skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The Space Shuttle flew a large number of lengthy, classified missions.

2. The Space Shuttle suffered from many costly design compromises due to its excessively large hangar bay.

Given #1 and #2, there are four likely kinds of classified missions that the Space Shuttle undertook.

1. Stealing Russian military satellites.

2. Returning American military satellites to Earth.

3. Launching American military satellites into unpredictable orbits.

4. Refueling American military satellites, which allowed them to change to a new, unpredictable orbit.

It's entirely possible that the Space Shuttle only engaged in some of these tasks... But it's difficult to conclude that given the very odd design of the space shuttle, and the very lengthy missions that it undertook, that no satellite servicing/orbital shenanigans took place.

Yes, satellites can change orbits using on-board fuel reserves, but due to the tyranny of the rocket equation, those reserves are limited - and are unlikely to allow a very large inclination change (Inclination changes are incredibly fuel-expensive.)
Scratch requires only a very basic understanding of terms, and has been widely extended, as in translated to many languages and perhaps completely visual versions have been made.

Here's a link to the base project → https://scratch.mit.edu
They could use an actual covered switch. Maybe something this important should have a bit of physical infrastructure associated with it. Doing everything in software can be great, but it's not always the best solution.
This is more about desktop development than enterprise development. With that in mind, I think there's a better chance of people figuring out how to get it done on UWP or with web technologies (perhaps with some help from MS) than there is of MS improving support of WPF.

Azure is where it's at now for Microsoft, and WPF/desktop apps don't run on Azure.
I don't really think you can call this a "bad part of capitalism". States competing in a market for the patronage of large factories/firms is quintessential capitalism. All states agreeing not to offer tax subsidies would be classic cartel behavior, and would encourage more labor moving overseas. Now if their is evidence of Foxconn giving the WI legislate kickbacks, then I agree, this kind of stuff would be pretty nasty.
There's actually a new Woody Woodpecker movie releasing on DVD next month. It was #1 at the box office in Brazil back in October. The movie sounds like it had a troubled development, and they've scaled back their plans for it, but clearly Universal Studios is still trying to work with that character.
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I live in Ann Arbor, which is a small college town that has a pretty good bus system considering we are in the midwest and so close to Detroit. I recently sold my car which was huge boost to my quality of life. Having said that, I had to pay relatively a lot for my house to have the luxury of being within 2 miles of downtown where I work.

Even in this small town, automobile transportation can be extremely difficult. The UoM hospital parking is an absolute nightmare. Even getting the premium parking pass (~$250/mo) does not guarantee an employee a spot in any lot, let alone the one closest to their destination. Patients end up circling the lots for upwards of 90 minutes looking for a spot -- a common reason for showing up to an appointment late.

There really is no other solution besides better public transportation here. Hopefully that will be the driving factor to increase bike lanes, bus lines, and incentivize people to only commute via automobile when absolutely necessary.
It's a general impression from years of reading newspapers. I'm not an expert, I haven't worked out the probabilities of what Mexico would be like without NAFTA, and there are dozens of other confounding factors such as corruption, competition from Asia, war on drugs, innovation-stifling industrial policy (see Carlos Slim's fortune) etc..

I was more focusing on the uncertainty created by the unclear messages from Washington, which does materially delay investment and confidence within Mexico, and makes it harder for the state to focus on defeating the cartels. Though I do believe that trade generally has a positive impact on economies as a whole.
It's not that hard, from what I can see on public transport.
USD quoted in BRL achieved a minimum of around 1.96 BRL in 2013. Currently it is 3.23 BRL. So the Brazilian Real has lost 40% of its value relative to the dollar, not 80%.
Thanks! The short version on the tech side is, it's all hand-written and very ad-hoc. There is some mid-level code for managing patterns and notes that's reused across the demos, but the settings for how each instrument sounds, what kind of chord progressions to use, etc. is different for each demo.

I didn't use any outside libraries, but I did package up the part of my code that actually plays sounds as 'npm/soundgen' (but it's not documented at all yet..).
I don't think the activity of driving cars is as socially segregating as you feel it is.

I have no metrics to base this on, of course. However your comment seems slightly hyperbolic to me.
I think it's highly market specific. Moving to NoVa from MI
I have now like 5 ISP options with very competitive pricing and variety of high speed option including Comcast Xfinity 2000 Mbps, Verizon FIOS etc.
Is it possible for Luna to self host? Is that somewhere on Luna's roadmap?
Never a bad time to tell someone they are loved or would be missed. Just putting this out there.
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Investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nodelab-2
I don't see a lot of engineering design, analysis and simulation software being done in the browser or mobile device. There are a few examples, but the really powerful stuff is desktop Windows (some still in WinForms) or Unix/Linux. The cloud offers some great potential for doing HPC stuff on large clusters, but the user interfaces necessary for DEFINING the problem aren't something I want to do on a touch screen or in a web Client.

