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>"Given how glacial rocketry progress was by early 2000 it's no wonder people from outside of the industry were pretty annoyed, not to say more."

I think this is on the money. I think people might get more interested commercially if getting out of LEO per attempt was more reliable vs the current focus on bringing the cost's down with typical systems we have been using in rocketry (which seem to not have increased the reliability). It would be really cool if we heard about advancements in alternative exit strategies[0][1], but it seems we're still far off.

I'm personally the most interested in electromagnetic rail assist for the first stage, with some sort of scram jet for the second stage, best most practical stuff will remain classified military research (looking at the US Naval programs) and the public ONR[2] reports still bring up issues as far as durability of rails over repeated use which probably is going to require some major break through in HEP & matsci.

With the Falcon 9 current specs, the first stage takes about 162 burn time, and assuming its traveling roughly at 1.66 km/s[3], its first stage travels to around around 270 km (ISS is at about 400km in LEO) with a max paylod of about 2.28 * 10^4 kg, I don't wanna be anywhere near the launch of the kinetic EM slug that needs to have at at least ~60,340 MJ of PE between the 1st-2nd stage transition (setting aside any given directional vectors, and if present or near present scramjet array could support such payload). The navy doesn't even expect a 32MJ weapon until mid 2020[5], so who knows, maybe if I can be alive in 60-80 years, we will have built huge CSP arrays in the middle of the desert to be able to launch things into LEO with more reliability.

But another hundred years of redox seems more likely.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/horizontalla...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun#Outstanding_issues_in_...

[3] https://www.quora.com/How-fast-does-the-first-stage-of-Falco...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9

[5] https://news.usni.org/2015/04/14/navsea-details-at-sea-2016-...
There's no need to down vote him. ECC is extremely uncommon on desktops & laptops. Yes, it's always going to be preferential to have it, but it typically comes at a price point that excludes it from these platforms.
While I agree with the optimism, I think the author of the article could take a cue more from "Additionally, activists reached beyond the choir, inviting participation from people who initially feared making large changes".

If serious about this, we need to on both sides step away from "signal strong" words such as "progressive" as much as possible. We need to reach out to the other person with very very concrete examples of what we want to cooperate about.
Your guess doesn't match this incident declared nature nor the concentrations peak. Thus probably not the root cause.
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I thought Planet only offers 3-5m resolution?
It doesn't matter how many Pulitzers the NYT has if they print Judith Miller garbage. The NYT are the paragons of wishful news. I unsubscribed from them early during this last election because they were selling bullshit. And boy! Was that a good decision or what!

How many of the people who hold up the NYT as some ideal actually subscribe? I'll be surprised if it's anything but a tiny number. Journalism is dying because journalists think they should write about what they want to be true. And the NYT is leading that charge.

I'll tell you something, though. They had a couple of very good articles that really stood out. And those also had exceptional prose.
Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a UK supermarket put eggs in a refrigerated section. They're always sold from a standard shelf.
> try looking yourself in the eyes and tell yourself (and try to believe) that that isn't you

I do something similar but the opposite: I keep telling myself that the reflection IS me. After a while I end up in a loop that goes like "I need to snap out of it and get back to reality" -> "I can't because this is reality" -> "no way, this can't be real?" -> repeat. It's both scary and amazing. The only way to get out of the loop is to look away and stop thinking about it, which itself is a dissociative feeling because you feel like you escape the truth.
You're running at close to 144 FPS - what FPS are you hoping to hit???
> Welcome to the modern world my friend, it is indeed a factory out there and I don't know where you work but it might be outdated.

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development turned 10 years old... in 2011.
Jeff that's not true though. There are something like 50 yemenis arrested for terror alone in the USA and slightly less for somalians to start. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/20/terror-...
Hour of Code and then Tynker Tynker Tynker Tynker Tynker. Did I say Tynker? I just spent 3 hours today with my 7 and 9 year olds coding up Minecraft mods.
I use an old-fashioned approach for some regular tasks, we hire a real human person just a few hours per month. They have a set of tasks which need doing monthly, and as a bonus they're flexible and occasionally take some initiative, or offer their services for basic tasks we might otherwise have to pay someone else to do Plus, they learn a little about running a small business, so I feel I'm giving back a little.
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An yet, MH370 still to be found. Baffling.
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I'm 38, started coding when I was 6. My life has been amazing because of it.
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Hungarian notation IIRC is specifically a 1-char-prefix of an argument names indicating type, ie. `goToWork (bTrth, sTxt, iCnt)` -- ie to reinforce type expectations -- rather than such casing conventions..

http://foldoc.org/hungarian%20notation
Well the goal was to make a video. The screenshots could be compressed into a single video file. At one screenshot a minute, and 24 frames per second; 24 hours of screenshots would give you a one minute video.
How expensive are those sensors?
Then they should work with FF team to get those APIs. Many developers just ignored it.
Thats the thing though, a "proper" grocery in most HN readers minds is a large supermarket. Most actual groceries aren't sold by chains though, bodegas, corner delis, green grocers, and an assortment of Asian, Mexican and other small grocers sell a huge chunk of the fresh fruit and vegetables here in the US, since they have the upper hand when it comes to location, price and quality.

