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So hey, Russell or anyone.
My father has had sleep apnea for some years and due to 2008 finance fuckery the loss of most of his retirement funds and loss of his career, his health has been in a downward spiral. In particular his mental health worries me. Just reading the title of this post I feel strong emotions about this issue. Imgur.com and getting him the fuck off television has been a godsend as its more than a one way street, but without massive financial help all the needed care is impossible. Jesus christ this post is sad fuck the USA.
Oh, are you a Swede by any chance ("hej")? In your country, women think it's perfectly acceptable to accuse men of taking up too much space when sitting their legs apart when the seat next to them is empty. Google "Macho i Kollektivtraffiken" and shake your head.
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It really is much more complicated than that. Money in bank accounts give the banks the right to create a proportional amount of money, under the assumption that value will be created to match that amount.
It's kind of a tricky bit of language because a hang glider actually is human powered if you consider how its direction is changed and how it stays aloft. The human isn't just cargo sitting there doing nothing. Without the human "powering" the hang glider it wouldn't stay aloft if you simply pushed it off of a cliff. If you are specifically looking at thrust that is easier to talk about.

In general, I wouldn't call a hang glider human powered either even though a certain amount of human power output is responsible for its sustained flight.

This is in contrast to a craft with a non human power plant. Even in cases where the human is using some kind of power output to further assist the aircraft, the output of the power plant is several orders of magnitude larger than the human's output. Which in some cases may be simply moving a control mechanism.

And then there are what could be referred to as human "assisted" craft where the human power output is actually equal to or close to the output of the non human power plant.

I think the human assisted craft are more likely to be reasonably useful. We're just not suitable for the type of sustained power output that is required for fully human powered flight.
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For simplicity, of course. ;)
is BCD really a bad idea? it's 2012 and generally we still have to live with binary-only floats and without a decently fast decimal arithmetic.
I have spent the last two years creating a desktop GUI application more-or-less from the ground up. I used a bit of existing code but most of the choices were mine.

It was only "evolutionary" in the sense that I don't necessarily know everything I was thinking last month. But is easily enough to give the system many of the irrational qualities that I once cursed other people's systems for.

I also never had any deadline pressure. The whole system needs to get done but there's no other time line pressure. I can and do stop to rewrite subsystems that seem bad. I can and do write all the tests I would like to.

It's amazing to me how little any of this has helped with the fundamental problems. The code is better, the parts of the system that need to be optimized are optimized but the screaming at the code is still there. The "how did things reach this state is still there".

So what seems like the point of the article, that massive complexity happens through many small, unintended consequences, really rings true.
Android isn't free if you want the Play Store/Google Maps/Gmail, not to mention the effort needed to write the drivers for the hardware.
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It may sound controversial, I'd love to be in his shoes to be honest. Kinect and XBox are future of gaming/computing. Enterprise division (traditional cash cow for MSFT) is stronger as always. Windows 7 was runaway success (even though Bay Area is full of macs). Windows phone is genuinely cool product, need year or two to see whether it translates into profits. And last couple of quarters were record profits. What else need to be done then?
Gossip? Maybe

But when you have spent almost 2 hours a week listening to them, or even with a donation. Well, you tend to care. And you want to know why something is not like it was anymore. Lacking an official response... we'd want to fill the blanks.
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and this is why new software paradigms come out every 10 years - to clean up the shit from the last one
I get where you are going, but...

$200k on a car is probably too much (once the novelty wears off) - you can get a nice luxury car with more performance than you can handle for $50k.

As for housing, it depends on the location. Zuckerberg's $7M house is actually relatively modest. You can buy the same house in the midwest for probably under $500k.

Even still, those things are relatively justifiable. You can't measure denim jeans worth by square footage or horse-power. I understand the difference between a $30 pair of jeans and a $200 pair (having been stupid enough to shell out that much myself), but beyond that I cannot really justify the cost.
To be honest this isn't the sort of introduction I want to a new shell. What I want to see is

1. How it differs from existing shells I'm familiar with, and

2. How those differences solve problems with existing shells.

This article says that the shell uses lists rather than strings for some things. Great, does that mean this shell deals with spaces and newlines in filenames better than bash?

