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This is super cool, in case any of their engineers read this thread congratulations.

To jump in with the inevitable SpaceX comparison. Worth noting is you see the Blue Origin booster: fall, slow, hover, correct any drift, descend then land. The SpaceX booster cannot hover, it has more thrust than it weighs.
The response I see is better: http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct...

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The rocket is mostly empty and decelerating at that stage; there should be little tipping going on, given that the center of mass is very close to the engine.
Thanks, I appreciate it. It's amazing how much and how quickly we're getting information about this. I look forward to the Russian proof now, I wonder how it will compare. The Americans no doubt also had something watching the battlefield...
The video is very interesting. Kator's comment is spot on.
Russia probably isn't going to do anything other than tighten their adherence to the borders. They can't afford to start up with Turkey and NATO at large, but Putin is sure going to make it sound like he would.
Maybe, but if he retaliates against Turkey NATO get dragged into it because of existing treaties. While Putin may not be the most forgiving of people I don't think he's going to trigger World War III over a single jet getting shot down over someone else's airspace.
The justification I was given is that high school students need to be home first, as they might be responsible for watching their younger siblings once middle/elementary school lets out.
This is pretty much the correct answer.

Let ISIL overtake Syria/remove Assad and then 'free' Syria from ISIL and impose freedom.
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A lot of people disagree and believe the middle east is very much like pre WWI Balkans with great powers sleepwalking with a sense of long peace. Don't very me wrong... this is a different time. But caution is merited because everything can burn up in the snap of a finger. Thats rhe lesson learned exactly 100 yrs ago. Cant take peace for granted
Considering how narrow the Turkish strip of land is, I don't think where the pilot (and wreckage?) ended up means that's where the F-16s actually fired their missile.
The last academic shop I was at had an Eritrean biostatistician around who was the only actual philosopher of science in the entire troupe. He understood the different perspectives of epistemology as well as statistical analysis, and was a tremendous asset in planning new studies for the most high impact data... unfortunately, to many of the postdocs and PIs, he was just an annoyance, because they refused to accept that their studies were poorly constructed and their data was less than rigorous.
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That NATO fired on a Russian aircraft over third-party territory is not a fact. Turkey has offered evidence that the Russian aircraft was over a thin sliver of Turkish territory.
I don't know if it's and audiobook, but I really enjoyed The Cuckoo's Egg, by Cliff Stoll. If you're a unix person, you probably won't learn anything, 'cept some history, but It's still a great story.

If not, how about Super Mario, the story of Mario and Nintendo through the years?

You can also try Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick's autobiography.

Finally, the excellent Exploding the Phone tells the story of the rise and fall of phone phreaking, and has a lot of interesting information on the phone network of the time.
None of these are especially technical, but they are fantastic reads, and presumably fantastic listens.
Doesn't mean HN has to be serious 100% of the time.
There are some direct proofs (cables from the US ambassador) for the long-term intentions:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/julian-assange-us-israel-planne...
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I follow your comments regularly and I must say that I am amazed by your character! If you happen to come in Greece pm me, if I am in a 4h range, I'll drop by and buy you beers! :-)
About using d3-react-squared
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Saying it stops at level 1 implies the valid rule of embedding is a special case itself of an invalid general rule, rather than it being a general rule itself. If the special case is the most common case, does that really imply only the special case is valid? Why?
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He did not sell his shares the day before it insanely dropped. His wife and friends did, with presumeable insider trading secrets :)

I also have some wealthy friends, but they haven't been accused of that. None the less, Belgium is a lot of administration, i agree on that. And a lot of "you know me" politics also :)
The headline only works at all because they're pretending that China is an emerging market. That's incorrect, China has already emerged, and is already suffering from all the typical post boom hangovers including rapidly slowing growth and vast amounts of debt. It'd be like pretending that Japan was still an emerging market in 1992.

Remove China from the emerging market list, and the premise of the story unravels entirely.

Further, the projections in the story include China in the emerging market category to 2040. Comeon, that's a joke.
FYI, features != any of : easy to use | versatile | reliable | scalable.

Those are debatable facets, not functional qualities
>Russia has hit 4 times as many strategic ISIS targets, than the entire Western coalition, all while supposedly being more interested in hitting moderate Syrian forces.

