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This might particularly interest you: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

The gist of it is, in 1970 someone asked a director of NASA why billions of dollars were being spent on exploring space when millions of children were still dying on Earth. The response in part explained that NASA's R&D was paving the way for satellites with better weather forecasting, better communications, and better equipment that was making its way into people's everyday lives. While a bit morbid to say, the advancements made by NASA have arguably saved many more lives in the long run.

It's hard to see the point in investing in experimental technology whose payoff is unknown, especially when we have definite problems with feasible solutions. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try. The possible payoffs - cancer cures, age prolongation, enhanced food production, disease and sickness prevention - that can come from investing in gene therapies are just too great to ignore.

As a side-thought, the technological singularity is thought of as the point at which we create an AI smarter than us, triggering a run-away effect of self-improvement. What if we end up doing it to our own race first through intelligence-improving gene modification? Can you imagine the implications of applying that intelligence to solving the rest of our problems?
The article claims the effect of varying employment levels on society are different depending on gender- lower male employment means lower marriage rates. Lower women employment means higher marriage rates. Lower marriage rates imply higher numbers of children born out of wedlock. Children born out of wedlock are more likely to have disadvantaged backgrounds. But increasing number of single mothers reduce the stigma of being a single mother, and allowing single mothers to "soldier on".
eh. racism is an umbrella term for being prejudicial and discriminatory based on a persons race. while definitely being prejudicial it certainly wasn't discriminating.

also - article has a big photo of this guy's gormless white mug ;)

also - he's from Sydney, so probably a wanker as well.
This parallels what's happened in Japan, too (the decline of Salarymen, rise in temp work and the decline in birthrate + marriage & relationships).
You sound like you went to Trump University? Sorry, but even here, I can only take so much.
I'm sorry but the problem is a trivial one. Even if you've never read a file, never made a http call in code or written to a file, these are all things a 5 minute stack overflow away.

I absolutely would not hire someone who failed that test. Your defence of it seems bizarre to me.
For all those that are facing a similar issue

1 - shut down the incoming circuit breaker, see if the meter "stops spinning" (today it's a light that blinks). If it doesn't, call the electrical company

2 - Get the (heater power) x (time it stays on IN HOURS) = your consumption. Heating and electric showers usually make up the bulk of your consumption (unless you're into home baking or bitcoin mining but even then). Calculate that, see if it matcher what you're paying

3 - Weather proof your place. Find places where cold air seeps through, seal them. Keep doors and windows closed when using aircon.
Some people from former Yugoslavia mentioned that during the war all women clustered around the few men that had means for survival and who led gangs or were involved in all kinds of shady business bringing in resources. I guess the effect described in the article is similar.
I might never have gotten into programming or IT without the ZX81, dodgy RAM pack, crappy keyboard and complete lack of audio included!
I fear that universal basic income might be the nail in the coffin of marriage and monogamy. Basically, government would replace any need for a male provider.

It's a recipe for disaster. Civilization is built on monogamous relationships: children being raised by a couple (statistically a far better environment than single parenthood), young men and women focusing their energy for the betterment of society.
These people hate white American men. Since white women voted majority Trump, they're beginning to receive hate as well. Whether or not reality fits their narrative isn't really relevant. Leftists seem very intent on pushing the race war narrative as much as they are able to lately.
Also, take care of the good hires you already have. Everybody takes their people for granted.

I don't think I've ever heard a manager even say the phrase 'turnover' until they have a few ex-employees that they really couldn't afford to have lost, and a bunch of disgruntled people still there. Once the horse has left it's too late to close the barn.
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Modern life is just bizarre, and especially so for men. We used to perform tasks that were immensely valued by women. Our rewards were directly dependent on our abilities. We worked hard and we achieved goals. Modern life is none of those things for most men. There is very little difference between the pay in many jobs, whether they are typically performed by men or women. These jobs often don't reward you for your abilities but rather reward you for who you know or how good your are at politics. Most jobs are also boring. With the money obtained, whether you are male or female, you can go and buy your meat at the supermarket and pay someone to build your house and so on.

Men seem to have been replaced by a master-slave relationship with masses of people working for a small group of large companies that provide for both men and women. It is like large businesses are the new man. I feel like they are a middle-man that simply should be replaced. I tend to agree with the unabomber in that modern life simply isn't compatible with humans.
Sarcasm doesn't do well on HN. You must hint the crowds by including a smiley. Though it ruins the joke, of course.
Is this privilege story a U.S. thing? Where I live (in Europe), white men are frustrated, work hard and pay for the spouse after the divorce.

