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I'm not sure about the fastest free fall part--how is free fall defined for purposes of this record? In particular, how does the record not belong to Bill Weaver, the test pilot whose SR-71 disintegrated at Mach 3.18?

Here's his account of the incident: http://www.barthworks.com/aviation/sr71breakup.htm
The fantasy of desktop manufacturing may not ever come to be, but 3D printing will likely be part of an even more astounding revolution in manufacturing coming in the next few decades.

And that is fully automated and quickly reconfigurable manufacturing.

Today, to manufacture something like an iphone or a car you have to set up an assembly line, you have to spend a lot of time designing the manufacturing processes of the device. The process of creating a whole supply chain and an assembly line to make thousands of devices is very, very different from what it would take for someone to make a single prototype. And this is why there aren't millions of companies making phones and cars and whatnot, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of resources to manufacture anything.

But this will change. As manufacturing becomes more automated and as the tooling for automated manufacturing improves the interface between manufacturing sub-contractor and product designer (say, foxconn vs. apple) can potentially become purely software. Meaning that instead of having to hire a bunch of people to oversee setting up a manufacturing facility you simply upload a few files containing CAD diagrams, specs, wiring info, etc. And instead of being optimized for producing many thousands of products after extensive reconfiguring of the manual labor intensive assembly line the factories can be optimized for producing as few as a handful of finished items.

How does that change things? Well, it might mean that manufacturing can be more closely located near consumers. If you have a dozen identical automated factories spread across the world then you can simply produce the same item out of each of them. Also, if there is less latency in spinning up / spinning down the production of a given item then it could mean that production could be more "on demand" than the norm today. If a factory only a few hundred kilometers away can be spun up in a matter of hours in order to produce some item and can add thousands of units that could be on the shelves in a matter of hours then it's much less necessary to overproduce.

Also, if a tiny company can leverage automated manufacturing firms for production then this could result in a sea change for all manufactured goods. Boutique manufactured goods could become the norm rather than the universal, mass produced goods of today. What happens when a company could crowd source a new smart phone model for only a few tens of thousands of dollars with a team of only a few designers and engineers and still produce hundreds or even thousands of devices with the same production quality as apple's iphones? And, of course, what happens when you can start revving the design of an item not just on the scale of years or months but on the scale of weeks or days?

And, of course. What happens when you start making factories that can produce factories?

All of these things are near certainties within the next 5 decades if not far sooner.

The revolution is coming.
I'm closing in on that magical 500 karma number where I hear that I'll start to see downvote buttons. I'm almost hoping there is a way I can opt out of this and not have those buttons appear.

Why? The ridiculous system here that gives you one shot at hitting the right button with no chance to correct your mistake. I've seen too many comments saying, "Sorry, I was trying to upvote your comment and fat-fingered the downvote button by mistake." I often read HN on my phone or a tablet and it will be all too easy for me to do that.

Reddit, for all its flaws, gets this right. If you tap the wrong button or change your mind, perhaps after realizing that you misunderstood something, you can fix it.
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Self promotion is not frowned upon. As long as the content is good it doesn't matter who submits it.
Layouts also do not let you place views over each other. So there is also an assumption of a flat, non stacking space.
Weird. I don't have that option on a page with 1,500 fans.
Does he actually give any reason why one should read Ulysses? I didn't see any.

[Silly bit deleted here.]

But I think the problem is deeper really. If you have to make an argument about why the humanities have value beyond pure entertainment (which is really what "why you should read Ulysses" boils down to), you've already lost the war, so why bother fighting the battle?

I go back and forth on this. Sometimes I think that our civilization has taken a major wrong turn in believing only in the technical and eschewing the great shared traditions. Other times I remember that the percentage of humanity who cared about this stuff was always very small.

