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Apart from the sheer awe of landing on the moon with that era's technology and the resulting scientific harvest, I am fascinated by the engineering process. I can't settle on whether it was methodically safe or recklessly dangerous. Consider the manned missions timeline:

Oct 1968 Apollo 7: earth orbit

Dec 1968 Apollo 8: lunar orbit

Mar 1969 Apollo 9: earth orbit lunar module docking

May 1969 Apollo 10: lunar descent test (no landing)

Jul 1969 Apollo 11: lunar landing

It seems so composed and laid-out, and at the same time so daring. There is a clearly logical progression there, each mission building on the previous one. But each new mission followed so soon after the previous, and each new mission involved so many new goals. It's wondrous that it just worked out that way with so few missteps. Could they really internalize the lessons? With so many moving parts and subsystems, so many hundreds of thousands of workers, spread across the country in goverment offices and subcontractors, I imagine the safety mindset varied wildly. I know more than a few astronauts certainly conducted themselves recklessly on the ground and in training, and there were large swathes of folk who were fanatical about safety.

Perhaps if we had an increased sample size, we'd know which way the Apollo project leaned on safety and methodology. Records show that the NASA administrators were anxious about losing a crew and were all too happy to cancel the missions after Apollo 17 (in addition to saving money for future projects).

I heartily recommend Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon for an excellent account of the Apollo program.
You might take a look at SaaSy, which has zero monthly, setup, or chargeback costs irrespective of how small you may be, and your store can be designed and setup for no added cost.
And equally, from a resource utilisation perspective, the world is enormously more sustainable at a population level of 300m than of 6.94b; a long-term downward trend in population would be a net environmental win and is preferable as a means of achieving sustainability to a series of resource wars with mortality rates to make Russia in 1942 look pleasant.

The downside is that our economies and our social security systems are somewhat designed around the assumption of rising population. How to square this circle as peacefully and comfortably as possible is the challenge...
Apple suppliers manufacturing lower-priced 8GB iPhone 4
My hypothesis is that the larger the screen, the harder it is to keep the resistance within tolerance for the price.

Don't get me wrong, there are large-format resistive screens that work well. You can see them on a lot of commercial and industrial products (ask any waiter or waitress working with a Micros system).

But I think what is being put on the $99 tablets are very cheap films with loose tolerances and cheap knockoff controller chips. You can literally feel the film floating off the cover lens on some of these tablets. I tried one chinese Android tablet, SuperPad III, and you could feel the film moving.
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What went in to making such a popular and addictive game? Where does the inspiration come from? What IS Evony?
Do you have an example of modeling concerns vs. modeling domains?
Have submitted a survey and subsequently realised one of the issues I raised was the fault of my own inability to read things thoroughly! Free trial and subsequent paid for pricing are actually clearly explained.
They also have a file system that can enlist in transactions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS
I think you're unlikely to find enough people interested in voting on your own personal purchasing decisions to make a statistically valid sample.
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Until we can get our budget under control, nothing will happen. You can't tell the guy paying the electric bill to 'F off' if you still want to have heat in the winter.

The most important reasons for us to get our finances and oil use under control are all national security related. I don't understand how the neocon camp doesn't understand that.
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Cheaper than running your own _external_ load balancer.
I really wish amazon released an internal only (cross AZ if applicable) load balancer with cheaper transit costs.
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So what does this really mean? As far as I understand it they've just cleaned up their build process a bit.
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Great so far! Very minimalistic and easy to navigate.

Notice that you're using Google App Engine to send your welcome emails, and I'd love to offer you PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) while you're in beta. We'd be happy to help you out with that. :)

Let me know, cheers!
The funny part is, that youtube video in TFA, in the first several minutes it's been keep blaming US being the first and lead in cyber offence/defence warfare.
Yeah, probably true.
No! Bad spammer! Go away!

I'm confused as to why spammers think this kind of thing is worth their time.
The targets are related to Falun Gong (which is explicitly mentioned in the article). More importantly, the source of the attacks is a hacked machine at the University of Alabama.

Sure, all of the politics about China and Falun Gong are not mentioned, but they really aren't completely relevant to the fact that China is using American computers for their hacking.
Not a fan of the psychological torture here. Why is "breaking the build" such a major problem? If the tests don't pass, the commit should go into a "testing" branch. If the tests pass, merge testing into master. That way you can fix things asynchronously, rather than wear a dumb hat or get shot at by missiles.
100% chance it will have Android ICS by the end of the year. Buy it.

