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Government is a classic example of a system where most members of the system can be good and efficient, yet the system as a whole can be clogged up by even a few crappy folks.

It's like traffic with limited lanes. Decisions have to go thru certain chokes, and if there's a slow driver (inefficient bureaucrat) or a traffic jam (overworked), or a crash (time critical emergency), or a malicious troll (a troll) then things stop or slow down.

Like a big road network, you get enough of these and flow becomes jerky, stop-start, non-linear, and efficiency drops. Meanwhile, nearly all drivers will report that they are good, rule abiding drivers (minus speeding (the occasional minor rule circumvention), which actually helps flow).

Sure, groups become more valuable the bigger they get, cause of the combinatorial link complexity, but they also get harder to get anything done in cause you've got to check all those links to make sure actions will be accepted.

Hierarchies just map this exponential complexity into something closer to an O(log(n)) tree with the caveat that you get flow constrictions as a tradeoff for not having to talk to everyone.
I think you are right that building launch vehicles consumes much of NASA's time, money, and focus, and that private launch systems will relieve NASA of this burden (if they accept the relief).

I do not think this is NASA's main problem, as they were able to create launch systems while performing exploration in the 1960s. It seems that they lost their way after Apollo, when NASA no longer had a clear priority. NASA is now dominated by internal politics, where each center tries to run its own projects, and there is no overarching goal. If NASA had one main program, it would be more visible to the public, and have a greater chance of success on a realistic timeline (5-10 years), though NASA would risk complete defunding if there were problems with the project.

Mars in the short term (5-10 years) is a realistic goal (under their current funding levels) which could get NASA started again, but it would require them to sacrifice a variety of smaller projects which have strong internal lobbies.
This story is old. The user is just confirming it by his experience.
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There is no "different market" though. It's all one market for occupation of land, and one of the least regulated in the world... a place where speculators compete with residents, where locals compete with foreigners, Panama-registered limited companies compete with PAYE earners, and so on. That is a huge part of the problem.
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Err, maybe.

> work with them on a small project based on the challenges u are facing

This doesn't really have any of the details you mentioned. "Work with them" implies there's already a "them" to work with.
There are downvotes because your post is obviously antagonistic, or it wouldn't use terms like "religious zeal".

The benefits of open, non-profit motivated software are clear. So it's entirely understandable that people wish Firefox well despite it having some flaws in comparison to Chrome.
The passenger pigeon would be an even better example. To quote Wikipedia, "The species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world during the 19th century to extinction early in the 20th century."
> They have their own GCs, and are byte code interpreted

Between the thinnest alternatives I can think of (Scheme, Lua), they have GCs as well. I'm not sure why you are bringing memory manage here though. In that phrase the author is talking about the size of the language not the memory footprint.

I believe that the author uses the term "glue" in the sense that a person who doesn't want to code in C can still use C libraries through a scripting language (in this case PHP).

How else could you do it? Well you could do the same with Java using JNI. Also you could use Perl if you want but in comparison, PHP is "fairly" thin. The author is not claiming that PHP is lightweight, just that it is thin enough to be consired as a proxy between C libraries.
Can't help but think of this guy:

http://humzadeas.tumblr.com/image/105666488345
https://vimeo.com/104818943
OSX Voiceover support has "improved" but is still pretty broken. Anyone know if Voiceover support is on the roadmap? Would ditch Safari in a minute if Firefox had proper Voiceover support. Considering how much attention Mozilla gives to accessibility...
As do many. And many others had that option but now don't, thanks to crazy housing policies (and lack of).
When I first looked at the genetic code, my first question was where is the code? The letter sequences and arrangement of genes looked random. Gradually I started to realize that the genetic code is random, and that the design of an organism is irrational. After having this personal realization, biology finally started to make sense.
If you've asked the question, you've already failed.

It's 2015. Are you not capable of overcoming the limitations of geography with technology?
The final pictures are so heavily over-produced that they look incredibly fake-- which is a shame and leaves me totally baffled. It looks like someone literally painted the figure on the picture.

The only time anxiety kicked in was the picture of the whole team posing for a shot at the corner.
The site is a first-class citizen on mobile, mobile is a primary platform for many less-privileged classes. Same with Twitter.
I've published a short technical book through Leanpub and think it's fantastic, although one of the reasons I like it is because it offers publishing via git/the CL.

Still, it's got a Dropbox method for organizing your info that looks easy. Check it out!
I digitalized all my book collection long, long time ago, and DRM FREE ebooks are much better than anything on paper.

Unfortunately there is no legal software solution that reaps the benefit of digital, because what makes digital great, like an open interface to access the data, makes it easier to copy.

