skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am actually hoping that Google resists the temptation to fight a war of feature creep with Facebook. In fact, the sum total of my enjoyment of G+ has come from the cleanliness and austerity of its UX (well, maybe combined with the refreshing Circles concept -- but that's arguably a "cleanliness" measure of a different sort).

Personally speaking, I'm totally comfortable with a social network as simply a credentialing and sharing layer running through my other experiences and touchpoints on the web. I don't need everything in one place. I am willing to admit that I might be an odd man out on this sentiment, however.
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Your link isn't even about NASA, it's just an ideological discussion (and not a particularly coherent one). For reference, here's a list of NASA spin-offs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off

It's not hard to see the multiplier effect of our investment in NASA.
Before the concept was corrupted in the late 19th century, "monopoly" meant the exclusive right to sell a commodity, granted by the government. (See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=monopoly) Monopolies of this kind are wrong; they fly in the face of the American ideal.

But Google achieved most of its success by its own merits, without the intervention of government. I don't think that it's right to tar legitimate earned success under the same conceptual brush used to attack feudalism. Doing so confuses the issue so much that it's not possible to arrive at a sensible answer.
It may not be exactly either/or, but budget constraints coupled with the astronomical cost of using humans in space makes it nearly so.

I think the example of Hubble actually works in my favor on this point. Hubble is a relic of an old technological age. Earth-based telescopes surpassed Hubble's capabilities not too long after it was launched, and have now pretty much left it in the dust. At a fraction of the cost.

Hubble's replacement (James Webb) is quite a leap ahead, and as an IR scope it really does need to be in space, unlike Hubble. But you'll note that its location will be off-limits to humans, and it is accordingly designed to be remotely maintained.

In short, the age of low-earth-orbit, high-maintenance space telescopes is, and should be, over. I argue that other space-based platforms that require human intervention should likewise be curtailed for similar reasons.

>"Automation isn't cheap, missions that have to be redone because the automation fails are costly."

It is still orders of magnitude cheaper than sending people, and the cost of a "failed" space endeavour with people on board is infinitely greater. In cases where it's not currently feasible to use robots, it would be worth our while to wait until it is, instead of trying to use humans now.

I feel that Mars is another example in my favor. Cost estimates for sending humans to Mars are so high and so speculative that they're essentially useless outside of the insight that we cannot afford it. Compare that with the cost of robotic exploration, which is both quite affordable and spectacularly successful so far.
I dont have $40 spare. I'd love to read it, but apparently there's no colleges even in my state which have SciDirect access.

Wait, isn't science about everyone knowing?
Finding "excellent" people to work for any start-up is very hard. You already know the C# is going to make it harder to find risk tolerant folks. People working on Scala are most likely doing it because they WANT to, and would want to do it at a start-up.

The acquisition question is business pre-optimization and any large acquirer probably won't care. Just build your prototype and get it out the door, don't worry too much about the details.
Revenues and market cap are losly related at best. Eg Apples revenue last year was around 60 billion while their market cap is currently around 330 billion (around 5.5 times).

Facebooks revenue last year was around 2 billion so if this ratio stays (it probably won't) they would "only" need to grow to 9 billion in revenues and already be bigger than Apple.

Besides I don't think it will be impossible for facebook to increase their revenues to tenth of billions once they provide display adds outside of facebook etc. (doesn't mean that I think it's likely but it's definitely possible once they really start focussing on monetization).
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If SMS was free, I would probably complain about all the spam I would get.
What I am hearing from you, is that we need to lobby the US government into open code requirement for grant work done under their purvey.

Also some sort of git front end that unwilling people could use would make things better?
Have fun right now, don't worry about anything.

I'm almost 40, married with 3 kids. I can't remember many of my mistakes at 20, but I can sure remember all the good, wild times.

Be (reasonably) reckless, and have fun discovering who you are, as an adult. Don't get tied down with any debt. Be frugal. Travel a lot.

Stability? Pfft. Stop worrying. I'm laughing at you worrying.
That was nice of him to give them an offer they couldn't refuse.
I figure most people might think if changing the password is optional, why bother? That line provides timely motivation to do so immediately. On further thought, I'd also remove the part which mentions supplying the current password and just focus on the new password requirements. The form on the site would naturally ask for their current password.
Is there a git client for the unwilling?

I could see that solving some of the issues.
I'm in South Africa, so we've never had to pay to receive text messages, just to send. But it's crazy expensive.
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There's an old video of Steve Jobs circa 1997 where someone in the audience puts him in the hot seat about some 'hot' technology at the time. As I recall, his response was something along the lines of --- maybe we missed an opportunity to use a neat technology in the product, but the product will win in the long run because we remain focused on our customers, and work backwords into the tech.

