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Am I the only one finding the last 2 BO videos highly disingenuous ?

As mentioned numerous times, there's the whole "reaching space" vs "going into orbit" before landing.

More important to me is the fact that SpaceX is streaming its different tries in _live_, taking the risk of crashing the rocket out in the open. How many vehicles did BO lose before achieving a vertical landing ?

Oh, and what about the fact that they have total control on the location and time of the launch ? Meaning they basically control weather to an accuracy no one launching anything useful into space has. For example, last failed SpaceX landing was officially linked to fog icing the leg locks. That's not going to happen if you launch on a clear day from the desert.

These are more comparable to the Grasshoper tries than to anything SpaceX has done recently : no horizontal speed, full weather control, no reporting on failed attempts, very limited weight. Even the last grasshoper video seemed to have more side winds that had to be countered than this 100k altitude video.

Even the format of the video itself screams "vaporware" to me. It looks like a trailer for a bad action movie, where some spacey something goes to space, separates and lands back in 15 seconds. When the grasshoper videos left me in awe, looping over them 5 times in a row, the BO ones just make me feel like they sh/could end with some sexual innuendo over their big rocket
AMD hired back a guy to design the next CPU, namely ZEN, he then left the company (as planned IIRC). So maybe that was a limited mission too ?
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Hi,

Thanks for your response. I am not knocking on you or the product because it is a lucrative market (if done right). So, you are taking the risk on the houses? Do you guys rent out the house? What happens if it doesn't sell?
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Out of honest curiosity, can you explain the nature of the "lower level work" BO is focusing on that SpaceX is not ?
So what did (most likely) happen in the Zamora case?
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I hope I'm just missing your /s tag
Note: This is completely wrong.

The yard stick has a normal force vector from the hand passing through its center of mass. It doesn't start to rotate unless an outside force is applied.

Of course in the real world it requires active control because the most minute misalignment causes a feedback that moves it further out of alignment. The rocket is exactly the same, if the thrust vector is not directly between the center of mass of the rocket, and the Earth, it starts to tip over.

If it were a stable system, misalignment would push the system back into alignment.
Why does this have to be a zero-sum competition? Can't folks just be excited about space tourism? SpaceX and Blue Origins are basically different industries right now, with slightly complimentary tech.
The reason I'm allergic to "privilege" is that 9 out 10 times, "you are privileged" is followed by "and here is how we are going to fuck you over to fix that"
Surely this developer meant that the leaked code had many dependencies on libraries that were proprietary to M$. That would make it difficult to build but this scenario is likely unique to partial code leaks at large companies.
Hah. Just the other day I was swearing about the Javascript trend that there is always an obscure thing X that solves obscure thing Y. And then there's huge hype about it.
I looked through your past posts, and you are legit!

I liked to that you went to a community college. I too screwed up in high school. I didn't even know why people were taking another test--the SAT. That said, I cleaned up my act in my senior year, but it was too late.

Everything, and a lot more, that I missed in high school, I made up for in two semesters at community college.

If anyone in high school is reading this, and thinking, "I wish I could do it over?". You can! I had a great time at my community college. I saved a lot of money, and met some really wonderful people. The teachers really seemed to care. I didn't find that at the four year school, or even my professional school.

Just make sure to transfer, and get that four year degree. So many people don't transfer to a four year university, or even get the associate degree. Yes, so much of college is absolute bull shit, but degrees are still valued in a lot of professions. It's changing though, and I couldn't be happier. British companies are taking the lead. I know at Penguin books; HR isn't even allowed to know if you went to college, or not. You are hired on your experience, and maybe a test? The way it should be.
> He does his team a disservice by suggesting that what they are achieving is actually more advanced than what SpaceX has done

What does this refer to? That single joke tweet?
I believe you are right.
it feels to me that the fact that most of the weight is at the bottom of the rocket, ie near the pivot point, means that small or tall rocket are pretty much the same thing to land.

While the tall guy has more weight far from the pivot point, it also has more weight down (because more fuel to stop a heavier vehicle), more sensitivity to various winds and more physical tensions/torsions all along its body structure.

I'm not physicist/rocket scientist, so wondering if I'm missing something
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No, it won't, because neither the thrust vector nor the gravity causes a moment in this situation. The key insight to the pendulum fallacy is actually that this situation doesn't create orientation-dependent momentum. That would make it a pendulum, but it isn't like that, hence the "fallacy" part.
Well if you can't run more than one process then how are you supposed to debug your application?
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You're assuming a large demand for space tourism and little suborbital hops. Once the novelty wears off and the 0.1% who have the money and want to experience it have gotten their ride, then what is their business model exactly?
It would be awesome if you could choose from a list of comparison objects.

