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Blue Origin isn't as far back as it may seem.

They're new engine (BE-4) that will power New Glenn is going through test firings now. Additionally, they're angling to get BE-4 sold into other launch stacks than just their internal hardware.

If they are able to get BE-4 out into other launch stacks in the next year or two, it's very possible that New Glenn will launch it's first mission before 2020.

New Glenn will be comparable to the Falcon Heavy in terms of lift. The Falcon Heavy won't have it's demo flight until later this year.

I'd agree that Blue Origin is behind SpaceX. Still, though, I think they are on a pretty good track to take second place in the reusable launch stack to orbit.
I referred to the act of emigration and the pact of brotherhood, not the subsequent conflicts with the Jews. There was no "conquest" of Medina. Conquest implies an invading army subjugating a native population, which didn't happen because there was no army - only refugees.
Randomised Coffee Trials (RCTs)
Great use of scare quotes!
This is the second puff piece about the CIA I've read recently (non-American). Any particular reason for these or is it random?
They will not do Vertical Integration, neither will Blue Origin. It looks like ULA Vulcan will survive on a few specialized launches.

Arian will still have non competitive flight that SpaceX can not take away. They will probably survive.
It's intellectually disingenuous (but politically convenient for the Left) to categorize immigration policy as a 'human rights' issue.
The ML programming language, of course. I'm always confused when ML stands for machine learning, because I think the post will be about programming languages, but isn't.
Now I would be interested in the following experiment. Teach someone blind from birth to see with this tongue device, then restore eyesight with a surgery and test if they can recognize shapes. Why? I once read about an experiment where they restored eyesight of a person blind from birth and the person was unable to identify shapes by looking at them. The subject could easily identify the shapes by touching them, knew how a round ball or the corners of a cube felt, but that was obviously not enough to figure out what a corner looks like. I wonder if the tongue device would be sufficient to provide such an understanding.
Shuffle Puzzle
it's from 2005...
You've misunderstood these people and why they're doing what they're
doing. Here's a passage (from
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/world/americas/syria-refu...
) that may clarify it for you:

> Mr. Nunn, 65 and recently retired, said he was looking for “an
indulgence” to mark the event. In Huntsville, an ad on a bulletin
board for a motorboat caught his eye. Along with the boat ad, he also
took a flyer from a refugee group.

> After reading both on a flight to Florida, Mr. Nunn decided to make
the donation rather than purchase the boat — even though it “looked
pretty cool,” he said.

> “A fancy trip, a car or boat, kind of diminish and memories fade,”
said Mr. Nunn, who had never supported any refugee group. “This
refugee effort will have effects that go on for generations. Where is
the best value, where is the best return? I threw away the boat ad.”

These are wealthy people looking for the most meaningful and impactful
way to spend their time and money. It's not about self-aggrandisation
and it's astonishing to me that someone could interpret it as such.

By the way, about:

> I think there are many Americans who would be happy to sponsor a
refugee family (and indeed many have donated towards sponsorship costs
for Canadians), but their government doesn't let them. Likewise there
are a lot of Canadians that are virulently opposed to refugees coming
here and getting government assistance after their private sponsorship
assistance runs out.

Well, back in 2015 when the Conservatives were in power in Canada and
the Syrian crisis brought fresh horrors every day, it turned out that
the Conservative government denied a lot of refugee applications,
including that of Aylan Kurdi's family. Canadians said enough is enough
and voted in someone who promised to bring in a lot more refugees--which
he promptly did. Americans, in contrast, and with the full benefit of
seeing the Canadian refugee situation, decided to go the other way. I
think it's quite clear what message they sent.
As of now, it looks like nobody has taken his offer of immunity for testimony. What are the implications of this? The commentators on other sites seem to imply this means investigators already know something big.
This is correct. Their current launch stack is and will remain sub-orbital hops above the Kármán line.

They are actively working on their next gen launch stack (New Glenn), which is set to have its first launch before 2020. New Glenn will be a reusable launch stack capable of inserting payloads into orbit. It will be roughly similar to the Falcon Heavy in terms of mission capabilities.
Anyone noticed that LD said "Go for age of reflight"?
> though they won't necessarily pass that cost on to the consumer — they could very well just enjoy the extra margins

Good point; it depends on how much they could expect demand to grow if the prices were lower.
comparing floats is arguably nondeterministic.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-...
> A surprising majority of people says "milk", when the correct answer is "water". This is obviously because of some sort of bias against water. Any other explanation is absolutely inconceivable.

It may have something to do with priming, as well, but the difficulty of the riddle clearly also involves gender associations.

Someone I asked this riddle to got stumped. As an experiment, I changed the word "surgeon" to "nurse". They immediately answered that version correctly.
Has there been any attempts by anyone to publish these laws via Bittorrent or ipfs?