It sounds like every white male in the U.S. lives like a Saudi prince.
I don't like the nervous atmosphere they make at the US border. It's the only country apart from Cuba where you get the feeling they might deny me entry for no reason. And it's the only country that I personally know people have been denied entry for no reason.

It's the way the questions come out, like a movie. The words come out slowly while the guy looks for something in my eyes.

I haven't been grilled on professional questions, but I wonder what I should say I do. Programmer or Trader are both legit. If I say programmer, I might get a technical question. If I say trader, maybe I just have give him a random stock tip.
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Nissan CEO... (when introducing it he told the) arrival of the technology could be delayed by pesky cyclists who, he said, "don't respect any rules usually."

Which to be fair is true, but I also don't agree on picking on cyclists as a driver (as a pedestrian, it's a different issue)
He should have taken a bicycle. At least recently, that, apparently was (I think this loophole has been closed) legal "There, refugees face a new twist: Russian law bans foot traffic at the border and Norway fines drivers for carrying migrants across — meaning the only way to cross is by bicycle." (https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-03/why-some-refugees-are...)
The car clearly identified the bicyclist, so this just seems like poor training/rules, which is easy enough to fix.

I'm more interested in the second video from the BBC where it couldn't identify the maintenance vehicle. If the driver hadn't intervened, would it really have plowed straight into it? I seems like even a current, non-self driving car, would have intervened with automatic braking (or slowing down with auto-cruise control) in that situation.
How can you hold the copyright on designs which are trademarks? I'm quite confused by "All rights reserved" in the footer. So, I must ask: are you trying to create an open directory or is this a proprietary project?
> shows some bias

The clue is in the name, it's a mag about cycling. It's run by Carlton Reid, a well-known expert on cycling - his most famous book is "Roads were not made for cars", a history of the intertwined histories of cars and bicycles and how motor transport came to dominate our roads almost to the exclusion of all others. So I'm not sure it's a "bias" so much as "what he thinks about cars and bikes".

> More interestingly

No, that's a minor point. The important thing is that cyclists get killed in close-pass situations, and those that don't are often put off cycling permanently. Along with the Uber car jumping a red light in SF, and Uber basically saying "it doesn't matter", this shows a worrying tendency for self-driving at any cost, including safety, which many of us were hoping would be a benefit of such technology.
There are people who are very invested in pushing that narrative, but it's a complete fiction for all but the richest 1% of US white men. The reality is no different than you describe.
It's not terribly hard to come up with bad consequences from people being detained/turned away/deported because they didn't pass the uninformed pop quiz of the border agent.
Rust seems fairly lucid in this interview: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cold-war-is-back-peace...

Rust enabled Gorbachev to enact the biggest military purge since Stalin, which helped bring the Cold War to an end. Wires which would have made his landing impossible had been taken down. I'm surprised conspiracy theorists have not claimed it was planned by the Soviet leadership.
1KiB of RAM (1024 bytes) is 8 times the RAM of the Atari VCS/2600 (1977).
Civilization is built on monogamy. People might not like the sound of it, but that's the reality of the situation. This is why all successful cultures and religions promote marriage, while tagging everything else as 'degeneracy'. You can't build a society if 90% of men are frustrated, disenfranchised and blow things up, and children are raised by single parents. You need a social contract that gives men a purpose and a legacy (sex), so that they can focus their efforts toward the development of the tribe.

EDIT: To clarify, I do NOT condone violence toward non-traditional arrangements. Sorry if I came off that way.
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It could use g- / g+ instead, to cover all undo branches.
Never miss a chance to be racist and sexist towards white male.
I expect the incidence of these close passes will be drastically lower with self-driving cars than with manual ones. And it would take just one update to the software to fix ALL of them, as opposed to years of lobbying and re-educating stubborn drivers.
"They found that manufacturing declines significantly affected the supply of what they termed “marriageable” men—men who are not drinking or using drugs excessively and who have a job. (...) the numbers of marriageable men relative to women declined, because men had migrated elsewhere, joined the military, or fallen out of the labor force."

How many in which category? The article treats men who moved away as the same problem as being junkie. Social problems like alcoholism and drugs are talked about as if they would be same as being unemployed. It is odd conflation, it is not the same, not even nearly.
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I really like the site and the simplicity of your offering. What has been your main strategy for customer acquisition? I am always interested with a general use product like that what the best approach is.

