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Note that this is the mobile edition. The desktop site is simply https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

I would love to see something special in July for the 50th anniversary. I really wish I could start more than 1 minute before launch — and ramp up the anticipation for July 16 a bit more.

Edit: ah, you can manually scrub back to 20 hours before launch. I want to have this just running on my phone/computer/TV for the entirety of the mission between July 15-24.
Is this a joke? Dunno, grade school? Corroborated by a multitude of sources, some of which are on Wikipedia, and should be general knowledge. Did you not learn about this in grade school?
I've written a simple SAML IdP[0] which could be used for development purposes -- it's overall not too complex to deal with.

Maybe I should release this whole thing so people could have a simple SAML server for testing... though I'd probably switch to a better XML parser ! :-)

[0] http://www.rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/tcl-saml.tcl.htm (there's a web front-end that goes in front of this package to take the HTTP request turn it into the appropriate username and call this library).
> Unbound population growth

India's fertility rate is at or below the global average and has been falling for decades. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
And why pound is abbreviated “lb”
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This is the same reason why I love C, and why I think that, for projects larger than a 1000 lines, it allows me to be MORE productive than more sophisticated languages. Possibly even resulting in a smaller linecount, but at the very least less accidental complexity.

One small red/blue pain point in C is varargs - for most varargs functions I have to make a "..." and a "va_list" version.
I've been looking for an alternative to Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/etc for a while and I've seen these couple of suggestions come up a few times. Each time I look at them, I find their websites to be incomprehensible to what their product actually _is_. The worst of them is Coda. Looking at their landing page, I have NO idea what Coda is or does. None of the other alternatives seem to do what I want easily. I want to type in a URL, edit a spreadsheet, and close my browser. I'm sure one of these alternatives does exactly that, but it isn't obvious from their home pages that that is the case.

Classic startup landing page design where they forget to explain what their product is to potential users/clients.
Robotic Boyfriend Using Raspberry Pi
Thanks for sharing this , I think its a interesting approach to learning Clojure and I am a going to use this.
Using a LISP as your first language may be too abstract to effectively teach and use. I would consider it a risky approach . IMHO it is better suited as a second programming language for someone who already codes and wants to expand on his/her programming skills. I would like to here from someone who started with a LISP ( as opposed to the 99% of us who start with imperative languages)on their learning experience.
it might actually save our species to have lower population as it will slow resource depletion
It’s a total tax on the entire ecosystem. Every merchant that chooses to accept credit cards has to build 2-3% into their margins to cover the interchange fees. It’s often against their agreement with visa/mc to charge the fees for credit transactions only and so they build them into the base cost.
I wish we'd cut the Dijkstra worship way the heck back, especially in this case.

Kemeny and Kurtz were/are fantastic people who not only introduced a large generation to programming, but brought timesharing services to so many along with a supportive, embracing culture. Reading anything about the Dartmouth computing culture in the 60s makes this very clear.

Dijkstra on the other hand was a jerk, prone to making snarky nasty comments about so many things while being sweet to people's faces (e.g. the Backus letters). Beyond an algorithm or two and an OS that few remember or care about, snark is Dijkstra's legacy.
> maybe it should be a rule that all climate increases/decreases are written in the context of Fahrenheit

Nah, the rest of the world is fine with using SI units and understanding them. No need to dilute it down by using different systems.
They'll release multiple models of electric vehicles across multiple brands every year from now on.

You want a fanciful narrative that somehow ends in Volkswagen's ultimate doom, but it's not the practical reality.
Would a vessel from 50 years from now beat the original crew there? If we assume we are advancing speed-wise by X% each year, the poor folks sent and likely put into cryo-stasis would get lapped by people who left 10 years or 25 years after them.
Nice achievements.

I would contribute to such a project if it was coded in scheme.
How could a constitutional right be dependent on location or mode of expression?
Writing a Book with No Money, Experience, or Publisher
Interesting comment, given that the Libra group behind this currency is based out of Switzerland.
> I do know that explicitly raising prices to cover fees for card using customers is against most merchant account terms of service and you can report retailers that do so.

That's no longer the case after Visa, Mastercard, etc were sued[1] and reached a settlement in 2013 disallowing those terms. A few states have passed laws to reimpose that rule, but most haven't, afaik.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Interchange_Fee_a...
> However, the longer that old technology is deployed, the more expensive support costs.

That's true, but military logistics has adapted to mitigate some of these costs.

> Parts become obsolete

There are two ways this is dealt with. The first is an activity called Diminishing Materials Suppliers (DMS). DMS is an ongoing support activity during production where the availability of parts is monitored and alternative parts are selected and evaluated if a manufacturer announces they are stopping or modifying production of a part for which they are the sole supplier.

