skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the best prototyping I've ever seen. Small, 1 of 31 engines in the final config, water-tower contract, built in the open fields in south Texas, the whole thing.

The end game of this line of rockets is hundreds of Mars trips launching daily, carrying people and supplies to the Mars colony.
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with "Mexican" parts specifically just "aftermarket" quality outside of known aftermarket brands.

For example, an after-market engine mount isn't going to kill you when it goes bad, but your wallet is going to be a lot emptier compared to just buying the factory part after you replace the damn thing every year. (I've had the experience, I tried a few aftermarket brands, I've since gone exclusively to factory and haven't replaced an engine mount in years)
> I would argue that you are misusing the web.

It shouldn't matter. Even if auto-playing music is a terrible idea for most sites, there should be a way to ask the user for permission where it is reasonable.

There has been some efforts to create a permissions API, which included MIDI devices (last time I checked), which might be able to support this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Permissions...

> You're trying to shoehorn something to do something it wasn't intended

That applies to almost all web content. Even hacker news doesn't fall into the original document browsing usage.
Yes you can define custom formats. I use a modified version of the Common Log Format with haproxy to avoid logging specific IP addresses.
I think this first version is for getting the infrastructure in place to go on to the next which should be easier to develop and possibly have a bigger audience.
Features I rely upon in existing services:

- Able to use a favelet (bookmarklet) or a plugin to save any website with 1 click.

- Can synchronize to my ereader (thanks to Pocket integration with Kobo)

Features I don't have that I really need:

- ability to apply tags to articles, including on ereader, and sort/filter by tags.

- ability to highlight snippets and put them into some kind of log (particularly from ereader) including tagging the snippets (this would be awesome... for me)
Strange to assume that you have time which will run out. Only thing available is “now”. Literally and figuratively.

Question is how do you convince your mind of this reality.
There is no reason this needs to be a SAAS product, and at this point we should know better than to trusting any SAAS product offered by Google.

I wish they would take the approach of making it trivial for me to host an open source version myself on Google Cloud rather than just throwing away the work: it would let them keep making money and mean that I could actually have enough faith to use their products.
asphalt can be designed for similar loading to concrete, and can be easier to repair and replace. Oil may have been cheap so asphalt may have been cheap reducing the cost significantly even with future maintenance.

Hard to say without knowing the details. Asphalt is not garbage and the only people I know who can evaluate it by sight work with it routinely.
Doubt it. This never made much sense as a Google offering. Very strong players in this category offering more complete solutions. Not obvious what Google brings here.
Silver screen would work too. Iron oxide would work... Many other substances would catalyze peroxide with various degrees of efficiency.
Right? Why is everyone here so argumentive?
This whole debacle makes me feel uncomfortable as a Trump supporter working on a startup.
Trees, meet forest. Bus depot, power station, factory, Amazon warehouse, sewage treatment plant. They are interchangeable in the sense that you don't necessarily want to live directly next to one, which is why to an extent zoning exists.
Two scientists walk into a bar.
"I'll have H2O," says the 1st.
"I'll have H2O, too," says the 2nd.
Bartender gives them water because he is able to distinguish the boundary tones that dictate the grammatical function of homonyms in coda position, as well as pragmatic context.

https://twitter.com/dianeturnshek/status/939155156645699584?...
When I get involved with a random 10 person company, I know what I'm getting into.

Using the google brand provides(provided) a sense of respectability and deeper pockets/longer term vision.

Some users, I believe rightfully so, feel betrayed by google's lackadaisical approach to starting and shutting down projects. Especially when comparing the effort to market vs create a great product. Like google +, it was shoved down people's throats, only to be tossed.
Unfortunately Sun won the System-V vs BSD "Unix wars", and then uni(x)laterally capitulated to AT&T.

The Day SunOS Died

"Bye, bye, SunOS 4.1.3!
ATT System V has replaced BSD.
You can cling to the standards of the industry
But only if you pay the right fee --
Only if you pay the right fee . . ."

http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00070.html

For context, the guy who wrote "The Worst Job in the World" email was Michael Tiemann, one of "open source's great explainers." ;) Now he's pranking IBM executives by installing RedHat Enterprise Linux on their mainframes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tiemann
I thought you were joking, but the name really is Bebop...

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2018/1...

"Greene joined Google in 2015 when the search giant bought her startup, Bebop, for $380 million."

$380mm sounds like a pretty great signing bonus.

