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> That's cute. Circa 2003 standard round-trip on Concorde was >$10000 (that's around 14k in 2018 USD), discounted "celebration" fares were $7k. For $4k you could do Concorde one way and 747 the other way.

I'm aware of that, Concorde represented First class, not business class. I was talking about today's prices for business class fares. Ticket prices have come down over the past 1-2 decades, I wouldn't expect the same prices (inflation adjusted) as with the Concorde. But certainly more than business class fares, therefore my reference to current fares.

Regarding profitability, the Concorde was extremely inefficient and very restricted in flight paths. A supersonic jet that is allowed to fly supersonic over land could unlock more profitable routes (e.g. intra-US or EU-Asia), optimising utilisation.
Presumably you picked a launch where the Briz, which is a tug stage that the Russians use for Proton launches to GTO, blew up after releasing the satellite in GTO. That's not supposed to happen, but at least it results in debris with a low perigee that will decay in < 25 years, maybe a lot faster.

Briz also drops a fuel tank early on.

Fairings are dropped while sub-orbital. India put one in orbit last year, but not intentionally.
I think you answered your own question. The reason people expected Facebook to change is because people don't seem to understand that the general rule is that when a large company makes a statement it is invariably based around public relations. They will say whatever they think it is that will receive the most positive response from the population, regardless of the truthfulness of that statement, at least so long as it cannot open them up to legal counter action.

Facebook's behavior is not going to change with a humbler set of leaders. Their entire fundamental business model is based around collecting sensitive information. And they're starting to reach the absolute extremes of market saturation meaning that the only way they can continue to grow is to offer more effective advertising which relies on harvesting even more data from their users. If you want a social media service that respects users' privacy and rights then it would need to be either a non-profit decentralized service, or a for-payment service. The former would suffer from lacking the funds to reach a critical mass, and the latter would fail because nobody's going to pay to join a small social media service - let alone the subscription model that would be necessary.
They don’t get raw DNS traffic. Ever.
Some exceptional content on writing tests in the early seasons.

Also a great demonstration of what a very skilled typist can do in vim.
Although the medical data itself may be "anonymized", surely FB is in a position to associate that data with actual people, given that they know so much about a person's schedule, location, searches and private messages.
Teletypes needed it for timing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#History:

”The separation of newline into two functions concealed the fact that the print head could not return from the far right to the beginning of the next line in one-character time. That is why the sequence was always sent with the CR first. A character printed after a CR would often print as a smudge, on-the-fly in the middle of the page, while it was still moving the carriage back to the first position.”
Volume amd voxel rendering are essential for medical visualizations. But there should already be a lot of competition in that area.

Voxel graphics for games is mostly restricted to non-deforming bodies. Games like Comanche and Outcast made use of an optimized variant of voxel rendering for their terrains with great results in the 90s. But I have yet to see an animated face in realtime rendered using voxels or points. I would love to see that done, but this is a hard problem.
The state exists in it's current form because we don't trust private enterprise to perform those functions, otherwise we would. So you're agreeing with me, although I could have phrased it better.
If you believe the hype MIT will provide you more opportunities. You can still get a job in Silicon Valley, although Boston, and Texas are equally active.
Silicon Valley is very very expensive place to live
A long long time ago :)
In these parts of the world (Romania, Eastern-Europe, granted, a very Francophile country back in the day) middle-class people were regularly using French as the means of personal communication in the inter-war period. Just recently I’ve seen a post-card sent by a Romanian husband to his Romanian wife from a Romanian seaside resort sometime around 1930 which was written entirely in French. Lots of first names were also being French-ified for written informal communication, like the Romanian Gheorghe being changed into the French Georges. Once the communists came to power after WW2 almost all of that vanished, partly because the newly arisen middle-classes were not as “cultured” as the inter-war middle-class (even though knowing French was still seen as you being “an intellectual”, so to speak).

Once the communists fell and capitalism took over English sort of became lingua-franca for business communication, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any people using it for personal communication the same as they were using French before WW2. Not trying to refute your observation or anything, which I find entirely correct, just wanted to add a small piece of language trivia.
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Surely this passes into the realms of illegality?
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I have a credit (really, not debit) card, in the US, that does chip+PIN. I activated it online and chose a PIN on the card issuer's web portal.
I don't believe it does place the blame fully on the captain, where did you see that?

The report conclusions mention several events and dozens of contributing factors.

