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Yes, Call9 is S15
But does my cell phone work inside this room? seems like it would be shielded heavily..
The United Kingdom is an allied Western democracy.
It might be marginally more feasible to build an enormous space tether (https://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html). By dragging it through Earth's magnetic field (which extends out past the moon on the "downstream" side of the solar wind), you could: 1) generate large quantities of electricity, which would be extracted by orbital energy 2) use that electricity in some useful way to further slow momentum (like powering some of the ion engines they talk about in the article).

Anyone with a stronger physics background want to do the math and tell me why this won't work (or at least be marginally better than the proposal in the article?)
Yes, I've done this. I paid an out-of-network specialist for a second opinion on a cancer treatment. My HMO ended up following that specialist's recommendation. While I likely would have survived either treatment, this one was shorter and had fewer long-term side effects. I paid for the consultation out of pocket. It was less than $1,000.

Not that outcome matters much to your question, but I have fewer scars, more original body parts, and better overall body function than I would have had with my HMO's original plan.
I thought it was a great story. Why must it be sponsored?
So disagree. Their support is 24/7, we had an issue (later turned being our mistake), their tech support was working with us overnight. Yes, it was via email, but who cares? I would not sit with them on the phone 8 hours as we were troubleshooting. Our DO bill is $1k/mo, not sure if this impacts their response time. But on the other hand, I myself run a larger SAAS, and you are just not able to help everybody fast enough, you need to prioritize and you prioritize enterprise clients.
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I agree with pretty much everything here and I'm interested in working on a project to solve at least one of these problems. I've been a meetup organizer for a while and I can also do fullstack JS.

Are you looking for co-hackers?

Here's my project on Project Board: https://goo.gl/VPLsoC
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The opposite would happen. Because the Earth rotates once a day, and the moon once a month, the tether would have the effect of speeding up the moon!

Which will cause its orbit to move farther away.

That's what the tides are: They consume the energy difference between the two speeds, and they are what is causing the moon to move.
Think about how private study is going to translate to your application. Talk to professors to see what you'll need to get admitted. I had roughly the same plan, but luckily had dropped out of my undergrad so I was able to go back and do a 2yr undergrad right before applying to grad school.
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Hi, I just signed up for your website and everything looks really good but on your design dashboard I am getting your browser is currently not supported.

I am using Firefox 59.0b10. It seems like Firefox is not at all supported. I should not have to switch browser.

BTW, Great work!
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This is what so many people just refuse to see. The GOP did EVERYTHING they could to try and stop Trump. We know Hillary asked the media to cover Trump as a pied-piper she “knew” she could beat. The GOP never wanted Trump, not for one second.

So the irony is that because of people’s GOP hate they feel need to hate Trump because he ran as a Republican without actually looking to see what’s happening here.

If someone truly hated the Republican Party, they should at least recognize that Trump is their enemy’s enemy.
Pieces like these are generally significantly written by the company, and less so by the journalist.
Although true far as I know, people new to topic might misread that as it being a derivative OS/2 they ran with against IBM. It was a enhanced clone of OpenVMS by the OpenVMS team they poached per Russinovich:

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re...

They kept better architecture that could eventually be turned into a solid server. For time to market, they ditched the quality, high-availability, etc. They added a GUI. Backward compatible with DOS apps plus compatible with OS/2 stuff if I remember right. Tada! Eventually, added quality and security back in with SDL plus clustering. Bill had already achieved dominance at that point with OS/2 and every other desktop being an also ran.

Far as OS/2 goes, I read the original versions of NT were developed on OS/2 workstations that the developers gave up grudgingly when forced to dogfood on NT. They also used UNIXen for some server stuff and ran the business on a AS/400. They seemed to have just used whatever was best at each thing with long-term plan to replace it all with their competing product copying one, improving over others, and integrating some (i.e. open-source).
I got my first paid internship through a Who's Hiring post almost four years ago (March 2014). I'm so happy that I was able to break into this industry, the financial stability and benefits have given me a new life.
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Show HN: A small symbolic math command line using algebrite and katex
I don't think it is sponsored, but I would bet money that the writer (Christina Farr) has good connections with the YC network.
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Same feeling for me. I clicked it thinking 'oh damn, I wonder if they'll use leaky coax[1] like the Hudson River car tunnels did' but was sorely disappointed.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/21/7260271/how-at-t-brought...
> Why is LaTeX unambiguously better for print? Is it just the support for math notation, or is there more to it?

