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Could the Tech from Solar-Powered Plane Be Used in Your Home?
Not to mention it crashes all the damn time. Your store shouldn't crash when you full-screen a trailer!

I always buy games on Hubble if they're available on both. Sure my save games don't get backed up, but they are drm free. I'll even pay more if the humble price is higher for drm free.
I put it down to nostalgia. Up until 2003, we had Concorde.
Steam.app is small when you download it, but it seems to download hundreds of megabytes of something after you run it.
But all that extra mass does eat into the payload capacity.

A craft that is 100 tonnes dry mass and delivers 20 tonnes payload needs enough fuel to boost 120 tonnes in the last part of the flight. A centaur upper stage by comparison has a mass of just 2.2 tonnes. So for most of the flight you need much more fuel to boost the same payload.
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The use is for a super portable game console. As you can see from all his links lots of people are interested in this type of thing.

http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/. That's a project that sets up a whole bunch of emulators and stuff to get you started if anyone is interested.
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Surprisingly good. They don't support anything out of the box but they always seem to have a workaround (for instance I am switching to a "nag" demo model instead of a time based one i.e. like Sublime)

Stuff like that is not natively supported by Paddle but it will be and there are ways to do it through their framework.

And as long as I price my app at around $10 or more it's cheaper than MAS.

I am writing a "year in review" post about Ghostnote where I am going to spill all the beans :)
This is funny, but I think it misstates the real problem. This is what would really happen:

King: "Make me a toaster."

Software developer: makes toaster

King: "Okay, that's great, but could you also make it scramble eggs? It should just be a small change, right?"

Software developer: adds egg scrambling module

King: "Actually, could the eggs be soft boiled instead?"

etc.

In other words, OO and other programming abstractions arose precisely because we actually do need to deal with changing requirements, all the time.
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Sadly, Bell Labs really hasn't been the amazing R&D "idea factory" it was known as throughout the 20th century for at least 30 years or more. Alcatel-Lucent is many, many, many generations (and iterations) removed from the same R&D entity that developed the transistor, radar, lasers, communications satellites, wireless telephony, transatlantic cables, etc., etc.
Good point. I've added a response to it in the gist: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29#but-i-...
I think they were onto a great idea, but their main premise that people want to design their own clothes was wrong. People want to buy clothes that are a known brand or recommended, worn and endorsed by tastemakers. They have a platform that could enable those tastemakers to create their own custom brands. Celebrities are all over this stuff - making their own perfumes, clothing, accessories. There's a ton of more indie-level celebrities that would love to do this but don't have the connections.

Even still, the outcome for most businesses is failure. And I'd assume you are correct that fashion is probably one of the more fickle businesses.
I'm a parent of young kids, and fire up steam maybe once a month. Guess what happens to my precious game time nearly every single time.
God said is is like King David's census. I'm going to keep my mouth shut and laugh.

God says...
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First-class functions (esp. anonymous functions) see relatively little use in python, due to the hobbled syntax. For example, you can't use `print` in a lambda, raise exceptions, or define any variables. In JavaScript, using an anonymous function is no different than any other function, and not surprisingly they are ubiquitous. I'd wager that this is the primary reason that JavaScript is compared to LISP so much more often than Python is. There's also the fact that JavaScript functions are all variadic, which also is similar to LISP. Also Python encourages OOP much more than JavaScript. So yeah the "look and feel" of python is quite a bit different from JS and from scheme as well.
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> The Visual Studio editor now provides built-in syntax highlighting and basic IntelliSense support for languages including Go, Java, Perl, R, Ruby, and Swift.

Nice!
iMessage already does this without leaking private keys by associating users with many public keys (per-device) instead of just one.
Ah, but every few months there's a new celebrity!
You can 'dd' from Unix to the cloud ... well, some clouds ...

pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"

mysqldump -u mysql db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"

... although these days, now that we support attic and borg[1], nobody does things like this anymore.

