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NASA provided a live video of the launch prep. Maybe an hour before the launch, the commentator discussed two issues, and said that for both of those issues, they would make a call on it at T-1 minute.

Later on, the video showed SpaceX launch control center, with a group of people huddled together talking - I'm assuming they were discussing the issues.

One of those issues was resolved quite a while before the launch, but not a lot was said about the second issue - the second-stage engine actuator.

The launch was scrubbed at T-00:00:15. In the SpaceX video [1], you hear someone saying "Hold hold hold", followed by "Launch abort is started".

If I were to speculate, I'd suggest that the second-stage anomaly went away, but no-one could explain why. I think the launch was scrubbed, not because someone said "This will go wrong", but because no-one could say "This will go right". Even if Musk did personally scrub the launch, it was for an issue that had been an ongoing discussion for maybe an hour, and that they had already determined would be a (literal) last-minute decision.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1834&v=V5bG37hzw...
Why would you do that? Have you asked them if they're interested?
I do not know, but can tell you that scrapbook works fine in Pale moon.
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My very first (and maybe not so useful comment): I really love your approach. I was thinking something more automatic (I have some withings stuff) but you convinced me to start small and manual. Really interesting. Thank you for sharing.
There was a similar thread on HN a few days ago and to get started and get them interested, someone suggested to open devtools and let the kids "hack" Google, like change colors etc. It's very simple but apparently makes kids excited and lets them have fun. Starting totally from scratch might be too intimidating.
>It implies that the system knows plaintext password

No it doesn't, the password can be generated client side. I know that client side code is not safe, but the purpose here is to protect people who are not tech savvy enough to figure that out.
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Clearly HN even hates the suggestion, but the thing about an Android-based console would be that it comes with all of the mobile games built in. Some even already have controller support. You could even imagine a "console" that was just a dock for your phone and existing wireless controllers that hit the same price point as a Chromecast.

These things all exist in the Android ecosystem, but they're either built by 3rd parties or not really promoted.
Weird Al is a national treasure.

He has a great touch with lyrics and generally manages to stay on the right side of the line between goofy/funny and uncomfortable/cringeworthy.
Ugh I read Sapians and Debt and found that core idea to be horribly argued.
Thanks for addressing my comment. Of course I can't speak for everyone (and neither can you or anyone else), but to my general point ...

> people who advocated for them feel betrayed ...

Consider how strong an emotional response that is to a search engine change, etc., especially from people very familiar with IT and capable of adjusting to change (changing the default search engine, for example), and in a context where they see software changes frequently (think of hosted apps like Facebook!).

I don't think Firefox's changes are enough to explain that emotion; if you'll pardon the metaphor, they don't contain enough energy to explain the reaction; the energy must be coming from someplace else. I think the emotion is from someplace else and about something else.

Also, the comments raised above don't address the merits; they reflect only anger, which is consistent with my point. (In fairness, it may not be the context to review the merits of all those changes.)
this guy doesn't age. i remember him from when i was a kid. a while ago i saw some elementary school kid talk about weird al, and was like "that guy still alive?"

and checked out his latest, he looks exactly the same!
Depends on the system. If it's a website of some description you could always generate the password in the clients browser. Obviously you'd then need to be pretty careful to generate your suggested passwords in a secure way, because any attacker would have visibility of your password generating system.
Storing gold or other valuables instead of Gederal Reserve notes for sale or bartering wouldn't have helped during Great Depression? I havent heard the angle that there was nothing to barter with on top if worthless dollars.
Yes: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3388267104904598345
yeah, i cant even read it. all i see is a full screen slideshow of weird al pics. no way to scroll down. nice job wapo!
i've been a very happy linode customer since 2007.
I think it's a rare combination of genuine talent, being genuinely likeable (and being able to easily communicate that through a short song or video), having the qualities needed to promote himself and struggle for a long time, and good luck to be there at a time when he could enter the consciousness of so many young people.

Generations of kids (and the rest of us) have enjoyed this man's work, and that of course gives him some staying power too. How often does something we feel nostalgia for continue to reinforce those good memories? Here's a case of someone who still does.

