skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SpaceshipTwo is considered the 'simplest' and 'safest' of all the upcoming manned commercial vehicle.

XCOR's culture of safety is pretty good, though it's the school of thought quite close to Virgin Galactic . At least rocket engines in XCOR are designed with the highest standards of safety.
It never fails, articles on evolution inevitably bring out the whack jobs...
>but the number one risk factor for a bad trip is being afraid of having a bad trip.

Wise advice. I've always been angry with people who pressure people into psychedelics. You must be comfortable and with people you can trust when doing these things for the first time. Not doing so can make for a damaging experience.
Omniref is cool, but why can't this level of explanation live in source code comments so we can simply generate it with docco?
For pride in knowing you helped something grow from scratch, vs. the sluggishness of a big company plodding along.

There's a lot that goes into it. Personally, I like to get things done, and experience the sense of accomplishment in seeing visible results.

Life at a big company can mean monotony and difficulty in seeing where your part of the big machine actually makes a difference.
>What empirically shows diversity is bad?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...

Lower trust, lower cooperation, lower confidence in government, fewer friends, lower reported happiness.
As part of its so-called core curriculum, Penn typically requires students in all schools to take a writing class. They kinda go out of their way to offer a variety of interesting options because writing is not everyone's thing. My class was "Man in Nature" and featured Thorough, Emerson, etc. It focused a lot on being in nature, which is also atypical for an English class, just not the kind of atypical that gets reported.
I think you can download the assigned IPs from at least RIPE.
Otherwise you could download a BGP-dump and then get the AS-number from every announced IP-span and then map AS->Country.
Not all of the comments are bad. Yes there are some creationists who said stupid things, but the comment by "Mike Merritt" actually raise a very important point. I'll paste it here:

k, I'm being pedantic, but it seems important.

The following phrase is super confusing to people who don't get evolution:
"For the skinks, moms in balmier climates may opt to conserve their own
bodies' resources by depositing eggs on the ground for the final week or
so of development. Moms in harsh mountain climates, by contrast, might
find that it's more efficient to protect their young by keeping them
longer inside their bodies."

Surely you're being elliptical, but even throwing in a phrase like "in a
sense" or better "in a metaphorical sense" would help things out here. But
better to leave it out entirely. The skinks aren't "opting" for anything.
They do what they do, and the consequences are life and death for
themselves and their brood. Hence evolution. QED.
> computer problem forced Armstrong to take manual control and find a new landing spot at the last minute

The computer kept flying the machine despite the interrupts and reboots due to the radar switch that Buzz had left on. It was really marvelously designed to be able to keep on executing its highest priority tasks.

The reason for the (semi) manual control was that the designated landing spot was a boulder field. The computer kept on operating the throttle.

Source: Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal.
Costs are fixed. It is up to the culture to choose whether to pay in blood or treasure.
You can think of it as an embedded distribution that's ready to run on a lot of microcontroller platforms:

http://wiki.eluaproject.net/Boards

True, you can port standard lua, but you would still need to do some low level work such as setting up the serial ports and timers.
Doesn't work on Chrome in Mac Yosemite (newest versions on both). The @ sign is in the wrong place and clicking the button does nothing.
I'm not debating the arc you describe, but it does so many things so much better than IRC. It is a zillion times nicer to use.
That's one of the big ways the private sector cuts costs! Where do you imagine the "fat" that the private sector trims (relative to gov't) comes from?

The private sector isn't somehow just better at stuff. It has different motives and different priorities, and makes different compromises.
I bet Lee Atwater would have failed that test..
now that is pushing boundaries
Read the article. Not quite what you think. There is writing involved, but actual time "wasting" is definitely a key part of the curriculum :)
Well Soyuz still flies and has exceptionally low human fatality rates in the last decades. So if safetey realiability is desired it could be just "buy a ride on a Souyz" for now.

I think it won't be that dire. People who sign up to fly into space on a new design would probably be aware of the risks involved.

Many people still climb Everest, dive into caves, and jump from clifs with wingsuits. I think there won't be a shortage and the future is bright and exciting.
If we can't even save our own home world, there is every reason to believe that we will do damage elsewhere. That being the case, best to stay home until we grow up a bit.
Asana engineer here. With such a large market size, we can scale the sales process to make it inexpensive. We only have a couple sales people. User operations, i.e. keeping customers, is larger but still in all less than 10.
I made this http://grayarea.org/theater/ after being inspired by the Polygon animations.

