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There's this story[1] from Compelling Sci-Fi issue 8 that might quite close on the fallen space junk scavenging part.

[1] http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/the-dirt-dances....
This is the original statement being dismissed that I am agreeing with:

But every human can easily identify black/white/Asian based on facial features or voice.

Put another way, you could describe that in your words: you can make an educated guess about ethnicity from the sound of someone else speaking.

I have already allowed that race is a nebulous social construct at best. I don't know what your point is. You stating that we can't yet prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that these differences are purely physiological in origin is not really a rebuttal.

There is no real way to readily separate something like voice from things like lifestyle and socioeconomic class. Similarly, on average, men are taller than women. We could argue about how much of that is actually genetic and whether or not there is some culturally determined stunting of women going on globally, but it doesn't change the measurable average height difference between the genders as a group.
Anybody can run guix publish however and self publish their own non-free substitutes if they wanted, plus there's all the existing non-free substitute servers around, and you can try your luck with guix import from nixpkgs. The community won't help anybody if they ask for help with non-free software though.

I haven't missed any non-free packages since switching to Guix surprisingly, I always seem to find a free alternative though my daily req are pretty basic.
> I some how stumbled on CPAN one night and the guy that wrote TWA 800 Crash Cover Up Conspiracy was giving a talk.

I think you mean C-SPAN. Unless the more nefarious of the Perl hackers have been working overtime. :)
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The public benefits to a working transit system are nearly innumerable. The benefits to VC money funding Uber benefits the owners of Uber and exactly nobody else, while we all see more traffic, congestion, pollution, waste, and more.
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I want a position that allows me to write a lot of code in addition to architectural and project management duties. I want to work within a team and prefer the size to be between 5 and 20 developers.
1) Go to your local job board. Here in the us, I recommend indeed.com or https://angel.co/jobs

2) For your local and particular interest get a list of potential jobs

3) Do a pairwise comparison between first two jobs. For these two jobs and only these two jobs, which you would prefer to do in your current state. Ignore qualifications or everything else, if you were given the choice of starting only one of those two jobs tomorrow, which would you choose.

4) Then do a pairwise comparison between second two jobs

5) Keep doing this for at least 10 minutes

6) Now you have a list of potentially attractive jobs for you.

7) For this list you compiled, do this process again.

8) Then once you've made it through all of those, do it once more.

9) By the third time, you will have chosen some jobs 3 times over other jobs. So you're task now is to look deeply at all of these jobs that won 3 times and try to figure out what is in common between all of them.

10) Once you have some of those clues, go back to step 2 and try searching for more jobs that have those key-words and/or criteria you found in step 9.

What you are doing here is to force some sort of revealed preferences for your self based on currently available jobs. You aren't trying to solve the "what you should do next", you are trying to solve the what interests me enough that I would do it over something else. With enough research you'll have a few more ideas of what roads you should be exploring.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20hn&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
It's not a contradiction. The buses only go down main roads. But on those roads they stop at every block. I'd be happy to walk three or even four blocks to catch a bus. So the bus could stop every 6-8 blocks on the roads it goes down. Now that those buses are faster we might be able to add additional routes on roads that were previously more than 3-4 blocks from a stop.

Also other countries were able to solve this. It's a uniquely American problem.
WPA2 in general, or just WPA2-TKIP?
The current IRS rate is $0.535/mi for deductible business expenses. I'm not aware of any states using a different rate.
I agree 100%. Privacy is sacred and a human right.

Zero Democrats voted for the PATRIOT Act and continue to support dragnet surveillance and serve on their committees, and Edward Snowden wasn't a felon under the Obama Administration.

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/patriotact20012006senatevote....

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000461&ch...

...

Oh, shit. It's almost like both parties are bought and paid for... which is why even when a Democrat is the President, Wall Street never actually goes to jail for destroying the economy, unprecedented tracking and harassment of journalists, and gleefully continues (and increases!) smuggling guns into Mexican drug cartel hands which were used for an incalculable amount of murders (including one confirmed US border patrol agent). All we need to end all these evil acts... is more Democrats. Then everything will be fine.

Except it wasn't. They told us things would change, smiled, and then kept on with business as usual and corporations getting even more power. He said he'd close Guantanamo, but didn't even to bother telling us there was one (we didn't even know about yet) in Chicago. ("Chicago black site.") He decried the Iraq war, and then started a few of his own. He ran on a platform of government transparency and then oversaw the largest expansion of classified documents in the history of the USA. (Google it.)

So forgive me, as someone who watches the news, that I'm not getting my hopes up that simply electing another Democrat (instead of enacting broad, sweeping a changes to the foundations of the system) will somehow save us and undo all the bad aspects of our country.

