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I'm interested in the results when Cringely builds his farm. For example support costs from thousands instead of hundreds of turbines. How many on one pole are best. Also building costs over time e.g. when costs go down due to robots planting poles etc. which favors farms with more poles above those with fewer poles.
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> the barge outweighs the rocket by orders of magnitude

The energy amount the rocket impacts with is dominated by its speed, not its mass. A small, fast-travelling projectile can make a hole in just about any kind of armour. The terminal velocity is quite low, but that's in part because of the way it is engineered — an ICBM would probably be able to put a hole through a ship deck with ease.

There is a lot of reasoning by analogy vs. reasoning from first principles going on, and the latter seems to be winning. But the main driver of the space industry is governmental funding, not commercial. Much of those statements were probably political; SpaceX have prevailed, and indeed found some champions of their own (John McCain is rabidly behind them, and some of the statements he comes up with are ludicrous in their own right, for example), though not before enduring some setbacks.
>diminish amazing things..

Sorry. We are living in a period where mediocrity and even complete fraudulent stuff is hailed as profound and "amazing". People with differing opinions matter, and I would say they matter more than ever.

And I don't think people love being a contrarian". It is quite easy being a fanboy, but it is hard to go against popular opinion, and be a "contrarian". There is no love in being a contrarian, there is only hate and ridicule.
That was really fascinating -- thank you!
IPFS is certainly not this idea taken one step further. It is a totally different thing.
The FBI is an investigative law enforcement agency. So, I would say that they are intended to be both.

The CIA, a "pure" intelligence agency, has been competing with the FBI for decades, leading to the FBI becoming more and more of an intelligence agency over time (in addition to their law enforcement "police" activities).

Yes, the line continues to blur.
They initially aim the rocket to the side, then correct over to the barge after the engine lights, so a failure there doesn't cause a high-speed crash.

Either way, the relative masses matter. It takes a lot more effort to punch a hole through something much more massive than your projectile! It doesn't make much sense that a light, nearly spent rocket stage would punch all the way through a massive barge. And even if it did, the hole still wouldn't be big enough to sink it.
"If they ask for information on anyone else, or think I witnessed or committed some crime: I solemnly invoke my Miranda rights. No joking. No snark. No fucking around. Everyone knows you don’t talk to the police."

I'd just like to point out that 1984 and X-Files were works of fiction.

I know you consumed them at a really impressionable age, and it was really exciting to think about, but this subculture's complete credulity with the dystopian anti-LEO narrative is making it really hard for us to have any meaningful impact on the world.
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The main missions are fairly routine and I don't see people getting particularly excited about those. What everybody's excited about is the landings, and those absolutely deserve every bit of excitement we can put up.
HIGHLY recommend watching this video

https://vimeo.com/74354480
linked to from:
http://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing/
linked to from:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10933524
Right, but we don't. If you took a poll right now I'd bet the vast majority of HN does not know its name. So IMO Bloomberg are absolutely right to not use the name in a headline - they do use the name in the article, which makes total sense.
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> Maybe it's just the when you become cognizant of music.

Almost certainly this.
I'm pretty sure they were definitely mocking the American U-S-A chant, but everybody was having a fun time of it. Americans and Brits are always giving each other some ribbing anyways and I think everybody understood that these kinds of chants are kind of tongue in cheek in many ways.
The problem is the attitude that the NSL is just another "tool" in the FBI's toolbox, to be used as aggressively as can be in the pursuit of criminals. There is no effective check or balance against this -- we are forced to rely on the investigators to use their discretion, knowing that any challenge to such a warrantless request has about a zero % chance of being successful before the FISA court.

I would like to see an activist attempt to challenge such an order, or even refuse to cooperate in an NSL where the FBI is acting outside of its legislative and Constitutional authority. However, the overwhelming incentive in any such situation is to cooperate. And from what I have read, even if the FBI is acting illegally, the subject of the investigation aided by the NSL may still be a fairly loathsome criminal -- so, you have to be quite a principled activist to risk prison time to make a civil rights statement, when this is directly going to benefit a badguy in the specific instance.
I think it's more...

Sciencing: Uncovering mysteries about the world.
Engineering: Applying such discoveries.

Scientist: Predominantly sciences.
Engineer: Predominantly engineers.

There's so much overlap it would make sense for C.V.s of either to include a % science/engineering to suss out their own feel for both history and preference of activity.
Did someone hack your email account?

