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My understanding is that Falcon rockets are not optimal beyond LEO.

They can do it of course, Falcon Heavy could launch a car in the general direction of Mars. But they are limited by their use of kerosene in their 2nd stage and its low specific impulse compared to hydrogen.

BFR and it's Raptor engines are better suited for that purpose. But we don't have a BFR yet.
It's about the Lambda product of Amazon Web Services. No relation to Church's lambda calculus or lambda constructs in programming. The article does not make that clear at all.

(One of the privileges of being a really big company is that you can name your products using common terms and take over that term. Like, "Windows". Even though Sun used that first.)
> has nothing to do with overall movement of the entire company

What are we but the sum of our parts, MS hasn't changed.

They just have more projects that are now in the "Embrace" stage
Nice idea, bring back the old Common Gateway Interface for web development.
Hey, it me!
There is a lot of art that I don't 'get', and I've been sort of dismissivie-to-unaware of over the years. Christo's art is one of those.

But as time has passed and I've had a chance to experience some of those artists work in person I've had a few a-ha moments where the art clicked for me and I now enjoy and appreciate them.

Christos has been around long enough and talked about enough that I think there may be something that I could learn from it by seeing it first hand.

I'm sad that I won't have the chance.
Yes, I totally agree. It's only that the AFAICT the "image" of Tokyo doesn't fit reality and I find that interesting. The image is left over. I'm curious when the image itself will change to reflect the new reality.

On the other hand 14 new buildings 20 stories or higher have been going into Shibuya and there are many more planned.
It's an awesome example of american capitalism giving us back the ability to put people in space. It's the first steps to true commercialization of spaceflight, with travel driven by tourism, colonization, resource extraction, amd R&D, which is a much more sustainable way to maintain space exploration. And probably most importantly, everything else sucks right now. Coronavirus, widespread protests and race riots. We need a win, and this is a pretty solid one.
Have to wonder does anyone pay attention to the facts?

* He did not obey any orders given to him by officers.
* Police had to pull him out of his car.
* He resisted the arrest after that.
* Threw himself down on ground before they could put him in police vehicle.
* Said he can't breathe, which all criminals say to loosen the grip of officers.

However his autopsy shows he died of drug overdose and heart conditions.

And officer doing his job is a bad guy?
The Open University (remote) was founded in 1969, so it isn't exactly new.
I think not that they couldn't but as they say, you don't have be able to outrun the bear, just the guy with you.

Not that they couldn't, just they couldn't beat ARM. And ARM already had a solid footing in the dumb phone space.

I think four things. Two Technical and two business. 0x86's innate power consumption per bit of state change is higher than ARM's. Lack of experience with low power process. No one wants to pay the Intel Tax. And Intel isn't very nice to their customers.
> have never heard of a DX7 before

Whoa
I love the game theory of this.

For a charity, you could choose a good cause that upsets assholes. So they have to donate money to the charity to prevent it from getting the money that was donated.
Can anyone explain what's so special about this website?

I'm missing the point
I did actually follow the "Lambda" portion of it, for what it's worth
They really know how to butter up the right people with the right words on their live streams and interviews. It is transparently hilarious.
I definitely agree he should have been credited more, and the communications strategy was cruel.

But he released his work, AppGet, under an Apache 2.0 license. Microsoft was free to copy it as long as they followed the terms of the license. That's one of the points of open source.

Microsoft also released their copy of it under the very open MIT license.

The article treats it like a crime, but this is essentially how it should work, right? One open-source project greatly advances the art, and another takes what was created and released freely, and runs with it.

If they literally copied code from AppGet, they may have an issue given that they didn't follow the Apache license terms precisely (at least, it doesn't look like it from a very brief glance at the WinGet repository -- Beigi's name doesn't appear to be in the Apache license notices). But that seems easily fixable.
Sure is amazin' that y'all would write off a whole doggone article on one teensy weensy colloquialism of the 'merican workin' class, I reckon.
> Just to bring this into sharper focus: 10 minutes a day, twice a day, 5 times a week for 50 weeks a year amounts to 5000 minutes per year, or just a little over 83 hours.

Or two full-time work-weeks worth of extra time, just spent commuting, every year. Definitely not worth it to me; in practice, the primary interaction I have with my HOA is the continued requirement to pay them.

(All else being equal, I'd much rather not have one, but I wanted a walkable commute more.)

