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> like everyone else does

Nobody else does this. I have absolutely no idea what you could possibly be referring to. SpaceX lands on land preferably when it is an option.

> I don't understand why they won't keep landing them on the ground ... It's not like there's not enough space on Earth

As a general rule, you not understanding the reason for something does not mean there is not a good reason. For reference, see the Dunning-Kruger effect. Furthermore, I honestly do not understand how you could even contemplate "SpaceX does not think there is enough space on land" as a serious argument and treat its dismissal as legitimate support for your beliefs. This is some of the most egregiously lazy reasoning I have ever seen on the internet.

SpaceX launches rockets in the direction of water so that an accident won't threaten property or people on land. To return to land after staging the first stage of the Falcon 9 must perform a burn—the "boost back"—to point its lateral velocity back to land; this is the first of three burns required for landing and the most expensive in fuel by a considerable margin. If the first stage is travelling too quickly (greater than approximately 1.6 km/s lateral velocity) it does not physically have enough fuel to return to the launch site and perform the landing. In this case, a far more mild burn can put the booster on a re-entry trajectory and it can land on an autonomous barge in the ocean. As the rocket trajectory is chosen to put the ground path well away from land, the choice is between either returning to the launch site or landing in the ocean. If a return to the launch site is prohibited by the rocket's capabilites and physics then an ocean landing is the only option.

In the case of Jason-3 a barge landing was the only option as SpaceX does not yet have permission to use their landing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base. In the future, the central core of the Falcon Heavy will almost certainly have to land in the ocean due to its velocity at separation.
We use BitBucket extensively at my company for two reasons: Mercurial support and Unlimited private repositories.

The mercurial support is great because of legacy code (I finally have come to admit that Git is superior for most purposes). The unlimited private repositories is great because we make loads of projects. I came from so many companies that would have this giant monolithic tree of tangled dependencies because they would check everything into one project. I fear this with GitHub's pricing model.

I find BitBucket's dashboard useless. It used to be decent but they changed it some years back. BitBucket's security was sort of disturbing as well but I believe they have added 2 factor authentication.

I will say that Atlassian's Jira used to be the best bug tracking but I have found that in the last couple of years it has become a complete bloated pig that is overly complex and slow. The hosted Jira is so awful that we contemplated just using BitBucket for bugs. We eventually switched to Youtrack and are loving it.
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"Every kilogram of fuel you save is extra profit" - which is sort of correct, in a roundabout way, via the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation : more fuel -> more weight -> need for even more fuel -> even more weight, which is the actual limiting factor in getting to LEO.

So, a better way to put it would be "every excess gram severely decreases your range. Oh, and everything counts, fuel included."
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I'd imagine that'd be even more complex and prone to failure.
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To be clear it's a barge, not a dock.

It might be possible, but we're talking about a rocket descending from hypersonic spaceflight; the accuracy is always going to be +/- a few metres. And the rocket would still have to have some kind of "hardpoints" that were strong enough to absorb the landing impact (you don't want to land smack on the delicate engine nozzles). A (relatively) big flat landing field and legs on the rocket itself seem like the smart approach (and Musk wants whatever technology they use to be usable for landing on Mars too).
That's going to require a lot more "common understandable simplicity" than most applications.

Whether or not that is true doesn't matter when facebook is very much not "common understandable simplicity."

Facebook's interface is a bewildering mess to use anything other than their chat or twitter clone.
The review article here suggests that language processing steps are the bottleneck, not we movement. So the reasearch suggests that current approach to using tech (rapid serial display of words) introduces a speed-comprehension trade off.

Perhaps a better approach would be to develop deep learning systems that sort of translate cumbersome writing into linguistic structures that our brains can more easily/quickly digest?
Eh. I suppose. When any of my friends discuss NAS size, we quote it in "usable space". So you have a 40TB usable NAS. I have a 4TB usable NAS with 4x2TB in RAIDZ2.
It's pretty naive to think that Apple would somehow direct all their work towards re-writing existing code into Swift. There is literally no use case to do that wholesale.

Firstly, there is no question that it would generate bugs. Appkit and even iOS is old enough that you couldn't replace it completely without the behaviour changing. Even if it's fixing a weird behaviour, that would be a problem for many existing apps build on that framework.

Second of all, it would mean they wouldn't be moving forward with new features, which, basically nobody (customers even) wants.