I still hate the webclients for major brand tools like SAP and Successfactors where they still don't know about async calls...
Poetic License (2005)
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Why even bother making it extendable? If the goal is to incentivize novel creations, I can't think why 20 years isn't very generous.
with either TypeScript or Flow, you can't go very far before hitting type definition hell. It just shifts where the hell is. Flow has better types out of the box for the Facebook ecosystem, and the flow-typed types, if they're available, are generally higher quality (unless it's for a lib that was made with TS in mind, like RxJS). TypeScript has massively more typedefs of highly varying quality, and there's more stuff written in TypeScript itself. However, so many of them are broken or are incompatible with strict mode (next person who says TS matches Flow because it has strict null can take the door, thx). Fortunately, TS makes it much easier to override broken type definitions.

It's a real toss-up which one is better, but both are filled with tears and pain. That pain can (and is often) worth it, but it's absolutely not the slamdunk people around here make it out to be.

Unless you REALLY like abusing the any type, in which case what was the point again?
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Lets say that you'd like to leave tech. Which industry would you go that is better to women than tech? If there are no alternatives, then what incentives do tech companies have to create an even more acceptable space? At whose expense?

I work in a company with more than 50% women. Many of them worked in teams and companies where it was more than 80% women. They hated it. "Constant politics, catty behavior and backstabbing" is how they describe it.
It won't be long until the majority of people will never need to leave their apartments. Amazon will deliver their meal subscription by drone each day (subscribe and save!), we will be able to work from home, and vacation using VR. Cars will be a thing of the past very, very soon. This will be better for the environment, and reduce congestion for any of the unlucky workers who are still required to be on the streets, i.e. garbage collectors, pizza delivery drivers, etc.

I plan to support any politician in the future who is brave enough to enforce this arrangement via legislation. We have been consuming too much for too long, and we as a species are finally close to having the technology and will to limit our impact but not negatively impact our overall living standard.
There is a standard definition of what '=' means and your equation does not satisfy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
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Then shouldn't it be fixed? Again, this is a chrome bug.
I think what's interesting about this ICO is that their product is a natural fit with the blockchain ideology. Because of the encryption of telegram, people are already using for communications that they don't want observed by the authorities (eg telegrass). Adding cyptocurrency to this allows them now to exchange "money" for goods/services without having to resort to traditional money, credit cards. This would close the loop and create a compelling package, IMO.

I'm not an expert at all in this realm - but it seems to me that this is one ICO that has a good chance.
> Even more interesting... 1+2+3+4... = -1/12

What.. No. This sum diverges. It does not equal -1/12.

Now if you plug -1 into the Riemann zeta function, you get -1/12. One could interpret that to mean the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + .. can be mapped to -1/12.

But the sum has never, and will never equal -1/12. It diverges, simple as that.
...as the molecules are split and recombine along the wing in ways we have not yet even empirically measured.

I'm sure one can speculate. In the video they do talk about all the possible intermediate species, so one might have to add air molecules (which can break apart and add to the reactants) to the mix. But yeah, lots of unknowns. Doing experiments and comparing to the simulations should help figure it out. The problem has traditionally been an inability to do the simulations, but that's possible now.
Ok, then the error is much less egregious but there is still a sampling error I can see (at least based on my own usage pattern of Lyft).

As a user of Lyft who owns a car the odds of me being sampled by this survey were significantly lower than the people that depend on Lyft daily.

It's the same problem with surveying people in an airport to determine how often flyers fly. Heavy users are more likely to be oversampled because they are in the airports more frequently.

So for Lyft to overcome this they would have needed to survey people in population adjusted parts from each usage tier. Otherwise the 1% or whatever that ride everyday are going to throw off the whole survey. Especially since the most likely to answer surveys are frequent users.
I don't know how relevant this could be, but anyway, when I was like 11 or 12 there was this school mate of me who was a gifted classical pianist: he already played concerts at that age and apparently had its future already planned. Now one thing I recall vividly: at a friends party after playing some incredible piece of classical music he was asked to play some famous top-chart pop tunes and he failed completely: he was literally paralyzed for not having a sheet of what he was asked to play.
This reinforced my belief that classical musicians are trained to be perfect executors but lack a lot in creativity, or perhaps players with these characteristics are more attracted by the more formal world of classical schools.
Yes, and it's far more enjoyable now but it's harder too.

