skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It apparently ran out of TEA-TEB ignition fluid, not fuel:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/15403/why-is-tea-t...

I can't find any info on how much TEA-TEB is carried on-board, only that it's ground supplied for initial launch with the on-board TEA-TEB being used only for restarts.

(I'm not even an amateur rocket scientist: I just googled all this.)
You can happily use Netflix on Linux, but not in 1080p. :(
Breezed right through Gare du Nord last Saturday. But we actually got to the train station about as early as we would have for a flight because we noted things were such a backed up mess when we arrived a few days prior.
Fairing recovery was asked in the press conference afterward - here's a transcription from r/spacex

Fairing recovery has proven surprisingly difficult. I'm still fairly sure we can do it in the next six months, but the fairing is [not aerodynamic], messes with the parachute... we also have a fairing version 2, much more important than version 1 fairings.... my guess is next six months for fairing recovery. We have the special boat. .....we might even be able to catch the dragon too, if nasa wants to

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7vruh7/falcon_heavy...
It is an audiophile grade speaker. For the class of device it is, it's the highest quality, best sounding speaker for the price. If you want a wireless speaker (whatever your reasons for wanting it), the HomePod is the best one, hands down.
Hurricane Irma – Before and After Pictures
The article makes it sounds like the photographer already knew he could trap one atom, before taking the picture.

My guess would be, as this is an electromagnetic trap, that two such ions would repel each other and the well is set to be shallow enough that at most one ion can remain inside.
> where we can offload all of the ops and deployment and first-line support duties to our customer, once they've got it installed and running.

I feel like this might become a burden later on when you have to support multiple versions of a codebase in the wild.
Latency can definitely improve from where we are at. The speed of light is different through different materials, that's why some people are using hollow fiber optic cables to have lower latency connections. Laying a more direct line would also improve latency, my connections to Seattle backtrack about a hundred miles east before heading out west again according to traces. Faster routing hardware would shave off a few milliseconds. Economic factors hold back latency improvements for the majority of internet users, not hard physical limits.
For me personally, I cannot ever relocate to Seattle because of the weather. I live in Boston, which has its own issues, but at least it's often sunny during the winter and I can get out for a walk most days.

I have a lot of family around Seattle and have visited frequently. One year I visited in May and it rained nonstop, oscillating between a soft drizzle to a torrential downpour, for 10 straight days! Too depressing for me.
I just saw this bundle as well. I looked at the ratings on Amazon and they seem pretty solid though some have a limited number of reviews. Do folks have strong thoughts one way or the other on any of the books in particular?

I'm making it a point to check out Rust this year. The included "Programming Rust" book looks pretty solid with 4.5 stars over 15 reviews; the bundle will probably be worth it on the strength of that alone. Thoughts on that book would be especially useful to me.
And all the HN hate for the MacBook Pro touch bar and keyboard, while it sells incredibly well.
Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'
Then the whois info for a given domain must vary from region to region. Here is what I see:

$ whois n-gate.com
Domain Name: N-GATE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 3552897_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.gandi.net
Registrar URL: http://www.gandi.net
Updated Date: 2017-12-30T01:40:58Z
Creation Date: 1995-05-21T04:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Gandi SAS
Registrar IANA ID: 81
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@support.gandi.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +33.170377661
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: A.NS.SCIOPS.NET
Name Server: D.NS.BUDDYNS.COM
Name Server: E.NS.BUDDYNS.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2018-02-12T21:55:31Z <<<

(+legalese...)
Also, Paddle costs more per transaction. Stripe charges fixed 20 cents / transaction and Paddle 50 cents.
Will it work, though? Is the center-core restart happening under the same conditions as the heretofore successful ones? Is it really a matter of adding more lighter fluid? (That's like The Cable Guy's BBQ advice.) How fast is the wind those rocket nozzles are pointed into?
The Science Behind Your Cheap Wine
> "and is happening!) to Instagram"

That's not what the article suggests. If you have some stats to suggest the volume of Instagram users is already on the decline, by all means post it.
I think we're seeing a more intense backlash because the core Snapchat product doesn't exist in a vacuum anymore. Instagram has crafted a superior UX for the same use case(s).

My gut says that the redesign is primarily a reaction to Instagram's product, not to meet the "needs" of it's users.
Redondo – From the Soul (Official Music Video)
Alright, I understand better now what you are saying. I'm eager to see some benchmarks that can answer those meaningful questions.

Thank you for your courteous reply.
well with gmail they are the same email. But with other mail applications, those could be two different email addresses. You are going to need to test all the different email services and find out which do this and which do not do this... which is no easy task
Data about people needs to become a huge liability for corporations. If they want to (massively) profit off information about me, there must be incentives to keep that information safe beyond bad PR when it leaks. There's a legislative idea I like, undeniably a pipe dream at this moment, which in broad strokes is this:

If a corporation holds data records about people, and those records are leaked in any way, a fine of $100-1000 (depending on severity) per record must immediately be paid to a supervising government agency. The impacted people can then receive their share of the fine upon request.

