skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The radiation thing is often brought up, but I think it’s not too big of a deal"

AFAIK no one else within the community would think of saying that.

I'm sure that there are people within SpaceX studying this and taking it into consideration, but my concern is mostly with Musk's cavalier attitude towards individual safety.
You're selling the wrong product if you're just looking to sell on the bottom dollar.

I meet clients in-person and focus on quality and consistency. Yeah sure you can save a few thousand by having someone do it on a site like this, but you'll lose many more times that much the first time a deploy gets botched, the site goes down, they can't help you get what you need as opposed to what you asked for, etc.

I stopped trying to beat on price long ago, wasn't worth it, just meant I had to put out lower quality code and slap stuff together sloppily to compete and I didn't like doing that.
You can also click the "web" link at the top of the HN thread. It's worked for me on every WSJ article so far.
Especially when the videos from past interviews come out like this one! https://youtu.be/8TCxE0bWQeQ
Shirley you can't be serious...
I find it hard to believe someone would downvote a recommendation for suggesting the Linux Foundation in response to a question asking if there were any good courses on Linux Kernel internals. The quality is excellent the price is inline with just about any 4 or 5 day vendor training class. I know of no other such class outside of a university setting.

If you had didn't have a positive experience then please share it.
I don't think you have looked very hard then. Here's Zubrin on the topic:

>However, we already have data that shows that the accumulation of slow rates of cosmic ray radiation received during long duration spaceflight is not a showstopper for human Mars exploration. GCR dose rates in low Earth orbit are about half those in interplanetary space. Thus, there is a growing number of cosmonauts and astronauts who have already received Mars mission equivalent GCR doses during extended space missions without any radiological casualties.

~http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2749/1

He mentions in a recent speech that the most deleterious effect of time spent in space is related to zero gravity, not radiation - and that can be fixed with resistance training.
This entire thread is worth checking out:
The "I want to do everything but end up doing nothing" dilemma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049208
>he doesn’t see the world in the way many Americans do, and has no intrinsic aversion to Putin or other strongmen with questionable democratic credentials on the world stage.

Why should he? America has much more "questionable democratic credentials" than Russia. At least the latter is constrained in its immediate back yard, it doesn't invade countries to "bring democracy", getting oil and leaving behind chaos, mayhem and civil war, nor does it bully or stronghold most of the world's governments.
Great read. I often compensate in life by turning up the intensity, finding new things to interest me, etc. So, it's refreshing to hear a justification for learning to enjoy moments of thoughtlessness and solitude when they come about.
It's trying to protect people that want to hire bottom-dollar work, but not get bottom-dollar quality.

If you're not happy with the rate at which I'm getting things done, you don't need screenshots of my desktop, feel free to hire someone else and let me know how that goes.
Just don't make complex declarations in C, it's almost never useful and won't help anyone out. It'll confuse people and make your code write-only. Just put in a couple extra lines of code somewhere if you have to. It won't be the end of the world.
Ask HN: How to do equity split when a founder can and puts in more money?
Hey guys!

I have more cash than others on my founding team. I've already been putting more of it in than the rest of the team. What's the fair / standard way of handling this situation so that the team continues to congeal? I'm pretty confident that we have a smash hit on our hands. Is there a fair way of doing this long term and short term? Thanks!
Unfortunately it looks like this Kevin guy is the company director, if you look up his full name.
Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”
Number of US overseas military bases: 600+

Number of Russian overseas military bases: 2

I wonder why people paint Russia as if it was some aggressive power like the US.
What Libraries Can (Still) Do (2015)
As far as the RTOS, it sounds like they use Linux:

> Linux is used for everything at SpaceX. The Falcon, Dragon, and Grasshopper vehicles use it for flight control, the ground stations run Linux, as do the developers' desktops. SpaceX is "Linux, Linux, Linux", he said.

http://lwn.net/Articles/540368/
Totally fair to be skeptical; not very impressive though unless you have detailed cause. Not quite as fair, or impressive to make comments like these with no effort or backing:

>Glass domes and underground Martian tunnels make for some very interesting science fiction, but I'm concerned about the engineering challenges that he seems to be ignoring in favor of his grand statements of intent.

The AMA, and even that specific question was all about the engineering challenges...

>but the amount of press and attention that they get just by saying "we are going to mars" are crazy! Nothing practical to show, i would be more interested in a mission to build up a base at moon first.
But hey! This is show business, what we losers can possible know!?

He literally showed images and video of fuel tank and rocket tech that represent novel advances. He has also spilled gallons of ink justifying why Mars is the place to go next.

