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Because a third party app on Windows can edit the Firefox preferences file to set the opt-out preference and then install its unsigned malware/spying/ad-injecting extension and it'll be loaded the next time Firefox starts up with no warning to the user.

This is why Chrome hashes its settings files on Windows so that when any 3rd party app tries to mess with it, it wipes all extensions and extension settings and resets the homepage and search engine to the defaults. Unfortunately this also means that you can't move your Chrome settings to another PC as they'll all get reset. You have to sync to Google to ensure all your settings aren't wiped by a badware app or a corrupt byte in the Chrome settings file.
i wonder if a git hook could achieve the same thing.
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> Blue Origins will be launching a rocket every day years before SpaceX will

I would stake my life on you being dead wrong, that's how fucking positive I am. It's such a silly thing to suggest! SpaceX has made dozens of launches, Blue Origin has made a couple ! What in the world implies to you that their rate of scaling will soon outpace Spacex??
The closest I've seen to this in real life is where an investor will purchase common shares meaning they are on equal footing to investors. It's rare, but it does happen.[0]

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/snapchat-discloses-650-million-p...
There has been no society in history that has ever truly had an answer for people born into privilege, except ours. We're in the information age, and its possible for people to learn highly technical skills through a bunch of free internet content, and apply it with very little to no starting capital. Sometimes its luck, other times its just a really good idea.
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I assumed the timer was there to prevent clicking Install by accident.

Popup dialogs may appear right "above" something else you were clicking on, or while you're typing; hitting Enter, or Escape, which then causes the dialog to eat the input and vanish.

Putting a dialog on cooldown like that would be interesting UX behavior. So if a dialog receives input < 1 sec after creation, it would discard the input and put itself on a cooldown timer, like that install dialog, or you could just change the context and avoid popups altoghether.

PS: I'd mark my post Off-Topic/Digression/UX if HN had that option.
Oh yes please. More free SSL is very very good.
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Your Python Engineer job looks very interesting. Do you help with visas?
Most people would probably find decimal digits more intuitive than binary digits. Which the article says is 171. And even writes them all out to give a sense of how huge that number is.
Why do you suggest the term "fired" instead of "laid off"? The latter seems rather more appropriate.
Malware is currently setting the preference and installing itself. How can you stop that?
Is Google committed to either of these? These are basically hobbies: there's no evidence that Google is pushing hard on them. Six years after starting, and they're still pilot programs at best.

These are certainly cool technologies and producing amazing preliminary results. What I am questioning is whether this strategy of dipping their toes in a bunch of different ideas actually works. Google's hope seems to be to throw a bunch of stuff and see what sticks, whereas Apple's approach is to pick a few ideas, and then devote tremendous resources at it until they get it right.

Google thinks that their autonomous vehicles will be ready for broad scale use by 2020, the same year that Elon Musk thinks Tesla will have their autonomous car ready, and the rumored date of the Apple car. So it doesn't seem that their head start allowed them to bring things to market any faster. Maybe Google's offering (in whatever form) will work way way better than its competition, but my guess is they'll be roughly comparable.

And six years on, Google Fiber is only available in a tiny number of municipalities, and has a small fraction of the subscriber base of, say, Verizon Fios. Six years!

I'm an outsider, but I speculate that these types of projects are low pressure. There's no revenues at stake, no expectation of profit, no hard deadlines, and probably no serious threat of cancellation. So it is not surprising that progress is slow. Recall that the literal moon shot - the Apollo program - was a national goal, set by the President, with an explicit deadline.
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If your tax preparer tells you that, thanks to deductions written into tax law, you only need to pay half as much tax, do you tell them "no, leave the deductions off, I want to do my civic duty"?

In this case, the UK government disagreed with the interpretation of those deductions, leading to a dispute that this article reports the resolution of. But that doesn't seem like any reason to claim that it's the "civic duty" of anyone, person or corporation, to pay more tax than they absolutely have to.
Firing people is never fun - about the only good thing that can be said about firing is the more you do the better you become at it.

It is pretty obvious to say don’t run out of money, the trap to avoid is thinking that if you can just hold out another week everything will be OK. I nearly fell into this myself and to this day I don’t know if I fired everyone too soon or not. Would the contract have come through if I held out a month longer or would I just have got myself into a deep hole that I could not get out of?

The reason I did pull the plug when I did is I had decided long before that if we ever reached a minimum bank balance I would pull the plug. I think if I had not had this concrete number I might have tried holding out that little bit longer.
I understand why they are going walled garden. Non-technical users cannot be trusted to control their browser. But Mozilla should know if they do this then I, a technical user, won't use their browser.

