skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a house drops from 80F to 30F within a couple of hours then it is poorly insulated, and likely has a lot of air exchange. http://www.winnipeg.ca/epp/pdfs/CoolingRatesOfHouses.pdf looked at how houses cooled during a power outage in Quebec in January. "The mean outside temperature during this period was between -7 and -8°C, with daytime highs of up to 3°C. ... The temperature was as low as -23°C during that period."

12-17 days after the power failed, the contractor measured temperatures in houses that had had neither power nor occupants during that time. "None of the air or surface temperatures in the 31 houses inspected had fallen below 0°C."

There is a proviso: "In very cold temperatures (for example, -30°C), high winds or houses without basements, the rate of cooling will be much faster than observed in the southern Quebec houses of this study."

Now, I lived for a year in a house which was poorly insulated, and where you could feel the draft through the window frame. When it was -15F outside 2L pop bottles would freeze on the floor of the pantry even when the heat was on, and when the furnace went out during Thanksgiving weekend the inside temperature quickly dropped. Even then, it didn't match the freezing outside temperature over a couple of hours. I can well believe that your experience is true, but it is atypical.

On the other side of things, Passivhaus designs (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house ) give an example of what can be done with good design, for houses designed for freezing weather. They need only 10W/m² of heat, which can often be met by normal activity (people, computers, screens, coffee makers, etc.)

It's possible to have south facing windows in Germany which let in more solar energy in winter than is released by heat loss.
The earth rotates surprisingly quickly

Not so much the earth as ISS.

The earth rotates at 24900mi/day or about 1040mph.

The ISS, to maintain its orbit, travels at 17150mph or about 5 miles per second.

So in two minutes, it travels about 600 miles.
Probabilistic prediction: this is primarily going to be used for robots that monitor, kill or assist with killing people.
My company's lawyer says that premium processing applicants receive their confirmation e-mail in the next few weeks IF they were selected. Regular processing should be notified by post late May/early June.

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There is a heliospheric current sheet[†], but it's not clear to me if/how it could be practically employed to achieve a sailing effect.

[†] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliospheric_current_sheet
For me there is a feeling of openness that comes from a good client. Bad clients seem to try to over compensate for their lack of openness by spewing what I think of as pretend openness. They might say things like:

We really don't need consultants to work for us but...

We have a TON of capital...

We could hire more people but...

Our product works amazingly well and doesn't need new features except...

The list goes on and on. The point here is that they aren't being truly open, they are just puffing themselves up without offering an honest view of their needs.

On the other hand, a good client will often admit to a short coming ("We don't really understand deployments well and we would like you to help us with both the automation and the understanding of deployments for the future"), honest about product and employee needs ("We need this feature faster than was expected but we don't feel like we want to encumber the business with additional employees right now"), and things like this. Also, most good clients don't just randomly bring up how wealthy they are. There is no need.

Obviously this doesn't cover every case. But I have found that it is relatively easy to sniff out honesty and shy away from clients where "it's too good to be true".
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Sometimes rockets fail. I mean like they blow up on launch.

When the Shuttle was first commissioned, my concern at the time was that America's most reliable rocket was the delta, which failed every thirty launches.

When it's nuclear waste, it's not good enough just to have launch insurance.
Composited desktops, heavy scrolling? Doesn't that kick up the GPU significantly?
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The author always says "an acceleration", which is the same thing as delta-v.

I have no idea how particular it is to phrase it that way, but it isn't confused.
I think it will do just fine as an industrial language, when you have the senior architect being the idris expert. His job will be to write the DSL for the engineers to code in. Idris already has hooks into C and Java and who knows what else by then. It won't work well if you expect to replace your java brigade with an idris brigade. Why would you need one anyway? I wonder if I'm being naive.
If it's anybody's job, it's a user of the project who requires/desires a license for some reason.

Going back to other comments, many people store dotfiles on GitHub which aren't likely to have many stars and which would be entirely reasonable to not have a license for.

Moreover, if this bot ever opened an issue on one of my repos for this, I'd flat-out report you to GitHub for harassment if they didn't already beat me to it.

If you want to create a website calling for people to add licenses to their projects and start a movement that way, great. Just tell me where to sign up for the cause. But this is just plain wrong.
I can't tell if your post is sarcasm or not, but I'd just like to point out that while not perfect we have 1) intelligence as individuals and 2) political mechanisms as a species that would enable a change of course (if one is possible to begin with) whereas the cyanobacteria lacked both of those things.
This link works: http://www.datastax.com/apache-cassandra-leads-nosql-benchma...
I fail to see the problem here under this proposal. Small companies can buy the same talent at the same price, whether it's domestically or abroad.

