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Somewhere in the range that your laptop will almost certainly never see even a single event, but a very large datacenter or colo will have multiple events a month.

There is a lot of disagreement on bitflips from ionizing radiation. They are unequivocally real, and unequivocally very rare. Even when they do happen, a large portion of the chip is dark a lot of the time, and a lot of the live data in the chip is simply thrown away and never used. (Think prefetching) Some bits, if flipped, will break something but will not corrupt the disk and the machine will be able to recover.

Nobody really knows for certain exactly how big of a problem they are and how often they happen- it's all statistics, and it depends on things like where on the globe your computer is, what your building is made of, and what phase of the solar cycle we are in. It even depends on workload. Anybody who claims to know for certain...
The whole idea, that you can save costs, by have a "fit-it-all" design, is flawed!

Take multiple different customers for a car, one wants to have a sports-car, one a pick-up and the third, something that can dive ... What does not work in car-design, does even less in jet-design.
Nice work Tim. [shameless plug] it is similar to what I built at devarist.com except that I'm more interested in the daily scratch pad than encouraging a journal, because that was my itch. It's great to see someone else building a similar product though because it means I'm not completely crazy. Good luck with it.
Still better waste of money than healthcare for all!! :)
True, but I believe the Israelis have gunned an enemy aircraft as recently as the 80's using F-16's.
Yes. For example, the F-16 was fitted with a 9G limiter for symmetric maneuvers (zero roll and sideslip). A structural check was mandated if the HUD indicated 9.8G was hit during flight.
> is this any different than what would happen if a dedicated attacker came after the most valuable data in your company?

Well, most SF/HN startups data wouldn't get people killed if leaked to the wrong hands, whereas OPM had sensitive information on spies/foreign agents/etc where that is a serious possibility.

The question I'm curious about is what if a Silicon Valley style startup was going to start a company holding ID information for gov workers? Including potentially identities of people whose livelihood depends on secrecy. I'd imagine they would be investing quite heavily in security. But it is plausible even that wouldn't stop nation-state attackers...
To make it readable, paste this in the console:

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The reason it's projected at $1.5 trillion, is they plan to order ~2400 planes, and the time frame is covering 55 years of operation and upkeep.

By comparison that's a larger plane order than the total sum of all combat aircraft that Russia has, and six times that of Germany.

If the F35 had been split into three planes, with the same order and cost scale, the cost would not be a particularly big deal. You're talking about 5% of the Pentagon's annual budget, for 2/3 of all combat planes in the US military. That is, the cost is not the problem: it's the do-everything nature of the plane that is the problem.
The concept of Aggregates in Domain-Driven Design is based around the need for business invariants that must be maintained with transactional consistency in a system that is generally eventually consistent.

Overall, you have to learn to love eventual consistency, but small portions of the domain should absolutely be clustered together around transactional consistency needs that are absolutely necessary.

Check out "Implementing Domain Driven Design" by Vaughn Vernon; chapter 10 in particular talks about this.
What kind of emergencies? Ones where we suddenly have to run a lot of passenger trains?
> As a graduate student, he studied with Niklaus Sweet, creator of Pascal.

Niklaus Sweet, fucking seriously?
I don't think it's so much about banning as it is about "pushing". Look at the subsidies for certain food groups, or the labeling requirements (hint, these feed into peoples' paranoia and preconceived notions of good/bad healthy/unhealthy), etc. So as long as they pipe-up the narrative they want (and scare people about other things), and people listen to it, then they they're effectively creating "ban"-like barriers and hindrances for people making their own choices.
It's easy for users to not care about some they can't see. The participants' comments about visible vs invisible aspects of tracking were telling.
Here is the example code for the talk: https://github.com/cer/event-sourcing-examples and a corresponding blog post with some links: http://plainoldobjects.com/2015/01/04/example-application-fo...
Exactly, this unfortunate "saturate and move on" can be observed in pretty much any area.
ISTM RPC is eventually a too-leaky abstraction. That is, if used in synchronous fashion, in the long run it will cause pain. If you use it asynchronously (which seems to stretch the definition of RPC), why not just use something that is naturally asynchronous?
Most people use math less and less (even your average cashier will have issues if the machine isn't working).

Will Myron Aub give us the feeling of power back?

http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html by Isaac Asimov on just this topic.
Yeh gravel shifts significantly once you get pools of water forming. Gravel roads need annual levelling work even for low traffic routes.
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It seems to me that the whole point of the company is to create patents and demonstrate that they are valuable.
What? The European parliament is the clearest example of a democratic institution inside the EU.