If you want to think in terms of blame, which is not helpful to avoid future accidents nor for nurturing a safety culture, the report "blames" the ship owner, captain, crew, National Hurricane Center and the coast guard...

Some actions of the captain were a contributing factor, notably bridge resource management/communication.
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No but if GS asks a counterparty (with whom they have billions in other contracts) to cancel contracts as a result of a system error, the counterparty will probably agree (if they don't lose as a result) knowing that GS will next time do the same. With a small party, this could just be an attempt to undo a bad deal.

I think what the poster meant is that deals are just contracts and can be amended if both parties agree. For large banks with longstanding relationships, that is naturally much easier than for a trader that no one knows.
Why is this better than just updating the unit tests?
Those laws are just for you and I.
The pile on continues...

(1) This is probably a project by a small "research" group at Facebook. The goal of that group is probably to publish papers in a Psych journal or something like that about how they were able to correlate anonymized medical data with Facebook feed updates. Tech companies have these research groups for prestige, they are not central to the company mission.

(2) According to the article, the project was never actually started. So it sounds like a bit of a non-story.
I prefer, "You sir, have negotiated with me as would a Gypsy. I am cross."

Seriously though, kids used it all the time when I was growing up — I didn't even know "gyp" was derogatory until I was perhaps in my 30's. If I had to guess, young me would have suspected it was spelled "jip" anyway.

We told Pollack jokes too and I didn't even know it meant someone from Poland.

I was not very cosmopolitan as a kid.
TL;DR logging using glog uncovered a bottleneck which was fixed upstream 9 months ago. Maybe keep your dependencies up2date? :)
No, not really. Chinese characters use different characters / radicals to distinguish homophones in a way that makes writing much easier to understand if you're shakier on the context.
Thanks. My subtle point was why use tags when you could use search? Search engines index the whole internet - millions of hierarchical file systems of all kinds. Why reinvent file systems?

I don't use Mac. Windows 10 "Cortana" is no match for where Google Desktop was 10 years ago. I rarely use it unless I have to. Google searched the contents. Cortana just searches filenames and tries to route searches to the web. Linux...I don't see anything - Ubuntu has Cortana-like feature, but it's not Google Desktop. It's very odd to go backwards technology-wise.
I had a debit card from Citibank but I had to call and specifically request only an ATM card as debit cards are absolutely horrendous. They were able to issue an ATM only card.
That's what I was thinking when I said "beware of the news bias". Regardless of what one thinks of specific actions of the Antifa movement, it's not necessarily true that those represent even Antifa members as a whole, and it's completely specious to assume they represent anarchists as a whole. Antifa is not even an anarchist-only movement.
> AT&T Gigapower using 1.1.1.1 on an internal interface on at least one model of router-gateway, the Pace 5268AC

Yup. I can't use 1.1.1.1 because my AT&T router is responding to it.
I use Chalk for this: https://github.com/chalk/chalk
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I was wondering something similar. If Party B acquires Party A's anonymized-but-subject-to-HIPAA data and successfully deanonymizes it, who is liable? If the data is deanonymized, doesn't this mean the data wasn't sufficiently anonymized to begin with and Party A has some liability? Is Party B also liable since their goal from the start was to deanonymize the data?
I thought that a Tesla bankruptcy would be cataclysmic. But then I realized that Elon would kind of welcome it.

Spacex has established itself as a sort of technological monopoly, where its launch prices are $70m, but the competition is $90m, but because of their technological monopoly, and their true cost of launch is $20m. And now they are on a launch cadence of every two weeks, (that is $50m in contribution margin every 2 weeks, that is $100m in profit per mo., locked in forever well at least until ULA has a competitive offering (forever+1).

With that as your option set, why fuxk around with 200 versus 300 cars made a day.

F it, just bk it and be done with it.
Hello, author of dqlite here.

Things are still in flux, but yes, I plan to publish benchmarks before making a 1.0 release, as well as improving documentations and introduce some more abstractions to make it easier to use.

The reason it might be slower is some cases is that RQlite replicates statements and dqlite replicates WAL frames (where "frames" roughly means "disk pages"), which are typically bigger.