EDIT: To be clear, I don't think I am quoting lambentonion here, just giving examples of the stuff that made me comment initially
They care too much about backwards compatibility I think. .NET had done generics this way from the beginning.
$50 billion will buy a helluva lot of overpasses and underpasses for bike and pedestrian traffic.

Get rid of traffic signals on the streets themselves, and a 2x multiplier in efficiency is a gross underestimate of what can be achieved.

One of the biggest challenges, of course, will be to avoid what we've done in the past, which is allowing limited-access highways to act like impassable walls.
> But if an anonymous or pseudonymous group came offering anti-Clinton leaks, they’d have found a host happy not to ask too many awkward questions

Why would he? That's the whole point of WikiLeaks, to publish information about those who have the power in so called democratic systems.
I think people getting excited about space and space travel again is a good thing. It's the first step to getting people involved again, even if only to remember what we're capable of as a species, despite all our flaws and all the other problems we've yet to solve. Whether you agree with Musk's methods or not, I enjoy living in a time where we dream about the possibilities of new worlds, rather than reminiscing about a golden age of space travel long past.
Radio Shack had a control module you plugged into the cassette port that interfaced with the X10 bus.

http://www.trs-80.org/plug-n-power/
I was going to write a similar comment, but you said it better in every way. HN comments are a frighteningly important part of my day.
> people don't really care

Exactly, and that's worrying.
FWIW cal doesn't say you should schedule ever minute perfectly, just that you should have a flexible plan of what you wanna do every hour (can include just chilling)
Why is that so shocking?

In another thread today, people were arguing that there was nothing at all wrong with a bunch of investors jacking the price of a drug used to treat lead poisoning by 2700%.

Aristocrats and people who worship capitalism are pretty much the same... charging $750 for a $2 pill is no different than paying 50 quid for a dead kid.
Sadly, this is very much in line with what I've been seeing from WikiLeaks in this past year. Assange is growing increasingly vindictive and conspiratorial, and any future WikiLeaks data dumps need to be viewed in this light. (Which is to say: even if the documents are genuine, their curation and any theatrics surrounding them should be heavily scrutinized. WikiLeaks seems to no longer be an equal-opportunity leaker, but instead focuses its attention on Assange's political enemies.)
Because Americans are so used to being told they are the good guys, "the shit", and the world's only saints. Their media (even "serious" media, like the NYT) is the most patriotic in the whole western world. Of course it helps that there's a trillion dollar defense industry to benefit from all of that too.

So, when they meddle 10.000 miles from their borders it's their right and they do it "for democracy".

But when another country (let's call it R) tries to meddle in a place where actual pro-fascists toppled a voted-for government in a country in its borders, where tons of people with R ethnic origins live -- then they don't have the right.

People speak about communist countries propaganda art portraying their leaders as "heroes" -- and it's indeed idiotic. But then again, the US is the only other place where they can produce and watch movies and shows where the President is a hero fighting bad guys with his bare hands (from Air Force One to numerous tv/cable series).

And people watch that with a straight face -- in any other western country this would be considered only acceptable for comedy.
>This is what Stack Overflow does.

Thanks. Didn't know that.

>Sometimes it's just that the question is well written but obscure.

Could be that people regard the question as dishonourable.
One thing that doesn't wear out your battery at all is a smart controller that charges your battery when energy is cheapest. So all that excess night-time wind energy can be sopped up, not to mention that day-time excess solar energy for cars that plug in at work.

It's like storage, only it costs almost nothing: all you need is a lot of cars with overly-large batteries plugged in, and a little predictive software.
Hey, good catch, thanks for sharing. In my view that increases the credibility of the Buzzfeed article.
Zubrin thinks we can get to Mars with current tech. He has thought that for decades, and his outreach efforts was one of the things that inspired Musk in the first place. He disagrees with the timespan for colonization, yes, but his post here is mainly around optimizations for Musk's proposal, not an outright rejection:

>Still, with some corrections, a system using the core concepts Musk laid out could be made attractive — not just as an imaginative concept for the colonization of Mars, but as a means of meeting the nearer-at-hand challenge of enabling human expeditions to the planet.
The type syntax exactly matches the expression syntax used to destruct values of the type. It is very intuitive once you realize this.

The alternative would be for the type syntax to mirror the expression syntax used to construct values of the type. Functional languages tend to do this, particularly ones which prefer pattern matching over destructors.
I guess of all problems, this is one of the better ones to have.
Zubrin starts by misrepresenting the Spaceship as two inseparable stages, and overestimates the mass of the motors by a factor of three.

He then claims that ISRU is impractical due to hypothetical resource constraints.

Zubrin then claims that the Spaceship is a "habitat" that should only go one way. SpaceX has decided that the habitat should be built on Mars from indigenous materials. A one-way Spaceship is vastly more expensive than a reusable one.

