skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaguely. In reality it's going to an orbit that will cross Mars' orbit, but it won't actually be particularly near Mars for a very long time. It's a good proof of concept that they could launch something to Mars with this vehicle though.
> All the existing models I know of for making money off developing a blockchain involve some form of centralization. Either centralized mining (premining, ICOs) or breaking decentralization entirely (SegWit, Ripple).

Nano (née Raiblocks) uses a block lattice where each transaction from an account (accounts are first class citizens here) is appended onto a previous one, and only when accounts interact is there consensus required. Nano uses a combination of PoS and PoW (called Delegated Proof of Stake) to secure its chain. While in theory this is less distributed than blockchain (nodes elect delegates who actually perform the updates), in reality Bitcoin already is a network centralized around mining pools, so IMO dPoS openly acknowledges the centralization that already exists.
There's plenty of taxi apps as well as other ride sharing apps like Zoomy.

Often Uber drivers in NZ work for a smaller taxi company and have multiple ride sharing apps on their phone.

Building apps is actually simple. I work with one of those large powerhouses and they're actually really bad at it. Smaller teams can usually do a better job.

Has nothing to do with population size.

Also, I think Uber is in CHCH and the Tron. No doubt Dunedin is in their expansion plans.
Been watching all the previous launches. This one felt like a special moment in time.
I think part of an apology has to be the understanding that the problematic behavior will change.
Well they do separate at the same time and fly the same path back to earth so not a coincidence (though it's really satisfying)
I think it is more correct to say that a large subunit of JPM works as a software company -- for its internal use. All modern financial companies are heavily tech oriented, even those you wouldn't normally think of that way. The best tech firms I've ever been involved with financial firms from front desk trading on back. One of the best tech teams I've ever met with has been one of Bloomberg's teams dealing with their internal core services and bond platform (I was totally floored at how amazing these guys were). These companies are too large to say they are entirely software, but there are definitely Directors and CTOs that live and breath all those things you mention.
I came to this conclusion over the weekend. Really wanted to use one of those compile to JS languages, but after doing some interop and looking at their output, you're fighting the browser. Even Clojurescript, which is supposed to have has great code elimination will produce much bigger outputs then regular JS.

One way to look at it is immutable.js minified is 55 KB. That's about 5,000 lines of JS. If you're using a functional language, you've gotta bring along those immutable datastructures somehow, and 5k lines of Clojure is gonna output greater than 5k lines of JS.
I imagine it will get cancelled, like Persona and Firefox OS did. The interesting, large side projects seem to go that way.
Debugging sql statements using the mysql package for Node.js
Magic...how could it be so steady!
Wow. I can’t recall the last time I got this emotional from watching something on TV. Good thing my wife is asleep, cause I’m tear-eyed over two rockets touching down at the same time...
Those "largely-irrelevant sci-fi stories" are partially what helped inspire the people that accomplished this.
It's ok to be professional and say that you need a day to look at a failure (if it's that) before you announce it with the beginnings of an understanding.
Describing who benefits from properties of one policy (non-transferable reputation) is not an inherit stance in favor of that policy.

Every policy has winners and losers. I just felt like on this discussion thread there was a loser (people entering the gig economy) not mentioned.
The fairing diameter would not be much larger than it is right now and that is a limit all by itself. A bigger rocket would support a larger fairing.
Center core loss confirmed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=-B_tWbjFIGI...
I didn't think I'd say it, but after reading @Pinboard's history of a space shuttle, I'm glad we're moving past politicized too big to fail projects.
http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
Maybe they were put down as a reference without their prior approval?
So you're saying that we should just let people lie and get away with it? Because right now she's getting away with it.
What I keep failing to see is how does IOT improves anyone's life. It can simplify peoples lives but does it improve? Mozilla could have an important role, which I think is more important than standards. Right now I only see this fad as let's sell some gadgets that will get us free data about millions of people so they can get inside the house at the sound of their favorite tune.
You're using a 5 year old tablet for work? That thing is financially depreciated 2 years ago. For security reasons alone you shouldn't be using it to do work.
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For something like this, you don't want paperback. You want a full-sized, hardcover coffee table book.

Or at least I do. And I'd be willing to drop good money for a copy one it's been through some proper copyediting.
The centre core is significantly strengthened to cope with the additional load from the side boosters. It also has slightly different aerodynamic properties because of the fixed struts that hold the boosters in place. Either of these could have affected the landing. They'll collect data and fix it.
Radiation might be a concern. It could possibly embrittle the paper over time.
Oh okay. And last Elon's tweet says that the last stage still has a burn to do after the belt. So if the chips are damage it may be impossible to do the burn.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960988527159795712
This type of construct is unnecessary in C++11; the presence of RAII containers and structures totally obviates it. C++ provides a language-level construct for logic performed at the end of object lifetime (i.e., when value types fall out of scope or when heap-allocated objects are deleted): the destructor!

