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Until there is such a body, every country is responsible for the objects its citizens put into space according to the Outer Space Treaty. The interesting legal question to me is why it's on the US (where the satellites were built and from which they're being operated) over India (where the satellites were launched from).

(Which question, btw, shows the need for an international regulatory agency like you're describing.)
At least watch the one minute intro video on the article
And yet, William, if you had bothered to read the link in your comment, you'd discover in the "Opposition to laws against price gouging" section that there are numerous people who think these laws are bad and that they make some pretty good points.

In the case of Shkreli and Daraprim the price change induced Imprimis to bring a new drug online which added strength and diversity to the marketplace which is what we expect to happen in a well functioning marketplace when parties work to maximize their own self interest.
So it's deep rabbit holes full of precise arcane nomenclature and vernacular that you like huh? ;) Are you ready to have your mind blown? Don't click this link unless you're sitting down and have a lot of time:

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Marvin the Paranoid Android: "Life! Don't talk to me about life!" ... "Making it up?" said Marvin, swiveling his head in a parody of astonishment, "Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
Looks like it would be cool, but consistently crashes the tab for me in Firefox on Windows 10.
Hacker News is at least somewhat informative in the tech sphere. It tends to favor more esoteric technology like Lisp in lieu of things like Java & JavaScript which is far more favored on Reddit/Programming. Politics are mostly left leaning mixed with some Libertarian views. There is a good splattering of non tech stuff as well (music, art, literature, linguistics...etc). I'd say it's a far cry from fake news and cat videos.
Here's the webarchive mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20180310014632/https://ubuntubud... since it seems to be down at the moment (as well as an hour ago when I last checked).
I'm left wondering: how much would a hyperloop cost to span the same distance? At 2 or 3 times the speed?

They've already started it? Never too late to stop a disaster. It'll be $150B by the time it's finished.
There are, I think two different things here:

1. Getting women in the pipeline from an early age. Whether it's cultural, or women in developed Western economies don't need an escape hatch like in places they face few options --as a country, if we are to progress, we have to find a way to improve the pipeline. Increase the pool of women candidates, and you will not have to work hard at finding good candidates.

2. Google should have not touched the live wire that is a publicly stated policy for PR brownie points. If they meant to improve things, introduce processes without the unnecessary fanfare because, as we now are witnessing, they are being pincered from both sides --which is ultimately counterproductive.
Nah, the vinegar is the clear stuff. The yellow stuff is labeled "Windex Multisurface" I think (no "with Vinegar") and is clear yellow, not perfectly clear.
Ghostery open source
Reformatted for those on mobile:

> Well, a pothole is not just a technological thing, it's also a political entity. Usually we think of European nations as steeped in governmental regulation, and the United States as a free market, but actually the opposite occurs in building roads. In the United States the government sets specifications and asks contractors to meet them. Once done with the road they have no more responsibility.

> Contrast this to France where the contractors must come up with their own specifications and guarantee their work. This means that if a pothole developers the contractor has to fix it. But in the united States, once the job is done, as long as it has met specifications, the contractor is no longer liable.

(Please don't use code blocks for quotations.)
I wonder at what point the work is more important? These discussions upto a certain point are helpful when does it start to hurt the competitiveness of company.
Currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555106
In my view, HC is not just a programming tool, but also a rudimentary database engine. This may have helped make it attractive in its day.

Of course HC was many things to many people. The modern replacement could be identified by what people actually use in daily life for simple programming and databases: Excel.

I wrote an assembler in HC.
Could they operate it from a ship, which could be registered anywhere?
I think the best way to appreciate Bach is from a few ideas:

First, the article makes a few spurious claims. Saying he was only recently enjoyed is just wrong. And claiming he only played holy music is also wrong.

Bach did not see his music as music that was to be played straight. He saw his sheet music as a suggestion, and he refused to take on any student who didn't show improvisation ability.

If you take his music as a framework to be built upon, you can see the beauty of his motifs and runs, but most of all, you can hear how later musicians from day 1 to today has taken and remixed many of his ideas and music.

In an odd way, I see his music as a collection of etudes, though that's a bit of a disservice to him.

I also think it's helps to actually play his music. Buried in the relative simplicity (of some of his music) is complexity that's hard to really describe unless you've sat down and really hammered away at the music.

Being a guitarist, I'm particularly fond of his lute suites, but nothing supercedes his organ music. The organ music doesn't sound out of place among classic rock albums.
I suspect nobody is manufacturing these machines. Unfortunately, "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door," is completely wrong. It is one thing to develop a new technology, but another thing entirely to convince someone to manufacture, and another thing again to convince anyone to buy.
May sound odd but I have found working with a bunch of other white folks to be like high school especially in the 20 to 40 age range. While as a white guy working with just about all Indians to the best working environment. Though it is socially lacking due to culture differences there isnt a bunch of insecure back stabbing types .... just ppl that work well together and without judgement.

