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>But let's at least have some perspective here.

Yes, let's have some perspective, starting with you. The perspective is not some "waste on military" like so many in this thread claim, the actual relevant comparison is what the $9 billion could have done invested in other rocket companies. You've set up a "big entrenched corp player only or else nothing" dichotomy that was possibly relevant for the 1960s-2000s. But it was obsolete at least as of 2010 with the successful launch of the Falcon 9. If we're talking billions for relatively blue sky research, there are now more players, and players with far more proven capability to deliver and far, far superior designs and ambitions. The SLS even if realized as planned is garbage at this point, to have a sustained lunar presence requires far better economics then it could ever offer. It's not the 60s anymore, and NASA's (and the US government overall) own stated goals the point is not merely to get people back on the moon for a bit then leave but rather to develop something more permanent and useful. A fully reusable methalox stack is just a fundamentally better goal there.

Should NASA continue to support R&D? Absolutely! And I'd fully support putting even more billions into that. But just because it's a "rounding error" to the US budget doesn't make billions "pocket change", it's still completely reasonable to expect value for the money. The same is true anywhere else, just because some people are spending more and have higher budgets doesn't mean they want to piss that budget away. I'd love to see NASA pouring billions into the BFR and Blue Origin's efforts or even more blue sky stuff like going back to some older experiments with a modern twist and working on methalox linear aerospike engines, and then making all that available to US businesses. NASA doing both science and also risky but potentially big payoff basic rocket R&D would be awesome and valuable, and well worth billions. NASA flushing billions down the Boeing drain is not equivalent, in fact what makes it so enraging is precisely that it could be working towards space exploration and development so much more effectively (still providing American jobs even!).
Cloning involves only one parent. This is genetic material from two parents of the same sex.
Read the lede.

I would agree they're not "friendly", but I didn't use that word.
I mean why wouldn’t you want a random video to pop up on mobile when you try to view their site?
In my experience with web forums, this is the principal problem with trolls. It's kind of like real life, no one wants to be around them. So after a while, you end up with just the trolls on your site.

Maybe you can monetize trolls somehow? But I've never been on a team that came up with a good way to do so. No one wants to be 4chan.

In the end, it's always been better for the bottom line to try to make them go away.
We use it for upgrades and patching events that have team members from multiple departments. We are all on the same campus (a university) but these events don't require a dedicated meeting room. Slack is perfect for that.
> The last group of people who will be thwarted by lack of anonymity on the web are "state-level actors".

So you think Facebook adopting non-anonymous political ads as their policy was done because the intent wasn't to go after corporations and governments interfering with the political process? That instead, these people are the very last people who are going to be targeted?

The truth of the matter is that the first people targeted were these groups, but that they have the most resources, so may be most capable of overcoming these limits and causing harm anyway.
I bet the kids got stung more too. Somewhere between urban legend and scientific fact is honeybees are very good at predicting rain and thunderstorms and will stay in the hive when rain is on the way (and it gets dark in severe storms...). I suppose to the bees, a total eclipse looks like a very intense thunderstorm is about to smash into them, and that makes them hide in the hive. The sting rumor is something to do with bored bees take on guard duty so the law of averages is ten times as many guards means ten times as many stings to innocent beekeepers. In summary most beekeepers know not to work on their hives right before it starts raining and apparently it would be advisable not to work on your hives before a total solar eclipse.

Hives cannot survive long in high humidity, if the interior of a hive gets wet mold will set in rapidly so the bees will work extremely hard to dry the hive out after rain if it gets wet; which probably explains the instinct to hide and stay safe when its about to rain (or, much less often, eclipse)
I talked to my cell phone provider and asked them if there was anything they could do to prevent transfering of my number.

They said the best they could do was to add a note to my file to check id in store before transferring.

This is better than nothing, but relies on the CS representative actually seeing the note on my file. Even then, there might be ways around it.

And more importantly, it does noting to stop someone asking another provider to port my number to them. Apparently Inter-provider ports are all automated and there is nothing anyone could do to stop it.
will these some day be weaponized? Oh yes they will... who could resist?

+add in thermal imaging, machine vision target acquisition,
+ armor
+ if wounded and cannot move go in to sentry mode.
+ Add some some firepower like a GAU 17/A

https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallar...

there you go! drop 2 dozen of these puppies them to secure a perimeter with a VS-22 Osprey, Add 10 humans to control and support. You have a lethal fighting force.

It will happen. Sooner than anyone thinks.
I agree that contracts have been weaponized, but maybe we can go with something like a public defender for contract law.

Is it kind of telling that the only case when free representation must be provided by the state when someone is indigent is criminal law or am I a victim of a long workday?
I'm going to have to look into Click then, I've stumbled on this article while doing some research (actually, I did some research about 2 days before and then Google Now or whatever it's called recommended it to me in my feed, but same diff) and will be giving it a try, but I'll try Click as well.