Commission and council have their elements of redirection, sure (i.e. it’s people appointed by people who were democratically elected … though in the case of someone like Angela Merkel, herself elected by the German parliament, it’s more like people appointed by people appointed by people who were democratically elected). Even though, they are still democratic, certainly, but redirection and delegation is a problem for democratic participation.

However, the European parliament does only consist of actually elected members. It doesn’t suffer from any of the problems other EU institutions may suffer from.

You statement belies a clear misunderstanding of how EU institutions actually function. Please get off populist train and get an understanding of the actual issues involved when it comes to democracy and democratic processes inside the EU. I, for example, want the EU parliament to get much, much more power compared to other European institutions, mostly because it certainly is the single most democratic EU institutions.

(But status quo is powerful … and the EU did grow out of more traditional bilateral and multilateral international agreements and treaties. Those things have always been run by heads of governments or people appointed by heads of governments. That history is hard to shake for the EU … and that is exactly why that model of heads of governments or someone appointed by them coming together and hashing it out is still sadly such an important element of EU governance. However, with too many EU skeptics a truly democratic EU government that is truly independent from heads of governments of nation states will certainly never be possible.)
Hi folks, I built this for fun yesterday. Happy to answer any questions. I'm in the process of adding custom emoji urls. :D AMA
The restaurant floor, a ring around the core, rotates. The observation deck, exterior and center do not.
NASA is considering terraforming the moon with an army of autonomous robots
The text box for inputting countries seems to be a bit broken. Seems to stop giving suggestions after some time or it just me?
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Ask HN: Hypothetically speaking: You're working on the biggest idea
Hello HN,

Hypothetically speaking:
You're working on an idea that has the potential to become one of the most successful products in the world if built well. For the sake of argument, let's say it "will" be considered as one of the best ideas of the last decade or two. You have the idea, and you know exactly what your product should do and how it should do it. But you are not an engineer. The dilemma is that your idea cannot be downplayed. Whoever you share it with immediately realises how insane of an idea it is; which makes your idea super easy to steal. Let's say this idea needs quite a lot of resources to be well built, and you definitely can't do it alone since you're not an engineer capable of building such a thing. Again, for the sake of argument, imagine you're not well connected to the startup scene so you'll have to make cold intros.

And one last hypothesis, your biggest motivation is not the money or the fame, but it is to change the world. And your idea will do that.

What do you do? Explain step by step your action plan to succeed.
I added support for uppercase after the fact. X_X It's now live.
To add insult to injury, I've also created: http://🆒🔗.ws :P
VisPy: Python library for interactive scientific visualization on GPU
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I've run into that issue a few times but I thought I fixed it. Before, reloading seemed to have fixed it. I'll look into it though. Thanks for pointing it out! :)
That is the gearbox. The output shaft is the red one.
But if those interpretations are authoritative and violation of the current IRS interpretation (but not the previous one) means you get prosecuted in federal court, how is that not effectively the ability to retroactively change laws?
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Stay on the throttle.
Could I install Unreal Engine 4 on CodePipleline so that I can build my game remotely?
I wish I could upvote it more...
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Actually, I'd say the microservices architecture has helped in a complex project that I'm working on right now.

Consider the following that need to be done here.

- A main library that needs to load up a few gigs of data in memory

- A process that communicates with a queue of messages coming in

- A process that interfaces with mobile app (port x)

- A process that interfaces with a different kind of app (port y)

The goal is - every incoming message needs to go through to the main library and back to the app via the queue.

Monolith option - main.cc which contains all this, takes a while to start, can't queue up incoming messages till everything starts up and loads in memory, et al. Even using threads and whatnot.

Now with microservices,

- I can build a service that exposes my big-data-load library through a port. This can be loaded and restarted at will.

- Queue is running as a separate process. Messages queue when main lib is down and processed later.

- Server A and server b run separately

- A bug in one won't crash all the others

- I can manage each service independently (run them via supervisor or whatnot)

- Scaling it is easy - I can deploy each service behind load balancers, on different machines in the future without ever needing to change anything but the urls in a config file

- Monitoring - I have latencies for each service available via haproxy and the like.

My 2c.
clojurescript has lovely html syntax; it's probably my favourite to write. i generally prefer mlish to lispish syntax, but s-expressions fit the problem of representing a tree structure perfectly.
I use emails for reminders too! Also, I'm usually logged in. This is what inspired MailYou.
This company is built to produce patents, which they have succeeded at doing I believe.
> This will happen regardless, as tax rates have nowhere to go but up in the USA (considering trillions in unfunded liabilities).

