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> Many people who work there have issues with work life balance and to work there and the pay is lower than other similar aerospace companies.

which is really saying something, as a lot of aerospace employers prey on the cool factor of doing space stuff to keep folks working absurd hours, for well under what they'd make doing similarly difficult work elsewhere.
to further your analogy to programming to refute that, humans have had significant advances in the inner workings of the brain (re some
of the topics you’ve mentioned) from its dissassembly.. albeit with little, if any, improvement in our understanding on the nature or origin of consciousness..
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> so there's nothing mysterious to explain in the first place

I'm not familiar with either author, but this sounds so wrong that I wonder if you misrepresented it, because slightly after a slight modification I would agree, there's no explanation in the end, the misrepresentation of which is trivial, because the consequence is effectively the same. There are two sides of the same medal: we need to refine the model, and we need to skip it to get to the meat.
> "Full stop."

Good luck my friend. If you need me I'll be in the Central African Republic where it's safe.
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Agree. Learning is more about building a web of interconnected idea, generating new insight, refining existing idea.
While pushing coal. Draining the swamp my ass.
I don't think Microsoft has a code quality problem at all. On the contrary I'm hard pressed to point at any recent Microsoft software and say it's bug ridden or low quality or badly designed. From iOS to Android to Windows, Microsoft software is excellent.
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Guardian is wrong to use "overshoot" as though it was a mistake - it was a burn to exhaustion, the exact limits of which was unknown beforehand (because it was unknown how well the fuel in the second stage would survive the time in higher orbit. Kerosene starts turning to sludge in cryo). Mars-orbit-distance was the lower end of what was expected.
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I'm biased by my love for 'The Hydrogen Sonata,' but my favorite will always go to the Mistake Not...

Which is short for Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.
For all I know, Sinofsky was responsible for making Windows 7 a major success after the Vista fiasco.
Equally well could have said "about 328.084 feet".
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This. I am not a hipaa expert or anything, but if a company is not making an effort to protect the data, they dont deserve to make money off of products touching that data.
Indeed. "Cloud" is essentially tons of commodity hardware nodes running a tailored userspace distributed file system application. There now certainly exist cloud services that host well in excess of 2^64 bytes, but they are not hosted on traditional file systems, but an array of those.

I can't certainly blame their choice though, and 16-million terabyte hard drive arrays (the limit of 64-bit addressing) on a large mainframe are really just a few quantum leaps away. Heck, I still vividly recall buying a MASSIVE 40 GB HDD in 2000 - it seemed excessive beyond wildest dreams at the time (and was promptly filled to brim at a LAN party.)

Since, advances in mass storage tech, most importantly the successful commercialization of perpendicular recording in 2005, mean that nowadays 12 TB drives are commercially viable - roughly 1000x the size of a 40 GB drive.

In the next 20 years, petabyte-sized drives might well be available (though almost certainly not based on any form of magnetic recording). Once you hook hundred 50-petabyte drives to a single fileserver, you start closing in on limitations of 64-bit addressing.
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That's simply not true.

Each country (or state, in the case of Germany I believe) will have their own privacy commissioner with substantial leeway. Now technically these differences won't be implemented as laws, but there will be substantial differences between eg the French and the UK privacy regulators.

The GDPR also allows for individual states to strengthen its provisions, eg for genetic data.
That is bad reporting. SpaceX always planned to burn the 2nd stage until it ran out of fuel.

Elon always said they weren't sure exactly what the final trajectory was, just that the roadster would be sent out as far as possible.

They weren't sure how much O2 would boil off during the 6-hour coast after launch before it departed orbit. That was part of the test.

Also, they weren't heading towards mars - just outwards towards mars orbit. When the roadster crosses mars orbit mars itself will not be nearby. If they wanted to actually reach mars they would have had to launch during a specific launch window when earth and mars lined up at the correct angle. This happens once every couple of years.
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On facebook though, I actually disabled my ad blocker because I wanted to see the ads. However, I immediately skip over any videos that show ads. My general rule of thumb is if a video has an ad, I don't need to watch the video.
I usually use mediaWiki for doing things like this. Thanks for remind me to start the notes again.
The single most annoying set of adverts on the internet. Hammy with extra ham on top.
Restricting what brand names people can use is anything but "pro-free-market".
OMG yes!! I honestly really mostly kinda don't mind ads for media that I value (youtube, spotify, etc) ... however, when it comes down to it, when I get served the same freaking ad over and over and over and over, it just drives me up the wall!

