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Choosing to have less security because you value freedom more is totally fine. What I object to is choosing to have less security because you value freedom so much you pretend that less security is actually more. And especially when people are making that choice because those of us who are more informed than they are lied to them in order to manipulate them into doing so.
"One if by land, two if by sea..."
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497389
Looks like a fine opportunity to ask - whatever happened to vertical axis wind turbines?

They sounded like they had a bunch of advantages, not least a much higher tolerance for extreme wind conditions, less stress on long (suspended) blades, possibly less gearing issues in translating motion back to the ground - but presumably they had / still have distinct disadvantages?
Based on my read of her blog post there was nothing stopping the FBI from doing just that while she was in the US.

It'll definitely be very easy for them to do that if she ever wants to enter the US in the future.
San Francisco has just under that– around 73%.

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apart...
Why not the message "you can have fun and do serious work".

Mind you the current outcome is more "adults don't take public opinion seriously".
Good point, there's Sun Alliance etc here. I get the impression that they have the "good" but not "stratospheric" pay rates? i.e £50-£150k.
Unfortunately you can often oversell to the people who pay developers.
What exactly is wrong with that discussion? I found the level of evangelical, employee circle jerking at these SpaceX events to be nauseating. And that was before they started chanting. Well done guys but it's just not necessary.
Welcome to the Internet and let me be your guide:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=sarcasm

I sincerely wish that the post you linked was sarcastic as well, but it was probably serious which makes the (former) QBasic programmer in me a little bit sad.
NASA accomplished amazing engineering feats while aiming at certain (mostly) one-off goals.

SpaceX (and others) are accomplishing amazing engineering feats aiming at sustainable, repeatable use of their technology, and improving as they go.

Both are amazing accomplishments. But just because "landing a rocket on a barge" is not as sexy as "landing a ship with humans on the moon" doesn't mean it's that much less of an accomplishment. Remember vertical rocket landing is something NASA chose not to attempt because they thought it was going to be too hard. And that's just what SpaceX is doing.
The point is click baiting, this is mostly a web audio and canvas driven app.
As an Engineer I might be a little biased but I see this is a massive achievement. We are seeing a paradigm shift in space exploration with the rise of the influence of the private sector. Space exploration used to be the domain of government entities. That is gone now. I believe we are seeing a new age of exploration not seen since the 15th and 16th centuries of discovering the "new" world. These new space companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and others are challenging the norms and will only push each other to new achievements that we haven't dreamed of yet.

As you can tell count me excited.
Is smelling rails a bad thing? (Genuine question)
Definitely.

I'm just wondering if there are any other side effects that could be exploited as well.

For example, there could be a decrease in sales of decorative home items or high quaity furnature since people may be less inclined to invest money into a property they don't actually own. I have no idea if this would happen, but you get the idea.
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The first lunar landings had the resources of an entire nation behind it, and massive motivation to get it done (the cold war).
Parachutes aren't massless. The parachutes you'd need to land a rocket like this are actually comparable in mass to the extra fuel and landing legs needed for the vertical landing approach.

You also can't land on a ship with parachutes. You don't have enough control. You can still land at sea, but then you have to actually land in the water, which means getting seawater on all your rocket hardware. That causes lots of problems when you want to use that hardware again.

SpaceX did experiment with this approach. Here's a picture of the second Falcon 9's interstage with parachutes packed inside:

http://i.imgur.com/PGXIqKX.jpg

But it turned out not to work so well.

NASA had some success with this approach on the Shuttle SRBs. It's easier with solid fuel rockets, because they're less efficient and built tougher. Even then, the cost of recovery and refurbishment ended up roughly breaking even compared to just building new ones each time.

As far as "wasteful" goes, that depends on what you're looking at. Saving fuel for the landing subtracts from payload capacity, which is wasteful in theory... but in practice, many payloads are smaller than the maximum anyway. If you suffer a 30% payload penalty, but you're launching a satellite which is 40% smaller than your maximum, then who cares? The only waste is some extra fuel, which is super cheap. The full fuel load for a Falcon 9 launch is something like $200,000, compare to the total mission price of around $60 million.
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These days agile is as much an excuse fire micro-management as anything else.
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I got increasingly irritated with his faux innocence as the evening progressed.

Please look up confirmation bias. And (please) do not lecture me about my lack of awareness of the situation due to my newbie status.
Oops, you are right, I did miss a ^2.

The approximation I had is almost certainly less reliable than flightclubs, not sure why it was so low, will have to look at the math I did and figure out what I screwed up.
Still need to take a closer look, but this looks very cool! I kind of wish I could see more without signing up. All the attract text is kind of empty of content. I'd especially like to see the API or even how long it takes to get started per competition.

