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Excuse my ignorance (this is the first time I'm hearing about Vue) but I have a few questions:

1) The homepage (http://vuejs.org/) says "Reactive Components for Modern Web Interfaces". Does it actually use any concepts from FRP (like signals or event streams)?

2) A lot of things I picked up from the docs just scream "angular". Filters, directives, $watch to name a few. My very naive impression is that this is just reinventing angular. That said, what are the reasons to choose it over angular?

3) Any plans for ES6 support? I expect any modern framework to be ES6 first while all the examples on the homepage are given in ES5
The telescope concept would be very cool to see done.
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I was rather hoping that would be about Ultraviolet light. What is UV used for in industry? What frequencies are dangerous? Does looking at black lights damage your eyesight?
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> Because there's nothing up there you can make enough money on to justify the expense.

How do we know? Did anyone ever attempt to dig even a few meters below the surface?
Oh, common [1]

There are several satellites on the Moon's orbit right now, including US and Chinese ones. Japan had an orbiter, and so did (and will have) India.

PS. Indian Chandrayaan was stuffed to the brim with HD imaging equipment, and yet the only orbit photos of Apollo landing sites are from NASA ... Say all you want, but that's remarkably odd. Who would've passed a chance to grab an image of one of very few monumentally important Moon sites if they were fully equipped to do that and were in immediate vicinity of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon#Timeli...
I've been running my home server off of a cheap USB flash drive for years, and mounting it read-only essentially fixed all my fs troubles, even when the power cuts off (I don't use an UPS). The only problem is having to disable logging (I don't have anywhere to ship them to).
The USA isn't high GDP? Fascinating.
And how many commercial marketing clients from Fortune 500 are in your portfolio?
There is no money in it
I've always used https://encrypted.google.com/, which works the same way (I think?) The URL is from before google even had https.
What really gets on my nerves is that I can't configure it to use google.com when I search from the omnibox, I don't even know from where is it getting my current country, I guess it's IP geolocation.
> Honest question: do you hate root? Should all processes run with equal privileges?

Of course not. Stop making up straw-man arguments.

> Without them, their devices – the ones you insist they should own – would quickly become someone else's: the attacker's

So users cannot run any program they download? Or are you claiming that programs that run as a user - with no intention of touching system files - cannot harm that same user? Many past exploits and trojans run entirely as the user.

SIP may protect the OS, but it will do very little to protect the user. Unfortunately, while this should be obvious, scaring people into giving up their freedom works, even when the "solution" doesn't actually do much (or anything) to prevent the supposed threat.
Nothing you could possibly find on the moon would be worth the cost of retrieving it from there. Even if there was bars of pure gold just lying on the moon it would be more expensive than just mining it on earth.
These all seem like very sensible wins -- especially #6.

I think #5 is the most interesting, but my immediate first question, as a total layman for space travel/survival, is how do we keep breathing up there? It seems like solving the O2 to Moon transport is a reasonable problem to tackle -- assuming we get people and gear up there -- albeit a lot of effort. How about the next outpost? And then the next? Do we continue bunny hopping O2 transports from Moon to Mars to Earth2... etc until there is a continuous supply of breathable air out from Earth? Or do we have a way to generate as we go further? Are we at mercy of Earth's O2 supply? That seems like the biggest problem for leaving this planet.
Easier said than done. For a trivial combination, it's easy. For most real world requirements it becomes a combinatorial explosion of various strategies that are mutually exclusive in many parts.

Unless you have some new machine learning approach to work out all the platform quirks and arrive at pure fallback nirvana?
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No one to race against is likely the primary reason. After all it is pretty simple to get to and has been extensively studied. From an exploitation stand point the moon doesn't offer anything at a cost comparable to what can be done on Earth, yet.

So until the technology exist that makes the planets more accessible I doubt there is a true need to have a base there. Science could benefit by simply being out of atmosphere but money is sucked up in military and social budgets.
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FIDO protocol support would be nice to have too by default.
I agree that the Bitcoin Unlimited client is pretty great.

