skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because it will use a low-density fuel, liquid hydrogen, a great volume is needed to contain enough energy to reach orbit. The propellant is intended to be kept at low pressure to minimise stress; a vehicle that is both large and light has an advantage during atmospheric reentry compared to other vehicles due to a low ballistic coefficient.[44] Because of the low ballistic coefficient, Skylon would be slowed at higher altitudes where the air is thinner. As a result, the skin of the vehicle would only reach 1,100 Kelvin (K).[45] In contrast, the smaller Space Shuttle was heated to 2,000 K on its leading edge, and so employed an extremely heat-resistant but fragile silica thermal protection system. The Skylon design does not require such a system, instead opting for using a far thinner yet durable reinforced ceramic skin.[2] However, due to turbulent flow around the wings during re-entry, some parts of Skylon would need to be actively cooled.[42]"

-- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)#Fuselage_an...
Author of the plugin here.

There's a few points I'd like to address/ clarify since I'm likely to have a different perspective than most HN users on this.

1) Pop-ups are terribly annoying and provide a bad user experience. I agree, they're not the best. The question then remains "If they're so bad, then why do websites have them". Short answer: "Because it works. They drive sales. They drive engagement." I would pick a pop-up that fires when I'm about to leave the site v.s. one that shows on pageload or after X seconds any day of the week.

2) Your marketing message is spammy and nobody likes spam. Very true too. It's extremely easy to abuse something like Ouibouce. I tried covering this in the readme: https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce#the-philosophy-beh....

> Please use Ouibounce to provide value to your visitors. With tools like these it's very easy to create something spammy-looking. Not sure what I mean by provide value? Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing: Free ebook, Upcoming webinar invite, Exclusive access to XYZ, A full educational course, Valuable content.

3) This may increase revenue in the short term but will likely decrease goodwill in the long run. This one is so tricky and hard to measure. There's definitely a fine line that can be (very) easily crossed. My belief is that, so long as you add value to your visitors, you should be fine.

If you want to continue the convo off HN, feel free to reach out @carlsednaoui
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So a female programmer walks into a bar…
Nice - this is pretty much exactly my solution to the same problem. One thing I noticed on my architecture (not sure how well it generalizes) is that explicitly flushing the cacheline from the sending core dropped cache misses quite a bit.
Yes, Git is maintained very conservative and a lot of effort is put into review and testing even before patches hit the 'pu' or 'next' branch (Git's staging branches), where they usually cook for some time before getting merged (if at all).

I even use pu on my work machine to be able to test and use the latest features and never had a serious problem.
I think the purpose of giving disabled people the opportunity to work has more to do with socialization and fulfillment than some sort of adherence to rules around being "productive members of society".

If you're happy sitting in your basement watching youtube, that's (maybe? probably not really?) okay, but a lot of people would get bored and restless doing that all day.

I mean, yeah, our society is in need of an overhaul in terms of how we value work (especially menial work), but you can't ignore the fact that most of us have something built-in that desires to do something. And right now society isn't structured in such a way that we can[1] provide a more valuable something for disabled people to do, so low-skilled labor will have to do for now.

[1] - I mean, we can, but it's probably not going to happen in a society where we have trouble getting people to even support basic welfare & healthcare for their fellow human beings.
Wael Ghoniam Who Started the Egyptian Revolution Joins Google Ventures
As has been stated already in this thread the pool of qualified candidates forces Google to hire fewer people than they would prefer and their efforts on diversity include efforts to expand the pool of qualified candidates. They don't need to limit (or reduce) hiring (or retention) of any group to achieve diversity.

The biggest diversity win for them would be expanded hiring in all groups, but greatest in those currently underrepresented.
Exactly. It's just missing the Nazis.
I'm reminded of a talk I attended about entrepreneurship by the founder of zip cars. She talked about how everyone she talked to would suggest she partnered with car companies. So that's what she did. She would go around talking to all these car companies, and then tell potential investors that's exactly what she was doing. It made for a great story.

Of course the truth was, in the meetings the car companies had no interest in working with her. From their point of view, zip car was a threat to their business. The little bit of money they may make from an exclusive contract would be smaller then all the people who might have bought cars, but didn't.

But the story about the meetings was nice.
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It wasn't "Open Source™." The source, however, was available, and you could compile it yourself if you wished.

