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If you're flying prograde wrt. the Moon, you'll still be burning enough Δv to reach the Moon, so it may seem to be more efficient to just get yourself captured there, fuel up, and continue away.

I haven't had time to play KSP in half a year, so my intuition may be a little off.
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Other than Paul Graham's essay, I'd love to have more resources on bottom-up vs top-down design. Especially if it were more concrete.
Do you have a few kittens? Managing developers is like herding cats.

The truth is you don't really have real control.
I really liked the Elm talk as well as Garth Hitchens' talk on Embedded Elixir, which was a pretty effin' sweet demo if I say so myself
Well another consideration is the additional time added to the Mars trip. Right now, going directly from Earth, around Earth a bunch of times, then straight to Mars will be 6-9 months one way, which I believe the opportunity to come back would be ~2 years after arriving (I may be wrong here). So, assuming we are doing a round trip and not one way, it's already a 3 year trip ish? Either way, I see building a launching space station orbiting earth as the best way. Use smaller rockets like the falcon 9, get a bunch of fuel into orbit, build the ship from many parts and trips, then launch from Earths orbit. Make the built ship reusable for many Mars trips. Like in the Martian...
Here's the HN discussion to go with yesterday's article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391313

Also here is Holme's interview with Jim Cramer tonight regarding yesterday's article:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/15/theranos-ceo-fires-back-at-ws...
KSP is an incredible intuition pump for stuff related to spaceflight. Highly recommended!
You should take the time to grab the lightroom trial, it's nothing like Photoshop at all(just the same image processing engine).

White Balance, curves, spot fixing, all of that is there in a much more streamlined package.

I can cull/wb/crop/curve well over 500 photos in under 30 minutes. The only time I pop over to photoshop is when I want to do some LAB color processing and that's 0.001% of my use cases.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is you're paying for lightroom specifically because they though of the photo workflow as a whole rather than trying to solve specific discrete problems.
I think it's pretty obvious that protection can only go so far in whistleblowing. If you upset your superiors, they will not resist their humanity to keep you on. A law that says "you can't terminate that person" would be useless because employers can always find a reason to terminate.

What protection can be offered would be something like protection from prosecution. Protection from government nuisance. Protection from lawsuit.
Do it in RSS, or even 64k. Stock KSP is a tiny tiny place.
Housing is pretty cheap. What's expensive is housing near steady income. A basic income dramatically increases supply of "housing near steady income".
You're probably referring to http://opengovernment.org/ by the Sunlight Foundation and Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF).

The work continues! My company DataMade is working with PPF to make local legislation more accessible, starting with Chicago, New York and Philly: http://councilmatic.org/
The only way Rotten Tomatoes is useful is if you look only at the negative ratings. All kinds of horrible schlock that has mass appeal gets "certified fresh." But isolating negative reviews: If idiots dislike it then it's probably good; If the negative reviews sound cogent then it's probably bad.
Never mind creating & funding both Taliban and ISIS in the first place.
A fuel station in LEO may be convenient, but it will still be much cheaper to ship fuel from the Moon than from the surface, Δv-wise. Per a handy Δv map[0], it's about 2.5km/s (if you aerobrake) vs. almost 10km/s to lift fuel from Earth.

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png
As a person who once struggled to parallelize a test suite when the entire thing was not written with parallelization in mind (until its runtime became onerous)... I would highly, highly recommend using some parallelization framework from the get-go to uncover any concurrency issues immediately.

In Elixir this is literally as simple as adding "async: true" to your test modules.

It will also force you to write tests that can run concurrently... which has a few nice side effects for your code design generally.
why? Because Microsoft wants to monetize plebs

http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10...
By the way, Lumen is awesome. They've been working on it for about three years, and it shows. You should totally check it out: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

Imagine a language whose startup time was faster than python / ruby / node, yet could be bent into whatever shape you wanted, thanks to macros. If you install luajit and run `make; make test`:

$ time make test
js:
525 passed, 0 failed
lua:
525 passed, 0 failed

real	0m0.153s
user	0m0.119s
sys	0m0.033s

Lumen is wicked fast. Here's something cool: Our server is going to be running Lumen via luajit, yet it will serve a copy of itself compiled as javascript, which can execute in the browser. Same language, same syntax -- it just runs "in" two different languages at once! You'd think that it would be incredibly hard to do that well. Maybe it is, but they make it look easy.
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This is a bit tangential, but how did we get from "size" to "weight"? It seems a bit of an odd phrasing to me. With the exception of ESL mistakes, I don't know of anyone or any software which refers to "file weight", for example.
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Oh it is more than 68%. That 68% gets you a flyby of Mars, landing is another issue.

