skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need much fuel to get the materials back down. As I note below, a railgun is all you need to send the materials on their way, and aerobraking/controlled re-entry gets them back down to earth.

Unmanned cargo can withstand high G forces, high temperatures, long transit times, and there is so much material available that losses due to ablation are likely acceptable.
Attempted to read them in mobile, didn't see anything because I can't hover.
Thanks. Actually, that video is about cut-n-paste. The michaelkelleher.info site mentioned in the video no longer works. Do you have an updated one?
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Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back) links to a semi-rebuttal:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289610...

Naturally, the full article is behind a paywall.
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"That's the emergent use case that's become almost a standard for the site."

For the consumer electronics. I'd say it's absolutely about crowdfunding and supporting the creator for artist and artwork projects, which are the majority that I back, as well as many people I know.
I wrote the original that Jamieson is commenting on.

He clearly "gets it" and I was going to say "amen" to his post until I got to the part about how Facebook and Apple did a public API first. They didn't. Instead they focused on end user value first (the app) and THEN once they had traction they exposed APIs publicly (the platform).

There are tons of examples of this formula working, but very few (if any!) examples of pure platforms/APIs being massively successful (dev tools & frameworks don't count).

Please read this for more of my perspective on this point http://ceklog.kindel.com/2011/08/24/be-either-an-app-or-a-pl...
Anyone managed to get pass Fancy's signup? At 18M funding, why nothing happens when I press the signup button?
Call centers and telemarketing companies in Malaysia.
http://www.premiumpixels.com/ does this as well.
I don't think it's necessarily people with great wealth. It's the people who have made great wealth that appear to be doing things like this. IIRC James Cameron drove tractor-trailers for a living before he broke into being a director. As we all know, Google started in a garage. Steve Jobs backpacked around India, etc.

What we seem to be seeing is that these "new money" entrepreneurs spend a great portion of their wealth, using their skills at innovation and bulldogging people into doing what they need, to make great changes. It's worthy of note that Rockefeller, who was the worlds first billionaire, donated $550 million through his philanthropy by 1918. He essentially made the University of Chicago. From about 1900 to 1940 his personal wealth was steady at approximately 1% of the US GDP. More notable still, is that from his first pay check he gave 10% of his earnings to his church. His funding of medical research was instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever.

Bill Gates is rather fittingly working in Rockefeller's shoes.

I think its fantastic that these "new money" billionaires are literally chasing their dreams and dragging us along with them.

I'm 24, and at 16 I was thinking that my chance of seeing another planet or even space was solely reliant on finding some LSD. Essentially I put the factual chance of my seeing space to be 1 in a trillion. With SpaceX and announcements like this, I feel like they must have when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. I feel like I should be sleeping in the back seat of my car while it flies me to work and that I'll go vacation on Mars and go for a weekend getaway in LEO.

It's amazing to me that in such a short time that this shit has become possible again.
> What resources are so scarce that it would pay to mine them in space ?

Helium-3 http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/moon-mars/1283...
Texts - a Markdown editor for Mac & Windows - http://www.textseditor.com/

I like that it's a true wysiwyg editor in that you actually edit rich text instead of typing the markdown syntax.
While the triviality of maintaining a sync between the spec and functionality of a Fake and real S3 will show in time, I think this is a neat idea.

One thought that comes to my mind is if I could get away with building entire apps using this and spin it off to S3 where/if it's needed.
For the love of {whatever}, please stop using markdown or any other text to html markup. When you use it a lot yourself, you think it's no big deal. And you begin to think your users will understand it easily.

37signals used to do this with Basecamp. I would bet $100 that if they asked their customers, their customers would overwhelmingly say that they prefer the WYSIWYG editor that is now in Basecamp instead of the old way.

Make things easier for your users. Repeat.
a "bubbly" 27 billion, no less. wonder what that means, in retrospect.
Konqueror isn't in the list of primary browsers. I'm sorry, but you can't build for everything. If you did, we'd all still be writing HTML 4.0.
If you use vim as your primary Markdown editor, I'd suggest plasticboy's markdown plugin: https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown

I was using vim's default syntax highlighter for Markdown and ran into highlighting issues with unclosed single quotes.