Reading on a 55 inches OLED in portrait mode, with black background, letters in green or white is gorgeous. I can search the book, make it to talk me,read on multiple columns like a newspaper, read different books at the same time(in order to reference one from another) or have an open browser.

But for using digital you have to stop trying to emulate paper.
I did a similar dive using Javascript recently. I tried plain js, asm-js and finally webgl. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I got the best speeds out of webgl, with the mandelbrot inner loop in a shader. You can see the results here [1]—it's pretty fast. Click and drag, double click or scroll wheel to zoom.

[1] http://caldwell.github.io/mandelbrot-html/
From a native english (of the american variety) viewpoint:

Neither have positive connotations, but "fundamentalist" is worse. Fundamentalism specifically invokes ideas of religious fundamentalism, particularly "religious right" style protestant beliefs.

"Radical" on the other hand is used in a more diverse set of cases. It invokes thoughts of any number of political or religious beliefs that are either outside the mainstream or do not conform with progressive western values as they are traditionally stated.

I don't think either is dismissive. Descriptive, with negative connotations, but being critical is not the same as being dismissive.
I was going to saw the same thing, but didn't because I figured I'd get downvoted for it on HN. Seems I was right.

I use debian and arch with http://www.infinality.net/blog/ and the fonts have never looked better.
Neither are programmers that don't explain themselves when they say "YOU'RE WRONG. I KNOW WHY BUT I WONT TELL YOU!"

In other words you fit perfectly here :)
Thanks for the feedback! I have put it on our todo list.
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Ah but standing there on that ledge and looking down knowing that the slightest mis-step could mean the end, where none of your worries past or future matter except the present... That feeling is so magical <3 !
So what kind of organization(s) do you see doing a better job than Nasa? I would agree that it's a political and rather inefficient organization, like any government-funded agency, but I'm curious how exactly we could improve.

Bear in mind that many of Nasa's best projects were undermined by politics. A new Administration comes into power vowing to re-prioritize spending, and Nasa's champions within the White House and Congress are suddenly without jobs. A recession hits and Nasa is an easy target for budget cutters. A Congressman threatens to withhold spending unless Nasa locates a facility in his district. You can't fix this stuff; it's part of the landscape.
Not valid asm.js, doesn't do anything useful.
Calibre ereader management is any easy piece of software that makes those conversions a lot faster
Well, there's risky and then there's risky. I believe that post was put up at the same time that the LIFX light bulb campaign was prematurely ended at ~$2 million. That project was from someone whose previous KS project was a cardboard lightbox that had missed its shipping date at that point, so I think the likelihood of collateral damage there made Kickstarter pause. (Credit to LIFX that they learned/hired quickly and managed to ship.)

Whatever you take the spirit of Kickstarter to mean, I think that Pebble has it. They're grateful for Kickstarter, and foster a user community — launching a new product this way just feels native.
Yes, I am concerned about privacy and security in my email. I would be willing to pay a premium of "a few 10s of dollars per year" for properly-implemented secure emails.

However, the problem is that I also value other things. I value performance, UI, access via several different media (web, mobile app, etc). Most of all, I value the email provider being reliable... someone who will stay in business for many years.

And that's why I use Google's gmail. The data is quite private except from Google themselves and (presumably) the NSA (except that they do not support encrypted emails). The fact that their service is free is actually a slight negative: I like not spending money, but I regret not being the customer and I would rather pay. But I haven't encountered any other provider that I can count on being there 10 years from now.
Show HN: A tool to mark duplicates in iPhoto library – simple, fast, open source
That rigging looked outrageous. All I saw was one guy holding onto the models. If a model slipped and fell, that guy won't have stood a chance in holding them back.

Hopefully the person was themselves hooked into the roof, and the rigging was hooked into the roof, with him acting on belay. But I certainly didn't see that.

I'm so glad nothing bad happened, but this seemed irresponsible from a safety and technical standpoint.

(I mean even the camera rig looked flimsy.)
Photos and videos are searched for duplicates based on file size and checksum. Calculated checksums are cached. On a first run, not having the cache yet, it takes 1 hour 9 minutes to process 717 GB iPhoto library located on external HDD with the 138 368 photos total.
If anyone has access to cranes in san francisco, I'd love to do a round #2 and take things even further haha :)

