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The US doesn't even produce any plutonium anymore and NASA has to buy fuel from Russia and then deal with protestors when they try and test power plants that would be able to last long enough and be durable enough to get us to Mars. Activists have halted much of the worlds energy research.
> Is this considered normal?

I don't know if it is considered normal, but it is normal.

> A candidate wins yet people try to have him kicked out.

Impeachment is in the constitution for a reason. Winning an election is not a sufficient condition for maintaining a public office. So on face, there's nothing actually wrong with trying to use a constitutional tool to kick out an elected official.

That said,

> If so, why?

You're kind of asking for a retrial of very polarizing figures from recent political history, a dangerous topic on hn, and I suppose that's the reason for the downvotes. I'm trying, here, to give an honest and historically accurate answer.

Obama and Bush impeachment advocates were mostly unjustifiable partisans, in the sense that there were never serious, constitutionally plausible, and widely-believed-to-be-true justifications for impeachment. That's probably why neither person was ever actually impeached. Consider this "the system working mostly as intended"

Clinton was justifiable, at least at one point in time, although we could fairly ask whether the same accusations would result in an impeachment today. Again, consider this "the system working as intended"

Trump is an open case, and these things are hard to judge without the benefit of hindsight. But there are at least serious, plausible accusations of impeachable conduct. We'll see if those accusations are true, I guess.

However, you'll note that in all of these cases except for Clinton, it was a minority of elected representatives from the opposition party calling for an actual impeachment.

The vast majority of opposition representatives did always call for investigations. But that's a checks-and-balances system working as intended IMO.
The parent's point is that SL was almost explicitly a performance/optimization gain and not a feature release. It literally give you ~8GB (IIRC) of extra disk space for just installing it.

I would fork over money to Apple for them to do another SL-like OS release.

Are you listening Apple?!
> Something has to give

I disagree, I think Apple can continue to release sub standard products for macos with little or no consequence as long as people are willing to hand them $1000 for an iPhone.
"It's like results of an election aren't final. A candidate wins yet people try to have him kicked out"

Instead of impeaching Trump maybe the Democrats should start standing for something and try to get elected. This seems a much more straightforward way.
It's all the same thing every year on HN. People trying to find all sorts of excuses for Bitcoin existence - blockchains, smart contracts, ICOs - as long as they don't have to accept that Bitcoin's main purpose is and always was to have an alternative to the financial system, crippling regulations, government control and taxes.

It has not yet succeeded in this purpose as it is not yet a viable alternative currency except in extreme cases where the government-backed currency has failed completely.

9 years is nothing when we're talking about currency. It's not even a fraction of a single lifespan. Bitcoin's rate of money supply has slowed dramatically in the last few years (as it was programmed to do), limiting its ability to expand to accommodate new markets. Instead of becoming more widely accepted, organizations such as Steam are dropping support for it, due to volatility and increased transaction fees: which is exactly what would be predicted when a currency supply is limited but the economy around it is growing (or trying to grow-- scarcity of currency cause an economy to stagnate until an alternative is found).
It's nice to see an aviation startup that's not just Uber For Airplanes.
I watched it fullscreen on a mobile phone and in the later stages it was mesmerizing. A fluid simulation as phone screen saver would be awesome.
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It looks like you've been using Hacker News primarily for political and ideological battle. That's a serious abuse of this site and we ban accounts that do it, as stated in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Whatever your ideology is, doing this is not what Hacker News is for—in fact it destroys the intellectual curiosity that it is for.

I'm not going to ban you because there are earlier stretches in your comment history that do use HN as intended. But please read the rules and take the spirit of this site to heart. We'd appreciate it. Other links to take a look at are https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html.
I'm creating Cora, a new programming language and environment optimized for learning. I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
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I'm suggesting your first scenario is the sane one for consumers. Kodak's value-add would be the tools to help you get the hash onto the immutable public record (and giving you control of the private keys that let you reassign ownership of this digital asset), presumably by integrating it into its cameras and photo-processing services, or providing a friendly Kodak-branded web frontend. If they go belly-up, you still have the keys and therefore can still transfer/prove those rights using somebody else's tools. You still want things to be trustless and decentralized because the whole point of such a system is to avoid costly records-digging to prove your rights in court. Unless you can continue to re-assign rights after Kodak gets bored of running its non-distributed, non-trustless sytem, you're back in the dark ages trying to prove things with photocopies of written contracts and so on.

