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Slash it in half, give the slashed half to NASA.

Then we can have ourselves a Pluto colony.
Given the huge investments NASA has made in SpaceX to date, I'm not entirely convinced that the split between public and private money in this space is as black and white as you suggest.

SpaceX arguably wouldn't be here today without NASA's cash.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/without-nasa-there-w...
Bill Nye is CEO of the Planetary Society, which has a very close relationship with NASA.
I'd rather have the solution with fewer serious accidents, even if it introduces types of accidents that don't happen with human drivers. I know a handful of people who were seriously injured in traffic.
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If you believe that Bitcoin needs to scale up far beyond 10x the current size, then it's like driving your car at 10km/h per hour on the highway and refusing to increase your speed because you're trying to get to the moon and going faster in your car won't help in the least.
Creating interplanetary projects like the one above are extemely expensive.
As the ISS showed is that costed !150 billion USD to construct making massive leaps into space should not be burden to a single country.
With that the funding would be less, and the return even smaller.

I believe a global space agency should be formed where each country can allocate the money they wish and set goals by panels to the direction that they wish to proceed. ( very hard i can assume ).

That will ease the financial burden of countries and create project on a global scale that will unite the world instead of finding new reasons be patriotic about.
A lot of SI's are married to a particular software platform, and it's been that way for a long time. We all know the big player who owns 70-80% of the market, and most people will implement via them (or that's at least what they make most of their money off of).

Some of us (I work for an SI) actually find the correct solution for the problem. We use all 4 major players, build our own stuff when appropriate, and would look at other solutions if the opportunity arrises, we love what we do.

Let me know if you're still looking for a solution and I'd be happy to give you another opinion.
I knew the guys I hired, so no surprises. A remote site, grew to 19 people. Company was about 100 people. We worked very well together for years (until the buyout). My job was to insulate them from headquarters, let them work without interruption, report all successes and temper any issues. Go to bat for my guys so they participated in all benefits and didn't get left out.
It is worth mentioning that the EFF endorsed Blockstream and this sort of "defensive patent"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/blockstream-commits-pa...
Heh, this is quite funny. By quick reading, it seems to just encode the input JavaScript source bytes into emoji. A further development idea would be to parse the input file with one of the JavaScript JavaScript parsers, encode only select keywords, operators and number / string constants in emoji and leave the rest as as-is.

One could select clever emoji for the keywords (eg. if=pondering face, while=ferris wheel etc.) to produce a kind of shortened visual JavaScript emoji syntax.
Dell launches threat protection for air-gapped enterprise systems
Yeah. You can see it two ways: The SLS is an embarrassment or an admission by Congress that they don't care at all about spaceflight.
That's my understanding. Generally, that means they don't have enough data on the non-approved ages from clinical studies yet. Would make sense, given it's considered a childhood cancer - they'd do trials on children first.
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The Mystery of Ancient Mummies
What fraction of jobs are programming jobs versus non programming jobs for this class of systems design ?
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD) helped me to keep going in tough times and to be a happier person.
How does this compare to, for instance, your average car running for an hour?
Historic Day of Action: Net Neutrality Allies Send 1.6M Comments to FCC
> We're also online, so you don't have to move anywhere, but we're live and on a strict schedule, so it's not something you can do asynchronously.

Has that been a benefit in terms of graduates getting easier access to remote positions? (The fact that they've demonstrated the ability to work remotely through your course)?

Do you work directly with potential employers, helping students get a foot in the door, or is that up to students themselves? If you do help out, do you "sell" the remote idea?

Finally, are you open to non-US students?
IT'S NOT A TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM
I would actually say it is more of a game engine, especially when compared to three.js. Babylon.js supports physics plug-ins and collisions. They also have an action manager and other useful built in methods. Their tutorials are a really good place to start: https://doc.babylonjs.com/tutorials

Since babylon.js is more of a library, though, it doesn't have quite the tools to that something like Unity has, but they have great documentation and community support, and have a nice playground for testing small snippets. If you find an issue and post a question in the forum, I've gotten a fix in a matter of hours.

Note: User of babylon.js
A quick poll.

My initial idea was to put `tf-version` files in each Terraform recipe directory e.g. `echo "0.9.11" > kafka-prod-useast1a/tf-version".

I could check for the existence of such a file with `metaform` to skip the prompt (or prompt if the file doesn't exist).

However this imposes a specific workflow on people developing Terraform recipes. Does this sound like a good idea?
Thanks! I agree about conditional logic - maybe also loops - and will be thinking about how to incorporate something like that.
I was a graduate of one of the 2015 cohorts. It was a good school that really prepared me for a solid career. However, I remember running the numbers on the camp when I was there and was having trouble coming up with how they could still be profitable given their location, staff, and cohort sizes.
> That will ease the financial burden of countries and create project on a global scale that will unite the world instead of finding new reasons be patriotic about.