LaTeX is techniques and heuristics from hundreds of years of typesetting for print, codified into a program.

HTML is at most 29 years old, and has only supported typesetting of any kind for a fraction of that. What typesetting capabilities it supports are designed by committees, and its primary purpose has always been screen display, never print.

In the simplest/best case, LaTeX will simply produce nicer-looking results for print. In more complex/worse cases, LaTeX can do things that HTML in a browser can't reasonably do at all for print, even with CSS.

> And since "print" very often means a PDF that's also available online, has there been any progress on tagged PDF support in pdflatex or a similar tool? This is important for accessibility.

I can't answer this question directly because it's been a while since I attempted such a thing, but this is largely what I was joking about with the "the project is going down in flames" bit in my previous post. If you are concerned about accessibility, targeting a proprietary format that resists parsing for text-to-speech or fragment translation and doesn't support variable-width lines for screen readers is a bad idea. Tagged PDFs are really just a hacky attempt to fix the problem: HTML was designed with accessibility in mind from the beginning (though admittedly HTML/CSS/JS as used by modern websites do a very poor job of providing accessibility). Maybe there has been progress in adding this to pdflatex, but it's still a bad idea.
absolutely nothing directly.

but

* besides pretty much the first five pages I hit every morning.

* a positive feeling towards the future because even though I may not understand every link on here, there are people that do. People that devote all of their time toward one thing small or big and that is a cool feeling knowing that people can make a living and follow their passion. If that's a startup that their only goal is to cash out and drive fast cars or their goal is to eat ramen every night and contribute to those less fortunate people. ALL OVER THE WORLD.

* a place to keep up with all the new things in my domain. Stuff I would never hear about on other sites.

* a broader sense of news. I know a lot of people don't like that not "hacker" articles get posted here, but I personally love it. I can't stand hitting much of the current news sites anymore and I enjoy seeing stuff pop up on here occasionally.
On the other hand, the homepage looks great in Firefox with NoScript enabled. It's nice to be able read about what a product does without enabling a bunch of scripts first. It seems a lot of sites these days make their landing pages using SPA frameworks.
Treat your direct reports, the way you'd want your boss or board to treat you
So you have pt (sky), pr (house) and bt (house), and you are suggesting that there can be no obvious link? pt~bt perhaps? I don't know what's up with the /h/. It doesn't really matter because drawn glyphs pass the test of time better than phonemes by virtue of being homoiconic. Certainly, written language is a linguistic matter, not just merely aesthetic.

If you look at the pt hieroglyph, the lower form might be a roof I think. Of course, my confusion of pt and pr in the previous post shows an aptitude to jump to conclusions. But when Peter<Petrus<??? has no certain etymology, leaps of faith are inevitable. And while I understand that research is always careful to be skeptical, so am I when you say the hypothesis couldn't be. I'm not necessarily defending the theory from the featured article, because a common ancestor can come through a variety of origins. Anyway, the Egyptians are famous anyway, so they are the first go to for a theory.

Also, your claim is evidently wrong. The Bet glyph looks very different to the pr glyph.

I was initially trying to formulate a thought about writing, because it can show patterns of language on a deeper level or at least from a different perspective. After all, verbal communication involves more than phonetics. There are definitely words that have been read incorrectly and proliferated -- e.g. reading gamma for ypsilon, omega for digamma; although I have no evidence at hand this shouldn't be hard to believe.

This was constructive for me, as I hadn't made the connection from pr to beta, before. Thank you.
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The strict moderation is a feature for me.
Our post modern culture has now taken to saying things like "my truth" and "your truth", as if it can be possessed and is unique to individuals.
But there does seem to be a general lack of understanding or belief that truth is outside of our personal perception.

It doesn't surprise me that we can't seem to agree on what's true when we identify truth as somehow representing me or you, and therefore we have a personal stake in defending "our truth" rather than seeking "the truth" as best we can understand it.
See what I mean? Hehe. You asked. I answered, with a purposeful example to illustrate, and there’s the immediate downvote. Thanks for making my point, to whoever did.
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"Smart contract" is a phrase from the ERights folks which Ethereum borrowed in order to raise hype levels. It originally referred to writing an auditor, a program which audits, or proves, that the behavior of some other client programs is in line with some specification.
:P I still write orchestral music with Cubase on a 1999 IBM PC running Windows ME. Writing this comment on my new (2005) computer with OmniWeb browser, os x 10.4. Hmm maybe I should be in healthcare.
I think decentralization has already "won the hearts and minds of developers." the question is, will it win the hearts and minds of consumers.
No, it's mainly just housing and traffic that are SV's main problems right now. It is completely unpassable here. And the area can't seem to fix its problems.
Yes, the uncommondescent blog is heavily conservative, and science and tech focused. But, in general there is a correlation between tech and liberal or libertarian. But this is because that crowd tends to eschew the time consuming obligations that accompany a lived out traditional conservative viewpoint, which would prohibit one from heavy online participation.
Wow, those comments are awesome.

