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That's mostly because the Independence Day director was known for being very cost-effective and frugal. It was a blockbuster, but didn't start as a big spending production like the Titanic for example.

But even that is 10 times what Fargo cost already.

Sub 10 million have been small peanuts in Hollywood even in the eighties, by Fargo's time a movie was not even taken seriously by big studios if it had such a budget.

Heck -- an A-list actor would command 10-15 million just for himself.
As a starting point, the sun's absolute brightness is much higher than this star's, and this star supposedly came within .8 light years of us. That's 50,591 further than Earth is from the sun, which means it would be no brighter than most of the stars you see in the sky... unfortunate, huh :(
The movie buff in me enjoys the fact that a lot of this can be summed up with 2 quotes from Iron Man 1.

"Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals."

and

"Tony Stark: They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far."

The R&D costs far exceed the actual production costs and on a side note it is interesting and pleasing that lots of this R&D eventually makes its way into consumer products likewise how technology from racing (esp. Formula 1) makes its way into consumer vehicles as well.

That being said, another way to win a war against a technologically superior foe is just as the article suggests, being willing and able to win the battle of attrition. Example: U.S. Sherman tanks vs. German Panzers and Tigers. However, it is our unwillingness to sacrifice lives that has led to these R&D breakthroughs so one could argue that we have in fact won by finding ways not to lose. Although, just like what the article states, if we lose a war because we're not willing to win the war through attrition then the war didn't serve any real purpose at all.
What are you seeing in particular?
Simulations on the chances Kentucky goes 40-0 in College Hoops
Full of colors that we cannot see. Are you saying its like watching a color TV signal on a black and white TV set? Are we just too far away? Would any of those nebulae show such beautiful colors to the human eye if we were only closer? I can never get a straight answer on that.

But if you look at these objects through a small telescope, you will see white blobs.
It's got to be your area. I'm in NYC and have never seen any hate speech in the few times that I've used it.
I read your other comments on the project. And most of what you are conveying seems to be about the audit project specifically, which you're involved in.

My particular curiosity is about that announcement, and whether or not it was a government attempt to discredit a likely very effective product.
Ask HN: How to scrape your own cookies,cache  a la product recommendation APIs?
I would like to build a product focused on scraping data that average internet users generate in their normal internet footprint. Basically, I want to know what is the best practices and the engineering required to scrape and process data from caches, internet cookies, and such. If I could know what area of development this is, and some libraries to get started(esp. in JS) I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!
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I agree although,I was not aware of django-haystack at the time :)
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Twilio going up the food chain - edging closer to getting in competition with its customers.
Do you know of any software (maybe it's possible with Truecrypt?) to have full disk encryption with a hidden volume for Linux? I remember Truecrypt only worked on Windows with this feature. As Windows can auto-update your computer even when you disable it in the settings, I wouldn't want to use it.
Still, that just means the long tail is worse, which necessarily happens when anonymity is granted. The best comments-- i.e. the ones that make using the app fun for users-- are also uniquely possible on Yik Yak (or services like it).
What accuracy rate have you seen in the sentiment analysis from AYLIEN? Did you evaluate any others?
"You and I and everybody else, if the present trends continue, will be selling what we do to the highest bidder."

That's how its supposed to work. The problem here is not "selling what we do to the highest bidder", its the "You and I and everyone else". If you are competing against "everyone else" then the highest bid is going to be pretty low.
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Vocal music major here. It is quite likely that by the time they reach university age, students who are majoring in vocal music have had years of experience singing in a variety of languages. These would typically be Latin, Italian, French and German, along with their native language. This might include choral and solo performance experience.

I suspect they have a combination of experience, learned 'coachability', and a greater than average awareness of how to produce the correct sounds.

Anecdote: I'm an English speaker, and traveled to The Netherlands on business a few years ago. It was my impression that just about all the Dutch speak English ( and a few other languages ) and it is very difficult for a non-native speaker to attempt to engage them in a conversation in Dutch. They will usually just flip over into English. After a bit of practicing on the plane, I was able to do a few things like order tickets for a movie, and some snacks, and even order food in a restaurant in Dutch (I cheated a bit here, it was a Mexican place, so all the food was in Spanish :) ). It is possible they were just being polite, but my perception was that I came off like a maybe-fluent non-native speaker. In fact I knew about 20 words, but I had a pretty good accent.
> Also, the Hubble can't even see most of the Observable Universe; it can see ~15 billion lights years away, whereas the radius of the observable universe is 47 billion light years.

