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Are you joking? The only point of doing private sector research is to build something out of it. We receive those advances as new products.

And NASA doesn't gift it's advances to americans, it shares technologies with private companies that share them in the exact same way. You and I still had to pay for our Tang, it was never free.

NASA is a huge inefficient bureaucracy hamstrung by a fickle and corrupt congress. As brilliant as it's engineers are, and they are very brilliant, their projects are extremely fragile, often getting canceled or not funded for ridiculous reasons, or having ridiculous conditions applied to them that slow development (such as parting work out to the less qualified across many congressional districts).

The largest project NASA is investing most of it's resources in is the SLS. It's not revolutionary. It's not a significant advance. It's just a large launch system that's mostly re-using old technologies. It does nothing to lower launch costs. It does nothing to advance re-usablity. It's not a solution to making deep space manned space exploration economically viable.

Any engineers who work on the SLS are engineers denied to SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA, Sierra Nevada, or a dozen more cost-efficient space launch companies. NASA's competition for engineers raises engineering costs for everyone else. It's wasteful investment in a pork barrel project like SLS diverts revenues that could fund far more efficient launch systems at private companies, and give NASA far more manned launch capacity and much sooner.

Right now engineers at private companies are doing far more to advance economically viable space travel than NASA. Let's thank NASA for the Saturn program, but realize that everything they've done since has been hugely wasteful of resources and detrimental to advancing the cause of space travel.
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We've banned this account for violating the HN guidelines. Would you please not create accounts to do that with?
How useful are scrapers that don't execute Javascript these days? I find Selenium + PhantomJS (now Chrome Headless I guess) is pretty easy to drive from Python, and it works everywhere because it's a real browser.
Nah, almost all mainstream (and even most non-mainstream) distros are basically equal. Seriously, maybe I'm wrong but I don't think that's an issue.

As long as your distro doesn't replace glibc for e.g. musl or bionic, and has all the usual GNU (and X11, and DBus if you need that) userland, i.e. no odd stuff - there is no much difference. Most of the time things just work. Normally, the only time you'll have to "write software for some specific distribution" is when the distribution is unusual in its ways, but you still want to target it.

That is, unless you need to target some specific library version that's higher or lower than the usually available, incompatible with the usual version, and you don't want to have a statically-linked release variant. E.g. something that would work only with Qt5.2 but not with Qt5.6. Don't see why not to just throw it all in a tarball and call it a release. Saw this done many times, I just unpacked it, ran it - and it worked.

And that is if that's you who package your software. Usually, some user just takes it further and becomes a maintainer (or a co-maintainer, or just a volunteer who submits patches).
other machines. much more efficiently too. programming those machines is gap work
Hiya, I'm Patrick and I work on Atlas. I'm sorry about that -- that rejection appears to have been a mistake; I'll fix it for you (check your inbox in a few minutes, please) and look into fixing the underlying cause more broadly.
Really, your organization isn't prepared to handle an emergency leap second? Tsk, tsk.. /s
Is UBI likely to diminish the purchasing power of the many?
Fossil fuel is stored chemical energy. Burning it releases the energy. Photovoltaic solar power is converting one type of energy (light) into another (electricity), with the waste heat being the same waste heat the light would've created by shining on something else. Solar thermal energy is using the heat from the sun to do work (which may include heating oils, air, or water to drive a turbine to generate electricity) or to generate electricity (using, say, thermal-piezo conversion).

The only effective ways we have to store solar power are batteries, supercapacitors (once they're viable), large heat masses (such as stone or water), growing plants, or putting energy into chemicals for later storage (electrolysis and storing the hydrogen, forming artificial hydrocarbons, recycling aluminum for aluminum/air power cells, pumping water uphill to power a turbine later, pressurizing gases to later drive a turbine, stuff like that).

Not all of the things I mentioned work at every scale. Some of them are more efficient than others. They may all have advantages and drawbacks.
Not everyone is able to cross in the allotted time. This isn't a principal'd thing, but a reality.
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That's right, but note that the replacement rate depends on mortality rates and any gender-bias for either birth or mortality. Generally birth rates below 2.1 are consider "sub-replacement", but it can be much higher in some locales (due to disease, war, etc). Here are some per-continent population projections:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_population_(UN...

(Interestingly, the above chart was created about 10 years ago; I do wonder how accurate it's been.)
Tor will help you by hiding your identity so they will be in a dead end when they sue and try to find you.

And yes of course you can also use Tor to contact them anonymously before disclosing.
I'm Finnish too. $52.6k USD / year translates to 4k EUR / month, which is not a low wage in Finland by any definition. (Remember that the employer pays about 25% on top of that in mandatory pensions and social security, so if you're going to compare to other countries, the true cost to the employer is about $65k USD.)