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."

I wonder how many other ten-figure business models can be developed from comments that begin "For any Linux user, this is totally trivial," or "Um, have you looked at the pricing for Amazon S3?" or "LOL, this problem was solved 20 years ago by XXXX at YYYY."
You could do that with the Algolia API: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions...

But as noted, BigQuery is more pragmatic.
Efficient in what units? Heat pumps are more efficient in BTUs/kWh, but I doubt you've done the pricing to say they're more efficient in BTUs/dollar, because that's fairly complicated.
> Even Apple, with its amazing consumer brand doesn't end up with people wearing its logo on their clothing (instead they carry it :-)).

I agree with your other examples, but there were a number of folks, mainly of the Web 1.0 era, that have a tattoo of Apple logo.

Apple has become more ubiquitous these days, but I think they've lost that cult-like following seen in the Jobs-era.
It doesn't seem that long there were plenty of people predicting that mobile apps were also going to render websites obsolete, but that didn't really happen, at least nothing like the extent that was predicted. In fact most of the main app only experiences like instagram have ended up creating web interfaces anyway.

Maybe it will eventually happen but this article predicts some major brands shutting down their websites this year, which is like saying cryptocurrencies will start replacing cash in some major western countries this year. The only real value I can see in a brand shutting down it's website for a chatbot only service right now is the the free publicity they will get for doing so. Websites are normally relatively cheap to run so there is no real reason to kill them off unless it's getting no traffic compared to the chatbot channels and from my own experiences in this area, chatbots aren't even close to website use yet (but I am in Australia, where things like Alexa and Google Home are quite new in the market compared to the US).
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One day less of available work time every month. That is until I discovered "noprocrast".
There are lots with good advice (worth searching site:news.ycombinator.com tptacek/patio11 billing/consulting/etc), but the main thing is to stop billing hourly, here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880096
the question becomes what can you >do< about it if you have no understanding of the logic it operates on.
A sense of anxiety and an increase to my imposter syndrome despite having very good personal skill set increases every year
But how is it going with the HN-dream - passive income? :)
Many members find language wars boring. Most are already aware of strengths and weaknesses of various languages. People have language preferences (I know I do), and those vary from person to person. What’s more important is what you’re accomplishing. If you bring up criticism when it’s not the topic of conversation (for example, complaining about the use of JS on a Show HN), people may downvote because it’s off-topic.

As for requiring comments for downvoted, search the archives if you’re really interested in more discussion, but those that aren’t interested in leaving comments are just going to leave junk comments if required, and then there would be endless litigation as to what constitutes a valid reason.

As the guidelines request, just don’t comment about downvotes. If you’re really worried about it, take some time to review the guidelines and look at the behavior of other comments that are downvoted. Speculate to yourself why they might have been downvoted. Improve your own comments taking that into account. But in general, I suggest just not worrying too much about it.
And robotics. But I suppose that has a more direct application for Disney.
> that I can have good arguments with

That's the really special part. There's plenty of places to find people that have a differing opinion, but HN does the best job I've encountered of fostering good, substantive discussion.

It doesn't always work, but it works here more often and on more subjects than anywhere else I've found. That "more subjects" part is important too, since unlike a smaller more focused forum, you might find that someone you totally agreed with on one subject the day before is someone you are in complete disagreement with the next day, and this can go a long ways towards helping people to remember that if they disagree on the current subject, the other person is likely a rational, agreeable person that deserves the benefit of doubt when you've found yourself interpreting what they've said as extremely harsh, disagreeable or wrong.
Yea... sorry, I don’t think a bunch of sheltered evenagelical-atheist kids should really be your go to metric. I can only think of a few worse online communities.
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I found my first software engineering job through an HN hiring post by a YC company. It was at a time when my life and resume were... not great. But I could code, and that was enough for them. It was the only offer I got. I became a software engineer, moved to the bay area, and my life turned around. That company had its issues and I did not stay very long, but I would not be where I am today if it weren't for that post.
Here's a nice article about it:

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the...

