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> One of the reasons why it is meant to be stealthy is so that it can go close to the shore.

That is one of the ironic features that sounds great but is totally impractical. The moment this thing starts launching shells all that stealth doesn't matter anymore. Be as radar stealthy as you want, the giant balls of fire and shockwaves will give you away in seconds ... less than seconds if the enemy radar tracks the shells. Counter-fire from land units could be inbound before your first shells land. So I doubt the ship will every fire whilst relying upon stealth. That confluence of conflicting features (stealth+artillery barrage) makes it difficult to wrap my head around exactly what this ship is meant to do.

These guns would have always needed cheap non-guided shells. Artillery isn't always about hitting targets or even destroying much of anything. Sometimes it is about area denial. A ship may shell the area behind a beach during landing to ensure the enemy cannot mobilize a defense. That's not killing the enemy but denying him the ability to move. In such cases volume and rate of fire matters far more than accuracy.
"PR agency" is quite the stretch. If you read the actual email (https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/10634) instead of the poor secondhand accounts you linked, you'll see that there's a staffer that says "I think it’s as good as we could hope for. We were able to keep him from including more on the JVF"

This is a staffer saying that they talked the reporter from the NYT out of focusing on an area they didn't like. It shows the Hilary campaign is slimey, but it doesn't mean that the NYT has suddenly lost all credibility as a news source. It's not clear from the email that the reporter actually promised anything; it sounds equally probable that the Clinton people were just happy with the NYT's reporting.

I also think (perhaps cynically) that this happens all the time, and is not a huge deal - sources try to angle the pieces journalists write about them, and selectively reveal information favorable to them, and journalists comply to varying degrees to get more information out of those sources in the future; it's not an ethical bright line - it's murky, and I doubt if you listened to all the communication that journalists had with their sources, you would find some stark ethical boundary between sources and journalists 100% of the time.

All reporters talk to the people they are covering. There is always a risk of sources having undue control over a story, but this doesn't sound as extreme as you are making it out to be. We can't abandon a respected source of journalism just because there is a vague appearance of impropriety.
Until better solution is introduced by Rust core team, the Awesome Rust initiative is probably next best thing
Music. Maybe it's a burnout, but I find it difficult to use my creativity in programming.
There is an operator to check if one number is divisible by another.

subset Even of Int where * %% 2;

You also don't have to write the where clause as a lambda.

subset Even of Int Where $_ %% 2;
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Yes, you must draw conclusions from empirical data. However, there is a likelihood, and there is a prior. The emdrive has no theoretical basis, so the prior is very low. The likelihood is small but not very small, because the results are just about at the detection limit. They claim that thrust is linear in the 40-80 watt range at 1.2mN/kW. Rather than go to the press, why don't they just turn up the power until the effect can't be denied? The fact that they did not publish that is also information.
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Can you share why you choosed the Xiaomi instead of a Roomba? Can it provide the same level of cleaning?
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Thanks for the reply.

>…It's a small move from here to say that people accept these crops as organic. And then another small move to say that since transgenic crops are no different from these other crops, that transgenic crops should also be accepted as organic. Is this fair? This is the sense I get when reading your "What is ironic about the GMO debate" phrase. Perhaps the shoulds are a bit strong. How would you change my analysis?

What I find ironic about the GMO debate is simply that it appears many of the people opposed to GMOs know little about the precursor to GMO even though mutation breeding has produced many of the crops we grow. If someone is worried about inserting one known gene into a plant, I would assume they would be much more worried about eating plants that were exposed to radiation/chemicals to create multiple random genetic changes. (Or maybe people wouldn't be as worried about GMO crops if they did know the long history with mutation breeding - I don't know.)

I don't think most people have any idea that crops created through mutation breeding are labelled "organic" so that was another unexpected fact. In terms of the "organic" label, I just believe in truth in advertising. It seems like it should be very clear to the consumer what it means when a food is labelled "organic". I wasn't trying to make a judgement as to what should be labelled "organic". I wouldn't say the marketing of the "organic" label has been fraudulent, but many consumers do have a misleading idea of what they are buying.
Let me guess, you're Canadian and your next post is going to be how without that ring or whatever you're not real engineer rollseyes.
There's nothing in soylent that isn't "generally recognised as safe" (GRAS). Some people just have intolerances for some plants.

Some common plant products are actually quite dangerous. For instance, grapefruit can interfere with the body breaking down Xanax and Valium.

