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> I think the pro of having virtually unlimited extendability as demonstrated by tons of great and creative extensions outweigh the cons of larger attack surface and higher maintenance costs for both mozilla and add-on developers.

It looks like our disagreement boils down to this single tradeoff. Firefox's virtually unlimited extensibility definitely resulted in some amazing extensions that wouldn't have been possible with any less flexible system. However, I don't believe the security and maintenance costs imposed by such a system can be justified in the case of a web browser used by millions of people where security and iteration speed is paramount.

Those looking to experiment without limits can still fork the browser codebase itself to build proof of concepts that way. If the proof of concept is compelling and gains enough traction, it would then become much easier to propose the necessary extensions to the WebExtensions spec and have them accepted and built. There is definitely a lot of friction to this process, but the alternative of maintaining Firefox's status quo with respect to extensions is just not going to be viable, in my opinion.
Why is a comparison to the cosmetics industry meaningful?

Any way, it boils down to the fact that Americans thinks NASA gets far more money than it actually does. In 2007 polling found that the on average Americans thought NASA received one fourth of the federal budget; the actual proportion was 0.58% http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/21/na.... This works out to a few bucks per year per person. It's amazing what NASA does with so little.
And the problem here is that there is no recourse for the company to help stop this individual from being the same problem for somebody else.
>Target shooting isn't just practice for killing things.

Sure, and locksport isn't just practice for burglary. The point is guns are a lot closer to specific forced-entry tools (lockpicks or Metasploit) than to computers in general.
What a wonderful story!
About $6600 to get 1kg to Mars "-)
What happens when there's a bug in bash? Same thing. init is not the only component or source of complexity in the old way. Sometimes the problem will be in the script, sometimes it'll be in the thing that runs the script. Initscripts are vastly more complex than systemd service definition files (and the latter is declarative rather than procedural). Systemd pushes some of the complexity down the stack, and that is a reasonable choice. There will be more bugs in systemd than init and bash (or ash or dash), simply based on age and maturity of the respective projects.

There's complaints to be made about systemd, but I don't find this complaint compelling, at all. I think moving from procedural programs that are sometimes hundreds of lines long to declarative config files that are never more than a couple dozen is an overwhelmingly positive thing.
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Yes, it's the exact same rocket with the exact same fuel. The further you go the less payload you can carry because heavier means spending more fuel.
Sorry, I read

> "The company said it will continue to support tablets with a 3G derivative of the SoFIA chip, the older Bay Trail and Cherry Trail, as well as some upcoming Core chips."

that it will be supported, but reading this source again this indeed doesn't make it clear whether that's actually the chip used in HoloLens. I'm sure they will find a solution, but it will be a shame if HoloLens gets much worse battery life because of this...
Caveat, I am not a doctor or psychologist, definitely not qualified to answer but here goes: how about math tutoring? You can set your schedule and it pays well.
Bing still honors the + operator, thankfully. I find it occasionally useful.
It's to give a ballpark guideline.

You might be thinking about a problem and go "oh actually, if we could send it to mars it might work". and instead of dismissing it out of hand you can say, "well that costs XYZ"
Welcome. And best of luck. This is an awesome start!
There's no reason (anymore) that space travel should only be funded with tax money.
Because the word "cosmetic" is the quintessential indicator of something superficial.
Relatedly, I find it deeply troubling at some level to know that the exact shape of the Earth (specifically, mass and magnetic distribution) is highly classified, since it's important to ICBM guidance.
I edited the title quite a few times to reduce verbiage, and did mention in the body that inline code isn't affected. Earlier revisions of the title had wording to the effect of assembly language modules, or source files, etc. I left it a little click-baity, but I figured this is likely of use to people doing inline assembly (what is inline today could bust out into its own module tomorrow), and the navigation says within HN anyway.
If the cars were able to travel faster (by organizing themselves to flow more optimally), they wouldn't all need to be on the road together.
When I was on the company side of it we did 4 interviews. If The first two said no there was no point in wasting the time on the second two, but #1 would always be the 'handler' for the process so if his was a no and he got the signal from #2 that it was also a no he would tell the candidate that the process was over for today. If either voted yes it went to #3. You had to get 3/4 to continue to the offer phase.
It does seem as if these mechanisms were put in place in a transitional time when non-executable stacks weren't completely "taken to heart", and it didn't seem like a big deal to default to what had until that time been the normal behavior of executable stacks, since the dawn of computing.
It's clearly not type inference in its full generality (or all that close, really), but it seems a bit odd to say "X is a special case of Y; A is doing X; A is doing no Y".
DLP and FDM are totally different technologies...and the DLP stuff isn't as usable in machines as FDM is.