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327
The alternative is something like South Africa and Botswana where the worlds largest gold and diamond resources were stolen, and are still being stolen by a small clique of individuals connecting Durban, Belgium, New York and London, and the same wealth was used to support a number of minority governments in Africa and Asia, some of which are very popular with the right wing. I hate communists as much as the next person, but you've got to have perspective.
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"This stupid idea that poor = lazy/bad is so entrenched in the US society (and was when I was growing up too) that it can ruin your social life from very early on"

If you aren't mentally or physically unable to do something (which is the case in a small percentage of the population), you shouldn't be poor. There are many opportunities in the US. I've been poor, had many poor friends, and now I'm doing much better.

Poor, many times, can be changed, but people aren't willing to change their lifestyles.

Many people have free time after work (if you aren't working, you have even more free time). I chose to learn a skill during that time. Many of my friends, who still aren't going anywhere in life, chose to drink, have fun, and party with their friends. I sacrificed that time (for awhile at least) for my career.

Many people also don't understand delayed gratification. They need to have everything now and as a result, suffer financially.

"least middle class so they would have better social connections later in life"

When you have more money, it becomes difficult to stay friends with people that are consistently poor. Many times because your problems, outlook on life, and hobbies change.
"Also to note, I often find that radical new variant designs for well established clients have rapidly diminishing returns."

I totally agree. However, this is a marketing site that "established clients" probably won't be visiting often. Once they've signed up the site has done its job right?
To provide a convenient way to select friends.
> Also to note, I often find that radical new variant designs for well established clients have rapidly diminishing returns.

I have seen this a number of times. I change the design, and it is a statistically significant winner, then I continue to let the experiment run, and the conversion rate falls back to the original level.

I have also found that rotating the design, is statistically better than never changing it.
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I can't comment on this one specifically. Other infographics I have seen, representing areas I am an expert in, I have found to have misleading representations of data and in some cases blatantly false numbers.

This is a good example of deception through appearance. By making something look official or professional you can get really sloppy with the facts and no one questions it.
> These are the common arguments I also believed, but I dug
> into them for a book project and found they are pretty
> shallow.

I am someone who does HTML/CSS for living, not just dog for one project, and these arguments are solid.
Also CSS has a bunch of tool you can produce layouts with.
I'm trying to make sense of this myself, but it seems as if the seperate Android WebKit project is no longer necessary as there is enough code in common to justify a Chrome port to the Android platform (similar to Linux/Windows/Mac ports). This gives added benefits of layout rendering being more in sync with Chromium. I'm hoping it paves the way for more Chrome-browser features finding their way to Android browsers or even the default browser.
Yet another web app that solves #firstworldproblems…
It's nice to see a young startup with great UI and deep, predictive analytics steal the pole position from older incumbents.
>The only thing holding parts of the continent back is the >class warfare and old marxist/socialist governments.

Having just lived in 5 different countries in South America over the last year and a half, I disagree.
If I had to pick "The Only Thing" holding parts of the continent back, I have to say the severe meddling of the west. It's disgraceful.
It happens in every group of people.
Very nice. At first, I didn't really see the point of it - another voting/wiki type thing, sigh - but the interface is so fast and compelling that it just drew me in.

I registered so I could vote on something, decided to see what creating an article was like, and it was so smooth it made me want to start more, and then eventually realize I have been looking for something like this.

I started a list of "Coffee shops in Cambridge, MA" because I remembered that I had been looking for just such a list the other day. I figured it's mostly HN users on there now, probably, and a fair amount of us are from here. I'm not positive what types of lists you're wanting, though, so I won't be hurt if you delete it!

Feature request: I would love to add some simple custom attribute to each list. For instance, with the coffee shops, it'd be nice if I could define an attribute for that list of "Free wifi?" and then each item could select either yes/no as it's created. An article on vim color themes could define an attribute of "Background?" with options "light, dark, both".

At some point in the future, then, you could filter and look at just the items in the list that match an attribute. E.g., I can look at the coffee shops and filter to look at only the ones that give free wifi.

Great work!
IIRC, Armstrong was a little annoyed that he bit his tongue badly during the ejection, but thats about all he said about it.
You've seriously never heard of registering a dll on a computer? It's the opposite way round but the concept's the same, the security's handled slightly differently though.

An API is an API man.

Your sheesh is causing a lot of programmers to look at you right now with a raised eyebrow.