You're right that they wouldn't be adding much value, and therefore couldn't extract much profit. That's why they're not doing that, and are instead issuing tokens.
agreed! plex on samsung is seamless too!
As an interstellar carrier it's perfect though.

Boost a limited-duration (aka small mass) craft at unsustainable acceleration to dock with an interstellar transiting ship, then detach and decelerate on the other end.

All the while you're able to continue increasing the interstellar ship's velocity. Limited only by the max velocity you can feasibly intercept.

By being propellantless, it essentially takes mass considerations out of the interstellar transit system (given enough time).
To give some extra context: this is another study confirming the "replication crisis"[1] in psychology and social psychology (and other sciences as well, but these are the most prominent fields) where longstanding results that were thought to be rock-solid are falling like dominoes. Basically, the science backing, like, half of all TED talks and most episodes of Radiolab is crumbling before our eyes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Shouldn’t they be able to tack “upwind” to go towards the sun?
Whoops: "About 47.6 billion e-bikes are projected to be sold globally in 2018."
We have the "Right to Roam" here in Scotland which means you can go pretty much anywhere you want by foot or on a bike and camp pretty much anywhere as long as you are sensible.

No lack of wild places in Scotland, thankfully (although more trees would be nice!).
Why? Requiring a license doesn't seem to make car drivers any better. And most bicyclists already have a driver's license. Those who don't tend to be kids, or poor (having a driver's license is privilege, although a common one). Forcing them to need a license will just create more illegal bicyclists.

Law enforcement can already ticket a bicyclist, license or no license. Bicyclists already know when they're breaking the law.

I disbelieve your proposed solution would actually solve any problems.
Is it weird that I really don't like wearing headphones while working out? I get sweaty and find it gross to put something I can't easily wash in or on my ears.
This is a fairly poorly-informed piece, especially in light of the recent NY Times piece on construction costs in the New York area: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

Alon Levy, who was the source for many of the initial investigations into high costs here, argues quite convincingly that, at the current projected price tag, Gateway is not a justifiable project: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2015/11/13/when-theres-no...

The real problem here is that ARC, Gateway, &c. all have unjustifiably huge multi-billion-dollar price tags. We only have this problem in the first place because of the absurd construction costs in New York.

Additionally, the writer does not appear to have reached out to any independent transit people. Penn Station is actually less busy than, say, Châtelet-les-Halles in Paris, which has many, many fewer tracks. The biggest reason that it doesn't work well is just organizational – Penn Station would be able to handle its current capacity just fine if it did things that were standard elsewhere like through-running.

Lastly, neither Moynihan Station nor many of the Penn Station revamp ideas are well-regarded in transit circles. As noted, Moynihan Station makes people walk an extra long block. The original Penn Station, meanwhile, was not particularly well-regarded for things like pedestrian flow. It had a beautiful waiting room and some great architecture, but it's generally been regarded as being mediocre functionally, especially compared to Grand Central, which is both beautiful and has very good pedestrian flow.
It's much harder to hit something in the air.
> For 20 years I’ve been writing entire applications in AWK, a dynamically typed language, and not once were any of the bugs due to typing.

If you spent 20 years writing serious programs in Awk, I'm not convinced you know what real static typing is.
The benchmark tabs don't appear to work in Firefox (they work fine in Chrome). Assuming the website is built with Nerv, that's a big red flag.

Firefox console says "Reference error, event is not defined" when clicking on a tab.
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My wife is in this field. It's strikingly similar to software development. They quiz you for hours (or days) then when you see all the trash they're building that is so flaw ridden it's like the interview had nothing to do with the actual position.

Your background looks like your in SF. Good luck, that interview bullshit has infected pretty much every company there.
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The decision of the Internet advertising industry to ignore the original Do Not Track setting is a landmark in the cynicism of the industry. I mean users made an explicit request to not be tracked and companies like Google and Facebook were all "lol, no, we'll track you anyway". It's one of the reasons I feel no remorse running an ad blocker.
ed(1) is actually quite usable, I remember editing lots of documents using ed/troff at university in the early 80s as still occasionally drop into ed if I wasn't to do a small change to a simple txt file (I remember that using vi was frowned on as an egregious waste of memory)
I agree, there is no reason to mention "bayesian" in the title other than using it as a hype term like "blockchain" or "deep learning".

Also, the real difference is whether they test a "null hypothesis" vs testing an "actual hypothesis". Like almost all psych, this falls in the first category.
This is not specifically a vulnerability in TLS-SNI-01 - more like a major misconfiguration by the shared hosting provider, to share ACME secrets.