You can Socrates this whole thing to death (what is a record? what is a leak?) but our legal system is, if nothing else, extremely well-practiced at creating robust definitions for abstract things. The solution presented seems extreme within our current paradigm, but it (or something like it) must come to pass if we are to have any hope of avoiding information dystopia.
Seattle summers are basically a drought. Winter is where all the rain comes, and even then it is only about average (notable because it is concentrated in time and fairly continuous but light). Still, native Seattlites will up play the rain issue to keep outsiders away, hehe (Portland and Vancouver, BTW, get more rain than Seattle).
> invite them to join then?

I'm sorry but I'm not going to spend my personal time convincing hundreds of my contacts to move over to a random service called Mastodon. I've got better things to do with my life. I'm going to use Facebook as a tool and move on - as I'm sure the less vocal majority are doing.

There is a philosophical viewpoint and a practical one. I choose the practical one.
That simply reflects technical reality. Once you give them information, you no longer can restrict what they can do with it technically. legally, sure, you can write whatever law you like, but the best way to protect your privacy continues to be technical measures.
Oh man. In the junior year of my Physics degree we had a special lab section called "Modern Physics Lab". It was 2 credits (a lab is normally 1 credit in the Florida university system and denotes how much time you're in the classroom during a week), and basically a self-study course on how to properly conduct experiments in the modern physics domain. Replicating results from early modern physics like Milliken oil drop, identifying lattice structures using X-ray spectroscopy, etc.

Everything in the lab was broken, and the faculty knew it. They told us on syllabus day that about 50% of our lab time was going to be spent repairing the old shitty equipment. Why? Because unless you're working at MIT or CERN that's how labs in the real world work. Everything's broken and you don't have any funding but you still have to publish.

And truth be told I learned more about both basic circuits and how to foster a "get shit done" attitude from that class than any other lab class I had to take. The modules were on a rotation and I remember one of the groups that ended up on a particular experiment spent almost the entire semester fixing one module that nobody got to do that semester. It was an old out-of-production expansion card that plugged in to some old DOS box and interfaced with some piece of tech I can't remember. Literally everything about the setup was out of production. The amount of investigation and creativity they had to come up with in order to try and fix that experiment was impressive. I don't remember if they succeeded.

That lab was an experience.
$770/mo for 5 years contract? I assume that's on your business lines and has a service level agreement with it?
Amazon prime does not operate where I live (Sweden) and buying has a lot more friction than it used to.

I haven't tried bandcamp but iTunes is annoying for me today. Features like the "complete my album" and recommendations no longer exist except inside Apple Music.
Why stop there, though? Maybe he’s lying about having paid his own money for it. Maybe he’s lying about the measurements. Maybe his entire user account is a fake persona. Where do you draw the line?
I've never used instacart but all the problems you've described I've had with Prime Now (Bay Area). Instacart also appears to have cheaper prices on some whole foods 365 items than Prime Now does...
> But when Facebook introduced the algorithmic newsfeed, the usefulness ended.

What I find funny is that probably according to FB your "engagement" increased with that change. Beforehand, you would check the feed, and then hit something that you already saw and then stop: you saw everything that there was to see.
After the change instead, you found yourself seeing again and again the same content, and you would keep scrolling that feed hoping to see something new.

Instead of 5 minutes it takes you 10 (and you still are not sure you saw everything you wanted), you're spending double time on FB, big win ! Who cares if the "productivity" (as in total enjoyment / time spent) decreased , more time = more ads = more money.

Lather, rinse, repeat, until the garbage is so much that one stop using it and the "engagement" drops completely.
Oh absolutely. I have been noticing this is starting to happen with SSDs as well. A lot of modern games run awful on mechanical drives.
Impressively even-handed for such a confusing subject. I understand why philosophers are pretty much celebrities in the eyes of students, in a way that math or CS professors aren't. Doing this well requires a kind of intellect that crosses over into personality.
Congrats on the launch! Nice/clear demo.

2 questions
1) what's your take on https://coherent-labs.com/hummingbird/
2) are you hiring
> The winners are pretty much everyone.

You don't know that yet. There is not a great track record anywhere for implementing radical reform without significant unintended consequences.

It's totally reasonable to be cautiously optimistic, but when people are only barely not frothing around the mouth at the prospect of landing a punch on Goliath, I'd err on the side of caution, at least until we see how the chips fell.
It's to remove ambiguity (not all), i.e. you select a date and then specify how you want it to look. For example, the date 12/05/2017 can be interpreted as either DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY but if you select a date first and then describe your desired format we can exclude one of the possibilities.
> What's an illusion?

