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Mars One didn't need to appeal to "most people", just enough people to fill their open seats. And they needed enough people to support their broadcast/merchandising rights based funding model, but I'm sure there'd be a lot of public interest in following a group of future mars colonists through training and the journey to Mars -- and I'm many potential viewers would be drawn in by the risks of the mission.

They claim to have had over 200K applications though I'm sure many of those people would have backed out if they were actually selected and thought through the ramifications of a one-way trip to another planet.

I think I'd be more likely to apply for a Mars One mission than a trip around the moon. After the moon trip you're back home again without much to show for the trip but the pictures... it seems a little like taking a bus tour where you're not allowed out of the bus and it takes 3 days to get there... and you didn't even have a unique experience since hundreds or even thousands of people did the same trip. But since space travel is still in its infancy, there's still a significant chance that you won't survive the trip.

The Mars trip had a much higher chance of failure (and no chance of return), but at least then you're part of a small group of people who are actually colonizing another planet. I think it's unfair to call it a "glorified suicide mission", since the goal was to survive, even if there was no way to come back again.
I hear this all the time, like somehow the only factor in the propositions is economic.

When someone spends $5 on coffee, they know exactly what they are getting, it’s a regular purchase, produced by a formulaic method, with consistent quality, that energises them for the day ... that also hooks into their biochemistry and there’s a certain about of conditioning / addictive behaviour there too.

Compare that to the purchase of an app. There’s no biochemical enhancement, the quality of apps varies wildly and is unpredictable until after purchase, there’s little / no ability to refund. There’s no addictive hook to buy an app (I know some apps are addictive - that’s different)

How are those propositions even nearly close? The decision to purchase is not purely economic.
I can't find any reference to not being able to increment the major version if you maintain compatibility. Only the reverse is specified, you must increment it if it is broken.
https://semver.org/#spec-item-8
This seems like a significant distortion to me. Neutrality can mean that people who provide infrastructure and services may provide them to everyone without being considered to endorse particular uses or users. That doesn't mean that either the infrastructure or service providers or the advocates of neutrality literally believe or assert that "nobody is actually wrong".

From another angle, neutrality can mean that no one, or no entity of a certain type, should have or should exercise certain powers of judgement or discrimination. This also does not mean that nobody is wrong.

This is true across all sorts of situation in which many different entities refrain or are urged to refrain from making particular kinds of judgements or interventions, and there are lots of potentially powerful reasons for such restraint—quite a lot of them having to do with Schelling points that different people can (eagerly or grudgingly) agree on to stop conflicts or disagreements from escalating or infecting everything.
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It doesn't matter if the system would still be in place - hosting the app is still aiding and abetting, and carries full ethical responsibility as such.
That's not the target standard, that's a basic baseline. When you're worried about violating neutrality by denying service based on potentially subjective moral judgements, using at least the low bar of an almost-universally accepted set of rights is probably a good place to start.
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> We need to get mad at the countries who support the real physical harms

So, Saudi Arabia?
> So a "rational" actor in economics seem (to me at least) to mean the typical selfish bastard who only acts to maximise their own profit outcome, no matter how its defined, and excludes a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose.

This is completely unrelated to what economics means by referring to a rational actor. A rational actor is just one who, given a choice, will take the action that produces the all-inclusive result they most prefer. You're talking about someone whose only preference is having the greatest amount of money, but economics contemplates all possible preference sets, which is why it measures benefit in "utils".
I want to point out that university ought to really be about the pursuit of knowledge.

It isn't, or shouldn't be about prestige or income.

Many people seem to have this massive chip on their shoulder, "these fing kids just thinking they're so much smarter than me but they're just hipsters getting useless degrees."

God forbid anyone should pursue knowledge for knowledge's sake.

You want to work in the private sector and make a killing? Good for you here's a pat on the back.

You might not realise this, because you're close minded, but fundamental research happens to pay terribly, requires long hours, is super stressful, but is good for everyone.

Pharmaceuticals, for example, almost always rely on fundamental biological discoveries made by academic science. You need to sort of understand a disease a bit, before you find a drug to cure it, and guess who is figuring that stuff out? It's the grad student over there who went to lab on christmas, because that's when the mice were born.

Let nerds spend 60+ hours a week in the lab or library doing what they love, and let's make sure they can eat and survive, so we can all reap the benefit. These people will literally go to work all day including weekends for fun. What motivates these people is discovery of new information, and having the respect of their peers. They aren't motivated by money, but they need enough to be mentally and physically healthy.

Have the kind of rationality that sees what a terrific resource that is. You can pay them less than half of any worker in private industry and they will work twice as much.