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There are a lot of automated tests that the upload program and receiving web service already do. But "quality checking" is left up to a human editor.
The poster you're replying to stresses again and again that this refers to public spaces. Even so, I'm not sure discrimination and harassment reach the same bar as discussing things like abortion in the abstract, for example.

Personally, I'm not sure I'd support anyone harassing another personally, although if speech isn't intimidating to a person, you can't say it's harassment, I think (IANAL).
It's not Google that called you. They don't do robocalls, not for any program in any department. The callers are independent SEO/SEM companies, and a well known scam. I get these calls too, 2-3 times a week, and they come in on a phone number I don't use, not the one I've given to Google for my accounts.

Google "Google Specialist" and you'll find hundreds and hundreds of people talking about the calls, as well as Google ads above the results with the headline "Google Never Robocalls - Report Suspicious Calls". The ad links you to the Report Google Robocall Scam form, where you can help Google track down the companies running the robocall campaigns:

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The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide
I 'm not sure i d like to see a perpetually electrocuted giant coming at me. They should be proposing a few more, inanimate designs. De gustibus ...
Amazon locker just swaps the last step in the delivery to a central location. I'm talking about micro-warehouses that could easily and quickly distributed.
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The one thing that keeps bothering me with MAS updates is that you cannot see the download/install progress.
It will show it at first, but then the progress bar indicator simply disappears after a short time. I have to close the App Store window and reopen it, often multiple times, in order to be able to see the download progress again.
This is not an issue for smaller updates, but larger Xcode updates are a pain trying to figure out how much data has been downloaded so far.
> As a user, my experience with HTML/CSS/JS apps is great. Look at the excellent feedback the Atom Editor is getting.

For some less positive feedback on Atom, which reinforces some of creshal's points, see the Atom section of this text editor rundown:

http://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/31/text-editor-rundown/

I've also frequently seen complaints to the effect that Atom is much too slow, even on machines only a few years old. Even my 486 laptop back in 1997 could run a text editor with syntax highlighting (specifically, JPad for programming in Java). What are editors doing these days that needs so much CPU power?
Interesting story tangentially related to this question. I just finished building my new gaming rig - the only thing left is a GPU which should be coming in the mail pretty soon. The CPU I have, a core i7 4790K, has a pretty decent GPU so I was testing it out the last couple of days. The first game I tried was GTA 5. It ran smoothly (albeit at the lowest possible settings and 720p resolution). I was pretty impressed with the integrated graphics' performance. Yesterday I tried GTAV out again for a little bit and I observed that it was ... way too choppy and basically unplayable. I couldn't figure out the reason why. Then I saw that Thunderbird was the only application that was open aside from Steam and GTAV. I closed it down again and boom, back to consistently high framerates.

What is the catch here? Granted I'm using the integrated graphics that came with the CPU but I have 32 GBs of RAM. What gives!??
"Love, defined in many conservative christian circles, is devotion to the Church, the Husband and God, to the exclusion of all else."

Please do not read any tone into what I'm saying here, because if you've gotten that message I honestly don't know how.
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another." - John 13:34

The verse you reference above is in the context of marriage and you hear it a lot at weddings, but the context of love within Christian community is always going to go straight to the way that Jesus defined it. There's no part of the Christian community that is going to try to override what Jesus said. "Just as I have loved you" means unconditionally. It doesn't mean as long as they agree with you, have the same color skin as you, speak the same language as you or fit some specific stencil.

I realize this is a bit off-kilter for Hacker News but sermons that talk about how we are all sinners in need of forgiveness are there specifically for two reasons.

1. No matter what you have done, God will forgive you. No matter what you have done, God loves you.

2. Because God will forgive the worst of us who truly asks for forgiveness, we have no right to deny forgiveness to anyone who truly asks for it either.

I've visited a lot of different churches throughout the southeast in my life and I've never once heard a minister say anything that implies anything other than the above.
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How is it misstated? That is what he is saying.

