skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the math behind mining resources on asteroids?

Assume it takes 50 billion to get to the point where you can mine your first asteroid, how much of what resource is in that asteroid that they can resell to terrestrial earth dwellers who need it for profit?

Or does this not matter at this point?

Further, what will the harvested resources be used to build? Military hardware? If so then I am very unimpressed with what this would mean to our civilization.

While I think it is "cool" - there are so freaking many problems with humans on earth that I feel we largely ignore our core issues and focus on shiny objects.

Every government on the planet is broken, we a a slave species to debt and we kill, exploit and oppress ourselves.

Now, what would be interesting if the took these resources to build a huge floating city-state in the middle of the ocean (or orbit) however, this would just be future-feudalism as it would be living in the corporation.

EDIT: I love how people on HN downvote without any comment. My point is completely valid, it is also my opinion - you don't need to agree, but it would be nice if you attempted to address my question regarding the economics of this effort.
When I go to the link in the article I get the famous "We're sorry, the document you requested is not available in your country." from the Play Store.

I encounter this page so often it's not even funny anymore.

Even worse, google keeps sending me emails about music albums in the Play Store and all the links in these emails show me this error.
Google Outs Google Drive On Its French Blog: Here Are All The Details
Doesn't it qualify under NAFTA at least (granted this only applies to US/Mexico)?
The article's title alludes to scientists seeing a "solution" that is nowhere to be found in the article itself. It seems more like we understand the problem better rather than have found a solution. Am I mis-reading?
I wish someone explained it to me like this, back then.
Creating A Kendo UI MVVM Widget
>Apple basically gets a free pass if you're running Adobe. This is a company that ships crap.

Yes, millions of professional designers using Adobe software are idiots. You are just making BS claims with no support whatsoever. Try opening a huge image in Photoshop and any other editor and see which behaves better and faster.

The only "crap" stuff Adobe does is mostly whatever it acquired from Macromedia.

>I'd recommend getting rid of Lightroom and going to Aperture, or given aperture is a bit behind the curve, upgrading to 16GB of RAM and seeing what adobe-installed processes and KEXTS you can get rid of.

And I'd recommend not listening to BS anecodotal suggestions on the internets. Read a couple of professionally done reviews and benchmarks. All state that Lightroom is faster and more efficient that Aperture. Aperture got a little better in the last version, but still no match to Lightroom.

(I'm not bashing Apple, I like both. Things are what they are though, and yes I've tried both of them.

Thing is: working with freaking huge images, like hundreds of 16 megapixel RAW files, will be slow, whatever you use.
It does, I just didn't see it since it's a similar colour to the background and tucked away right in the corner.
This article discredits itself:

Newvem does not provide any information on how it defines the ‘light user’
category, but [...] The company is also somewhat vague about the area under
consideration -- do the figures refer to computing power (EC2), storage
(S3), or the whole AWS package combined?

There is really nothing of substance to see here. On the other hand, the main point being made is probably not wrong. It makes sense for most server owners who only experience light traffic to have 99%+ of their EC2 capacity unused.

For example, I rent a Micro instance for all my stuff and server load is mostly 0.00 with less than 3% of CPU utilization - that's a couple of dynamic websites with about 8-10 HTTP requests per second overall. I'm willing to bet there are a lot of customers out there having an even lower traffic rate and Micro is the smallest server you can rent so of course there will be a lot of unused capacity.
OK, this is probably correct, but so what? Keeping a prepaid micro and/or small instance running all of the time is more a matter of convenience than cost effectiveness.
there are cookie free analytical tools out there which can be used for same purpose.
GUID Guide (part one)
Well, there is a small disclaimer on the page that says Currently only available in the USA. Not that it justifies completely blocking the page.
Thanks for the feedback. :street is getting fixed, and I fixed the missing "extend". But if you see others please do send pull requests here: https://github.com/fogus/himera
It was a refocusing of funds, but yeah. The US decided to put more effort into the National ignition facility instead of ITER. Still, we do research for/with ITER, just not as a partnering country.
Show HN: Thriftify - Thrift as a Service
A little something me (@erans) and @rantav cooked up after an idea from @scode
Not related. But their blog served over HTTPS throws an error: https://blog.parse.com/
Maybe "the real world" isn't the right term, but high school certainly is an isolated, controlled, and artificial environment compared to the rest of the outside world. The kids are locked down and have little to no freedom and little to no control over their environment. Also, some things that are socially acceptable in high school are NOT socially acceptable in an adult workplace.

