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> ... but anybody's who spent any time at all modeling the problem has probably worked through them.

Yes on the modeling but the consensus was 'not physically possible'. Not a solution to the problem. In a single impulse launch[1] the amount of energy that is dumped into the atmosphere around the mass you are accelerating results in temperatures that convert that mass into vapor. Any additional energy just moves it closer to being a plasma.

> If you can accidentally shoot something outward at multiples of escape velocity, you can certainly do so on purpose.

The point here is that the 'cover' in the case of the article did not get into space. A hypothesis that the cover went into space was proposed, but that hypothesis was shown to be false (or untenable) after additional calculations were made. At no time, even "by accident", has anyone sent something into space on a single impulse launch. And the math and models all say it isn't possible, these days you could run the CFD analysis yourself on a high end desktop if you had the software.

In the 80's when Reagan's "Star Wars" program was promising a huge market for launch capacity to LEO, a dozen or more companies sought to get into the launch business. The key feature they were shooting for was "single stage to orbit" but all sorts of things were contemplated, including single impulse ideas. Even for impractical (from a cargo perspective) long skinny javelin type shapes do not reach orbit before vaporizing.

I also have a faint memory of even an ASAT system (trying to 'shoot' things in orbit) that failed to do so due its inability to change the laws of physics. (that would have probably been an Aviation Week article, I haven't subscribed for nearly a decade so early 2000's?)

On the moon without an atmosphere it is a great idea, on earth it just doesn't fly (pun intended :-).

[1] The term "Single Impulse Launch" describes a launch system where all of the energy that is applied to a mass it done at once (and typically by a system attached to the departure point) such that once the mass and the energy system separate, no additional energy is added (post impulse, the mass is ballistic. During ballistic flight it is only being acted on by air resistance, gravity, and sometimes geomagnetic forces)
Burnout is basically the result of a lack of mental and intellectual deload periods.

Anyone with any familiarity of physical training knows why deload is important, but culturally so many people feel like they're slacking off if they take it easy for a couple days, much less a week.
Are you referring to gender with the f/m abbreviations?
I write down a shopping list because otherwise I forget things.

It would be hard to make something more convenient than a pen and paper though. And in the store crossing things off the nigh indestructible scrap of worthless paper is better than fiddling with a device.
Well, both actually.

Organizations will have to decentralise in order to continue to be able to compete, grow and scale. Larger organisations, which for the most part already are distributed, will have to become even more distributed to keep up.

The big differentiator in my opinion however will be the individual's ability to work from anywhere. Not only do companies around the world spend ridiculous amounts of money on keeping everyone in the same office, there to pretend to be 'working', but nobody also seems to be willing to actually talk about the elephant in the room when it comes to environmental issues and keeping our cities from collapsing: Commuting.

Doing away with the need to commute could be a large contributing factor to fighting global warming. Yet we as a society are mostly ignoring this while at the same time seriously talking about abusing automated driving to allow people to commute even more.
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• Nitty gritty system level programming all the way up to UX
• Work with a small team where YOU can make a difference

If you're an awesome developer we want to hear from you regardless of technology skill sets! This posting is listed as onsite, though we might consider remote given the right person.

Contact bashby(at)contentwatch.com

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Atrium LTS | San Francisco CA | Full-stack web engineers | Remote not ok | Full Time

Hello HN:

Serial entrepreneur and former YC partner Justin Kan here. I recently started a new company, Atrium LTS, that is trying to make legal services for startups more transparent, responsive, and with upfront pricing. In order to do that, we are building lots of innovative software that lawyers will use every day (you will have lots of lawyers and paralegals thanking you regularly!).

We are hiring experienced full stack engineers to join our small engineering and product team. You will get the opportunity to own your own project and work on a small cross functional team with weekly customer feedback. This is a great opportunity to learn about a lot about how fast growing startups work from up close. At Atrium LTS we look for team members who are customer service oriented, life-long learners, and driven to build something great.

We recently raised $10.5mm from General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Thrive, SV Angel, NEA, Greylock, and many more great Silicon Valley investors.

