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I totally agree. This question I'd say was more focused towards that 3% of the time. So, if you believe that there is an opportunity to optimize something non-trivial, would you implement a whole new data structure for that?
he is describing making it fall into the sun directly (if the 'burn' is instantaneous), or if you like, starting to spiral but then just falling in a straight line.

a slingshot changes orbital velocity... thats the whole point. you are right that it is possible to slingshot into an ellipse intersecting the sun... although setting up that manoeuvre itself would be pretty expensive.
As I understand it, Graal+Truffle is basically the DLR. This has been around since 2008 from Microsoft.

Both IronPython and IronRuby have used this for years.

The "Day 1" comment was specifically pointed at the read-between the lines for Graal, which is basically to create a real IL for Java instead of using the InvokeDynamic semantic that is currently envogue for Scala, Clojure, etc. .NET has had the multi-language one VM paradigm since day one.
I'm aware of how a bielliptic transfer orbit works. See the long gap between burns 1 and 2 on the Wikipedia diagram? That interval is necessarily going to be more than half a year long, and potentially much, much longer. Spacecraft are pretty reliable once they're in space, but that's still a lot of time for something to malfunction. And if burn 2 doesn't happen, now you have tons of nuclear waste on an elliptical orbit that re-visits Earth's path every so often. At any given perihelion, the earth has only a small chance of being in the right part of its orbit, but eventually...

I'm not saying it's a big risk; the chance of a catastrophic launch malfunction is probably a lot greater. But it's definitely a long-term potential hazard that needs to be accounted for.
This is somewhat similar to IL2CPP from Unity[1] with AOT is currently what is used on iOS and WebGL builds. It is still buggy and has been in development for a few years or over a year, but it does essentially the same thing, take IL and port it to C++ per platform with AOT compiling. They largely did this to go around Mono licensing from Xamarin and the export is now C++ so there can be no platform limitations or it is minimal that C++ tech would be blocked by Apple for any reason for instance like they did with JIT and Flash etc.

Maybe when this has AOT it can also be useable in the same way Unity IL2CPP and Xamarin Mono are used.

[1] http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-scripting-...
Your final paragraph is interesting, given the author's point here:

> Finally, this list is written for those who, like me, try to err on the side of being maximally-inclusive. Many of these things are common in our culture, and while I try to model good behavior, I don’t correct others’ usage unless they ask. I consider this an application of the robustness principle.

The author addressed the issue from the point of view of "Someone asked what things might marginalize, but not obviously so to the majority in the field", but many people have viewed the post as a line that others shouldn't cross. That's decidedly not the tone put forward.
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The HAProxies in question are dealing with at least one port per service, with dozens of services. If you were to remap ports, you'd end up with a lot of port mapping rules.

We also considered using different loopback IPs per HAProxy, so ports could stay consistent, but decided against it:

- We have other things (like scribe) listening on the same loopback IP address, so we'd either have to move those to different IPs or exclude them from iptables rules.

- We thought it could be confusing/misleading to see HAProxy listening on one IP/port, but connections being made to a different IP/port.
You can't just "float over" to another point along your orbit; to move the forward Legrange point you would have to slow down, causing you to drop into a lower orbit which moves around the sun quicker, then speed up to a larger orbit that intersects with the desired Lagrange point and then finally speed up again when you reach that point to stabilize the orbit.

To try this in Kerbal space Program: place two craft into the same equatorial orbit, but with one 1/6th of an orbit ahead of the other. Now make them dock.

It's both counter intuitive and easy once you know how.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Any content should be delivered over an encrypted channel because any content site can be used to launch an attack on the user os site owner if the data in transit can be tempered with. Passwords and session keys are just a small subset (though admittedly a valuable one) of the stuff you may go after. For example, do you want the FBI putting you on a tracking list because you googled something they consider suspicious just out of curiosity? Do you want a rival of yours messing with how your resume you publish on your personal site is presented to Google or potential employees. Do you want to read man pages that tell you how to run commands over an unauthenticated connection? Do you want Pillsbury to double the amount of their ingredients you need for a chicken pot pie? There is almost no use case where content should remain unprotected.

Apple.com is a great example of this. It's served over plain HTTP, and likes to http://store.apple.com. Can I intercept that link and send you to http[s]?://store.appl.com or http[s]://store.apple.con? I can then grab your credit card. Heck, I could process your order so you won't even know something went wrong. Or how would it look if suddenly people started getting a goatse instead of the latest video of Jony Ivy tilting his head to the side?
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> So the researchers did a second study in which they had 85 people view the same photos and make the same judgments of evaluation and emotional reactions as in the prior study.