And how do you like drift? I ended up going with intercom with my site, but I like drift as well.
yes thats the zombie part (all organisms are this)

What makes us different is that we seem to be able to reflect on this loop, not in the driver seat but as a passenger making notes about future drives.
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That's not always true. The best interview experiences I've had were at companies where you were given a homework assignment, and then invited on-site to talk about your solution for that assignment. That's not at all comparable to the standard Apple/Google/Microsoft/Facebook process where you're expected to come in and solve some graph theory or dynamic programming problems on a whiteboard for 4-6 hours.

I would much rather do a homework assignment and then come in and have a code review or design discussion about my solution than do the standard process. And, I would argue that it gives the company a much better look at my skills and aptitudes than the whiteboard interview. I have never once written a dynamic programming algorithm from scratch, in 11 years of programming. I have implemented graph theory algorithms only a handful of times. But create a relatively basic piece of functionality, and then justify my solution in code review? I do that literally every day, and sometimes more than once per day.

I understand that writing code for a homework assignment can be seen as giving the company I'm interviewing for "free labor". But, as others have pointed out, from the interviewee's perspective, there's not a huge distinction between spending 8 hours cramming Introduction to Algorithms and Cracking the Coding Interview versus spending 8 hours making a website using Django or Ruby on Rails (to name two interview tasks that I've actually been presented with). Frankly, I was much happier writing the websites, as it seemed much less pointless than memorizing how to write Floyd-Warshall all-pairs shortest path in Java on a whiteboard.
It's inconceivable someone could be so foolish and thus he was a spy? That seems like an even more outlandish theory than 'unusually naive person'.
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You sound like a great human being. I wish you the best.
I really appreciate you took time to comment on my post! I'm going to dive into your links as soon as I get back home. Stone is an excellent idea. It is the most resilient storage system we know of: everything digital doesn't last longer than a few years.
Repeating a statement will not make it a fact.
I think the Quest Kodiak is a great aeroplane, and very comparable to the Cessna 208. Both have many advantages over the Cessna 206s and 210s which were fulfilling these types of roles over the previous 40 years.

The biggest issues with both of these is the cost to buy and also the cost to maintain. Both are well in excess of the older Cessnas.
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> to be fair is true

No it isn't. It's confirmation bias of a stereotype. Motorists often display contempt for the rules, but everyone goes on about cyclists doing it. An asshole in a car will be an asshole on a bike given the chance. So afaict, we have an asshole problem, not a cyclist or a motorist one.

> don't agree on picking on cyclists as a driver

If you did, would you do it? Because "picking on cyclists" with the help of a two-tonne vehicle is what gets people killed.
I have ~that. Of course it's not Common Lisp though (so, Hubris Lisp?). Notably you have to statically register the Go functions you want to be callable from the Lisp side, because otherwise they might not even be present in the compiled binary (and even if they were, I don't think Go will help you find an arbitrary function by name at runtime). I've used it much more as a normal 'shebang' shell scripting language (even ""webapps"" via CGI) than an embedded one so far... mainly through lack of ideas that call for such a thing.
At this point the men you discuss are sitting around playing video games and doing oxy. They don't seem to be threatening society in any way.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21...
No amount of life quality can raise iq by the magnitude in the parent post.
I'm not sure why you're quoting the bit about cyclists not respecting rules, when in this example the cyclist is riding close to the left hand side of the road, and it's the car and the driver who break English law by passing too close.

If you're a car driver and you wonder why cyclists assert themselves by taking the lane: this is why. It's correct lane control, and it's something cyclists are supposed to do to prevent drivers from being dangerous.
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My first computer. 1k of ram and the membrane keyboard, but it worked so well. The inspiration for the raspberry PI.
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Ask HN: What's the state of the classic JavaScript stack?
I was wondering, how many companies still use classic `before-ES6` style of developing apps, using e.g. just some backend technology with js/jQuery stack on the frontend (no frameworks such as angular/react/backbone/ember used)?
Not personally, but I do know it is used for joint pain.
After the second paragraph I knew apple will come in :)
Thanks for your comment

You're right cyclists get hurt or killed in close-pass situations (by humans).

It seems here the navigation identified the cyclist and avoided it. It incorrectly didn't follow the legal clearance but nobody got hurt (because the avoidance happened correctly it seems). It's an unsafe situation but the car did not ignore the cyclist.

The chance for someone to get injured or an accident happening seemed to be much higher in the Uber case.
Putting the death sentence on someone for a thing they arent in control based on the assumption that they were just as an example of the issue IMO.
I wonder if there are any sources for those stages of the god as a concept.
This might sound odd.

Instead of writing bash scripts, learn awk.

Awk is old, much older than bash, and has largely gone unchanged since '89.

But, despite the fact it was born in an era where we were still nailing down PLT and what was important in a language, it ticks a lot of boxes.

