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>Why is that? Variable pitch props have nothing to do with engine type. They're variable to be more efficient depending on RPM and speed.

Variable pitch props have everything to do with engine type. They exist because turbine and piston engines have a very specific power/torque curve which requires them to operate at certain RPMs for certain conditions to achieve peak efficiency. With electric motors you have no need for this because you get a constant increase of efficiency across the entire power curve.

>Not really. A lot of flight controls are boosted with hydraulics, and thrust reversers are for increasing drag (descending faster or slowing down.) None of these depend on engine type.

Thrust reversers have nothing to do with descending faster or slowing down in flight, they are used solely for landing retardation. But an electric aircraft wouldn't even need thrust reversers. You literally just reverse the propeller immediately at full power when touching down. You can even save on less flaps required because the motors will be able to "windmill" on the descent and slow the aircraft as well as regen power.
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Her mention of the lack of a mechanism for how microbiome influences the brain is, I think, sufficient reason to keep this germinal fact in mind.
As an avid compose user this looks pretty cool. My only concern is how portable is this to cloud based kubernetes solutions (which is what I would want my end state to be)?
The second fab on an identical process node is cheaper than the first.
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I'm surprised to read that the number of clicks drops by 50% if the result moves down a single rank. Personally, I rarely click on the top link. I usually click somewhere in the middle of the search results on the first page.

I understand why the result page number matters but the exact rank having such a huge impact is surprising.
Tell that to US and NATO who bombed Yugoslavia without UN approval. Among other things they did, like toppled goverments..
I also have to add, most if not all of these apply to other big internet companies. Hell, Google took pride on all the information it could figure out about you even if you were logged out to target your search, didn't even show up when called to testify, and Youtube is as much a highly-optimized entertainment and news source as Facebook is, with similar faults.

The fact the media are sharks doesn't absolve Facebook's sins. The media ARE sharks though.
People will stop making lame arguments pretending that socialized medicine is impossibly unworkable maybe about 30 years after it's been successfully implemented in the US.

Why do we constantly pretend that America is an island universe and ignore that the rest of the developed world has already done this?
What is a PM? I am getting insight into how google works because this sounds like a bunch of idiotic internal wars between acronym teams instead of focusing on making actual useful products.
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> Another issue with this tagline was the Python.org and official parts. The thing that made it “official” was a short tutorial [1] on packaging.python.org, which is the PyPA’s packaging user guide. Also of note is the Python.org domain used. It makes it sound as if Pipenv was endorsed by the Python core team. PyPA (Python Packaging Authority) is a separate organization — they are responsible for the packaging parts (including pypi.org, setuptools, pip, wheel, virtualenv, etc.) of Python. This made the endorsement misleading.

Hmm I'll admit I only started using pipenv because of that... "endorsement".
I think there is no difference in the US. Either way it's "breaking and entering" if you so much as open the door, if my law school memory serves.
I learned sales. Probably one of the most useful skillsets I've ever learned and something that has opened a lot of doors for me.
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fyi, I found an old HN thread on a similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626491
What does the process server say? They are so glamorized in TV shows, lime Suits where they deliver a Chinese takeaway!
The ol' five eyes conspiracy; to help big companies by collecting sensitive information on SME businesses.
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Poweruser oriented touch apps are going to have non-trivial learning curves, regardless of how well something in particular is signposted.

I take the point that the quoted paragraph from the App Store is indeed notable, but not that it indicates a major iOS snafu, with some kind of big win just there for the taking.
She was arrested in Vancouver.
Project manager. Pretty standard role in a software team. The person who determines what the end result should look like.
I've experienced this politicking time and time again. Ultimately these decisions kill great products and drive customers away.
Not OP but I assume project managers
Again, maybe you’re missing the painfully obvious when honestly not seeing any issues with that line.
> That is assuming they're even still indexed.

That makes me kinda sad, like a cool drawing getting thrown away that no one saw. These pages would sit out there, only with inbound links, but never a search result.
I don't think that search personalization is all bad though. It can be used for both good or evil.

If search results were perfectly consistent, some smaller websites might not get any search traffic at all and most big corporation websites would get all the traffic. It would greatly exacerbate winner-takes-it-all effects and inequality.

Personalization allows for some small websites to start with a niche and slowly grow to become more mainstream.
Beacon?!

The United States is currently operating an illegal drone war in other parts of the world.

