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4) has already happened: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Good luck getting the UN to take your oil platform seriously though when they won't recognise Somaliland (population 3.5M, far more viable as a state than Somalia and not involved in any proxy disputes with Security Council members)

2 and 3 are the more standard route, but it's not so much "creating a new nation from scratch" as trying to reform it in your own image. Judging by the number of nations that owe a very large amount to one person or small group's particular image, the notions of relative harmony and rules that make sense vary quite considerably...
Here are some brand new 6502 dev boards:

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Infinity (1996) - "Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman."

Creation (2009) - "a partly biographical, partly fictionalized account of Charles Darwin's relationship with his eldest daughter, Annie (Martha West), as he struggles to write On the Origin of Species"

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls050940841/ lists more movies about scientists (and others). So does http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059739125/ .

Films about mathematicians - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_mathematici... .

http://www.swide.com/art-culture/15-films-about-real-life-sc...

The question starts to be, how much time do you want to put into this?
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I think at a certain point a company reaches a size where there are functional units that generally do independent work and the founder has little to do with it -- if an investor has an interest in that area (or ideally experience/advice to offer) it makes sense for some members of the team to be involved in the dialog, though probably not the guy writing the algorithms in c++.
I see a continued loss of excellent, experienced -- 10-15 years into their careers -- engineers from sf to Seattle, Chicago, Colorado, Boston, and Austin driven by an admixture of the poor wages in sf/peninsula compared to housing costs, poor transport plus long commute times, very high education costs for children, high daycare costs, and family unfriendly work policies. Three friends and at least nine acquaintances over the last 24 months.

Compare the housing prices of what a three bedroom condo in sf (what a 2 child family wants) vs the other cities, plus the ability for mothers to take a couple years off work. Losing 15 to 20% of your salary to save 50% or more of housing costs is often a great deal.
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The Long Mars (by Pratchett/Baxter) explores some ideas like that on a trip through parallel universes, though it's 3 books into a series that doesn't lend itself to skipping around.
If a score out of 10 from someone who likely spent <15 min considering your pitch is going to influence you, you're probably not committed enough to see it through anyway.
I don't think you really understand how this bot works.
You could talk about all the things it 'takes' to be great at your job, or you could just come up with your own idea of greatness and chase that. Eventually you'll outgrow your current position. Whether you get promoted or find another job at that point is an implementation detail.
A straight Hohmann transfer requires ~0.5-1% more dV than a bi-elliptic transfer. Calling this "by far" not optimal is by far not correct. So instead of 32 km/s you need 31.68 km/s. This changes nothing.
I get the idea in general, but you know sometimes you bring that outsider in for knowledge you don't have in-house.

I'm a full stack developer, but I'll be the first to tell you I don't have a deep knowledge of any RDBMS. If that sort of knowledge is necessary, they're either going to pay me to figure it out, pay someone else to teach me, pay someone else to do it, or some variation of the above.
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1 Infosys 16,397 $75,154
2 Wipro 7,178 $76,920
3 Tata Consultancy Services 6,732 $64,350
4 IBM 6,502 $83,883
5 Deloitte Consulting 4,727 $98,264
6 Microsoft 4,075 $109,546
7 Larsen & Toubro Infotech 3,793 $59,408
8 Accenture 2,653 $72,704
9 Ernst & Young 2,353 $86,380
10 Satyam Computer Services 2,310 $70,495
However, there is no way to verify that is all they log.

CloudFlare gets to see the cleartext of all traffic they serve as they MITM HTTPS connections.
I don't think we can teach people to do or not do a dozen different things at once. Caring fatigue kicks in, people nitpick the lesser issues, etc. It would be nice if people could agree to end one specific behavior at a time.

Edit: Before more people react negatively... Have you tried explaining microagressions to someone who has never exprienced any before? It is not easy.

Edit 2: Focused campaigns such as Beyonce and co against the word 'bossy'.

Edit 3: want to see nitpicking in action? Read the other comments.
Could someone more knowledgeable about this field explain what advantages this would have over the incumbents?
This is one of the best descriptions of microaggressions that I've come across. It also explains well the idea of unintentional-but-still-harmful; I love the comparison to accidentally stepping on someone's foot, and will totally use that as an example in future.
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Yes, using a magnetic sail - which is this case is more of a magnetic parachute:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail

The easiest way to use it might be to apply it in the direction perpendicular to the dumptruck - Sun axis. That way, you don't pick up radial speed, but you do lose orbital speed.