Having written some sizeable (5000+ LOC) programs in it, it kind of feels like a dynamic mash up of C, and Lisp.

Try Awk, and see if quick scripts are still as painful.
Is there any reason why we cant use LTE as a standard for Wi-Fi use case? So we have in house LTE Router with Wired connection, and when you are out of range you are still LTE with your carriers. This is not LTE-U in Rel12 or LAA in Rel 13, which both require a functioning LTE connection as Anchor point.

WiFi used to be good in 3G / WCDMA days, but i think the appearance of LTE with constant innovation and advance in both carrier and phone maker has made the LTE experience so much better. And it will only get better with LTE Advance Pro and 5G.
> The idea that the US is improving and other nations have 'stopped'

When mentioning improvement, I was referring to homicide and violent crime, not incarceration. In crime statistics, the U.S. improvement is clearly visible. U.S. was for a long time oscillating somewhere around 10 homicides per 100 000 pop per year, the peak was in 1991, and after that it started to do gown and is now around 4.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13799616

Incarceration rate in the U.S. is somewhat following this. It increased from 1970 until about 2007, and has since then turned slightly downwards (see figure 5)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-economic-facts-about-...

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Drift is nice for me so far. Honestly my approach right now is to get it in front of it people as much as possible. I havent figured out how to target my audience yet
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What was complicated about it? I'm just getting started with it and it seems pretty straightforward after two days. In fact, I'd say it's almost stupidly easy -- one state handler, one change monitor, and one renderer, done. None of the mangling local state/props/component/JSX/global state/flux/redux stuff in React. So many knobs and options and plugins, the React ecosystem strikes me as a zoo comparatively.
Not nearly in same league as Space Engine. I installed both just now. Celestia is already uninstalled after 5 minutes. It's too basic and the navigation controls are lacking compared with SpaceEngine - which is remarkable in how well it allows you to fly great distances at enormous speeds, with easy adjustment to for slowing down and re-positioning.
In the programmingzen blog, Antonio Cangiano, a ruby programmer and author of several ruby books, there is a post about an interview for a job at IBM in which the question is to explain how the red-black tree algorithm works.

Hey, I googled for it, here it is: http://programmingzen.com/things-ive-learned-from-hiring-int...
Most of the time not, but the comparison of a specific feature of phoenix and go as a programming language is not valid.
If you're ever in doubt about tech's sexism problem, revisit one of the HN comment threads where gender roles come up and marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers. Then, for bonus points, check out a divorce thread.

Civilization was built on all sorts of identity-based subjugation relationships and as we chip away at them, in the long run, it gets better.

If your implicit assumption is true (women only stay in relationships because they require a partner's income to survive) then we have a moral imperative to provide escape hatches from those toxic relationships as quickly as possible.
Would a radar reflector on my bike help me? Like this but smaller: https://aceboater.com/media/guide/1/radar-reflector-3.jpg
When you say sentences like the last one, you might want to consider getting psychological help. There are all kinds of critics of modern life one could reference that aren't mass murderers.
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The article is about lack of factory jobs. Those were literally mass of people working for few. Then wife went to supermarket to buy meat.
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Tells you how far society would have to go to ever accept able bodied people not working for a living.
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What is ohm's law? What's the difference between AC and DC?

Not very hard. It won't deter someone willing to learn EE 101 but will deter the guy who plans to overstay his visa and work as a dishwasher in his cousin's restaurant.
Utopia never existed. Until about 250 years ago, your outcomes depended overwhelmingly on what family you came from, no matter your skills. Children of peasants would become peasants; children of artisans would become artisans; and so on and so forth. Rebelling to that state of thing would likely get you hanged or ostracized.

The industrial revolution and global colonization changed that, injecting opportunities for an ever-growing section of men; and genocidal mass-war eventually did the same for women. This land of mirth and honey where every man has an opportunity to bootstrap himself is a somewhat fantastical invention. Social mobility might have been higher than average in the US between 1850 and 1950, but anywhere else "where you come from" was always the most important factor in anyone's fortunes.
Could not answer these even being in the profession...
I wrote this comment before the one above. I'm open to other points of views if you write them down. I can't tell you for certain whether my statement is an absolute fact, but there seems to be some truth in it that is worth thinking about. Are you aware of any thriving, long-lasting society that rejects monogamy?
Why the ad hominem? Just because he was a terrorist doesn't mean that all his opinions were invalid.
I remember it heating up significantly in "fast mode". Amazing times.
This is what's wrong with politics today. Every question gets moralised. Every opinion gets evaluated on a scale from angel to bigot instead of true to false.