This article shows off the new language by pointing out how exotic it is, how different the shell is to everything you know and hold dear. Maybe it should be embarrassing to admit this, but that's a little scary. I'm reading because it's interesting, but this isn't an article that will people to go out and use it to solve their problems.

And at the end of the day, that's what a shell is for - they're the way you interact with your computer. They can be clever if cleverness is appropriate, but first and foremost they should enable us to use our tools effectively and if possible intuitively.
The failure isn't in that we're adding too much complexity (we have to be able to create complex structures) or that we're not layering it enough (leaky abstractions build up). It's a general, and much more far-reaching, problem: our abstraction mechanisms are failing us. We need to stop complaining and put more effort into research. There are four or five projects working on this and, literally, hundreds of photo-sharing startups.
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Consider: if SpaceX's plans for fully reusable launch vehicles come to fruition then we may see a day where it is possible to launch the mass of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier plus 20,000 people into orbit every year for around the same cost as the Shuttle program.

Think on that a while. Think what it would mean even to only partially succeed at those goals, even by a wide margin.
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I'm not sure if I buy his argument, but if you accept it, I think there's a natural limiting factor: recruiting.

The best engineers will produce the best products, either for local-mobile-social apps or space exploration. At some level, good software people are somewhat fungible -- a great engineer could work on either, given some orientation.

I believe the best engineers would rather cure cancer, colonize space, create anonymous digital currencies, etc., and produce infrastructure and developer tools which support those things, rather than work on ad networks, games, photo sharing sites, etc., given equal access. The reason people haven't gone into space for the past 30-40 years is that working for NASA is a horrible experience for an entrepreneur, and creating software or technology startups is much easier.

Now that "software has eaten the world" (which I do believe), a great software engineer can effectively start a space company. Sure, your first 10-20 employees at a new ad network or game company might be able to make enough on equity to do it, but employee 50 or employee 500 would sure rather be working on something amazing like space than yet another ad network.
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extraneous fluff

Hey, now. Gödel, Escher, Bach has character and is IMO a very fun book. You might have to read it more then once, though.. it's self-referential and strange-loopy in that way.
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Eventually every successful IDE becomes extensible. Up to that point GPL is perfectly fine.

As soon as IDE provides extensibility one starts having problems with GPL and it's viral nature with linking.

GPL is forcing IDE into a "sandbox" where the whole distro must be GPL-compatible at the point of distribution. The workaround is often with the expense of user experience where one has to separately install extensions just because of licesnsing.
It's becoming more common. The local cops in my area wear microphones that activate whenever they're away from their vehicle (everything that happens near the vehicle is captured by the dash cam).

Every cop I've talked to about it is very positive. It often make their life much easier in court...
Things like this make me confused about the total usefulness this whole system. Is it rewarding people who should be rewarded?
Cost is everything in spaceflight and SpaceX has cracked the cost barrier wide open. Even in Russia where they can build rockets out of the same factories they've been using for decades and where labor can be dirt cheap they can't match the costs that SpaceX is capable of, nor can China.

And this is largely because the company is entirely commercial. They build rockets and spacecraft to their own specs not based on government contracts and to government rules and specifications. They have built an entire orbital launch vehicle which is competitive in capabilities to the Ariane 5, the Delta IV, the Atlas V, and the Proton M, all of which took enormous government programs and billions of dollars to develop. SpaceX build their rocket from scratch for less than half a billion dollars all told. That is revolutionary.

More so, they are only the 4th entity in the world who has succeeded in any degree in creating and launching an orbital spacecraft that is capable of being manned and they are almost certain to be the first non-government entity in history to launch astronauts into orbit.

And that is just the prelude. They are also working on the Falcon Heavy, which will provide extra capability and far lower costs than the Falcon 9. And they are working on a fully reusable launch vehicle from the 1st stage up through the crew capsule, which would revolutionize manned spaceflight in a way that we can scarcely imagine today.
Good luck SpaceX and Elon Musk. True pioneers.
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anne passovoy wrote a beautiful song about this, "harbors". you can see the lyrics here[1], though sadly it's hard to find a recording.

