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I tried replying to your email, but it bounced because your mail server mandates STARTTLS. I have postfix with opportunistic enabled, so not sure where the problem is.
Why is this "absolutely wrong"? This is a natural, useful and benign description of what a function is. It doesn't contradict the formal set-theoretic definition, which came long after mathematicians started talking about functions, and which isn't required at all to conceptually understand what a function is, just as nobody needs to know the Peano axioms to understand what the number 5 is.

I don't see any harm in saying that a function is like a machine.

Edit: And if really want to be pedantic, then we might as well say that a function is not a relation between sets, but just a relation (with the requirement that no element maps to two different elements), and therefore can be between proper classes as well (hence we have functors between categories). Also - there could exist other ways to axiomatize the notion of a function. They point is that the formal definition of a function is just a tool, not some metaphysical essence of what a function is.
To call the lottery a tax is an insult to those who choose to play.
Why does the main repo say "DEPRECATED"?
Indeed it is. I'm afraid Google only have their own bug bounty program and I think PayPal no longer have one.

In terms of where to go from here I've no idea.
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Aerojet bought those engines from Russia - the original manufacturer - in 1990-s. No need for Orbital to scour museums.

No, engines didn't explode. Were actually never flown before the first Antares lifted off. But performed pretty well on stands.
Anything is possible, but I think it would be unwise to assume they are related.
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I know, I'm just saying I wouldn't trust HP to put out a reliable and low cost product.
FYI its a felony to lie to an FBI agent. Don't say anything to them.
Agreed, call it a "tax" is entirely a condescending attitude:

"These poor folk who play the lottery only do it because they're intellectually inferior to me."
Can all the philosophical disciplines verify their own answers? What about the social disciplines? Do you just ignore questions which aren't cleanly reducible to science or mathematics?
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Oh, another example that affects even the one-way lookup is stalking -- if I've been over to Joe's house before, and then he goes into hiding, I can say, "hey, I see Joe's access point, where am I?"

That could be mitigated by requiring at least two access points for a query.
If you think about Project Ara as a TriCorder, rather than a Phone, it's a much more interesting concept, I think.
I think this is fundamentally pretty hard problem. It involves control of turbulence, and this is a big in general unsolved problem today. That includes hypersonic flights, thermonuclear plasma control... Rocket engines work on the edge of material capabilities, and fluctuations - which you want to tame to guarantee things like that won't happen - are hard to deal with.
It would be funny for about a day, then you'd realize that the new Kings (Apple/Google) are being bad platform owners. They do enough of the blocking apps game on the sharecroppers.

With that said, CurrentC should go away but it isn't too bad to have some competition right now as this is such a huge change for the US finally. Paying from your phone will be the norm in 1-2 years and it will seem strange before that. We are finally joining the rest of the world, Finland has been doing it since the 90's. Whoever wins the riches should have to work for it a bit. I just hope it is the consumer friendly version that wins out.
This is very interesting, as I expect my next or next+1 move to be seeking a PhD in computer science. My wife and I are open to the idea of living in Europe.

Does anyone care to comment on Germany or Scandinavia for computer science programs at the PhD level?
Indeed, we seem to see announcements of TIGHAR "finds" about once a year, with each one being pretty vague and not leading specifically to the discovery of Earhart's actual aircraft.

If one were cynical, one could conclude that the annual "finds" are just exercises to keep TIGHAR's name in the news.
You have a good point, but I was looking at these two points:

1- Extent of the damage

2- Number of points vulnerable

Heartbleed had (has) a lot more servers vulnerable, but the impact is a lot lower and it is a lot harder to exploit to extract valuable data. In fact, I doubt you will see a compromise or a major issue because of heartbleed (despite the mass drama).

Compared to this problem with Drupal, that is used by the many of the top sites online, the overall damage can be a lot bigger.

Time will tell.
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Not insider knowledge but at the DC Drupal event in early August the WH devs gave a talk about the 2014 State of the Union live stream, and at that time said that the main site was still D6. Perhaps they deployed the D7 upgrade since then.
I'm not sure what you expect of scifi; the same can be said of Heinlein and Clarke (maybe Heinlein a bit more than Clarke).

Night's Dawn (Hamilton's second trilogy) was pretty well done in that respect if you ask me. Sure, the premise is far-fetched, but the background and technology was pretty compelling in my view. Hamilton clearly has a grasp of orbital mechanics, for example. And you gotta admit you would _love_ to get a set of Neural Nanonics installed :).