Since a lot of Markdown files use .md instead of .markdown, I'd also suggest adding the file `~/.vim/ftplugin/modula2.vim` containing:

setlocal filetype=mkd
cek is definitely right, but the point that I'm trying to make is that API's should be a building block as important -- nay, MORE important -- than OOP in the first place. Someone (sorry, can't find the reference) once called REST "what OOP should have been."

backend -> API -> yourapp
there's really just one simple rule for this: dress exactly the way you are willing to dress at work.

if you underdress, and they give you a hard time about it, you might not fit in well at that company and you dodged a bullet.

if you overdress, there is a chance you will make your interviewer uncomfortable and not get the job.

dress in what you like to wear. its as simple as that. let them hire the real you, and not a front you put on based on some perceived image you have of the company.
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OP, I really don't want to be that guy, and I don't know why I'm being that guy tonight, but regarding your sentence, "I then spent hours pouring over..." - come on man, it's poring.
On my last project, we used Dragonfly. Holy cow -- trivial to switch between file-backed and s3-backed storage in the various environment config files.

It was a lifesaver, because the wifi at the place I was couch-surfing was a little spotty.
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My thoughts exactly. The external world does not work based on someone's passion. Whatever we do is the result of the sum of all the things in our life and not just our work life.

If you found your passion and it also pays your bills, great. Congrats. This is not true for most people.
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Getting goods down is the easy part. Use a rail gun to send the materials towards earth, then use aerobraking and controlled re-entry to get things back to the ground (Wikipedia has excellent explanations of these).

Unmanned cargo doesn't mind high G forces, high temperatures, or long transit times. And material losses due to ablation are probably acceptable given the excessive amount of materials available.
>People often go to bed regretting not doing what they could have done when instead they were on Facebook and Twitter and [insert the names of 90% of the startups you have heard of].

I know I have. Many more times than I care to admit.

>it is that too many companies are not doing things worthy of hackers.

Excellent. And since I always ask this question of people who lament the status quo:

What did you have in mind?
The interviewer says something about the board having WiFi. Last I heard, it doesn't ship with WiFi on-board. Which is accurate?
I'm not sure if it would cost much to store or not. They might be able to use carbon fiber boxes (built in space) and get it in to high orbit. Satellites can stay up there for a long time with limited/no additional expense.
I'm going to have to disagree. Markdown is used on StackOverflow, GitHub, Reddit.

While StackOverflow and GitHub users may be tech-savvy, Reddit has a lot of casual users. Markdown is not difficult to pick up, it merely codifies how people type anyway.

Other advantages of using Markdown locally is to separate data from content, legibility, and standard support. Using Pandoc, you can convert Markdown files into HTML, PDF, manpages, etc.
In which the JavaScript semicolon wars are definitively won
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Want to experience real pain? PayPal + eBay. Talk about some horror stories.

Here's what's interesting: It's YOUR MONEY. This isn't a credit card. It's a payment system that allows you to take your money --real cash-- and pay for things. Why are they placing limits on people's own money? If the account has enough balance for the purchase in question (and the money has been there for a while) you should be able to spend it as you wish.

As for linking a bank account. Not a big deal these days. You can open an account with $100. I don't see this as a problem, particularly if you are talking about paying thousands for conferences. Yes, it's a pain to keep track of. That's what Quicken/Quickbooks is for.
It's a plausible (temporary) solution, known as the "employer of last resort". It worked okay in the 1930s; even today, a lot of the national-parks infrastructure is stuff that was built in that era, because instead of just handing out welfare payments, the government hired people on short-term contracts instead. Same stimulus/welfare effect (people who can't find other work are paid for a few months), but the national parks got some useful work out of the deal too.
True. But on the other hand, look at RIM (Blackberry) and Apple (iPhone). Any large incumbent can be displaced. They take longer to die because they have cash, but they die nonetheless.
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Anyone else shocked about the 9000+ notifications unread? Isn't that admitting it useless?
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I think the moral is more like: teaching in the public schools will burn anyone out who actually cares about teaching.
> What if it's the opposite? What if the people who end up with the wealth do great things with it?

Well you have to consider that people who were able to make a great amount of money through capitalistic means usually are not "EVIL" people. Because they have to sell their products/services to others, they need to please their clients/customers on an everyday basis. They have to have a rather good profile in order to keep their business going (and their own organization, for the matter).

You'd rather have to wonder about politicians, who get rich by diverting voters' resources, misusing the state money, and lying about their own responsibilities. And in History, they have been the fat cats enslaving populations and mass-murdering people. We have yet to see any example of this happening in the private sector.

