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>Blue Origin at least isn't making the same mistakes that 90% of SpaceX's competition is: using really outdated ideas that don't stand a chance at competing with SpaceX

This is why BO is so behind. They went with new technology thus have a lot of catching up to do to the old designs and the guys running the old designs get an instant leg up, but ultimately will fail from a cost perspective. A bit like writing an OS and just using an established kernel or writing an OS with a new kernel. The latter will simply take longer but if your design is innovative it'll beat out the previous kernel designs.

I think SpaceX is something of a freakshow of success. Elon has talent and drive and surrounds himself by similar personality types on top of entering the space game at the right time where the STS to SLS delay was significant the US was hungry for private rockets. As well as our cooling of relations with Russia and the various rockets, engines, and launch services they're been providing post-communism.

BO being behind SpaceX is a bit like saying I can't outrun Usain Bolt but I can come within 5 seconds of his time. That's still incredibly impressive. I don't feel like the current private space race is necessarily zero sum. There's no big advantage to being #1 or hitting goals faster than the other guy. Practical concerns like scale, launch windows, economics, etc mean that SpaceX probably can't monopolize this market and competitors will always be able to land contracts as long as they're remotely competitive against the very expensive nation-state/public-private rockets we're so used to.

I also think the market will open up to a more casual manned program and I think the people behind the Dreamchaser will find a nation state or even private buyer. The DC mounted on a low cost SpaceX or BO rocket is going to be able to launch humans into LEO for a incredible fraction the STS or Soyuz do. I think we're in for a lot of interesting developments and I doubt it'll be SpaceX trouncing the competition as much as a very busy and competitive space market with SpaceX at the top, for now.
I read the article on Chrome with uBlock Origin, and enjoyed commentary about ad blockers and anti-patterns between massive ads for Method dish soap the same size as the preceding paragraphs.
Yes. Chrome web tools say the page takes 1.7 Mb to load (disabled cache and ad block for a clear measurement).
I have not found many-to-many relationships to be particularly problematic in RDBMs from a modeling and usage perspective.

Just curious, are you asking about a multi-way relationship between more than two entities? A many-to-many between Entity1 and Entity2 is a pretty normal model. A many-to-many relationship between Enity1, Entity2, and Entity3 (or even more entities) has been rare in my experience. When I taught RDBMs, I made a point of emphasizing that these types of multi-way relational models should be carefully examined just to ensure the 3-way, 4-way, etc relationship was absolutely necessary.

Honestly though, I think much of this depends on what your experience with both techs is. If you have spent a ton of time using a graph db and are comfortable using that as a backing store for your project, roll with it.
Insurance for a launch is currently very expensive. My friends in the industry tell me that insuring a launch increases the cost by 50%.
I've actually been told that the graphic design of The Outline is supposed to be the cool feature that gets people coming back to the site. Which is weird, as it's... awful.
The key is that you need to align incentives for employees, investors, etc by demonstrating a long-term commitment to the company. Lots of more nuanced discussions of this topic exist but here's one I have at hand: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec18/
And even when you root your phone you still don't have full control over it. Just see the recent broadcom wifi exploit.
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No, in the experiment I read about they forced the tentacles to go out of the water to reach some hidden area, which apparently somehow disconnects the tentacle sensitivity and reasoning from the "central unit".
I dunno- Houston is notorious for its lack of zoning, yet it still grew the same sprawling manner. The fact is most of our cities did most of their growth after WWII. A baby boom, affordable automobiles, the interstate highway system, advertising, and FHA subsidies made mass suburban developments like Levittown profitable and desirable.
Because you call yourself a hacker while doing it, duh
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It's already a reality on mobile, the slope is already greased.
I'm really happy about this decision.
Nevertheless it would be better if they design and build software by keeping modularity in mind so that other DE like KDE ,... can use them without changing much of the code-base and reinventing the wheel.
Run your own instance and all your performance problems go away. That's the point of federated services.
Yeah, BTW the good thing about these stores is that they install apps normally, by launching the system APK install dialog, instead of the rootkit-style thing Google Play does.
Since the author didnt mention it, the original creator of the patchwork project is https://github.com/pfrazee

When I used it, which admitedly was a long time ago now, the biggest setback was lack of cross device identities. So I ended up having two accounts with two feeds, `wesAtWork` and `wes`. Maybe they have solved this by now.

ps. Does patchwork still have the little gif maker? Because that was a super fun feature.
> "...can be fed into the matrix network and clients..."