You can typically use whatever tech you want to power the thing. If you use open and well documented communications API/infrastructure then others (including your team) can extend your product with lots of different technologies.

For #1 - You can find good C# coders. But you can find great developers who know C# among other things.

For #2 - Generally there are two camps in acquisitions (strictly regarding tech). The Microsoft camp, and the other camp. The two camps have their own large ecosystems and there is some overlap. I think for this you just need to understand (just like you understand your customers) which potential acquirers may come along and what they care about. Many times they'll want to rewrite some things anyway and better understand your roadmap (which can always evolve!!!).

Long story short, stop building prototypes. Avoid optimizing prematurely as they say. Get one prototype working well, get great developers and you'll make the right tech decisions as a team. If you don't, you get to change them.

Good luck!
I know. I stayed up way too late last night! :-)
VLC has been linked by high profile sites for many years now. Adding yet another link from "linuxmag" isn't going to help.

The real issue is that the SEO guys are just too good and can poison the well with impunity. I feel only better competition can help this. Maybe the Bing guys can do a better job and eat Google's lunch. Quick search on Bing shows the first few links are legit but the last one isn't (and is identified as adware by our Sonicwall). Also, the ads Bing produces are fake too. Guess no one is doing a good job in this regard. I suspect shit like this is why PC users are clamoring for an "App Store." They need someone to help them properly install software.
Why do you consider VLC crap, and what would you suggest as an alternative? Bonus points if the alternative works on all three operating systems that I use (OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu.)
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The biggest mistake, IMO, if you actually want to SHIP, is using anything except the software you already know.

Let me explain- Too often, projects are started pie-in-the-sky, and using everything perfectly, using the de jour framework.. You spend 80% of your precious time trying to learn it, for marginal benefit. Yeah, it might be cheaper when you have 1M users. Deal with it then.

For any software project, you'll probably need to expand a bit, that's a given, but don't go out to far; Go one village over...

Try moving from MySQL to Postgres. Or perhaps involve Mongo if need be. Don't fly in technology from the other side of the universe unless you have an actual business need to.

The odds are against you finishing your project; Keep that in mind, and work to maximize chances of shipping. This means using the stuff you know now.
Its not a pivot, its a completely different business with the same founders.
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I wonder if copyright holders will file a lot more of these notices (100X? 1000X?) since they will presumably be cheaper and seen as less threatening.
RefactorMyCode has been open sourced
Although I believe google is in the wrong here, I do also believe that adware/malware prevention should be the responsibility of the end user's machine. What google does is at best sticking its fingers into the dam. We can't expect them to do everything, not to mention business and IP laws in the US are incredibly generous to corporations. The case may be that its legally difficult for Google to attack some of these companies.
I wonder how many tabloids are attempting to break into voicemail boxes and email accounts of News of the World employees to cover this.

Sharks circling one of their own wounded.
This, of course, has the side effect (or possibly even intended effect) of making Windows Phone seem more cost-effective. "Free" software isn't free, if it includes a Microsoft tax, anyway.

I just hope the large Android ecosystem starts pushing for patent reform, and soon. This is just fundamentally broken market behavior...Microsoft is getting protection money. They don't even have to provide products people want, and they still make money on every smart phone sold.
Got it, thanks guys! Jiang, Thejo well done, love the approach.
I tend to agree with your sentiments and have never thought of applying at facebook. But if I ask myself honestly, it would be hard to turn down "an offer that couldn't be refused" that came personally from Zuckerberg
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This is great advice, but I think it could be rephrased slightly:

Make sure to always do and finish that which you'll say you'll do. Especially regarding exercise, as without that, your productivity can drop. And if you can't finish, then you'll learn to be more reasonable.

Anyways, quite solid advice.
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> While some of the "hacking" was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set...

Taking stuff from my house is still robbery even if I left the front door open.
Nah, you've just misunderstood me - sorry if I wasn't very clear :) I agree that being able to address an individual's concerns is very important, and I certainly don't consider mentoring a pita. The original post just expressed the idea that you can't teach everything through lectures and so forth, and I was trying to provide a reason why that is so.
First, I don't believe it's a problem but merely a different procedure. Second, in France (and most of Western Europe I think), all ATM's keep your card for the simple reason that the magnetic stripe (the part of the card that's in contact with the ATM when you swipe) is never used, to my knowledge.
It's the chip that is used to verify the identity, locally record the transaction and more.
Google+ stream on Facebook feed
I was thinking of ways to display G+ stream on your facebook wall for fun. One way is to auto-forward all emails from gmail to your facebook email. However, facebook APIs don't seem to support IMAP/POP. Any other ways of reading facebook emails (with authentication) within a facebook app?
> Finally, they advertise way too much.

