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This situation sounds similar to what happened with AO-7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7

Satellite is launched, goes silent after a few years due to electrical problems. Decades later, the onboard batteries have deteriorated such that they're just a short (no storage capacity), and the satellite works intermittently when the solar panels are exposed to enough sunlight.
FAIL :)
wooga?
Why should those of us who care about privacy be required to limit the media we use to express ourselves? By including this functionality Open Whisper Systems is giving the privacy conscious a way (albeit experimental) to have our cake and eat it too.
The first time I used dynamically loaded XML in the browser was in 2000, but it wasn't XMLHttpRequest -- it was in Flash.

Flash 5 came out that year, and the player was ubiquitous at something like 98% market penetration (it was preloaded by both Microsoft and Apple).

That was the first release that included real ECMAScript-compatible ActionScript, and it also had APIs for asynchronously fetching XML data. IIRC implementing it on a server was somehow tricky, but it was my first taste of a true rich client in the browser.
You're using a throwaway so why hiding the name of the company? It could save fellow developers.

Is it Wooga/King games?
Switching from macOS: The Basics
That didn't used to be particularly hard - I didn't even have to use any fancy libraries when I last cared enough for real-time feeds of my data to do it. Now I just pay Xero to get real-time feeds for me.
MacBook pro, the new ones look great.
The future of space rescue – watch the R2t2 event live
"I'm trying to think but nothing happens!" -Curly Joe [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlejsgxOxrU
it's not that kind of show
correct so I will give up

crytek
This makes sense to me. I hear this on HN all the time and don't doubt that exercise does provide mental benefits to most people.

However, anecdotally, exercise (and getting a good night's sleep) has had no noticeable impact on my focus and/or productivity.

Is there anyone else that doesn't feel like exercise doesn't do anything? Or is it because I'm not exercising long enough or with enough intensity to make a difference?

At one point I went from being completely sedentary for about 6 years to spending about 3 months running 2-3 miles a day on an elliptical about 4 times a week with decent consistency. After a while, it did become easier to run further and for a longer period of time (from 2 miles to 3 miles), but I didn't notice any of the mental benefits that seem to be attributed to exercise. I still felt a general "brain haze" and sluggishness that I had assumed was a direct result of being out of shape. I've since gone to exercising on and off for another 3 months before going back to essentially being completely sedentary for several months and nothing about my mental state seems to have changed.

That being said, I do plan on exercising again to ideally get healthy in the longer term regardless of whether or not I get any immediate mental benefit. And I also plan on recording things more diligently to determine if there actually is a result for me.
I am a chinese reader and the writing style of Cixin Liu in Chinese is just so-so. Not that terrible and is enough for science fiction but is not good.
If your aim is to get more people to care about privacy, or to enable those who care about privacy to convince their friends to use a more private app, these things help.
This works for me quite well - qc20 running whitenoisefree - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/white-noise-free-sounds-for/... using "brown noise" and "grey noise" mix, running quiet.

However, now that I'm reading other comments, I'm wondering if it's still a concentration breaker like others are saying. I def don't feel I can concentrate as much as I did a year ago, but I've got literally 3x as much work as I used to have, so I can't really tell if it's the noise or just too much on my mind... :/

Been wanting to try the QC30, but reviews indicate the noise cancelling is less than the QC20, not more.
Plenty of HPE employees are going home unemployed these days. https://www.thelayoff.com/hp-enterprise
Curious on ur thoughts of this cover?
3-D-printed magnets outperform conventional versions, conserve rare materials
It's the concept of LTS distributions to stick with one version and only patch important bugfixes and security vulnerabilities.

So if the Ubuntu security team does its job properly then you shouldn't have a reason to worry.

(However given the number of security vulns these days it's often challenging for LTS distributions to backport all security fixes. There are already breakdowns of the LTS concept, e.g. sticking with latest upstream versions for some packages like chromium where backporting is not realistic.)
In 2013 in North Cornwall, UK, an Amateur Radio Astronomer picked up a signal which he determined to be the LES1 that was built by MIT in 1965.

