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I haven't actually seen anyone mention it, but it shouldn't be much more risky than taking off fully-fueled. That said, landing with the rocket still on board might break some fuel-balancing assumptions.
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Mental Floss did a fascinating profile recently on the scientist primarily responsible for getting lead out of gasoline. He was trying to figure the age of the earth, but lead contamination kept getting in the way. Eventually he figured out how much lead in the air was coming from gasoline, and started making waves. Society owes him a debt:

> In the 1970s, lead in the atmosphere peaked to historic highs. It has since cratered to medieval levels. [...] A 2002 study in Environmental Health Perspectives found that, by the late 1990s, the IQ of the average preschooler had risen five points.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-scienti...
Could we stop posting links to paywalled content, for crying out loud? Or at least require that it be marked? Most news is available somewhere without a subscription.
Yeah it's called a rockoon! https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rockoon
You get the benefit of altitude, but not of horizontal velocity.
I buy gas from across the street for 3 dollars a gallon. I sell it for 2. I sell 1.5 million dollars an hour. My business is doing great.
As a kiwi myself, I'm genuinely curious about what drugs are advertised in NZ. I can't recall any such advertisements, apart from maybe flu pills that contain pseudo-ephedrine?
This statistical comparison is completely irrelevant because it has totally different type of distribution. You can look at car accidents of last 10 years and confidently say next year will have X deaths in car accident.

Terrorism however has a fat tailed distribution. All your last 20 years of data is useless if some Buddhist terrorist managed to bring a small nuclear weapon in a downtown of some large American city or some Hindu monk poisoned public water distribution system with some deadly poison or some Amish lady releases anthrax in an amusement park.

Threat of terrorism may not be as sever as worth destroying Iraq or Syria or travel ban. May be US government's policies are actually increasing that threat instead of lowering it but that sort of comparison should be used on HN simply because it is incorrect.
> People were saying the same thing about Twitter forever and turned out to be largely wrong.

Twitter lost 456 million dollars in 2016 [1] and I don't remember them ever being profitable so i don't know how those people are wrong.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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Are we talking about the same twitter? My understanding is they are not doing some well currently. Just because the doors are open for business doesn't mean said business is thriving.

Also, twitter is a platform that has exclusivity. Uber is easily replaceable with Lyft or a taxi service's app. Just because a friend is using Uber doesn't mean I have to. The same doesn't apply to twitter, the platform is the value. This is what kept and keeps twitter afloat, Uber on the other hand paved the way for a shift in the way we consume cars as a service.
If acidity is a concern, you might want to try cold brew. It's considerably less acidic.
Ah yeah for sure. I guess I was specifically asking for you. That's why I didn't want it sounding like I'm just dismissing Google+. If you don't want to share, that's fine.
> If Uber raises [prices] 6%, the revenue Uber [receives] will decrease.

You are assuming facts not in evidence. If you don't know Uber's price elasticity of demand, you can't predict that. It is likely that the number of rides will decrease, but, if it decreases by less than ~6%, their total revenue will increase.
Maybe but even if all of that were true it has no bearing on pharmaceuticals encouraging irresponsible over-prescribing and over use of their opioid based medication.
> And what most people miss, is that the 3.4 billion is the 30% cut Uber takes from a ride. Prices don't have to rise 20% to break even, prices have to rise 6%

No, they have to rise by more than that. Your math is technically correct (a 6% rise gives you an extra $700 million), but you are assuming that the price increase goes entirely to Uber. There is no way Uber can increase prices by 6% and give none of that upside to their drivers - they would flee to platforms offering better terms (like Lyft).

If Uber was to be profitable this past quarter they wouldn't have needed an extra $700 million in fares, but an extra 2.3 billion - which is a 20% rise.
Um, Twitter is still not making a profit and their 2017 business plan seems to consist primarily of layoffs.
The reason they can make so much money is in part due to their lack of ethics and willingness to break rules/regulations. They haven't done anything extraordinary; they're just more willing to engage in shady behavior for that extra buck.
You are more likely to be struck by lightning, then killed by a terrorist. That doesn't mean that we should spend billions of dollars on outfitting every man, woman, and child, with a Faraday cage.

If you do insist on spending billions of dollars to deal with terrorism, though, perhaps you could look at dealing with the root causes that breed dejected, anti-social, and radicalized young men (Who tend to either join terror cells, or an army.) As a bonus, you'll also probably save quite a lot of people from opiates.
I want to point out that a bunch of things are rolled into this announcement:

- Skylake is now generally available

- Broadwell is now globally visible

- "Extended Memory" custom machine types are now in Beta

I decided to focus on Skylake as GA for the title, but depending on your interest these other announcements may be good to know as well. In particular, this changes the historical "us-central1-a is the oldest zone" into "us-central1-a is a better choice than 1-f".