There are limits to what heatshields and parachutes can do in a thin atmosphere. If you wanted to accurately land something truly heavy you will have to bring fuel for the descent stage. Even just achieving a stable orbit would probably mean doubling that 68%.
Noticed while using Fandango's app that the user scores are basically worthless shill scores often around 1.5 stars higher than they should be. They do give the metacritic rating if you click through or for coming soon though.
After you get the job, here's something my old team learned through experience (failure): modular is good, but in practice, abstracting things to the theoretical max results is software that none of the developers understand, is impossible to maintain, and probably doesn't perform any better than if you didn't "optimize" near as much.

(Source: I was a programmer, then a tech lead, then moved into managing about 100 of them.)

Another tip: it's your job to help the programmers make you look good. You do that by making them look good. It should be a virtuous cycle.
I've never seen much point in caring about movie ratings. I find very little correlation between my own perception of a movie and the ratings; whether from "professional" critics, or the generic crowd-sourced ones. I just watch stuff that sounds interesting to me. Sure, you hit some stinkers here and there, but I find that acceptable.
Here's an example of why arc/lisp are great:

(mac awhen (expr . body)
`(let it ,expr (if it (do ,@body))))

This basically add a new syntax to the language. How often did you do in python:

some_value = my_function()
if some_value:
call_something_with(some_value)

With the small macro defined earlier, we can do:

(awhen (my_function)
(call_something_with it))

Basically, binding (my_function) to the variable named "it".

It's amazing to be able to add new syntax/features to the language without having to wait for a new version. Imagine if you could add any features you want to javascript or python without having to wait 5 years for the spec to be approved and implemented..

It's possible because the code is written in the same data structure that you use to manipulate normal values. I.e.:

(let x 1
(prn x))

Is the code of the program but also simply a list of 4 elements. And since the code itself is a data structure that you can manipulate with normal functions, there's something called "Macro" in Lisp (not to confuse with C++ macros), which essentially are functions that receive code and returns code, instead of receiving values and returning values.

So: (some_macro (prn 1)). some_macro would receive a list of two elements (prn and 1) and could do some operation to it and returns some new code.. such as (prn 2), which will then get evaluated to print 2. Whereas (some_fn (prn 1)) would evaluate (prn 1) (which returns nil), and pass nil to some_fn.

That's why it's so hard to impress a lisp programmer with any other languages because if a feature doesn't exist, they can add it with a macro. I.e. Actors or OO, or whatever really.
Thats great. I remember at some point they would only accept users from their direct banner ads, which I could never generate money from. I am sure a lot of people used these affiliate programs, but I rarely ever hear anyone talk about it. Only one other time and it was in a movie and I am not certain it was as similar as we are talking about. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!
Not yet, I did some cursory glances and it looks like they're missing RAW support for quite a few camera(all the Sony A7* series). They also seem to have very limited lens correction profiles(missing some classics like Canon's 35mm F1.4).

I will say their UI and look & feel looks very much like lightroom although I'd be curious what their culling workflow is like.
It was interesting to see this post on the front page a minute ago and then get pushed to the third page just now. Is this type of content discouraged from being discussed here?
Have there been other instances of a company retroactively turning a product the consumer has bought and paid for into borderline malware?
I'm wary of any website that offers reviews for things they are also trying to sell, like those online systems for buying games (Playstation Network comes to mind). Why would a profit-driven enterprise allow anything to create a negative impression for the user? Amazon seems okay because they have such a wide variety of items: They're getting paid either way.
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Another issue with this would be that a Mars vehicle would probably be big, and to a large extent designed to never land on anything. Getting it down to the Moon safely and back out again would be very complicated. The solution is to do a fuel run with a smaller craft that can disengage from the main craft several times, but then you're doing several landings and takeoffs and that's going to shoot the risk WAY up.

I think that we would be wise to invest in a space elevator on the Moon. We can't support one on Earth with currently understood technology, but the Moon is different and it could be done with modern materials. A plan of this sort would seriously reduce the cost of lunar development and increase the viability of the plan in the article.
Similarity of reviewers to you, ratings by those people similar. Who cares what the masses think...you care about the people you trust and who have tastes most similar to yours.
I didn't find the react example on the list (in big part because you need to be on the list to view it!), so I wrote my own. It's about 40 lines total [1].

