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>But every other EU country is subject to the Schengen visa policy even if they are not part of the Schengen area.

And that is exactly why it is a Schengen issue. The Schengen agreement contains more than just the passport free travel area. It also contains transitional rules for the countries that are obliged to join the passport free area like Romania and Bulgaria.

I think the misunderstanding results from the fact that the Schengen agreement is now part of the EU treaties. So yes it does affect the whole of the EU apart from the countries that have an opt-out (UK and Ireland)
Thanks. I'm just surprised that the cost of damage from seawater to a dumb rocket with a parachute and floats is more than the cost of a smart rocket making a much more error-prone landing on a tiny ship.
Presumably once it gets "cheap" to launch stuff many projects which were uneconomic become possible. Does this mean low earth orbit gets overcrowded rapidly? Is there an international space traffic control? I wonder if this will be another area where the regulation is as tough a problem as the tech.
Laptops in university are mostly about status signalling. Paper is much more efficient and practical for note taking.
As you mention "perfect enforcement" I think The culture novels are a poor example, yes the AI's had near-perfect information which made crime a thing of the past but they also had a massively broad idea of what was legal (pretty much "do no harm to anyone else").

The people running society are far less likely to benign than the culture AI's (I think I have just about all of recorded history to back that one up).

It's the parable of the scorpion and the frog and we (meaning the general electorate) would be the frog.
I too would enjoy seeing this. I submitted an race-and-gender-related article around a month ago that fell off the front page quickly enough to make me cock an eyebrow and wonder if the flagging system isn't giving a small percentage of users an inappropriate veto over certain topics of discussion.

I know I've seen a tool out there that tracks the ranking of HN articles over time. Perhaps the slope of the descent would serve as a good proxy for flagging.
Businesses who expose their users to malware and harm via infected ads they choose not to screen or vet in-house, complain when those same users take steps to protect themselves.

Maybe we need to change the terminology: "I use a browser condom to prevent ad STDs from the various glory hole, sorry, glorious content, sites I frequent".
Don't you now need to take two appointments, one for biometric data entry and a few days later for the visa interview? If the consulate is not in your city you would lose more than a few workdays.
Cognitive psychology of note-taking
The US 40 years ago was a relatively backward, sexist, racist, and homophobic. Politics has gotten an order of magnitude better since then, and the people are greatly more virtuous. If we get a similar change in the next 40 years we'll be living in an amazing society.
>I think what scares traditional content-creators is the idea that the vast majority of content has no inherent value.

So you agree to stop consuming it?
>I do feel that we tend to treat people we admire as gods

I think it is our nature as a species, collectively as well as at an individual level, to attempt to create supra-/super- states of being, and we do this progressively or conservatively, or not quite much at all, in pretty much all of our cultures.

We, are the very definition of God. (In fact, the word "we" is as good as one can get to the question 'what does the word god mean?', Christian/monotheistic/contempt-of-religion cults notwithstanding.)

I think in fact, We become Gods by our associations, where god is 'any being with an extreme grasp of the subject'.

The godhead, as in a sort of supreme state of being which can be expressed as the 'sum total of all being', for any particular subject, must be expressed. The head of any group, given rightful access to the means of that group, becomes an extraordinarily effective unit of life.

Look at it this way.. Alien observers looking at your odd battleship cruising across the ocean might be suddenly awestruck to see it suddenly disgorge itself of its bodily contents, and .. played with roughly as aliens do .. end up 'dead', just like any other living creature in the universe. Will they even bother to perceive us as individual humans? No, I think they'll be here to kill our gods. Where gods are, toxic slime, cities, etc.
Viewed from one aspect cash already is a transferable debt, it's why our currency says "I promise to pay the bearer on demand"
To raise kids, money beyond a low threshold is not relevant, providing a good education is.

Money, or better, social capital gets importance when these kids become young adults and have chosen career paths with less demand.
Short term memory, like "beware of the German ambitions" would be also important.

You might not be able to make predictions for Brazil and Argentina in 2500 from the story, but as a Belgian or Dutch, e.g., knowing that this happened you'd know not to trust Germany very much around 1933...

In other words, it's important to know one's local and recent history at least (recent being even 50-200 years ago, since those events can still influence current events -- e.g. the fact that blacks came in the US not as immigrant citizens like others, but as slaves is important to understand their subsequent history and today's treatment, especially in the South, etc).

It's not much different than personal history. Knowing that Joe has been a jerk to you in high school, or Alex has a tendency to borrow home tools and never return them, makes you more informed in dealing with them, trusting them, etc.
Tell me about it.
"I've done a lot of recruiting and given out maybe 50 offers..."