[1] http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/07/next-step-americas-future...
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John Carmack has written something about being super-productive in a fixed chunk of time.

But I can see where your coming from. After certain set (~5) of being super-productive, you burn out. And you just can't take it any more.

At these times it is best to take a break and do something different. I've found that these breaks (~1 to 2 hours) tend to make you more productive in your next chunk. (Rather than being burn out and weary.) It gives you time to think and churn ideas for what you will do next.

Lastly I want to add; knowing what you want to do next makes a difference. When you know exactly what you want to do (the spec), you naturally are about implementing it - when not knowing the spec, you're figuring things our as you go and that slows you down. In addition it's always better to sit down and gives additional exclusive time to thinking of your program rather than figuring things out as you go.
Ignition Aborted. too bad
Launch scrubbed just after ignition. Waiting to hear what went wrong.

Next launch window is Tuesday, 22nd May.

EDIT: Abort on "engine 5 chamber pressure high."
Wow. Thank you for sharing. Quite inspirational. Have you written more about this [albeit very personal] subject in a blog or elsewhere? Would love to read more...
All the best.
Ahh what happened?
Ignition aborted, launch failed. Sigh.
Ouch.... that was expensive.
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Hope there are more like that to come. Good job.
Sounds like it had to do with the computers. Damn shame.

Edit: My mistake, the computers detected an engine parameter that was out of bounds. See you guys early Tuesday morning for round 2.
Wonder what happened. At least they saved the vessel.
:(

Better luck Tuesday.
They said it happened again on Falcon 2 and 9. Hope they will be ready for May 22nd, next window.

Good nite, HN!
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Next window is Tuesday, so not too long. I was really impressed that they were able to abort nearly 5 seconds after ignition.
Or... next launch window.
"Engine 5 shutdown: chamber pressure high" was the reason given on the web cast.
I heard one of them say that the computer saw an engine parameter it "didn't like." :(

Next launch opportunity, May 22 at 12:44:34 AM PST

Here's a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AevYDCAE1xc

Edit: Elon Musk tweeted "Launch aborted: slightly high combustion chamber pressure on engine 5. Will adjust limits for countdown in a few days"
Next launch window Tuesday, May 22. They seem to have a good process for handling the failure though, which is probably more important than how they handle success (although less exciting for viewers).
Yeah, the NASA people on twitter seemed impressed by that too. It's a good safety feature, no matter what the glitch turns out to be.
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sigh...will be rooting on Tuesday
Not angry, more bemused. This has been one of the most unusual IPOs in history, and all the usual suspects (news media, tech blogs, etc.) can find to talk about are the most mundane and least substantive details.
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SpaceX Rocket launch aborted in final second due to technical problems
That's one major advantage of a liquid fueled vehicle. Try shutting off an SRB after it's lit...
how do you discover if you have a condition like this?

I bet that could be a diabolical problem - you need cognitive surplus to recognize you have a problem, and investigate what the causes might be and how you can identify them. And the problem you have is robbing you of that cognitive surplus.
Elon Musk tweeted that joke too. I find it pretty annoying, he's a senior staff engineer, and that is pretty rude to denigrate him in public like that. Hopefully they know each other well and it's a running joke or something.
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Such a prop up guarantee is probably part of the underwriting deal these investment banks signed. Morgan Stanley was the lead in this IPO deal.
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Moments after the abort, I heard one of the techs say it was triggered by an "engine 5 chamber pressure high" reading.
I wouldn't go quite a far as the poster. I do agree that the default state of an idea is "not being done", but once it IS done, does offer something, and has any paying users at all, the default if they are happy is for them to return and keep spending (if you remain competitive and fill a void with great customer satisfaction) and moreover to tell their friends. People worry about scalable business models for a good reason: if there is a bottleneck (e.g. you have to personally meet the client before they pay you in the business you chose) then you will meet that bottleneck very soon! I would say the default state of a startup that is shipping and has cusomers is "more work (demand) and ideas than we're able to roll out/handle". not a bad place to be, but if you do your job you can count on being there. If you follow PG's philosophy, then when you're at this point you have lots of revenue (instead of lots of users overpowering your resources, with you trying to 'grow some more' before 'eventually' figuring out a monetization model)
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This is a story from TheNextWeb. Isn't that the same outfit that has been recently exposed for Plagiarism: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972651 while their CEO defended their behavior?

