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That's a mainstream argument against space exploration. We could then apply it to, "we could try to feed everybody before developing new medication for the rich"... We can tackle many problems at once and we have to ask ourselves : what's the goal of humanity ? Also : are we safe forever on Earth ?
I figured it wouldn't fly because of some of the earlier rulings with casinos.

Well, I cannot blame the tribe for trying to get in on some of that tech money. Its not like there has been much outreach in this era of diversity initives. The tech companies list Native Americans in the Other column. Their prefered universities to recruit from don't really recruit from the reservation schools, and those same universities give scholorships and positions slated for Native Americans to non-natives. I look at Apple's initiave to get community colleges programming in Swift and see no tribal community college. Google blocked a tribal community college on Google Voice (thanks AT&T for finding that one). One PC company, who has since changed their ways, refused to treat tribal community college as an educational instutions.
Ordered a paper version on Amazon UK one month ago. Does anyone get the book already?
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It did seem strange my thoughts were being narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson while I typed. That was a fun series.
> Yet they're also the culture, because - for better or worse - commerce is part of our lives too.

And I am saying it is enormously productive and beneficial to be skeptical of those things.
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You're assuming something about the distribution of speeds. If they're mostly the same but some are significantly and unusably worse, that is different from the speeds being mostly slightly lower.
Waymo just laid out its vision for a driverless future
Unfortunately, representative democracy decided that it wasn’t strong enough to deal with the issue itself and decided to hold a referendum. Right or wrong, it finds itself weakened, compounded by the most ill-judged election call in a long time.
Then why do you expect anyone to value your opinion on what to do with human-race-as-a-whole-scale resources?
A new study says services like UberPool are making traffic worse
18th Century according to the article linked -- which I'd say is more accurate.
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Yeah

I suppose they like using lbs and sqft as $/lb is smaller and sqft is a bigger number than sqm (and of course the inertia which I prefer calling "being lazy")

It is definitely ridiculous
don't forget Archer - though technically not "filmed"
Maybe in a startup you're right, because it's too small for any kind of metric-hacking to go unnoticed and become systemic. But it definitely happens in larger companies; some might say that making the metric of revenue/profit a target is the source of our capitalistic ills today.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/31/investing/wells-fargo-fake-...
The same exponential search space problem applies to chess, and we still managed to achieve high quality results by using heuristic algorithms and ML/statistics to augment the tree search.
We'll all be reliving the 70's.
Based on the content of your comment, I can tell you with certainty you don't know what you are talking about. Do some actual research before you make outlandish (and wrong) claims please.
Read the 10th amendment:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
Pretty sure they've been in bed for a while. Just needed to tie the knot before beginning the cleanse.
Yeah, can we fight "uncurable" autoimmune diseases that affect young people as well please ? I'd appreciate it :(
Then again, for the 700 billion dollars defense budget you'd get free universal healthcare and higher education for all of the US — AND would still have a few dozen billions to spare on cancer and Mars expeditions... but who in their right mind would want that?
Common usage misses the whole point as well.
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I've seen what my dog did.

I had a locksmith come to replace the ignition switch on a car, because the key couldn't turn it any more. It took longer than I expected, and finally I decided to use the restroom. Of course, that's when they locksmith finished his work, and came in to tell me he was done.

So my dog sees this guy walk into my house without me there to meet him. The dog, essentially, drew a line in the carpet and said "Don't take a step across that line." It was impressive. I didn't know before that how my dog would react, but she seems pretty... sensitive... to people coming into my house when we aren't at the door.
A much more interesting article by the Atlantic on this same topic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/the-pro...
https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
I do get what you are saying. I was at a startup operating in this space, so I want to counter your defense of this particular post.

You can read Virta's press releases and find all of this information. You can read many of Virta's competitor's press releases and also find similar information.

There isn't much he is adding here except his personal perspective on already well-promoted information.

This comes across a bit as using your own employees for some light "influencer marketing."

I have no problem with the author, the article, the writing, anything, other than to put out that its inclusion here in Hacker News is a bit off, considering the points I made above.
Probably made that mistake because I went to a state school!
IDK I love my dog but when I fake falling to the floor to see how she reacts she would come running and hump me
Hi highly recommend anyone to read Ernst Stuhlinger's (former NASA administrator) letter to a nun in Africa : https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...
Silicon Valley billionaires are spending $400B/yr on space travel? Where is all this money going?
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100% of innocent people can choose not to take a plea deal. The fact that some innocent people might take plea deals anyway is a way of managing your downside. That seems reasonable.
> You need to have _something_ because otherwise you have a gateway for smuggling.

How would you describe the current situation then? :)
Emulating malware authors for proactive protection using GANs
Individual developers can often test with localhost (use the numeric 127.0.0.1 or ::1 for best browser compatibility). All the Browser Vendors are agreed that although http://127.0.0.1/ isn't HTTPS, it is a secure context, all the fancy new secure-only features of web pages should work (if any don't that's a browser bug) and so on, there is no security interstitial and so on.

If you're a bit bigger, so that you're needing to put webpage projects on a separate machine, so maybe QA can try it, or you can run a demo, you can and should set aside one or more chunks of public DNS hierarchy for the test systems, for example a cert for *.test.example.com can allow a number of test systems at Example Inc to do HTTPS. If you're happy to pay a commercial CA they'll mint such a certificate for fair price upon proof you control example.com. If you want to use Let's Encrypt, they'll need you to have records for test.example.com in public DNS to run proof of control automatically. Provisioning the private key and copies of (periodically updated) certificates to the test boxes is not exactly a difficult problem for a working test environment.

Only if you (perhaps out of paranoia) refuse to do that, should you try what I suggested with a private CA hierarchy for web pages.

If you're building something quite different (not TLS, or genuinely not on the Internet, although what the point of things other than the Internet is I'm not sure) then you can and should roll your own PKI, but that's a huge under-taking, you should already have hired at least one person who knows MORE about this than me or you're already in deep trouble.
The flaw in the attitude of Sherlock Holmes is that he does not consider the, for the lack of a better term, "compressibility" of knowledge. Then again, Shannon wouldn't do his thing for another half century, so it would not be fair towards Sir Doyle to expect him to have taken this into consideration.

The brain actually does a lot of lossy compression tricks to remember things together, plus I doubt that knowledge about the Solar system takes up any significant amount of space in the brain, since physics works with models. Very "compressible" information, really. But if we look at how much lore people remember about modern pop-culture trivia, like comics or TV series or games, it's a different story. The amount of mental effort and "mind space" that fans dedicate to remembering, say, World of Warcraft lore is mindblowing to me at times.
Less literate people may not be very likely to buy an iPhone, but a relative may buy them one or give them an old one.
This is a sequel to their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, which is free to read online at the same link.
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and yet, the saddest thing of them all, is that one can just... install Chrome!

it's not like the dark ages of IE6, where having to resort to use IE6 was also forcing to use Windows as well and forcing to use a dated, closed, non standards compliant browser.

Chrome is free, available essentially everywhere, standards compliant, fast and with cutting edge web features.

And that's a pity, that's what makes it just too easy to create a monopoly.
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Text generation is neat. The first few iterations are nonsensical but then real words start appearing, then phrases start making sense, then the correct punctuation comes along and the machine is spitting out sentences, and before you know it the machine has created readable paragraphs. I have no idea what I'm doing, but it blows my mind.
I often tell people that I love my dog more than any human has ever loved a child, but I don't love this study.

The result is fairly obvious to any dog owner, but the study is representative of the type of "pop" science that appears so often in the news but carries little actual significance. 34 dogs total, 17 in each group (humming vs crying), 9 of which respond to humming and 7 of which respond to crying, albeit the latter much faster than the former. Of those 34 dogs, 16 were therapy dogs. While the time difference is large, more dogs respond to humming than crying.

So we have a very small sample size which is biased towards therapy dogs. It is also very susceptible to p-hacking. Why "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"? Was this the song that produced the largest effect out of 20 different songs? Why do more dogs respond to the humming than crying but the dogs that do respond to crying act so quickly? Were the crying sounds much louder than the humming? Why not crying vs yelling, both of which are likely of similar volume? And so on.
This isn't an easy problem to fix systemically, but we need to be making different decisions as individuals. Society changes in the little decisions we make every day, and not by leaps and bounds through fiat.

When people chose to smoke pot, knowing that it was illegal, they were normalizing it. Those were small decisions by individuals that snowballed into legalization. Gay marriage and the acceptance of homosexuality followed the same pattern, where individuals decided to be more accepting, and that snowballed into societal acceptance.

