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Fission isn't necessarily easy. One problem is that the reactor behavior changes when you add the generators to the reactor. These components can reflect neutrons back to the reactor, which changes how much power the reactor produces. That being said, 'easy' or 'hard' are really not the best way to think about flight ready hardware. Actually making hardware and guaranteeing that it works involves so much more than just understanding nuclear fission. We can come up with a design on paper, but without testing we don't have assurance that it works.

Simply putting the reactor together and testing it are more complicated than they seem. This is because of three things matter can reflect neutrons back, humans are harmed by radiation, and humans are the ones assembling/transporting/testing the reactor. We have to be careful putting the reactor together so that it doesn't spew neutrons and harm the humans assembling it. We need to develop ways to transport the reactor so that it doesn't spew neutrons. When we test the reactor, we have to set up our test so that humans won't have to get anywhere close to the reactor for a couple of months. There's also other issues like training people to do these things and NASA cooperating with the DOE to do the testing. These are 'simple' things, but they still need to be done.
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They're definitely best known for their weissbier - especially historically. Lager/pilsner is only 150 years old.
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I don't think it's necessarily true that good games will sell. Some will, sure, but others may not. There are massive numbers of games that fly under the radar and never really catch on, and some of these are bound to be good. Like anything else, there's an element of luck involved. Simply being good is not enough.

Price per MB seems like an attempt to capture the amount of work that goes into a game, but I agree it's not a great metric. You can decrease price per megabyte just by shipping models and textures with higher resolution, even though they don't cost you anything more to create.
"influencer blogger"
Another method I was just informed of - https://hckrnews.com apparently shows flagged posts
Yes, as a non native speaker this terminology is really annoying. This is funny 2 seconds but should be an easter egg, not part of the real documentation or tool. That’s one more reason for me to stick with MacPorts.
I was thinking about Peter Duesberg. He has been really pushing the aneuploidy idea for a few decades now, but everyone ignores him since he is a "denier":

http://www.newsweek.com/can-hiv-denying-scientist-cure-cance...

It'd be pretty funny if he turned out to be correct.
Well that's a clickbait title.

"Norwegian Airlines Sets Record for Fastest Transatlantic Flight in a Subsonic Aircraft".
You seem to be confused about better in the objective sense. I am saying that designers make things fancy to get attention, especially from product managers. No claims about what is better need arise. From the perspective of the ux designer, they are doing what the market is selecting for and rewarding them for.

By analogy, You don't get to claim what is better in evoulution and natural selection. There is only what is selected for, which might not have any preference for what you consider good or not
As much as I understand your underlying horror that so much money is spent on promotion, I think you're missing a major point.

Let's assume, for a moment, that the people running these Pharma companies aren't stupid. We can therefore assume that they will mostly make sensible decisions on how to spend money. It therefore follows that a company calculates that by spending $X on promotion, they'll recoup $X+$Y, where Y is the additional revenue thanks to their promotion, over and above what they'd have made without promotion - i.e, their promotional spend is a worthwhile investment for them.

For each company individually, therefore, promotional spend can be reasonably assumed to generate greater revenue and profit, some of which will be used to fund research into new medicines.

Now, like you, I'd much rather live in a world where there was no promotional spend, and correspondingly lower drug prices... but that's not the current world. And pointing a finger --'but, marketing, sales reps'-- at promotion is not the full story.
It's the best we've currently got, but homebrew unfortunately has lots of these rough edges that make it's UX really challenging, yeah :/

Take how, when you have both `parallel` and `moreutils` installed (which still frustratingly ships its own useless parallel and refuses to stop) -- homebrew added a `--without-parallel` flag to moreutils to make them not conflict, but then when you update one or the other, it refuses to update without manually specifying `--force` even though it clearly knows (or should know) that it's safe to do the upgrade.

Or how `brew install`, if there's a bottle missing for your combination of versions, might "silently" decide to jump into a 2 hour long compilation.
> Usually 1-2 miles. We don't need to do it every day

You hardly count as mass transit traffic if your only use is sporadic and it covers close to a walking distance.
When I was poor I couldn’t afford to go dumping 2 or 4 days worth of work into weird schemes.

Once I did have more money though, I did get swindled, and for probably 10x as much. But I learned.

Maybe the people taking part in these pyramids aren’t as poor as you think, but probably still poor by some standard.
That would only work if everybody experienced the $150 expense. However the winners never feel this pain. Additionally not everybody is exposed to the Venmo scam. How many of us are hearing about it for the first time here? It's a first for me to be sure.