One problem I have with illusionism is that if consciousness is an illusion, what is it that is being fooled by the illusion? Presumably the answer is that the illusion is fooling itself, which to me implies that either there is something there that is "real" to believe the illusion, or that the definition of an illusion in this case is so far from our usual definition that the term does not have much in the way of explanatory power.
I agree on the hypocrisy of that system.
This post shows how the "weak" are weeded out from the sciences. If your frustration level is as low as shown in the article, you won't become happy doing science. If you instead like getting hit in the face repeatedly for years, welcome onboard until you fall off!
That's pretty cool, thanks for letting me know!
This always reads like an excuse. They don't have to enforce it as strictly. Content owners don't specify the exact technical details Netflix has to deploy. If the deal says "no access for users outside country x", Netflix could just ask the user from which country they are from. Then, depending on the answer either show it or not.

On another note, some companies like this. Take Valve with Steam. They are definitly in a position to dictate "no region lock bullshit", yet they still make them available. Because it means more money.
And they're doing just fine now... I don't get the point?
Blockchain explained: It builds trust when you need it most
Hmm? Microsoft went through some pain, but their valuation looks fine and they are on the rise again.

https://qz.com/300946/microsoft-at-its-peak-would-have-crush...
I wrote my first program in 1971. I'm still actively programming (http://daly.axiom-developer.org).

Not the oldest knot in the tree but I'm not dead yet.
Vague laws = arbitrary justice. They will aid the EU's squeezing money out of US corporations under the pretense that they're protecting the consumer.
I don't agree that adding Off/Auto/Language-of-choice setting is complicating matters. Having an "Off" setting that isn't actually off is not good UX. A huge portion of Spanish speakers in the US also speak English, so I wouldn't say this is a niche feature.

44% of Californians speak a language other than English at home, and 1/5 nationwide [1], yet Netflix' product doesn't seem to cater particularly well to those audiences.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/censu...
> I have no idea why they don’t do it.

Not to beat this hackneyed drum to death, but: it’s because you’re not the consumer—you’re the product. They have armies of data scientists optimising their holy interaction metrics to death. They are incentivised to wage a holy war for your eyeballs, and wage a war they will. Every last base point is priceless at their scale.

Every single pixel, every possible user story, everything down to the very last detail is optimised for user interaction.

If you ever find yourself wondering why they missed something: they didn’t. It’s intentional.
The new trainsets ("Eurostar e320") are built by Siemens as the 'Velaro e320'. They are factory-equipped with ERTMS equipment (in-cab signalling, sensors, etc), and unlike the Alstom-built predecessors, support both the Germanic 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC electrification, and 1500 V DC used in the Netherlands.
> In 2009, it was the counterparty risks that really amplified the disaster-- all of those CDOs were written assuming there was no possibility of default ... With bitcoin there is no possibility of default, and very high resistance to financial censorship.

I don't really see how this statement can be justified; I can borrow or have contractual obligations denominated in Bitcoin that I fail to deliver, and you are free to value the contract pre-default at its market value and even take loans against it, amplifying the ripple effects of a default.

In my opinion, the real crisis in 2009 was not the failure of the banks and the financial system; the real crisis was the bailouts -- funneling huge amounts of money created just for that purpose to the very institutions that had proven their inability to manage that money.

My hope for Bitcoin is that it makes such a bailout untenable because it would require real money be spent, or unlimited credit be created, which would expose even large central banks to the problems of sovereign default.
Users likely flagged your post because they felt that it was relatively uninformative political boilerplate with grains of unsubstantive flamebait: “People are starting to realize that the Cold War never ended.” and an offshoot of a tangent to boot.

Political discussions on Hacker News need to be civil and substantive, like the guidelines ask. Even more so because the flamewar risk is much higher and this is not a flamewar site.
The optimization of reusing the character array for a string was used in Java until roughly the Java 7 days, when it was dropped because it could cause a space leak: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15612157/substring-metho....

