skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The empty weight of a Falcon 9 first stage is somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 tons. It would be vaguely comparable to a DC-9 crash with little fuel left in the tanks. Not quite as bad, as it's lighter (DC-9 is about 22 tons empty) and considerably less dense. So it would be a "take out a couple of houses" event if it hit the wrong spot, I think, but nothing much worse than that.
Exactly. I am kind of wondering why this 1:1 translation came up why not just follow best practices and implement a functionality instead...
No disagreement, but wanted to point out that groups like Galois have been using Haskell-embedded, compile-to-C DSLs in some interesting ways recently:

http://smaccmpilot.org/images/dronecon-talk.pdf

This has the potential for nice compile-time guarantees without the runtime cost (and potentially at much lower cost than full formal verification)

(also, fwiw, Haskell has been around since 1990, making it about 7 years younger than C++)
There's https://github.com/nesquena/sheet_mapper too for Ruby.
This is fun

https://twitter.com/nanexllc/status/458663948800520192
This is not a post about web scraping. It's a post about doing something in Factor.
West coast launches are from Vandenburg and the launch goes south over the ocean.
Yeah, fuck those openbsd guys and their totally not portable openssh that you can't run on anything but openbsd!
Yes, yes, yes. I don't know who started this horrible trend but I look forward the time this assault on basic usability gets shelved on the museum of past UX horrors where it belongs.

Please give this website to every designer you know:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
They are going to down vote us because we are not discussing the newest flavor of ABC. And as we all know ABC can do everything and since their startup uses it everything else is obsolete or dead.
+1 this was also my first reaction.

One story a month though is not so bad - that's my second reaction.

I much prefer the idea of the Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud series, which seems to be on indefinite hiatus. That being said, it should be interesting.
It would absolutely make sense to launch from the east coast and have the booster fly back to land. You still gain all the benefit of the extra speed from the Earth's rotation to help you get to orbit. The fact that you fly the first stage back home doesn't affect that at all.
Older, but what?

All of the benefits of Russia have disappeared within a month?
iTunes is still a serviceable player and works well for standard formats.

Vox is lightweight and can read a ton of file formats, as well as load up your iTunes library. I think you can set it to auto-load a directory at launch as well.

Audivarna is also supposed to be pretty good.
Then the number would be lower... Its all about marketing. "Unlimited", "hundreds of millions", "probably most of" sounds better than "5% of resources", "20 million active", "there is no data but we think a lot".
The Ada mandate got dropped in 1997, but I don't think it's fair to say they're "strongly dissuaded" it's use. Defense contractors are free to keep using it, and many do (Boeing, for example).
I think that depends on whether they're more of a "Rubyist" or primarily Rails developers who know "just enough Ruby". I think Node (and especially a framework like Meteor or Express) is more approachable for those who spend most of their time in a framework like Rails.
I hear good things about Alfresco. I have a lot of experience with Plone, which is also a very good foundation for a corporate intranet. I've deployed it countless times in this scenario, as well as the back-end of public-facing websites.
I would like only answer for one question. Are your paid members above 1% of all accounts, or below?
60% of people starting something on Weebly consider themself an entrepreneur. The majority of people are doing things like http://thewhiskeyball.com or http://unfoldyogaoc.com or http://ourtable.us. That's what we focus on.

There are plenty of people using Weebly for personal projects or educational purposes (teachers, professors, students), but our core focus is entrepreneurs.
Congrats! This is fantastic.

If you can write code, I highly recommend taking a stab at writing yourself the tools that you use the most (whether that is a music player, chat client, text editor, etc.).

Sure, it isn't trivial - but modern languages and libraries (I'm a big fan of Python, both for the language and its ecosystem) make it a very reasonable project. You can get an MVP working in a few weeks of work (if you spend 5-10 hours a week on it), and then you can add features and tweak the thing over the months and years as you use it.

And in the end, you get a piece of software that you deeply know, to which you can add any feature you want, that is customized to fit perfectly in your workflow, etc. It's a bit of work, but it's really cool and IMO one of the neatest things you can do for yourself as a programmer. Additionally, if it's something that works well for you, chances are that other people will like it- open sourcing it and getting other people to use it is a high of its own.

I'm working on a few such apps myself (todo list, mail client, and a few others), as console applications using ncurses to make something with a responsive, smart, effective and efficient style of UI that I don't think has been done before (mostly because no one has been trying to innovate in the domain of console applications in the past 20 years- but I think interesting things can be done). When I'm at an interesting point, I'll open source it and write a few posts about it.

I hear the naysayers saying that it's a waste of time, that there are already 8000 different open source mail clients and music players and todo lists apps and that it's better to contribute to old open source projects than create your own, etc... those arguments aren't wrong, but IMO they don't outweigh the pros I outlined above.

