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If anything, the argument works even better now that you've gone and given yourself sonar: you can talk to me, unlike that dumb bat, so you can describe your experiences to me, and yet I will still have no true understanding of the experience itself.

This underlines the suggestion at the very end, we are lacking tools to properly talk about experiences and maybe we could actually develop them. My inability to describe to you, or probably even better to a blind person, what it is like to see a red object may after all not be fundamental. Maybe there is a way to communicate and in turn truly understand what using the tongue device is like, we just have not yet discovered it.
Tracking might be "resolved" but man three usb3 cameras + the usb3 for the headset, is a hard sell on a lot of systems. Most people who are successfully running 3+ camera roomscale deployments have at least one if not two extra usb3 cards in their machine.

They just made a big mistake going with camera tracking, the lighthouse solution just seems much more scalable.
As an immigrant to a foreign country where I didn't know the language well (Japan), I can verify that it will almost certainly take more than a year. It took me about 3 years to learn how to learn a language and to build up some fluency. I got married in Japan to a woman who didn't speak English well and we subsequently went to England for 2 years. Despite being immersed in English for the entire 2 years (I spoke to her only in English during that period), and despite studying English very hard every day, she was not able to speak well enough to hold a job. We've come back to Japan now and 2 years later, the language has sunk deeply enough that my wife could certainly hold an English language job (even though she barely spoke English for the 2 years since we got back).

Language takes time to absorb. My advice (from experience and also from teaching English as a foreign language for 5 years) is to keep surrounding them with English language culture. One of the biggest things is to simply include them in activities with other Canadians. Things like barbeques, picnics, beach, skiing, sports activities, bar, restaurant, movies, whatever. Organise events with lots of people and keep introducing them. For the entire year they will probably find it uncomfortable and tiring. They may not say much. They may not understand very much of what is going on, but it is a lifeline.

Also, a few tricks as an immigrant: you need to be super friendly and outgoing. People's natural reaction to seeing strangers is to be suspicious and cautious. I go for walks regularly (like every hour or so -- mainly because I work from home remotely and I need to work out some technical problem in my head). I make a point of smiling and saying hello to everyone I meet. Now I'm pretty fluent in Japanese, but when I first arrived I had virtually no ability to have a conversation. So I practiced simple exchanges about the weather, etc. I would go down the street, find the nearest lonely retired person (lots of them in rural Japan!) and just say, "It's hot today, isn't it". Then I'd let them rattle on and I'd smile. Some people didn't care to talk to me, but quite a few enjoyed the 2-3 minute chat every day. Now it's part of my life and I know virtually all of my neighbours. I am part of the community.

So to sum up: Help them find opportunities to meet other people. They will find themselves completely inadequate to the task, but encourage them. Encourage them to explore and meet people in the community. Have them use whatever little language they have with people on the street. Help them become a part of the community. Language will come over time as long as they keep studying. The study is important, but it seems to also take time just to sink in, so make sure they don't get discouraged if they don't see any progress.
Just jumping on in terms of the "architecture" certifications. I'm currently doing the Azure architecture certification (And have the course materials for the AWS ones too). They are REALLY light on implementation. It's literally like reading a feature list of every single thing the cloud provider offers.

It's for when a question comes up like "Hmm. How can we we send a message that allows a yet to be decided amount of subscribers to act on that message? I know! Azure Service Bus!".

It's not that expensive to get the certifications so I usually say go for it. But it can be really dry and not as "real worldy" as you might expect.
Love the momentum of graphql.

Anyone use graphql with fire base? I'm curious on the use cases.

I did a test project in react native with fire base and it felt like early days of Meteor. Apollo's architecture may or may not conflict with firebase in an app. Anyone have some insights?
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> the ignoring of client responses and repeated redundant requests for information already provided, is a standard psychological domination tactic

that describes some of the managers/clients i've worked for. a very effective technique.
Exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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It sounds like the test was successful. They weren't planning to catch them, but wanted to demonstrate soft landing in a targeted area (much like the early Falcon 9 landing tests).
Super good movie and highly recommended.
You don't have public contact info in your profile so I'll post here :)

I don't want to spit on you (ew), but am interested in meeting some of my fellow Canadians living here in Japan.

If you (or any other Canadians reading this) are in Tokyo and interested in comparing notes over coffee, please drop me a line (email in profile).
Musk has often said that the first stage is 70% of the cost. And that the fuel cost are negligible.
Did they ask for immunity, or were they offered it?

