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> The numerical accuracy and calculations needed for getting the spacecraft so close to Pluto must be pretty awesome.

You can actually get by with relatively mediocre precision since the craft can be remotely piloted and its trajectory adjusted as needed. NASA was sending corrections to New Horizons just hours before its periapsis to Pluto.

It would be very different if we launched a satellite and then couldn't alter its trajectory in any way (and it would probably impossible to get it to do anything interesting since even the presence of just three bodies can lead to a chaotic system).
I agree that there's some renormalizing taking place.

From the particle physics end, the revolution stopped because accelerator technology stalled out. If the laser-wakefield (or similar) accelerators can pan out, there may be a resurgence of the 1950's era of progress.

Just because the Standard Model happens to have panned out doesn't mean that its experimental verification wasn't a triumph. The Standard Model didn't have to be true!

The solar neutrino thing is phenomenal, at least to me, we surely see CKM mixing in the quark sector, but to see leptons change flavor, and do so on such a grand scale is astounding. When the problem first came up, flavor violation wasn't even on the table.

Precision cosmology has really laid out that there's something really, really big about Physics that we're missing. Really big. And it says it with such statistical and systematic vehemence that even the most curmudgeonly skeptic (myself included) is forced to confront it. In combination with the Bullet Cluster, there's almost no escape from the conclusion that there's something really important to be found.

Totally agreed that parameter space, without qualifiers, is a vague term.

Some parameter spaces are more important than others. I'd argue that the absence of new signals at LHC, the absence of bright new lines in Fermi/GLAST data, the absence of new lines in ultra-high energy cosmic rays, the absence of any signal in any EDM experiment, the absence of any equivalence principle violation or anything else in the gravitational sector, the absence of any experimental signal for any dark matter candidate, the continued expected behavior of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, etc. are all important, especially in light of the problems of CP-violation, the complete incompatibility of the Standard Model with General Relativity, and the extremely good agreement between observed cosmology/BBN with the \LambdaCDM model.

A lot of really good people have pushed really hard experimentally on entirely reasonable theories, and those ideas have been severely constrained. In my own field, precision tests of gravity, theory is forced to contort itself to avoid experimental constraint. LHC is putting the screws to supersymmetry; there's still plenty of room there, but there's a lot less than there was a few years ago.

As experimentalists, we've got little patience for contrived models of parameter space. As each experiment takes 5-10 years, we only get a few in our lifetime, so we try to make our work as meaningfully-impactful as we can.
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http://cycle.js.org/documentation.html

5 documented functions, and one documented property. This is probably one of the most minimal/clean API's I have seen.
While that's true... the same is true for a lot of "American Muscle" cars.

I've personally always had preference for smaller and better cornering / better handling cars. But there's a subset of car enthusiasts who only care about straight-line performance.
It seems to me like the biggest problem is implantable devices vs external devices. Anything that would require surgery to recall should have much more strenuous testing than something you could simply remove and replace without seeing a doctor.
Especially because so many of these implantable devices end up in older people where the risks of complications from surgery go up so much.
> I've never felt like car dealerships being independently owned was a useful benefit

Eh, it was useful for car manufacturers when they were first getting going: they didn't have to put up the capital to open shop. The regulation came in when a dealership showed that a given region had high demand for the company's cars, so the company would move in across the street and undercut the franchised dealer. Obviously the franchised dealer had more clout with local politics than the auto manufacturer did - this is why all the dealership laws are state laws. It was kind of a legitimate regulation back /then/, but really has no bearing on things now (especially for a car company that has never franchised any dealers).
> Intent matters, and he was found guilty of accessing a computer with authorization.

Right and a lot of people are saying that it's a miscarriage of justice to prosecute someone based on implied knowledge or assumed knowledge.

It wasn't proven the same way you can prove a great many other things. A jury was convinced of something, and that doesn't constitute actual proof. Just because the government says something is true doesn't make it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
In other words, Tesla is thinking about their cars as hardware + software, whereas BMW thinks about their cars as hardware only.
True. However, the Ariel Atom is an lightweight, open air (no roof at all), tube frame, track-day car. You're well advised to wear a helmet while driving the Atom.

The Tesla is a 4-door sedan that you could easily use to pick up business partners from the airport. You might as well compare the tesla to a BMW HP4 (superbike).
If there was a better way to know the value of stock I'd take it. They are going to give me 20,000. 20,000 of what? What is 1 worth, is it worth something if the company sells now, tomorrow, over valuation, under valuation.

