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> I challenge the downmodders to produce a single data point about an eyeball planet in a habitable zone and demonstrate a model that correctly represents it.

At the risk of misunderstanding “eyeball planet”, you’re living on the most obvious example.

Elsewhere in Sol, Mars is in the “optimistic” habitable zone (I think that means “it would be if only it had been massive enough to retain an atmosphere”).

Earth climate models you already believe in so I won’t bother to name.

Can anyone else tell me the accuracy of The Ames Mars General Circulation Mode?
Think of yourself going on a journey, a journey into the technical world. Where you talk about your development skills, your technical tact, your debt and how you go about them each and every day. Writing down your inner turmoil, thoughts, moments of brilliance, or moments of despair and frustration is one of the most valuable things you can share with someone. Along with tips, hacks, and tricks of course. It also forms valuable research for yourself because it enables you to capture your raw thoughts when in the moment. Digestible in bite-size pieces for yourself and the world to see.
Which example are you referring to?
Wow this brings back memories!

When I was 18, a group of friends and me were going to create a computer game based on this tidally locked concept. The story went as follows: An explosion would occur in a huge spaceship close to such a planet. Both parts of this ship would make an emergency landing on this planet. One part on the cold ice side, one on the hot desert side. Both teams would work their way towards the habitable ring, in a true real-time-strategy (Command & Conquer) fashion.

Needles to say, the game never went further than this concept phase.

Although we did visit a small local game developer here in Belgium called Larian, to get a feel of running a game development company (must be back in 1998). Larian is now known for the critically acclaimed Divinity: Original Sin.
Possibly bowl temperature or some form of cycling? Maybe send an email to zoj's support to ask them? (not all rice cookers have different white/brown settings, but I know they do)
I would advise the opposite of this. Many of his solutions listed at the end are ineffective, poorly researched and/or totally impractical ("more rent control!", "socialize all housing!"). It's telling that he doesn't seem to have spoken to any economists about any of the things he proposes.

The real value of that book is in the stories and descriptions of the inner workings of how evictions work in the two cities he profiles, which it does an excellent job telling throughout the rest of the book, and because of that I would highly recommend it.
This reminds me of a Chaos Communication Congress talk about security of emergency broadcast systems, which I will lookup when not on mobile.
The areas around SF are not dense at all. About half are nature preserves. That is, political decisions have been made to not build any more housing there.
If I am remembering correctly these dockless bike sharing companies are in the process of expanding to USnl; as per reports Mobike has started service in 5 us cities.
Aimbrain new platform is free (read limited) for dev community
If the democrats run Zuckerberg, Sandberg, or Eric Schmidt, they'll once again be losing my vote. I don't even want to imagine what the future would look like under an administration run by someone from the surveillance capitalism world.
This is why YIMBY movements will continue to fall flat on their face.
There are plenty of private prisons in the US and most of them are terrible.

You’re right that the barrier to entry and long term prospects of running private prisons isn’t lucrative enough for more competitors to enter into.

Regulation is an issue because the country is divided on how to view imprionsment and criminals in general.

I think you really need a federal inspector general and federal regulation combined with delegation to the states to run their own prison system. That may even extend to the local level in order to prevent prejudice and rights violations.

So yeah, I think private prisons combined with strict, public oversight would benefit everyone.
You fundamentally misunderstand the attack. Nobody needs to dig in your trash. A malicious third party only needs one account number/address from any Comcast customer. With that, they can use your equipment to download child porn or launch illegal traffic that will trace back to you.
Aimbrain On Demand is a biometric authentication platform that offers free SDK and testing environment with a limit of 1k API calls per month. Considering the public leaks and the constant attacks on passwords, biometrics are increasingly appealing to secure the user's identities, but considering the technical complexity involved in this field it has not yet gained wide adoption.
This as-a-service environment offers the authentication layer without all the headaches usually involved: the technical difficulties, the annoying insistent sales calls, the Personal Identifiable Information GDPR overhead, etc.
It's gross that the American professional class posture for status by one-upping each-other with views on social issues too radical for a 20th-century bomb-throwing anarchist, while simultaneously acting as middle-class to upper-class conservatives on every issue where they can have a material impact.

I'm waiting for the day you literally see city government in Palo Alto or Berkeley obscuring a homeless camp from view with a rainbow banner or a Hate Has No Home Here sign.

(The lovely thing about "hate has no home here" is that neither does anyone else.)
So you're saying, immigrants = criminal gangs? Nice.
Categorizing Listing Photos at Airbnb
I dunno man. RMS-styled leadership can only work in very narrow markets. And even in his market (free software), I'd argue his success has been hampered by his complete lack of pragmatism. Being an unchanging, unbending visionary has a very high risk of losing relevancy and/or pissing a good swath of people off.