Don't worry about that, they're just retargeting. I went to their website yesterday for the first time, and now every website I visit has their ads (which I'd never seen before). If someone is interested enough to hit your site, then you want to show them lots of ads. That's usually very cost effective.
Ask HN: Best backups/sync for virtual teams (DropBox or CrashPlan or??)
HNers,

I work for a consultancy where my team is 100% virtual (First time working 100% from home + travel -- best decision I ahve ever made) - and I need to find a good way to share, sync and backup my data and the teams data.

I have been encouraging others to use DropBox, but it is so focused on individual use and completely not designed around multiple users accessing the same data, that I am not sure how well it will last in the long term. (Is dropbox even considered by any of you as a real and viable data backup model? Or just a convenient data access utility?)

Is CrashPlan the enterprise version of DropBox? Or simply cloud backup?

I want to know the best tool for cloud backup, team data sharing/sync?

Anyone have any advice?
Labour MP Tom Watson told Sky News it was "a victory for decent people up and down the land, and I say good riddance to the News of the World".

Couldn't have put it better myself. (Side note, Tom Watson is one of the few MPs in this country supporting the games industry, which makes me like him already.)

Sadly The Sun will obviously just add Sundays, as suggested in the piece, but still, one less piece of shit to see on news stands I guess.
Hi everyone - Tom here, all ears as ever for questions :)
Not that you said otherwise, but for what it's worth: accessing someone else's voice mail is no less a crime if they don't have a PIN set.

A lot of nerds are under the very faulty impression that the severity of "hacking" crimes scales with the difficulty of the attack. No. It has nothing whatsoever to do with how hard these things are to pull off.
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I find that it's really easy to fall into the trap of skipping the gym because of work demands, until it gets to the point that I'm not going at all. It's really hard to get to the point where you value your own health as much as your work -- it requires constant conscious effort (for me, at least).
Since this _is_ hacker news, can someone in the know explain the considerations that have to be heeded when developing LED technology for lighting environments? I'm much more interested in hearing about the science behind these bulbs and how it compares to fluorescents and incandescents than hearing 50 different anecdotes about peoples' LED experiences.
There's a lot more to an operating system than how it manages non-fullscreen applications. "Windows" is obviously a related term, but I don't think it's generic--when I boot up Linux on my laptop, I don't say, "This Linux/Xorg/Openbox combination sure is a great windows!" But I might say, "This collection of software for my smartphone compiled and sold by Amazon sure is a great app store."

Edit: See also: MS Office, MS Word, MS Security Essentials, and arguably MS Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer (I browse the internet and manage/browse files--there's not much literal "exploring" going on)
Chicken and egg problem ?
None of my friends are using any of the smartphone bundled programs/services. Thus I can't send them messages by other than SMS.

Once you go down the path of using one of these other services, there's a standarization problem. I'd go nuts after a while if I had to juggle Google Talk, MSN, Huddles, or even fiddle with setup to make the multi protocol messaging applications play nice.

SMS is ubiquitous, and just works.
I think (assume) he wasn't questioning the link between what they did with illegality/immorality, just that "hacking" implies something a little more technical.
Yes it is a great engine.

I am using Clojure & Slick2d for the Action RPG I am developing so I can say Clojure is a great choice for games!

I even open sourced my game: (with video)
https://code.google.com/p/clojure-rpg/

You can play it here (older version , not so fun but works!)
http://resatori.com/cyber-dungeon-quest-alpha-1
You realize that Facebook is the highest rated company on the whole site?
The concern isn't with a limited supply of electricity but with the environmental costs of how it's generated...
Opera 11.50 works fine. Make sure that:

1. You're running the latest version of Opera.

2. You're not spoofing as another browser.
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then almost a hippie mentality that goes hand in hand with the personality of Amy, and then finally fucked the tricks people use. This is an interesting move because you never know what to think of him, but in the end I really do not like.
This seems to be the most likely conclusion.
Seven reasons you should use Java again
It's not about the slimy brand, it's about how trivial tasks like updating DNS records take minutes whereas with a different registrar they would take just a few seconds, how they try to upsell you on everything, and how every page in their admin panel is filled with ads.