Does anyone have a name for this genre of game? "Programming game" is pretty useless as a search term. I'd like to find a community for this, since I built two of them and have no idea where to find players or get feedback.

for reference, though these are probably far too niche games to really get lots of play:
Bang!: https://github.com/KevinMcHugh/mustached-nemesis
The Resistance: https://github.com/KevinMcHugh/secret-nemesis
and it will be available in 5 years!
This. You just made my day.
>can the FBI operate in a foreign country

What do you think embassies are for?

It seems likely that Germany was cooperative, at the least. But they needn't be. These are spies we're talking about, afterall.
You're right, I should not have used that term. I apologize.
We were arrogant (German)
I was the technical lead on the building of the typewriter itself. If anyone has any questions about how it works, happy to answer.
I believe they did try or at least look into parachutes initially, but gave it up as not feasible.

With the powered landing, you already have the engines there, it's just a matter of leaving a bit more fuel. It's not a lot of fuel because you've already dropped a bunch of mass (the whole second stage and a bunch of fuel), and air is helping instead of hindering.

There's also the fact that, unlike parachutes, you can use a powered landing on Mars and the Moon.
Good ol' HN. These folks are pushing the boundaries like nobody else, advancing humanity more than a thousand Facebooks or Snapchats ever could, but if they express pride in their work it's a "circle jerk."
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I guarantee that nobody who worked their asses off to accomplish this amazing feat and chanted cares a single wit about your feelings of alienation and exclusion from their accomplishment. If you care that much about it, get competitive and get to work besting them.

The more space launch companies there are in competition, the better we are as a species. The chant is a call to you to get to work.
My post was more about who cares what mistakes the popularizer blog made.

It's unfortunate how poorly things get translated into the public eye, but it's also so bad that specific instances of it are pretty ignorable.
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> USB-SCSI? Nope. Its just been discarded like yesterdays cheese.

It's for that reason I've kept around the oddities like the Castlewood Orb USB-SCSI cable and the Iomega JAZ cables. A couple of years ago I used the Orb's USB-SCSI with an external power supply to fire up an old drive and check the contents. Sometimes you just need it. Keep an eye (in the USA) on http://www.shopgoodwill.com/ sometimes these things turn up.
"So a Hacker News reception has good predictive power, estimated around the OLS's R² = 14%."

14% R-squared is the measure for 'good predictive power'? Second, using linear regression for binary variables feels kind of icky to me. A suggestion for an improve or fix or maybe even another blog post is to change the model to something more appropriate like a Logit/Probit model.

/econometric rant

Cool article though!
But how many Bloomberg readers would be able to identify that name in a headline?
we must keep up the performance of propriety for the sake of teaching teenagers how to teach teenagers.
>“But… if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present.”

Impressive for a LEO to state out loud he doesn't care about rights and due process. Like maybe he thinks he's above the law.
> "On average, couples' satisfaction with their marriage declines during the first years of marriage..."

That's rather baseless. Generally speaking couple's satisfaction increases in both their relationship and in life after marriage, on average. That's actually been statistically proven. Additionally, last I checked marriages fail and succeed equally, over time.
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It is still the case, as it is in US(Huawei looks at you).
Slightly relevant, here's a really weird wind turbine designed by a computer: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUNRmwoijw
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There's also experimentation to generate hypotheses. I.e., let's sequence the genomes of healthy people and the genomes of people with some disease and see if there is a difference.

It's possible to argue that the implicit hypothesis there is that there is some sort of difference, but that is a particularly weak hypothesis compared to the specificity of hypotheses that can be formed once we have this pile of data -- i.e maybe X, Y, Z differences are important in this disease.
Siemens-CEO telling an anecdote from the end of the eighties about three young men from California, asking Siemens to invest in their invention: VoIP.

Siemens declined, saying "How is that supposed to work? If it was possible, we would have already invented it."

Two of those were from a small startup. They had called it Cisco.
That's fair. I'm just really frustrated by how long this has been going on and the institutional resistance to addressing it for the better.
Scrap council tax, business rates AND SDLT, and move to a single percentage-based property tax. Probably about 1.5% would be right; apparently that's the average rate paid in New York.

Valuation strikes me as not so hard when Zoopla and Rightmove can do it. "Last sale value + average annual percentage increase in the area" is a reasonable approximation.