There exists a matrix-to-twitter bridge that I believe allows for this use-case: https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-twitter

It might only be alpha phase, but why not give it a shot? I'm not the developer for that, but am a happy user of the matrix protocol. Also, there are plenty of users leveraging matrix with several other bridges as well such as irc, slack, gitter, etc.
In a sense, perhaps. But I feel that's just technical trickery on a reasonable request, so I don't see myself bothering with such workarounds.
Oh, I did. But I was not a judge, just another participant, so my opinion on their powerpoint doesn't change a bit.
>> I would just refuse to give it to them. Are they going to shoot me for money on the side of the road?

You may get shot; most likely not. But you will be arrested for interfering in an investigation, or something to that effect.
> Honestly, looking at http://www.opencobalt.net/, things look pretty dead currently though - no news updates since 2010?

I agree it looks pretty dead, but a big bag of old, existing code still does more than a project in the idea stage :)

> Should we be looking somewhere else?

I'm not involved in OpenCobalt, I'm just someone who's also been following it for years. One of its major problems seems to be fragmentation: as far as I can tell, the descendents include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenQwaq

http://www.3dicc.com

https://www.krestianstvo.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world_framework

Maybe there's something salvagable amongst all this?
Yup, all that energy ends up as heat in the room, just like a resistive heater.

However a heat pump can put even 400W of heat in a room for every 100W of electricity. That would be the benchmark for a lot of people in cold climates.
Neat. I had a similar idea a few years ago. A few questions I just thought of:

- How many people want to send $200 emails?

- How many celebs (or even mildly internet-famous people) want to manage yet another communications channel?

- Does this disincentivize communication on other channels? If so, what are the ramifications of that?

I suppose these questions fit under "how to make it happen," but I'm curious. Good job and good luck!
Ironically (or not), the article is exactly on the kind of website which it describes as 'shit'.

But I agree with it.
The web is no longer a place to 'share information'. It is a place where 'content' is 'monetized' - or whatever the language they use nowadays.

Back in the day you'd have the web-site text with a little space left for 'banners', now it's vice-versa - the content is advertising and the useful information is used to lure in 'traffic'.

All the big 'media' sites, Facebook and Google included are actually advertising companies and this is the result.

Sure, they also produce 'useful' stuff, but that's because they're well-funded places were smart people go to do their smart things.

I personally wouldn't mind if all the ad-supported content went away tomorrow.
If a web-site tells me to disable my ad-blocker, I just close the tab.

"But we should somehow support... ". No we shouldn't. There's too much crap out there, more than enough to consume in several lifetimes - noise, which disorients and confuses us.

We should do the opposite - fight the ads, boycott ad-sites (that includes most 'news' websites, which are useless and toxic time wasters) and support sites which are valuable - donate, pay for subscriptions, etc.

Even with no funding, valuable content will still be posted by people who are passionate and have something to say about a subject. All the rest is, as tfa says - "shit".
It is limited to two entities yes. My experience also leans more towards a RDBMS
> I don't know what it is with HN lately, but a lot of these really vapid, myopic memes have been invading the political threads here.

White noise response, nice. "How dare you post about XYZ".

Don't do this. If you don't have a point to make, then don't post. Internet bytes are cheap, you are not a mod who gets to flag posts.

You're not the first person to come up with the idea of passive-aggressive responses to things you don't like. And if you want to play the "malicious compliance" game then be my guest... but don't be surprised when an IRS agent or a judge pushes your shit in over it.

A lot of libertarians think that judges are beep-boop robots and will drop their spaghetti all over the floor when you whip out the one secret legal maneuver that attorneys don't want you to know about (judges hate him!).

This is very much not the case, at every level that you will ever reach the law is interpreted in a strongly "common law" view towards actual justice that doesn't really care for your strict textualism. The judge is going to take quite a dim view of you whipping out your clever trick and you are going to suffer for it.

Some don't, SCOTUS is notoriously partisan and the East Texas courts are notoriously friendly to patent law (although SCOTUS has repeatedly slapped down their interpretations). But anywhere you're going to get, don't expect your "the flag has a fringe!" arguments to fly.

By and large, the law will still be interpreted with the context of basic human decency. If you try and be a dick and stall the government with baseless legal maneuvering, the human being on the other side of the stand is going to recognize that and you're going to have a real bad time.
I came here looking for these comments, knowing the crowd.

Didn't expect to find you here though.

So just want to add - The Outline is one of the freshest aesthetics I've seen in a long time. I get it and I love it. Nice job.
So... it's kinna like USENET then?
Hm. I wonder, which one of those categories of people would change their decision to read or leave the article because of that.

Yes, I think it's those who love the squiggly line would (hypothetically) continue to read the site just because of cool design, and not the other way around.
I didn't write the top-level comment. I'm also not intimately familiar with any of these cities, so don't take my word for it.
It isn't just on feasibility grounds, it is on the grounds that they showed nothing but a powerpoint and other questionable things they said. Feasibility is just icing on top.
The little facts you are ignoring is that Wii U and Switch aren't the same hardware, nor do they run the same OS.
You don't have to use "Google Android" to use Android. LineageOS + F-Droid + microG is a very good setup, I use it on my phone.