But there's no call for the FDA to stop grapefruit farming.
Trust is earned. If Google doesn't commit to maintaining the services they provide, why should the users commit their time to using them?
Yes, that is also an option. In fact intersection of two or more mediums is incredibly satisfying, if you can actually achieve it and be "successful" at it (whatever metrics you measure success in).

Elon Musk's wife calls this "Idea Sex".

> Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-first-wife-explain...
Same here. There is room for creativity in programming, but it's very constrained and there are always a lot of hurdles you have to jump over before you can express your creativity. With music, you have a lot more freedom and can dive right into it.
The Advanced Gun System/LRLAP have an effective range of over 80 nautical miles.[0][1] "Close to shore" is relative.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Gun_System

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Land_Attack_Project...
Incognito didn't work for you?
In addition to the unknown side effects of GMO's that might take us a few generations to learn about, the scarier thing for me is the risk of GMO's going into the wild and becoming an invasive species that wipes out native crops and habitats. By the time we know if GMO's are good for us and the environment or not, it may be too late to go back to conventional crops.

Agree completely on the pesticides comment though.

Biggest innovation in crop yield seems to be hydroponics and vertical growing. Fraction of the water use and don't need to worry about soil.
Would be great if you can put in some examples where we can optimise parametric queries using this. One common instance is IN queries where if the number of params for IN clause is small, it might make sense to blow it up into multiple equals clauses, allowing better use of indexes. MySQL query optimiser is horrible with IN clauses and causes table-scans. I have seen table scans and skipping other indexes even when IN clause has zero cardinality (in which case its better to just remove it altogether).

Couldn't immediately think of other cases, but that one example sounds useful for this.
It depends. For me, the automatically-scheduled Roomba does a much better job than me failing to vacuum at all for months. However, my Dyson certainly pulls more dirt out of the carpet when I bother to use it.
Replacement batteries are relatively inexpensive and reliable. I've had good luck with replacing the battery on a Roomba and a Mint (now part of iRobot) via 3rd party manufacturers.
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Buying an irobot was one of the worst consumer decisions I ever made. It can only work with extreme supervision otherwise it mounts and scratches lamp bases, gets tangled in cords or assaults plants. What's the point of having it if you have to make the whole apartment inert before letting it loose. Worse still it never seemed to learn and would often finish its job leaving huge parts of the floor untouched.

And even worse, just past the warranty period the side brush which rotates to flick dirt into the path of the irobot broke.

I guess I am part of the 20% even though the irobot sits in my cellar doing nothing.

We bought a dyson fluffy (battery powered) recently and that's a much better choice.
Has there been any commitment stated anywhere to analytics for web apps?
The Magic Servlet pattern in action: a 4000+ line function implemented in a jsp file; took a while to refactor that dumpster fire. I have never put much stock in 'licensing' for software developers but the aforesaid monstrosity really made me consider whether I should rethink my position.
I always figure that programming is the only thing that allows me to farm.
What is appreciation? Why do I care ?
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Pretty much sums up my experience as well. The first step in using a roomba is cleaning the entire damn house.
Interesting, why bother voting for major party candidates in non-swing state states in the first place?

Voters disenchanted with their options in California, Massachusetts, etc. should not waste their vote. They would be better off voting for a 3rd party candidate. Then, they could make a tangible difference in helping that party reach the 5% popular vote mark that would lead to federal funding.
I bought one a few years back. It just gets pinned under the two pieces of furniture that have a clearance that closely match its height. I've googled and googled but there seems to be no way to solve it other than super glueing some sort of makeshift horn on it and praying it doesn't crack off. It sits in the corner now because I'm not sure what to do about it. It was a whimsical good time for a while but ultimately a waste of $300.

I bought it at Costco so I'm considering just bringing it back, but I feel kind of guilty after waiting so long.

I made the mistake of buying one for my parents soon after I got mine for Christmas. Theirs eats the low hanging drapes, so it sits in the corner as well. I always wince at it when I go over there for dinner.

Don't do it.
Anybody have decent test data connections that can be used to play with this? Unfortunately my personal Google account is sparse and doesn't provide much meat on the bone.
Ah, thanks for your info. :)
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Except much, much, much less capable.
I want to switch time to whatever base people use. If we switch to superior base 12, we should also switch to superior base 12 clocks.
Well there are certifications and licenses for civil engineers. But not other forms of engineering, and 'engineer', unqualified, is not a protected word. In fact for the most part we don't really have protected words (1st amendment and all that).
I recall them being a way of seeing how much you studied at uni...or some professor wanting to bring up the morris worm
I'm in the same boat.

Not an irobot but something similar. Luckily it was only 120€.