Just the sheer ignorance, hautiness, and closed mindedness of some of these comments. Chill, university isn't really supposed to be there for that annoying kid you all think of when you think of college loans. There are literally people trying to give us their lives as long as we allow them to do research. And y'all are ruining it.
Don’t they sell space launch services?
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Sure. So let's pass laws and slap some serious sanctions on KSA. If there is a country that deserves them, it's this one.
Maybe they just collected the subscribers data for mining.
There are two types of bookkeeping: External and internal. External bookkeeping is what you do for the government / IRS to determine how much taxes you pay. Depending on your company type and country this can be quite complex and personally I would never attempt to do it myself as you can get a tax accountant / lawyer to do it for you for a reasonable price and learning to do it yourself will take many months or even years. Also, if you go through a tax accountant you can transfer a part of the legal risk of bookkeeping to them, which is one thing less you’ll have to worry about (there are enough other things to keep you awake at night as an entrepreneur so you really don’t want to also worry about your tax declarations; I’ve been there myself). If you are a one-person business it might still be manageable but even then I’d say your time is better spent thinking about your core business instead of worrying about bookkeeping.

For internal bookkeeping you can do whatever you want and you don’t have any legal restrictions, you would typically make use of this to measure the performance of your company and make sure you don’t run out of money. If you’re a small company I would use the data your tax accountant provides to you and simply put it in a finance plan in Excel to see how you’re doing. The core metrics you’re interested in are probably revenue, cash flow, cost and profit I’d say (current, past and projected future values ideally). There are many guides available on the Internet for this, look e.g. for business planning as a keyword.
I agree. It's kind of pointless to demand from FB, Apple, Google, Amazon and other tech giants that they both don't interfere with freedom of speech and other freedoms and do promote various kinds of favorable social agendas at the same time. Also, KSA is backward as fuck, I just don't see how it's Google's fault that someone wants to live in the dark ages.
I'm not sure why the focus here is on behavioural economics specifically. Ignoring decision making complexity is really the domain of traditional microeconomics. If anything, behavioural economics is the path by which economics as a whole has the best chance of digging itself out of the hole it is in, because it at least acknowledges that you have to look at humans a little bit rather than just inventing theories from whole cloth.
I don't know anything about the 1 -> 6 jump, but the jump to 18 was because they switched to time-based versioning last year (2018). First release of 2019 was 19.0.
Nostalgia Nerd did a video on browsing with a 56k modem last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zfz017s9A
> It lasted about six months [to circularize to a ~450 km orbit].

There's still a lot of orbital energy left at 450km orbit around mars that you need to get rid of some how, and a parachute probably isn't going to do it.
It’s perfectly possible to modify Maxwell’s equations to include magnetic monopoles. Doing so makes Maxwell’s equations more symmetric between electric and magnetic fields.

The reason we have equation ∇·B=0 is due to empirical observation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole
The logic here is very, very simple:

You don't help bad people do bad things. Period. End of discussion.

If they still do it without your help, that's unfortunate; and yes, you should probably do something to stop it. But if they do it with your help, then you are directly responsible for it, and the rest of us have a moral obligation to hold you responsible.
There was also the Windows Metafile mayhem [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
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I had ego death from 1/4 of mushrooms in that amazing place many years ago. Such a beautiful little area that will be with me until I die.
$1B is a lot of money and LEO is a long way from mars.
Kilobits or kilobytes? A 56k modem is max 56 kilobits/s, a.ka. 7 kilobytes/s (although realistically I never synced over 50k, and more common something like 48k)
> And that kind of attitude is why we still have security bugs.

Absolutely poppycock. We could all program in completely memory safe languages tomorrow with only one signed integer type and crap programmers would still find a way to write security holes into their programs.

I'm in no way condoning the use of C/C++ forever, the writing is on the wall for those languages, as much as I love them.

But programmers have to learn first and foremost to take responsibility; if you're writing code that runs with elevated privileges then BE CAREFUL. If you're writing code that is reading data from an untrusted source (disk, network or otherwise) then BE CAREFUL. Hell, being careful even if you think the data source can be trusted is a good starting point - defensive programming 101.

We cannot blame our tools forever, but we can improve them.
I don't think that Fortran was the first compiled language. Wikipedia says the first language to be compiled was Autocode for the Mark 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode
Lack of care ? I don't think you understand what it takes to keep Search and Maps and YouTube working seamlessly. Many big systems that companies use were invented at Google. Sure you can find UI bugs or issues butt conveniently ignore that Gmail changed the game with it's 1GB accounts in the era of MBs. Or the uptime of critical services. You have no idea how important design and code reviews are inside.
> If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality? U.S. public opinion? Chinese public opinion? Maybe the U.N?