You would expect such a claims to be severely scrutinied (including seizing all involved hardware for forensic analysis), and if you'd be making a false claim while having disseminated the information yourself, that would be a crime by itself in this scenario.
Indeed, rent control is usually about preventing people from being priced out of neighborhoods. It seems that a lot of people are happy if people get priced out of areas, as long as it's other people who get priced out of them. And even though it's more socially problematic - it's more of a problem when a family is forced to relocate against their wishes (and dealing with issues like switching schools) than when someone who is already relocating can't find an affordable apartment in the area they prefer.
You're right. Funnily my answer was an attempt at not dismissing SpaceX advances too.
Yes - Startbucks, Walmart, McDonalds and many other International companies are NOT banned in China. One thing these companies that are not banned have in common is that they do NOT threaten the social order of the country. Could Starbucks help start a revolution, like Facebook could? No, that is why Startbucks is not banned and Facebook is. You know, there are many local competitors of Starbucks, so why isn't government banning Starbucks to protect Chinese companies? Because they don't care about opinions of people or local_entrepreneurs. Their goal is not protectionism.
Uber will not be banned, since it is harmless to government.
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> Runway rather than barge but that's not really an important difference.

it is an important difference when you look beyond earth

the moon, mars, and any future site that has yet to send robots to pave a runaway that is: 4,500 meters long, 91 meters wide, and 40 centimeters thick(o); will necessarily be vertical take off and landing

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Landing_Facility
Well, perfectly reasonable to take the intersection of capabilities rather than special-case each platform. AIUI the behaviour of /dev/urandom and /dev/random is the same on OSX and *BSD, so there's no problem with their behaviour there.
I'm ~14 years older than you. I built a Geocities page when I was 26 and started my first company shortly thereafer.

I remember there was a site called the Internet Millionaires List that had a list of all the people who had gotten rich off the Internet. It was still quite short. I think Marc Andreesen and Jim Clark were at the top of the list. eBay had not gone public yet.

Anyway, I love that I can remember "before the Internet" as an adult. And I still get excited about all the new technologies that continue to emerge.

Companies, being run by people, are inherently flawed. I feel like the writer has low-level depression and uses that to paint everything in a negative light.
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Given the lack of fine guidance control that parachutes imply, your "large" plastic liner would have to be miles in diameter.
I promise I'll read all of them and get back to you, after a few hours.
> I enjoyed this,but was surprised to see how the older stuff (1970s) skyrocketed to the top, then PLUMMETED off after a week. Compare to 2000s where a song can stay at top for a month, and may drift down.

Yes, this is fascinating to see, and I believe there is some high correlation between the speed of changes and the quality of the produced music.
That still leaves the system git vulnerable, which might be exploitable if you can trick the user into choosing the wrong git binary
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PV can kill or destroy habitat of other creatures, though this is probably almost entirely avoided in certain circumstances (rooftop installations, for one) where the damage has already been done.
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. My contention is that these nicotine vials should be at least as regulated as other over-the-counter drugs, such as ibuprofen. Do you disagree with that?

Or maybe we should back up even further. Are you ideologically opposed to all kinds of regulation, including the kind of regulation the FDA already applies to existing over-the-counter and prescription drugs?
So obviously YMMV, but I was born in '92 and my roommate and I listened through basically this whole thing last night - and we both agree with you, the '80s was where it was at.
House cats kill 1,000 times more birds than wind turbines. Even cell towers kill more. It's nonissue.
This is like the SA treated people at the beginning. They knew they did not have any legal foundation for their harrasments, but that they would never hold accountable for that. After some time without uprising against that the SA was replaced by the SS.
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I'm aware of exit nodes as I've myself been subject to such attention, but I don't think that really fits chinathrows description.
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I'm not arguing in favor of writing it that way, but I might argue it's not incorrect as written. location.href can never start with an underscore.

A regex on location.pathname would sure be a lot clearer to read, though.
The 2016 tag is not really necessary; this was published today.
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I think portability is best understood as a measure of how difficult/expensive it is to port a typical program in that language to a new platform, because that's the question which is likely to be relevant in practice.
I feel like that is expected. Uber can't win China if they don't want it too. The Chinese state and people naturally want to produce this service (and others, i.e. search engine) themselves, they don't need or want foreign companies taking their market.
Not exactly sure of the legal situation about canaries, but generally they are constructed as a dead man's switch type situation, where you make a commitment to do something if something else hasn't happened. The idea being that compelling you to act and restraining you from action are two different things.

Given that Reddit has exercised their warrant canary already and other big companies have them, apparently actual lawyers think it's a valid strategy.

In any case, I think that you may be able to play chicken with them over warrant canaries, since the people who use NSLs probably aren't interested in giving anyone standing to challenge them in court.
Wikipedia says Ariane 6's first test flight is scheduled for 2020, and Adeline will arrive between 2025 and 2030.