Assuming, that is, that i've understood how a magnetic sail works.
This text seemed to work pretty good for me :)

"we're working on a weekend hack called Briks (brikapp.co). The goal is to help you to group social content from the individuals that you follow, no matter where they post the content"
Others have described the solution in this thread, but I thought I would express it more visually since I still see some confusion:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YVe2WymBiu_zBwZ9Dnqu...
In the case of the startup I'm working for, they will join because of the reputation of the founder. His father was such a successful entrepreneur that people will jump over anything with his name. Of course it will not prevent the business to fail miserably, but nobody will listen to me anyway - when I started working here I gave him a copy of your book, but I'm sure it is was stashed somewhere unread. :-)
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Taking this one step further, it is also possible that life has been exchanged between our two worlds. Large meteor collisions in the past have moved parts of Mars to Earth, and possibly also Earth to Mars. And some small life can exist clung to rocks in space (we know of such creatures here on Earth)! So perhaps, Mars was once wet and warm and full of life. Perhaps it suffered a large impact of some kind billions of years ago, and perhaps that impact flung Mars rocks with little tiny Martians on them towards Earth. In fact, this could have happened thousands of times.

It's possible, anyway. You know, while we're speculating.
Sigh, I should have heeded your warning. My productivity is not looking too good today.
This might be interesting: https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-onlin...
actually, Miguel de Icaza, from Gnome and Mono fame, got an O visa, I wonder what was the initial Visa that Linus Torvalds got, but he could well apply for that O, with no objection from me.
my critique of new authors is more along the lines of how blatant they in their characterizations. I don't think I've ever read a book and thought "this person is just too long winded".

Well, that's not true. Jules Verne.... I could never finish 20,000 Leagues under the Sea despite being immensely interested in the story as a youngster.
That's an open question, actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
I am flabbergasted that you're just going to define the problem away. But it certainly is easier. You can solve all net neutrality problems just by labeling things as other things.

For the rest of us, though, that doesn't work so well, because there are societal purposes to getting people access to the Internet. Democracy requires an informed citizenry, and there is no better tool for that than the Internet. Reducing multigenerational poverty similarly benefits from reducing the digital divide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide
Very interesting, though there's a large overlap with material covered in the cited papers.

It was particularly interesting that a good result could be obtained despite started with such a simple model (CEK).

Some questions that comes to mind:

* Is the allocation elimination good enough that you could just treat all variable as set! mutated instead?

* If instead of direct-style (later "re-discovered" as A-normal form) you used CPS with first-class continuations, then the two-phases of the append problem would fall right out?

A downside to using a generic JIT engine, like RPython, is the loss of language specific GC opportunities (for a lazy language, these include indirection elimination, trivial reductions, untagged heap objects, ...).
I can't believe The Huffington Post would be so sexist! Comparing women to a primitive animal that need to be lured in.
"Attracting" women is demeaning and is a direct result of a patriarchal society that thinks nothing of women.

If you took the above comment seriously - seek help.
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What I found silly was the buy in the US link went to the HarperCollins store where the book is $35 + Shipping. I look it up on Amazon where it's 24.92 w/free shipping. WTH?
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Of course you can mitm localhost. The privileges required to do so just usually happen to come packaged with ones that obviate the need.
Regarding 4: It seems difficult [1].

And also [2].

In short: Declaration of independece - easy. Recognition - not so much..

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations
I'm looking forward to the flavor experimentations that will result from this. Shortening the feedback loop, providing additional 'knobs' to turn, and reducing costs of trying new techniques will hopefully result in some amazing new tasty beverages.
Republicans introduce bill to quash net neutrality rules
they still haven't... most likely pure brine.
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Gravity assists are helpful but they're not all-powerful. There's a hard constraint: your orbit is deflected more as you make your point of closest approach lower, but you can't make it too low without hitting the atmosphere. (Unless you actually want to crash into Venus instead of the sun; in which case, knock yourself out, but the moon is closer.)

Math time: a Hohmann transfer orbit from Earth to Venus will have 2.7km/sec of excess velocity when it reaches Venus. That means your orbit has a 44000km semi-major axis. With a closest approach of 6100km, that gives you a minimum eccentricity of 1.137; if I'm doing my trigonometry right, the most orbital speed you could lose in a single flyby is 4.2km/sec, or about 11% of your speed relative to the sun.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_trajectory for details.)

You could do better with multiple carefully-orchestrated flybys, but the point is it's not as simple as just heading for the nearest planet and letting it fling you wherever you want to go.
> I don't think having a large number of relatively equal agents interacting freely is ever realistic.

By which logic, free-market approaches are also never realistic.

> On the surface it is unfair to those under 6 feet tall but the NBA, being a market [...]