The real problem is the hardware driver blobs.
> Uber has the authority to say to its employees, "If you have anything at home you bring it in here, give it to Mr. González, and he will turn it over to the Court."

So Uber says that to Levandowski, and he says "Sure, I'm an obedient employee, I'll give you the file if I have it. I don't have the file." Lying under oath is punishable by law (hence taking the 5th), but lying to your employer is (AFAIK) not.

Now if the judge is satisfied with that, then fair enough, but I doubt he would be. If he wants Uber to require that Levandowski not take the 5th as a condition of further employment he should just say so.
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Regardless, it wouldn't have been right to keep the money. Especially since doing so probably would have caused problems for the person who made the misrouted payment.
Or you can download an emulator and a rar with all 721 SNES games for free.
I don't see where I made mention of any concept of freedom.
Also, because Paul has awesome projects, and deserves some attention when a project of his makes it to the top of HN but doesn't even mention him, he is working on a browser for the distributed web called Beaker (I am using it to write this now), and it is awesome.

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker
These kind of space restrictions have forces from 2 sides that meet in the middle: (1) sizing the space, for cost reasons (2) spending engineering effort on space usage.

768 kB of RAM (on top of the ROM holding program data) holds a lot of state. There exist TCP/IP stacks and JS interpreters with RAM requirements of 2 kB, ~3 orders of magnitude less.

About jettisoning init code and data, I don't know specifics here but Java the language supports heap space recycling and code (class) unloading very well.
Heh, having just found an Atari Lynx with games, it does fit the style of the era.
It's a shame the author polarizes having fun and learning. I've always thought of them as the same.
I spent a few months in India and I thought it was extremely cyberpunk. I can see Africa being similar.
I've noticed how taboo it is differs dramatically by city. In the South with is sprawling roads and lack public transportation its more acceptable but in large cities in the North it's much more taboo.
Cycling while drunk is illegal in some places.
Is this Uber's PR machine at work?
If people are willing to accept restrictions on what can be obtained or sold on the store (falsely in that name of "safety"), what makes you think they wont accept restrictions on what websites they are allowed to load, or more likely, what website owners are allowed to host?
Yes, I have been slowly migrating to store apps, specially since they are sandboxed.

I also own a couple of WP, so I now get to use those apps on the desktop as well.
South Africa.

In townships in South Africa you can see high tech low life everywhere: abject poverty but people still find ways to get old flip phones working or running a TV in a home with no electricity: just directly plugging it into a generator.

Nearby, there can be mansions with well-educated folks who hold the typical lawyer/consulting/banking/software set.
Any advice and/or helpful links for installing microG? I've found the microG documentation a little less than helpful.
"Emergence"! Thank you for the word. I was looking for it!
You guys should do some real A/B testing rather than rely on your own opinions.
Just because you share a room with someone doesn't mean you do the same social activities as them. First roommate in college we kinda did, second roommate we barely did anything together other than be present in the same room (there was a point where we were playing Tony Hawk together regularly).
If you view twitter by hashtag, you see a lot of spam on popular hashtags - obviously fake accounts who've just put the top 5 hashtags on top of a link they're advertising.

Personal @spam is pretty rare.
At an institution that is supposed to teach the the importance of academic integrity, no less.
to me it always sounds like approaches like dht are the solution but i'm having difficulties diving into it for the purpose of implementing it for my own apps.

are there any noteworthy resources for non-academics to get started?
Comments like this are pretty much what I mean by the GOP wanting PBS around as an issue to beat up.
Cross device identity is still an issue, but not a problem in the foundation. It's a matter of making client apps (like Patchwork) recognize a message of type "link this and that account together" and then your friend's app would automatically follow both accounts and render them as if they are the same thing. It'll be done eventually in Patchwork.
I can think of at least one whealthy moron right now. But you're right, a large chunk of the population will be highly educated.
My point was not what I could do but rather what I will do to try out some random new social network. Having now read that migrating identities is currently impractical I am even more certainly not going to take a chance on some other random server or even my own!

How well has federation worked out in practice (for other federated, social network related protocols) so far?

As far as I know, federation has only worked for ancient stuff that has nothing to do with social networks, like email and DNS. Basically, it is a part of core functionality and thus can't be co-opted by commercial interests (though GMail has made quite an inroad!).

Until it has proven itself, social federation doesn't really seem like a strength to me. It does sound good in theory! Other people with actual experience are adding their anecdotes which lines up with what I'm trying to say.
Have been waiting for this for awhile. However, is needing to "warm up" the load balancer to deal with sudden spikes still an issue? This was a deterrent to going all-in on the ALB despite other benefits (SSL termination, etc.)