I'm using Two.js https://github.com/jonobr1/two.js to do the SVG interpreting and processing.
That would be honorable, yes. On the other hand so was Eddard Stark.
Yet another new crypto protocol... "Yay"

What about when HTTP/2 becomes popular? You'll still have to deal with TLS then unless you deal with TCP connections directly (and bypass HTTP).
Having been clasically trained, it took me about 6 months of swing dancing to be able to clap on 2 and 4. Part of the reason why you clap on 2 and 4 is that you're 'kicking' energy into the next measure. It helps to do 'something else' on 1 and 3, like make a vocal sound, or tap with your foot.
How does that make it not a bug? They've repeatedly responded to the "openbsd is slow" meme by pointing out that they do not have the time to benchmark anything, and if people do find slow things they should submit bug reports so they can be fixed. Nobody has ever submitted such a bug report.
Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine After Getting It Wrong
I'm sure that is why things move 12 inches a day. If the remote operator sees a big rock/hole/whatever a few feet away, they have a day or two to steer left. It just might take a couple weeks to go around it though. LOL
Beats me. (pause)

I could hear no difference before or after the switch -- in fact I couldn't hear any beat other than the clapping.
Your story made me remember something.

I've used pot a few times, but I didn't smoke it. Instead me in my friends made what is called 'marijuana milk'. First you Decarboxylate the marijuana for about 30 minutes. Then you mix it with milk and you boil that for a while.

I remember reading once that the world that you perceive around you is put together by your brain. The world is not actually a as unified and persistent as we 'see' it. That's just the brain doing a good job of filtering and parsing the signals that bombard it. It was during my 'weed-milk' adventure that I first experienced what this meant.

Well on my way in the adventure I was looking at a tv show (bob's burgers) that was running. I saw the images and understood what I was looking at. While watching I heard these strange echoes and harsh noises. They were very strange and disjointed sounds, there's really nothing like it. I investigated the sounds in my head and it was then that the 'echoes' transformed into the voices of the characters on screen. It was like my brain had failed to connect the linguistic center and the audio center together. And I was only hearing 'unparsed' sound waves (as weird as that sounds). After that the echoes would come and go if I didn't concentrate. It's as if thinking about it flipped the 'parse_sounds_as_a_language' switch somewhere.

There's really nothing like it, the best part, imo, is that you're still somewhat rational while all this is happening. You're very conscious of the things that are 'different' and I always felt that I could 'investigate' and communicate to others what exactly was different while stoned/high.
tldr; i was commenting on the false claim that composition of food causes obesity vs the number of contained calories.

From what i've read, ive taken a few points:

fatty food does not cause or contribute to obesity. Total intake does.

1000 excess calories of fat and 1000 excess calories of sugar will roughly cause the same weight increase.

1000 calories of fat is far more satiating than 1000 calories of sugar and therefore leads to lower future consumption of calories. 1000 calories of the former may take 4 hrs to become hungry, whereas 1000 calories of the latter may take 1 hour to become hungry, for example.

Saturated fats a no more correlated with heart disease than other forms of fats.

Some of the science is linked here: http://www.dietdoctor.com/science
Here is an account of an early programmer who designed the architecture for his compiler while on LSD: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_24.pdf

Compilers are generally considered very complex programs, and the "mind expanding" properties of psychedelics helped him for laying out the high level design (he did not do the actual coding while under the influence).
For enterprise (large, bureaucratic organizations), I imagine that it would be.
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>To skip a beat you'd probably play the rhythm for a bit normally, then leave out all the bass drum kicks so the audience only hears the snares....then put the bass back in

While this might get your audience to switch over, this is trying to get your audience to skip (or add) a beat, rather than skipping or adding a beat oneself. You never actually described skipping a beat.
It boils my blood every time that I come across an interesting topic on SO just to see it locked. Something is wrong with the site when you see more topics locked than open.
The same stuff as the main cable, just thinner and less redundant. The main issue with the space elevator is the cable weight vs. cable strength.
Looks interesting. What are the typical use cases for this? Why would companies running on Outlook use this?
Frankly, I'm surprised that instead of recruiters or agents, there aren't firms dedicated to employee assessment.

The value add to employers would be a standard assessment tool, reduced screening time for employees that can be eliminated quickly based on lack of skill, and using an assessment that is potentially better correlated with good employees than things like degree and school, or previous employer (decreasing both false positives from people who can't hack it despite their credentials, and decreasing false negatives by letting people with the skills demonstrate them).

For prospective employees, you get a single assessment that may open up a lot of jobs. Since the company doing the assessment isn't the one hiring you, they can tell you what you need to work on, even provide training opportunities.

Imagine someone telling you, "You aren't quite what we need, take these onlike courses and pass them and we will almost definitely be able to find someone to hire you."

And by acting as an intermediary between prospective employees and employers, the time cost of submitting resumes to employers that aren't well matched is decreased.

Further you might be partially eligible for a job, but lack specific skills, and they can ask if you are willing to take a temporary pay cut in return for on the job training as you work.

One of the things personally holding me back, is that you really need to be in school to get an internship. I already have a degree, just not in CS, and I'd love to be able to learn on the job at the intern level, instead of feeling stuck unless I go back for a master's degree.

