skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubt it. If anything this is a PERFECT illustration of how well SpaceX is preparing. They know things like this can happen. Notice there was an extended period (multiple seconds) of the rocket smoking before it exploded. Everyone, automated systems included, KNEW something was wrong at that point, before it exploded. At which point dragon would have used its abort system to blast away from the first stage, and made a safe landing.

There is almost no question that had there been people aboard this particular launch, and they were using the newer Dragon that has that capability, no loss of life would have occurred. Unless (of course) there were OTHER malfunctions, too. Never know. Space is indeed hard.
The offered deals included reducing pensions and increasing tax revenues.
If I had a time machine they would be high on the list of people to visit and give a stern talking to.

Problem is that this goes back a long ways, e.g. back to the days of 36 bit computers.

Why 36 bits? Because that was just enough to encode 10 decimal digits, the standard back then for scientific computation.

Back then as in the days before core memory was used, so not much main memory either, and it was still expensive and painful after core was developed. So with that limited a budget, 6 bit character systems were common, that's enough to get things done and you can fit 6 in a word. One reason mainline Lisp doesn't use '?' in function names, why old languages like it and FORTRAN are or were case insensitive.
Looking forward to this but given the fact that Unity is not the most stable piece of software on it's main platforms, i am still a bit skeptical.
What is a shell and how does it work?
wow somebody is touchy, did you by a Greek bond or something? the deal included both increasing taxes and cutting spending / pensions. personally I feel both are wrong in a recession
So everyone will now have to carry around a consent form?
It appears from the video that the Dragon capsule came off intact. Crewed abort probably would've been just fine, which is indeed a relief. After all, that's the point of it.
I'd figure that if one of the parties is able to consent because they've been rendered incapable of making informed decisions, it'd be deemed rape or sexual assault according to this article.
> Until then it is just yet another programming language with an AOT compiler, whwre there is already a plethora to chose from.

Well, the borrow checker and safe manual memory management are unique features that allow moving a lot of code that previously had to be C++ for performance reasons to a safe language. (I've elaborated why safe dialects of Ada and such are not the same in previous posts.) I wouldn't characterize Rust as "just yet another systems programming language".
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I was able to see the entire paper in the viewing window below the abstract. It seems like the point of the paper is that "hypersexuality" is nothing like substance abuse, but there are measurable effects for hypersexual vs "normal" people, such as responding less or differently to visual sexual stimuli.

Stats: (For a 24 year old, the average was 2 partners/year, 0.6 hours/week of porn, whereas hypersexuals reported 3.3 partners/year, 3.8 hours/week of porn).
Will Ubuntu ever have Java 8?
Sooner or later I'm going to have to get into learning Java 8 features yet Ubuntu still has 6 and 7 in the repos. Oracle - Larry! - where . are . you . at???
It's not the phosphoric acid, its the carbonation. Plain old carbonated water is acidic as well which can erode the teeth. That being said your saliva can repair the teeth. The current wisdom is don't drink solely acidic drinks and wait between acidic food/drink and teeth brushing.
Below is the link to the zip. I included the two indexes that have the links. Most designs are local already but the essays folder has only a tiny amount of my essays. So, look at the essays txt file because there's quite a few great ones (including OPSEC) that I haven't transcribed yet. Download it quick because I take it down in a few days.

http://www.adrive.com/public/uxCBKn/select%20schneier%20post...
Not just kernel modules—even userspace modules that are security-critical and used by lots of projects are good candidates for Rust. Think image decoders, media codecs, audio libraries, GL stacks, database engines, crypto libraries, etc.
> Cargo dragon could _technically_ survive if didn't get blown up too much.

It appears to be intact after the explosion. You can see it detach and drift back in the video at about 2:35. https://twitter.com/nextlaunch/status/615191061636481024

Unfortunately, parachutes on the cargo version aren't armed during launch (would be bad if they accidentally deployed) so it'll have smashed into the ocean and broken up.
The Launch Abort System (LAS) is heavy, and since it requires Dragon V2, which includes more systems only required for human missions, the overall system mass is even higher than "just" the LAS. Heavy is extremely expensive, ergo it does not make sense economically to equip the cargo version with the LAS. Simply said, the chance of failure multiplied with the cost of the cargo is less than the extra cost an LAS on every mission would mean.
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Yeah and even then you'd still have the case where the form was filled, but it was either falsified or was coerced from one party ... it never ends once you go down that road ... Kinda like Police 'confessions' signed by coerced innocent citizens.
How did nominal come to mean “within acceptable tolerances”?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-n...

