skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's questionable that it's really much lower cost. The Moon, as a vacuum body, doesn't give the option of aerobraking or atmospheric entry, which dramatically reduces delta-V. You can get a payload to Mars' surface with less propellant than getting it to the Moon's surface. And because atmosphere is everywhere (which includes oxygen in the form of CO2 and also water vapor), propellant is way easier to make, so it's easier to get your ship back.

Transit time is lower, but the currency of space travel is delta-V, and by that measure, Mars is just as close or closer.

I would guess that the Moon still slightly wins as far as transport costs, but the advantage is much smaller than you'd think, and the far greater resources available on Mars (as well as effective immunity to solar particle events and micrometeorites that Mars' atmosphere provides) tilts the situation strongly in favor of Mars for actual settlement. Joy trips may be cheaper to the Moon, however.
Get an MBA and find a niche. Sometimes that means moving to a different company where supply and demand of a particular skill works in your favor, sometimes it means starting your own company.
>There are lots of problems with Android.

Were you planning on naming them or keeping us in suspense?
Connecting downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue is a grand idea—a far better idea than connecting the airport to downtown. Both are major centers of employment.

My understanding is that there are some technical / engineering challenges to running light rail across via I-90, but smarter people than I seem to think that they are surmountable.

In principle, I think that light rail is just another transit technology, and an expensive one at that. BRT could easily be done in lieu of light rail. In practice, however, Seattle seems to do a terrible job at BRT. Rapid Ride got watered down to the point where I simply call it "bus red transit." So, maybe we can't actually build good quality BRT, and we need the huge capital expenditure of light rail to do it right.
"I find the current state of affairs (emperor has no clothes) appalling and baffling."

JS is the only language on the browser after Java and Flash were killed off.

Brendan Eich created JS.

Brendan Eich runs Mozilla.

No new browser language occurs unless the big players (including Mozilla support it)

Mozilla have killed all attempts to add new languages to the browser.

Q.E.D. - language monoculture due to one creator forcing his creation on everyone and denying anyone the chance of doing things differently.

At least Web Assembly offers some hope for a sane future where we can actually choose the right tool for the job rather than the only tool for the job.
> I/O is not going to be any faster by having more threads.

the world doesn't revolve around making HTTP servers. Maybe you aren't writing apps that do parallelizable serial computations but please don't generalize.
Hmm, do you have any examples?
The lack of awe is what surprises me. Just how quickly we take each breakthrough for granted.

Sure, we're spinning faster and faster, as you say. But sometimes I think it's actually the FOMO mechanism built into social media that is keeping us unimpressed by the amazing technology powering it. Kind of a cruel joke really.
Nope. Mars is actually lower than the Moon due to atmosphere.
I feel this is the beginning of the end of instacart. Amazon is getting into same day delivery big time with this. Now they own the grocery warehouses to drive the end to end supply chain.
I am looking forward to

1. runtime/pprof package now include symbol information

2. Concurrent Map

3. Profiler Labels

4. database/sql reuse of cached statements

5. The os package now uses the internal runtime poller for file I/O.
There's currently no method to screen brain tissue health at the microscopic level. Darmiyan aims to provide that tool.
Mac .app bundles are folders, you can have both frameworks and .dylibs inside. Quod Libet, for example, has a whole bin/lib/libexec hierarchy inside its .app with shared Gtk libs, Python, etc.
Sorry I'll try to avoid the 'what are you smoking?' sort of thing. Comment works completely fine without it, it's just rude.
“To write against him, is, you may depend upon it, the very thing he wishes you to do.”

Don't feed the trolls.
> Brendan Eich runs Mozilla.

Ran. Very briefly.
Cramming
This is my concern. If you were willing to resign over a failed vote then it seems like you should make an effort to make the vote. If people were unable to make it to the meeting for such an important vote then there seems to be a problem in the process.
There will likely be shift in the liability approach, and drivers will be made liable for accidents caused by inadequate technology.

This approach worked well (for some parties) in many other areas, for example in education: now the teachers are the only ones left responsible for the structuraly failing education system.

Now, if these were 1930s, with hundreds of independent auto makers, perhaps the invisible hand of the market would fix this.
I'm willing to pay extra to eat ethical meats/dairy/eggs and products that generally avoid factory farming. And otherwise eat vegan. By the look of things, Amazon will eventually get rid of most of these things that Whole Foods made very easy for us.

Yes it's more expensive. That's because the cheapest foods that you buy at the cheapest supermarkets are fucking terrible for the livelihoods of animals.