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud (and want to sell you cores)

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Uber is his one investment that people other than himself consider successful.

He wrote a book about what a genius he is for investing in a hundred companies and having one of them be Uber.

He's going to have to revise the book to talk about his coffee machine startup.
You can mitigate the acidity somewhat by having mocha or adding milk or creamer.

Acidity is a big bugaboo for me and I tend to take my coffee as either mocha or with two cream, one sugar.
Are you talking about successful destabilization efforts by terrorists, or societies destabilizing themselves as a reaction to threats of terrorism? Maybe they're the same?
I agree completely. I also feel for all the pain patients out there that are now being targeted for needing medication. The crazy restrictions the DEA has placed and the fact that virtually every doctor is now terrorized into refusing to prescribe any sort of opioid is hurting real people. We are going about this the wrong way.
Ask HN: Trying to land a 100% remote job, how risky are contract-to-hire gigs?
I'd like to migrate to a 100% remote work lifestyle and have a potential lead: a 3 month contract to hire at $25/hr (a net loss compared to my current job) and $75-85k + "partial benefits" (a net gain) if hired.

It's a web dev role with a stack I am very familiar with, so I'm not concerned about performing poorly.

For those HNers who are familiar with remote/contract to hire jobs, does this seem like a risk worth taking to try to break into the 100% remote work life style?

I'm concerned about leaving my current position and then not getting hired at the end of the contract for reasons outside of my control (i.e. budget constraints on the employer side).

A little background: I currently work a stable job as a senior developer with a company I've been with since I graduated from college 3 years ago. I work from home once a week.

Any advice would be much appreciated.
the plane structure is all carbon/CFRP. you can see in the earlier pictures in the hangar before.

http://www.stratolaunch.com/gallery.html

the black is cfrp under the white paint.

Scaled Composites has some secret CFRP processes of construction which non Americans are not allowed to know about under ITAR regulations, so i cannot tell you haha.
To be fair, you need both.

Going after pharma companies / doctors reduces the supply and cuts down on new addictions. Decriminalizing and destigmatizing helps existing addictions.
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Living in a large dense city where cars move slowly and most people use rapid transit goes a long way towards this. (And also costs you.)
Security (code signing, timing determinism, large API attack surface, complex javascript interpreter/jit),
performance (obvious deficit between an IR bytecode and jit, static analysis vs runtime checks),
concurrency (how many cores on your new 2017 box? By 2027?), features (the p/nacl api let you do more, like access devices for video/graphics/audio; instead it will be an implementation specific thing; networking - open sockets to unrelated hosts; same origin is a straight jacket),
elegance (wasm/asm.js/js is just hack, hack, hack; thanks Mozilla),
maturity (just bugs need time to be sorted).
maybe try that again keeping 4 spaces before each line?
Even a small fine is a big start because if someone gets a small fine for bad behavior in court, and they repeat that behavior, they get a much larger penalty the second time around for willfully disregarding the court ruling about their illegal conduct. If the pharmaceutical companies get a small fine, it's a good bet that they won't be repeating that behavior.
Are you sure they were wrong about twitter? It still loses money. I am not saying that twitter isn't valuable, it just may have been overvalued. You certainly lost money if you bought stock in it five years ago.
Many of my friends open both Lyft and Uber. They choose whichever is cheaper. Sure, Lyft might take a few more minutes to arrive. If you time it well ahead, it does not cost you more time. For me, I would rather take Lyft even if it is a little more expensive and takes a little longer. I hope Lyft catches up and makes it a real competition, which benefits consumers eventually.
You're a 100% right here. This is America though and we love to vilify corporations.
>I have a feeling the company making billions of dollars in revenue has some smart people who figured out how not to mess this up.

see: enron
My wife was facing a burnout at the work. She was needlessly scared and suffered panic attacks. It is something I have gone through too and coped. But in her case because I love her more than I love myself I decided to take her to a doctor who then refereed her to a psychologist who then prescribed her drugs which on quick research appeared to be his plan to keep her on those forever. My expectation was that the doctor would suggest her some mild drugs and ask to take up Yoga or some other hobbies and assure her that everything is in fact alright with her.

He on other hand made a big deal out of whole thing.

We decided to trash all the medicines and lived happily without any issues.

My doctors have given me opioids so many times and I typically throw them out. Why take a substance like that if pain is bearable ?
These are really great questions I would love someone to shed light on.
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Thank you. Your 2 is an aspect I hadn't thought of at all. In reference to sentencing disparity, I was referring to the 100:1 (pre 2010, now only(!) 18:1) difference in sentencing for crack vs coke
There is quite a few, for example. Two at the top of my head (without googling) it are:

- Vine.co,
- pokemon.club,

I'm sure there's a few more examples out there floating around.