Do you have a source for this? The coalition has supposedly flown more than 8,000 strikes(40,000 sorties), hit more than 16,000 targets and spent north of $5bn. I have a very, very tough time believing Russia has quadrupled this effort in the handful of months they've been flying sorties.
Ideas and breakthroughs in physics don't usually just appear out of vacuum. More often, they occur through a series of mathematical analogies, heuristics, and trial and error. String theory, for example, was motivated by the fact that the equations that govern gluons resemble equations of a vibrating string.

There are a few folks who do care about things like multiverses and quantum foundations, which certainly overlap with philosophy a lot more, but it's not really something most physicists do.
Yeah, I think the author forgot that:

1. Being smart isn't a product, and most people won't consider it a skill

2. Thinking big isn't a product, and most people won't consider it a skill

3. Thinking big is usually reserved for top level people, of which there are less than five

You know what they call the big thinker who is looking for a job with his shiny new PhD? Unemployed.
Hopefully the pilot made it though as a parachute was observed - http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151124102631-rus... (from this article: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/24/world/gallery/turkey-syria...)
Further point of clarification, the SpaceX booster has more thrust than it weighs because it is capable of delivering payloads to orbit, which the Blue Origin booster cannot do.
> Week 3-4: Write tests.

> Week 5-10: Write code.

I'm not necessarily a TDD advocate but I've literally never heard anyone say you should spend two solid weeks writing tests and then six solid weeks writing code against those tests.

I mean, that's just idiotic.
The Isil-Turkish border has been open and porous for a very long time, at the behest of Turkey.

They have insisted that the Isil-Turkey border remain under control of Isil or Turkey, and that any interference with that arrangement be regarded as a "crossing a red line."

Turkey has been a very important ally for Isil, despite the Turkish authorities clamping down on homegrown anti-government terror cells.

Degrading and ultimately destroying Isil should begin with closing all of its borders with neighbouring nations, an action which the West has been hesitant to do -- a hesitation borne of Turkish intransigence.

This is why the West's response to Isil has been slow and wrought with contradictions and failures.
> The Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

But that also applies to ...

>> If you see hundreds of really smart people doing X and seemingly very happy with it, there's probably something going on there
2 people were killed for trespassing. Sickening, IMHO.
Let's not have the assinine Sunni vs Shiite battle fought between the Russians and the Turks.
That's a little like comparing the classified pages to eBay. Both eBay and uber reduce friction between demand and supply and open up the size of the market far beyond its original scale.

The fact that I can use uber anywhere in the UK or US and have a cab of a particular size and luxury spec, within 10 mins, billed to my card with no messing with cash is incredible.

Their whole experience is as frictionless as possible. I don't much care for some of the attitudes conveyed by uber personnel but I wouldn't discount their achievements.
Good idea. It does jump in pretty quick. I'll update this during next revision.
So? It's still ridiculously expensive.
That's one possible explanation... Although it seems unlikely that they could actually do that, their share of oil exports is high, but not that high. Even if they could, they have better reasons than hurting Russia - such as simply driving down the price of oil to hurt green technology and fracking investments. There's of course also the abundance of oil coming from the US, and the slowdown in China...
For many of my use cases, this is a handy workflow. CTEs are just perfect for iteratively building up a query to what I need. Once it's done, I can either package the whole shebang or break out the really useful bits into views.

Notably, MSSQL does optimize across CTEs, so there's not as much pressure to break out to views on that platform. And if you're feeling especially perverse, you can make a CTE a view, which sorta... sporks the problem.
What do you mean "way to make a valid criticism"? The criticism IS valid and that is obvious. This is a tiny and light rocket, and any VTOL system that would work for a big heavy rocket would be very different from this one and a much harder thing to engineer.

You are saying SpaceX lost a 'first' here to BO but that is not really true and that's Elon's entire point. This is not the first VTOL rocket landing either, maybe it is the first rocket to officially reach space and then subsequently VTOL land but that is not as big of a 'first' as most people are thinking it is.

Which is not to diminish what BO just did, it is just to see it in an accurate context.
Can you connect the dots form these cables in 2006 to present-day Syria? I can see a connection between them and supporting the Arab Spring in Syria, but I'm drawing a blank on how this translates into actively supporting ISIS.
Open war between Russia and Turkey would be defacto war with the United States and the rest of NATO due to Article 5 of the NATO charter.

That doesn't really answer your question but hopefully gives some context.
Yes, there are lots of subtleties about staging and so forth, but lots of people are talking about that elsewhere. I just thought I'd put some number to the simplest possible case so people can see the magnitudes we're talking about.
The map here:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/06EE/production/_...