This talk by Gary Bernhardt is relevant: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
Facebook will be more than happy to get a piece of VK's users.
I wrote some Python to run on an OpenWRT (MIPS-based, 400MHz) router that interfaced with an Xbee radio and ran a web interface. I quickly discovered that what I expected to be IO-bound was in fact CPU-bound - reformatting the data and all the related text operations were fast enough after optimization, but only by a hair.

Our solution was to switch to a dedicated ARM board (beaglebone) attached to the router. But I'm definitely going to take a look at using a compiled language now, as the codebase is still very small.
Must be really old programmers working on the Boeing 777 flight control system.
Sorry for my ignorance, how is this different, better than Martini? What is the main goal of creating a new framework (instead of getting the features you are missing implemented in the currently existing ones)?
It's a female? How can you tell?
I think he's referring to apples "goto fail" bug to show it wouldn't happen under a project with strict guidelines :)
Well, "most often" isn't "always", and that your family was on welfare doesn't mean anything with respect to the fact that you seem to not understand how empty the phrase "freedom of choice" is. The one has nothing to do with the other.
Pretty easy : they are selling drugs.
11/11/2009 is not 8 years ago. That "better link" is exactly what I was referring to.
>...inequality is likely to escalate. This says absolutely nothing about whether the standard of living of the poorest will improve or decline.

I believe you are making the same mistake as the Bloomberg reviewer in separating inequality from the fate of the poorest.

To see the connection, you have to look deeper. That is, you must consider the causes of inequality that Piketty offers. You might argue that inequality in itself doesn't produce a negative outcome for the poorest, but that the causes of our current inequality produce those negative outcomes as a side effect. I would say that's semantics, but in any case, what Piketty lays out does support the notion of a rising inequality along with a comcomitant stagnation/slippage for the poorest/others.

So, let's say it the other way, if you prefer: some of the primary reasons (increased productivity, automation, etc.) for the rate of wealth-accumulation for the rich that we're seeing also produces negative outcomes for the poorest (unemployment, downward wage pressure, etc.). This has led us to (or, rather, is by definition) the growing inequality that we're seeing.

Finally, these arguments of the ilk that "inequality must be OK because the standard of living for the poor has risen even in the face of historical inequality" fall flat. It really is a false equivalence.

Firstly, such arguments imply that degree is irrelevant and that no degree of inequality would produce (or represent) a negative outcome for the poor. In fact, there is some point at which capture by one party must come at the expense of others to the extent that the latter parties slip backwards. Secondly--and to the first point--Piketty outlines that the degree of inequality was historically kept in check by various forces in other examples where the outcomes for the poor weren't detrimental.

In those cases, the threshold for negative outcomes was simply not crossed. However, this is certainly not proof that they cannot be.
That's all Vandenberg is ever used for aside from missile tests which go west[1], and there would be no reason to use it for launches to the east when you can accomplish those just as easily from Florida without the safety concerns.

[1] http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbview.htm "With the exception of the Pegasus XL, all Vandenberg AFB launches take place from the base. Minuteman III missiles climb rather steeply and head due west. Delta, Taurus, and other satellite launch vehicles fly towards the south and climb more slowly."
Interesting that on the shelf image, it's the slightly diffuse reflections of the items on the shelf in the wood grain that breaks the illusion for me.
Tales from the Crypt: Transhumanism, wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPj5SOUrn8
I think thats the one. Anyways - imo its extremely interesting and worth watching.
Could you explain why you feel a need to post anonymously?

Thank you for writing the posts, I've enjoyed reading them. (And for what it's worth, I still feel positive about Zidisha's future after doing so.)
Pretty good. A small tutorial or help page in game would go a long way though... plenty of users will install without thoroughly reading the description.
Are you guys pursuing Real Estate and Restaurant Industries[1] ? Both industries continue to produce some of the worst websites.

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/08/...
Here is translation of the first paragraph in his post:

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In recent months, more and more fashionable to get the theme of emigration from Russia. As usual, I'm going against this trend - I publish 7 reasons to stay in Russia.
miles = constant * km though, you simply scale one to get the other.

