skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Energia flew twice -- once with a Polyus military payload aboard, and once with an unmanned Buran test flight.

The Polyus mission failed because after it separated from the Energia stack it rotated through 360 degrees rather than the intended 180 degrees and instead of inserting itself into orbit it executed a de-orbit burn. Very expensive software error!

The Buran flight -- the Buran shuttle was carried as a payload slung on the side of the Energia launcher, without engines of its own -- was a complete success.

Alas, Energia cost a ton to fly and when the USSR ran out of money it was the first program to be cancelled. However, part of it (the strap-on boosters) remain in service as the Zenit launcher.

There were plans for an extended Energia ("Vulkan") with a 200 ton payload to LEO, presumably for lunar and translunar manned exploration missions. I suspect it would have worked, if the USSR had the money and the motive to build it, given that it was a modular design based on an existing flying stack. More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htm

http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/launchers/vehicle_ener...
According to this:

http://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

Wikipedia is going to move away from GoDaddy. Donation sent!
Hacker News: All Issues Free Download for Everyone. 1 Day Only.
Make up America!!1 Every year we lose tens of thousands of dollars to counterfeit online cosmetics!

Fight the powder! We need SOAP to unmascara the pirates!
I agree that a targeted, intensely political fund that directly targeted reelection campaigns would be nice to have as an institution.

I'm just thinking about the short-term message, though.

When I read "Internet Freedom" I'm already half-asleep, with visions of old hippies and the EFF dancing in my head.

But the 'No-Forgiveness Fund', the 'Punish SOPA Supporters Fund' or anything negative that directly references both SOPA and reelection funding, makes my ears perk up and may make reporters take note, too.

After all, people are getting a little tired of warmed-over Rick Perry punching bag stories. There's room for a disruptive, twitter-friendly new issue.

You realize that what we're describing is basically crowd-sourcing lobbyists. :) That tickles me pink.
The point isn't to get HR to read your blog; the point is to fill up that timeslot on your resume so that automated screening systems don't reject you for having a gap. If you'd worked at a regular corporation, it's virtually certain that HR wouldn't be able to see your work product either.
Grassroots Game Industry in Philadelphia
No amount of money is worth my health

I wholeheartedly agree. Time is the most valuable asset any of us have, with money at best a distant second.
An Interview with The Creator of Calepin
Prediction is hard, especially of medicine
Sorry, I should have clarified, entertaining the Original poster's mindset, not my own :)

Money isn't wealth, time is. Having free time comes with money, but only so much.
This is what I've been wondering aloud for a long time. Politics is bought and paid for. It's not the ideal situation, but it's the reality. Given that, why isn't Silicon Valley spending more money lobbying for Internet-positive legislation?

The media cartels are spending millions purchasing heinous oppressive legislation. Google and co can and should do better than a strongly-worded letter. (Read: can and should be spending more money than the media cartels to buy laws that favor their bottom line, and thus indirectly the internet in general.)
Diagnosing Tolstoy with non-existent madness
that dude is a terr'fying dude.
I know what you mean. I'm hyperaware of other people's feelings too and that can put you at a huge disadvantage. I think it's all situational though. It depends on who you surround yourself with. In the end I think that what's more important than being an ass or being respectful is the ability to gauge others' temperaments. If you can do that then you can adjust yourself to the situation. Some situations call for asshole behavior. Some people only respond to force. In other situations being humble will win over people.
Don't we all win when there is an electric at every price level? With lots of competition?

Half of the cost of these cars is the battery - we really need some kind of battery price/performance breakthrough ASAP but sadly it still looks like mostly a slow evolution rather than a revolution.
The problem is not getting there, it's that there's no reason to be there. Even the least hospitable places on Earth are far, far more hospitable than Mars. Combine that with the fact that there's no economic potential on Mars, and it just doesn't make sense.

Look, you won't find many bigger proponents of space colonization than me, but it has to make sense. By all means, colonize the moon and use its helium for fusion energy. Build foundries in space and start melting down asteroids. But don't try and stick a million people in a place that very explicitly does not want people just because we can.
But what is the outcome? In what way does this undo the damage? They submitted a letter of support, and I presume money, to Congress. A post on their web page does not take back any of that.
"just $1,279 an hour to run"

i dont know anything about supercomputers, but is that really cheap?
This is the first rational explanation I've seen for this, so I voted it up. I'd be interested in hearing alternative solutions, if only for your sake :).
Canonical's flat rate private cloud jumpstart program
Go Daddy wants SOPA to pass so bad sometimes they just cold shut down websites whenever big content sends them an email:

http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/content/michael-bentkover-w...
hacker monthly is a very nicely put together magazine, I've read a few issues on the kindle, it's well worth checking out.
"So, they can't commit to changing their position on the record in Congress."