I agree that not every situation is this easy to decide but this one -- women as chattel -- seems rather staightforward.

Corporations claim free speech rights (via corporate personhood) all the time. Not using those rights in this case seems to be quite a statement.
Northern Lights are a bit like the weather, in that you can predict them to a degree but not precisely (just Google "aurora forecast"). They also ebb and flow in strength over 12 year cycles. My wife and I went to Iceland in March a few years back and saw some amazing auroras. They are awesome to see, especially the big and powerful ones. They shift and move around the sky like visible magnetic fields, just arcing wildly, fading and forming into view with those weird CGA monitor colors.

Iceland in March was one of those amazing trips where you we drove to amazing and famous waterfalls and geysers and were always the only people there. We did the whole Ring Road around the island and the northern part of the country was so desolate we ate most of our meals at gas stations because there was literally nothing else open. Along the eastern coast we drove an entire day and saw only one car coming the other direction.
Let me rephrase that. Saudis will still make it work, so why care?

By the same logic, it's okay help someone kill a man, if you know they'll succeed in doing that anyway, with or without your help.

But that's not how it works.
How exactly did western powers impede Russia? By implementing very modest sanctions against the selected assholes from the mafia state?

>This might improve that situation a little bit for current and future Russian governments

Yeah, a totalitarian militarized state with state propaganda and own internal government-approved network, I've dreamed about that for my whole life.
Let me try to explain what so awesome about this project and why I have chosen it instead of other, more popular WMs. The function of a window manager like managing windows to me is kind of secondary - more important is to have a complete keyboard-driven workflow.

What this exactly means to me is the ability to manage as much possible with keeping fingers on the "home row", ideally without having to touch mouse or arrow keys at all. Is that achievable? Without having to introduce plethora of different keybindings?

Yes, that's possible with modality. So for example: I want to be able to control my music volume by pressing `j` and `k`. And move windows up and down also by using `j` and `k`. And resize windows vertically, again, by `j` and `k`. And move windows across multiple monitors, and resize font in my browser, scroll up and down in my pdf viewer, etc. etc. Sounds crazy? Well, maybe. But I promise you, once you get used to it - you wouldn't want to go back to your ordinary, boring and complicated old way.

My main work machine is a Mac and fortunately for OSX there's an automation tool called Hammerspoon. One day I wrote a nice config inspired by Spacemacs, so for the lack of better ideas I called it Spacehammer. You can find it here: https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer.

To my surprise sadly there's nothing similar to Hammerspoon exists for Linux. Initially I simply wanted something trivial: "how do I rebind `Ctrl+Tab`/`Shift+Ctrl+Tab` to `Win+J`/`Win+K` so I can switch between tabs in my browser more efficiently?". See? `j` and `k` again. Even something simple like that turned out to be difficult to achieve. And AFAIK none of the popular WMs let you do that sort of stuff. With the exception of StumpWM (formerly known as RatPoison).

I wanted to try StumpWM but honestly I didn't give a heartfelt attempt to actually use it. I am still skeptical and the main reason is - CommonLisp. It is an amazing language but its popularity has declined drastically and at this point it's pretty much "Latin" of PLs. Yes, it's cool to know it but practicality of that knowledge might be a bit questionable. Learning whole new language for the sake of configuring a window manager doesn't feel very enticing to me. But at some point maybe I will give it a try.

Then I found EXWM. And almost immediately regretted not trying it out sooner. It took a few days to configure it and next thing I know I wrote a plugin for it: https://github.com/agzam/exwm-edit. Yes, the project is still young and from time to time you stumble upon some rare quirks. Multimonitor setup is a pain. It doesn't support "gaps" so praised in other WMs - I personally don't care about aesthetics of my WM though.

With EXWM everything simply becomes just a buffer in Emacs - your browser, Slack, pdf-viewer, music player - you name it. Because everything goes through Emacs you can create complex keybindings and "simulate" keypresses, for example: you can make `Win+W` to act like `Ctrl+W` in your browser or any other app (no context switching between Mac and Linux).

It is indeed an awesome project and if you are an avid Emacsen and seasoned Linux user - I really encourage you to give it a try.
Ask HN: How can I be happy when my peers are successful entrepreneurs & I’m not?
Active here on HN but throwaway for obvious reasons.

I’m in my mid-20s. Some of my peers from college (same age; some of them I know personally, others only superficially) are already millionaires from selling a company or bootstrapping to huge revenue. Some have built a 100-people company in only 2-3 years. I’m a startup founder too but not nearly as successful so far.

I know money and career aren’t the keys to happiness, but these people have a successful personal life too (friends, partner/spouse, healthy body) - plus with the money and success they have they’re in a great position to do whatever they want in life. They don’t have to work anymore and those who are single still have more than enough time to find their significant other, etc.