RMS is a something, but not exactly what I'd call an excellent role model for leadership. Especially for anything outside of the narrow niche of Free Software. His leadership style would never, ever work in a for-profit company or, especially, a startup. There is no room for unbending, unwavering principled stands in a startup--you'd completely lose your shirt and go bankrupt if you never changed your startup.
People complaining about how other people should be spending their money. Huh.
Endurance runners are not generally strong. Upper body strength for example is counter productive.

Further, Olympic paces are maintained by people getting aided with sports drinks at regular intervals etc. It's very different from the conditions primitive people would have lived.
mysql 5.7 has pretty good online DDL support[1]

I have been using it exclusively now instead of pt-online-schema-change.

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-online-ddl.ht...
Well that's one way of saying farmers don't get paid much for coffee beans.
In some countries you just build another floor each time more family moves in.
Maybe I am atypical, but I would take a significant discount to run a company. I value freedom, authority, and responsibility more than money.
I'd love to see Scott Manley do a video on what would be required.

I guess I could do it myself, I'd just need to install the solar system mod...
Cheap ones don't. More expensive ones do and it cooks at a lower temp for a longer time with a better end result.
As with most anything, it probably just depends on the person. Probably most 20-year-olds are not ready to helm a company. Some exceptional few probably are.
What do you know?

If you want to write about what you know, do it. Even if someone else has written about it, you may write about it differently. Maybe your "voice" will reach people that didn't like another blog post about the same subject.

If you decide, as saluki suggested to write about something you don't know; do as he suggest and provide details and references. This could be more interactive, if people are trying to learn along with you.

The key is to write -- both on schedule and as well as you can. Adhering to a schedule means people can easily follow along and know when you are posting. The more you write, the better you get.
I've been using Elm a few months for a serious project and really like it. That said, I do get the impression there is some drama at the top (among the overlords) and the direction they want (or others want them) to take things.

I'm not even close to being an overlord or contributing anything to the language (just a consumer who has been very happy with how everything's been working so far) so the fact someone like me is even aware this is going on is mildly troubling. Other libraries I'm fairly familiar with (Pandas in Python, React etc) seem to tend towards quietly releasing without all the public drama among contributors.

Not sure whether it's because it's a smaller community or more of the help/documentation is on places like reddit or discourse (where the overlords argue - vs something like stack overflow), or whether everyone involved just needs thicker skin.

Either way, it's only a mild annoyance to me for now and I really like Elm overall. Would encourage anyone interested to check it out.
Pretty cool. I was tempted to take a few and race them around our office as we've got a lot of open space. Had to ask a friend about how it works; he contacted the company and unfortunately he wouldn't be ALLOWED to take it home after work, charge it at home, then return it somewhere the next AM. Yup, it's more acceptable to their T&C to leave it on the sidewalk in front of his suburban house than to actually charge and return it to a train station where it'll get used.
There was a study I saw a few years ago on a large number of lots in the New York suburbs that tried to tease out how much of the cost of a house was the value of the land and how much was regulatory. They looked at the prices of lots with dilapidated houses that needed to be rebuilt but which could be rebuilt as of right by the new owner. And they compared them to the price of empty lots where you would need to get regulatory approval to build a house where none had existed before. They found that lots that come with the right to build cost several times what other empty lots cost.
Rex Tillerson?

"Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum."

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/13/16029526/rex-tillerson-f...
Thank you. I hadn't heard of this and it's really interesting. What are the downsides of that approach? Is style-elements as full featured as you'd want?
Thank you for taking time to respond and your answers have been helpful.
Just because it's a momentary trend now doesn't mean it's going to stop being a trend. If it proves successful, the farms using it for fertilizer will jump into the market to try to capitalize, which will bring the price down, but still bring in more income than just the coffee beans (and certainly more than feed)
This is why it's so easy to tell the planet anything.

The people with the highest credibility tells the rest how it is, and we don't question it. Now it's magic eyeball planets, next year it's spinning discs with Santa in the middle.

As long as credentials are impressive, it all checks out doesn't it...
Don't forget the environmental "champions" who fly private...
Yeah... but for a online store with a lot of products, its the best there is for its price point. Anything higher is LOADS of money.
Pretty cool, I like it!
It is not fallacious to have defined criteria for membership of a group - the fallacy is to create new criteria on a whim in response to criticism.
I don't know any cooker with a brown rice setting, but this setting should probably first turn the heat on, then turn it down and let the rice sit below boiling point for a while, then turn the heat back on (though not as much as with white rice).

It could still wait for the heat to suddenly rise in order to know when to stop.
Just interested, what's impressive about Zuck as a leader?

Money will make people do crazy things. I think he's shown time and time again in his handling of situations that he's been pretty ineffective and his primary strategy is to say "we're sorry we have to do better". It's lots of excuses, that's not good leadership material in my book.