Not a fan of this corporate buyout. Amazon clearly has a much different direction in mind for this chain. I wish they bought Kroger instead.
7 minutes of terror is a fantastic video, but that line in it always bugged me. Atmosphere is an enormous asset for Sending large payloads to Mars now that we know supersonic retropropulsion works just fine.
What things do you think I want? Do you think I roll out of bed looking forward to using obfuscated javascript on every site I visit?

at least 5-10% of websites shit the bed on me with uBlock turned on. can't imagine what noscript is like.
They want us to commit to a subscription, using a credit card, in US currency. That is significantly different from the newspaper model, because it requires some trust on my part, and it is quite awkward; my CC sits in a firesafe when I am not traveling. Subscriptions also encourage FOMO behavior, something I am currently having a bit of trouble with, personally.

I too would prefer that we do not allow subscription content here. If the story is significant, then it will be covered elsewhere.
This is a nice technique in theory, but in practice it isn't so fast, mainly because of the implementation details. Radix sort is actually faster than comparison sorts if implemented well.
How Slack Converts 30% of Their Freemium Users into Paid Customers
I think maybe mobile tech is starting to go through it's 90's-era-children's-tv-style "Oh my god nearly everything we've made is a manipulative commercial designed to get an economic outcome without regard for the consequences to the kids" moment.

And that's good. Because while kids are much more susceptible to the attention-seeking games mobile app designers play, they are by no means ineffective on adults.
Years? Absolutely not. Transfer can be done in about 90 days, less (30 days) if you pursue aggressive entry, high orbit refueling, and nuclear thermal propulsion. Assuming you're settling the place and not just doing flags and footprints, transfer time is the important part.
Well we group up together. But, you are also jugging him from one incident. He also volunteered regularly and was generally just a nice guy who sometimes did really dumb things.
It could in a way be good for Instacart. They could partner with other grocery store chains more easily as those other stores would be more willing to fight Amazon. It depends on how they play the game.
Note this is before SpaceX proved supersonic retropropulsion works just fine. Atmosphere is now a huge asset for Mars EDL.
Can exist
Now you won't have to pay extra? What's your indication that the quality or sourcing of the food is changing?

> "Everybody should be able to eat Whole Foods Market quality -- we will lower prices without compromising Whole Foods Market's long-held commitment to the highest standards," Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, said in a statement.
Ah, of course. I've used "Show Package Contents" enough that I should've realized.
>I can teach a kid why its dangerous to walk into the street

Children are neurologically incapable of understanding a large proportion of the dangers they face. Toddlers simply can't understand the cause and effect of "run into street -> get run over". Younger children who lack a fully developed theory of mind can't understand the concept of lying. Younger teenagers often attempt suicide as a means of seeking attention, without fully understanding the finality of death. Older teenagers have a very limited ability to reason about more abstract risk behaviours like distracted driving or binge drinking.

Unless your child is extraordinarily precocious, some amount of "don't do that or there'll be trouble" will inevitably be necessary. Hell, adults often respond far better to simple conditioning than logical reasoning. Patiently explaining the risks of smoking was far less effective than simply stigmatising the behaviour. Everyone knows that they need to eat less and exercise more, but that knowledge has done practically nothing to stem the obesity epidemic. We can't expect children to understand that homework is a necessary investment in their future when most adults don't save enough for retirement.

Children need to be taught self-regulation, but it's unrealistic and unfair to burden them with the full responsibility of disciplining themselves. Rules and boundaries are a kindness, not a cruelty - they give children a safe space in which to learn and develop.
There was a news story of how somebody lit a grill with the cover closed and it blew up. Yes, I still blame the person.
If we're going to borrow from aviation, why don't automakers develop some rudimentary automation (not autonomy) that would help avoid the most common kinds of crashes? For example something that might be automated in a modern aircraft is change flight level. The pilot can command a change to a given flight level and the automation takes care of it. Why don't we have a "change lanes" command for cars? Changing lanes is a leading cause of car collisions, and even people who do it successfully forget to use their signals, check their blind spots, etc. It seems like this level of automation (not autonomy!) would be easier to achieve.
This looks like a pretty cool project. How much research went into creating Titan? Why did Google decide to create a custom hardware-based solution (Titan) instead of using something off the shelf, like Intel's Secure Boot?
I was surprised at how quickly this was approved by the FTC. I think they should be more active in preventing corporate consolidation.
Yeah, I think so! That's exactly why I mentioned the accident rate reduction cited in the Wikipedia article shared above.

I'd love to see official work that explores that angle (rather than a claim from an interview, which is what the Wikipedia article refers to), I just haven't seen any document/study about it yet.
MIT did a similar study to predict the virality of selfies - http://www.csail.mit.edu/memnet_photo_memorability
This is pretty awesome. I like the idea of being able to share themes across all of my UI including slack and alfred which is a bonus.
Do you have a source for that? Hopefully they'll lower prices by introducing operational efficiencies, and not by lowering ethical standards.
First, you might be interested to know that a lot of Whole Foods' products are not particularly ethical or organic. They carry that stuff, true, but they don't have any kind of total commitment to it store-wide.

