skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal of the barge landings is to prove they can land precisely in a targeted position repeatedly to prove they are able to touchdown on land without accidentally hitting populated places.
I would compare it to a writer's inability to spot typos in something they wrote themselves. Probably, if the same algorithm was written by someone else, they could tear it apart easily.
Pixie[1] is also worth a look. It's Clojure-like scripting language written in RPython.

[1] https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
From reading the comments over on /r/spacex, this looks to originally have been an unlisted video in SpaceX's youtube channel, and shortly after appearing on reddit it was made private. Not before several people had made copies, however, and re-uploaded it (one of those people has the same reddit username as the youtube channel linked here).

That said, impressive video. This shows how close they are truly getting.

Unfortunately, it doesn't stop clickbait headlines that imply that this was a setback (for a while, drudgereport was running a story with the headline akin to "SpaceX rocket fails to land on landing pad"). Maybe that is why the video was made private, out of fear of appearing like a failure.

Of course, now that the cat is out of the bag they are better off embracing the video.
One of the lawyers I know clears $450k. How close are you to that?
>As far as I'm aware at least, there's no way around it.

Online checkin? Did multiple flights with Lufthansa, never had to show ID. Maybe depends on the airline
So, the biggest draw of the social-network-based logins (as well as their biggest flaw) was that you probably already had an account. With Hoomi, what's the advantage of using your Hoomi account rather than just giving an email address?

Also, how does this compare (in both features and privacy) to Persona?
Since it's empty of fuel, and has big metal engines at the very bottom, the center of gravity is surprisingly low. So it should be fairly stable immediately after landing. And then they plan to secure it so it stays upright.
What point is there to search without anywhere to go to from your searches other than the sites of those that join the club?
Much like Greyhound drivers, Amtrak conductors don't always ask to see ID, regardless of where or how the ticket was purchased. It's hit-or-miss in coach, depending (at least) on the conductor, the train, and your boarding station. In first class it's either exceedingly rare or nonexistent, at least west of Chicago. The NEC may be different; I've traveled over 40,000 miles on Amtrak but never there.

A reasonable thing for the author to point out would have been that this has become yet another seldom-enforced law/regulation. Such policies are bad because they allow for selective and abusive enforcement, erode respect for the rule of law as an institution, provide none of the purported security benefits for which the policy was made in the first place, and create confusion as to what laws and regulations actually exist.

As a separate thought exercise, consider the otherwise law-abiding individual who has constructed an identity and identification indistinguishable from a real one, but different from his own. Since there is no means of validating a piece of identification anyway, and in the circumstances described herein no means of determining from an individual's name whether he is to be prohibited from boarding, what's the point anyway? There are a lot of similar rabbit holes here; it's really best not to think about it, because (a) nothing you or anyone does is ever going to change it for the better, and (b) you're never going to discover any kind of logic to any of it. Make yourself a phony-but-real ID if you want, or don't. Travel, or don't. But don't try to reason about or change government policy; it's a waste of mental energy.
A month ago he and some coauthors published a paper "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians" in a math journal (http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0565; note that the arXiv date is earlier than the publication date, since arXiv is a preprint server) and the media had a field day with the "NFL player publishes math paper" story.
For a change it is nice to see a purely architectural JS framework. It solves what I would call a rather important problem of GUI development - what to put where. It also imposes rules of access - who calls who.

Unlike the more encompassing solutions like Ember or Angular it focuses on just that and allows the developer to pick the other parts himself.

Coming from Flex development, I see some similarities with the Robotlegs, PureMVC and the other Flex architectural frameworks. For example Modules look similar to Mediators and T3 Services are much like Proxies and Services of the aforementioned frameworks.

Unlike Robotlegs, PureMVC etc it does not specify where to put models. We should not just ditch this concept because the separation of data and view proved to be useful.

If there is a need for ViewModels then I believe they can reside in Modules. This may be convenient for a virtual DOM - based solution or data binding. The global models can reside in Services.

What the framework is missing is a more elaborate example with React or vdom and server interaction.

It doesn't seem to be over-engineered. All the decision seem to come from practice and not from architectural astronautics.

It may not be ideal, but it looks very practical, well aligns with my view on frameworks and I'll keep an eye on it.
I'm not an expert, but here's my understanding:

> What happens once it lands successfully?

It becomes a lot easier to get permission to attempt a landing on dry land. But, as I understand it, they will always need to land some rockets at sea. In the long run, they hope that they can then re-use the rocket, which will drastically reduce the cost of launches.

> Are they perhaps really trying to develop a Dragon landing system?

They almost certainly are, but this is unrelated to that, I believe.

> And using this extra tall rocket as a worst-case scenario?