There is a subtlety with the size of the observable Universe versus the distance Hubble can see. The radius of the observable universe is 47 billion lights years (the radial distance to the cosmic microwave background[0]). Hubble has spotted galaxies whose distance corresponds to a light travel time of ~13 billion years. However, the Universe has expanded since that light was emitted 13 billion years ago, so the galaxies which emitted that light are now about 30 billion light years away. So Hubble can see objects which are closer to the edge of the observable Universe than the 13 billion year light travel time implies, compared with the size of the observable universe. There are tentative detections of even more distant galaxies.

For reference, I obtained those values using Ned Wright's cosmology calculator[1] with a redshift z=8, and the default values, assuming a flat cosmology. The 13 billion years ago number is the light travel time and the 30 billion light year distance is the comoving radial distance.

[0] If you plug the approximate redshift of the cosmic microwave background (z=1100) into [1], you get 45.5 billion light years.

[1] http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html

Edit: Clarified wording and added CMB distance info.
Fact: They got in trouble for the bundling of IE.

Yes, the case was bigger than just that, but now you are just nitpicking my comment.
Considering all the proprietary firmware on a standard laptop/desktop/router/modem you're pretty much screwed if targeted by a state. States build SCIF rooms with armed guards to protect against other states. We have FDE and PGP to protect against thieves.

Was looking forward to a cryptanalyst's ripping apart of the "cascading ciphers" TC shilled to see if it was snake oil or not.
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not an issue , these days you can get an OpenVZ VPS for $15/yr on lowendbox.com that gives you 1 or 2TB bandwidth a month, tunnel your web traffic via "ssh -D" and your done.
If you're near a college area the posts get ridiculous. I deleted it pretty quickly.
I'm not a native English speaker, so "big toad" might be term whose sarcasm escapes me, but there are probably about two dozen people in the world who actually believe that Eric S. Raymond is in any way an authority when it comes to programming (one of them being Eric S. Raymond). The following comic strip of "Everyone loves Eric S. Raymond" sums it up pretty well:
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/wp-content/images/ep013.jpg
It's probably easier. To produce injectable amounts, they'd have to do about the same thing in a bioreactor or another animal and then extract it. Using the target as the bioreactor skips some steps--and assures a nice steady supply.
I like to believe that if you have discerning, evolving taste, and you seek to fulfill it, over a long enough time with enough iteration you will make things that other people want, too.

Maybe the timeframe for some things is far too long for an individual to be successful at (especially large, complex, technical problems).

But for simpler things like games and books and such– I think if you dedicate yourself to it, there should be some people who appreciate it. Especially considering that there are billions of people in the world, and more of them are getting connected everyday. If YOU really, REALLY like something, it's practically a guarantee that somebody else does, too.

I'm kinda naively optimistic, though.
The hacking part brought an unexpected smile of glee to my face.
Thanks to poor phrasing in the title, I imagine an elevator that delivers a dose of heroin when it reaches 45MPH. Because elevators weren't scary enough already...
They don't need to - everybody does the tacking for them at the other end by putting google-analytics everything.
On one hand, I applaud AT&T for giving users an option. On the other ...

1) It assumes privacy is not a right, but a priveledge you pay for. People who can't afford ~$360/year have just as much right to privacy as those who can. This is what government regulation is for, to prevent the negative consequences of open marketplace competition.

2) It's a limited, almost pointless solution. Everyone else can track you: Your phone provider knows everwhere you go, everyone you communicate with, what you say to them, etc. On your computer, websites, ad networks, hosted services (Google, Facebook, etc.). Your electric company, your TV, your credit card company, etc. etc. AT&T might buy info from other sources on the customers who pay to prevent ISP tracking. (And what if each of those vendors charged $360/year for the priveledge of privacy?) Again, the only solution is government regulation; individuals can't hope to protect themselves.

3) It's expensive, as expensive as a cheap Internet connection.

Is it priced at cost plus a margin? If so, that implies each user's tracking data is worth maybe $20/month to AT&T. That seems very high; if users only knew what they were giving away!

Or is it priced at what AT&T thinks the market will bear? Is there really a market for limited privacy at $30/month?
From personal experience/observation. I have zero musical talent, my wife gives me a hard time for not being able to hold a beat by simply tapping the table. However, I can pick-up foreign languages with relative ease. I have never become fluent any foreign language, but have been able to read/conversant in Turkish, Russian, Italian, French and Spanish. I will admit East Asian languages are extremely difficult reference their tonal aspects; I have a hard time understanding/speaking those types of languages.
Take some consulting work? Limit that to a couple of days a week to preserve your time for your own projects?
I haven't tried Yik Yak as it seems like a black hole of drama and ignorance. However, I think it is being used in interesting ways. Students were able to use it to severely disrupt a frivolous and disruptive class requirement. It's potentially very democratizing, though perhaps it's only bringing out the worst aspects of democracy.

http://emutalk.org/2015/01/a-new-faculty-challenge-fending-o...
You've released my secret! ;)
It's super HD.. maybe that's the problem

Try on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouwCHT3rGRY
Heh.. ~4 seconds of my day, you're welcome :)
Hubble was specifically designed to make the Shuttle seem more relevant.