I don't know, but I just can't fathom classifying Banks and Hamilton as anything other than hard scifi.
The P in PERL stands for "practical". Switching the story and saying that it's now an academic pursuit feels like abandonment to some. Programming in perl5 was part of a livelihood for many people; uncertainty and decade-long limbo is very poor leadership. (And leadership is a privilege; followers get mad when they lose faith in a leader.)

That being said, perl6 is interesting, so I think looking at it more like haskell could be valuable.
Pretty please: Make sure there is proper software for at least Linux or OSX.
This is true. You'd have to look for a script tag with src of https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js. Alternatively, you could try to follow the onclick handler for the button (Event Listeners in Chrome).
They are important to make a good decision. Efficiency, mass, reliability, price... You can't just ignore them.
I think we could just as easily point to SNMP, and the same reasons why that isn't a good argument apply here. They differ in where their priorities lay and what they aspect of management they emphasize.

In this case, it's about easily correlating data to pull more complex information out of specific system data sets.
I'll start of with something I think we agree on: I don't think this article belongs on HN. The woman and her PSA have nothing to do with Tech / Software / Hackers and it is a little bit too generic interest for the site.

That being said, in general, Hackers are people and the Software/Tech industry is made of people. Some of those people are women, and some of them spend much of their professional lives being harassed. Some of those people then try to relate their harassment and are told that "that isn't harassment" or "oh it's just a few bad apples" when they are systemic things that people want to ignore.

We can't continue to live in our own little world of only technology and inventions and hooray VCs, free from "social / political areas" and hope the problems go away. You or I might not be sexist, but lots of people in the industry that we work in or otherwise care about are. So in a lot of cases, the issues are inseparable. Wanting to ignore them is an extension of one of those things that makes people hate Silicon Valley and the Tech Industry in general.

So, I would implore you to reconsider your stance on these kind of articles in general (though maybe not this one in particular) on this site, continue looking at them, and keep an open mind around the discussions. Once again, pointing out that there are issues is not a condemnation of all men or the whole industry, but the issues are systemic and ever-present.
That's exactly the issue. Most enterprises didn't even have time to be notified and properly test/push a patch live before the attacks were already in the wild.
You probably already know, but your product name is very similar to another app:

https://www.zombiesrungame.com/
See also http://osxc.github.io which builds upon Ansible (which is of course also built in Python).

But what if I use Homebrew to install a package (pyenv) to manage my Pythons to install cider to bootstrap Homebre...

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All your points are worthy, and up to a point I agree.

You are also right about my model, my ROI is probably flawed. I think the main flaw, though, is not lack of "expenses" but lack of a cost of opportunity analysis which explores what happens if you go find yourself any job available after completing high school.

Still, I'd challenge the idea that $80K is the average salary we should care about. First, I am talking about lifelong average, not starting salary.

Second, since we are talking about a "quarter of million dollar education", I assumed it is an elite program we are talking about. This means their alumni will tend to get better results, in part because of the quality of the program itself... but also in (a big) part because of the enhanced opportunities available to their graduates.

Or maybe I am out of touch with the cost of a university degree in the US. If this is the cost for a typical program, then my point was indeed optimistic.
With these particular engines, you also have the variable factor of them being stored for decades in a warehouse, and all the issues with metal corrosion, fatigue, degradation, etc. that come with that.

I'm not a materials engineer, but I could imagine things like seasonal temperature changes, humidity, rough handling, changes in the metallurgical properties of the alloys they used over time could all affect the ability of the engine components to withstand high temperatures and pressures.
It's not too hard to separate 2 colors. (Just have separate STL files for each color). I do this currently.

I don't think many designs will really require "pixelized" variations in color like their demo shows. Just putting a transparent layer, or 5 colors, will provide for ~80% of predicted use cases. So, a simple "STL per color" format can act as a "bridge" until the necessary richer standard is developed & adopted.
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> Given that it's not legal to shoot people for trespassing unless you have a reasonable expectation of harm

That's actually quite dependent on state law.

Take California's: "Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily injury within his or her residence shall be presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily injury to self, family, or a member of the household when that force is used against another person, not a member of the family or household, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly entered the residence and the person using the force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred."
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There's no such thing as news that doesn't involve social or political issues.