f = m*c + b, which is both a scale and a transform.
C/C++ aren't the only languages that lack a GC (see Ada) or in which you can severely restrict the GC (see Rust, though it's not suitable for this sort of project yet). The OS that most of the software runs on (that is, not the software running on LRUs with their own embedded OS) offers the same APIs to Ada and C and C++. It was a choice to go with the non-Ada languages. Ada is hardly a hipster language, it's been around for 35 years and will likely be around the rest of this century (for better or for worse).
A bit off-topic, but I love the site colors. I'd love that text theme for Atom if it's available?
Hits and misses in 1964 World's Fair tech predictions
The catch is that those students have to live in Oklahoma.
Not strictly true. The Saturn V first stage could have been used as an SSTO, and it used kerosene and aluminum. The payload would be extremely small, though, so it's not worth it.
WhatsApp's Jan Koum on reaching 500 million active users.
Near-Eye Light Field Displays
For those that don't get the implied reference in the second scenario, I believe it is a (fairly accurate) reference to Dropbox/Rice.
Three Ways API-First Development is the Future of Web Development
I doubt they care about corrosion. None of the water-landed first stages will actually be reused.
Even if Go is completely controlled by Google today, there are enough companies using it that they can fork if Google turns evil.
SBC apes RasPi, beefs up CPU, adds SATA
This sounds like shit, Putin-ordered propaganda to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades. HN is not free from this, apparently.
>> Nobody was forcing him to write this. It is exactly what he thinks about Russia.

Just because it was posted to his person page does not mean he wasn't coerced into writing/posting it.
Or may he was pretending that he will stay in Russia.
Cashed a signing bonus check less than a month ago. I'm in enterprise Java on the east coast so I'd expect offers to be nicer in SV.
Data Science and Online Retail – Warby Parker and Beyond: Carl Anderson Interview
The power of Erlang. I was kind of shocked when they introduced the size of their engineering team. Erlang has claimed to be more productive environment than other languages/environments but having a small engineering compare to other high-scale organization is surprising. Also, their work on BEAM is great.
So the "backbone" of a 787 is considered a really, really old program?

http://www.adacore.com/customers/787-dreamliner-common-core-...
Note on encoding/json: you only need to mention the fields you care about. If there are extra fields, the parser will just scan past them.
The Guardian's new US newspaper has a robot editor-in-chief
The SRBs and external fuel tanks had range safety, but as I said, the Shuttle Orbiter did not. Any "self-destructing" that Columbia did was due to extreme forces induced by the atmosphere.

The willingness to fly a manned reentering Shuttle Orbiter over populated land without range safety should not be misconstrued as the willingness to drop an unmanned first stage down with engine power without range safety.

They use range safety for launches at those same locations with planned flight paths over the same ocean. I see little reason for them to not use range safety for landings.
Sounds fun on the surface... for people who have nothing better to do than to be looking at the sources of pages or reading over documentation that's rarely viewed, or watching random YouTube videos.

By the time this was made public and people were able to build scrapers, everything was already gone. Person A finds a ticket, tells his closest buddies so they can find them. Before it's made public knowledge that this happened, all of A and his friends and their friends have tickets. I don't see this as a particularly "good" approach. Why not just randomly pick several developers from GitHub/Google Code and say "here are 10 tickets, give them to your friends"?

I'd much rather a scavenger hunt be announced and all-inclusive of the community. I don't see how this is any better than FCFS or lottery. In fact, the lottery might be the worst of all. It's more likely to be diluted by non-technical people and encourages gaming by having as many employees sign up as possible in any given company, since there's no cost to register.

I don't understand what Google's goal is with I/O attendance.

Is this not one of the most technical conferences of the year? Highly technical talks and sessions for developers by developers. Looking over the talks at 2013 (https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions, non-versioned link, so this might point at the 2014 sessions if your'e reading this in the future), everything seems to be developer oriented.

Why, then, doesn't participation require the ability to do something like complete a few simple randomized programming challenges to prove you're capable of benefiting from attendance? Google runs Code Jam, they easily have the infrastructure to do this on the scale that is needed for I/O. It's also certainly not necessary that every seat be given out this way, but why not 70-90%?

I'm happy that they put everything on YouTube and live stream the talks, so I (and everyone else who doesn't win the lottery) can still benefit, but if people are trying to get tickets just to get the toys Google gives out to attendees, I feel like there needs to be much more thought put into the selection process, or Google should just sell those outright to any developer who wants them. I really hate trying to saturate conference attendance by giving out exclusive toys, or toys ahead of market. It typically attracts the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
Our beaches are disappearing as we are running short of…sand
Aereo gets its day in court
Using the container's iterator to move allows the container to enforce those invariants.
One of the huge benefits of contributing to existing projects is to fill in the missing holes. Off the bat I think goji is likely to be yet another web framework that someone picks up and builds insecure services with. Perhaps the time spent improving Martini would have been better than this?
Also, focusing (manually or automatically) takes time. Even though it may be just a second, that's enough time to miss a good shot.
In both cases, the ones holding power gain access to the data through "lawful" secret requests. You don't need to control the company to exercise control over the company.
>It COULD make sense if lead only causes problems when inhaled

I think inhalation of engine exhaust is the main "delivery method" for lead pollution from leaded gasoline.
Read this article: http://www.fusenet.eu/node/585

They approximate that the actual energy input into the process at NIF (as opposed to "absorbed by the particles") was 422 MJ in for 14 kJ out. That's roughly 4 orders of magnitude.
> To claim that you can't solve social problems with technology is silly.