Also I work in the government sector redesigning and developing govt sites and apps. It's not Google and Facebook but it is Medicare and other names yet ppl aren't banging at their door begging to work there .. so there's also that lack of competition and competition/insecurities brings out the worst in many.
Generally, airports are out of the way from the usual populations that commit these crimes and don't see a lot of traffic from them.
Show HN: Netlimy – website self-hosting. continuous delivery out of the box.
From the way the title is phrased it sounds like the servo team is leaving servo to work on mixed reality, quite misleading.
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Seized but you are paid market value for it. That’s fair.
The problem is that these are small enough that they couldn't be reliably tracked if they stopped transmitting. As for PocketQubes I only see one that's been launched as the smallest 5cm cubed version most are >=1.5u. I'm guessing the 2.5cm smallest dimension was too small combined with the proposed orbit, I bet they're more willing to accept poor tracking on objects that won't be there long.
So basically, you can pay $22 to have them mix an unknown amount of NaOH into 32oz of water, or you can buy 5 lbs of NaOH off Amazon for $19[1] and mix it into water yourself. A lifetime supply of "phurwater" for less than the price of a single bottle, without even shopping around--this was the first search result on DuckDuckGo.

What incredible crap.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Grade-Sodium-Hydroxide-Micro-Beads/dp...
On the other hand, he did properly warn people of the giant sucking sound of off-shoring of American jobs.

A few things depress wages, an increase in the labor pool and off-shoring, among others.
I don't know if this counts, since your question is rather vague, but I wrote an article a while back about how Torch creates certain vulnerabilities on local systems: https://joshumax.github.io/general/2017/06/08/how-torch-brok...
You must have been lucky enough to be working with Indians who were all from the same caste. I've worked as an intermediary to different teams comprised of competing castes because they refused to work with each other.
I’m willing to bet there are some “dreaded third variables” that have crept into the study. Also being able to find the effect on women but not men leads me to believe there might be some P-hacking going on.
Have to wonder if any manufacturers in non-COCOM countries are able to supply such units.
Ammonia is such a strong irritant you'd never be able to inhale enough (willingly) to cause systemic toxicity.

We also have a lot of info around the effects of ammonia. The body is very good at eliminating it. Heck, doctor's use ammonium chloride to acidify a patients urine.

Could you inhale enough to irritate your lungs? Sure. But it's not going to cancer or something.
Nice idea . I think you should make it more generic. I am confident that We will see a lot of this "Twitch of X " in years to come. I personally would like to see Twitch of Cooking and Twitch of Uber Rides
I dont know what you would consider non-toy uses, but the company I work for uses VR as a means of demonstrating building structures and layouts to clients.

The model is built in Revit and using this method allows for easy fly/walkthrough and spotting of some issues that might not be as visible in the 3D viewer mode on your screen.
That's what the metal chasse is for. Not to mention airbags. Cyclists don't have those.
This whole post reeks of developer arrogance.

>Security teams rarely know how applications work, so their approach to security is heavy-handed and provides a false sense of protection.

Yes, sometimes there are overly bureaucratic processes in place, but as a security guy, do you know how many times we see devs self-SQL injecting themselves on a webpage? How many times they ask if their service needs to be in the DVZ? (What the fuck is that; I think they mean DMZ)? Or Why it's a problem that they're asking why they can't have "The Internet" when I ask what services their server needs externally?

Don't act like devs (or even IT Ops as a whole) has their shit together. They're at LEAST as security-crippled as security EVER is over-paranoid.

And as for this...

>Firewalls, packet inspection, virus scanning, and the like would all be completely unnecessary if code was written securely and if human beings behaved properly.

First, code will never be written completely securely; second, security is a spectrum of mitigation therefore ACLS/firewalls/scanning will ALWAYS be necessary; third, humans NEVER behave properly, inside or out therefore security will always be in business.
One scooter could easily have 5-10 trips per day. At $2/trip, the payback period on a $400 scooter is 20-40 days. The economics here (and with dockless bikes) are quite impressive, which is why billions of dollars has been dumped into dockless electric personal transportation companies over the last few years.

The bigger question here is whether people will adopt scooters when they are more comfortable on bikes.
Why using AngularJs’s global objects instead of native?
Perhaps truer words were never spoken...
As you're a scientist, I'd defer to your expertise, but I will mention that the situations where alcohol falls short are with spores and when cleaning certain materials. AFAIK, MRSA does not form spores, and so alcohol would work well for disinfecting it. Your gloves and hoods are also probably made of a material that is effectively cleaned by alcohol.