Zubrin dismisses fast transit to Mars entirely on the basis of not being a free-return trajectory with a symmetric time span (6 months out, 6 months back). The free return is only if use if the spacecraft is not going to land. The number of failure modes where the Spaceship can't land on Mars but can still manoeuvre into Earth orbit are very small. The Spaceship is designed for aerobraking and landing, not orbital capture.

He then goes on to criticise the four-month express crew transfer as having no payload capacity, when the intent was only to show that rapid crew transfer is possible. The benefit of the shorter trip is less exposure to harmful radiation. The assumption is that sufficient resources already exist on Mars to house and feed the new arrivals.

A multi-component system as proposed by Zubrin with an Earth-Mars transport with separate craft for leaving Earth and landing on Mars adds far more complexity, more moving parts, more ways for things to fail.

The SpaceX monolithic approach us safer simply because there are fewer things that can go wrong.

Zubrin's supposed improvements are to split the Spaceship into propulsion and habitation modules, with the habitation module having its own vacuum engines for Mars intercept and landing, and then some way of splitting those motors away from the habitat upon landing so they can be cannibalised or returned to Earth.

Which is to say, Zubrin has spent so much time evangelising Mars Direct that he no longer considers any other option as valid.

SpaceX are pursuing the engineering goal of sending large payloads to Mars and back to Earth with best use of resources. They want the incremental cost of moving people and things around the solar system to be as low as possible. Zubrin wants a single transit to be as low cost as possible, meaning use of disposable spacecraft, meaning higher costs overall.
Well count me as one of those locals, and one who has visited the Cathedral several times!

I got a bit distracted by the copy of the Magna Carta the last time I was there so was a bit blinkered to everything else.

Next time I'm in town I'll pop in!
Because the foreign investors don't want to learn those lessons.

Textile mills moved from places like Lowell, MA and Utica, NY to the south for more docile workers and lower safety standards. They moved to Bangladesh for even cheaper workers and no regulation.
You said US Government. Both America and the US Government are actually held in some regard around the world.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/06/23/1-americas-global-image/
The real credit goes to Linus Torvalds, as I linked in that post, but I'll repeat the link again here:

https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/1ZhdNwbjcYF
I'm sorry but dozens, maybe hundreds of other questions were more deserving - this ama is about sending a rocket to mars not about their IT stack...

We are all a bit scarred after the IAC debacle, perhaps that explains the downvotes.
Cronicante13: Bacteria
Wikileaks had a chance to be more than a bedroom operation, and it would have made them far more powerful than they are now. Building a network of aligned journalists and political allies would have increased visibility, attracted more leaks with localized impact, and made it much harder to shut down discussion of contents with "this was stolen", as the Democrats are now doing with complicity of much of the US media. But as we saw with the author's NDA story, Assange is the #1 enemy of that ever happening. He reflexively accuses anyone with their own publicity approach of being a careerist or worse, then logs into twitter to align not just himself, but Wikileaks the organization, with the most extreme possible opponents of his enemies. The impact that the leaker wants to make, the stories good journalists could write, even most third party mining of leaks is ignored in favor of Julian Assange's personal agenda. I think the world would be better off with a bigger, broader Wikileaks that promotes journalism instead of mistrusting it.
And the highlight point is that someone can use that to provide a very one sided perspective if they only provide WikiLeaks one side of the story.
That said, nothing wrong with pointing out that it's an unfair attack now as it may have been in 2011. (I didn't know Ball has written about Assange extensively until googling it after reading the BuzzFeed piece).

Since it's a piece by someone who has a personal dispute with Assange, it has to be taken with a grain of salt. I think its most interesting contribution at this time is its argument that Assange, for better or worse, hasn't changed, it's the world.
You're just throwing out a grab bag of complaints.

America can be very democratic and aggressive. Bhutan can be autocratic and insular. Russia can be autocratic and (selectively) militaristic.

Russia has joke democratic credentials. You're a pawn or a fool if you think otherwise. Admitting the us is a more functional democracy doesn't stop you from disagreeing with our foreign policy.
That's because his book was all about "routines". That's selection bias right there.

If you read random artist biographies you're rarely gonna find the same emphasis on routines.
If it's a partial read that requires to track state, then yes. If it's a somehow self-contained read operation that returns a result, while it has side effects (I/O), it may not necessarily have to mutate variables in your program (e.g: load a small file into string variable, make a HTTP response and return the body, etc).
>Existing applications will work in the cloud. There is no need to use the fancy cloud stuff (multi region, auto scaling...) if it's not needed [or not possible].

I'd like to unpack this.

>Existing applications will work in the cloud.