With clients I had deadlines that forced decisions. With only artificial motivators I've found it too easy to follow my passion rather than launching something.

But, I do get to explore what I want to now.
Automated enforcement revenue will be much higher
>If only all states could agree to not give preferential treatment via tax subsidies.

Any reason a Federal law couldn't do that? Most states agreeing might be good enough.
I've had a similar experience.

From 2003-2008 I used a free hotmail account. Then I got on the gmail train and had all mail forwarded from hotmail to gmail.

Last year I went to check my hotmail account and couldn't find any emails older than 1 year. After some research [1] it seems that if the hotmail account wasn't accessed within the last year, they purge your inbox :(

Moral: Always keep back-ups, don't rely on web-services, especially free ones

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail...
Can I ask how you made your money?
One scam down at least, next the Tether printer and BitFinex boys. Clean up in aisle HKG please.
A decade of silos has throttle open content distribution
> they make it easy to jump to the conclusion that the ability to play classical or jazz or xyz is dependent on the physical nature of the brain

Unless you're a Cartesian dualist, everything is dependent on the physical nature of the brain. People just need to remember that a significant portion of this nature is mutable and gradually adapts itself to whatever you focus on.
BMW to charge for Apple CarPlay yearly, as a subscription
link 0 is inaccurate. Reddit retracted that statement on CSS, saying mod created styles will stick around.
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Sadly, I am still working on that..
My thoughts are on www.reddit.com/r/unseen_programming

Its structure is very similar to Luna.
Instead of popup-lists, you can drag-drop functions into the program and connect them with lines.

But I don't know from what age it will work, they still must learn some symbols. +,- etc.

Alternatively, you could let them try fun computer-games that are close to programming. Like factoria.
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"Copyrightable aspects" include elements present in the public domain work. These don't get retroactive coverage from the copyrighted elements of the series. Sherlock is public domain, despite being present in later works. The later developments/characters/stories/"aspects" are not.

Copyright is not indefinite due to the series' continuation.
My comment was a bit weak. Putting something more of a requirement or design intent in the comment is better. Having it all there can be better than a well described constant with a definition somewhere else. Sure, they could get out of sync but at least you'll be able to see the discrepancy right there on that line if you're looking. But to each their own.
Ask HN: What sites did you invest significant time in only to have it shut down?
Either:

A) creating the site yourself

or

B) creating user generated content or building a reputation

When it closed, what was it's impact on you?
Telemetry, telemetry and user data mining everywhere!
Are they really "picking" winners by going with the largest providers? iOS allows you to pick other providers, but it has an easy to use interface for adding email addresses for iCloud, Exchange, Yahoo, AOL, outlook.com and Gmail.

I don't see how MS benefits from only supporting top tier providers except for it being easier to support.
Wrights saw airplanes as tools of peace (2003)
That's some good info and knowledge shared there, thanks for this! I have a question as I just started reading it on mobile (skimming it): does the cost apply mostly to US or that could be extrapolated to other places? Is the total conservative or what? I mean, I had to idea how expensive it is to set up a small ISP, at least considering my local currency and the fact that there were people actually doing this in the past here. Apparently it costs the same as 1/3 of a house in Brazil (nothing fancy, but decent in an average city). In fact I would expect the costs to be a bit higher than stated, right? Again, thanks for sharing all that!
For someone working in the industry, it’s still one of the best bang-for-your-buck tech hubs.
It sounds like the interviewer did this person a favor. It's a clever trick, and I've abused toString and toJSON for plenty, but if this is a "major tech company", do you really think it's a great workplace if they think being able to read incomprehensible code, and instead of fixing said code, they use it as a filter?

I doubt they have that code in production, but even then, devs that are enamored with hacks like this and knowing pedantic answers to trick questions, chances are, their coding style will reflect just how "clever" they think they are.
this would be interesting to me also
The JS type system world has benefited a lot from NOT having a monopoly. When Flow started gaining some traction, the whole "handle nulls properly" thing was a huge. During that time, the TS issue tracker was filled with comments on how it didn't really make sense. I don't think TS would have ever gotten strict null if Flow didn't "compete" with it.

Them being separate allows the projects to try stuff the other group disagrees with and prove they are right. I very much like that.

Beyond that, the 2 projects really are VERY different. Again, with strict null and all the pain, it's causing on the TS side. It's not easy to just bring in features of one and merge them to the other. The entire architecture is different (eg: the flow inference). Then there's the pitty shit: I don't know if they're involved with TS, but some very visible Facebook people just can't handle the fact that the entire world doesn't revolve around Unix, as nice as it would be if it did.