The story made it to the top of HN and earned an insane number of upvotes.

Is our memory really that short? Do we trust this story? Do we even want to read it?
You or someone you know notices your behavior changing or you show other symptoms and then you see a doctor? Then the doctor diagnoses you with this problem. I don't see how else you would discover it.
> Where is the difference to a glider?

It sustained altitude and speed for a while (short of 20 seconds).

See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E77j1imdhQ
I pledged because a) I like the fact that you're thinking outside the box, b) you're building something I wanted to build, as I think all IDEs are obsolete, c) you're building it for my favorite language first (Clojure) and d) I want it built as quickly as possible.

None of these reasons became invalid when you joined YC, so the pledge still stands.
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Is this the first time a rocket has been aborted after ignition and for it to have not blown up?
Namedropping Pixar was probably sufficient
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How is breaking backward compatibility simpler? If you don't support legacy commands and options you are forcing countless programs to be rewritten. Many aren't even actively maintained any more and businesses will avoid upgrading to your new 'simple' platform due to the huge cost, complexity, and risk of the rewrite project not succeeding, like many software projects. That's why OpenGL has so many old methods and commands, they are used by old, expensive CAD programs.

Speaking of OpenGL, more efficient memory routines he claims are worthless have probably saved me months of optimization programming real time games. If you don't have sufficient frame rate there for a good experience you end up doing enormous optimization work.
There are other reasons you might stop functioning.

From me and people I know, you might feel bad and just stop functioning (tiredness, lack of energy) from undiagnosed allergies without throat symptoms, iron deficiency and a simple bacteria infection in a tooth.

Also note that you might e.g. increase in weight from being tired and then get sleep apnea, so there might be a reason behind some problems.

Please don't waste as much time as I personally did. (Yes, more than one year.)

Disclaimer: I am no medical expert and don't know about relative risks.
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That is quite an unfair comparison. Instagram and Facebook are disruptive with respect to their own fields.
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No, SpaceX themselves have done it several times, and I'm about 90% sure there's prior precedent as well. It's a theoretical capability of any liquid-fueled rocket, assuming an adequate hold-down system.

Edit: Looks like Ariane 5 has similar systems on its main engine, but it also uses solid rocket boosters, which can't be shut down once started. http://www.space.com/11264-rocket-launch-aborts-engine-malfu...
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I'm planning a couple of more articles on this topic, so your point is of interest to me. Since it's all content I have absorbed by using the shell, some things that seem obvious to me might have slipped through the cracks when I wrote the post. It seems from your comment like #1 was answered (how it differs from existing shells). The problems with existing shells (byzantine quoting rules, general opacity in terms of being able to use them from the outside, and crufty, non-uniform syntax, lack of simple FD manipulation, lack of modern facilities like blocks, scoping, etc.) were sort of taken as a given, and the examples should have shown how they are obviated. What is it you'd like to see explained?
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So what happens next?
"There will be a short briefing at 3:30 AM PT / 6:30 AM ET on NASA TV" https://twitter.com/#!/SpaceX/status/203776815850991616

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6%3A30+a.m.+EDT+in+loca...

50 minutes after this post
Next launch is scheduled for the 22th of May.

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What good does that do?
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We use a wiki and it's very useful. We have even moved the project documentation to it from SVN.
"Carbon copy" is not an outdated term, I use or see other people use one at least weekly: receipts, package delivery, doctors recipe, etc. It might not be actual carbon, though.
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> why is a computer like a writing desk?

Because Poe raved on both?
I grew up in Cape Canaveral and this was awesome to me! We have to work on the naming though. Star Wars deserves some love!
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Gliders can gain altitude and speed. There are plenty of spots on the surface of the earth where air is rising quickly enough to support a plane.