The second is the lifetime buy. Near the end of a production run, and sometimes earlier, engineering figures out how many of a given part is needed to complete the full production run and provide spares for rework and repair. Purchasing then gets approval under the contract to purchase the entire quantity of materials and the stock goes to a warehouse until it's needed.

> engineers retire or move on

Knowledge transfer is one of the big reasons the defense industry is so big on systems engineering and mountains of documentation. Obviously that only goes so far, but generally there is less tribal knowledge within a DOD program than in most commercial engineering efforts.

> IT has to maintain archaic devices, operating systems, and tools

In general, IT doesn't go anywhere near the software and equipment used to program, test, and troubleshoot hardware and embedded software. Those pieces are owned by specific engineering teams on the program.
So, the Guardian article says that it uses blockchain but is invite-only at the moment. But if it's not public, why do you need blockchain? So is it blockchain as in Bitcoin (i.e., proof of work) or "blockchain" as in hype? I hope it's not the former because proof of work wastes so much energy it's not even funny.
Monzo Bank Card Selection – “Can It Be Done in React Native?” (With Hooks))
Sourceress (YC S17) Hiring ML Engineers – Remote OK, No Prior ML OK
Waiting for the moment where we actually find a habitable planet with intelligent life. Next thing you know, we'll be developing ways in order to communicate with them, not just observing them.
> The people who operate this machine years in the future will read a date on a log file or database table and make decisions that could affect the lives of millions of people, all of whom live in the same time zone with said machine.

They live in the same time zone now. What makes you so sure it will be the same time zone for the lifetime of the machine? More insidiously, what makes you so sure that that timezone's DST rules won't change, leading to timestamps that are correct half the year and then almost, but not quite, correct the other half of the year? Or worse, that are correct for 50 weeks of the year and then out by an hour for 2 weeks a year because the DST change date got moved?

Better to use UTC and get those operators in the habit of converting every time.
>>> Then again, they can smell you, especially if it's downwind.

Only if the dog is downwind. Contrary to repeated myths about bears, no animal can air-scent objects downwind of themselves.
Then of course we have to answer the question of how can we get ships into orbit when they are full of shielding, but that's not insurmountable.

If regular travel becomes a reality, you wouldn't shield the launch vehicle, but the cycler[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
I'm a "millennial" (25) and I don't want a touch screen either. Car companies just can't make a phone as well as phone companies do. It's not about if the touch screen can be ignored, I specifically want to not have one, like how I don't want RGB lights on a computer or a Windows key on a keyboard, even if I can just ignore them.
Don’t host your own email. Unless you don’t want anyone to be able receive your emails.
> Unfortunately humanity isn't good at facing long term issues

On the contrary, long term issues are not likely to be a huge problem, if you factor investment, innovation and technical improvements. It's not like the world is static and nothing is going to happen in the coming 50 years.

Let me remind you at that in the early 20th century everyone was seriously worried that humanity might starve to death once we reach 1 billion people. And we are now more than 7, and no starvation is in sight. That was a long term problem that basically disappeared completely.
I'm a bit more optimistic. But if necessary, "right to repair" legislation can be enacted so that specs, documentation, etc are made available to repairers and parts manufacturers.
I strongly disagree. This is like saying that every store everywhere should be a Walmart so one doesn't have to adapt to the organization of other stores.

In my opinion, the style of the blog is as important as the content because we are dealing with the self-expression of a person here. The colors and fonts were conscious decisions, and presenting the data in the most efficient and standardized form is not the first priority.

(Also calling it a "one-off" blog is kind of mean. Sure it might the first and the last time you ever read a post there, but that blog has more than one hundred posts, so it's not a "one-off" for the author.)
No he doesn't, that is not what fiduciary responsibility means. See https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
Ask HN: How do I hire a great data scientist?
My company has never done data analytics before but we’re planning to start collecting data from our products, which are installed in many locations, and want to use it to design new controls algorithms. What should I look for in a data scientist to ensure they’re able to handle kickstarting a new project like this?
Could have been worse. There was a time when corporations would literally pay to produce entire broadway productions about their companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_musical
Yoo!! My brother and our friend used to wreak havoc on the Halo competitions you held at that Gaming Center.

Thank you for enabling those memories to happen.
C# is my new python: batteries included + Nuget, but faster and properly typed with LINQ sugar on top. What is missing is a great http library, tho the batteries-included stuff usually is enough although a bit clunky.
> Not all rescues are good.