Edit: Also what is the reference object? A baseball?
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On its own, leaving a quartile doesn't say anything about the magnitude of the change, so it's not a very useful measure of anything.

Another problem is that because the distribution is so heavily skewed toward the top (for both income and wealth, but more heavily for wealth), dividing the population into equal groups creates a somewhat misleading picture of mobility. A nonlinear breakdown of classes is more reflective of the distribution. In that case we might ask something like how many people move from the bottom 40% to the top 5%.
Encrypted data without a key are something that is irreversible, but you wish it wasn't, really. I think you have to accept it as a fact of life.

Your wish to "reading data off the phones of murder victims" is akin to "it'd be cool they wouldn't be dead, they could tell us who the murderer was".
Amazingly the government has a form that you can visit to make a gift to the US treasury, should you so please:

https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454

More amusing is that the FCC has started calling their fines "voluntary contributions to the US treasury".
Chrome requires extensions to be both signed and distributed through Google's "Chrome Web Store".

You can use the Firefox Developer Edition, which will continue to support the xpinstall.signatures.required preference allowing unsigned extensions.
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You might find Robert Wachter's The Digital Doctor interesting, although it focuses on the big picture more than specific examples: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TT5I9A0/
It's not the case with a rocket, unless you're flying forward with a liquid propellant rocket and the fuel tanks are almost empty so that the center of mass is significantly behind the center of drag (and the atmosphere is appreciable). That is an inverted pendulum situation.

Outside of atmosphere and/or at low velocities, there's no instability of this kind, and "flying backwards" (=landing) makes the rocket actually auto-stable (like with a dart), even if the time constants may not necessarily be meaningful for useful control here.
Though we do know some things about what people have done to evade (and continue to evade) capture. I link this story around and wish politicians knew of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20130119025623/http://dee.su/upl...
> There was an article about valuing Time because you can't purchase Time. When I'm old, I probably won't remember anything about Java or Rails or Tomcat v5.0 or Linux Mandrake but I'm pretty sure I will remember the time I spent with my kids when they were toddlers. I probably won't spend much time with them as soon as they have their own partners/family.

Thanks for the reminder - its sometimes hard to remember things like that on 4 hours sleep, but it is super important.

Now, time to put down my phone and pay some attention to my little boy!
"Chrome did it." isn't an excuse. It makes it worse, actually.

Developer edition is "Aurora". Aurora is alpha. Alphas have more bugs. It's not reasonable to tell me to use an alpha.
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I see no mention of a significant benefit
of unikernels: their decreased attack surface.

The entire 4th paragraph of the article is about the decreased attack surface.

Edit: OK, not the entire paragraph, but it covers the topic.
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It's unfortunate that Aaron's (thinkcomp's?) Harvard Law and Stanford Law educations did not include proper instruction on nonprofit tax law, or he would have known that this is a permissible activity for a nonprofit to engage in.

Though I guess I'm not surprised by this post. After all, Aaron does claim to be the co-founder of Facebook and in the past filed a number of nuisance lawsuits against more than a dozen companies...
Pretty fascinating. How do they store the hash?
>>What would you think of a tax accountant who didn't try to save you money on your taxes (legally)?

It wouldn't be up to the tax accountant to make this type of decision. It would be the CEO going to them and saying, "hey guys, I know you have tried to minimize taxes in your past jobs, but we do things a bit differently here..."

re: downvotes. You gotta understand that tax accountants' job is more than just to minimize taxes.
you're right, it doesn't have to be a zero sum game. They could be cooperating. Only the propensity of either of the competitors to claim their success without acknowledging the other's advancement makes it look like a winner-takes-all game.

As far as space tourism, I feel like it's just that : tourism. Reserved to more and more concentrated elite and pretty short sighted. There's no problem with being excited about it, but it's better to also do something meaningful about it, other than signing a check and posting some cool instagram picture of your 30 seconds vacation. Even if it's just understanding how much effort was put in getting you there.
They paid taxes but they were in Ireland likely. This is something you agreed to as legal when the UK signed one of the EU treaties.

If you disagree with that (and I totally understand why you would), that is the root cause, and that is the treaty (aka law) that needs to be revoked.

Alternatively, the UK could choose to have a lower tax rate than Ireland, in which case all of the EU tax bills would flow there instead of Ireland for multinationals. That said, you can see how that would end up being a race for the bottom.

