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I actually have high hopes that it'll work on the first try, without too much selling of souls involved. SpaceX is actually pursuing a very sensible incremental route with their designs. They gave themselves the opportunity to learn at the School of Hard Knocks, blowing up their first three Falcon 1 flights, before getting the next two right. By the time they moved on to the Falcon 9, they had five launches and two successes under their belt.

The Falcon 9 is actually a fairly incremental upgrade from the Falcon 1: essentially identical engines; nearly identical avionics; just much bigger tanks and more complicated plumbing. It's evident now that this approach has really paid off for them.

Similarly, by the time they'll fly a Heavy, they'll have at least five Falcon 9 flights under their belt. And the Heavy is not really much more of a step change from the Falcon 9 than the Falcon 9 was from the Falcon 1: just a lot more of the same engines; very similar avionics, and more complicated plumbing due to the propellant cross-feed system. So, not THAT big a step technically, despite its outrageous payload capabilities.
Which is definitely different than the first time his idea was copied: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874271 (github page no longer exists).
How many people on Earth are there who don't speak one of the 70 languages, though? Imagine if they didn't support German. How many Germans speak English, or French, or even Russian? A lot. So while they might not support Tagalog, how many Tagalog speakers don't also know how to speak Filipino?

Going on basis of language support is ridiculous at best without weighting how many exclusive speakers there are in that language. I might buy that Facebook is running out of people who don't have fresh water, paved roads, electricity, or high speed Internet connections.
That's what libraries are for. There are some pretty good ones for 2d (Andengine based on Box2d for instance). It saddens me that more developers are not committed to developing/extending gaming platforms and shared code, and instead porting games from other devices piecemeal.
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This is using the services' APIs, but standardizing as much as possible the Python code required to use them.
You're saying that CSS isn't domain-specific?
We dined at Nardo's in Havana a summer ago. It's off of Central Park, in front of the Capitolium. Had a great time.

The waiter brought us a bill with a 10% service charge and I asked whether a tip was expected. I don't remember why I asked, perhaps the service charge seemed low or maybe I was just curious.

The waiter told me that of course the tip was expected... on top of the 10% service charge. This is because the service charge covers the staff in the kitchen while the tip covers the waiter :D.
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Buy a bottle of wine at a restaurant and you are almost certainly paying 1.5x to 2x more than the bottle costs in the store right down the street. Bring your own bottle to a restaurant that serves wine and, because the restaurant expects to make much of its ROI on wine, they'll charge you a corkage fee. That's opaque pricing.

You can rail against wine markups too, I suppose. Of course, since most restaurants work on razor thin margins and most fail, there's not much point; they're charging what they need to succeed in their market.
http://jessicaklein.blogspot.com/2012/05/revised-uiux-for-ap...

Apparently a renaming of this: http://toolness.github.com/friendlycode/

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Aircooled engine plus is a relatively small engine. One person could lift it clean off the ground without any extra leverage.

You need to consider that the mechanics of an engine back in 1990 (last year the 2CV was produced) were unbelievably basic compared to modern engines.

To be honest, I've no doubt the guy built this however it baffles me that he chose to take this approach rather than repair the vehicle. People argue it was more than a snapped swing arm but I'm confused as it would take significantly more damage to render it irreparable for a man of his obvious ability. We can rule out engine and chassis failure as these were key components in his 'motorbike'.

Bottom line, this is bloody fascinating, regardless of what the truth may be.
This is higher level than a generic REST client.
Sum the menu items, and add 15%.
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I work in a place, a small one as a matter of fact, where 3 pair of people met and each went on to either get married, or be engaged to each other.
Ask them what they have used most. Or if they haven't used a database, what framework are you using? Use the recommended one for that framework.
Saw this dead comment which was interesting enough to reproduce where people will see it. Note: hej, it looks like all your comments started going dead two days ago, possibly by mistake. You might want to look into that.

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No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.)

What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)
Apologies if I seemed rude, it's really very nice. But yes: a shader absolutely could compute a particle position based on a previous value (and other state, and inputs like mouse position, etc...) as a mapping between, say, a 1D texture and a 1D output framebuffer that gets used as the next frame's source texture. Honestly, given the apparent performance this is what I had assumed was happening.
Here's NASASPACEFLIGHT.COM making fun of this:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28821.0
The external costs of staying in compliance with the IRS without those forms are increasing. In both a relative and an absolute sense: they become more inconvenient and hard to even do, and on top of that there's an expectation you can get taxes done in the same amount of time as someone using a computer. Have this happen a thousand different little ways, and not having a computer becomes effectively impossible.
Eclipse with http://xtext.org is an outstanding platform for domain-specific languages and domain-specific tools. I don't know any tool which comes even close.
The point is more general and it's not worth getting hung up on specific examples and technologies. The more general issue is population density and industrial society force people to behave in narrow parameters, or the "system" doesn't work.