I didn't run benchmarks against RQlite yet, but I'd expect performance differences to be negligible for most use cases.
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You may be interested in the following article, 'The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"': https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
Yeah Breeze-M is a Proton upper stage, which means a Baikonur launch. Unrelated fact: due to Baikonur high launch inclinations it's cheaper (in terms of dV) to circumnavigate the Moon when launching stuff into GEO than to change the inclination at the insertion burn. It's just not practical to do so, because the stage lifetime is limited.
I dislike/disagree with facebook more than most folks, but even I can smell a dead horse being beaten.
It's fascinating how Raft has democratized distributed computing -- writing a consistent, distributed state machine now can be done in a few lines of code, assuming you have a Raft implementation lying around, like Hashicorp's excellent Go library.

What this project (and similar projects such as Rqlite) doesn't address is the hard problem -- sharding. Raft makes it quite trivial to write a master/slave system where every node is guaranteed to be identical, but it won't scale writes and won't distribute storage across your cluster.

You can build sharding on top of Raft, but in an SQL setting this would require distributed transactions, something that's difficult enough that relatively few projects have tackled it so far, the notable ones being CockroachDB and TiDB. (Google Spanner, being proprietary, is not relevant in this context.)
Somewhat related: I was wandering YouTube the other day and stumbled upon an old T.V. segment with Hunter S. Thompson and a Hell's Angel sharing the program's stage. The amount of joking about wife beating (and audience approval of said joking) was frankly shocking to watch. Easy enough to search for, I'll leave off the link.
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Apparently on HN advances only happen if Elon tweets about them.
"Walt, are you aware of how much money you can save if you just did some ray tracing? This is crazy."

Seriously, though. Despite having seen this video before, I am glad it is posted again.
In just 24 hours, the bad news about India’s banks has gotten worse
Everyone tends to launch towards the East because you need less delta-V to get into orbit that way.
This needs to be made more of an issue.
FB seems to have (rightly) realised that this is one of those 'just because we can, doesn't mean we should' cases, especially given the current situation. It's a bit of a non-story, and if I squint I can see the possible academic value in it, but given how battered FB's reputation is right now it's definitely not the time to try something like this.

I am sure that the privacy issues could be overcome with a properly run experiment, however there probably needs to be some rigour around that (possibly more than what was going to be provided given FB's history).
How long do you think it would take to de-anonymize this data for a somebody who specialized in this?
I implemented dqlite in Go for convenience (a production-ready raft library was available, github.com/hashicorp/raft). It'd be interesting to implement something similar in C or event batter in rust, so you can link the library from languages than just Go. But not sure there'd be good use cases for that.
Why do you think that couple is representative of the whole (or even most) anarchists today?
All I need is a better chat app, that Facebook won't buy. I can now text, voice record, send photos/selfies and video messages easily to my social circles. Connecting to second degree connections is fast and everyone I know has an account.

I want to leave Facebook but I can't give up such an amazing chat experience that keeps me connected to my family and close friends. Even if I got my immediate family to use a different app, I'd have to keep Facebook for old friends :( .

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That's its primary strength as well, as it means that English can adopt a word from any other language and expand without causing any linguistic issues. Most languages are stunted by their formality and rules, but English is already a mongrel. We're happy to import tortilla, hors d’oeuvre, origami, sheikh, schadenfreude and hundreds of other words without a thought, as well as make up new ones on a yearly basis (vape, selfie, etc.). Not many other languages are so flexible, as frustrating as it may be.

Fun fact: There are no such things as "spelling bees" in Spanish speaking countries.
I sure think so.

One of the best displays to get right now is a lightly used PVR.

They have insane good shadowmasks, and that means they can deliver standard definition signals at their peak. Even a composite signal will likely impress you.
Part of the adoption problem here would be trust. Hierarchical filesystems are something we're used to, and we can trust they're implemented correctly. That means, if I visit a folder and see some files, I know what I see is all of the files there (+/- hidden file settings); if something is missing, it's not there, period.

Tag search is a search. Can be broken. Can be optimized in a way that causes it to lie. I look at the results, and I'm not sure if they're complete. Maybe the file I'm looking for is really not there, or maybe the search gave up too early. Or the tag was slightly misformatted?

Maybe I'm too used to the old thing, but I like the notion that there's one canonical tree structure that makes all my data reachable. In case I've misplaced something, the search space of all paths through the filesystem tree (or a subtree of interest) is vastly smaller than the search space of all possible values of all relevant tags.
It says the victim, Rawson, had just exited a bus, and the driver was ramping up in gears - shortly after the left turn off the A148, as a bend begins to straighten out, there is a hidden bus stop on the left side of the road: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9118915,1.1132237,3a,75y,231...