As far as Nubia, I have to say I'm probably a bit biased but I will refuse to use any tools built by Facebook. I would want to do a full source audit beforehand because I trust them not to put some analytics in there about as far as I could throw one of their datacenters.
>Are you familiar with drones?

when was the last time an opposition journalist was targeted for a drone strike by the us?
Even if that were the case (and I seriously doubt that splitting the F-35 into multiple platforms would have resulted in a smaller budget, reduced development time, or better overall value. At the very least it's not trivial that that would be the case), it tells us absolutely nothing about the value of the F-35 compared to the Shuttle. I have kitchen gadgets that attempt to do too many thing at once and would have fared better as separate devices. They are cheaper than the F-35, so I guess the F-35 must be a failure.
> People say getting communication on their phones is like an anchor to their desk

I’ve been struggling with this lately, to the point where I’ve experimented with going back to a dumb phone, and trying to use my smart phone without Slack. As a remote employee, I think having Slack on mobile has lead to a greater degree of freedom, as you mentioned, but I also wonder if the constant tether is leading me to burnout more quickly.
AIPAC money.

>In 1997, Fortune magazine named AIPAC the second-most powerful influence group in Washington, D. C.[46] According to journalist Connie Bruck, AIPAC has been able to "deliver the support of Congress"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affai...
Holy cow, I didn't even see a few of those probably because of blockers I have installed. That's even worse than what I was seeing.
Do we really not know, though? "Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16823201
I also don't really agree. I think it'd be hard to find a high quality pair of leather shoes for $55 that you couldn't pick out of a lineup. But then you might need to know the difference to spot it. Kind of like when you learn what kerning is you see bad kerning everywhere. Cheap shoes (especially leather dressier shoes) are easy to spot by the sole and stitching. I've known a few people in service industry who've said a persons shoe is often a signal of wealth they can leverage.
With physical access, you could execute any number of attacks over usb to get access to data on the device.
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> SpaceX probably can't create a simulation in a few months to not need in-flight abort test because developing a simulation that NASA would consider "proof" probably takes years.

SpaceX has the benefit of having a bunch of pre-flown rockets lying around. It may be cheaper to refurbish and do a real in-flight abort test than create a suitable simulation.
I see them all over Toronto.
Keybase.

I think if you password protect a file before uploading it to Dropbox or GDrive then it’s reasonably safe, is that true?
The seats can be removed and swapped. They can, and have, gone back on different vehicles than they went up on.
The US government probably isn't subject to the same abatement and disclosure laws as regular landlords.
More precisely: at least one Raymond Chen is needed on every team in Microsoft.
If AMD developed CUDA transpilers / DL backends / CUDNN equivalents people would switch over in a heartbeat. It's fully their fault for not investing in the software.

If they did that and had a card that got 2x performance / $ or more I would switch in a heartbeat.
Ask HN: Advice on writing a protocol definition document
I'm trying to formalize some internal protocols into a set of clearly defined standards, so I'm trying to tap into the collective wisdom of HN regarding the best practices how to shape them.

The protocols in question might be of interest in a wider community, so it's not just a bunch of internal guidelines; on the other hand they are still being developed so a full blown RFC might be an overkill. Are there any standard examples how to approach something like that? Thanks in advance!
While supported, list comprehensions that are multiple levels deep isn't considered good style. There is an example of this in Google's python style guide: https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/gh-pages/pyguide.m...
>New techniques ... may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard

I strongly disagree.

>He suggested it might be wise to encrypt genetic data to protect personal information.

Maybe we can encrypt DNA molecules themselves!
Check out GeneInfoSec
The original question is: "ex-FAANG developers...".

In that context, it's definitely priviledged but far from being extremely untrue.
I will await for that explanation. I believe however you are very naive.
I'm non sure why you are being downvoted, and in typical HN fashion no one wants to take the time to explain why.

I don't think anyone would excuse an apartment building owner for renting apartments to tenants with lead painted walls, so I'm not sure why folks here think the US Army should get a free pass...
Yeah but they can't have anyone on board the X-37b, how can the claim possession? (just keeping the plot line interesting here)
The big danger for the SLS will be when SpaceX's BFR starts flying. Not only will both stages be reusable, but for flights beyond the Earth a BFR will first go into orbit, and next be refueled there by another BRF, and then take off with full tanks, instead of the almost empty ones as will be the case with SLS.

The result is the BFR will be able to land 10+ times as much cargo on the Moon or Mars as the SLS, and at maybe 1 percent the cost per ton.

I think what is going to happen is the tax payers will finally wake up to how they are being ripped off, and the SLS program will be canceled.
Greenland melt in July and August: Three spikes and out
???

I'm not trying to get in the middle of your guys' argument, but I have a serious question.