There is news that doesn't challenge implicit assumptions -- but that doesn't make it non-political.
For starters, that wasn't an actual launch to orbit, that's just the low altitude testing frames for landing/reusability.

It was deliberately destroyed as a safety measure because the rocket was moving out of the testing zone and the onboard system wasn't able to compensate fast enough.

Apparently Elon and a few others were a little annoyed that more (appropriate) risk wasn't being taken in those test flights, because they'd been 100% successful.

Secondly, their launches of the production Falcon 9's have been 100% successful (with one launch not achieving a secondary objective). Additionally, after the first three Falcon 1's, they were also 100% successful.

And finally, they launched two Falcon 9's since August 22nd: September 7th: Asiasat 6 launch (Geosync), and September 21st - Dragon CRS-4 (ISS).
When I first started web development (mid/late 90's), Postgres was the very conservative open source choice. MySQL was fast, good enough, and broke a few big rules.

That hasn't been the case for a while, but with the recent speed improvements in the past few years, prompted by NoSQL, and MySQL's troubles with Oracle, Postgres has become the Open Source SQL frontrunner, and everybody's taking it in really interesting directions.
>He's right. That is insane. But so is spending $27,950/year for 5+ years to "be taught how to think."

When you put it that way, it's kinda funny: in any other context that would be an obvious scam.
Fascinating. And 45 years later, here we are building photo-sharing apps.
This is cool technology, but I wonder if it's solving any problems for the consumer?

If I cracked my phone's screen, it would be great getting to replace it without having to pay for an entirely new phone. I suppose it might be nice to upgrade the camera, if a nicer camera becomes available. I'm not sure what else. The author claims a precedent for modular technology, and mentions computers, cars, and airplanes. But if anything, computers and cars now seem more integrated and more difficult for owners to modify. I've never tried swapping out parts on a plane.

Also, I wonder how Android might support this. It's difficult enough maintaining compatibility among the set of Android phones; increasing the number of possible hardware configurations by orders of magnitude by will probably require some major changes at the OS level.

Anyway, I'm sounding negative. But I do think this is cool. Like DARPA programs, it could have a positive long-term impact in both intended and unexpected ways.
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The only issue I have with raft (besides bugs in the various implementations I have to deal with at work) is that it is not yet proven to truly be simpler than Paxos. In other words, is it a genuinely simpler algorithm that provides the the same guarantees as Paxos, or is it simpler because it leaves edge cases unspecified, forcing implementors to grind through the edge cases with heuristics? If it's the second, it's not actually simpler, it's just worse.

I'm not saying that it isn't genuinely simpler. Just that in discussions about raft, I see most people blindly assuming that it is. But I don't believe that it has been proven yet. I think this is the nuclear power plant part of the bikeshed discussion. [1]

If you scrub to the 50 minute mark of this talk[2] by Leslie Lamport (creator of Paxos), my coworker David Varvel asks him this question and he gives more or less the same answer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality
[2] http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-642
Seems like either a poor headline or the wrong metric.

I am insured now, but as someone who was rationally uninsured, I don't think I am better off. While I am only one person, the assumption that insurance necessarily makes someone better off seems a bit spurious.

Are there any metrics on whether the cost of insuring the same person has gone down? Wasn't that meant to be one of the benefits?

Edit: Did some digging and it looks like a more comprehensive review of the stats can be found here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html

As for my own question, it does look like the majority of the markets will see prices increases.
The reason NK-15 were exploding was traced back to turbopumps. Those were completely redesigned, from scratch, for NK-33. That alone justifies a new name for the engine. Then, unlike NK-15, NK-33 are multi-start engines. Were tested for ridiculously long work times - one worked non-stop for ~14000 (fourteen thousands) seconds on a stand.
I actually don't mind CurrentC on the playing field; I just don't agree with their terms to block all NFC transactions. I would like to see all of the payment methods play out; CurrentC may even offer something of value that Google and Apples products don't although that remains to be seen right now.
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There is a lot more to political philosophy than "Is president X better than president Y?". Moreover, who's claiming that something has to be demonstrated as true? You find no value whatsoever in discussing and considering different axioms?
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The NK-33 may be old, but it offers equal or superior performance to anything made in the US. Another engine, the RD-180 is used in the Atlas. US industries have the rights to manufacture, but want $800M and 4 years to build it or create a new engine. That tells you the state of US tech.

http://aviationweek.com/defense/aerojet-rocketdyne-targets-2...

