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> I wonder how robust the GPS system is. Could an unexpected space phenomenon bring it down? What would happen if a rogue nation started shooting down the satellites?

GPS is not the only system. We currently have about 2.7 global satellite navigation constellations available for use.

The American GPS and the Russian GLONASS are both complete. The Chinese Beidou system is about 40% complete. The European Galileo system is about 30% complete. Each system also has about 20% redundancy in the form of on-orbit spares.

Dual-system GPS/GLONASS receivers are now nearly everywhere. I was just looking at a phone that has a triple-system GPS/GLONASS/Beidou receiver. In a few years, quad-system receivers will be commonplace.

A rogue nation would have to shoot down about 1.9 constellations, or about 60 satellites, before we drop below full coverage.

The American, Chinese, and European systems have the same orbital inclination. If a gap opened, any satellite from any of these three systems could theoretically fill that gap. It would take some time to reposition the satellites, though.

There is also additional redundancy in the eastern hemisphere. India and Japan have satellites that provide regional coverage. Part of the Chinese system also operates as a regional constellation.

At this point, the rogue state is at war with the US, Russia, China, the EU, India, and Japan. They might as well just surrender.
Gives me opportunity to showcase a tiny app I made for Christmas to remotely present photos over the web using SSE and Go: https://github.com/julienschmidt/remotephotoshow

It doesn't use Gin, but httprouter, which is also the basis for Gin.
16-17 is a little too old for Scratch. I've run dozens of Scratch workshops, and they've managed to deeply engage the students, but they work best with kids under 13 or so. Web programming, RPG Maker/Game Maker, Python/Ruby, Processing, and Arduino are some platforms that work better with teenagers.
The code should have no dependency other the standard go library.

You should see an output.png if it run successfully in the same folder.

Sorry, no easy access to a windows right now, but I will try it out on when I get a chance.
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More like restrict a particular avenue for education and advancement: on the job. Some people fare well, others get left behind.
Really interesting.

I'd like to check it out but all the invites seem to be gone. I guess I'll wait for a real invite.
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I do agree on your point. Positive discrimination is not the solution. However I find interesting the description of the social community setting they are envisioning, that's why I share the page in the first place. :)
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Wikipedia [1] says something very different - that during takeoff and landing commercial aircraft generally rely on radar altimeters, which are extremely accurate and reliable, but generally don't work above about 750 meters. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_altimeter#Civil_aviation_...
Woodman should be commended for keeping his word.

Not only does this light the way for other CEOs to keep their word, it enhances Woodman's future standing with investors, employees and any other stakeholders.
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> Send an invalid body, say an unavailable product ID, or an invalid quantity. What error will you return?

In this case the client has sent an invalid request so the response should be 400 Bad Request or 422 Invalid Data, with details of the error in the response body.
Do the 20-something-year-old MBAs know either? Gosh, no. But they can whip up a MECE and crunch some numbers in their heads which look totally plausible.

I think it provides some value, but I am not a huge fan. In my experience, the devil is in the details and the failures come during the implementation, and the management consultancies in the Marvin Bower tradition explicitly side-step implementation.
Yes, of course, initially. The risking it all period isn't when you're considering spending a few million to buy some rockets. But then the day comes when you're this close to finally succeeding, but you're running out of cash. You need more now to make payroll, and there's nowhere else left to get it. Sure, you could cut your losses and walk away with 3 million, but then a) you probably wouldn't have risked the 47M in the first place, and b) you likely wouldn't end up where Musk is now.

This isn't a hypothetical. As the article describes, there was a point when he was begging or borrowing every cent he could. I don't know what his personal financial situation would have been had it failed, but I doubt he held much back.
Exactly right. I just ended up skimming it and then skipping to the end.
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It is more like some person trying to assert copyright over all the ways you can add, remove, or change the notes in one of Metallica's guitar riffs.
too fantastic. I am ok with 20% of what it says.
First of all, hypocrisy again - you say blaming patriarchy is lame, "default boogeyman" and so on, but you completely fail to see you use feminism in exactly the same way. MRAs typically blame EVERYTHING on feminism. Any kind of problem men face today must somehow be caused by feminism, there is rarely any other explanation that is acceptable.

Second, I did not say that pointing out problems men face is stupid, far from it. What I said was that comparing is stupid. "Who's the bigger victim" is stupid talk. Negating the problems women face, as if this were a competition, some kind of zero-sum game, is stupid. Try some of that charitable reading you recommended yourself.
A friend of mine actually left because of the pollution. It's thought provoking that it could get that bad.
> What kind of fucking retards are at work here?

