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Not so much; it's more or less a drop-in replacement. Improvements to our workflow and build tooling are needed, but we were able to make the switch without changing much.

We do have our own patches scattered throughout core React stuff, so it was tricky carrying those over. Also needed to build React from the commit before they destroyed React.PropTypes & React.createClass because many third-party libs still need those.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll be providing some screenshots and video in the coming days, but really wanted to gauge interest asap. Please stay tuned.
Interesting video about WhatsApp leaking your private info
Bill Fernandez (Apple Employee #4) did a nice interview last year where he talked about (among other things) the origins of Apple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca-LXxMpveE

In it he talks about how Steve Jobs and company were just immersed in a technological community from a young age. They had after-school tech clubs (that the kids actually wanted to go to) as early as elementary school, virtually every Dad on the street was an engineer... yeah, no shit they created Apple. Not discounting the skills of Jobs and Woz, but they had about the most fertile soil possible in which to grow a tech company and a network of contacts from childhood. Listening to that piece made me insanely jealous. Would have killed for that kind of community as a kid.
Same experience here (first DBC cohort). I ended up not being able to make end to end Rails apps, which fortunately didn't matter since it gave enough of a springboard to get into the industry. But I also didn't feel it delivered on what I really needed it to, which was to provide help I can't find on my own and a steady stream of good job leads.

Never underestimate the benefit of being around motivated people.
Depends on your course load. My EE courses forced you to do this (and then forced you to do it in hardware... on a crappy chip that I swear lacked an overflow bit, but my memory is fuzzy).
The main thing NASA needs to land people on Mars (or the Moon for that matter) is a lander. NASA does not have one, nor is one being funded. All the other details for Mars can be done with variants of what already exists or will fly shortly (commercial crew vehicles or even Soyuz, ISS modules for a transfer craft, launch vehicles like the EELVs used by the military or Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy, in-orbit docking and propellant transfer which is commonly used on the Space Station, etc). If you see a lander being developed and tested, then you know you have a serious human space exploration program.

NASA has sufficient funding for accomplishing a human Mars landing. But not the political freedom to direct that funding where it's most critical (i.e. a lander).

SpaceX, on the other hand, is developing this technology for a lander. Their reuse technology for Falcon 9 proved for the first time the feasibility of supersonic retropropulsion, a CRITICAL technology needed for a human-scale Mars lander. A vertically landing reusable upper stage, which SpaceX intends to develop next (after block 5 Falcon 9) as part of their Mars rocket plans, is essentially a Mars lander prototype.

SpaceX, even though they have less funding and have to rely on funding from commercial launches (as well as capital used for developing commercially viable hardware, like the constellation) to develop their Mars lander, is thus on a better and surer path to Mars than NASA.

This is SpaceX's Mars architecture in a nutshell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA

In order to pay for it, they will develop a smaller (but still tremendously huge) and more economical version of the rocket shown in that video to replace Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. They will use it to launch and maintain their 12,000 satellite megaconstellation (thousands of satellites per year), something that would BARELY be feasible with their partially reusable Falcon architecture (but not feasible with expendable rockets) but which fits nicely and economically into the capability of their subscale Mars rocket. This way, they can leverage capital they'll raise for their megaconstellation to build the primary pieces of their human Mars transportation architecture.
This is a perspective from a very specific environment. If you live in a dense city, chances are you won't get to keep your car near you house or the other places you're going to, so you'll have to walk in the rain to and from it. Plus, European gas prices feel like surge pricing every day :|
Thank you very much for the information.
84% of Americans See Homeownership as Good Investment, Affordability a Concern
Ask HN: Online Phones (ala Google Voice), Opinions?
So I'm currently working on migrating my life away from Google. Not any grand reason, I just don't want to get accidentally banned and have my entire life come to a halt.

So, my progress currently is:

Browser: Chrome -> Safari / Firefox
Search: Google -> Duckduckgo
Phone: Pixel -> iPhone (eventually)
Email: Gmail -> FastMail
Phone: Google Voice -> ???