Its not completely that simple but it's pretty much that simple.
I found flights to Rio De Janeiro on flychecker at € 519
I see what you're saying. That would imply in the absence of an atmosphere a gravity turn isn't really possible. You'd pick up horizontal velocity, relatively slowly, but assuming you didn't exert some kind of control your rocket would always stay at the attitude it had at the end of the pitchover.
Skype's "Click to Call" add-on is a good (bad?) example of the harm caused by "side-loaded" add-ons. It causes Firefox to crash, hang, or take multiple seconds to respond to mouse clicks. The add-on is quietly injected into Firefox by Skype's application installer and can't be disabled or uninstalled from Firefox's Add-on Manager. Users must uninstall it from the Windows' "Add/Remove Programs" Control Panel.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215970
Isn't the idea of "objectified" like, "being viewed as (like) an object"? My understanding is that the idea differs from simply "being viewed as attractive", (perhaps more like "being viewed as being an attractive one", with the difference being that the attractiveness is a larger part of the idea of them? I don't really know what I'm talking about. These are just guesses about what is often meant by "objectified". Something like, being viewed as a means towards an end? idk. I might be confusing multiple ideas.)
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yeah I kept checking it ever since is was featured here but it seems to be on the way down. very few submissions with very little votes. too bad. it's a good idea.
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People feeling sorry for themselves because they're not male and white from a place with food are annoying.

The world isn't fair, and it's not because Joe Smith had an okay childhood and is now making about 100k/year in a city that asks 3k/mo just to sleep there.

If you wanna make a difference, it's the wrong level to look at. I'm a white male. I made everything I have. I started with no food or place to live. I got lucky to get into the right interests (computers) and find old ones that I could play with. It took me forever to even think about the possibility of starting my own company (I dont own a house, family, car, anything - I'm 35y.o. now.)

I've never blamed it on Joe Smith. My boss is a women, making 6x my salary and has a large house, already paid for, a family. Who cares. Someone else probably makes 6000x my salary. and someone else has barely enough food on their plate (in fact, many of my friends in a far country are in that situation).

If you want to change something, make technology that rocks, instead. It's the only constant in the human world we live in. The only thing that keeps pushing standards of living higher, for everyone, no matter the color, gender, country.
Yes, and we can find someone who had it even worse than you did, and still made good.

Envy is something I've struggled with myself, so don't think I'm talking down to you when I tell you that you have to let it go. Your life is good now and can still get much better.

And even those who seem to have had a lot more privileges than you may have also had difficulties you don't know about. Rich parents too can be alcoholics.
Yes, what is called "gravity turn" turns the velocity vector, but if the rocket didn't actively reorient itself (so as to keep in line with the velocity vector), gravity itself wouldn't rotate the rocket (change its attitude), because almost-homogeneous gravity field won't impart (meaningful) momentum. (Satellites can actually use it that way, but the time constants are substantial and not really relevant for an ascending rocket on a timescale of minutes.)

However, this is independent of the presence of the atmosphere. In real life, both scenarios need active control of attitude.
To explain a bit better: every capture has a crawl time, that time is embedded in the WARC with that capture in it, and that's how the CDX index can refer to that page. Anyone who got our WARCs could easily present the URL structures the same way we do. That time is an essential part of the capture. We worked with others to make sure that the WARC standard does this.

This is actually a really important aspect of Wayback links. Since the URL and time are always explicit in the Wayback URL, you don't have to depend on some opaque database to learn important things about that link. An archiving service that just has opaque links is like a bit.ly shortened link: you have absolutely no idea what it is if bit.ly dies.
Can't say much other than thank you for sharing. What a powerful story. Heart goes out to you. My contact info is in my profile. Please use it.
If Blue Origin never takes this beyond a little pogo jump to the Karaman line, then SpaceX gets the last laugh.

If they do scale this to orbit and succeed, then good for them! It's not disingenuous, and we all win.

I don't see much to be upset about here. /popcorn.gif
While I would agree that these changes are unfortunate for this specific use case, I do believe there are at least two workarounds for you:

1) Creating an AMO account and running the command line "jpm sign" tool yourself. This requires a bit of overhead per each new addon you want to make modifications to, but the actual signing of unlisted addons (which is entirely automated) had been fast and mostly painless in my experience.

2) Using Firefox Aurora/Developer Edition as your main browser and relying on its automatic update mechanism.
The Mac clients not great but I really hate the Windows one and it feels inferior in just about every way.
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Is there a significance for ~100km? Is this, roughly speaking, space -- where the atmosphere is so thin to be almost negligible? Clearly atmosphere thins gradually so how do we define where space starts? Is the significance of ~100km something to do with the effects of gravity at that altitude from the Earth's surface? Does ~100km give you weightlessness? Or is Blue Origin going up to ~100km because it's a nice round number that is roughly (whatever that means) in space. But aren't kilometres completely arbitrary?