In the end, it might not be enough. Ever since BlockStream poached so many Bitcoin developers with commit access and ran off the others, they've decided that their business model will be to change the Bitcoin protocol to be the plumbing of their commercial offerings.

Why they didn't fork and just build their own private change like all the other upcoming bank blockchains is beyond me.

They've stated that their goal is that Bitcoin become the settlement layer for their "Lightning Network" and drive away all use through increased transaction fees.

I'm personally a Bitcoin believer and it's disheartening.
>So you're saying we should inductively reason that Apple will never change their behavior even though they already restrict the iphone? This is a large claim.

No, I'm saying that what IS has more substance than the myriads of things that we're worried that CAN BE.

And, for this specific question mentioning the iPhone, I'm also saying that restricted, special purpose devices, which were ALWAYS sold as such (like mobile phones ever since the early nineties) are not the same as PCs which have other uses cases and history.

>Do you want a warning about the possible arsonist who seems to be stacking gas cans near your house?

Not when the only reason to think of them as "arsonist" is for stacking gas cans, when that also has another very logical explanation (e.g. he's building a gas station).

In the case of Apple, they're improving the security of OS releases, the same way Microsoft and other do. Sandboxes, secure modes, signed apps, are all standard things security researchers have been advising for years.

In all those years since they introduced signed and sandboxes apps, they never removed the ability to run non sandboxed and/or non-signed apps. So I also doubt they'll remove the ability to turn off SIP, as it's still needed for various use cases.

But even if they do change the SIP, no big deal for 99% of their customers. The rest can always use another platform, unless they value the (then) convenience, virus-tolerance etc of OS X more than they value the "do everything with them" openness of other platforms.

Just because some people started with a 'assemble yourself' kit PC in the 80s, it doesn't mean that the essence of having a PC is all about custom rigging it. And even more so, that was never the allure of Apple PCs (neither implicit or advertised). It was "it just works".
2015 was, for me, mostly just an extension of 2014 in this regard, as I had a big "life altering" experience late in 2014. I had a heart-attack in November 2014 and could well have died. Luckily I live close to a good ER and what-not and got prompt treatment and I'm mostly fine now. I'm on a bunch of new medicines, but otherwise things are mostly back to normal. I did some mountain bike racing this summer, before I tore my rotator cuff in a fall and switched to mostly road cycling until I get my shoulder fixed up.

Soo... to answer the question... and hopefully without sound to glib, I'd say "take your health seriously. Stuff creeps up on you". That is, all the warnings you hear about "eat right, exercise, keep your cholesterol down", etc... yeah, that stuff does matter. And yes, it can happen to you. I know, because I was one more person walking around thinking "that stuff only happens to other people" until I was on the back of an ambulance wondering if I was going to die.

I really don't like being the preachy type, but if I have any useful advice to share, I'd say it's this... invest in taking care of your body. And by "invest" I mean, time, knowledge, money, exercise, food, whatever elements you need to leverage to maximize your health. Read a book like Cholesterol Clarity and understand how this cholesterol stuff really works. If you're a little overweight (or a lot) find a way to start getting more exercise. Buy a bicycle, or a skateboard, or a surfboard, or just some comfortable walking shoes, whatever. Throw out the Doritos and sugary sodas and shit. Learn to eat healthy. Quit smoking if you smoke. That sort of thing.
Oh, definitely! Look at how much more visible the stars were for the astronauts as they did their moonwalks! Imagine how much better we could see everything with a less cluttered view again!