Those things are important if stock is part of your compensation.
Can anyone provide some details on what all I should ask about when evaluating an offer from a startup company? I really have no clue where to begin.
While not credit related, a startup here in Canada is trying to tackle identity verification at a global scale: https://www.trulioo.com/

Your last point about moving from another country to one where you don't have established credit is interesting. If there's a service where you can verify credit cross-borders, I think there might be something there.

Credit scores are great but the real problem is not the score itself. It's about knowing how likely the person is who they are claiming to be and how likely will they pay their bills on time - we use it as a proxy to score the quality of the customer. If there are alternative data points that can tell us the difference between a good customer and a bad customer, we would use it.
More usefully, there's an option to increase the range to 300 miles. That's still only half the range of many stock gasoline cars, though.
This is against Facebook's terms of service:

"You will not create more than one personal account."

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Congress gives them plenty of slack for being slow to approve things.
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One thing I don't understand is the position of the big car makers(BMW, MB, AUDI) being a passive observer in this field.

Tesla is getting so much, that if any automaker that can deliver a car with half the specs of a model S, and keeping their model's prices as a mass produced car, would deliver a big punch to Tesla, and would greatly move the market forward.

Is it the investment necessary for building a network of charging stations?

I highly doubt it is because Tesla has more money for R&D than any other car maker.

Is getting a Model S, earns you the title of being an early adopter. Because I believe the market already shifted towards this type of vehicles, but I may be polarized, because I already desire an electric car.
It's relatively easy to adjust this setup to use synchronous replication. In fact, it's something that I expect we'll be offering to customers in the future. Most people we talk to aren't willing to sacrifice the write availability or performance synchronous replication requires. We mostly try to give them the tools to do it right, and then educate them on the tradeoffs.

(disclaimer, I work for Compose)
On the 428 day old HN thread, it looks like lots of people had problems with lack of quality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7750433
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Sort of like the truth in lending documents you get when signing off on a loan? Interesting idea
this alone will be a good enough excuse to get this car if you could afford it.

Asides Nissan GTR, supercars running in 300,000 USD will do roughly 3.0~3.1. hypercars like pagani, p1, porsche, laferrari achieve sub 3.0

I'm extremely impressed. Even more because this was just another regular software update.
"Much harder" turns out to still be trivially easy - supplements, the anti-vaxx folks, every weight loss pill ever...
But they do, and for the authors of this op-ed to try and insinuate otherwise is massively dishonest. Most implantable devices are what is known as Class III: the highest risk that FDA assigns. Accordingly, they go through the most stringent approval process, and they most definitely require multiple clinical trials.
Yes, agree, you need to know what % of the company the shares/options represent (either by knowing the % or by knowing the shares outstanding).
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Sometimes I opt-out of email lists, but then I keep getting email from then, probably because I was on multiple email lists and only opted out of one -- altohugh when I subscribed, I subscribed only once.

Sometimes I try to opt-out, but they ask me to login, and I don't remember my password because they asked me to put weird symbols and uppercase letters on it, while my normal login-everywhere password does not have these.

Sometimes I try to opt-out, but the link is broken.

Sometimes (this is what happens most of times) I am subscribed automatically to email lists whenever I sign up to some website. Shouldn't this be considered spam? I did not receive a confirmation email -- or maybe I did, but the confirmation email was to confirm my account on the site, not my subscription on that email list.

Sometimes the sender forgets to his opt-out link.

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The question that these cases pose is: what is the difference between "spam" and "email that can be useful to others but that you don't want to receive"?

And the answer is: SPAM, as explained in the original submission, is a global uncustomizable tag, if something is spam, it is spam to everybody, not just to you. That is not the ideal situation. We could do better, but I don't think it will be better within the email protocol, since it would be impossible to Google to calculate the spam-probability of each message according to its receiving user. The only way it to move to other protocols.
In both cases, I'd be out of my professional depth to make any definitive statements about either paper. My expertise is much closer to experiment.

Maldecena and Susskind are both well regarded and accomplished.
I agree that sending the hash is the best implementation if it works as you have described, but that is a system that would be trivial to circumvent (make the .png into a .jpg for example). Maybe they convert all the images to a similar file type and then hash it?
It looks like it works by just reusing the devtools that are part of electron instead of shipping it's own (like node-inspector). That might make it more reliable than node-inspector for basic debugging. But that's only a guess after glancing over the code.
I agree it's funny. There's probably a better term for it.
All of the responses got what I meant, which I realize is not clear.

I mean a non-disposable, dynamic and upgradable hardware product. This is the first time that I see this in the hardware world, where every object is manufactured and then all plans are towards a V2 or a new product.