There's also crazy stories like the time he gave a speech proclaiming "Carthago delenda est", casting Facebook as Rome and Google as Carthage. Then everyone went into lockdown over the weekend so they could dig through Google+ and copy whatever they could. According to the same book (Chaos Monkeys), Zuck's inner circle is basically a bunch of sycophants (aka Friend of Zuck). It also repeatedly refers to Facebook as a cult. Why do you think they had major failures like the most recent one? Sycophancy is not a working strategy.

Surely he's made some great choices (Instagram acquisition), but how can you begin to separate his actual ability with the power/wealth he can bestow on anyone, biasing their view of him? The guy could fail 1,000 times over at this point and still be a billionaire.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/facebo...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/16/facebook-...

The stuff that happens there is kind of comical. Would effective leaders really run an org like that?
Getting designers to give more useful feedback
You can use Graal for both JIT and AOT workloads. The JIT version works just like hotspot, but it's better with memory allocation and collection due to better optimizations. I have yet to see an application where it has performed worse than hotspot, although they may exist.

Ive read that the EE version can do PGO (you profile the app in a profiling mode, outputting a profile file which is used in a subsequent AOT compile), but I personally have no desire to talk to an oracle salesman ever again, so I'll just stick to JIT.
In a sense, the other shoe may already be on the floor. The value of something you don't want to buy or sell is essentially irrelevant to you.

However, because the percentage increase applies broadly (though not uniformly) across the range of homes in your area, it is harder to upgrade (this may hit you from both sides, the house you want is getting further out of reach, and your house is getting further out of reach for the prospective buyers of your current house).

If you are already in the house you want to stay in until you leave feet-first, then the change in value is irrelevant.

If you are in an area with rocketing prices, and you want to move somewhere more stable, then you are on to a winner as long as the situation continues.

If you are in an area with rising prices and you want to upgrade within the same neighbourhood, then if the situation continues, you will eventually find yourself stuck.
His newsletter is actually the only newsletter that I get weekly and skim it regularly.

I agree with other commenters that sometimes the material is weak and more like "Do these 5 things that successful people (bankers, investors, entrepreneurs) do and be also succesful" but generally there is quality content on this blog.
Chaotic rotation occurs primarily in bodies that are not spherical. These tend to be smaller, because gravity forces larger bodies into spheres, and would have a thinner atmosphere if any due to the small gravity.

Not saying life is impossible on such a moon, but it would be even weirder than just strange day night suggests.
It's better to write about stuff that you've just learnt. Fixed a tricky bug, learnt about a new API, found a useful library? Write about it.

It'll cement the knowledge in your mind, and perhaps you'll have insights that others haven't had. If you're aiming to write about stuff no-one's ever written before, you'll never get around to actually writing anything.
In many cases that may be true, but not in the case of the parent comment you're responding to. The parent identifies a scenario where you have a faceted search functionality that generates conditions in the where clause of the query dynamically).
>> Galileo was executed by the Inquisition,

> Was only arrested at home, for 10 years (but wrongly convicted)

My mistake obviously. I was trying to say “Galileo was tried by the Inquisition. The point was that the Church had jurisdiction over academia and had the power to enforce its dogmas by force if necessary.
Snap, Twitter and Uber have all had unprecedented amount of turmoil in the executive ranks of the company. Snap and Twitter's stock are both trading below IPO. Uber is not public yet.

It makes me wonder about the deeper causality. Do execs stay because of the mission and that causes stock appreciation? Or do execs stick around because of stock appreciation and then explain it through the mission?
Always say what you mean and mean what you say.

That's a radical notion for almost everyone, not just the rich! Surprisingly difficult in practice too.
It's a neat little hack, though it seems a bit restrictive. I was expecting a blog post about how, by using ownership, it should be possible to create an API that both requires untrusted data to be escaped and prevents double-escaping (though you could probably achieve pretty much the same in any statically-typed language).
Fat is fat, sugar is a carb. They are different macro nutrients, so I don't know why you think low fat and high sugar is an oxymoron.
Cloud is a utility and therefore needs to be used like a utility. What this means is you need to turn things off when they are not being used. Something like 50% of workloads in public cloud have 'the potential' to be turned off as they are non-production. The public cloud providers provided the easy button to spin things up but turning things off is more tricky. This is why we built www.parkmycloud.com Others have rolled their own scripts to achieve the same goal or use other methods to achieve the same goal albeit not as good as our solution ;)). Based on our analysis if you use Reserved Instances for Prod and schedule Non-Prod to be turned off when not being used, you will get a better overall ROI than on prem.
> I want to start writing a technical blog (related to computer science and development)

Why?

> but almost every topic I think of has been written upon by someone, probably better that what/how I would have written it.

