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The panama canal of the arctic won't be the northwest passage, it's going to be the eastern passage over russia. The NWP water is too shallow, badly cartographied, you still risk getting caught in ice and it has very dangerous storms. Shipping companies would rather take a few more days to get to the pacific than take a big risk.
Sorry, on re-reading I can see how my comment could be read as somewhat dismissive or insulting of Lithuania. I meant it quite the opposite and more literally as in it's not a well-known data point, so there aren't a lot of people who can speak to the subject of whether money laundering is more or less difficult there vs. the US.
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We sometimes see on HN people saying "Why can't drugs get a special exemption from FDA requirements, to allow more data to be gathered?"

Here's why. You spend £1.27bn, and you get no benefit and some harm.

> The CDF was established in 2010 in England to provide “patients with faster access to the most promising new cancer treatments” and to ensure “value for money for taxpayers.” It funded drugs that were not available through the NHS because the drugs had not been appraised, were in the process of being appraised, or had been appraised but not recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The fund was overhauled last year.
This comes across as a bit defensive and snarky. I'm not sure what it's hoping to achieve. The not so subtle message, reading between the lines, is that Uber engineers had bad experiences with postgres because they are morons. Well, maybe. But my main take away from that is that postgres is hard to use correctly, which if true is actually a good reason not to use it.

If only programmers could be polite to each other occasionally.
I suppose you can't control (or detect?) if the car fails, and if that is the case, the whole system would be screwed.
Shouldnt we analyze what creates the emissions and try to have a more focused attempt at fixing the problem? It's great if consumers reduce consumption by 15% across the board, for example, but knowing if the problem is from driving gas gusslers, eating meat, etc. might help us focus on changes that will make the most difference.
Of course this is the only common-sense answer, I'm amazed I had to scroll this far down to find it.
Has ANYONE CONSIDERED THIS? That the Earth is Tilting, the Axis of North and South are shifting because of that. The Temperature Changes are noticeable everywhere because nobody actually is considering that this can be possible. This would mean that it's just colder elsewhere and warmer somewhere else.
This is not likely to work in SoCal. Our geology and prolific and scattered mineral/gas reserves simply would not allow for it. Maybe elsewhere, but not down here.
To add to your comment, important to have the right type of dog and one that is trained.

My previous full sized dogs would happily welcome any visitor. My current dobermans don't.

Train the dogs to bark and bite an arm on command. Some people say "oh, my dog will know when to protect me"... really? You're going to rely on a dog's judgement of the situation? I also don't want the dog to just react after I'm getting punched in the face.

There has been numerous times where there is an odd noise in the house. They sleep in my bedroom so I just open the bedroom door and tell them "go get 'em" and I follow them out there while the wife stays behind.
but dont you hate it when you call customer service and want to talk with a human but the robot asks you what you want ?

now I remember, I think it was PayPal that I called.

Last time I had to repeat twice that I want to talk to customer service. However nobody told me that repeating two times the same thing would do the trick. A novice would be lost at that.
> cf. the "non-golfing club" joke I can't remember who made

You mean ateeists?

> https://www.reddit.com/r/nongolfers/
It's like being in an elevator whose cable has snapped and is in freefall, and saying there's nothing to worry about because the elevator goes up and down all the time and it's perfectly normal.
Since I'm currently living and working on the San Francisco peninsula, I can actually speak to this from experience. :) My family of 3 lives on a budget of $50k, and yes, our savings rate is >>50%.

Of course, you specified living "well." I believe that we live well -- we're all certainly very happy, don't have any unmet needs, and are able to indulge in little luxuries like eating out once a month and visiting family in Europe once or twice a year. However, if living "well" to you requires having two late-model cars, a big house and eating out a few times a week, then yes, you will have trouble doing that while maintaining a high savings rate in the Bay Area.
As far as I can tell, they're working on a garage budget. A ten meter tower and crane is non-trivial to rent and setup.

No reason to disprove something that is disprovable with a basic understanding of basic physics and aerodynamics.

I expect the big challenge with a device like this is NOT ascending too high where you'd be at risk of breaking a leg or thousands of dollars worth of red-hot jet turbine. This isn't a drone, it's a flying person.
> The fact that your local politician doesn't want to allocate public funds to shoring up a collapsing bridge doesn't mean that Elon Musk can't spend his own money to build his own bridge (tunnel in this case), right?

If you're advocating for a private transportation network, then I'm theoretically OK with that as long as it's not subsidized directly or indirectly by the taxpayer. No special tax loopholes or favourable deals on digging rights please.
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If i backup my Macbook hard drive (thus including all Mail data/my imap mail account) does this backup include ALL the data stored at my imap mail server? Or would i be missing certain parts, like attachments or whatever?