No. The length of the rocket is ultimately determined by the amount of fuel it needs to carry. The first stage will always be very long like this. Note that this rocket came from a successful mission which launched a Dragon capsule to the ISS on a re-supply/science mission.
But if the sea is the problem...
There's no way to make assertions about the effects of Uber on alcohol consumption because any effect Uber might have is negligible comparison with the effects of the alcohol and nightlife industries. I'm not saying you should criticize those industries, I'm saying that if you're going to blame someone other than the drinker for the innocuous crime of drinking one more drink than usual, it's ridiculous to target Uber.

I talked about the alcohol and nightlife industries as a criticism of your statements. Alcohol consumption being the responsibility of the drinker is a statement of my own belief. If you can't understand why these ideas are not contradictory I can't help you.
The article is critical of the pandering he's talking about above.
And the vine stops before the explosion.
I have an early one, use it a lot (near daily for years), no cracks (only issue is the rubber plunger head pops off often when removing). Those with problems, can you indicate which material it is? (BPA, BPA-free, translucent gray, big lettering on side, etc.)
There is always some extra fuel and oxidizer, as it is used to slow the vehicle, and is needed until touchdown. If the vehicle were to run out of propellant before landing, it would crash. In addition, the LOX makes any combustion spectacular.
MVC is perfect for User Interface applications. Why this is NOT MVC is surprising. Also I was expecting a lot of new web technologies in a framework that was introduced in 2015. Web Components?
>when will these people realize that the market for JS frameworks is INSANELY saturated

Probably when you realize that it's not a market.

Nobody sells you anything.

They offer it for free. Anybody who wants can use it, anybody who doesn't please don't let the door hit them on their way out.
I expect this is the case. Just yesterday I received an email at my gmail account that suggested I might know someone with whom I am already connected on Google+.

Perhaps Google is giving up on Google+, and trying to cut its losses by selling out to facebook.

I've been meaning to set up my own mail server for a while, specifically to avoid being tracked by Google. I guess I'll make that more of a priority.
Some OpenWRT routers like the TL 1043ND I have suffer from VLAN leakage. Basically the router separates WAN from LAN via a VLAN config as the CPU has only one LAN port. At the router's bootup, devices on my lan would randomly get a public IP adress assigned by the DHCP server on the modem. Scared the crap out of me. From now on the thing is an access point, not a router.
Since nobody has claimed that these numbers are precise, it's obvious that estimation is involved.

If you are claiming that estimation is 100% impossible, then you are indeed unqualified to discuss this topic.
Such a bummer! So close. Keep it up guys, you'll get it soon!
Part of the point of the article, and a very good point, I think, is that this type of service really doesn't scale well. Trust and service are more important than the absolute lowest price in the market they're in, and being a huge company and having huge scale just doesn't help you that much with those things.
In France if the police wants to control your identity, you need an official document to prove it. If you don't have it they will detain you until they can verify your identity.
> I see Google not as a monopoly but as a majority holder where people have control of what services they use.

Even if people could switch search engine - which they can't given they have only one competitor which isn't very good - it wouldn't make Google's actions fine. Google has a near-monopoly on search. They are abusing their market share.
That's two for two for getting to the ship, definitely not a bummer!
Maybe if the entirety of your perspective comes from massive multi-million-dollar websites. For everyone else (particularly Mom-and-Pop small businesses, individuals trying to sell things online, etc.), that cost can very well be prohibitive, particularly when it dwarfs the costs of site hosting and even the domain name.

I'm talking about the little taqueria across the street from my house. They're perfectly viable, yet are going to be scared off from investing in a cert if it's going to be the single most expensive thing for their online presence. It's these sorts of folks that your argument blissfully ignores.
crappy website that throws up a "like me on facebook" popup that I have to dismiss before I get to read the article. guess what, I didn't even read the article. I certainly won't be pre-emptively liking anything on Facebook. seriously, can you at least let me read the damn thing before begging for social media help?
That's a good point. If you wash it immediately after use, you can push the plunger all of the way into the cylinder (with the filter cap off) until it pops out the other end. It will spin freely and not put any pressure on the cylinder during storage. Then you can just rest it on top of the filter cap in a small dish and drop the accessories in the top. Of course, you can argue this adds unnecessary stress by doubling the number of plunges, but I haven't had any issues with it.
It's a carefully considered tradeoff. They've managed to get to the drone ship successfully twice now, and they will need this kind of accuracy in the future.
Thanks for the reply. I'm fine with any location for the server. Right now, just looking at keeping the costs down.
I agree, it's absolutely not espresso. They recommend watering down the output of the AeroPress but it's nowhere near strong enough for that, as espresso is.
> Android would, in my opinion, be impaired if it didn't include Google play, gmail, chrome, and Google Maps.