Not all who believe in evolution is limited to such a reductionist point of view. Just as evolution is an emergent phenomenon that can't be understood by a reduction to physics, I don't think all social phenomenon can be reduced to manifestations of evolutionary forces. That we have sex more for pleasure than for reproduction and that homosexuality is ever more accepted* are simple examples of that. There are many more.

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*I wouldn't be surprised if the genes behind homosexuality are more prevalent than before. If true, how would that bake your evolutionist noodle?

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The professor is the one who brought up the safe place terminology in this instance. Not the student.

I guess "safe space" (quoted as a term under discussion) isn't really the right term here - but the student is the one who raised the issue of "victimization", which to my mind is really more what we're talking about than actual safe spaces as you defined them. So on this point, that might actually be good feedback to that professor, because I think struggling with the terminology in this particular topic is common.

One thing to realize ...is the context of love ...in many evangelical circles

As a conservative evangelical myself, your explanation of the Christian concept of love is somewhat confusing and contradictory to me. But putting that aside, I still don't see how this student felt "victimized", unless now any negative feeling or emotion makes one a victim. Feeling guilty for failing to live up to a standard is a negative feeling, but I don't think it makes one a victim (and if it does, then I think the word victim becomes utterly void of meaning).
Anybody got a different source? Apparently I'm not allowed to watch netflix at work (or view their blog).
The worst part about this is all the problems are easily solved if Apple simply put the resources into it.

* The actual MAS store app itself is a horrible piece of garbage wrapping a bunch of web views. Just make it a real native app and rewrite it.

* Sandboxing is great, but there will always be things that fall outside the sandbox. Have a "Power User / Developer Tools" category and associated checkbox in iTC that says "My app needs to opt-out of these parts of sandboxing". Put those apps through a much more strenuous review process.

* Relatedly, add more entitlements to the Sandbox, even if they also trigger a more in-depth review.

* Both iOS and the Mac app stores desperately need feedback mechanisms and some basic customer support tools. This has been obvious since at least iOS v4. I can only imagine this is due to Apple's inability to do good server-side software (and the organization doesn't value it like they value client software). This should automatically give you at least a private way to send a message to users leaving a bad review, then prompt the user to update their review if the response helped them. Asking users to review is hard enough... getting them to update a 1-star review is nearly impossible.

* Hire more reviewers. There is no excuse for reviews taking so damn long.
as in Cherkasy, Ukraine, the city that originally wrote it.
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So what do you think is gonna happen to the United States? Do you have examples? Additionally what do you think explains this phenomenon? I'm not sure I buy the to much work for individuals argument.
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Yep. But public spaces in context of the larger discussion at hand refers to universities as well.

Nobody's saying that we should turn main street of podunk, OH into a designated safe place (though, it says a lot about the culture in america that it is decidedly NOT a safe place to be if you're LGBTQ/POC/etc).
This is a very good point, but I think the Japanese way might actually be better. The problem is that emphasising brutality and ugliness in the style of the Culture may over time lead to a shift in perception normalising agression, or in other words, it could shift the Overton Window towards militarism. For example, if ships were named something like "Peacekeeper" or "Ambassador" rather than "Torturer" or "Thug", it would lead to a perception of peace-keeping as their intended role.

It works in the case of the Culture because of their extraordinary degree of self-awareness and anti-militarism; no member of the Culture could possibly lack cognizance of the significance of the names, wheras we, alas, live in somewhat less enlightened times. In the Culture it serves to emphasise the ugliness of their purpose, wheras if applied in our world could be all to easily misinterpreted as unvarnished militarism.