The lasting benefit it seems to have as jaquesm said is reliability. Claim in article I doubt but shows they rarely crash:

"Oh, and another thing: OS/2, Waldhauer, says, doesn’t crash. It’ll run for a decade without requiring rebooting."

It's simple. It doesn't change a lot. It rarely crashes if that's to be believed. It's integrated into important systems for legacy effect. It also has at least one company at any given time updating it to work on modern stuff. So, that sounds like benefits a lot of big companies would be interested in. I think the drawbacks are too significant, though, especially it being a closed, barely-living tech without much of an ecosystem plus who knows what security or high-availability attributes.
As far as I know, they’re just asking for the same rights as privileges that heterosexuals and heterosexual couples are entitled to.

What, exactly, are the “all sorts...of rights and privileges” that are unique to homosexuals that you are referring to?
The real problem is how much of a win that tactic was for Gizmodo and others who published the incomplete document in bad faith. Clickbait sensationalism in media, particularly around race and gender issues, created this environment.
IMO KeyValues' approach helps a lot: https://www.keyvalues.com

Some of the things I like: customer first, open source contributors, remote-friendly, open communication, etc.

But the thing is, KeyValues let's you pick stuff you like, based on stuff employees generally look for. And it shifts more burden onto the employer to define and explain their culture.

I think employers would fare better if they holistically evaluated people.

That part of shifting the employers to think and interact more is essential. Just throwing around code golf while they accept 1000 resumes and repost every month, when only one space is open - isn't a talent quest - it's spurning a class of sincere developers who are job seekers.
Right now it is active income since I'm a full-time ceo.
Anyone can apply to Harvard, and they all have to be good enough to create the opportunity to be accepted in the first place.
I’ve found my fair share of SoC bugs over the last couple of decades, and cache coherency is by far the most common problem. It’s complex to implement, and implementers are always messing with it to gain a cycle here and there. They get it wrong, frequently.

I would go so far as to bet every mainstream SoC has at least one cache coherency bug either already documented (errata) or undiscovered.
Ask not what HN has given you, but what you have given HN
(I fixed the whitespace formatting on your post. Hope that's ok. Bullet lists are kind of hard to get right in HN markdown.)
>for spreading Communism to America.

if anything, china is more capitalist than us, at least when it comes to (the lack of) regulations.
> US courts have disagreed with you in the James Damore case

U.S. courts have not yet weighed in on the James Damore case.
It's poorly written, glowing, and has very little substance. It's a good bet that the company ghost-wrote it or paid to have it published.
Sure, lets say $500 for a heat pump, $50 for a heater. Then what 'yield' are you getting on the $450. Let's say heat pump is 2x as efficient (should be understimate). Let's say that you run 2kw normal heater for 1 hr / day winter only for 3 months. That's 180kwh. @12c that's $21.6. So you save $10 a year. A 2.2% yield tax fee. So admittedly not great.

OTOH a mining rig, well who knows that IS complicated. You might lose money, or spend a lot of time tweaking but break even.
One year of others' time saved over five years would make him a 1.2x programmer.
I think your absolutely right. The vast majority of UIs are okay and get the job done. I've rarely not ordered something because the UI was too bad.

But, I have to admit, the author is right on one account. Alot of websites these days are lurching from one page to another, just to score more page views or something, rather than a Single page app.

And, I hope goolge doesn't think their done with search.
Google doesn't always do a great job of ranking the best products and sites at the top. Sometimes it's downright awful. On a number of occassions, I've had to click through each of the first 10 results and the next 10 and still not finding exactly what i want. And, I've found that if google can't find it in the top 20, it usually doesn't find it in the next 20 either. But, I'm sure it exists somewhere.
That's an awesome story. Congrats!

Quick question: My understanding may need to be updated, but doesn't YC give you Ramen-survival cash? How did you deal with the financial challenges with so little and a family, etc.?
That sounds like a very interesting comment that I'd like to read. Would you happen to still have the link to it?
This seems to be the same as what Red Hat is working on with Shenandoah. I don't understand how the goals differ and from a 1000 ft, incomplete view, the basic design seem similar too.

Is there anyone who can clarify?
And if (everyone minus you) freely chooses to not sell you food, water, shelter or services for $random_reason, does that still count as a free society?