individual laws allow for is a)stealth and b)agreement over time