skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have to imagine that all four bidders presented plans with varying risk and cost which meet the requirements. Since NASA had a mandate to pick multiple winners there were probably two winning strategies, be low cost or be low risk.

I's speculate that Boeing presented the low risk route--nobody doubts they can meet the requirement if they get paid enough. I'd imagine that SpaceX presented the lost cost bid, probably viewing their bid as more of a subsidy for work and risks they are undertaking regardless.
>Whole asset classes are no longer viable

For example? Spreads between asset returns might be compressed, but I have a hard time coming up with assets that are no longer viable.

Nobody is entitled to "set it and forget it" returns. Loanable funds operate on the principles of supply and demand like anything else. When money is abundant - as it becomes when the Fed is easing - the risk premium shrinks. You don't get rewarded for money under the mattress or lent to the government. Instead, investors are incentivized to grease the wheels of capitalism by risking that money. That's our system.
I see you and I answer you much less Internet coverage for Russia and less mature credit card support.
And once again my skepticism for the vagrant/puppet model (outside of server environments) is validated.
Missing from this list: the iOS share dialog is insanely slow.
SpaceX could have massively underbid Boeing in their proposal. I'm no rocket scientist so I honestly don't know how reasonable that conjecture is until either company says more.

EDIT: Listening to the follow up questions on NASA HQ UStream Feed the following questions and answers were asked (both questions and answers are paraphrased by me, I can't type as quickly as they can speak):

Q: Why did Boeing receive more than SpaceX?

A: Both companies proposed costs for their proposals to acquire capabilities to fulfill the RFP, and the government accepted both.

Q: Why two rewards instead of one?

A: It was in the government's best interest.
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The big picture is that NASA has created competition in the commercial space market. If either of the parties fail to live up to their obligations, NASA has a backup. If both succeed, all the better for NASA. Competition is good.
We still have a UUCP feed from a legacy DOS (!) financial system. Dials us up every day and pumps us data in a message body.

We inherited it during a buy out. It dialled into a SPARCstation 2 originally but that died with a PROM failure (after nearly 18 years of 24/7 service in 2008!). It still had SunOS 4 on it. It was replaced overnight with a hacked up .Net app that receives the message from an old Hayes modem plugged into a USB<>serial adapter from Maplin (bought that evening), parses it terribly naively, translates it to a SOAP message and calls a WCF service on our back end rather than is picked up from a mail spool forwarding.

Think of this story every time you whinge about a REST API problem :)
This seems very vague. How would this be implemented?

Programming is definitely a specialized skill set but it is easily learned given time. Anything worthwhile takes time and effort. Technology can make it better but there is no substitute for skill and knowledge.

"a virtuous cycle where using a dependency gradually causes one to learn its internals". This is pretty much how it works when any programmer starts using a new code base. Isn't this also how learning any new skill happens? Why not just learn to program? It is increasingly becoming as important as the ability to read.

It takes a lot less time to learn to program than it takes a child to learn to speak his/her first language.
What if I empty the shelf first, then take a shelfie?
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Not available in Canada. Boo :(
Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift – But Won't
Charlie Bolden is one of the best, if not the best NASA administrator ever. You can't say enough good things about him. It's a great time for human space flight, it really seems like the dawn of a new era.
That's true; looking at it terms of supporting industry-wide infrastructure it does seem more sensible than throwing everything behind one vendor.

Edit: Comment 8326972 by terravion also suggests picking a single winner wasn't an option, which I wasn't aware of, aside from the issue of the relative award magnitudes.
Twitter is going to make the internet a better place.
You don't think the UK should maintain a defence capability?
Easy WordPress VMs with Vagrant and Ansible
i have an old 3gs that i used for testing and now it's my Pandora client permanently attached to my receiver. i never update it past 6.

when friends with 4 and 4s with ios7 show up i like to ridicule then on how they have a phone worse and 10x shower then the previous generation. oh apple. you're so funny when you try to nickel and dime your customers.

they take some 2min to load the first screen on maps. it's hilarious.
Don't be obtuse ;)

Since you're the one claiming "verbal" equals "oral", you're the one who's supposed to do the research. Wikipedia has a citation on that specific paragraph and there are lots of results in Google. Do your homework before your claims.

But anyways, "verbum, verbi" means "word" in Latin while "os, oris" means "mouth". That should be a clue.
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure I understand the "assimilation score". My partner Sarah is at the top, which makes sense, but then some people I barely know (brother of an ex, etc) are like #3 and 4, even though we only have two mutual friends. I have approximately 1,000 friends on FB... so maybe that's broken something?
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Any recommendations for London/UK based startup lawyer? (Incorporation, shareholder agreement etc)
Ah, externalities. Privatize the profit (bigger animals), socialize the costs (deadlier bacteria.)