I'm a coder who has never actively recruited, yet still over the course of my career have given out maybe 20ish offers, and been in the interviewing process for countless others. I'm questioning the deep expertise implied here.
AngularJS project structure
In their current guise I couldn't agree more.

They created a corrupt model that serves them at the expense of the users and then act aggrieved when the users retaliate.
What both ends? :-) This is a rocket, not a plastic tube.

And who plugs them, and where. In space, before landing?
This is a challenging line of reasoning. "I provided value to you and would like to be compensated" is a pretty basic foundation of all work and providing services. There will always be people happy to write Medium posts on the weekend but that's not the same as journalism the same way me tinkering with a drone is not SpaceX.

If the content has value you read it. If it doesn't you don't.
Based on the list of features, it's not clear who the core users will be. How will the competing interests of flat mates, service providers, neighbors, and land lords be reflected in the information flow?

For example, there are categories of information that land lords and neighbors might find attractive to know about flat mates but that flat mates are not keen on sharing. Likewise, local vendors may wish to message flat mates in ways that flat mates find annoying or that land lords find at odds with their interests.

Good luck.
I don't see pricing info. Will this be free forever?
Actually, liquid oxygen is almost 40% denser than kerosene (1.14 vs 0.82 g/cm^2). And this is the reason most rockets [1] put oxygen on top/forward: they want the center of gravity to be as far forward as possible, ahead of the aerodynamic pressure center, so that the rocket will be as stable as possible when ascending through the atmosphere. Just as we would put a weight on the front of the arrow, and feathers in the back, to make it more stable.

For the vertical landing, this would seem to work against them, but I guess the mostly empty tanks don't dominate the considerations. Falcon has oxidizer on top in the conventional manner, as far as I know (they mention LOX feed lines going through the fuel tank).

[1] The N1 rocket had oxidizer below the fuel in every stage, apparently because they wished to use spherical tanks, and this allowed packing them in a conical shape - the oxidizer tanks are much larger.
> The newly discovered evidence underscores the difficulty of maintaining trustworthy computer systems that do what they're intended to do. In this case, it took only one insider to defeat the auditing that the lottery system was required to undergo. It's not clear if officials have tightened the requirements to make future tampering harder.

Wouldn't hurt to open source it too. It's not a silver bullet as you still need to ensure the build is stable and the final product is actually running that same code, but at least it gives the public something to eyeball. That plus separation of duties (develop/validate/deploy) delegated to separate people is as good as it gets. To get around that you'd need collusion across all the groups and if you've got that, you're totally screwed anyway.
Hope ZyX-l could join vis. :)
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm an all-in SpaceX fanboy, I just think getting the stage back on the ground is likely a smaller fraction of the task than we expect.
The revenue from StatHat supports it.
In addition to what others have said, Mathematicas's graphics abilities make R feel like a TI-83 graphing calculator. (When was the last time you had to discuss JPEG as a "graphics device?")

The documentation is also incredibly better - every symbol/function has examples that have already been run so you can scan for a result that looks like what you need and see how they did it, and then play with the example in the documentation notebook.
That is certainly true.
I have absolutely no problem not consuming it. I would bet most people consume things not because they want to, but because it's there and easy.

Ask your friends this: would they still read NYT articles if they had to pay 25 cents every time they landed on a new article? Any barrier to entry for the vast majority of people would have a profound impact on what they consume.

Charge people 50 cents for a plastic bag at the bodega and they'll say they don't need the bag. Give it to them for free by default and they'll take 2!
Definitely aligns to my experience for studying. I started using handwritten notes again with my Surface after years of only typing notes and my retention has been far better and certification exam results, especially for self paced Web /video training.
The difference in business meetings using a pen vs using typing on the display or laptop was huge because I find that people can't help but think that the other person is working on something else or otherwise distracted. Handwriting recognition works surprisingly well in OneNote and my experience with EverNotes handwriting recognition was positive too, I used to scan my paper notes into it. The benefit of being able to find a specific note months or even years later is invaluable to me.
> Hope this is not a signal of the future of HackerNews.

I hope attitudes like this isn't a signal of the future of Hacker News.
What kind of ads aren't "predatory in their nature"?

The only kind I can think of is uncompensated word-of-mouth recommendations based on prior good experiences. But I don't really consider that "advertising", as it isn't the beneficiary itself causing this promotion to happen.
Some of the most famous self-made wealthy individuals in the UK were from poor backgrounds of varying degree.
I remember more than one stating that they felt if they wanted to escape that world, they had to make their own luck, grab every opportunity, be ready to change direction if fortuitous winds prevail, and essentially be there in body and mind to really give it a go. In some cases they literally start with nothing - failed school exams, work to acquire a very small amount of capital, see their first opportunity and go for it. Which can be seen as a series of well executed gambles.
I vaguely remember discussions about flight logs and manuals when I worked at a company that made SGML tools. Aren't there certain FAA requirements that revolve around stuff like signatures? Perhaps new vehicles would benefit from a an all digital approach. I suspect that most planes because of their age, have a paper trail and it may be difficult to maintain both.
Check OVH [0] ($3.49 is the lowest plan) or for even less, take a look at Time4VPS [1], they have really cheap servers, but I wouldn't use them in production only for dev and private use.