But let's hear from people who've read Ulysses. For those of us who haven't: why should we?
The real reason? Because making sure that your web site has a browser AND mobile AND app version is too expensive. So most sites settle for a crappy responsive version that pisses everyone off to some degree.
I think one of the biggest things I see is the ability to handle uploads/handling of images inline of your content. You still have to provide the server side implementation (see http://paltman.com/2012/08/15/how-to-setup-upload-handler-fo...) but having the ability to browse previously uploaded photos, as well as upload new ones, and have them appear inline with your content with resize handles, is pretty nice.
It really isn't as easy as it sounds, is it? A better approach might be to UPDATE promo_codes SET used = 1 WHERE ... AND used = 0, and then check that one update occurred. Or if your db supports it, SELECT ... FOR UPDATE OF ... and then update if the code is not yet used. You want the check and the update to occur atomically. And this varies depending on databases, for example in Oracle even if you explicitly begin a transaction, a select does not lock the row (unless you specify FOR UPDATE OF) so if you do the check and the update in separate statements, you still have a race condition).
Agreed. You could easily find writers for 3000 words articles if you were willing to pay enough to be worth the writer's time that is spent on researching and writing the article.
Then there is also my Hallo Editor, which is open source and uses contentEditable http://hallojs.org/

If you're using Create.js for making your stuff editable, it has editor abstraction that can drive Aloha, Hallo, and Redactor based on your configuration
You might want to skip the biographical part, if you don't find it relevant, and then come back and re-read it. Dalio's book describes the right attitude for handling criticism and describes a business environment built around questioning ideas.

None of that "trust your gut" and "we're a team, let's behave as a team" that many other business books preach - in Dalio's line of work mistakes are costly, and if he ran his company in the same manner some other companies are run (CEO provides the vision, everybody else just executes on it), he'd be out of business.
I agree with the gist of your "without consent of subjects" comment, these people should be vilified for posting peoples' photos, with unwanted tags, e.g. "hot teen". This should be the major thrust of the movement against creepshotting. The link to predator-ship is not so clear to me.

In any case, I detest the Hammurabi-like "let me give you a taste of your own medicine" approaches. The correct reaction, for me, should be against Reddit, the company.
I'd go a bit further than that - I think the most important work for professional journalists involves doing things most of us are too scared to do.

Would you get out your camera and start taking photos after My Lai? Be willing to wear being on Nixon's enemies list as a badge of honor? Uncover police corruption? Be shot while working foreign correspondence? Go undercover in the Ku Klux Klan? Publish information about a corporation after they've given you a cease and desist?

Maybe you would. And I'd like to think I would too sitting here in the comfort of my office feeling principled, but I'm not sure that means much.
Because you're talking about two different markets, when you're talking about applying for a job as a full-time in-office employee you're basically competing with the limited pool of people in the local area.

If you're applying for a remote freelancer role, you're competing against people all around the world. Not only are there more of them but many of them will live in areas where their cost of living is an order of magnitude lower than yours.

That's the fundamental reason remote freelancers earn less than in-house employees.

If remote-freelancers were equivalent to local employees then arbitrage would drive down the price of local employees, but they're not. Companies place a premium on local employees (less overhead, better team dynamics, long term investment, stronger IP protection, etc.) and that's why local employee salaries haven't been driven down.
He didn't survive, which is a requisite to get a record.
Amazing quote. Thank you.
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Will OpenCL help displace GPGPU?
A 8GB iPad Mini seems really small to me
> It is equivalent in your analogy to saying "hey you're a shitty coder and are trying to destroy our business", not the relatively benign and straight-forward statement you provide. I'm merely suggesting that rather than say "hey you're a sexist", saying "hey look, that is uncool, it undermines the women here, and comes off a bit piggish".

It's odd. Your suggested statement sounds a lot more equivalent to the statement I gave than the way you framed my statement.
I enjoyed Ulysses, but only after the first 100 pages. Not sure if this was because the first 100 was lower quality, or if it just took me that long to 'acclimatise' to what Joyce was doing.

What I recall not liking was having no idea what was going on. In a given scene I wouldn't be sure where the characters were, how many were there... even who the characters were. Somewhat like looking at one of those Picasso paintings where you recognise a few fragments of familiar objects but the overall picture is just confusion.

I'm tempted to re-read it to see if those things make sense now. Maybe back then I wasn't able to keep track of the abstractness.
Then how did he write a firsthand account?
"Ulysses" is fun—maybe the best book you take to the beach this summer.

Well, Ulysses is indeed a great read, but certainly not one I'd take to the beach. It's far from an easy read, I would not advise anyone to read it in a place where distraction is so easy.