I do not like react router nor flux. They are way too frameworky for me. As long as you have state moving in one direction managing it is quite simple without any additional frameworks.

1: https://github.com/jasom/parenscriptx
Going by this video I think you mean: "Meanwhile in 'straya"
Aerobrake a couple tons of liquid H2 and O2 in earth's atmosphere? Assuming it doesn't all boil off, it would certainly make for some nice fireworks.
That's interesting - I'm the exact opposite. I figure there's such an enormous amount of content out there and I don't know where to start. So I'll see what's out there and cross their RT & IMDB ratings. If they're both high, I'll check them out.
How are you going to get a vial of blood into their system with precisely known characteristics, but blindly? I mean, you can draw blood just before and hope it's "basically" the same? That's not really satisfying when you're going to pass/fail the lab based on a discrepancy.
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What's your impression of Elixir coming from Clojure, other than that?

I wanted to get into Clojure but I really wanted a language that almost entirely forced me to forego mutability (due to the large class of bugs I've seen in the past because of it) and Elixir seemed to provide that, Clojure did not, it was more live-and-let-mutability-live... and I didn't like that.

Regarding your question, it's my understanding that (again, due to everything being immutable), larger data sent between nodes in the same BEAM VM is not copied, it is reference-counted and garbage-collected and any changes are copy-on-write but only for that part of the data structure (due to implementation of Persistent Data Structures underneath).

One thing I'm VERY curious about with regards to Clojure is Datomic. Elixir (IMHO) could really use a fully queryable, immutable DB. After I drank the immutable kool-aid, it was jarring to have to think about mutation in global state again whenever I touch a database, to the point that I'm considering foregoing SQL as long as possible and just dealing with Mnesia or Basho's Riak and writing implementation-agnostic wrappers around my datastores (the latter is probably a good idea anyway).

Mutexes need to die in a fire. ;)
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I am very curious if someone who's familiar with medical devices and different kinds of tests can explain the details of all of this.
so true, for me I just have a look at the wikipedia page... Reception & gross total is enough to mentally-prepare me for ANY movies that I'm going to watch
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I've seen those cards in lots of places, but I'll admit it's far from a complete survey. People love to call home, and there are expats almost everywhere, so I'd expect they'd be available just about everywhere.

As for petitions and such, I imagine that would be much less of a factor now with the rise of social networks and such. But the views of our elected officials may take some time to catch up to that.
I used to swear by Moleskine A5 notebooks but the quality seemed to change so I switched to Leuchtturm1917 [1] several years ago and haven't looked back

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002CV5H4Y/
Ha, I guess if you have to appeal to authority, go big or go home!
Add moar heatshields, eh? ;).

Also, I was thinking more about dipping in the atmo a little, doing the kind of aerobraking the ISS has to fight all the time. You don't have to make the entire insertion in one orbit.
Print's not dead! It is no longer viable for mass destruction, but it will continue as an art form when tangible, lasting results are desired.

Physical objects have infinite subtlety and printed materials are no exception. Textures of edges, overlapping inks, analog resolution, and especially the composition of the paper are all sorely missed in digital media.

J.J. Abrams said recently said (paraphrasing) that the design quality of tools he uses (a laptop, as opposed to a simple pen and notebook, for example) effectively holds him to a higher standard when writing [0]. I would suggest producing work on a printing press has a similar effect.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey8FzGECjFA
I'm even more cautious about yelp ratings!
http://5whys.com - I'd recommend a lot of the advice there (I'm the owner of that blog so I'm a bit biased).

http://teamleaderbook.com is a book that I wrote for software team leaders
Yeah, I'm just too lazy to put a lot of work into that. The best way I get personalized recommendations (for books, movies, music, whatever) is actually from Amazon.com. They recommend stuff to me based on my purchases, and stuff other people purchased who also purchased what I did. I find that their recommendations (especially for books and music) are usually pretty darn good. The only kink I find, is that the overweight recent stuff, so if I go on there today and buy 3 books on, say, the ketogenic diet, for the next $LONG_TIME, the top few books in my recommendations will be diet related... even though I've purchased 100x more books on, say, computer programming, than diet.
I ran that command:

Generating DH parameters, 2048 bit long safe prime, generator 5
This is going to take a long time

Haha! It also made my CPU sweat nicely. I Ctrl+C^d after it ran for nearly 10 minutes with no sign of stopping though :( I see what you mean when you guys say it isn't feasible on every install of everything and why these are reused. I do think software maintainers should make an effort to do this regularly when new patches are released.

