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Wouldn't be allowed, right? That would position Intel as absolute monopolist on desktop, server and mobile CPU.

Intel CPU cost already way to much due to lacking competition from the only left x64 vendor AMD which is years behind. And Intel slowed down the release of faster CPUs. Where are the 8 and 16 core CPUs? Where are the 5+ GHz CPUs? Why hasn't the single core performance advanced that much (if you discount the advance of memory speed) since 2004 (Pentium 4 era).
Second Landing of Falcon 9 First Stage at Landing Zone 1
> then you would not be able to decrypt it without the correct key

You're correct. So an attacker will now attempt obtaining the correct key, by targeting the pre-decryption stages and infecting any layer that has access to the decryption key. If the bootloader's the one that asks for the user for the disk decryption key, then the bootloader would be the prime target of infection. And so on, it's turtles all the way down, until the hardware; which is what gives Intel the excuse to ship locked down firmware with their processors and motherboards.
I have. I have an X-E1 in front of me as we speak and I use it more than my Canon full-frame system. It's just a lot more practical for most travel. And reminds me a lot of the rangefinders I used for years.

That said they're relatively niche.
My favourite part of this landing was the on-board camera view of the landing burn.

Hopefully they will release the entire on-board footage, would be really interesting to watch the launch from the rocket's perspective.
Well, not patching a security flaw is not exactly a good business practice either.

Now, locking the Windows RT bootloader was a bad practice to begin with, and it's a good thing Microsoft stopped doing that. Then again, it's hard to blame them, seeing that Apple keeps locking down everything they can lay their hands on with virtually no criticism outside the Slashdot crowd perhaps. Everyone just keeps nodding and saying "This is the right thing for protecting their users and ecosystem. Look at all the fragmentation and malware mess that Android suffers from".

And what is with that "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish"? It's 2016. Next thing, IBM will come selling their Watson SaaS and everyone would have to buy it because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM "?
It needs the 9 engines during launch because it's carrying a payload and the first stage is full of fuel.

When they land the first stage, it has already burned >90% of the fuel. Plus it doesn't have the second stage / payload obviously. :)
Intel has already sold off their successful line of ARM chips ages ago and instead focused on domination via the x86 architecture (Which only Intel and AMD are licensed to make).

I'm not sure Intel would want to also take full control of ARM chips regardless of Antitrust regulations.

Whoever buys ARM can keep collecting the licensing fees, perhaps even increase the fees a bit. No platform is particularly tied to ARM in the long run, they just use it because ARM chips are cheap, fast and power efficient. If Intel tried to change the ARM licensing deals in monopolistic ways, then everyone would simply move to new chips. For example, Android has always been reasonably platform agnostic with their Java layer and Apple have been introducing platform independant binaries.
There's also a BitTorrent client by the same name, if anyone thought this sounded familiar.
They seem happy to screw their suppliers right down instead and leave the risk to them - the sapphire screens saga being an example.
Aside: Is English this person's native language?

"I showed to him how to tap with the warmth of your finger" is a very interesting turn of phrase and I'm curious what language it comes from.
The first few, probably yes.

But I'm pretty convinced they're trying to avoid this. The engines have been test-fired many, many, times (30 starts is a figure that has been mentioned a few times. Remember that the first recovered stage (Orbcom) was returned to the launch pad and went through a static fire just a few weeks after landing. It seems clear to me that they've got their eye on reasonably-quick-turnaround reuse.
Plus for the orbiter refurb they had to check the entire heat shield, flight control systems, crew habitats, etc. etc. Easier when it's just the rocket + fuel tank.
Kodak actually sold off their chemical subsidiary way back when before they started declining. Using expertise in emulsions etc. is essentially what Fujifilm did but as I said elsewhere they still had hard times and I think we're quite a bit smaller.
Like the physical borders that separate land, the borders of the internet are also being drawn in the form of applications, IPs, ports, protocols, etc. To me it's sad, it never had to be that way.
Well, there are a few other massive differences - RDBMS have basically its own version control built in (which is what allows ACID) and by containing the logic for joins it allows performance based on statistics (which can't be done in an upper layer)
Apparently gcc and clang are not fooled by { 0 }, so that's good:

https://twitter.com/areuugee/status/754888773498867712
I did wonder why they would sell their Supercell stake considering they just introduced a new game which is looking to be another cash cow. This certainly does seem to put the sale into some perspective.
There are still big plants in the US. The Volkswagen plant in South East Tennessee (thought nowhere near the scale of the plant you mentioned).

But they do exist in China. Plants in some cities dump sludge into wastelands the size of lakes. Some factories are small towns unto themselves where people work, sleep and live on company property.

