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Got to agree! Good points you made. I think Red Tape is a symptom of the culture.

The language barrier keeps economics of scale from coming into effect for founders. The abundance of investment capital is an important factor. If that factor increases you become less dependant from factors like "knowing the right people" and "got to having a superb idea".

Building upon your "provincial market" statement: Couldn't it be said, that those country-specific niches will lure the entrepreneurial folk into building dead-end, non-scalable products? :)
The main point of an enumerated type is that it should be closed. You control all instances of the type, so that you and the compiler can benefit from the fact that it's closed.

If the fact that enums are closed ever presents a problem, then it's a good indication that you shouldn't be using enums. That's not a problem with enums, it's just a bad design decision that needs to be reversed.

Agreed that Vehicle is a poor choice for an enum, because it's something that isn't really closed. But if you're modelling something like states of a TCP connection, there's nothing dangerous about it being closed.
Unruh effect
>something engineering designed to be end-to-end encrypted?

Is that seriously what you believe?
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Sure -- but my point was merely in regard to the (mis)use of the word "pure" here. Avoiding calling out to external executables and remaining purely within the shell itself is also frequently a good way to improve performance (sometimes quite dramatically), so being aware of the difference is worthwhile.

(Also, /dev/tcp isn't a filesystem, just a simulation of one constructed purely within bash itself, so it wouldn't in fact depend on anything but the relevant networking syscalls.)
> What exactly are you objecting to here? "Either you do X or we shut down Y" is an ultimatum.

Original situation: Search engines put snippets of news without paying

Germany pass a law: If you don't pay you have to stop putting snippets

Google: I don't want to pay, I will stop to put snippets as the law say

Where the heck is the ultimatum from Google, the ultimatum was from the German govern and a law to the liking of German publishers.
In addition, the tanks are slightly pressurized which adds to the effect.. probably 30-50psi begging to be released :)
The probablepeople parser failed to parse "Alex Chamberlain"...
Helsinki is moving to open source to avoid vendor lock in.
Here's one politician's explanation: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=h...
It's called a "suicide burn" for a reason. Even with just one engine, the thrust/weight ratio for the nearly-empty stage makes landing difficult. The engine can't throttle down enough.

So you can't just come to a near-hover, and then ease you way onto the landing pad. You have to cancel your velocity right at touchdown, with little margin for error.
The one thing that really interests me about this is the long-term damage you are doing to yourself. There appear to be two types of stimulants. There are the legal ones like caffeine that have a moderate effect and are not significantly unhealthy unless consumed in extreme quantities. And there are the illegal ones like amphetamines that have a significant effect, but will also cause a great deal of harm the more you use them. So, there seems to be a clear correlation between the size of the effect and the harm done.

This then begs the question where these new substances stand. Are they barely more than caffeine and mostly harmless? Is maybe the placebo effect playing a role in making them appear more effective to the user than they truly are? But if they do have a significant effect, at what price does it come? The human body needs rest, that is a pretty well-established fact. It seems unlikely that these substances would be able to change this fundamental principle. What does seem likely, if they indeed are effective, is that you are buying more alertness for the moment, but paying for it in the long run.

Normally substances are researched and tested by professionals for years and sometimes decades before declared safe. But even that process is not always perfect and substances with harmful side effects have been known to slip through. Potentially turning yourself into a human vegetable a couple of decades down the road by experimenting with these barely understood substances seems like a dangerous proposition.
Wow, I didn't think of it until I read your comment, but it would be super easy to add a switch to my fob!

With little more than a cap, you can throw on a button that enables the feature on for a period of time then disables it again.
Does this mean that tech is inherently the "cool" thing to do? Or that men are less likely to be labeled as a geek, a nerd etc? Or less susceptible for this?
The way you put it, it seems to me like somehow these effects are less strong for men. Why would that be the case?
We know it does three separate burns while coming back down (Boostback, entry burn, landing burn).

I wonder if each burn starts with the RCS thrusters to turn the stage "nose up".

i.e. when it's free falling, does it always roll around and fall nose down, requiring RCS to get it back to nose up?

It would be awesome to see footage from the entire return trip. Do they have cameras mounted on stage 1?
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Except providing free access to Facebook is not "free internet." It is just free Facebook (and whatever related services). It is not truly "the internet" if it is restricted to Facebook (and associated services).
Can somebody explain what is going on here? I'm having trouble understanding what this story is about.
Do you think Ray Reyes would be allowed a TI-83, the reference manual, and some spare batteries? In high school I taught myself quite a bit "offline".
This isn't about grid or no grid. We will have a grid for the foreseeable future.

