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I passed no moral judgment. He certainly can lie, he's a human. But that's quite irrelevant. Evidence suggests he was trying to get to Ecuador.

Ricardo Patino, the foreign minister of Ecuador, confirmed they received a request from Snowden for political asylum. The plane of Bolivian president, flying from Moscow, was grounded in Austria on the on the suspicion of Snowden being on board. The plane was first denied access to airspace of Spain, France, and Italy. Spanish foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo, stated publicly on TV that they were told Snowden was on board.

Snowden didn't revoke his passport. He also didn't made three countries close their airspace and land the plane of Bolivian president in the fourth country. There's only one address with power to do that.
Here's a video of just the first stage landing for anyone that missed it:

https://streamable.com/la9m7
I feel incredibly...relieved. Whatever you may think of Elon Musk personally, SpaceX work environment, SpaceX vs. Blue Origin, Kessler syndrome, etc., etc., it seems pretty clear that SpaceX's work with reusable space vehicles is a huge step forward for general human spaceflight, and I'm glad to see them successfully return to flight.
All hack/virus maker for free
AMP isn't a solution for anything. Google should NOT be 'fixing' the web for anyone.
For anyone interested in the topic, a couple good books are:

* Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction by Chaofen Sun, and

* The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy by John DeFrancis.
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I don't think anything in his bio or not in his bio conveyed that he would murder his wife and go to prison for life thus abandoning the project.
Not if you have a Thaana keyboard!
> The lifetimes of hours spent deleting _

that's... quite a lot of _
Show HN: Genetic algorithm that creates an image out of instances of a picture
As I understand it 501(c)(3)'s may preach about issues and topics, endorsing a side related to the issues. They may not however endorse a particular candidate in an election.
Not everyone complies with registrations. Compliance is especially low amongst the poor, ethnic minorities in large cities, and the wealthy elite in California.
"Heavy workloads, job insecurity or living in poverty are circumstances that can result in chronically increased stress, which in turn can lead to chronic psychological disorders such as depression."

(Read the above in an article published two days ago. Yeah, poverty sucks -- not to dispute your anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Laughing at people who've never had any financial problems. Must be nice!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38584975
The weird thing is that fueling the vehicle was the worrying part not the landing.
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Seems like the headline should read "In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Slightly More Soda Than the National Average." I wonder what the distribution of money spent on soda is by income level. My guess would be that the 7.1% number (the national average) is brought down by wealthier people who buy much less soda and if you look at income levels right above those using the SNAP program it'll be approximately in line with those on SNAP. Also easy to forget that healthier options are not that available in lots of places. Food deserts are real.

In general soda consumption is on the decline in the US and if that decline follows the same pattern as cigarettes it will start with wealthier people drinking less and then move down the socioeconomic ladder. Seems a shame for tax payer dollars going to fund unhealthy food options but maybe the answer to that is a tax on sugar to correct for the negative externality on health.
New US effort aims to speed drugs to cancer researchers
No states have excellent DMVs (or BMVs, or IDS) some states just have worse ones than others.
The onboard video camera is a powerful tool, because it allows us to witness firsthand the seeming absurdity of the situation: you're so high up that the Earth's curvature is very pronounced and you can see to the far edges of the state, and yet you flip around, do some microcorrections, but largely fall back down in what we'd commonly perceive to be an uncontrolled descent: and yet you land perfectly on a small structure towed out into a spot in the middle of the ocean.

Sure, we can use analogies to explain how extraordinary this feat is, or visualizations, but seeing the actual video feed, let alone live (just ask sport viewers why they have a stronger emotional response), as the vehicle is shaking, the engine is still firing and nothing in particular seems to suggest that a clean landing will follow -- and yet it does.

This is a great achievement but they've landed these before. But with the landing shown live for the first time from the first stage, the innovation of today is that they've communicated their incredible feat in a tangible way that elicits a strong, visceral emotional response. I wouldn't be surprised if years down the road, this particular footage will be considered mandatory to archive, being significant to human history the same way footage from the moon was.
I wish hacker news allowed a short description of why something might be interesting... How about I take an hour and try to interpret this history of a Prince Albert advertising campaign?
> Of course in production software type errors are rare.

Not according to static-typing fundamentalists.

> They're generally the first errors that pop up during debugging or testing.

Exactly, and dynamic languages tend to be highly interactive, whereas most languages with highly evolved static type systems tend to have very slow compilers. So the idea that the compiler for that language gives you useful feedback before your dynamic system gives you feedback from actually running the code is at best dubious.

> ...but almost all of them are type errors

I think you are confusing type errors with modeling errors, but that's very common.
Wait, political corruption from an elected official is your WTF here?

Have you been paying attention?
And so continues the age old liberal vs conservative argument.