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=moonwalk+site:nasa.gov
A lot of records didn't got broken for a long time, humanity back then was like a kid just discovered a toy, we were surprised by what can technology do and we tried to do it just because it's cool and not because it's practical. Anything that didn't solve people's problems isn't worth taxpayers' money.
I guess Chrome compresses the HTML and maybe recompresses the images. But what Opera Mini delivers to the user's browser has nothing to do with HTML, is completely stripped from any JS, etc
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Because few places on earth are worse than living in a bunker on the moon.
Oxygen doesn't get used up. It comes back out as carbon dioxide. We would just need a way to extract the oxygen from the carbon dioxide again. One solution is photosynthesis, i.e. some plants.
None of us being map making geniuses, we'd always end up with something that didn't play well but did have a few "fun spots". Eventually someone had the idea to just cherry pick all those fun spots and Frankenstein together a single map using our individual parts. This map ended up being the most fun we have ever had in Doom.

That's exactly how Half-Life has been made: http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/131815/the_cabal_valves_de...
Well, the question there is where does the Earth's O2 supply come from. The answer is what we should set up on the moon, a viable ecosystem. This means things like hydroponics, probably at least some algae based systems, that kind of thing. That way we can regenerate the CO2 back into O2, and get some food production along the way!
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All it takes is one rogue actor in space and suddenly all satellites need to be armored.

Even a moderately powered ground-based laser could take out billions of dollars in satellites.

The moon offers a useful strategic location because part of it is always facing away from Earth, making it difficult to attack from Earth-based lasers.
Specifically a radio telescope on the far side would be advantageous WRT low radio noise.

Some kind of interferometer with one antenna on the earth and one on the moon would be interesting. Yeah more convenient to launch two satellites into opposite sides of the earth's orbit or something, but this is close enough to have human repair / maint / installation techs at both sides.

One nice feature of a base on the moon is single stage to orbit is technologically challenging on the earth but on the moon its no big deal. Ditto "no biggie" to build a rail launcher for non-living cargos or an elevator for cheap living cargo. In the very long run, there will be people/things in orbit occasionally eating luxury moon produce because it'll be much cheaper to orbit from the surface of the moon than the earth, or the moon will be the breadbasket of space, sorta.

You get 24x7 coverage of half the surface of the earth... I suspect scientists and soldiers will have lots of telescopes pointed at the earth.

Unlike robots or probes if you have humans with enough duct tape onsite, human lunar jobs can be changed in minutes instead of decades for dollars instead of billions of dollars implementing a new mission from scratch. Although never underestimate the ability of mismanagement to screw things up. Just like on the earth surface, doing the same boring predictable thing 24x7 for years unchanged is best done by a robot, and "hold my beer and watch this" or "hmm that result is odd" is best done by a human onsite.
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I totally forgot I learned about buche de noel in French class about 20 years ago. Thanks for the flashback.
Oh man this takes me back... I used to build maps for Doom, Unreal, Quake and Half Life. I still play one of my HL maps with a couple of friends, it's just so much fun! Back then QuArK was my tool of choice, it seems they are still releasing new versions of it! [0]

I guess I know what I'm going to do this holiday :D

[0] http://quark.sourceforge.net/
Does a lunar telescope have any advantage over a space telescope? Perhaps if we can build the telescope from lunar resources, it would be cheaper to assemble?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Time_to_Be_Alive - Drake & Future

"Live a little, people die a lot"
"What a time to be alive"
Clever.

Happy Holidays to you too!
> GPG for data at rest. TLS for data in motion.
> You can also use Guttman's cryptlib, which has a sane API. Or Google Keyczar. They both have really simple interfaces, and they try to make it hard to do the wrong thing.
> © Copyright Matasano Security 2009.

Assuming that something has probably changed in cryptoland in the past 6 years -- what are the current recommendations for simple-api does-the-right-thing-by-default crypto libraries?
Well, gold isn't a very valuable thing, aside from it's use as a basis of currency and "look at this gold, isn't it pretty, I'm so rich!".