This is why 200 years ago cultures all over the world varied quite dramatically, but now in the industrial age they are ever more similar, and people behave in increasingly similar ways. Even legal systems have undergone rapid convergence in the last 50 years.
SpaceX is selling launches on its rockets to commercial companies right now: http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php

Moreover, this Falcon 9 launch was part of a commercial contract with NASA to provide supplies to ISS over the next few years (12 additional flights in addition to this demo). When someone signs a contract with you and gives you money in exchange for goods and services we call that business.
Maybe this is a joke and I'm taking it too seriously, but doesn't the Enterprise run on antimatter? I don't think we're going to be able to manufacture antimatter in large quantities in the next 20 years.
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The lowest common denominator of SaaS APIs is HTTP. Apart from that, everyone does it different.

Some use JSON, some use XML, some use SOAP... Sometimes you authenticate with Basic authentication, sometimes you use OAuth 1.0 and need to sign each request, sometimes it's OAuth 2.0 and you just need the token. Oh, and the actual GET parameter for the token is different, too...

There are APIs where you need to set a 'X-API-Version' header to something, or you'll get weird results. The list goes on...

The goal here is to hide all that crap from developers and focus on achieving the desired result.
It will no longer be cheap once you add all the stuff you want.
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Wow, I remember Ariba from the dot com era. The B2B hype and everything. It's amazing to see that they "survived" and thrived for over a decade. Congrats, Ariba!
IE9 within the IE8 window chrome? Is that normal?

I know you can load mshtml.dll or wherever Trident is kept nowadays into any IE shell, but the point of a service like this should be for accuracy to the original (there are a number of minor compatibility issues reported for tools which use similar workarounds, like IETester, Utilu, ...)
Hehe, we'd love to see that button too, but that's what we got in trouble for the first time!

Also, _please_ email us at sayhi at leaky dot com with the email address you used on the site so that we can look into it; that difference is well outside of the norm.

EDIT: Thanks for emailing us and including screenshots. As discussed, we've already identified a few issues (we blame Geico's website), and have added it to the list of test cases for further testing.
Or that ageism still exists just because every US president has been over 40.
you can see screenshots and videos on that page :
http://checkthis.com/7ezv

(the WebGL animation is part of an interactive installation)
Those were the main reasons I submitted it, with the other being about risks. Office romances have serious risks. No matter who was right or wrong, the initial coverage is going to be painful. The narrative is cookie cutter at this point, and let's face it, with just a filing and the need to push a story out, you really cannot expect anything else. If your business name generates page views then expect a couple of updates as journalists actually read the the full filing.

Sadly, you probably just shouldn't do it.
A 'macro system for tools'. Isn't this what the academic bozos call Language Workbenches?

Extensible tool-building platforms for DSLs are hardly anything new. Reading things like this, i sometimes worry that the HN-circling web crowd is reinventing things that others invented just a few years ago. Like some sort of collective not-invented-here syndrome.

E.g. Check out MetaEdit+ - their website isn't Silicon Valley Sexy, but the tool is amazing. And has been, for the past 10+ years. http://www.metacase.com/mep/

Now, there's plenty new and well-rehashed ideas in Light Table. I'll be buying a license, probably. But the insight in this article isn't very new at all.
It does make the situation more complex, but sexual harassment isn't black and white. There is a huge difference between investigating a harassment claim and determining that no harassment took place and completely ignoring it.
'We're headed toward the singularity, right? Brains in a jar. Teleportation.'
Awesome guys, can't wait for what comes next!
The faster than speed of light thing'll be hard aswell.
good article! I agree with the last comment "node is great for javascript lovers", which I think says it all. Until now with node, how many js developers had to worry about concurrency or scalability? The fact is node allows the (originally js) developer to do everything he wants in one language, both on the server and browser side. And it works for most sites. If I get 1,000,000 visitors per month, and assume only 16 hrs a day of real activity, that gives me 1,000,000 / 30 / 16 / 60 / 60 = 0.58 request per second. Which is still easy enough for node to handle. I've been programming with Node a lot lately and find it easy since I can use my networking programming knowledge from C in another language I also know well i.e. javascript, but Go might be on the todo list of things to check out next.
The problem is when the backup system is not independent of the primary, so one failure takes out the other. When I read about the step-by-step domino sequence of failures in the plant, the design was clearly deficient.