This person is describing an error-prone reimplementation of std::unique_ptr with a custom deleter. I could understand the value of an article like this if the use of C++11 were not allowed, but given that the article is written with C++11 in mind, I fear the author has totally missed the point of RAII-style resource management that the newer language-level constructs provide.

Deterministic destruction and associated logic, as well as the RAII strategies that follow, are perhaps the greatest strength of C++. Languages like Rust have gone on to improve this even further by eliminating some of the greatest sources of error. Capabilities like this don't seem accurately described as C++ learning from D; indeed, if D provides hooks for running logic when names fall out of scope, that seems more accurately described as vice versa.
Starman cam is currently streaming live as it circles the earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
1 successful launch vs 1 launch anomaly in 16 years and 80 consecutive succesful launches.

I know where I'm putting my money.
That sounds fascinating to me - is there any way you could elaborate a bit on the specifics of a typical class structure (how many/how long, were exercises limited to the subject at hand or more integrated with other topics, etc)? I'm trying to raise my own teaching game and that sounds like something I should try.
Also no filtering, you can just chuck raw HTML in there
We love what JanusVR is doing. The main difference is what you said. Supermedium is not a centralized platform but just a standard compliant Web Browser. Anything you create for Supermedium will run in any other browser that implements the current WebVR or future WebXR specs (https://immersive-web.github.io/webvr/)
Its an easy mistake to make. Given they seem to use Livestream i am going to go out on a limb that they also use Livestream Studio....great software but when you are setting up PiP and copy and paste it is incredibly easy to forget to change the input source on the second frame.
Live view of Starman in orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
In case you haven't already been acquainted...

THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT by TERRY BISSON

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

GREYLORN by KEITH LAUMER

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23028/23028-h/23028-h.htm
While I agree that fixing problems is more important than letting someone know you share a concern for their problem...

Can't you see that someone who won't even offer a simple verbal agreement that there IS a problem, is probably less likely to be the fixer of a problem than someone who is?
Watching the car orbit and the Earth's reflections in the windshield and paint and Starman's visor is sublime (sometimes goes to cameras of the engine/orbit overview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

e.g. https://i.imgur.com/Yu6gRar.jpg

This is all I'm watching for the rest of the day https://imgur.com/oKWTAQk
Jealousy, anger, etc. Sadly, it’s the nature of people. Can’t assume from the context but I know some people who might do that.
Just glanced over a german language interview, it's basically the introductory question, "sounds like a bad joke, please explain". Actual cancer researchers, looking for a cloning species to observe environmental influence on gene expression (which seems to be a candidate cause for some kinds of cancer or so). So they basically did it for confirming the availability very big, naturally occurring twin experiment.

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/genetik-forscher-se...
But why? It's no more "non-vegan" than a fruit tree having partially fed from a carcass or dead insects having decayed and enriched the soil? It's not like you're preventing animal suffering by not eating fig, the entire thing is part of the female fig wasp's lifecycle, that's the entirety of its life.

And if the issue is taking advantage of the pollinator's hard work, the vast majority of fruits are off limits.
I write desktop apps using PyQt and build an installer with pynsist. This is cross-platform, but I only need Windows support. Other than that, is this project just a simplified way to build desktop applications, or would it produce something fundamentally different from what I'm building now?
live view of Starman and his car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
> I don't remember being so nervous watching a launch video since

landing of the mars mission was pretty big in the spectacle sense.
I think it's interesting that all of the Space X control team seem so young. My memory of the Apollo missions were that all the controllers were old farts who had been with NASA for at least 20 years. Maybe its because I was very young at the time and now I'm older. Or maybe it's because you had to work for 20 years to be a controller at NASA and Space X is just not that old (yet).
I do Python and JS daily. Never had to do hand memory management in my life (maybe once in Objective-C).

Webdev is not the best tool for the job but it's cheaper and substitutes for a sleeve of other specialised tools.

The user experience is secondary if you do a product on a budget and iterate over it all the time. Especially if you are a web-first experience like Slack. Having native stuff there would make it even worse adding cognitive dissonance to the overall design.