I’m not sure why but comparing myself to them makes me feel depressed so I’m trying to not do it - how do I stop envying other people’s career success and be happy with my own life?
now they can automate shutting it down in 4 years after they do a half ass job of adding features.
This is the core difference between gnu and bsd - guaranteeing freedom for all current and future users VS all current and future distributors (in particular, the bsd guarantees the right to fork and close - often seen as essential for commercial use in a new software or software+hardware appliance; while gnu attempts to guarantee that any downstream user will always have the four freedoms).
Richard Hamming wrote that serious scientists should have a list of problems that they would like to work on, but they can't work on all of them at the same time, and some are off the active list because there is no attack available. An attack is "a good starting place, some reasonable idea of how to begin."

This is an article that will help you understand "attack" . http://www.the-rathouse.com/2013/Fanaticism.html
With regards to private companies not following OSS model, what I will say to that is money changes absolutely everything. Not necessarily badly, but things will be unrecognizably different.
Education. I have learned a massive amount of history from carefully cultivated youtube videos. The messenger will always be shit. Look at a rack of magazines. The new yorker sits right next to penthouse or national enquirer. It comes down to what you want to know.

Adults are citizens that have freedom to choose. That is what being an adult is about. That's why kids need to be harbored from certain things. They lack the experience and education to choose wisely.

Putting that burden on the state or a website is losing the bigger picture. Any time I hear the word addiction it makes me sad people are saying they can't make an adult choice in their lives and need someone to stop them.
I just started reading the book out of curiosity, and it's so good I can't seem to stop!
On average, I might have to buy 4 apps and spend 15 minutes fiddling around with each to find one I like in that category. So that's $20 plus an hour of my time. The good apps basically have to subsidize all the crap.
This is a country that literally crucifies, beheads, and stones people to death as a form of judicially sanctioned execution. A country where sorcery is a crime on the books (actively enforced, too), and atheists are officially designated to be terrorists.

This is a country that simply should not exist.
The comments on the article include two more nice Haskell solutions (with much better speed).
>I'm surprised at the negativity on this on a startup accelerator's site where "a small chance of success" - Gimli style - means game on.

I think there are two different ways of interpreting 'a small chance of success'. The risk of a startup failing is generally because uncertainty is very high and competition tends to be fairly strong, not because the idea startups come up with are super outlandish or seem outright impossible.

But trying to crowdfund you to Mars is a little bit like saying "I'm going to build an AGI in my garage in the next 10 years".

And I think when it comes to actually bringing people into space, we need to talk about scientific expertise, health, safety and how much of this is a publicity stunt that, if it ever happened, threatens the health of people. We're far beyond a webapp here
I agree with you but grocery and other essentials bills itself comes out to be $2000 per month for family of 4. If you don’t care about organic food shopping, specific brands for quality and relying heavily on Wallart then it is possible to lower this at $1000. The eating out lunch at work itself is usually $300. Phone + cable + internet bills in family would add another $300 even when you haven’t upgraded in 4 years and so minimum TV subscription. The cost of gas and 2 car maintenance + insurance easily adds up to $500/mo. Replacing car, even mid end, adds another $500/mo for next 5 years. Computers, house maintenance (essential servicing) etc will add another $300/mo spread out. We haven’t yet got to various other utilities, schooling, dentist, optometrist etc.

I suppose bare minimum essential is probably $1000/mo but if you set needle to little above middle class but way below “rich” (which is not same as median) then $3000’for “everything else” is not sufficient.
Is that 5-10x the upfront cost? What's the cost comparison in operating costs over the lifespan of the plane?

It's not that I don't believe 5-10x, it's that I'm pretty sure the net savings are on the backend, which is where a huge amount of airplane engineering has gone--better fuel efficiency, faster servicing, etc. I'm not an expert in this area, so I'm genuinely curious.
That’s an excellent point (and a pretty cool website). Looks like there are direct (and cheap!) flights to Addis Ababa from London, Shanghai, and Mumbai. And visa-free or visa-on-arrival for almost everyone. It’s not super-accessible from North America, but I don’t think that’s the issue here.

If YC is serious about finding the next wave of Unicorns, they should really be doing a lot more to accommodate Indian and African founders.
This actually sounds very Prologesque.

"Here, have some inputs. From those, find me the ones that satisfy this goal."
Well, Clang implemented gcc extensions long before it went for MSVC ones...
> Are we to take down any app which violates anyone’s morals?

Yet all adult apps are banned, just because as US companies morals when it comes to sexual content are just very Disneyesque in that country. Even for 18+ year olds.
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