I also don't see how the DNS thing is an issue. Some setup guide or tutorial says "Add an CNAME for your subdomain pointing to example.com" and it's pretty clear no matter what DNS hosting you're using.
I don't think that's right. Their website says this:

For your convenience, all Storm on Demand services are
billed hourly. This flexibility allows you to create and
destroy Storm Servers as you need them, and only pay for
the time you need.

https://www.stormondemand.com/servers/whystorm.html

It would appear you can bring up a server for 3 hours, and just pay for that.
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موقع مشاهدة قنوات اذاعة مباراة النادى الاهلى والمقاولون العرب على النت مباشرة
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needs nested circles
Although they bought the program, I have always found Visio to be a great program. Expression Design really had some potential.
What Should Be In A Top Tier MBA Entrepreneurship Class?
I've been asked to provide advice about appropriate topics for an introduction to entrepreneurship class at a top 5 MBA program in the US. About 20% of the class sessions are being changed, and I'm being asked to give advice about what topics should go into that 20%. As I understand it, the remaining 80% of the class will cover the basic introductory topics (team formation, financing options, IP, etc.) and will bring in guest speakers.

While I have some thoughts of my own, I'm very interested in what the Hacker News community thinks would be a good fit for this class.
If I were you I would still try it. I'm a little behind on my personal projects but I'm definitely trying Clojure on Andriod this month.

I've seen toy Clojure apps running on Android 2.2 and they took sensibly less than 5-10 seconds to load. I'm mentioning this since parent doesn't specify which Android version he was using, and JIT compiling was only recently introduced in 2.2.
Apple, founded 1976, first reached a $70 billion market cap after 30 years of operation in 2006 (roughly eyeballing it from stock price).

Facebook, founded 2004, is now at a roughly $70 billion market cap from private transactions after 7 years of operation.

It's not unthinkable.
Well, here, they get money from the adwords... So they are a bit responsable.
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I agree with you for the most part :) -- except for the part about writing bindings / doing interop, which I found to be pretty painful (at least as the project grew in size). Java does not have great start times, but in the context of games load times are slightly more acceptable (I think?). That said, even if one were to do games JUST for Windows C# would still be a good choice, and the majority of gamers run Windows anyway.
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They can talk as much as they want, as long as no body names them. You can't sue someone for breaking an NDA if you don't know who it was that broke it :P
ClearType is "freaking" ancient http://www.grc.com/ctwho.htm
Only if it uses violence or the threat thereof; otherwise, it's theft.
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Most lawyers just love a “choice of law” clause for various
reasons. The biggest reason is that it means the rules that
apply to the agreement are the ones with which the lawyers
are most familiar, and the jurisdiction for disputes will be
the local jurisdiction of the company, not of the developer.

Choice of law clauses do not determine the jurisdiction for disputes. They just say that particular jurisdiction's law will be used to interpret the contract.

To specify jurisdiction to hear the dispute, you need a forum selection clause.
Both are bad because it's hard to share something that is not good but might be important. Murder stats for where you live, for example.
Developer may want to add some whitespace margin around the QR code (as per QR specs). I can't get the code to scan using any of the 4 different QR reader apps I have on my iPhone.

Very cool concept though.
here
http://www.triple9.co.vu/2011/07/how-to-post-from-google-to-...
I have been watching this delicious scandal developing week by week, day by day and recently hour by hour, and I never expected this. Wow. There must be a lot of skeletons in the cupboard if this was murdoch's choice of preemptive action against the upcoming judicial enquiry.

Edit: thinking about it, the enquiry will go ahead regardless. This is more to do with protecting rebekah brooks and the sky merger. He must really like brooks.
MediaNet is one component of things. I think of them more akin to a CDN. Turntable still needs to pay SoundExchange, who collect funds for streaming rights, as I understand it. Likely Turntable is fine (for now), but spending lots of cash per stream, until the inevitable point where labels may make the decision that this isn't truly an non-interactive service (certainly not for the DJs), hence requiring additional licensing fees.
This may be relevant: http://novam-research.synthasite.com/resources/Magnetronics_...

Anyone can sketch how a 'magnetic circuit' can work, compared to the standard electrical equivalent?

Edit: also called 'spintronics'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics
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Perhaps, but Hubble's not a good example. As a visible-spectrum scope, there was no reason it really needed to be in orbit. Its resolution advantage was fairly quickly exceeded by earth-base scopes with much lower cost and much better longevity. In other words, keeping visible-spectrum telescopes on earth gives us a better return on our investment.
I'm sorry. I was not aware the Hubble launch and repair missions required a winged vehicle.
It's a false conclusion. His non-determinisitic algorithm is decidedly less efficient than A*: it's essentially following a similar algorithm except it's randomly choosing what node to expand next, sometimes repeating expanding the same node.
Dont forget all the stuff about helping people under suspicion of murder spy on the police officer investigting them! And extensive bribing of high level police officers!

Oh yeah and all the links these people had right to the highest level of our government.

WRT more scandals: every newspaper does this. It is standard industry practice. Why do you think they never gave notw a hard time over it, all these years? The same reason political parties never attack each other over funding. Because they all stink.