> Once again, individuals who took acetaminophen (compared to placebo) had evaluations and emotional reactions to both negative and positive photographs that were significantly blunted.

Couldn't a possible explanation for this be that the "judging" was already done the first time(under the effects of paracetamol) and the brain simply reuses the "cached" judgment?
its not the only way, its just one way... there are other ways to increase the eccentricity of an orbit - increasing the orbital velocity at the right time, and in a direction that is not radial is less efficient but since the earth's orbit is nearly circular, its not by much.

this is essentially the brute force approach or the bielliptic transfers mentioned in other comments.
Everyone seems to have overlooked the fact this only works for outgoing traffic, you can't use this strategy on a public facing load-balancer without additional work.

Specifically you will need to accept the traffic on one interface and forward to a new local interface in order to apply the qdisc plug.

This is cool, but the above is still a pain in the neck.
Each photograph is usually followed by a detailed history of the location (in French, unfortunately for the non-francophones!)
Wood chips in the barrel seems so easy to try I almost feel like it can't possibly not have been tried before and proven not to work.

Might be something along the same lines as the brewing temperature/ timing of coffee (replace wood surface area for temperature)- hotter water extracts everything faster, but some things faster than others. A longer but colder brew will extract the hard-to-get compounds in larger relative proportion.

Just rampant speculation though.
No, Graal+Truffle, and PyPy for that matter, are light-years ahead of the DLR. That's why IronPython etc. are nowhere near the state of the art of dynamic language performance, while both the JVM and PyPy have multiple dynamic languages on them that meet that criterion.

The fundamental issue is that dynamic languages need JITs that are very aware of their internals. It's not enough to just emit some code interspersed with PICs and to add fast dynamic dispatch. You also need to speculatively compile and deoptimize in a way that is specific to each dynamic language. Without that, IronPython and other dynamic languages on .NET are often not a little slower but 10x slower than the same languages on the JVM or PyPy.
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You haven't read the article. The signs should work for color blind people too because of the stripes.
unless burn 1 has a very specific effect that thing is not going to return to earth, despite crossing the orbit. hitting a resonance by accident is pretty unlikely... one could say astronomically so :P

its hard enough to hit things when we want to
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I am acknowledging that there are issues with the CA system, and elsewhere have proposed plans for how to eliminate them from our trust chains (tldr: registrars issue you a CA that's only good for the domain you bought from them; then you are your own min-CA).

But these are two separate issues. Going from plain HTTP and HTTPS to HTTPS-only is a step in the right direction. It's also step 1. Step 2 is to drop CA's and work out a better trust system that relies on less parties being involved.

Also, let's give people some credit. Yes, some people ignore the self-signed cert warning. Some people also respond to Nigerian prince emails. We aren't talking about cutting off email because someone might get hurt. Unless you are ready to drop all untrusted certs, those dialogs need to stay in place.
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Well, OP is implying that a single woman finding something sexist or offensive makes it so. I've presented two counterexamples upthread and grandparent here presented one, that's three. OP presented only two, and one of them is a man who makes his point by conflating the singular and plural forms of "guys".
Perhaps not the best metaphor... malicious comments posted to web sites not only "can" cause users to download malware, they have, with some frequency.
Much as I like a good story.

I call BS.

I tend to think to much energy would be needed to go the distance then reform in another drum.

[edit] So if all the energy is transferred it'll be the same loudness, but one would assume it's at least a square root of loss.

An ear on a train line is linearish with neither depth or sideways loss and still needs a lot of amplification i.e. ear directly on the line. (So it seems to me from movies.)
Yes, America would be fine. But China/India where the vast vast majority of pollution originates would collapse.
Yeah. Sure. Non-standard ports will work really well in combination with enterprise firewalls.

I would furthermore wager a guess that the intersection between XP users and users behind firewalls is quite big, actually.
Yes, it's my understanding too. The OJ factory creates "flavor packs", essentially artificial flavor constructed from chemicals extracted from the oranges. Plenty of sources out there for it, but Wikipedia is a good place to start spidering from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentra....