That being said, many are quick to dismiss them since they don't have the nicest/largest stores, or the most advanced systems. By doing so your ignoring reality, as that is how most people get their food, hence why they (generally) accept EBT.
All UK chickens are vaccinated against salmonella. Not sure if it's an EU-wide practice but it's universal in the UK.
I shall have to commit my crime in cloudy weather then.
Having said that when I look around what I see is what appears to be mostly actors. And I think I'm just tired and jaded toward it.

People hide their ulterior motives behind a happy phrases in a way that I almost find offensive. I don't blame them, but I reserve the right to roll my eyes.

It's a bit unclear if you realize this or not, but to make it clear: there is a (very) large group of people who aren't acting or "hiding ulterior motives" when they act like this. They genuinely feel this way - indeed this type of behavior is what energizes them.

It's completely ok to not be one of these people of course.
Many good monitors have a 144 Hz refresh rate these days.
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Any thoughts on the huge discrepancy in SSE performance? Something seems wrong there.
Walter Kirn made a similar argument[1] which you may enjoy reading in Harper's, but it is a subtle argument. He writes:

> So here’s to the freedom to be led astray, which it would be folly to restrict, lest it foster complacency and tempt the devil. Because that’s what attracts him: foolproof safeguards. Like the one the Clinton campaign erected when, per WikiLeaks, it encouraged the nomination of a laughable, beatable “Pied Piper candidate” named Donald Trump. Or CNN’s belief in its ability to not only report the news but tell us which sources to ignore.

> Assume you’re an imbecile, but, more important, consider that the imbecile across from you may be a genius in disguise. As we go forward, so many of us still secure in our contempt for the vulgar pretender and his sorry partisans, it’s a lesson worth remembering. It might prove helpful, even protective. Plus, it’s true.

It's good that people are free to choose what to read and what to believe, and yet the current state of affairs is cause for concern nonetheless. A coin is "free to choose" whether to come up heads or tails, but if it comes up heads ninety times of a hundred tosses, it's reasonable to assume that the coin has a problem.

Of course, you could always make the argument that nothing is a problem and that this is just the way the world is -- a growing number of people don't care about facts -- and this is what we are now. But all judgements of good vs. bad are ultimately based on a choice of values. Freedom is a value, as is respect for the truth. Believing that while everyone is free, stability requires that only a small portion would choose fiction over fact is a reasonable position.

[1]: http://harpers.org/archive/2017/02/a-grim-fairy-tale/?single...
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What rights has the bank given to the consulting company regarding the software?

If the bank has stated that the software can't be on github and your company is putting it there then it sounds like a legal trouble between the bank and consulting company with you as the whistleblower, if you decide to lawyer up
The mirror doesn't do the swapping - you do. If you hold a piece of paper so you can read it, you have to turn it around to show it to a mirror. Did you turn it up/down? The mirror shows it upside down. Did you turn it left/right? The mirror shows it reversed left/right.

When we interact with other people, they are normally rotated horizontally from us, not vertically, so rotating a paper horizontally is appropriate to give them the same view of the object we have. If we typically met face to face with a vertical rotation - one of us standing on his head, but right hands both on the same side, we would think a vertical rotation was the appropriate thing to do to show a paper to someone else, and would wonder why mirrors showed things upside down.
They're always refrigerated in Denmark as well, usually in the dairy section along with the milk, cheese, and yogurt.
This is a fascinating set of slides, particularly when you think it was produced almost 20 years ago. A few of the ideas are slightly dated now as we've developed better tools and techniques to achieve the same ends, but most of the material is fundamentally sound and has stood the test of time.

For anyone who's only ever worked on projects where the emphasis is more on shipping something fast than shipping something correct, like most of the startups and web apps we discuss here on HN, these slides give a decent overview of the "alternate reality" when you're working on projects where reliability really matters and more of an engineering mindset is needed.

If nothing else, it's worth reading for the Ariane 501 case study on slides 19-22 that demonstrates just how expensive a simple programming error can be if you don't design your system defensively enough and do proper housekeeping on your code.
> Intel execs must be gnawing down to their elbows at the prospect of AMD walking in to that market at 50% pricing deltas.