Just like powder, sls, paste and every other form...they all have their uses.
You would have a hard time finding a court to enforce your claim too, since the Outer Space Treaty states:

Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
I dunno, when someone quotes a particular segment of what I'm saying, then provides an argument to refute it, I generally assume that they're taking up that argument.

And apparently "wild success" has now transmogrified to "mostly harmless"?
For any sufficiently motivated person or group, it won't take a SpaceX Falcon to get a payload of extremophiles to Mars. A Cubesat (or other cheap, small satellite) on the Interplanetary Transport Network could work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...

For all we know, it may already have been done.

If we want to explore an uncontaminated Mars for native life, we have a very narrow window in which to do so. The ability to deliberately seed Mars with life is already amazingly cheap, and is swiftly become cheaper and more accessible.
I remember actually going to my local library and finding some detailed technical books (in my case DOS Interrupts I think), and reading a lot to find out WTF was going on.
Don't fork in anger.

There's such a long history of projects starting out of a desire to not change, and so many of them (most, I would wager) fizzle out soon after. Being against some specific feature or architectural change is not the same as having a future vision that can drive a person to work on something, for no pay, for years or decades. Anger fades...the people you're angry at ignore the new project, making it unsatisfying in terms of vengeance. And, again, it just doesn't stick with you the way a desire to do something new and better does.

I'm not even saying systemd is great (it's good and bad in all sorts of novel ways), I'm just saying that the people who are just reacting against it, when the industry and community has been so clear about it being the future they are passionate about, are unlikely to do anything more than spin their wheels for a few months, and then fade away (as a project, I hope they all stick around as contributors to OSS things).
SpaceX fan btw. I think they have since rebounded, and Musk has met them :)

Buzz Aldrin was invited to the CRS-8 launch I believe.
#DailyDoseofPositivity
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Seriously, depending on how long your game is, it might make sense. You would expect at first the claim would be completely disregarded, and then in some number of centuries enough inter-planetary infrastructure could develop that includes a legal framework under which you could sue for damages. Or, something...

I wonder if you could send over some type of networking equipment, and then anticipate charging one heck of a bandwidth premium?
Would they?
I did stop reading any financial website years ago. It seems that I missed this story about the (proof of the) gold market manipulation and i followed this thema for years. Can you give me a link for this, my google foo doesn't work.
I would not pay a contractor if I did not get the source code. The is exactly what I am paying for.
Adoption is definitely dependent on interest from hotels. We would offer either a generic non-branded pdf/email or something that fits with the hotels current marketing style to give the feeling of a more personal service.
Go has raw string literals.
Having done enough of the second approach, I find it hard to understand why people do the first -- why see what people wrote about what something does when you can just see what it does. Even man pages are some amount of here say, versus inspecting the code.

That said, I do web search some specific terms frequently to get to certain documentation that I trust, SMS search is the easiest way to get there consistently.
... but no delivery mode specified. Mars orbit insertion or any landing is up to your 4020 kg of payload, I'm assuming. Wonder what delta-v you need to handle?
After I saw Print the Legend I assumed MakerBot would crash and burn.
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I'd find it incredibly suspicious and unethical if a developer didn't provide source code to the company paying him/her.
Where are the "to the moon" prices?

I assume they're about halfway between GEO and Mars (or does aerobraking on Mars save you enough mass that they are practically the same?)
his original 1937 thesis(o) is extremely approachable, as is the case with many papers where a new concept is developed therein

i recommend reading it

(o) http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/34541425...
A good suggestion! I've tried but can't seem to find enough clients for a consistent income. Maybe I should attempt tutoring over the Internet?
> earlier today

That's not earlier. It is a semantic, if not literal, dupe inspired by my submission (look at the item numbers).

My own submission was prompted by actually running into this, rather than reading about it on HN.
Why did you put designed in quotes?

Look - if you like guns, just say you like guns. People are allowed to like guns.

But, throwing around an illogical argument as a logical one isn't going to help in persuading people - well, at least not people who follow logic.
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svantana: for the purpose of Warner enforcing its contract with Prince, he legally changed his stage name, i.e., the name of his act.
Or architects of the Simulation worrying X-ray spectrum could expose some dirty hacks they are ashamed of.
How do you make money online? Why is it so hard?
I've been trying to make money online and been unsuccessful. I've been good at solving problems when I worked for others. All my previous employers ask me to re-join them at sometime, however as I want to be independent I try to make money online and I've failed many times. I wish there was a place where you could just log in and solve database, coding, scalability issues.