As you can see, I'm not sure what to do for online phone. For the past.. I dunno, 10+ years? I've used Google Voice with Android. I use it on top of my normal phone, e.g. I don't use my Google Voice number of Tmobile / Verizon / etc.

This has given me a lot of simplicity, in that my cellphone provider has zero power over me. They provide a service, and I can drop them or switch them with very minimal effort. To summarize, important features to me are:

1. I can read / type SMS on my computer.
2. I can make calls from my computer, to not use cellphone minutes.
3. I can receive and make texts/calls from my phone without internet.
4. My number is not tied to my cellphone carrier. Cellphone providers provide a service, not my identity.

With that said, I've got no idea what replacements for Google Voice might be. I'm currently searching _(not Googling, .. yet, hah)_, but I figured Hackernews might be a good place to ask. After all, I heard about FastMail here :)

So, any thoughts? Are there any telephone providers that can provide a similar UX to me?

This might be one area where I just have to stick to Google. We'll see. Regardless, my goal is to limit Google's influence on my life, so using one feature of Google isn't the end of the world.

Appreciate any replies! I'll update this thread if I find/choose anything. The search goes on.
The offered price of the bump wasn't the only failure, or even the most important failure, in that chain of events.

Note that this behavior is extremely, unbelievably rare. N=1 over hundreds of millions of flights rare.

There is a lot of other discontent regarding bumping on oversold flights, but the existence of a cash minimum doesn't by necessity lead to assaulting passengers.
> who has spent his entire career as a developer

If I'm right, this means you're selling to software companies, or companies doing in-house development?

As much bullshit as there is in selling software to software companies, it seems to be so much worse outside of this. Enterprise vendors selling to non-technical firms seem far more willing to promise the moon and stars on the basis that they can hand-wave it as "a job for the software guys". Whereas I think most devs hear that claim and translate to "six months of work", opening up a bit more room to do business by being honest. Congrats on not taking the common approach!
There's a mission in Flight Simulator X that has you flying a 737 from McCarran to Area 51. I never knew it was based on a real shuttle service.
The flight itself will take around 30-40 minutes depending on the plane and the winds, plus 30 minutes for pre-flight, run-up and parking at destination, plus whatever it takes to get to/from the airport.
> “Oh, we don’t repair GE anymore. They’re pretty much throwaways now. When they break, you just buy a new one.”

Reverse engineering of motive. If it were only that simple.

Although this 'business response' could be correct I wouldn't assume that is the case as if the repair shop has no axe to grind or other reason to make that statement.

Could have also lost their authorization or access to parts to repair GE appliances. Or perhaps they aren't listed on the approved list of repair shops (could be for various reasons).

Way back when you used to buy a fair amount of products that were typically repaired there were certain vendors that the manufacturer shuttled the most repair work to. The other shops could get access to parts however it wasn't typically cost effective for them to do so.
Fast64
We don't know that it 'went wrong' until nobody buys those cases. If one of those cases is sold, then it's working as intended :)
https://thenewstack.io/credential-theft-flaw-found-kerberos-...

https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Die-Leier-des-Orpheus-...
Six Essential Things Women Need to Know When Asking for a Raise
An engineer friend memorized the first 4 digits of all square roots from 1 to 100 which you can quickly turn into a great approximation. AKA sqrt(1730) is between 4.123 * 10 and 4.242 * 10. Even better 30 is low so it's between 41.23 and (4.242+4.123) / 2 * 10 = 41.825.

In this case the value is sanity checking a calculator / program.
oh, good to know (and makes more sense)
The capacity and total generation numbers do strike me as odd. OK, the reporting is wrong, and I made an error in my initial response.

Capacity: 1.3 MW

Output: 55 GWh over 25 years, or 2.2 GWh/yr, or 0.25 MW sustained.

19% capacity factor.