Yes. Any one can call themselves a rescue. And rescues can have a wide variety of beliefs and procedures.
I thought this was going to be about the HARP Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
Methinks they can do more than one thing at a time, get everyone on the internets and facebanked using separate teams within the organization.
separate doesn't mean they can't be linked.
So no more water in a country saturated with pollution, full of 1.7 billion of people with huge social tensions, bad relationships at borders and the atomic bomb.

What could go wrong.
There are lot of people connecting to the unbanked via facebook/whatsapp/insta and transacting with them financially off the network.

When you have 1 network connecting 2 billion people why get off the network onto some other network to do a transaction. If I want to send cash to a family member in the developing world it's more convenient if the pay button is right there in the messaging app.

As to privacy and Zuckerberg controlling everything, well the banks and telcos already have all my data and keep spamming me day and night based on that data.

Whether the data gets centralized and the number of networks reduce to 1 is less interesting to me, than whether they use the data collected to take advantage of me. We do have road networks where you can drive from one end of the world to another without worrying about who the road owner is and how they might take advantage of you.
If this confuses you, imagine what it does to Excel
> Facebook’s currency may not expire or be limited to one place, but it does seem to me that “it does the same thing [as money], only not as well.”

I don't know but each time I try to show my cash into the computer... nothing happen.

Libra does the same thing as "Paypal" would be more fitting, but then you forget that not everyone can use Paypal and that's where your logic fail.

Venmo is always my best example for that, because I do have a Visa card, I do have a Paypal account. I'm in a developed country, thus I don't have issues to do transactions online. I still wouldn't be able to use Venmo though. If you were to only accept my transaction from Venmo, because you didn't like Visa and Paypal (yeah I know Venmo is owned by Paypal but you understands the point). Now imagine this world, but without any of theses.

- Anyone can own a Libra wallet, me, you, someone in the middle of a third world country.

- Anyone can transfer from a Libra wallet, to another, me, you, someone in the middle of a third world country included.

That means that anyone can arbitrage values of Libra, anywhere in the world, whether Visa, Mastercard or Paypal decide that market worth it or not.

Thus, anyone can pay using Libra, which make Paypal, "the same thing [as Libra], only not as well."
I read the article. It's mainly about reviving traditional methods of conserving water. The headline is far more alarming.

Versus news like this: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/one-third-of-world-s-...
Ask HN: Will Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium Hurt Google?
I've been playing recently with the new(-ish) Microsoft Edge browser on my Mac - the one based on Chromium, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed.

One thing I noticed is that Bing is the default search engine, and second, that Bing has gotten pretty good (search for "restaurants" and compare the information & layout versus Google).

So here's my question - will this change lead to an increase in Bing market share and therefore lower searches/revenue for Google?
How many people lived on earth at that time? And how interwoven was everything they did on a global scale?
Where are you getting this? Why does bitinfocharts.com show a Median transaction fee of $1.85 ?
I'm setting up a new laptop next week, mostly for Go/Python dev, zero front-end requirements... What's your workflow on Nix like?
You guys have enough T-90s to roll Pakistan three times over. One of the largest modern tank forces in the world if not THE largest.
"Habitable" in also relative to our Earthly form of life. There may be other architectures that prefer different temperatures and pressures, perhaps.
I can send and receive money immediately abroad from clients, to friends and family, and to buy things. I can make more reliable, unhackable, contracts. I will potentially be able to do financial stuff with less bureaucracy and legal hurdles.
> Personally

That's the whole issue. You forget about everyone else that don't have access to Paypal or Western Union, or even wire transfer.
Starting salary at Google within a given level actually doesn't matter that much, because the comp process is designed to "rubber band" your salary within the salary band for that level. In other words, you'll get larger raises if you start with a lower salary, so the difference doesn't persist very long.

In fact, when you're negotiating comp, I'd argue that an additional $1 of signing bonus or starting equity grant might be worth more to you than $1 of additional salary, because a bigger signing bonus or equity grant doesn't come at the expense of future salary raises.

However, the level you start at matters a lot. If you're an experienced industry hire who should really be an L4 and somehow get slotted as an L3, you'll spend 1-2.5 years waiting for the promo to L4. During that whole time, your peers who were hired at the correct level will be progressing towards L5. This doesn't happen frequently, but it's unfortunate when it happens. In that situation, it can actually make more sense to decline the offer and re-interview to get an L4 job offer later, since that might take less time than getting promoted internally.
The note that it's an old star makes me worry though. If they're older then us, and habitable, were they inhabited?

Our current era is a few hundred years of real, directed technological development. A few thousands years either side of that and who knows what we'd be looking at, but you imagine that - hopefully - the general progression of technology is forward.