(It was somewhat unusual to compile on Linux, since it started as a Windows GUI project and was then ported to Linux.)
It's tiring always being first, always being different, always being the one who has to adapt, denying important parts of yourself just to get the chance to do your job. It’s like being a stranger in a strange land, where you speak the language but nobody learns yours. That's why even women who do well in development end up leaving mid-career. http://www.fastcolabs.com/3008216/tracking/minding-gap-how-y... [You could swamp out woman with any other minority group and it would still be true. Its much harder to stick with something when the river flow is actively against you.]
My solution was:

<img src="foo" onMouseOver="alert(33);"

Interesting to see so many people used onError instead.
The point is to break out of the startTimer() function call, e.g.:

startTimer('');foo();//');

The remaining '); can be commented out in order to not create any syntax errors.
> If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population, and if you disagree with that, you either believe there is something inherent about certain groups that makes them better or worse at these jobs, which is plainly bigoted, or you believe that there are external social biases which cause the discrepancies.

From the point of view of a business, it is by no means clear to me that having a diverse workforce, at least along the traditional lines of demarcation - even assuming that this leads to a 'diversity of viewpoints' - makes the business more successful.

Hollywood, for example, spends the big money on films targeted at the notional 15-30 year old male, and medium budgets on patronising 'chick flicks' for women. It turns a very nice profit doing so, and has done for a long old time. A fortiori triple-A games, most of which I find frankly disturbing nowadays in their contempt for their audience.

Before the 1970s-80s, when equal ops and stuff really became a thing at all, I didn't notice anyone failing to make boatloads of money either, despite reproducing the much stronger racist/sexist biases of society at that time.

Until somebody shows me evidence that increasing diversity on staff and at senior levels/C-level has a causative relationship with increased profits, I conclude that capitalist enterprises are an ineffective vehicle for this sort of social change, and that people would be better served forming political parties, standing in elections, protesting, doing political stunts, strikes, whatever tickles your political fancy, than grumbling about what percentage of whom Google should have managed to hire thus far. It wasn't diversity on the board of Ma Bell that got rid of Jim Crow.
Great points. But isn't this the dictionary definition of "don't hate the player, hate the game?"

They need to arm themselves to survive an attack... which makes it so everyone else has to arm themselves in case they attack... arms race!
I was with you until you got to the part about the usual rebuttal.

So you're saying that the average person makes mistakes that result in bank fees, and so anyone who doesn't or seldom makes mistakes that result in bank fees must think they're better than everyone else and have an unattractive attitude? And how does an unattractive attitude equal an irrational decision?
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Figuring out how to do the least is anything but being lazy.
That is very sad. A lot of prisoners of war and internal political prisoners were sent to mine uranium. It was basically a slow death sentence.
The awesome thing here is that experts in a particular area ALREADY likely keeping tabs on the best resources available.

This could be a way for them to publicly opine on their favorite path, and overall their effort would be much lower than, say, building an online course from scratch themselves. It's win-win for them, 1) personal branding, 2) credit for the curation.

Also - I'd love to see a learning path for information security / privacy.
Just commented on this below (sorry it's so late).

It's an arms race! The system is broken. But I wouldn't blame an individual for picking the right strategy to maximize their chances.
And (in the category of don't do what I did) if you don't fullscreen the video of jnthn, you can watch the slides there next to the video.
Looks like its just a 'right-click ... encrypt this file' sort of thing. Doesn't appear to do whole disk encryption or encrypted virtual drives.
SPOILER ALERT

I used this: 1'* alert()* '

(without the spaces needed for markdown here)
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I bought it a year ago, used it heavily for a few days, decided that it was not what I needed, and they refunded my money.
I like Simple and I wish them success. I don't like them because of their fantastic app and website, or excellent human customer service, but because after many years of abuse at the hands of Bank of America I wanted a bank that does not aggressively pursue Non Interest Income (ie fees, usually overdraft) as a major source of revenue.

Simple states very clearly on their faq[0] page that they make money off of interest and interchange fees, not punitive and arguably immoral fees like those imposed by the large mainstreet banks. Head over to this reddit thread[1] from this morning that discusses what it's like to work for these banks: "[the customer who was mistakenly charged the fee] struggles from week to week with finances, and needs every dollar more than the rich customers who treat us like shit yet the managers kiss their asses. It wasn't the customers fault at all yet they have to suffer".

All of the large banks are ruthless predators on the weakest of our societies, gouging their customers with an ever evolving scheme of fees and debt incentives to ensnare, entrap and exsanguinate those who can least afford it.

They are involved in price fixing scandals of the highest order, are beyond the reach of the law no matter the transgression, and seem to hold the sum total of our shared societies in contempt. Apparently there is very little that can be done at this point, the horse as long since bolted, but at the bare minimum I'll be god damned if I give them a dime I don't have to. Simple enables me to bank as usual without continuing to participate in that abusive relationship, and for that, I like them.