Why should Google blacklist manufacturers who produce anything Android-based that lacks their services? If you wanted Google services, what would stop you downloading them yourself?
I have been using gopherjs for some time now and had almost no issues at all with it. On the contrary, gopherjs allows me to write frontend code just like normal go code (even go-routines!) and re-use backend components on the frontend.
The only downside is a relatively large file size for the generated js code.
I fully agree with your point about Google's customer service, especially in this market where it's so important. But I think there's good reason to be worried about Amazon. Amazon doesn't have a niche, they want to be everything to everybody. Which Google does too, but Amazon actually has a history of actually succeeding in markets that are outside their core business of ecommerce. AWS is the biggest example but Mechanical Turk, Prime video streaming and their app store are all serious competitors in their respective niches. The jury is still out on their music offering.
...weird, indeed.

Since the OP published the article implying such a grand circumstance, and commented "I assure you it was not posted publicly by any of us. Newly created URL and link c/p to fb chat.", I believe that there are still a few basic questions in order, in any case:

1. What "link generation" program was the OP using? Is it possible this program streamed its output through something like Pastebin - without the explicit knowledge of the OP - and if so, can we verify this is the case by following up with an example?

2. Can the representative from Recorded Future comment on whether or not this site, Pastebin, is being monitored?

Thanks all, for what we'd surely hope to be a trivial, if unusual, case of software being stealthy...
You could check the provided code then. Your comment doesn't say much to us, either.
It's also possible your contacts gave Facebook access to their contact list.
It makes sense. Normally I don't keep my car key in my pocket when I'm at home. It's on the desk, or on a hook, etc. So his model is that he hits the button as he grabs the key to stick it in his pocket, then when he approaches his car a few minutes later, the proximity unlock works.

You could add some security to the process without requiring the button press by disabling the proximity unlock unless an accelerometer in the fob detects that the fob is moving.
If you have a warrant for your arrest, they will detain you. Or if you are under house arrest or something. They can't stop you on mere suspicion, though.

I don't mean to say "if you did nothing wrong you have nothing to fear". It's more like "if you weren't literally convicted of a crime, don't worry".
Ask HN: Would you use this product if it had React Native code generation?
Dear HNers,

I'd like to get your opinion on a technical strategy question concerning a startup's future direction.

Neonto makes a visual tool that generates UI+controller code for native mobile apps:

http://neonto.com

Currently the tool covers the iOS and Android platforms by outputting Objective-C and Java code. The generated code is clean and tight... But end users sometimes find it problematic that the code is in a language that they don't understand. (Most people don't have good knowledge of both Obj-C and Java, and so the generated code becomes kind of a "scary black box" that requires special skills to modify.)

One idea that's been on the table is to add a React Native code generation back-end to Neonto Studio. This would either complement or replace the existing iOS/Android backends.

Would you find such a product useful? Generally speaking, would you consider using a GUI tool that generates React Native layouts and controller code for you?
Ask HN: Is SCSI pronounced “s-c-s-i”, “scuzzy”, or “sexy”?
I also returned to french press. I'm still not crazy about the sediment at the bottom of the cup, and the cleanup is slightly messier. But the AeroPress just doesn't produce enough coffee, and brewing with it is a bit fiddly (though the cleanup is a snap).
IE may not seem to have much mindshare as far as where the web is going, but last stats I saw say that it's still comfortably over 50% of the desktop browser market.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/window...
They did the same thing with Google News, too.
Clickable link:

http://neonto.com
Exactly. Its been available for a while now on most distros, I even used it on some legacy AIX systems running Korn shell.

Btw, the reason why this works even if you dont see anything in /dev/tcp is because when you try to open a socket in bash using /dev/tcp it doesn't talk with the pseudo-filesystem of /dev. Bash actually intercepts the command and issues a connect() to the remote host.
Absolutely agree on the three important factors. But I'd say the fourth is bean quality. Makes all the difference.
> https://i.imgur.com/PAwf6e3.png "Some connectivity is better than no connectivity, hence the violation of NN is justified"

Does he really not see the enormous liability that a precedent like this can create?
I think this would output
["loco", "cool", "stain", "satin", "pool", "loop"]
but the question asks for
["pool", "loco", "cool", "stain", "satin", "loop"]?
I was skeptical going in but seeing as Nicholas Zakas is involved, I'm cautiously optimistic. For those who don't know him, he has written a number of influential books on JS as well as working on YUI.
3 drinks puts almost everyone over the legal limit. Not much of a challenge...
I'd love to hear a testimonial from a python dev. I'd like to make the switch, but I can't without basic tools like autocomplete
Novelty, as said below. Also, it removes a possible level of distraction. It's harder to get distracted when you go right from the mailbox to the kitchen table with a pad and pen than it is when you have to open an email and avoid switching to your other tabs.
> It's not going to leak or anything when you flip it unless you go absolutely wild.