Imagine how you would feel if Russia was flying drones above the US and targeted bombing a certain extremist group of people. Are you sure the next wedding you attend none of your friends friends is a target (or a mistaken target)?

Imagine how you life would be when death can come from the sky at any moment and there is nothing you can do about it.
You can. I've been using Arq [1] for years. You can select a storage provider of your choice (I use Dropbox), but Arq also provide its own cloud storage these days if you prefer to keep it as simple as possible.

After the initial upload it's feasible even with large files since it of course only uploads incremental, block-level changes. I let it run on a daily schedule during the night.

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com/
Great series on the 3 ways Russia crafts fake news into real real
Could also be Product Manager.
The German dev gets paid 25% of the US dev salary though.
I agree with you 100%. Most of the time when I'm receiving a text I'm sitting in front of my computer with a Gmail tab open. So the ability to text back directly from my computer (with a full size keyboard) is absolutely the killer feature of Hangouts integrating the Google Voice/Fi phone number.

I simply cannot imagine using anything else. Those who haven't experienced this workflow don't know what they are missing.

I do 200-400 texts weekly and this saves me easily 1 hour per week in gained efficiency (context switching, fumbling with phone fingerprint unlocking, composing text on small phone keyboard...)
If anyone is looking for a video conferencing alternative to Hangouts, I can't recommend enough http://gotalk.to

I have no affiliation and only came to know about them a couple weeks back from a recommendation from someone here.

Is phenomenal. It changed the way I work remote.
They aren't opening stores there, just showrooms.
That'd be competing. Given any company can pivot to do anything. Yoga instructor? Cough non-compete!
I do get that such a device panics on the smallest error. But then it is supposed to go into a safe mode. "Full on" does not seem safe to me. Full off and emitting an acoustic alarm until it is actively acknowledged would be the right thing to do. Whoever designed this thing to do what it did was frankly a morron.

But gaming the certification process is unfortunately also a thing. In the EU the certification is performed by private companies who are themselves certified by the government for this job. The kicker is that they are competing against each other on a free market. Potentially shopping around for the most lenient certification process could be a thing. I haven't witnessed it yet but it certainly is possible in that system. The thought alone scares me.
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Problems like these are easy to optimize out. For instance, you can put in fuses that disconnect the traction power or ignition in the event of a collision. If you’re worried about the computer getting scrambled, put in two CPU’s and compare the output - if they are different by a significant amount, then stop driving. Most of the prototypes I’ve seen also have a manual e-stop in the cabin.

As for getting rid of glass: safety glass is actually pretty darned safe. It pulverizes into shards in a collision. And, there are a lot of people, myself included, who will not be able to ride down the highway without a view out the front - otherwise, it will be barf-bag city.
Ask HN: How do you reconcile private repos and having a good GitHub portfolio?
This is something weird I've run into.

Most of my personal projects are big full stack things that I put onto the App Stores and they handle loads of user data, and usually I like to keep those locked in private repositories because, well, that's what I do with all my projects. (Feel free to point out how that's bad, but I think it feels weird to throw commits at a public repository for a side project, and it actually makes me not continue with them for some reason)

Most places ask to see your GitHub, and with the exception of one really simple fork and issue fix, mine's just "empty" looking.

In reality there's like ten trillion lines of code everywhere, and fully complete projects there, some of which usage.

Shouldn't there be some way to open your repositories temporarily to employers or something? How do you reconcile this?
Then the thief could hide in the back, and rob you while you were driving down the interstate (ie. he could hold a knife to your throat and force you to drive to location that was hidden from public view). I don't know how realistic this is, but it is far more dire.
I cannot really understand Facebook's concerns over the press ganging them up. Zuckerberg doesn't talk, or is lying through his teeth, or through Sandberg's, so people find other ways to get into Facebook's internal affairs (see the story about UK's MP disclosing memos). Now Zuck and Sheryl are loosing trust from their own employees. Though break.
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I'm nearly certain he meanh no cost. Sf has instituted market rate street parking in some places and also has a number of garages where I've generally had no trouble finding a space, provided I paid.
Also an Aussie, and I completely agree. Can you imagine the shitstorm if, say, Apple refused to release any more devices here due to this legislation? It would cause an uproar - every politician that voted for this bill would know that their head is on the chopping block when the next election rolls around.
Reply & Deny, or Downvote and move on.

I think the more important question is: if someone is talking out of their ass, is it worth continuing to talk to them? In RL, other factors may apply, but in a forum like this...?

