skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing but speculation here. No one has actually announced asteroid mining, that's just someone's guess as to what the company may be about.

Maybe it is, but there's no official announcement yet...
I am curious on the usage of this variable or was it never referenced afterwards?

Perhaps the author sets it to false later symbolizing some sort of transformation you went through or at least a change in his perception of you.

Perhaps it was in a "bipolar" loop:

while (true):
sleep(1000 * 60 * 24)
alanIsABastard = !alanIsABastard
bguthrie didn't write that.
No, the law states "goods or wares", the code is neither.
This is one of the better analyses I've seen of CISPA. I'll save tptacek some time and quote liberally from the article:

"It's unclear why new legislation is needed to allow this kind of uncontroversial information sharing to occur. Network administrators and security researchers at private firms have shared threat information with one another for decades. And the law also allows information sharing between private firms and the government in many circumstances. For example, a private company is already free to notify the FBI if it detects an attempt to hack into its network."

[...]

"The "notwithstanding" approach to cybersecurity is fundamentally flawed because it's almost impossible to predict which parts of US law might be effectively changed by the new law, or to prevent unintended consequences from unduly broad sharing. It would be far better for Congress to figure out which specific privacy laws (if any) prevent effective network security responses and explicitly reform those provisions."

[...]

"Given the roaring success of the Internet's backlash against the Stop Online Piracy Act, CISPA opponents have an irresistable temptation to compare the two bills. Both bills represent attacks on the rights of Internet users, but the similarity largely ends there.

A better analogy is the 2008 FISA Amendment Act, which granted major telecommunications incumbents retroactive immunity for their participation in warrantless wiretapping and eliminated judicial oversight for a broad category of government surveillance. CISPA is likely to further erode the already weak legal restraints on government surveillance of Americans, and there's no meaningful judicial oversight of information shared under the "cyber threat" program."
Does SpaceX's cost include the original research costs that NASA incurred by actually researching the underlying principles the Dragon rockets use?

I think people are underestimating the costs NASA incurred by being first. Take the X15 for example, its first test flights were without its planned engine because nobody up until that point had ever built a throttleable rocket engine.

Now its well known how to build them and what not to do. I'm not saying NASA is efficient, but direct numerical comparisons like these unnecessarily distort the various differences in history between the two.

The shuttles many deficiencies are rather well documented as well. And it, now had, features that the Dragon rockets don't serve such as the obvious recovery of space payloads for example.
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Are you envisioning Congress doing this? (Seems unlikely.) Or how else would it be implemented?
Elon Musk started with fast money (PayPal) and is now using that to pursue big dreams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Am I the only one who can't stand the website? There is nothing more than a brief paragraph about what the product does. It doesn't tell you what programs it works with, what platforms it works on, or numerous other details I'd like to know. PLEASE give me some information about what it is exactly I'm trying to download. I'm at work and it tells me it's not available on my operating system because it's on Windows. But I run Linux and OSX at home, does it support either of those? I can't even find out if I wanted to.
Yes, as of the S-1, $3.9 billion in cash and equivalents.
If this kind of thing interests you and you haven't read it yet, it might be worth reading "Mining the Sky" by John S. Lewis which goes into how this could in theory be done without enormous advancements in technology and what the value would be.
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Maybe I'm missing the purpose of the article, but I am responding to how I interpreted it.

What will our future be like if we all focus our lives around little boxes in our hands rather than the vast open spaces around us?

Perhaps we should invent a future where the technology are the tools we use to enhance our life, not control our life. In Star Trek, people weren't addicted to PADDs or spend every living moment in the Holo Deck. In fact the episodes where technology controlled people, we recognized the technology as evil.

Invent something to enhance our lives, not control them.
In my experience as a user of Facebook on mobile phones, mobile Facebook sucks.

From a technical perspective, the UI of their native app suffers from lag, making it unusable for me, which is why I prefer opening Facebook in my mobile browser. The web experience is much better and doesn't bother me much, except when I want to upload photos.

