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> How did they test the $10 million dollar system empirically? Did they send it on 500 missions before it was certified?

My point is that there are other methods of assurance; one of them is additional investment in reliability, something SpaceX is trying to avoid.

> ULA is triple the cost of SpaceX ...

Perhaps that's how much sufficient reliability costs. In much of engineering, and at least in IT, high-reliability is one of the most expensive requirements. As a simple example, compare the cost of an unreliable consumer ISP service ($30/month for maybe 15 Mbps?) and a reliable T1 circuit ($300/month for maybe 1.4 Mbps?) - you pay 10x for 1/10th the speed.

From my seat in the bleachers, it will be interesting to see if SpaceX can deliver high reliability for significantly less than ULA. Good for them and for everyone if they pull it off.
Yes and No. From my experience they do include W2s in your mortgage application in order to see your total assets in case you go bankrupt. They get as much info as they can, which is why they need your w2s ;) The rule for mortgage applications is still based on your monthly gross income. In the background, the actual decision is made off of your gross monthly income/debt ration. Otherwise if your employer's stock crashes tomorrow or if your annual performance is crap, they're pretty much screwed. Trust me they don't take any risks anymore since 2008. It's just as you said "a security", it doesn't impact the approval of your mortgage application.
Which, at this point, just means extensions: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
You didn't actually make a point.
Doubtful. Most ships have very little free surface area available for solar panels. They wouldn't provide enough extra thrust to justify the expense and weight. Adding an electric motor, clutch, and transmission to the prop shaft would be a huge engineering complication that would drive up construction, operations, and maintenance expenses. Bunker fuel and LNG would have to be an order of magnitude more expensive before solar augmented cargo ships would even begin to make economic sense.
but QUIC uses UDP?
A study of the News in Tweets:

https://medium.com/echelon-indicators/the-year-in-news-2016-...

Discussion:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6MMZjbxW...

This is an indirect measure, but shows major themes in discussion of news on Twitter, by Echelong Insights. Included, and pictured, is Twitter discussion of 17 major election-related stories. Three of these, the Electoral College, Fake News, and Steve Bannon, are principally or completely post election day phenomena, but the remaining 14 occur during the election cycle.

The two most dominant stories -- Wikileaks/Hacking (33.083m) and Clinton's Email (21.124m) stories dwarf the others (Deplorables, 5.989m being the runner-up). None of the Trump negative stories (Tapes, Taxes, Melania's speech, Paul Manafort, Trump University) come close, and several discussions which could have appeared quite notably don't: Donald Trump's live speech requesting that Russia hack his opponent's emails, or Clinton's claims that Trump would be Putin's puppet. These make absolutely no appearance here -- though whether that represents poor methodology or lack of actual impact isn't clear.

Keep in mind that Twitter isn't a public opinion survey, nor is it front-of-mind awareness of news. It's a proxy for both, and proxies can be useful or deceptive.

If there's an element here that's most powerful and useful, it's the relationship between leading and non-leading items: power relations are strong. Again, from first to third ranking here is a five-fold reduction in tweets. From first to 17th, a 25-fold reduction of interest and attention, at least on Twitter.
Derivative works of course being protected by fair use.

And if Genius is hosting the page that's annotated, that's one thing. If they're simply proxying it on demand and adding annotations, then I don't see how it violates copyright unless every proxy server violates copyright.
Have you found large institutions to be more responsible and efficient? I have not. I have found the opposite.

Large orgs always have stories like this. Management and accountability are hard to scale and the problem is as true for the private sector as it is for public.

Customs is a straw man for the argument at large, but nevertheless the statement works: I prefer small government because I've seen the collassal fuckups they are capable of at scale.

(My favorite government entity is the USGS)

@fictioncircle: no reply available, so I'll address your question here: no, we should not ban large business. We should provide basic structure to support competition. Since government is not something we can frame competitively (we can't pick which government to use once one is established without substantial "frictions"), we should just keep them small and out of the way.
Interesting article, mostly it's about the processes behind the manufacture that allow them to hit their particular price/quality point.

One item that jumped out me: "Look at Gyllensvaans Mobler: compared to the 1980s, it is making 37 times as many bookcases, yet its number of employees has only doubled. Of course, that is thanks to all those German and Japanese robots."
Agree for time spent learning new frameworks and technologies (i.e. generalist self-improvement that will be applicable to many clients and is part of your advertised skill-sets), but I would disagree on the example you've given (encountering an obscure bug during development).

