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In the Shuttle, the landing gear control was intentionally left outside computer control so that the vehicle could not be flown unmanned. Flight control software could autoland the shuttle from orbit, but it took a human being to let the wheels down. So I don't think your cynicism is excessive.
If they took part of their salary and opted (or were required by LP's) to invest that money in their fund, should any gains there be taxed as capital gains or ordinary income? They would clearly be capital gains.

What is the difference between that and carried interest? The only thing I can think of is that it's not taxed as ordinary income before being invested, which is a fair criticism. On the other hand, you don't get a tax benefit if you lose that money in the CI case (which happens a lot), so it balances out at least to a degree.
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"Do they want startups migrating as soon as they start scaling?"

Actually, I do think they want most startups to migrate as they scale up. Heroku does not want to compete with AWS; their story is value-add. Their pricing will always be non-competitive for larger apps and larger apps will be migrating away anyway.

So rather than fight it, they embrace it. By making migration easy they make their service much more attractive to the little guys.

After all, everybody expects that their little app is going to grow huge one day. Heroku makes their money from the large majority that haven't gotten huge yet and probably never will.
Excellent policy: now non-indigenous sub/urbanites can learn about indigenous history from `Pocahontas` and `Dances with Wolves` instead.
Is it common to use metric system when launching rockets to space or is it a peculiarity of SpaceX? I heard the speaker on SpaceX channel always referring to kilometers and kilometers per second when talking about height and speed.
hmm psychology is fun but... I wont trust the results of this study until they ask the same set of train-switch-murderous-multilingual users to also choose between chocolate cake or fruit salad [1].

1: http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/fruit-salad-cho...
FreeBSD can and does provide these interfaces. We've had e.g. cgroups-equivalents for years. The reason systemd doesn't run on FreeBSD is pure politics, not technical - after all, if it were technically impossible to implement systemd on FreeBSD, there would be no need for a policy of refusing patches.

> You can of course make the case that the interfaces provided by systemd are substandard, but so long as you don't have an alternative to offer, it's just talk.

The problem isn't that the interfaces are particularly bad, it's that they're not standardized. If systemd would offer standardized interfaces that let me offer a compatible alternative that would be fine. But they don't. Trying to remain compatible with software that will make no effort to provide compatibility from its side is a mug's game.
It means: 'we've already added a cookie to your browser, please click 'accept' so we don't get sued'
Out of context, this sounds like a line from a very bad book. Have an upvote.
The 'buy up the land' thing can work without changing our form of government. Go ahead and buy the land! Set up a campaign/foundation to do so (many already exist).
To anybody who wants to have a look, here's my resume - http://goo.gl/rswmvC
There is no over and under engineering in software development. Can the software be written in a simpler way? If yes then it is not "right-engineered." If no, then it is. Writing software is more similar to mathematical proofs (ask yourself, how do you know when your proof is done?) than bridge building.
tl:dr It's fluency that impacts utilitarianism, not nativeness.

Being able to communicate in two languages is not the same as being bilingual. The study in question suggests that thinking/communicating in a language that one is less than fluent in leads to more utilitarian decisions.

The important thing here is fluency, not nativeness. I am fluent in German but I started learning it at 12. German is not a native language for me but I am fluent in it. As such the study suggests I should be equally utilitarian in it and English, my mother tongue. But my French and Mandarin are both quite bad so I should be more utilitarian in them because I must be more deliberate.
I'm also a little unclear on the why the site leans in a fairly technical direction. I think I'm going to try it out later so that I can get a feel for what's actually required to get going. I really like evaluating these sites to find tools to integrate into our(my company's) training program.
Is there a way to create sprints in a separate dialog from creating task?

Also, is Kanban support in the feature pipeline?
Phenomenal. Some is binary (sparse, too - 99% false sort of thing), one other is an integer from -1 to 8, some are floats (decimal degrees for GPS) and one is a datetime. 38MB is what is reported when I use the following query, which I found somewhere:

SELECT table_schema, sum (data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024 'Data Base Size in MB', TABLE_COMMENT
FROM information_schema.TABLES
GROUP BY table_schema

You're right though - the cost per row sounds really low, I might try to find it via other means tomorrow and report back.
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Australia is proposing something similar:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/julie-...

It never ceases to amaze me that political parties who fundamentally believe in the importance of "the market" don't trust it for reducing emissions. Hypocrisy at it's worst.
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It's common in science in general to use Metric and not Customary. NASA is a/the notable hold out. Engineering is sometimes done in customary because of contracts and such, especially when dealing with government agencies.

While I love Customary volumes (powers of 2 base units), the rest could stand a change and am glad SpaceX is using Metric.
Implementation details of the RFID audio book reader for my blind grandfather
Last month I posted the RFID audio book reader I built for my grandfather (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177117). Many people asked me through different channels for more details on how I built it, so I took some time to write a small series of posts about the implementation.