"They're stressed!"
"They're lazy!"

Ad nauseum.
Maybe some people would give a f. and just connect it to the network, certified or not?
> attacks a simple tool which saves money and is effective

I won't argue that traffic cameras are good news from a revenue perspective, but I'm not sure it's effective. Check out:

https://www.motorists.org/issues/red-light-cameras/studies/.

The references on that page make the argument that cameras increase the number of accidents.
Ha ha:

""” I asked whether she intended to proceed under criminal procedural rules or in civil procedure. We would proceed under the “rules of criminal procedure,” she answered because this is a criminal case. I asked when I could expect to be charged, indicted, or have a probable cause determination. She replied that none of those events would occur because this is “a civil action.” So I could expect to be served with a complaint? No, no. As she had already explained, we would proceed under the criminal rules.""

I was hoping this to somehow turn into an admiralty court discussion.
Great stuff!

The Graal/Truffle/Sulong stack is pretty amazing, being able optimize through the ruby/C boundary is crazy. Really looking forward to see what comes out of that work this year and beyond.
>there is a never-enforced federal statute

The IRS is the agency that would enforce this by striping the organization of its 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. The organization would then be subject to various taxes.
When was this passed?
UTF-32 isn't easily seekable either because Unicode text has combining marks that shouldn't be separated from their base character. Almost every language has a "string" type that doesn't handle this correctly.
Not sure if you're only considering Unix/BSD-ish OSes here or not. But there are perhaps hundreds of such projects.

http://tunes.org/cliki/operating_20systems.html

You may want to dig around that entire site to get an idea of what people have tried to do (and frequently failed).
The name (or title) drop might effect appropriate urgency, seems legit.

Edit: Don't downvote people trying to help me improve my english. :(
That's absolutely amazing. Thank you!
I just see a video of a spinning earth (with the count-up timer on top), no actual content. Anyone else having this issue? Any idea how to solve it?
Hamcrest Matchers, 1.4 released
It is the string '_' that turns into a keyword. Names like _buh or BUH_HUH will still be valid.
> buyer has to go and register himself as the new owner

As you've described it, you're depending on the buyer doing the right thing.
You'd die of heatstroke tromping around the jungle in an environmental suit.
If that was true there would be some record from the thousands and thousands of years of written history from before humans harnessed the electron.
The expected savings for small modular reactors (SMRs) are tied to construction and continuing operation costs. Better economies of scale would drastically alter the costs for the reactors themselves, but you won't see those until you're looking at orders for a few dozen units. That won't come about for a while, unfortunately. And there are still a lot of regulatory burdens to deal with that will slow initial orders.

That said, SMRs are an incredibly exciting innovation in nuclear energy production. Until now, you've had to build at a large scale. Nothing else made sense economically, and most of the regulatory process presupposes such a scale, but it also limited the markets where you could build to larger ones. More flexible scaling (using multiple, smaller reactors to mix and match what fits an area's forecasted demand in the future) and a lower initial cost can make nuclear a more appealing option for more regions.

Despite the higher cost per MW, SMRs are a lot more flexible compared to traditional nuclear power plants where--by definition--you have to build at a very large scale. SMRs can make nuclear a more appealing energy source for regions with lower electricity demand. And the initial costs are significantly lower even without better economies of scale. They might not be as efficient, but that's not the only factor involved in cost analyses. Remote areas, where traditional nuclear plants are way too large and transportation infrastructure necessary for other conventional energy alternatives isn't sufficient, are particularly appealing use cases.

As for refueling, that depends on the reactor design. Various SMRs designs have refueling cycles of around ~1-10 years[0] (most are somewhere in the middle), and some of the small ones like Gen4's LMR are sealed with no on-site access.[1] It's shipped back to the factory for refueling. And while that sounds like a pain in the ass, it's much less of one than having to deal with storing spent fuel on-site. Those implications will also likely result in some major regulatory changes for SMR plants.

0. http://forumonenergy.com/2015/03/17/types-of-smrs/

1. http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/product.html
It's laughable because the market for iOS apps has driven the price as low as it can go already. You cannot go lower. The average price for an app is FREE, and for the paid ones it's usually one or occasionally two dollars.
Oculus stopped Linux support with this blog post: https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/

Their Linux support sucked anyway. They only got their unity plugin working on Linux actually one day before they published this blog post. They never supported unreal engine on linux even though they said they were working on it before the DK2 even came out.

A Valve rep has said in an interview before the Vive release that they intended to have Linux support on launch. The preorders showed SteamOS support, but they changed it right before the actual launch: https://i.imgur.com/MA2377D.png

Valve has given a demonstration with SteamVR on Linux, but they have yet to release anything to the public.