> Oh, and BTW, the word "criteria" is plural. Its singular form is "criterion."

Not anymore: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criterion#usage-1 . "The plural criteria has been used as a singular for over half a century." Much like "data" and "datum", it's no longer an observed distinction; "this data" and "this criteria" are entirely correct.

But in any case, I was talking about both HOAs and distance, so a more elaborate form would have been "that combination of criteria". One could also argue that an HOA is a whole collection of related problems in and of itself.
it's just too weird and open-ended.

the next thing will be a bunch of "open" functions:

with open_binary("filename") as f:
...

with open_text("filename") as f:
...

How do I open these files in writeable mode?

with open_text("filename").writeable() as f:
...

This is getting absurd.
I think you mean ULA? And yes the plan is commercial launch. NASA is one customer of many and spacex is one supplier of many. NASA's been pretty explicit about not wanting to be the primary customer of rockets, and that they want a robust ecosystem of commercial and sovereign interests making up the market. And spacex has it's own plans for providing internet etc. It's pretty explicitly viewed as a failure of this program by NASA if space is not successfully commercialized and if nasa maintains its dominance as a purchaser of launch contracts.
They are worried about bugs, but they address those in other ways. This is some of the most extensively integration tested software there is (I was part of the team that built the integration testing). Every commit is ran through a custom CI system that successively tests pieces of the system working together up to and including automated hardware tests. The number of lines of code dedicated to testing the vehicle is definitely much greater than the lines of code on the vehicle.
If it exists, then it should be documented.

If it shouldn't be documented, then it shouldn't exist.
In any case, the DOJ considering Antifa as well as a potential consideration of Anonymous as a terrorist organization is pretty ridiculous and toothless, as they are both anarchist affiliations/ideas and not organizations in any way I know of, really.

So I think they're gonna have a pretty hard time proving that anyone is part of "The Antifa Organization" just like it's impossible to prove that someone is part of "The Anonymous Organization". There is no hierarchy, no organized structure. The only way it could ever be applied would be to consider people with a given set of ideas and aesthetics terrorists.

Which would mean that there is a lot of overlap, as Anonymous is essentially based upon the idea of violent antifascism as far it's aesthetics and there is a ton of overlap between the dominant ideologies of Anonymous and Antifa (against state power, direct action, decentralized action, anti-censorship, violence against those you believe are a threat including organic censorship, etc...)

In any case, it's very bad for everyone.
Well, yes. Even as the parent poster says that this isn't their argument, let us assume it is. Why would I pay for something if it doesn't fit my needs? I don't see other merchants think they're entitled to my sale.
I think maybe you've mis-read me. I'm well aware of how HIBP does this.

But it doesn't matter what you or I can prove the site does or doesn't do with our passwords; my dad or aunt shouldn't type their passwords into random forms on the internet. Whether it tells them it's using k-anonymization or not.

You still wouldn't pop your dev tools open but then type your real password into a random form on the internet before you'd kicked the API-tires with some fakes.

Anyone who isn't prepared to kick the tires and hasn't established a trust relationship has no business doing it.
Hard to like the answer to any of these question in a large company.

You don't like the product

You don't like the why of the company

You don't like the how it's build.

But, the salary is useful.
> the vast majority of people not in HN prefer free to paying 1 cent

Yes, I get that Google and Facebook and Twitter and friends have gotten people accustomed to having all these wonderful services that everyone loves to use somehow magically appear on the Internet for free. That doesn't mean it's actually free. It just means that the costs are hidden.

Which is all fine in and of itself: if everyone else wants to hand over their private data to be sold, sure, go ahead, do it. I don't even have a Twitter account, and while I have a Facebook account I almost never use it and have entered zero data beyond my name into its profile. I can't quite say the same about my Google account, since I do buy books and apps from Google Play, but it's as close as I can get it to zero data in its profile. So I at least have some way of limiting how much I am participating in the great selling of personal data.

However, I don't have a way of getting better service from Google for things that could be better services if those of us who want the better service were allowed to pay for it. That's one of the standard ways of doing price discrimination, and should be very familiar to anyone who has dealt with cloud services, or indeed anyone who has used an app with a freemium business model: service tiers. The lowest tier is the free one; the other tiers are progressively more expensive and provide more added functionality. But Google can't be bothered to do it for its hugely useful apps like Maps and search, and then they tell us how difficult it is to staff these hugely useful apps with enough engineering resources. It doesn't add up.
I think it is the way it is because Tokyo was one of the first metropolis to transform like that "overnight" and the image stuck. Like if you go to London or New york they still have plenty of old architecture lingering around. Singapore & HK feels more like Tokyo 2.0 than London 2.0 or NY 2.0
I like your idea of malfeasance insurance.