Because when you've run up a giant pile of debt, the response should be "get and spend more money" rather than "spend less"?

> Civilization. That's exactly what taxes pay for.

As long as we're being snarky: product not as advertised, cost inflated well over initial agreement, return policy non-existent and no refund available. Would refuse to do business with again if not for geographic monopoly and coercion.
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It's nice to see elm-html-shorthand in the wild. Please let me know what needs improving.
Actually the duration is a bit high on VBILX. I use Vanguard's muni/tax exempt version VWIUX, but the point is you want a bond index with a duration of around 4-5 years. Maybe I'm more conservative than most, but you don't want to risk a large drop on money you need that soon (look at the REIT losses in '08).
I am a cashier. Never use math. I doubt anyone outside academia and parts of industry ever uses math in its proper sense.
And yet, tomorrow they'll have no qualms making the case that, of course, the government can securely keep backdoor keys to investigate encrypted communications.
A three hundred nineteen line function though with all those variables is more than a bit big. Modern compilers are rather good at inlining code, so it's doubtful there will be very much, if any effect on codesize there. The multitude of temporary variables also suggests that there are probably portions of that function that need factored out. OpenSSL suffers from a severe thousand paper cuts problem. While its warts aren't that bad when viewed individually, the sheer multitude shows a severe lack of organization of the project from top to bottom.
Share your idea with anyone who will listen. A) If it is truly going to change the world, you'll be labeled a hero and will quickly gain support. B) If not, you'll know pretty quickly from the masses that it won't work. If you get shot down, you'll get feedback to where the holes are in your idea, which can only solidify your idea further. Execution counts. Ideas are a dime a dozen; even world changing ones.
If the only people capable of understanding what you are saying are the people that already know it, saying it is quite useless.

Reference material or not.
My main advice to anyone considering writing a microservice based architecture from scratch is to keep a really tight handle on code duplication and testing. Also take a deep look into Erlang, it's written with these types of systems in mind.
This page says homosexual activity has been legal in the UK since 2000.

Where is it getting that, and which part of the UK does it apply to?

Same sex sexual activity was legalised in England and Wales in 1967; in Scotland in 1981; and 1982 for NI.

The age of consent was equalised in 2001 (for England, Wales, and Scotland) and 2009 for NI.
Could you conceivably make a JSX preprocessor for Elm? Because this looks almost identical to how to do React components in CoffeeScript without JSX. And it's painful once you start getting to more than 1 level of nesting... it becomes impossible to tell, looking at a single line, whether something is meant to be an attribute or a nested component.

Moving to JSX is a godsend after that - it feels a bit odd, but once you realize that you're really writing HTML that you could always copy-paste into something-that's-not-React if you ever decided to move away from React, it's incredibly liberating.

There's this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-discuss/uXjcVyZ5... - but no other activity on a JSX preprocessor. Has anyone else been looking into this?
you and me both, buddy :3
But sometimes the connection between "beautiful art project" and "practical tools" is totally unexpected. We often invest time in projects that seem simply like "beautiful art", and then much later stumble upon something practical.

I think a great example of this is cryptography. The foundations of it come from number theory (prime numbers, modular arithmetic, elliptic curves), but the subject of number theory, before the advent of computing, was possibly the most useless kinds of mathematical 'art' that could have existed. I imagine it was the mathematical equivalent of frolicking in the fields.

Mathematicians explored Fermat's little theorem starting in 1640, but they didn't do it because they knew it'd be useful several hundred years later in RSA. They did it simply because math is worth exploring in itself.

Even if you don't subscribe to the idea that we should pursue math for math's sake, history shows us that it's very difficult to know what parts of math will be useful to humanity, especially hundreds of years later. Since people work best on what they find interesting, mathematicians should continue exploring the topics that most interest them, because we really can't say with any certainty what will prove useful (or even essential) to future generations.
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In Australia, there are lots of dirt tracks, and it's standard to regrade them ever year after the rainy season. (At which point they're pretty much impassable.)

But those are dirt roads, which are not the same thing as a proper, old-fashioned gravel Macadam road. They can be excellent, and are pretty easy to maintain --- if potholes develop, fill them promptly with the right grade of gravel --- but don't do high speed traffic well. (Gravel is flung up by the wheels, which was why they started gluing it down with tar --- hence tarmac, or tarmacadam.)

