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Desperate times may require desperate measures. Robotic parents won't have to be close to human parents, just good enough to teach language and reading. The result may be psychologically unstable or mentally deficient children, but that may be corrected in a few generations.
I think Japan is definitely ready. Big cities in China is ready. But since the social classes gap is very wide between the rich and the poor and it may come as a surprise to a lot of people, but majority of the population in countries like China and Vietnam is poor.

Btw, I hear South Korea's internet is much better than what we have here in the US.
I have trouble believing that you'd get very far calling up the FBI to report that someone hit you on the head with a hammer for the purpose of stealing the $100 cash in your wallet.

Basically, petty crimes are not important. Especially to the FBI. Whether Bitcoin or USD, they don't care.

(Relevant internet meme: honey badger.)
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>Try to get a handle on this: it takes us 2-5 years to travel two inches [in their relative scale - e.g., Voyager probes]

What? No it doesn't. We can do massively better than this, right now. As in, today's technology. No problem.

Why haven't we? It's frickin' expensive.

But the long-range probes we've launched have been pretty damn near coasting their entire trip, with a few course corrections. They were pushed, and now they float until they gain sentience and come back to say "hi". If they had a huge-ass rocket attached to them, such as would likely be on anything interested in going any distance at any kind of speed (ie, human-carrying ships), they'd get where they're going a lot faster.

Next up, to get to proxmia centauri in 42 years with some hand-waving to make things simpler and 100% efficient energy usage:

>To put this figure in perspective, the total conversion of one kilogram of mass into energy yields 9 x 1016 Joules. (Which one of my sources informs me, is about equivalent to 21.6 megatons in thermonuclear explosive yield). So we require the equivalent energy output to 400 megatons of nuclear armageddon ...

Where did 400 megatons come from, if it's equivalent to 21.6? And if 400 is "the same as the yield of the entire US Minuteman III ICBM force", I say that's a miniscule amount of energy, especially once it's divided by 20. Crank it up another 10-fold beyond 400, and we're still talking modern-day terrestrial-level achievable energy without breaking a sweat.

>So it would take our total planetary electricity production for a period of half a million seconds — roughly 5 days — to supply the necessary va-va-voom.

Not bad, really. We're pretty inefficient right now. Make it cost a few times that - we'll be producing that in a week before we can even get a lame v0.1 ship built and in trials.

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All in all, an interesting read. But it feels more like a half-accurate rant. We're waving magic wands to get 100% efficiency and 2000kg, but we're not waving magic wands to get away from conventional rockets and today's energy production levels?

I'm entirely on their side that our tech today can't get us to the stars. Totally. I agree, the energy needed is quite literally astronomical, and we're not even close to it. But we keep finding weird things with our science - I'm not writing it off entirely. And I don't see why people seem to imply that we must leave from Earth - why not mine the asteroid belt to provide the fuel at our leisure, and build a truly massive ship? We're not going to aim for the stars on our first go, we'll be living in space for a long time before then.
This man is awesome.
I do not like 40$ of his claims, but 60% are great.
Good luck, man!
Good point. Where can I buy Bitcoin FX options? If I am a business with Bitcoin exposure, I want to be able to hedge that. What do the markets think about this idea?
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I strong suspect it's a non-techy thing. The only reason it might seem to some here to be a gender thing is because the majority of people here are straight men, and ones girlfield/wife/partner is the person you'll see doing mudane things like typing on a PC.
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Interestingly, a non-profit [charity] foundation is dedicated to interstellar travel: http://www.tauzero.aero/

Brief article summary: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Breakthrough_...
Too many jokes from yoshicool. One of these puns is funny. One about every TCP protocol from 1 to 1024 is ... unfunny.

Did you hear the one about HTTP? Transfer-encoding: chunked.

(See? Not funny.)
This is all big news for anyone who never uses anything but Apple products, but not so much for the rest of the world.
Java, Scala and Go are slower than C but on the same order of magnitud.

On the other hand, PHP, Python, and Ruby are an order of magnitude slower, and Perl is two orders of magnitude slower.

Python and Ruby syntax is cool, but performance is taxed. My current choice remains Scala at the moment, as a balance in concisity/verbosity, performance beautyness y power.
(I used to grow some peppers and tomatoes too this way, I understand the attraction in it).

