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> No government will commit funds for a flagship mission when they know that the US may pull out halfway through the project. It has happened before with Galileo, and no one will run the risk of it happening again, especially in the present political climate

Could you explain what you mean here? Are you talking about international collaborative missions? Galileo was a successful NASA spacecraft to Jupiter that, as far as I can tell, was a fully American financed mission.

Or maybe you're thinking of the Europa Jupiter System Mission, which was a NASA-ESA mission to Jupiter recently crippled by NASA budget cuts? That seems like a poor example, since only about $100 million or less had been spent on a mission that would have cost $6 billion (of which nearly $5 billion would have been American dollars).
Also see org-reveal[1], which lets you export org-mode documents as reveal.js presentations.

Also see bespoke.js[2].

Also see impress.js[3]

Previously on HN: [4]

[1] - https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/

[2] - http://markdalgleish.com/presentations/bespoke.js/

[3] - http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js

[4] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6450223
Another way you can try Julia online at the moment is William Stein's cloud.sagemath.com

If you really want to try juliabox.org you can look at the other post about Julia on the HN page. Near the bottom of the HN comments are some details that may or may not be useful with regard to getting an invite code.
Of course the other comments are true, but I could easily see Apple justifying this as a reduction in power draw. They made a big deal out of the mini's efficency at the keynote.
Everyone here seems to be saying "oh god, don't do it, CFAA!"

Respectfully, this sort of fear is what holds the Internet back. You are incredibly unlikely to get sued unless: you are threatening to disclose publicly, you intentionally stole data from the site and are storing it now, you threaten to sell said stolen data to a journalist or anyone else, etc.

It costs companies, generally, a lot of money to sue someone. They aren't interested in doing it unless you seriously piss them off or actually cause their business/revenue harm.

If you are not weev, trolling them publicly and saying you'll sell their data, you can likely disclose and be fine. Just be nice about it.

By being nice, I have disclosed hundreds of vulnerabilities over the years, in this manner. Sometimes they even let me write a blog post about it afterward.

If you want, email me and we can discuss in more detail. Email is in my profile.

tl;dr: find someone to contact via LinkedIn or email (CISO or CTO usually works well), be incredibly nice and non-threatening about it, and you'll be fine.
They're trying to kill it.
That was almost certainly the "Command Prompt Here" powertoy for XP, but it was then integrated into Vista and 7.
No, but why would I want to edit it as hex? Maybe I'm missing something obvious?
Interesting find
I don't think that comparing the number of black CEOs in both countries is necessarily a good benchmark of the experiences of black people in general.

This is further confounded by the fact that all ethnic minorities are a much lower % of the Japanese population than they are in the US.
The motivation for development was actually producing fertilizer, as it says in the article you linked.
Think about a skyscraper in Manhattan. Think about the many businesses employing a multitude of people within. Now think about how long they would be able to keep running if all the janitors left and if you couldn't get any more. You would have folk selling crack in the stairwells within the week and businesses folding within the month.

Also, as to your comparison, it strongly depends which business you are in. If you are running a building services company and your web designers quit, that might lose you some business. If your janitors quit, you are out of business. (edited to add - even if you are in a web design business, if you need a building to run the business from then the janitor will be a fundamental part of keeping the business afloat, unless you can get your web designers to also mop the floors and manage the security and maintenance. I have worked for a small media company in London where this was almost exactly the case, only there the CEO didn't expect it of the staff, but took over all janitorial duties himself as it was a small building and didn't take much time out of his day. He'd do most of his planning while cleaning.)

There is a truth behind the cliché of the chief monk being the guy with the brush sweeping up and there is good reason behind the cleaning days that are promoted by Hidesaburo Kagiyama as a management practice for Japanese companies, where the day starts with the CEO cleaning a toilet with their bare hands in front of their employees.

Here's an example of Hidesaburo Kagiyama visiting a Chinese University to explain and demonstrate his philosophy:

"When Kagiyama visited a university in China to clean the toilets with the students, the toilets were exactly as described above. The students held their breath and waited to see how Kagiyama would treat those filthy toilets. Under the gaze of the students, Kagiyama started pushing the pile of feces and urine deep into the toilet bowl with his bare hand and flushed it. He then looked back at the students quietly and said, “Now you clean this toilet.” In this way, he assigned the toilets to the students respectively. Looking at the example set by Kagiyama, the students could no longer back out. They set about to clean the toilets."

from here - http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~nippon/file/jog480e.pdf

Hidesaburo Kagiyama is the president of Yellow Hat, a Japanese car parts supplier that takes just over a billion dollars (120 billion Yen) in yearly revenue.
I honestly don't understand why many such services aren't designed as APIs that any editor can interact with via an API. TernJS is an example of a tool that takes this approach[0]. Just make the solutions for each of the problems needing to be solved LISPy. Wouldn't it be great if one day other editors are using LISP based language tools via API in their text editor of choice.

http://ternjs.net/
New Windows 8 Laptops Drop Below $100 to Battle Chromebooks This Black Friday
Too late. Also Java is not as easy to learn and to use as Golang.
Well, that's kind of undiscoverable; it really ought to be on the shell extension context menu.
I know of a few people that are doing variations of what you say.

