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NASA does indeed use high-altitudes on earth to test Mars aerobraking, atmospheric entry, and supersonic parachute deployment[0]. For the actual terminal descent and landing speeds are low enough the atmosphere is not significant, you can just test that at sea level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-Density_Supersonic_Deceler...
I agree that regulating this will just cause security theater. However, it's also unreasonable to expect non-technical consumers to understand what's going on and what the implications of their choices might be for any given IoT device. Many probably would have a hard time deciding what devices are even IoT. Maybe this is a gap that could instead be filled by a consumer review product service that focuses on IoT devices and their security. I expect that the general public didn't care enough though to make this viable. Maybe once more toys got compromised...

Edit: I also wonder if stronger punishments for people involved in extreme cases like this would help. If you make a reasonable effort to secure your service and get hacked anyway that's one thing. But not even attempting to secure your service at all is something you shouldn't get away with. Of course the problem is how "reasonable effort" would be interpreted legally.
Normally companies raise venture capital in the cases you describe.

Acquisitions happen when the stakeholders (founders, employees, and investors) don't think they will get the level of return on investment they will be satisfied with.

Even if they DO decide to sell, the case you describe (on the verge of being successful but requires money to get to that point) sell at a disclosed amount. Undisclosed amount mostly means the investors and founders are not proud of the result so they would rather just keep it private.
Not sure what you mean by grandstanding. You asked how harassment can be objectively observed. I explained that it's defined in the law. Did I misunderstand what you meant?

BTW, I try to be polite, but ain't so easy when you're accusing and insulting me.
No - you tried to make this about Hilary - when it isn't - it's just about Trump lying.

If you seriously don't see Trump lying, it probably is better for you to bow out.
Not the answer I asked for. Macros (protein/fat/carbs) per calorie, not an aggregate nutrient score composed of vitamins and minerals.
Java #6 => HashMap

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

Java #3 => HashMap

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

Java #5 => HashMap

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

Java #4 => HashMap

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...
More meetings help too :)
I always wonder if gravity could be a force that runs across infinite quantum universes, but really, while a fun mental experiment I have no idea how to do the maths for what that would mean...
I don't necessarily disagree but I will note that Bruce Schneier, who so many people on these pages are a big fan of, was basically advocating for government regulation at a recent conference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tDU0zcptCY&index=2&list=PLb...
>You also seem to believe that people have no responsibility for making people around them comfortable unless they are explicitly told it is making them uncomfortable. Everyone has a responsibility not to be ass.

I do not believe this.

>My problem with your comment is the entitlement you claim to define acceptable behaviour of those being abused "what I demand from anyone who wants to call themselves a victim". Also people don't want to call themselves victims, they are victims who may feel able to make that known.

Well if they want my sympathy those are my standards, sorry.

And by the way this:

>Also people don't want to call themselves victims, they are victims who may feel able to make that known.

Is not remotely true.
> This is an incredibly poor design choice (at Facebook we'd say "clowntown") as it makes it unusable with any sophisticated hashtable data structure that assumes reasonable randomness. That's what causes the quadratic growth in the sequential example with dense_hash_map.

Nonsense. GCC developers have absolutely no way of knowing or guessing how the distribution of all integers map into the domain of positive integers. And any guess (without knowledge of the specific application domain) would have as many degenerate cases as the identity.

Maybe heuristically Facebook found some better general purpose hashes for their use case. But "clowntown" is a denigration.
Ditto. I read some of these stories and wonder in what foreign land these companies are based. It's not like anywhere I've worked, or where any of my friends work. Yes, in the valley.
Well, 215,000 L for the 747, 175,000 L for a Falcon 9, and 470,000 for the Falcon Heavy so in the same rough range. The Falcon Heavy is also carrying another 780,000 L of oxygen but that doesn't contribute any extra carbon, of course.
>> For so long it was only countries that could do something like that, now it is nearly within reach of individuals.

And that is something we all need to think long and hard about. Sure, spaceflight is cheaper these days, but we also live in an age of extraordinarily concentrated wealth. The necessary implication of individuals with power enough to rival governments is that, well, they can rival governments.

Anyone else see that giant superyacht in london? The one that used HMS Belfast as a dock. Some really do have toys to rival governments.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/nintchdb...
Not to mention a grade of 4 or 5 easily takes 2x the effort of a grade of 3.

Yet it will get you maybe 2-5% more pay.

I see lots of new devs working at way under capacity because it's just not worthwhile for them to work harder for a company.
progression of system operations from manual, to scriptable, to automated, to a fourth category I hadn't even known existed: autonomous.

Completely agree. The first "eureka" moment is when you define all your infrastructure in code in something like Terraform. Magically networking, firewall rules, disks, instances, are all provisioned and dependencies calculated. It is quite a breakthrough from running CLI commands or using the web interface to allocate infrastructure.

Plug: I wrote a blog post on getting started with Terraform and Google Compute Engine for those interetested https://blog.elasticbyte.net/getting-started-with-terraform-...
I'm around to answer any questions!
As the report notes, though, they already have exit information from passenger manifests, and land border entry sharing from Canada and Mexico. I would have assumed this information would have already been sufficiently accurate.
>It is always the asshole's fault for being an asshole and making others uncomfortable. It is no one's responsibility but their own. Put this victim-blaming nonsense back in some dark hole where it belongs.

Youre wrong.
Personally, I don't care that using a map would make me a "better navigator" the same way I don't care that driving stick would make me a "better driver." I don't enjoy driving at all, it's purely a mean to an end, so I'll take any aid that would make the experience more pleasant, and / or reduce my cognitive load.

If I ever start making FU money, and fully self-driving cars are not yet a reality, I would definitely hire chauffeur(s) to drive me around. S/he could use a map, s/he so chooses...
RP-1/LOX also exhausts basically water vapor, plus CO2. There should be little NOx emission since it's not burning air, but there's probably some organic emissions from unburned fuel.
Shock treatment, social cues, and mass protest. What's not to like?
Im not sure I believe that youre really trying to be polite here at all. Youre playing a game kids play. Maybe you dont realize that.
> it is not a "microbenchmark"

Home page -- "Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!"

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
> the moral issue

Uhh, what moral issue, exactly?
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But this law includes remedies.
That's the important bit to remember for a lot of these motorcycle statistics - so a squid with no gear might think "whatever man, I took the motorcycle safety course and I wear a helmet! I can lane at a delta of 40mph no problem!" Rather, all of those things combined (helmet wearing certificate-bearing registered-bike-owning) are the traits of a safe rider anyway, not necessarily the things that cause them to be a safe rider.
and their about-us page still says that they are a "wholly owned subsidiary of Google, Inc."

http://www.bostondynamics.com/bd_about.html
They slot 'sponsered content' blocks into your stream of saved items, it's done very well IMO. These have to make some decent $$$ surely.

However, I just checked my queue and couldn't see any.
Judging from other comments, it seems they're on the way out anyway. But the question of fines etc. is interesting...
Indeed, the last time people went beyond LEO was Apollo 17 in 1972. Having the capability to do so is a big step towards re-attaining the Apollo level of humans in space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
In Defense of the Lecture
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I didn't interpret that Altman article as saying an "airplane" was less good than a "spaceship". In fact, he was saying the opposite, that both kinds of companies are equally impressive.
Among the companies/institutions that have replaced Americans in IT with Indians:
1. Disney of Florida
2. Southern California Edison
3. Abbott Laboratories
4. University of California at San Francisco

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/03/01/disney-worker...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2879083/it-outsourcing/...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-abbott-layoffs-dur...

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-...
If I were to run a performance-critical application, I'd definitely tune the GC accordingly. It's why the JVM offers several garbage collectors in the first place, for example.

Also, GCed languages aren't prevented from using memory pools, but often they are not part of their common libraries, because there's less need for them.
When will these companies be held liable for beaches like this? The time for feigned ignorance is over, this is negligence at the best, outright greedy indifference at the worst. There are no more excuses.
Because killing thousands upon thousands of innocent Afghanis, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Somalis, Yemenis and Syrian civilians so far with relatively conventional weapons has been reliable judgement? Maybe with robot armies they could have killed even more. These partisan trenches are blinding so many.
(Ranked by the World Health Organization... not the rock band.)
Show HN: Platypus, a server status monitor for large infrastructure
Must be coming tomorrow! No FCC docs curiously...
One time, while going into Panama, the border agent wrote a couple words on a sheet of paper and asked me to pronounce them: ship, sheep. Thinking this was some kind of shibboleth, I complied. She then wrote a couple more, I think they were chair and share, again I complied. Finally she wrote another pair, I don't remember what exactly, but I was getting very worried that this was some kind of bizarre profiling by accent and I was about to find myself in a Panamanian detention center.

She looked up and laughed, and in very broken English explained she was trying to use the accents of incoming Americans to improve her accent to help in her job when dealing with English speaking foreigners.
Thanks!

I like Rust for what it does in advancing the state of the art of the languages, but I also like how this example demonstrates how hard it is to avoid "unsafe" constructs and remain competitive.

https://github.com/TeXitoi/benchmarksgame-rs/blob/master/src...
It absolutely does (need verification).

As for the false news/polarisation thing... Am I the only one starting to panic just a teeny little bit?
Good point! Are they as fast? And reliable from hardware point of view?
I think they need to fail because the attitude needs to die. It's easier if they take it with them.