It flows both ways. Hubble was designed to take advantage of the planned capabilities of the shuttle, but also, the Hubble was an important use case in setting shuttle requirements. And as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the shuttle dropped the ball on many of these, both functionally and in terms of delivery dates.
You want a full disc encryption which adds plausible deniability in the case the KGB sees you have an encrypted file named "Nuclear Launchcodes_2016_final2.docx" on your USB drive. Truecrypt has that - who else has it?
That's not what the IAU classification is based on [1]. There are dynamical reasons to argue for the fact that a planet has to have cleared it's orbit. Pluto fails in this regard. A lot of people mistake the reclassification of Pluto as folly, when there are fundamental reasons that underpin the current definition of a planet. This has evolved as we've come to understand the dynamical processes that shape the Solar System.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet
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It's Tulsa University, what about the article is a surprise? If you have had any dealings with them you would be shaking your head "un-huh, that's the way they roll"
I don't think gcc or clang can reorder structs, or do they?
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Not associated with your Google Account doesn't mean isn't tracked, kept, or otherwise used.

It references their general Google privacy policy to show how they use information about you. The same privacy policy that allows them to stalk you across the world.

Also even if they didn't, Google has a monopoly over search engines, so this just vertical integration. It would be like Microsoft saying "we don't spy on OneDrive, but Google spies on Google Drive!" while microsoft then spies using Windows it knows that 95% of users will have installed. Distinction without a difference IMO.
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Any news on that build script?
There was an even more impressive example of synthetic biology taking on HIV treatment. The design involved re-engineering HIV to excise the retrovirus rather than integrating it into the genomes of infected cells:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEwFVHuqUU#t=24m10s
>British capitalism tends to be based far more on mutual respect, trust, and benefit.

Anyone who's remotely familiar with the British East India Company should consider this the best joke they've ever heard.
Jabavu, put me on your contact list. I wrote this story on Jeff; VentureBeat cares about indie games, and I'd be glad to take a look at yours. I can never make any promises - everything has to compete for limited bandwidth - but I'm always glad to look over something new (and preferably good). Contact info here: http://venturebeat.com/author/heather-newman
Not sure why you're being down voted without comment since you directly answered the parents question with broadly accurate information:

Anatomically modern humans first appear in the fossil record in Africa about 195,000 years ago (see Omo remains), and studies of molecular biology give evidence that the approximate time of divergence from the common ancestor of all modern human populations was 200,000 years [1]

Migration out of Africa is estimated at around 125000 years ago for modern humans. [2]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations
Perhaps you could expand upon what you think they solved?
Communication with Chromecast happens directly over Wifi and does not involve Google services. Chromecast uses the DIAL or mDNS protocol to discover apps on the local network. Some apps like Netflix can use DIAL protocol to control app on other devices, like Tivo or smart TVs, on the local network.

Chromecast does have a new guest mode that allows guests to control Chromecast without connecting to Wifi network. Those commands presumably are relayed through Google servers. But it isn't turned on by default.

Chromecast does need to be connected to the Internet to download the receiver app that runs on the Chromecast. If the Chromecast could cache the app, or get it from the controlling app, it could run completely disconnected from the Internet.
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> Fortunately, you can host your own VPN server on DigitalOcean for $5/month. Heck, you could probably even get away with one of atlantic.net's $1/month servers.

Does DigitalOcean track you any less than AT&T?
This was the cause of my very first "hard" C Bug, in 1991 or so. I had written a program in our Novell Netware labs to read in the printer control code definitions for our printer-release consoles - being "clever", and wanting to save a few lines of code, I read them into a memory structure, and overlaid a C-Struct on top of them that mapped precisely to the fields that I wanted. Everything worked fine, code compiled, and we were able to read all the job definitions until I handed it off to the team responsible for the rest of the release console - at which point the code just started breaking. No longer worked. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what was going, until our team leader took a glance, and made it clear that I needed to inform the compiler to byte align the C Structs (which was likely the default behavior in Turbo-C, but not Watcom C).

Really opened my eyes to the many, many things that I didn't know.
Looks impressive. Great work! Very well done site as well.

Coming from Erlang, and familiar with a few basic actor concepts (but not with Scala's Akka terminology), I see a lot of new things and it seems a bit daunting.

