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and they could easily be revoked... If the government wanted to delete somebody, it would be pretty easy... just revoke all tokens and don't issue new ones.
> SpaceX is getting paid for a successful launch, meeting their contractual obligations.

I would assume most contracts for space launches involve putting the payload in question into the correct LEO/GEO, or at least an agreed upon point at which the payload maneuvers itself into the intended orbit.

> The booster landed perfectly.

That benefits SpaceX. The customer isn't likely to care what happens to the rocket after it launches their payload.

> There's no damage to the launchpad delaying other rockets.

Not the customer's problem even if it did explode on the pad. That would be between the launch company and the launch facility. In the case of a private customer, the payload is almost always insured (though insurance does little to help with schedule delays in manufacturing a new payload).

> There's no investigation into "what went wrong?" holding back further launches.

There might be for the US military, we don't know.

> No real customer is looking at this and going "Wait, maybe we'd better use ULA instead!" because they know SpaceX launched just fine.

According to SpaceX's account of the launch.

> This is an absolute win for SpaceX, despite however anyone wants to spin it.

Wouldn't an "absolute win" be launching the payload into the intended orbit with no anomalies?
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It boils down to higher effective shutter speeds. Barring a global electronic shutter (such as was in the Nikon D100 and D70 CCD cameras), you can get much faster shutters (or, really, lower exposure times at the sensor) with a focal plane shutter than you can with a leaf shutter. The limiting factor is not how much stuff you can move how far in how little time, but how narrow you can make the moving slit. Not only does a leaf shutter need to fully open and fully close to create the exposure, it needs to do it quickly enough to have a negligible effect on the len's aperture (both for exposure and for depth of field control reasons).

That speed does come at a cost, though, since there is a point at which you cannot expose the entire sensor at once. (That's also true of rolling electronic shutters, by the way.) Flash needs to be worked around in various ways, and anything moving in the frame will suffer distortion.

I still have good reasons to use an old Nikon in some circumstances (lower resolution requirements, high ambient light levels and flash). While they do have focal plane shutters, they only go up to 1/250 of a second. Faster than that and you're using a global electronic shutter, which doesn't reduce effective aperture when the lens is wide-open or nearly so, but still expose the entire sensor in one go. That means I can use a higher shutter speed to control the ambient exposure while using very low flash power. That means no waiting for recycling or carrying around large amounts of lighting equipment.
> All the people talking about being unable to handle/comprehend the death of their child, and especially the one line of conversations about the impact of losing one child when you have many more, made me think about something. For most of human history, losing some children was expected. Child mortality rates for most of our history have been abysmal.

Exactly, the preciousness of childhood and children in general is a more modern trend. Certainly our ancestral parents felt the loss, but not nearly so keenly because they still had to focus on feeding the rest of the family.

And it is absolutely related to the drop in child mortality. Falling child mortality leads to less need to have fewer children since they're more likely to survive. This leads to families with fewer children (a trend seen world-wide), and each family invests more heavily in the children they have. It very much looks like loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy.
Not much deniability for orbiting objects. Everything bigger than a golfball, and the launches to park them there, can be easily observed and cataloged by state actors. They might not know what every chunk of junk is for, but everyone knows who put it there. Even amateurs with small telescopes can play along for the larger chunks.

Eg: http://www.heavens-above.com/Satellites.aspx
It doesn’t force memory into cache directly. It determines values of bytes in memory by using the byte as a multiplier to an offset in memory. To determine byte value you can check all the offset combinations to see which was cached. Details in the meltdown paper.
"James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering..."

I have stopped reading TechCrunch, ArsTechnica and Vice magazine because they continually report this inaccurately (at best) if they are not outright lying.

Once again, Damore never says that women are biologically less capable. Nothing like this is every stated nor even implied. In fact he goes out of his way to say this is not so, in the memo. Frustrating.
I find myself sending pictures and videos in chat all the time, simply because of the ease of it. Say I'm cooking dinner and a friend asks me, "what are you up to?". It's just as easy for me to send a quick video of the skillet sizzling on the stove, as it would be to type out a descriptive response.
Anecdotal but in Asia, white features are in "high" demand. One of the most popular surgeries in Korea is lifting the eyelids higher to look more Caucasian.
>The initial coin offering...is open to accredited investors

Is this fairly common now? Most of the ICOs I've read about before were basically open to everyone.
I said "institute a traffic law culture", not "apply this ruling to this woman". If the entire culture is based on certain assumptions, many aspects of it change to accommodate it.