Please read and follow the site guidelines when commenting on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This guy is amazing for that.
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Son, robots build our robots.
> there are well-documented health issues with standing all day

It's almost as if we are all going to die eventually no matter what we do.
>That only works if society has the nerve to actually trap people in poverty and restrict them socially when they don't get education or skills.

That's pretty much America.
Yeah money is not running the world for some people. Passion like music can drive our lives. Follow what your heart is telling you. Be happy with what you do everyday.
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Detail missing from this article (at least the article linked as I write this comment): Neil Dana was GoPro employee #1 and still works at the company. This detail is seemingly absent from a bunch of news articles, and that fact really surprises me. It's like the news wants to make this sound more controversial than it really should be; they clearly want to play up the "college roommate" aspect and describe the move as "generous", rather than the "employee #1" aspect.

Woodman and Dana reportedly had a contract that Dana would receive 10% on sales of Woodman's stock, as first employee and head of sales, and Woodman is honoring the contract. It's not just, as far as I can tell, some kind of donation or obscure college bet. Sure, the contract was verbal. I still don't think we should be /astonished/ that someone honors an employment contract that was made for equity. That's setting the bar rather low, isn't it?
Stick with the pricing. The application is niche, and as such should have a higher price. It has been noted many times over that software has a bimodal pricing scheme - very cheap for off the shelf software, and very expensive for bespoke software. But of course, that's the black and white view of the world. The more 'niche' your off-the-shelf software is, the closer it gets to being bespoke, and the price should rise accordingly. It works in the other direction as well of course - if you can build an application by simply tweaking an existing framework, such as building a website using Squarespace, then this should cost much less than true bespoke software.

All of which is to say that I feel that you have the right approach to software pricing. I hadn't realized this exists, but I may well become a customer in the next few days - I have been looking at options for creating UML documents in code.

One thing though, do you have a re-import feature? This is the killer feature for me - I would love to be able to create a URL diagram in your app, paste it into the top of a source file, and then copy it from the source file back into the app for modification later when the code changes. I realize that this is a tricky problem to solve, but solving it takes this from being a toy to being a true industrial tool from my perspective.
> The idea that we achieve this by having women fight for women's rights and men fight for men's rights is absurd.

No, it is the essence of democracy. I cannot go around preaching, protesting, speaking in the name of other people. Everyone must stand up for themselves first, and then, if their cause is just and recognized as such by society, wide support will follow. Waiting for other people to represent you better is completely ridiculous.

> ...this adversarial position...

You seem to be implying that if people stand up for themselves, they must automatically be opponents. This is not true.
> a $20 Garmin handheld could navigate circles around it

Probably not, as it will refuse to work at both the altitude and speed of an airplane ;-)

EDIT: I stand corrected. Neither the speed nor the altitude will be a problem.
As a side note regulation in agriculture is one area in particular that concerns europeans over the possible TTIP trade agreement. The EU and US have fundamentally different approaches to such regulation with the EU siding on more regulation when there is a potential risk and the US waiting for a clear block of evidence before introducing regulation.
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When the industry props you up as the only avenue for access to a large collection of streaming music, you don't have to compete on terms of stability, usability or features anymore.
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> I would bet that the Spotify desktop client is among the top 25 most intricate uses of JavaScript in the world.

If this is really true, "intricate" probably means "needlessly complex" because the interface, while by no means bad, is nowhere near as sophisticated as many JS apps I have seen and worked on. Off the top of my head, I would be willing to bet GMail, Google Spreadsheets, and Facebook are all vastly more "intricate" than the Spotify client based purely on number of features.
B. B. King was not only the the king of the blues but was know to be a great person as well. His story is inspiring for everyone (not just (blues) musicians). He never blamed his background for any faults he might've had rather he channeled it to create the unique 'value' of his music -- or more correctly, his 'brand' of music. Maybe I'm just muttering nonsense ...he had a profound impact on not just my music sensibilities but on a lot of aspects in life.

Just take a look at each of these and it'll draw you a picture of the king: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/b_b_king.html
> I still don't think we should be /astonished/ that someone honors an employment contract that was made for equity. That's setting the bar rather low, isn't it?

Yes, that's the standard, but yet, everyone is still surprised.

Highlighting these events in a public manner could help push the tide to make sure this isn't such a rare event.
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Luck, like dedication and talent, is necessary but not sufficient.
Now, I'm not sure this is useful at all, but I think it would make sense for the value of an if-expression to be Option<T>.
They're in the bottom footer of the blog.
SF also needs to study how its own city policy affects housing stock.