And Ulysses is fun iff you enjoy litterature, just as Godard's movies are fun iff you enjoy experimental movies. I do enjoy both, but I would not say "it's fun" to anybody. Just like saying "debugging embedded assembly is fun". Could be fun for you, but not so fun for the majority of people.
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A colleague of mine with a background in semiotics recently read Godel, Escher, Bach, and said it was, among other things, to his surprise a good introduction to something very similar to semiotics, but independently derived by Hofstadter from first principles.
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Never mind learning geometry: what was learning penmanship like?
same thoughts exactly
Yes if they can slow down the aircraft so it's floating in the air, and if the can do that they wouldn't need to revert to parachuting out.

So yes its a publicity stunt and waste of helium (which is in short supply). Im sure he shouted "It gives you wings!" as he jumped.
Why does your web site need to have all those versions?

Why can't you have only one version, and someone on mobile will zoom in and out?

A web site version with 10 things on the header is going to piss people off on the mobile app regardless of how responsively those 10 things show up in their face. A better thing to do is to not show any of those crappy 10 things to begin with.
Sounds like it could be fun, I'll try it out and push the change if it works well. Ultimately I would like to add a way to have an 'infinite' field, but this might be easier to implement. Thanks for the feedback.
A lot of places just have legacy code and policies. You have no evidence of your claim that they store passwords in clear text.

Their restrictions may in fact have cut down on widespread security outbreaks from users who use the same password across multiple web sites. This means that Rackspace has also enforced a unique password from their other passwords via their enforced scheme.
I'm currently using both of these and they are both a bit of a mess. Don't waste your time with either of them unless you want to spend a ton of time fixing them or you just have really basic requirements.

wysihtml5 just doesn't work well, is missing a ton of features and the developer isn't really spending much time fixing issues with it. 71 open issues and 11 pull requests isn't a good sign imho.

For bootstrap-wysihtml5, I had to override quite a bit of the insert link functionality to get it to do some basic stuff with regards to handling the modal, focus and enabling/disabling buttons if things change. https://gist.github.com/3889641
Keep in mind you're posting this to a site where most people, or at least the most vocal people, don't think the arts and letters have much value and think that pure technocracy would be a fine thing.

I won't argue further, but it's neither my vision of most people here, nor the vision I have of most vocal people here. And I really hope I'm not mistaken. :)
Right. People get their friends to link their blogs anyway, I see no difference in effect.
Other times I remember that the percentage of humanity who cared about this stuff was always very small.

Yep, most people are too busy surviving.
But with such a huge spin on it, people will not only miss an opportunity to be educated on what he actually did, they are actively being misled about it. I just can't stand such rubbish tactics.

The jump height is just one particular point that I noticed, and it was a point where they seemed to deliberately put a lot of spin on it in a couple of places:

1) They consistently called it "edge of space". It's a lot closer to an airliners flight height than the edge of space (100km).

2) Their consistent use of fish-eye lenses for the outside imagery made it seem like you can actually see the earth's curvature, conjuring up images of space-flight.

3) Whenever he talked with Kittinger on the ground, they background animation showed a rotating earth from LEO.

Together this all seems to mislead an unsuspecting viewer into believing that he jumped from somewhere a lot higher. What's wrong with being honest about it being 39km and nowhere near space?
I call Hanlon's Razor (on part of this anyway). I suspect it's far more likely that it was a (stupid) business decisions on the password length/characters to reduce the number of times people would forget their paswords and initiate a password reset. I have tragically come across this many times (and more than once in the UK retail banking sector)
you own that company or work there? I need a job! I see you're hiring front-end developers... I think I'll apply tonight
ghostblogging. It is the hottest new trend in the Valley.
Just out of interest, what is your game?
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What is frowned upon is blogspam, rewriting somebody else's article and submitting your own version. Original content is always welcome.
Not as likely as it sounds. There has been at least one case of a SR-71 pilot ejecting at speed/altitude and making a "safe" ejection, and without everything being torn off. It all depends on the dynamic pressure which is a combination of speed and air density.
'technology of the week' ^^ this, it seems to never end...
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Yeah but that has a GPL license. wsyihtml5 is MIT so would be compatible with more open source licenses and usable for commercial software.
Hi deliminator! The Aloha Editor is great. I was poking around in your source the other day and noticed that it doesn't seem like it's received much active development for the past few months. Is it at a stage where you expect future changes to just be bug fixes, or is there still active development planned?

Just curious. Thanks for providing a great tool to the community!
Red Bull didn't want to show it if anything went wrong. That's why it was transmitted with a 20 second delay.