You seem to be arguing that small companies should have special dispensation versus large companies to circumvent immigration laws in order to lower their labor costs.

If you think small companies have a thumb on the scale, then give them a thumb on the scale. e.g. special tax incentives for hiring. And in fact small businesses do get thumbs on the scale from the government all the time. e.g. government solicitations favoring (by mandate) small and minority or female-owned businesses, SBA loans, etc. If you think they should get more, by all means argue that, but why at the expense of the US labor force?
Yes, I did read that. But what I didn't understand is why you were disregarding what seems to be a key part of interplanetary travel. The point that johngalt and I are making is that "falling" isn't the only way to get there.

Now, the real point seems to be that the Sun's gravity doesn't help you get there — in fact it works against you! You must rely on very precise calculations and instrumentation to target yourself there. So why not dive straight into another planet instead of using it for a gravity assist. That I can understand.
It is and, as I recall, Stephenson said as much in a foreword or afterword. Most of the book is an exercise in only partly understanding what's really going on or even the frame of reference you should be applying. It was well done and I enjoyed the book in the end but it definitely had a certain bar to clear in order to get into it. (In general, I find Stephenson's recent books could be tightened up and I didn't really like Reamde; it was a page-turner but suffered from coincidences driving plot.)
It has nothing to do with decimal systems or irrational numbers. It is impossible to exactly build something to any number. Choose 1. Can't do it, not with perfect accuracy. It's no harder to make something exactly the golden ratio than to make it pi, sqrt(2), or 6.
Off topic, but I'm always bothered when people say something like "It's the last 1% that counts the most". It's misleading to say that any single percentage point is more important than any other. If the last 1% is the most important, doesn't it make more sense to call it the last 99%?

I suppose if you are considering only the top percentiles of whatever you're talking about, it makes more sense. If you're only looking at the 95th-100th percentiles, then 1% of total quality is actually more like a 20% change in the space you're considering. But at that the same, to arbitrarily say that only things in the top 5 percent are worth considering is, well, arbitrary.

/rant
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Thanks for the heads up. I just googled.
This might help:

http://www.coniks.org/
It could be much lower than that if you take roundabout trajectories with gravity assists from Earth, Venus and Mercury. Not having to establish orbit is definitely a plus.

Besides, nuclear waste is still mostly unburned fuel which could be reprocessed and burned for power in special reactors.
That's interesting. I've never tried so I don't know, but can you issue an SSL cert to CN "localhost" or does it need a fully qualified domain name?
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Thanks! I am trying again and will not stop.
how many shitloads in a fuckton? i forget
This is how you start a war with Atlantis.
Very interesting that this doesn't seem to be getting much discussion on here...
I suspect you are correct.

I simply wished to make a point about the generality of parent's point.
It depends on the blurring method. If you do a gaussian blur, for example, you might be able to do a pretty good inverse blur by finding black frames and performing blind deconvolution. If I were at risk I'd use a nonlinear injective filter instead, to make sure information is lost (linear filtering is not only deterministic but perfectly without noise and no frequency response nulls).
Well thanks! But actually, building the network is indeed a big challenge. We've spent the better part of our 3 years just thinking and implementing methods to do it. We've arrived at an SDK model [1] where we work with app partners to integrate simple sensor code and contribute to our network. So we're able to grow quite quickly compared to a single app to download, but it's still not easy getting the necessary scale. We're aiming for about 10 million sensors, currently have 0.5 million. So we're getting there.

I've sent @elonmusk a few messages over the years but no replies so far. I am @vallesmarineris, so I think one day he'll notice that I already live on Mars and we'll chat.

[1]: https://github.com/Cbsoftware/pressureNET-SDK
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Why have you hit a salary ceiling? Is this because you work at a small company and you literally earn the most of the engineers around there? If so, you can move to a much larger successful company (their pay ladder will scale quite a bit higher). Or you can stay at the small company, by offering to have a higher impact. That's the nice thing with small companies: you can actually make a difference (and pocket the difference). Is there anything you do that contributes to the company actually making money? If so, do more of it.

In any case, developers are usually better considered (ie., higher pay) at software companies [exception: banking]. Make sure you work for one (kelukelugames suggested Microsoft). Don't be a cost center.
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Why does it have to be the sun? Why not just perpendicular to the sun/earth plane?
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Multiple petitions with multiple legitimate sponsors is not actually disallowed. That being said, there are few situations where a legitimate sponsor would be on-board with an applicant simultaneously filing another petition. I'm not sure if an applicant is legally (as opposed to morally) required to disclose this to sponsors. It is certainly abused all the time.
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An interesting bit to me is that even ultra-traditional distilleries have by now accepted that color can be matched through nontraditional means, and that doesn't seem to cause much trouble. Even single-malt Scotch, otherwise quite strictly regulated, permits artificial color additive E150 (but no other additives).