Anyone who is offered immunity will take it -- there's no reason not to -- but that doesn't mean they needed it or knew anything worth testifying to. But when you hear "please, someone -- anyone -- give me immunity!" from a suspect, it rather increases the odds that they have a strong reason for wanting immunity.
I expect you're receiving downvotes (not from me) because you're introducing a strawman argument.

The issue under investigation is if there was collusion between members of Trump's campaign and foreign operatives to, e.g. time releases or coordinate messaging, not attack the voting apparatus. The fact that the national security advisor lied to the VP about discussions with Russia (for which he was fired) and now will only testify under oath with immunity suggest that there indeed may be something worth investigating there.
I too am confused by the article's wording in explaining that he invoked the fifth "to avoid incrimination in turning over documents relevant to the case" - is it perhaps to make a technical distinction of "here, these are my documents" vs. "oops, I don't know what these documents in my bedroom are or how they got here"?
"Flight tested" rockets is an interesting spin on this
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AP courses have vector calculus.
Congrats to the Apollo Team and contributors for all the awesome work that went into this release. The majority of our customers at Scaphold (https://scaphold.io) are using Apollo to power their applications with amazing results.

We're excited to keep working to push the limits of GraphQL by supporting awesome features like subscriptions, persisted queries, and much more!

If you're in SF come to meteor tonight for the GraphQL meetup and let's talk about what's coming next.
The people in this thread sound like a bunch of stodgy fops who don't actually know anything about writing.
The video cut out because the stage fell below the horizon (from the perspective of the tracking station on the Cape).
Musk has said SpaceX is working to replace the material with titanium and a new redesign.
> If you don't understand how this rises above the level of "just politics", I feel like it can only be because you don't consider the new targets of state violence to be fully human.

While I'm extremely concerned about the crime and immigration stuff, "if you disagree with me then you must consider a large group of people subhuman" doesn't seem a constructive way to approach people who are insufficiently concerned as yet.

> And let's not forget that more than half of the country didn't want this president.

Unproven. I do rather hope it's true, but "a campaign focused on winning the electoral college lost the popular vote" is not quite the same thing.
I guess I meant physicalism then. Or maybe naturalism? I didn't mean to make a claim on the philosophy of mind just that the world is simply the physical world.

On the other hand dualism refitted for the physicalist world seems like a hack at best. Panpsychism fails the inference to the best explanation or Occam's razor etc.
Priceless :)

I was 4 when the Apollo launches happened and I still remember them today, they're probably my oldest memories (others I can't date so accurately so that may be off by a bit).

Very beautiful picture, thank you for posting.
But if all that stuff's possible, I should have the new emoji set, but I don't, because I bought my phone off the grey market so it doesn't get OTA updates.

Time to grab Odin again I guess.
I think directly speaking about sexual assault coupled with many accusations is more damning, and supporters just not caring.

Same with racism against people form Mexico / middle east. Sadly comes down to a matter of scale, at least for me.

This sort of stuff should ruin someone running for president, somehow it didn't matter here.
Realm is awesome for this. It is not a relational database in the traditional (SQL) sense, but more of an object database that allows for relations between the objects. Their sync backend is pretty neat.
Maybe there's another frogpocalypse in our future.

http://fav.me/d411gpx
Something like this:

http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/telescopes/images/24inchMili...
> plus the Air Force always needs to have two providers

Source? Wasn't ULA the only provider for years as Boeing and Lockheed argued it would be cheaper to merge.
What I heard from them is most of the money comes from a small percentage of customers doing expensive work. They don't want to take chances on unproven tools since mistakes cost too much. So, they keep using the Big 3. There's occasionally companies like Magma that show up delivering good value for a fraction of the price. Plus cheaper or better alternatives to Big 3 functionality such as Tanner. They usually get acquired, though, by companies that dislike effect of competition on profits. The integration of those features make the competition look even worse.

Those successful in EDA seem to mostly be niche players doing one job a lot better than Big 3.
Has the United States ever convicted someone on the level of National Security Advisor (i.e., effectively a member of the cabinet, such as Secretary of Defense), or even put them on trial? Petraeus got a slap on the wrist, but for actions while he was a General.

In other countries, even the heads of state get put on trial. Off the top of my head, it's happened relatively recently in France and Israel. In the U.S., I can't think of even a member of the cabinet being tried; on the order of 1 federal judge has ever been impeached. Nixon was pardoned, for example.