Not that I am condoning it, but I'm curious if it has been attempted. I searched but did not find anything.
allah ya'izzak ya akhi, alf thawaabik. Thank you for explaining why the genocide of thousands of Jews was necessary.
I'd guess he'll plead the Fifth.
Ask HN: Is there an open-source alternative to the AP Stylebook?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in...
Are you thinking of the acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle[1]? SAP are not owned by Oracle.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017124_EN
> What exactly are we investigating?

Collusion between Trump/team and Russia. It's one thing for Russia to mess with an election, it's a vastly different thing if the campaign coordinated with them to do it.
One thing I don't like is that Musk stated that he expects that colonization project to be a public-private partnership. That means that the government will put money into it, and I'm not OK with the State investing in what is to me nothing but an extraordinarily exotic real-estate project. Going to mars for science is ok. Going there and build insanely expensive accommodations, just for the sake of living there, is not, unless you do it with your money.
I find the implied "boys will be boys" and "people make mistakes" quite unsavory.

Should he be cast out form society? No, but I sure won't support him until I see evidence he disagrees with the most disturbing things associated with Trump: sexism, racism, etc.

We need to hold people accountable instead of making execuses for them.
5 people were granted immunity in Hillary Clinton's email scandal and nothing came of it.
I thought the point of the investigation was to find out if Trump was complicit in Russia's involvement. IANAL but that seems very different from the mere thought of Russia going at it alone.
Maybe this is how kids talk these days. There is going to be some Millenial who is a math genius an order of magnitude beyond Terry Tao, and what if they talk like this? Such things are going to happen. I find it amusing.
Trump on Feb. 15 — after Flynn was fired — saying Flynn's a "wonderful man [who'] been treated very, very unfairly by the media"

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/847587940557623296
He invoked the fifth amendment
The investigation is about whether or not there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
I think the level of infighting in the US and Europe now is different from anything I've seen over the last couple of decades. The democratization of media is a net benefit but it helped bring about a world's worth of people seeking out news that matches their world view. It's made it very easy to spawn animus and make everything into an "us vs them" issue.

I think Russia is overtly and covertly involved in an effort to weaken western unions. And it seems like it's been a remarkably successful campaign.
When the jobs disappear it's hard to sell picks and shovels.
He's in a tough position, and I appreciate that he is transparent about it, even though I am still a bit disappointed. Normally I'd be a whole lot more outraged if he _didn't_ disclose his differential treatment towards YC companies, even though I would've definitely suspected and even expected such differential treatment.
You're being down-voted, in part, because you're asking a lot of questions that can easily be solved by web searches.
Are you asking if there's a particular reason the CIA caused you to read HN today and click on a CIA-related headline?

Edit: Worth noting that this particular item was discovered from the recently released CIA CREST database, which contains 13 million pages of CIA records. So it's likely that your random chances of seeing a "Isn't this CIA document weird?" story will be a lot higher this year as people go through the records and discover things: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jan/19/three-yea...
How great leaders ensure their customers remember them
It's a bit a both right now, but I think the constraints from launch sites become much more relaxed in a couple of years when Boca Chica opens up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
The Big American Cities Aren't Big Enough
There's no moral obligation to help run civilizations.
Currently pad operations. Soon, building of second stages.
I've successfully converted many projects from one language to another using this method. One was a huge assembler program I converted to C back in the 1980s (ironically, so it could be ported to other platforms!).
It's very odd that in 2017 we're normalizing a political platform that promotes literal ethnic cleansing, executed at the highest levels of government, in broad daylight and in plain transparent language, as just another day in politics.

This has been said ad nauseum and I will probably get downvotes for this, but opposition to Trump is not about mere disagreement. The triple threat of increasing mass deportation, increasing mass incarceration, and bribing local police departments to be complicit with both, constitutes a material, physical threat to people's lives, and to certain disfavored ethnic groups (black, Latino, Muslim) in particular.

I would understand you if you were chiding people for being overwrought for saying, for example, that the Republican health care plan is going to kill people. Or that cutting back meals on wheels constitutes violence. Or whatever.

But the rhetoric on crime and immigration is literally about spending money to send armed agents of the state into people's homes to maim, kidnap, and remove them from society. If you don't understand how this rises above the level of "just politics", I feel like it can only be because you don't consider the new targets of state violence to be fully human.

And let's not forget that more than half of the country didn't want this president. Pretending this is just about the most liberal part of California complaining is incredibly specious.
Lyft Shuttle is an experimental Lyft Line feature that works like a bus route
Thanks! I found some of them too. Good luck in your project @FormFollowsFunc :)
This Is Almost Certainly James Comey’s Twitter Account
> The commentators on other sites seem to imply this means investigators already know something big.