Video on Russian/Ukranian engines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbl_ofF3AM
You would have gone with a language that was not released yet? Two years later you would have gone with PHP6?

A more realistic approach would have been to compare PHP5 with Perl5, where the latter would offer a migration path to Perl6 if it had become popular.

(Not only had Perl5 compared favorably back then, the core of the language has been stable, deployment looks similar and there has been much fewer security issues with the language itself.)
I was wondering this too. Somebody could swipe the system straight from the counter and cripple sales for a while. Surprised to not see a Kensington lock on there.
These are some nice UI sounds! If you're interested in learning more about the use of sounds in UI, I have a blog just about that called Beyond The Beep http://beyondthebeep.tumblr.com
There was once a similar project also called Cider, created by Corey Donohoe (atmos) from GitHub. It was renamed to cinderella because of trademark infringement, so you might want to check that out: https://github.com/atmos/cider
I agree with you. The level of waste from these large companies just makes me even more angry that they're able to persist at these rates. However, money is power is money is power is money is power is money is power...
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I've seen photos of the hangar where they were stored. Looks like some decent conditions. Regardless, they were inspected - with replacing proper parts, like in valves - and tested on stands. And x-ray checks are standard for this kind of systems.
To say that PhD studies in Sweden (and the rest of the Nordics) are free is a bit of a mdisnomer though. PhD students in the Nordics are bona fide paid employees, and the salary is a perfectly de3cent public sector wage (that is, more than enough to live on).
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I don't think they'd ever switch to that logo specifically... it's too easy to confuse it with "bp".

It does look slick though!
I had a weird conversation with a cop last year - basically, they responded very late to a domestic disturbance, that being, one of the people staying in my spare room until they got their shit together decided to attack me. The other person called the cops while I calmed the first person down, which fortunately happened before the cops showed up.

I answer the door, and am asked if everything is okay, and so on. I probably look very shaken because I had to disarm someone not 5 minutes earlier, so they insist on coming in. What I told them is that they put me in a bind, because on one hand, I was told that it is customary in the US to refuse entry to law enforcement unless you specifically called them, on the other hand, I have taken a vow of hospitality, so they are welcome to a warm meal, but would they mind having it served on the porch?

They saw some Jehova's Witness literature on a table behind me and figured I was some religious crazy, said they're not allowed to accept food on duty but thanks anyway, and left.

All this because the person who tried to stab me is transgendered, and I didn't think spending any time in a jail would have been safe for her.

Sorry for the irrelevant story, I just had to let it out.
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A lot of people are skeptical of TIGHAR's Nikumaroro hypothesis and of TIGHAR itself. I used to be in the skeptic camp myself, until one day I decided I might ought to do some investigation rather than just dismissing the idea out-of-hand. It turns out that TIGHAR has a lot of information on their website, including but not limited to artifacts they've recovered on expeditions to Nikumaroro.

It's the artifacts that get the most press, but in my layperson's opinion it's not the artifacts recovered that constitute the best evidence for the theory but rather archival evidence that's been discovered over the last 20 or so years.

Here are a couple of links that I personally found most compelling: http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulleti.... I posted this link to both Hacker News and r/history a few months ago under the title "What happened to Amelia Earhart: The sextant box with two serial numbers".

The second link is: http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_.... This page contains radio telegram transcripts from the British colonial authorities responsible for administering Nikumaroro in the early 1940s. The part about the sextant and two serial numbers is about half way down the first page.
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Are you were claiming that there were no failures of the NK-33 engine on any of the four N1 flights that exploded during first stage burn?
As someone who has been thinking of leaving physics graduate school (and I've been "running" simulations of plasmas too), this is somewhat encouraging.
This is a really good example of why, if you have something important to your organisation on the Internet, you need to really be doing defence in depth, to either reduce the risk of compromise, and/or increase your chance of noticing when you're attacked and reacting accordingly.

So things like IDS (network and host), perhaps looking at adding a WAF to catch basic attacks, shipping all your logs off your front end servers so they can't be easily destroyed by attackers etc.

This kind of disclosure--> attack timeline now looks to be the norm, so this will become a theme and companies are either going to have to spend more on defense, or spend more on incident clean-up and then spend more on defense....
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