Edit: I shouldn't have spoke so soon re: the signing bonus joke. Looks like she ended up donating her $150mm share: "Greene intends to donate $148.62 million of those proceeds 'to a donor advised fund.'"
https://archive.org/details/1quantumMechanicsByPamDirac

I don't know where to start looking, but there's the book (in the original English) for any interested.

Edit: a better scan, of the 1st ed: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177580
Is Positive Sentiment in Corporate Annual Reports Informative?
Apple partially owns the patents for MPEG4-AVC (H.264) [1] and HEVC (H.265) [2]. VP8 (WebM + WebP), VP9, and AV1 are threats to Apple's business because they're royalty-free. Apple wants to force companies to continue licensing H.264 and H.265.

There is no technical advantage to the MPEG family over the VP family. The VP family has widespread hardware decoding support going back many years, and the latest iterations provide significantly better results than the latest MPEG family iterations. Companies like AMD, Intel, Nvidia, ARM, and Broadcom are part of the alliance that developed AV1 [3].

There doesn't appear to be any incentive for Apple to continue blocking support for the VP family other than the fact that they're a licensor of HEVC.

[1]: https://www.mpegla.com/programs/avc-h-264/licensors/

[2]: https://www.mpegla.com/programs/hevc/licensors/

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170614042710/https://www.xda-d...
I've grown to love Postman https://www.getpostman.com/ as it allows you to easily create an API project and build out your API endpoints and then do things like add tests for them.

What's also great is you can export this into to OpenAPI if you wish and combine with other tools like Swagger [https://swagger.io/]

https://medium.com/better-practices/from-manual-to-automated...
That was really amazing. I've been following it closely on YouTube but to see it actually fly - mind boggling! Not quite clean room facilities. The nose blew over in a storm. Locals streaming video from cameras mounted on telegraph poles. When it landed various parts came shooting off spraying gas as they tumbled away.

Full-flow engine - first to ever fly. And boy did it fly!

I love it. Back yard hacking hardware.

Summary - SpaceX are the first people to land rockets for reuse. Then they go and do the same thing with a different engine design, different fuel, in a water tower controlled with Falcon 9 reaction control system.

Quick question for the experts:

1 - how do they measure altitude? GPS is notoriously poor at this.

2 - any idea of how the control software was written for a flying water tower? Could they use the Falcon 9 software?
I'm facing this decision right now. To LTSC or not.

I have to build a virtual desktop environment for an isolated network that is almost-but-not-quite a SCADA system. It's the monitoring and management bits, without the direct control.

It's not ultra critical, but there's a strict uptime requirement, and a general preference for long-term service releases of everything where possible. Security and prevention of "data leakage" are also very important.

Windows 10 just. does. not. work. out of the box as a VDI operating system. It will absolutely massacre your shared storage subsystem (even if it is all flash!) because every now and then it just "decides" on its own that applying a 4GB update to Minecraft is the most important thing in the world right now.

For Enterprise editions there's on the order of 200 GPO settings and about 20 PowerShell scripts required to make it "behave", but these settings will break as soon as the next semi-annual release is applied because Microsoft is actively trying to circumvent customer controls over their own environments.

For example, did you know that they use deliberately misspelled domain names such as "microsft.com" for telemetry URLs to try and trick hapless firewall admins? This is to work around their desperate customers who resorted to blocking "microsoft.com" in order to prevent the endless torrent of information leakage out of their secure networks. But Microsoft just can't have that. No sir! Got to get that juicy telemetry out, no matter what.

I'm waiting for Microsoft to piggy back telemetry on DNS requests or use some other method that is indistinguishable from an Advanced Persistent Threat. It's just a matter of time, mark my words.

Check this horror show out:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-1803-endpoints
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/manage-windows-1809-endpoints
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-1903-endpoints

Notice that the list keeps changing with each release?

You also can't block everything in those lists, because then legitimate functions such as Root CA updates will break. Sure, you can override that with a local Root CA update, but the complete workaround procedure for all such services is not documented in any one place, so you're looking at something like 3 months of effort. Enjoy!

Or you can just use LTSC and need only about 10 settings and a couple of days... guess which one I went with?

Microsoft "suggesting" to their customers that they should use the semi-annual channel is self-serving crap, and I'm not falling for it.
There's no reason, apart from extra weight to carry, that missiles/aircraft can't use more than one microwave band to track their targets.

High precision tracking is only required in the last mile or two. Low precision radar is plenty good enough to get the missile close enough for final high-precision tracking.
Normal retailers are responsible.
Amazon hides behind the veil of "third party sellers".
I don't know where exactly xkcd lands on the web comic popularity scale, but let's be conservative and say Top 3. The xkcd RSS feed embeds the image (and alt text) into posts. That is very clearly a deliberate decision. The comics themselves are also CC-licensed.