I guess there's a method in this madness.
It's actually orbiting around the Sun, it passes near Earth orbit at the perihelion and near Mars orbit around aphelion, but is not actually in orbit around either planet.
I personally think some police abuse should be considered treason and handled appropriately via those laws. Same for political corruption
That's what they do in Hong Kong, a nice glass barrier. Solves the trash on the tracks problem, plus people can't fall down there.

My guess is that requires a precise stopping position, which requires a proper control system, which they probably don't have.
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This pattern was possible with a scoped class in c++ 98.
Odds of two people in a room having the same birthday?
Curious how old the author is. Those of us who had computers in the 80s and 90s remember how 3 years or so was what you got before obsolescence set in. Mobile devices are still developing at that kind of rate. Desktops and laptops last so long because for 99% of needs they maxed out on necessary specs many years ago.
You're showing your biases here. The other people on the livestream are also rocket scientists. They aren't PR people. They just happen to be younger, or women, or of color. So you might want to re-evaluate what you think a rocket scientist "looks like", because your notion is outdated.

Sorry to call you out like this, but these kinds of prejudices about who is the "correct" kind of person for tech jobs are harmful and discouraging to the people who don't fit the stereotypes, and helps contribute to keeping them out of the field.
USA Today reports the center stage landed

"The core stage, meanwhile, burned slightly longer before separating from the upper stage, performed a flip maneuver and landed on SpaceX's Of Course I Still Love You drone ship."

Not sure it's true.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/02/06/sp...
Yes!

Moreover, there's lots of companies in every vertical needed for bootstrapping the industry - ground services, satellites, in-space manufacturing, asteroid prospecting & mining... all in the early stage, all betting on cheaper access to space than it was just few years ago. We're in a critical moment where things suddenly start adding up and - I hope - will form something great!
It is quite elliptical. Right now the second stage is in GTO, with an apogee of 7000km and perigee (presumably) of ~200 or so. When it arrives at apogee, it'll reignite and go hyperbolic, onto a trajectory that escapes the Earth's SOI - then it will no longer be in Earth orbit.
Perhaps they have to "structure" a more formal statement even though the rocket could have been observed exploding. Purely speculation though.
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Off topic question. A few years ago I started a heated, short-lived debate on an online forum. Soon after, however, I realized my arguments were flawed. Is it creepy to send an apology to a few users after such a long time? I don't know them in real life, but I regret my rushed judgment to this day. I would like my online behaviour to be consistent with my real-life behaviour regardless of circumstances.
we actually integrate an indoor bike trainer (wahoo kickr).
I sort of was hoping for a big bang. Am I the only one?

Landing these things will become the standard. mmillion dollar fireworks will not. Anyways, still very impressed.
I agree with the anecdote. As a corollary anecdote, the older I get the more I see people taking advantage of other people for their own personal gain.
If they need it to work through the radiation belts then they have proper radiation hardened stuff on it I’m sure.
Where the room is Taiwan, and the people in the room are the earthquakes in Taiwan.
Although I'm not fully correct. Mr. Musk just tweeted this:

>Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960988527159795712
It was almost a brain stack-overflow for me. I made a weird, bleating laugh noise and tried to open my eyes wider than design spec. A sincerely surprising and amazing sight.
I prefer the pyqt website. No stupid animations. No bullshit. Just clear links to all the information you need, easily available docs, etc. I mean, it's kind a real reflection of the two frameworks. Do you want a framework that requires a 90MB payload with it that's a resource hog and a web browser or do you want something small, light and works?
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You are a human resource therefore you're managed as such. An humanity you can retain is only allowed when it is not detrimental to the job performance.
I also recently got an iPad Pro 10.5", and I think that the Pro 10.5" in particular will last longer than most iPads.

The only three iOS devices with 4GB of RAM are the iPad Pro 12.3 first gen, iPad Pro 12.3 second gen, and iPad Pro 10.5. Earlier iPads (and iPhones) were often working with much less RAM so a newer device with more RAM coming out would make the older ones obsolete faster.

The original iPad only had 256mb of RAM, and the first iPad with 2GB was the iPad Air, released in 2014.

4GB is going to be the maximum amount you can get in an iPad for a while, I think, and RAM increases matter much less now than they did when it went from 256mb to 512mb.

The processor in the 10.5 inch pro is also the first iPad processor to have 3 high performance and 3 low performance cores, coming up from 2 cores for everything.
Sure -- but body fat won't change much with aerobic activity (such as running) without also impacting weight.
This is the kind of marketing that blows everybody else out of the water.
I don't have an answer for you, but many things didn't improve peoples' lives when they were created. Powered flight didn't become something meaningful when it was first achieved.

The Internet wasn't built to improve peoples' lives either, but once in the hands of people, can be used to do that.