Isn't this kind of learning really a discovery process inherent to analysis and development?

To take an old anecdote of the engineer who charges $1 for making a chalk mark and $9999 for knowing where to make the mark - if you're going "off the clock" while you work out where to make the mark (i.e. debugging a library), are you then charging higher rates when you "know where to make the mark"?
If the stories of deplorable and pointless detentions are true, and there are no concomitant stories of terrorists being stopped at the border or whatever (something one assumes the government would be highly motivated to report), does it actually matter that the stories were under-reported previously in the press? The important thing is that the issue gets attention and is resolved.
Since you say it's just four developer, why not have a coffee with 2 team members, individually and talk to them about what you think, I see you know your stuff so I don't need to help you there? You dont have to convince all of them of you can convince a part of your team, you can standup. You can atleast have a brainstorming session with a few "educated" ones on your side.
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Please god, more developers do this. Seriously worrisome some people are not charging the client for work.
A large commercial project is not the same thing. You can use whatever hideous language you want for that because you are literally throwing money at your developers to make them understand and work on the code base.

The bar is large open source projects, which indicates that it's very easy for a drive by developer to isolate a bug and fix it or implement a feature.
I have had exactly the opposite experience as yours. You describe every flat pack furniture brand except Ikea.

The only thing Ikea doesn't do superbly (for the price) is padded furniture. Their chairs and couches are terrible, in my opinion. Their cabinets, though? Their desks? Great look, and reliable for years. I am proud of my Billy bookshelf and the books on it in the living room.
> Oh, I'm not imagining you making an attack on Perl.

'k :-P

> It happens commonly enough, though. I was commenting that your property had a lot of punctuation and bemoaned that Perl with the same amount often gets criticized for that very thing. Meanwhile many of the same people are fine with Python's invisible punctuation, Lisp's parentheses, or Haskell's syntax which likewise includes a lot of punctuation.

It certainly happens commonly enough, often unfairly. That said, I don't think Haskellers usually complain about Perl's punctuation.

> I also was pointing out [...] of your notation

Ah, I seem to have misread you entirely there.

> Your Bash and sed solution appears simple on the surface, but it is using a trick of the data format and bringing together two languages.

Well, it's true that we're lucky that a relatively simple transformation of the input format gives us the desired output. But I'm not sure I'd call it a "trick".

> It's even using a syntax that will confuse some people on first look in that you're putting square brackets within square brackets starting with the right bracket then the left. Many people are going to look at that and at first think it's two empty character classes then do a double take.

I mean, you've kinda gotta assume people speak the language...

> I like it as a snarky response to the problem, but it's not something I'd hire a programmer for proposing as a serious solution.

Well, it was a snarky response, but I think that actually depends on the context. If it was "You have these particular 20 files, that need to be transformed this way just this once", it's a great "serious" solution and I'd totally hire someone who would propose it (or something equivalent in another language) in for that purpose. It's incredibly brittle to some particular changes in the input format (especially if you might find square brackets internal to items) and probably not something that should be built atop.
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I'm at 30.857k USD/YEAR (remote from Thailand to CA/USA) .. oh wait! I quit and is unemployed for almost 3 months now. How should I feel!
Should be possible to look at interest paid on credit card loans to better judge this?
They'd try to argue free speech/press like corporate media did many times. Then point out other side often cherry-picks or lies.
Minor nit that I almost hesitate to pick but I've been doing 100-series network training lately so this is something that I'd tell my students:

> UDP packets are not encrypted, so any data sent over these packets could be sniffed and read by an attacker, or even modified in transmit. It would be a massive step back for web security to create a new way for browsers to send unencrypted packets.

TCP packets are not encrypted, either. That data is transmitted via UDP or TCP doesn't make it encrypted; encryption is handled elsewhere.

Now if you insist that the contents of the transmitted UDP packets are encrypted--as the author does with the documented proposal--then that's one thing. But the data transport mechanism (UDP vs. TCP) doesn't inherently mean encryption.

(Fun fact I learned while writing words about TLS: Use of TLS does not automatically imply confidentiality--that is, encryption--of the data being transported. TLS supports a NULL cipher[0] that ensures integrity and authenticity but the payload is "in the clear.")

0 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4785
I can see how that could happen, but the reality is that it doesn't. The people controlling oil today are almost all the same as the ones controlling it since 1979, Saddam Hussein being the big exception I can think of.
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With a roommate and no rent control monthly cost is 1500-1800. For a studio ~2500. 1br closer to 3000. 3 bedroom homes for a family are easily 6k+.