The OSVR SDK and the OSVR HDK2 work on Linux. But only with their core SDK. Their unity plugin and their unreal engine plugin still do not work on Linux. So far I haven't found an application with OSVR SDK support that works on linux.
Thanks. To add another layer to this, presumably SSD read/write is faster so there would be less time at max usage?
I think you can: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-ii-ethern...
If it is unfair to single out a single kind of food, it is worth pointing out it is also unfair that food stamps are given and not cash.
This is exactly why so many people resist nationalizing health care. They know it'll be about 30 seconds afterwards when people start trying to tell them how to live under the guise of "we're paying for it."

And they aren't wrong.
(Reasonable, non-discriminatory) taxation does not infringe on those freedoms, which is why newspapers can be taxed, as well as gun sales or sales of bibles.
...we are certainly NOT going to do
Scala's "wunderbar". However, things it might be used for include things like
"I don't want to give this variable a name" (such as catch parameters that are
never used.)

http://git.net/ml/lambda-development-java/2013-07/msg00350.h...
I have a few issues with this article.

One is that basing "they could buy x amount at so and so store" is meaningless because when you are poor you don't tend to arbitrage for lower prices, you buy when you're out. Not to mention that poor neighbourhoods have fewer supermarkets in number and are less likely to offer sales.

But more egregious, the Walmart cited is in a shopping district with a Costco and a HomeDepot in San Leandro which is not in an especially poor area. [1]

Non-SNAP families paying 7.1% for soda is a meaningless comparison since generally these families have much bigger food budgets than SNAP families so it's not unreasonable to see that figure be lower. Also non-SNAP families have access to more supermarkets and ones with sales.

And 9.3% of $256 is $23.80 per month or about $0.80 a day. This is not an abusive amount of expense for a family, yes, it would be nice to offer incentives for better food, but this will be just an excuse to do more poor bashing.

[1] http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2007/10/14/san-francisc...

Update: ninja edit to add part of a sentence
They're in a dominant position on their platform, which makes since as it's their platform. What they're not is in a dominant position in their market.

If you try to define antitrust in terms of platforms instead of markets, then every company that has a platform is a monopoly. And that is, of course, quite absurd and renders the term "monopoly" meaningless. Which is why it's not actually interpreted that way.
Sorry the job post is for a Sr. Python Developer.
According to wikipedia "its instant messages with Proteus, a protocol that Wire Swiss developed based on the Signal Protocol" [1] so I guess it is just based on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_Swiss
This is the main input for japanese as well, I love it and wish an english version was offered
Things are getting so dystopian. Your property is yours and you are responsible for it when the police want someone to pay a ticket for an offense in which your property was used without your consent or knowledge yet when the police want to take your property without evidence of wrong doing they sue your property, not you, so they can confiscate it and you can't defend yourself and your property without permission from the court/judge.
UPower is making a nuclear thermal battery, not a nuclear fission reactor.
I asked my 3-year-old how old she would be when landed in a rocket, and she said, "Um, 6?". Pretty optimistic.
Thousands of Low-Income Americans 'Donate' Blood Plasma to For-Profit Centers
3 years ago I've tried to use blender as a substitute to openscad but stopped because the boolean operators didn't alwyas gave the same result.
Here I started to some basic examples from openscad on blender
https://github.com/beothorn/openscadExamplesAsBlenderScripts
Here is an example of union not working properly
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IDRl_LygKz4/UeRvMEoP9RI/AAAAAAAABd...
It is already some time since I last checked, but if the boolean operators are working properly I would love to use blender instead.
Edit:
The blog post from where the image is from
http://www.isageek.com.br/2013/07/blender-doesnt-do-construc...
Hmm... I think you're over-emphasizing the people skills. Possibly the best front-end dev I've ever met was clearly on the aspergers spectrum. He wasn't good with people at all, but he was obscenely productive and probably the only true lynchpin at the company other than the CEO.
Are there any performance gains on that sample Rails application, however simple?
It's not OK to attack other users like this on Hacker News. Please stop.
"Today’s System z, itself an evolution of the original System/360 and 370, can still run many of the original programs, unmodified, from 50 years ago. This is a testament to 2 things, the wide adoption of the IBM systems, and the forward thinking of IBM."

Or rather the crazy levels backwards compatibility and effort to build what is basically a hardware emulator for a 50 year old machine. Put another way, IBM isn't making native ficon disks, they build a fancy controller that uses SAS/etc disks and presents them as ficon, which runs on the same physical transport as fiber channel, rather replacing much of the protocol stack. The resulting MOD3 or MOD9/etc disks appear like 3390 model 9 disks circa the late 80's early 90's. AKA instead of a room sized disk they are basically virtual with all the overhead that implies.