Premiums could be priced in such a way that it takes into account your personal record, to incentivise your own behaviour; your local/metro PD's record, to incentivise them policing each other; and the state's record in an attempt to address systemic and cultural issues.

Your body cam "malfunctioned"? Congratulations, you just increased the insurance premiums for yourself and all your colleagues.
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Nobody cares if you try your best or not, nobody except your future self. Put in the sweat and labor now, so you don't have regrets later.
As a developer of a Fuchsia fork, I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, not all components are opensource ATM, (like the khadas VIM2 bootloader), but at least they are available.
It takes a pretty serious lack of patience to drive a truck into a crowd
> because they are afraid of angering people at the best, or violating the law at the worst

Yeah, many original sellers (e.g. Nintendo, or toilet paper manufacturers) probably don't want to violate the law and/or alienate their customers.

Sometimes musicians don't want to price many of their (younger and/or poorer) fans out of the ticket market. I thought it was kind of cool when Green Day (for example) had a show that only accepted cash at the door. (Though I guess the wealthy could still pay people to wait in line or give up their spot, I expect that would be frowned upon by the other fans waiting in line.) Fan clubs can also help genuine fans buy tickets for themselves at face value, though they are also often exploited by resellers.
My wife asks all the time, and I don't get tired of it. In fact, it's refreshing, because everyone else has always just assumed the worst in a given situation and decided to "get back" at me for whatever they perceive. To this day there are many people who outright refuse to talk to me over a grudge from something I have no idea about ("you know what's wrong!"). Hell, I've even lost jobs over this kind of thing.
Same, I fortunately just saw a senator pledge that he will end the federal 1033 program which provides military weapons to local police departments. That was one of their points.
this is an online forum. Ask HN is for starting discussions. This isn't a rigid competition that needs to be strictly moderated.

Even all that aside, his tone and dismissive attitude towards ageism is not welcome here.
It is not my responsibility as a potential customer to subsidize a company's business model, regardless of their product, even something as noble as news. If a company cannot stay in business, they deserve to die. That is the nature of evolutionary free markets.
Other things I like about FM that I was just thinking about:

- It's super CPU efficient on modern hardware, so you can use as many instances as you like.

- You can use it to do reasonably convincing physical modeling of many real instruments (or at least the start of it)

- There is little phase smearing or analog noise.

- Even for percussive instruments, you can tune and shape harmonic boundaries so that your instruments gel in the mix.

- Building instruments through sine wave decomposition/recomposition encourages bandwidth efficient sound design and instrument arrangements. They sound sweet to the ear, and instead of using the full bandwidth of a sawtooth or square wave, you can use the first few partials (or a couple choice ones) to sketch out the idea of one without taking up all of the space the full thing would.

- (At least with FM8), The multipoint envelopes editor is as flexible as a DAWs automation curve editor. It uses a zoomable spline based UI that feels a little bit like using Illustrator's pen tool.

- (Matter of taste) It's really easy to get retro video game sounds, so composing with these instruments always triggers pleasant nostalgia for me, even if I'm not writing VGM. This is not a surprise.

- Yamaha's sibling OPL/OPN (YMxxxx) series is responsible for powering sound synthesis in the Sega Genesis, MSX, Sound Blaster and sound cards and arcade game systems of the 80s and 90s.

If I can make a synesthetic analogy to a physical material, it's a lot like silicone. You can make it lifelike, almost unsettlingly or cartoonishly so. It pairs well, and fittingly, with the 80s and the 90s.
there's already an extension for this for Alfred (the mac launch bar) and it's pretty customizable and works very very well. (shows hotkeys too)
Noncompliance of a minor or fabricated rule results in extreme physical violence by police. Where have I heard that before?
Yeah, sucks for them because they seem to be blamed for a crime that they had nothing to do with.
Im 40 and still have this problem. I remember my father saying “look into my eyes”, doing it then my mind going immediately blank. Now I don’t care, I just look away when I need to. It’s a quirk that I don’t care how it’s interpreted. And I noticed that it matters where one looks away: up slightly to right for accessing some type of thoughts, down for a deeper thinking mode, etc. I’ve been pondering for a while whether Im on the spectrum or not. I have the empathy, too much of it. I don’t have the social scripts and always have to improvise and that is tiring after a while. I often wondered how come nobody told me what to do in certain situations and I wished i was educated by someone on this. But the truth is that this is simply picked up naturally and never taught. Yes, my father suspected I may be on the spectrum but back then a lot less was known.
Hard disagree on the smaller keyboards being less ergonomic, at least from anecdata. Plus even with something as simple as a Corne, that’s 108 keys with a raise and lower layer at its most basic. With that in mind your desire for more keys is attained!
I spent my early 20s doing this, and stopped after a few caring people pulled me aside and told me to stop doing strange things X, Y, Z.
>> LOX isn't explosive.