Start beating your retreat now.
Insight still had tablets available this morning for $99 (16gig) and $149 (32gig). The site seems to be down now, but the links were

https://www.insight.com/search/ppp.web?materialId=FB356UT%23...
https://www.insight.com/search/ppp.web?materialId=FB454UT%23...
Maybe we're on different pages, but in my fantasy both technologies convert energy into matter, not rearranging existing atoms into food.
It costs more to produce than the market price => it can't be counterfeited.
I've been saying for some time that if I were, say, Jimmy Wales or the Wikimedia Foundation I'd be criticising Wikileaks pretty hard for not, y'know, actually being a wiki.
If you're asking this question, then I guess you're already sold in your head and you already want it bad.

I'd say go for it, and even if an Android port never happens (I think this is very unlikely) it's only $99 and you still have a tablet in working condition for all the browsing and e-mailing and e-book reading you want. It won't have all the fancy games and apps from the Market/App Store, but everything web-related will work!
In order to avoid dead locks you need to be aware of the language semantics, which you are not if you automatically transform the interpreter.
I think you're missing the point. This implements some nostalgic feature of Unix. http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/talk/
50 basis points = 0.5 points, not 0.5%. Points are cumulative percent is multiplicative.
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yes. You are correct. It's both :). Still under development. And this will be a newer and a cool experience :)
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated that "We run the App Store just a little over breakeven" during a shareholder meeting earlier this year. An analyst from Citibank estimated that the App Store would account for $2B in yearly revenue for 2011. Compare that to the $24.67B revenue that Apple had in Q2 of 2011 alone, and that puts the App Store at approximately 2% of Apple's yearly gross revenue. Also, a Trefis analysis of $AAPL puts iTunes and iOS Apps at a combined 4.3% share of the stock's perceived value. While the App Store does provide the ecosystem that allows the iPhone and iPad to thrive, it does not act as a significant revenue source for Apple.
I am a programmer but I live near DC. Finding something from here is difficult.
I have three kids. The incentive? I liked the first one, and then we kept going. How many kids do you have?
Yes, obviously. Where are you finding it still in stock?
Most applications today need mostly "sweat" code(UI, all the various feature behaviors, integration of outside assets and APIs) and a tiny amount of "clever" stuff.

This is true, but deceptive in my opinion. Sure, the vast majority of your code may be "sweat" code if you look at it on a strictly line-by-line basis. But the "clever" code is where you really add business value. It's oftentimes your secret sauce that gives customers a reason to use you versus one of your competitors. It's usually the code you spend the most time worrying about.

Granted, this isn't true of all businesses. Some companies make their living writing CRUD software that wins due to brilliant design. These firms rarely need programmers to add much business value beyond their time and energy, which is fine. But I wouldn't say that's representative of all or even most software businesses.
He's a guy who wrote some programs and talked about programming and then deleted all his accounts.

Some people worship him for reasons i find myself unable to fathom.
Heck yes. It is so easy to do A/B testing incorrectly. Without knowing at least the number of hits the results are almost meaningless.
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I have a feeling the pricing on this is going to get revised pretty quickly. Since memcached is so easy to run & cluster, I'm not seeing a reason to rationalize the added expense to have amazon do it.
Another "open" move for Android.
So this adds extra motivational fuel to complete my own project: https://github.com/wickedchicken/mondrian_grid

Much like traditional C compilers can perform static analysis at compile time, I wanted to craft a language that would facilitate some correctness analyses of your design.

What I ultimately wanted was a language that would verify I was doing something dumb with div widths and warn accordingly -- again, static verification for web design. It's still pretty basic and I haven't thought out much, but seeing LESS should spark some ideas for a better syntax :)
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Later in the video that this article talks about there is a picture of a "US hacker", running "hack.bat" in a Windows 2000 command prompt. hack.bat copies "ph0rce.jpg" out. There is an IP address visible which looks like 209.134.176.39, that resolves to a subdomain of iss.net, an IBM security site. Not really sure what to make of the combination of the bizarre "hacking" and the real IP addresses.

Some more translated bits and pieces from 03:46 in the video, when it starts talking about US capabilities:

* US first to introduce the concept of network warfare, also first to put into practical use

* In 2002 the US army established the world's first hacker unit, and in 2006 officially made this unit a core part of the airforce capabilities, with a general leading it and an operational remit consisting of 541 locations

* The unit has 3000 to 5000 experts in network warfare, and 80000 soldiers. The training of the unit started officially in 2007.

* Army, navy, and air force all have computer response squadrons to maintain network security.

* The US is the pacesetter in computer technology, so its economy relies on this technology more than other countries, meaning it pays particular attention to network security.