Would OfflineIMAP download 'more' data than i already have backed up?
I did just learn about typography. And it was a conscious decision to just go all out and I did debate whether to keep it the way it is as it was looking at times all over the place. I just wanted to try something different. I promise I will learn.
is it good or bad thing?
I have trouble believing a significant amount of the population truly doesn't believe in climate change (I guess I'm a climate change denier denier /s). I think the problems lie mostly with the voting population not prioritizing climate change when making voting decisions and major campaign donors who feel directly (or indirectly) threatened by environmental protection initiatives having the ears of politicians. The major problems almost always have to do with money.
These are third party iOS apps; we don't make them, just curate them. We've at times looked into replacing all of the native apps with web apps but there just isn't enough quality stuff out there to make the switch possible.
It's not that easy to immigrate to those countries.
"Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain." --Timothy Leary
Help me out. What is compiler construction?
Every few years, there are incidents of miners trapped underground, with herculean efforts to free the survivors. Each time, I ponder whether there have been similar tragedies, in some corrupt society, where the mine is bulldozed over, any survivors left to die alone in the darkness, none ever knowing of their suffering.
I'm not sure I'd agree if I were sat atop the cells with no capability to run away.
That's a nice formula, but how do you quantify ethics? You've committed the Wittgensteinian sin of attempting to quantify something without first defining it. You'd have a difficult time just qualifying ethical behavior with any substantive agreement, based on this thread.

It also sounds like you'd need to be inconsistent in your value judgement or accept being lonely with your ideology. You cut off someone you trusted enough to be a cofounder, who you considered brilliant, because he disconnected the speedometer? It doesn't sound like a pattern of behavior here so...what do you do if your closest friend shoplifts but is otherwise okay? What if your significant other doesn't do the dishes? Do you ask people why they do things you consider reprehensible, or give them a chance to explain themselves and understand the chain of events that led to their decisions? I'm assuming not if you really do mean "binary"...

Think of the most minor unethical thing you can. Would you cut ties with your parents because they did that? If not, your ethical system is not actually binary. The real world is messy, and your philosophy frankly doesn't seem to work.
I hear this often, but have yet to see it in practice. I have worked in government and a number of underfunded non-profits who would dearly love to have some of these things automated. But in my experience it just shifts work. It automates something, requiring extra work somewhere else. Or it automates, but then breaks one, mission critical function that needs to be taken care of. I truly don't think this is just about "save my job", because they feel the pinch of lack of personal and funding, but about the difficulty in truly enumerating what the workflow actually is. Once you've paid a consultant to take care of it, you realize you forgot 3 steps in the process or that they were not listening when you described them.
I can't get over how impossibly dumb this idea is. It's a clever fantasy but it doesn't seem practical at all, from a cost or safety perspective... has he given a "first principles" talk about why any of this makes sense? By the time a system like this is built, all cars will be autonomous, so the self-driving sleds will be entirely redundant and it just becomes a super expensive road with no safety escapes.

Autonomous ground travel optimization, hyperloops, and air travel all work together to make a seamless system that make this seem redundant.
Instead of using all this space and energy to move cars around, it'd make more sense to just have small pods for 1-2 people, and transport the people around from point to point.

There's already a project to do just this, called SkyTran. It never gets any attention.
Yes, it's kind of difficult to define the 'hardest' problem. Some issue I considered 'hard' is more because of my missing relevant knowledge in this field rather than the nature of the issue. And of course, I don't want to say "I spent a few hours to learn something to get things done, which is just changing a property value".
Author here. And to think of it that I wrote it over two days. Two days. Made a couple of my friends read it. I am embarrassed and will fix it by tonight.
And what will you need to show to obtain said rubber stamp? This is not secret, either:

Search for "how FISA works" here: http://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files...
Ask HN: Help, NY is shutting down our hacker house due to AirBnb Law?
New York is shutting down our hacker house in NY due to AirBnb Law, apparently, even though it's not not at all a short-term stay situation (we all have leases, receive mail at the address, some of us have been here over a year).