That's not how it works. If they think AMD can make a dent, they'll mark their chips down to be competitive (for whatever definition of competitive they use, which is probably supported by data, though it might not be YOUR definition). Poor Intel will have to deal with only 100% profit instead of the 300% or so they've become accustomed to.

Intel got a knock out from AMD some 15 years ago. Enough people working at Intel still remember it will enough. This aspect of history is very unlikely to repeat or even to rhyme.
> half this country does not care for fact vs fiction.

I think what's even more troubling is that this isn't just changing fashions, but that some are actively trying to shake people's faith in the truth.
Wouldn't that mean the lens has a fixed focal length, so they'd only be able to see clearly objects at a particular distance?
I really want AMD to succeed! Intel's lack of progress and monopolistic behavior have become embarrassing. Competition is best for the consumer. I am really thinking of making all AMD rig after all chips are out.
That's right. The "best before" date on U.K. eggs is 28 days after the production date - and that assumes they won't be refrigerated.
> For the first time ever the entire world is being tracked, monitored and observed in real time, that includes every movement and car journey you make, every city, every field, every expanse of ocean – everything

This patently alarmist conspiracy bullshit. Why is this dross on HN?
Jeez, how do they still have a positive net worth? Like seriously, obviously their users & user data is worthless, they don't care about it getting stolen, nor do they seem serious about fixing their dilapidated, insecure systems.

This is just a case of poor management, if Google, Facebook, Twitter and others can figure out how to secure their sites, Yahoo can.
Ignore the politics or leave.
IDK, I've seen some odd RAM failure modes where the base OS would run fine, but then depending on the load (e.g. games) some weird stuff would happen like a BSOD after exactly <x> minutes of gameplay.

Once ZFS writes corrupted metadata with corrupted checksums to the disk, it's very hard to recover that data. Yes, ZFS is not backup, but the implications of serving clients messed up data is also worrying in certain business cases.

Given that ECC RAM isn't (much?) more expensive, why not just use ECC? (For my microserver I remember it being the same price as non-ECC.) Well, because CPUs with ECC support are rare, etc.
Interesting in this article is a mention of co-ops. That is, creating worker-owned and consumer-owned cooperative organizations that directly serve their communities.
There's a related truism in aviation - "There are three things you don't need - runway behind you, airspace above you and fuel on the ground."
Probably because rats, racoons, opposums, dogs, skunks, snakes, etc love to trace and steal eggs.
I see a huge jump between the 17th and 18th but I have no idea what that means. Can someone please explain? Or is the jump minor, and the axis is to blame for the seemingly large change?
DayOne could help you, it can add a little popup on your device asking "what did you do today?" where you could enter little or lots of details of your encounters which are not loggable.
> All UK chickens are vaccinated against Salmonella

I think it's most, but not all, chickens. Vaccination is part of the red lion quality brand mark, and approx 80% of birds are part of that; and many farmers not part of it vaccinate too.

Vaccination isn't mandatory. There are some vigorous testing requirements as part of the National Control Programme for salmonella.

Maybe I'm wrong though, has this changed recently?

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

> 1.1.3 The Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Food (an expert independent group which advises the Food Standards Agency) considered Salmonella in eggs and reported on its findings in May 20011 and considered that the widespread vaccination of egg laying flocks against S. Enteritidis combined with improved flock hygiene measures had had a significant effect on the prevalence of Salmonella contamination of eggs and on salmonellosis in humans. In the UK a voluntary industry operated scheme (British Egg Industry Council) Lion Quality requires its members to vaccinate their layer flocks and to operate to specified hygiene standards. About 85% of egg production belongs to the Lion Quality scheme. In addition many producers who are not members of the scheme also vaccinate their flocks on a voluntary basis.
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>I'm sorry, but 'bad decisions' is biased, and not objective.

This is very much a "my feelings are more important than your facts" argument.

There are many decisions that are "objectively" bad for the country. Nuking the ocean would be a bad decision. Yelling at the Australian PM seemingly unprovoked is a bad decision. Trying to run the government by yourself instead of at least asking for input from people who are out in the field actually doing things is a bad decision.

The EO is the perfect example of this. The core idea (limiting immigration from these 7 countries) could have been executed upon! If they could have controlled their fascist spasms for a week, they could have gotten lawyers to write up a bulletproof EO. Lots of people would be pissed, but the administration would have gotten what they want.

Instead, they just sent out the first draft from Bannon's cocktail napkin as-is, and it took less than 24 hours for it to get shut down by the courts. That's not some crazy strategizing, they're just bad at their jobs.
One of the best thing about Zen is that it "should" substantially changes the dynamic of Cloud / VPS hosting.