If you are young and don't mind living with others or in small spaces you can save a lot here. This usually ends with children where families frequently move to cheaper locales like Austin.
What important DRL stuff does this not mention?
I consulted for 15+ years, now I hire consultant for my startup on the regular.

I billed for figuring it out, I expect those I hire to bill for figuring it out.

See, I hired you for a solution. This includes "unfuck"ing, figuring, learning and stuff. But, like everyone else is saying: the soft skill of communication is critical. A surprise bill of +5k is different than a "this might cost an extra $5k".

Also, perhaps unique but with 20+ years in tech many times when my the hired gun comes in with a sticking point I can point to both business case for trying a different path and a technical path forward too.
I'd say not having a central annotation service that everybody uses, but being able to pick and choose (RSS-feed like?) is quite an important part of it, if you don't want total overload.
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Elections have always been dirty. It seems winners now use social media or trolls. So be it until that is banned and policed. Losing a Presidency because you followed the rules feels much worse than gaining it breaking some. I don't even think it's possible any more for honest plays to happen given superficial voters with conflicting needs/wants that cost average of $200 mil of others's money to reach.
Is port scanning dangerous? How can JS in a browser build a tunnel to anything?
Was it really worth watering down a list of worthwhile fears with absurd sensationalism, just to make it longer?

The risk of death in a vehicle far exceeds that of gun violence. If you're talking about injuries perpetrated by a stranger, that disparity grows more yet.

The lack of healthcare doesn't exist, though you'll certainly have to pay up. But really, 'lack'? If you find yourself injured, you can probably look up and find a billboard for a hospital (see the previous point on how you're likely to get hurt.) And there will almost certainly be first rate care at said hospital.

And most egregiously, 'cancer machines'? Are you referring to the backscatter x-rays, which deliver a smaller dose than a single banana? Or the millimeter wave machines, which operate at low intensity, and actually deliver no dose of ionizing radiation whatsoever, due to operating at a wavelength with photon energies measured in MILLI-eV? Why not plan your travels around local geology and only travel by boat? Because if you think you're sensitive to millimeter waves, you're really going to be upset at the gammas coming from ground sources, as well as the ones hitting you when you're not underneath those final 7km of sweet, sweet radiation-attenuating atmosphere.

There are valid reasons not to travel to the US, even in your own post. Why bury them under such nonsense?
have you tried contacting your phone service provider? because even if spoofed the logs are generated, and are you sure its a normal call and is not placed through online means which use phone number as ID like whatsapp(example not necessarily the medium), maybe some one has created an account with your name, And is making an Online call?
And also try reaching out to local law enforcement.
> Customs is a straw man for the argument at large, but nevertheless the statement works: I prefer small government because I've seen the collassal fuckups they are capable of at scale.

The same is true of businesses. Should we ban large corporations since the same logic applies?
IKEA furniture is often bought with the understanding that it's relatively disposable. There's a lot of demand for that in cities where people move around more often.
So an academic came on a tourist visa, but was giving a talk related to his work and accepting money. Under US visa rules this is allowed, but is not being classified as "work", so a tourist visa is sufficient.

Except the Agent (who has probably never met an academic) didn't realise this and incorrectly (although understandably) concluded that the Mr. Rousso was working while on a tourist visa. Especially since Mr. Roussos speaking fee is probably the equivalent of a few days work for the customs agent

This is probably a simple mix-up that escalated because of a clash of cultures (both national and educational).
I want to joke that CBP might be looking for referral bonuses by referring great candidates to tech companies.

However, if it's really true, it is depressing. He was actually given an A4 sheet to balance a BST. Wow.

What if he failed the test? I assume that CBP cannot deny you entry because you didn't brush up on your algorithms and data-structures during your flight. But, they can still keep you detained for secondary screening.
I find the logo to be quite difficult to read at a glance.

Also what do you mean by "The most secure cloud platform."?
> Red herring. Kahan advocated the approach of K&R C. K&R C didn't perform the division of two integers in floating point. Your example would be 2 in K&R C too.

You missed the point. Kahan's proposed semantics are inconsistent with what programmers expect. The 5/2 example is intended to show why programmers expect Java-like semantics.

> The example given is not "optimization" at all, it's required by the definition of IEEE 754, mostly designed by Kahan.

How does an optimization being guaranteed to be correct (which all optimizations sure ought to be!) make it not an optimization?

> I see that as confusion from you repeatedly misdirecting the discussion to the "FLT_EVAL_METHOD" which is neither what Kahan wrote in his Java paper, nor what's in IEEE 754 and even less in K&R C.