Also, wondering if there any obvious cons (perhaps performance?) to using one ALB to handle multiple routes vs. separating them.
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"Apex predator" is a species category, and our species is so efficient at hunting that most of us never have to be involved with any aspect of the process save the end product. If that doesn't qualify for "apex predator", what does?
Cyberpunk connotes overcrowded cities where human life is commoditized and tech is widespread. Huge cities in Africa or India are much closer to unevenly distributed technological dystopias than the tech hubs other folks have suggested.
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Interesting..I love Hong Kong for its beautiful hiking trails where I don't need any tech stuff at all. It really feels like back to the nature :)
Yes, different hardware. Yes, different OS. But when a new downloadable game is available on both platforms and is linked to my Nintendo account I expect I can play it on Nintendo hardware that supports the game without having to buy it twice. Switch even offers the concept of "Active Console" where all your switch downloads can be moved to different hardware.
Yes. My grandmother noticed multiple transactions from the web on her account. She does not have a computer. Her local branch did not help her, and told her it was her mistake.

I found the fraud hotline number, called, and explained the situation. They were very helpful, and resolved it.
Yeah that is what they were talking about when I was following the project. Once that is done in patchwork, I might try using it again.
Seconding recommendation, but there are drawbacks: it's nearly impossible to read an entire thread by a person, and sometimes even seeing the chain of parent tweets is difficult.
LineageOS has given my S5 a new lease on life. Bit of a pain to install on a Verizon phone though.
What PURPOSE would that be?
Kowloon Walled City.

It is no more but it was amazing that such a city ever existed. Read on it.

It was a city build on itself, cube shaped. Some people would spend their entire day inside or in the middle of the city and would never see the sun.

Search it on Google Image and you will understand what I mean.
Yes, this is what we are using at our my company. Each team is responsible for their own Jenkins job by writing their own Jenkinsfile (with guidelines and support)
Wouldn't a price reduction of that size open up a new market for smaller clients? Companies who couldn't afford it before would now be able to consider it.
I don't think "in theory you could be free, even if in practice you aren't" is much in the way of freedom.

Is there even a full open-source OS for the iPhone? If so, I have never once seen anybody using it. In practice, Apple has full control over the apps their users run, and they are not shy about using it. It has been 10 years, and this picture has been getting worse, not better.

Clearly other vendors have looked at that and said, "30% of tens of billions of dollars per year, plus the ability to screw over competitors? Yes please!"

This is definitely not the slippery-slope fallacy, because all he's really positing is that corporate control will continue to tighten at the current rate. If you want to demonstrate otherwise, you have to prove it. And I think the only thing you've proven so far is that there will always be a few greybeards willing to boot up an old Linux kernel on obsolete hardware, which does not sound like true freedom to me.
It will be a must once mobile is launched, which I'm working on.
Well, this is not a normal (customer initiated) transfer, that's seizing funds from an account by legal order, which is not really related.
I do a lot of things from the command line. But as soon as I have a few lines and I need to write a script I just switch to Perl(which I know better than Python). It just seems easier. I still call unix commands but Perl seems better to glue them together.
the now-demolished Walled City of Kowloon was a great example of the dereliction/"street culture" side of cyberpunk fiction, very reminiscent of the "underbelly" image of cities like Midgar from FF7 or Hengsha in DX:HR. Also places like Lagos with a high rate of internet technology paired with scrap pickers and DIY recycling.

For the economic side of cyberpunk (the capitalist dystopia side), I'd say Hong Kong. A city with a booming economy and ample opportunity for international corporations but where the poorest citizens live in literal cages: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/cage-homes-hong-kong

For the neon/e-billboard aesthetic, you can't really beat Tokyo or Times Square, NY.
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> a tiny company from Finland can

Based on what a _single person_ from Finland has achieved, I wouldn't be so sure. ;)

Seriously, though, why even mention the country of origin?
That's incorrect.
I don't see how Berlin could be considered Cyberpunk at all. Sure there are some modern buildings, but most of it is at least 50 years old. And there's no real high-tech.
This sounds like what I wanted from GNU Social when I first joined over a year ago. GNU Social/Mastodon is a fun idea, but it falls apart when you realise that you still don't own your content and it's functionally impossible to switch nodes like it advertised, along with federation being a giant mess.

I tried to switch what server my account was on halfway through my GNU Social life, and you just can't; all your followers are on the old server, all your tweets, and there is no way to say "I'm still the same person". I didnt realise I wanted cryptographic identity and accounts until I tried to actually use the alternative.

That's also part of the interest I have in something like Urbit, which has an identity system centered on public keys forming a web of trust, which also lets you have a reputation system and ban spammers which you can't do easily with a pure DHT.