What's your success story in making money online ? And I'm talking the 500-1000$ jobs.
Since when have zippers been unsexy? A lot of niche filling happens when zippers come down.
An n:m message multiplexer written in Go
Incredible that they were able to predict areas of the brain that would light up.
Reusing the 1st stage seems to impose a massive penalty on the payload. Chopping it down to 1/3 for the Falcon Heavy to GTO (8000 kg vs 22000 kg).

In case I'm misunderstanding, do these term have these meanings?

mT = metric tonne? The standard symbol is "t". It's odd that they also use kg on the same table for the same quantity so maybe it really means something else? Not millitesla I'm sure :P

"fully expendable vehicle" means dumping the 1st stage into the sea instead of landing and recovering it?
That seems... surprisingly cheap. $6600 could also get you a small apartment for two months in NYC, about 10% of the way to the TSA randomizer app, or a lawyer for a day. Sending something to Mars is by far the most incredible of those things!
The new maps look clearer and less cluttered and more useful to me. I would guess that the maps were simply designed to follow their primary utility function which is navigation.

Old style printed maps had cities on them, because the map didn't know where you were going! You had to find your city or your location on the map. Now the map knows where you're going, so it can show that place extra-clearly while hiding a lot of detail that's not relevant. Roads are relatively more relevant than cities, since you travel along them to get from one place to another: displaying a road shows the user that they have a primary thoroughfare between locations. You might not care about the name of a city if you're just passing through; and the city that is your destination will be specifically shown.

My guess is that they display only as many cities as needed to help people orient themselves while looking at the map, to understand what they're seeing. More than that is irrelevant to the primary use-case of navigation.

> Google Maps of 2016 has a surplus of roads — but not enough cities. It's also out of balance. So what is the ideal? Balance.

The ideal is utility, and the key use-case for Google Maps at that zoom level is driving navigation. The user's going to input their own destination into maps anyway, most of the time, and they'll expect it to appear, so it's no surprise when it does.

Google would have data on this: how many users use Google Maps while driving regularly, multiple times on a trip (at that zoom level), while not having a destination entered (and with no destination, obviously no turn-by-turn directions)? Probably not many. Now imagine overlaying your route with current position and destination on the maps - it's going to be easier to scan the new ones. Edit: Navigation is the primary use-case for a map, and I'd guess usage motivated by that purpose dwarfs the rest by an order of magnitude, and so it's a good default.
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Yah no kidding, I feel terrible for him. We'll get one to space eventually, hopefully in his lifetime.
I've got the Monoprice Maker Select. You'll find it's a rebrand of the popular Wanhao Duplicator i3.

Shapeways printers are not really comparable to the cheap FDM printers. For example, they have Full Colour Sandstone as an option which just isn't possible on the Monoprice one as it will only do one color at a time.

I think the improvements in 3d printing aren't too huge like they are in other technologies. 3D printers can be upgraded too (with plenty of self-printed parts). For the popular Wanhao Duplicator i3, http://3dprinterwiki.info/wiki/wanhao-duplicator-i3/ .

Of course if you want something that just prints without having to do all these modifications/maintenance, you'll probably have to spend more on a printer.
Doesn't ITRF2008 and (to a lesser extent) WGS-84 give you what you want?
Super difficult. We recovered 40% from banks who were willing to look at our evidence. Turns out there was no international banking law that deals with stuff like this. Banks basically make their own decision whether who's right/wrong. The banks in Dubai and Far East basically told us to pound sand. We ended up threatening to sue our regional bank. They covered 20%. So we ended up losing 40%. The funny thing was FBI was involved. You'd think these guys are hot to trot. The guy we spoke to basically sounded like a local policeman whom you just told you lost your bike. "Oh yeah, we are tracking down leads". Net net, don't hire dumb people who can easily get phished. Once the money is gone, it almost always never come back. We counted ourselves lucky that we only lost 40% instead of 100% which is common from what we learned.
fun quote:

"
This design requires that the primes less
than 10,000 be known. If desired, the machine could
be made to automatically connect in new counters as
the primes were found, but there are many accurate
tables of primes up to 10,000 so that this would not
be necessary.

As to the practicability of such a device, it
might be said tnat J.P. Kulik spent 20 years in
constructing a table of primes up to 100,000,000 and
when finished it was found to contain so many errors
that it was not worth publishing. The macnine described
here could probably be made to handle 5 numbers per
second so that the table would require only about 2
months to construct.
"

i am always amazed at the idea of tables of useful figures being a limited resource, think tycho brahe or log tables
I'm a big user of Firefox's tab groups (typically with 100s of tabs between the groups) and this is definitely not the case. I just tried it out and closing the last tab in the current group will take you back to the group overview screen.
A recent NASA science satellite had its magnetic torque bars wired in backwards by the contractor, so it's not like this is a thing of the past in the US, either. Thankfully they saw the angular momentum building and shut it down before it spun out of control.