I guess TLS-SNI-01 does share part of the blame for making this possible in the first place.

It would be great if TLS-SNI-01 could be salvaged, for all the binaries out there - but i don't think a blacklist is a great long-term solution. How about a strict one IP = one domain lockdown until you can prove that you don't share challenges? i.e. negative responses.

EDIT: See reply
>Impeachment is in the constitution for a reason. Winning an election is not a sufficient condition for maintaining a public office. So on face, there's nothing actually wrong with trying to use a constitutional tool to kick out an elected official.

Doesn't the fact that there has been a push to get all the presidents kicked out mean there's something really wrong?
Ok so the issue is authentification of the identities. This doesn't seem to be a solved problem in any space, even HTTPS is vulnerable to this kind of attack.

It could be decentralized through pluggable identity authorities which provide the public key transfer via a secure channel. Essentially you'd use the same protocol and select what servers (WhatsApp, Signal, maybe some sort of immutable ledger elsewhere) to use.
There are a few services like that:

* https://www.fin.com/
* https://mysecond.com/
* https://www.perssist.com/
* https://getmagic.com/

I have only played around with Magic. Really like the idea of it but never got any real use of it. They executed all tasks I threw at them so slowly which in turn costed me too much money (asking them to warn me each morning if it is going to rain.. well, that cost me 40 minutes the first day, then I canceled that task).

Since then I got a credit card with concierge service, which I pay around 10 USD/month for. Solves all my easy tasks for a much better price.
With multiple smaller rotors you control by differential speed of the rotors, which are then fixed pitch, and much simpler mechanically. Smaller (lighter) rotors allow for quicker speed adjustments.

Coaxial counterrotating rotors, as here, have two further advantages:

1. they're much more efficient, as less energy is converted into (useless) air rotation.

2. in forward flight, one side of the rotor "sees" higher relative speed, thus extra lift, while the receding side sees less lift. That's cancelled out by the counterrotating rotor above.

Generally, larger diameters are good for hover performance and better autorotation, though autorotation is not really a factor for this design.

EDIT to add: Note that the total disc size of one large rotor is of course the same as the one of 4 smaller ones with half the radius.
At least for HEIC, it's not really exposed to the Web - pictures are silently transcoded to JPEG when uploading. Apple could swap out HEIC for AV1 behind the scenes whenever they want, or alternately sliently transcode HEIC to AV1.
That is exactly my point - kids need to learn to fight back, and if a punch won't do it, calling everyone from the parents to the principal to the police sure will. Bullies need to learn this isn't an ape tribe, the earlier the better.

And as adults, every day can be a battle, if you can't hold your own, you have societal resources to back you up.

Of course, this needs to be taught as being a last resort, otherwise they may grow up to be bullies themselves. Having children is hard.
Much the Schadenfreude as I will have when a well-off population that generally promotes higher tax rates gets what it asked for, I don't think they "don't notice it" when they sign off on their annual filings and see their refund check. After all, they're only getting back their marginal federal rate, not the entire amount. It's how little they get for their money compared to other countries after what they (net) pay, or how little people pay elsewhere in the country for not much comparably less, that I would hope sparks a productive response toward city, town, and state agencies.
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
The bootstrap version generalizes with 97% accuracy on a new image. Because the vocabulary is limited, you can train the model overnight. To make the model generalize with all the HTML/CSS markup you need significantly more compute.
Yes. In a previous life I lived in an area that's mostly a spread out suburb. I got so depressed that I couldn't walk anywhere, I mean, absolutely nowhere. I felt pretty housebound during the summer and yet I felt at the same time there wasn't really any place to go. Jumping in the car every time I needed to leave the house was just not relaxing!

Now I live in a small town and boy do I love it! Since it's a small town there's not really any huge roads and very little traffic. The streets beyond the major thru fares are quiet and the neighbors are friendly. If I'm bored and feeling restless I can walk to the park (half mile, maybe), the local watering hole (2 blocks), the coffee shop (1 block), or even the convenience store (about a quarter mile). I mean, just getting up and taking a short walk to the convenience store seems to be really beneficial to my mental health for some reason, yet driving there does the opposite.
There's no compelling evidence that that will be the case but it's possible in the far future. The emphasis at the moment is on correctness of resource usage.
source: https://github.com/tunabrain/gpu-fluid
The serial arson isn't really a solution, either.

So, in the same area I mentioned in my previous post, there have been several arson incidents.