This actually opens up a new question in my mind: how does Open Source Software manage to keep these keys secret? Off to google...
Cool, we use avro a lot at my work, but mostly handle it on our python server. This could be useful for some client-side code gen for schema validation before sending to the server.

We define all of our records in protocols in avdls, I'm assuming this doesn't handle avdls as of yet?
Excellent writing, I read the article in its entirety. This reminds me of the film Memories of Murder - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353969/.
A single asteroid hitting the moon is more than we could possibly mine.

Actually simply the mass from solar wind hitting the moon is probably more than we could mine.

(And to whoever downvoted him, this is not reddit, save the downvotes for off topic messages.)
Another Dropbox employee here (but not part of the Paper product team or engineering). We're all super excited about this beta launch because it totally has changed how we work internally and liberates you to be creative I feel (and we've had and still do have access to a lot of different tools). Happy to answer any questions around the productivity aspect of questions curious people may have about the product who don't have access to the beta yet!
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Isn't this only a small part of the Theranos offering? As I understood their biggest advantage is they can run many tests from one (or a few) blood drops.
What might one recommend as an introduction to Darktable?

I've transitioned to RAW in the past couple of months, and while I'm starting to develop a workflow, I get occasional surprising (to me) behavior. Is there a nice review of the thinking and backend behind the Darkroom UI?
I'm saying by virtue of it being "bad", the people likely to partake in it are (by my speculation) more likely to make other unhealthy choices, and the people who avoid it are more likely to make other healthy choices.

There is a double blind study regarding this, The Minnesota Coronary Study, it found no effect to heart health or mortality by reducing saturated fat.
I usually go for a metric along the lines of Chesterton's Fence: do the negative critiques seem like they're dismissing the film out-of-hand, or do they seem to show an understanding what it was going for and still think it failed to do it well? Roger Ebert was usually pretty good about this, which gives his truly scathing reviews that much more bite [1].

[1]: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/battlefield-earth-2000

my favorite bit: "The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."
> it's discovered to have an incurable security flaw.

AFAIK, that's not possible. Secure hashing algorithms tend to fracture instead of completely break, so there will be some warning; to change to a new algorithm, simply more than 50% of the Bitcoin miners would have to mine on the chain that relies on that new algorithm, and it thus becomes "voted" in.
The second most important thing is to make sure the guy with the checkbook agrees with this. Worked myself out of a job once by not doing that, not on my timeline.

Actually both leads did the same thing, and I have no idea how they solved deep technical problems after that since the two of us were handling 75% of them... Here were two expensive Devs not getting features done as fast as anybody else. Look at all the money I saved!
Probably. If you buy into the vision, as many geeks-turned-engineers do, it's perfectly reasonable to make those sacrifices. Hell, if I were an American citizen, I'd be doing everything to join the party (instead, I'm trying to figure out if I can help out over at ESA somehow).
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Really? He's well-known for picking contrarian views just to get hits, causes problems at events, and is pretty much shunned by the film community. Even Ebert called him a "troll".

http://www.ew.com/article/2014/01/13/armond-white-kicked-out...

http://www.avclub.com/article/armond-white-claims-he-was-kic...

http://www.slashfilm.com/armond-white-prevents-toy-story-3-f...
So it's a leader-electing decentralized scheme?

What if the leader goes down? What if 2 leaders get accidentally elected in the wake of that?

What if the elected leader is a bad agent?

I don't like non-leaderless decentralization schemes. All you're doing is adding mobility to centralization.
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I've noticed a trend with IMDB reviews:

* The rating will be very high around release time, then drop a point or two after a few weeks
* The top 1-2 reviews will be 9-10 star. After that will follow a large number of reviews saying the movie was terrible.

I first noticed this with movies that I disliked, and couldn't believe their high imdb rating. For example, I loathed American Hustle, and it had that same pattern.

That movie was around 8.4 when first out, and had a ten star review on top. (I've now noticed the ten star review is gone.)
I hope someone from Instagram sees this, that's just insane.
I poked around your code; it's quite clean and readable!

I've never heard of Avro, but it looks really interesting. Could you enlighten me on some use cases, and situations where it really shines?
> The low-fat diet craze has hurt more than helped the fight against obesity

Absolutely. The one big component we have forgotten is appetite. In theory weight loss is simple. Eat less. But a lack of appetite control gets in the way of that. Carboydrates are immediately stored away and trigger hunger pangs again.
I was thinking about moving out there. Had no idea they had gigabit. Extra motivation. :)