This is a question about how distributed energy generation with battery storage shifts more and more loads to the edges of the grid, and onto private networks.

And then, relating to back to the question of whether nuclear is compatible with renewable energy, the question becomes how does this trend affect what technologies make the most sense?

Big expensive nuclear makes a lot of sense in an environment where all the loads are on are centrally managed and planned grid with either guaranteed rates of return, or steady wholesale electricity prices, but this is not what the future looks like.
One more piece of software on my roadmap that I don't have to build now, thanks Sentry!
You can disable it via the on-dash console in GMs.
I don't even know of any tech websites that haven't succumbed to this. The Verge, Ars Technica, they all beat the social justice drum constantly.

Do you know of any good tech news websites that actually cover tech?
Any reason you don't use one of the existing scriptable scheme like guile's?
Why does this remind me so much of the multi-level marketing companies that are so prevalent in Utah, making bold unproven claims about their tropical fruit juices?
As a paying customer of Google Apps, of Google Drive, of Google Music and as a user of Android, I want to have choice. And for example it is regrettable that CalDAV or CardDAV are not baked into Android, or that the mail app does not support IMAP Idle. Which basically means that the only usable standard on Android is Exchange.

I also love Chrome and Maps. However I'd like the ability of uninstalling them depending on my mood.

This isn't too say that EU's claims are fair or not. But I also feel that Google has lost its way.
Question: Why don't they land into the water instead of a hard surface? (Wouldn't this give them more leeway in terms of impulse?)

Edit: i.e. landing on a net stretched (under the lake/ocean-surface) by 3 or 4 ships - reel the net it in to raise stage out of the water, I'm pretty sure seawater is not significantly corrosive from 2-3 hours of exposure.
I can't get any kind of US address to work, just says "error parsing that address"
> Ben Edelman, whose done a damn good job over the years not only watching Google

Ben Edelman is a smart fellow; I've known him for 15 years or so. But he is a paid Microsoft consultant and advisor. Perhaps he's right on some of these points, but I also suspect that if Microsoft would stop writing him checks very quickly if he suddenly started declaring that Google's actions benefited consumers.

You might as well quote a paid Democratic party consultant doing a "damn good job over the years" describing how evil those dastardly Republicans are.
From what I've seen there are vanes on the top that guide it down, keeping it upright during reentry and descent.

http://images.gizmag.com/inline/crs-5-crash-5.jpg
If they promised to get you on in order to make the sale, then it didn't just "feel like" it.
Internet.org can push an agenda and silence other voices. There is a word for that, and it's propaganda.

No propaganda is better than free limited propaganda (even if it does come packaged with google seach and wikipedia).
The secret sauce is that he's a good developer, and really good at "engineered marketing" in a way few people are. In addition to communicating really well.
hahaha that's messed up LOL
probably because you don't know much about nootropics?
'%d %d' % (1, 2)

I would have done this as

'%s %s' % (1, 2)

Because we're turning everything into a string at the end of the day anyway!

Yeah. Having finished the article, .format() just isn't really needed. If I'm at the point where I'm doing templating with key:values, I'll be using jinja.
I wonder if you could put thrust deflectors on the legs, then vary the fold out to help stabilise it just before landing.
On the train: entering Germany from the Netherlands, so trip was entirely within Schengen (and in fact Germany had been my point of entry on that trip for the Schengen area; I was returning to Germany after traveling around France, Belgium and the Netherlands a bit). Train stopped at German border, German train crew came on board, and an officer wearing a jacket labeled POLIZEI required me to show my passport and asked some immigration-type questions ("how long are you staying in Germany", etc.). Other passengers in the compartment were also required to show identification. A companion in a different part of the train said she was also required to show her passport and answer questions.

This occurred on 21 July 2014, aboard IC 147, Amsterdam Centraal - Berlin Hbf.

At this point I am simply more amused by the number of people who've insisted that what happened, doesn't and can't happen, than I am annoyed by it.
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You're looking for breadth, not breathe.
They have landed it in the water once as a proof of concept. Seawater is very corrosive and would require cleaning & inspection of nearly all the components.

Landing on a dry surface means they can eventually reuse rockets soon after landing (a few days I believe).
Was impressed with mine, but after the first few days the mess, fuss, and hassle started to get a bit old. Next, this guy needs to invent the 21st century version, which is connected to your water supply, filters and heats the water, stores and grinds a few weeks worth of coffee, and you just press a button and out pops your coffee, with no mess.
+1

I had untrained voice dialing IN GREEK for years on my Nokia 701. And it actually worked correctly!