[0]: https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

[1]: https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/
Book "Deep Work" contains some great thoughts on this topic, talking about Knuth too.

I made an app that shows you how often you check your email: http://focuslist.co/escape/ (and other distracting websites)
Is his business model any different to me selling my own dish, intercepting Dishtv/satellite streams, redirecting it to my users and inserting my own ads in place of the ones already being shown?
There are a whole lot of tech jobs where learning on the job without a degree is completely viable. Seems like grabbing these kids out of high school is a business opportunity. I'm pretty sure that any random kid that's into anime and collecting cards can learn to do tech support.
I personally paid one course and one specialization courses.

There are the reasons why I paid:

1. The course is awesome and I want to support the authors.

2. The course I paid is new learning area I never use professionally during job but I wish to use at my job (or new job). Instead of say "I interested in XYZ", I said "I interested in XYZ so I took online course to learn" at my interview. This is to partially solve chicken and egg problem.

3. For serious courses, I pay so I can have pressure and motivation to complete it.
I have the same experience a bit varied, I'm majoring in embedded systems and almost everyone uses pen and paper.
Then I took some Law-courses and there i felt like most used laptops (and the laptops they used weren't any good, the noise of 30 "clicky" keyboards gets really annoying).

I also feel that its a lot easier and smoother to write notes on paper, You can really structure your notes how you want without clicking everywhere.
I think that you are vastly overestimating the risk of crime. My guess is that your risk perception, like that of many people, has been warped by watching too many tv shows where dramatic things are always happening.
Basically, everyone is downvoting you because you're out of your mind.
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge would be a great home - I believe that James Newman is in the area.
Blue Origin already landed their rocket last year just not on a barge.
How do you decide what is right and what is wrong? I don't think a world where you can only act with 'permission' from a certain group pf people is sustainable or enviable. It's surprising how little people agree on with regards to the fundamentals of virtue.
I think this bs is more prevalent in the Bay Area companies. I once got an exploding offer for 24 hrs! I politely rejected it since they were not willing to agree for a week's time that I asked for.

A great way to test the waters, is to reply saying:

something to the effect of "<This is a great offer and I strongly believe I'll choose this>" and then add "I have a two more interviews in the last stages and will be hearing back from them by end of next week. To be fair to everyone who has put in the effort, including me, I'd like to finalize by end of next week. Please let me know if this can be accommodated".

Once I even mentioned that it's in a company's best interest that I choose the offers after I heard from all, instead of agreeing now and then taking up on a better offer.

All this is possible if you are in a commanding position in your career (and financially stable). Otherwise, it takes a lot of confidence to call their bluff.

I have interview with about 20 companies in the last 10 yrs, only one has refused to budge from its initial exploding offer (and I'm glad I didn't go for that one)
Offtopic but related: I want to like GRPC but I think Google is not working hard to make it quickly usable. Just try to perform a pip install in Visual Studio and obviously... it will not work. This is not the first time it happens, try to compile V8 (NodeJS is easy) or Chrome in Windows and it will be difficult even following the step by step instructions.
> Even Mathworks has acknowledged the need to integrate with the huge R community out there -

You mean Mathematica, yes?
I agree somewhat however you need it to not become a fireball on landing first, then you need to figure out if you can launch it again at all and then you need to figure out how to get that re-launch cost down.

They've designed this for that purpose but he mentioned in the post launch talk that they will do 10 test firings on this one before they re-launch it.

I think they'll pull it off but they might have a few undergo rapidly unplanned disassembly along the way.
It is?

Most of my problem was with Node.js and not with Erlang or Elixir.
Heck, if automobiles use them to detect when an airbag should be deployed, why not just use them as bugs in cars?

AFAIK the airbag accelerometers are designed to detect much larger accelerations than e.g. the ones in a smartphone, and are thus essentially completely insensitive to anything lesser than a huge impact -- spurious airbag inflation is one of the things the manufacturers really, really don't want to happen.

Many of them are just mechanical switches actuated by a weight, with no active electronics (makes sense for such a safety device to be as simple as possible): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWSlwhYyOhI

And even when not impacting anything, a car is not exactly a quiet and vibration-free environment either...
Tektite
Same here. For example, I was not planning to pay for Andrew Ng's class. But at the end, I've learned a lot and enjoyed his style of teaching, and figured that by paying I was helping support his mooc course for others to enjoy as well.
Name 3 secretaries that are as famous as Donald Knuth.
I find that very interesting. What winds exactly do you think have changed such that the US isn't the prime mover now? When I look around the world, I don't see any reason to agree with your premise.