I feel like Randall Munroe is doing well for himself. The math is probably different for smaller players.
My first thought was "Wait, didn't they only launch this a year or so ago?".
> there should be a way to ask the user for permission where it is reasonable.

Beware the law of unintended consequences - if you did that, every single add would pop up an annoying permission box.

( And before you say “no, ...” remember that there are more unscrupulous ad/malware companies that will prove you wrong. )
those chasing the hockey stick are usually using VC money. He is not getting millions in VC to invest into his company.
That was the original "framework" that inspired mine :) Please do let me know if you build out a Hugo theme (even just based on the 58 and not mine)
An RCS tank fell off during landing and went flying :-)
(if not visible, rewind a bit. It's only clear when the video is shown in the highest resolution, which might not be the case during the initial buffering.)

https://youtu.be/m0MTtqzzf-U?t=8518
That only appears to cover engineering hiring, whereas Google Hire was a general ATS. Byteboard definitely isn't a replacement yet, and it isn't clear that it aspires to be one.
Nutritional deficiencies are interesting because to kill a child it takes a lot.

So it's just the tip of the iceberg.

Problem is all the children who survive have retarded IQ's (lack of iodine can be -10 IQ points) they grow up and stay poor and have more children who will die due to their sustained poverty.

I really have no idea why we pump money into schools when we can target 0-2 year olds and educate them for life. You can't fix lost IQ points later on no matter what you do.
FWIW, Giant Bomb (and I assume other sites) have premium podcasts that you can only access if you are a paid member[1], and you just subscribe using:

https://www.giantbomb.com/podcast-xml/premiumbombcast?api_ke... (you just copy it from the RSS button on their site)

(previously it was https://username:password@www.giantbomb.com/podcast-xml/prem...)

Seems to work across most apps. I don't see why it would be that hard to build a standard around something similar.

[1] primarily ad-free versions of their main podcasts, but they also have premium-exclusive podcasts
The Libor Change Is Coming
I have a folder called "TIL" (today I learned) and under that I have one folder for each technology/topic. Every time I learn or do something that I need to remember, I create a new markdown file in the relevant folder (or create a new folder).

Most of this I publish to the internet, at https://TIL.secretGeek.net

To publish it all I have to do is push.

I have a private repo too for TIL's I don't/can't share (and all passwords go in a password manager)
I'm no rocket expert, but I have some ideas about altitude.

> 1 - how do they measure altitude? GPS is notoriously poor at this.

GPS is indeed notoriously terrible. They might have better luck with it though, given they can buy high-quality receivers and always have a good view of the sky.

However I think I read (or hope at least) that they use barometers. Even cheap smartphones have barometers for relative altitudes these days, and while the barometer data is influenced by the atmosphere and weather of the day (the focus of like all my startups [1]), the rocket could easily know about the differences in the weather and create MSLP (mean sea level pressure) numbers that would allow for excellent precision at landing.

Your phone barometer can tell the difference in altitude between your head and your feet.

[1] My latest go at this is https://www.allclearweather.com (US, Android) with a goal of eliminating the altitude part of barometer data so that the remaining data can be QC'd, summarized with statistics and eventually hopefully included in weather models for increased forecast accuracy
Apple is a patent licensor for both and therefore has monetary incentive to discourage free alternatives for either.
That was the biggest advantage of Google Hire: it was actually affordable as a startup.
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People felt the same way about Einstein's cosmic intuition. Things evolve in stages, from intuition and anecdotes to more formal developments or refutations. I didn't say handwriting analysis is a fully legitimate area. I said as a writer I see how my writing changes and don't find the concept as absurd as many here do because of my anecdotal experience. You may hand wave that away because I don't have a statistical analysis here that is peer reviewed, and that's fine, but to me saying something is nonsense without a proof that it's nonsense is equally bad. Everything that isn't completely rigorous isn't nonsense. It's not good science, but not necessarily nonsense.
85million cumulative workouts as of June 2019... really low actual usage relative to revenue.
It turns out that's basically all I need to run a hiring process :shrug:
Doesn’t it stand to reason that the taxation authority should scale or become more efficient like any business when there is an increased demand for services?
> I've seen this from politicians but not people.

(1) Politicians are a subset of people, so if you've seen it from politicians, you've seen it from people.