My brand new kitkat-soon-to-be-lolipop device cannot even voice dial English names.
same reason they don't land planes in water. it would damage the plane, and then you'd have to get it out of the water somehow.
See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9384495
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Jonathan from discoverboard here. There are a few things that make discoverboard different from other online communities:

-Most members choose to use their real identities on the site, and this information is only available to other members.

-Each member pays a small subscription fee, which helps keep out trolls and spammers. The fee also pays for moderators and serves as our members' commitment to quality and respect.

-We will never display ads to our subscribers or sell their data.

This structure has allowed us to build a community with an increased level of discourse.

We (the founders) are long-time HN users who still feel like there is a lot of room for improvement in online communities. Since graduating from college, we have missed the meaningful conversations with friends and professors that defined our education. While HN is great for tech-focused discussion, we wanted broader conversations.

Because HN is both familiar with the online community space and gives good feedback on startups, we are very interested in your thoughts. At this point, the community has hundreds of members and is continuing to grow, primarily through personal referrals.

Where, and how, do you think we should go from here?
The goal is not to recover the stage per-se, but to land successfully.

If they get a the 1st stage down on the drone ship, with all four legs touching, the main engine shut off, and it stays upright for even a few seconds, there will be much celebration. They would, of course, want to then actually examine the rocket afterwards, but that is a bonus.
Only if you ignore the opportunity cost. If we didn't give free Wikipedia access, we could have given something else for free. Now who should decide what is a better choice? The user of course! This is NOT the case in internet.org. Facebook picks the choices as breadcrumbs for the poor - while there are alternative approaches that can work.

Now, combine this with the fact that picking who gets on internet.org gives the telcos and FB huge leverage, the ulterior motives seem much more likely cause.
Come on over and visit us at /r/coffee, and we'll set you straight :) There actually is a consensus that "real" espresso has to be brewed with around 9 bar of pressure, and that is the standard used by SCAA ( see http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/tchen3/espdifine.html ). At this pressure, the consistency and mouth feel of espresso is fundamentally different (it's "syrupy") than that brewed at lower pressure. To achieve this pressure, you need to use an electrical or lever pump. Machines that only get 1-3 bar of pressure like the aeropress or a mocha pot produce something that just tastes more like strong coffee.
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> I suppose it's only natural that people are resorting to these when huge swathes of the American youth are being prescribed Adderall and similar and gaining a competitive edge with them over those who don't have access to them.

I don't think Adderall would really give ADHD suffers an advantage. It might bring them close to the level of others, but Adderall has its own effects, and ADHD isn't going to be completely eliminated by it.

I'm not an ADHD sufferer myself, but from what I understand, Adderall is used to help cope with the condition by giving you improved concentration for a while. It doesn't eliminate it.
It has been invented[1] and we're bandwagoneering[2, 3] it for you:

1. http://reagent-project.github.io/

2. http://www.meetup.com/Reagent-Minimalistic-React-for-Clojure...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYzwfekWSzQ
> I searched for queryUsageAndQuota and found … nothing. No documentation, no code example. No way of figuring out what the first argument should be.

Umm... first few hits both on DDG _and_ Google point to https://developer.chrome.com/apps/offline_storage#managing_q... which contains documentation _and_ code examples
Notice the quote from the release notes and the TLS version intolerance values.
Sure, that's a touching personal note, but here's the full political scree, for the lookie loos and rubber neckers. I for one am sad at this gaming of the award. This is why we can't have nice things.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1376743/-Freeping-t...
Sorry but this is the kind of attitude that hinders progress. I often hear people say "don't use a framework, make your own", well these guys did and they released it for free, I don't see the problem. No one is forcing you to use it. Even if T3 has one good new idea that gets integrated into another framework then it's already a win.
SpaceX has now published the video on their channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMSzC1crr0
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There is the two sentence counterexample to Euler's conjecture.

http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/shortest-known-paper-in-a...
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Which is preferable to the current model of your-and-my-data-and-eyeballs-to-advertisers-as-a-service
Might not work in some special cases though. Try:

def foo():
a = 4
def bar():
print("a = {a}".format(**locals()))
bar()

foo()

which will raise a KeyError, while it will work fine if you add a

print(a)

to the end of bar().
Currently they land on an autonomous ship (huge flat barge with stationkeeping engines and autonomous control). Reason is, they haven't yet proven that their approach and landing are accurate enough to get permission to try a landing on land. If the rocket misses the ship, it goes for a swim and damages nothing except itself. It it goes out of control during approach over land, there's much more damage it can do to all kinds of things.