The US has an $18 trillion economy - 80% larger than China - with 43% of all global wealth, the fifth highest GDP per capita, and dominates militarily almost as much as it ever has (outside of the brief stretch from 1990-2003 when Russia was particularly weak).

I look at Latin America, Brazil is in a depression that is worsening (20 year set-back at least), and Venezuela has collapsed. So there's no challenge there from changing winds.

Most of Africa is getting better gradually, and that's tremendous news for them, however that's no challenge to the US prime mover status.

Japan is in much worse shape relative to the US than it was 25 years ago. In about six or seven years, the US will have double the GDP per capita of Japan, as they continue to aggressively debase the Yen to try to remain solvent.

South Korea is no stronger relative to the US than they were in the mid 1990s.

There are no other challengers to the US outside of China in Asia. India is rising, but they're no challenge to the dominant position the US has in the world. Maybe in 30 years if everything goes really well, they'll challenge China as an Asian power. Singapore has a great economy, but they're tiny. Vietnam and several other Asian countries will likely keep improving, but they're mostly a regional challenge for China, the US will benefit from them improving (it will take industry away from China).

Half of Europe is either broken economically or otherwise very poor. I could go down through each country and lay out their economic and political problems, but it's not necessary. Most of Europe has lost ground relative to the US on economy and military, that includes France, Spain, Italy, Britain. Overall the US is stronger today economically and militarily compared to Europe, than it was a decade ago. Where's the wind shift when it comes to Europe vs the US? There has been none. The Eurozone for example is a disaster, that hasn't seen economic growth in nearly a decade. Scandinavia is doing ok (other than their vast household debt problems and Finland's depression), but what else? And they're not a challenge to the US. Germany has been unable to grow its economy almost at all since 2008 (the US has almost added an economy the size of Germany in that time).

Russia is a non-issue as a challenger to the US. They're extremely weak now, with oil on the way out permanently, which will cripple their fossil fuel dependent economy for the next several decades at least. Their economy is 1/12th the size of the US economy now. Russia is now a regional player, a thorn in the side of Western Europe, with a median income that has fallen below much of Eastern Europe.

I go down the list, country by country, examining the situation, and the relative strength of each compared to the US. What winds have changed?
The rotational North Pole is moving east at 14 cm per year
Here's something you could try.

1. Find some reputable investors active in China. Start talks with them.

2. Contact the CEO and say "Thanks for pointing out to us the value of the Chinese market. We will now 1. move into the Chinese market (mention your talks to investors) and 2. proceed to sue you and your investors (who our legal team is contacting now). The alternative is that we set up a licensing deal (or that you pay us a 1-time fee to make this go away).

Long term though my guess is that you should focus on your market and forget about China.

(It is possible I've watched too much House of Cards lately ;)
Do you think you will see the name of his secretary on his book?
So you made one more distracting website to check.
Its a fact that he was the former CEO of Mozilla, regardless of what you think of his or Mozilla's actions. How can they stop him from correctly representing his past?
What's your problem with node? I do a lot of Node with Docker so I might be able to help.
Gresham's law applies when businesses are legally compelled to accept better and worse money at the same rate. In your example with silver quarters, the businesses were compelled by the government to accept the new, worse coins at the same rate as the old, and thus the switch was made.

However absent legal force, different currencies trade at different rates, which are set by people buying and selling them. Since you cannot compel sellers to accept GD, GD will not trade one for one USD.

Unless of course you are buying back GD at at least one for one with USD to force the market price to your desired price.

Given that GD will be less valuable to sellers than USD (inherently and by design) it seems to follow that the value of GD to sellers will crash the moment you stop injecting USD into the system.

Is there a way you can get a massive amount of sellers to accept a massive amount of a rapidly depreciating currency without discounting it once you can no longer keep up with the required cash injections?
Yes, death and pain used to be much cheaper. Just look at how they took out kidney stones before anesthesia.
After R&D you're just paying for the additional fuel to land safely. The control systems are already there for the other parts of the trip.

Also, I assume it's a lot easier to be sure that the rocket's in good shape if you don't have to check the interior for leaks, and whatever chemicals seeped in with the water?
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Not only is it denser, but they carry more of it (due to oxidizer:fuel ratios and to account for boil off in-flight). No idea what I meant by "lighter"... I'll blame it on a pre-caffeinated state.

It is however true that they can vent it pretty quickly though, leaving the only remaining propellant in the bottom tank.