We still need to the scale Kodak had for their market at the time, but economics has moved it overseas and the market is totally different.

It's still consumerism though, and a frightening scale. It's just abstracted away from most of the western world, so we don't see it.
Maybe another term would be better, but it is in common use (example: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Account_Enumerat...), possibly because usernames aren't meant to be resistant to brute force.
Why using Evernote is making you less creative
Would you still say this:

> I'm not sure Wheeler's turncoat, pro-consumer behaviour was predictable (or, for that matter, predicted) by anyone, you or otherwise.

After reading this[1], written by Wheeler?

> Back in the original analog-to-digital days I can remember AT&T’s representatives warning of catastrophic job losses and damage to the national security if innovative competitors were allowed into their business. The same echoes surround the proposed NASA changes. Many of the Old Guard, launch system contractors, and their congressional supporters are bemoaning the thought of a competitive manned launch environment. We’ve heard all that before at the time of another “analog-to-digital” conversion. The earlier warnings not only failed to materialize, but just the opposite occurred as new, innovative and less expensive services came forward and economic growth and a new generation of jobs exploded.

Is it really that surprising that someone who wrote that turned out to be a regulator with reasonable positions on things like net neutrality?

Maybe "obvious" was a bit strong of a word (Wheeler's writing is a bit heavy on long-winded metaphors...) but I also definitely do not think that the vitriol directed at him starting the day of his nomination was warranted, and I do not think that Wheeler's behavior was so unpredictable.

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20110206170617/http://www.mobilem...
No fantasy necessary. In any version of capitalism government enforced monopoly for an idea and implementation is basically not capitalism whether it is fantastical or practical. Most modern democracies have not had any version of capitalism for a long time. The US economic system is more socialist than anything else really.

I also was not arguing for replacing one system with another since that never works out. The new thing ends up being as bad as the old thing but slightly different. I'm arguing for more stringent requirements for patents and higher bars for suing someone based on patent infringement claims. That already goes a long way towards preventing patent abuse.

> shareholders don't put up that kind of money without expecting to get it back.

Therein lies the problem and what I mean by "short term business thinking". MIPS investors could have settled for getting back much less money for their investment but instead they chose the greedy approach and we collectively ended up worse off.
Well, yes. I was talking retail, not wholesale but my point was that lobster is still pricey per pound compared to other protein at retail (and wholesale). Last week soft shells were running about $6 per pound at lobster pounds and other local retail sources. They were more like $4 to $5 last year.

[EDIT: The $40-ish/lb was for picked lobster meat.]
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I bet they're less concerned with # of firings and more with fatigue/wear from atmosphere reentry. Very hard to test on ground.
> IIRC the Falcon 9 engine design is the opposite of an RS-68, which is the "one huge fucking engine" design philosophy, which is why a falcon9 has a cluster of many smaller engines and is tolerant of an individual engine failure during launch.

Indeed! A Falcon 9 mission has lost an engine mid-flight, and the flight system adjusted the burn duration on the fly to compensate:

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/spacex-s-non-fatal-failure
Good call - I think it would be like foreboding except with a feeling respect to something that has happened rather than something that will.

"postboding" isn't a word but I think that might capture the feeling. Like in my example of sending an email, feeling uneasy and then the sudden realization that you forgot to attach something - so you fix it and the feeling is changes to relief.
>>You can help them learn how. It's not difficult.

You have to be really really careful. Most of us learned about technology when we were young, before we had credit cards and retirement plans. Handing an old person the internet, opening them to the world of scam artists that implies, is very dangerous.

When working with seniors one must also be ready for stereotypes to be true. Not all old people have bad memory, but many do. It can be very frustrating to work with someone every day only to have that work disappear overnight. Often lack of memory manifests as aggression and paranoia. It is not unusual to work with someone every day for weeks, only for them to suddenly accuse you of stealing. You have to be ready for these setbacks.
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Why is this on the front page? Not very interesting, not very useful, a footnote for the windows vc++ dev team maybe at best. Probably a fair way down footnotes to their list of priorities though.
Also I think 2 of them can flame out and Falcon can still achieve the primary mission. Minivan with an extra tire.
Night rocket landings are so beautiful. Check out this screencap from the livestream: http://i.imgur.com/FonyaMv.jpg
Filesystems don't intrisincally support searching the contents of the files to satisfy predicates. And that is the most important part of a database.