Its true, though one can extend it to the silly version that you can't enable solutions to social problems with technology.

> People defecate in the same bodies of water that people drink out of. Modern civil engineering technology has solved this in many contexts.

Actually, I think social solutions to the social problem here are far older than modern civil engineering technology -- the technical problem is that, even with the social factors addressed, there stop being viable alternatives when you have large numbers of people packed in close quarters without sufficient technical means to separate waste streams from supply streams. Modern civil engineering solves that technical problem, allowing the social solutions to be effective in conditions where they otherwise would not be.

OTOH, technical solutions to, e.g., food production and distribution problems (which the world has many of) don't work when the social infrastructure is not in place to support them (which is why people starve in a world with plenty of food.)

Lots of things that are described as single problems have both technical and social aspects, and addressing one doesn't resolve the other. Resolving the complex problem often requires solving both a social problem and a technical problem.
C++ isn't exactly a new language but has also had type inference for a few years. I think people still think of C++ as that dusty old thing in the corner and forget that it is actually capable of a lot of the things users of these new languages get excited about.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter – Issue 75
I'm also returning to C++ as well.

Throwing that out there - Will pay over $100 for books, videos, tutorials on cutting-edge C++ tutorials to get back in the game.
Heh, Stan Carney is the man who deserves credit. I just posted a link to his blog ^^;
I'm going to quote somebody out of context. Please bear with me...

What I am seeing is that we have a ridiculously upside-down trust
model -- "Trust the developers".

We never asked for people to trust us. We might have "earned some" in
some people's eyes, but if so it has always been false, even before
this. People should trust what they test, but the world has become
incredibly lazy.

We build this stuff by trusting each other as friends, and that is
done on an international level. If anything, the layers and volume of
trust involved in software development should decrease trust. Oh
right, let's hear some of that "many eyes" crap again. [..] All the
many eyes are apparently attached to a lot of hands that type lots of
words about many eyes, and never actually audit code.

If anything, the collaborative model we use should _decrease_ trust,
[..]

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I'm not trying to attack any individual here. But so many software vulnerabilities, goto fail included, Heartbleed included, have caused such angry response from people. That the bug was trivial. It should've been caught by static analysis, smart compilers, correct review process, careful third party readers, TDD, UFOs, ADHD, <insert favorite tech here>. It is easy to say all that in hindsight, because you are for most part right. So why weren't these techniques used?

You can't blame the developers for everything, they have work on their hands and you are not entitled to anything more from them. You also can't trust developers. If there's sloppy code, someone has to notice it and point it out. Someone has to fix it. If there are sloppy development practices and it is evident that the upstream developers do not care, someone has to notice that and let the world know. Then maybe create a fork and try to do better.

So anyone capable of reviewing code and diffs: please try to do it if you haven't before. Try to do more if you're already doing it. And remeber, you do not have to be an expert programmer to notice a duplicated goto fail line.

Or if you can write tests, why don't you contribute?

[quote] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129261032213320&w=2
The author discusses their reasoning and even mentions Martini specifically on the GitHub project page.
We are witnessing our second tech bubble in 15 years
It's only natural to hide from somebody on his (I don't want to use the word "foe", but I can't find anything better) foe's territory.

…That's only to be fair, but I'm not sure they have issues in similar realms. I don't deny it, but I'm not sure. While Snowden is some "justice warrior" fighting over the idea who is obviously not welcome in the USA, Durov is much more prosaic person. I mean, he may have some ideas and moral principles he can't neglect, but he is a businessman, clever guy prone to dramatic performances and, honestly, quite a weasel himself. And it's not even clear if he has reasons to be hated by some secret sovernment agents or something as Snowden is. He is not an owner and not even an employee of Vk anymore. He does't claim to know some government secrets or anything. And while it's possible (likely, actually) that he was forced to get rid of stocks, his company wasn't really "taken" from him. I mean, he sold it, he got his money, he didn't suddenly disappear and wasn't taken to jail like Khodorkovsky, when there possibly were reasons for that. And now he has nothing to do with Vk, and there're claims that he wasn't even forced to quit. Weird, huh.

So I'd say there's quite a probability of that thing being just another spectacle.
From the Github page:

Third, Goji is not magic. One of my favorite existing frameworks is Martini, but I rejected it in favor of building Goji because I thought it was too magical. Goji's web package does not use reflection at all, which is not in itself a sign of API quality, but to me at least seems to suggest it.