Why does a troll being anonymous or public, make his speech any more, or less, free? (Assuming that soldiers or police, or Saudi Intelligence Agents, aren't coming to drag said troll away.)
I don't think this is a fair comparison. It's like saying all the work I do on my computer belongs to apple. Which doesn't make sense. But apple does keep logs and telemetry of performance and crashes and uses that to improve it's products.

With self driving cars, and other devices (like apple electronics) the logs they keep give you really really good insight into what sensors, techniques, and algorithmic approaches they are taking to problems, and those directly expose proprietary information. I would argue that this information entirely belongs to those companies (with an agreement to send this data to their servers).

Also most AI and self driving companies use the data collected by their existing fleet to further improve AI systems in these vehicles. The competitive advantage of most of these companies is how much data, with what sensors they are able to collect. Making that information public will have a huge negative impact on the tech and AI industry, essentially pulling the carpet out from underneath everyone.
That readelf output after changing the elf version with a hex editor seems like a bug, displaying a literal "%lx".
Light exposure's impact on baby circadian rhythms
When "speech" includes dox'ing, life-ruining harassment, Russian propagandists, etc, perhaps we conclude that "speech" does have shades of grey after all.

Just as we already decided long ago, not long after drafting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, when we determined that it was not OK to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, and that sharing state secrets with the enemy, while technically a form of "speech", was still treason.
He's not talking about the benchmarks, he's talking about the prices - which as you pointed out are theoretical.

It's been a long time since GPU prices have been anywhere near MSRP, it seems dishonest to assume that they will be in the near future.
Did. Now mostly use TOTP in 1Password or from a Yubikey. Google Authenticator becomes difficult to use with more than 7-10 entires, I had over 20 when I stopped.
It seems to me like you could leverage any number of analytical engines that expose relational interfaces, rather than go to the trouble of building your own relational model. What are the goals in building first, rather than integrating?
Right, they just bomb foreigners, not nationals.
You are thinking about it from the wrong angle. Even less than 2 minutes.
This sounds interesting, but the documentation is really sparse, basically only how to turn it on. Am I supposed to be thinking of this a bit like Intel’s Parallel Studio’s Advisor tools for analysing threading and vectorisation? How do I tell what it’s doing with e.g. adding OpenMP calls since it seems to insert them between parsing and object code without oversight?

Basically, how easy is it, and how do I approach using this, as a non domain-expert?
No, I use Authenticator by Matt Rubin
Or maybe free from the stressess of poverty they will finally have the stability to get clean.

I hope UBI goes into these places. It will end a lot of misery and give people an escape ladder out of that world.
Having seen how Google operates on the inside, I trust them to be fully able and willing to comply with the promises they do make, better than most companies. The typical tech startup overpromises and underdelivers with respect to data deletion and security, or simply does a really weak job at those things without making any promises either way.

Adhering to these promises is a separate question from changes of policy in the future, of course, and just as separate from failures in the areas of product design or ethics. Many parts of the conglomerate that calls itself Google have gotten worse in all of those areas over the last several years, though I am still a big fan of how GCP is progressing.

But none of this makes me think that they're retaining more Google Public DNS data than they claim. Given how little of that data they retain for the long haul, the risk of bad retroactive impact from a change in policy in this area is quite low. The risk is admittedly higher for other consumer services which do retain identifiable data over a long period of time.

Conversely, the risk is lower for G Suite and GCP offerings and for European residents, given the concerns and compliance obligations of business customers and the obligations imposed by the GDPR.
In 1983 C64 was $300, 1541 was $300, 180K Tandon TM100-1 PC floppy drive was $189. Why sell cheap floppy drive when you can sell one for the full price of your computer and double the profit? Commodore was manufacturing all mayor chips inside it after all ;-/

It got even worse when Commodore shat C128D out its engineering hole. 3 CPUs for the low low price of 3 CPUs, two doing nothing 99.999% of the time, all in all 85% of Amiga 500 price, 100% of Atari 520ST price, at 10% the power.
Yes and no. HN is definitely social, but there are no friends, no feeds, and no notifications, so it's unlike social media as most people understand the term.

If I skip HN for a day, there's a whole front page of articles that I'll probably never see, and never know that I missed.
I wish the SEC would investigate NEM. I was an initial stakeholder. They refuse to release coins to hundreds of stakeholders who missed some un-publicised deadline a couple of years ago.
Well that didn't last long. I see the btc has been drained but who solved it, and where is the solution, will there be one?
Er, haven't those definitions been out of date for at least a decade, if not 3?

If an office policy is semi formal, do people turn up in a black tie?

Why are black tie parties "black tie" parties and not "semi formal" parties?

IMO you've listed "opera" followed by "black tie."