The erroneous thinking was "the tsunami wall cannot fail". The correct thinking is "what happens when the tsunami wall is breached? what happens to the plant? how can the plant withstand that?"

For example, the most obvious thing is to harden the backup diesel generators against flooding. This would not have been difficult nor expensive. Another solution would have been to have those generators located at some distance from the plant, so they could be repaired without irradiating the workers, and so a disaster at one would be less likely to affect the other.

Another obviously poor design was to have the emergency hydrogen venting go into an enclosed space, where it can build up and explode, rather than venting it outside.
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Much of the code comes from a WebGL tutorial (context and shaders creation, and the shaders code). I added the interactive parts, the particles and tweaked the shaders.
The fact that she is pursuing this as a civil case already tells us that they didn't have enough for a criminal one.

That just tells me the DA didn't want to touch this one.
The less time people spend driving, the more time they'll spend on other things. And if the rest of Google is doing things right, at least some of that time will be spent looking at Google ads.
I'm sorry, but if you're a professional web developer you need to stop editing files directly on remote servers. Period. Full stop.

Apologists post in threads like these time and time again, whether the argument is for them using PHP, SVN, or whatever. My reply boils down to this:

Sure, you can construct a home using nothing but straw and mud. And because the house is still standing at the end of the first day, you convince yourself that those are good materials for your next job. But don't kid yourself. Straw and mud are not good, modern tools for construction. You're going to be looked down upon by the rest of your industry that moved on to wood, brick, and cement. Deal with it.
"From March to October 2006, Mr. Nazre continued to pressure Plaintiff to have sexual relationship with him. Mr. Nazre falsely told her that his wife had left him. When Plaintiff refused his advances Mr.Nazre engaged in offensive, obstructionist and difficult behavior toward Plaintiff. Plaintiff eventually succumbed to Mr. Nazre's insistence on sexual relations on two or three occasions. In October 2006 Plaintiff informed Mr.Nazre that she would no longer have any personal relationship with him. Mr. Nazre started a consistent pattern of retaliation against her."
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This seems like a "how can we make the Enterprise with modern materials/techniques", as an inspiration to get to the stars.

The design, aside from the overall shape, is completely divorced from the design of the ships in the shows.
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A trillion dollars is $50 billion per year over 20 years. From the site:

“It is proposed that the US dedicate .27% of its GDP each year to the NASA Enterprise program. To get some sense of what spending .27% of the GDP each year will mean, consider that between 1963 and 1972, during the Apollo era, the US spent on average .50% of GDP per year as shown in the center column in the table to the right. This is about double the level of spending proposed for funding the Enterprise program.

.27% of GDP will be about $40 billion for the year 2012. $40 billion is certainly a lot of money to spend – but it’s not that much when you consider that the federal budget in 2012 is $3700 billion ($3.7 Trillion). $40 billion seems like pocket change from the perspective of federal spending. $40 billion is 1.1% of the 2012 federal budget. This compares to an average of 2.8% of the federal budget which was spent each year on NASA between 1963 and 1972 as shown in the rightmost column in the table above.”
For some unknown reason all those sensor terminals, atms and other smart devices are powered by windows.

Windows is an awful choice since it requires a huge pricey box with fans, since it shows its dialog messages over the interface, catches viruses and yet they stick to it.
It makes me sad thinking about how much money do they waste on it and how MS is able by get their cut while making everyone lives and products worse by using their BS power.
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No, we run Windows virtual machines that run IE6, IE7, IE8, and IE9.

Then we take the desktop of the Windows virtual machine and stream it to your browser.

What you get is using a browser from a browser!

Take a look at the first demo video on www.stackvm.com to see how it works.
I am curious if she pursued this criminally. And if she did, I think it is important to take into account the view of the DA/cops.

If she is not bringing up the criminal angle, chances are she never pursued it or the DA passed on the case. That is not great news for her case.

Typically you do the civil case after the conclusion of the criminal one, especially if you are confident he will be found guilty.
I would absolutely love to work for a startup as an early engineering hire. I'd take an enormous pay cut for the right firm, people, and product.

However, for 1%, 2%, 3%, or even an unheard of 10% equity, it's just simply not worth it when it's so cheap and easy to start something myself or find a co-founder.

It's odd that I follow Hacker News and lap up everything startup and YC related, but I wouldn't even click on one of the YC job postings as the prospect of this kind of deal does not appeal in the slightest.