Can find a good video of a grader in action, so here's a bad one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFoN5LD0Q-w
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This is Hacker News, not ProductHunt for Social Justice Warriors.
There's a proposal at the moment to reduce comma-noise a bit, which I think might help the situation if it's accepted: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/PMGBcspBDiM/m6a3...
It'll be horribly obsolete in five years. It would cease to be a status symbol, like trying to impress someone by being able to get Outlook on your Blackberry. The purchasers at 4+ figures generally know this.
I suffer from this syndrome. I can break anything in 5 minutes just by using it my way. I have "power user" setup (wrapping scripts, custom environment variables, etc.), and my own ways which collide with any shortcomings, hacks and ignorance software has. Part of the reason I'm such a Python hater. Python ecosystem is so broken and ignorance flourishing that anything-Python breaks 99% of the time. Before using any new software I check if it was written in Python, and if I can find an alternative written in something else.

If you want an example on what I'm talking about, just create Linux user with a space in the name of home directory, try working as it this user, and watch the world burn.
Just curious, why do you say they're supposedly cheaper than pensions? I don't have a lot of knowledge about how they're managed, but I can't imagine that much disparity in administrative fees.

And on the larger view, pensions represent a liability (I promise to pay Joe Sixpack 40% of his salary after ten years of service, some of which he will contribute to), while 401(k)s represent no liability at all. Work for the company 40 years and your 401(k) won't cover your retirement? Too bad. Should have contributed more or invested better; the company doesn't owe you anything. Or, for another example, if Joe lives to be 100 and he only planned for 76, that's a major problem with a 401(k), but a pension would still have to pay out, and it would be on the company's dime.

In addition, at least in my experience, company contributions to 401(k)s tend to be small and decreasing (for example, my company contributes a maximum of 3%, paid once a year) over time, and you have the additional complexity that vesting introduces, where (at least as I understand it), they can take it back if you quit roll your 401(k) over somewhere else.

So I'm not sure under what circumstances a 401(k) could ever not be cheaper. Are there some?
I think the point he's making is that it isn't as though the European Parliament is "standing up against" the EU or whatever: the parliament is part of the EU; you could rewrite the headline as "EU rejects EU plan".

That view may not fully capture the subtlety of the matter though.
How exactly does that solve the problem of consuming custom web components with their own internal state and events?
Ludwik Fleck's "Genesis and development of a scientific fact" goes very much in the line of "[science] only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breaths life into ideas both old and new." (written pre-WW2; it served as an inspiration for Khun). Its most eye-opening example is the history of [the concept/knowledge/science/... of] syphilis, from ancient to modern times.

PDF (of print from 1979): http://www.evolocus.com/Textbooks/Fleck1979.pdf
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Not gravel roads but stretched dust generator.
A fairer way to resolve this might be letting Renaissance pay the long-term while Deutsche pays at least the difference between the short-term and the long-term rates. If Deutsche Bank wants to pay Renaissance's taxes for the latter, that's fine by me.
There's still a great deal of stigma around any form of mental illness, even mild and transitory depression or anxiety. It's difficult, after centuries of declaring people "mad," to think that one can be mentally ill as one is ordinarily ill - with the mental equivalent of a cold or flu or allergies. I've had to help friends and family with this idea myself.

Yet people eagerly adopt monikers like claustrophobic and OCD, and admit to an irrational fear of heights or spiders. Depressed is a household word, but we are afraid to use its real meaning. It's a strange conundrum.

An interesting historical perspective on madness can be found in Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," more specifically the introduction.
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Not supporting custom events is pretty much the same as not supporting web components. What if you use a third party web component that has dozens of events? The goal should be interop with no additional plumbing required.
I'm sorry, "fishes"? Shouldn't that be "fish"?
The first reference at the bottom is: Baron-Cohen, Simon, “The essential difference: Male and female brains and the truth about autism” (2004)

He must hate Sasha.
> If you think you can write a better implementation then put your hands where your keyboard is. Show us the code.

Here you go!

https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls
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Good points, but if you are able to do that, doesn't it suggest the function could easily be split into multiple, more specific functions?
I think the proportion is nowhere near that high for most ASICs - JTAG boundary scan adds a few percent to give you this testability, maybe 1-5%.
How do you test these things?
»I changed the business model of the site in January from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it.«
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Grateful Dead: my short strange trip to 'Fare Thee Well. -by a Pulitzer winner
I thought that was because they MVP everything? Still waiting on a NAT service and a slew of ELB features that are "coming" so.. I'm not aware that they iterate particularly quickly across the board. Tags are still "kinda" supported to differing degrees or not at all across services.
If you don't like the UI, make your own and sell it to people.

Or ask Amazon to hire some good UI designers.