I personally feel if you have a unique name that's preferably easy to spell, a lot of your traffic would come from google search or maybe via social media page anyway.

Sure, if .com is available, certainly get it, however, I guess it also depends somewhat your audience too, whether they're tech savvy to the stage where having a non . com could be trendy and new. :)
exactly. This has already happened to me. I had surgery and was sent home for several days of agonizing pain with "extra strength tylenol." I was informed that it was now hospital policy not to prescribe take-home opioids due to the "opioid epidemic." ftr I have never had a problem with opiates before, and I've had them in the past when I broke my arm, and when I had my wisdom teeth removed.
I'd like to help. I've been 100% remote for 7 years. Email me (it's in my profile).
But yeah I mean, wasn't that all true, albeit to a lesser extent, by 2005-2006, when the 3 mid-00 companies were fully launching?

I agree, HotelTonight fills a specific niche and maybe that's what we'll see more of. A few sites filling niches. Trip.com itself also has to do some more superficial than substantial features to try to differentiate itself.

And maybe Hipmunk was always more hype than actually being big with it being a YC company and by a reddit co-founder.
And I think it goes both ways. The firee takes it less personally, the firer doesn't feel as rude.
It is much harder to integrate bumpers and lights than software products. There is a whole sales cycle in the auto industry based around new model years. The bumper factory and the grill factory have to bid for the new model. Then the automation supplier helps them re-tool their manufacturing line. The logistics companies set up routes between the new bid winners, etc.
I read that the amounts recommended by producers are often such that the effect reliably wears off before the next dose is due. This is a sure way to form an addiction.
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E.T. is only the worst game due to its context - the hype around the movie, the initial sales, and the fact that it was Warshaw, who did Yars Revenge, was its creator.

There are far lamer 2600 games, at least in my opinion. It is confusing and frustrating - but go play some Atari 2600 as so many of its games fit that bill.
If you could extract branch information from fabric tasks, and then merge the branch with associated deployment handled by GitLab CI, the workflow would be the simplest one.
For that reason maybe you could investigate more on your idea of parsing the task description, it could be a single point that solves the matter.

As a side note, if you want to disable CI for a specific commit you can just use [skip ci] or [ci skip] in the commit message and no pipeline is created for that specific case.
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I read that in the article too. But, I still wonder: could it be that the annual salary of a worker is not the end of the story? In other words, if the process is so slow in the US, and an American project takes 2 years instead of 1 year (for a comparable Japanese or French project), then costs are effectively double.

Also, I don't think the article mentions the benefits costs: healthcare and pension costs for government and union workers in the US are higher than in other countries.
The fact they're losing money like this doesn't really mean anything because Uber isn't a normal business. It's not some little mom & pop outfit that has bills to pay. This is a company whose investors (e.g. the Saudis) have so much cash a billion here and a billion there barely matters.

It's a place for absurdly wealthy people to park vast sums of cash on the bet that Uber will continue to gobble up marketshare from taxi companies, etc., until they're in a position to disrupt transit in general (and ride sharing services, too) with self-driving cars and who knows what else they'll come up with.

I don't think comparisons with Twitter are all that apt. People need to go from point A to B. No one needs to tweet. The network effect of social networks is valuable but I think that value pales in comparison to transportation. The way we pay backs up this premise: we pay for Twitter and Facebook with our eyeballs and our data, but we pay for Uber with our credit cards.
>"Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud (and want to sell you cores)"

Can you share exactly what you do on GCE?
It is a very competitive market. Customers are price-sensitive. I have many friends who open both Uber and Lyft and take whichever is cheaper. Right now, their prices are very close. If Uber raises 6%, their revenue will drop in my area. Besides, if it is that easy to turn a profit, Uber would have done it a while ago. A profitable business is much easier to justify under the current circumstances.
Well, it's taught up until grade 11, because the vast majority of students cannot learn to write without major mistakes up until grade 11 of 3-4 days a week of 40 min Russian classes. This is purely Russian spelling - not Russian literature. Russian literature is a separate class.

To put it in perspective, that is the same amount of time you spend learning math and 2x more than you spend learning history, geography, physics, etc.

In fact, in the school where I went to where English is taught as a second language, after 7 years, English becomes English Literature. So I learned to write English without mistakes before learning to write Russian without mistakes being a native Russian speaker, regularly writing in Russian and never interacting with native English speakers.

Sounding out words is not the issue. The issue is writing correctly in ambiguous cases.

Here is a good example:

http://videotutor-rusyaz.ru/uchenikam/teoriya/144-pravopisan...