Thanks, dennyabraham.

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The rated output is the nameplate capacity of a facility. That is the maximum power it's capable of delivering under ideal conditions. This applies to any generating plant: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, tidal.

https://energymag.net/nameplate-capacity-or-rated-output/

That's reduced by the capacity factor of an installation. A key difference between different generating modes is what their capacity factor is. Nuclear may run as high as 95%, whilst solar is typically rated as 20-30%. This means that the mean output, over a year, is, say, 20% of the nameplate rating.

The US EIA (Energy Information Administration) publishes data on actual achieved capacity factor for different modes:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=14611

There are other aspects of generating which also vary by source:

Dispatchability: can the source be turned off, or better, on?

Response time: Nuclear and coal generation take hours to adjust output to capacity. Natural gas turbines, diesel generators, and hydroelectric turbines can respond in minutes or seconds.

Total energy delivery. A high-output, fast-reacting mode may only be able to deliver energy in short bursts, or for a short period before recharging. This is the case for virtually all energy storage modes: hydroelectric, batteries, flywheel kinetic storage. It also applies to some fuel-based methods: diesel generators and gas turbines used for peaking power may not be able to run for more than a few hours before fuel reserves are exhausted.

Maintenance and downtime: How long to scheduled (or unsheduled) maintanance tasks take? How much capacity is involved in such tasks?

Regular vs. irregular variability. Solar tends not to produce high output at night. Wind power is variable, but may provide energy at any hour. Tidal power is governed by tide tables. Any or all of these might be moderated by storage mechanisms (e.g., solar thermal energy storage, which can bank heat for hours, possibly days, and hence, "deliver solar power at night").
If not for yourself, do it for the children.
So when I pay for gigabit internet, and netflix pays their "streaming priority" charge, I get netflix content at gigabit speed.

But when I pay for gigabit internet, and some random startup doesn't pay the ISPs "streaming priority" charge, I get them at some rate limited amount less than what I pay for (gigabit).

That is the problem. The consumer gets screwed, startups get screwed, and the ISPs profit from both consumer and businesses.
It all started with people on twitter referring to HN as "the orange website", usually along with a screenshot of a particularly abhorrent yet not uncommon comment. Thus the "true colors" pun.

But you're right that it's fundamentally about having an artifact. Many people are mad about "startup culture" and how it's affected the places we work and the things we love to do, and HN is a big part of how that culture is reproduced. That very real-world effect IMO makes "exit" insufficient; just black-holing the domain or whatever solves nothing.
The push to new technologies are not based solely on performance.

Rust brings a type-safe and memory-safe guarantees. Elixir brings concurrency and functional concepts that lead to clearer code. Even node.js has the benefit of ubiquity. Even if you want to debate those claims, those are perceived reasons for people adopting those platforms - just ask them. Having a more scalable and performant platform is just a nice bonus.

It is also misleading to think that performance impacts only the user experience. No, it drastically affects the developer experience too! Over the years the Ruby community has struggled with performance issues. Your application takes a long time to boot? Let's introduce a tool like Spring that works only half of the time. Your application cannot handle blocking requests? Let's push our whole design towards jobs. View rendering is slow? Let's add cache layers over cache layers (aka russian doll caching) and then good luck debugging cache expiration issues.

Even running tests is unnecessarily slow in Rails. When one test is querying the database, another test should be running. I am not talking about multi-core concurrency, just simple IO-based concurrency. Extra points if a language can give me CPU concurrency too!

Those are long term issues that impact the developer productivity and increase the maintenance burden on your teams. That's without taking into account other issues prominent in the Rails community, such as abusive use of monkey patching and global state. I moved away from Rails not because I wanted performance but because I wanted simplicity and long-term productivity.
My vote is Botty McBotface :)
Meet Zenko: Scality's open-source public cloud gateway in disguise
I never formally learned any algorithm for performing square roots in either high school or college. In the few cases that I've needed one, I've simply binary searched out the answer to the required precision, and called it a day.
Pause and Resume App Development Environments
>Bitcoin has nothing like that.