There have been others with greater or lesser success... Mr. Rogers for example (I think) had a similar kind of impact, but obviously not the financial success.
Sounds like the Andon cord[1] approach. It does seem to be superior in many contexts to a strict command and control hierarchy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)
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IME, the first people in my friend group who started doing it were the ones who weren't insecure about looking "uncool" (so a combination of unapologetic techies and people without low self-esteem). Afaict, that's the main reason that people don't use a feature that would otherwise save tons of time.
Thanks, but you'll understand if I'm not taking the test. What is the difference?
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And in reading. We teach reading by consistent, laborious repetition. Most parents are engaged in this almost every day.

We don't do this for math as standard because most parents don't value math as much as reading. We know it works, we just don't care enough as a population.
> It's a lack of belief in one thing.

This is the biggest misconception I see amongst atheists. They think they are rejecting one idea, so-called "God", when in fact they are rejecting 4.7 billion different ideas, without having even understood what 4.6 billion+ of them are. They reject the God of their parents, and then extrapolate to all the others, deeming them all "one idea".

Atheism is a hold-out of the old "single reality" idea. Ironically both atheists and strict religious fundamentalists share that property: the belief in one true way to understand reality, whether it's God or not-God. Rather than a willingness to allow others to define reality on their own terms.
The right call was made, yet they still need to start showing that they can regularly launch without blowing up on the pad, cargo and all. In other words, this was the right choice in a bad situation.
Software is like a drug, once you are hooked using it, you rarely switch. Its what you become comfortable with, like your local food grocerys store, you know the layout you can get in and out quickly for odd bits, but don't waste your time hunting high and low when doing a big shop. Also why grocery stores have similar layouts. In the case of businesses on Windows, theres enough change in the versions of Windows to justify the upgrade, (think NT4-Server2008/W7), without enough costs in retraining employees to warrant the business customer looking elsewhere. Yet if you look at W10, apart from the GUI differences, theres little change under the hood when comparing with W7. Now you can also make your business successful, if you can lobby Govt's to change laws, Big Pharma, Food Industry, Alcohol all do this and the Alcohol industry is a good example when looking at the costs to society. You have a drug which takes 14days for the metabolites to breakdown in the Liver, scientist rate it more harmful than other drugs, yet its still legal and other less harmful drugs are not legal. If you want proof your Govt is not working in your best interests, this is just one example. Yet the drug lords don't organise themselves enough, they don't set up lobby organisations, they don't engage in educating people through media adverts, because most are little more than small holding farmers, producing their warez, just like a lot of little software or internet companies. If they got together to form a cartel, a co-operative or industry body, you get the strength in numbers which anyone who has added their name to a cause knows, there's strength in numbers.
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A lot of it is situational. A company in San Francisco hiring a junior Rails dev will probably get a LOT of recent bootcamp grads as applicants. Last I checked, most bootcamps were still focused on teaching Rails. So that's on factor. I was recruiting for Rails in SF, so that's part of it. You learn to optimize for challenges you have.
For some reason overflow-y: hidden is inlined onto the body element. Looks a botched attempt at a paywall. Easily disabled in devtools, though.
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There were some good games. For instance, I really enjoyed Arcadecraft [1], a game that had you running an arcade in the 1980s and trying to turn a profit while keeping your machines repaired and up to date.

[1] http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Arcadecraft/66acd0...
same here. Bought it after the 2016 MBP came out, specifically because it was still a better design. Am very happy with it.
Modern dev consoles use the same DRM scheme as the retail consoles, they simply use a different (most of the time per developer) certificate, and won't boot retail signed titles.
Depending on this photogs tech proficiency I think they could pretty easily achieve this using Amazon Turk or pay for a custom solution using a dev tool like https://www.scaleapi.com/
There are mobile consoles, they are called phones and tablets. Android and especially iOS are making a huge dent in the gaming market but most "hard-core" gamers don't want to admit it. There is a mountain load of horrible games on mobile platforms but a ton of real gems also and that's good enough for a ton of people IMO.
I wondered what that was too.
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Joke or not I've been looking for something like this. Thanks.
It is given that P(A | X) = .99 and P(B | X) = .01, because (by assumption) the first doctor gives you perfect predictions given the information X. Clearly P(A or B | X) = 1, so P(C | X) = 0 for any C not in A or B.
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Yeah there are question marks about the methodology etc. though it still seems there are a lot of errors https://www.pamedsoc.org/tools-you-can-use/topics/quality-an...
I have a lot of experience with this problem. The simplest way is via data munging in python/ pandas etc by finding what percent users convert/churn after doing an event N times within the first X days, and all the permutations thereof, using statistical tests around the change point. A more clever way is to use bayesian change point analysis.