Meanwhile, SpaceX plans to launch a Mars mission in 2018.
1) Imagine the position of people who can't afford a lawyer, don't work for the EFF and know their rights, can't easily move to anothher country, and don't have a platform from which to publicly tell their story.

2) Imagine this power in the hands of a President with fascistic tendancies.
Everything we do, does that. Fortunately the places we put PV tend not to be virgin forests or other places we haven't already destroyed for our benefit.
Yes! oh, these memories... I may still have the sources of my bots around. Nasty algorithms with zone based tactics, opponent learning with neural nets, stochastic movement patterns, wheeesh.
Really nice! Loving the multi-touch.

Small bug:

Using in Firefox browser on iPad and playing with four fingers. When I go to move all four fingers to change the pitch of all four notes this causes my iPad to attempt switch to a different app. When I then release all four fingers the notes I was playing 'stick' and continue to play. To stop them I have to refresh the page.
You mean Bf109 I think. The P-51 started 3 and then moved to 4. Ditto P-47. FW-190 and F6F stayed at 3 whole time afaik. Tempest started with 4. So it varied. But there is a trend of the early (1939) designs to have 3 and the late (1944) designs to have 4. I guess available power from the engine plays a big role, as engines got more powerful they started fitting 4 blades. Using the extra power on 3 blades would require longer blades (which is problematic), spinning them faster (again, problematic as tips reach sound barrier) or increasing the pitch (I guess there are aerodynamic limits for that).
As was discussed extensively last time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517894) that's not a complete fix because it doesn't overwrite /usr/bin/git and so you're hoping that there's no way /usr/bin/git is executed instead of /usr/local/bin/git.

It's better than nothing but no substitute for a complete fix — maybe your shell has the right PATH but are you certain there's no way your editor, GUI clients, or third-party utilities like convenience Docker launchers, etc. all use the same search order?
Those sound like tools for very immediate, personal attention. Facebook allows for that (like messaging or writing on someone else's timeline directly), plus a bunch of intermediate levels. For example I can post 200 photos from my vacation in an album, and it just shows up as a single item in my friends' timelines. Any of my contacts can browse it if they want, but it doesn't take up disk space in their inboxes, they can start a conversation connected to any individual photo, and it's not as insistent as if I'd sent them in an email. And if I really want someone to see it, I can tag them or just message them with the link.

Facebook also serves as an auto-updated contact list. If I update my email or phone number, many of my contacts won't have the new information. FB doesn't have that problem. In fact I can put my phone number and email on my FB profile and my contacts can optionally auto-sync that info right to their phones so it is always up-to-date. It's possible to be "friends" with someone but not "follow" them so you don't see their posts in your normal timeline but you still get their contact info. You can also make closed or open groups which are helpful for event planning and multicast messages, and "friend lists" which let you customize the reach of each post. I guess you could do that last one with email too.
I was there in the mid-nineties, and it was absolutely a thing in enterprise style IT.

There were also several books on the matter, and also revised waterfall models. The very term was not always used early on (though around the nineties it did), but the schemes were the same.

Lots of public projects, including some I've been involved, were designed and managed in such a way.

There were no changing requirements until the things were delivered, which could take 1-2 full years. The design phase resulted in monstrous 400 or 800-page documents covering every aspect, and to apply for such a software tender you needed to write those in excruciating detail (I did that too for several projects).

The waterfall model, with the name and all, was also taught at our university (early/mid nineties). XP wasn't even mentioned back then at our level, though we discovered it on our own, reading Fowler, Beck et al in the late nineties.

There's some tinfoil conspiracy theory thrown around that Waterfall was never a thing etc, and it was just used to push Agile etc. I wonder what its adherents did in the 80s and 90s, but surely not programming in large enterprise/public/military etc software projects.

(That Waterfall cannot work is another thing altogether -- nobody did it 100%, as nobody does Agile 100% today).
Per capita, or overall?
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There are misgivings none-the-less. A new system being "refreshing" is not a reason to use it. "Useful" is hardly a ringing endorsement.

What disturbs me the most is that systemd takes Linux farther away from being a Unix-like system. Linux is now "Linux" and incompatible with anything else.
Another common use for those in the days before every modem had an auto-answer mode was to hook up a "ring detector". The ring detector would send a 5v pulse into the joystick port when the phone rang, then the BBS or terminal software would issue the necessary commands to tell the modem to answer.
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One graph is worth thousand words.