When you set up a hydroponic system like that, the cost side of the argument in the OP changes dramatically though. Then it becomes a real 'hobby' in the sense that it costs more than you can possibly get out of it (unless you grow marihuana in it - ironically, the most information I could find on hydroponics was in books for marihuana growers, and the shop I got my supplies from sells their stuff mostly to that audience and demos their gear by growing peppers in them. The first time I came there the guy was quite excited to speak to someone who didn't intend to grow marihuana).
Some of those are suprisingly funny. I would really like to see some kind of voting / sorting option, so the better ones can float to the top (although that would break the ...fragmentation... jokes)
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Only if that individual or gene is robust enough to found a new species or transfer to a new species. I mean, evolution will end up attempting it anyway, because that's how it works, but the aggregate effect of all the individuals & genes competing only helps the species more.
The Lifeboat Foundation, http://lifeboat.com/ex/main is relevant. They're a (religious?) organization promoting humanity's colonization beyond Earth.
Well, actually, people do live in the Gobi Desert (for example in Erenhot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erenhot - a city with 16'000 inhabitants).
For China you need to have an ICP license (ICP stands for Internet Content Provider) which is issued by the Provincial Government http://www.miibeian.gov.cn/
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We have good reason to believe that the missing mass cannot be baryonic or fast moving massive particles. This comes from the abundance of elements, so it is indirect but is consistent with other findings.

Furthermore, those cosmic rays would radiate when decelerated. I think if there was substantial mass in cosmic rays, we would see this radiation (did not make a calculation though). Note that the estimate for the mass of dark matter is about ~5 times the normal matter.
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Most decent engineers in the valley have at least a passing understanding of the tax system. But they also understand that being part of a successful startup looks pretty good on a resume, over and above the capital gains. And they understand that careers last longer than earnouts.
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Oh man,it would be great if all the jokes come with doodles
You could also use something like http://www.soocial.com/

Disclaimer: I used to work there and they're working really hard on solving this kind of issues.
LOL. There's nothing 'zen' about laying awake at night being afraid that that storm you're hearing outside is destroying your still-young seedlings because if it would, that would mean your family will have to stave off hunger by eating last fall's potatoes for the next 6 months.

I get pretty upset by this sort of 'reasoning', since it dismisses so much suffering by people who actually have to live a subsistence farming life, or barely above that. It's usually made by rich yuppy guys who have never known any hardship but who feel the need to proclaim the moral superiority of 'back to nature' or 'local food' or whatever. Fuck those people, with their know-it-all attitude - millions of people who actually live the life say you're full of shit, go do it yourself before you go all holier-than-thou on the rest of us.

(related: a guy at a conference on sustainable energy I was at a couple of months ago was preaching the sustainability gospel and mentioned the Uros in Lake Titicaca in Peru, who live on floating islands made of reed. He held these people as some form of example because of their lifestyle which is so entwined with nature, much better than us Evil Westerners. Well I have actually been on the Uros, and the people 'living' there are, apart from some old people who don't want to change what they've known for their whole lives, actors for the tourists, and live in Puno (big-ish city on the shore of the lake) and in the mornings put on their reed skirts and take the first boat to the islands, and then meet the tourists who take the next boat. I know because I was in the first tourist boat of the day and some of the guys missed 'their' boat and had to come with us to the island. Who wants to live on a floating reed island, catching and eating fish every day when you can have 5-day working weeks, a TV and a car and send your kids to school and soccer practice? I found it incredibly insulting that this tree hugging idiot somehow dismissed these people's drive to move away from their primitive lifestyle and wanted to build a live of modern luxury for themselves. All while he himself didn't fail to mention how his own house 'was superbly insulated, and very comfortable' - yes you fucker, you live a comfortable life subsidized by our governments (he was a professor) and then you go preach how a 'primitive, natural lifestyle' is so morally superior.)
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Anonymous literally could not have asked for a better representative on the information security front. Not only are they demonstrating that nobody's information is safe right now, they're doing it in a way that gets the message across without making everybody angry at them or any other geeks or netizens. Keep up the good work.
I love (nearly all of) the BBC output e.g. BBC4 documentaries, CBeebies and CBBC (two entire kids channels with no adverts), BBC Radio 6, iPlayer, various tech investments like Dirac and Semantic Web for music metadata with Musicbrainz etc. but yes, the licence fee is a terrible regressive tax that should be replaced with something like extra VAT on TV purchases, so that people with multiple expensive TVs pay more and since you couldn't avoid it you'd save on enforcement costs.