On the other hand, C. difficile (a bacteria responsible for diahrea/stomach flu) does produce spores which are not killed by alcohol cleaners. Similarly, viruses like norovirus (also responsible for "stomach flu") are not effectively disinfected by alcohol, which is why I mentioned that if you're trying to clean up after a bout of stomach flu, you might want to reach for something stronger (like a bleach based cleaner).
Per the hygiene hypothesis, I wonder if your allergies got better because you’re exposing yourself to more (generally harmless) microorganisms and hence challenging your immune system more. Since I’m sure lactic acid doesn’t sterilize as well as some strong bleach or other chemical.
Decommission them all; then you will know for sure.
> How would people acquire coins in the proof-of-stake model

They usually sell them in an initial offering. Of the top 8 coins on coinmarketcap only 4 have mining. Ripple, NEO, Stellar and Cardano don't.
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My experiences and jobs have all dealt with working in small teams; 4 to 8 people from project mangers, designers and developers.
The only way to guarantee startup success (2014)
If nobody is left does that count as finding out? If a tree falls in the woods...
Now that Go is also supported it would be interesting to know what kind of start up time it has.
how do you even prove that
Exactly. You generally don't have too many unsupervised youngsters bored with time to kill and bad ideas to pursue. The drinks there are adults with responsibilities who generally aren't looking to make trouble or get fired form their jobs for being delinquents.
Whoa, do you have a link to that Atkinson talk?
If it can push a satellite down from a great distance, and likely seriously heat it up and damage at a shorter distance, it is a weapon, the same way a knife or an axe is a weapon.

It's the way you use something that makes it a weapon.
It's a sign of either laziness, incompetence, or lost interest, and none of those things are good.
And this is how blatant discrimination goes on. Why is it so important to have women in computer science or STEM? Why can't we leave them alone and let them choose? Is it money? Sure, google/fb and select few pays well. They also ask you to put in 40-50 hours per week. Not all jobs are dev jobs just for your information.

I worked for top 3 out of top 6 companies in the valley. You wouldn't believe amount of discrimination and denial of opportunities men face. Men are not considered at all and not making it to the pipeline itself.
If you are 30+ and male, it's game over in the valley.
Prevents the grave unequal power balance between workers and owners, by doing away with the concept of "owner" entirely.
I would agree with the first option, if people want more women in IT, the only realistic way is to get more in IT schools, recruitment quotas won't change anything about the reality of the field at all. It's just going to make things worse by triggering internal fights because some employees feel left out (already happens it seems). Even if in the hypothetical case where you manage to hire 50% women, you are just reducing the percentage of women everywhere else, it's not that much of an achievement.
No, I mean that many motorist lives would be saved if they all literally wore helmets. They should be required to. Airbags and roll cages help, but they are (obviously) insufficient on their own to prevent the 20k car deaths every year.
Cyclists can’t afford cars?
Interesting.. I've come to a similar conclusion with my team. A majority of the team is white men but there are immigrants from SE Asia (Philippines, Vietnam, India) other minorities (Black American [I'm one], African, & women). I generally find the immigrants / minorities more interesting to talk to.. especially when it comes to their thoughts on American culture. The white guys seem to be very similar and outside of work seem to love to talk about the same topics: beer, video games, 80s culture, etc.
To be clear, I didn't say that I believe a coop was the better system. But as an American, in my experience every one of fbn79's criticisms could equally be applied to private corporations. What matters is the relative difference and the overall economic context. And if he grew up steeped in a system that was heavily oriented toward the coop, I couldn't give him the benefit of the doubt, either, in the sense that it may not have been obvious to him that a more traditional private enterprise system could have outcomes that were even worse--like greater unemployment with at least as much political corruption and wealth skimming.

Also, I spent half my childhood growing up in the heavily unionized Chicago area, and half in the vehemently anti-union Deep South. In both regions adults always complained about the corruption and inefficiency of unions. Which always perplexed me because as a naive (though arguably objective observer), both private and public works projects in the Deep South were immensely more inefficient than in the Chicago land area. They took longer and seemed of lesser quality even though often less ambitious. And while as an adult I understand the truth in the complaints about unions--there often is corruption and especially inefficiency and back-scratching--the outcomes aren't necessarily worse than in non-union systems, and sometimes much better. It depends on the larger context.