Anyway, rich people are not unique in terms of profile. How you make your own money tells a lot about you and what you are really worth.
Globalization is something they claim to have been working on for a very long time now. Paypal has done it, so it is possible. I wonder what the roadblocks are for Stripe that Paypal doesn't have to deal with.
Headcounts are a common metric of importance in business, though not the only one. Especially for managers, the phrase "grew the organization from [x] to [y]" is often denominated in units of employees (take a look at google hits for "grew the organization from"). So managers typically have an incentive to increase headcount.
Heey this looks interesting.

Wow, that looks good, I will download that

"Create an account to download these Free Goods." popup appears.

Oh goddamn it, "Free" eh, oh well, I will go back to browsing the other stuff so I will just close...this..popup...where is the close button!? All the preview boxes have the little X, why not this?

I am not impresssed.
It wasn't the Commonwealth Saga, it was the Night's Dawn series, and I was wondering if someone else would mention it. It's pretty resource-intensive, but we're talking about freaking asteroid mining, so the woo-woo SF aspects of it suddenly feel a little more plausible.
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So anybody who attempts to use orbit owes Trinity College a few quid !
There's a whole field of science devoted solely to modeling large systems of interconnected stochastic processes and identifying bottlenecks.

These models need to be fed known inputs and parameters such as component limits.

Neither can be specified in advance for your average, public-facing, constantly changing webapp.
I would be surprised if someone who read much of the relevant history could honestly conclude that bureaucratic imperatives had a bigger distorting role in how the space program progressed than the Cold War did. The Cold War, and the resulting influence on NASA's decisions from the military, was an extremely large factor up through at least the late 1980s. Everything we did in space had one eye looking over at the possibility of space-based weapons, space-based missile defense, space-based surveillance, etc., and it often resulted in surprisingly detailed requirements that a program be done one way or another.
Very nice, open source it? I've always been interested in returning images with web apps.
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> it requires a user token that's no longer obtainable (that I could find) as github is deprecating it in favor of oauth.

Whoa, I had just used that feature last week. It used to be on the 'Account Settings' page near the password fields.
I much prefer gender neutral language to using "she" or "he".

Unless of course we are talking about a specific example like "John foolishly unscrewed the cap on his radiator while the engine was running".

In which case I would generally try and mix the gender across examples.

"Jane stabbed herself in the eye with a pencil when she was rear-ended by John on the way to the hospital"
That's GitHub flavor. You can also use back ticks and specify syntax highlighting, e.g:

```python

from functools import partial

def foo(a,b,i):
if i >= a and i <= b:
return i**2
else:
return 0

print reduce(lambda x,y: x+y,map(partial(foo,3,7),xrange(1,10)))
```
Definitely, I constantly see people (myself included) want Stripe here.

I would appreciate more updates though from Stripe about the progress of entering the Australian market.

For all I know, they haven't even started talking to anyone yet, but knowing some progress information would be appreciated, instead of them saying they won't talk about it.
I think you can get WiFi with a USB dongle. It's not onboard.
I'm at a startup and am having exactly the same thoughts. I'm passionate about starting a company but MY company, not the one I'm working at. I've felt recently that taking a bigco job (with more pay and less hours) and bootstrapping my own company might be the better path. Please talk me down!
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got it. We'll definitely consider it in our next rev! I'll let you know.
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I don't think Oracle has a copyright case, but they may have a patent case (with what few claims are remaining). If you are derived from OpenJDK you have a patent license from Oracle. If you pass the TCK, you also get a patent license. But if you do neither, you've got nothing.

BTW, I don't think Oracle did a 180 on anything. All Harmony's FOU problems happened years before Oracle bought Sun. I suspect there were influential people in JavaSoft who never believed in independent third-party implementations and just led Harmony along because they thought it would never amount to anything. When Harmony started looking like a threat to J2ME revenue, they invented the FOU to stop it.
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Hit Esc. That works for most dialogs created from jQuery ;)
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no reason it couldn't handle 100X that load as long as I keep paying the bill

You might be surprised what kind of limits you hit and what your invoice looks like when you actually hit 50k reqs/sec for any length of time.

Cloud platforms have bottlenecks, too. The vendors usually handle that by making it comically expensive for you to exceed a certain threshold ("financial back pressure") and/or by throttling you outright.
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I built Fancite to bring in all the latest trending images that are shared on the various social networks. The motivation behind this is that if I don't check my twitter/instagram/tumblr stream for one day, I miss out on awesome content. And that too is assuming I know who to follow and where to look for this content. This is an example of a visualization of the latest fan shared images for Star Wars. I would love any and all feedback you guys have for what I've built.
GitHub really needs to allow users to control their notifications and activity feed with finer granularity.