Jimmy Carter was right when he said "The USA is now an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery power."

https://www.ecowatch.com/jimmy-carter-the-u-s-is-an-oligarch...

But you can be forgiven for not knowing about this story, because a simple Google will review that NONE of the MSM outlets actually covered it. You know, because what's "news" about an ex-president saying "the entire system is corrupt." Surely, Pokemon and thigh-gaps are more important to the political discussion.
Recently one of my daily routes actually takes longer by lyft line than by public transit, if the lyft line has two intermediate pickups and drops. I feel like once it reaches peak car pooling sustainable fiscal efficiency it no longer becomes superior or conpetitive against public transit.
Please present an argument, not a link. This is hacker news, not reddit.
It's a breath of fresh air when I get to get away from our "modern", overwrought JS web stack and go bang out some internal tools with good old WinForms. So much less friction and magic all around.
One of the things. They use GPS clocks as well.
Hm, I'm using CUDA in production via Nix. When did you attempt this? It may be much easier now than it was before. If there's some particular technicality you need solved- like requiring a specific driver version- I can help.
Space works, arrow keys work, page up/page down keys also work. What are you talking about?
Well, if there's one piece of (somewhat) good news around this and https://www.krackattacks.com/, it's that TLS and VPNs will become even more common.

Where did WEP and WPA2 come from, anyway? What's the historical reason we aren't all using TLS to connect to our APs?
You might be right. I looked up my favorite modern C feature and it is intermingled declarations and code which is in C99. Others include inline functions, // comments (which were in C++), ...
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Guix, is in fact, Nix/Guile, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Nix plus Guile.
Women have to worry about settling down earlier.
Yes, this is something that I think is really important in the future. NixOS really needs something like Ubuntu is to Debian or Manjaro is to Arch. Lots of polishing that a standard Linux user can start using out of the box (no instructions required).
This is actually a genius application. I hope more HN readers read it and this meme spreads.
Many important and useful projects only have man pages. It's the content and organization that makes good documentation, not the presentation.
"Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel

"Effective C++" by Scott Myers
This leads me to believe that Mozilla may have recently been caught up in the same spamhaus spam-trap debacle as many others and was backlisted. They decided to send a permission pass email because if an open or click hasn't recently been recorded, there isn't really any other way for them to know which emails in their list are no longer active.

This also confirms my belief that one or more of the big email ISP's (yahoo, gmail, etc.) may have sold a crap load of their inactive email accounts to spamhaus recently. Doesn't matter if these once active emails did opt in to your list in the past, you will still get backlisted now that they are in the spamhaus spam-trap database.

I don't understand why the email providers don't simply shut down the inactive accounts. This would then result in a hard bounce to the sender allowing them to remove the emails from their list.
Julia does this automatically, it you force it with @inline
Stay tuned for tomorrow's KRACK announcement, then.
Nix has facilities for creating Docker and Singularity containers from a nix expression, which lets you package up arbitrary environments. Does that satisfy your use-case?

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools
This study is definitely flawed and should differentiate between hyper dense cities like NYC and other major metro areas.

In the first graph they ask people what they would do if Uber/Lyft wasn't available and only 1% responded they would use a taxi.

This is completely untrue. Being a New Yorker for 25+ years, and completely switching my commute preferences for Lyft/Uber I would certainly use Taxi's much more frequently if there were no ride-hailing services available.

Can't believe that 99% of occurrences would do something other than use a taxi.
Another possible explanation for the penchant of many users (esp. non-technical ones) to run everything "maximized":

Most non-technical users have only ever seen and used MS Windows.

MS Windows has always had atrocious overlapping windows management features as compared to Unix X11 window managers. So most non-technical users never really learned to use multiple, overlapping, onscreen windows at the same time.

The one 'window management' feature that is directly visible to a non-technical MS Windows user is the task bar, and then its (the task bar's) only feature they see is "raise to top".

Applying a bit of "if the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails" mentality, and it becomes easier for a non-technical user to simply hit the MS Windows "maximize" button on every window that opens for any applications they use (after which most MS Windows apps remember and auto-maximize the next time they launch) and then use "the hammer" they have (task bar with "raise this window to top" tool) to simply pop an already full screen window up when needed, then pop up another one when that one is needed, etc.

Plus, from their viewpoint, this provides a "less distracting" work-space since only the thing of interest is in view at any given moment.