Your example doesn't make much sense to me. The actual market involved is the labor market, which does indeed have a large number of relatively equal agents interacting freely. Known labor market failures occur when that's not the case. (E.g., company towns, employer collusion.) But when it does work well, it both provides a kind of fairness and also acts as a reasonably good way to allocate talents and abilities.
More important than politically inconvenient: a technically inconvenient situation, as that waste could be on a trajectory back to earth.

https://youtu.be/YIqXql6LLz0?t=6m50s
Agreed. Enforcing SSL on the entire web will just mean a lot of very sloppy and bad SSL. Better to just make it abundantly clear when traffic is insecure, because that's a problem you'll have to solve whether you force SSL or not.
For customers that difference approaches zero.
> If they actually use that CA to MITM connections, it is usually detected pretty quickly

Really? How?
I am sorry but I cringed while reading this.

“Mom” as an example of a non-technical user.

Describing software or algorithms as “sexy”, “hot”, etc.

like lol, I am not sexist and I would love to have more females in engineering, but these pseudo-intellectual feminists do nothing but whine about the stupidest things
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Not quite the same thing, but when I see low fat "2% fat milk", it sounds to me that there should be 2% by volume of visible fat spheroids... :)
Quite, but B could have easily known "15th" or "17th" for all that A knows in this particular part of the story.
Why don't you try engaging the argument? I think we all agree that Internet access is important - I certainly do - but that does mean we should ban all other mediums? If not, what makes this one different?

That we should give people access to the Internet is a red herring here. The existence of this cellphone plan doesn't preclude us from doing so

Insteadof being outraged that this company dared to violate NN, why don't we try to understand why would people choose this instead of Internet access? If it's due to cost, then maybe the solution should be to provide more affordable Internet access, so that they don't feel the need to join this plan.
Well this fell from number 5 article pretty quick. I've noticed this happening heaps with articles about sexism. Why is that?
Free-market principles aren't a religious goal. They're tools we use to design markets. And we do that to achieve some real-world end, like better resource allocation, more stable social structures, or smarter, healthier citizens.

In this case, if we're writing net neutrality rule, it's easy enough to exempt charity cases like you describe.
I'm not sure that anyone has to agree to work on one at a time. If each person worked on one at a time, that would be great! Nobody is going to get mad at someone for consciously trying to use "women" instead of "girls" just because we all agreed it's "No default male avatar" month.
More productive, more focused and healthier lifestyle.

You can live somewhere less urban, and have a happier wife and kids.

If all you need is a computer and a connection, there is no reason to waste time and efficiency in an office environment.

If you can't find the time and money for a real vacation, consider having a working vacation. Spend afternoons on vacation, work in the morning and evening. Its really works!
Really? What makes you say that besides the fact that I said something you don't like?

Does it or does it not open unsolicited issues on GitHub repositories automatically?

Seems to me like that's exactly what it does. If it does, this is the epitome of spam despite your claim otherwise. Your attitude and apparent disbelief that this would be unwanted and disliked by people is baffling to me. Just look at most comments so far that have felt the same way.
Are you serious? Opinions like these are exactly why women are having a hard time in tech in the first place. If I have to spend every waking moment at work obsessing about whether a single comment will make my female coworkers label me as a sexist asshole, then you bet I'll avoid working with them as much as possible.
In don't think any ca is going to give you a cert for local host, but open ssl is happy to make a self-signed cert for random single-word CNs, and chrome will trust them if you tell it to.
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Because if the orbital velocity is intact you will perputally miss hitting the sun. The only way you can hit a thing you are orbiting is to remove all the orbital velocity (well, remove enough of the orbital velocity such that your orbit drops low enough to scrape the surface anyway).
"Yes, most people intend this in a gender-neutral way; no, it is not actually gender-neutral."

Wrong.
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Old business culture? Not sure. I have thought about this too.
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I find enumerating the multiple types of micro-aggressions helps the micro-aggressor understand the larger picture of how their many different acts of micro-aggression add up to a hostile atmosphere.

Doing so also helps me appear hostile to them, which distracts/sidelines the dialogue a bit.
And make more targets for laughing at who worry about if their gemstone/champaigne/whiskey/painting/low oxygen platinum infused speaker cables are genuine or not when nobody can tell the difference.
I usually use "open source" but I try to refer to the actual license to avoid ambiguity whenever possible. e.g: rather than say "This repo is open source" I'd rather say "This repo is MIT licensed".
Of course it was number six in my google search...I scanned top five and then figured it was called something else. Figured something as specific as "sourcebox" would have had top result be correct. Either way thanks.
This may be an unpopular opinion especially on HN but the fact that you can do this sort of thing in JavaScript is one of the reasons that I am not particularly a fan of the language.