I am not an extension developer but it's a rare month when I don't find myself popping open an .xpi to make changes to the JS and HTML for personal aesthetics; or bugs only I have. Temporarily loading extensions is not a solution. They say they'll be producing an "unbranded" non-walled garden version that for technical users but no such build has been revealed yet. And if they do make it the unbranded version won't be in my OS repos.

This walled garden, the addition of Adobe EME/DRM, the bundling of "Pocket", and the incoming drop of XUL based extensions are too much.
Why do you need to have both a kernel and a hypervisor, though? You've got two levels of abstraction that do the same thing, and just like with M:N threading over processes, they often work at cross purposes.

For most cloud deployments nowadays, the hypervisor is a given. Given that, why not get rid of the kernel?
"I believe that there is life on other planets, but the vast distances which separate us also prohibit us from communicating with each other... we Americans have a history of being romantics and often imagine the impossible dreams. If you believe in extraterrestrial visitation, then for everyone's sake, present your evidence, state your facts, and let the true scientists of our nation be the judges. Let's quit exploiting the masses; because if you are the founder of an extraterrestrial vehicle, it will be self-evident" -Hector Quintanilla, head of Project Blue Book, https://ia902507.us.archive.org/15/items/ufos-an-air-force-d...
I guess you can't be bothered to provide your reasoning of how this is not on-topic?

Might as well just delete it.

Edit: How do I become a moderator here? Also, who is "we"? You and who else?
Because we're not using DOS?
Calling them "know-nothing" isn't criticism, rather, it's merely to say they lack assumptions of parametric models (or that they are even statistical) and lack guarantees w.r.t. error bounds. Whether that is good or bad depends on the goal, e.g. prediction or interpretation. There's also no doubt that he understands the bias-variance tradeoff... (hint: check his homepage).
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We know basically nothing about the ones who don't get caught.
This argument doesn't really square with me.

Why not just remove sudo then?

Why give me any access to my computer at all?
Have you looked into remote jobs? Honestly, moving to the US is overrated. I'm staying in a developing country myself. Get 50% of a US salary, live on the other aide of the world, live a laid back and cheap life.
How is even the landing an inverted pendulum problem? There's no instability of an inclined rocket during the landing; there's an instability of a "gimbaled-away" rocket. That's not the same thing.
You seem to be postulating that it's impossible to learn social techniques from the internet. Yet pickup artists do this regularly.

They do of course practice in real life, turning theory into practice. That's an essential stage which comes after learning theory on the internet.
>So could we then say based upon your comment and the parent that a meritocracy is antagonistic to diversity.

Yes, I would say that's the bias. It's human nature to allocate your resources to give your children the best possible start in life. In poor societies that may be as simple as feeding them when you yourself go hungry. In our society it means scheming to get them into the best college or giving them seed money to start a business.

I would note that making alterations to promote diversity don't change that, either. They just distort the system such that people with resources game the system in unproductive ways. A good example is all those "women and minority owned" businesses that get preferential treatment in government contracting. From what I can tell nearly all of them are headed (wink wink) by the wife of a white guy with a relatively upper class upbringing.
I realize I'm going to sound absolutely bonkers, but I definitely read an article in Wired about devices which used very large amounts of electricity to hover feet in the air. They were triangularly shaped, built in garages, used aluminium somehow, and could hover in the air.

I really wish I could find a link to that Wired article...

Edit: Found it! http://www.wired.com/2003/08/pwr-antigravity/

Edit2: Doing some research (it's coming back to me now), it runs off of ionic wind, which is apparently a well understood phenomena. I'm guessing this was/is being thoroughly researched, and any outcomes have apparently not been fruitful (yet?).

I realize I sound bonkers, but come on, this is pretty cool, even if nothing of value has resulted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_wind

Guy explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZy1Aqleno
aerovistae specifically talked about the computational ability of languages:

>Unless of course you're trying to argue that the difference between python and javascript, for instance, is what each is capable of computing?
I think its great that New Shepard is coming along, I don't get how Bezos feels he is helping his cause when he says "people living and working in space." when he doesn't come close reaching orbit. The difference between an orbital mission and a sounding rocket.

Now, that he is getting closer to having tourist flights outside the atmosphere than Virgin Galactic? That is pretty cool and a fair comparison. Being able to out execute Burt Rutan? That counts for a lot, but don't try to compare yourself to SpaceX until you're putting things into LEO and getting back the hardware to use again.
I didn’t downvote you, but I think the reason you are being downvoted is nobody is comparing Uber to Facebook, we were discussing how much of a network effect Uber actually has with their service.