An inspector came by on Wednesday and dropped off papers saying we all had to be out by Sunday. Does anybody know anything about this or what our options are?
For those in SF want to get organized around this issue, this is a good place to start: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/sf-yimby-13476049611
Eh, history is long and moves in unpredictable ways. Just wait until the U.S. breaks up and Canada annexes the BosWash megalopolis and the West Coast, and then suddenly Canada will be policing the northwest passage again.
Out of curiosity, what did you graduate to?
I dunno the first language I ever managed to figure out was TinyScheme (running on Gimp), which is considered functional. I actually found more OO-style languages to be harder to understand. But that might just be me.
His point is that the "company" didn't or can't (or wasn't allowed to) make a decision. A middle manager trying to save his job and his team's job made a decision. This "person" made a decision in his or her own best interest, not the company's. So yes, I think the semantics matter here.
>Many people around the world would say the same thing about the lifestyle enjoyed by the average commenter on this forum, but most of us don't think of our incomes that way. The average American does not need to live in the home size that has become desirable; they do it because they can.

This really isn't true. Middle-class Americans who don't make enough money to sustain their current situation are at significant risk: 1) they can lose their ability to keep paying their mortgage, and then lose their home to foreclosure, or their car to repossession. Their car is what enables their lifestyle, their career, etc. Their home is where they live. They could downsize some of this stuff, but only so much: if you go too cheap on housing, you're now living in a bad neighborhood, which can be extremely dangerous. If you don't have enough money for good health insurance, your health is now at risk. Medicaid usually isn't available to poor adults who are able-bodied, and many healthcare providers refuse to accept it.

There's a reason many people have as their long-term goal to pay off their house ASAP, and to get out of debt, because that means that they're now in a position to afford their current lifestyle but with a significantly lower income, which reduces their risk immensely.

People who are millionaires and up do not have these concerns in the slightest. Going from a $20M mansion to a $750K house is not going to affect your personal safety in the slightest, but going from that to a $500 house in Detroit definitely will.
And it's unlikely that any technological/engineering innovation will make that cheaper. I can see why going the underground route is an attractive idea, you can hope to drive the cost down there.

That being said the cost is currently extremely high, the tunnel that is finished boring and still under construction is estimated to cost 4.2 billion for 2 miles dug over 3 years.
At least you have public transit like rail or BART. There is nothing like that down in LA and OC. My commute is only 11 miles one way and it takes me 45 minutes to 1 hour thanks to the traffic. The trains here have enough stops that it would be just as long as if I had driven.
Most of the US population doesn't get very much vacation time from their employer. The problem isn't the cost of airfare (which is a tiny portion of the cost of any vacation compared to hotel, meals, rental car, etc.), the problem is a lack of time.
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There is a difference between learning algorithms at leisure for enjoyment versus rigid thorough preparation for particular interview at particular company... Many can't afford the latter, especially during mid-career.
Another solid example of regulatory capture. The nouveau riche in the bay area have begun piling on the poor.

Feels quite horrible to look at people who work retail jobs commuting 1hr each way to work. Just because soccer-moms who have no business organizing cities are now in charge of exactly that.

I mean just look at Cupertino - world capital of the soccer mom. So much money and they have managed to make it look like a giant walmart.

We need a Robert Hooke type to come in and take a good look at the problem. And deliver to us a London or a Rome.
It's not just Canada, it's all the developed nations. The US has a horribly complex tax system, while the developed nations do not. It's because of all the credits and deductions for everything. And it's hard to get rid of them because someone will be mad and will write their Congressman, and also because companies like Intuit (Turbotax), plus uncountable CPAs, profit from this system.
The Larrabee project, and all the things it spawned [1], is fascinating.

[1] http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...
Sometimes You just have to follow your heart. It's not about getting it right; it's about doing what's right.
Love the shrug emoji
5 Eyes is collecting AND STORING EVERYTHING that enters or leaves their respective country.
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You're correct. I did miss the sarcasm.

Given that you've written so much sarcastically, what are you actual thoughts on the political demographics on HN? Often sarcasm is used to express the opposite of the actual belief, so is your belief that there is a wide variety of views, or is it that it's a majority of the opposite of "pro-Trump neo-fascist"? If the latter, my first comment still applies.
Here's the website for Slitheen (the project described in the article): https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/software/slitheen/
It feels like the other major issue is that the housing isn't on those hubs. Everyone wants to live in the same three parts of SF - the parts near Caltrain.

Like LA, it seems like there needs to be another train line. For us it's Hollywood/Beverly Hills. For the Bay, it'd be, maybe Sunset down the 101.

But maybe I'm wrong, and two options just mean you're more likely to be incorrect on either side?
Obviously, I wasn't implying for loop boilerplate is the only problem with C.
$60k-80k used, ~35-40 feet, 20-30 years old.
that's fantastic! Cool project!
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Author here. I agree the tools do exist. Learning about typography ( the technical details ) is very much outside of my comfort zone. Plus I am learning a lot while deploying this as an app. Is there is any book/resource you could point me towards to further my understand? Thanks.
One way I play this is to be like, "well I've blocked out the hardest problems, probably due to trauma, but here's a problem that I worked on that might apply to what you guys are doing here."