In that sense, high school is not "the real world", because high school students don't have the same freedom or the same tools to deal with obnoxious people as they otherwise would in the adult world. In "the real world", you have legal recourse if someone in your workplace is harassing you. You can get a restraining order. You can talk to your H.R. department. You can sue your workplace and/or the person if you've taken the above steps and nothing has been done. You can quit your job and get a new one. In high school you have none of those luxuries. Unless the harassment is extreme, there is very little likelihood of getting a restraining order against another student. Furthermore, getting a restraining order is not something a high schooler can do on their own (they would need help from their parents). You can talk to the administration at the school, but they don't have the same power, nor the same incentive to avoid lawsuits (although this is changing) as a company's H.R. department. Also, many school administrators are still of the mindset that "kids will be kids" when it comes to bullying/harassment, and are unwilling to do anything about the issue. Finally, a high schooler cannot simply quit high school like an adult can quit his or her job. Again, it involves their parents's help.

That is the difference between high school and "the real world". In the real world, harassment is a serious legal issue; in high school, it's just "kids will be kids". In the real world, you have at least a modicum of control over your environment; in high school, kids have no control. In the real world, actions have consequences; in high school, apparently, they do not.
But isn't that in itself another vector to 'hook' and redirect (just like the keystokes and clipboard)?

I'm going to agree with jiggy2011. Once you are compromised at that level then it's pretty much game over.
Appboy: The First Real Social Network Within Any Mobile App
A little something me (@erans) and @rantav cooked up after I saw a tweet by @scode (https://twitter.com/#!/rantav/status/189643309172539392) suggesting something like that :-)

It even got a dead simple cURL API.
A quick guide to our current privacy threats
call me a bad coder but when I used rails 2.3 I had never seen it in production code. I was too young though - may be you're right.

Anyways rails 2.3 had no csrf protection
If this bug was simply due to having the wrong concept of defaultdict, and if the others you saw were the same, then you can avoid the bugs forever by just having the right concept. Lots of ifs there, of course.
I think that tablets change the game. On my computer? Not interested. On my iPad? Very interested.
Functional programming is a ghetto
Here are some sample polls on Polls.io made by other users to show you how they look/work.

Does life exist outside of Earth? http://polls.io/ugoht
How do you get your news? http://polls.io/usprd
I must have a plugin or something that breaks this.

When I went I saved the word "what" against the fingerprint of 0e24f67890fb99dfd6fa147adc5634224e6cf509

Then, I opened a new tab, copied and pasted the url to ghosttouch and was given this fingerprint: 0373164e6053f6d4d1e0cea156be83e5a45e13d4

So, out of curiosity I copied and pasted the url in the same tab where I had "saved" my word:

0373164e6053f6d4d1e0cea156be83e5a45e13d4

It generated the same code.

So then I went back and re-saved my word, went to the ghosttouch site again and this time it loaded my word.

Something wonky in there but I'm not sure what.
it does absolutely same job(you can read sources) but requires less symbols and looks RESTful - fair enough, isn't it?
"...the idea that Apple could shut off non-store software completely is pretty fantastical and unrealistic."

Could or would? They could at any point. That's not what this (old) news says though. Gatekeeper requires application signing, which is entirely different than "shutting off non-store software completely." All App Store apps are signed by default, which is why the news makes this distinction.

"That said (and as a Mac fan), I don't like this move."

Please, ask yourself why. Reflect on it, because I think a lot of the apprehension is misguided.