So if they were inhabited, what happened to them? Are they exactly at our level of development? Earlier? Hopefully. Because later poses some real big questions - does technology top out about where we are now - no FTL travel, no really big radio transmitters or stellar engineering? No probes to nearby star systems? Did they even make it past the nuclear age, or avoid wrecking their climate?

One thing's for sure - if there's really 2 habitable planets, with liquid water, then we've got a hell of a target to point James Webb at when it launches - an infrared spectrum star should mean any plant life is well optimized to towards the redder end of the spectrum - we should see some type of chlorophyll.
Privacytools is another one worth mentioning

https://www.privacytools.io/

https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io
These are times when I remember that in a hierarchy people at the top are so removed and deluded that they think their employees aren’t full grown adults that see this bullshit for what it is. It is insulting actually.
Instagram is down too, coincidence? (https://downdetector.com/status/instagram)
FTA, "She recalls being a construction manager on a solar project and having to make multiple requests for plans from a contractor. She never received a response, and the information was instead being sent to one of her male colleagues, according to Yarmoff"

This has nothing to do with her being female vs male. I oversee a GC's IT infrastructure and the amount of times people have complained about hounding subcontractors and engineers for RFI's/Specs/OEM's is ridiculous and is a common occurrence.

Usually there is a lot of cooks in the kitchen and it isn't uncommon for a RFI to go to a site superintendent that is overseeing the job rather than the PM that is in the office.

I do agree there is a huge lack of women in the field when it comes to installers and people doing the legwork vs managing, but I think that comes down to personal preference. Most women I know don't want to work 60-72 hour weeks on construction sites, although there are some I'm sure who would be great at it.
I wish reporters would stop using "cryptocurrency" and "Facebook" in the same sentence.
It’s tied to the device as in it won’t be part of your backup to a new phone.. you have to manually transfer it yourself which according to you is using another app!

So the likelihood of moving to a new phone without those codes transferred is very high. Not exactly an easy experience.
How would you tackle multiple priorities/north stars? What if I want to be the best parent I can be and save enough for retirement? I can't put off being a parent until I have enough to retire on, nor can I wait to start saving for retirement until after I'm "done" being a parent.
I wonder how they plan to keep the price of the Libra stable.

I understand that by keeping fiat currency reserves, they can guarantee a minimum exchange rate below which the Libra can never fall.

But how can they stop the Libra from rising? And once it has risen, how can they stop it from crashing back down to the guaranteed exchange rate?
Thank you for the citation. Nevertheless, I hope that you can clearly see the difference between referring folks to an official company communication, and starting off with "I work at google..." IIRC, there's mandatory annual training about just this sort of thing.
> Sometimes staring into the screen is that lowest mental task

For the sake of your eyes (and perhaps well-being), don't just stare into the screen without doing anything. If you have a free moment, take your eyes off the screen and look out the window (or at nearest wall if you have none)
Yep, I scored 12/13 and the only reason I missed one is because my pessimism briefly overrode the obviousness I’d the quiz’s bias.
It’s reasonably lispy too, but without my preferred s-expressions. It manages to feel like a better Python and a better R. Library support is getting decent, with some uniquely interesting libraries.

I still find myself reaching for R more often for stats, or Python more often for quick systemsx-ish things that need a little numerical work, but overall I give Julia high marks and hope it continues to gain traction.
CERN leaves Microsoft programs behind for open-source software
Visa and MasterCard already cut off services to some groups.
I did not see this comment and added a similar one and looks like there are 2 Coding Train fans on here. this. rocks !!!
Bless Your Heart.

BTW, this will give you the warm fuzzies:

https://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
> If so, how is the entire country not panicking about this? That seems like a really serious problem.

Some might be blinded by the space program and how technologically advanced India is/might be in this regard.

No time to look for solid water supply, especially if you're not living where water will become not available.
"I appreciate your point of view, FWIW I believe that I'm doing net positive work for the world."

Well, you're wrong. You believe this because you're getting paid a lot of money to.
> Maybe there'll be world government by then...

I really need convincing that a world government wouldn't be extremely inefficient. I believe this would be the most disappointing utopia ever tried with a guarantee for regular civil wars.

I get that unity is required for dealing with global life threatening disasters waiting to happen, but it would just suck so badly if you think closer about it.

Just my take to add to the pessimism.
Radicalize, just do it.
The democratization that bitcoin was supposed to bring was fatally undermined anyway as it just created yet another caste of wealthy early adopters.
How do you think it relates to the failures exactly? Employee quality is down? The servers had someone manually monitoring them and they quit so now the servers are quietly on fire? What's the theory?

Hint: companies at Google's scale do not have a single point of failure where employees slowly trickling in or out can impact their infrastructure in this way. You would see many more failures in this case. The tenure for the average employee is ~2 years.