Admittedly color is probably comparatively easy to fake convincingly, especially in a uniform liquid setting where the color perception is not so complex. But that it's accepted even at the expensive "purist" levels does seem like already a chink in the armor of the idea that the only right way to do it is with a fully traditional method. A fully traditional method of coloring would leave it to whatever color is picked up from the mash and barrel-aging, and I could imagine someone arguing that only in that way do the aromas/flavors/colors subtly "match" properly. But it seems not to be seen as an issue.
Domain names only work as long as everyone uses the same roots. It's pretty crazy that whoever are trusted to tend the global registries make a killer profit way above the cost to maintain the systems, especially by creating new subtrees that nobody asked for.

Imagine if enough DNS operators get fed up with these shenanigans and establish a properly run root.

Alternate roots used to be considered loopy and fringe, but the way things have been run with the new tlds, maybe there's not such a big difference left anymore...
Solar wind won't help you but there are other ways of moving slowly - e.g. an ion drive.
Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more. Ever since Game of Thrones started, I have gathered with various groups of friends nearly every Sunday to watch the episode as it airs. Watching Game of Thrones has become a social event primarily because the release structure forces everyone to always be at the same point (even if some have read the books).

In contrast, after House of Cards s3 was released and we watched a few episodes together, it became a free for all. Having a conversation about the show with anyone is practically impossible unless everyone has seen the entire show.
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Superman can do it.
This just makes me think that we need is not an "improved HTTPS", but to rip out TCP/IP and encrypt everything at that level.

Now we only need to convince either Google or Microsoft to implement something like that in their OS and encourage/mandate the use of it. Only these 2 matter because they are the owners of the biggest platforms.

Yes Apple has a pretty big platform, too, but it's kind of irrelevant since it's a closed Apple-only ecosystem anyway so if it adopts something it doesn't mean the others will too. On the other hand, if either Android or Windows adopts something as major, I think the other one would, too.

What I'm thinking is something like MinimaLT or perhaps Trevor Perrin's "Noise" if it ever becomes real.

http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20131031.pdf
Your "trick" doesn't change any of the conservation of angular momentum considerations in the article.

To "get rid of the remaining kinetic energy" would only result in the object getting escape velocity relative to earth. The object would never have "stopped" relative to it's orbit around the sun but even at it's further point would be traveling with fairly close to the same angular velocity as the earth (as described in the article etc).
Lol, took me a minute to get the sarcasm.
Also cheaper.

The author acknowledges the existence of that argument, but then insists that the "real objection" is difficulties in orbital trajectories. I'll believe that's the real objection if we start considering sending nuclear waste on a comparably simple orbital journey into outer space.
I agree with you - this turned me off as well.
"A single small-town library would contain huge amounts of useful knowledge"

I can envision a future where libraries have few books. Here's one at a school in Florida - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/25/us-usa-florida-lib... . Here's a broader commentary about libraries which don't have physical collections, including a public library in San Antonio - http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/is-a-libra... .

I doubt that small-town libraries will get rid of all books. Libraries do have collections of local history which are unlikely to be part of a digital archive. (Eg, phone books from the 1950s, local high school yearbooks, photo collections and films about the annual downtown parade, publications from the local genealogical society, etc.)

But if in 100 years small-town libraries have mostly switched to digital collections, then yes, it's possible for the knowledge to disappear even if the infrastructure remains.

I don't think it's likely, but it's not completely inconsistent.
> When the Shuttle was first commissioned, my concern at the time was that America's most reliable rocket was the delta, which failed every thirty launches.

You were right to be concerned. The shuttle had "a 40% vehicular failure rate and a flight failure rate of 1.5%", killing more people than any other space vehicle. [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/04/18/5-hor...
I'm working on an open source tool which is designed to be a zero config right click context menu with a two entries, "snapshot" and "restore".

When you are offline or online it works with a single click, then syncs to a server once internet is restored. It never deletes old versions, you always have the whole history.