Society is made up of individuals, and we are part of society. Throwing up our hands and abdicating responsibility doesn't serve anyone.
There are populations of humans on this planet that have very low cancer rates. All we have to do is adopt their lifestyle. Eat right and exercise. That’s probably 90% of it right there. Don’t need to spend any money.
Facebook's 'shared viewing' video feature is coming to all groups
I thought this comment was excessive, but getting the same "accept our PP" over said PP is a bit too much.
Just to be clear, Audio Worklet is not "a standard spec". It's an earlyish-stage spec proposal which might well change as it goes through the standardization process.
Or just making things up.
A similar thing: for the longest time I could remember my Dutch phone number only if I was "thinking" in Dutch. So if I was having a conversation in English when someone needed it, I basically had to mentally "switch" languages. Which proved so hard that the only way to do so was to say my number out loud in Dutch, listen to myself and write down the numbers, then read the numbers again in English.
> Charities actually know what to do with it and are far more effective than clumsily trying to do it directly.

What gives you so much faith in charities?

What do charities know about being efficient that other people don't? Why would they be the only ones with good ideas?

Being a charity is just a way to set up an organisation. Having that status doesn't inherently make you a force for good.
> There isn't "still" slack, the slack is growing as the laborforce participation rate is lower today than it was in 2013.

The labor force participation rate is currently about 62.8%. In 2013, it was at most about 63.8%, only 1 percent higher [1].

> How can it be in a "booming" economy that fewer people want to work and real wages are also falling?

Real average hourly earnings for June 2013 were $10.31 [2]. Real average hourly earnings for June 2018 were $10.76 [3]. Real earnings increased over that period. So what are you referring to, exactly?

> I haven't seen an economic explanation for this.

This reminds me of a how a creationist says “Well, I haven't seen an explanation for this" and proceeds to dismiss an entire field.

> The lack of evidence that they are more than just theories, I want the data.

Lack of evidence about what? Be specific.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-parti...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/realer_07162013.ht...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/realer_07122018.ht...
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That's what I get for multitasking. Thanks for correcting.
Well, there was the Scottish independence referendum.

(Had it gone for independence, we'd still be hearing how the Scots where deluded, how the independent Scotland side had "electoral spending irregularities" and such, how they are racist and backwards, etc. Now that we hear about it again in the face of Brexit -- where Scottish independence would be interpreted as "Scotland in the EU" -- the same people would say the opposite).

But I was speaking of the people voting in general, not a referendum. UK still has elections IIRC.
All the barrier islands are beautiful - Cumberland, SSI, Jekyll, Tybee and they aren't too busy (well, except Saint Simons during the GA/FL weekend which is a blast in and of itself).
Yeah the Toronto tech job market is really hot right now. Moved there from Silicon Valley for almost two years but I wouldn't recommend it. Pay is much lower and cost of living is still relatively high. If you are looking to stay in North America, Seattle, Austin, or LA, seem like much better bets to me
Imagine giving someone 200 years ago $400B for cancer research; what do you think it would have happen? Do you think they would have found the cure? No. The same thing happens today, $400B may do nothing big for cancer research and what's needed to advance in that area its time; decades (maybe centuries) of advancements in many fields that are not directly related to cancer research but given enough time those advancements will be used together to find a cure (e.g. map the entire DNA; nanorobots, etc)
It was a bit of chick-flick I guess but I liked "The Adjustment Bureau". Call me a romantic..
How? Why? I mean, it's easy to see the return on investment that SV has yielded from employing more people, and to see the competitive advantage SV has to maintain its growth. But Toronto is everything bad about SV, and nothing good. Its housing is just as unaffordable, yet it doesn't have a large network of talent from decades of innovative companies to draw from.
>This is the other lesson of Greece. Arguably they had far more reason to "Grexit". But they didn't, because ultimately it was plain that being outside the EU not only wouldn't solve their problems but cut them off from participating in their solution.

Actually the government didn't, breaking its promises, and working against the will of the Greek people (who voted 62% against the EU deals in their referendum that was widely understood as a anti-EU vote).

>solve their problems but cut them off from participating in their solution.

The majority of said problems are if not created, then perpetuated by the EU-backed solutions.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/hesitation-and-pa...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33845836

https://www.ft.com/content/9b3d38a2-7574-11e8-aa31-31da4279a...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/06/germany-195...

https://global.handelsblatt.com/finance/germany-profits-from...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-faces-bi...
those may well constitute philanthropy, but there is a hierarchy of organizations who have the same values on this tuple and execute with greater or lesser efficiency.
if (err) return err...

Pointless sugar

Postconditions ala ruby would be "neat", still kinda pointless tho.
commonly accomplished by smoking a largish joint beforehand.
We have a proven design in Spirit/Opportunity. There should be an assembly line cranking them out.
Salaries in Toronto are pretty low comparable to COL.
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Because I care to what happens about all living humans today. I simply don't care about the long term survival of our species.