Personally, I'm not really against artificial food, but you have to admit the labeling is misleading. Also, efficiently using a single source with fixed ratios of compounds in it sounds like a fun engineering problem. "How can I turn this pipe of mixed chemicals into this other pipe of mixed chemicals at lowest cost and least waste?"
Big spirit producers will embrace it- consistency of product is more important than tradition. Seagram's basically grew from blending the products of smaller distilleries to produce a more consistent product, then developing processes that allowed them to maintain consistency even as they closed the original distilleries down, until in the ultimate act of MBA-inspired transcendence nothing was left except the brand, which was sold so the owner could play movie mogul.
Thats an amazing trick, but my question is why does a significant thermal shock affect it in this way?
errr. require('async')?
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I agree with you about keeping a list of problems, and to most extents each idea has its root in a problem which I've encourtered somewhere.

That said if I'm solving a problem that a lot of people have but it's extremely complex to solve then to my mind it's not as good as an easier to implement idea with a smaller user base.
No mean to brag, but I retired at 31; under 5 years in sales, working from home. My remote productivity level far exceeded my prior experience in an office.
For large orbital changes, substantially less than the niave transfer.
True, but I think a lot of people here are assuming something like .9C or the like when the reality is you nothing nearly that high.

1000 tons at .1c is 9818 megatons, which would be roughly the size of a US air craft carrier. The bow shock would be much less and the I'm assuming it would be using some sort of magnetic scoop ramjet would would channel interstellar medium to the propulsion system rather than striking the bow.

With a stealthy design, the thing would be very difficult if not impossible to detect, barring some sort of entirely need detection method.
Best use of a GoPro ever.
This was the previous discussion on this case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784990
I'm more interested in these sorts of features being in the ES6 Promises implementation. I expect that given a lot of new Web APIs are going to be using the native promises, these features being in the ECMAScript promises implementation is pretty important.
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Regarding "easily swap out" -

In theory, swapping out restrictions should be a matter of checking some boxes on a web form or something, which would generate an appropriate image and send it to a printer, with - based on a quick Google - at most a few days' turnaround time, for (possibly well) below $100 per sign.

In practice, their process will probably be less efficient :)
First, find out from the investor how much of the money he can take as salary. That can make a big difference.

Second, realize there's no global "blacklist", just people, friends, and long memories. It can be a small world sometimes.
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Ask HN: Imagine C was the only programming language you had. What would you do?
If you had to do your day to day development in C, what would you do to make yourself more productive?

Are there tools, frameworks, libraries that can supercharge modern C development and make it easier, quicker to code, safer and more full featured?

Can modern web applications and REST API's be built in any practical way using C, or is it just too painful?
Yeah, and it if you are working in a region that doesn't use "you guys" as a gender neutral "you all" you should be aware that it can be seen a loaded term and adjust accordingly to make sure that you properly convey your true intent and not make others feel marginalized.
So the stripes are too faint to make the red areas sufficiently distinct?

The obvious problem with an alternate color scheme is that it wouldn't instantly convey 'good or bad' in the way green and red do (to people with adequate color perception).
the article points out itself, how biased it is by focusing on a particular kind of work, and one that is very amenable to not just doing from home, but measuring remotely.

the title is a bit of a bold claim in the face of the content...
I like the exam idea but it's not really the best way to test the skill of a person. You wouldn't hold an exam for the best painter or the best sculptor. I feel like computer programming (and related jobs) in general is similar.
If you watch the TV show Better Call Saul (strongly recommend), you see him in the last episode learning that his own lawyer brother doesn't want him working at the same firm because he did an online law school, instead of going to a prestigious law school.

It is a very very ugly mentality.
Now people just use the fucking bart elevators.

Seriously. Puddles of standing piss in the elevators at 24th st bart when I had to use them because I was on crutches.

Disgusting doesn't even begin to cover it.
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What you really want is a versioning file system.
there is a lot of assumption here... maybe they have tracked it down already? even so it could have been stolen from the original intended recipient.
By the time you see it, it will be too late to respond.
I remember reading a while back that acetaminophen can dull existential dread.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/19/tylenol-fights-fear-of...
I think a lot of it is about what is your goal? build something cool, build a lifestyle business, build a growth non-tech business, start a fund-able business, etc? Do you have other people that might be interested in working with you on the idea?
If the HN community is a reflection of anything in the real world, it's because people are sensitive to personal critiques and sometimes react by immediately assuming an intensely self-defensive posture, even if they reflect more thoughtfully on the critique later on.