For example all of the things nickspacek mentions here would be brought in in due course based on pressure from the drivers themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16107645
Ahem, could you please review my comments and find a single insult in them? Because I can't. On the other hand:

- Pedantry
- Rude
- Dickish dismissal
- Dismissive jerk
- Unkind

And then "lighten up" :)
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not because of political leadership

In part because of leadership -- chiefly thought leadership, a part of which came in the form of assimilation. The power of human capital -- culture -- should not be underestimated. If it's just access to resources like improved food and living conditions, then every group would progress at the same rate. If it's just access to resources, then giving people resources would automatically make them richer. However, there are a number of Africans who advocate stopping aid to Africa. Africa is full or resources, and Japan has very few. Why is Japan so much wealthier?

Most of the answer is human capital.

If the cultures of the Polish and Italians were not encouraging their younger generations to better their fortunes through education and business, then the cultures would have lowered the material wealth of the groups and held them back, in much the same way that the early Irish immigrants to the US lowered the quality of life in their slums.

http://a.co/auz0JmV

In this, there is much hope. If cultural transmission can raise up the 19th century potato famine Irish to the 1st world mainstream, there is basically nothing it can't accomplish. (However, culture runs deep, below the level of the conscious mind. It can't be transmitted by simple edict.)
I like that idea.

The sentiment I've seen more commonly expressed is — I still want a car for each adult in my household so we can each go where we want, when we want. I'm spoiled and prefer that as well but I know in my heart it is selfish and not sustainable.
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Example of this done right: https://opengameart.org

Not instant, but looking directly at the Patreon would be closer.

And yes, normally you'd report as taxable.
In some respects this seems like a better application of blockchain than a lot of ICOs.

On the other hand, it isn't clear how they're going to solve the oracle problem of deciding who has the canonical rights to a given photograph.
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For me, that happened when I became the father of two little girls.

My radar is up whenever I am in public with my daughters. I notice if strangers look for too long in their direction or if I see someone hanging out where children are, without a child of their own.

Occasionally, I'll spot another father like me. We'll lock eyes for a moment and it's clear that we recognize each other (for what we are, not necessarily who we are) and then go back to scanning the area.

I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your brother. Kids can be horrible to each other. I don't say that to minimize his experience but to say that I understand.

This heightened awareness that you feel, it comforts me to know that there are others out there. Obviously, there are no guarantees in life but your vigilance will give your son a better shot at safely reaching adulthood than many other boys who don't have someone looking out for them like that.
>California has long had much stronger environmental regulations.

But not safety which is the issue here.
True, just pointing out the irony of waiting for technology to fix technology.
We strongly believe that file transfer and storage is an important thing to everyone, because it's so important to share ideas and information. Right now, we're navigating through and around clunky ways of doing it and we want to change that by making these two things seamless and easy.
* Price: one shutter for many lenses versus one shutter in each lens.
* Range of shutter speeds: leaf shutters on large lenses struggle to get to 1/1000 of a second. They can do 1/2000 on digital sensors by electronically beginning the exposure and mechanically ending it. The fastest focal plane shutters went to 1/12000 of a second (but most today are either 1/4000 or 1/8000).
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This is from Google Zero on Meltdown:

We believe that this precondition is that the targeted kernel memory is present in the L1D cache.

Not only is L1D tiny, but stuff like prefetch doesn't touch it. So how exactly do you force any memory into L1D cache unless, like in all the examples we have seen, the victim program is pretty much accessing it in a busy loop?
How far back do the machines in Microsoft testing lab go?

I heard the chips having the problems were Athlons from 2005-2006, which are 12-13 years old now. Apple doesn't have to worry about this kind of stuff when they patch OS X because they are able to drop support for anything they want after a certain time.
Ethereum isn't decentralised to a large degree (see the DOA). Given such a thing, one may as well use a standard web stack.

Also, that makes any guides written for devs on the subject of negative utility. It wastes their time; since the premise, that the new paradigm derives its value from censorship resistance, is breached.

It takes some serious non-thinking to support Ethereum. The price is high, the value is low.
Advertising is all about inventory and how you monetize it. Snapchat has the inventory but they don't seem to be succeeding yet at monetizing it within their current business model.
> People didn't think it was okay to commit crimes targeting child victims, they just didn't think of those things as crimes at all (which, at the time, they weren't).