They brought a very Wall Street-esque aggressively cheat your way into becoming too big to fail, at any cost attitude into software. They were chummy with top-dollar lobbyists to get around pesky small-town regulations and unions. Some of those entrenched interests were bad, but even in defeating them, they weren't precisely taking from the rich and giving to the poor either.

The grass is always greener, but they do not resemble software heroes like Carmack or Stallman or (idiosyncratic pick) Newmark at all. When it comes to anti-authoritarianism and civil disobedience, I think Snowden not Kalanick. Even if you want a Randian libertarian, Jimmy Wales over Travis Kalanick.
Mostly it meant SREs tended to be older than other engineers at Google (I was an SRE there for a while), I think by an average of nearly a decade.

Broad experience, depth on a few topics. It's not impossible at all, it just takes time.

(edit: Note this may have changed since I left the company in 2009. It's been a while!)
All of that over a $150 permit? They paid more in legal fees just to have their attorneys (in-house or otherwise) open the DMV's regulations on the subject, and all they got out of it was a decidedly antagonistic start to their relationship with the regulatory body that will regulate them.

For some reason, I think their executive team's fondness for self-destructive impulses is far more of an existential threat to Uber than coming in second in rolling out autonomous vehicles.
Not really. Milking customers is exactly "growth at all costs", only they're working on growing income or profits rather than growing number of customers or some other metric.
Hi HN,
I've been working on Platypus for the past 6 months or so, recently dedicated a lot more of my time to it. It's mostly built for the company I currently work for, but I want to keep it open source so others can use it as well. I would appreciate any and all feedback as I move into planning 3.0.0. :)
That is a really surprising comparison, thanks for pointing it out! Do you have a source for that, it is something I expect to be repeating.
Water is a greenhouse gas too.
Apart from the total disaster these kind of incidents are, they serve a valuable purpose: material to educate my children about security. It is surprising to see how quickly my 9-year old daughter picks up the message, especially by these kind of stories.
When he brought up Uber, I naturally wondered if I should stop using it (and not start using Lyft or anything similar). But perhaps that's a bit like wondering if we should stop using Google, or Facebook.

On further reflection, I think we passengers might be able to make things less bad for the Uber drivers. DHH mentioned putting on headphones and not interacting with the driver at all when he uses Uber. I've never done that. More often than not, I chat with the driver at least a little during the ride. Once or twice, I used the ability of the Uber app to put my choice of music from Spotify on the car stereo. But then I felt uncomfortable doing that, because I was imposing my choice of music on the driver. So now, I'm happy to let the driver play whatever music he or she wants, or none at all. And I've never rated a driver anything other than five stars, since I know their ability to continue getting work depends on ratings.

So we need to remember that our Uber drivers, AIrbnb hosts, etc. are humans, not machines.
Mozilla doesn't have to worry about the marketplace.
I struggle to understand how capitalism is voluntary?

If people with nothing must work for a capital owner not just to survive, but thrive as a human, there's nothing voluntary about it.
So a badly engineered app that is a UX nightmare and has a general discoverability problem seems to be losing to a high quality app that has huge network effects backing it and that took the only USP Snapchat had (disappearing pics) and implemented it in a much better manner.

And somehow this is a bad thing because hating on FB is fashionable in these parts.
That still doesn't help as much as not using Uber at all.
I believe that comment is more or less based on the shuttle landing and/or the soyuz capsules (eg parachutes) - but as far as I can tell, SpaceX is the only one currently capable (and using) propulsive landing on earth - so essentially they've already leapfrogged the grey zone to a large extent.

Makes me wonder whether testing a propulsive landing on an airborne drone barge is feasible? A blimp with a well-insulated large pad on the top - though I'm not sure how you'd effectively anchor it in the air - probably a active propulsion system as well.
I agree, it can be complicated. Thats why i like the auto-assign ticket system (and not putting absolutely new people on P0 duty until they have warm feet). It allows my team, at least, to experience breadth of issues and if one because of time, or because of efficiency it can be traded in relative real time.

However, having it be policy to ask first then trade or have someone else own it means essentially as a team, we can own that issue with you as you learn. It helps a lot come crunch time.

Mistakes will always happen though. If they are genuine and not from a lack of caring or trying with an earnest/logical thought process behind it, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme. I'd rather have my entire production server go down on an error like that than deal with a situation where the person was just being negligent to their duties and wasn't willing to be humble.

In short, you'll be fine :)
> Teams that don't fit a normal distribution are incredibly common.

This doesn't make a team of high performing folks any less rare because extremes tend to be rare. It just means that reality doesn't always look like the average. You might have no high performers but 5 average ones, or 2 high performers and 3 below average (maybe they are just learning?).