Not trustworthy.
I am not sure whether vandals are any better than censors, but I'd rather we got rid of both of them.
awesome! any chance there's an easy way to bulk download all of them?
I think the positive outcome here is that Go Daddy publicly responded to customer pressure over what was no doubt a lot of 'insider' pressure from the folks at the RIAA/MPAA etc.

Getting the public and Congress educated on the realities of information value is a painfully slow process. However, as the wave finally crests I think our grandchildren will look back on this and say "Wow, you all really thought some weird things." (of course they will likely think that anyway but still)
SOPA, Luddites, and broken windows
Downloads seem to have slowed to the point where one 27.9 Mb issue is taking 1hr and 7 min to download. Looks like all of HN is taking advantage of this promo!

BTW, the magazines are beautifully done, kudos!
Isn't that kind of what we want? We want companies to know it is not OK to support SOPA either directly (like Godaddy) or indirectly (like buying domains from GoDaddy), and we want them to know that we will boycott them and actively tell others to boycott them as well.
They only turn off email, right? I would imagine that actual phone calls are still possible.

I can imagine that working pretty well. I think people are in general much more hesitant to call than to send an email.
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Savills Estate Agents have over 80 offices throughout the United Kingdom, and over 200 offices and associates throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the ....
Why is this necessary? Is this a call to boycott these companies? It is a call to put pressure on them? Are these companies run by witches? Communists?

Why go after third parties, when we could be going after the congress people who are supporting the bill, the companies offering funds, and trying to persuade those currently in support of it?

Why continue this PR witch hunt, while Godaddy has already recanted, and the only thing it will cause is further distraction from SOPA itself, and fueling the angry single-minded Godaddy hate mob?
The movie made a good point about how the Finnish education system has better outcomes than ours.

The big takeaway I take from this is we should move toward a Scandinavian attitude on unions.
I wonder if punishing Go Daddy into withdrawing SOPA support made things worse by taking one of the "good guys" voices off the table. That is, they might have been trying to make it closer to a law we could live with than, say, the MPAA.
for i in `seq -w 19`; do
echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip";
done | xargs wget
If someone is interested in helping with the port I will lend all my graphics and design ideas.
Their main complaint is that the company pays slightly better than minimum wage? This smacks of Gawker just being sensationalist, especially when they themselves hire unpaid interns: http://gawker.com/5437382/come-intern-for-free-at-gawker-so-...
Here ya go: The Mitsubishi Miev is $22-25K( http://i.mitsubishicars.com/?cid=PS_100611_GoogleiMiev_20111... ). It only goes 60 miles on a charge, but it's a good start...
Google Christmas Animation (Doodle)
I haven't actually read the text of SOPA, but I have this amusing fantasy of Anonymous having planted a congressional staffer to do a global search-and-replace through the entire law. Then, when it passes, the following can occur:

EvilMegaCorp : Remove this rogue domain from your DNS immediately.

DNS : Sorry, we're not going to do that.

EvilMegaCorp : But you are legally required to, per SOPA!

DNS : Actually, SOPA only requires us to de-link rouge websites. The Engrish-branded knockoff Asian cosmetics industry has really been decimated by this.

EvilMegaCorp : << explodes in a fit of pique >>

Sigh. A nerd can dream...
Brian Warner's Introduction to Bitcoin
I've never been on their website (most of us over here use gandi.net) and was curious what you meant by blatant sexism and I just have to say wow. Just wow. It's so stupid it looks fake.
The ability to think big is indeed rarer than it might first seem, and the ability to actually try to accomplish those big dreams is even rarer. We need people like Musk and Aubrey de Grey who dare to try to change the world for the better. The worse that can happen is that we make some progress but the ultimate goal is still out of reach for a while... Sounds better to me than not even trying.
tee has a simple main loop:
while not EOF:
(synchrounously) read up to BUFSIZE bytes from stdin into buf
for each output file:
(synchrounously) write buf to file

(source code here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/tee....)

All of the reads and writes are done through synchronous file apis. I don't see where you are getting one-thread-per-file (or any other kind of parallelism) there.
I'd like to take the time and expand on what others have said. In particular, I was prompted by this bit: "to most people, their domain and availability are important parts of their brand..."

First, I think that's only true of competent web only companies. I really believe that most users are not really that concerned or interested in those technical details or the risks associated with using a less than competent registrar/hosting provider.

For many companies, availability is closely tied to cost, especially at smaller firms. And they are more than willing to sacrifice availability or not pay extra to be insured a certain level of availability. Additionally, for many companies their web presence is purely optional and not their primary means of generating profit. Availability is definitely not the most important thing.