I'd go as far as to say that the end user would be more receptive to ads, if they filled ads with pro-bono charity ads promoting some charity or another ... then the user wouldn't start to hate ads, and they could probably write off the ads they donated.
> I’d always reach for Vue when trying to add modern UI components to a legacy app

This is the thing that steers me strongly to Vue. If I'm building a component I like the idea that it's at least potentially reusable in the widest possible set of situations. With React I feel like my component is usable only in other React apps (including the full webpack build etc), which, as popular as React is, is still approximately 0% of the world's web applications. With Vue I feel I can make a component that can drop in seamlessly to just about any HTML page in the world.
I find it hard to believe that Unilever really ‘cares’ about any of these issues so I’m chalking this up to virtue signaling. Really just seems like posturing more than anything
I think it was always a bit like this. You can read what people thought about advertising in the 60's, and they had the same kind of paranoid fantasies we have today, although less focused on tech, more on psychology. In reality, advertising psychology then was much as it is now - basically quackery, with a side of 'thought leadership' by guys that really should have stuck to squash.

That said, I think the reason why machine-driven advertising is so much better than its predecessors is simply that the predecessors were really awful. They used to do market research by installing double-sided mirrors in department stores then taking notes on what people looked at. It was absurd. Now, there's actually an even-odds chance that a targeted advert will meet somebody that might be vaguely interested - and that's absolutely orders of magnitude better than a billboard.

And also, to be honest, this whole complaint about cost-performance indices is a bit absurd - since as far as I can gather, they were basically oneiromancy before Google and Facebook came along.
Something interesting is going on here because I've never had a sourced comment downvoted so quickly without a reply. If someone is panicking then chances are I might be right.
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Well part of is the corporate need to have all the people at a site to do work. A lot of job could be reevaluated to be 'work at home' thus eliminating the need to travel somewhere to do it. This alone would free up traffic, make it 'safer', reduce fuel consumption, and insurance rates. However; business would have to put more trust in the individual, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
The truth is that most of the diagnosis have no accepted cure. Trauma->EMDR or exposure therapy. BPD->Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Everything else-> Social Skills Training (SST) and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT). There are other approaches (IFS was good for me) but they are not AFAICT clinically accepted treatments by the DSM. There's a reason they talk a lot about "coping strategies" - they don't have cures.

BTW if I sound cynical it's because I am both a victim of "treatment" and a success story. The later was a side effect...
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Don’t see why you’re being downvoted. You are exactly correct, unless they changed their advertising practices.
>If they can't vote, are they really people?

If they aren't, then what exactly are felons and foreigners?
Not going to defend Eurostar because I think their pricing is a joke but if you book some time in advance (I'd say at least 2 weeks beforehand), it would be between 140-180£ for a return trip.
That's for a peak time trip, leaving London on a Friday at 6pm and coming back from Paris on a Sunday at 6pm.

The £29 one way tickets do go really quickly yes.
Instagram stories also have become my primary social media "tool" these days.

I have friends scattered all over the world. Through Insta stories I can keep up with what they're doing and feel closer to them. All my friends have stopped posting on Facebook except for life events. Now everything is on Snapchat or Instagram stories.
They make soap and toothpaste, I buy these things regardless of their advertising. They could cut cable ads and nothing would change as well (I don't even have cable).

To the contrary; they need to advertise on the internet to capture the next generation, who don't watch as much TV. If it turns out that facebook ads were influential, P&G could risk losing billions by giving up on that market.
I'd like that. 'Sucralose' is a brand intended to seem like a substance. It's neither a sugar nor an ose: it's	C12H19Cl3O8 also known as (1→6)-Dichloro-(1→6)-dideoxy-β-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside. If you burn it at over 662 degrees you get polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin smoke, which makes sense considering that you make 'sucralose' by a chlorinating process.

I have some nasty reactions to the stuff and so did my late mother, who was a total skeptic to all crunchy-granola pure-foodery. I hate that they can brand a strange chemical like this with the names of natural sweeteners and then we're expected to call it by that name. Though I admit DichlorodideoxyβDfructofuranosyl4chloro4deoxyαDgalactopyranoside is much harder to say, and contains letters that aren't even letters at all.
Great summary!