(2) I've seen it from people who are not politicians (mostly people who are both highly partisan and politically engaged, but then, those people are overrepresented in public policy discussions of all types. They are also disproportionately influential in government since they are reliable voters and provide the foot soldiers for political campaigns.)
How about outside Esperanto events?
But only for US customers.
We can’t simultaneously be mad at programs like this and also say school doesn’t matter.

Personally I think providing separate scores for adversity is a good thing. Ultimately getting into ones state school isn’t that difficult, and even if it was your SAT is a small part of that.
HubHaus eviction underscores issues with corporate co-living
There are already a bunch of those pop ups that trigger when a script tries to access the microphone, USB, camera, etc. There just isn't any unified API for asking for permissions.
This is one way of getting management buy-in for code maintenance:

> Imagine if you worked at a bank and someone came to you and said, “you have to restructure all of your derivatives now, every single one of them, it is basically the law.” On the one hand: Sounds like a lot of work! On the other hand: Restructuring every derivative! You are going to get so rich!

> [...]

> Yeah, look, I take the point, there’s a lot to do and it’s complicated and labor-intensive. If you’re the Libor Transition Guy at a big bank, you are going to be spending so much money on lawyers and computer programmers to scour and rewrite all your contracts and code to reflect new interest-rate benchmarks. On the other hand, if you are not also the biggest profit center at the bank for the next five years, I kind of think you are doing it wrong?
I’m an Asian male. How exactly has it disadvantaged you?
I don't know if it is superconductor, but plasma is somewhat conductive because it is consists of charged particles.
I don't know if our research is good enough at all to adequately make the risk versus benefit distinction in risk factor but not imminent danger related medicinal decision making. I don't think the integrity of the system and the rate of technological advancement are allowing it to happen. Companies conduct dozens of trials with new drugs and toss out ones that don't surpass placebo and publish the one study that by chance did. I'm sure the thing that happened with Vioxx is happening more covertly on a much larger scale now. Most smart people are just avoiding doctors unless something obviously bad pops up. It's kind of tragic.
When I click the third link, I only have to skim three paragraphs to discover that "United Fruit" hired not only Central American politicians, but also the famed Dulles brothers. You know, Ike's SecState and the guy who created the CIA. Those two characters overruled dozens of democratic elections, because personal greed. Do you really believe there have ever existed "stern regulations" that would have constrained their actions with respect to the fruit firms? Just as in other nations on whom some Americans enjoy looking down, in this nation too unrestrained corruption dominates regulation. "I think you're imaginging [sic] some sort of firewall..."

Which is not to say that all regulation is bad. No one in this thread has claimed that. Some people have pointed out specific problems with specific regulations related to housing and urban planning. I really wish you would respond to those specifics, rather than posting generalities that require extensive exegesis to even relate to the topic under discussion.
By the same token, there are more causes of worse academic outcomes than only racism, else Asian students wouldn't perform any better than white students, unless one posits that everyone except Asian people are subject to performance-degrading racism, which I do not.
I thought Google stopped hiring. Had no idea this product exists
I guess the fact that 80% of the installation is as good as it is makes me frustrated about the last 20%.

One example: the install expects that the data drive will be on a 1-2gb USB attached storage drive; the Odroid uses SATA, 6tb drives are very commonplace, and the process for formatting <4 | >4gb is apparently completely different in Linux?

To reiterate, the installer is really good, but someone stopped just short of making it great.

Regarding the UI, it's not terrible, but I hope that Nextcloud Corp invests some of their newly found riches on a top-class UX designer.
The government is not a business and should not be run like one.
Is there a way to auto-reject "show you notifications"? I don't ever see myself saying "Allow" to that pop-up.
"The indictment alleges that in the months before his departure, Levandowski downloaded from secure Google repositories numerous engineering, manufacturing, and business files related to Google’s custom LiDAR and self-driving car technology. The files downloaded included circuit board schematics, instructions for installing and testing LiDAR, and an internal tracking document. The indictment also alleges that at the time he took the files, Levandowski was involved with two companies competing with Google in the self-driving space: Tyto LiDAR LLC and 280 Systems, Inc., the latter of which would become Ottomotto. Ottomotto acquired Tyto in May 2016, shortly after Uber Technologies, Inc. agreed to acquire Ottomotto and hire Levandowski."

This is definitely not how Silicon Valley was built. People moved around (and still do) with the knowledge in their heads, not with proprietary data and backroom deals.
He seems to be using data to point to the gold standard, but in reality the gold was eliminated by FDR in 1933, not Nixon in 1971. There is one shock people love to ignore, cheap energy. In the early 70s energy prices skyrocked due to well documented reasons. So, companies had to pay more for and maybe discovered they could keep pay low once prices stabilized.