One team out of many being high performers might just be luck or a good manager, for sure, but it definitely warrants checking things out because of the rarity. The same would go for an entire team that is below par without obvious reason. It might not even be an issue with the supervising manager themselves, but with the way the company scores that sort of team.
It really sounds insane to me, too. No shop I've ever worked at is remotely like that.
As an industry I think it's very fair to say we are a year out. Vive launched (with motion controllers!) in April 2016. The Rift launched in March 2016, albeit we waited longer for Touch. The Samsung Gear VR, which has a surprisingly impressive install base now thanks to the various free promotions Samsung ran, was November 2015.

The issues VR faces, especially around the lack of compelling content, aren't really specific to a headset model or brand. I agree with the previous post - VR as a consumer industry is pretty much a year old at this point.

It's increasingly my opinion that Valve/Facebook will need to lead by example to get the content off the ground to solve the 'chicken and egg' problems, and that leading is going to involve throwing good money into projects that simply won't make money, for the greater long term good of VR. Thankfully it looks like this is finally starting to happen, with Facebook stumping up 250 million dollars for original content and Valve's recently announced in house projects. This industry and install base isn't going to grow fast enough without this investment, especially if the past 12 months are anything to go by.
At least at home, if I have to do something to my curtain rod or put up christmas lights to the window etc, I find it perfectly normal. At work you're not expected to do those things. But I most definitely wouldn't call a desk that can't take standing "sturdy".

Ikea has lowered the standards expected from furniture a lot, though it's been in decline with formaldehyde chipboard etc since the fifties or so anyway.
Company that has skeezy and predatory business practices has skeezy and predatory company culture. God damn shocking

Speaking unsarcasticly, the women who are starting to come out and reveal this are very brave.
I think it's a bit of weird language. From comparing what specs I could find Energia had significantly greater LEO capacity (200% of Falcon Heavy), and a slight advantage in GTO payloads, a slight disadvantage at trans-lunar payloads and has no capacity at all for trans-Martian payloads where the Falcon Heavy can deliver 14,000kg/14 tonnes/30864.717lbs of payload.

So I think they are claiming that title due to Energia dropping off after trans-lunar ranges assuming Falcon Heavy reaches "orbit" and then travels further beyond.
I didn't mean to reference the Holy Grail, sorry for the confusion. I added a second paragraph to clarify.

I meant that how you feel about being told you should feel shameful about being a male due to how other men sometimes act probably depends on how you react to being told that you're a sinful person who needs to redeem yourself because someone else ate an apple they weren't supposed to eat.

The "you" in my post weren't directed at him either, it was just a generic you. Damn, English is hard.
Yes, let's have the super functional Congress fix this! :D
Right. SpaceX doesn't have a craft capable of lunar orbit rendezvous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit_rendezvous

so they would need to return to the Earth directly from the surface of the moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_ascent

Direct ascent requires a much larger initial launch mass, i.e., a larger rocket than has ever been built. Since it took the massive Saturn V to complete the Apollo missions using lunar rendezvous, and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is smaller, I don't think they are even close to having the ability to land on the moon and return.

(And that's assuming there's not other insurmountable factors preventing Dragon from landing on the moon and taking off, which there probably are.)

Hopefully someone with more knowledge can chime in.
> there isn't anything about a privately funded and established outpost that wants to declare independence

Practically speaking, there isn't anything the UN can do if America sticks a base on Mars and calls it sovereign soil. We've already started legalising private ownership of celestial bodies through the SPACE Act, in direct contravention of the Outer Space Treaty.
Not that I don't disagree with the general idea of this post, but it's worth pointing out that while Rust is fairly young based on the 1.0 release date, there was a large amount of time prior to that where the language underwent a number of changes.

It's also worth remembering that this is just a game, and as such it's somewhat of an apples-to-oranges comparison. Java's RAM usage may not be impressive compared to C, but that doesn't make the results overall any less impressive, especially knowing what it was like before those 20+ years of effort.

I don't see a reason that both Rust and Java's results can't be impressive in their own right. Java's numbers are (for the most part) impressive compared to C and Rust's numbers are also impressive compared to C, just in a different way.
Atlanta, Dallas,Austin, Raleigh, and Portland were on the top of my list as far as pay vs cost of living.
I was thinking the same. Relevant xkcd https://what-if.xkcd.com/124/
Not quite turnkey, but openvpn is essentially tls over udp with an ip tunnel on top
> I don't know why you assume I didn't.

I didn't assume. I asked.
I don't like bloat in web browsers because, often, if just adds features best left as an add-on. Also, in something as important as a web browser, I feel a smaller codebase is wise from a security point-of-view.