> The court states that it is questionable whether a real name policy is at all legal, underlining the need for proper consent due to the significant consequences of volunteering one's real name.

That represents an amazing win for online privacy. And seems totally at odds with core Facebook policy.
If the prices were higher, it would be trivial for local businesses to displace them in stores.
SpaceX can reliably deliver payloads to orbit at far lower cost than their competition; as they start to re-use vehicles in earnest, that cost will fall even further. Falcon Heavy is now the most powerful rocket in commercial service by a factor of two. Two years ago they were a highly promising competitor; today, they're the market leader.

Khrunichev are out of the game. The old Proton vehicles are cheap, but they're very unreliable due to a barely-modernised 1960s design and poor construction. They flew four launches in 2017, versus SpaceX's eighteen; by all accounts their order book is looking very sparse indeed. Their new Angara vehicle hasn't flown since the first orbital test flight in 2014 and has attracted no real commercial interest.

ULA can't even begin to compete on cost. Without the capability and readiness contract from the US government, they'd be out of the game entirely. They didn't even bother to bid for the GPS-III contract. The SLS won't be ready until next year, it'll only have about 10% more payload capacity to LEO than Falcon Heavy and it'll cost at least three times as much, with no possibility of reuse.

EADS are attracting a good amount of commercial launches, but their competitive advantage is fading rapidly. Ariane 5 is reportedly 3-4x more expensive than Falcon 9 and has less payload capacity to LEO. The planned Ariane 6 will be considerably cheaper than Ariane 5, but it'll have less payload capacity and still won't be price-competitive with Falcon 9. EADS have not announced plans for a heavy launch vehicle.

Blue Origin are chasing SpaceX's tail. The New Glenn vehicle won't begin test flights until 2020, it has less payload capacity than Falcon Heavy, shows no signs of being cheaper and isn't as reusable. Even if everything goes to plan, they'll still be badly trailing behind SpaceX.
> Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water

I guess it depends on where you live, but this is definitely not the case for me. And I live in a 111 year old building.
Why do you equate technology startups with startups that finance themselves with private data (mis)use?

Instead of taking profit out of private data one has, it's possible to charge for the service. Alternatively, one can use the data to finance the business but also follow the rules and regulations. I don't see the big issue here.
If corporations were people, we'd call them people. Don't start an argument on a worthless premise.
You seem to be agreeing pretty much 100% with the views presented by the author in the article. Can you explain more about what you feel is different about your experience?
Introspection allows one to develop plausible axioms, conditions, or properties that are satisfied by a conscious object (e.g. ourselves) and move on from there, as Giulio Tononi did with Integrated Information Theory.
People do buy these things, so clearly there must be reasons for doing so. Point is, are they good reasons? And are they real reasons, or have they been put there by some big (and yes, evil) corporation?

The BBC did a wonderfully subversive 3-part documentary a few years ago called "The foods that make billions", which investigates in some depth the way people's tastes have been shaped to accept anything the food industry comes up with (no matter how disgusting in concept). Well worth tracking down on YouTube or whatever (particularly the episode about yoghurt, which I found grimly hilarious).
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Have they fixed the issues with the Fall Creator Update of Windows 10 yet? It basically bricked every workstation that we let update to it, and we had to wipe them and put LTSB on to get back to work.
Yeah but dating coworkers was fine back then. And flirting was OK. Hell, I was seeing 3 other woman at the same company in the same building, they all knew about each other and were fine with it [1], when my wife swooped in and decided she was serious. She sent those other women packing :)

Articles like the one from OP make it sound like the women and men are at war, just doesn't seem like fun time to be dating. But I'm not in that mix so maybe all this is a bunch of outliers, who clearly aren't having fun. Maybe there are a bunch of men and women in their 20's and 30's getting along just fine. That article paints a pretty different picture. Maybe it's just that there are some asshole men who are making life miserable and they are finally getting some attention. The article made it sound like all the men are assholes, "sexual advances 24/7" etc.

[1] Yeah, I know I said in the first reply that I had no game. And I didn't but around 32 I gave up on women, I sucked at it, so I stopped trying. Guess what? The Larry that put women on a pedestal was unattractive, but the Larry that ignored women was hugely attractive. I kinda wish I had gotten that memo a decade earlier :(
I don't believe Wikipedia is right. Search site:oracle.com for zettabyte on google and observe the results being documents and blogs from a multitude of years.