Also, the whole Facebook experience sucks on mobiles phones because Facebook was designed for desktop browsers and there are no easy ways out. The difference on mobile phones is that because of the small screen size the consumption of content has to be linear and the Facebook stream is anything but (unline Twitter or your SMS Inbox). To add salt to the injury, a big part of what forms the Facebook experience is made of Flash-powered games and shitty apps that weren't designed for small touch-screens.

Basically Facebook has gotten too big to turn around fast and redesign their experience around mobile phones. They may be able to pull it off, but I suspect that their strategy is to break Facebook on mobile phones in multiple apps.

A really big and important part of Facebook is sharing and seeing photos of other people. Google saw that and one thing that Google+ does well is the sharing of photos. Google Picasa was integrated with G+, so this means cheap storage for full-resolution pictures and a kickass desktop tool for managing big photo collections. Android also comes with Google Picasa integration by default, so whatever you upload on Picassa it ends up synchronized to your mobile phone (or vice-versa). Then the G+ interface is really slick; the mobile app is not too shabby and the web browsing experience is good (or was, there's something off about their redesign).

The bottom line is this ... those 40 million users may already be Facebook users, but I bet they aren't mobile Facebook users ;-)
"It's like language. You can't own words but you can definitely steal the ideas conveyed by words from someone else and that shouldn't be okay. "

Why's that a bad thing? If the idea is lifted wholesale, it's usually easy to see where it came from, and if it is used as a basis for remixing/tweaking, value has been added.

In either event, the world is a richer place. What's wrong with sharing?
Rare earth minerals?

I guess Google's feeling the pinch from Chinese supply blocking.
Its very difficult for me to ascertain if its just me or the following is a growing sentiment... I'm not wowed by hardly anything that comes out of consumer internet tech anymore.

Before anyone gets out a pitchfork I have actively contributed and worked on products in the past that are part of the behemoth of services/apps/sites etc that have become mundane to me so I deserve my own criticism as well.

But the majority of launches especially for the past couple years in the media seems like the same deck chairs (mobile/social/photos/ads/etc) rearranged in a different order. Overtime Ive just lost interest in tech blogs in that I rarely see something that I'd consider genuinely interesting tech from a product or engineering or consumer perspective. Maybe I'm just getting old?

On the other hand if I'm not out of touch it seems like it could be a great time to step out of 'traditional' consumer tech and push on some of the 'new' things like 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, etc as well as seek out applications towards other industries (education, health, food, etc.)
This type of "whatever's new is old" complaining is pretty cliche. I mean, of course people are going to try to innovate in evolutionary ways more than revolutionary ways.

Revolutionary innovation is at least partially random and obviously much higher risk. It often comes as a result of many people iterating many times on the same-old-same-old.

This article really seems to do nothing other than state the obvious and offers no real suggestions or directions for where to go or what to do next. Oh right, biotech, cure for cancer, end hunger, solve the energy crisis, etc. Because no one has tried or is trying to solve those, and they are clearly as easy as figuring out how to get people to share photos of themselves.
Similar problem here - I tried Solarized for a while and found that it was too low contrast for my tastes.

I switched to Tim Pope's vividchalk.vim and have been quite happy ever since:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk
There is a "Clojure for Smalltalk" being developed, if you mean running on a JVM: http://www.redline.st/
How to become a morning person
Social Media Security Tips for Small Business
> Install via your favorite package manager. I'm on OS X so I use Homebrew:
Show HN: a better way to browse Android Market
I made a search-engine that lets you find well-rated apps in Android Market. Not cool enough? It easily shows great apps not listed on the market main page.

This is the only app that let you filter apps and games in entire market by rating, category, cost, rating count, downloads count and sort them in the way you like.

Instead of browsing the endless lists of random apps (like all those 3,5-rated apps listed in "the best" category), specify your own, advanced search conditions. You can also try a set of interesting preset searches.

Bring cool games into daylight and find some fresh apps, not yet listed on the main page. Bon appetit.