Instead think about vaccinations: It's supposed to be distributed universally and it does not harm the individual receiving the inoculation. This is what you want. We can design tools for parents and teachers that have the same educational impact without the side-effect of harm.
dang - I very much appreciate the fine line that HN toes here - I think there is much to be learned from genteel debate about issues of the day, moreover when you can push the ideologues out of the conversation, and instead refocus the debate on the actual issues at hand - this kind of environment allows people to learn and perhaps understand points of view that they would be unable to learn about otherwise because of the inherent echo chamber of their social network - in most debates there is some inherent truth to both sides of an argument, but usually we're too busy with out own cheering section to hear the other side of the discussion.
Well, religious institutions are expressly excluded, so, no, neither the Roman Catholic Church nor the (dominant) subset thereof known as the Latin Rite (either of which might be want is intended by “Latin Catholic Church”) would qualify.
Nah man, what if there are like 3 robbers. Then the money moved into more hands (I guess if some of the robbers only had like one hand though...). Pyramid schemes aren't a scam because it's fewer hands.
As a history buff I would love to see a similar list of these companies filtered down to the ones that are still using the original building. It is so rare that you see centuries-old organizations/businesses/anything that still use the same buildings that they were created with
Let’s the robots do them. If I want a person to play me music i can find someone who’ll do it at mynclearinprice, or play the music myself. Or be happy with the robot produced music (which can hardly be worse than the focus group produced pop music of today)
Smelling Parkinson's is fascinating -- thanks for dropping that nugget.

Read a little more about it --> Researchers identified 10 molecules that Parkinson's patients emit and could be used for early detection. Pretty cool.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/meet-woman-ca...
Downside: numpy, h5py and others use an embedded libhdf5 which is quite outdated. Meanwhile, homebrew has the current version, but they ignore it. In contrast, the Debian/Ubuntu/FreeBSD ports have python packages built against the packaged libhdf5. The pip packaging is inferior to the properly packaged stuff, which is what you get when language-specific packaging exists in its own isolated bubble.
There's Blocknet, which is providing interoperability to blockchains. The way this helps is that it allows developers to build services that are blockchain agnostic. Rather than building on an all-in-one platform, you can develop on whichever blockchain you want and tie in services from other platforms. This enables a microservice ecosystem together where tasks are more targeted and distributed across chains, which removes chain bloat.
Perhaps the opportunity of the assignment was to “right the record,” hoping to be surprised. It would have been nice to be more upfront about that.

I disagree with the notion of desperate employee — I’m anything but that, but I prefer a take home to show my engineering worth rather than a whiteboard if those are the two choices. Of course if you’re super famous then you probably won’t get either, depending on the company and it’s processes. That said I’ve been down the M&A path and still got (many) whiteboard interviews.
Which is amazing as well, by the way.
Homebrew really shouldn't ship libraries in the first place, for that we have our own language's package management (and for cases where we have difficult to install binary dependencies, we have our own language's mechanism for dealing with them).
Probably more that 50% of what makes a school good are the students that go to them. Once this is realized, fairly assigning students to the good schools becomes problematic.
I can offer some anecdotes:

In a startup that's evolving its culture, there are a number of engineers who did very little engineering work but participating interviews all days long. They turned down a candidate if the candidate got promoted every two years or if the candidate produced "too many successful projects" in their opinion. Why? Well, in the eyes of these culture warriors, such candidates apparently "worked too hard", and therefore "were not good fit of the company's culture 2.0". They were also the same people who asked a few top performers to not work so hard because "they put too much pressure on co-workers". And in the same startup, droves of engineers would take weeks of sick days off because they "were traumatized by the outcome of US election".

In another so called hot tech company, if someone was promoted to a leadership position, be it of management ladder or technical ladder, the immediate question asked in employee all hands or in internal mailing list would be "why did not an XXX get promoted", where "XXX" can refer to any minority people. And huge rants from dozens if not hundreds of employees ensued. No critical review of the qualification of the promoted. No specific name of alternatives. No inspection of the demographics of the hiring pipeline or the employees. If the promoted is not of XXX, then by default there's a diversity problem. By default there's an equality problem. By default there's an elitism problem.
Your version of America isn't very historical. The last time we had a big backlash against immigrants was 1923. That was a backlash against swarthy people from Southern Europe, who were living together, still speaking their home language, mostly following an unusual religion (Catholicism), not assimilating, and so forth.

Basically, we're seeing the same complaint today.
> No money needed, so the poor get immediately the same level of access as the rich.