As a rule don’t complain about being downvoted - it just brings you more downvotes.
They already figured out how to land on a moving barge, and they just did it.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. How is this different, mathematically, from the classic 8th grade textbook picture of a child balancing a yardstick on his nose?
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Trello has a certain real-time aspect to it that lends itself very well with Elixir channels. (At least I assume this tutorial is going to use that for the realtime bit). Rails is coming out with something as well, called ActionCable.

And finally Meteor has it with utmost simplicity as well. Just save to the database and Meteor updates the data to everyone, automatically.
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Nice work on the post! Off topic, but I wanted to put out that the "Work with us" button at the bottom of that page doesn't work.
There's a number of reasons, most notably rocket size. I'm not sure that SpaceX will ever have a rocket every day, and that's okay. I realize it's heresy to question Musk's omniscience, but it's very possible to outscale SpaceX, and that in no way diminishes what they have and will accomplish.
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Easily. The yardstick is unstable in inclination if it isn't vertical. The rocket is unstable in horizontal position if it isn't vertical. But it doesn't start to rotate as long as the thrust vector goes through the CG. The thrust vector has stable orientation relative to the rocket (if you don't gimbal), whereas the force vector doesn't have stable orientation relative to the yardstick.
Of course now would be a good time to watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082484/

There's nothing primitive about the things demonstrated in his videos. The self-made / nature friendly / survival ratio is high in my view. But I have a passion with old and simple but effective and life critical. Also the importance of geometry, you see how curves and dents will result in sub-optimal energy conversion. I'd love to find videos about gradual precision increasing and scale changes (assembling large and or small things in smart and subtles ways).

Chatting with people on #emacs, I learned that with long weed and time you could craft fat ropes long enough to build rope bridges. That too was fascinating.

There's also a few topic on the web about bootstrapping the tech stack from scratch. Which is a fun thing to imagine too. Which leads to what alternative path could technology take, maybe there's no need to replay history, one could quickly go into ceramics, lenses, metals and rapidly assemble radio emitters, various sensors, and (maybe?) avoid large scale agriculture, oil based devices etc etc

ps: this https://youtu.be/kiHojsMTBeA?t=166 is also pretty smart, how a few cross "sticks" leads to a natural frame for a basket. How to derive structure and strength from weak bits of plants and trees.
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I can’t speak for Patrick, but there is actual value in calling lay offs what they really are (firings) so you avoid falling into euphemistic thinking. The whole reason we have the babble of management speech is people are avoid facing up to what they are really doing. When you fire some to save the company be honest about it and don’t pretend you are giving them the “chance to pursue other opportunities”.
Makes a good case for it being a support bot but the grammar and syntax seem distinctly offsite call center-esque.

Bigger issue is that even though OP is a paying customer support is terrible quality. I pay for some Google cloud services and it is very clear that they don't deeply value small shops.
Emotionalism in the workplace spells disaster. Why hire the homeless simply because they're homeless and we need to help them? What they need is rehab not jobs. Give the to the graduates who need them.
I want more than a laid-back life. I already make more than an SF-salary. The opportunities to grow and learn are very little in a developing country. I've learnt more from 2 months spent in SF than I did 5 years in my country.
There are a few web games & apps written in C that were posted to HN.
An attractive CEO and founder of a company that loves adventure... resents being "objectified..." err, desired by men. I agree: everyone desires such women and that's so unfair to the other 98-99%. Better to just admire her professionally, have casual conversation, and then give more personal attention to less attractive, shy women in menial positions who appreciate it. I guess. These very leftist philosophies always confuse me as women in my area aren't bothered by the fact that males are attracted to them: just more serious stuff like harassment or the rest of this article.

That's where the problem is: people thinking an attractive woman is only a good night in the making or someone's +1. Introducing the woman and her skills does seem like a good remedy that takes very little effort on our part. Get the side benefit of making someone's life better. It's tricky, though, as some guys will interpret this as someone trying to impress or steal their woman. Heck, I'd do it anyway because to hell with men that don't appreciate the women that make sacrifices for them. ;)
How are those constraints useful when they are completely decided by the website and not the user?

"but you could disable video so you don't have issues regarding videos or some similar strawman"

Well, that would be a bit extreme, and if we want to take that angle, sure, but then I should be allowed to take the angle of "if it can be disabled by default, then instead it could be muted and paused by default"
If software could reliably know when the setting was changed--

--It could warn the user: Hey, isn't it convenient that this check was disabled just before this addon was about to be installed?