And according to the Google Maps, it was cca 3 km crossed during the whole flight, which means the plane was effectively just some seconds over what's considered Turkey and obviously flying out of the territory.
Sovereign territorial borders are no joke, there's no "we're just cutting a corner" when it comes to that line on the map. Particularly with the most recent Turkish national election turning out the way it did [1][0], a more conservative and nationally focused Turkish government would seem more likely to choose to enforce those borders if it thought they were violated.

Much more troubling if it was, indeed, shot down outside of Turkey by mistake.

And in any case, BBC is reporting that "a Turkmen brigade in Syria says [...] shot dead two pilots of the downed Russian jet as they descended with parachutes."[2]

It's concerning that both sides have taken their respective actions. It's only going to exacerbate tenuous relationships with partner nation-states around the Syrian conflict. If Russia reacts aggressively, NATO-ally countries are treaty-bound to respond in support and defense of Turkey.

I really hope both nations see how that increased stress is to no one's benefit and that Russia takes the mature and humble road of deescalation...

0: http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21677461-president-erdo...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_general_election,_Nove...

2: http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-34908469
Which is absurd, Turkey have zero rights to declare a no fly zone and shoot down planes in Syria.

This isn't the first time either, they shot down plenty SyAF fighters and helicopters over Syria, it's just that nobody in the West cares.
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> Google finds four results of this phrase

> Does your computer beep every time somebody posts about markov chains

I haven't done any actual counting, but I'm like 80% sure Markov Chains have been mentioned more than 4 times on the internet.
or ps -ef | grep fo[o]bar

So you don't have to | grep -v grep :)

I ask people to explain what that does and how it works as a sysadmin interview question.
Comments are easy to miss though. We arnt perfect about going through our code and testing gives us objective measures.
>But caution is merited because everything can burn up in the snap of a finger. Thats rhe lesson learned exactly 100 yrs ago. Cant take peace for granted

Yes, but that's very different from implying that there's been an arms race that could set off a war between major superpowers. You're confusing the destabilization of a large region with a world war.

To be clear: the former is very worrying, it's just very different from the latter.
I wonder how long until someone writes something not-PHP based that implements this...
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> 'but we could already do this with Grasshopper'

That to me is way worse than what you claimed to be inappropriate.
Show HN: Hitchly, turn any URL into a phone number you can call or text
After struggling with failed QR codes and unmemorable bit.ly links to share our online assets in the real world, we thought on using the power of phone numbers to share links offline.

Take a look at it here: https://hitch.ly

What do you think?
Maybe, maybe not. Just because software cost a lot does not mean it is super high performance. Some is awful php strung together hacks, but if it does what a customer wants - it may be worth 100k to them.
The arguments here were not the "active support" of ISIS but "that the West has never been serious about hurting IS."

The US ambassador cable is the reflection of the long term interests which actually like the instabilities more (including the conflicts between Sunni and Shia) than the presence of Assad. BTW Assad is kind-of-Shia, and Iran full-Shia. The "rebels," Turkey, ISIS and Saudis are Sunni.

The "indirect support" is the fact that the weapons procured by the West (over Turkey) ended up by ISIS. Not to mention effectively allowing different kinds of financing ISIS.

I agree with all the estimates presented here that now with the events in Europe not everything will continue exactly as it was up to that point.
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I'm far from being an expert on such matters, but why doesn't SpaceX attempt to lasso the upper part of the rocket on landing? How about a super big soft pillow? At the very least spread out some huge arms to aid stability?
Stepping over an invisible line has much bigger consequences if you are piloting a powerful military aircraft and acting as agents of the foreign and non-friendly state.
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So this is your argument?

1. He got a bit overexcited about his electronic puttering.

2. something goes here

3. It must be a scam.

I'm not sure what goes in the blank for you, but man, it must be a doozy.
Maybe we'll get the BFR sooner!
Disagree completely, CTEs and local temp/variable tables can serve an important purpose. I do think that a fair amount of CTEs can just be inner queries (not joins, well, joined queries...).
I'm just going with the only real strategic targets ISIS has, oil equipment. Russia claims to have destroyed 500-1000 oil tankers (that's a huge gap), and the US says 116 tankers. And if the coalition had really hit 16,000 targets, there wouldn't be any ISIS left. They only have ~30,000 soldiers, and maybe a few thousand military vehicles. 16,000 military targets would have ground them into proverbial dust. There would be no command centers, no military vehicles, a huge reduction in combat soldiers. So maybe 16,000 bombs (or leaflet canisters) have been dropped, but they certainly haven't hit 16,000 important targets.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/caught-tape-russian...