Couple this with a bit of "follow the leader", or in this case, someone else they've observed, or possibly from the trainer who maximized not because he/she wanted to, but because the 800x600 projector of the day was too small to demo anything with overlapping windows and we have non-technical users who all start running everything maximized.
Probably. It is common for european subway to be open on weekends. In my city (Warsaw) subway during fri/sat and sat/sun nights goes every 15 minutes. Night buses start every 30 minutes from central station in every direction, with exception of more remote destinations which have bus every hour. However if you live out of the city and commute by train you are probably out of luck between 1am and 5am.
Great job California! Keep up the reflexive defense of any and all institutions - that’s been working out great for us lately.
I am 52.

People "reach adulthood" (to use your words) when they take on real responsibility. Some people never do this. Some do it at an early age.

Some things that often cause people to grow up fast include having children or serving in the military.

(Those are opinions. Source: Me.)
A lot of code is still written in C89 for maximum portability, and I regularly do that. The only thing I really miss from C99 is the mixed declarations and code, but you can instead use nested scopes or just move the declarations up to the top.
Complexity analysis.
The January edit in your own link is listed as "too small to map".
If you were born before 1959 (or August 1959 to be more specific). My mom was born in the territory of Alaska, for example.
That's obviously below cost and unsustainable. So, I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to gather from it.

It's probably more than £19 per passenger just for the fuel for a trip from the UK to Greece.

The average drop off in load factor, and resulting drop in prices after 9/11 is pretty well documented.
Yes, there is a tradeoff to more vs fewer stops. A stop at each small city block is still too far in the fewer direction: very few lost riders, very slow effective speed.
What about a userContent.css entry on your personal browser that enforces a max-width that you like?

After all, it is your browser on your computer, it should render how you want, not how the site author wanted.
Six agricultural giants on the verge of merging into three companies (2016)
What about your subscribers which use text only email?
Can you insert a max-width entry in your local userContent.css file to enforce your own max-width no matter what the site author may, or may not, specify?
24/7 isn't required. Since last call is at 2am, running until 3am on Sat and Sun would make a huge difference and cost them 5 hrs of maintenance time. That's probably still a problem, but it seems like a solvable one.
WPA2 has been around since 2004 -- it's really surprising that there's not a newer alternative developed and deployed in the last 13 years.

What is around as a potential next standard?

In the meantime, do we just revert to open wifi and use a VPN tunnel overtop?
Calling all robots
I agree. Also wanted to add a bit more color. When I did my MBA, we visited Emirates, and I heard a cool story. Apparently, international airports limited the landing slots that Emirates could use. Emirates then pushed Airbus to create the A380 so they could maximize passenger volume per landing slot. I'm sure this is only part of the story, but it's a pretty cool angle and a creative response to a business reality :)

I think high-efficiency twins and ETOPS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS) standards certifying twins for transoceanic flights have contributed to the reduced demand for four-engine jets.

I will miss the B747 (and yes, I love airplanes).
Try "banker's rounding"
Oh, memories. I took CS107 in 1996, which was apparently the date this handout was written. Nick was my academic advisor, and his CS108 (which was C++ at the time) was one of my favorite courses of all time. Bunny World...

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old programmer, but I feel like kids these days are missing out on something important by learning to program in a language that doesn't require them to truly grok memory management.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 in Docker
The story says they wanted a narrower bill to do the same thing, asking for specific records, rather than simply any materials that would be available under the records act.

That said, if they're supposed to be available, I'm not sure why they're not. If anything, one would think that this might cut down on the requests that would otherwise be made.
My guess is that for most people, provisioning a wireless network using a shared secret (or just a button press, ala the broken WPS) is easier than having to setup a CA and sign/distribute certificates. (Not defending WEP or WPA in anyway)
Find someone who’s vision is inline with what you want.

What type of work do you like? What type of business would you like to build?

Fuck it, what’s your feeling on building solutions for people just like you? That’s what I’m looking to do.
Speculative Technology Pop-Up Event in the Bay Area
I spent the past month working with a group on a speculative technology research experience, and will be hosting a pop-up exhibition in SF, focused around the more secretive tech entities in Silicon Valley. If you are interested, you can request access at this link.
Try the nonprofit world: http://idealist.org/

I used to say "Nonprofits? They aren't doing anything interesting with tech!!"

One day, my wife convinced me to try searching on Idealist just to see if there were any nonprofits doing anything interested with tech. I feel in love with the very first result, got the job, worked my way up the ranks, and am now Chief Product Officer at GlobalGiving.org and I couldn't be happier.