But... the tories hate everything the BBC stands for and any political changes to their funding model will result in them taking the opportunity to control and/or destroy the BBC. This leaves me highly conflicted.

On a very slightly brighter note, they've stopped jailing so many young women for non-payment after a rash of suicides a few years ago.
Good question.. i don't know either..
But looking at the green users, it seems that green means "new user"? They were created in the last hours...
From the link above - the products were not part of the acquisition.
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I agree with what you're saying, though in this instance I think it's more a case of being willing to turn your hand to whatever needs doing and not being precious about whether it's your job or not, rather than the implied ruthlessness of "doing everything it takes".

It's not a bad attitude to have towards most aspects of life really.
>Thank you, I'll be here all week.

Was this supposed to be a joke too? :)
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It would be especially great if we could send one out of the plane of the ecliptic (i.e. out of the "top" of the sun rather than the "side").
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Great compilations.In theory we all should start something..get the ball rolling first and change over time.
Congrats guys! A side question, how does immigration to the US work for these guys? EB-5 Visa? I hear tons of stories on how hard it is to immigrate to the States, but when Facebook does it for you all of a sudden it is no longer an issue.
That's just the setup. The point is a little later: "The crowded folds of the skirt reorganize themselves, sometimes explosively, into foamy magnetic bubbles."
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Yeah, but give it another 200 years and those magic wands may be possible.

I'm not holding my breath as neither me nor my children or grandchildren are leaving this planet, but look at the progress in technology we've made since the industrial revolution happened.
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We know its source code. We just don’t understand it.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtm...
This all makes sense to me. My mom has been one one psychoactive drug or another since 1989. Her cognitive ability is in the toilet and she's on a cocktail of different things now. I had a breakdown 5 years ago. Was on some drugs for a few weeks until I stabilized and I've been ok ever since. I think the standard course of action would have been to stay on them indefinitely. Thank goodness for lack of healthcare I guess. I wish there was a way society could actually help the mentally ill instead of causing harm as usual.
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If every issue of CQ has an interview of this calibre and quality it's going to be THE essential subscription for the field.
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That's exactly how I use my computer. I reboot about once every 2 months, and only because I need to install a nagging security update or two. I never quit apps.
Isn't great news? It's a great incentive for large companies like Microsoft to start lobbying for a reform of patent law.
Hah, I get it, it's because they're green. Good one, and thanks for the explanation.
Yet another Bitcoin story. How nice.
That's a lawyers job. Londo Milari from Babylon 5. The perfect lawyer.
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I'm not sure they're Anonymous. Let's just say, I hope the governments of the world don't use them as an excuse to crack down on internet freedom and try to regulate it.
Totally random but I bet an L-1 works here. They become a subsidiary of Facebook in the Netherlands, they've worked there for at least a year, they just transfer to the parent corp.
We may not need as many people as you suggest. We can always use sperm and egg banks to avoid inbreeding till the newly settled colony gets sufficiently big for natural reproduction to occur.
? I thought it was the mass that made a black hole - not the density?
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My thought too, when reading this. Next thought - That's going to be some seriously messed up people that comes out of that.
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You make it sound like Java and Scala and Go are almost as fast as C/C++. The inference is that they are within spitting distance.

But they are not. They are pretty take twice as long or longer. That's a long time to wait for something.

Humans think of speed on a logarithmic scale.
Yes to the Office on all platforms - Google docs is really amateurish. It baffles me that they haven't improved it.
Basecamp's front page lists Kelloggs and Adidas amongst their customers, and I've seen it in other large corporate environments.
I completely believe that no patient records have been compromised - because the project to put them online is so late and over-budget (to the tune of GBP 20 billion) that it's likely never to be completed.