Joining say 3 co-founders with 33% each against my 1% as the first senior engineering hire would really stick in the throat unless they had monster traction or funding [in which case they'd already probably be bigger then 3].

I just do not understand who takes these roles with very early stage startups as the entrepreneurial 'rockstars' that they are asking for can easily have a go themselves with not much less chance of success, pretty limited downside if it fails, and high opportunity costs either way.

For that reason, if I went to work for a very early stage startup, I'd want a much, much, much higher salary than I could get in the market at a big company. This would be to compensate me for the additional risk, the additional workloads, plus the fact that I would be helping them add outsized value in terms of building the company for them.
I've been told the concept of scaling a UI is akin to the concept of "write once, run anywhere".

That is, it works fine in theory. It just hasn't ever worked as advertised in reality. And trying has often generated more pain than it's saved.

It's worth noting that much of modern web design moved to a place of fixed minimum widths and white-space taking up the remainder. Responsive design promises to change that a bit toward scaling UI, but thus far is just a mechanism by which designers can incorporate a few hand-tuned minimum-width variants.
The more and more you can do with it, clearly it's becoming less and less domain-specific.

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/amazing.html

or just google for hackernews posts like entirely in css, pure css, all in css, etc. Hell from a quick glance it seems that if you google for 'in css' half the posts on hackernews are like that...

http://y.ww.com/item?id=2636440

It's not hard to see where this is going...
Thats not what I mean.

I can't really comment on the actual community at large, but in places where people go to get help, such as the irc channel, there are increasingly a lot of people looking for easy answers who don't seem willing to work things out for themselves. More so than in a lot of other languages. I couldn't attribute this to any specific group of people, but I think it has to do with rails increasingly becoming a "workhorse" tool amongst shall we say, less hackerish web devs.

It's basically a sign that rails is being used more for workaday things, perhaps at the expense of .net or PHP. This is surely a good thing. It isn't the same as the mythic internecine rivalries in the rails/ruby development community everyone always talks about, which I've never thought were that important.
Love to hear what you guys think, what are your thoughts on making a global one after?
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I'd be very surprised if the analysts didn't have sit-down meetings with FB staff and management.
You're totally misconstruing my words. I am not against tipping or feel that it's an injustice that servers expect a tip, hell, I've done almost every grimy job in the restaurant business; but what I'm saying is that a server feeling entitled to that tip is bullshit. It instills this notion of "pay me extra for doing my job", not "pay me extra for doing more than I had to at my job". It has nothing to do with consumers feeling an injustice because their servers expect a tip, it seriously has nothing to do with consumers. It has everything to do with a server's mentality that doing your job is enough to warrant a tip.

(I'll choose to ignore the condescension)
People should read your comment a few times to let it sink in.

But, iRobot, why should we care about efficiencies? Energy grows on trees.

I predict we are going to see many, many more ARM devices. And Apple is going to lead the way.

This is going to bother some people who like to write bloated, inefficient code. Their focus is on multi-core and concurrency. But to do simple things (retrieving text, images, audio, or video via http, sending/receiving email, etc), one does not need that much power.

The rise of ARM will create opportunity for a different set of programmers who are more efficiency-conscious.
Another issue is that it makes you a slave to the company. You don't want to leave because you want that equity. It's almost like continuing to gamble at a casino hoping for that next big payout.

A friend of mine wouldn't leave because he had equity..even when management sucked and it was a terrible place to work. The company didn't get their next round of VC funding and went out of business withing 8 months.

My problem is that it's too easy for the management of these companies to drive the company into the ground with terrible ideas..and you, as a minor stake-holder have absolutely no power to stop it.
At least with one or two clients of mine, I have tried for months to try and change their workflow to allow local development but they resist. Because they give me limited access to the production files, I can't export the database to bring it to my localhost. Thus, I have no choice but to edit the files on the server. Most of the sites I work with aren't live production sites, but it's still a slow and outdated workflow.
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I hate hate hate this idea. It's so very wrong headed. Yes, it'd certainly help bootstrap manned spaceflight. But I talked to someone who knows about these things and he told me a secret, no matter HOW you spend a trillion dollars on a space project you're going to do a hell of a lot to bootstrap spaceflight.

We don't need this, it's silly, we should not be taking it seriously. We already have the technology and the know how to build cities in orbit and colonies on Mars, we should do that directly instead of being distracted by this side show.

Edit: If we gave SpaceX a contract for a trillion dollars (only payable upon completion of each task) we could probably have 10 million people living on Mars by 2030.