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/11/world/meast/isis-syria-ira...
Is there any connection between the amount demanded and some quantifiable loss? My supposition is that its either for defamation, or some kind of punitive damages but the article didn't say.
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> But in practice most code is not so easy to spec completely before you start to implement it.

No TDD advocates say you should spec completely before you start to implement. Most say you should write a single, very simple test. It's not much more than the function signature, and almost everybody in almost every language writes the function signature before writing the code.
They're trying to build a system that will work for a mars landing where there will be zero infrastructure on the ground.
Also, these planes travel fast enough that it could be fired upon while in Turkish airspace, but hit while in Syrian airspace. Or it could be hit while in Turkish airspace, but crash in Syrian territory.

It supposedly came down 4 km inside Syrian territory, which is a tiny distance for a supersonic plane, which the Su-24 is.
I'm pretty sure you can phone your embassy for advice like that.
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It seems a lot of these discussions surrounding testing are very anecdotal; this link being a prime example. I remember hearing an interview with Greg Wilson regarding his book Making Software, [1] the premise of which is to apply a more rigorous methodology to understanding what makes software work.

If I remember correctly from the interview (I think it is here[2]), one conclusion was that TDD doesn't have a clear benefit when you add it to a project. On the other hand, in a survey, TDD projects are more likely to succeed because it is a habit common to good developers. I hope I am capturing the subtlety there. Essentially, TDD is not a silver bullet, but rather a good habit shared by many good developers. That was enough to convince me of the merits.

It's another problem altogether to try to institute TDD for a project, especially for a team. Like so many things in programming, TDD could be used and abused. The same could be said for JavaScript or [insert proper noun here]. If misunderstood or used incorrectly, TDD could be a drain on the project. A benefit--and this ties back into the idea of TDD as a habit--is that it forces the code you write to have at least one other client. This requirement would alter the way you write code and arguably for the better.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do

[2] https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/se-podcast-09/
A few pedantic notes

It would be nice if random variables were denoted by capital letters to distinguish them from particular observations.

In the section about regression you should have the conditional mean of Y equal to \beta X, rather than the overall mean.

Of course, this doesn't really matter too much since the substance of the tutorial is correct. I thought I'd mention it though because sloppy notation can undermine your credibility in some circles, and the equations are the most notable object when you're just skimming the page.

More (very) pedantic notes:

Usually, if you're going to express a sum with \cdots you put A+B+\cdots+Z (with plus signs on both sides of the ellipse for clarity)

The probability operator is usually denoted with a capital P

The log function shouldn't be italicized, you can just type \log to avoid this

Distribution names in statements like y~Pois(\mu) aren't usually italicized.
Between SpaceX, Blue Origin and co it is great to finally see such competition and progress in the space sector.

As the great philosopher Mike Tyson once said:
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
I think you're being slightly disingenuous there with the "still in university" dismissal. That CV is a lot more impressive than many people I've worked with in the "real world".
Will do! Thanks for the suggestion.
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Elon's Grasshopper from 2 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

The New Shepard went much higher though (100.5km vs 744m).
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He is not trying to make money. He just tries to cover his costs. That's way more realistic and I think it might work out.
It depends on the end customer.

PC manufacturers have zero incentive to add ECC when 99.99% of consumers don't care or even know.

Networking: a mixed big. Some designs manage ECC inside the processor, others use memories with ECC for specialized functions like packet QoS. Commmodity DRAM errors are a known irritant and planned for.

Servers: I'm not quite sure of my facts here, but a DRAM manufacturer would have to persuade a commmodity manager at Dell, etc, that ECC is worth it. A commodity manager won't give a d* unless his systems guys say that it's needed.
Second that motion. The main deal here, is violation of air space, because Turkey is a moderate (by and large, which is debatable) Islamic Muslim state and provocation in the area has RUN terse for decades because of the pro-Russian+Syrian agenda/backing. I don't blame either part, considering how tense Russia is with the Muslim world in the first place - with exception noting Iran, which is Persian (like the emo kid in the class). Just look north to Chechnya and you can easily link/stroke in bits of issue across the region by the suppression and integration attempts with Russian people in that area alone. Regardless, a blip and nobody died. Russia just lost a 500 million dollar investment. Should end fairly quickly.
Whats going on with the next graphics API?

I was under the impression Mantle work stopped to fold efforts into Vulkan and MS making DX12 more low level to make sure their lunch is not eaten.
First part of the article here - http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/creating-your-own-ec2-sp...