The initial configuration of the Raspberry Pi and how I play the MP3 files using a local MPD server are described here:
http://willemvanderjagt.com/2014/08/16/audio-book-reader-playing-mp3/

The setup of the RFID reader and how to read the cards in Python is here:
http://willemvanderjagt.com/2014/08/17/audio-book-reader-reading-rfid/

How I handle events like button presses using interrupts and different threads in my code is here:
http://willemvanderjagt.com/2014/08/19/audio-book-reader-interrupts-threads/

And finally, some last remaining details about unbouncing the buttons, and how the code for the status light on the front of the reader runs in its own thread, is described here:
http://willemvanderjagt.com/2014/09/13/audio-book-reader-finishing-up/

I'm sure I'm leaving out details, so if there's anything you'd like to know, please ask and I'll be happy to answer.
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It's common for pretty much all of engineering really. It's ludicrous to make calculations a bit more complicated by using weird non-SI units.

The fact that NASA managed to crash a probe into Mars because they hadn't yet learned the lesson says it all really. Just use SI units and stop worrying about it.
The arm almost certainly has a control system that can resolve that. Since humans suck at higher order control, the arm almost certainly has a control system that takes the operator's desired output (which will be a series of joint angles), and converts into the required motor torques. In this process, the control system almost certainly also does sanity checks to prevent self-intersections, collision with the space station, overtorqeuing the motors, and etc.

Replacing the human with a computer program therefore likely doesn't literally involve verifying that it will not karate chop the station - lower level control will take care of that for you.

However, as anyone who has worked with robot manipulators before, actually getting good performance out of them in variable environments (ie, not a controlled factory assembly line) is quite a bit of work - work that probably isn't worth it.
That's an interesting thought for sure.

But consider that with an advent of golang, node.js and other faster (compared to python and ruby) languages/frameworks coupled with microservices architecture most (maybe 80%) startups will not exceed 10 or 15 free dynos. Those who need vertical scaling may pay for 2 or 3 dyno workers.

Where's the scalable business model for Heroku in this scenario? So I am not sure that Heroku wants startups to migrate.
So out of curiosity:

Wolfram has the weight of a MicroSD card at half a gram.

So 300kg of those cards would work out to about 600,000 of them.

Let's say they're 8 gig cards. The largest BTC private key size is 512 bytes, so you could fit about 15.62 million of those large keys on a single card, or 9.36 trillion individual keys in the entire lot.

Now for sake of sheer bloody-mindedness, let's assume each of those wallets have 1BTC to their name. (Nevermind this is impossible since there will never be that many bitcoins)

3 quadrillion 718 trillion 728 billion dollars.

That's the entire GDP of the world, about 44 times over.

Damn.

You could fit every bitcoin currently minted on one single card, and have a card worth about 5.5 billion USD.

(5.5bn in .5g. That's a pretty crazy value to weight ratio)
I'm only a bystander, but I believe PureScript doesn't include data-to-DOM binding. If you want to do it manually, I would look at the Eff monad[1].

It sounds like there are adapters to few popular frameworks, like React [2] and Angular [3].

[1] https://leanpub.com/purescript/read#leanpub-auto-the-eff-mon...
[2] https://github.com/purescript-contrib/purescript-react
[3] https://github.com/purescript-contrib/purescript-angular

I'm guessing a JS-controlled framework, like React or Mithril, would be a better fit if you choose to use PureScript as a core piece of your app, as they are function-based, like PureScript.
Don't know. But I'd guess it has something to do with that 12%.
Best described as a scaling problem with manual or prototype, vs automated.

Lets say you need a prototype ability tool and die maker machinist on staff to handle "things" during development. And you need a simple piece of threaded rod. You could blow a lot of extra time and money on getting a CNC programmer and the software and a numerically controlled lathe or machining center dropped in to make that boring simple little piece of threaded rod. Or you could say, "dude, I know this is beneath your skill, but you're just sitting there burning oxygen and it'll only take ten minutes for you to machine a piece of threaded rod, so ..."

If you have a tool that's designed to do anything, and the tool and op are just sitting there, even if you could automate a one-off, the overall system cost and productivity is higher if the op just does it by hand.

If you have a VERY active schedule, and maybe 3 simultaneously operating 24x7 arms all over the station with only one dude available to run all the arms and everything at 150% of designed thruput capacity etc, then it would make economic sense to automate this task so the arm op can work on something more human oriented, but ...
The metric system contains the SI units. It is extremely commonly used in the scientific setting, due to its capacity for precision and clarity.
If you are male, then this financier's philanthropy may help you in the future : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken (Prostate Cancer)
This looks like a rehost page that missed half the content when they copy-pasted the original.