This rooftop took quite a bit of scouting around to get but man was it worth it. Love SFO, wish I could visit again!
How are you going to cite a study disproving the inherently subjective and hyperbolic definition of 'everywhere'? There is literally nothing in the universe that is 'everywhere'. Can you link an academic paper establishing a quantitative definition of when something can be referred to as being 'everywhere'?
I don't think identifying them as a subculture is the issue, it's the use of the word 'radical' which could come across as dismissive.
Of the emerging systems languages Rust, D, Go and Nim, which is the strongest?
China's spending isn't very transparent, and their costs are much lower, so dollar-for-dollar they are accomplishing more than Nasa is. And they're not just screwing around. They're planning to put humans on the Moon in a few years, which implies a huge and well funded effort.
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Everything was doubly tied down, don't worry :) The person holding was there simply to maintain tension the entire way as the models walked from the side to the edge. As for the camera, the flex comes from the metal itself but it was also extra secured with straps in the event that anything fell loose.
True, I more meant their method required O(n) effort since they had to write pre\post conditions and invariant for the tool. Whereas something like codeSonar or PVS Studio requires O(1) effort, just point it at your build and press go. The bug they found was an implementation defect, something I believe the low effort tools would have caught. Where their tool should shine would be in detecting something the low effort analysis tools miss.
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I also have some fiction ebook on my phone ready. It's big advantage is that it always with me. Statistics tell me I have read 35 books in 163 hours so far. Never tried reading non-fiction.

Reader App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft....
Do you mean something like VBscript in old Internet Explorer versions? Do you understand why it died off?
It's all DMV COBOL mainframes.
> 'Radical' is synonymous with fundamental

That is not at all what 'radical' means in the context of 'radical sub-culture'. The definition you're looking for is one of:

2. thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms: a radical change in the policy of a company.

3. favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms: radical ideas; radical and anarchistic ideologues.

I guess you could argue that trans people fall under definition # 2 from the perspective of many (most?) people, but i also think that 'radical sub-culture' generally implies some kind of conscious action — i don't think that simply existing as a member of a minority makes you inherently 'radical'.
Yes because of insane property tax
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> The only time anxiety kicked in was the picture of the whole team posing for a shot at the corner.

Especially the one guy giving a thumbs up toward the middle left. There's no way he's tied in and he's standing on the ledge. One misstep by anyone there and he goes over. At least that's the way it looks.

Edit: Here's the sidewalk immediately below the location shoot: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.789224,-122.40034,3a,75y,8.7...
Not yet, because languages that compile to javascript don't actually replace javascript with anything but javascript.

Plenty of people still write their own javascript, to do basic DOM manipulation and whatnot. I really can't imagine that the common use cases for JQuery, for instance, are better served by compiling C. It is a scripting language, even if you want to pretend it's "bytecode", and even if treating it as bytecode is useful for some people, I would argue that's still the exception and not the norm.
In principle, I agree: when I see kids take out tens or hundreds of thousands in loans, and not get a productive career out of it (say the guy who couldn't pass the bar after going to law school), I don't have sympathy when they claim they shouldn't have to pay the loans back.

In this situation, however, I believe those not paying are claiming they were deceived (and there are lawsuits as such). This isn't a matter of not paying your loans because your house burned down, as much as not paying your loans because the builder deceived you on the quality.

Additionally, these aren't typical bank loans usually, but guaranteed by a quasi-government entity. To a certain degree, this means the government is guaranteeing some set of standards (I can't get a government-backed loan to do a code bootcamp, for example), and these students are banking on the idea that the loans will be forgiven without recourse, or at the very least, shining a light on this school with they are contacted, en masse, for failure to repay.
Yeah, but bosses at jobs don't like it when I think about our situation like that.
This is all assuming that the ultimate goal was merely to distract the world. IF (it's a big if) some group plotted and executed this elaborate, risky plan, then there must have been something bigger at stake.
Wait I have to tweet to Read the preview... No thanks :)
Tumblr is mostly about nice looking pictures. Architecture, food, fashion etc. People don't really talk or socialize on there too much. I feel like it's just by correlation that tumblr users might be more likely to have or express issues. It seems like "blogging" platforms always had that demographic. Most people would just use them as digital diaries. So unsuprisingly you'd find diaries of depressed people. Because, well, some people just are. Tumblr is just the latest, most mainstream iteration of the phenomenon.
Have you considered the Carbon Dioxide used in producing your hardware?
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Ask HN: How to determine legitmate enterprise features?
Besides 'support', I'm not sure what should offer to enterprise users. @patio11 says that I should charge more and have enterprise, but I don't know what big companies want in particular that the basic or premium plans don't cover (or, in truth, what you can get away selling to them).