One difference in Java was that you could slice out the middle of a string (you just kept the start and end of the array, iirc). I wonder if that difference makes this approach workable for Ruby, or if that implies that one team made a mistake.
So, I wonder why the side boosters won't be used again? Was that explained. I'm curious, but I barely have internet on this hill.
Basically all social networks with real names are an extension of one's professional brand. This is not good for facebook in its efforts to attract kids because 1) what parent wants to sign their kid up for a permanent professional brand and 2) what kid is thinking about their professional brand anyway?
Speed of light isn't the only factor in latency. Quality of the equipment, routing protocols, etc are far more important since those are the things we can actually change.
So your problem with data mining is that they're too good at it? What happens when AI gets commoditized, and your car wash gets those analytics as part of their Azure subscription? Are they suddenly no longer allowed to use the data you gave them previously? This isn't consistent, and the line is nowhere near clear.
If you're using WhatsApp instead of Facebook, Facebook the company doesn't care, it's still money in the bank to them (selling advertisers a detailed profile of who their users are for targeted ads). The whole idea behind buying Instagram and Whatsapp would've been to stay relevant when the inevitable decline in their flagship product kicked in. Looks like their plan is working.
It sounds to me like you're comparing the solo HomePod against a stereo setup?
Without questioning this line of thought, it seems like deduplicating by lowercasing and perhaps removing dots is a good choice, but stripping +suffixes seems likely to generate more user annoyance than it prevents. If I filter based on those suffixes and you send me mail and strip the suffix, I'm going to be pissed.
This happened to me too. There was a guy on Reddit looking for help setting up Plex on a dedicated server. I run a small chat room and helped him out in there.

But we did exchange a few emails. I use fastmail and he uses gmail. A few days later he pops in the people you might know thing. At the time I did not have a cell phone so I am assuming he gave the app access to his contacts or something.

I think it is safe to say Facebook has a pretty detailed profile about you even if you never made an account.
That's like saying a £5 pair of headphones is "audiophile grade" for the price. While it doesn't have a strict definition it definitely doesn't mean good for the price.
ATI demonstrated FP24 was frickin' awesome over a decade and a half ago. it wouldn't surprise me in the least if you went somewhere like that, but it perplexes me as to why you think that's secret sauce in any way long after ATI nearly destroyed NVIDIA with FP24 back in the early days of DirectX 9 and NV3x.
This is why I always scratch my head when I hear about early stage startups say "Oh, yeah, we built our MVP and put it out there and got thousands of sign ups, then we started figuring out how to build a billing system to handle subscriptions..."

I call total BS on that. Trying to shoehorn even something like Stripe into an app that has existing tables for users and companies, and ensuring it WORKS (including handling webhooks for payment confirmation, invoice generation, failed payments etc.) in less than 3 or 4 weeks is setting your developers (and accounts department) up for failure.

If you are selling an enterprise level SaaS, then things like billing history, generation of invoices for your customer's accounts department, handling lapsed subscriptions gracefully, handling changing of credit card details, giving the option of purchase orders or using other forms of payment etc. ALL have to be factored in and built before you even sign up your first customer. (Yep, we even lost a customer during the trial once because we didn't have the ability to generate a PDF invoice for them 'in app').
it does build on windows. we got it working with windows10 using visual studio 2015 build toolchain
Perhaps some rocket scientist can explain why this seemingly-obvious error even happened? Shouldn't it be possible to calculate the precise amount of fuel used, and therefore required?
He also announced the 3rd drone ship's name on twitter as "A Shortfall of Gravitas".
I bet it didn't randomly lack fluid due to some stupid miscalculation. It's probably more like: "Due to unforeseen circumstances it needed more fluid than expected. But we adjust our numbers and next time we expect more (in the hopes that it will be enough, which it will probably be)."
See here: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-and-human-rights/

In the section "Wasn’t the UK supposed to get an opt-out from EU human rights laws?"

The summary is, when the Treaty of Lisbon awarded the EU new human rights powers the UK and Poland negotiated an opt out which was written in the treaty. It was a part of convincing the UK government to accept the new treaty without granting a referendum on it, as they had previously promised.

The opt out is very clear, really as clear as lawyers can make such things. It says:

The charter does not extend the ability of the CJEU, or any court or tribunal of… the United Kingdom, to find that the laws, regulations or administrative provisions, practices or action of… the United Kingdom are inconsistent with the fundamental rights, freedoms and principles that it reaffirms

and

In particular, and for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in Title IV of the Charter creates justiciable rights applicable to Poland or the United Kingdom except in so far as Poland or the United Kingdom has provided for such rights in its national law

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2...

In other words, this part of the treaty does not allow the courts to overturn UK laws. Stated twice, for clarity.

A few years later the ECJ decided that the opt out was meaningless and voided it, under a new interpretation that they claimed meant they'd actually always had these powers, and therefore the treaty did not "extend" them, and so the opt out didn't "work" despite its apparently clear wording. They then began overturning UK laws.

It's unclear why the treaty had anything new in it at all if the courts had always had these powers of course, but this is how things go in the EU - no matter how plainly something seems to be written, no matter how clear the assurances seem to be at the time, the moment it becomes politically inconvenient to the project the rules are tossed out under bizarre and kafkaesque re-interpretations.

Same thing happened to Ireland with corporation tax. They were promised the EU wouldn't interfere with their tax policies. Then the EU decided low taxes were "state aid" and awarded itself the power to control Irish tax policy. Nobody had previously interpreted the state aid clauses that way.