Edit: I was right, it is not a popular opinion and therefore not a valuable one. Let the downvotes rain.
It does, just not on the warning page like ff does. You can install your self-signed cert in the settings panel.
To what end? To spend literally decades, perhaps centuries, with nuclear waste floating around the solar system? Why not just leave it in deep space to start with? Why bother sending it into space in the first place?

Meanwhile, if you succeed in sending nuclear waste into the Sun what do you think happens to it? It doesn't go away, it just gets vaporized and then scattered into the solar wind.
The author says multiple times: "an acceleration of [X] km/s is required", maybe they meant to imply that the magnitude of the change of the velocity?
> What if we could build an algorithm able to render movies from books?

Bob Coyne has been working on a system for generating images of still scenes from text descriptions for about 15 years now:

https://www.wordseye.com/
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~coyne/papers/wordseye_siggraph.p...
That's the theory, yes. In practice, many engineers are averse to unemployment, and will be discouraged from pursuing particular notions of greatness that risk it.
Yeah, for me personally an office is better than working from home, if it's a real office. A cube may suffice, but walls and a door are even better. In my last university job, I went in to the office typically 4 days/week even though I strictly could've gotten away with only going in the two days I had classes, because I had a real office, and I liked the separation of my apartment not also being "at work". I'd take the 5th (and sometimes 6th) day to work in coffee shops or libraries as a change of pace. Interestingly those don't bother me the way open offices do. Libraries tend to have an explicit ethos of quietness, and coffee shops have noise but to me it's more of a background din that's not very distracting. Maybe because I don't know the people like I do in an office.

If it was a bad commute I probably wouldn't have gone in either, I'll admit. But for the me the commute was actually one of the reasons I went in; it was about a ~40 minute walk, which "forced" me to get some regular exercise and fresh air.
Man has been trying to do this for decades. There's this AMAZING old movie called Gizmo! from the 60s (I think) with some guys running wine through a series of tubes and declaring it aged...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaVwqraUKxA&feature=youtu.be...

I found the clip! Must watch.
> the padlock icon really isn't any more secure than a self-signed cert.

I understand this comes from a frustration, and an understanding that the certificate based authentication is not perfect. But labeling it as "as secure as a self-signed cert" when a self-signed certificate provide no authentication (or an unpractical one at best) is uncalled for.

So as long as no practical and better solution for server authentication has been found, this is the best we have and it is still working pretty well (you don't see a lot of rogue certificates in the wild).
The Bay Area is fundamentally broken in that cities refuse to build new housing and schools. Supply is limited, demand exceeds supply, and engineers are competing against each other for that very limited supply.

So if all us engineers' salaries went up, it wouldn't help. We'd just end up spending even more to out compete each other. (Well, I guess it would help push non-engineers out of the Bay Area, but is that really what we want?)
I worked on a VB.Net project once and went to use LINQ...

I was blown away by the lambda syntax. I get the need for it from a parsing perspective, but my god.
> Why remove it when you can just deflect the rocket by the gravity of Venus and redirect the rocket directly towards the sun?

The fundamental thing you are missing is that to point the rocket directly at the sun required removing all of the orbital velocity. If you were to just point a rocket directly at the sun ignoring its relative motion and burn you would never actually hit the sun. You would just burn forever and never make any progress.
It's possible to burn plants cleanly - you need lots of air, and possibly a catalytic converter.

Not something you would do at home, but a power plant can.

We should, today, switch from burning coal to burning switchgrass.
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I'm curious how much equity founders have after such investment with so many investors? I know there's no standard rule here, but I don't know anything about investors, raising money etc., could someone give me few examples with real life numbers?
For a long time, public satellite imagery came from satellites flown by the US Geological Survey (USGS). They came in two flavors: geostationary and low-earth orbit.

The geostationary satellites are perched very high above the earth, and take frequent pictures of the 'full disk' of earth. This is invaluable for weather forecasting, as we can see what clouds are doing in real time. However, they are so far away that you need big, expensive satellites and big, expensive launches, and the resulting resolution is quite poor (like one pixel per 5km depending on latitude, and worse at high latitudes).

On the other hand, the low-earth orbit satellites fly just above the atmosphere, and can take pictures at much higher (spatial) resolution, but may only fly over a particular spot of land once per day. So you trade temporal resolution for spatial resolution.

With miniaturization, advances in imaging and related technology, and decreasing launch costs, it should be possible to deploy a constellation of small low-earth-orbit satellites, to provide good temporal AND spatial resolution. That enables a whole bunch of new applications.

However, I'd be a bit concerned that long-lived airborne drones flying at high altitudes might do the same thing (good spatial AND temporal resolution), but at a lower price point and in a more efficient way (since you only fly where you want to look, instead of covering the entire globe).

Perhaps I'm missing something?