* Other countries such as South Korea, Japan, India, UK also have network warfare units
> He's like the Bobby Fisher of programming

W H A T!? How is _why in any way the Bobby Fisher of programming? Bobby Fischer was a famous, amazing chess player. _why is a person that writes code and some people (some Ruby developers, rather) look up to. They're not comparable in any way.
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Apollo came dangerously close to losing a crew in several ways. There's Apollo 13 of course. There's also the POGO oscillation problem in the Saturn V which came close to destroying the launch vehicle. Then there's the lightning strike on Apollo 12 that came fairly close to catastrophe.

But aside from all that the biggest danger was a large solar flare while the astronauts were on the surface of the Moon. That could have quite easily exposed them to lethal radiation levels.
Thanks. We'll be once we are actually ready :)
"Finalé" is a funny aberration. It is not a French word but rather the incorrect pronunciation spelled out in French characters.
There is the problem with repeated hypothesis testing: every test has a probability of error. If you test often enough you will make an error.
Did you read the article? My understanding from devs that I follow is that the current feedback system is pretty awful. If they're going to focus on better ways of fostering dev/Market support, that seems like a good thing.

(I'm downvoted for saying the same thing the top comment did, before that comment existed? OK? Cool story guys, it's not like the article implies a change in how Google handles these issues in an attempt to handle them better.)
We recently got a step closer to integrating multiple clouds now that EC2 allows peering. http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/ To really make it easy you'd probably want federated auth and billing, but I'm not sure that's in Amazon's interest.
Great series.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of small values. The statistical significance probaly won't be there except for high volume sites. There is a paradox - AB is better for big changes, but those changes could also be the most disruptive to existing users.

Even with these concerns, look at how efficient this is compared to traditional retail. Imagine all the black magic required to figure out which display for Crest works the best. It was worthwhile to do with very blunt tools. We may not be in the realm of scalpels, but we are well beyond chainsaws.

Thanks for sharing!
Why not? They pioneered all the techniques they use for using web apps like native apps on iOS, such as adding them to the home screen. I don't think there's any evidence that supports your argument whatsoever.

If people want to run web apps on iOS devices Apples is more than happy to sell them for that purpose.
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I've been trying all day to get my hands on one, and yeah £90 is fantastic.

Tell your devs that I hate them, everywhere in the UK is now out of stock and we have only rumours to go on.
Could use some comments there.
Of course I read the article. The point is that Google seems to love throwing around the "open" and "closed" buzzwords, irrespective of how much hypocrisy they engage in on a regular basis.
...this is awesome. Thanks Recurly, you just saved my new product a ton of time!
If this means that developer issues are going to be reviewed, responded to, and addressed by a real human being, and real public communication (maybe through the Dev Console, eh?) will be exchanged between Google and developers when issues arise, this is a very good thing - for both developers and Google. Reading these long, terrible, ranty threads that rarely contain any comment from Google is demoralizing and depressing for everyone involved.

If this means the Marketplace forums are closed and nothing else changes, this is terrible. Though maybe there's some silver lining there...one less place to post a "Hey, Google, PLEASE look at this! Please, please, pretty please!! Hey, guys! Hey, guys!" would probably save us all at least a few minutes of time. ;)
But how does a system level Contacts API make any sense when Web Intents and any-old-body's webapp exists?

I guess I may be thinking about it incorrectly. If this is for web apps to implement a common standard of functionality across Contact "apps", then this makes sense. Otherwise, why are we falling back to "native" when it comes to Contacts, especially when modern contacts exist as part of an online profile - Google Contacts, Facebook Friends and Twitter accounts I follow compose my entire "Contact List".
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the thing is the reason I would get it is for Android development.
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Since you're using Node I assume you're compiling on the server and not the browser anyways right?
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A potentially huge deal would be that with Chrome on Android you get extensions and NaCl.
Good article. It is rather depressing to accept the reality that these countries will only continue to deteriorate for the foreseeable future.
Please file a bug on this - so that we can upvote.
IIRC wikileaks weren't so keen to display their financial data either…
3-4 years ago I started to call myself a UX Designer because I wanted to distinguish myself from the other designers I knew who did brochure websites, or had just started a transition from print to web design.

I work almost exclusively on software design and UX design is the best term I know of to sum up what I do.
There was nothing in the forum post from Google about "improving" anything. They directed us to contact forms that always existed. Just TRY using those contact forms.

I haven't tried today, but when I used them in the past, the first thing I received was a canned response that had nothing to do with the problem.

I would reply saying that this canned response didn't help and to please actually read my question.

About a week later, and this has happened to me over and over again, I would get another response saying they recently changed things in the Android Market that should have solved my problem.

Uhm, changed what? Did you read my question? Are you a robot?

It's infuriating. If this is all we have now, I won't email either. I already have copies of the responses they send back.
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