I think I understand what the author means by the statement. But technically it doesn't make much sense.
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No one claims that piracy has died, we are all aware of the pirates in Africa, the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific.
But there is no homeport that can harbor not to mention offload any of those ships, they ransom the crew every time (often not even the entire crew). Those ships hull on average about 4000 containers you need a modern port to offload them, a fishing village in Somalia won't cut it, the ship won't even be able to dock.
The only ports in Somalia which are capable of harboring a cargo vessel are in Mogadishu, Berbera, Bosaso and Kismayo the Pirates simply cannot operate from those areas as the Somali government controls those ports pretty tightly.
Also note that you can't zero-initialize an array of objects that don't have a default constructor, and that if you just add an empty default constructor to shut the compiler up, the memory occupied by your array will not be initialized to zero or anything else.

Seems obvious and elementary enough, but it got me good the other day.
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That's really cool to hear!

The customer service people at Xoom were great ones, many of the more colorful characters I've ever met. Ed went off to start a security firm, Bryan moved to LA to star in gay porn, and I dated a crazy pink haired girl who ended up in SF by hopping trains all the way from North Carolina. It was a good group of people, by and large. As previously noted, many Xoom ops people eventually ended up at Google, and I like to think it was a net positive there, too.

Of course we also made mushroom-and-peanut-butter sandwiches in the break room and piped the heat exchanger from the "machine room" into the rest of the building (an old bank building on Montgomery), but overall it was a good group.
When did click bait titles become a thing on hacker news?
Sink it with what? they attack it with fishing boats and AK47's you'll need a literal ton of explosives to sink on of those ships.
They can't offload the containers and other than the money in the captain's vault there is nothing of value other than the propane tanks in the galley (that and the med bay is the only thing they raid).
My home is infested with humans. They're loud, they're smelly, and they leave the toilet seats up.
They've now got 45 intact engines back, from a variety of re-entry regimes. We know they've done an all-up static fire. Several of the returned stages have had engines removed and I imagine some of these have been tested.

If there's a major problem, they already know about it.
I have tried to edit a file with a little bit of long JSON that came from a server (less than 50K) and atom completely froze trying to display it.
This was two weeks ago. I've ditched Atom entirely.
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Surely *BSD accounts for more than 0.0001% of UNIX-like servers.
Do the right thing for customers, or for shareholders?
That is a very dangerous maneuver. No pilot would consider contacting another aircraft in flight, especially not one of similar size/strength. It is just to risky. Looking at the dihedral of the drone's wing, it would take a massive force to tip it out of control. This was not a war and this was not a tiny drone aimed at a city. I doubt ramming or any other similar maneuver was even considered.
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To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must either gain administrative privileges or physical access to a target device [...]
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There's a big difference between a device being jailbreak-able and being vulnerable.
"vulnerable to a user with administrative privileges" shouldn't count as "vulnerable".
Right. Still, after your last edit, the last section (the example with a password derived key) -- still stands out from the rest of the otherwise excellent readme -- in that it's not actually a usable example. I mean the code (appears to) work - but it's not an actually usable example like the others. Because it leaves a lot of questions up in the air (or worse, for an untrained eye, it might lead to implementing "one-way" encryption, if real data is encrypted, and the salt thrown away...).
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It runs on Windows and other non-unix-like operating systems too.
Walking away from a mortgage is significantly less painful than walking away from a margin call (or, losing actual money versus borrowed money).
>Augmenting people is the same as replacing them.
>The person now has a greater output which means you need less of them.

Attention, i think this is a fallacy in multiple aspects.
Maybe they don't produce more, just higher quality?
On the other hand you have jobs where more is never enough, e.g. Scientists.
10 core is coming - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/core-...
It's not a mandatory feature. It provides options that it didn't have before without having lost anything.
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I don't understand?
I was a summer intern working in OLED research at Kodak in the early 90's. While not that many people associate Kodak with OLED, Kodak was considered one of the world leaders in OLED research at that time. There is a short paragraph about the folks I was working for, on the OLED page on Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED ). While Kodak was able to license the associated technology/patents, it didn't seem like they came out with any consumer OLED products of their own in the years that followed my short stay, there.
Teaching seniors how to use technology is a great way to learn how a lot of recent trends in software development are awful to certain groups of people. Namely, when you teach someone a button is somewhere, and it looks a certain way, that's what they look for.

Today's trend of constantly redesigning and refreshing the UI is a TERRIBLE experience to these sorts of users. For seniors, a Comcast or AT&T mail website is actually better than a Google account, because the former two change their UI less often.
At this point we must ask which Update of VS 2015 as MS just replaced the Optimizer with an SSA based one.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/05/04/new-code-...
Users should have the option of choosing or not choosing to use a locked bootloader. For some users, the benefits of an unlocked bootloader exceed the costs of not letting Microsoft handle "security" for them.

If a company is selling hardware, why should it matter what the purchaser does with it afterwards?

For the answer to that question, we might ask Apple.