Which is the opposite of what world leaders actually want. Jingoism is the name of the game right now.
Vint Cerf savours a life of Claude Shannon, information-theory pioneer, tinkerer
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Right now Mars doesn't have any resource with crave enough to justify this enormous cost. If suddenly we discover that there is something we can get money from, and not just knowledge, you'll get investers.
Ask HN: Is anonymity on the web dead?
With the current web climate of ad tracking, location check-ins and social networking, is privacy dying?

Does anyone here still strive for anonymity?

What are some ways that you accomplish this?
I think the world would be better off if more people traveled. Travel is an opportunity to expand your views and get along better with others. I would rather give up cars, meat, most mass produced goods, and single family homes before travel.
>Did DBC give me an education equivalent to a computer science degree? No.

>Did they teach me everything I need to know about data structures and algorithms? No.

>Did they help me get my first programming job? Sort of, but not really.

This perfectly describes my experience with LaunchCode in the midwest.
Yeah it really doesn't make much sense. I got the vibe that he does it just to be able to say so, especially in the beginning when talking about how people react.
What social medias and zombies have in common?
Vascular Tissue Challenge Update
"Ever noticed how the greats don't seem to obsess much about having to die at some point?"

This probably greatly depends on the person. For instance, John von Neumann, one of the brightest and greatest (though in many ways still very flawed) people I know of, was terrified of death.[1]

Many great people past and present have sought immortality, or at least ways to extend their lives. They did not want to "go gentle in to that good night".[2] This desire to prolong life is so nearly universal in humanity that it has become an archetype (the quest for the water of life). Some people, to be sure, do seek to transcend that desire, and perhaps actually manage to do so, but it happens so rarely that it is often considered evidence of saintliness.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_neumann#Death

[2] - https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-ni...
But that involved people (say it with me now) steeeealing!
NASA paid $1.6b and got 12 flights to the ISS for it. Rather cheap in my book.
I'm not aware of any other "huge investments" ... there were some smaller ones, however.

Looks like both NASA and SpaceX got a good deal.
Is it going to have everything I hate about stack overflow also? Considering some of the places I've worked I bet the answer is yes.
that's really sad, it would still take me 1hr to get from east bay to svl (via private shared transit :))
Sounds a bit like the story of how Microsoft saved Apple, back in 1997.

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
Npx is now packaged with npm
Just to speak of the "fiat" alternatives here:

Alipay and WeChat are free and convenient in China, relying on simple QR code scans to pay contacts. They are free. Other countries have similar things (LINE?)

PayPal is so close to being this too but it's just so clunky and relies on input of your friends' email addresses.

If I remember correctly Visa tried doing their own thing in the UK some time ago (Visa V.me) but it didn't really catch for whatever reason.
My suggestion is that in the phrasing of the regulation, the longer they wait to get you home the more money they owe you, and that's sort of a built-in enforcement mechanism for them to send you home on the next available flight instead of their next available flight (cash goes from $0 to $1350 over the span of 6 hours) and IMO that's a positive market force thats stronger than any enforcement action, although if you think your rights have been violated feel free to file a complaint against the airline with the DoT.

I have no moral argument against overbooking, its wasteful for them not to do so if their projections show that without it, the seat would go out empty. Sometimes they mess it up, sure, and in those cases they owe you cold hard cash, hotel accommodation IIRC and a flight to your destination anyways. Between the monetary outlay and the social media feedback, as a very frequent traveler (top tier with AA and Alaska this year, that's 190,000 qualifying miles), I feel quite satisfied with the status quo.

Per [1] in 2015, only 0.09% of passengers were denied boarding voluntarily or involuntarily. Involuntarily denied boarding accounts for only 0.0075% (43 out of 613,141) of boarded passengers -- that's four nines -- and my understanding is 2016 performance was even better. You were almost as likely to be hit by lightning each year (1 in 700,000). With those kind of performance metrics, it feels like things are working, or else we need to really get our act together re: lightning strikes :)

[1] https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu...
Everything is broken at some level. Your own code will have bugs just like the lib you import will.

Usually what is nice is your own code has a lot less lines of code, so you SHOULD be able to find the bug sooner.
A bit late to the party, but does anyone now how to add a company to this excel sheet with their former employees seeking new jobs?
Data in the Food Pipeline: what data tell us about tasty ingredient combinations
I'm not trying to weasel out of anything. Of course they're monopolies.