Many of them engage in illegal and unethical practices - most are elaborate schemes to steal money from advertisers, others steal intellectual property (whatever your stance on that is, it's still either illegal or inmoral).

And, as chipsy says, most of their practices are not sustainable - one guy I know made US$ 2000/month, not daily, and he got busted and is blacklisted by most everyone. Ad networks and others evolve and leave those shady practices behind - a few enterprising blackhats might prosper for a long time, but they probably are good enough to make good money ethically.

The acquaintance I know that does best doing this kind of get-rich-fast schemes is a black-hat marketeer that has and incredible knowledge of people's psychology, and manipulates them into buying crappy ebooks or products (often the hard-to-cancel credit card subscriptions). But even though he's making good money, I think he's very insecure and doesn't live a good life (my girlfriend's sister found his profile on a dating network, and he had to show off his Mercedes and bling, which is IMO a signal of insecurity). As I mentioned, he's good enough he probably would make good money as some kind of marketing consultant, but he decided to go the black-hat way.

I'd rather build a product that helps others, instead of guilt-tripping them into something they do not need.

The one software product I'm putting off building is something I find myself needing often and I know will help others, and while it will take a long time to monetize (if ever), I will feel good doing it. And if it does take off it would be amazing :)
I like Randi and I went to see his presentation when he came to my college campus years ago. I've never felt in much danger from the types of spoon-benders and various charlatans he targets, though. Maybe I'm just naive, but somehow I can't imagine those types of folks gaining an appreciable number of followers, even if never formally debunked.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of successful charlatans and frauds out there. But those ones aren't fools. It's those that worry me.
It's just a reference to the style in which roadside attractions, circus show performers, and fortune tellers are billed. The Amazing Randi was the man's stage name so it comes together for a clever title.
The concept was tested by Tim ferris in the book 4 hour body. He noted that its a hard thing to keep up with because you have to keep exactly on schedule or you will mess everything up and then you just end up sleeping for a day.
In theory it's off-putting, but in practice I'm not really bothered by the changes. If I were to buy one, it would only be as a home server for iTunes Library hosting (to AppleTV) and as a backup destination for CrashPlan. My current server is an old Dell desktop that draws a lot of power and it's pretty noisy. Even the base configuration of the mini is plenty for what I would want to do with it.
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I'm curious how much space would get saved if the binary was stripped, a step most people forget to run if they're trying to see what a bare minimum binary looks like. Of course, I'm not very familiar with the Mach-O format, but for ELF binaries it can take a 4K hello world from GCC down to a couple hundred bytes.
The goal of a gravity assist is not as you describe. The goal of a gravity assist is to increase net speed, and therefore to be able to get further with less fuel. Being able to use Lagrange points - both stable and unstable - for this purpose comes as a surprise to many people, which is why I mention it. The reason it's especially useful is that we then have more places where we can perform gravity assists, giving more options.

The rest of your comment leaves me confused - I don't understand what point you're trying to make. The point is that we can make use of the lumpiness of the gravitational field to do non-obvious things with less fuel than previously believed. You don't seem to be saying otherwise, so I don't understand what you are saying.
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It's funny you mention that, because the low percentage of ethnic minorities in Japan is a direct consequence of their famously restrictive immigration policy... which even further proves the point.

And of course, no benchmark is perfect. So why not provide a better one and compare the US and Japan using your own benchmark? I'd love to hear your results.
I see the cleverness in the title; I also see that it's most obvious, and literal, interpretation is one of putting down his skepticism. Before reading the article, I thought it was going to be about how James Randi is too skeptical.
>> It also has a totally different set of syntactic rules which aren't worth my time to learn.

>You're missing out. Powershell's syntax is quite intuitive after you learn the basics, you quickly start to be able to guess commands and params.

I have grown up using Unix tools and I am quite comfortable with them. If I have to learn a new shell and scripting language, there should be a demonstrable benefit for the time I spend learning it. Can you give examples where PowerShell can do something which CygWin/MinGw can't? Trying to understand why you say that I am missing out :)
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> This world where judges are effectively used to write laws is bullshit and it sucks.