I don't see a reason that exchanges couldn't take on the role of ISP/bank in this situation. Essentially you have an account with 1500 BTC at an exchange, and you say that you want to put 500BTC into a lightning network. Then the bank centralizes itself in the lightning network graph by making connections with other large banks and some major companies.

Of course what we've just done is recreated the modern centralized payment processing scheme on top of the bitcoin network (ie. a mom and pop shop connects to square connects to BoA has my money which doesn't actually exist anywhere, and they make ledger changes and top up later).

You might even be able to make such a system work with no additional transaction fees. But I'm not sure of that.
Why does Chinese sounds so New Yorker to me?
Should You Get a Second MBA?
HTTPGP, forced PGP encryption between client-server. Would be pretty cool
> C++11/14/17 each make the language better and deal

That may be true, but all you are seeing is C++ copying from every other language in an effort to once again become relevant.

IMHO in this modern day and age there are so many easier, better, more expressive, easier to use languages than C++ to choose from.

And that is coming from someone who spent a lot of time coding C++ some 15 years ago.
How HBO’s Silicon Valley Built “Not Hotdog”
> Rovers are great for low budget exploration, but if you want to kick things into high gear, there's no substitution for trained humans.

But how many rovers can you get for the price of one round trip space party?
Also, vouchers can usually only be redeemed directly through the airline, which usually means you'll be paying a "full price" fare.

That $300 flight you buy on Orbitz is considered a hugely discounted fare. The same seat at "full fare" would be $900-1000.

So in this example, if you got a $400 voucher for being bumped from another equivalent trip, the expected value of the voucher is -$200 because you would have to pay the airline ($900 - 400 = $500) to book that $300 seat. You would need to combine multiple vouchers before it made financial sense.
I feel I must nitpick and point out something many don't understand about decentralization.

"...an event that would result in two separate bitcoins. The players in this drama all have incentives to reach a consensus" - Not true. Because of competition from OTHER blockchains two separate bitcoins can be an optimal play. The fact that bitcoin may NOT have consensus is a feature not a bug. This is similar to open source.
That part of my comment was obviously in jest...
This. Ditto. "Maintenance rooms" are like Broadway's Rush tickets.

Even most sold out hotels have maintenance rooms. Sometimes the only reason it is in "maintenance" is something simple. And could be rented last minute (as i did in similar job)
Formcarry, forget about write form back end
AMD needs to come out with a few AVX-1024 instructions for vector ops. Essentially make one core into a GPU that doesn't suck at branching.
The point is that they do offer enough to get people to bump voluntarily, and it doesn't include any cash like 90%+ of the time, because people are willing to accept travel voucher instead.

If no such law exists, and everyone refuses up to like a million dollars, than what, the plane just sits there and nobody leaves? There should be some cap. Maybe it should be higher, but not unlimited. (I'd be more in favor of no overbooking at all honesty)

The other part of the problem is lack of awareness. Most people in the US don't know you are legally entitled to cash if bumped involuntarily. If they knew, more would hold out for cash instead of vouchers.
Strongly recommend this as a good place to start: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Definition of lost art

: something usually requiring some skill that not many people do any more

ex: Writing letters has become something of a lost art.

"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lost%20art"
Liu Xiaobo: China's most prominent dissident dies
NASAs manned space efforts have devolved into a scam to divert funds into the state of Alabama. It literally can't build any manned space systems unless they are gold plated and cost 20 times what they should.
Then again, I know a lot of childfree people who would pay good money to have CRISPR sterilize them.