Enterprise features always seem shrouded in a 'contact us' black box, and so there doesn't seem to be a de-facto solution as to what features should be offered. Granted ,there isn't a one-size-fits all anyway, but I'm sure there are generalities that can be picked up on.
I was thinking the same thing. Whatever, if they adjusted the rules someone would find a way around it. It's pretty smart marketing.
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I'm sure I could handle challenging heights if I had to in an emergency, but looking at those pics is giving me vertigo in my chair.
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You can't honestly believe that. Consider the # of professional software developers in the US alone is much higher than the total population of San Francisco.
Not sure about that system. I'm using Debian testing and it has very good quality defaults (visually) which I change anyway to suit some of my preferences. So the claim about that "distros ship horrible defaults" is not universally applicable.
Is it just me, or does it look like he's squeezing the buttons fairly hard in the timeline demo images? I suppose you have to make the buttons firm enough to prevent accidental presses but I would hope that you could use the buttons with one figure comfortably.
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Don't want to hurt all the folks whom this will immensely help. But isn't this going to kill a lot of low cost permanent jobs here in US.

So currently we are still debating on whether we want to raise the H1 cap because that will encourage body shops and more cheap labour but isn't this going to take away the low paying US jobs as well.

So say there are 65,000 ppl coming into US on H1 every year, 40,000 of these say apply for green card and on an average say it takes 8 years to get green card and 2 years to get I-140.
So every year now well be making 40,000 more ppl eligible and when we start we already will have a surplus of 40,000 * 6

Plus if I am not wrong with H1 you atleast have to prove that you cannot find someone who can do this job and that's why you are bringing someone from outside. But with this you are basically making ppl with any qualification eligible for a job.

I personally would have liked the govt to hike the H1 to ensure that the students who study here won't have to leave because of the lack of enough number of visa's.
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Bounce-back ads are pretty freaking evil. When I hit 'Back' I don't expect the web site to intercept that. It's as bad as closing a web site, only for that to generate numerous pop-up ads.
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Yes, a JPEG image :)
Also, revealing your birthdate to the general public could help people convince your bank they're you, or bust a pseudonym that you had been trying to keep separate from your legal name.
Echoing other comments here, I think college towns make excellent startup founding locations. They often have plenty of access to graduating talent, and many have thriving tech scenes to begin with. Ann Arbor, Boulder, Waterloo, Champaign, Boston, and many other towns avoid the costs of SV while still allowing plenty of access to technical and financial resources. While markets in these towns might not perfectly mimic the larger national market, they have a similarly young-and-technically-proficient subset of the population as larger tech hubs, both in terms of talent and users.
I feel the same... Forcing me to de facto advertise the product before I had a chance to even read the sample puts into question the quality the content I would find inside the book. My steps were the following. I bookmarked the book. I learnt I would need to endorse it to peek into the sample. I didn't. I removed the bookmark of the book from my collection.
High property taxes are a myth. Slightly higher, yes. However, you can choose your tax rate by choosing a subdivision right next door. Subdivs w/ larger, more expensive homes tend to have lower tax rates. 3% at $100k home is common, 2.5% at $500k home. Depends on community amenities. About half of the collected tax go directly to your local school district, and small slices to various community services, fire, police, water, etc. The state is mostly funded through sales tax (which is around 7 to 8%).

Taxes are generally from 2% to 3% of property tax appraisal (which is usually lower than the real, "market" value; when I bought my house, it was appraised for 40% less than what I paid for it). For a $500k house (large home, probably 4,000 to 5,000 sq ft, pool), maybe $1k/mo. For a $200k home (which could still be 3k sq ft), maybe $500/mo.

Any way you cut it, even $12k/year in property tax is certainly less to possibly a LOT less than 13% income tax in CA, and you can buy smaller or larger, buy elsewhere or relocate, or negotiate it away by protesting with comps data. Also, it's a tax only when you spend the money, not when you make it (encouraging investment).

Rentals have no direct property tax, of course. Compare the actual prices. Before you say "oh, that's where it is!" compare the rental prices for a home in San Jose (or SF) to the same home in an Austin suburb.
By ESP you mean "Extrasensory perception"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception
or, sadly, with some schools 3) decide they own the copyright on your work while you are a student

best wish and good luck
Well, you might not notice Tcl if you see it sometimes.

For example have a look at the build scripts in MacPorts, those are valid Tcl programs (if you load the needed procs first).
https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.examples.html

As Tcl is very often used for DSL style usecases, you might mistaken Tcl code for more or less pseudo code, config files or something like that.
Hydrogen is literally everywhere.

Anyways, I don't think any reasonable person would say that 5 people in 1000 would be enough to support the claim the GP put forth.
Sorry you feel that way :( We had home-made budget costumes that were hand painted so this was the best solution.

On the flip side though, I think you'll enjoy these behind the scenes without photoshop :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5ixzup47wcm1tw/BTS_katherine-2.jp...

(theres more on the dropbox link:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bqtxeldmqiacm9y/AACk0lp0tl9ncGvzl...)