Whatever the answer is, it is certainly not "for the security of the user" if the user explicitly wants to install their own choice of OS.
"workstation" ... "OSX"

Yeah, sure! :-)
Far worse is trying to grow a std::vector with a std::vector.resize() and subsequently trying to opt out of array intialization.
Yes.

Users also had the choice to buy something different - like any of the other ARM tablets with broadly similar hardware specs that already run linux.
Agreed about moore's law - but you mean ghz rather than MHz, right?
Yes. Still, another successful experimental landing, and another option for experimental relaunches -
They've only landed a handful now, but they're already making it look so easy.
What exactly about CP/M and the PC BIOS? - the PC BIOS was published - code and all by IBM.
If you need to manually define a default constructor, and you want the behavior of default-initializing all members, declare the constructor as:

T() = default;
> "let us sell your data or start paying for our services."

Same page:

> What’s still the same?

> Google does not sell your personal information to anyone.

The wording may matter so here are real questions that I can't seem to get definitive answers for because everyone seems to have strong opinions either way but no reference ever:

- Does "aggregated data from multiple users" or "anonymized data form a single user" still counts as personal from Google's PoV?

- Is Google effectively selling data in any way or is it only using data to back a service up? (e.g ads are getting served based on profile but the profile itself never leaves Google)

I'd be thankful if anyone points me to unambiguous text (ToS or other) pertaining to each question, whatever the answer is.
This reads like a college application essay, and I don't mean that in a good way. The first half of the piece is just a list of high school accomplishments and the second half is vague and full of platitudes. Tell us what you learned when teaching seniors. Specific techniques you have found that worked, and ones that didn't. The highlight of the entire piece was a description of how one senior didn't understand how to tap his cellphone screen correctly, and that particular part desperately needed a proofreader.
I dropped out of University, to build my startup called ContractIt. Peter Thiels' words about feeling like he was on a very straight-forward path with his law career, really stood out to me, and shook up my feelings about my own education and what I really wanted from my life. I had pursued entrepreneurial ventures before, but nothing had struck my consciousness as much as going to Burning Man and getting to know my friend Ismail in Uganda - I just felt like I could make a difference in the world if I built ContractIt and never gave up.

My big vision, is I believe, that we can use "productive data values" captured from contractual activity on our platform to provide the equivalent of a guaranteed minimum income for everybody on the planet. I have built a large team on a 0$ budget. We're in Alpha, a month or so away from our beta.

It's exciting, and anxiety-inducing to be working full-time on ContractIt - but I feel like I get a lot of credibility for dropping out of school and quitting my job to make it happen.
Since most of the weight of the rocket is fuel and payload, when landing it is very very light so even one Merlin engine, throttled to its minimum is way to much and the rocket has thrust to weight ratio bigger than one, so it cannot hover (the moment it slows down it starts going up again) thus the suicide burn - it has to cancel all of its velocities at the precise point of landing.

But even if that was not the case and it could throttle down enough, suicide burn is the most efficient way of landing a rocket (the least amount of fuel required) as it has very small gravity losses - the faster you slow down, the less you have to fight against gravity, so they would use it in most cases.

The amount of fuel left when going anywhere besides low earth orbit (or the international space station) is so big that they hardly have any to spare - the tyrany of the rocket equation and all that... You can test it all out yourself in Kerbal space program :-)
Higher quality is the same as higher production. That higher quality reduces the need for all sorts of people in QA roles.

Also, not all scientists are blue-sky researchers. Many do lab work, diagnose disease or provide services to patients. Others perform field tests or public outreach. Or they teach. Augmenting these people does replace people as fewer scientists are needed to perform a service once performed by many.
Humans have the widest distribution of any terrestrial mammal species, inhabiting every continent on earth (although there are no permanent settlements on Antarctica). A small group of humans has been introduced to space, where they inhabit the International Space Station.
It's all about the read.
But a different one.
The human ability to read code.

You can write very dense code in Lisp (and the author makes the point several times on how little lines of code you need for this vs. that).
However, who's going to read that and understand it?

Especially problematic with code that looks like a regular s-expression but has a completely different semantic thanks to macros.

Lisp is great if you want to write code.
Reading it...you mileage may vary
This is actually be the most rational response I've gotten so far.
Legitimately, why should I care. It solves a number of problems for me.

I don't live in a city, everybody around me already uses private means to obtain water, sewerage, waste disposal and even power and I'll be doing the same.

Not every solution has to be scalable. In fact the majority are not.
I have been thought that 'hacker' is a title that other people give to you, but you do not give to yourself.

The only exceptions are people that "created" the hacker culture: people like Stallman, Sussman, esr, etc.

Just my two cents.
Source? This study says bicycling is way better than cars: http://bikeportland.org/2011/12/12/new-study-compares-bicycl...
This was also mentioned in the linked article.