> "Several scientific, peer reviewed risk assessments demonstrate that resistance emerging in animals and transferring to humans does not happen in measurable amounts, if at all," said Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council.

This feels like echoes of "Cigarettes Are Safe" from previous decades. (Yes, that comparison is a bit prejudicial, I know.)
My 4 best friends in the world rank (well there are 5 but one quit Facebook): 1st, 6th, 13th, and 40th; 18th already begins in with people I kinda sorta don't like or am at least ambivalent about.

Needless to say, it is a mess and doesn't support people who have lived in different places all that well LOL.
There has to be some irony there, given the development tendencies of golang. :)
You are absolutely right, 1e22 fits in the double, exactly with the bit pattern you showed. And it doesn't fit in the float. Thanks. One more proof that PDF alone is too little of the presentation and that it's easy for the reader to remain confused. I consider your reply "a missing slide" between p 15 and p 16.

So the author is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zimmermann
Off topic: Today I learned http://dcurt.is/unkudo. Peter Sobot, I want my kudos back. (Not that I didn't really appreciate learning about ${PIPESTATUS[*]}.)
We use this at my job all the time to make backup files with timestamps.

A typical script might contain something like:

cp file{,.$(whoami).$(date '+%m%d%y')}
Nice, but the UI lags too much for me. I have ~200 friends.
Your first sentence would lead me to think you are disagreeing with the parent comment, but I'm not seeing where the disagreement lies. Both of you seem to advocate foregoing bike lanes.
Seems like we've looped back to 1959 to me.
My good friend owns one of those places, his girls all either book a taxi or get picked up by their partners.

As an attractive girl, you do not want to be walking / taking public transport in certain areas of town at 6am, it's a sad reality.
Author here. I know how to program, I've been doing it a long time. And yet learning a new codebase feels like learning a new language. And it doesn't help much in understanding the next new codebase. Maybe that's just how things have to be. I'd like to see if a better way is possible, if it's possible to learn faster by starting not with code but with scenarios that look like log files. "Welcome, newcomer. This is a text editor. Here's an edited sequence of events that happen when a key is pressed. Click on any line to locate it in the codebase, and to find some other scenarios that print it." Something like that, but easy enough for authors that such scenarios are actually created and kept updated. I have more details in a couple of the posts linked at the end: a) http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers, and b) http://akkartik.name/post/tracing-tests. But yes, the article is a year old, and I hope to have something more concrete soon.
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It seems that SpaceX can do for $2.6 billion what Boeing does for $4.2 billion.
Also, have you seen:

http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

http://www.intentsoft.com/

http://camlunity.ru/swap/Library/Computer%20Science/Fundamen...
I think we're actually in agreement.

To be fair tho, influenza is airborne, but you're not going to contract it by going outside and breathing, unless you're being breathed on by someone with the flu, or shaking their hand.

My point is that being breathed on, or even in close proximity to someone with Ebola is likely to result in you contracting the disease without actually touching them, as it is with influenza.

So, does it matter if the virus isn't 'airborne' in the strict medical sense if it is just as contractable as one that is from things like coughing?

It's a question, and not a rhetorical one.
Social Media: Positive reinforcement or breeding narcissism?
This post got demoted by the voting ring detector. Submitters: it's not in your interests to try to get upvotes for your posts. HN's software catches most of this. Odds are that the accounts involved will be penalized.

Please just let your work speak for itself. A small number of reposts is ok.
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Why can't somebody be satisfied both with getting back his children and with sticking it to the person who took them in the first place? I think most people would gain some degree of satisfaction from seeing the person who kidnapped their children brought low.

(Admittedly, this is not the narrative I think is more likely, but it doesn't seem like all that remote a possibility either. Vengeful feelings are ugly, whether we consider them justified or not.)
I would like to correct the above into "In some companies, startup or not, there's expectation that..."
I worked for four years in a startup environment and normal workweek was always sufficient. Of course, I made sure this was the situation before I signed up. Making sure the company culture fits your philosophy of life before signing up is always good (if the economic situation is such that there are plausible alternatives). Becoming hired is not a cost free transaction but incurs severe opportunity costs for the near future. Not getting hired can incur acute fiscal costs on the other. But I would claim the nature of ones employment is not about subjugating ones autonomy unless the employee lets it. Of course, debt and mortgage balances the odds in the favor of the employer more often than not.

Please, telling bright young people that working ones ass of for the benefit of the employer is the only path to a good life is a severe deficit of clear thinking. Some people enjoy doing lots of work for the work's sake and it's a totally fine way to live ones life - but it's not the only good and admirable way available. I'm not saying any other way is better, just that there are usually options available to clever people how to organize ones life.
I don't believe it's government sponsored, but the East Bay Bicycle Coalition gives you a light for participating in their free bicycle safety trainings.
>I think perhaps they are dealing with the fact that the CST-100 system looks like something from the 70's when compared to the Dragon V2.