The CPU's are of course native, but like all the other ISA's reflect a more modern design style of basically cracking the CISC instructions into an out of order superscalar CPU and only using "micro code" for the really complex instructions.
Sure thing, feel free to send me an email. I tried looking and couldn't find yours on your profile.
I think you're right. There are few customers willing and able to bet the farm on huge nuclear megaprojects. The Small Modular Reactor concept emerged as a response to this. The massive nuclear buildouts are happening in China where the capital and patience exists and there's incentive to invest in hundreds of GWe of long-term sustainable clean-air baseload power.

As a nuclear industry person, I wish NuScale very well. I just don't think they're targeting world-scale energy.

The name of the game in nuclear innovation is to bring down costs while improving safety and minimizing proliferation and waste. Costs are dominated by construction (fuel costs are <10% of a nuclear venture because nuclear fuel is so energy-dense) so ideas like modularization and standardization are intriguing. Many nukes are built by assembling lots of pre-fab modules to try to take advantage of this. But sometimes the modules show up and don't fit together, costing more and causing long delays. So it will take a while for modular construction to be really figured out enough to make a big impact.

For what it's worth, from my view one of the most exciting ideas is to build big nukes on big ships. Sounds crazy but hear me out. You construct in a shipyard which is very controlled and standardized so you can pump them out rapidly and cheaply with high QA. You park them 10km offshore of your customer and run underground cables so there are zero people in your exclusion zone for worst-case accidents. If something goes wrong, you're in the water so you can't run out of cooling and the protective fission product barriers always stay intact. You even design to let it sink, stay intact, and have a pre-planned recovery operation worked out. If you have a fleet of 20 customers, you can have one extra plant that relieves another to go home for maintenance and refueling, allowing very high capacity factors. Russians and Chinese are building nukes on ships already (mostly to power oil rigs and remote areas), and we know the navy nukes work great. Could be fun.
Can you see them when you run journalctl -u nameOfUnit or systemctl status nameOfUnit ? I'm running Ubuntu server.
You appear to be repeating your argument almost verbatim. I've gone into detail why this doesn't hold. Furthermore, I think you'll find I did not accuse anyone of incompetence, I have merely been explaining the issue repeatedly and in detail kindly and courteously. I refuse to take responsibility for what other people say, and I have continuously and repeatedly offered my services, for free, and literally wrote a book and then gave it away for free.

If people want to discuss security, I'm game. But given the amount of energy I've spent removing the discussion from individuals and bringing it back to technology, I do not have to put up with having a bunch of accusations leveled at me.
The sheer amount of Java code written is nearly unfathomable. Maybe 3 million developers each churning out 20000 lines a year. That's about 60 billion lines of Java code per year. There could easily be over a trillion lines of Java out there.
Selinux is badly designed and it's not suprisingly people don't use it. Experts are supposed to simplify complexity. You can't design convulated and complex applications that are user hostile and break things without warning and then accuse people of laziness. Few who deploy apps take security casually and selinux is not the only way to gain security.

In a typical scenario when deploying software things can already get hairy and with selinux in the way you could end up going down multiple rabbit holes and squander hours only to discover selinux is somehow in the way disabling some functionality but not logging clearly what exactly it is disabling with proper messages. That's why most advice online is to disable it.

Given its connected to the NSA and Redhat tried its best to get it into the kernel at one time is all the more reason for anyone concerned about NSA to avoid it. Security experts like the author of Grsec also doesn't think too highly of it.
We're working with Red Hat now. Folks can expect more technical details when everyone is on the same page.

That said, the solution is the same as with every other piece of software -- update to latest to get security fixes.
Any chance to use existing Java libs instead of C libs?

Pure Java is pretty fast, and an existing library has the advantage of not just already being around, but probably being battle-tested.
Teenage criminals should wear Wi-Fi jamming anklets says top cop
Especially given Docker Inc.'s history of counterproductive Red Hat hostility.
Reading this: http://www.raviyp.com/embedded/208-don-t-use-sim900-sim908-s...

Seems to agree with you. They recommend using the simcom 5320 versus the 2g only simcom 800 used in this project.
> It really is unfortunate that there is no way to have these widely-used resources (Font Awesome, jQuery, etc.) cached on a long term basis across all sites that use them.

There is - Google, Cloudflare and jQuery offer a CDN. The problem with CDNs is that you then have a SPOF and an external dependency.

> Though arguably this is easily achieved for fonts, which can be installed system-wide.

Oh please no, this always leads to problems sooner or later - for example, graphics designers tend to have LOTS of fonts installed, from all possible sources. Especially the pirated fonts tend to freak out in lots of different ways, and if there's a local() in the font-face rule, things break and you get weird bug reports...
Really great comment, except for the tone of the first sentence. Please be civil.
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