[0] https://www.simple.com/faq/
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/26qpcq/redditors_...
It sounds like your parent is working within a team with a defined git workflow that they find too heavy but don't have the final say in defining.
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If you are being sarcastic, you should be aware of Poe's law, which means we can't tell.
If you can't risk giving someone access to all of it, giving them any kind of access to what in my experience is likely to be a poorly secured centralised repo is a recipe for disaster.

E.g. I've worked on systems that were ostensibly locked down like this. Except that for any developer who cared, getting physical access to any number of machines where the "secret" code would be sitting checked out, with suitable credentials to do stuff to it, was trivial.

I'm sure some people get it right. But I'd be very critical of that as a reason. Especially given that you could easily solve this in Git too, by putting the sensitive stuff in a separate repo.

Your point regarding binary assets is better, and if someone had raised that as an objection to git, it'd be worth listening. But that's a very different argument than the hypothetical argument posed above.

"SVN works for us" is also a very different argument.

Had those arguments been given, I'd be sympathetic. But the hypothetical "we need control and auditability" given above would be a red flag to me.
This overstates what Midway accomplished by a bit.

For the Japanese you might say "Midway was an island too far", like Arnhem. It was beyond the parameter they were establishing, and was prompted by Doolittle's raid and their ceaseless attempts to engage the US Navy in a "decisive battle". It resulted in something like temporary parity in naval power (i.e. carriers), and due to institutional failures they never recovered from their losses in trained pilots, Midway, before, and after (e.g. they didn't rotate experienced airmen back home to train new ones, they for the most part fought until they died).

Our landing in Guadalcanal and their failure to quickly snuff it is where they lost the initiative, that attacked and started to unravel their real parameter. Otherwise we'd have stayed on the defensive until enough new carriers and supporting ships and planes were built, then we would have done a much bloodier and somewhat more prolonged sole advance through the Central Pacific, which would no doubt have had even more adverse consequences.

Instead, they and we got into a knife fight in the Southwest Pacific, the Solomons and New Guinea, where both our carrier forces were essentially used up (of our serious fleet carriers only the Enterprise and Saratoga survived, and during this campaign the Saratoga got torpedoed and had to retire for a while for repairs, the Enterprise required serious stateside maintenance and refit while a British carrier covered for her).

Japan and the Allies were pretty evenly matched on paper, and this campaign was brutal in every way, we lost 40+ ships (and two Real Admirals (2 stars) in one night action), they lost 50+, and a slow war of attrition was waged in the skies. I'm reading Fire in the Sky (http://www.amazon.com/Fire-In-The-Sky-Pacific/dp/0813338697/) right now, which covers that in immense detail, e.g. one of the many reasons the Japanese lost was subpar civil engineering (in general their non-combat specialties didn't get any respect, this critically included intelligence), they didn't keep the taxiways between revetments and runways free of soft spots, resulting in lots of operational losses at critical time (on both sides, this operational losses destroyed more planes than combat)).

Industrially and institutionally they couldn't complete well, and when our 2nd generation of planes and ships came on-line, with adequately trained air crews, maintenance staff, the Japanese in comparison were "used up", and were never a serious threat in the air until they resorted to kamikaze attacks.
Reminds me of this blog, it's not been updated in a while but an entertaining read – basically a guy outlining all the excitingly toxic and bangy compounds he won't work with.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...
Simple customer here.

I've been very satisfied with their customer service. I've been very satisfied with the fact that there haven't, to date, been "surprise fees." I've never been charged any kind of fee for using the service. I like their goals system, too. Tiny bits of money leave your main account (it's still usable though, in case you spend more than is in your perceived "balance"). You end up saving money without noticing it, which is nice.

Other little moments where you interact with the bank are better: getting a replacement card, for example, is very easy and fast.

Downsides:
- The money you save isn't earning any real interest, though that's nothing different from a typical savings account.

- It's impossible to get cash into your account. I generally don't use cash very often, so this isn't a huge problem - but every so often, it's been incredibly annoying. Forget about ATMs, too. I can't use my Simple card at an ATM without paying a big fee. There are some fee-free Simple ATMs through a partner, but I've never found a convenient one.

- If you have an especially large check to deposit, good luck! The mobile scan limit of, say, $3,000 is not unique to Simple - but what is unique is that you have no branch to walk into.

That being said, I've had such horrible experiences with BofA, I'm happy to not have a branch.

Is my mind blown by Simple? Not really. It's fine. I like it. On the other hand, I can't say I've ever been a fuming, angry customer in front of Simple - and I can't say the same for most of my other banking experiences.

One alternative to consider: I've heard Capital One 360 is nice and comparable.
FlyerTalk would be a better place for this question. For example this post from 2012 looks useful. Things may have become cheaper/better since then: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/asia/1418244-taiwan-pre-paid-...