Also, there's no land downrange from the launch site, and returning the stage to land at the launch site costs a lot of extra fuel. It is possible and actually planned to do so later (SpaceX is constructing a landing pad for this purpose at the Cape at this time), but for now they are trying to get the ship landings down properly.
I do wonder if some of these things might be fine in the short-term but incredibly harmful long-term. If some hypothetical drug makes your brain run at 10% greater capacity than usual, will it kill 10% of your brain in the long run?
>>Isn't the "Telecom Regulatory Authority of India" supposed to act in the benefits of consumer!?

Ideally yes, but like every other Government institution in India these people are neck deep in corruption[New term: Lobbying].

The key issue is, telcos realize they are being reduced to mere data pipe suppliers and on the long term[May be a few years] their margins will drop like stone falling in a pit. They are being disrupted through software apps[Calls and SMS going through apps like Viber/Skype/Whatsapp]. So while data growth will happen for a while, post that they will be nothing more than data pipe suppliers.

This will just ensure massive flattening of positions in the market. Don't be surprised if BSNL does better than these people in that kind of a world. Because it will be all about infrastructure, and with a unlimited government funding, these people lose out against BSNL if all they will remain is data pipe suppliers.

These people once heralded as champions of free market economy and capitalism now want the government to bail them out with regulations in their favor. This was exactly the cry of all PSU's in the 90's when the government wanted to bring in privatization big time.

This is all about software disruption. These people disrupted BSNL's business, Now there business is being disrupted.

Funny how capitalism works when you are at the receiving end.
I've had 4 or 5 successful orders. Great customer service too.
Corporations and other entities existing entirely as legal infrastructure have done this quite successfully. Considering the history of corporate personhood (especially in the USA), I am somewhat surprised corporations do not have the right to vote (thankfully). I think AI will have its day in court.
I don't know much about how to architect JavaScript applications, but I am struck by how much of this stuff seems to be glued together by strings. For example, from footer.js (https://github.com/box/t3js/blob/master/examples/todo/js/mod...)

switch(name) {
case 'todoadded':
case 'todoremoved':
case 'todostatuschange':
this.updateTodoCounts();
break;

case 'statechanged':
this.updateSelectedFilterByUrl(data.url);
break;
}

Accidentally wrote 'todostatuschanged' instead of 'todostatuschange' (in keeping with the tense of all the other actions!) and you'll get a silent failure.

Or from isListCompleted() in the list module:

moduleEl.querySelectorAll('#todo-list li input[type="checkbox"]')

I'm not picking on T3, since all JavaScript frameworks seem to have this problem. There has to be a better way than that!
Pretty sure corporations are people now. :)

And if Sergey Brin and Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are tossing millions of dollars at the government, I'm sorry, but that's Google paying off candidates for federal office. Particularly when those same candidates turn right around and advocate for Google on the international political stage after they're elected.
Sadly, only http is checked; won't work for https-only server.
Because it's very similar. A magic recipe of existing products marketed with some difficult-to-prove claim. It could be woo, it could be legit, but you'd lean heavily towards the former.
I bet he didn't even read the marketing literature or the industry funded studies.
Elon says it's in slow motion too

"High resolution, color corrected, slow motion rocket landing video https://youtu.be/BhMSzC1crr0"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588463193070022656
The best part of their reusable rocket project is how incremental the progress has been. I'm not sure I would have appreciated the difficulty of what they're doing as much without these failures.
Why not take this all the way? Why require e-mail and/or cell phone?

You could also distinguish yourself vis-a-vis persona which requires an e-mail address.
Fedora 22 is/was switching the default package manager to dnf over yum. Fedora 23 should have Python 3 as default (although /usr/bin/python will still point to python 2.x) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default
I've noticed that people travel very very differently. So I would enjoy a guide that segregates users into the different reasons/ways they travel. For example some people will go to a foreign city specifically to see any ancient sites, historical museums and to people watch. Someone else might go to the exact same city but would be more interested in the food and learning the language. Same thing with safety vs adventure. Most travel sites try to fit all of this into a single "guide" which means that the typical reader probably doesn't care about half of it. So an app that allows me to select a city and then filter it's suggestions on the type of things I want to do would be much more useful than just a single long article. Then once you have this data you could rank cities as the best for historical sites, romances, nightlife, food, etc.
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MVC typically relies on an event model which is difficult with larger applications structured across many developers. If you look at some of the reasoning behind Flux/React this is pretty effectively outlined.

OO and MVC aren't the end all, be all of application design.