This thing eats everything. Socks. Cloths, papers. Cables, anything on the floor stops, breaks, halts that thing. It really needs some kind of sensor to detect stuff like that before it gets any kind of useful.
I wonder how long it will take them to pull the plug.
You could also enlist in the air force and get paid to do it.
ugh, BI has one of the strongest lock-ins known to man.
Seriously? What about triggers, or running google functions at request? Who needs more analytics functions.
It's based on 24, which is divisible by 12. But that's not quite the same as having a clock that is based on the base you use. A base 12 clock would work just like a decimal clock, just with 2 extra symbols. It would not look like the base 24 clock with base 60 minutes and base 60 seconds.
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I would be happy with an organization that would group together to avoid the use of body shops that push wages down across the board.

The things that are happening Disney, Edison, and a lot of other places shouldn't be tolerated by software devs collectively.
It's not that they can't afford shells (and they're shells, not bullets) for the guns. It just doesn't make sense. If they'd built the original 22 ships and ordered ten thousand shells the per-shell cost would be much lower.

But since the entire advantage of artillery is having the ability to put rounds on targets more cheaply than other methods, once you're paying $800k for a round you may as well use aircraft or missiles.

The railgun will probably get deployed just because it gives them capabilities far beyond AGS. It will have almost double the range and, in theory anyway, could be used against land, surface, and air targets (including ballistic missiles).
For contrast, I went the other direction. I taught middle and high school math, then got an MS in math (really enjoyed TAing) and started programming. I really appreciate the intellectual stimulation; I love the fast pace with which ideas evolve in the community. But I miss being that teacher who helped someone "get" math.

One of the coolest experiences I've had: one of my students managed to end up in my class for 6th, 7th and 8th grade math... Then 7 years later I hired her as an intern! She totally crushed the internship. Meaningful relationships with students like that, where they still check in occasionally and give me updates on how they are doing and tell me how I changed the way they see things... that is something I miss a lot.
Looking at the (mostly) devops related stuff I've searched for, it surprised me how naive an automated ad optimization service can be to offer relevant recommendations to me.

I thought it was a carefully formed bit of magic. It looks like I make it easy for them.

If I could do any one useful thing with this data, is recommend people I can connect with who are domain experts in the things I search for. Like if there's a Vagrant/Chef wizard with a fairly prolific web presence, I'd like to know about them.
In some sense, the lack of grandeur in present research comes from academia realizing just how complex psychological nature is.

Freud's era was one that underestimated the complexities of analysing, well, complex systems, where phenomena arise not out of the interactions of more-or-less pure entities like in Newtonian physics, but as the chaotic aggregation of heterogeneous subsystems, like what we now understand many biological processes to be.

I think the field today is doing what mathematics had been doing a couple ago; back then mathematicians realized that calculus was on shaky foundation, and developed tools to set mathematics on a firm logical and set theory foundation. Likewise, psychology is investigating neurology and trying to find a firm foundation in it.
A half hour in decimal time (half a deciday), would be 72 minutes normal time. A quarter decimal hour/deciday would be 36 normal minutes, which is pretty close and gives even more time for ads.

You could also split time further into thirds, which would work even better with a base 12 system.
> Good ol' * * * * * * * *, I use it for all my logins

hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
target hit, cap'n
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Stop spamming HN.
Programming involves very little creativity compared to actual art, so to call it a "creative art" is a gross exaggeration.

A programmer is given a very specific set of tasks (eg. send data from A to B, fix bug, implement X), and his problems are mostly technical. This doesn't even compare to the creativity involved in a real artistic endeavor like designing your own videogame, writing your own screenplay, or composing a song. The latter is totally open-ended, and chances are that whatever you create will be way more unique than the 10,000th CRUD app written in the hottest web stack (React/Redux/Sass, or whatever the cool kids are into these days).

Lack of creativity is actually one of my biggest complaints with this field.
Simulate (with asymptotically perfect fidelity) the simulating substrate - learning what's your underlayer is a different prospect.
yeah, well, tbf this sounds more like sales than saas.
I agree. The grass is pretty damn green here. I think programming has taught us to think and solve problems. I cant wait to see a world where programmers apply their problem solving skills in other domains and make great leaps.
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I think your close to an important point.

A lot of video games are designed to satisfy our desire to be accomplishing things. I think if you already have things in your life you are working towards then these kinds of video games don't have much of an appeal.

I used to spend a lot of time playing video games, and one of the things that allowed me to break away from it was realizing I was using video games as a proxy for accomplishment in real life.