I think there is a real opportunity, not just for such a company, but for a company that creates a standard or standards for assessment and licenses it/them to different companies.

Further, such assessments would be useful to assess not just individuals, but educational programs. Compare performance for people who graduate from different programs, including online training.
There is no difference from accessing Facebook from .com and .onion in that case. If the main point would be to avoid local censorship, they would have a bigger effect if they instead of focusing power on running a hidden service, spent the effort on running an exit node.
Funny thing is that I've been looking at D-Link's (actually Cameo's) /sbin/ncc and other binaries the last couple of days (well actually nights...) on a DIR-636L.

I even have a note here wondering where they read from NVRAM or similar related to WPS because I couldn't spot it. Guess I have the answer now!

I doubt I will have the time to investigate it, but my feeling is that there is a lot of funky stuff in /sbin/ncc and the companion binaries.
Because it's a graph database so it doesn't really fit naturally with SQL.

Competitors like OrientDB use something that's nearly SQL but not quite, and it's the discrepancies between the two that catch you out. Arango's query language is pretty nice when you get used to it.

The one criticism I have of Arango is that they're doing a lot of wheel reinvention with foxx, when I think they'd be a lot better off leveraging more of the node ecosystem.
This highlights how important crew escape systems are. The issue isn't just crew survival, but also the effect that loss of crew has on the program. If crew loss is a real danger, it will happen, and after it does the PR often kills the public will to press on.
Unfortunately I don't have any reputation on MO to post this story.

On the first math class during 5th grade our math teacher (who was giving her first class after Graduation) spend about one hour talking about how mathematics could be challenging and another hour talking about her thesis (now I know, at time I wasn't understanding a shit)

Once she finished her non-sense lecture, she dictated us our home work.

"Go to the library and find what's Pie"

With a couple of classmates we spent our afternoon on the public library's culinary section writing our essays about measuring pies.
I work in a tech company and most of our men are gay, seriously. Take a look around man, it might come as a surprise for you but gays are everywhere, IT included. By the way since when is this news(for hacker news)? Did anyone here not know he's gay(honest question)?
Vigilantism: Vandalism and Ethics in Engineering
I think this would be really cool. I've found that anyone who i've met IRL and is a HN reader we're at least a little bit interesting
It may be social signaling, but I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with companies publishing demographics.
That makes a lot of sense, right? Stack exchange is designed around making it easy to find and get good answers to questions, not to have more involved or less focused discussions, even if they're more interesting to read.
Sure, I'll go along with that. But sexual orientation is far more like skin color than it is like a country, religion, or sports team that you identify with for social purposes.

If there is a genetic (or at least embryonic) influence behind sexual orientation -- and I believe there is -- then why take "pride" in it?
Good point about billions of cars having more impact than a few fuel-hoggy rocket launches.

I just hope that space-tourism doesn't catch on, because while you're correct that overproducing rockets to make them slightly more efficient does not make you more environmentally friendly, burning 25,000 gallons for a couple of recreational hours off the planet just because you have way too much money does make you an environmental monster.
more Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) than either keto or atkins (they're not the same) .

See http://www.dietdoctor.com/science
IMO, that's 3/4 time. Just because it's confusing.
Microsoft Band Isn’t a Fitness Tracker, It’s a Trojan Horse for Software
He works in L2 spaces.

http://math.uchicago.edu/~cek/bibliography.pdf
I would imagine that it works perfectly under Wine, doesn't it?
It looks like this was the first time they turned on the engine with a new fuel plastic base fuel. I don't understand why they had humans strapped in when testing an experimental fuel in an experimental rocket engine.

"During the nine months since the previous rocket-powered test in January, Virgin Galactic switched SpaceShipTwo's fuel mixture from a rubber-based compound to a plastic-based mix"
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Baby pandas team up to resist their medication
UK government to 'retire' some of its WW1 debt
Technical writing and programming aren't necessarily the same skill set.
Apollo, Ansari and the Hobbling Effects of Giant Leaps
You really need to be a motivated beginner, as elm web site does not document how to install everything at home.

It requires programming knowledge just to set it up.
I gave it a try earlier this year.

Fantastic stuff, I hope it really takes off.
The Unofficial Crowdsourced AWS Re:Invent Expo Hall, Events and Session Guide
Great concept, love the quick access to your calendar. That slow aspect of proposing meeting times is miserable. +1 for Android dev but don't sweat it. ;)
Have you considered customer stories and testimonials as well? In addition to the points raised here, the question you ask is similar to questions that one could ask of another professional service. They showcase their expertise through customer case studies, testimonials about their work etc.. I also find LinkedIn connections and testimonials useful in some scenarios.
Great points, re: discrepancies. In a way, I'm seeing both sides of the coin with a client for whom I designed and developed custom business software. Initial monthly budget gave me the flexibility to be a rockstar that actually put in quality tests and refactored for long-term maintainability.