They both look pretty plain to me. I mean, Musk can lay on some shiny metal here and there, but they're both soulless capsules. I really like the Dream Chaser; a 1/4th size STS that can be mounted on the tip of existing rockets is very tempting.

I think Boeing's marketing wants people to know that it won't have the Musk-like cult of personality, but it can deliver the goods, thus the talking points about hitting milestones.

I wish both of them the best of luck. This isn't a competition, its delivering LEO for NASA. I think people who see it as some kind of "my guy vs yours" are missing the point.
Completely agree. It is one of the few podcasts I listen to regularly.
I wasn't talking about buzzing a bicyclist, but in this normal usage with both vehicles in the middle of their lanes:

||-(car)-|-(car)-|-(bike)-|||

The car will be forced to slow down to 10mph, because the distance between them will be around 3 feet. Bikes will become traffic blockers as a result, or this will be another badly designed ignored law designed to create pull over excuses or collect revenue, increase driver resentment of bicyclists and the legal system.

I say this as a person who uses bike lanes to commute to work, frequently. This is a badly designed law in this bike lane case.
Well, from a Scottish viewpoint we've only ever been invaded by one nation in the last thousand years…
Love the idea. The IoT is pumping so many vague products, but I love the ideas you guys are putting out there at launch.
You are correct, took me a bit to look it up by my tax exempt bond holdings are municipals not treasury bonds (well except for some series EE but that hardly counts).
You're reframing. "Tough but fair" is how you treat coworkers, employees, investors, and others who you interact with regularly. But it doesn't give you an edge in becoming relentlessly effective.

What do you do when your competitor is willing to break rules that you are not? Tread moral and legal grey areas that you do not? Take advantage of Facebook API's to spam users? How about spamming Craigslist? Submitting thousands of fake car requests to bog down your service and drivers?

Do you avoid all this low hanging fruit? Or do you take advantage of these growth opportunities and hope that you're so successful these shady tactics become afterthoughts?
If you do accounting instead of games, floating point is NOT your friend. (some game devs might argue that floating point is not your friend there, either, if your "universe" has a convenient "quanta" and scale/size)

Use fixed precision / "binary coded decimal" instead.

http://roboprogs.com/devel/2010.02.html
In 2006 YC ran this ad in The Stanford Daily. I always thought it was funny.

http://i.imgur.com/HuQxIXT.jpg
The page is currently invitation page but you can use below website:
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We are planning to launch the Beta near end of Sep.
That's not true.

You don't use the same meds for bi polar and depression - it is dangerous to do so.

People with depression should be given access to CBT with an anti depressant if needed.

People with BiPolar should not routinely take antidepressants, especially not if they are starting a manic phase. They should be taking lithium, valproate, or olanzipine.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG38/chapter/Key-priorities-...
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I believe you would purchase Qt for the training and support options, and not so much for hiding a couple of DLLs in the deliverables.
I've been building an app with a Today extension, it has been...interesting. The view auto layout parts aren't quite working correctly, testing is a bit of a mare in the Simulator and deployment testing is also a bit of a pain. It has loads of potential, but it's definitely still got dev beware areas.
Although Scotland would at least have the choice as to whether to apply to join or not. Choices it does not have at present. If Scotland remains part of the UK and a future Westminster government (which Scotland would be unlikely to affect at the ballot box) initiates an in/out EU referendum how much do you think Scotland's opinion would be worth?
That's awesome. I didn't know something like Haxe existing for a long time.
Swedish C2C direct payment sec vuln details
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Option 3: tax only the environmental harm of goods and services. Eco-friendly goods and services would go untaxed, while many luxury goods would become even more expensive. The trick of course is quantifying environmental harm.
I woudn't blame him for that, I think he does pretty good job with the ammount of money NASA gets these days.

>NASA has set the stage for what promises to be the most ambitious and exciting chapter in the history of human space flight.

This PR speak is what I don't like though.
I believe Qt does offer a shared library for Qt that can be shared/upgraded across multiple apps. I wonder if that's enough to allow one to deploy on Android (iOS is obviously a no-go).

I have an early prototype in Qt that's not going to be a big bread winner, but it'd be nice to be able to release it and get some feedback (even if that means that they have to install the shared Qt package too). I'd probably just bail on the idea if I had to pay much of anything, especially monthly.
I wasn't aware of MPS (thanks for the link), but I've spent some time thinking about DSLs. My previous project was about a DSL-friendly language: http://akkartik.name/post/wart. But I've since moved on to the view that you can't fix programming with just a new language.

I've read everything I could find about Simonyi's work, but it's hard to get a good feel for it without playing with an actual system. I worry that it will be good when it launches, but gradually degrade over time because there's just too much code and people gradually don't understand it.