Space is hard, and in many cases you have only one chance to get it right.
in the hypothetical case you're right, what gives you any assurance that the manufacturers of any of your other connected devices are not cooperating with the state?
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The problem isn't the advice, it is the reliance on the advice being followed without fail for a product that leaves very little safety margin in normal operation. It is like putting a factory reset button right next to the power button and expecting that the instruction to never accidentally press the reset button provides sufficient safety. Do you make the same allowance for guns that discharge when dropped? Surely the users know to not drop their guns, and yet recalls still happen. Foolproofing can look really silly when everybody is well rested and calm, but you might be grateful for the raised "Front Toward Enemy" when things get hairy.

You are correct about the IDPA ban, my mistake. It makes me wonder though, I can't think of a similar case of a safety rule being so charged. Green tip 5.56 is the closest thing that comes to mind, but that is more to do with property damage than safety.
I've lost over 130 pounds in the last two years and I deliberately avoided high intensity exercise during that time. I find it very hard to moderate my hunger when doing regular high-intensity exercise. I would take long, slow walks a few times a week, and would rarely feel hungry while maintaining a very high daily caloric deficit. (In fact, I often felt quite full. I drank beer frequently, indulged in a pint of Ben and Jerrys a few times a month, ate out a lot, etc.)

In my experience it's most important to find a way to eat at a caloric deficit that feels natural, do-able, and fun. Even rapid weight loss takes a very long time, so you need to build it into your lifestyle. If you're like me and you like beer, ice cream, and dining out, then it's mainly a matter of portion control. I ate what I liked, but I learned to moderate portions and listen to my body. I ate until I was no longer hungry, and then no more.
I was thinking about Musk's planned 2018 manned mission.
can anyone speak to the value of the DIME spec?

https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environme...
Assuming they'll deliver you onto a Mars transfer orbit, you need ~2 km/s for the Mars capture maneuver. Assuming you have an engine with ~300s Isp, you need a mass fraction of exp(-2/3) ~ 0.5. So you need your payload to be about 50% fuel by mass.

Also, this doesn't account for any aerobraking, which should save you some fuel.

http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/12660/delta-v-to-lo...
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I'm happy and honored every day that a nobody like me gets to work with Simon, and talk to him regularly.

His work on Computing at School, in particular his ICFP 2013 keynote, continues to be incredibly inspiring to me. Aside from his wonderful technical prowess.
Are you asking about freelancing, or something different like passive income or selling products?
That is one of the most embarassaring public bitch fights ever. And this from a guy who uses Tyler Durden as his avatar.
I wish you the best. I have gone through a "container ship load" of depression/anxiety but mine has been situational.
The "designed for" argument always struck me as odd. Who gives a half toss what it's "designed for", when what it's used for in the real world is what actually matters?
You don't have the risk if you store it cryptographically. My first use of Dropbox was moving stuff in Truecrypt volumes. I found even laypeople could be taught to do that as it was somewhat tedious rather than difficult. For implementers, CompSci keeps cranking out all kinds of ways for one to use 3rd party storage in untrusted fashion. Just gotta clone one of them with OSS code.
What you write is true for navigating when driving a car. For those who try to use Google Maps for other purposes, the changes are somewhat less useful.
I followed MakerBot pretty obsessively since its early days. I have to agree with some of the comments here. It was very clear after they raised venture money that they became a marketing machine. I suspect they were burning quite lot of money to grab marketshare and become the de facto personal 3D printer. They pawned that thing off at the right time and let it become someone else's problem. Classic venture playbook.
I have a feeling that those claims aren't valid if you, or your robots aren't standing on them.
The sentiment is appreciated! It certainly has been an eye-opening experience and a rigorous exercise in empathizing with those that struggle with illness.
I was about to say that you can really only learn this by experience, but I'll bet you'd be able to learn a lot by watching someone else work and listening to them talk about their thought process out loud.
Anyone who keeps an eye on Elixir and isn't aware of the Elixir Radar mailing list should check it out. I don't use Elixir regularly but like to stay updated with the most interesting tech platform of our time and ER is the best mailing list out there for this that I've found.
It wouldn't help. The real problem is that they aren't comfortable with English. The reason English has all the documentation, all of the methodology, all of the literature, all of the community: network effects.

A Japanese Stack Overflow would inevitably be less useful than access to the English Stack Overflow.
If someone is working on proprietary software most of the time and has kids to raise, they may not have focused time to spend working on projects outside of their job.
Just curious, where are you located? I'm from the midwest and my experience was similar to yours where most people were hostile to the idea of starting a business. Complete opposite experience in Silicon Valley though.
I've been trying to put into words for a while what you just said. Thank you.