Motion seconded. I used to think inverted seemed complicated as well, but once you've done it, it's pretty darn straightforward.
Here is how one such journey ended. [1] That handsome devil is the person quoted in GP.

[1]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Forbidden...
I use the #! trick for scripts. Here's a Common Lisp script that sends me email every morning (run from cron) about AWS resources being used:

https://gist.github.com/franzinc/acde9fd04a6b07745db3
And everyone is a hacker, a salesman, scientist, clothing model, barista, and archivist too.
If facebook is feeling so generous they can provide a few mb of usage free instead of free access to facebook.
Square Cash Pro
How complicated it has become to drink coffee ;-)
The idea is that as time goes by, computers become twice as fast (Moore's law), but problems also become twice as big. With a quadratic algorithm, you will need twice as much time to solve the problems of the bigger size, even on the faster computer. See page 22 of http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr15/cos126/lec...
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 previously looked at sourcing modafinil but ultimately decided against it due the the sources available looking dodgy, a lack of clarity in the laws around it, etc. As more reputable companies emerge in the sector I think I may well end up giving the products a go.
Internet.org is offering a free service to people who would otherwise have no access to the Internet. Net neutrality on a free service in a developing country is an entirely different issue than net neutrality in developed countries with high Internet access rates.

I see similarities between this and GMO in developing countries, where rich, well fed people in developed countries oppose gmo in countries that can't feed themselves because "corporations evil".

People for whom Internet access is a normal part of society are in an ivory tower on this issue.
Well...

Take a French press. Replace the fine metal mesh with paper (so no grit gets thru). Use a much finer grind (French press requires coarse grind). Finer grind means much shorter steep time (30 seconds instead of 4 minutes). Put the filter on the bottom of the container, replace the filter plunger with a rubber plunger (so instead of pushing all the grounds to the bottom then pouring coffee out, it's more like a pressure-assisted syringe-shaped drip).

Idea is paper gets all the grounds out (no grit in cup), fine grind minimizes brew time, short brew time makes sweeter results, syringe style is accidentally self-cleaning.
> What can Google do?

Destroy any Internet company whose users do not go directly to their site URL.

Destroy any new Internet company who relies on search results for users to find them.
Quick note on numbers:

"Crore" means 10 million (it's a modifier like "hundred" or "thousand" and does not necessarily relate to money).

10 000 000 Indian rupees = 160 310 U.S. dollars
Cocktail shaker would be a good alternative to a freezer.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/why-snowdens-vis...
Netflix Subscriber Numbers Soar, and Its Stock Price Does the Same
You either have snippet-royalties or you have viable and useful search engines that operate without a paywall. They are mutually exclusive. If royalty negotiations were required for all content before a snippet could be used, either the search engine will index only a few major players (only the head of the long tail), or the cost of obtaining agreements would exceed any potential revenues. It's not because of a monopoly player in the market, the dysfunction applies to all potential search engines. And the minor players in such a regime would be even at a greater disadvantage, lacking the resources to come to arrangements. Be careful what you wish for.
3 days of watching and I got the yellow!!!! 30s
For reference and completeness, works in Chrome.
The results are worth it. The only better brewer I've found (and I've got over a dozen) is a vacuum/siphon brewer ... but that takes an intensive half-hour of work to get one, albeit excellent, cup.
Makes me sad that Keiretsu is still around.

Jason Calacanis went after their horrible tactics 5 years ago[0], and was very vocal about it. This is the first I've heard of them in 3-4 years, so I just assumed they had closed up shop.

Only one link among many.
[0]: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2010/11/ja...
Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy
This is not twitter -- there is a reply button below every comment.
Wouldn't one rather grind such a transparent material to a thin bowl (which would be much clearer) and fill it with a tiny amount of clear water?
The nicest thing about the inverted method is the consistency of results, because nothing's leaking out during steeping.

Still, I hesitate to recommend it to some people, not because it's difficult, but because I know they might use boiling hot water straight from the kettle and risk injury. Under the right conditions, it can separate when screwing on the filter cap, due to the steam pressure.
Macros really aren't about performance, though (or at least they shouldn't be; inlining and/or constexpr are a better solution to that problem in basically every respect). They're either about simple, potentially extremely unsafe, syntax extensions (as in the article) or about using metadata that wouldn't otherwise be available (e.g. filenames/line numbers in the assert macro).

Not that I think macros are a good thing– 99% of the time they're best avoided– but dismissing them because 'performance isn't important' is basically a non sequitur.
I don't get it either. Even if it was an on/off switch, so when you come home at night you can disable it, I can't see it getting much use (except maybe during this brief period before they resolve the distance issue).