App signing is a good thing. Developers have an entirely different set of needs from the general computing public. We represent a small percentage of said population. So why should computers be designed with defaults that suit us, when we have the ability to change them (easily)?

The Flashback virus should be a wake up call to those still clinging to the notion that the current situation is sustainable. It's not. Flashback would have been stopped by app signing. Even if a malicious signed app does make it through to the public, the ability to revoke their cert means you can take the app offline quickly.

This is good for the vast majority of computer users. Is it less open? Yes, but it's a step forward from a safety perspective. You have to choose your priorities. What we have now isn't working.
I have a very similar view. One thing that seems to be specific for US high schools is that there are relatively clearly defined and isolated groups. In the school I attended (in the Czech Rep), there were vague / fuzzy groups but basically everyone was friends with everyone.
True, though it would be easy to divide this among online book retailers, or even go directly through publisher's stores. Amazon was just the best example with an affiliate structure I could find.
Update those Macs already Yet another Flashback variant is out
Javvad Malik Interviews Don Bailey at Black Hat EU 2012
GiddyUp – An Easier Way To Plan A Social Event With Your Friends [iOS & Android]
I disagree. IMO dynamic load libraries was a known bad solution before they were made (dll hell). Plenty of exploits have come from them, plenty of horror stories, etc. If you have a nice distro anyway, upgrading a given library that everyone packages should be doable.

Windows still uses shared libraries but at least they invented the GAC so applications can specify exactly which version of a library they work with and the installer will install that version if it's not present.
I'm 25, and I'm in the same boat kinda. Read the book Rework, it is amazing.

As far as the out of the box ideas, don't think about making ideas to make money, solve problems...sometimes, try to solve problems people don't even know exist yet.

I just quit my job to do...whatever I'm going to do...full time. I've been saving money, and I just decided...I'm smart enough, dedicated enough, it's time. Do I suggest this for everyone? No, not really. I've been working at night on projects for about 9 months and I'm just ...ready.

I suggest more savings, more planning, and more working at night until you really decide its time. Run your own company, on your own time, until you get that ...urge. It may be 3 months from now, or 3 years. Either way, as long as you can pay your bills and eat, either with savings or side jobs. Do what you love, make tools you want, learn as much as you can, and change the world. Email me whenever you feel like. Tyler.Exposure (a) gmail.com
Let's call it "Bubble Froth" - the excitement and frenzy the startup community has around financing and funding.

"Tiny bubbles... In the whine..."
Well, yes. I did find the comment in extremely poor taste, but I also don’t pretend to have enough information to assess it further. Nothing to do but suspend judgement and give a measured response.
But it's hard for governments to have its sight range longer than the election cycle. Private companies can aim for longer than 4 years without worrying about not being reelected when it's time to collect the spoils of their hard work.
You seriously just cited something from the Discovery Institute, a group that believes a book trumps scientific evidence? They have a strong agenda that includes homeschooling. The article you cited is not research, it's an internally created, non-peer reviewed meta review. Not exactly high quality material.

I'm not saying your argument is necessarily wrong, just that you found some of the worst possible material to support it.
>Moving from Lightroom to Aperture's not a possibility, given the workflow, experience, and catalog data she's built up in Lightroom over the years.

Forget the advice. Lightroom is faster, as noted in every review of both programs. Try Aperture yourself with the demo to find out.

Working with 10+ megapixel images is always going to be slow, and with camera advances, it will get worse every time your wife gets a higher resolution camera --so comparing it with how it used to be when you have 6mp files is not exactly correct.

More memory and an SSD will definitely help.
Your favorite freelance website to start making money
Hi!

I've been looking at lots of freelance job boards (such as oDesk, Elance, freelancer, guru, etc). I'm a software/web developer and I'd like to find some fun stuff to work on for some side money to help fund my startup ideas.

That is why I'm asking all of you freelancers out there, which is your favorite? Why is it your favorite? Which one is the safest from a freelancer point-of-view? (I don't want to get screwed).

This is an open discussion, any opinion is welcome!