Some stuff is sparking some collaboration. Babel getting support for TypeScript syntax for example.
On the one side you've got an exciting unregulated universe developing at a very fast pace (with some really dodgy characters). On the other side you've got the traditional press, government and banking world, half tempted to embrace it but scared and quick to dismiss it... In the middle are the pundits mostly losing money.

It's a great time to be alive, this time will definitely be remembered in a few years, like the dot-com boom is.
Must I make it that obvious I was joking?
The main downside to not owning a car is that it's really hard to get anywhere outside the city or urban areas. If you enjoy the outdoors, it's a huge disadvantage.

I don't currently own a car as I recently moved countries, and I'm basically confined to urban areas. Sure, I could hire a car, but that does start to get expensive quickly, especially if you have to pay the obscene premiums they charge for being under 25 years old.

It's at least $150 to rent a car for the weekend, and then there's the hassle of trying to pick it up and drop it off. A reasonably good condition, reliable car, would cost me $2000, plus maybe $1000 per year for registration, insurance (third party only), and repairs.
For those unaware, Bitconnect was a Bitcoin-based ponzi-scheme that had operated 'successfully' for quite some time. I don't say 'ponzi' as an insult in the way some do for cryptocurrencies, it was quite literally just a bare-bones ponzi scheme, where you deposit your money (Bitcoin) on their website, buy their token, 'lock' your funds for some amount of time, and you are promised very high interest rates while encouraged to re-invest your returns.

What has happened today is Bitconnect has closed the exchange on their website, and so users flocked to some of the only other exchanges (of dubious reputation, since no reputable exchange wanted to list the BitConnect coin) in order to sell their now-worthless tokens, resulting in losses of around 90% today: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitconnect/

Many famous Youtubers and other individuals with influence convinced hundreds of people to put their money into BitConnect in order to profit off of referrals, leading to a lot of unfortunate losses and a lot of delusion and misinformation among devoted investors. The general sentiment towards those that lost money due to BitConnect has been a mocking attitude in the cryptocurrency investment communities, as BitConnect has been referred to by many as a blatant ponzi scheme for months.
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Where to begin?

Okay, so USB-C has a long pull. It’s not a short simple disengage that can occur at any angle. You can’t snap off a USB-C plug by rolling at an angle, without inflicting wear at best, or connector damage at worst.

The lighter the laptop, the more likely the laptop will be pulled by the binding of the tension clip, especially if the angle of pull is unintentionally wrong and accidental.

That the laptop is lighter is good, because on a bad drop off a table top, there’s less impact damage or probability of screen breakage, but a trip over a cord or an excited pet can still send the laptop flying MORE EASILY, not less.

The heavier chasis weight merely means that damage was more readily inflicted on the conductive ring-and-pin DC port itself, or the adapter wire, by serving to anchor the chasis in place, than would a lighter chasis get launched across the room.

The lighter chasis means a lesser magnet should be used to link the magsafe connector to the power port, but either way, magsafe wins. It’s the better design every time.

Back in the day, the magsafe connector saved multiple fragile components, preventing HDD head crashes, dents, bent plugs, sceen smashes and frayed power cord internals. But now, with SSD drives and gorilla glass monitors, and commodity cords, laptops are more durable and survivable on a drop than years ago.

Either way, it’s still extremely disconcerting to drop a laptop, no matter that they can withstand more abuse than the bad old days, and magsafe power connects were a reassuring presence.

Fortunately, it’s low technology, and USB-C is an open standard, so after market solutions could jump into the market for a save. It doesn’t have to be an Apple product exclusive anymore. It could be an Otter Box durability sweetener included with their hardened clamshell wrappers, or a Belkin accessory, or whatever dongle-du-jour company puts something out. It’s just that no one has pushed into that area yet.
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Don’t forget “Also, it’s going to cost $X more.”
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Just buy Apple. They know what you want.
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Outside of HN, you'll find that PHP is by far the most popular server-side web application language. HN's kinda got a language hipster thing going where if you aren't using the latest language or framework then you're stale and old and irrelevant (headline: "Why you should be building your next ORM in Q#"; summary of thread: "I don't get why anyone uses anything else, my team of three has been very successful using Q# already").

The same thing happens about four times a year when COBOL is mentioned and someone realizes to their horror that the plastic card in their wallet works thanks to a language whose last major revision was in 1974.

Perl still powers a lot of stuff. It fell behind PHP because PHP outpaced it for growth in web development. Nothing has outpaced PHP's growth yet, no matter how badly trend-addicted programmers want it to.
Hrmmm, can't talk about roadmap here, but shoot me an email munns @ amazon and I'd like to understand what you are thinking of.