Unless ofc you end up with an interesting response anyways ;) (note: did you read tfa does not constitute interesting unless your standards are disturbingly low). Imo the minimum is a good backhanded insult thrown in
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Probably related to this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-c.... Trump brought it up at the g20
OMG, well that could've been made more known. Wonder what the cumulative cost to my life has been.
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The real answer is quite straight forward. In the end international and governmental actions come down to clout, which in turn comes down to power. The governments with the most power will always do whatever they want to do, and impose their desires on other governments.

The crackdown on online poker was a striking example of this. To give cliff notes the US, heavily influenced by casino lobbyists, decided to ban online poker. Online poker sites were operating in foreign countries obeying all laws domestically applied to them. In spite of the fact that sites were operating within all laws that domestically applied to them, the US decided to act because they refused to overtly ban US players. In an extremely rapid action the US simultaneously confiscated the domains of these sites, and executed arrest warrants on many of the involved individuals including surreptitious raids and extraditions from places including South/Central America, and froze numerous bank accounts around the world including in places such as Ireland.

The US is powerful enough that its own desire is sufficient authority to enact any action. Guantanamo Bay is a great example. This is not a just a US property under US law. It is operated as a US territory but mostly independent of US legal authority. The Geneva Convention is disregarded as convenient. For instance the three prisoners that were reported as having committed suicide (which would result in condemnation in Islamic belief) were allegedly tortured to death at a secret facility in Guantanamo, known as 'Camp No' (as in, no it does not exist), detached from the main camp. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_No
rely on package developers following semver

Well, that seems naive. Almost 1/4th of Maven Central libraries broke binary compatibility in patch updates: https://avandeursen.com/2014/10/09/semantic-versioning-in-ma...

Netflix, at least, doesn't agree that Java doesn't need lockfiles: https://github.com/nebula-plugins/gradle-dependency-lock-plu...
The only lesson here is: If your company has ever sold any products in Iran, I think its safe to avoid taking any connecting flights through US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and possibly Britain. Fly Emirates, Qatar Airways or Cathay Pacific.
We got into a discussion at work on this. How do you battle a strategy that injects fake news stories into publishers hands, and does it over the course of 3-10 years or more, internationally. Basically sabotaging any chance for valid researcher by those trying to seek the truth on a given (potentially planted) subject. It is a brilliant tactic, if not so insanely nefarious. Has anyone figured out a counter measure that comes close to helpful?
Have you tried using force touch to select text--I have big fingers and it's my fav. iPhone feature. You just put the cursor on a word and press hard--the word gets selected. Then press even harder and the surrounding words get selected--you can also press hard and drag one side of the selection cursor to select left or right of the datum. (You need a 6s or greater phone though--5se won't do it).
Matt from Snappr (maker of YCDB) here - your point is totally fair, 'photogenic' is not the best word for it. I just went ahead and changed it to 'most aesthetic' for clarity. Thanks for pointing that out.
The best part about Wave was that it was/is federated, so your data isn't completely siloed like basically every other modern app mentioned in this thread. It's more like e-mail. With sufficient resourcing, it could have revolutionized communication.
Saw a huge spike in CPM metrics yesterday and freaked out because it was timed near a deployment. Team chased it down to Triplelift network bidding $26 CPM over millions of impressions but Adx winning 90% of the auctions anyways, presumably with the same creative.

Anyways, I found the article very informative because we weren’t sure what happened, it was such an anomaly we thought all our data was bad for the day, but it turned out to be an early Christmas present I guess.

Postmortems of things that affect a ton of businessses and people seem newsworthy to me. And while this isn’t a very detailed one, it’s more information than I could find anywhere else - we assumed it was a costly fat finger mistake.
We are getting there, this already happens with unrecoverable read errors (URE).

With RAID5 for example, rebuilding a 4TiB array is expected (i.e. >50% chance) to have at least one URE.
It is ugly. The US and Canada is going down a rabbit hole.

The dictatorship of Iran is disgusting and dangerous but the US trades with countries governed by equally disgusting and dangerous dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia and China.