Someone mentioned 5 people were granted immunity for the Clinton investigation; were any of the 5 at such a high level? Has someone on that level ever been given immunity or needed it?
Can you do that if you're offered immunity?
Hacker News is r/politics now. I'm out.
There is so much to like about that essay, even the citations are good. Here is my favorite:

> The Soviet Shuttle, the Buran (snowstorm) was an aerodynamic clone of the American orbiter, but incorporated many original features that had been considered and rejected for the American program, such as all-liquid rocket boosters, jet engines, ejection seats and an unmanned flight capability. You know you're in trouble when the Russians are adding safety features to your design.
> Does Levandowski also have his own lawyers?

He damn well should. It's ALWAYS important to keep in mind that your employer's lawyers work for the company, not you, and will be angling for the outcome which is best for the company, not you.
You're absolutely right. Except that I said 2 data points and then waiting to see if there are more...in which case you would be able to argue for a reliable trend.
It's a nice gotcha, but Flynn isn't an attorney and is known for saying many crazy things even in his field of expertise.
> TBH, I'm not really sure why Trump would need to relieve sanctions in order to get a stake in this, as it's clear they've been shopping it around for a while.

Well, it's probably cheaper.
I don't like to argue about definitions so let me ask you this: Don't you agree that the majority of self-proclaimed athiests are non-religionists and also reject the supernatural?
In CPR here is what Kant says about Hume:

"David Hume, who among all philosophers came closest to this problem, still did not conceive of it anywhere near determinately enough and in its universality ... believing himself to have brought out that such an a priori proposition is entirely impossible, and according to his inferences everything that we call metaphysics would come down to a mere delusion of an alleged insight of reason into that which has in fact merely been borrowed from experience and from habit has taken on the appearance of necessity."

The "problem" Kant is referring to is how metaphysics can be possible in spite of what Hume proved. Kant says in the same breath, that this is the central problem of the critique - so i guess you can nearly say that it's written almost entirely as a response to Hume.
But did the refugees subjugate the native population? It looks like the truth could go either way.
In my experience, archaeological finds get highly upvoted on HN.
You're completely wrong, lawyers and interrogators will twist your words against you to make themselves more successful regardless of guilt. The YouTube video posted above is a good example of the how, but there are many more beyond that.
I'd agree with that so far

So far it's very high level and "let's build a wordpress site in multiple AZs with an RDS instance and an ELB"

not "Ok - we have a site that gets millions of hits a day; currently uses 1 LB, 1 NFS shared file server and 3 web servers, and 1 dedicated DB server. Let's rip everything apart and move it to AWS with as close to 0 downtime as possible"

I just didn't want to go into this almost completely blind. The price of the exam is "negligible" (not to call $150 / exam insignificant - to some, I'm sure it's a lot) so... why not. I'll have a good base to start with when I finish and at least can speak to it where before, maybe I was speculating.
One reason: Focus.

Anybody who has tried to launch a SAAS app knows that launching the software is not enough. The sales and support infrastructure has to be there as well.

I'm not saying they can't do it. They certainly have the money to throw at the problem. The question is if they really want to.
> It just depresses me seeing how many people don't have the slightest clue why this is something incredibly remarkable

Because some people don't actually know much / care about rocket science?
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You didn't ask a question. You saw behaviour that you didn't understand and immediately made an assumption: it must be the result of mental illness.

You are saying two things:

1) He is violent because he has a mental illness.

2) People with mental illness are violent because of their illness

The reality is very simple: he was a violent man. He had always been a violent man. He had a long history of violent behaviour. He doesn't have a long history of contact with MH services, and he never had (as far as I know) any contact with secure MH units[1]. Some men are remarkably violent, but most of them know exactly what they're doing and they're not controlled by an illness.

The prevalence of violence, and mental illness, means that obviously there's some overlap between "people who are ill" and "people who are violent", but you need to be really careful not to say "the violent people in that overlap are violent because of their mental illness".

When looking at predictors of violence we see that mental illness doesn't give you much if any predictive power.

Substance misuse does; previous episodes of violence does; and any (especially all) of these combined does.