This deals with whether you put one letter н or two in adjectives suffixes. Basically it depends on a lot of factors and there are many exceptions. There are also other suffixes each of which has specific rules based on a number of factors such as what the root of the word is, how it is formed, and the meaning of the word.

This one single issue is already more complex than anything in English.

There are a ton of other suffix and word conjugation issues you have to worry about.

The only rule in English that I can think of where you have to interpret a sentence in your head before saying it is "I" vs "me".

Example:

He told Tom and me to get ready.

vs

If John and I get married, we’ll have two kids.
The point was reaching destabilization through drug use, which seems to have happened in China, despite the reason. i.e. Chinese are not more susceptible to being drug addicts than any other grouping, so it's noteworthy that policies resulted in such widespread addiction. Therefore, the policies are worth studying as they serve as a red flag for all future generations.
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> Lyft came to town and probably 80% of the drivers solely use them now, driving up the Uber prices.

Where is this and what facts is this number based on ?

In Australia for example Lyft is simply non existent. And sure it's a smaller market but it demonstrates that Uber's aggressive international expansion strategy is the right one.

> Plus, most of the Uber drivers are shady

Pretty libellous, ridiculous and unfair thing to say.
It's certainly a terrible game, and a product of Atari trying to get it done quickly and on the cheap.

But I think the whole 'world's worst video game' thing may be a tad overblown. I mean, mechanically it loses out there to stuff like Big Rigs, Superman 64 and Bubsy 3D.

It's just gotten a somewhat exaggerated status due to being one of the causes of the video game crash and being a massive business failure for Atari.
> until they're in a position to disrupt transit in general (and ride sharing services, too) with self-driving cars and who knows what else they'll come up with.

Considering they have a lawsuit against their self driving program [1], I wouldn't put so much faith on that

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/30/uber-fire...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-results-idUSKBN18R3EQ
You make a good point. Surely there's a way statistics account for this "damage potential". How do statistics treat things like nuclear incidents, etc?
Here in Chicagoland in the 80's we had the Eenie meanie of the article, but also this variant:

Eenie, meanie, hippa-teeny
A la la-la booba-leenie
Atchie, katchie, booba-latchie
Out goes you

Then a whole slew of other rhymes used for picking 'it' in a game of tag, hide and seek, scatter beans, kick the can, etc.
My hypothesis there would be, those people are prequalified—the fact that they're consuming opioids means that they 1. have money and 2. are willing to spend that money on drugs to fix their suffering. Selling them an add-on drug that relieves the suffering from the first drug seems like "easy money."
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but when I click on your username I don't see an email address listed.
> Now, I only use Lyft - as do most of the people.

Define most people. As far as I could tell Uber has a far bigger user base and market share. So I'm not sure how Lyft could suddenly be used the most.

During the whole #DeleteUber protest it took longer to get an Uber at my house in the bay area. Lyft was quicker for about two weeks. Then it shifted back. Now I can't get a Lyft in under 20 minutes whereas Uber is usually 5-8 minutes away.

My experience is anecdotal but I see no evidence to suggest yours was not as well. If there is something showing Lyft taking over a larger slice of the pie then please post it.
The per-message cost of AWS Kinesis is extremely tiny.

If your company's recent article, Scaling NSQ to 750 Billion Messages, is an accurate count of messages you'd put through Kinesis, that would cost around $11,000 over the entire lifetime of the system in per-message fees by my calculations.

That seems like a rather trivial cost.

If you expand this analysis to include the per-shard costs, assuming perfect and constant utilization over a four year period, delivering 750 billion messages would require (assuming 1kb messages) an average of 6 active shards at $11.25 per shard-month. You can scale these up and down dynamically, so real-world efficiency doesn't have to be wildly different.

If I were to complain about Kinesis, cost would not be my complaint. The limit of 5 reads per second per shard creates a hard floor on latency. Kafka can definitely beat that!

From an outsider's perspective, I would not dismiss Kinesis so quickly on cost alone. Lock-in and the product's actual limits seem like bigger problems.

EDIT: As an aside, don't forget to add the inter-AZ bandwidth cost into your Kafka equation if you want a true apples-to-apples comparison because Kinesis writes the messages to three availability zones.
Fascinating! I can see how synchronization across distributed systems would cause problems -- lots of requests against the same type of resource at the same time, for example, resulting in a thundering herd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem) -- but also how it could be absolutely what you want (like if you want to synchronize clocks across systems, which I guess is exactly what's going on in the OP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_synchronization).
Your cited sites don't care for the reason. But Germany had a lot of immigration of people which make more money in Germany than they could at home, but less than the more native population.

Singles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/11/19/the-bi...
Even in San Francisco, widely known for its public transit system, not having a car some of the time sucks. It's much more convenient to get around by car. That's why Uber and Zipcar are ultra popular here.