We're talking past each other at this point. FLT_EVAL_METHOD is precisely what Kahan is talking about in the Java paper: it is the term introduced in the C99 spec for the precision that intermediate floating-point computations are performed in. The difference between Java and K&R C is that Java uses FLT_EVAL_METHOD==0, while K&R C uses FLT_EVAL_METHOD==1. I don't know how to make that clearer.
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Ask HN: Can I email people who use my app?
I released an app an app a while ago, that initially suffered from not having a free-trial period.

People were downloading it and creating accounts, but failing to purchase premium features. Based on my analytics, I can see that they poked around, saw that many of the features were unavailable, and never returned to the app.

I implemented a default free trial period as a solution, and that has been working very well with new users. I would love to get the people who signed up before I was giving out free trials, to log back in, so that they can experience a free trial of the premium features.

This would require sending them an email. I feel like this is a breach of privacy, since, I never indicated when they signed up that I would contact them or use their email in any way. What should I do? I'm prepared to consider that bunch of users a loss, but I figured I'd check and see if I'm crazy for not emailing them to let them know about the new free-trial period.
Are there other flat pack furniture brands? I did not know this. I had all IKEA up until I started replacing IKEA with already-built pieces from garage sales/ furniture stores/ family.

Maybe I have just gotten unlucky, and fallen in the tail end of their defects.
It's not impossible to set up an open source project where new contributors don't need hand holding. Set up a contributor check list and running automated tests will get you half way there. For the rest, you depend on the community you create by encouraging contributions.
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Yes I have owned and suffered through plenty of it. The move part rings true - disassembly never ever leads to correct reassembly.
I'll generally research the issue thoroughly and then discuss options with the client. Communication is the most important part.

For one thing, depending on the problem and the client, the client may very well know others in the industry (it is their industry, after all) who can provide some insight. Sure, I could potentially hire someone myself, and if the client doesn't know someone, then that may be an option, but the problem could literally be resolved by a couple 15 minute phone calls or emails.

Maybe the feature (or method, or software, or component) isn't that important. Maybe there are other approaches that aren't as complicated or better documented or are just merely more expensive. Maybe there's a support team or original developer / engineer who can be paid for assistance. Maybe we can kick the feature down the road and get everything else done while we decide whether the feature is necessary or while we find someone who can help. Maybe there's a training program somewhere in the world that can be visited or invited[1]. Or maybe the issue is core and we need outside help immediately. Figure out the best options available and how much they're likely to cost (temporally and monetarily), discuss them with the client, and then decide together.

The most important point, through and through: Research Options and Communicate. You're being paid for your expertise, which is to say for what you know and for what you're prepared to learn due to your experience (and schooling), and part of that expertise is the ability to say you need help.

It's far worse and terribly unprofessional to waste valuable time and money getting nowhere than risk losing the project.

1: Story time: A friend's company recently gave a full-time employee two weeks to try to figure out a CNC router she bought from China. The employee is on a salary and it's their slow-season, so she didn't lose too much in letting him try. Unfortunately he couldn't figure it out, and now she's hiring an expert from out of state to come spend four days training her team. That training cost half as much as the CNC, but once her team understands it, they're going to make many times that per month. If I spent that much time trying to figure out that CNC at my daily rate, I would have far surpassed the cost of the router and potential profits within the first couple days - which would have been incredibly wasteful for all concerned parties.
It seems like the article seems to be refuting the idea that Trump is somehow enamored with Russia and is willingly working with them.

Whereas the general vibe I seem to get is that people believe he's been compromised and co-erced.

Also - Found it difficult to continue the article after they tried to draw an analogy between Trump and Modi on account of both being nationalist.
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I always explain at the outset that if I sit down and do something I would not be doing if you were not paying me, I am going to charge you.

I am not blessed with infinite time. I am not doing this for you because I'm a nice guy. I'm doing the work because you are paying me. That is the entire deal.

If you are on the fence watch this: https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1
I love IKEA furniture for their hackability -- I built pretty much all of my furniture out of Kallax bookshelves reconfigured in various ways. I also store about 95% of my possessions in Kallax baskets and drawers so it's super-easy to move to a new apartment. If I move to a new city I can sell the shelves, ship the baskets with the stuff in them (put into cubic cardboard boxes), and buy new IKEA shelves at the destination because there will be an IKEA there.

I had to reinforce the baskets though because they were falling apart :-/
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