So, it's another way of saying something is 'out of tolerance'.
To me it appears to be completely incoherent conspiracy theory babble mixed in with a pretty random looking selection of music. Must be some kind of a joke that I'm missing.
I couldn't imagine any small company who didn't have life insurance on its owners - I thought that was like one of the first things you did. Guess it gets overlooked.
I would pay $30 for someone to actually consider my candidacy beyond token checkmarks on a resume

/not in tech
That's good to know. I don't have many folks downloading stuff on the Mac side, but as you note, its a pretty common problem.
We admit the player was clunky. We have a new one, as you can see in our interview with Ricard Saykally, http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/ingenious-richard-saykally, And are going through the process of converting earlier interviews.
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So, we have explosive rockets, the burning teslas, and soon the batteries - how will they fare?
It seems Gtk has won, why don't the QT developers and supporters move to the Gtk camp and work to make it better rather then keep QT alive which just wastes efforts.
Indeed. I was looking forward to the landing. I never thought it wouldn't make it to start with. A sad day but you can always learn things from failures so not a complete waste of effort.
I'm aware of the terms, and they were ridiculous. Unfortunately, I can't disclose them, but they didn't make sense, and that's why Unity is on the path it's on now.
So if neither partner gets consent, does that mean both of them have committed sexual assault?
Looks like Southwest Research Institute's meteor shower camera will have been lost again. They're not having much luck :(

> The device aboard [today's launch] was actually a backup of the original meteor camera that blew up along with Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket in 2014.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/27/meteor-camera-iss/
All of my domains (that don't use WhoisGuard or similar) have my PO Box as the address. My PO Box is under my business' name but I had to provide identification and my personal information when I first got it.
just a heads up

if you are using python on your server to parse and process Python dont use eval, and escape whatever quotes the input is coming in with... there at least 10 ways to spawn a command console on python.
It seems that the failure is in education for minorities in inner city neighborhoods. If minorities tend to live more to urban neighborhoods is it a surprise we continue to see this problem downstream? What is AppleGooFace doing to solve the underlying issues?
People on other sites I shared it on said the glibc was worse than many they worked with. They're from back in the day, too. So, for now I'll call it the tax of the GNU UNIX philosophy.

The BASIC, Pascal, Modula-2, and Ada code looked much less hacked together even when it was portable or old. Still looked weird & dated but more readable. So, like one commenter said, it's also because of C. It's design and culture lead people on the path of much dirty hackery to... implement a printf statement.

Note: Situations like this argue for real macros and metaprogramming like in LISP. A pseudo code of what each aspect does plus its implementation would make it more comprehensible.
Until recently, "machine" would be an insult to a chess grandmaster :-)
How to make sense for a CS grad. I was expecting something about Turing, Godel etc
The article mentions the Center for Open Science Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, which can be found at the URL here:

http://centerforopenscience.org/top/
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"Bind your tongue or your tongue will have you bound"
Thereby proving that Super Mario World was built off the original Super Mario Bros. Neat.
Another boys vs. girls pseudo-intellectual debate on HN, that is soon to devolve into "rape-culture", women in tech, and just divisive politicking. Puff opinion pieces with no data don't seem like a great fit for HN, but let's have that same argument again.

See you on the front page.
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You could also pay more. Instead of trying to create culture and develop leadership to get employees who "walk away from compensation packages 2-3x what they currently make", pay them more. Then you can create culture and develop leadership simply because its valuable to your company.

The premise of this article is disturbing: what can founders do (that won't cost VCs money) to manipulate employees. Is having a mission valuable because of the salary and retention benefits?
Longer names don't automatically make it easier to read. Quite the opposite.

In this particular example, probably the function should be eliminated completely. It's easier to read (value x tax / 100) than to hunt for the spec of calculateTaxOverTransfer() to see what it does. (I'm ignoring the weirdness of representing tax in % instead of a float; that's probably another opportunity for a refactor).

Even if there is reasonable business justification to have a specific function to calculate taxes over transfer (maybe multiple callers, the logic is more complex than shown, or there's expectation that the rule might change) something named calc_tax() doesn't reduce the least of your ability to understand what it does.

If there's business ambiguity (like many types of taxes), then yes, you may need to differentiate which tax you're calculating. Even then, I still prefer the C convention and having a single function that receives a parameter indicating the tax to calculate, like calc_tax( tax_type, amount, rate ).