I'm sure more and more new code will be Swift, and possibly non-framework apps can be re-written. But they won't start announcing a swap out in the next WWDC.
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You can always examine the code right? https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/blob/master/src/coreo...
Uses official images as far as I can see
> But in general there is an argument to be made that natural resources should be publicly owned, or at least rented with the profits going to the public.

First made famous by Henry George, if anyone is interested.

An interesting use-case for cryptocurrencies/blockchain-like technology.
I know word2vec and LDA separately, but what does this work do? Somehow combine the word similarities from word2vec when forming LDA topics?
more like market capture, or attempts at it. sims are a great technology. attempting to make them embedded is a way to take away choice from consumers so you can offer locked in solutions with less competition. the fcc should do something about this.
I just want to point out there is a distinction between allocating spectrum for certain purposes and selling it to private companies. I would never recommend not having a frequency band restricted to emergency communications, though I admit I'm not informed enough about astronomy to know what is optimal there, but I still feel outright saying "you cannot produce radio waves of <these> frequencies, ever" is a very blunt solution.

My larger point is that we have observed in the last twenty years that while signal congestion can be real, we can also now build radios sophisticated enough to deal with it much better than in the past. Things you cannot have interfered with like air traffic control and emergency broadcasts should absolutely be given their own channels, but technology has improved enough that we can certainly stymie their band allocations they are given today without compromising integrity assuming the use of more capable radios.

But even then, I'm not strongly arguing to do any of that - I think it is possible, but I also don't think its particularly necessary - we could simply de-privatize most of the sold off spectrum to private companies to be used for public communications and in the common interest. Think of the Internet bandwidth over air we could get if we had gigahertz of available channels between the 500 to 5000mhz bands.
Since they have employees and apparently are an ongoing business concern I would be worried if they didn't try to get their name in the conversation. If they let this huge discussion go by the wayside silently then they would be incompetent business people.
But bitcoin miners have turned this into an energy-squandering engine with no upper limit. They've automated pissing away energy for imaginary points. That's not going to end well.
Sure, you could compile it yourself, then host it yourself. Relying on the remote server is the problematic part.
According to Wikipedia they're similar but distinct standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier#Bin...
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It's rather hard to catch a criminal before they commit the crime. Sad, but true.

If we were actually good at predicting crime, it wouldn't exist anymore; but we simply don't understand criminals (or ourselves) well enough to do it, so the best we can do is punish.
Push notifications are just too obviously spammy. I never allow them.
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No, it would be impossible to get farmers to farm if they decide not to. And equally unlikely that city folks could do the job, cold. It'd be mass starvation and revolution.
A very brief google leads me to believing they're both 128bit numbers -could you please point me towards something that explains the differences? :)
Yeah but if a rocket can so easily explode just by falling over, I'm not sure there are any legs I trust it to land on.

I mean what if the legs were damaged during launch somehow, how exactly would it get back down safely other than just dropping it in the ocean completely?
But the "noise" also reduces ambiguity. For example, you can search the code and see s is a NSString in Objective C. You can't do this in Swift.
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I'm working on a marketplace for services. I'm trying a couple different areas to see where I can get some traction. I'm also working on breaking this into pieces into different Apis. For instance building away to send tasks and notifications to a time tracking app on employees phones. As well as a service that returns a list of local companies that will offer a commission for an order.
Is there any reason to think that your advice is correct? Any kind of study showing a correlation between "a vision driving someone to the core" and success?

That idea, while a very good soundbite, flies in the face of the evidence - almost all startups shift their idea, sometimes quite a bit, before becoming successful.
I don't think Apple ever intended to phase out Objective-C in favor of Swift. Swift is just another option for developers, in the same way that C# is an easier option for Windows developers. Objective-C, just like its predecessor C, can be used in a huge array of environments, ranging from servers to clients and everything in between. It would be impractical and close to impossible to support Swift in all these environments. As a result, Apple is much better served by code written in Objective-C, especially in areas such as the operating system and closely related system code.
I really don't get why people are so hung up on these two issues -- "wasted" electricity and wasted computer power without actual numbers to put things into perspective.

Anybody has any real numbers on electricity used for bitcoin opperations vs. electricity used by banks?

From what I know about hashing algorithms and hardware, I'm pretty sure that the dedicated bitcoin hardware is not so capable for general computation stuff.