The tricky thing is that these insights wind up being kind of obvious from the first analysis. You will find things like "users who use the software more are more likely convert." Other times these types of analysis will confirm what you already know. The tricky thing is making sure you have the right tagging/events and place to make sure you're getting at the right level of detail to get something worthwhile. It's very a much a garbage in garbage out type of thing.
It was used on startssl.com, at least before they got in cahoots with wosign and subsequently got de-listed as a CA for various shady practices. I haven't checked since.

Also, I think Chrome is in the process of removing support for <keygen> (and client side certificates in general?), so whatever opportunity existed for making this common has now passed.
Modern game systems are running on top of a real big boy kernel this generation, so you don't need hardware level debugging support. An equivalent to gdbserver is enough.
He's vegetarian, mostly vegan, supposedly. So it's funny how he fits into that stereotype "vegans don't age" / "look younger"
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Dynamic typing isn't "unityping". It is typing, period.

For an example of a respected academic discussing dynamic typing properly, recognizing it to be typing, see Henry Baker's paper The Nimble Type Inferencer for Common Lisp.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616965

In dynamically typed code, it is often possible to logically infer the type without executing it, so that the same information which is known at run-time can be ascribed to nodes of the syntax.

These are not two different type systems; it's the same information, just known at different times to some degree of completeness.

Quote from the paper:

We have chosen to perform static type inference on programs in the dynamically-typed Common Lisp programming language [CLtL84]. Common Lisp-84 has a reasonably complex type system. This system involves 42 simple type specifiers, 4 standard type operators, and 21 type specialization forms. Common Lisp has the usual primitive integer and floating point types, characters, the traditional atoms and conses of Lisp, vectors, arrays, and strings. In addition, Common Lisp has a host of non-traditional datatypes, such as hash tables, readtables, and other special purpose types. The datatype system can also be extended through user-defined structures, which are analogous to structures in C and to records in Pascal and Ada.

No nonsense here about Common Lisp having just one type, the value cell.
> Finally, the formula has a simple interpretation. If we think of the histogram as a probability density function, we can be said to be trying to minimize the KL divergence between the histogram's distribution and the empirical distribution.

Can you expand on that? I mean it does look like the KL divergence from N to T, but you're maximizing it so that doesn't really make sense. According to the paper it's the maximum log likelihood of the samples assuming a piecewise constant rate.
Weird Al goes in the same bucket as The Muppets and Homestar Runner - danged good clean fun.
Having an algorithm that increases your ability to call plays by giving your votes more weight based on number of correct plays would be really interesting. Make it biased so that you need to maintain a significant accuracy to get a vote above 1 but generally manage the voting so that the shrewd plays get made more often... that'd be really neat.
The Ouya's SoC was out of date by the time they launched. I wouldn't say that the idea is invalid based off of that experience.
You could have used <keygen> (when it was still implemented in browsers) and avoid performing any crypto maths in JS. :)
Just want to clarify that by "anybody can call Elon" he means "anybody at SpaceX." [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/zlsadesign/status/832995820328804352
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I remember when he was much larger . He actually went on a diet and lost a bunch of weight and now has to wear a fat suit for his parody of Michael Jackson.
It is then obvious to ask: Do we all have an equally "large" consciousness when fully alert? Or are some of us more conscious than others?
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I don't agree with this. Presumably this is going to be a long lived language. They should fix the problems as early as possible so that generations of developers don't have to keep reliving the same pain.
One of the weirdest cognitive experiences in my life (as a drug non-user) was when I walked through a very crowded, dimly-lit bar and suddenly came face to face with a person who, when I tried to pass him, kept moving to the same side that I tried to pass on. It took me probably 3 seconds to realize it was a mirror and that I was trying to pass myself (meanwhile, one of the employees who was sitting next to the mirror was giggling loudly while profusely apologizing for doing so; not my proudest moment).

The cognitive weirdness was that during those 3-4 seconds, I genuinely did not recognize the person as being myself. It was a kind of out-of-body experience.
The issues were unrelated. The leak from yesterday was in the system that spins up the turbopump prior to engine ignition (using compressed helium).