Perhaps a three strikes approach, where, if you disabled the warning, you'd still have to suffer through the warning three more times. You'd need a reliable way to store the state to avoid tampering.
That's another good point. Many IT people have poor social skills. Women often feel or act uncomfortable around them when they're acting a bit more "confident." Then, someone expects them to take the lead rather aggressively in an extra-uncomfortable situation. See the double standard about comfort zones and harm in the making?

I feel for the "nerd" in that position. A normal, but geeky, person can pull it off easy enough. The other type might be very uncomfortable depending on who they're showing up.
Isn't the case here that if you loose in court you have to pay the costs of the prosecution? It is in other cases.

With only putting that in place, the prosecutor wouldn't have an incentive to settle if they think they're right.
In addition to the general principle that your government shouldn't be collecting dirt on its constituents, there's also the very real possibility that back doors will eventually be exploited by bad guys and reduce everyone's security.

Even if you think you don't have anything to hide from the government, you probably have plenty of stuff you want to hide from criminals.
>> I imagine is something you would have to design a larger rocket around, rather than add in after the fact.

Control authority. That is the measure of margin a system has over a feedback mechanism's (in case of a rocket: ability to accurately apply thrust in correct vector at required frequency) ability to dampen uncontrolled perturbations.

I'd bet you that SpaceX has just as thoroughly understood and tested their working margins on their landibg system's control authority as has Blue Origin. For this reason I don't believe Blue Origin has any technical advantage over SpaceX in the manner you imply they do.

This might be hubris, but there aren't too many things us humans don't understand about rocket design at this point. The last big one was the waterhammer effect in turbo pumps supplying rocket fuel.

Understanding 1st, 2nd, and 3rd harmonic vibrations in mechanical systems is standard practice in rocket and any other airframe design (Boeing airframes, missiles/rockets, etc). It's a solved problem.

If Bezos is hanging his hat on this argument, he's reached the limit of his omnipotence.
I'm a bit confused about what distinction you're trying to make, or how this project represents a change in the meaning of the word 'voxel'.

Voxels are "volumetric cells" just like pixels are "picture cells". The size of them has absolutely nothing to do with it, and never has. Big voxels are still voxels. The data in the file is specified as volumetric samples... Maybe the issue is the texture you're talking about, but I haven't seen any textures in any of the galleries, other than the few examples that render mesh edges in addition to the cubes. Where are you seeing textures?

Six square polygons enclosing a space is surely just as 'voxel' as meshes generated by marching cubes for medical imaging. I've worked in medial imaging, written more than one volume renderer and used used many more than that, for both games and research. As far as I'm concerned, Magica Voxel is both truly voxel and truly awesome, IMO.

Alvy Ray Smith's paper is great, but how to handle sampling is a different subject completely from whether the scenes are volumetric, which they are. These voxels do have a certain artistic style to them, and the aesthetic choice to give them sharp edges was made intentionally and called out explicitly, i.e., "8-bit".
Patents and licenses seem like financial solutions, but aside from keeping people funded, how would they help with complexity? I suspect much of the complexity is in the basic science, and the "open science" approach is meant to make it easy for many people with fresh ideas to contribute.
The problem is the PKI. For your own services, you can have your own PKI, and the issue of "trust one, trust all" is not really an issue anymore because you would only trust your own certificates for your own services.

The problem is that pretty much any CA trusted by your OS/browser can issue certificates that allows anyone who can control your network to MITM you.

A solution for this would be DNSSEC, where only .com would be able to sign foo.com, bar.com and other .com domains. But still, would you trust the issuer of .com certificates?
Well, to be fair, absence of evidence is evidence of absence. It's certainly not proof, but it is evidence. Every observation you make that _does not_ show a phenomena occurring allows you to be more certain that the phenomena does not occur.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AbsenceOfEvidenceIsNotEvidenceOfAbsen...
If you draw a free body diagram, weight is down and thrust is forward. Both force pass through the center of mass so they don't impart any moment to the rocket. So it has no tendency to fall over. They do impart a net horizontal force so it has a tendency to run away sideways.

For the broomstick, weight is down but "thrust" is both up and forward. So there is a moment caused by weight at the CoM and up-force at the base.
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I don't see how that can be true. The rocket will still start to rotate even if the thrust vector goes through the center of gravity, unless that vector is exactly vertical (a point of instability). As I understand it that's the key insight to the pendulum fallacy.
Could you elaborate why you wouldn't take a 3x more pay and could still program, do whatever you like in your free time. I'm at a stage of life where I'm trying to identify "nay" sayers and "yay" sayers who would go to extreme and forge logic to either say "nay" or "yay". I just thought your answer was a bit borderline there from my perspective.