Thanks and have a nice day!

- Tommy
I like the essay as a whole, but there is one clue that struck me.

"Then one day, Mike got tired of my bullshit and said those words to me. "That's why you don't have any friends," he said at very high volume. He deserved to say it -- I'd just told him to go fuck himself when he tried to explain why my girlfriend at the time was screwing someone behind my back. I called him every name in the book."

It's not being weird that will make you a pariah; being an asshole does.
I was mostly thinking about the browser extensions, which probably use the extension API to directly set the values on the fields.

FWIW, the 1Password website (http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/security.html) mentions copy and paste in the context of other password managers that require you to copy/paste:

> Not only is this manual work inconvenient, but as soon as “copy and paste” are mentioned, you become vulnerable to keyloggers and phishing attacks.
They don't necessarily have to work the same 4d week.
Or, change the FTP password and email that to the ISP abuse team. Spammer is locked out.
blogger and tons of javascript loading wheels.. I just want to read som text, google how hard can it bee!!!?
And thus my paranoia about buying a new phone is justified - my 14 day "free to cancel" period with Verizon just ended, and now this is announced.
Chirpify Lands $1.3M For the Simplest Social Commerce Platform You've Ever Seen
Of course, we Emacs users have always had that sort of thing. That's why Agile folks at Lean startups tend to favor Vim these days. True story.
Unfortunately longjmp() is not available in the Linux kernel, so I integrated the BSD implementation of it into my library/kmodule for this purpose: https://github.com/haberman/upb/blob/master/bindings/linux/s...
It sounds totally insane, but I read somewhere that the backers just bought a bunch of platinum puts and then announced their plans to mine it from space...
I have no idea if the article is accurate, but yes, it does mention a possible solution:

>"Among other things, they intend to see if injecting power directly into the islands will lead to higher density. If so, that could help future tokamaks reach the extreme density and 100-million-degree temperatures that fusion requires."
it really feels like more of a rebranding of google docs, rather than a new service. People have been able to upload arbitrary files into docs for some time now, but I have met only a few who actually knew that.

My question is that if this is in fact the case, and it is "the next step in google docs", will they advertise docs as a feature of drive, as two separate products, or is the average user supposed to know that you open up Drive to edit your spreadsheet.
Real-Time Billionaires
Understanding your app audiences
The second one (using GOTO) is actually fairly common:

http://vilimpoc.org/research/raii-in-c/

Despite the evil that can be made of GOTO, it has it's uses.
I was not home schooled (I'm not sure such a thing exists in Sweden) but before I started school, my grandparents took care of me while my parents went to work, so I didn't go to daycare or anything like that. Even these days into middle age I'm clearly more "socially challenged" than most people. I remember school being quite a shock to me, and I do think that it would have been useful to be exposed to more kids at a young age.

So I guess what I'm feeling is that school isn't just for learning stuff, it's for learning to live in a world that's full of people, most very different from you, and where knowing how to interact easily with them probably is just as important as learning any particular "school stuff". Against this background, I'm fundamentally skeptic that the concept of home schooling really would be an overall positive in someone's life.
How caret navigation works in Google Tasks
Here's a screenshot for those who can't access the page: http://i.imgur.com/rR80K.jpg
I was one of the (few?) people who bought the original Nexus direct from Google and haven't regretted it. While I fully support their efforts, I would love more insight into the relationship their direct phone sales will have with their motorola division.
An eleven years old start-up
Deleting the contents is illegal, heck, even accessing the server is illegal. Furthermore, it destroys evidence the ISP needs to shut it down.
Thanks for this information! Really, it is $_REQUEST as in PHP.

To yummyfajitas - your message is 50% trolling. Will you allow me to troll a little bit? I used django and scrapy few years ago and despite the fact it was better than PHP I would not even dare to compare it with Rails. Rails is that superior I don't even have words to explain it :D Conclusion: I'm not interested in Django and its bug because I love rails and wanna make it more secure anyways. Sorry, but Django is way less convinient to use. Security is another story though.
Predicting the Mobile Future
You're right. ASL is the source of the slowdown, but .hushlogin isn't actually doing anything to solve the problem.