The date in the URL and article says 2016 though, so I'm still not completely clarified on whether this is 3-year-old news or if the satellite is now transmitting again, again --- actually, looking at the name of the site... I'm leaning towards the former.
P≡p – pretty Easy privacy (Enigmail 2.0)
IMO, they probably didn't want to be cloud vendor agnostic.
They really wanted to be /video encoding/ vendor agnostic.
Except that history has shown us that theoretically secure but feature deficient systems lose out to less ideologically pure systems that provide what users want, leaving the sum total amount of security provided to be less.
I take some time to understand and to explain myself but maybe this will explain to you better http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/cc5c/front.jpg but online and packed with a fancy pretty box.
The demo in where you need to login with facebook are pretty too in design, according the website and box itself and you can send messages like you'll se in your teletype to other users (and that's it, i think..).
Someone who wants gifs shouldn't have to compromise their privacy.
Game companies also make a truckload of money when they add more microtransactions to their mobile games. Does that mean it's good for consumers?

I'm an Apple customer, not their cheerleader.
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I became vegan for heath reasons at the same time I started my company (around 5 years ago). I believe it has allowed my body to stay young and my alertness to go up.

Starting out you just think of it as one meal at a time... this meal I won't eat anything with animal protein. Then one week at a time and before you know it you will pass the 90-day mark which is when you stop being hungry all the time and/or craving meat at all.

Another thing to note is I never really think of myself as a "vegan", just someone that is extremely picky and won't eat anything with animal protein :)

Do take b12 supplements, though- I found my eye to be drooping when I became tired because I was deficient. After taking the b12 I was back to normal.
That's maybe the theory, maybe.

In practice, in my personal experience, mass layoffs are a nightmare for everybody, and end up affecting also those not directly involved (especially since in most cases they don't know if they are until the layoffs are done).

So:

- Many of the "productive" people will leave on their own accord for better pastures, even before the layoffs are carried out.

- The rest will find themselves with an increased workload (and the nagging feeling they should have followed the lead of the previous group).
Ken Liu does an excellent job in translating. Not only he successfully convey the intention of the author but also makes the whole writing more beautiful and poetic.
As someone who lives 300m from st pauls, I dont agree with this. The area around st pauls is wonderful for exploring and walking.
Pillars of Destruction
Yep, you can see that Ubuntu has been backporting security fixes: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1
The problem is nobody else comes close to what Apple has on offer. I'm in the market for a new computer for dev work and I'm going to have to dongle up and get one of these new Macbook Pros.
Imagine if someone in Microsoft had a clue and was able to constrain the browser to being a simple scripted document viewer? I'm convinced suppressing client-side web application development would have lent the Windows OS a few more years of platform and developer mindshare dominance!

...and the web might have turned out to be a bit less user-hostile and inefficiently resource-consuming than it currently is today, which might not be so bad after all.
Some people think that pro-employee laws are not in fact good for employees.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with them, it's super uncharitable to dismiss them in this way.
Blocked by Facebook: https://news.fastcompany.com/facebook-has-blocked-a-car-insu...
There was. That was thrown out years ago though, ret has been return for a very long time.
Knew the HN SV crowd would find a way to spin this as "This is good for <company>"
Show HN: Hire the best drone pilots anywhere
CEOs have long been fall guys. They go into the job with an expectation that if anything goes wrong, they will need to fall on their own sword to absorb accountability. That's why termination packages are stupidly generous... leaving the job is often part of doing the job.
It's relatively easy to create a type which can't be created at all by functions outside the module it's defined in - add any private member. Then that module is in control of how it's created, and can set any restriction you like. This pattern is regularly used in Rust to ensure that types are always initialised correctly.
Yes you can hook any kind of plugin up. Can be a simple object that has an 'apply' method exposed that gets passed the compiler.
>I would like to find (or create) a service where we can talk about the real dirt at companies

It exists, it's posting anonymous timestamped proof on 4chan's /g/ then saying whatever you want to get off your chest.
daisy, daisy give me your answer do
> What this is is collection of personal data for advertising and data collection (to be resold) and a good way to advertise to people's friends.

I can see nothing to that effect in the linked article. Are you hypothesising or is there something I missed?

I'm not saying it's not plausible but the T+Cs should clarify one way or the other.
Can wind and solar fuel Africa's future?
> Why do people focus on pages 4, 5, and 6 of a 13-page talk, and forget all about slides 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13

From a sample of one i.e. me it might be that they aren't forgetting slides 8+, it could be they just didn't bother getting that far.

I got as far as the Iterator example where he, effectively, says that there's no such thing as an iterator pattern because perl has a list iterator built in. Having read that, I didn't feel a huge drive to continue reading the rest.