It would be a bit of a nightmare building in the right exemptions to not destroy the elderly and small businesses, but I don't think it's inherently impossible. It would however attract screaming from the genuinely rich. Remember the mansion tax going nowhere when people argued that £1m houses (ie 37 times median income) were ordinary?
Tnis was not "the people", it was bored wind-up merchants on Reddit and Twitter. The lesson that those people should be ignored can only be a good thing.
I should not have used that term to diminish my point, I regret that.

My point was that Americans can claim all day and all night that "U-S-A" chants are not meant to insult or condescend to any other country. But ask around and I can tell you most other countries find it INCREDIBLY uncomfortable.

Sporting events are a completely appropriate venue for the release of testosterone and patriotism. The very nature of the event is a competition between Country X and Country Y.

I don't believe SpaceX's mission is to establish American dominance over other nations. Elon Musk spends a lot of time discussing his lofty aspirations for the future of humanity on Mars, about becoming a multi-planetary species, etc.
What's the difference between the two names? And was there any reason for this name change?
It's never been directly tested in court (not publicly, anyway). The idea is that you can be compelled not to speak about something, but not compelled to speak about it. Forced speech (especially dishonest speech) has never been endorsed by a court.

Still, canaries are a bit complex. You obviously can't prove why one was taken down, because you can't speak about it.

People floated the idea of using long "canary lists" of different things ("haven't received more than one request for user data", "haven't received more than two requests", etc), but there's suspicion that it wouldn't be legal because it would count as revealing specific facts (and you could perhaps be compelled to remove all of them at once). As is, they don't seem to have been rejected or broken, but they have to take the form of one-and-done notices that something happened.
Or maybe OP was just thinking: "God I really need to wake up, let's make some coffee" while typing.
Does it work with CoreCLR on ubuntu?
I've been saying this for a couple of years, but if I were into real estate investing I'd pour money into rental properties in secondary and tertiary cities. I lived in Baltimore 10 years ago and was visiting last weekend. Neighborhoods that were effectively no-go zones back then (think of areas with shootouts in The Wire) are full of cafes and hipster shops now. 10 years ago you could get a house that sells for 400k today for under 150k. I predict that pretty much every city of a few 100 thousand people within a couple hours of a bigger metropolitan area is going to grow like this.

I'm also very interested in the trend towards "micro" apartments in expensive cities. They will require code changes, but the idea is solid: make tiny but affordable housing for young single people. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-micro-apartments-art...
I'm sure this will be strongly condemned by Snowden and Wikileaks in 3...2...1...
The mortage payments are a cost for the business, why would they not be deductible? All other costs are, even speeding tickets for example.
> So you just don't use remote filesystems? That's a solution!

No, you mount them with autofs, of course.
+1 from me. This would be good addition!
Where's your "here" - Edinburgh? :-)

Of the places I know employ actuaries in Edinburgh: Standard Life, Scottish Widows, Royal London... and there are quite a few consulting actuary companies around as well.
> I've heard a bunch of Brits chant something similar "UK! UK! UK! UK!" before.

Are you sure they weren't just mocking Americans? :) c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHSjv9gxlE
One thing I'd point out is that your model ought to include that engineering also quite often is forced to run ahead of science, too. Engineers don't have the luxury of waiting until science nails down every last parameter, Julius Ceasar wants his aqueduct now, and materials science isn't going to be around to help for another 1800 years or so.... and that's just an example, it happens all the time even today.
What is the difference between using this or the gor project or twitter's diffy project?
Lack of wings. (That's obviously for the landing gear part of the question)

But fragile fuselage is certainly spot on. Parachute-landings still have quite some impact velocity. Strengthening an object the size of a Falcon 9 first stage to survive that impact would require a much stronger and thus prohibitively heavy structure, even if the parachute itself was free. The nice thing about powered upright landing is that all the forces involved are pretty much the same as during launch so that there is little (if any) additional strengthening required.

Note also how the ULA plans for the use of parachutes to recover first stage engine blocks require the parachute to be caught in-flight by a helicopter to avoid any uncontrolled ground contact.
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Many of the employees have roots at NASA, so there's not such a hard boundary there.
I'm not sure I know anyone who voted for it in order to make children interested in it. They voted because they thought it was amusing.

However, my children, many of their friends and some of their teachers are now aware that the UK is commissioning a polar research vessel. They definitely weren't before.

I know of at least one junior school science teacher who has used this to seed a lesson. It's a point of interest, it's the start of a conversation. It gives science a different angle and a bit of colour. This is a good thing even if it was by accident. Sometimes we should just take the hand we were dealt and play it.
I remember this: the counterfeit does, and it works better, because the cloners followed the data sheet and not the errata. http://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/ftdi-gate-2-0/...
I think you are confusing food safety and "I need to be paid $1M+ if you want to sell this" shakedown.
I don't think it's worse in China compared to how it is in the US or anywhere else.
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Now you've created a collision risk with all those pillars and cables sticking up. The rocket actually comes in from the side, because it initially aims next to the barge so that an engine failure doesn't cause it to crash into the barge. You'd have to change that approach, and your margin for error would become much smaller.