ZFS being an acronym for Zettabyte File System was neither retrofitted nor all that brief in use it seems.

Former employees of Sun Microsystems, I know some of you browse HN. Care to shed some light on this?
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I object to physicalism because it doesn't allow for abstraction. It's basically being willfully blind to "everything humans think about and do." A chair is a collection of atoms and the forces that bind them, our ideas of chairs and their purpose are just meaningless fluff.

If we reframe to say that the atoms and forces of the chair are made of the same stuff as our thoughts, then that's way more in-line with how humans actually do things.
> you can't monetize

you can't add your own ads, but you can become an influencer and monetize quite well.
There's a case made that statements like "so my grandma can use it" is (unintentionally) implicitly agist and sexist -- Grace Hopper worked in computing until her death at age 85.
Haven't we learned recently that young people aren't on Facebook? It's not a surprise; everyone who complains about my not being on FB is older than me, and I'm no spring chicken.
Do you think some level of standardization of process would help apple as a whole? Would it help eliminate the relatively poor experience of reddit-OP?
Ok, so, the first example makes it plain that the host country can and will open diplomatic cargo, the second is not really evidence because it did not work for different reasons.

Either way, I strongly suspect the UK government not to be so stupid not to check any container large enough to contain an Assange shaped object that is marked as diplomatic mail from the embassy in London to the home country.

It makes for a nice movie plot but it would be pretty shoddy if they went for it.
Oh yes. I have been thinking about this concept for a while.

Though I have to admit that the name strongly reminds me of the Haiku Operating System I very much want this project to succeed.
From the N-1's wikipedia page:

Each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed; during the second launch attempt the N1 rocket crashed back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff and exploded, resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history.

Energia's a more interesting comparison, since it's hard to know if its advertised payload was at all accurate, but it did fly. I'd say that if it could have delivered its advertised payload reliably, the design probably would have flown more than twice and would have survived the fall of the Soviet Union. I have no idea what a half-finished Buran weighs...
It means move the authorization and verification of identity outside of any corporation and make the feed 100% user-controlled. Corporations end up pursuing goals frequently unaligned with the goals of their users because the users have become the product.

And are you really saying in 2018 that ML is just a buzzword?

Because what I see is an algorithm (whatever it is, probably some secret sauce ML goulash of topic models or clustering) picking stuff I don't want to see and burying stuff I do. Just give me the pure feed and the ability to follow/unfollow. This is apparently now hard(tm).
The hiring freeze has already been horrendous. We're told to keep hitting all our goals even if we lose people and can't hire to backfill. Now we're just straight up losing people to layoffs? Keeping the lights on alone is barely possible with the resources we have.

It would be one thing if we were in dire straights as a company. Imho, this is just short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus.

I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring.
Well, I disagree that the vast majority of Americans are fine with 10/15/20mbps. They might get by with it, but I'm sure they notice their streams buffer or drop in quality when they do (or their system does) something bursty.

In light of the obscene amount of money that taxpayers have sunk into ISPs, there's no need for that. They may be the ones building the infrastructure, but they're taking advantage of us along the way.
That doesn't matter. The studio doesn't care that you live in country X. They just care that it's being viewed in country Y. I disagree with this practice as well, but I doubt even a company like Netflix has the clout to negotiate better terms.
This is a pretty disingenuous framing. You might as well say: funding for the ISS has been set to expire for two decades and is right on schedule.

The ISS was scheduled as of at least 2010, to cease in or around 2020-2024 sometime.

Trump is interested in privatizing the ISS beyond that. That approach has been commonly discussed for at least a decade or more at this point.

2010:

https://www.space.com/9643-tation-disposal-plan-revealed.htm...
Because I doubt a corporation would stay aligned with the non-paying customer long-term. Witness GOOG.

Compare and contrast with AMZN where the customer is indeed the customer.
I swear there's a startup in there... I have some ideas to combat it. It will probably rattle in my brain for another year until someone has already come up with a "good enough" solution and I'll lament that I didn't go for it.

(Life circumstances have me away from the startup life at the moment.)
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Why not hire your part-time friend to take over from you full time, while you can try the 400k gig for a year or two.