In fact, I've seen more and more small companies shift to simply using Facebook instead of setting up their own page. They don't care about a custom domain the same way many technical users might care.

I guess my point is that the vast majority of people aren't really all that competent or interested on the workings of the internet. Nor are they interested in paying for high availability. This is GoDaddy's market.
I don't think Google will be changing their business dealings with Godaddy anytime soon. Google has a business relationship with KKR (the new owners of GoDaddy). They are investing 94 million on a KKR solar farm project. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/google-kkr-invest...
I think you are an asshole. But I can respect that. Honestly, being an asshole doesn't mean you can't be a perfectly likeable, great person. I'm willing to bet you're one of those guys who people say "you'd like him once you get to know him". What I like about your style is that you might come off at first as trying too hard. Trying for what? Some might say superiority, maybe to gain attention, maybe even love. But then when you get backlash you still defend your points to the end. A lot of people say they don't care what others say about them but I honestly think you're the real deal. I don't know how you did it but you just mindfucked me into liking you from thinking you were a dick. Bravo, man.
The existence of a redirect helps users find the site with either name, but there's no guarantee that anything else will see the correlation.

If two paths actually work, then invariably some web sites will choose to link to your page with http://xyz.com/foo/bar/baz.html and other sites will choose to link with http://www.xyz.com/foo/bar/baz.html. Each version of the URL has its own "referrer count" in a search engine, making the page seem less popular overall.

While search engines could do extra work to identify URLs that are aliases of one another, they're not obligated to do that. And even if a search engine does what you want, other tools may still be confused by duplicate paths (e.g. an archiving system or other link crawler).
Armadillo Aerospace (John Carmack) writeup on 140,000ft rocket flight
Testing Express with Jasmine
I don't know that it's a right-brain vs left-brain thing so much as a preference in learning style: do you prefer to get the big picture first and then make it real with small chunks, or do you prefer the small chunks first and building the big picture afterward? Although I prefer the big picture first, I've learned it's really useful to bounce between the two modes on a given chunk of learning to make sure I really understand what I thought I understood.

Of course, when you first begin programming the computer is annoyingly finicky about those small chunks; unlike IMs, picky little details like punctuation, spelling, and syntax demand your attention before you can get experience with the big pictures.
By which objective system of measurement do you make this claim? I'm curious.
I'm not sure if that's really a bug, but I'm glad I'm not the first person to do that as soon as I saw it!
Well quite. Lets see a prominent example of what the NT documents actually say since we are talking about a Koine Greek word that is used fairly often in them (nearly 250 times IIRC).

Acts 17:31 διοτι εστησεν ημεραν εν η μελλει κρινειν την οικουμενην εν δικαιοσυνη εν ανδρι ω ωρισεν πιστιν παρασχων πασιν αναστησας αυτον εκ νεκρων

πασιν is clearly used here as assurance - not some blind belief in nonsense. You don't understand Koine? Then why is your opinion worth anything in "standard discussion"?
Here's the list for wget I came up with:

http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupstories.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-thedebate.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue019.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue018.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue017.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue016.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue015.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue014.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue013.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue012.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue011.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue010.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue009.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue008.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue007.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue006.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue005.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue004.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue003.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue002.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue001.zip
Thanks for this!

Considering how quickly it took someone to write a script to download them all (It is "Hacker" News, after all), I don't know why they didn't just release them all in one Zip file anyway.

Or maybe someone could put a torrent together, given how much they are getting hammered. (2 hours for a 15.6 MB file, yikes!)
From the article:

> If you created a 30,000-core cluster in a data center, that would cost you $5 million, $10 million, and you’d have to pick a vendor, buy all the hardware, wait for it to come, rack it, stack it, cable it, and actually get it working. You’d have to wait six months, 12 months before you go it running.

If you've got bursting needs for a supercomputer - simulations that need to run for a couple days, maybe - it's going to be much, much more cost effective this way.
Japans new supercomputer cost $100M to build and takes $10M/year in electricity plus all the staff - so $1200/hour sounds pretty good.

Of course the problem is that the Amazon machine isn't a supercomputer any more than me claiming that all the PCs on the floor at all the BestBuys in the world add together to make a supercomputer.