But there are other things that are more valuable. On thing is He-3, which would make an ideal fusion fuel. Another is pretty much any raw material, and the industrial base to use it. I'd much rather have industrial machinery churning out tons of pollution on the moon then on the earth.
For most of these, you don't have to go to the moon. On the way to the moon you get to space where there is even less gravity (Hubble isn't on the moon)

Having some gravity may be beneficial for the colonists, but AFAIK, 1/6th the gravity wouldn't help much there.

About the only reason for going there instead of into space would be to use materials present on the moon. Of the materials, Helium-3 seems the best candidate, but it is far out, as it would require extensive mining on the moon and transporting it back to earth or space or setting up a huge colony on the moon.

A second reason might be psychological. I think a moon colony, where one could make trips into the 'outback' for a few days, may have advantages for the long-term mental health of colonists (from a space station, people could go on space walks/flights for a few days, too, but such trips would look more like 'going nowhere'.
I would buy you gold if there was HN equivalent. In all seriousness, this is something I think about on a daily basis. The need for more/tiresome administration leads to promoting more people to moderate, and they a) might be moderating too many things simultaneously, or b) might bring unnecessary micromanagement or other traits to the mix. Here's hoping multiple site types get it right!
I use a micro SD card (TrueCrypt) that I keep in my safe. I've had to use it twice now, both because of sudden disk failure.
I never understood the emphasis on ID when flying. I mean the point is to make sure you aren't carrying a bomb or a weapon. What difference does it make what your name is? Ideally it shouldn't, so why are we moving further and further away from the ideal?

In fact, doesn't it seem rather ominous to think that governments are starting to track everything about us, including everywhere we go at all times? They tell us it is for our security, but aren't the reported circumstances that have led us to require such levels of security due to government failures to begin with?
There is an Apache module too: https://github.com/mozilla/mod_authnz_persona
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They've stated that their goal is that Bitcoin become
the settlement layer for their "Lightning Network"
and drive away all use through increased
transaction fees.

What is the URL of this statement?
This has little to do with privacy, and every potential security advisor, to any president, knows this and would explain as much.

It's not that there's a great threat, it's that the public is just particularly stupid about this issue.
if they were still private partnerships, you wouldn't see near the reckless risk taking we did and do

Taleb makes that point, and many others in the same vein. What do you think of Taleb's books?
OK:

My Erdős number is 2:

Juggling Drops and Descents
Joe Buhler, David Eisenbud, Ron Graham, Colin Wright
American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 101, 1994, pp. 507–519

Minimal Decompositions of Graphs into Mutually Isomorphic Subgraphs
F.R.K. Chung, P. Erdos, Ron Graham
Combinatorica 11 (1981), 13-24.

My Bacon number is 3 if you count television appearances:

I was on Child Genius, S3.E2 (2015), narrated by Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie was in Frankenstein (1994) with John Cleese
John Cleese was in The Big Picture (1989) with Kevin Bacon

So my Erdős–Bacon number is 5.

========

As an addendum, I also have an Erdős number of the second kind:

Cliques in random graphs.
Bollobás, Béla; Erdős, Paul
Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 80, 419-427 (1976).

The Height of a Random Partial Order: Concentration of Measure
Bela Bollobás and Graham Brightwell
The Annals of Applied Probability
Volume 2, Number 4 (1992), 1009-1018.

The 1/3–2/3 Conjecture for 5-Thin Posets
Graham Brightwell, Colin Wright
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 11/1992; 5(4):467-474.

So it's 3.
The moon is cheat-y easy

http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lnews/lnmar97/oxygen.htm

The TLDR is most lunar soil plus hydrogen and solar red heat gives a couple percent by mass oxygen in a couple hours.

So solar concentrators "boiling" vats of lunar dirt in the 14 day day, then tanks and nuclear powered LED illuminated plants during the 14 day night.

People don't use much oxygen by mass (although the volume is impressive) so a natural safety strategy is to melt chambers in the base so immense that you can survive a lunar night without any working O2 source. You'll want warehouse space to store "stuff" anyway.