Not everybody does that, and few people do that all the time, but it doesn't take all that many people for it to lead to some heated discussions and wild swings in up/down votes.
Point is, this is what we do now. We do this without DNSSEC. The step of receiving the email is pretty much redundant and is only there because people understand email better than creating a TXT record.

DNSSEC is a terrible ide and should be abandoned for many reasons. So should this method of domain validation. You know who knows for sure that you own the domain you say you own? The registrar. That is who should issue you your cert, not some third party.
its very straightforward. video comes in frames, what happens in between frames is that the same image is being displayed for that whole time. there is no way to end a scene half way through the frame - there is no visual cue or anything.

not to mention how you would go about defining the ends of scenes...

no standard format that i am aware of has variable framerate. it makes no sense.
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But would you use gmail.com over plain HTTP? Would you use it if it presented a self-signed cert?
> Andrew Lewman, our current Executive Director, is leaving The Tor Project to take a position at an Internet services company.

Anyone know the name/type of the company? I'm really curious. Hoping it's an ISP or MVNO or some other space that needs good people like him
I personally prefer the Netflix format of all at once (especially with how little each plot line moves forward each episode) but I can understand a metered approach. You can generate much more hype and social media buzz if you trickle it out over time.
And it links to TV-tropes, oh noooooo.....
I was not impressed by the toilets in the Tokyo city rail system. The one or two I tried to use were not very clean, though maybe not quite as gross as some toilets I've seen in the US.

The nicest public toilets I've been are the toilets in the Taipei airport, which are uniformly fairly clean and functional. Narita airport is also quite nice.
Is it really the last, or just 2% spread across the code?
> Having multiple code generators is not mutually exclusive, and this effort does not mean MSFT is ditching any existing AOT (or for that matter JIT) compiler projects.

Of course not. But why spread your effort across two projects that duplicate functionality when you could focus on one?
Yeah I feel the same way. So many others do this; hell I'm even building a few of these into my current library. Seems like better language constructs for handling asynchronous stuff will be nice (like ES6 promises though obviously it doesn't do everything this library does but it does enough to make it easier to do when needed).

Edit: Also where are the unit tests?
You use a magnetic scoop ramjet, great. Now you have cyclotron radiation. Congratulations, now you're even more detectable!

And even at 0.1c, you encounter a grain of sand, that's, what, ~23MJ of energy released.
s/Women//g

Most of the analogies here could also be applied to men as well.

P.S. I don't blame men, I blame the 'tech world'. But I am biased as a man; I however 100% agree with what is stated.
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> 1. Using “guys” to mean “people”.

I agree with the author that a guy is a man is a guy. Using 'guys' is a micro-aggression. A rather minor one, in my opinion, but if it's contributing to an unwelcome environment then we should try to cut it out. However:

> Relatedly, avoid assuming male users in your documentation. Just stop worrying and embrace the singular “they”.

I mean, no I'm not going to do that. Which is to say, I will not and do not assume male users in my documentation, and I will use singular they when appropriate. However I will also continue to use generic he from time to time, because this is a legitimate feature of the English language.

Singular they has been around for a really long time - for a lot longer than anyone has cared about feminism certainly (i.e. 600 years or so at least). So it is not, as is sometimes claimed, some sort of recent invention by feminists to change the English language from the top down. Rather, it has existed alongside the generic he for about as long as people have been speaking English. I use them both freely: in speech I probably use singular they about 95% of the time, in writing more like 75%. Sometimes one sounds better, sometimes the other does.

If he is a pronoun which is used by English speakers in both a gender specific sense and a gender neutral sense, then that's what it is. The argument against generic he seems to presume that in fact there is no generic he, and that all instances of generic he in speech and writing are in fact instances of presumed maleness. I've never really seen this argued though, it's just always taken as a given. I do not take it as a given - is it really so hard to imagine that a word would have two functions? Most languages do this all the time, and English is no exception.

When there are instances of sexism ingrained in our language we should make the effort to remove them, but this often-cited example of same does not foot the bill in my opinion. I will go to great lengths for the cause of feminism, but I will not needlessly degrade the beauty of my native tongue.
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I would wonder whether these are opinions felt by a wide percentage of women in tech or if they are solely the gripes of the author.
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Why?

Sure, there's time dilation effects, but they are largely cancelled out. We have less notice for a given distance, but we also can see it coming from farther away.
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