I'm more concearned about the pissed brain cycles that go to waste inside the big corporate oligarchies that we call banks.
I've never quite seen the point of speed reading. When I read, it's either to look up some information I need, or for entertainment. In the former case, it's much more efficient to just look for the particular information and avoid reading most of the text at all. In the latter case, speed reading would make the entertainment run out faster.
Literally what I said 'Every kilogram of fuel you save is extra profit.'. They make profit by sending payload into space.
Yes but Bitbucket has unlimited private repositories. So if your company has lots of projects compared to lots of people Bitbucket's pricing model is better.
Pretty accurate. Most of the so-called unicorns are overvalued by a factor of four or so through accounting tricks.

The article is correct that it is not silly as the late 1990s. Many startups now actually have working products, revenues, and sometimes profits. Many 1990s companies lacked those.
This could theoretically be achieved by either means. The question was specifically why a vertical landing is favoured over a cushioned inflatable landing.

Musk has stated in the past that they're looking to eventually use this tech to create rockets which can be used on Mars, hence why parachutes and inflatables are out of the question.
On your own instance, disallow creation or restrict of further projects. Ask people to use the 'Import any repo by URL' feature in GitLab on their own instance / GitLab.com.

We're planning to add cross-server merge requests in the future, which would make it that you don't have to host the forks yourself [0].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
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No need to phrase it so nastily.
At least for the UK, he did on November 10:

"Following the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill, which was released last week with new and extended surveillance powers for the government, Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended strong encryption. Speaking to the Telegraph, Cook reiterated that Apple believes 'very strongly in end-to-end encryption and no back doors.'"

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/10/tim-cook-talks-encryption...
fyi, there's also Amazon Cloud Drive which includes unlimited storage for $59.99/year.
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Most of these jets are registered as Experimental-Exhibition, which has (slightly) relaxed conformance rules vs other multi-engine turbine-powered aircraft.

Single engine turbine (or multi-engine piston) operated under Part 91 (approximately "not-for-hire") was already reasonably relaxed about "owner produced parts".
Don't you think there are market forces that will resolve this energy-squandering thing?
You do get immediate return on doing this. In art it is common to ask for critique-- it immediately improves that particular drawing (hey mate, you should maybe fix her nose, she looks like a pig) while also helping in the long run (okay I won't draw noses like that anymore).

It's not like you have to put a crown on everyone's head. The article goes really into detail, but it basically boils down to "Take turns." It encourages everyone to engage without talking over each other, avoids shying away from ever presenting your work, or going onto long rants. Which are things the author has mentioned has happened at other companies. Even in a small 3 person group, it's easy for one person to dominate the conversation. You don't want that. You want to utilize everyone's perspective and skillset. Three heads are better than one.
The title is one of those Betteridge's Law ones ("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."), where a story that doesn't give the answer the author wants or is inconclusive has a title framed as a question. But in this case, it's one where the answer is "Yes", not "No", because usually a Betteridge's Law title asks if an unlikely proposition is true, rather than if a likely proposition is false.

Of course Apple are using Swift, but they're not going to rewrite everything in it overnight. Heck, they probably aren't ever going to rewrite. Swift will only be used for new stuff.
I think the Federal Reserve telegraphed the rate hike enough. They've been talking about raising rates for over a year now. If you're finances are so shaky that a quarter point rise is going to cause you financial stress then that's your problem.

Maybe some of these companies need to start making money and before they are valued at a billion dollars.
Those systems already exist, they're usually called editors. Sadly, they seem to be used less and less.
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Ha! Sheeples! The moon is a hoax.

http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm

(This is a satire website but I recommend taking a look at it. It's a good laugh!)
Thanks --- unfortunately it's not searchable, and looking at the headlines makes me want to throw up...
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Part of the problem is that the rocket walls are very thin and only suitable for vertical loads. You'd practically have to surround it with giant airbags to make that work.

They'll fix the landing leg problem somehow.
It sounds like the plan here is to let people download sims instead of having to physically pop a chip into the device. How is this anticompetitive?
One would assume that their own people are already quite experienced in Objective C, and there is little benefit to them in switching to Swift. As long as Apple keeps supporting Objective C, why should the people already proficient in it change? It just isn't practical.

However, Swift is invaluable in attracting new developers who are unlikely to take up Objective C.
In addition to that the vehicle is extremely weak when lying on its side. I should think there's a good chance the tanks could be damaged by waves bending the vehicle.
Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehqKpPmVcK4
I got throttled to dialup speeds for a month in ~2007 by my UK ISP (Demon) for downloading over 60gb in a month. The small print mentioned an abuse clause but didn't specify what the actual automatic hard cutoff was. I was very pissed off at the time.