Also, nothing stops you from negotiating a higher wage. If you think you're worth more, ask for it. I don't really understand what you're complaining about.
Please name any innovative research NASA is currently doing that will lower the cost of manned space travel. They are wasting $20B+ building a non-reusable launch system based on 1970s technology.

The future of space flight has to be cost effective. It almost certainly requires re-usabilty. Nowadays, SpaceX and Blue Origin are doing far more important research and actual development than NASA is. Thank you NASA for all the core technologies you've developed. But now that you have become hostage to congress and massive pork spending, and focused on creating massively uneconomic systems like the SLS, please get out of the way.
"MUST have the planes full if they're going to make any money".

But, we're talking about bumping passengers off a planes that is already full. The passenger already for a ticket on a plane that is full. Now, they're getting kicked out because of pure greed to make more money by the airline. I'd still be pissed.

It's like Jerry seinfeld said. "You know how to take a reservation, but don't know how to hold a reservation."
> Our tests ran almost as fast as they do on a MacBook.

This doesn't seem like glowing praise to me? If I'm paying 50$ per month for a container, I want it to be faster than a laptop...
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Phoenix,+AZ/@33.4437866,-1...

Looks like good progress. Less penetration into the residential areas, but progress.
Salting is incredibly effective. Without salting, the entire power of the attacker can be used against all password hashes at once. With salting, those millions of hashes per second translates to only being able to crack simple passwords, or only the passwords of a few users.
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Except they could throw it on to Steam for Linux - it's a business decision not to put it on there and let Valve take 30%.
I've had much better luck using npm.im/styled-components. The trouble with the techniques laid out in this article is that they depend on humans performing tasks that machines are better at. Even on a small team, this is a losing proposition.

If you haven't started using styled-components yet, listen to this talk where Max Stoiber (one of the authors) explains what it is and how it can help you organize your CSS better: https://youtu.be/bIK2NwoK9xk
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That's exactly the path I'm interested in following.
Certainly lower than many people would prefer, but when you consider the population of the US is about 330mil or so... that's about 3% of the country's population that willing went out of their way to take action.

I find that pretty incredible for something most people don't talk about or even know of.
This seems like a small price to pay.
Heh, pitbulls. I was at the crowded dog park one weekend and this family showed up with a muzzled pitbull. The first thing it did was attack my dog. Even with the muzzle on it was able to nip my dog in the ass a few times before it got pulled off.

But that's not about the pitbull. It's about the asshole who brought his pre-muzzled dog to a dog park knowing it was vicious.
This is how I ran my web agency back in 2007, to some decent success. "Hollywood" model, of a small network of trusted contractors, we'd find a client and come together to work on the project.

Hardest part was ensuring the contracts in place were fair and strong, but once that was done it was mostly smooth sailing.
Here's an exact demo of the problem
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJrcvFivaKI

I don't think police get pleasure from doing this sort of thing, they're amped up and trying to defend life in the end.
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Yep, I also missed Kotlin. I technically missed Clojure too, because I rushed and hit Emacs Lisp before actually fully reading the example and all the answers.
> The only way this statement is different than how the Federal Reserve works is that Bitcoin is voluntary

Not at all.

Until 1971, a dollar bill was just a piece of paper. However, the US government would redeem it for gold. The US had thousands of tons of gold at Fort Knox. It held tons of gold elsewhere as well.

It also has and had the ability to tax, and collect taxes, the world's largest military and so forth.

In 1971, the gold window was shut. Dollar/commodity ratios did not immediately change much. Why? Because an announcement that the gold window was opening up again would end any problem.

The US still holds thousands of tons of gold at Fort Knox. Germany is repatriating its gold back to Germany. Why? Why spend so much guarding gold?

The answer is the gold implicitly backs the dollar. Any currency panic can be immediately stemmed by an announcement that the gold window is open.

I mean since 2008 there's been plenty of discussion of how the US financial sector grows not only by FDIC assurances, but the implicit assurance that when banks are in trouble, like the 1980s S&Ls, or the 2008 banks, that the taxpayer will bail out the banks. There has been a lot of literature on this, and you can read it if you want.

If banks are implicitly backed by the US government, as they obviously are, then dollar convertibility is even more backed by the US government, even if it is not official policy.

Otherwise, why does the taxpayer pay to guard tons of gold in Fort Knox?
That's just a lot of hand-waving, if the author is so confident about his rebuttal he should be able to provide a model for it. This person did at least attempt to simulate something along the lines of an ideal LN, which showed that micropayments do not do very well at all due to the combination of fees accrued at each hop:

https://hackernoon.com/simulating-a-decentralized-lightning-...