From http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2014/12/23/sf_now_has_more_tha... :

Although SF has 50000 housing units in the pipeline, it supposedly won't be completed for decades.

It takes a very long time to complete a housing project:

The median time of completion for projects that have
been finished in the past year is 43 months from the
time of first filing with SF Planning to opening

As a concrete example, from http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/How-San-Fran...

It took 6 years just for approvals to convert a closed down Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant to about 10 units of housing.
Racer, the autocomplete engine, does. I'm not sure if there's more plugin usage since I haven't looked at the source yet.

Rust has great support for hooking in to the compiler and/or creating drop-in replacements. I'm hoping this pans out well and leads to some excellent tooling! :D
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400, 422 (or even 404 if the product id was part of the resource URL). That's not shoehorning, that's using something which defines a crude yet semantically consistent granularity, that does not prevent having more detailed errors in the response body and/or additional headers. So I get a level of abstraction for free, increasing consistency in semantics and behaviour both inside my API and outside, easing debugging and allowing me to use off-the-shelf HTTP components (including curl) while leveraging common knowledge of the protocol across applications.

The pet peeve issue I have with RPC/HTTP APIs is that people keep reinventing HTTP on top of it, only badly (at which point they may as well use RPC/TCP). That's why I like REST/HTTP, because I can "reuse things" when the problem model fits well within that tool (and it very often does). If REST/HTTP becomes a constraint instead of an asset, then maybe one should not use either REST or HTTP, and I'm fine with it because that was not the tool for the job.

This is a tool, not a religion.
My honest feeling is that the argument is kind of moot because people will use a combination of the two as necessary.
Hello,

I covered it pretty extensively in these posts. I hope you find them useful :

http://juliensimon.blogspot.fr/2015/04/test-drive-aws-machin...

http://juliensimon.blogspot.fr/2015/04/test-drive-real-time-...

http://juliensimon.blogspot.fr/2015/04/test-drive-real-time-...
Perhaps they shouldn't have given it virtually the same name then. I can understand that he had an expectation given the naming choice. It also means that this support is Windows only.
Sending money and transfer item are a create operation against one resource. The same resourse actually, called transfer. That records who transfers what to whom and how much. Thats exactly how it is done in banking.
The NYT Review of Books has a much better article: "How robots & algorithms are taking over", about "The Glass Cage: Automation and Us", by Nicholas Carr.[1] That's about the future of work. Computers are taking over because they're so incredibly cheap, and now they're getting smarter. Anything a computer can do, it can now do cheaper than a human. Usually much cheaper.

Yes, people have worried about this before, all the way back to the 1920s.
This time, though, the skill sets of machines are getting much closer to those of humans. The list of things machines can't do gets shorter every year. "There is about a 50 percent chance that programming, too, will be outsourced to machines within the next two decades." The Glass Cage cites a skill study which analyzes job categories by difficulty of automation.

"Peak factory worker" was reached in the US in 1977. Manufacturing output continued to climb. (There was a drop in output after 2008, but output has totally recovered. Without an increase in employment.) The next big event to watch for is "peak office workers". At some point, the number of people needed in offices will start to decline.

This is getting more attention now that automation is finally cutting into the chattering classes. The "college equals lifetime middle class employment" concept that sustained the middle class in the developed world is dead.

We have plenty of productive capacity and lots of capital, yet can't figure out how to structure society to cope with that. That's the real problem.

[1] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/02/how-rob...
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I find this challenge very exciting, the rewards to humanity seem potentially great considering that haptic and other ways of sensory stimulation of the user of the technology...can program a lot of subconscious influence on the kind and also at the very least become quicker and easier to use (interfaces) than speech, text, visual, etc.
It's amazing how much an article can be both correct and miss the point so strongly.

>"The critical limitation preventing EVs from disrupting the lowest end of the traditional auto market is battery performance, but battery costs are declining every day. As battery technology improves and costs continue to decrease, low end EVs will rapidly gain on their traditional competitors."

This is literally what Tesla is banking on. You can't sell a mass market car without low cost high density batteries, but you can't invest in low cost high density batteries without proving that people will buy electric cars. Which was the point of the Roadster and now the S and X. Battery technology won't improve from golf carts because golf carts only need to go 10 miles, and we've had batteries that could do that for years.
Well in fairness, with the way companies treat their employees nowadays, or at least appear to, the bar is very low.

It would not surprise me at all if early employees get shafted when they dont have things down in writing. It doesn't even surprise me when employees get screwed even with things in writing.