My point is simply that a monopoly isn't some sort of God-emperor who can do anything without consequence. Even monopolies have to bow to customer pressure, they're just less sensitive to it than companies in more competitive industries. Supply and demand applies to monopolies, too, that's why their prices might be higher than they would be in a competitive environment, but their prices aren't infinite. "Going without" is always a choice, even if there are no competitors.
I should of mentioned it earlier, but I do have a medical condition, which a previous poster mentioned (Dysgraphia). I also did "navigate" the college bureaucracy and sometimes had to push teachers to allow use of a tablet or laptop, even with an exemption.
The U in UASF means anyone who runs a full Bitcoin node, irregardless of whether they're mining or not.
Interesting comparison/contrast, linked from right in the middle of the article:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170221-the-gruelling-six-...

* Six hours <-> six hours

* Try to use the downtime <-> try to use the downtime

* Go home just to sleep <-> go home just to sleep
The average car will burn about three gallons of gasoline an hour cruising on the highway, so about 60lbs of CO2.
> Has that been a benefit in terms of graduates getting easier access to remote positions?

I don't know that it's really come up much; generally we don't recommend a remote position for your first job, as you'll need a lot of hands-on training. It makes more sense as you become more senior.

> Do you work directly with potential employers, helping students get a foot in the door, or is that up to students themselves? If you do help out, do you "sell" the remote idea?

Yes, we work directly with potential employers, but again "remote" isn't the emphasis.

> Finally, are you open to non-US students?

We are, but unfortunately the "free-up-front" option is only available based on our income share agreement, which is only available to those authorized to work in the US.
The efficiency gap, as described, is the number of "wasted" votes for one party, minus the number of wasted votes for the other party, summed over all districts and divided by the total voting population.

So fundamentally it's just a normalized version of the wasted votes metric. Wasted votes is the thing that concerns me as a metric, and it has the discontinuity noted.

Notably, if you have a circular uniformly populated state that is exactly 50-50 -- let's say the north of the state is 100% Republican and the south is 100% Democrat, and we restrict our districting to straight lines through the center. Then there are two solutions that minimize the efficiency gap, the line going from southwest to northeast, and the one going from southeast to northwest, because both of those result in 75/25 districts (that have 0 net wasted votes). This seems really odd to me.
> you cannot oblige everyone that touches the code to have the same care

If you can't enforce that certain rules be enforced in a C++ program, you also can't enforce that someone won't sneak C++ modules into a code base written in another, safer language.

> doesn't use any kind of static validation tooling, or CI build

Or, also: a review tool for rejecting stuff that is against the project's explicit coding guidelines.
From the body of the article, it seems that landing humans on Mars is not the problem. It's bringing them back.
„Instagram ads perform 10x worse than FB ads“

Wait what? What a completely misleading generalization. Exact opposite in my experience if you know your product and audience well.
Air travel continues to really impress with its ability to get worse.
> for some reason

When training a model you're typically following a gradient which may be very small so you want high precision. One a model is trained and you're just using it you can generally get by with very low precision, ultimately we're usually talking about placing some input vector in one or more binary categories and the affect of small signal variations higher up in the model generally don't amount to much w.r.t the final categorisations.
It's like watching a toddler trying to use a rattle for a hairbrush, or vice versa.
This Python script will put you on an FBI watchlist
And it should never have the funding. Let the private sector invest in that venture.
Yea, I've been wanting something like this for awhile.

We have Consumer Reports, but they don't do the job like I would like.

Actually, it wouldn't be a bad choice to build a company around? Maybe better than another clone.com of a monopoly.com?

I've given up on appliances that last a long time, and there's always a mechanical engineer that tells me they do last longer, and work better. I don't want to argue, but their duty cycle might be a few days longer, but they aren't easily repairable. That's the rub.

We used to be able go fix t.v.'s, most appliances. Now--it's just junk it.

I'm looking for a new car. Even the mechanics I've talked with don't know what to recommend. Most just say look for a vechicle that isn't too exotic. Meaning a older Toyota, with a manual.

Soo--I am waiting for a list. I even thought about a list. "What kind of list dude? A list that would identify quality products, along with fair companies. Just a honest list.

Thennchithonestlist.com
I would guess because he's in the middle of building his company and raising his kids, and doesn't plan to keep this arrangement forever.
They're not flying to Kuwait/Saudi/etc every. single. day. of the work-week.

The man in the article must really hate his family.
The manned spaceflight portion of NASA doesn't really get anything done.
Building the WebVR UI of the future
+1 for AAISP. I use them for mobile and they're awesome - no contracts, no marketing BS, no fine print, just voice and data at a fair price.
I guess, you haven't read up about Dysgraphia then. When I was made aware/diagnosed (mid 1990's), we didn't have Internet-enabled lightweight laptops, but Alphasmarts (which are no longer made).
No individual action will. The problem isn't reducing your emissions, it's convincing everybody to do so.