Except for everywhere where poor connectivity and low data caps (+expensive plans relative to the income) are common.
Why do developers often wish a manager/superior had technical knowledge? We hope they understand what we're doing and will make decisions with that in mind. We can also accept "hard decisions" as being more carefully considered rather than simply not understanding the situation and costs.
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HN is getting just as bad as Reddit. Look at how many posts are links to "news" sites.
Yeah, stats are hard :)
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Well, nobody makes money by pointing at the manifesto. But a whole business can be built around "certification" and all that.
This is why I come to HackerNews everyday to find resources like this. Thanks OP.
Can you elaborate on “leveraging syntax”? Like commenting on the structure of their argument?
My mistake. I've always incorrectly grouped them with lagers in my mind, but it does indeed look like they are top-fermented beers.

I'm actually surprised, there are quite a few beer variants that I assumed were lagers that are actually ales, including Berliner weisse, kölsch, and gose [0].

[0] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/
Even if there were a continuous prostitution enterprise operating over a sufficient timeline (which is not entirely implausible) legal and social acceptance issues would make it unlikely to be a continuous fixed location (brothel) or even a continuous overt business organization.
> Bridges are not safe because of any government agency

Building a bridge is one of the most heavily regulated things in the USA.

For details, see: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbis.cfm

Every single bridge in the USA is documented, listed, inspected and regulated. There's even an entire division of the US Military that helps out: The Army Corps of Engineers. So its multi-agency, multi-department, and even includes military service members.

Bridge Building might be the only thing more regulated than Airline safety in this country.

> because mechanical engineers design them to be safe.

Civil Engineer btw. Not Mechanical. And Civil Engineers need to pass a strict level of training and licensing to practice in the USA. Granted, this is on a State-by-State basis rather that on a national basis (like Bridge-building).

But its still a government regulation, even if its State-wide instead of Federal.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/how-get-licensed

All 50 states require 4-years of work experience before you earn the title of "Professional Engineer". And that's the title you need before you can lead something like a Bridge-building project.

Not only are bridges highly regulated, but the people who are allowed to build bridges are highly regulated, at both the State and Federal levels.

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Now I'm not saying we enforce the highest regulation standards upon our CPU manufacturers. I'm basically saying "Stop coming up with bad examples". The incredibly safe examples you have brought up so far (Airline safety and Bridge Building) are the result of years of Government regulation and laws.
"they look terrible"

Well then don't do a shitty job? I mean if the budget is there, then yeah, just build me some stairs.
Yes so if you want to prove the Riemann hypothesis one possibility would be to similarly show some sort of contradiction if Λ > 0. This is sort of the opposite approach that Rogers and Tao have appeared to use. Of course maybe that side is much much harder (it is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis after all).
I don't really know any history about cancer research, but as long as I've been in genomics people have talked about it. Difficulty is actually finding CNVs. These days it's not so hard.

It's also important to remember that we know some cancers (leukemia for instance) are diploid and rarely develop anueploidy.
Not everyone performs well in a technical call, especially since the questions rarely correlate with the daily job / workflow. Sounds like you found people who did.
Small pedantic correction from a former Alpha kernel hacker: DEC Alpha was Big Endian only for some rare Cray systems. Everything else was Little Endian.
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Eh, haswell added the movbe instructions. And I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the RISCV world added big endian instructions (they're nice for network processing).

And nearly every powerpc I've seen is big endian, FWIW.
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1. Work function - how much energy is needed to let an electron move from one material to another.

2. Quantum tunneling - electrons will tunnel back to lower charge density region, and preventing them from doing so is effectively impractical with modern day tech.

If they were any actual thermocouples with 20% efficiency, they would've nuked piston engines long time ago.
I know saying this makes me unpopular, but I think maybe the best solution is to just leave things unregulated and let dumb money get burnt. The "this is FUD" crowd will never learn their lesson if the people teaching them get prosecuted. If someone wants to loose money on blatant scams with many warning signs, I say let them. If I want to take my life savings and put it all on red, that's my prerogative.
> But sprint planning is a waste of time IMO.

Agreed. Don't forget to throw daily standups in their. My current project spends 2.5 person hours per day on the daily standup.
What aspect of life on earth has been growing exponentially for millions of years? I'm not clear on what you mean here.
They probably changed the room rate and copyright year periodically
The actual machine firmware has been irrelevant for v8086 ever since the time of OS/2 2.0 and DOS-Windows 3.1. Both used virtualized machine firmwares to run in the v8086 virtual machines. OS/2's was dealt with by a virtual device driver called VBIOS.SYS, for example.
Waste is waste but at least cardboard is sourced from renewable tree farms and when it's dumped in a landfill it is sequestering carbon.
What do you think it is? (I'm genuinely curious, certainly open to alternate explanations.)
The typical screening does not treat everyone as a terrorist. After all, the US has a no-fly list. That list, of course, comes with its own host of issues, but let’s be more precise.