There doesn't appear to be any obvious lighting in the area; it may be the oncoming driver flashed because they could see Rawson was in the road and realised the oncoming driver wouldn't have seen him, having just come around the bend.
You don’t need to be able to write them but you still need to read them to choose the correct character after typing the pinyin. Or do they actually send the Latin transcription? That would be very ambiguous.
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I guess most are in the same direction as earth rotation for practical reasons: Relative velocity to the surface is lower, which probably makes communication easier and requires less energy for launches (as you get a "boost" from earth).
Hmm, frankly, "SpaceX will 'replace' NASA" sounds quite naïve. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I think you meant assist / boost / "lend a hand to" NASA, by delivering some payloads to ISS and collaborating on other missions.
If you have a real Mac/Macbook and a Hackintosh it would probably be hard to prove which was used for the work.
Can anyone here even imagine trying to pull off a Tesla? Burning through billions, haters at every turn, safer products that alas lead to deaths, huge pieces of hardware that must be recalled to fix, and on.
I’m Cloudflare’s CEO. What questions do you have?

I’ll start: do we ever store 1.1.1.1’s users’ IPs? No. They’re never written to disk. And APNIC never has access to them.

What data do you provide to APNIC? We give APNIC reports on non-DNS data that’s hitting 1.1.1.1. It includes information like: what protocols are sending data to the IP, what’s the volume, where it it coming from?

For DNS users of 1.1.1.1, we never provide APNIC any identifying information. We don’t upload any data to them. While they can query for questions like: “How many queries came from India in the last 24 hours?” they can’t query anything on a specific user.

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English is far from the easiest though. It's one of the most difficult languages for non-native speakers to learn. The grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary is too inconsistent and large.

Spanish is a much easier language. It has clear pronunciation rules, a more limited latin-based vocabulary and few grammar exceptions.
I've been exposed to the Chinese writing system via Japanese, who basically adopted it and made it their own, even perfected it in some ways (e.g. stroke order discipline and SKIP method dictionaries).

It's true the writing system doesn't make it ideal for a global lingua franca, but one of the main advantages I appreciate about it is its ability to disambiguate common strings.

In the Latin+Hindu-Arabic numeral world, we tend to argue about the best way to write dates, everything from 99/9/19 to 2037.04.01 to 4/1 or 13/5/2003 to 5/15/2019. The ISO published a standard, people more or less try to follow it, but in common usage it is still fairly ambiguous.

Without knowing any Chinese or Japanese though, you can probably figure out what this means: 2018年04月05日 or 2018年4月5日

Personally I find this to be beautiful in its simplicity. We tend to use a separator anyway, dots or slashes or dashes or what have you, but add one kanji as a suffix and nobody will argue about whether 4/5/2018 is April 5th or May 4th because 日 (once you've learned what it means) will clearly mark the day and 月 will clearly mark the month.

You could approximate this with Latin characters too, say 2018Y04M05D, but I think there is something to be said for having a distinct ideograph to improve readability and unambiguously mark a day, month, year, hour, minute or second.

I wouldn't say all of written Chinese would make for a good lingua franca, but a limited subset seeing more use globally would be very cool.
Me too, but if they keeps their current one ^^. If my understanding is of chinese writing is correct, then you could put any pronunciation on their characters. So we could have a universal writing system. If french, english and russian all mapped their words to chinese symbols, then we could all communicate through writing while keeping our languages. In practice it's obviously not this easy since we have different grammars, but I think the basic principle holds and we'd all be able to somewhat read each other.

Numbers are a great example of that. We all have our own words for numbers, but can all communicate it with its associated symbols (which are different in arabic script for instance, though everyone's agreed on european script).

Mathematics is full of those symbols we communicate with regardless of their pronunciation in different languages, e.g. the 'for all' and 'there exist' symbols for instance, but also the equal sign and the integral, set notation etc etc. They're all concept, ideas, and have associated symbols.

So why wouldn't we all use chinese 'synbols' for our 'everyday' vocabulary when we write. It's be harder to learn to read 1 language, but so much easier to learn to read all of them.

When we communicate in western languages an idea I from person A to person B; then when A translate I into a translation t in a language l that both A and B understand. then B translates back t into I'. It's actually pretty hard to get I' to equal I. Where as with chinese characters, my understanding is their characters are closer to the ideas themselves. Potentially making it easier to communicate between each other across multiple languages.