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Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
Apparently they do that because otherwise CEOs would never take risks, for good reason.

You can't be CEO of several companies, so a CEO is fully invested in the success of that one company. From the point of view of a CEO, it makes sense for the company to not take risks.

On the other hand, investors can invest in diverse companies and expect some of them to fail and some of them to win big. From the point of view of an investor, it makes sense for the company to take risks.

Therefore investors pay CEOs a lot and give them golden parachutes to prevent CEOs and investors from having opposite incentives.
I had about 10 years worth of voice acting contacts that I reached out to.
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Big Data Engineer | Syntasa | ONSITE | Fulltime | Washington DC Metro Area (Herndon, VA) | Visa Transfer OK | www.syntasa.com

Syntasa is a Predictive Behavioral Analytics application that leverages machine-learning, event-processing, visualization, and big data technologies to process billions of records in order to generate actionable customer intelligence that improves acquisition, conversion, and retention.

What we're looking for: Experienced Big Data Engineer for our Data Team: Spark,Scala,Java,Hive,AWS

• Good Understanding of Distributed Systems.

• Strong programming skills preferably in Java/Scala.

• Good Understanding of Spark framework and Hadoop eco system tools.

• Experience working with Cloud is a plus.

No agencies please! Please email sarath DOT botlagunta AT syntasa.com and mention you're from HN.
Want a chance to know BA and ekoparty?Develop something to participate on GitHub
I've been looking for something like this, and I almost didn't click the link because the title didn't sound interesting. Really great stuff.
Julia has a macro system that's suspiciously close to CL's.
First I hoped this was a troll (being American).
Then I hoped that it was Australian.
Then I saw where you compared yourself to Silk Road.
Now I just hope you have lawyers. :)
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Bigscreen is a VR/AR company building an immersive, social computing platform. Think "VR Operating System"

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We're a tiny team (3 developers) building one of the most successful VR startups with product-market fit and $3 million in funding from top VCs like Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, I was the founder of a Y Combinator startup (YC W11), and before that I studied EECS at UC Berkeley.

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darshan@bigscreenvr.com
Exactly. Just wondering are there any other third party platforms you are excited about? Recently I was checking - https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/

but can't find how revenue works on there.
Glassdoor isn't really that accurate. It doesn't reflect current market rates, it shows rates for the duration of the time the website has been around. Also, there is massive selection bias about who puts their salary up there
> The medallion system seems to be a US peculiarity

The equivalent system existed in Ireland until 2000, with taxi licenses changing hands for over $100,000. I'd be surprised if this doesn't persist in other European countries and cities.
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EEKING WORK - Remote, US-based

Remote: Yes (have worked exclusively remotely for past 6 years)

Willing to relocate: No

I've been doing full-stack work for the past 6 years, with Python and Django on the back-end and HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery on the front-end. I've also worked with the Django REST Framework and React.js. I'm intimately familiar with schema and data migrations, including migrations between Django projects. I've worked extensively with startups and with distributed teams and am open to occasional travel.

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> Satoshi clearly wished to maintain their pseudonymity, and I'd rather respect that.

Actually that was just a joke. I don't need their identity but sometimes I wish there was a way of discussing some design decisions that went into Bitcoin (I did a little bit of technical analysis of Bitcoin and was involved in electronic crypto-based asset projects before Bitcoin was conceived). Unfortunately that would make it harder for Satoshi or stay anonymous.
https://try.gitea.io/teepot/teekanne
We'll give you a bonus points if you can whiteboard it in front of a room full of strangers asking suspicious questions :)
In addition, it's questionable that those labor laws do more to protect laborers or exist solely to preserve a government-backed monopoly...

If someone doesn't want to drive for Uber, they can be a taxi driver instead...
> Marxism is unscientific and led some societies close to barbarism.