The scrub today was related to some wonky readings on a sensor that measures the position of a hydraulic actuator that controls the direction of the second stage engine (the 'TVC' or 'thrust vector control' actuator).
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The experience of Firefox getting slow over time is hardly unique to me. In any case, if it weren't a relatively common problem, it seems unlikely Mozilla would rearchitect the browser to alleviate it, especially given that some users are very distressed by the side effects of the change.
>it remains the problem of distributing that password to the client in a secure way.

That's no different. It uses the same channel the user would send the password to it.
Ask HN: 2D Game Programming
How do I get good at 2D game programming quick? I'm currently super deep into web and haven't touched anything else in a decade. Years ago I wrote some game cheats in ways of simple aimbots and whatnot for Doom and Quake but I can't remember anything related to games at all.

What are some starting points? Websites/Communities/'go-to' texts? I'm not looking for 500 page books but maybe YouTube videos or some quick starts to get my bearings again.
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Interesting, if you like to send me some more information I'd be happy to give you some pointers (andreas (ät) 7scientists.com).
Really well thought out. Would also map well to an Alexa skill, like:

Alexa, tell plog I ate a burrito at 8am.
Sorry I couldn't find a better copy online, but just zoom in a little.
It's really hard to pace sales due to costs involved. But we ( https://Marketjoy.com )try to solve this problem by controlling the lead flow for our customers.

Edit: I hope this is not too salesy.
The researchers appear to assume the subject knows what they look like, so a mark should be notable.

Seems a dubious assumption in some cases.
> The problem with this line of argumentation is atheism does not explain or give reasons for the most basic questions we have as human beings

Unfortunately, that has no bearing on whether it is true or not. It would be nice if there were ready answers, but if ready answers to these questions don't involve being true, then those answers aren't worth anything and it's better to have no answer.

> We can all agree that murder is wrong, but what's to stop an independent person from asking the logical question "who says?"

This is an excellent question. It seems like a hard question, and my answer would be that it seems like no one does, and emotions against murder are a part of our psychological instinct. It doesn't seem becoming an atheist removes this instinct, you remain moral and adhere to the norms of the society around you. It works out.

But! If it didn't work out, that would be too bad, because having no answer to "who says?" doesn't make religions true, it just makes reality scarier. In other words, even if atheism turned everyone into a murderous sociopath, if gods don't actually exist, then they don't exist. It's kind of like saying "I wish light speed wasn't a universal speed barrier. It would be cool to travel to other galaxies in a single lifetime". But wishing doesn't make light speed any faster. Luckily we're all here stuck at sublight speed together, which makes things a little easier to bear. And luckily those moral feelings seem to be programmed into us from birth, not from religion, so things work out on the atheism front as well.
These days we often identify as rationalists, skeptics, or atheists, interested in cognition and cognitive biases;

Does he not mean empiricist instead of rationalist? Rationalism means, mentally, rationalizing something as true, which tie in with religiosity.
> Because it would be counted in that 250k/yr number.

Do you have a citation that these kinds of trivial, harmless, errors are being counted as medical error deaths?
My experience is most atheists are a lot more educated about the wide variety of religious beliefs than the religious who tend to just stick with whatever their parents believe. That's anecdotal but I think it's natural to go find out about other faiths as part of the process of questioning the faith of your parents or society.

There may be 4.6+ billion variants of the idea, but I rejected the root idea, magic.
The most popular ad blockers also block W3Counter's tracking script, so those 110K monthly views it counted are just the people not running a blocker. Who knows how many more people visited but weren't counted.
Er… he always had to wear a fat suit (and a mask) for Fat!, there's no way you can dance that choreography and be basically round. Hell the second scene of the MV is him literally ballooning up.

Not to mention, "eat it" is from the same album and he's not exactly heavy in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI
I personally have had this problem and tried looking for that insight hidden among our big data.

but we discovered looking for patterns in quantiative data was a waste of time. Instead what we are focusing on is more qualitative data: interviewing customers, interviewing people who cancelled, and finding the "jobs to be done" of your prospective customers. then mapping that to your product features.

once you truly understand your customer needs, knowing what to fix/improve is rather trivial.
> Is he wearing cool-packs?

"They were also so hot that scientists had to don cheap versions of space suits—to prevent contamination with outside life—and had ice packs all over their bodies."