The few exceptions are for recalls, but that's obviously a different story.
Smaller DB setups rarely have the ops/DBA support required to do manual failover. I think having an as-consistent-as-feasible, automatic failover is something of a default expectation for databases these days, at any size.
Runway, runway, runway. The intricate details of equity, for rank-and-file employees, are usually red herrings.

It does you no good to make $xxx,000/year and have y options if the company is at risk of not being able to make payroll in six months.
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> There may be consensus, but the source of the consensus is not some objective fact, but a mere convergence of various simulated worlds.

Is there a difference?

> They're not paradoxical, they simply challenge the meaning of knowledge.

But the challenge is to the word, not the reality. Wondering whether belief under particular circumstances is "really" knowledge is as meaningless as wondering whether a glider is really an aeroplane - or whether an amusing quote is really a joke. When you get down to empirical predictions (and empirical predictions inside the world of Minecraft are no less empirical) - Will someone predict correctly? Will this object fly? Will my friend laugh at this quote? - the confusion goes away.

> People without humanities education have humanities knowledge comparable to grade-school math. It's more than nothing, sure, but it's far from making one knowledgeable.

I deliberately didn't say anything about knowledge, because the article doesn't; the article talks about beauty, about wonder, about things that touch the innermost parts of our mind. If that's its defense of the humanities, then it's on those criteria that I will judge a humanities education - and my experience is that humanities graduates are no better at producing those things than those who are not.

> In any case, they are mostly STEM people who have some historical beliefs that are completely erroneous

What is it that they're erroneous about? Surely not the subjective parts, by definition; it's only on the objective, empirical parts of history - the parts that, in the article's classification, belong on the STEM side of "Humanities vs. STEM" - that one can even have erroneousness (and perhaps indeed knowledge).

> Sure, but why restrict ourselves to ordinary, everyday life? Do you think that human existence lies solely at that level?

I think that we think more clearly and make better decisions at that level.

> Here's that word again: real. Is a joke not real? What makes physical reality any more real than simulated reality? Is euclidean geometry any more real than non-euclidean geometry simply because we find the former in objective physical reality? Is, say, Call of Duty any more real than Minecraft or Super Mario simply because it imitates physical reality better? They're both simulations. Certainly some things are more physical than others, but whether that gives them any more value is completely subjective.

And yet, in ordinary, everyday life, no-one finds the word confusing. We know immediately which things are real and which things are not (and sure, we find that some things straddle the borderline - but that only means that language is imprecise, not that we don't understand those things), and we find that there is consensus, that realness is objective.
Is there a good guide out there that lists very plainly:

1) All of the information one should ask for re. equity.
2) What to do with that information.

I don't necessarily need to know all of the in and outs right away, but it would be nice to know a some of the key things that I really ought to know in order to get some kind of handle on it.
IIRC, it's actually Toyota that's the world's most popular car maker (by number of cars sold, at 10.23 million last year), not VW; this has been the case for the last 3 years [0]. VW is very close behind, though, at 10.14 million (and GM is close behind that at 9.92 million).

Not to say that your point is inaccurate (it's actually very accurate; the ability for companies like Toyota to drive down costs goes a long way toward mass adoption, and it's something that "luxury" makers like Porsche don't typically have the experience in). Tesla could very well be an exception here, since the big focus as of late is to ramp up manufacturing until Model-whatevers (and, in particular, their batteries) can flow out of factories at ludicrous speeds.

[0]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/113...
Protection and insurance are most valuable the first time I hire someone, in case they are a nutcase or thief.
Agreed on the terms. It's just that I don't have a better terms, given that we work with digital constantly upgradable web apps and native apps and we still call them "products".
Its probably _because_ of traction actually. A internal combustion engine has to worry about gears and gear switching. Even if the gear takes a short-time to switch, that is a penalty that the electric cars do not face.

The Tesla can provide smooth acceleration from 0 to 60. No combustion engine can accomplish that feat... although some hybrid supercars are beginning to incorporate electric motors for that reason.
A country that regularly has mobs chanting "Death to America", and you don't see anything but positives to them having nuclear weapons? Seriously?
There's a such thing as regulatory capture.
I love Morgan Freeman by the way. A man who played a president of the USA, and God multiple times, is exactly what you need to show everywhere, not only on Afrostream

Is it positive discrimination ? Since there is a political implication there, I don't think so, but I will try to answer.

Do you know the movie "Ride Along" ? It did more than 100M$ in the American market for a budget of 25M$. This movie has one of the best start of any movie all time in January.

Do you know how we could see this movie outside USA. Not in a movie theater in France, though. Piracy is the first channel to see african-american movies in Europe and Africa.