I find this easier because usually hearing the interviewer talking about things will trigger my memory as to when I was working on similar problems. It's probably better for them to know a relevant example anyway.
To be fair, it's a pretty weak argument to claim that things are fine because a few loud individuals said something outlandish, and the media gobbled it up for hype.
This is missing one huge point of the [uber engineer post](https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/).

They did not switch from a postgres instance to put all their data in a mysql instance. They switched from a single postgres instance to shard their data across many mysql instances. This an entire reworking of the architecture that is completely ignored in this powerpoint.
From the link you gave:

>> Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

First of, this is not same as not competing with your employer.

"Relate" here is not well-specified. I was told by a lawyer that if something is in the same trademark category (e.g., software), it can be considered "related". So if your work is in the line of the main business of the employer, you are unlikely to be coming up with anything that is not related. Unless your employer makes software, and your side business is making, ahem, burgers or something.

Also from the link:

>> Inventions Made by an Employee

Note the word "inventions" there. It is unclear if this is taken to mean just the things that are inventions (e.g., patentable ideas), or also works of copyright. In other words, if you work for a software company, you create a software side project for image processing, all the source code you write may still be the property of your employer as that source code is a subject of copyright (even in California), though they may not get any inventions encompassed in that source code.

PS: I am not a lawyer, though have read a book or two on this subject.
Come on, it's fun. Programming can be so boring, a little passion and trolling can't hurt too much.
Wish I could award more points to this comment. After getting a counterfeit power bank recently, I realized that the due diligence I was going to need to do when buying some small additions and replacements to my camping gear was eating so much time it was easier to just go to the store, nvm the hour+ round trip and slightly higher prices.
It's not harder to use than MySQL.
And for everything (even MySQL) the rule of thumb is:
if you are not confident with the technology don't use it or let somebody else manage it.
Please look up Japan. They've had automated food machines for decades.
Isn't this a solution that becomes outdated with self driving cars?
They can; that's why they track a team's velocity.
And part of my point is that I am not calling for anything that would invoke several of them to rain down upon me.

I only ask that the sleaze be held to the same standard...
The response to "MySQL handles our devs’ bugs better" is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ over and over, but, in my opinion, it's perfectly valid criticism. When writing a tool for real-world businesses to use, the path of least resistance needs to lead to bug-free code, and the tool must handle common buggy usage gracefully.
> switched from a single postgres instance

did you even read the post?
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I think it's two things: the influx of young professionals who suddenly have lots of expendible income, and the fact that NYC has a very clear pecking order. I make a very comfortable living in NYC but there's still the "old money Central Park" crowd and the "lunch at Dorsia" crowd to remind me where I stand.
Dr. Frankenstein really wasn't that bad a guy. Mary Shelley consistently portrays him as a tragic character beset with guilt and grief for his experiments. He started out with the same natural longing many people have - to understand life and how it works. He lost his way, but he's quite a sympathetic character. You'd have to be a hard consequentialist to consider him unethical.
We qualify for an exemption being outside of the US more than 330 days a year. Also, at the income level I mentioned, our premiums would be almost fully subsidized if we were to obtain US health insurance.

Plan B would be spending enough time in another first world country with real healthcare to obtain citizenship.

I'm intimately familiar with engineering around healthcare needs in the US due to my mother being disabled.
I suspect that systemd will end up in the same state...
You are usually made to sign those agreements within a few days of joining. Sometimes you can get a copy ahead of the time, especially if you ask. Offer letters generally state that the offer is subject to your acceptance of these agreements (that you would later sign).
There really are physics that only work at very large scale, such as stars and black holes.

It may be that we can only get fusion power generation working in huge reactors like ITER. It's also a good attempt at getting many countries working together. Ideally, more big brains working together will have better ideas and results.

There's downsides to ITER too of course. But I think it's worth working on.
I can definitely agree with that. China is a great example of different but the same. For the most part an atheist country but one of the most superstitious in the world. A result of there superstition likely being much higher suicide rates stemming from the belief of reincarnation (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205909/).
This applies in Java as well, for instance Integer.parseInt and Character.isDigit. Between Java and Python, you can get all sorts of numeric characters through a sizable percentage of web applications.

I haven't yet found a security vulnerability based in this, but I keep checking. :-)