Let me put that number into perspective: We could buy a replacement fleet of Trident submarines from the NHS IT budget alone...
I cannot recommend K&R enough. Right at the end of the first chapter, you are asked to write a C syntax checker. It was a very tough albeit interesting exercise for me.
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Don't you really mean: You were on IRC all the time, and subjected everyone else bored enough to be on IRC to your lies? You enjoyed acting stupid on IRC, that's fine.

Admit it, you still do. Look at how you talk about it. You haven't moved on.
Maybe I did not phrase that well. What I was thinking was not to give your premium accounts away free, I agree that would devalue your product, but that you could get free advertising by posting details of your product in places where the community will be interested. Places where there is a high concentration of people who would benefit from your product. I do not have particular sites to suggest, you will need to do some extensive Googling. My experience was getting some nice links to something I did by applying some effort to find people who were particularly interested in the subject. Do not think I am an expert, I was just throwing in some small ideas.
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Politics needs to stay off HN.
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It seems you don't understand the context of research projects. When you're assigned to write a program that processes data x coming group another group, it's valid to say that that input data is a 'black box' to you. That still doesn't mean that the whole research is 'black box' or somehow not 'real science'.
I thought this would be about social protocols. Do you have some of these?
IANAP, but after reading about the process towards the DSM-V,[1] I'm reluctant to give its "authority" much credence.

[1] http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/all/1
Peter Jurasik did a great job with that fun character. He and Andreas Katsulas had such amazing chemistry.

G'Kar is, by far, my favorite TV sci-fi character and the fact that Mollari was able to stand his own in such a huge shadow is a testament to Mr Jurasik.
E.g. nuclear pulse fission/fusion is literally 1960s tech. See the Orion project (or NERVA).

There are other proposals, which haven't gotten much funding.

The whole field of propulsion research has been underfunded since the 1970s, probably because NASA didn't want to risk creating competition for their big job program -- the Shuttle...
No, you just require a sufficient pressure to overcome the repulsive forces between the particles to collapse them to a singularity. That's why people were afraid of the LHC.
The project is such a clusterfuck that Accenture UK reccused itself from it. You know it's doomed when consultants decide to leave.

Rats do leave a sinking ship, as they say.
Getting to Mars is actually not so difficult. I'm fairly confident that we'll have at least the token human on Mars in my lifetime.
Preserving the AI that we created is close enough in my books. Genes are an archaic way to transfer information.
I work for Accenture R&D in San Jose, CA. Everything I've read here is very different than my typical work day. We're hiring analysts (entry level) and consultants (experienced hires) to work in our research lab. Both on the Research (typically PhD) and Development (typically BA/MA) sides. Click on my username and you'll find my email if you'd like to apply.

The people I work with are doing things like studying NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Riak, HBASE), MapReduce (Hadoop, Cloud MapReduce), cryptography, biometrics, language/sentiment analysis, data visualizations, cloud computing (Amazon, Rackspace, VMWare) etc. We're not like the typical consulting arm of Accenture. We're also not like a typical theory focused research lab.

We're a fun bunch. Recent company sponsored trips have included sailing the bay, indoor skydiving at iFly, snowboarding in Tahoe, white water rafting, wine tasting, hiking, a vegas trip and behind the scenes tour of the SF Giants stadium. We're also known to throw some pretty wicked happy hours.
I didn't realize it was that bad over there! Got a link for those suicides? I'd say, if UK citizens really do support it as they seem to do, then at least a proportional tax would be better. Having read into it a little though, the fact that it's technically a tax on information doesn't sit well with me (meaning if you didn't have a TV 20 years ago you were basically in the dark as far as video footage of world events were concerned).
I also use a separate email alias for each company I deal with. I run my own Postfix servers (primary + backup), but I've now created a web UI with a view to making this usable by others. The URL is in my profile (not sure if posting it here would be considered spam). It's still early days, but seems to work fine for my own emails. If you'd like to use it I'll be happy to create a (free) account for you.
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Maybe, but with a limited budget for probes there's a lot of things I'd rather see than "what empty space looks like, in different directions"
Oh, here's our group's website:
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Unfortunately in this case we cannot use the slingshot effect.
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You wouldn't build one huge bomb, but instead use lots and lots of tiny bombs in an Orion-type spacecraft. That way you get a better utilisation of your energy.
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It’s wasted either way. £20bn would be much better sunk into renewables and energy independence.
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