Certainly some IoT device will improve peoples' lives, and some IoT device (or many) may make them worse.

If you figure out how to make IoT improve peoples' lives, you may be able to make some money though :)
I'd guess that the temperature fluctuations and radiation would be pretty hard on paper. Zero humidity would probably make it brittle as well.
Oh, I completely agree. Apple is far from the only bad actor here. The only reason I singled them out was because the article was about them.
> The other hosts are great, but if you told me they were hired actors or PR people I'd believe it.

Because they are young and good looking and good at public speaking?
Sounds like you were seeing an old emscripten SDK bug, where it compiled LLVM+clang unnecessarily and with debug info (which is very slow).

Currently there shouldn't be anything like that, it will download a binary build of LLVM+clang for your system. It should be ready to use immediately after that download.
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Consider that the SpaceX team can simultaneously be team USA and team humanity. They are after all exactly that.

People outside the US want to feel part of the accomplishment, which is understandable as there are only a few nations that are likely to ever have the resources to do something like this. So the USA cheering feels exclusionary, naturally. I chalk it up to them being proud of the immense work they've done to get the US back into space properly again.
Creepy? No.

Just don't grave dig if you decide to apologize.
Aw, but it appears to be run by Trac and that always gives me flashbacks to the good old days.
Honestly it’s amazing how much better I understand this and other space stuff I’ve seen in the last year or two (like shows about Apollo, etc) since playing KSP.

No better way to learn basic orbital dynamics out there.
That's unfortunate if so. You'd have thought there would have been plenty of extra fuel to obviate the need for a hard landing, given that the actual Roadster payload is a small fraction of the rocket's capability. This wasn't a mission where they were stretching fuel to make the landing, like they have with some of the marginal Falcon 9 launches in the past where the payload size was just at max for the vehicle.
How much would it be worth to have a sustainable city of one million people on Earth? What's preventing that from happening?

By "sustainable" I mean a nearly closed loop system, with little need for water or air from the rest of the Earth, and little in the way of waste.

Because it seems like that is the biggest hurdle to this dream.
I honestly think most people don't give a [spoiler]shit[/spoiler]. I would at least find it very weird and probably think your autistic or something.

Note: I don't mean the autism thing in a bad way.
The problem is we're looking at a future where you're constantly going to have to retrain and then eventually the amount of jobs will be limited.

A lot of countries are looking at UBI others are looking at options for having more people working less hours and sharing the jobs. Whatever the solution the future is very scary, I can't think of many jobs that won't be disrupted by automation and AI.
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maybe he just put him down as a reference and never asked or gave him a heads up in advance? Or rather why would anyone put down a reference that isn't going to put in a good word for them?
I think "improve" is a very subjective and lofty standard to hold these things to. I think "simplify" is correct, and most people would see simplification as an improvement.

There is definitely something magical about leaving your house and having your lights shut off and your door lock automatically, then coming home after a long day and having your door unlock and lights come back on.

It's not such a drastic improvement or change, but it feels like attention to detail. IMO, reducing the number of things I have to think about on a daily basis to live my life is an improvement.
The article looks great but a doubling of speed actually seems kind of disappointing (What I'd like to see is would something like "big O" improvement).

I have been investigating cache-oblivious data structures for a while. They're impressive, complex and a bit difficult to fathom (for a cache-oblivious tree, you have to consider both relational structure created by pointers and the layout of all the pointer in memory - the article seems like it gives a nice overview compared to academic articles I've looked at).

The thing is, in most of the large applications I've tried to optimize, you could squeeze several speed doublings out of fairly easy inner-loop rewrites as soon as you started profiling the app. After that, you got more marginal results from optimizing this and that. Consider; if 25% of the time is spent retrieving data, a halving of time to do this results in a 12.5% increase in performance. Is that 12.5% worth the complexity of implementing a cache oblivious structure? Even if you application is a full database, I'm not sure if the trade-offs are worth it.
It's pretty clearly being used condescendingly in this case.

However, the author may genuinely not have noticed the sexist connotation until it was pointed out.
It's impressive they got it on the first try. Their software models/simulations must have played a huge role in this, aside from other processes and engineering gotchas.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground

An "extremist" would be the folks at 4chan sending her gore, dick pics, and death threats.

The author of the post is responding to the initial vitriol spit by Harshita Arora and in context is well reasoned and well grounded.
Seeing two falcons landing felt to me like seeing first STS spaceship taking off all the way from Space Canaveral. Truly amazing! I cannot wait to see a version where 16 of them are landing... simultaneously! (its just a dream)

Great job Elon and team SpaceX!