Market (Google Play) link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bylecosoft.market_search

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Delicious-Market/373442752696026

Google+: https://plus.google.com/117675916392406959251/posts
How We Nearly Lost Space Shuttle Discovery
from the article, one of the games is http://www.soakyourhead.com/dual-n-back.aspx

update:

You need a speaker to play

should say "Press A when the box appears in the same location _since the start of the game_"
Square Said to Seek $250 Million Investment
I took Sedgewick's class in Princeton :) Fantastic class - one of my favorites.
Managing stakeholders and their expectations is a project manager's job too.
Right. I guess what I'm not seeing is how it could be any other way, given the economic incentives and technical landscape. This argument sails awfully close to begging humans not to be human.
This is nothing but an unsupported rumor and if you've read the headline, you've pretty much read the article.

But it's an interesting idea. If someone makes this happen, though, I can only imagine how many people would be eager to hack in and change the message.
Codebases were littered with (vec (map ...)) and (reduce (fn [acc [k v]] ...)) patterns which are nothing but noise. This change removes the need for that, makes the intention clearer and in the case of reduce-kv removes the need for lambdas in some cases (where it was used only for destructuring).
Ben Bova has a series of scifi novels in which asteroid mining plays an important role - check out his Grand Tour & the Sam Gunn books if you're interested in fictional accounts.
There are laws against misappropriating trade secrets, which would probably apply in the case of the Coca-Cola formula. The reason the federal trade secrets laws didn't apply in this case is because they only apply to secrets used to produce a product offered for sale in interstate commerce.
This is cool. How does one get on this list?
"My argument is that above average and even extraordinary intelligence have no correlation to money making."

Well you're objectively wrong. Go to your national data office and look at income vs education (using education as a proxy for intelligence is not perfect but works OK enough for this purpose). You will see strong correlations between the two. (not perfectly linear, and not perfectly correlated, but strong enough to be not random). Look at any data set of reasonably stable and free countries that have these two data points, and you will find the same.

"Smart people live in poverty all the time."

Anecdote != data.
I didn't have links saved, but googling turns up, for example, this:

"While the certificates for this course will be free, students will have to pay a modest fee for credentials in future courses expected to begin this fall."
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mitx-opens-enrollment...

0ren found a good link for udacity.
Chinese Journalist: Bo Xilai Had History Of Bribes
At some point, we're going to need a space elevator if we are to have any hope of doing this economically and at scale. We really don't have any good way to move the large amounts of mass an industrial asteroid mining operation would require between LEO and the surface at the moment.
Also cool

- Replacing terrestrial mines with asteroid mines.

- Bring an asteroid to L5. Mine. When done you have a place to live.

and it becomes weaponized.

Anything moving fast enough is a potential weapon. We need to get used to this idea now.
Interesting stats. I would love to see some stats on classes using different deadline models. For example, the Machine Learning course gave you 80% of the grade if you were late, and the NLP course gives 50%, as opposed to losing everything. I wonder how that affects the drop-out rate.
Labor Of Love: Developer Creates iPad App To Help His Autistic Brother
Agreed -- correlating the amount of Kindles resold on Craigslist to a population's "e-literacy" seems tenuous at best. There's a buncha variables in play when you're considering the types of people who 1) are on the Internet, 2) are using Craigslist to resell, and 3) have Kindles to resell.

If anything, I'd observe from the data that college towns resell their Kindles a lot more because the students are receptive to new/hip tech, collect their data point, and plenty of them move on by reselling via Craigslist, which extracts more value over eBay/Amazon, with some opportunity cost of time (to fulfill the order by meeting in person and what not).
I'm having a thought that I'm having a difficult time even stepping in to. So James Cameron, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt are starting a venture to mine asteroids. James Cameron recently dove to the deepest parts of the ocean in his own submersible. The launch of Elon Musk & SpaceX's Falcon 9 mission to the ISS is just around the corner. I know I've read about other famous people launching wildly ambitious projects, but I can't remember them at the moment.

This is just mind blowing to me. These are endeavors normally left to nation states. There's something buried in here that I find fascinating.

In the past, when these endeavors were carried out by nation states, all the baggage of bureaucracy was along for the ride. Fast forward to today, and you have individuals with the imagination and the means to dream big. It's possible to undertake something insane -- like mining asteroids -- on your own.