Second, everyone I know who has ever worked at whole foods could talk for hours about their internal inefficiencies, food waste being a huge one. Their pricing was also almost whimsical, the most extreme example being their $4.99 "asparagus water".

My guess is that Amazon took one look at the books and saw that they could easily lower prices without suffering much in the way of profit loss. This doesn't necessarily imply there will be sweeping changes in quality.
Ahh, that changes my perspective on this. That suddenly seems vastly more useful than it did, to me.
Thanks for that feedback. I 100% agree about the video length and timing.

There actually is a way to contribute if you use the CLI version (See https://github.com/mjswensen/themer#create-your-own-template), precisely by writing a converter (I called them "templates"). No support for that in the GUI version yet (do you think it would be worth adding to the GUI version?).
>Doesn't it follow that it might be cheaper as well? Especially for this audience

That's not up to you, credit score systems based on your social media profile examine your friends as much as they do you. Job prospects are also affected by how your friends post and present on facebook: http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/facebook-friends-matter/

Remember: How your friends express themselves affects your financial future, so work hard to keep them in line citizen!
Seriously, why implement a paywall that can be dodges with Inspect?
I did marketing for 7 years at brands, and had a network from that as well as from events I've been at. I also did some cold emailing that paid off.
It could also mean that other grocers will need to bring delivery in-house to compete or instacart will have to start white labeling delivery.
So this new concurrent map? Am I right in understanding it's designed for cases where you have a map shared between goroutines but where each goroutine essentially owns some subset of the keys in the map?

So basically it's designed for cases like 'I have N goroutines and each one owns 1/N keys'?
Anything dealing w/ "reversible computing", makes you ask "what-if" ...

http://cqi.inf.usi.ch/qic/80_Toffoli.pdf

https://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~mpf/Frank-99-PhD-bookmarked.pd...
I really don't disagree on any particular point. I only take issue with the suggestion that it simply shouldn't be an option. In the past I probably would've said the same about PHP, which sits pretty squarely in the same camp as JavaScript for its "victory despite design".

All things considered, a craftsman simply uses a tool to do a job. Often it doesn't involve much fanfare. I wouldn't say that modern JavaScript is quite as blunt an instrument as a hammer, but hey, if you're good with a hammer...
A solar panel tower at the North Pole of the Moon might be a really good idea for solving these problems, yes.

Vacuum is only one of the best insulators around if you're near other warm things, I'm afraid. Out in space the dominant form of heat exchange is the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which says that if you have a half-acre of total surface area on your moon-base, and it's at 300 kelvin, then you need to supply about a megawatt to keep it warm.

It's not an insurmountable problem, of course -- Tesla just announced a battery for Australia at 129 MW-hrs, which would sustain the thing for 5 days, which is not enough but it's only a half-order of magnitude off. (I'm also not considering something like nuclear heating; it's not uncommon to have a 1000-megawatt nuclear reactor in the US and that's just the power output, not the heat --
so it's not a terribly bad way to go if you can shield the rest of the base from it. The only hazard with that is one recently discussed by John Oliver on his show, firing nuclear things into space is heavily, heavily complicated by the nowhere-near-close-enough-to-zero failure rate of launch rockets and the insanely-scary-cost of distributing a bunch of reactor-grade nuclear fuel into the atmosphere.)
Hopefully they maintain their quality. I always treated them as a specialty store, where I could get specific hard to find, or high quality items, particularly cheese.

If they cut too deep, they loose their appeal (at least to me).
B2B: https://blog.bitpay.com/understanding-bitcoins-growth-in-201...
Wiener's Eighth and Final Law: You can never be too careful about what you put into a digital flight-guidance system. - Earl Wiener, Professor of Engineering, University of Miami (1980)

It seems that we are locked into a spiral in which poor human performance begets automation, which worsens human performance, which begets increasing automation. The pattern is common to our time but is acute in aviation. Air France 447 was a case in point. - William Langewiesche, 'The Human Factor: Should Airplanes be Flying Themselves?', Vanity Fair, October 2014

Eventually mean/median system performance deteriorates as more and more pure slack and redundancy needs to be built in at all levels to make up for the irreversibly fragile nature of the system. The business cycle is an oscillation between efficient fragility and robust inefficiency. Over the course of successive cycles, both poles of this oscillation get worse which leads to median/mean system performance falling rapidly at the same time that the tails deteriorate due to the increased illegibility of the automated system to the human operator. - Ashwin Parameswaran (2012)

... from my fortune clone @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
I guess I was trying to paraphrase the comedian there, I guess I can just remove the "valid" qualifier and use embarrassed instead of offended, but the point I was trying to make pretty much remains the same.

My point, shame has always been useful, at least for me. Feeling ashamed is a sign of knowing I can be doing better, and it generally motivates to do better. Its not easy. But, why do we draw lines that shouldn't be crossed on anything that might make us feel this.