They probably do, but if they're doing a good job w/the investigation, they are looking for more evidence to corroborate testimony like Flynn's.
Comparing floating point numbers for equality us tricky. In fact it is a classic fool's errand. Comparing for lesser or greater is not tricky.
For those who don't like paywalls, the text: https://pastebin.com/PtqWwd3w
Yes, though I'm specifically talking about when you decide to define a 'bool less_than(double, double)' that uses some kind of fuzzy comparison approach internally. This can affect any platform, not just one with the "bug #323" behavior in it.
Peter Thiel next?
If "messed with" the election just means misleading propaganda, then is it really an issue if they coordinated with them? How is it any different than hiring a PR firm based in another country?
Either you misinterpreted or he was being hyperbolic. There are lots of other costs involved in a launch that do not scale like the reusable first stage. A sub $10M launch cost is very optimistic and would be considered a stupendous success.
Uh, no. Aside from the fact that collusion between a foreign government and a presidential campaign would be extremely problematic that's not the major issue.

The major allegation on the table right now is that the Russian government offered Trump a sizeable share of Rosneft, the Russian national petrochemical corporation, in exchange for dropping the sanctions against Russia due to the conflict in Ukraine, and both parties followed through with the deal. The sanctions were relaxed by the Trump administration within the first month of coming into office while a stake in Rosneft has been sold to an anonymous buyer behind a cayman islands holding company.
I didn't literally mean those options, or even personal service.

I meant even if I knew what it would be, no one would believe me, because it would sound insane.
I don't think exercising your rights should imply anything
They're not talking about cheaper, they are talking about more reliable.
For IC design the main independent online resource is Deepchip.
> If Trump somehow manages not to be a criminal and a crook (which seems downright impossible)

The vast surveillance apparatus of the deep state have crawled everything they have on Donald Trump and all they could come up with was some locker room banter from 11 years ago. The man is straight as an arrow and has been for decades.

> Now: other than bluster, what is there actually about this "Russia" probe? What exactly are we investigating? Whether Russia was involved in "fake news" stories? Whether Russia was involved in releasing emails from the DNC? Emails which revealed terrible, immature, anti-democratic conduct? The "Russia hacked the election" narrative doesn't include, AFAIK, accusations that they stuffed ballot boxes or anything, right?

Stop asking questions. RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION! That's all you need to know. Quite how they subverted the voting apparatus of nearly 3000 counties is not a question you need to ask right now.
Practically, it implies that he doesn't want to talk about something that is incriminating to himself.

Legally it doesn't imply anything. Innocent unless proven guilty.
I've read a lot about this story; I'm not sure what I'm missing. If I'm a web search away, care to give me a LMGTFY?
I like the design of the chat except for the random horizontal scroll bar I get in the Area with the messages
He has no problem reversing himself at all. No surprise if he lays into Flynn now. It's unlikely that he'll admit that this is a change in position.
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During the last federal election the refugee crisis was a campaign issue. I gave up social media for a while because the amount of hatred I was seeing towards the refugees was making me feel sick.

When I got back on facebook I saw that my small town was planning to start a sponsorship group. I went to see how I could help and we formed a committee to bring seven refugee families to our town. I was able to help out by setting up the website, social media and helping with online donations (the group was mostly an older crowd).

To date we've raised over $100k, resettled 5 families and positively changed the lives of everyone involved. All the men are working and half their wives have jobs too. Some of the children are going to school for the first time in their lives and they're learning English quickly. Its incredible to see them playing and laughing after everything they've been through.

I recently moved to another city but I feel so lucky to have been a part of something that had such an impact. And I miss the coffee one of the women used to make :-/
I think it's pretty standard to ask for immunity and it's probably what his lawyers recommended. This is an open-ended investigation and who knows where it will go.

In the same way that pleading the 5th is often a smart thing to do, asking for immunity does not mean he's guilty.

Here's a lawyer talking about taking the 5th and asking for immunity (among other things) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4_EdPwTkE
The thing I want to know is how did they achieve the independence, whereby they could focus on their problem of choice and not have to continuously context switch to problems of other people's choosing?
Which is interesting because you don't invoke the fifth in a civil case unless "the answer might tend to subject to criminal responsibility him who gives it"

Doesn't imply guilt, but it shows that Uber recognizes the alleged conduct could be criminal versus just a tort.
This reminds me of another educational CPU that's also in progress, the "8-bit breadboard computer" being created by Khan Academy's Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...