Looking back, the funniest thing about it was that I ended up having an argument with one of the support people on a broadband forum and they were arguing that only pirates would ever need more than 60gb and that internet TV was never going to take off because the BBC iPlayer trial hadn't worked well in their browser.

These days there are UK ISPs with their own 4K TV channels.
Well, in some ways it was more complicated; in other ways it was much simpler.

Prior to Westphalia, the borders in Europe were predicated on religious affiliation. This made for a very complicated map. So Westphalia established the idea that a nation could be a superset which included both Catholics and Protestants. This makes for a simpler map -- if one is mapping the boundaries of the newly-established idea of nationhood, and then retroactively mapping that concept onto the past.

However imagine drawing a map of the present, but with pre-Westphalian sensibilities. You'd want to know: where are the Catholics living, and where are the Protestants living? That map has gotten a lot more complicated (even before you try to account for all the Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Pagans, etc.), and at this point the question hardly makes sense outside of certain bits of Ireland.

Analogously, force monopolies are primarily of interest (at a national level) where territorial integrity is the primary name of the game. But if economic exchange (both competitive and cooperative) between cities were to become the acknowledged name of the game, then although force monopolies would almost certainly continue to exist, they'd be of as much interest as (say) the boundaries between different police departments.

In other words, I suspect the mapmakers of the future draw on the basis of something other than force-monopoly boundaries. This may look more complicated to our eyes -- but we might also look more complicated to theirs.

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I remember GitLab. They interviewed myself and a bunch of my colleagues to test the salary waters here in the Bay Area and hired nobody because we were all "overpriced", with several being underpaid for the area.

If you want the talent you need, especially in the Bay Area, you have to pay more than what the average developer makes in Amsterdam. I want to like GitLab, but I just can't get that bad taste out of my mouth.
Who module optimisation for generic code.
Getting rid of dynamic dispatch when setting classes as final can do a amazing things when it comes to performance.
Obj-C would have to dispatch out to C/Obj-c++ for that, now you can use Swift.

Although Objective-C got nullable arguments, it still isn't as safe as Swift. You're always a null pointer away from a crash... or unexpected behaviour as calling shit on nil doesn't matter
Why can't we just prefix IPv4
Instead of the complexity of switching to IPv6 couldn't we have a an IPV4.1 that supports variable length addresses with 0 indicating legacy.

So:

0.192.168.0.1 -> 192.168.0.1

0.0.0.192.168.0.1 -> 192.168.0.1

25.192.168.0.1 -> new address space 25 with IP of 25.192.168.0.1

25.100.1.2.3.4 -> new address space 25.100... with IP of 25.100.1.2.3.4

then the CIDR notation would just become:

25.192.168.0.1/32 for 25.192.168.0.0 ->25.192.168.0.255

Router's could use the x.y.z.0.0.0.1 address as gateways by default, making routing easy.

Under the covers it would be possible to use IPv6 as the protocol like 6to4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4) but with variable sized addressing from a consumer's perspective.

Just a thought.
People shouldn't see this as negative signaling for tech, but rather positive signaling for other parts of the economy.
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Bear in mind how large the rocket is, and that anything you put on the barge has to withstand being scorched by rocket exhaust.
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Also, if you deployed mitigation methods prematurely, then it stops the drive for improvement and tuning of the core landing functionality.

Quick deploy cushions or other "Oops" enhancements might feature into the final version of the barge, but for now I think they're still trying to maximize the landing success rate. Better not to split engineering resources when the most important problem can still benefit from optimization.
Very interesting. Observations like these should be a fixed part of UI/UX design.
Increased comprehension was definitely one of the selling points when we were offered a speed reading course at my slightly odd school in the 1980s. Its proponents may have backed off on those claims since.
On the other hand consider those depicted as the "poor" stereotype: Many young people in Asian cities will have low incomes and little to no savings, however many/most will have security and ability to self-sustain: a rural family/clan home, subsistence farming options, livestock.

Compare that to urban low-income families in middle-to-highly developed countries. No roof or food unless you pay for it, paycheck-to-paycheck. Few opportunities to accumulate wealth. No clan/community to help out.

While the first will do an order of magnitude worse on income studies, I'm not sure the latter are overall in a better position, economically.
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Watch SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket land, tip over, and explode
What about having a single product, and charging for a proprietary license + support? This may work better with GPL as many large orgs are allergic to it.

With MIT license, many sites probably just implement the branding changes etc in the CE product on their own.
The Falcon 9 isn't totally reusable not does it plan to be. It still has a non-recoverable second stage so it's not quite to the point of a SSTO.