The correct way to bypass the ASL query is to set Terminal to open shells with /bin/bash (or your shell of choice) instead of the default login shell. Terminal will still use /usr/bin/login to launch the shell, but it passes the -q switch to prevent the ASL query.

When I dug into the source code a couple of months ago, I inadvertently made both changes (Terminal settings and .hushlogin). Clearly it's the Terminal settings that solved the problem and not .hushlogin. Thanks for clearing it up.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check those out for sure!

I like Jobs as well, kind of hard on people but he had an idea and followed it to the end and that's remarkable.
The startup epiphany
Planetary Resources Live Webcast 1:30PM ET today - Asteroid Mining
The one true entrepreneur secret
Supposed to be, but rarely was. Throw a bunch of new programmers at a framework, and insecure-by-default becomes insecure.
Windows 8 Release preview coming this June
I was unprepared for that level of Hunger Games quote density. Jesus.
Why not 5 day weeks with shorter days? I much prefer shorter work days to working fewer days. It gives you a lot more flexibility. You feel less burned out / tired on days you work. You can get more done in the morning or night or sleep in later.
I was so used to the semantics of std::map that I was surprised it didn't work that way in Python.
There's quite enough "we worked 100h weeks and ate ramen on our road to success" stories out there to balance this one out, don't worry.
Also has check-in and chat. Audience of 650 with two hours to go.
Looks like a study driven by a marketing department.

I think there's an assumption here that idle or stopped servers are bad in themselves. There's definitely a cost associated with spinning up and configuring a new instance, so I don't think this assumption always holds true.
Now it's pretty obvious what everyone going to Google I/O will get...
That's cute, but why do I have to be in the office?

Because of the evidence that co-located teams perform better than distributed ones in many situations? See http://delicious.com/adrianh/colocation for some refs.

If people have references to research (rather than anecdotes) that counter this I'd love to see 'em. I mostly work remotely myself - but I completely understand organisations that don't want to work that way.
Something I never thought of. Have you tried this approach yourself?
Q1 2012 Tech Funding Overview – Who Got Funded?
A detailed list of what internet-related companies were funding in Q1 2012.

$2.8 Billon ($2,791,352,700) was raised by 274 companies.

All data was sourced through articles aggregated and filtered on www.techfiltered.com/funding
Interesting. I've never read anything by Suzanne Collins, but except for the occasional Jane Austin, she dominates the list.
As I understand it "Drive" will be the new name for the "Document List", the documents themselves (spreadsheets, presentations, etc) will still be referred to as Google Docs.
Wow. I ordered an HTC One S a few days ago but it hasn't shipped yet. It was $549- $399 is a lower enough price that it is sorely tempting. And it's a Nexus device. The only issue I have is the size of the thing.

Hmm. Are there any GNexus owners our there that can tell us about the size of the device? It's the one real sticking point I have with it.

EDIT: For anyone else that's wondering, I looked up the refund policy. They pay return shipping, but you pay a 15% restocking fee- $60, pre-tax.
The Price of Happiness: $50,000?
It's mostly because of legacy. Your smartphone has (atleast) 2 operating system, there's the visible one (Android/iOS), and the one running the base band. The protocols used to talk to the cellular network is quite big, much, much bigger than just a TCP/IP stack, and there's usually more than one (often 2 or 3 of GSM, UMTS, LTE, CDMA). That part of the cellphone has evolved over the years, and when cellphones were able to connect to the internet over the cellular network, many stuck a TCP/IP stack in there as well, together with all the other protocols running on the baseband processor, and that decision has stuck. All this is abstracted away in android in the RIL, and while many(most?) Android devices does use the linux IP stack (as this picture conveys; http://www.kandroid.org/online-pdk/guide/telephony.html), not all do, and not all phones run Android - and are still leveraging the IP stack in the baseband. Cause it works, and it cost money to do something about it.