Rotor power coefficient vs. tip-speed ratio.

http://i.imgur.com/PONHerZ.jpg
You mean like one of these?

http://www.windpowerninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/old...
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Overall.
The most impactful: "Taylor Hornby found the InternalH Collision vulnerability, which would let someone double-spend a specially-crafted note, if they have a computer powerful enough to find 128-bit hash collisions."

How difficult it is to find 128-bit hash collision, sane hash function assumed? For example sha256 truncated to 128 bits. On a quick thought it feels pretty much impossible.
The note on the video is quite funny:

Note: I have since discovered I used the wrong viscosity for air on this experiment, so the results aren't valid for use on the earth. (Maybe Jupiter.)
Goofy names are usually fun for about 5 minutes, but quickly become seriously annoying if you have to use them continually. I imagine the same is true for ship names as for naming classes or functions.
I have to imagine most people would find both of an initial and a second call from the FBI distressing.
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If bond yields adjust to rising inflation, that means their prices go down and their coupons stay fixed. For stocks, prices follow the prices of bonds, and earnings take a hit, so you also a get hit on the dividends side. So it's not a good story for retirees.
This is really slick! Would love to see how the UI/React code interacts with and models the audio data, especially if using something like Flux/redux
>Happily no flying cars

Maybe flying cars.
http://www.ehang.com/ehang184
I gave 3 examples. Phishing, malware injection and CSRF. If you want to know how these sorts of attacks work, there isn't enough space in a HN comment so go use a search engine.
The method of delivery doesn't really have any bearing on the validity of the subpoena, however with some methods it may be easier for the recipient to fraudulently claim that they didn't receive it.

I'm sure they'll use alternate methods if the emails are ignored.
I believe it is the "RRS David McBoatface Attenborough"
The idea being that compelling you to act and restraining you from action are two different things.

Again: if you are told not to communicate something, you don't communicate it. How come the CEOs who try all sorts of crazy things to work around insider trading haven't tried this?

Given that Reddit has exercised their warrant canary already and other big companies have them, apparently actual lawyers think it's a valid strategy.

You have no idea what is going on with Reddit or Apple. I know the EFF is eager to get people to sacrifice themselves on this altar. That says more about the EFF than about the state of law.

I think being put under a security order you can't discuss is a serious liberty problem. It doesn't follow that some crazy scheme is the right reply.
Ha, this is exactly my thought as well. Such a missed opportunity for both vessels. Oh well. Someone more enterprising than them will use a unique name like this and generate more funding / interest in them.
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If and when SpaceX land rockets beyond Earth, that will very much be something to get excited about.
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> the vast majority of users choose to be insecure.

This is incorrect. The vast majority of users choose to use the things they purchase for the intended features. They usually make no choice whatsoever about security. Your posts in this thread have been trying to blame users for poor product design; if something is badly insecure when used for the intended features, then it is defective.

This is where you probably want to assert that remote management is the solution, which takes control away from the user and allows defects to be fixed at a later time. You have asserted many times that allowing users to control their own devices is "less secure". This conclusion may be true in some cases, but it is simply incorrect most of the time.

When you take control away from the user and give it to the manufacturer (or other remote location), you are creating a backdoor that the user cannot override. Adding a remote backdoor is weakening security for the user. If you want to argue this, you're going to have to explain why both the FBI and Apple were wrong in their recent conflict about pushing a broken OS to a certain iphone.

Yes, users have very little knowledge about computer security. The solution to that is to educate them and make better products that don't need as much technical knowledge to use safely. Only then will security be improved. Your solution of handing over control to someone else is trying to keep users ignorant while lowering user security.
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Those are some fairly scary bugs! Zcash is a highly ambitious protocol, so perhaps some nasty bugs were to be expected - but still, double-spending is probably enough to take down the production network?

(I haven't followed all details of Zcash, and remain unconvinced that it would actually be a good thing if Zcash succeeded - note that Bitcoin hasn't so much brought a new libertarian era of free thought as ransomware, hacking and old-fashioned crooks.)
Should I quote everyone else stating their opinion as obvious fact?

If you disagree you shouldn't just downvote regardless.
IMHO if someone hasn't added his contact information in their profile it would be safe to assume that they don't want to be contacted.
That's a lot of complexity to add compared to the current landing which boils down at it's simplest to an inverted pendulum balancing problem, hard but the dynamics are pretty well understood. First parachute landings aren't super accurate without a lot of engineering and controls and would rely on calm or no winds down range wherever you're landing to have any chance of hitting the 'pool'. Second that pool would want to float and to my knowledge no one's made anything like that, so they'd have to invent and build then deploy a huge piece of engineering for every single launch.