What makes a supercomputer is that those 30,000 cores can all talk to each other very very very quickly
OIC - sorry about that :)
This distinct colors sequence thing reminded me of http://www.ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/colors.html (which does not use φ, but...)
Could you add something to the title explaining what this is about? maybe (Telnet remote root vulnerability) or something like that
The servers are getting slashdotted. Anyone who has gotten all of them downloaded feel like making a torrent? Not for the purposes of piracy, of course, but just to spare this poor guy's bandwidth.
The problem is that if you use other program a lot you begin to confuse shortcuts. That was a big problem for me.
In parallel:

for i in `seq -w 19`; do
wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip" &
done
wait
Go Daddy down, Disney Next
Disney has turned to the dark side. They want to criminalize kids so they can make obscene profits. If a day of bad publicity can change GoDaddy, a week or month of bad publicity will change Disney. One company at a time. Explain to friends, family, children, google+, facebook and twitter that Disney has gone bad.
Japans new supercomputer cost $100M to build and takes $10M/year in electricity plus all the staff - so $1200/hour sounds pretty good.
Of course the problem is that the Amazon machine isn't a supercomputer any more than me claiming that all the PCs on the floor at all the BestBuys in the world add together to make a supercomputer.
What makes a supercomputer is that those 30,000 cores can all talk to each other very very very quickly
While I applaud GoDaddy for having reversed their position on SOPA, I believe they did so not because it was the right thing to do but because they feared for their bottom line.

I still think people should stay away from GoDaddy. You should not do business with anyone whose first instinct is to support defective legislation when they so clearly should know better. GoDaddy have shown what their values are. It is going to take a lot more than a press release to convince me that they are deserving of my business in the future.
The download links of the page seem irregular, so I was trying to make a list. It looks like he kept all issues ordered on the server under another name though, one that fits this format.
Chrome doesn't do that exactly, it requires Control-Enter (which I admit many people wouldn't try). The autocomplete/search during typing does tend to product correct domain suggestions too.
Yes, boring, conservative companies with suits don't make TC.

They can be excruciatingly profitable however.
Can you link to something more respectable than fox news?
this guy's servers must be crying.
You'll find it in pretty much any country if a money center inside that country wants something out of the status quo.
Well no shit, Notch. Nobody ever thought you did. You don't have to curry favor with us; we already like you.

Still good to hear, though. And I always love the tone in your blog posts.
List of data visualization JavaScript projects hosted on Github
As far as I can tell, they're not telling anyone to deface sites - they are saying that you should black out your sites, and encourage others to do the same.

Wikipedia was/is considering doing something similar.
I just tried to follow this link on my phone and it redirects to godaddymobile.com to show me some spam and no article. And they're in the Internet business...?

This company just reeks of clunkiness and tackiness. As keeps being mentioned, I can't believe tech-savvy, well-informed, well-educated people (e.g. YC founders) could go on godaddy.com, see their marketing material ("Go Daddy Girl (R)" ... what?!), their interface etc., and still go ahead and give them money.
most of their ads show some woman exhibiting reluctance to undressing, and then the men around her coercing her to do so anyways.
of course they're misogynist.

But of course, you have to understand that it's part of the company's philosophy.
This is the same CEO that came out in favor of waterboarding: http://www.metafilter.com/42906/Dear-Bob-Im-glad-youre-not-i...

the same CEO that goes elephant hunting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...

supporting SOPA fits in line with that philosophy. The one thing waterboarding, elephant hunting, SOPA and their misogynistic ads have in common is the element of using force against those who are far weaker than you are.
If you manage to connect to the site, that is.
How are wages in europe for engineers and developers? I look at wages in Europe compared to the USA, and even though we work a lot more, developers do get paid far more too, especially when you compare on a cost of living and taxation basis.
The next generation of wireless technology just launched
It would be nice if a torrent was available, but they couldn't exactly have it expire after 24 hours.
They come up with an expected number of rolls-to-complete of 32. This surprisingly large number is why that game tends to drag on forever.
I think they're lying and still support it just don't want to lose the money.
It's fortunate for Amazon. It apparently isn't fortunate for Amazon's employees.

http://articles.mcall.com/2011-11-05/news/mc-allentown-amazo...
Search engines and many other tools do take redirects into account to determine the canonical locations of pages and sites. Google documents their approach of canonicalization, and it would surprise me if other major search engines didn't follow suit.

Also, people tend to take the redirect as a hint about the canonical name of the site. If nothing else, people copying from the location bar or from other links will tend to end up with the version you redirect to. Only people who manually type URLs (and don't check them with the site to see where they end up) will use the non-canonical name. Between that and the search engine canonicalization mentioned above, I see little danger in redirecting one name to the other so both work.

And on the flip side, making both names work ensures that if anyone does visit or link to the wrong name, they still end up at your site. Intentionally giving a "server not found" error or similar seems like significantly worse behavior.
I would really rather Anonymous just stay out of this. Kind of taints the purity of the Anti-SOPA campaign and its never good to be associated with criminals, especially the ones who expose active duty undercover cops who have dedicated their lives to protect us. Just saying.
Great example of SOPA protest - Faye project