On mars, a worst case scenario means you're a couple years away from the earth's surface (not just O2 or general environmental, but food and disease and sickness) whereas the moon is never more than a couple days from anywhere on earth. That's very convenient. I wonder how many years / decades moonies will "need" 100% lifeboat coverage like that. Eventually it'll make more sense to get self help from a neighboring colony than to abandon ship and fly back to earth.
#5 is fairly useless AFAIK, because the exact same problem applies to the bottom of the (deep)ocean, and IIRC the ocean is cheaper to get to.

Although the pressure problem is inverted, IIRC - space has zero pressure outside, whereas the ocean bottom has crush-depth pressure outside.
You get O2 from water, with some extra H2 to use in chemistry.

There's water (almost) everywhere.
Whether that study is true or not 'do exercises' at least you can have a healthy and fit body in your available life span.
> In the event that Persona is decommissioned, we will
provide at least 9 months of notice, so there are no actions that need to be taken right now. Persona continues to be monitored and supported, though there is still no new feature development.

I'm part of the team that runs the production service of Persona, and I can confirm it is operated, monitored and managed like any other critical production service today.
Let's flip the argument around and try: 'by targeting users in more affluent regions, and using state of the art technology to deliver engaging content, you can make more money'. Does it make economic sense to go with a simpler site and accommodate users from poorer regions? How does that affect revenue versus using the latest eye candy and targeting iPhone users?

If a business doesn't care about users in developing countries, that's their call. I don't think either way is wrong but the front-end people should at least raise the issue and then go with what the client needs. So many websites target a relatively small geographic area that they can safely ignore Opera Mini users and continue to thrive.
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nobody noticed the bytecode section?
I'm working on a similar web-based emulator for the version of MIPS my school uses (UWaterloo, CS 241). We have to build parts of a compiler for the course and I was sick of hand-simulating my compiler's output to look for bugs.

https://github.com/zodiac/yamd
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>When you’re building websites, front end developers spend countless hours ensuring they gracefully degrade for older browsers, but what about those in developing nations, where every bit and byte counts?

Well, what about them? Are they realistically going to be your customers?
Get my teeth fixed. Will have to get braces and wear them for 18 months. Terribly scared of that. But it has to be done.

Push my passive income to $10k/month. At that point I don't worry about money anymore.

Travel the world. Meet interesting tech, art and business people. And pretty girls.

Make some friends along the way.
CPR was a mandatory component of phys ed during my high school years, and the good news is that more and more places are making it mandatory:

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I'm just imagine the group founder's bemused reaction upon being contacted by someone saying they're a journalist wanting to write a feature on his former Facebook group
>If thousands of users are desperately trying to use your site everyday even when it's broken for them then I'd wager the business is missing out on profit.

Not really. They might be perusing your e.g. news site for information, but wouldn't click in any ad anyway (and maybe, because of Opera Mini, they don't even see them).
In Japan Christmas is more like valentines than actual Christmas though. It's for couples to go out and hotels are all booked o_O
How Doom works in a nutshell:

- Every enclosed polygon has a ceiling height and a floor height

That's it.

- The table in the middle of the room? It's just a polygon with a higher floor. The room around it has a comparatively lower floor.

- A door is just a polygon with a ceiling height that matches the floor height. When you use the door, the ceiling raises. Combined with the textures being pinned, this makes the door seem like it's going up.

Super simple. Also: play my wad, it's awesome. I did most of the level design on my 386, my buddy stitched them together on his 486:

Screenshots:
http://mikemaccana.com/images/work/screenshots/doom-the-path...
http://mikemaccana.com/images/work/screenshots/doom-the-path...
http://mikemaccana.com/images/work/screenshots/doom-the-path...
http://mikemaccana.com/images/work/screenshots/doom-the-path...

(yes, that's a working toilet)

Download: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/s-u/thepath