All that to solve a problem that doesn't seem to actually exist. A scheme like this might have saved the Jason-3 landing, where the rocket fell over due to a leg that didn't lock, but none of the other barge landing failures would have been helped by this.

I think there's a fundamental failure to understand the scale of this hardware, too. This is a massive machine (50 meters tall or so) built to weigh as little as possible, and therefore to only be strong where it's needed. It has approximately zero ability to withstand lateral forces from things like cables pulling it upright.
The Higgs is what Popper called a "risky prediction" in his writing. Not seeing a spike (the expected outcome without the theory) would have falsified it, so it qualifies as science. You could say that 125 GeV was one of a few different predictions, but it was still risky to predict a spike somewhere around there.

Also the hardcore Popperians will reply that many people who the mainstream considers scientists don't actually do science ;)
The part about "meeting her on the street" is particularly slimy. Declining to pass questions through a lawyer is shady, but asking a person to confirm their lawyer's identity as a trap to question them is bizarre.

The whole thing reads like its either an agency involved in something unethical, or an agency so far removed from decent behavior that they no longer notice when they're menacing innocents.
I always was under the assumption, that the FBI is a police-force, not a spy-agency (like the CIA or NSA). I kind of realize that the difference is getting smaller in recent years.

There is good reason to keep them (Police and Intelligence) separated, in germany we call this 'Trennungsgebot', this is a direct historical consequence of the Gestapo.

So, technically, is the FBI a police or an intelligence agency?
GNUnet is pretty alive and has even a port that runs in the browser: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web (it actually works)
Hey, its a nice simple flappy bird style game. First thing that comes to mind playing with it is the up and down bottoms should be reversed in my view. I feel like most people like to use their right hand to go up and left to go down. I hope this was helpful:)
Antirez, I've accomplished a lot with Redis over the past six years, and I'm always looking for an reason to integrate it into whatever project I'm working on. Keep up the outstanding work.
Where does it get the energy to pressurize the carbon dioxide? Could that produce waste?

I'm not chemist, I'm genuinely interesting. It sounds exciting.
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This is a great idea. I know there are a handful of people who would be very interested in participating.

Wanna connect via email and make this happen (harper@nata2.org)
(nearly) All Americans are immigrants or children of immigrants.
If you are required not to communicate something, then you don't communicate it. Period.

Hackers are bad at thinking "oh, I'll just not not not not do the thing, and it will all be okay, I'm so clever." They imagine they are Captain Kirk talking a computer to death. No one has ever been as smart as them!

We wouldn't let a CEO route around insider trading laws with a "I don't say this is a good time to buy my stock" canary. We wouldn't let a prosecutor under orders not to discuss a case with the public get away with it by selectively deleting a series of canaries.
NASA reused every engine (not just the first stage) of an orbital payload delivery system, many times, 30 years ago. Runway rather than barge but that's not really an important difference.

(The exciting part will be much cheaper refurbishment than the STS. But SpaceX haven't actually delivered on that component yet)
Interestingly, there's also this bit on their homepage[1]:

> In order for your subpoena / order to be processed, it must be sent to my lawyer. Do not send subpoenas to vc@cock.li or abuse@cock.li. Instead, E-mail or call me to request my lawyer's contact information.

It makes sense to have an established point of contact (which might be an email address) for LEAs if you're something like an ISP which regularly receives subpoenas. I'm more curious about subpoenas sent to individuals via email without any prior LEA contact.

It's also worth noting that the burden of proof for something like this is, at least in my country, on the sender's end, which is why all court communication is sent by registered post.

[1]: https://cock.li/abuse
In my opinion, it may not necessarily be a national pride thing, as much as it's just an impulse. Because in sports, this happens often, I think it's more about showing how happy they are than crediting the United States for the accomplishments they made.

As an American (and specifically, a 16-year-old Software Engineer), growing up in the United States, this is normal, and is sometimes patriotic, sometimes an automatic response to excitement. I understand why some people might find it odd.

I don't really believe that the act of chanting "USA" is meant to alienate people. I guess you could equate it to the cultural oddities, sort of like when you travel to a different country. Some people bow, shake hands, etc for greetings, just the same way that Americans show excitement by chanting "USA", while other countries may not.