I started browsing documentation and looked at:

http://getakka.net/wiki/Addressing

And see new things like:

ActorRef,
^ActorOf,
^ActorSelection,
DeadLetterActorRef,
EmptyLocalActorRef,
ActorCell,
ActorPath (physical and logical).
A URI spec that for "akka://"

From an outsider point of view who knows about sending a message to a process ID which looks like "Pid ! Message" in Erlang, what is the overall philosophy of needing those other concepts. Is it because of static typing, trying to provide global discovery or registration mechanisms?
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What? Why this on top?
Column store is really just making sure values for a column are continuous in memory, instead of rows as it is done usually. Basic premise is that modern CPU's can chew through continuous memory locations at light speed, with single core being capable of scanning a gigabyte of RAM in few milliseconds[0].

This is extremely beneficial when your tables have large number of columns, but you only want to do computations on a few of them. Columnar stores usually implemented using dictionaries which allow for efficient duplicate handling and blazing fast lookups. Often those dictionaries also contain run length optimizations, so values 1 through 100 are only stored using two values start-range 1 and end-range 100.

All in all, column stores are efficient at analytic workload, but struggle when a lot of inserts and updates need to happen.

[0] Using prefetch, properly aligned data, and likely other optimizations I am not thinking of.
What, because he's not Linus Torvalds he can't be an experienced C programmer worth learning from?
Signing up for Fiber requires creating a Google account, and the way the policy is written, they can share non-personally identifiable information about your online activity with advertisers so long as they don't tie it to your Google account. Between those two clauses, and pervasive use of Search/Gmail/Analytics, there's probably little activity they can't pick up.

Also, note that they explicitly say they'll tie your TV-viewing habits to your Google account. It's easy to overlook this, but TV ad revenue is still 50% higher than online ad revenue, so this is a major synergy.
You'd be hardpressed to claim that having information in a database mean they knew about it. That is sort of the whole point. That Youtube video that is copyrighted is in the Yahoo server. But Youtube doesn't know about it.
Unless there's some explicit condemnation, I would just assume that "this was on HN before" with a link is just a helpful pointer to more interesting comments.
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"Nix and Hydra were discovered by New Horizons team members in Hubble Space Telescope images taken in 2005."
How long would it take for Oort objects that are nudged out of their orbit to become comets buzzing or hitting Earth?

Also, if that star system has its own Oort cloud, could some of the objects there have jumped system and become long-term comets?
I agree with you regarding driving services being a genuine gray area.

>A person who is a professional driver, owns their own equipment (the car of course), can pick their own shifts and accept or reject a ride

These would all be arguments towards a proper Independent Contractor relationship. However, as you highlight you see the flipside, which might include the following arguments. One could argue while the driver supplies the car/insurance, a service such as Uber provides not just software but other equipment such as the iPhone that must be used to facilitate rides/payments (why can't a driver use their own phone?). Driver's may create their own hours, but Uber pays "bonuses" (i.e. hourly wages) for drivers to drive at certain times. Then there are issues such as mandatory meetings and training. I have had a driver tell me Uber pays attorney's fees when drivers are arrested for violating taxi laws.

All things being equal, it is entirely foreseeable that different Courts could rule differently given the same facts - the epitome of genuine gray area.
I was the one with this data. The subreddit which discussed provided the data went private.

I have the raw data but it's infeasable to distribute due to size and the original source got in trouble for making it easily accessible.
You are doing the devil's work.
This sounds awesome.

It's a little unfortunate that the iPad Air (at least the first one) is really inexact for pressure-sensitive drawing, though. It tends to reject or miss the very first part of fast, light strokes. It only recognizes them properly when you start out rather deliberately, counter to how you might sketch or crosshatch.

While nobody has officially confirmed last I looked, best guess seems to have been this is an accidental touch rejection heuristic in the touch drivers to compensate for your hand overlapping the thin bezel when you hold the tablet. That was borne out by the fact that if you first touch the screen elsewhere, the strokes register immediately and correctly as part of a multitouch.

This has, unfortunately, seriously damaged the usefulness of my Wacom Intuos Creative iPad stylus. I've seen the same complaint leveled at other styluses too. I can't see how it wouldn't hit this solution as well.

That said, I'll definitely check this out. I've always wanted a Cintiq but couldn't justify the cost as a hobbyist. If Apple has allowed or will allow the rejection behavior to be disabled by drawing programs, this would be a slam dunk for me.
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I agree with you for the most part but most of you would be better off if you keep this in mind :

Don't rebase commits you have already pushed.
If you work in this space, you owe it to yourself to check out the Retlang library. Comprehensible model, blindingly fast, worked since .NET 2 and... utterly unmarketed.