We have fifty years of experience building good interfaces. But the implementations behind the interfaces have a way of gradually rotting as people leave and new implementors take their place. I'm focusing on the complementary problem of transmitting implementation knowledge more efficiently.
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#1 is my ex, #2 and #3 are guys I barely know. After that, the top 10-20 are just the Facebook friends that are most active on Facebook.
The stewardship of community contributions seems particularly poor in Docker. One of the more frustrating projects I have tried to help, and is really the only red flag. The promise of docker is awesome.

See this thread (and previous discussions around the issue) begging for docker core to participate and getting nowhere for ~1 year: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/7284

Is there an outline somewhere on your plan for governance and stewardship for community contributions, how proposals move through the pipeline, and whether anyone outside of Docker, Inc has the commit bit?
If you need a simple drop-in sendmail clone for relaying email through Gmail or countless email service providers, don't forget msmtp -- couldn't be easier. Just one file to configure and nothing extra you don't need. Optionally, installing msmtp-mta creates a sendmail alias to msmtp or just ln it yourself. Examples at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/msmtp (pretty much the same on Ubuntu, etc.)
Binary coded decimal is horrible. It blows away a lot of useful representations, and you don't really gain anything. It also doesn't actually have a direct any relationship with fractional amounts. Fixed precision can be used with any denominator while keeping a binary representation.
It's pretty straight forward. SpaceX can do the same work with less money for a variety of reasons. And SpaceX has a capsule that has already flown in space and successfully docked with the ISS several times to deliver cargo. They are 'just' upgrading it to carry people. Boeing has not flow their capsule yet, they're playing catchup.
This sounds like a nightmare. Share invocation is built in to BlackBerry 10 and much simpler. Fairly certain none of the issues outlined here exist. At least Apple added it though.
"Verbal contract" always refers to spoken contracts!

This is about usage, not definition. To interrupt a hrwad with a pointless aside in a snarky manner about a common (mis)use of "verbal" deserves a downvote.

Your inability to find an example of someone using "verbal contract" to mean "written contract" has been noted. :p
I want a good "what does a LISP programmer need to know about WL?" :-)---or, rather, a nice, conversational tutorial, a "WL for Lisp programmers" that discusses not just the things you need to know, but the underlying philosophical similarities and differences and the pitfalls you're liable to encounter if you try to make the transition.

(I also want an open-source implementation, but it would seem that isn't on the table.)
>but not particularly relevant. The virus spreads just fine with its current mechanism

This strikes me as a rather weak argument. Just because something "works" doesn't mean evolution/gene mutation won't find a way to make it work more "efficiently".

I'm also wary of drawing parallels to anything we see in a "modern" country...sure flu etc is contagious too - beyond that they are barely comparable though.
When has a modern government told its citizens to panic?
Better alternatives? Please elaborate on your suspicion.
We socialize the profit; cheaper meat.
Same here. Top three are partner, mother and sister. Makes sense. 4 is someone I haven't talked to in 8 years and barely know.
It bugs when you have more than 1000 friends the scripts takes too long and freeze the browser ....
I don't think I can pull this off. A dark room kills a lot of my bedroom fantasies :-)
> Your inability to find an example of someone using "verbal contract" to mean "written contract" has been noted. :p

Did you even search Google? Do your homework!
Yeah, honestly I'm not qualified to answer that question. If I had to guess, one of the reasons why going airborne would be so bad is that it allows the virus to sprawl (geographically) much faster than it ever could otherwise (because it would be subject to wind etc).

Basically it could and would spread much faster and further if it were truly airborne. Also pretty much makes it impossible to contain because we can't just quarantine the earth's atmosphere.
That's almost certainly true. For any longtime NYC resident who knows things[1] it's obvious from that map that the most prominent visible destination from the Hustler Club data is Sin City in the South Bronx.

[1] Specifically things like where notable strip clubs are
Leveraging IT to extend coverage of medical professionals
> I suppose that if Ford set up "showrooms" in the Natick Mall and tried to claim they weren't "franchises", the Court would consider reading the definition more broadly, but I'd rather any Court read statutes as being as minimally intrusive as possible: No franchise agreement? No problem.

Can Ford not put vehicles in public areas with associated literature (paper marketing, iPad kiosks, etc), and take orders from that mobile device or via a customer's phone?

The order takes place where the servers are (the same as when you buy a Model S on teslamotors.com), and you would be prohibiting the corporation's freedom of speech (finally! a use for Citizens United that sucks less) by preventing them from putting a vehicle out in public (if they have approval of whomever owns/controls the underlying space).
We can only hope that they do, even if only from a point of principle. Although it will make no difference to the operations of the Five Eyes organisation since they don't respect geographical or political borders anyway.
We're talking in a context of companies having billions is cash/cash equivalents just to avoid paying taxes. It's pretty much a win win situation.