High Memory Instances are Cheaper due to support of 8 Memory Channels. Lower End Instances could be cheaper due to Lower Cost per Core Count.
Honestly, if clippy suggested to excel users something similar, I'd be extremely happy.
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Which website would you consider "official"? Anandtech?
It is how faulty RAM works, and it is sensible to do that.
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What happens with the other half?
This is terrible!

One of Firefox great features are the add-ons that change the _browser_ experience itself.

I NEED TileTabs, ColorTabs, and a few others that would stop working after this change.

Yes, I understand the ideology of browsers being invisible to the content, but what about our users? I don't think people understand that these add-ons are really productivity tools that aren't otherwise available.
Yeah, and the global imagery is also not real time (so you can't track a car's journey, as the article claims), but daily. It's a BS article.
For both credit cards issued by ING you can choose to pay only partly at the end of the month, and have revolving credit. Most people don't choose this though, as far as I know. I didn't check the other banks.
... but up until recently, Australia did _not_ refrigerate the eggs in grocery stores! (yuk!)
Yes, that's more-or-less correct.

The prefix wouldn't necessarily be only a single character. For example, using a "p" prefix for pointer values was a common convention in Microsoft ecosystem projects where Hungarian notation was probably most popular. Thus a pointer-to-char (char*) parameter might be prefixed with "pc".

But yes, the fundamental idea was to convey information about the type of the variable as part of its name. That convention has mostly died out today, probably due to a combination of IDEs being used routinely in the ecosystem where the notation was most popular, and more recently due to modern languages having better type systems that enforce the rules objectively instead of relying on a convention.

Ironically, with the popularity of dynamically typed languages today, we sometimes seem to have regressed to a point where interfaces to functions aren't always clear, and lots of avoidable bugs creep in due to passing incorrect types of data around. The emphasis on rapid evolution and ad-hoc/organic design we see with a lot of "agile" development processes isn't always helpful either. Put those together, and you almost have the complete opposite of the systematic design and robust processes advocated in the slides here.
Well you know sometimes many little guys can join together and get the/some power cause they can be sufficiently damaging/deathly to the big guy. Democracy, multipolar world...
>it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction.

I believe it's less to do with not caring to not understanding the system. Coming from a world where newspapers ensured to report only correct info and corrected incase of error. People expect that the internet is also the same. Many are surprised to know that Wikipedia articles are peer submitted and reviewed. Many assumed its from a company like Encyclopaedia Britannica. Just an online version, instead of the heavy books.
Power users*.

I guess we're gonna have a fork of Firefox. Pointless.

Would be better to just deprecate it by default and enable via a flag.
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Saul Bass would have approved.
ECC (error-correcting codes) don't completely eliminate errors — they reduce probability of them happening — so even with ECC memory you're still accepting that it's perfectly OK that 0 is sometimes 1, just a lot less likely. No absolutes here, unfortunately.
I know several of the founders and early employees of Planet (previously Planet Labs, previously Cosmogia).

Planet is not tracking, monitoring or observing the Earth in real time.
ECC RAM isn't that much more expensive despite being less common. It's a bigger premium to go from an i7 to Xeon than to equip the Xeon with ECC RAM. If ECC were manufactured in the volumes of non-ECC it would probably be almost exactly 12.5% more expensive (i.e. just the cost of the extra chip).
The (much higher) concentration detected in Poland, IMHO definitely points east. The readings in Spain are baffling, though.
I think it's a mistake to conflate sentience or self-awareness with intelligence. There is a prank (it might have originated as a real experiment) where someone pretends to be a researcher and gets a victim to put their hand in a box/curtain device that hides the hand. Next to the box is a prosthetic hand. The researcher simultaneously touches both the real and fake hands in the same places while the victim watches. Then the researcher pulls out a knife and stabs the prosthetic hand. The victim panics.

The prank works because the victim began to identify with the fake hand. It might even have the same neural basis as our ability to identify with reflections. But in this scenario, one could argue that someone who doesn't fall for the prank is "smarter" in some sense.
Have a look at Kano on the raspberrypi. Build and code your own computer https://liliputing.com/2016/03/first-look-kanos-raspberry-pi...
It has lessons for Graphics, Minecraft, Music and the command line.
See what interests them and then explore, if they like music then they will have fun with SonicPi etc.
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> Who knows how many more people visited but weren't counted.

Yes, although this is irrelevant regarding monetization (with adsense).
If the enemy is in firing range, so are you.
Don't fotget WinChip too...
If there is mountains of evidence for one side, then by definition Occam's Razor is not applicable.
Have you ever read the Daily Mail?
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They reverse us front to back. Left and right stay in the same place. But as we are symmetric that way, that is a more "natural" interpretation.
IPFS is a one off though, it has multiple paid developers who can spend their full time rewriting their addons at the drop of a hat. Plus that IPFS addon didn't require deep access to Firefox's internals, which many popular addons do.