Parts of the content is missing, and plain text saying "click here" without being a link.
Eugene?
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I've been caught in this catch-22 due to my hotmail account getting hacked a while back, but it's not tied to my Windows login -- just everything else to do with Microsoft. I guess I'll actually have to get it squared away soon, because it's taken down my Twitter account (minus one OAuth-authorized app that I can still use) and will soon take down Dreamspark, as well. :( Terrible system! I only ever used my hotmail account for MSN, so I can't answer any of their e-mail-related questions.
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I like where this is going :) I know, I have a choice of buying a car or participating with my own money on the stock market.

I have no choice if the pension fund where I work at is investing in blue chips.
"they either duped or bribed a famous author to write about them" is that just your personal opinion or do you have any evidence to back this up?
The really sad thing is that Arch Linux use to pride itself on being BSD-like. It used a similar rc.conf system. Each service had exactly one init script, not the weird multiple file init script system Debian has. Before systemd, Arch was the closest you could get to BSD simplicity on Linux
If what you are looking for is "narrative" non-fiction, Flash Boys and Dark Pools sort of own the corner. Of the two, Dark Pools is much better. In general, it is hard to tell a good narrative around HFT because it is so technical.

Trading & Exchanges by Harris is dated but will give you an introduction into market microstructure, keep in mind it was written before RegNMS.

If you want a good set of blog posts, Chris Stucchio (yummyfajitas) has an intro series that is great on his blog: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
> WiFi shouldn't be something you have to hunt for, worry about, or plan around.

I can definitely relate to that.

I will order a Karma Go as soon as they are ready. $150 seems like a steal.
OK, I guessed I don't have any knowledge to propose a solution here. :)

I still doubt that HFT serves the real economy in any noticable positive way. Does the HFT firm's spending on technology really outweight their effect on the traded stock? And is it aceptable that they earn money purely by gaming the system?
Systemd is more like busybox than sysvinit. People bitch about Systemd because they're not foul. Systemd folks (mostly Redhat) have their agenda. I don't mind that. Heck I even agree on some of it. But pushing the whole bloated thing down nearly everyone's throat disguising it as just a simple init replacement is a bit too much.
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Not the parent, but I do something similar for projects where I am the only contributor. It is far easier to track them with a simple text editor.

For multiple contributors, I don't think this will scale well, atleast without using some tool on top of the VCS.
So the author argues that this is not the greenest building on the planet by . . . saying absolutely nothing at all about the green-ness of the building itself. Gotcha.
It's a reference to a Pink Floyd track: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careful_with_That_Axe,_Eugene
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The maximum amount of BTC that can be created is only around 21 million.
Start by always using the correct spelling, grammar, and capitalization. Get a senior developer to look over your code samples and give you feedback, then make sure to have a project out there that people can see and you can link to.
You need to double fork() in order to ensure that the daemon won't be the controlling owner of the tty once it calls setsid(); i.e. that it will be re-parented to init.

So personally as a sysadmin that occasionally runs daemons from the command line I much prefer a double fork(); I don't want the daemon to exit when I log out.
As a note, there is only 13.3 Million BTC in existence, which comes to ~$5 Billion USD market cap.
oh definitely, i meant that i knew the basics of python, ruby, and javascript, as well as the other technologies (non-programming languages, as you said).
Once again, this time with feeling: HFT firms don't prey on pension funds, mutual funds, or value investors. They improve things for those kinds of investors. HFT firms prey on other sell-side firms.
Hot damn. My bad. Good catch. Edited.
Or things behind a paywall
Well, Russia just wrote off $32 billions of Cuba debt[1]. I'm not telling that this is the same thing, but still...

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-11/russia-writes-off-9...
Cap and trade's first step is to hand out billions of dollars worth of emissions credits to major polluters which they can then resell. After that it's similar to a strait tax if more costly and less efficient, but you can see the appeal.
What’s the point of attending confs when all talks are published later for free?
I realize I'm treading into waters of religion discussion here, but if you're a theist who refutes my statement you quoted, then you must dismiss the theory of chaos, does that follow? Since you said you don't believe in fate, I guess it does. Because if you think the theory of chaos true, that is, that everything is indeed deterministic in the sense that the world state now comes directly from the world state before, and we only think it is chaos because we can't control for all the absurd amount of variables, and if god knows everything, he sees the exact order in the chaos, and thus he knows that something as seemingly innocuous as a random number generator can have profound consequences sometimes--especially when it's used in softwares that altogether affect millions or billions of people every day.