All that remains is the shell of the structure, and the property owner cannot be contacted (some other state/country), the municipality cannot pay for the removal and dumping of the debris, and the EPA considers the property an unauthorized dump/landfill.

Particularly in areas with basements, the basements collect the debris and all the rain and snow, and become, as you say, an "active harm".
It's more centralized in the UK, while an old-fashioned American belief in small, local government lives on. If you read the article, the ARC tunnel project needed (or initially thought it would obtain) collaboration between governors of New York, New Jersey, Transit Authority, and the Fed government. If you work in systems, that's like a disk array striped across several disks, the failure of any one causing the array to fail.

First Corzine proposed it (the second or so in as many decades), then Christie replaces him and uses its cancellation for political gain (a fact with such frustration that I can't express it politely), then the project comes alive again at higher cost and with Obama Federal funding promises overturned by Trump.

Whoever said that decentralized control of infrastructure in a short-term-minded political environment was a good idea needs to wake up and visit countries in Europe or Asia with vastly superior infrastructure and ponder the idea that 18th century ideas could perhaps be wrong in 2018.
Judging by how well-informed he was later in life, I think he reversed his opinion on the subject a lot later on.
Could you please not take HN threads into same-old flamewar territory? We've all seen this a big bunch of times. Repetition is the enemy of curiosity.

I realize the GP's tulip mention hit you as a provocation but provocations are what commenters here need to build the strength to resist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, you broke the HN rule against calling names in arguments. Please don't do that either.
official source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential...
I think the question you ask should be re-stated in terms of magnitudes. I expect every president has had ardent opponents who want him impeached. The question is whether the mainstream component of the opposition party takes that desire seriously.
It's a mix of using wood for building materials, and for fuel, and clearing land for agriculture.

https://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-8Y5BSY
Well, it has to send the public key for the new group member to the client, so the client will encrypt messages for them with that key. So the server HAS to notify the client of a new member if they want to intercept any messages.
In the US we have the opposite situation - vast forests that used to be farmland. In New England you can be hiking through a dense forest, far from any town, and come across stone walls that farmers built from the stones they dug up while clearing their fields.
Well, that's one way to convert suburban areas to dense and mixed use urban ones.
Agreed, and I wish other types of businesses (restaurants, bars, airports) would do the same. Cable news is mostly garbage entertainment gossip or alarmist nonsense, and I would love to eliminate it from my life completely!
I applaud anyone trying to enter the market but the site as-is leaves a lot of questions open to a first time visitor. At first I assumed this was some kind of discounting system on top of the commercial operators. Reading through the comments here it seems they are flying their own planes. Given that they're a company I've never heard of, and flying their own planes, it would be nice to at least see the planes in their livery.

The landing page featuring minimalist text with lots of whitespace might be the popular thing to do for upstart software companies but a company in the business of physically moving people with their own planes shouldn't appear so sterile, IMO. JetSuiteX (https://www.jetsuitex.com) and SurfAir (https://www.surfair.com/) are in more or less the same market and make me feel much more comfortable about considering their services.
A lot of the moors are common land which have restrict rules about their use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_land

If you remove a piece of common land then it must be replaced with something of an equal size. It also requires Secretary of State approval for lots of things relating to commons.
The screenshot shows 55 minute travel times, is that real? Current airlines generally schedule 1h25 to 1h45.
That's quite a title. "You know I don't speak Spanish."
You say this but then you go read a paper with a cruddy t-test and then injure your eyes with the spasmodic rolling that it induces, like I did.

It's kinda remarkable how many people don't actually use modern bayesian analysis techniques, which is why it's such a policy war. It's the difference between "older statistical methods uninformed by the glut of modern processing power" and "things which require a computer to do well, and preserve uncertainty."
You'd be right, because most software development creates more code dept than features.
"Tacking" (more technically, the non-downwind vector of a segment of tacking) only works because sailboats are pushing against a resisting vector, neutralizing one directional component of the wind vector (usually a centreboard).

See: http://asianyachting.com/aymasters/l1tech&man.htm
The brain fakes the timing of things. Constantly.

Heat/burning sensations use the slowest type of nerve fiber, only moving at .5 to 2 meters per second. While the primary actors related to movement are at 100 meters per second.
It is solved, but the solutions all involve a mutally trusted third party.
> in every speculative bubble, no value is ever destroyed

2008 was a speculative bubble in real estate. When it burst, it came frighteningly close to taking down the entire US financial system. "No value destroyed" doesn't begin to describe what nearly happened.

The Great Depression did far more than wipe out the gains made in the stock market.