But one could argue that it's a different use case altogether, and you're better off by refactoring your code, and encapsulating the logic in a class that understands different objects passed as parameters for a calc_tax method.
Your own biases are showing. Subsidies for renewables have a long way to go before they are even close to catching up to the amount we've given big oil over the last century. We're still giving billions of dollars in subsidies to hugely profitable oil corporations every year. If we're throwing trillions at renewables (which we haven't), then we must be throwing quadrillions at fossil fuels every year.

The oil industry pollutes. The fines and cost of lawsuits are just seen as a cost of doing business, they don't give a shit about the environment they damage. That is not acceptable.

As far as my biases, I'd have no problem with fracking if I thought the oil industry even remotely cared about the environment. I have very little problem with oil as energy. It's driven the industrialization of the world. I care less about the pollution that occurred 100 years ago (we were ignorant of its effects) than I do about the continued polluting by an industry that should know better. After 42 years of being around oilmen, I can tell you they do not care about anything but the dollar in their pocket.

The EPA report did say fracking was bad, it pointed out specific instances of pollution. The report stated pollution wasn't systemic to the act of fracking, but the pollution was caused by inadequate safety precautions by frackers. The EPA report documented 151 instances of surface spills of fracking chemicals, and numerous instances of contaminated drinking water. All solvable if frackers didn't care about the dollar more than they care about the environment.
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Could gcj produce suitable native code?
Facebook Oversight:BIO METRIC FACIAL RECOGNITION TEAM HIDES FROM FACEBOOK
Hey everyone,

It's your favorite conspiracy theorist. Turns out that I found out through the process of elimination, that it is just a Bio Metric Facial Recognition Surveillance team. The software was ruled illegal by a federal court a while ago, and the team that has been surveilling me for 5 years has now decided to hide from Facebook. One of the team members doesn't want me to own telepathy. Which is a strong possibility because of the legal ramifications. So in short. Get ready for BWAVE. I'll do online demonstration videos after I get my technology from Facebook.

Cheers Everyone,

Skylar
The in depends on the franchise, I can take the beer even if i eat outside the restaurant or if I take it away yo home.

I talk McDonalds in Barcelona province. The only problem is that the beer is Cruzcampo :P
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Can Dragon abort and separate at Max Q? If I recall correctly the Space Shuttle had several flight periods at which it wouldn't have been able to separate from the boosters and / or tank.
That crap is so frustrating. Especially since you can't fix it easily when working between multiple file systems.

mv: ‘test’ and ‘Test’ are the same file

Thanks, mv. Brilliant.
The extremely cynical advice in the article is simply to hire people who don't have many opportunities to run away and to convince them they have a leader, a mission, and other reasons for irrational self-sacrifice.

The suggestion to "invest in values and culture" is particularly transparent: it implies that by default an entrepreneur has neither, and that values and culture can (and should) be fabricated for manipulation purposes.

The observation that a "loyalist" has to be either quite crazy from the outset or too gullible and weak-willed to be smart never occurs to this sort of manager, presumably because they don't have to actually work with them every day.
> This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a list of women I could find in the course of a few hours with public LinkedIn, Twitter or GitHub profiles.

The problem isn't that no one can find women in tech, it is that there are less of them. If you simply want to recruit women to fill a quota (leaving aside whether that even makes sense) these people have jobs already. Why would the author doxxx and dump a bunch of people?

I flagged this as wildly inappropriate.
> As of today, in this country, that's true. A few days ago, it wasn't. Anything can mean anything once words stop meaning anything.

No, it was never true. What about marriage makes it specifically require a man and a woman? There was never anything in the government definition of marriage that meant that it required a man and a woman. There was never any requirement to have children, or even to be able to have children. The only reason "marriage" required a man and a woman is that laws had been passed to make it so.

In other words, you could take every word written on marriage in the legal code and apply it, without alternation other than fixing the pronouns, to a same-sex marriage. Marriage didn't change, it just became available to more people.
Wouldn't it be more correct to speak of the EVM as opposed to ERTS here? ERTS defines things like the boot protocol, distribution protocol, term serialization, port drivers, NIFs and BIFs. Though when talking about scheduling semantics, that's on the EVM level (to differentiate it from BEAM in particular).

Otherwise, a decent high-level overview.
Not in this case. Unity's editor has a very "unique" UI. It doesn't try to follow OS-specific conventions most of the time.

https://youtu.be/DEumkKjE2YQ?t=8m15s
That's obviously not the problem with women. Women are more numerous and, on aggregate, do better as college undergraduates than men. There's no excuse for that not having a large impact on hiring.

It is therefore also possible that bias, if not exactly racism, factor in to the lack of progress on minority hires. There's a lot of room for the employers to try harder, before they can blame the education system.
I am willing to bet that he's far from happy right now.
I'm new to this but I thought that QT is more convenient to use on windows and osx?
Aye, it's a good thing no one was aboard.