Looking for a shortlist of orgs that I'd recommend? Try any one of the orgs at https://www.ctosforgood.org
In theory, this is true. But the effect of reads on SSD endurance is orders of magnitude smaller than the effect of writes. The reads required for a rebuild aren't going to trigger an endurance-related failure unless the drive was already within one full drive write of failing.
Please do Pokemon next. It's about time I get some respect for my shiny Mudkip.
They would most likely immediately recognise base 2 whether their systems use base 3 or not.
This is how I've always felt about De Morgan's obvious, obvious Laws.
I almost added that the idea was free for the taking if someone wanted to write a sci fi story about it. I didn't add it because I felt it might come off too pretentious.

There's a lot of ways it can go, including a tech thriller, espionage, or even recovering something specifically needed in a post apocalyptic world. I'm sure there are more ideas.

It could even be hard science fiction, instead of just fantasy!

Alas, I've too many writing projects on my plate. Run with it, if you want. I'll even read it.
I don't know "where the fuck this gang banger garbage" is coming from but there'd be a lot less of it if we stopped giving them get out of jail free cards in the form of emergency healthcare.

You know what's offensive? I pay more than my fair share healthcare expenses and I don't get better access to care than lazy people.

You know what's stupid? Health insurers can't adjust my policy based on my gender, but auto insurers can.

You know what's wrong? The status quo that makes it better to present to an E.R as a lazy jobless poor person than someone who's working poor.

You know the system is bad, why are you defending it? Why don't you go out and tell those gang bangers to put down their guns? They won't, and you're too scared to talk to them because you know deep down that violent poor people in bad parts of town are dangerous and beyond reason.
Lack of trust should mean the burden of proof is on the untrusted. Waiting to fire (not lay off) bad employees en mass at least smells funny, you have people who weren't fired saying it hurt morale, and possible ulterior motives. But no, no hard evidence, only justified lack of trust.

I never said that statement was a lie (your word not mine); I have no reason to take their claims at face value either.

So by all means, let's continue talking about how much those loser dead weights who got fired must have sucked.
And the article was "Posted on July 16, 2015".

Back-then a second set of measurements were shown with the programs forced to run on one-core, using set-affinity.
The only reason TLS works is because of CAs. What could be the CAs for APs?
Seems obvious to me there is a mechanistic explanation our perception is incapable of realizing. We can see the results so there is hope.
You are right that Caltrain isn't a good example, but the bus transit systems of the Bay Area's suburban locales, like SamTrans, do reflect the GP's comment. SamTrans' 2011 median rider income was $36000, 64% had no car, and 33% were youths.

http://www.samtrans.com/Assets/_SSP/archives/2011/July_Open_...
Trolling for a wealthier world
Research Effective Altruism and check out the 80,000 hours job board.

https://80000hours.org/job-board/
The transfer of a few acres of land does not a state shape make - sellers of state-shaped fridge magnets don't have to go get their stock remade as a result. The last significant transfer of land in the mainland US was michigan and wisconsin's quarrel almost a century ago.

Saying that state shapes are still in flux because 19 properties were shifted from state X to state Y earlier this year is a bit like saying you've got a new computer because you replaced your mouse.
Cross-fetch, finally a successor for isomorphic-fetch
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And how many email users load images by default? How many of Mozilla's more technical demographic?

If I legitimately want emails from you (Mozilla seems likely) and you stop sending them, I'm going to be irritated. But if you stop because your phone home 1x1.gif doesn't load, that doesn't mean I wasn't reading them.
For a beginner, I think it's hard to beat "C++ Primer" by Stanley Lippman.
C99 object literals are also fantastic. I feel very constrained when I have to use strict C89.

Meanwhile, in terms of C11 [update: actually also from C99] I actually wrote a function with a signature like

void func(int arg[static 3]);

but later removed it because (a) the generated code was the same, and (b) rather than increasing clarity and self-documentation, it caused confusion; even when you're familiar with the feature, it never stops looking like a syntax error.
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I thought so. Born in '57.

Why yes, yes I am old. But I'm kind of skeptical about that being the 'distant past.'

Damned kids! ;-)

Either way, as someone pointed out, it's really not that long ago and there are still changes being made. On December 8th, 1941, they were going to hold a vote about separating a part of Northern California. December 7th, of course, meant that the legislators were preoccupied and the vote was never held.

I think they were going to call it Jefferson? I dunno... I watched the documentary series for amusement and it wasn't a scholastic pursuit. It's probably out there to be watched, if people are curious. I think there was a book by the same title?
I don't find that first link well argued at all: because corporations have achieved some degree of regulatory capture from the FDA, we need to eliminate regulations and let those same corporations run completely rampant and somehow that will result in better performance? That makes no sense to me.

If that's what you got from SSC's cost disease article, you might have some bias in your framework.
How My Comprehension of Superintelligence Shaped My Feelings About Eating Meat