It is interesting to note the degree of anti-militarism in Japan. Though this may be taken to an extreme in the opposition to taking part in international peacekeeping missions, at the very least it means that Japan is very unlikely to be subject to escalating influence and dominance by the military as may be permitted in other countries due to general public apathy. However, I think this also means that any attempt to emphasise the inherent ugliness the the purpose of the military would be prima facie faced with extreme opposition, no matter the intent.
Who cares about needing more fuel? As I said in the original comment, fuel is basically free. If you manage to build a craft where the cost of extra fuel (even using an order of magnitude more) even becomes noticeable, you've already managed to make launches vastly cheaper than anything out there today.
Manhattan != NYC

One can live in e.g. Kew Gardens, have a 35 minute commute to midtown, and pay $2000 / month for a spacious two bedroom shared with spouse and child. No trust fund needed.

If your friends prefer Austin to Queens, more power to them. But they ought not to go around saying it is impossible to live/raise a family in NYC on less than $125k when it isn't true.
It's been great listening to Rob's story about HitTail on the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast [1]. I highly recommend this podcast for the coder/entrepreneurs out there. It will motivate you and keep you focused on starting small and growing from there.

[1] - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
The hardest thing in software is predicting the dimensions of extensibility that are important. This ability usually only comes on the third or fourth try building a similarly-classed, similarly architected system. Making all the dimensions extensible is generally a recipe for disaster.
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Also a podcast interview covering more details about it (many technical) http://techzinglive.com/page/921/165-tz-interview-rob-wallin...
Dinosaur egg treasure trove found in Japan
I have tried it and it's not horrible. The difficulty is that the chrome is styled one way, and the text inside the editors is styled another way. And neither of them are quite able to style everything!

I found the dark themes to look great with certain, staged screenshots. But then when you use it, the scrollbars are blaring white. Or the bar that shows your code blocks can't be styled (controlled by the OS). So you wind up with a mostly dark theme that has 2 or 3 blaring, ugly, mismatched elements that defeat the purpose.

Styling the editor window is something I've spend days tediously trying to tweak a nice pastel color pallet (that pretty much every app with a dark theme uses). But all the included ones are bright neon colors or just radically weird color choices. I've been able to get my code window 95% the way I'd want, but then all of the other windows like the explorer or the console don't match! The settings are all over the place and sometimes take a restart of Eclipse to if you got the right setting or not.

Basically I just gave up with the dark theme because it seems there's no way to get it consistent.
Wish I could upvote this more than just once.

OTOH you kind of need hashes/maps in the real world (sexprs can provide this by syntax, but not necessarily by agreed-upon function). And Unicode. And standard representations for the base datatypes. But aside from that there's no reason to enter the Sea of Arbitrary Anglebrackets.
I think, maybe, you're taking "game" too literally. First and foremost, it's a teaching tool, and throwing you back to the start would actually be counterproductive. It's more of a "fun, imaginary use-case" but "game" sounds better :-)
I've been seeing you post throughout this entire thread and it offends me highly. Should speech like yours also be banned because I'm offended? Or do I tolerate it because I know it's your opinion?

This is the problem with your argument: being 'offended' is highly subjective. To some people, simply existing means you are offended...which is why it will never work.

'safe spaces' and trying to make everything a 'safe space' is a huge disservice to these students and will only put them that much further behind the rest of the world when they go out into the real working world and can't handle an opposing view point.

We should be concentrating on creating strong adults that can discuss any view point intelligently and stand their ground when needed. Instead, we have students that never learn these skills (which should be taught in college) and crumble at any hint of opposition. I feel like this is a a weakness and a step back in terms of societal evolution.

I started seeing it a few years back in many open source projects. Rather than try to win on the merits of an idea, many people would rather spend time destroying a person on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media to gain support.

I have since sworn off all open source projects and stick to my own private repos.
This is yet another awesome contribution from Netflix.

Just curious though, anyone know of a similar type of writeup or post regarding windows?

I have an MSSQL box I want to kill with fire - but I would like to be able to measure its perf with as much insight as I might on a comparable linux box.

What is the best way to measure disk IO perf on a windows box, specifically?