This thread on the same story discusses other issues with LN proposals, one that stands out to me is how routing is going to work if all nodes are perfectly equal - routing on the internet relies on a hub model, seems likely that a decentralised routing protocol adds even more complexity and resource requirements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14759965

The trouble of course is that LN is just a bunch of proposals right now, each promising to fix all of Bitcoin's issues without removing all of its unique features. When it actually exists then I'll revisit, but until then I'll treat it as another piece of vapourware.
If NASA hires a bunch of private companies to build the subsystems for the SLS, they are hiring engineers away from Blue Origin, SpaceX, ULA, etc. Those engineers may not work for NASA, or have worked at SpaceX, etc, but it's the same end.

And the SLS is a boondoggle, so the efforts of those engineers will be totally wasted.
The Democrats are basically Republicans-lite and have been for decades but that's neither here nor there with regard to the point I'm making.
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Went to July 4th BBQ and someone had brought their dog. "Oh, be careful, he's a jumper." By default, most dogs are jumpers. So what this person was actually announcing to the rest of us is "I have failed to train this dog, and I accept no responsibility for that failure, nor any consequences for it." There were children present and I am very grateful that our hosts asked the person to take their dog away. The abject cluelessness of bringing a "jumper" to party with children to watch fireworks is beyond me.

The article makes light of dog bites. "Fear of a dog bite resulted in a child getting shot." I have a family member with permanent disfiguration from a dog bite. Dog bites are serious and can result in permanent disability or death. Likewise, bullet wounds are serious. How we arrive at the conclusion that the police are the problem is nonsense. Clearly the dogs are the problem. Dog owners: Do not bring your volatile, weaponized AI into public spaces. I've witnessed 100lb persons lose control of a 150lb dog. And people were surprised. Dog bites child's face off. "How did this happen?" Bonus points for complaining about gun control while being pulled around by "my big babywaby".

Did author manage to find one incident where the action appeared to be unjustified? Sure. Take care of it. But that doesn't magically make the problem of uncontrolled violent animals in public spaces a bad-policing issue.
I'd say there's a difference between reducing spending overall, which I would agree they don't do (even Trump's budget in large part is about significant increases to military spending, for example), and reducing spending on particular causes, which I don't think is so far-fetched.
Hey, this is HN. I'd love to discuss how I'm wrong or have someone provide links to refute anything I've said rather than random downvotes for posting something with unpleasant ramifications.
I'd rather NASA cancel the SLS instead of spend $2B per launch, when they can then go ahead and contract with SpaceX and Blue Origin to launch similar vehicles for less than $200M per launch.
Phantom still gets blocked, as it reveals itself in the header.

I've had success with a headless Chrome instance in a virtual display (xvfb) driven with Selenium, backed by Postgres. It's as close you can get to scripting a real browser.
I did, and "seems" is a subjective term, and a matter of opinion, no?
>Scott agrees that habitats around mining operations will be impacted. Still, based on his experience, he says, “I think [the effects] will be less substantial” than mining on land, which is known to have catastrophic environmental consequences ranging from acid mine drainage that pollutes water to toxic clouds of dust. “None of those things will be a problem in the ocean,” Scott says.

So people are worried that a scientific expedition that vastly increases our knowledge of our world is controversial because it will make mining easier/more profitable?!?

Per the quote above that it will be less damaging than the current mining we do on land. We should be doing everything to make this type of deep ocean mining more economical. In addition, it should be easier to enforce environmental regulations on deep ocean mining as the mining operations will be international waters and susceptible to visits by various navies and interested parties on boats. This would also help with a lot of the problems we have with land mining (opacity to the outside world, conflict materials, human rights abuses, displacement of existing populations due to mine locations).

This opposition just seems very illogical.
A fair few of those provisions are (or, well, were... thanks to the Coalition gutting them over the last few years) mandated in Australian law for most industries (with different values for each industry). I think those sorts of provisions should be extended to everyone!
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That document doesn't make an overwhelming case for Google or Apple "working with" intelligence agencies. But I haven't read the original Powerpoint, so maybe I'm simply ignorant of the facts.

As opposed to the likes of AT&T and Verizon. Which we know were actively cooperating with the NSA.

More likely is that perhaps individual Apple or Google employees were suborned, or the NSA took advantage of weaknesses. E.g. IIRC Google wasn't encrypting traffic between its data centers, Apple had a "goto fail" bug, etc. Why bother forcing companies to cooperate if you can instead take what you want without asking?

Let me ask you this: Do you think that Eric Schmidt or Sergey Brin or Larry Page or Steve Jobs or Tim Cook said something like "OK, lets give the NSA what they want."