I appreciate that's probably a failing on my part, it is unlikely to have been a huge drain on my life and I might have learnt something. But that was the path I took. I have a funny feeling others may have done the same.

EDIT: I have felt sufficiently guilty that I have read the rest. If I understood correctly, the author doesn't think that GOF design patterns are the same as Christopher Alexander's design patterns. He thinks that Alexander's patterns are important and applicable to software. He doesn't really say why.

It wasn't a huge drain. It wasn't particularly informative. The Iterator pattern is definitely a thing. Don't feel a pressing need to read Alexander's book again.
Relevant distraction: Nice in cockpit vid of pre takeoff CG and fuel transfer checks, take off, and after checks. 10m.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=16a_1231096566

Low light takeoff, because pretty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7mt6AKKhq4
It would be interesting for services to publish a public encryption key, so the signal client could encrypt the payload with that.

However, that has very limited usefulness, so I don't see it happening soon.
Looks like episode 1 of this series of Black Mirror has got them spooked. ;-)

Good call by Facebook in my opinion.
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Business Insider App Hacked
I'm the founder of aircam.io

With so many drone pilots/photographers/companies offering services I wanted to create a marketplace connecting people to looking to get drone and aerial work with qualified and certified drone professional no matter where they are.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Buy a large island, found a city, and reject anyone who doesn't pass a rationality test. Then include rationality in educational programs for kids.
Use micro-services with LoopBack
"For instance, if someone messages you with an invitation, you might want to write back with a message that says "I'm excited." With integrated GIF search, you could instead do a GIF search for "I'm excited" and send one of the results instead."

What? Why? Is it some kind of attempt to become a new "cool" app? Sounds totally useless function to me, but if it helps to get more users, well, maybe that's a good thing.
The elliptical machine barely counts as exercise ;)

I have found that hard exercise, requiring mental fortitude to push through is what really helps. Sprints, power lifting, and distance running wear you down physically and mentally. IMO, continually pushing past the mental 'this is hard I want to stop' phase translates to increased concentration and acuity in other types of mental tasks.
Proliferation of Cloud Integrated Storage (CIS)
Ultrahaptics mid-air touch development kit
This is what Yahoo could have gotten into, had Bartz not axed their engineering department.
The Chinese are not a hive mind. The people ddosing are not the people making technology.
offtopic:
I still find it fascinating (hilarious, even) that the official instagram blogs are tumblrs.
This would be an interesting AI exercise:

Train a model that gets personal IoT data (wearable sensors, lights activity, toaster, fridge, etc..) to automatically detect personalized "shameful" behavior (infidelity, etc) that can be extorted against bitcoin.
It reminds me of Freebase [1], acquired by Google and later deprecated, you can find the data in [2] and the new Google Knowledge Graph Search API. It may not be enough for making computers think but can help to augment a search engine. In Freebase you could perform queries like "give me the VCs who have great exits in telecommunication companies". It is very useful to apply this kind of queries to news because it adds context. DBpedia [4] is another interesting project on this subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase

[2] https://developers.google.com/freebase/

[3] https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/

[4] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/
I'm vegetarian but I've spent a couple years as vegan when I was in my 20.

One day (I was 18, now I'm 40) I've decided to start choosing the vegetarian option whenever its available, after few days I realized that I was already vegetarian.

Being vegan is a completely different thing though, it require time, planning, knowledge and partecipation by the people around you. It can easily become a problem for everybody (not just you) and if you want your decision to be sustainable you don't want it. So my suggestion is to be smart, don't overdo, eventually start choosing the vegan option whenever is available or you have control on the meal preparation.
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Debian similarly is backporting security fixes.

You can see the status of all known CVEs and which .deb updates patches them here: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/c...

The best way to stay on top of things is to subscribe to your distro's security advisory mailing list, for example https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
curl is a trusted way to execute unsafe code on the internet

https://gnu.moe/wallofshame.md
It loads faster, but it's not faster to use.

- you have to open a new tab.

- then remember the name of the stuff and type it.

- then make sure you are online (not in a plane).

- then type it without all the LO tools such as good spell check and typography fixes.

- then you wait for the generation, download the file and the go to the download directory, and then copy it where you want.