I find his diagrams and narrations extremely clear and straightforward. I've been using it as a chance to learn more about digital logic, and hobbyist electronics. For example, I've been (very slowly) learningttfdfd KiCad by translating Mr. Eaters designs into KiCAD form so they can be manufactured as dedicated boards. I finally got the first module, the clock module, correct and manufactured, and you can find the designs here: https://github.com/lelandbatey/clock-module

Here's the clock module on the printed PCB with all the components, and only one bodge wire needed (now fixed in the design): https://s16.postimg.org/gxi0plptv/2017-03-26_15.51.00.jpg
As the old joke goes, "half a mil here, half a mil there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
I see homeless people eating them all the time in the mission (and the plaid-colored boxes littering the streets). My guess is they're being given to shelters and food kitchens.
It should actually be a source of great shame and humbling to the developed nations of the world that they dump the refugee problem on those countries least-equipped to handle it.
Hopefully that fixes it. Sorry I suck at CSS.
My impression of invoking the fifth amendment has always been "If I say something I might go to jail, so I'm going to exercise my right to say nothing."

Personally, I view it as more or less an admission of guilt, but I'm sure there are a host of legal reasons to do this (besides actually being guilty) that I am unaware of.
That's definitely understood. It's a small percentage of the number however. The US was about 81% white in 1980 and 6.4% hispanic. It's now ~63% white, with the hispanic percentage having more than tripled (~14 million to ~70 million in raw numbers (not implying all is first gen immigration obviously); an increase equal to 160% the entire population of Canada). The extreme bulk of that demographic shift is derived from relatively recent immigration (last 40 years), overwhelmingly from Latin America (the remainder mostly from Asia), and overwhelmingly relatively poor immigrants that would be mostly barred from Canada under their merit system (which is why they have so few hispanics, why they didn't participate in the hispanic population boom the US has seen, and also why that's not going to change any time soon). I'm pro immigration, and it's kind of obnoxious to watch Canadians try to stand on a soapbox while ignoring the facts.
They apparently did recover the fairings successfully.
It strikes me as odd that Americans don't seem to mind that a President to some extent might be serving the interests of a foreign power above the interests of the his own citizens.

Who would have thought so many Americans would have a love affair with a KGB Agent that is responsible for murder and oppression and for his entire life worked to undermine America and has accomplished that to some extent with this Administration.
Also, since when does the 5th amendment protect documents?
I was skimming the sys ops course and it seams to have some stuff missing from what I've learned so far that I could really use - log files, alerts, analytics, monitoring, etc... While I appreciate the whole serverless idea and let Lamda and such do the heavy lifting, the programmer side of me says meh... I'll just do it myself.

If both aren't needed, I'll probably do sys ops next then.

Thanks for the info!
There's the possibility that the entire basis of the Republican resurgence -- with its roots in the alt-right, conspiracy theories, the Tea Party, gold bugs, etc -- has been a Russian operation with the goal of destabilizing the US. Consider the role of RT, for example. And it's not like it hasn't happened before. Russia played a major role in shaping the anti-war movement in the 60s.
To be fair they give many examples of using mobx without decorators. I use them because they're baked into typescript, but I wouldn't use the Babel plugin, it seems less mature.
Ask HN: What do you use for recurring billing?
I am looking for a simple solution for recurring billing. My requirements are:

- Per user per month. New users can be added or removed any time. Support for initial 14 day trial.

- Per user billing for annual subscription. New users can be added during the year.

I am looking for something that supports True Up accounting model. I have looked into Braintree and Stripe api. None of them seem to support anything beyond simple recurring billing.

What have you used for this type of common billing patterns in SAAS apps?
No assumption here. The expected return of an asset class like shares and bonds is higher than the annuity, which is always $60,000 and nothing more - this is a fact.

But as you said just because the expected is higher doesnt mean the actual will be. But you still should always pick whatever has higher expected
True and similarly despite the Senate Finance Committee having requesting exactly what the IRS did, target, Issa never offered Republican appointed Lois Lerner immunity. Republicans never charged her with anything but passed a contempt citation to cover their asses.
In the US, acute events are usually covered by Medicare.

Your risk in that scenario is long term care needs. That will drain your savings until you're poor enough to move to Medicaid. Another good reason to take the $5,000
On the plus side, at least he didn't litter the piece with childish 'meme' images, as seems to be in vogue these days.
>Uber recognizes the alleged conduct could be criminal versus just a tort

...or that his lawyer is competent.
That he has a Constitutionally provided right that he is choosing to exercise. It is improper to draw any firm conclusion beyond that, IMO.
If what you are saying is true, I'm wrong and that's great. I thought that the Steele dossier was only being discussed (let alone investigated) on the Senate side of the Hill; I hadn't heard about the House Intel committee taking it up. I understood that the House side was still just about the "election hacking."

Do you have a source?
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They're not going to go under per se, because I think the customers are probably pretty valuable. I think a more vivid hint as to their future is in their choosing someone from Simply Hired as their new (7/16) CEO: positioning Munchery for acquisition in a crowded marketplace.
YouTube link of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZSXav4wI8