On my 12th birthday, I watched the Challenger explosion happen right in front of my eyes. Me and the rest of the kids from Indian Harbour Beach watched the pieces of the shuttle slowly fall out of the sky. Some speculated that one of the pieces was an escape pod, but one of the kids whose dad worked on the shuttle said there wasn't an escape pod. We just couldn't believe it. It didn't seem possible that with all that focused attention on getting those 7 astronauts safely into space that such a thing could happen.

It was not the best experience for a kid who loved space and science.

However, it didn't turn me off from it, far from it. I ended up going to college for Aeronautical Engineering, before switching to Physics. I ended up as a nuclear physicist and doing a nuclear fusion startup. I still live within sight of the VAB.

If you want your kids to be interested in science, its more important that they be exposed to rockets, science, etc. than that they see it always be successful. Just showing them that it's cool goes a long way. But its much easier if you don't have to mix in questions about life and death, especially at such young ages.
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No, they do not. They live in areas like the West industrial zones where rent is much cheaper, and commute to the sites by bus. HDBs, the government-built social housing towers you might see in photos, are by law racially mixed to population proportions and not available to non-citizen (some are available to permanent residents, which WP holders are not).

The lowest class by salary of any society lives, by definition, in poverty compared to the others.
How many teslas started on fire? How many of them were not modified by their owners? How many have they sold in total?
What is the point of this article?

I mean this in the nicest way possible.
Ask HN: Is a desktop computer better than a notebook for indie development?
The idea being that this would force you to think (rather than code) whenever you leave your home?
He's not a representative, he's an administrator. Representing the people is the job of parliament, his job is to lead. He cannot just switch sides whenever it suits him.

We have all of these safeguards in place to ensure our leaders neither go off the rails completely, nor simply follow the popular opinion du jour with the predictable disastrous consequences.

If we would do that in the rest of Europe, aid to Greece would have stopped a long time ago.
OK cool!

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I don't know if you can buy beer in Amsterdam but in Spain and France yes.

I think you can't in Italy
Not sure SpaceX rockets count as cutting edge technology. They are based on rather mature technology developed by NASA.

This does highlight the difficulty of manufacturing a complex system in small quantities without the opportunity to do an end to end test before use.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket explodes mid-flight
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I wrote a Java server that blocks spam based on my criteria and set it to run like this:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/update-rc.d....

I didn't do any daemonzing like we used to do in the C days so I'm not sure that the systemd approach mentioned in the article does it better (not against the idea, maybe it's needed on non-Ubuntu systems?).

I just needed to write a simple shell script with the basics and this:

...

case "$1" in
start)
startup
;;
stop)
shutdown
;;
restart)
restartit
;;
esac

...
Not every space flight failure is the result of an explosion.

The Progress vehicle did actually enter an orbit (it reached space and was circling the Earth for a couple days), just the wrong one and after that it spun out of control and was no longer controllable from the ground. Since there is still some atmosphere and some drag in low Earth orbit it eventually was slowed down enough to burn up.

Basically, it failed because it couldn't be controlled anymore, no explosions involved. (Had it been launched to an higher orbit it may well have stayed up for a long, long time, no explosions or anything else interesting going on, just spinning round and round and being uncontrollable.)
Maybe people didn't realize you were referencing the Columbia Shuttle disaster.
You mean in cygwin or on ntfs or so? Because on GNU/Linux with ext4 this works:

/tmp $ touch test
/tmp $ mv test Test
There's no "opposite" emanating here. I'm making no assumptions beyond what we do know, and what I describe is what we do know, sans Unity's spin. There's only me saying, "I'm a little sick of seeing Unity's going swallowed without critique." You characterize that as unfair somehow.

Companies A and B couldn't come to agreement to license something under terms Y that include $X in payment. Okay. There's neutrality in that statement. My comment says that (and no more).

What let's not do is say, "That makes company B a bunch of jerks." That is what the comment I'm responding to does, and it exists in a sea of others with the same tack.

Overton window and that.
I think the issue is related, but in the underlying problem is slightly different because in the cases you describe there wasn't even enough room for a second set of symbols, so in reality there was no problem. The issue arises when there is a second set of symbols that can be encoded by the computer.
I don't understand. If I write a server app that listens for client connections, why not daemonize that? Is systemd doing all of the listening then invoking the server app if a client connects?
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The press conference is being broadcast live now (1 PM ET). http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Probably because Unity was a Mac first program. The Windows version came when it was 2 or so i think.