That is, pseudonumber generation in software does indeed affect a lot of people, and then if god isn't willing it, he has by the theory of chaos absolutely no control or grasp upon the world whatsoever in the end. The alternative is that you believe that god sometimes wills a random number, and most times doesn't. That would make me uncomfortable actually, but I guess that's why I don't believe in a supreme being having a will of its own, as opposed to us simply being governed by supreme principles or laws--I guess chaos is my god.
I like the new Ember.js based UI! Nice.

I have periodically used Heroku a lot, but I do have one gripe about them:

I tend to run a lot of low traffic web apps, apps that run well on Heroku's free tier (and not minding the occasionally loading request delay). However, I just don't feel comfortable using a service a lot that is free: being a freeloader. (Compare to Google: they make money off of me because I click on interesting looking ads.)

If Heroku had a cheap $10/month 1 dyno tier (that might have a perk, like staying resident, not swapped out) that was restricted to a lower number of requests per day, then they would get a lot of my business running my experimental projects.

I have considered paying for a second dyno that I don't really need, but $30/month each for a lot of experimental web apps does add up. Not too off topic: I just wrote about how I create a personal Heroku-like experience on a VPS: http://blog.markwatson.com/2014/09/setting-up-heroku-like-gi...

In any case, I think Heroku provides a great developer experience.
>Weird. I've seen libertarianism blossom everywhere except >seemingly in silicon valley which seems to have gone hard >leftist since the initial early pioneers (who were >libertainsl-- like Jobs and Wozniak) have left the scene.

I don't live in Silicon Valley, so I can't tell you any of my first-hand impressions of the area, being that I have none. But what I have noticed is what I perceive to be an increase in articles that discuss 'libertarianism' stemming from the startup scene, often with some alarm. This gets mentioned in conjunction with things ranging from Uber turning its nose up at taxi regulation, to Google's efforts to provide private bus service to its employees, to the effects of gentrification in San Francisco.

That said, again, I don't live there. I'm in the Ottawa, Canada area, which is a relatively sleepy town of bureaucrats that also happens to have a fairly healthy tech scene. You wouldn't call this area 'libertarian' by any remote stretch.
Yeah, that's the reason. /s
HFT firms drive down the price of trading stocks by lowering the bid/ask spread, increasing competition amongst exchanges (especially in regards to fees), and spreading technology throughout the trading industry.

There is an argument to be made that they also provide needed liquidity but it is a contentious one.
> Because of the high density of tungsten, it is unlikely that payload concepts may be proposed that identically match the characteristics of the MSL BMDs. To maximize the potential for innovative concepts while still achieving the desired spacecraft EDL performance, NASA is requesting that proposed concepts target 90% of the original MSL BMD mass while matching the volumetric dimensions used for MSL.

Still, I agree with you. It's a very difficult target.
> Skype and Hangouts are synonymous with video calling/conferencing, and that's it. They may have more features tucked away somewhere, but it's not what they are.

I had the same idea of Hangouts until switching to android.

On android Hangouts easily becomes the SMS app and instant messenging app as well. After a few days, I would go to Hangout and then think about how (voice ? IM ? SMS ? video call?) I'd like to contact the person.
A bit in the same way Talko wants to be a hub for the different channels.
"I don't know anything about trading"

Why do you feel so strongly about banning a practice that you admit know nothing about? Is this just a gut feeling?
I think its fair for you to sign away your right to claim invention if you're doing top secret work. Its not like GCHQ would ever have pushed public key into civilian service, so its almost a moot point. This whole black-ops world of "Oh, we knew that" shouldn't be rewarded.

If major innovations are being done behind closed doors, then we're doing something wrong. Why should we reward these organizations that poach the best and the brightest and drain tax dollars that could be used for more constructive things? There's something almost perverse about the research arms of intelligence services. Its the opposite of the idea of open academic paper publishing and if they continue to snap up all the best talent, of course the academic world won't be able to keep up. Imagine if the government had a secret soccer team that would draft the top three players every year. How competitive would the civilian team be? What, if any, credit should we give the government team?

Maybe some disincentives like these would make some people think twice about getting in bed with the NSA or the GCHQ. Sure, you'll make some real money, maybe work on some interesting problems, but if you do something amazing your name won't be known.
> It's just one of many helpful ways to learn the ins and outs of a particular language.

That's actually all it takes to get a job programming. Maybe not any job, but certainly a job.
Didn't the Web overtake Lotus Notes for many purposes? No server to pay for, open to anyone, etc...
what protects a HFT microwave line from a targeted (perhaps even legal) attack of drones that get between line of site? or is the wave length larger than this?
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What "effect on trading stock"? The benefits of automated trading are not abstract: you can go ask Google for spreads from the 1980s to 2010 and see the impact.
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I always wonder how much more/less effective donations would be if they just set up a Kickstarter/Indiegogo/etc. style page with an actual time constraint.
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