Airport screening sucks and is theater. Global Entry is extortion. No doubt. But current screening measures are not unconstitutional.
To support the commenter you're replying to, I have seen --first hand-- examples of patients receiving better treatment with very cost-effective drugs (which sailed through NICE) due to the efforts of staff from pharmaceutical companies.

Don't assume that all doctors are committed to making the latest advances (or even older advances) available to patients. They are human, just like all of us, and you'll find stubborn doctors on the conservative (or laggard) end of the spectrum just as much as within any other group or career.
You misread - I was saying "software companies that aren't in SV and aren't run like SV tech companies are closer to non-tech companies, both in terms of (sensitivity towards minorities) and (political orientation of their people)". You can take that however you want but whatever the merits of your criticism, it has nothing to do with what Valerie Aurora is saying. She's not saying the political progressivism of tech companies is toxic. All I'm saying here is that SV tech companies are rare in the corporate world in that they take her concerns seriously and have lots of people in leadership that are highly sympathetic to her views.
HN is fast enough on an old 600MHz A8 processor from 8 years ago. In fact, multimedia aside, basically every static site that doesn't overdo the CSS will be fairly fast on fairly old processors.

Gmail or Facebook aren't the problem. People could be convinced to use desktop apps for them fairly easily (just like they do on their phones). The issue is all the other one-off apps. Users can't be bothered to go and download some random app, so the company runs that app in the browser. You simply cannot fight that level of market pressure.
I have essentially no real knowledge about this topic, but I suppose some progress has been made by tightening the bounds for this constant?

Can somebody with more info chime in--- is this a huge, groundbreaking amount of progress?
I've built sites before where the term "click" was automatically changed to "tap" on the mobile version.

It was just a function embedded in the multi-language routines.
Interesting, the included "Tips for a successful QRC" classified newsletter article (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4351995/2007-10-0...) was referenced directly by NBC News back in 2015 in a report about NSA tapping Iranian leadership phones / bugging their hotel rooms when they came to the USA (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-document-shows-n...), but NBC apparently never published the source document at the time.
> For example, in San Francisco the bus costs $2.50 to $2.75 depending on how you pay.

According to Google, sfmta fares are $2.25 per adult. Those fares however are for single trips for sporadic users. Those are don't represent mass transit users. People who use mass transit with some relevant frequency use it with enough to justify paying for a monthly pass, which sfmta's goes for between $68 and $80 a month.
It is a little concerning but legal minds are starting to put together the scholarship that will most likely be needed to pursue an anti-trust case against Amazon.

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
Right, but I'm saying the processing (picking and packing process that occurs at the warehouse) before shipping is not first-ordered, first-picked. They've developed a prioritization process for picking which take items ordered _later_ via prime and picks them first. I suppose you could call that "artificial" delays but that's what I think is happening.
>If you’re a programmer, you might think that the fiddliness of programming is a special feature of programming, but really it’s that everything is fiddly, but you only notice the fiddliness when you’re new, and in programming you do new things more often.

Wait, do programmers actually think that programming is fiddly? The fiddly part is always the concerns of the real-world domain; what's special to programming is the ability to use abstractions.
Thanks, that is a great contribution to the discussion. I hope in the coming years these charging schemes will be so common that cataloging them becomes impossible!
NHS guidelines is to not extend a terminal patient's life indefinitely. Not sure the explicitly reason is costs but having people months on intensive care is pretty darn expensive

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/6127514/Sentence...

Also, it had a policy of not funding what they call "procedures of limited clinical value"

http://www.miltonkeynesccg.nhs.uk/referrals-and-priorities-p...
This is already done. Pan-cancer hotspot mutations identified through targeted panel sequencing inform treatment.
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I know guidelines frown against this kind of response, but this is one of the stupidest rebuttals I've ever seen on here...
Except it's not "free" shipping. It is a contract for prepaid shipping where they then renege on that contract for various items for no explainable reason.
Good stuff. You can easily get surprised. We had not even thought about "going international" to any meaningful degree, and then out of the blue a prospect from Canada calls us. At that very moment, I had NO idea what would have been involved in doing a deal with them... taxes, payments, etc., etc... all totally beyond my ken.
I really wish I didn't dislike apple and hate their UI and design
Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime?
Something I can't help but notice: all of the countries on the list are currently wealthy, advanced economies.

Cause or effect?
You've got an overly negative and simplistic view of the Pharma industry.

For sure, there are plenty of examples (do we need that many statins? do we need so many beta blockers?) to suit your narrative, but you're also missing the huge sums spent and strides taken in other areas, such as oncology. If you don't show a meaningful benefit here, your drug is a failure - it's that simple.