Does Marxism claim to be scientific? If so, is that a deserved critique of it? Ice cream is also unscientific, as is capitalism. Marxism uses the dielectical method, not the scientific one.
It's not. :/

https://pinkapp.io/ (nsfw)
And don't forget wireguard [1]. I'd argue that's even _more_ awesome. :)

[1] https://www.wireguard.com/
Not really. At worst you lose a couple of years of growth in prior equity grants but your yearly refresher will be bulked up significantly to account for the diminished value of the stock and voila, pleb no more...
> It's not a perfect system

I mean, slavery could also be described as "not a perfect system". Medallions in NYC had wholly undergone regulatory capture, so while the system may have started with good intentions, it had since been perverted into a self-perpetuating machine that prints money for a couple of lazy fat cats, to the detriment of everyone else.
7700k seems kinda overpriced. Why not pay $40 more for the i7-7800X and get 50% more cores and double the memory bandwidth/channels?
If I were to create a PR firm to do such a ting, I would call it "The Amazing Journey"
> Also, by "supporting Hypothesis", you mean "giving money to DR MacIver", right? This is not completely clear from the post.

It's specifically in the form of contracting me to develop some features rather than a donation of money - support for testing with Pandas, and improving the existing numpy support to a lesser extent (mostly with a goal of providing a more solid foundation for the Pandas work).
The book A Gentle Introduction to TeX is 97 pages long (number of pages in the output). To produce the typeset output from `gentle.tex`, on my laptop,

- tex takes 0.15 seconds

- pdftex takes 0.37 seconds

- luatex (1.0.4) takes 0.46 seconds

All of these are reasonably fast, and I think getting a full book in less than half a second is acceptable. (My browser takes longer than that to render most things.)

What's the catch? This book is written in plain TeX. The slowness comes when you use LaTeX: it's not unusual to have even single-page documents that take longer for LaTeX to generate. The whole LaTeX approach is to have a package for everything, load everything you may want, providing all the features, etc — and all of this implemented in TeX macro expansion in painful and hard-to-refactor ways.

This is something LuaTeX will help with actually: LuaTeX makes TeX less monolithic by providing hooks (callbacks), and many things can now be implemented in easier-to-read Lua code as hooks into the right parts of TeX's execution, rather than setting everything up at the start so that after macros are expanded the right thing happens. If there's less use of LaTeX and elaborate macros, things should get faster.
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+9/1/17:+DraftKings+Top+5+Hitters
My absolute favorite movies and television series
Gmaster – visual version control toolset
The problem is that this report runs aground on the fact that the percentage of female CS degrees was nearing its peak in 1984. So, apparently this is was "success" should look like, right? (I'm being sarcastic. It is not. There were quite a few structural reasons in the US economy while all this occurred. The massive dislocations in the manufacturing sector being the primary drivers).

As for the complaint about "3.2 Invisibility" ... welcome to the fact that it sucks to be male, too! It always annoys me when women somehow think that men magically get noticed without active efforts. That fact that you are invisible does not imply that everybody else is visible. Go talk to your introverted male friends and ask their opinion about the corporate environment. "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" is a saying for reason.

Maybe this should not be. However, if so, acknowledge that it should not be for both genders.

The primary thing that amazes me is that it really does seem that while institutional sexism does seem to have gone down, individual misbehavior seems to have gotten dramatically worse.
Create-repo: Ruby gem to create a GitHub repository straight from the terminal
I know they don't have lawyers, because lawyers would laugh them out of the building. Let's build a company around criminal conspiracy, there's no way that could go wrong.
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If its not confidential, could I ask why? IBM has been pivoting POWER to Little-Endian and has been focusing more on Linux with Red-Hat, SUSE and now Ubuntu available.
I like that it solves the problem of getting the mass up over the bulk of the atmosphere before you have to give up giving it any more energy. If you could mechanically build the thing (it looks to be on par with a space elevator in terms of material requirements) I don't see any obvious violations of the laws of physics.