Ya, well see what happens when you load it into a model rocket beside some kerosene. Then attach some electronics. Whether oxygen can technically burn or not is moot. There will be fire.
Yeah, sucks for them because they seem to be blamed for a crime that they had nothing to do with
Looks pretty good and super handy. You can actually rule this space with SEO itself.
Well aware, but I was hoping to say to people "Just use 5.7 and it'll be fine". At the moment I have to say "Don't use anything prior to 5.7, unless you have a recent stable backpoint. In either case, some things are fine others aren't - I'll hope to have it fixed by 5.8". Which is fine, but more complicated ;).
IIRC there is a remark in the first movie Indiana Jones "Americans always overdressing for the wrong occasion."!!!

I did use the 1:3 ratio!! :-)!!

For the garlic, and as for another response here, maybe just cut one clove and rub the inside of the salad bowl with the cut surface!! Isn't there a remark in Julia Child that in French cooking there is usually some garlic in there whether the recipe says so or not? Yes, yes, I know, Child was not French! :-)

I should have included that the strength of the garlic and herbs can vary a lot.

I should have included that, at least in the US, the concentration of the acetic acid in the vinegar is a standard, except for photographers!

I just said "olive oil", and that is what I use, but, sure, could consider extra virgin olive oil and then be open to a huge range of additional flavors.

If use my thyme option, my recipe is close to yours!!!

For the red wine vinegar, there are some rumors that, shockingly, such vinegar from native American red grapes is actually better although I have yet to compare with vinegar from Romanee Conti.
Sorry I meant to say “why do genetics make things harder to read?”. Tbh I can’t tell if you’re responding to that or not
Can anyone comment where the common phrase "OVER AND OUT" comes from, if it is not used in this scheme at all.
why not just google the place and see it on the activity map? it shows you live traffic stats. it will be difficult to compete against google i imagine.
You are absolutely right that none of them will get in trouble. That’s kind of the point of all of this.
I lived in Miami when he wrapped the islands in Biscayne Bay:

https://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/surrounded-islands

It was cool.
This is a bad faith argument, based on a slippery slope. Your other comments seem to be similar. Familiarize yourself with HN rules before commenting.
> Great data - almost always accurate

"Almost always" when you have billions of data points means millions, or even tens of millions, of wrong data points. That doesn't seem great to me. It certainly won't seem great to all the people and businesses whose data is wrong and who have no way of getting it corrected. Which is exactly the point of the article this discussion is about.

> all these people on the Internet saying it's shite

We are saying no such thing. I agree that it is a hugely useful application. I just think it would be even more useful, not to mention less damaging to all the people and businesses that are hit by the "almost" above, if it had at least some of its users as paying customers instead of being solely driven by Google's ad-supported business model.
as soon as you start to perceive online interactions as a competition, you get exactly the kind of attitude the original comment had. We can seek to figure out who might be the "longest-serving programmer" without being combative and dismissive.

I don't think the OP is looking to claim the "Official Award for Longest-serving Programmer" as much as they are looking to start a discussion to learn more about others (which Ask HN is almost always for). This is an anonymous online forum after all, how much strict moderation and fact-checking of peoples history do you want to have?
> I'm more interested in knowing what I should do now

Spend some quality time reflecting on high school over the next few weeks. What advice would you give an underclassman? How should they think about their four years of high school? What are the principles underlying your advice to them and the wisdom that applies beyond just surviving high school?

Folks here have had a lot to say about university, but it's equally important to understand how you succeed and what you wish you'd done better. Advice you give someone could be a good reflection of what you want from yourself.
This looks like hops.com moved to hops-international.com which is now gone.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130613015951/http://hops.com/