There are projects I work on, which I want to appear in my activity feed. There are projects I want to bookmark, which I don't want in my activity feed.

Right now the signal:noise ratio is terrible for activity feed and notifications.
The main point to me is that it's comparing apples and oranges: an organization that's mandated to do long-term fundamental research along with space travel, along with satisfying military priorities, engaging in scientific research, and on top of that, release a large amount of data to the public that others can build on.

Versus... an organization that just wants to launch a rocket, building on that data and fundamental research that others spend money doing, but which doesn't have any strong commitment to any of the other priorities (such as releasing new reusable data or basic-science research for others to build on in turn). Of course the latter organization will be cheaper, because the entire organization has a different set of priorities. In particular, NASA's mandate requires it to spend money on trying to make its results constitute scientific advances, i.e. publishable work, releasable data, etc.; whereas Space-X is happy to save money by not doing so.

For example, I've been looking for the FTP site where I can download raw data originating from Space-X and released into the public domain, and I can't find one. That's not very helpful for others who're looking to build on their advances!
Does that estimate take into account the way such vast amounts affect the price curve? I would think that the gold price will fall if it is available in abundance.
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I'd love to do a detailed blog post on it, but unfortunately I'm too swamped right now.

The summary:

- Any serious codebase is going to exceed the complexity you can hold in your mind at one time

- Once that happens, it's crucial that you can reason about the part you are focusing on

- Interactions between components are MUCH harder to reason about if they share mutable data

- It's possible to design cleanly isolated components in any language

- But we found that Clojure makes it natural to write concise, testable and isolated code

- So much so that writing sloppy/badly designed systems _feels awkward_ in Clojure

- For us, that was more beneficial than a book full of patterns or best practices

- YMMV, but I'd try it out and be sure to get over any aversion to Lisp before passing judgement

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Just wondering, are we allowed to see it? I mean, will they remove it if they notice everyone can access to it?
Also all of the rare earth minerals, like Platinum, Palladium, Tantalum, Niobium, etc. Useful for other high tech endeavours like fuel cells, capacitors, solar cells.

Energy via solar satellites might also be possible, if the mechanism to transmit power from space can be figured out.
I think that would be workable, and people would commit to solving those problems, if they knew that for the next X years their basic needs would be taken care of.
I'd pledge the full $200K if they would take on C++ immediately. I am so sick and tired of IDEs that suck at delivering solid C++ coding environment. The best tool I've found for the job, to date, is Source Insight.
I don't really get what his passion was. He states that he followed his passion and became a teacher, but having never worked as a teacher, there must have been some aspects of teaching that he thought would be fulfilling. Most of the time when people choose career paths it is for reasons that have nothing to do with passion. In fact, for most people it seems that career choice is just a mixture of luck and somewhat random choices. What exactly makes somebody start down the path of being a lawyer? Maybe their father was a lawyer or they saw a movie about a lawyer that influenced them. Conversely, somebody might become a librarian because a job opens in their hometown and they just drift into it without much planning due to sheer convenience (I know a lot of people like that). I think that career progression is largely luck-based as well, because you cannot possibly know what the reality of day-to-day life in a career looks like without living it.

Having gone through an MBA program, I have seen this first hand. People's entire career paths are condensed down to 18 months and a set of a few companies that just happen to recruit where you go to school. One student may come in convinced that he wants to be an entrepreneur, get pulled into the consulting crowd and have a complete shift in goals, just to get dinged by the top consulting firms and end up settling into the management track at Sears. That's the trouble with following your passion- it is pretty tough to define just what that is, and the fact that there are some jobs that involve it to an extent is probably not the best way to follow it.

As an aside: one other thing I noticed which was quite prevalent in the bschool crowd was this dream to do your own thing and run your own business. I would hear people say "my goal is to start a company" or "I want to join a startup." The odd thing is that none of these people actually took direct steps toward trying to start a business. They felt pressure from their peers getting lucrative offers from consulting firms and such and said things like "I'm going to work for a few years and get some experience under my belt and then I'm going to start a business or join a startup." It seems what made these people happy was convincing themselves that they were planning a future that would best set them up to create this business and become rich at some point in the future. What made them get out of bed early and work hard was satisfying some false prerequisite that they dangled in front of their own face. When that was accomplished, they created another, and another, and another. It seems that actually is where their happiness came from- making themselves believe that they were progressing towards their goal.