Space elevators would be preferable from a footprint perspective caveat the seemingly infinite tensile strength cables.
Using frozen food, many french restaurants already do that for some stuff to an extent there was law on that matter, and there's a french/european consumer chain, picard, for gourmet frozen food. But it's expensive. but maybe prices will go down ?
And until we have liability laws written to hold them accountable for not maintaining the security of their products this will continue to be the case.
If it is, then it's very thorough. Looking at the OP's profile, there's a link to the site and everything. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction...
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The Tor Project is looking for two browser developers for Mobile (Android) and one Android OS developer. These engineers will work with the rest of the Tor Browser team to develop a full-featured Tor Browser Android version.
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We're a stealth-mode, early-stage networking startup spun out of UC Berkeley looking for Software Engineers and SREs. We have a ton of hard problems on high-performance software data planes and complex distributed NFV orchestration. Our systems are primarily in C++ with some Python, Rust, and Go.

Contact barath@nefeli.io if you're interested.
Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/yatdzfsu

I managed to root my 589 awhile back pretty easy by just using a crafted http post request. I run my modem in IP passthrough mode (like DMZ), and as far as I can tell, most of the open ports are not there that the article mentions (at least not on the WAN side)
not when people don't take taxis.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/technology/yellow-cab-bankru...
> On the other hand, competition for dev jobs in general is so fierce (as in the supply of great devs outstrips the demand by a large margin)

This is so much the exact opposite of everything I've experienced that I have a hard time believing it. Finding good developers is near impossible, we regularly interview people for months before finding someone halfway decent. And the last time I looked for work I had several offers for remote positions at east coast companies, which makes it hard to believe this is a regional thing.

What sort of work are these great devs doing that is not in demand?
According to the issue someone opened (https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/issues/483), it's available at:

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/558d35d45e1fee89860...
Exactly, and for pretty much the same reason. Once CMOS prices got to the point where 3D graphics acceleration (not SGI's only core competency, but pretty close revenue-wise) was desired at consumer volume, they were toast. NVIDIA had they beat on almost everything that mattered by 1998 or so.
HELP the neighborhood is flooded and the network is down, now I cant feed myself!
Totally agree. I had a problem which required finding the minimum distance between an ellipse and a point. If that had been my day job I would have settled for Newton's method and hacked around the regions of bad convergence. Instead I spent a week developing to be what I still believe to be a novel numerical method that is much more stable over all regions.

Turns out I was wrong in some earlier maths, and the curve I wanted to find the distance to wasn't an ellipse. I was able to generalise the method for arbitrary curves, and now I've solved my problem!

Relevant blog post:
http://wet-robots.ghost.io/simple-method-for-distance-to-ell...
Basically those units are a great idea, but to keep costs down they only serve one at a time. If that could change to each unit even serving 2-3 the bottlenecks would ease, and you could also consider blended approach in which you have the standard 4-6 nozzle dispenser and one or two freestyles. After all some people really have no interest in anything other than straightforward Cokeor whatever else.
Noooo!!! :)
Token.ai | New York City, NYC, NY | Web Developer | ONSITE | Full Time

Hey Hacker News readers. We're hiring a web developer over at Token. Our current stack is React (Next.js) + Firebase (Authentication, Database, Cloud Functions) + Shopify (GraphQL and Admin APIs), and we're about to add Elasticsearch to the mix.

Here's the official job description:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/token/jobs/533875#.Wam2ldOGPMU

It's posted as a frontend posiiton, but ideally this person would be comfortable coding on the front and the back. Cool with applicants comfortable on either end of the spectrum.

Techcrunch article about us:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/token-with-2-5-million-in-...

Cheddar.tv coverage about us (~8:20 mark):
https://cheddar.vhx.tv/videos/this-changes-things-full-08151...
That's hilarious.

But that's what people do when there's no "boss-sanctioned" way to up-skill and learn new things.

I think lots of smart folks get started by cargo-culting an oversized solution/platform onto their sad boring projects, then gradually step into bigger and better things at other employers.

The two-headed monstrosities are a necessary evil to get started for many people.
And deep linking be damned right? Now we have to mess with the canonical url to include the deep linked resources so that sharing works and a page that could have been static need dinamic generation of their meta
Zumex is quite common in UK and does not hit the higher end of your price range.

I admit to a slightly childish glee in ordering an orange juce and watching the machine peel and juice the fresh oranges. (Mostly I eat actual fruit).

http://www.zumex.com/en