So?

If you want to write the most authoritative blog post on some technical topic, why? Why be the best? Why that topic?

Write what you want to write about. In a year or two you can look back and revise/delete your old posts if you want. Do you think your favorite blogger's first post was amazing? Probably not.
Ask HN: Is Revenue-Based Funding Great for SaaS who's just starting?
I just found out about this model from https://www.lightercapital.com/how-it-works/

It seems appealing at first sight.. but has anyone been bitten by it?
People here are not obliged to do research for you and rephrase it in language you can understand. There is a lot of clearly written source material out there if you look for it.
Exactly this. We don't have the budget or the staff to build a custom CMS or ecommence solution, or to pay for the "big" players. Magento is actually great. With some optimizations, it can be quite fast- our site is pretty quick for what it is. Its also very extensible which makes it great to customize for our needs. And yes, the non-tech people can use the CMS part pretty easily.
Ask HN: What is your favourite landing page builder and why?
Hello, hackers. I'm very curious which tools do you use to create landing pages? What is cool about them and what is missing.

I as a designer and developer prefer hand-made solutions. But when I need to go really fast, I use https://tilda.cc/
Tilda allows very flexible configuration, cool zero-block feature and numerous integrations. I would say it's perfect but the UX of the builder sucks and the overall variety of blocks is not too big as I wish it to be.

Share your opinion!
It has some Firefox, GNOME and Visual Studio Code components, today. And some parts of Fuchsia tomorrow.

Sure it still cannot match C++ in many areas, I have stated multiple times I rather use C++ alongside Java/.NET workflows than trying to fit Rust in its current state.

But it will get there, given that it already got the attention of Oracle, Dropbox, Microsoft, Google and a few others.

Sadly I cannot say the same for D, the language is nice, the community has great people, but trying to be a better C++ without a strong domain focus has made it behind all alternatives, including Rust.
If you're just starting a blog/technical publication, there's nothing wrong with casting a wide focus and writing about many barely related topics. As you get some articles written/published, you'll learn more about what you're good at, what you enjoy and what brings the most useful traffic.

At this point, you'll be better served by building a publishing habit than picking the mythical perfect niche. But, if you're concerned, in my experience, all the good niches either have huge amounts of competition or they're so incredibly bleeding edge that they're risky to learn about.
React Native FAQ from Professional Software Developers
If they are willing to pay for Plaid's API, I don't see why not!
Good clarification. Although it's at least likely to stop you from using user input accidentally. I think it's unlikely that someone would use either of the options above when constructing a string involving user input without knowing what they're doing.
What a billshut
Hacker News, Echo JS, Product Hunt
So I can't sell my coffee grounds for $75 / pound?
My point is that it's not economically feasible at scale. There are mountains and mountains[0][1][2] of organic coffee pulp, the price would plummet once more farms produce it. The pulp isn't waste either, it's 100% reused as fertilizer.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/0a306pb.jpg

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/Duar7Uu.jpg

[2]: http://www.elfaroestate.com/img/large/coffeemill16.jpg
It would be easier to list a success. Seriously. The failures jump off the page. Maybe it's not PC enough for you because it looks partisan, but frankly, they've proven rank incompetence over and over again.

The best compliment I could give Tillerson is he probably WANTS the State Department to collapse which is why he's utterly under-managing and under-staffing it. By any other metric, of course, he's an abject failure.
> I recommend reading [Summa Theologica], particularly...

You want me to read Summa Theologica? What for?
Fun fact:
Back in the early 00's, josh.com simply had a message saying "josh.com is better than chris.com"
Just give it a try, will you. You might discover this all has some sense and meaning to it.
I tried going down your path and blogged only about stuff that's arcane or interesting tech wise, and it did nothing but cause me writer's block and turn me off blogging.

Learn to write for yourself first. If you set up Raspian on a Raspberry Pi over the weekend, write about it! If you popped a CentOS install disk and set up a server, write about that. It doesn't matter if there's 10000 blog posts about the same exact thing, you can turn even mundane topics interesting as long as you have a good writing style- and that's what you're going to be exercising by blogging.
This does seem to be the case. Here is an example I was able to create:

use std::io::stdin;

fn main() {
let mut s = String::new();
stdin().read_line(&mut s).expect("Did not enter a correct string");
let sql_example = format!("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username={}", s);
let x = Box::new(sql_example);
let static_ref: &'static str = Box::leak(x);
println!("{}", static_ref)
}

Note the type on our variable "static_ref". It is a static str, meaning it could be an argument to the code in the blog post. No "unsafe" blocks either.

When I run it

Input: ' OR '1'='1
Output: SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=' OR '1'='1

The technique might be still useful if it was only allowed in debug builds to reduce boilerplate during debugging in a system that tried to use types to solve the issue.