Judges aren't writing laws - they're doing their job to "act as interpreters of statutes and the constitution by elaborating and precisely defining the broad language"[1]. There's a difference between "Judicial activism" and Common Law working as intended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#States_of_the_Unite...
Until precedence stops being part of Common Law, 'activist' judges will always be a thing.
Ask HN: Why aren't we automating all the things?
Why haven't we (as a society/tech community/ etc.) automated far more things than are already automated? It's not hard to name numerous examples of jobs that could be near completely automated by the right small team. Starbucks? Cashiers? Financial Advisers? Physical Engineers? Many of the tasks performed by code monkies? There are many more that I will not bother trying to think up and name here. Please name them all in the comments. To be honest, I speculate that we are very intimidated by the notion of the power of automation within our ability (as a society), because it is quite obvious that we do not utilize our ability to automate to the fullest. It is not a limitation of economics as hardware and software are much much cheaper long term than any labor of any kind. Anyways ...
Part of the scientific payload was European. The European collaborators were not impressed with the delays on NASA's part. The combined Galileo/Ulysses disaster was what cured ESA of signing Memoranda of Understanding.
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It would be nice to believe that, but from time to time they have had the ear of Congress. There were, apparently, believers among them who thought we could build 'thought shields' against missiles.

Also, they apparently funded "remote viewers" for intelligence operations.
current HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8576411
This doesn't really bug me since, frankly, autocomplete is just a convenient extra.

But just to use this as a soapbox two things that DO bug me:

- Android's keyboards REFUSES to type "rude" (by American standards) words in a super buggy way. There is a setting called "Block offensive words" that as far as I can tell does absolutely nothing (they're blocked regardless). You first need to uncheck that, THEN add them one by one to your custom dictionary, and only then it might SOMETIMES type "fuck" instead of "duck." But be careful to add "Fuck" and "fuck" to your dictionary as these are different bad words (based on capitalisation, as is "FUCK").

- Autocomplete is accepts suggestions without prompting, thus giving you things you never asked for. This presents in two ways, in Chrome you are just given it in the line and have to backspace before enter to clear, and in IE if the mouse happens to be positioned over an autocomplete option even before that option appeared, when you hit enter it will select that (helpful!).
Maybe you should look at exchanging your Pi for another one. Manufacturing defects are rare but can happen.

I've used dozens of Pi's and never had bad reliability problems. Always use a quality 1 amp or more power supply, good name brand SD card, never remove power without running shutdown command to halt card writes, and never plug or unplug USB devices while powered up (older model boards don't handle the voltage drop well). I have never seen a corrupted SD card when following those rules.
It would appear they are just offering what Intel has available. I'm guess the Intel I5-4260U as it's 1.4GHz w/ Intel 5000 Graphics. It doesn't look like Intel even offers a mobile version of i5 with 4 cores and I couldn't find a mobile i7 with 4 cores and intel 5000+ graphics. This is one area A10 APUs that AMD really has Intel beat.
dig's never been distributed with any Linux OS I've used. (Resolve-DnsName is in Powershell 4.0, which implements most of that functionality.) Nor has lftp. So we'll take those out of the running.

The vast majority of what wget and curl are used for is simply downloading single files/pages. Invoke-WebRequest does that fine. It also deals with poking at most web services you're likely to come across. What service can't you use with it?

As for telnet... the removal of that was ridiculous, I'll admit.
To be fair, it's an aspect of our legal system that predates the nation itself [1], not some radical subversion of the founders' intentions.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Isn't it safer/preferable to install stuff in $HOME? ie. in $HOME/.npmrc having prefix = /home/[user]/.local then use npm install -g, if must?
I've been using LightTable, but plan on switching to Emacs soon. The only reason I haven't done so already is learning Clojure is challenging enough without also coming to grips with a new editor :)
You're right, sorry I got mixed up between 2003 and Visual Studio 2008 which is the IDE I used frequently back then.
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> Can you give examples where PowerShell can do something which CygWin/MinGw can't?

As those contain full programming languages which can effectively do anything with enough effort I doubt I can.

I will say the DateTime, cultural conversion, and email libraries are an absolute pleasure to work with in Powershell/.Net. Sending out email is a totally trivial exercise regardless of the style (plain text, HTML, attachments, etc).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849925.aspx
On-board flash severely complicates the setup and recovery process: how do you get the OS in there> Also, strangely, it's more compact than almost all Flash packages of comparable capacity.
If you suscribe to some economic theories, workforce capacity planning years in advance sounds disastrously inefficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
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FYI - Hinton is doing an AMA on r/machinelearning on Monday!
I've never had that issue with Swype. It doesn't come with profanity words in the dictionary, but once add it'll readily output them.
I think the CERT would be a better idea.
Ask HN: How do you host a site such as Thepiratebay?
Recently, I read Thepiratebay is hosted on the cloud where cloud providers don't know they are hosting Thepiratebay (https://thepiratebay.se/blog/224). This setup seems useful. How can someone else set up a reliable yet anonymous site like Thepiratebay?
In Hexl mode, scrolling is vastly faster -- and it shows the file as characters as well as as hex somewhat like the Unix program strings does.