They may work, but there's a good chance they will not work well. Doing a direct lift and drop of an application onto AWS can be catastrophic if you don't understand storage persistence, or VM availability. An EC2 VM is not like a physical server in that it will not continue to run indefinitely until something breaks. I would say that existing applications will likely not work well without a shift in the way you treat underlying infrastructure. There are a lot of considerations around IO and locality as well.

>There is no need to use the fancy cloud stuff (multi region, auto scaling...) if it's not needed

You've just said "There is no need... if it's not needed.

>[or not possible]

If it is not possible to use the surrounding services your application is probably a poor fit for a cloud platform. It can become prohibitively expensive to try to directly replicate your physical datacenter architecture on a cloud platform.

Is it possible to just drop your existing application onto some VMs? Sure, but it's probably a bad idea.
Would it be fair to say that Assange is currently on a mission to expose the American government's dirty laundry at all costs, even if it means cooperating with other bad governments?

Could we expect him to focus more heavily on the Russian and Chinese governments in the future?
Could you link those Podesta emails?

And anyway, this article isn't really anti-Assange or pro-Clinton, as far as I can tell. It does seem to be anti-Russia, but not pro-US.
Thank you for the list. Someone also mentioned codementor.io in the other thread.
If you don't include a license, it is protected by copyright fyi.
Let me get this straight:

1) You imagine what's going on in Elon's head
2) You complain about it on HN
3) You expect other people to care about your fantasy
4) ...
5) ???

There are multiple hard-to-solve problems involved in sending humans to Mars. Complaining that Elon didn't give sufficient weight to your favorite problem in his executive summary is not that interesting.
What I see when I look at the whole Wikileaks/Assange situation is a guy who started off well-meaning and really did want to make a difference who through a stroke of right-place-right-time happened to receive at the time the largest leak of classified documents in history.

I honestly feel that being suddenly thrust into the spotlight as the most notorious person in the world at the time put Assange in a position he was not physically nor mentally equipped to deal with, and everything that has happened since then is a combination of not being able to deal with the fame and notoriety he gathered and an ego that prevents him from asking for help. He had isolated himself in a self-created cocoon of paranoia and ego long before he did so literally in the Ecuadorian embassy.

In some ways, I feel bad for the guy, his intentions were well-meaning, and I respect the hell out of a guy who would stand up to the most powerful nation on earth and call them out for what they were doing, but Assange is his own worst enemy, and his current situation is of his own making.
Plants are living?
I really hope there wasn't any manual intervention on a request from Upwork...
Is that an argument in favor of China's relentless infrastructure spending?
They sell lots of the garbage, and have a track record of ignoring supply chain issues.
I read a bunch of the emails and there wasn't anything significant in there unless you count cherry-picking quotes and willful misunderstanding. At best there are some ambiguous things that could be interpreted certain ways.

tl;dr: There is no smoking gun. People say things in private emails they wouldn't discuss in public, NEWS AT 11!!!!!

P.S. It wasn't "that pussy thing". It was Trump bragging that he pushes women into sexual encounters he knows they don't want and gets away with it because he's famous and rich. I like how the right pretended everyone was upset about some foul language though or that it was just "locker room" talk. If Trump had said "oh she's so hot, I'd love to fuck her" no one would have cared because that is locker room talk. What Trump said was in a different league.
People of Ireland here...

Can confirm.
The second generation iPhone was the first as you know them today. The first was a glorified iPod Touch with a cellular radio stack. In fact, aside from the better touch-friendly screen, the iPhone was a step backwards from Windows CE/Smartphone/Mobile devices because on those I could run applications.

Source: I owned Windows CE/Smartphone/Mobile devices starting with the Samsung i600 and was actively using a Treo 700w when the iPhone was released.
The head of the DNC (and Hillary's former campaign manager) giving debate questions to the Clinton campaign is truly outrageous, and it is only the media's extreme hate for Trump that is keeping this from getting more attention. But I agree with your point that it is not damaging her.
Entire thread is very good source. It has lots of links. Liked the pomodoro technique. Thanks
Chinese firm admits its hacked DVRs, cameras were behind massive DDOS attack
This is false. In addition to Syria, Russia has troops stationed in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Moldova and Vietnam. They had bases in Ukraine, too, but those are now in Russia thanks to their war of aggression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_military_bases...
Valerie's post is cyber-bullying. She should be ashamed of it. If a middle-school student wrote something like this about another student, they would be suspended.

Many of us have been wronged. Many of us have gripes with other adults. Very few of us commit to screeds like this as we understand there is nothing to be gained and the only result is a loss of the author's own dignity.

It is really unfathomable that Valerie appears to offer "inclusivity" consulting services yet writes something like this about another human being.
What happened to the const in the second example?