It also is encrypted client side and has data de-duplication. (The deduplication means you can keep snapshotting directories on a timer, and only changes are uploaded) It is not exactly what you described, but I can ping you when it is ready for people to test.
hopefully the Earth rotates on a conventional schedule & the sun is bright during the daytime. Helps people get to work on time everyday
For the record, the earliest known (Nimrud or Layard) lens came from naturally occurring rock-crystal and was recovered in Iraq, which is between China and western Europe. (Also, the Egyptians had lenses.) Also, Chinese astronomy was far more advanced than western astronomy until recent times, even without telescopes (introduced in the 17th century), in part due to cross-pollination with Persian, Indian and Islamic astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrud_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_astronomy
> games that have no compelling "fun" factor.

"Fun" is subjective. To the people that play these games, they are fun and they are deriving enjoyment from them. I don't understand why the enjoy it either, but then again, they probably see some of my hobbies and wonder why the fuck I would spend time/money on them.

Live and let live man.
Yep, totally missed that. Thanks for the catch.
Let's see here.

* 1 shitload = 1.68 shitslugs

* 68.5 shitslugs = 1 fuckton

So, there are about 40.77 shitloads in a fuckton.

Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy.
This is something I had not ever thought of, so thank you for that.

As a father of three small kids, I don't have the luxury of a weekly viewing parties. I find solace in the times when I have several hours to binge watch at my own pace.
I'm about 80% sure leni536 is right, from playing Kerbal Space Program.
Reloading HAProxy is part of the SmartStack architecture, IIRC. SmartStack/synapse does polling on say, ZooKeeper or Docker or whatever, generates a new HAProxy configuration and then reloads it.
A little less than half the surface of Mars has pressures above the triple point of water, so wherever the temperatures dip above 0C, maybe a few hours a day in the equatorial regions, liquid water can exist. Deeper craters closer to the equator or seasonally in the northern lowlands or the southern Hellas or Argyre region.
Scrutinizing traffic like that is dumb anyway because if a hacker gets in he could get control of such a system and "see everything".

As a principle, the benefits of encrypting everything always beat the benefits of "monitoring everything" in an enterprise.
Cleveland Whiskey is using what I must assume is a similar process. I've had it several times, and rather enjoy it.
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Even on a static page you want to be sure that what you see is what the server sent. Without any third party injecting anything.

That's what comments like this like to forget: HTTPS provides not only encryption, but also authenticatoin.
This is interestingly very similar to the Computer Science specific questions on the Oxford Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT).

For examples, look at page 16 of the 2013 exam: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/test13.p...

and page 16 of the 2014 exam:
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/test14.p...
1. You can apply for permanent residency under the extraordinary individual or highly qualified individual (if you have a specialty profession e.g. STEM)

2. Academic and non-profit jobs don't have a cap. You could take such a position and then apply for permanent residency.

3. You can apply for the green card lottery (I'm assuming you are born in France).
Yeah, but the window is short because you have to catch the orbital plane, not the ISS itself. Earth's rotation speed is the relevant number here for figuring out how fast that plane sweeps across the sky.
I think that's one of the things (about Reamde) that most bothered me about that novel. All sorts of amazing coincidences needed to happen or there wasn't a story. I actually found it easier to get into than some of his other books but was generally unsatisfied at the end.
I knew it! This H1-B shortage is a conspiracy by hot American chicks to enslave foreign engineers!!

Just kidding, of course. But I do like @JOnAgain's suggestion of biasing the lottery by the salary. Of course it'll never happen, because that's our current political situation (we're still arguing over the perennial topics of abortion, guns, drugs, etc.). However, it may be biased against small, lean startups who can't afford to pay as much as Google or FB.
E150 is caramel color.

As a side note, do Europeans memorize what each E number is?
Assuming the syntax is valid, tacking (console.log("foo")) on the end of lots of things should log foo, even if there's an error elsewhere. The "console.log('foo')" will be evaluated before trying to call the rest as a function, so even "undefined(console.log('foo'))" logs "foo" when tested in the Firefox JS console:

undefined(console.log('foo'))
TypeError: undefined is not a function
"foo"
You can get normal certificates for free these days and wildcard certs don't cost significant amounts of money.

At startssl you can get unlimited amounts of wildcard certs for 60 $. I know startssl isn't that popular and partly that's justified.

In summer hopefully let's encrypt will start and make it even easier to get certs for free.

Or in other words: People are working on solving the certificate situation - and even now it is not as bad as you make it sound.
Under certain circumstances, but since the mass can be (relatively) small due to the extremely high velocity, it can be very hard to spot.

Essentially, imagine trying to pick something the size of a telephone pole, angled end-on at you, from 20 miles away out of the entire night sky. By the time it gets close enough to spot easily, it's too late to do much about it.

Edit: jjaredsimpson's comment makes a very good point about velocities much closer to 1c. My comment mostly relates to the more immediately practical kinetic bombardment[0], which works on the same idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment