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> Maybe I'm not alone

Come on, you're on HN afterall.

I personally work a lot better with git when using a GUI. It's faster for me to click-click-click the files I want to include in my commit, type up my message in a box and hit commit than it is to stop and think about adding each file and the syntax I need to use when commiting and should I push as well for this project?

On top of that, the client interface I have is in-built diff that makes it easy to navigate files and folders for differences with colour-coded boxes and icons to quickly tell what it is I'm doing in this commit.

That's not to say I don't understand the value of CLI tools and I don't love some of them a lot more than any GUI counterpart, but different tools call for different ways of use. And for me and git - git CLI is only for headless boxes, automated tools and servers I'm working on.
> In the transcript of a private hearing before Judge William Alsup in United States District Court in San Francisco, Mr. Levandowski’s lawyers said he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right to avoid incrimination in turning over documents relevant to the case. Uber’s lawyers said they have made clear to Mr. Levandowski that he needs to release any documents relevant to the case as part of discovery.

Does Levandowski also have his own lawyers? Says here that his lawyers said he was invoking his 5th amendment, while Uber lawyers said he needs to turn over all documents
That's an unfortunate but accurate description of the average person's understanding of the 5th amendment. The reality is more complex: it's pretty easy for any statement, even one which is 100% accurate and made from a position of actual innocence, to contribute to a guilty verdict.

An interesting video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
I believe that's only true in criminal matters against you, not if you're called as a witness as part of a civil suit.
I mean, I don't really agree with Dropbox strategy if their goal is to continue growing, but I want to say congrats on the progress toward IPO. I sense it's been a long time coming. I saw Drew Houston talking to Sam Altman and talking about the books he reads and his approach to things. I have something of a new sort of respect for the guy. He strikes me as someone whose best ideas are still ahead of him. Like someone who found himself in a world far beyond his ken, and is now learning and incubating to make the next big move. I certainly hope that's the case, for Dropbox's future strategy to make it long term viable ( if long term viability is a workable goal for the Dropbox stakeholders ).

I don't know how to reconcile the negativity toward Dropbox with how what Dropbox did was very very technical and hacker-ish. Basically they spent 5 years just tracking down obscure operating system bugs and making their app work seamlessly across all platforms. I mean they really did the hard slog. A kind of slog I thought technical people here would respect.

If I really look into it I'd have to say the negativity here toward Dropbox stems from people thinking, "But I could do that! But I do that already!" And sort of having this bitterness that something so "their-territory" was done successfully by someone else. But I think, "don't they realize the hard slog Dropbox did to actually make that work everywhere?" I think in the case of Dropbox, it was that obsession with the details, that is a driving force of their culture and business. If people fail to appreciate that, and are negative based on the impression they get with that obsession omitted, they're not seeing Dropbox clearly, in my opinion.
Certain truthful arguments just naturally come off as lies. I could see invoking the 5th when you feel like you'll be misinterpreted no matter what.
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Note that while a negative inference may not be drawn from the invocation of one's fifth amendment rights in a criminal case, in a civil case a negative inference can be drawn.

http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2013/04/articles/attorney/...
You'd also invoke the fifth if your testimony could appear to be self-incriminating.

The legal system is still run by humans, the normal (very large) margin of error exists.
Yeah, it's normal, and it usually ends up getting sucked backward, presumably due to the turbulent airflow in the space between the end of the vehicle and the engine nozzles:

Echostar: https://youtu.be/zEfEBJfD_RE?t=18m23s

JCSAT: https://youtu.be/QZTCEO0gvLo?t=17m38s

CRS-9: https://youtu.be/ThIdCuSsJh8?t=17m45s
Looks like you can do it, but it also looks like they normally try to reverse the tubal ligation first.
I am not a lawyer, but basically it means he is innocent until proven otherwise and he has the right to not testify in a way that might incriminate himself and he is exercising it.

There is the sort of popular view that if you do this, it must mean you are guilty and by testifying you would actually be proven so. The problem with that is that you might actually be innocent but not be able to give evidence in a way that does not make you look guilty.

Any lawyers here willing to elaborate on how to better view this from a social point of view?
Funny how that works
Yes. One of Elon Musk's core goals is to make humanity a multi-planetary species. To do that, he needs to make a lot of money.

At this point, the other commercial orbital lift companies are basically cooked, it's a matter of time. Blue Origin could be an interesting player, but who knows.

The question is this: can he drive even more demand by lowering the price somewhat? That's an interesting question, and one I'm sure being discussed at SpaceX.
There were certainly contacts with Russian agents. What isn't clear is who knew that the people they were dealing with were Russian agents, rather than Russian businesspeople.

Edit: And graft vs treason, which can be a hard call.
> Bezos's Blue Origin is on track to have a very similar system in a few years

That's on paper, not anything they've flown has come close to what SpaceX is demonstrating as a matter of some routine now.

(1) never been to orbit

(2) never been to orbit and then back down to a landing

(3) 6 flights vs 33

(4) payload < 2 Tonnes vs 5.5 for Falcon 9 re-usable (and 8 expendable).

At this point in time Blue Origin to me looks like a slightly more serious version of Armadillo Aerospace and SpaceX looks like the company that will put the majority of tonnage into orbit in the next decade.
> cost of a launch is roughly $60 million. Assuming the rocket can be reused 60 times it'll go down to about $1000

Don't you mean $1m?
Before I read this article (having just seen the title) I assumed this was going to be covering a reverse proxy system, and started pondering how I would implement something like this myself. A very basic approach probably would be simpler than middleware, but the question I got stuck on was whether or not a reverse proxy would need to be "smart" about the content it was limiting. That is, would it need to be programmed to parse requests and understand what the intention and purpose was of each request?

For example, limiting traffic by IP address via reverse proxy is simple, but it seems like it would be more difficult to limit by request priority.

I was surprised when the article revealed it was middleware, and suddenly that made a lot more sense and seemed easier because it no-longer requires duplicating application logic to understand the content of requests. Middleware definitely seems like the better approach to me after these considerations.

What kinds of methods would one use to solve the problem of needing to parse and understand incoming requests using the reverse proxy method?
Say you get asked about your wherabouts, but you were cheating on your spouse at the time. Admitting that in court is a big problem for you, but doesn't really show you are guilty of anything but being a shitty husband/wife.

Wouldn't that be a reasonable time to do this?
My take is that the "hacked the election" is mostly a right-wing framing.

What's much more interesting is evidence of collusion: money changing hands in undisclosed ways, policies changing dramatically after secret meetings, means of blackmail, etc. The first two wouldn't surprise me at all at this point.

The point being: if a foreign - hostile - state has substantial, non-disclosed power over US executive branch, that's a very big deal, and there's a number of laws meant to prevent exactly that sort of thing. The speculation is that at least one of these laws has been broken - that's much more damning than evidence of troll armies trying to sway votes.
In some places.

I'll retire at 55 with a pretty good annuity payment. It's not zero risk, but pretty secure.
Blue Origin does not currently belong in the list of competitors. They are (not yet) in the same class (and may never be).
Probably anyone who took a more than introductory physics class. Not me, though.
> I was raised Presbyterian. We've always sponsored refugees, fed the hungry, did missionary work, etc. Young me just thought that's what Christians do. We certainly didn't talk or brag about it; that was very gauche.
It wasn't until I was much older that I figured out my congregation was considered liberal.

I would not consider the Mormons socially liberal but they do plenty in that vein https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/how-utah-...

Active, rather than nominal Christians do plenty of that kind of stuff, whether they're conservative or liberal denominations. In the long run the liberal denominations seem unlikely to be relevant. Liberal so-called mainstream Protestant groups have been bleeding members since the 80's at the latest.
Managing Middlescence
Fortunately, that's not what's happening.
Wow. I hadn't seen that. That is so classic.
I think that the part you are missing is that the vast majority (like 65%) don't support or respect this President at all.

Of all the terrible things the government has done in the past 1 / 10 / 100 years, I don't think that a candidate coordinating with Russia about which fake news to publish is even worth mentioning.

If Congress has the guts to investigate the Steele dossier (which alleged Trump traded eased regulations for oil interests) then that's great. And if he is impeached on that basis, that's great too, although it leaves us with a probably worse Mike Pence. Better yet is if the entire government falls.

I'm not defending Trump or his conduct; I'm just saying this is a distraction.
I'm not convinced citing the 5th is always a great idea in a civil case[1].

Of course, he may be more worried about the future, outside this case.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
My parents are weathy and retired. One of the many "Keeping up with the jonses" money expenditures are symbolic philantropic excersizes with dubious impact. This just seems like another. I am not sure if that goes with or against either of your points but seems relevant nonetheless.
Not "good enough for audio" in the sense of being musically pleasant, but you can make a dead simple audible square wave oscillator out of a schmitt trigger inverter. Great project for kids or anyone getting started with a breadboard.
I heard that Musk said that the next goal is to get Falcon 9 total turnaround time to under 24 hours.

That's a direct dress rehearsal for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITS_launch_vehicle plan, where it takes off and returns directly to its pad, where it's refueled and 2nd stage loaded on top, for immediate turnaround.

We're living in the fuckin' future.
Ask HN: Can we have full dates on Hacker News stories/comments when hovered?
It looks like "2 days ago" is the most detailed timestamp format you can get from the posts on Hacker News.

Can we add <a title="2017-03-27...."> to the timestamp labels please so that when we hover, it shows the actual date?
Legal vs rational evidence. To borrow the excellent exchange from A Man for All Seasons:

More: If, therefore, you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.

Cromwell: Is that in fact what the world construes from it? Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?

More: The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966_fi...
He was on the hook for 50m of damages in the Zenimax lawsuit. I wonder how much that eats away at his worth?
sorry was thinking of something else.

yeah the algo is pretty standard, what we found is some edge cases get super weird, namely if you check on regular intervals you'll get false positives, vs. bursty calls

https://play.golang.org/p/Ujp7yeFQ3L
For a US politician to hire a foreign intelligence agency is arguably an issue. Some might call it treason.
I think you can get < 5ms latency with Opus depending on the sample rate.
I've run through this calculation here before, but it's always interesting to rehash:

Both LOX and kerosene are about the price of milk. If we assume that a gallon of either weighs about 7 lbs, then it takes, at 1% mass fraction, 99 lbs, or about 14 gallons, of fuel and oxidizer to put a pound of payload into orbit. At a 2% mass fraction, it's only 7 gallons. Call it $3.50 per gallon, so the fuel cost for a pound of payload is only about $25-$50. It's truly negligible compared to the cost of the rocket, whose costs are tied mainly literally to paperwork, due to the very tight margins on the factors of safety.

The rest of the equilibrium cost is going to be amortizing that rocket over as many launches as is responsible.
Ah I see (in edit) -- thank you.
As far as I'm aware, you cannot falsely take the Fifth. As adultery is not a crime, you could not take the Fifth.

Disclaimer: IANAL.

EDIT: I'm getting some downvotes, so I will link to this that seems to support what I'm saying:

http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/white_collar...

Perhaps my use of 'falsely' is confusing, but what I mean is if what you are refusing to say is not actually a crime, and it is discovered, you could be charged with a crime (i.e. perjury, giving false statements under oath).
Request rate are accounted in requests/second.

If you are counting requests/minute, you're seriously averaging your peak load and you're about to epicly fail in production.
The one part of the market where they will continue to see competition is for those payloads/trajectories where there is no way to land the booster.
seems that depends on the state
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Well yeah, anything that someone says is "beyond a reasonable doubt" when they're referring to something that as nuanced as "diversity".
Based on your parent's response, one would think $2.5M
> I get that 24-year-old kids don't take much seriously, but for goodness sake don't use your money for political purposes without thinking it through.

Hmmm. Let's look at a slightly different statistic:

> In the U.S. army, something like 75%-80% of newly-commissioned Second Lieutenants are promoted to First Lieutenant (around age 25)

-- http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/7812/why-have-off...

What does a 2nd Lt do?

> Typically the entry-level rank for most Commissioned Officers. Leads platoon-size elements consisting of the platoon SGT and two or more squads (16 to 44 Soldiers).

And shortly will be promoted to 1st Lt...

> A seasoned lieutenant with 18 to 24 months service. Leads more specialized weapons platoons and indirect fire computation centers. As a senior Lieutenant, they are often selected to be the Executive Officer of a company-sized unit (110 to 140 personnel).

Oh. Leads 16-44 soldiers into combat, and shortly will be commanding 110-140 soldiers...

I would like to submit that letting a 24-year old off on account of immaturity is wrong and ignores their clear agency and capability.
The current President is surrounded by a cult of personality. It makes it easier to see all of the news reports in the vein of "bitter mass media upset about election results" or "pandering to SJW/PC crowd."

Maybe it's just me but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of journalists are in some part motivated by their displeasure with the President's demeanor and public behavior. But that motivation doesn't mean they're dishonest, it just means that they will follow through on every lead in an investigation regarding POTUS corruption.
The son was driving with a catholic priest hence "Father"?
Do you also believe anybody who was in favour of the Clinton campaign needs to provide evidence they disagree with silencing sexual assault victims? Because that's definitely a disturbing thing "associated" with her.

Otherwise I feel like you're more interested in partisan political posturing than actually holding people accountable.

(for the record, I despise both Clinton and Trump, but had I been a US voter rather than a UK bystander, I'd've held my nose and voted Clinton on the expectation of that being the lesser of the available evils)
This is of course, complete nonsense. There are a huge number of reasons that an factually accurate statement made by a factually innocent person could harm their case.
Flynn himself said in an interview with Chuck Todd last year: "When you are given immunity, that means that you've probably committed a crime".

Source: https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/847600901653012482
Ah yes, he meant $1000 per person.
Opis: Reliable, Distributed Systems in Ocaml (2009) [pdf]
I get up and walk out the door.

If they want to fire me for working 8 - 8.5 hours, have fun with that because I don't want to take part in being overworked. My productivity goes way down after a while so there is no point in me grinding.

Humans have a limited capacity for everything and need to recharge. Even if you love the work, you need to take a break, eat, sleep, etc.
Done! That's called Adyen :D

https://www.adyen.com/

It's an European company that's 10 times the size and has lower fees.

Stripe having a harder time on that side of the Atlantic ;)
Two years ago I met a lady at downtown disney orlando. She was Canadian and super nice. Sat next to us in a restaurant. We had a wonderful conversation. The lady finished before us and invited me to visit her in Canada. Gave me her addres and phone number. I was amazed. She didn't seem crazy or anything. Just genuinely nice. Her whole family was like that. Made me want to move to Canada. If it just were a little bit warmer...
The omission of OSHA from the list of yet-to-be-undone accomplishments is interesting, as is the fact that the 8 hour workday is enshrined in law for categories of employment considered "working class." Both are fairly important, and neither is under attack as far as I know.

This underscores my main problem with lowkey socialist manifestos, such as this appears to be; they rely heavily on emotional manipulation to bolster their points. That's not generally a good sign about the argument being presented.
Indeed. Not all Americans, but enough.

And hey, even W liked Putin. He's a regular sort of manly man. Like the current President seems to idealize, in his own cokehead yuppie way.
You've got room scale setup with 3 cameras? Note that there were huge problems with the software a couple of releases ago that were recently resolved. Tracking is really smooth and solid right now for me personally on Oculus.
I heard the cost of fuel and other logistical things per flight is less than $300k but sorry guys can't find the video..
Well it took me about an hour to upvote every comment on this page but it was worth it. ;-)
I think that's an interesting offshoot of the discussion, but I'm not sure that it really affects the argument that much.

Let's say you undergo a process to slowly use your brain's plasticity to get closer and closer to perceiving as a bat. Well, does that help me? Am I able to imagine what it is like to be a bat? Of course not. Well, what if you could talk to me and describe it, then would I have a true understanding of the experience of being a bat? Still no!

Nagel's point isn't about whether we could do anything to make ourselves into bats, it's rather that, when we don't have that qualitative experience, we cannot truly understand what it is like to have that experience.

If anything, the argument works even better now that you've gone and given yourself sonar: you can talk to me, unlike that dumb bat, so you can describe your experiences to me, and yet I will still have no true understanding of the experience itself.

That is (a part of) the Hard Problem of consciousness: that my studying and examining and learning about your conscious experience still does not allow me to understand it.
Students at NJIT face bankruptcy and then become top performing company
I think who gets there first is going to have a huge impact on what kind of society is established on Mars (the economy, the legal system, the culture, how infrastructure is managed, government, etc...). SpaceX may change its culture over time, but as things stand now I would rather live in a society established by SpaceX than one established by, say, Boeing.