My heart skipped a beat or two!
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Yeah it's a stray comma but it doesn't alter the meaning of the sentence at all. What am I missing?
It may well have been a question of acclimatization. That's a great way of putting it, by the way.

I find this is often the case with any great work that is remote from where one is, whether in time or culturally or aesthetically. One must be willing to put in an initial good faith investment to "fund" the effort of reading it, with the expectation of profit later. Usually it begins to pay off before too long. Sometimes it never does.

Here's an interesting question. Among books that one has truly appreciated (i.e. excluding total writeoffs), which took the longest time before you broke even?
It doesn't stop. Jen at Betabeat's Reddit-Gawker gawking junk has been on the front page for days.
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His reasons were that 1. it's like Shakespeare in its engagement of both the high brow and low brow of human psychology, 2. it's good for the digital age where we can hyperlink text and bring things like annotations and intertextuality to the forefront (previously the mainstay of literature departments where people had the time to study such things)

It would make a good iPad app actually.

Btw, I think you'll find there's lots of people on Hacker News quite willing to entertain a discussion about something like Ulysses. It's a diverse community.
I'm on the same version, I haven't tested on Linux. Could the problem be that you aren't creating the initial cells? Try drawing this pattern in the center before clicking start:

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8GB model, iOS uses 2.5GB, 6.5GB left?
I think your math is broken.
I have not seen this noted anywhere so far (comparisons are always with Kittinger's jump duration), but it's actually a great point. Only the longest free fall would have to be counted inbetween station boosts, so it would presumably be a lot shorter (but maybe a lot longer than 4minutes?).
I wish the GIF started a few seconds before that, Felix finishes his speech and salutes, then walks forward.

That moment gave me chills
> a) the intent of the founding fathers was relevant to today's society and b) their intent was to have a limited size of government, both of which are pretty big assumptions.

Their intent for a limited size of _federal_ government is almost certain. And I don't see how it's not relevant: our federal government is huge and almost entirely unaccountable, and clearly is not functioning as it was intended. From Federalist 45:

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government. The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States.

> How would removing an unrelated insurance corporation promote healthier decision making amongst investment banks?

Not unrelated. Gramm-Leach-Bliley removed barriers allowing commercial banks to act as investment banks. That was my point: you can't remove these barriers without also removing the insurance. Having the FDIC encourages commercial banks to be much riskier.

> It seems to me you possess a shaky understanding of 1) the events that led to the FDIC and SEC, and Glass-Steagal 2) the events that occurred from 2001-2007/08 and 3) the cognitive pitfalls and biases human beings suffer from when reasoning about risk.

Feel free to correct me where I'm wrong. I think the housing bubble was entirely avoidable had the government taken different action. I'm not saying that it was ENTIRELY the fault of regulation. I do think that: deregulation (including removing the FDIC and SEC), much less Fed fiddling in attempts to 'fix' the dot com bubble, and no bailouts or any implicit guarantees of bailouts, and you wouldn't have seen the housing bubble.
Surely the speed of sound is much lower at that altitude, since it's so cold. Are people talking about the sea-level speed of sound?
I figured out the error (I was wrong, it was indeed my code) and fixed it. No more flickering. :)
Please change your CSS so it doesn't force Android to show a microscopic font with long lines and disabled zoom/ reflowing.
Look at BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post's strategies (at least for reporters and news, not for the entertainment parts of their site). They quickly managed to establish themselves by luring big names who people would want to read. It's probably near-impossible to quickly do the reverse.
Yep. The idea is potentially fun, though. They could surely make use of a curation process. Something like bash.org, maybe ?
It took Joyce seven years to write Ulysses at a page per day. It's not an easy read. It is a great book. On the other hand Ken Kesey wrote Sometimes a Great Notion in three months, and to my mind it compares favorably to Ulysses in many ways. It is also a great, though overlooked, novel.
Hey, who changed the title? I submitted this as "Austrian" Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile-leap? What happened, HN?
I've been a loyal Slicehost customer since 2009. I was previously a Rackspace customer too. There were a lot of reasons I jumped to SH when I had a chance. I'm seriously considering moving over to Linode soon. I desire the most control over my servers, and the combination of that and the low cost of SH is hard to find elsewhere. I think Linode will be a good alternate. Do any others have experience with Linode that can comment?