"Formal" would be "a tie and jacket," "semi formal" would be a jacket without a tie, or (shudder) a tie without a jacket, and then business casual is where the polos come in.
That is exactly free speech. A right to express an unsavoury view without the system punishing you.

Never gave you a right not to be ignored by your neighbours, or not banned from the bar, or not having others nudge their friends to make sure they notice and avoid, etc. Free speech almost always came with consequences until the internet age.
ASCII generator (image2text, image2image and video2video) written in Python
Can the Soyuz capsule be launched and docked while un-manned? If all doesn't go well with the investigation, they could do an un-manned launch to get an empty capsule up there to replace the currently docked capsule.
Do you really think anyone short of a state agency is going to break into your hotel room and attempt to install malicious hardware? Since I assume you'd have drive encryption in such a hostile environment?
The link you shared only supports my point: either the claims are false, or they're not verifiable independently.

"As yet we don’t have any detailed TEM imaging to look at the transistors or fins in close-up"

And that's 14nm from years ago, not the 7nm or 5nm being claimed these days.
I mean if SMS is not just used as second factor, but also used for password reset/override, it basically become a one factor. So yes.
> Isn't that mostly the case when we post about some (perceived) injustice on HN?

Talking generally about "what ought" seems distinct from powerlessness. At the very least it delegitimizes the current status quo, even if only in a subculture. For instance, all of the HN (and wider tech) discussion of the NSA has done nothing to actually get those criminals any closer to prison. But designers of new protocols start with a background of making them surveillance-resistant rather than surveillance-supporting.

I apologize for starting my original comment somewhat aggressively - I wanted to draw attention to your idea behind the phrasing, with constructive criticism addressing why (hopefully) yours was downvoted, but edited it to be (too) simpler.
Now how much nicer would it be if even more things were functions, rather than special syntax like here? This can be done with an `apply`.
A century ago the Middle East was sliced and diced with various powers getting part of the pie. Iran (Persia) was supposed to have been 'shared' between Britain and Russia, but the Russians had their own difficulties so the Tsar wasn't around to take on 'his share' of Iran. Nonetheless 'British Petroleum' got in there for a while.

It was Roosevelt that did the deal with the Saudis. The deal was as follows: sell us your oil in perpetuity and we will make sure that nothing threatens the 'royal' family.

Note the naming of the Saudi Aramco state oil business. 'Aramco' has the letters 'am' in it and that is because it is the 'Arab American Company'.

You are correct that the U.S. has 'irrational' opposition to Iran. This is because the U.S. has irrational opposition to any country that does not care about the dollar. The only truly sovereign nations are the ones that the U.S. has 'irrational' opposition to, everything else is a vassal state.
Hey HN!

I recently launched a lighting product, Bedtime Bulb, that reduces sleep-interrupting blue light. Few parents are aware of the impacts of blue light on sleep and health, even though they care deeply about their babies' development. I wanted to provide a basic understanding and some simple strategies for circadian light exposure—this article is the result.

I'd love to hear what you think!

Greg

Bedtime Bulb

https://bedtimebulb.com/
Uber asks SEC to let it give equity to drivers
> ... almost as sophisticated equipment for verification as needed for fabrication ...

> ... imaging techniques (AFM, STM, etc.) ... with ... tweaking ...

I don't see the 'not true' part here. (Also as I responded to the other commenter who shared a third party link, even 14nm could not be verified in 2014: "As yet we don’t have any detailed TEM imaging to look at the transistors or fins in close-up").
I know building systems that still run on Windows 98 because the upgraded software license costs too much. When the computer isn't able to boot for whatever reason, the building loses all heat or cooling control. They've lost days of work for hundreds of people (who they don't pay for that lost time) because they refuse to upgrade the software to the current version.
> There are also reasons to be optimistic, for example, US corporate earnings are way up -- 2018 is up 20% over 2016 alone -- that's huge.

Isn't that mainly the result of the large cuts to corporate taxes? Deficits are also up as the article notes for the same reason making it harder for the US government to respond with stimulus in the event of a recession.
I'm not on Slack, we have Lync or whatever Microsoft calls it now at work. I have all notifications off, so I only notice new messages when I bring that window to the foreground.
Cruise ships: https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=1752

It's possible to send and receive text messages at sea, as long as you have a signal through your ship's roaming network (just make sure you turn off data roaming in your settings). Texting costs a lot less than a voice call -- usually in line with standard, international "pay as you go" rates: Most major carriers charge $0.50 to send a message ($0.25 for a picture or video message); AT&T also charges $1.30 for an outgoing picture or video message. For messages received, Verizon charges $0.05/text ($0.25 for a picture or video message), and Sprint charges $0.05, while T-Mobile and AT&T deduct incoming messages from your monthly allotment.
I can honestly say that I never expected robotics to get to this level in my lifetime. Hopefully it is limited to minutes rather than hours of "run time"!