Its not like people have low expectations of companies for no reason.
There are some typing games in http://www.typingstudy.com ... not erotic though :D
>Musk is known to work more than 20 hours a day

Sorry but no matter how high I value his contributions to technology do I believe statements like that. Just think about it. How would these 4 hours downtime be divided? One would think all goes towards sleep. But can you really close your laptop, instantly jump into bed and sleep? No showers? Brushing teeth? Eating something?
And what about in the morning? Alarm clock goes of, jump out of bed and instantly open the laptop and start working?

Again, I like the guy enough but I wish they would stop to publish these obviously fake fluff factoids.
You can still be a genius when working reasonable hours.
Yes I seem to have misinterpreted your response. Apologies.
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This shouldn't be special or surprising news; but its certainly nice to see.
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sensory disorder / autism spectrum. The main challenge is attention deficit, so any pop ups / ads destroy their UX.
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People usually miss the references that should be encoded within REST responses, The hypermedia part. You should be able to call /user/ and get a list of users whith links to the specific users. This link will be in the correct http-format which means you can discover the api from one or a few starting points. This gets even more obvious when you try to fetch a sub-resource or call a "method" on a resource. Those links are encoded within the resource itself. That means when you get a user record it may contain links to things you can do with it (add an address or an extra email, get specific details etc). With SOAP it is only naming and there is very little recommendations about that.
Very sad news- but unlike many others that died, he will not be forgotten.
I really like the effort that has been put into ionic and material design. But still I would really like to see more projects like reapp.io which is a react mobile web (not native) extension for react. Reapp's launch was totally overshadowed by the launch of react native, but works great and currently only has a ios theme.
As an Australian, I'm a little horrified because although we don't have alligators, we have crocodiles. And both are extremely territorial, aggressive carnivores. We lose at least one person a year from attacks - this story could have been far less amusing. And remember, we don't have Steve Irwin to wrestle the bastards any more.

I refer you to Crocodile attack in Australia: an analysis of its incidence and review of the pathology and management of crocodilian attacks in general. [1]

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16209470
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Jordan, do you use vim for all of your React development?
I don't have experience with Estonian e-residency, since I'm a standard offline resident. But perhaps I can advise on any questions that you have about the program or running a small business in Estonia.

> They will run you through multiple police reports, collect fingerprints (as they explained in followup emails).

Yes, the details they ask are going to be similar to applying for a passport or a residency permit in most countries. They are giving out a government-approved identity document, so they are going to run checks on your identity. From the sounds of it, it seems simpler than getting an US visa, or an European biometric passport that lets you into the US without a visa.

> Taxation benefits are unclear

The main benefit is no corporate income taxes. Businesses only pay taxes when money is paid out as dividend, salary or other benefits to individuals. All income that stays in the company is not (yet) taxed.

The total tax rates (all different business+employee portions) are approximately 20% for dividend, and 40% for salary if the individual is also in Estonia. So not really internationally competitive for salary taxes, but reasonable for dividend.

But you are correct - if the money is paid out to someone outside of Estonia, things get a lot more complicated. You most likely would not need to pay Estonian social security or income taxes, but on the other hand your country will most likely tax you instead.

> Estonia socially and historically weren't that much foreigners-friendly country either.

It is hopefully getting a lot better over time. But the average Estonian seems to have two completely separate viewpoints for "foreigners":

* People who moved to Estonia during the Soviet occupation, and decided to stay here after it ended. They are viewed with suspicion and sometimes outright hostility, as if they were responsible for the bad things that happened in the last century, and are here waiting for a chance to repeat them.

* Everyone else. If you are in Estonia for business, studies, tourism, or any other reason, and know the local word for "hello", you will find friendly reception.
Some one earlier mentioned it was about playing the right sports and "football" (soccer) is a non U sport.

As a mate who went to a minor public school (Bedford) it was Rugger, Rowing and Drinking Beer as the school sports.
More interesting than it might first appear. If you try a name like 'Stanley' you can see the devastating effects of the war years. You also see a resurgence in the name 20 years or so later, I'd guess when people want to remember a parent or grandparent in their own child.
This is a genuine question: I know nothing of B. B. King, and how does the first picture tell anything about his significance to music?
The problem with most of these examples is that all of these "NSA contractors" are just giant multi-billion dollar revenue companies. I'm sure MSFT is an NSA contractor on one level, but most people would find it weird to classify Microsoft as "A NSA contractor".

This is just a consequence of powerful people happening to have a lot of money to invest and thus becoming board members for companies in domains in which they have expertise (policy).
Ok, so in this view what is TLS? It's not the "transport layer" but it also is application agnostic.
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It stops working above 30% relative humidity, so practical applications are unfortunately still far off.
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