I don't think so. More likely, if Google and Apple knew at all, they simply acquiesced to what they thought were legal court orders.
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Lumosity et al. activities train different parts of the brain than the ones required for executive function. I'd recommend taking "Learning How to Learn" on Coursera to get perfunctory understanding of how various mental activities relate to neural activity, but tldr synopsis is that if you want to flex the executive function, prolonged periods of concentrated activity (reading a book, focused meditation) and sleep are best bets.
Can you point us to a longer explanation of this? I'd be interested in the pros/cons.

I'm wary of deployment solutions that lock into a particular technology. That's why I prefer declarative infrastructure, like what you('re supposed to) get with Ansible.
There are a multitude of different dev environments I don't think we need a new one that will probably have less effort invested than current popular environments.
Because most large cities (at least in America) are loud, cramped, polluted, with horrible traffic and hit-and-miss public transportation, the schools are usually worse, and if you want space for even minor luxuries like a small workshop for personal projects, home office, rec-room, or other standard features of a typical middle-class American house, you better be willing to pay through the nose for it. Paying through the nose goes for just about everything else in the city as well. Plus you won't get to use your personal property as an investment, because you likely won't have any living in a city.

Add in a lot of NIMBY residents who don't want any new residents moving into their neighborhoods, good luck making the city appealing to anyone who doesn't REALLY want to live there, or else has some business opportunity that makes living in the city worth their while.

Here in the states IMO we'd do better by making suburban lifestyles more efficient. Between electric cars, renewables and more efficient tech of all stripes coming around there's no reason we shouldn't be able to get suburban houses down to carbon-neutral. The amount of transformation major cities would have to undergo to appeal to suburban populations is just unrealistic by comparison.
> Not to sound like an anti-intellectual, but it could be a mistake to assume that innovation comes from academia

It isn't that innovation necessarily comes from academia, but that academia is a reflection of how wealthy and educated the population is. Innovation comes from the wealthy and the educated. So as china gets wealthier, they will innovate more.

> It is a general observation that east asian cultures tend to suppress risk-taking and innovation.

That's an "observation" based on racism and nonsense.

> just that overall there may be asymmetry.

Based on what evidence? It's just silly things people say - "The west is more individualistic". A society based on "white supremacy" is "individualistic"? How is basing one's ideology on "race - a genetic/communal" concept individualistic.

All these things are essentially nonsense created by people who want to sell books/etc. There is no truth.

You could write a book saying the west is collectivistic and china is individualistic by cherrypicking any data.

> So, have all the smartest people you want, doing all the research you want; but if they have no pressure to put that research to practice, nor a desire or support to take the risks associated with implementation then you might as well have nobody doing anything.

What makes you think they won't?

Greed works on the chinese as much as westerners. The things you need to "innovate" are wealth and security. Innovation is a luxury. The chinese will innovate as they get wealth and security.

The chinese are risk averse and yet they love gambling. They are risk averse and chinese have immigrated all over the world.
These ones are slower in most cases, it seems for some situations the ones that dont execute js would better do the job.
This made me wonder if there's been efforts to fork golang and add generics as a proof of concept? In theory it should be much easier than a few of the crazy things people have done with c over the years?
Tree planting was another inspiration for the idea and it has similar 6 week on, 2week off schedules based around camps. I have friends who talk about it like it was the most gruelling difficult work of their lives. Yet they look back on it and talk with a nostalgia like it was some of the best times of the life.

There are lots of examples of these types of work environments but none with the "coddled tech worker" sort of vibe.
The ARC (and L2ARC on an SSD) give you the best possible IOPs for read operations given the limits of the underlying hardware. Asynchronous write operations are cached to memory before being written to disk, often sequentially. For synchronous writes, you should use a ZIL on a mirrored SSD.
I wish there had been a website were I could read advice from LEOs to the software developers as to how ridiculous their current practices are and how to improve them.
Thanks, Patrick! You've made a fan out of me.
For example, whether a photograph is beautiful is measured by its aesthetic value, which is a highly subjective concept.

Oh really.
Not quite so. Farmers don't have to reassure their cows that they care about them. Plus they do care, even if for completely selfish reasons.
For sure, but I can't get insurance (hurricane or otherwise) on a home built to 1000 year previous standards. Do I care if the house can't cool itself naturally? I don't; I can't get a mortgage on it because I can't get insurance on it if its not built to current code. Hence why we run into this problem (which will be solved with more efficient AC and renewable energy).
Apple are a hardware company… they don't make money unless you buy their hardware.
I'm a bit fuzzy on what business insurance actually means? I operate a few small online companies and what protection would Cover provide? Lawsuits? What about credit card chargebacks? Vendors/clients failing to pay invoices?