See, this is the problem he's pointing out: if it wasn't considered ok, it would have been a crime. The point being that children as a whole weren't seen as a protected class the way they are now. At best, you might treat the child of a wealthy person well but only because of the consequences the father might inflict upon you, not because the child itself was worthy of that treatment.
The shtick is "efficiently managing the post-licensing process" which basically translates to automatically debiting KODAKCoins instead of issuing DMCA take-downs. Seems like a great way to throw debt collectors onto the whole IP protection mess.

Sounds like hot garbage.
I live in germany, traffic law works like that here, and the insurance fraud you mention is not known here. Not sure why. Maybe because of other aspects of the law culture here.
A trans-humanist group might be more likely to have access to a time machine than most other groups, but I still don't think it is very likely that joining the group caused them to become a first-born child. It is much more likely that if there is a causal relationship, being a first-born child caused them to be more likely to join the group.
Well that definitely contributed, but that alone didn't cause the crash. There was irrational price rise in the last few weeks for certain cryptocurrencies(Ripple, Tron) and this is part of the correction.

Also, The market as a whole should get away with global averages and depending on one website to track everything. I wrote an article on it if someone is interested - http://coinsocial.io/2018/01/09/its-time-for-cryptocurrency-...
I can imagine Linus Torvalds happily working one bright California afternoon and gets a knock at the door. Two men say they are from Intel and need to discuss a serious bug with him. Wondering what could be so bad that Intel pays him a personal visit, he invites them into the sitting room, gets them some tea/coffee. Then they describe the problem.

What I want to know is what happens next? Is Linus (or "Mr. Torvolds" to me) silently shocked? Does he go on a LKML-style rant? Immediately whip out his laptop and code up an exploit just to see if it's actually true? All of them?

(Mostly I just want to hear him rant, I love his well-informed, opinionated take-downs of lousy ideas. Although it's probably a toxic environment to work it.)
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For most launches, it would be SpaceX's job to demate the payload from their stage -- but not for this one. Unusually (per coverage from Ars and others), the hardware that mated the payload to the rocket was supplied by the customer of record, Northrup/Grumman, not SpaceX -- so if it failed, SpaceX can't really be blamed for that.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/what-we-know-and-wha...
Our chemically created foods are likely killing us in a variety of ways we are only just now beginning to understand.

Seems to have worked out ok for the last few 100k years unless you think the other hominids we suspect of cooking got offed by it and we just got deliciously lucky.
Thanks for the reply

> Without concrete type safety theorems (“such and such doesn't happen in a typable program”), you don't even know what type checking is supposed to buy you.

What kind of safety theorem should I be looking for? I mean, what I generally want is something like "if an expression of type A evaluates, the result will be a valid thing of type A i.e. a value constructed by one of the constructors I defined for values of type A". Or perhaps it would be better expressed via elimination - "if I provide eliminators for all my constructors for type A then I can eliminate any expression of type A". I kind of want a "the system will never magic up an A out of nowhere" result, but AIUI I can never get that because I can't have a proof of consistency of the system, no?

> Doing this safely requiers bona fide dependent types - in spite of their name, so-called “path-dependent types” are just fancy first-class existentials.

What is it that we can't do currently? I mean, I can define a natural number type, I can convert between values and types in both directions. I can't use ad-hoc polymorphism with a type defined at runtime (the types I form at runtime must be phantom) but I wouldn't expect to do that in well-behaved code in the first place? The only way I can see for a type to ever get into code, in any language, is either through a literal or a cast, and both those approaches are open to me in Scala. What am I missing?
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Most of the ICOs you’ve read about may well be illegal.
I am wondering if getting the version from Wikipedia would not be better. Granted, it is a secondary source, but it is up-to-date most of the time, and it is more complete than Github (you are missing Python for example).
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This bit was new to me as well.

If you feel like taking this advice, maybe it can help. Otherwise, I would hope you just be yourself instead. :)
>Utilizing blockchain technology, the KODAKOne platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the platform. With KODAKCoin, participating photographers are invited to take part in a new economy for photography, receive payment for licensing their work immediately upon sale, and for both professional and amateur photographers, sell their work confidently on a secure blockchain platform.

There is no use case that KODAKCoin meets that other cyrptos don't, except that it's owned in house by Kodak. I really hate this trend of companies trying to create their own nonsense currency and then justifying it with "blockchain is great!". If blockchain was the reason you could just transact in almost any currency that isn't bitcoin (because fees). There's no new technology here, it's just Kodak trying to ride the free money wave of cryptocurrency speculation.