The client is happily using the software and has many more ideas to implement, some of which I supplied! The system helped them explosively grow their business but over time has become part of the daily business routine which inevitably means they want to reduce costs.

Naturally, this means we are building fewer features each month but the cost focus pressures me to sacrifice some refactoring, testing, and UX quality which makes me feel more like the grunt that maintains it. On the plus side, my effective hourly rate has improved since I negotiated a fixed monthly fee into our contract and I've had time to find a couple more clients :)
Even though it catchy, it's still bullshit. Spending much more money and still failing miserably is a likely outcome of lots of projects.
Suppose someone who knows your friend's dog asks if it's a very stupid idea to get LSD from one of the "darknet" markets. What would the owner of the dog's dog friend reply? Would his sister-in-law who may or may not exist know about any pointers on how to find a trustworthy source (to actually get the correct quality) on such a platform?
I was as giddy as a school girl when I read the phrase "euclidean zoning", but alas, it has nothing to Euclidean geometry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclid_v._Ambler
The last time I was involved in a project that was over in a few months, I was still doing hardware development.

If we get a project out the door in 3 years, that's considered amazing. Then it's in the field for 10-15 years. I can't imagine working on something that's over in a few months.
Got it. Thanks for replying.
The short answer: if the probability of a collision is smaller than the probability of a meteor landing on your head, then you're fine.
Ethically speaking, sending non-sentient foreign organisms to an unknown planet that might already be inhabited falls somewhere between spamming and attempted genocide.

No, thanks. I prefer to believe that this task is what our intelligence is for.
China launches 3 rockets in one week[1]. Russia launches a resupply of the International Space Station, ready to fly just 9 hours after yet another space vehicle crashes here[2].

Say what you want about "cheap spaceflight", there is something dysfunctional going on here. This latest disaster makes me wonder if the US even has a current capability of space flight. Pinching a few pennies isn't worth it.

[1] http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/10/27/china-launches-third-sp...

[2] http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/10/29/russians-launch-progres...
>Mac Slack app feels like a web page inside a chromeless browser window

That's because it actually is just a web page inside a chromeless browser window. Right click and you can inspect and edit the markup.

We switched from Hipchat to Slack for reasons that seemed to amount to little more than hype about it in the tech world. It's fine. I don't think it has had any real effect on productivity or collaboration, and I really don't see the 'amazing' benefits that Slack fans tout.

In my opinion all of the various integrations that people get so excited about in Slack basically amount to constant noise that I can't filter out or defer the way I can with email notifications.
>The skinks aren't "opting" for anything. They do what they do, and the consequences are life and death for themselves and their brood. Hence evolution.

usually it is true or very close to true. Yet it is very interesting question, that is probably still open for these lizards, about "opting" in the sense of how much biological flexibility a given one lizard has hardwired in - would the same lizard respond differently to different conditions or would it behave the same independently of the conditions. I.e. what balance they have between adaptation and static fit strategies.
3D selfies of the Foursquare Halloween party
What other allocation rates would you immediately think of? Of course allocation rate can mean other things, but memory allocation was the first I thought of.
It's halloween, test your persuasion skills and meet new people
As a warning, don't try to be too clever with your ID system. You can get collision bugs that aren't usually visible in testing.

I had a catastrophic bug (ala private data going to the wrong person) from 96-bit (32 bit segment number, 64 bit random local docid) ID collisions when the caching code decided it was going to use docid as the cache key without realizing it was missing a bunch of bits.
I complain, but at the end of the day, I really do prefer working in the JVM with a language that can e.g. curry functions and implement at least partial type inference, given the constraints that we work under. I think it was a good choice; but I'm not likely to grab for Scala for fun.
My dad used to tell me, "Try and live your life so that you never end up inspiring a warning label." .
no, it's clearly a duple meter.
boom boom clap <rest> boom boom clap <rest>
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Yeah, this is an art project, effectively.

Certainly interesting and I would say worthy of HN, but it's not a tech article.
sounds like fun!
Yes. There are two pay gaps the way I understand things:

1) Females in the US are generally employed in less profitable fields for a whole host of reasons like access to education, poor work conditions for mothers, etc. This is where that 83 cents on a dollar stat comes from...

2) Females within the same field also see generally less pay on average for reasons such as hiring bias, raise bias, limited career mobility due to family obligations, and many more.
Anakata was too smart to go after users' computers. He was more of a Kerberos server fellow. Good guy.
You talk as if we can only do one thing, or as if there's any chance that we will all agree to pull in one direction or agree about what the most critical threats are.
Oh man, I once went to (unnamed city) and everyone was clapping on 1 & 3, so I aggressively clapped on 2 & 4. It wasn't enough.