I'd say "myself included", but my gender transition will take care of that. Hmm... I wonder if a future version of CRISPR could get my body to produce its own estrogen.
Food project proposes Matrix-style vertical chicken farms (2012)
any stats on how many of the top X npm packages get through the Closure compiler unscathed?
I sometimes wonder if Canada's tech industry would be more ahead if there was no TN visa.
Good grief Columbus, you aren't even competent enough to round the Cape. Why would you go west?!
That would be nice, it's a shame it could just as easily result in an increase of military spending to fund a space program to come invade.
> This is life-and-death, and I can't see why people would object to a right to pay more for higher-priority for this traffic.

Ah yes, imagine the free-market possibilities where your ISP can now bill your insurance provider $10,000 per procedure to ensure the ultrafast, jitter-free connection while the telemedic is operating on you.
Teamwork Projects vs. Basecamp
Man trapped in Texas cash machine sends 'help me' notes
Liu Xiaobo dead
this is no longer true. blocks are not filling and mempool is clearing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hzw6c/010_satoshi...

it looks like some faction was spamming the network with transactions to create a false sense of urgency about the need to scale.
> "Be wary of storing your bitcoins on an exchange or any service that doesn’t allow you to make a local backup copy of your private keys."

I know a couple people who have some bitcoin on Coinbase and aren't too comfortable moving it to a local wallet (Coinbase is just easier for them, they don't have to worry about the security of their personal computer).

Does Coinbase allow making a local backup of private keys? I'm thinking they might not, but maybe they do.
> I know that the R&D for this kind of therapy is exceedingly high

Do you have a source for that? I happen to be involved (genetically only - my family) into medical research and everyone I know agrees that costs are vastly inflated:

* Marketing for a new drug is not "research".

* Reformulation of trial-targets is not "research", it's re-shaping of the test settings so you can get $drug to market ASAP.

* When the government/"the people" pay for research (through co-operations with universities), it's not your "R&D cost".

* When you do basic research, it's incredibly easy to claim "10k hours". Ok, but can we please claim those 10k hours only once? Not for every variation of the substance you research again and again?
to be fair those change fees only apply to the discount economy fares - you can pay more to have schedule flexibility with a flexible/refundable fair
Binctr: getting towards real sandbox containers
I only have three medias to choose from. Dsl, cable and fiber. No idea how many companies to choose from on each of them though. You plug in your computer to the wall outlet and get a list of offers in the browser, sorted on price, contract time (3 month all of them). Click a button to choose and off you go surfing. Pretty ok for a socialist country :)

Plenty of space if you feel like moving.
I see a 'Uncaught Error: Cannot find module "../send"' but no content on the page. (Google Chrome v59)
So, eventually we can look forward to getting rickrolled by a bout of food poisoning. And maybe get sued for piracy afterwards, for unauthorized duplication and distribution. Unless consideration of fair use is updated to include involuntarily crapping out copies.
So there's the idea of 'depressive realism'. Basically, that depressed people may have more accurate judgements of the world than non-depressed people, since they're more willing to recognize the frequency of bad stuff.

I've always sort of wondered if there's a reverse effect - if the kind of person who can eagerly commit a big chunk of their life to a task with a 95%+ risk of failure is significantly less likely to be in touch with reality than others.
The encoding used by these sorts of projects avoids 'ATG' (start site), and possibly the Shine-Dalgarno Sequence (where ribosomes attach), if they do it right. The bacterial DNA can mutate, but the likelihood of that mutation creating a viable protein, let alone a dangerous one, is very low.
Honestly, since these stored data aren't coding, the chances of them surviving for long, even in a population of bacteria, is low. Bacteria tend to favor smaller genomes, with higher percentage of coding DNA.
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"... another one is going to take some research. Ballpark estimate is probably 6 weeks or so to do all that."

One of these things is not like the other.
Simias, we are surrounded by base 10 lovers in a binary world. These are the same people who gave us terabyte hard drives with 1,000,000,000,000 bytes which doesn't even make sense with sector sizes of 512 and 4096 bytes. I too will celebrate the hex flip and not some shady base 10 shenanigans.
Here's another one:

$ man strftime
How We Run Asynchronous Video Stand-Ups in Slack