You shouldn't call a smelly apartment smelly, because someone might feel embarrassed, even if you are not trying to be a dick. For instance, the author researches and publishes an article about a popular course and the people offering it and gets called an asshole for one sentence without any judgemental qualifiers, ignoring everything else in the article.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094529
> I work in the telematics/trucking software space

Which company, if you don't mind me asking? (I work in the travel center data science space, and we're trying to understand truck traffic patterns.)
You know exactly the point he's trying to make, since you made a counterargument to that point. The point is obviously that there is a conflict-of-interest when a publication reports on its owner's business activities. Not much to argue about it really. The conflict-of-interest is by definition.
Not very sure how it works but this brings to light an interesting fact - for long we thought that jobs that require creativity and expertise acquired over the years like artists or doctors will be the last one to get automated by machines.

But the way I'm seeing things is that they may be the first one to automate.
Will there be as sexy of a press release when he cuts wages and lays off workers?
Assuming you have 150k in compensation, your loaded value (the employer side contributions, benefits and taxes) may be another 20-25% bringing you closer to that number.

Consulting can bring you closer but you have to move up the food chain in the type of strategic consulting you do.
t.Helper() is certainly going to be very useful. I often implement functions like:

func testServer(t *testing.T, port int) {
...do stuff...
if err != nil { t.Fatalf("failed to start server: %+v", err) }
}

similarly you can have

func assertMapEquals(t *testing.T, a, b map[string]int)

It lets you hide such helper methods from the test failure's stack trace (where t.Fatal is actually called), making test errors more readable.
I hate hiring managers
> So the number of users affected would be small in either case. And if there's a root CA out there granting invalid certificates, there's enough interest in keeping the trusted roots clean that it would get patched up pretty quickly anyway.

However, HPKP is one of the mechanisms today that can best detect this activity happening. (In the future, CT with mandatory log inclusion proofs should be better.) People don't just learn about misissuance events by magic, but by having technologies that provide other channels for checking what certificates exist in the wild or what certificates UAs should expect.

Also, some misissuance can be unintentional on the CA's part, so pinning can conceivably also help clean up the CA's practices.

You might be right that these factors weight against HPKP most of the time, but for the core misissuance-detection one, the situation is a bit more complicated because of the way that HPKP itself helps with catching these situations.
> If an effect is so small that existing studies haven't measured it yet, then it's probably fine to ignore it even if future studies might find a very small effect.

This is just blind scientism of the worst kind. The only things you can draw this conclusion about are _the specific possible effects that have been studied_. The possibility of screens around children all day hasn't been around for very long at all, and it's not irrational for parents to suspect that there may be effects that would only show up in, e.g., longitudinal studies.

Hell, the _very statement that you're quoting_ uses the words "the impact of screen-based lifestyles demands serious investigation". Parental caution (and those of institutional recommendations) in the lead-up to a more fleshed-out body of scientific literature on the topic isn't unreasonable at all.
I believe Bitcoin can't reach a critical mass in adoption unless a ton of companies offer it as a compensation option to their employees. That is the most effective way to get Bitcoin into the hands of many people. If it is a currency, it should become more straightforward to work for. Right now, most "get paid in Bitcoin" jobs are for short-term freelance gigs. There are a some companies that do offer Bitcoin as an option, but they are still very far and few.
Fighting amazon means giving little to no money to shareholders and reinvest it in expanding business.

It's close to fighting google on the "pay with your data instead of money because we are the largest ad network".
If Whole Foods was in financial trouble before the acquisition, I don't imagine they'll be able to cut prices and maintain their quality. Something's got to give and I think it's going to be that "nice idea" you mention.
I mean you're not wrong. If any major player added an existing mature language to the browser with 1st class support you would see the end of new JS.

Bonus points if it was a lisp or a 'hard' language because machismo alone would drive adoption overnight.
For me the real advantage of a moon base first is safety. If something goes horribly wrong while we are learning to live on other planets, a return to earth or a rescue mission takes far less time. I am not a space expert though, so perhaps this is wrong?
Smalltalk is ideally about finding a hook, a more interesting shared topic which can support a more fulfilling conversation. Otherwise, it's just killing time, and I daresay most here have more intellectually stimulating ways to kill time.

The complexity is when people regard a lack of smalltalk as a chilly isolation. I personally have been called stuck-up because I didn't engage in smalltalk at school. Some cultures are more oriented to this than others.
I'm surprised you believe this. Drivers run people down every day and nobody even investigates the cause. Motorists kill about a dozen pedestrians every month in New York City and historically only half of those people get even a failure-to-yield ticket. Meat-puppets are demonstrably unfit to operate vehicles in crowded urban environments, everybody knows this, and nobody is outraged when the people die.
Poor, neglected 80186, nobody ever remembers it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186