I think this one of the reasons games like diablo are more appealing when we are younger some of as kids/teens don't have things we prefer to do with the time.
They survived the Judith Miller controversy. What is it about the HRC-NYT emails that ends their credibility in ways that Judith Miller didn't?

edit: I can't think of a good reason to downvote this question (please do explain), but I'll rephrase: the Judith Miller Iraq reporting was bad to say the least, and they got rid of her. In this case I am under the impression that the problem is a few isolated cases, but I'm not well educated and am possibly missing something. What about these emails makes this a sweeping issue over the whole organization, as opposed to a few reporters having abused their welcome?
This may not be a hugely valuable contribution to the discussion, nevertheless ...

A. Game value is in the eye of the beholder.

B. What takes my eye changes over long and short terms (as a function of spare time available, economic circumstance, hardware at hand, effort/reward ratio, but mostly the ever-intangible "what takes my fancy at this point in time" - a reflection of my personal psychology that also changes over time).

C. At best you can please some of the people some of the time.

I'll admit that I'm of an age where I lost the capacity to devote bunch-of-hours-per-day to gaming just as MUDs were becoming really popular. I think as a result I never really got into massively multi-player gaming. I've played Diablo III - but single player.

My favourite games of all time include (in no particular order):

- Moon Cresta (table-top)

- The Hobbit (C64, cassette)

- Nethack (VAX VMS)

- Impossible Mission (C64)

- Balance of Power (C64)

- Bards Tale I (C64)

- Dune (Amiga)

- Elite (Amiga)

- Nethack (PC)

- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (original) (Mac, via Wine)

- Diablo III (Mac)

- Nethack (Mac)

- Backgammon (iOS - at least 10K games played on this sucker! I had to delete it!)

- Nethack (iOS)

Lately, I've been really getting into Really Bad Chess (iOS). Was never a chess player but it's is a clever wrinkle on this (for me) very boring (i.e. too hard) game.
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I think we're pretty close to being in agreement.

- There are people who don't know a lot about earlier methods of causing mutations such as chemicals and radiation as applied to crops (labeled organic or otherwise, I suspect)

- There should truth in advertising/labeling for food. We've been talking about the organic label, but I think we both agree that it shouldn't be limited to just organic, correct?

I think your points about random mutation possibly being more worrisome than targeted (transgenic) mutation, or perhaps knowledge of what's been done in the past may alleviate fears is right on the money. It'd be good to raise awareness of this as well.

What do you think? Substantially accurate representation? Anything to add/subtract/modify?
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I spent about 2 years reading in my spare time, learning, trying to understand the world and markets in general. All the while applying for jobs. You end up getting a good feel for the job market, what you're actually lacking, what people are actually looking for.

I would have properly applied for every job that appeared in the country over that time.

Surprisingly a lot of people enter the field laterally, not everyone goes through the investment banking angle.
My favorite two pieces of food advice both come from Michael Pollan:

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

And:

"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
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I don't think it's irrational to judge an industry that worships "disruption" on visible failures of that paradigm. Blithe disruption is all fun and games until it's your GI tract getting disrupted.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart If you dream it you can achieve it…
Exact same thing that we are using for a realtime collaborative app. Generate token on server-side with access to certain keys.

However, we had to redo our json structure once we started thinking authorisation. It sucked and in retrospect should have thought about it earlier, but it seems to work.

Typically authorisation layers on top of existing data, but in this case, we had to redo data structure keeping auth in mind. Is that why you feel its brittle?
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Eh ? Care to explain what you mean ?
"Sorry for the trace amount of cyanide in our food product, after all it's just the beta version. Moving fast and breaking things you know."
They only recently started working with non YC companies. => Talk to YC grads.
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mame as javascript only worked because distribution of mame is garbage.

go ahead. dont belive me? go on and try to install it now. you will waste days just trying to figure out where you can find some version and then how to hook up that nice frontend you saw on some video demo of a rare mame setup mame.

what they did was excellent. because the alternative was messy.

vlc is already available in a very nice package everywhere. Insead of that futile effort, just convince everyone to just publish the media file and maybe subtitles, in a stardard way, instead of in a proprietary flash-player replacement or proprietary stream app. Your browser will already send it to vlc just fine.
Anyone profiled a before/after for this?
Re: #2, I don't think Data Studio is a part of GSuite, or at least it doesn't appear to be.
That's not that interesting to most of us. That's a huge edge case that I've seen used as fodder in every MySQL vs Postgres argument on HN since it's come up since that blog article was published.
Mindfulness.