That said, there are plenty of worker-owned coops in the U.S. I recently discovered that Litehouse Foods is one such business. I wanted to know if Costco would keep selling Litehouse's awesome and reasonably priced freeze-dried herbs, so spent an evening Googling everything Litehouse related. I've been buying Litehouse freeze-dried herbs at Safeway when on sale for a couple of years. The grocery retail prices (sale or not) are competitive with online and mail-order freeze-dried manufacturers, but the Costco prices were so incredibly low-priced that I was curious how sustainable it could be. I never could figure out if Costco will continue selling those herbs, so last time I was at Costco I bought enough freeze-dried garlic, basil, parsley, oregano, thyme, dill, green onion and red onion to fill up two entire shelves in the kitchen.
It's also the same company that pushes out a "do no evil" narrative while throwing their AI on top of predator drones so middle grounds are a bit tough for them.
the opt out pre screen system? I ran across it years ago on lifehacker or something. signed up, jumped through their hoops, and the amount of junk mail I receive has dropped to almost none.

I need to get the fiance to do the same thing, because after buying the house, she's getting 20+ credit card offers/etc per week. it's ridiculous how much of it masquerades itself as legitimate business mail too. mixed in with the medical bills.
Honestly, how long will it take for this to be a good investment? My guess is more than 50 years. Will we need a bullet train in 50 years? Probably not. Anyone that wants to go anywhere will be able to step inside a pod, take a nap, and wake up wherever they want to be. Such a waste of resources...
There's an interesting video I've seen before showing it being recreated in a lab. I do not, however, know the origin or reasoning behind why it happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c9A9Auf0A
Well done you guys, congratulations!
I used to work specifically in the healthcare space doing cleanup work for companies that had been recently breached. I think "huge fines" is quite an overstatement. The largest HIPAA fine in history for a data breach was for the Anthem hack, which was a leak of ~80 million records and Anthem was fined $115 million. That's no small number, but at the end of the day it's still only less than 5% of their yearly net income. And Anthem is a huge outlier: the second largest HIPAA fine in history was only ~$6 million. It's not exactly a huge deterrent for companies that want to ignore security.

In terms of the public exposure, you'd probably be surprised at how many healthcare insurers/providers have data breaches but you never hear about them because these companies know how/when to report it so that it ends up nothing more than a footnote on the back page of the local paper.
I'm over 30 an have gotten offers from 2 big companies in SV in the past year
It's worth noting, as far as I can tell, that product offering ("Lock & Alert") is not (legally) the same as a credit freeze.

Which means they aren't legally bound not to release your credit report to whomever they want (aka whoever pays them), and even in their own FAQ they admit they have far more exceptions for who can ignore the lock (plus vague wording) than a credit freeze legally allows (compare [0] and [1]).

Further, one should ask why they are providing this free and easy service, while their actual credit freeze system is awful (at least in my experience)? Perhaps to push consumers to the not legally binding option so that they can continue to sell your "locked" credit report without legal consequences?

[0] https://www.equifax.com/personal/products/credit/credit-lock...
[1] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
You are extraordinarily naive. What you describe happens, in practice, only for the very skilled labour (tech workers, etc). For the remaining 95% (?) of the world's population, capitalism means what it must: pay as much as you absolutely have to to mostly keep the workers from starving and consequently rising up, and not a penny more.
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I don't think anyone who has worked at the big SValley companies will deny that there is some bias[1] against men --but not out of malice, but rather because they believe that their path to success is signaling they are virtuous. So they have quotas and they have rewards for recommending women candidates and will rather hire a woman from Georgia over a male from California because it will fill a quota for a recruiter.

I get all that.

What I am saying is we need to fill the pipeline with women starting at an early age so there is no need for these artificial practices. Thing is we need more tech workers, in the US --they might as well be American women. It will make us stronger as a people.

[1] So people understand, by bias I don't mean they are out to get men. I mean two pretty equal candidates, the majority of the time the man will be overlooked because he will not help to fill the internal recruiters' quotas.
If the computers were actively being used, then the hard drives' contents were at least partly accessible, encrypted or not. Copy everything off before shutting them down.
If by motorists you mean people in cars they do mandate head protection in the form of air bags and a myriad of other safety features
I'd also like to add my voice to those who like the current system. For me at lease, the flexibility it affords outweighed the initial difficulty I encountered learning it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't `screen` do split screen mode? `C-a S` I thought

It's not night and day really; tmux is updated a bit more frequently, and I find it easier to configure (I have a custom theme that I think is substantially sexier than the ugly green bar on the bottom). While it's almost certainly cheating, I do think that the mouse integration for tmux is quite good, and I use that semi-often.

I don't know how much you care about licenses, but tmux uses the more permissive ISC license.

Also, and this really makes no difference to anything, I like the logo for tmux :)

So, I dunno, it's mostly a matter of opinion, but I just have grown to prefer tmux.
I've heard of a company very much looking to get AR going for CAD work.

And well, it is coming sooner or later. If as a browser, you aren't ready when they actually do, you might see an entire industry standardizing away from you.