You should also check:

- can your iPhone 5s operate with GSM using a SIM card? (Just google the exact model number)

- is your phone locked to Verizon (call Verizon to check and, if so, to request that they unlock it)
I actually emailed the publisher about this, as the power broker is one of my favorite books (but totally impractical to carry around).

I got a response saying that they would love to do an ebook version of TPB, but Robert Caro won't allow them to do that - he even refuses to submit his writing digitally, instead writing everything by hand, then typing it up with a typewriter, which is then retyped by a typist at the publisher into Word.
BRB, building one in Kerbal Space Program. :)
Roger Easton, Father Of GPS, Dies At 93
Thank you sir! I learned something new today =)
A warrant is how the government compels you to turn over evidence you have. TrueCrypt does not have any access to its users' keys or data.

If we really really stretch, TrueCrypt had server logs that would show who downloaded it that they might be compelled to turn over. This would be an overreaction to such a request.
I can see value here. Personally, I find it extremely difficult to pick up on non-verbal cues. Often someone will make a statement or ask a question that's primarily meant as normal social conversation "Got any plans for Memorial Day?" And it will confuse me more than it should. (Why are they asking me this? What good will it do for them to know? Do I have any plans? I'm going to look over some things for work but I don't think I'm supposed to talk about that. Oh shit, I never sent in that report, I better do that when I get home. I wonder if I can do it now, if my laptop is still on I can just connect through Screens. I need to set up wake-on-lan this weekend. Did I let the dogs out? What were they saying? Why are they staring at me. Better make a run for it!)

I don't know if this sort of tech would help me or not, but it'd be worth a shot to be able to dial my social awkwardness down to a 10 and even better if it could help people with real disabilities.
The #1 Rule of Entrepreneurship
"There will be cake at the end of the test."

That's what the computer said LAST time. But I'm still alive... ;)
Thanks, we'll be sure to take a look!
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> They aren't entitled to "interpret" the law in ways that
> contravene the text

Of course they are. That's sort of the point of common law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Because it's important to feel like you're important. Not having a job, especially being turned down for jobs, can make you feel worthless and unnecessary. It's a terrible place to be.
I think your experience describes your feelings in the city. As someone who grew up half in a city and half in the country, I feel more at home and more significant in an urban environment.
As I was writing, I refrained from referring to the the theatre as 'Eastern'. The term tends to turn encourage us to turn our backs on the way in which the Second World War shapes the politics of China and Korea [or Koreas] and the way in which the US interprets them.

China was the first of 'the Allies'. It went to war with Japan in July 1937 - more than two years before France and Britain against Germany and four years before the rest of the Allies engaged Japan, i.e. China fought against Japan alone for longer than as one of 'The Allies'. Rana Mintner's Forgotten Ally was on the new shelf a few months ago at the public library:

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Ally-China%C2%92s-World-1937...

More recently I read Bruce Cummings The Korean War: A History. Now I no longer write North Korea's actions off as crazy. That's the country whose founders fought Japanese imperialism before and throughout the war. The American military maintained Japan's administrative structure in the South when it 'established itself' their following Japan's defeat. South Korea has had foreign troops in it continuously since 1895. North Korea sees that as problematic.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Korean-War-History-Chronicles/dp/0...
Too easy for 1 puzzle game.
Someone solved the level 6?
Modular commits with good messages are analogous to well-written code with good documentation - both are not terribly important (though not harmful either!) for individual contributors but absolutely critical for teams and especially those working at the aggregate team level, like the release managers and team leads your parent mentioned.
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You need real money to develop aerospace technology. The SABRE engine is in its final stage of development, and according to the articles linked from the main article, just finishing the final stage will cost about 200 million pounds ($330 million dollars). That's about thirty times what the largest project in Kickstarter history has ever raised.

The article pegs the total development cost of the plane at the cost of developing an Airbus plane. That's about $10-15 billion, or more than an order of magnitude more than all of the money that has ever been raised in Kickstarter history. Probably more than all the money that has ever been raised by crowd funding period.
There should be no popups at all - if I'm leaving your page without subscribing it's either a) your site is not interesting enough or b) your subscription box is in a wrong place. Unwanted popups are annoying, simple as that.
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I really don't get how they can't make the time to grab a sandwich .. you can eat it in about 3 minutes, and even a supermarket one will taste alright - the keyboard break will probably make even workaholics more productive.
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I find that your "Apply to YC" path is also very interesting.
http://www.mysliderule.com/apply-to-Ycombinator
Why would anybody think that switching from sugared to artificially sweetened drinks cannot help in weight loss? The question at hand is whether it helps as good as switching to non-sweetened drinks.