Spreading across the galaxy or the universe so that there can be more humans alive or to ensure that if one planet gets wiped out, some humans live on are placing value on the existence of humans as a species in the universe. That's what I don't care about. I don't think we have intrinsic value that needs to be preserved.
Mars only has a surface gravity of about 3.71m/s^2 compared to Earth's 9.81m/s^2. This means that 1.5km of ice will just create something like 0.38 times the pressure the same column of ice of the same density would create here on Earth. If this ice were densely packed, the mass of a 1m^2 column of ice that high would be a bit less than 1400 tons. This creates a pressure of 5.1MPa or around 51 bar.

Now if I could get my hand on a phase diagram for water on which I could find that point (263K, 5.1MPa) I could tell you how close pure ice is to melting under these conditions.
So what? They still pay crap. I took a 2x pay cut when I worked here again rather than SF. Cost of living constantly rising too.
In the current situation, there's no customs border, so what exactly would you want to avoid by "smuggling", and how would your "smuggling" differ from "I legally transport goods from here to there"?
Actually, I recommend bash scripts for automating team workflows as a best practice.

You create a wrapper script around your application that calls a dev environment set-up script, that [if it wasn't done yet] sets up the environment from scratch for that project or application, and loads it before running your application. This does a couple things.

First, it removes the need to train anyone on using your best practices. The process is already enshrined in a version-controlled executable that anyone can run. You don't even need to 'install lore' or 'install pipenv' - you just run your app. If you need to add documentation, you add comments to the script.

Second, there's no need for anyone to set up an environment - the script does it for you. Either set up your scripts to go through all the hoops to set up a local environment with all dependencies, or track all your development in a Docker image or Dockerfile. The environment's state is tracked by committing both the process scripts and a file with pinned versions of dependencies (as well as the unpinned versions of the requirements so you can occasionally get just the latest dependencies).

Third, the pre-rolled dev environment and executable makes your CI-CD processes seamless. You don't need to "set up" a CI-CD environment to run your app. Just check out the code and run the application script. This also ensures your dev environment setup scripts are always working, because if they aren't, your CI-CD builds fail. Since you version controlled the process, your builds are now more reproducible.

All this can be language-agnostic and platform-agnostic. You can use a tool like Pipenv to save some steps, but you do not need to. A bash script that calls virtualenv and pip, and a file with frozen requires, does 99% of what most people need. You can also use pyenv to track and use the same python version.
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what browser do you use?
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> Let's move from an over-engineered approach to an under-engineered one.

The article says this to deride C++s implementation as being too complicated because it supports ranges such as [-3,17] and then promptly goes on to discuss how a modulo based implementation is very biased if the upper end of the range is above 2^31. It's not really clear why the former use case is unimportant but the latter isn't.

It just goes to show that one person's niche use case is another person's main use case. I wish people would just avoid the judgemental term "over engineered" and instead focus on matching appropriate algorithms to appropriate use cases.
Hidden scaling issues of distributed systems: System design in the real world
Huh.. is that title linkbait? Other than the photo of Andy Grove, I don't see anything about a call with Andy? (Or I'm really slow today)

(edit: oh I am slow today. Its told in story form, the meeting with Andy Grove is several posts down on the page).
I wonder if they fixed meltdown on those new processors. If they didn't, a lot of people probably would wait for upgrade (or switch to AMD).
Not if you want to observe animal life too. Jet skis are very loud, and not all that comfortable either. You'd be better off with a flat-bottom boat, like in that one photo. Whether you have an airboat or a small outboard motor, they operate a lot more quietly and give you enough space to bring along whatever supplies you'd like.
The real question here is why bother spending 1% of our GDP on anything?

It's the same argument as to why we shouldn't invest in infrastructure "don't build those high speed train routes, we'll only see the benefit in 30 years" - space exploration is an investment in the future, and like a lot of investments, the potential payoff is variable but we can never know without trying.

If we take a VC analogy (being here on HN and all), then you might as well utilise some of your fund on a literal moonshot - if it fails, you scrub it off, take the learnings (and employ, I suspect, a tonne of people in jobs trying to make it happen). If it wins, you get your outsized outcome to 10x.

Sometimes we need state actors to make big bets - like investing in CERN (which has given us the WWW, the LHC, etc...).
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

Facebook patched Android Dalvik to increase the "max methods per app" limit.

Don't know if there's a similar iOs story.
>Its housing is just as unaffordable

What? It's not even remotely close.
I am the creator of Kwery. I wrote a blog post on the motivations behind Kwery - https://abhyrama.com/2018/07/25/kwery/
It's probably less as a percentage now.
Has AMD fixed meltdown on any processors?