Some movies are not well distributed and it appears so that a lot of these movies are from or with an African descent castings. That's not fair. We will correct this fact. And if you want to call this positive discrimination, why not.

Afrostream is a service which will permit to show movies which are not shown in a lot of countries in a legal way. That's our political statement.
I knew about this service, but didn't know I only needed the VPN for signup! I didn't think streaming from "another country" would work, great to know I only need that to set it up. It is pretty expensive though, wish they had a plan to only watch one team. But better than nothing, I guess.
The difference is that there aren't posted acceleration limits, only speed limits. (And more generally, speed reduces available reaction time and increases your inertia in a collision, which is why it's the sensible thing to limit.) The only limits on acceleration are the general requirements to drive safely. So 0-60 is a lot more interesting than -95, unless you're driving on the autobahn.
I also get coredumps from openssl, ssh-keygen, and smtpctl on the first boot. The common factor for all of these is the XGETBV instruction - unfortunately it looks like DigitalOcean's setup of KVM doesn't support it.

This was just on amd64 though - installing OpenBSD for i386 seems to work okay, apart from sometimes hanging on boot (not sure why this is).
A lot of jobs involve what sociologists call "emotional labor" - jobs where, to be an effective worker, you can't always show your first-choice emotions.

If I'm at a table service restaurant and my waiter is visibly unhappy about having to bring us food and drinks, I don't want to be an asshole by keeping on making him do that. I'd rather cook my own food at home next time. But a table service restaurant where waiters aren't bringing customers food and drink is going to go out of business pretty soon.

That's why waiters are trained to engage in emotional labor - in saying "of course sir, it's no problem" when they'd rather sigh or complain; the emotional labor is actually an important part of the job.

Personally I've never hired a cleaner because I'd feel like an asshole asking some poor stranger to scrub my toilet. But if I did hire a cleaner, and they came around and left me feeling that yes, I am an asshole for hiring them to scrub my toilet, I probably wouldn't hire a cleaner again. If you're running a cleaning company, that's not good for business.
Ballistic missiles with just a bunch of TNT or C4 on the tip aren't all that much of a deterrent...
At roughly constant inflation-adjusted budget, many experiments are getting factors of two in performance improvement today roughly as quickly as they were getting factors of two in the past.

The job market for physics has not changed substantially in the last twenty years.

By 'we go slow because we will go far', I meant only to emphasize that regular incremental improvements generally trump blitzkrieg efforts.
No they're not. They're making it hard for the government to postpone addressing the fundamental economic changes imposed by zero marginal-cost distribution. Since entertainment media production is a substantial chunk of the UK economy at about £65 billion a year, it's not unreasonable to ask government to come up with a policy on it. Entertainment is cultural capital, and it brings in both direct revenue and indirect (eg tourism).

So the industry is saying 'you're going to allow something that you know will facilitate copyright infringement and thus destroy sales, what is your policy to ensure that the creative people don't end bearing all the economic loss?' The answer might be a change in copyright rules, a tax on entertainment media (probably a bad idea) some sort subsidy for people who work in the arts (like France), favorable tax treatment for people who work in the arts (like Ireland, where artists are exempt from paying income taxes - yes really), or whatever.

As I have explained over and over again here on HN, changes in the marginal cost of distribution have no bearing on the cost of creation, ie making the original work. People still want to consume music, movies, books etc. as much as they ever did, and it takes creative people just as much effort to create such works as it always did, but the value of their property right has been eroded by forces outside their control or competence. So anyone who makes intellectual property is stuck with a completely different economic calculus from anyone engaged in creating physical property, and the government has so far failed to address this.
For anyone else that's curious what the Ariel Atom 500 looks like... http://i.imgur.com/n8KG8Qk.jpg
Furthermore, the employee is going to be at least as instrumental at realizing the company as your investors. If the investors have liquidation preferences, they have more valuable and higher-quality equity. Employees deserve the same value for their work even if their overall compensation is of lower magnitude than what the investors are putting in.
You are right it is not the best example of an open source project, and for what you say it neither is a good python project example. But is there any other place you can get the hold of working async with python, it may be hard, but you would learn a lot.

But maybe there are other async python projects that I don't know of. If you know of any please post them, I would also like to learn more about the subject.
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Due to the regulations needed to drive. Put someone with no experience driving behind a wheel and you'll quickly see how skill based driving is. Just, unlike good cleaning, we have a lot of training and experience with good driving.

Or if this is too extreme of an example, look at what happens when you give a driver who has only driven small cars a big truck pulling a loaded trailer. They'll definitely be slower than the driver's with skill.
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