The US trade sanctions are imposed unilaterally and create mountains of troubles for US allies. Most of the world oppose the trade sanctions. Such sanctions rarely work anyways. It's a huge cost born not only by US companies but by companies in allied countries that have to obey US sanctions in order to avoid repercussions.
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Our family practice is to lock the house when going on vacation, but not if we're just going out normally for the day.
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Our team was in exact same situation. Chat is still missing some features, but I definitely prefer it over HipChat already. Still a compromise in comparison to Flowdock or even Slack, but it gets the job done.
ah, that's probably it. it does seem like they're charging now, i didn't realize they weren't before.
I'd park it until you figure it out. See a lawyer about a will, ask about trusts and stuff, and where to park it safely. Live life like normal for a few months. Give yourself time to figure it out. Nice problem to have, enjoy it!
There is a "get bought out." mention in the text you quote.

If you get a fair compensation to end your job then a NC is justifiable.
Silence is consent.*

Wait, what? Are you sure you want to assert that? Because that's going to make things really complicated for the #MeToo movement.
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I found the premise to be compelling. I was also previously unaware of research surrounding the notion of bigotry. I would be curious what is known ("or found"?) about the relationship between bigotry and various economic factors.

I found the author's proposed "public health campaign" to be interesting, but in a world where we could implement such a thing, how much bigotry would be left anyway?
> A small sidenote: chats are shitty concept in general. They have had a reason in a past era when voice coms are expensive and limited, they have a reason in terminals to broadcast few messages, no more.

Not at all. Voice chat is synchronous - you must stop whatever you're doing and listen or talk in real time. And people nearby will overhear.

Chat is asynchronous and private. I can chat and consult a colleague while I'm in a meeting with a client. I can keep a chat open while coding and read/respond when I'm not most concentrated. I can go offline and answer a question the next day.

Text chat isn't literally "chatting through text". It's email with a different UX, more suited for quick communication.
Damn, wish I figured that out sooner, very helpful, thanks!

Btw, there are always little gems to discover like this, Which I find out out after years of frustration. Is there a good source of “here are new iOS tricks you didn’t know about?”
Most (though not all, see Midori) OSes use preemptive multitasking and threads. These tasks are cooperating coroutines - a different beast. Of course you can use tasks to implement a thread scheduler, but this machinery would probably live in a user-mode runtime.

As for the neglected cases, you can build those out of these primitives: canonical ordering of tasks for multiple resource acquisition; work stealing and/or a DAG executor where ordering is important.

My only criticism is that it's a little redundant to implement both mutexes and semaphores - a mutex is just a semaphore of 1. But the rest is wonderful.
If you want to see that, I'm sure you will. It says more about you than about PHP, though.
>> that repulsive force will, by definition, move the negative mass further toward you.

> only if the repulsive force is negative gravity

We're talking about negative inertial mass, not negative gravitational mass. Negative inertial mass means accelerating against the direction of any force applied to you, including but not limited to gravity.
> The nice thing about the American system is that while treaties are difficult to pass, they are more or less permanent.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed in 1987, it is now dead. so by your definition, 30 years is now called permanent? To me, a far better definition of the term permanent can be concluded from the matter of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - US permanently refused to join that convention.
I'm glad that you had a good experience with GoDaddy; I also used to work there, I think they've done a really good job of turning the culture around and making the place better.
The evidence exists if you care to look. Most of it is in the way of first-hand accounts, however. Seeing as how this particular forum lacks a subpoena power over defected Shi'ite militia members, I have no way of directly presenting you the evidence.

Indirectly, however, you'll find the Internet is pretty replete. You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...

Given the strident tone of your post, I suspect you'll dismiss those sources. No doubt you'll suspect them of being self-serving. Very well. Evidence of Iran's doings also exists in forms which cut against the U.S. military's interest, such as the fact that they duped the U.S. military into violating U.S. law by providing them weapons.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Is-the-US-supporting-Irani...

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/9/4/how-iraqi...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/dirty-brigades-us-train...

The fact is that Iranian-sponsored terrorism is so prevalent in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, that just defeating Daesh is a moral problem... it's become a logistical nightmare to not only perform Leahy vetting but to actually carry out operations without a Shi'ite militia taking part and committing atrocities in the name of the Coalition.

And those Shi'ite militias? "All are directly backed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and are notorious among the Sunni minority population for carrying out extrajudicial killings, torture and ethnic cleansing."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/iraqs-shia-militias-accused-of...

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You are entitled to your opinion that the "USA is just a big bully," although I personally don't think it's a well-founded opinion. However, the next time you feel inclined to start calling things a "farce" before you've examined any evidence, I'd encourage you to reconsider.