All in all, I'd say it's the same, except you can change stuff in the LO version, work offline, and refer to the one tool that does all the other stuff as well instead of having to manage 1000 of tools to tools such a simple task.
The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are
The independance war's IRA has nothing to do with the terrorist IRA, the second one accomplished virtually nothing.
The main flaw is the inability to battle other players. The only battles are in the gyms and it becomes boring or too hard (the only gyms around me are protected by kids with way too much time in their hands and their pokemons are too strong for a filthy casual like me).
One thing about tech in hostile environments is resilience to radiation, which is more or less proportional to number of electrons in junction. With smaller fabrication process we win lower energy consumption and much better integration, but at a cost of radiation resilience.
Supplementary comment: Also ironic that this article is posted today, on the historic day when the balfour declaration was executed and probably put in motion one of the greatest catastrophes in modern time. No single colonial imposition can be seen to have such a direct link to so many modern terrorist activities.
> I'm not sure if they really "blur the line".

But isn't this the ultimate idea behind NVMe? By using PCIe in parallel it gets to the point where you can rely on nonvolatile memory to be more of a system workhorse than merely a storage system. Apple seems to have an idea of where they want to go - just look at the last two iPhones, the 6s and 7. They've had around 1/2 to 3/4 the amount of RAM of other flagship devices while having stupid-fast storage and in real-world tests they outperform their competitors for load times and responsiveness.
Why? Because lots of people like sending gifs and prefer to use messaging apps that support them. If it's totally useless to you then fine: don't use it.
It's the same short-termism you see in the sports world.

Every season starting around now, the top clubs in Europe will start to fire managers who aren't performing well. Despite the fact that a soccer team is something that has a bit of momentum and can't be changed all that quickly.

You then hire a new guy, and you have to pay a premium. For one, there are fewer people available because you're in a hurry. For another, any new guy will see there's a risk of getting canned, so he'll want more money to compensate. And finally, you'll have painted yourself into a corner because you need someone who is perceived to be better than the guy you just canned.

- The board members live off being board members. So just like analysts at banks, they herd together. Nobody is going to stick their head out on a candidate who is not like what they think everyone would want.

- There's an illusion of control. The idea that you can change outcomes predictably is a big problem. This guy will turn around sales. That guy is better with people. The reality is such judgements are quite blurry and likely to be spectral rather than binary. And a lot depends on environment.

- Desperation for action. If things are going badly, something must be done. This is something, so it must be done. (Yes Minister). This is another area where an understanding of statistics would help. Your team/company's losing streak is utterly natural. Replacing the guy at the helm when you get a streak is just likely to cause the next guy to get undeserved credit (which reinforces the cycle).
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I worked on something like this for a small video rendering startup a few years ago. Our backend needed to ingest short (<= 12s) videos and strip the parts we needed in our rendering stack. We polled S3 (SNS wasn't consistently fast enough at the time) for new files in our Upload directory.

The uploaded video was sent to multiple microservices in a group of tens or hundreds of instances. One would "normalize" the video so we had the same frame-rate, size, and bitrates to work with. Another would rip the audio into a couple formats. Another would generate HLS streams with a few resolutions. Another would generate the HLS playlist. Another would split the video up into images. Each service uploaded its results to S3, named as a SHA1 hash of itself, and reported to a single API which kept track of the "tree" of files generated from each upload.

The system was based upon an early version of NodeJS, which worked fantastically well as a generic daemonized wrapper around the command line tools we were using for all the ripping and modifying.

About a year before I left the team we changed to GCS for the upload server because they had reliable immediate notifications to webhooks for uploads, but kept the rest of the system on S3, since our processing instances were all EC2.

Would have loved to have Lambda back then!

We had a similar set of microservices for rendering the eventual videos in near-real-time - but that's a whole different conversation.
Cloth or Something
ChromeOS is getting android compatibility, so you can run android games.

It's not particularly hard to get ubuntu working on most chromebooks.

Not to mention even random web games (like slither.io) do better with a decent gpu, especially if your driving a monitor with more than 1080P.
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I kinda doubt that any satellite from this era ran a high level language.
Indeed, often acquired directly, but most often supported through proxies, which often have multiple partial correlations, such as, median house price in the applicant's area, crime rate in the applicant's area, applicant's job title, etc.
I hadn't heard of Gannett's withdrawal. That's going to sting.

I'm aware of the Trib Tower sale. Its progress dominated the Trib's business pages for about six months.
That's more or less what TLS+pinning does. Also DNSSEC+DANE+TLS if you want to argue about that.