M-: (hexl-find-file (concat invocation-directory invocation-name))

It's no big deal, but if it is not the speed of scrolling, then I do not understand what it is about Emacs that discourages you from using it on large files without line-breaks.
Tracking... Iridium isn't necessarily the best option in satellite data for fixed sites. There are bunch of options for fixed rural internet that are far superior in term of price per GB, but most of those have some pretty stringent caps. We move a lot of data from some pretty rural sites which, by internet standards, is not very time sensitive. I've often wondered if there are products that use excess capacity in cellular or satellite networks to move this kind of stuff at a reasonable price.
The Reagan White House was advised by an astrologer. Pseudoscience is something many people are susceptible to regardless of their position.
Much like Mac, Windows is designed for consumers primarily, power users/programmers/etc secondarily.

It can be reconfigured to appear without shift:

http://superuser.com/questions/240279/windows-open-command-p...

Although the Windows 8.1 right click bottom left for the new Power Users Menu was a welcomed addition that consumers could inadvertently run across.
When I think "Erlang style" I think process trees and no shared-memory and sending code over the network to other nodes. Maybe that's my bias. :)

(We also used to say "Erlang-style" in our marketing, but eventually removed it)
All I got from this is Bill is really into butt stuff. It's not as though Google is actually preventing these topics from being discovered or censoring their existence, but rather Google doesn't want to be an enabler for anyone searching potentially controversial topics. I get it. I think though that they may be overreaching with some terms, though I'm sure it's all automated so those results are censored based on the content people are typically looking for when conducting those searches.
I (a white male) was once going to clubs in Tokyo with an Indian friend when he was denied entry into a fairly low-class establishment. Flabbergasted, I ranted and raved in shock at the overt racism of a type I'd never before witnessed.
He calmed me down, saying that Japan had actually been far milder in its racism towards him than most nations, and that he felt more comfortable there than in the U.S., Australia, and certainly India.
I remember when the monthly air-raid drills — first Wednesday of the month, 1:00PM — stopped, not because the Cold War had gotten any colder, but because the missile threat made the "I've got plenty of time to get to the shelter" bomber scenario almost laughable. I also remember the panic I felt, several years later, when the damned local siren went off (on the wrong day and at the wrong time of the day) because someone was digging where they shouldn't have been digging. I served in the Cold War military, and I'll admit to having an involuntary physiological reaction to hearing Slavic accents to this day. I mean, we knew that the apparent "sanity" of our leadership was really just a delicate spiderweb of constraints based on the desire to remain electable; we sort of hoped that there were similar little wire baskets holding the champagne-corks in place on the other side as well, even if they worked differently. And yes, we always suspected that somebody on the other side would go rogue, and had no reason to believe that the people on the other side didn't see us the same way. We feared an accidental launch, but we also feared that some idiot, somewhere, would decide that they could actually get away with a first strike. To me, this stuff is all "just the other day"; I really can't tell you how happy I am to hear that there's a whole generation or two of people who can't really understand a goddamned word I'm saying when I talk about the old days.
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> That NYT article is a put-down.

Au contraire, it's the fluffiest of friendly journalism. "Alvarez told the agent he was deeply sorry for the trouble he had caused the real Alvarez — who he believed was dead but turned out to be a teacher’s aide living in the Bronx." but no reaction from the real Alvarez or any description of that trouble, which was considerable.
They can, however, be trademarked.
Then you've got a dud. Lots of the first rev in particular had a few problems like this. That's ample evidence to exchange it for a new one.

The later revs, particularly the B+, seem much more reliable (although occasional duds definitely do still happen).
Something else relevant as far as Mono goes is that I believe Microsoft put forth .NET as an ECMA standard.
That horizontal scrollbar...
Omg. Java is getting crippled. The language was never designed with lambda's in mind. And now we have Java 8 with "not-really-lambdas" But some kind of interface magic. Its just ugly as hell.
Intel does offer quad-core mobile chips with Intel 5000+ graphics. Apple's even shipping them in the 15" retina MacBook Pro. Here's the mid-tier chip:

http://ark.intel.com/products/83504/Intel-Core-i7-4870HQ-Pro...

The issue with using these in the Mac mini, as mentioned in the article, is that they require a different socket than the dual-core i5 chips. If Apple wanted to offer both dual and quad-core chips in the Mac mini, they'd need to design and ship two different boards.

It might have been more costly to do so, but I think that Apple's doing their customers a great disservice by not offering something between a dual-core i5 with soldered RAM and the $3K Mac Pro.