Also, can people please stop knocking Blue Origin. We get it at this point, okay? I'm a huge fan of SpaceX and Elon Musk but does Blue Origin have to lose for SpaceX to win? No. There's nothing in this post from Bezos bashing SpaceX as far as I can see. There's simply saying, look, we did it again with the same refurbished rocket. Good on them. May they do it again and again. And so may SpaceX. The next space race is on, happy days!
Made me cry. Much of it rang true. Story has similarities except about 1/5th as traumatic and am a white dude who grew up here. Have done well financially but have a compromised home situation traceable to some of the same causes.
The current problem in Flint was caused by the Flint River being more corrosive than Lake Huron, not by lead contamination at the water source. The reason lead testing is done in houses instead of just at treatment plants is to make sure that even the water in houses with lead solder is safe.

>[...] houses built before 1987, when lead was banned for use in water pipes, often had lead solder joining copper pipes in home plumbing systems. In houses built before 1983, the solder has had time to build up a mineral coating that keeps lead from seeping into the water; in homes built between 1983 and 1986, seepage could occur, so the EPA orders regular testing of their water. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/04/04/wssc...
Non-technical users do not use sudo, but they do use a web browser. Do you think Facebook add this JavaScript console warning for no reason at all?

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My favorite line:

> Compare that level of confidence to a kid with successful parents who’d say something along the lines of “If you can believe it, you can achieve it!” Now imagine walking into a VC office having to compete with that kid. He’s so convinced that he’s going to change the world, and that’s going to show in his pitch.

I enjoyed this article a lot but clearly this guy also made some of his own hardships. Going on ski trips just to fit in and then running out of money is incompatible with the image of a frugal poor kid.
It seems to correspond nicely to intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom.
Have you actually used Aurora? I can only speak to my own experience, but I have found it far more stable than any other 'alpha' software I've used.
Yahoo accelerated stock options to retain employees
A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process
Randall's (xkcd) Reddit's comment sorting system (2009)
it's all about luck

Bullshit. Luck sure goes a long way, but so do working very, very hard and smart and making course corrections and constantly doing things people say will fail.
I wonder if Maxime has considered using the newly announced Meteor-Electron project to package this as a desktop app - I am really in the market for a simple, open source task tracker that I can run as a desktop app so that I can alt-tab and similar.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956322 and marked it off-topic.
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> the systemd project and most of the other pieces of software that provide similar functionality

Agreed. Emphasis on pieces of software, plural.
> PG made it sound as if the conversation is about attacking wealth for its own sake, which nobody but the fringe is having

Let us test this claim.

I Googled "inequality in the us" and clicked the first several results. If your claim is true, these will only discuss attacking poverty, and not attacking wealth. (I am assuming that top Google hits do not constitute "the fringe").

The first result is: "20 Facts About U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know from The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality." (http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/cgi-bin/facts.php). The first two "facts" concern wage inequality and CEO pay, neither of which say anything a priori about poverty. Many of the other "facts" on the page do address poverty more directly.

The Wikipedia page on Income Inequality is next (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...). It primarily discusses actual inequality, mentioning poverty only in one specific section. One of the policy proposals it describes is one of a maximum wage, which has nothing to do with decreasing poverty.

The third result is a Salon.com piece, "35 soul-crushing facts about American income inequality" (http://www.salon.com/2015/07/15/35_soul_crushing_facts_about...). Many of them are again facts that do not say anything about poverty, like "The poorest half of the Earth’s population owns 1% of the Earth’s wealth. The richest 1% of the Earth’s population owns 46% of the Earth’s wealth." Facts like these are directly pitting the poor against the rich, without saying anything about whether the lower earners actually have their needs met and/or have social mobility.

So I disagree that this is a "strawman." I think a core part of the conversation about inequality is that is it horrifying how much the rich have compared with everyone else. That is the attitude that PG is arguing against.
Nailed it. Source: have successful self-made career and Asian family.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956322 and marked it off-topic.
"Chrome did it" is not an excuse. I was pointing out that Chrome is even more restrictive. Google requires developers to distribute their add-ons through Google's store of approved add-ons.
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> People feeling sorry for themselves because they're not male and white from a place with food are annoying.

This breaks the HN guidelines: it is both a personal attack (since you're talking about the OP) and gratuitously negative. Please do not post comments like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You'd drop Firefox and go to, what, Chrome? The browser that by default sends all your history to Google?