Pulling rights fees automatically could be accomplished via smart contracts, and without the mess of 'debt' being involved.
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> Just stick a camera in every stall, street corner and household room.

At the same time paving the way to crush dissent (and in the more extreme case independent thought altogether) against the government, and providing perfect material for the blackmail of future politicians etc. (I'm sure _everyone_ has done/said things, even if perfectly legal/normal, in the privacy of their own home they'd rather not be made public).

And that's not even considering the case where a third-party gains access and uses it for economic/industrial espionage, blackmail, etc.
Both are averting losses of different kinds. Young people are driven by social pressures (FOMO), old people are avoiding bigger risks (mortality, financial calamity).

This is bog standard behavioral economics. I highly recommend Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
Umm, pretty much.

Sold my car, moved to Europe, commute by bike. I do rent a car now and then when it can't be avoided and in those scenarios I drive with extreme caution.

The US has a 9/11 every month on the roads and almost nobody there gives a shit. I never understood it.
Trehalose is not that common an additive in the US. It is also a naturally occurring disaccharide found often in mushrooms. CD apparently has evolved the ability to metabolize it which is why it is now an issue.
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It’s been renamed again? Word of this has not yet trickled down to my group.

I wish they’d put some of the renaming energy into improving the reliability of their Mac and iOS apps....
No, that's what a write-ahead-log is, or quite a few various databases, or a git branch are.

The key innovation of the blockchain was the use of proof-of-work in order to associate an amount of computer-time with a given block, and then pick, from competing views of a blockchain, which view took the most energy to arrive at... all while being resistant to a small number of subversive actors.

In short, the blockchain solved the Byzantine Generals’ Problem, and happened to use a append-only cryptographic ledger as part of it.
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Or.
The Zuma payload is working exactly as intended and will be forgotten in a weeks time once this fades from daily news.
Might be a good time to reinforce your tinfoil hats.
Can the videos be put on YouTube for convenience?
You don't need a blockchain to prevent double spending. You only need a blockchain if you want the double spending prevention to happen between trustless distributed peers.
But the parsing code already works fine, that’s not really the hard bit. Then I get all of the lock-in for questionable benefit and something that Just Works on AWS.
This is literally a PoC. It's too late for the standard "I can't imagine how to exploit this so surely it cannot be done" fallacy. You are looking at an example of how to do it.
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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...

> Project Member Comment 4 by hawkes@google.com, Aug 7

> Labels: Deadline-Grace

It looks like Ben Hawkes would know the reason why, but I think the speculation that this grace period was done due to the scope and severity of this finding is likely correct.
The cop said it wasn't her fault, she didn't do anything wrong, but ALSO that "you need to make sure that you never do this again." How is she supposed to do that? The cop is pretending to absolve her of guilt while explicitly saying she is somehow in control of an uncontrollable situation.
It's really sinister of these companies to do ICOs when the coin doesn't give you ownership of the company
Have you come across https://www.provenance.org? It's outside the currency/wire transfer space. Looked like an interesting application to me, but possibly too nascent to be a shining example
>Then you're in for a lot of trouble if you get investigated, audited, or whatever

Yes that is accurate. This endeavor relies on me getting our opsec right.
>There was irrational price rise in the last few weeks for certain cryptocurrencies(Ripple, Tron) and this is part of the correction.

What makes their increase 'irrational'?
I'm sure even if there was a failure you'd still be able to visibly see the satellite... it's not like the fairing separation would have caused it to suddenly lose enough delta-v to deorbit.

The failure, apparently, is that they can't contact the payload, not that it disappeared.
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lol, this is dumb that adding a cryptocurrency would have that profound impact on their stock. Just pay them in USD or some other currency with real-world proven value.
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Add 10 more years :)
>but it's far more complicated than tracking per capita miles driven (not that you were making this specific argument, just pointing out the obvious).

x2. A drunk driver going off a cliff is uninteresting since it's a known problem with known solutions (regardless of your personal opinion on how adequate the implementation of those solutions is).

Stuff where no party did much that was unreasonable is what's interesting because those tell you what edge cases cause the system to fail.
10 years ago I had to have my German Shepherd put down; she was suffering from cancer, and I couldn't take it any longer.

A few weeks later I was watching I Am Legend in the theater, and when (spoiler alert) I could see what looked like the inevitable demise of Will Smith's dog, I hoofed it out as quickly as I could. I was completely unprepared to deal with that, and to this day I've never finished the movie.
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They would need to break our opsec, at which point a civil suit is the least of my concerns.
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