Focusing on air travel is particularly strange, since air travel only accounts for 2-3% of total CO2 emissions.
you would have to opt in. And presumably if they have to pay you a $250 voucher, the person buying your seat would be paying $250+ more for your seat that you were. That's probably fairly rare
I sort of see what you're getting at, but considering there's been a clear systemic bias against women and black people in our very recent past, and considering that it took a lot of effort (even a civil war, sort of, in the case of black people) to reduce these biases, I find it entirely reasonable to assume that they're still there, to a degree, and that we'll have to expend quite a bit of effort to reduce them further.
Some people love traveling. Their obsession can find all the excuses to travel. Not sure if his company funds the travel or he funds it himself.
Better science could be done with automated machines. We could explore entire solar system for a price of single mission.
Certainly conversation starters....probably not a conversation you want to be a part of but a conversation starter no less.
Were the scaling problems not predicted or known in the original design?
So everyone quits making transactions for a week while Visa catches up? Or does there backlog increase indefinitely? OR do they have to settle at the same rate as record, just delayed? I'm guessing the last one...
Early Stage Start-Up Help?
I'm interested in going into entrepreneurship so I've been looking at the how the big startup companies began. I can't really find any good information on the early stages of those companies, does anyone know where I could look to find that out?
Martian soil contains non-neglible amounts of phosphates[0]. Phosphorus is highly important for the production of fertilizers and gets increasingly rare here on earth[1]. It wouldn't suprise me if 150 years from now, phosphates are imported from martian soil.

[0]: https://phys.org/news/2013-09-phosphate-soluble-mars.html

[1]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa.4650/full
There was such a product as you described: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

They stopped making them in 2013.
Apparently, it's only available via one OEM: http://www.amd.com/en/where-to-buy/epyc-platforms
Luxury phone maker Vertu is calling it quits
Ya, we're kinda like App Academy except not a bootcamp (a longer, more exhaustive CS program), online (so you don't have to move to San Francisco), and with no down-payment (because most of our students just don't have $4k, even for a down-payment).
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> a 63 person drug trial seems like an exceedingly small sample size

Sampling is basically decided on 1) recruitability and 2) effect size. If your effect is extremely large, even with a relatively small base size you can demonstrate the benefits of your drug.

Basically very, very large trials are mostly useful to demonstrate benefits that are not that large to begin with.
You've inadvertently discovered the "2038 Problem"[0]. This is the next iteration of the Y2K bug.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I don't see the purpose of landing people on Mars. Just to say, "we did it". Wouldn't it be a much more rewarding goal to research and execute systems that could send humans one way to planets in our galaxy. Even seeding organisms on other planets in the hope that they evolve into intelligent life.
Did the account get killed? I can't see the listings anymore, even through the link in the article.
>This increases the cost of mining, by requiring miners to keep up on harddisk space

miners typically mine in pools. so they don't need to download the blockchain because the pool is doing it for them.
I read the article, but I'm still quite confused. How exactly did they "insert" a computer image into living bacteria?? Do they mean they have stored binary code in the bacteria?? Or did they just physically create a fine image somewhere in the bacteria???
I am still waiting the official errata for Family 17h
They should outsource this to India or Israel.
Let this reach 500 points :D
Jet.com is installing Latch access systems in 1,000 NYC buildings
Inspecting for exfil just got a lot harder.
The private sector can't afford it, either. We need both sectors to work together.
> they can tell doctors it has promise for some common X

That's not authorized, that's called "off label promotion" and it is severly punished when discovered. Also, doctors who use a non-approved drug for another indication can be tracked and investigated as well if needed (conflict of interests). Reimbursment also works only in certain conditions and may not apply if you use the drug outside of its allowed/approved indications.
Keep things DRY and learn how to write less code with Swift
> The problem is that nobody really tests all the versions they specify in a dependency list

Some do. Some others target the versions shipped in a stable Linux distribution.

And even if the upstream don't test some combinations of versions, distributions will test what they ship.
I think that's a bridge too far. "Rich text" editing is not something to be standardized.

Consider <input type="imagepickerwithfilters"> or <input type="spreadsheet">. Useful sometimes, but implies too much standardization.
The comparisons in this article are mostly against the high-end Intel core line, but these CPUs support server / enterprise type features like ECC memory, lots of PCI-E lanes, and virtualization features (I think?).

Shouldn't Threadripper be compared to Xeons?

EDIT: Or rather, what I'm really wondering is what these CPUs lack that AMD's server line (EPYC) have.
Ask HN: Would you do some side work for ALtcoins?
I'm talking something that you could exchange on one of the exchanges.