The reason it's important to avoid incorrectly linking violent behaviour to mental illness is seen in the stats of people shot and killed by US police: about half the people shot and killed each year are people with mental illness. The vast majority of them pose zero risk of harm to other people, maybe some risk to themselves, but they get killed because people like you keep pushing the "mental illness == violent and dangerous" myth.
Really? That would be very surprising to me. Where did Dennett say this?
Sure, but you'd be declining the offer.
Not really - maybe related to some other crime but that would have all been figured out in the immunity offer beforehand.
> SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell has said that customers that fly on a used Falcon 9 could eventually get discounts of up to 30 percent.
There's certainly plenty of stuff that's been written about supposed Trump-Russia links, much of it bizarre, contradictory, lacking in evidence, and even verifiably false but still widely believed anyway. Secret communications with Russia via a server in Trump Tower that looked remarkably like hotel junk emails from a server in a data center on the other side of the country from there, bizarre claims involving prostitutes paid to piss on hotel beds, liftings of sanctions and pro-Russian changes to the Republican platform that didn't happen (but few saw or cared about the debunkings)...
There's a techcrunch article with better detail.

"Uber’s lawyers claim that the company doesn’t have the documents Levandowski allegedly stole from Waymo and therefore won’t be handing them over tomorrow as part of a scheduled document production."

So more like "I don't have those documents, and I can't say more."

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/ubers-anthony-levandowski-...
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SpaceX Merlin 1C completed its first full duration firing in 2007, a decade ago. Blue Origin is trying to go straight to a large engine with more than twice the thrust of the Merlin 1 AND using a fuel that has never been used in rocketry for an engine this size. I'm impressed that Blue Origin has come this far, but they are most likely 5 years behind SpaceX, and probably more.
There wouldn't be any or many great VR titles if it wasn't for some initial investment. That is a chance for developers to actually make some money.

Yeah Vive is still better in large rooms, but the Rift beats it on most other fronts, such as controllers, image quality, atw and asw, comfort, and of course apps.
Some countries I know have laws written that immunity is given to the head of the state from juridical conviction until the term is over, but the Congress would have the power to impeach.
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Thanks. Yes I too am using soon-to-be classic Relay. I've enjoyed transitioning to Relay.GraphQLMutation and can't say I miss the fat query. So Relay "modern" will be like Apollo... interesting.
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Firstly, even without reusability they still have an industry leading cost-competitive launcher.

Secondly, it's my understanding that with the performance upgrades from the Block 5 iteration that will become the dominant configuration later this year there will no longer be a need to fly the booster in expendable mode. And with the ability to launch much heavier payloads on the Falcon Heavy for extremely low prices, there won't be much of any performance window anywhere that competitors could wiggle through.
I added a link above that hopefully clears up what I was saying.
Honestly, I don't agree that the customers are very valuable. There doesn't seem to be either loyalty or lock-in with these delivery startups: as soon as they raise their prices, people just uninstall the app and grab another one. I don't see anything worth acquiring here, so an IPO is pretty much it for an exit strategy, if they can last that long.
Yet civil trials happen all the time with hours upon hours of witness testimony without anybody invoking the 5th amendment for fear of being prosecuted.
That's assuming grades represent a linear scale of what they are intended to measure, which may be a tough sell.
I'm not a Trump supporter (voted for Johnson but would have voted for Clinton if it mattered in my state), but this whole "Russia" investigation feels like partisan signaling nonsense like the Benghazi hearings.

Flynn didn't do anything illegal (I've yet to see a compelling argument that the Logan Act would apply here), just a breach of protocol. It was lying to Pence that did him in.

Manafort consulted for lots of presidential campaigns including Ford, Reagan, and Bush, so it doesn't surprise me that Trump used him, too. Of course, he's a criminal and a sleazeball, and he left the Trump campaign a long time ago.

Tillerson is just an ex-CEO of Exxon, so he might be pro-Russia but not in any untoward way.

It's likely that the DNC was hacked by APT28/29, and it's likely that they're FSB/GRU, and it's likely that they released the documents to Wikileaks. There's no public information that Trump was involved.

The Steele dossier is juicy and is being investigated by the intelligence agencies, so nothing to learn there until they tell us.

Then we have the Yates and Nunes ordeal, but I'm willing to believe that's just partisan junk.

Annnnyyywwaaaay, in an effort to be more rational this year, I'd like to try to solidify my positions and confidence levels via wagers. My general position is that Trump is not involved with Russia in any treasonous or even "quite inappropriate" way.

If you concretely believe that Trump is a Russian spy, or personally negotiated with Putin to get him to win the election in exchange for reversing sanctions or something, hit me up (my email is in my HN user info thing) with your proposed hypothesis and we can make a bet. I won't promise to take on all bets, but certainly a lot of the extreme positions I've seen on here I would. E.g., I'd bet at pretty high odds that he didn't take a position in Rosneft, as someone was claiming).