I'm left thinking about the way that Steve Jobs ran Apple. I don't intend to steal credit from all the hard work of the people at Apple, but Steve Jobs ran Apple in a way that stands in contrast to many other companies. The fulcrum of decision making was remarkably focused on a single point: him.

I don't know the end game for capitalism, but a lot of people believe that along the way to its downfall, there is a massive consolidation of wealth. The presumption is that these individuals will all be corrupt fat cats that enslave the masses.

What if it's the opposite? What if the people who end up with the wealth do great things with it? It's kind of like a bunch of micro-sized benevolent dictatorships, but the dictator is naturally selected through capitalistic means: successful individuals gather the wealth required to reach this role in society.
The author of this book is John Harrison of Intel, where his knowledge of automatic proofs is used in optimally designing chipsets. He is also the author of HOL Light (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/hol-light/), a program that helps users prove mathematical theorems. The submission is a book that he published in 2009 describing automated proofs, with a full implementation in OCaml. When I was doing grad work back in 2007-2008, the source code that went along with this book was invaluable in my work. I'm surprised that I haven't seen much discussion about this book, which is definitely worth checking out.

Amazon has a few good reviews (http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Practical-Logic-Automated-Rea...), and a CMU faculty member wrote an extensive review (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/Reviews/harrison.pdf).
We really don't have any good way to move the large amounts of mass an industrial asteroid mining operation would require between LEO and the surface at the moment.

Sure we do. Wrap the goods in a capsule. Make sure you aim it in the right direction. Apply energy.

It's getting _off_ the ground that is the problem.
Putting the power of a liquid global currency (or equivalent) into end users hands, that cuts out all the headache from current offerings (ease of use, cost, time delays, reliability) is going to be huge. Where do I invest?
Introducing Wired Design
I'm not so sure that's true -- style guides are just as important internally, even with only a few designers. I just don't think they intended this to be public.

But certainly it isn't uncommon for a company or design/development shop to have an internal style guide.
Interesting stuff, thanks for posting.

I think it's technically impossible for Comcast to get video to the Xbox w/o using the IP connection provided by the customer's HSI service. I would say, so long as it's using the same IP the customer would use to get on the Internet with, that it is using HSI and should be subject to whatever limitations they place on HSI.
"The USA produces 200 facebook-equivalents a year" doesn't have the same impact, I guess.
I'm sorry I was not 100% clear.
With term "entrepreneur" I mean to include only people who already made it and prove to society they are entrepreneurs - i.e., they already sold the first company and have $$ and name.

So my point is that instead raising money to build path.com, color.com, or some other stupid web 2.0, young entrepreneurs should follow Musk steps.
Education expenditures in the US in 2010: $901 billion

Health care expenditures in the US in 2010: $2.6 trillion
No, they sell services using it. Advertisers and others who give Facebook money do not see user information; they just pay to leverage it for effective targeting.
Why would the mining operation need to be manned?

Also; people said a lot of similar things about SpaceX...
Yes, it's time invent a Matrix, and finally make humans immortal. That's the next killer app. No more prettified digital pixels, please.
I'm sorry I was not 100% clear. With term "entrepreneur" I mean to include only people who already made it and prove to society they are entrepreneurs - i.e., they already sold the first company and have $$ and name.
So my point is that instead raising money to build path.com, color.com, or some other stupid web 2.0, young entrepreneurs should follow Musk steps.
Pinterest for stripe users. It's really interesting to scroll through them all.. Actually let me get back to that now I only stopped to post this :)
Does the quote box without the closing quotes really bug anyone else on that page? As soon as I noticed it I was instantly annoyed. Feel. Need. To. Wash...

I'm a grammar nazi at heart methinks.

Good read though, although I think the BBC has started to make some serious mistakes and are getting a little too experimental. All the animations they keep doing everywhere are getting in the way of the actual reading and are very distracting. The home page is now looking a real mess. At least they've got rid of the annoying 'slide' effect their carousel had which meant if you moved your mouse around the whole page seemed to jerk around.
I love their responsive table. I really like how it collapses below 480px wide. Hopefully the Twitter Bootstrap guys implement it!
You've reminded me that Google has allegedly been working on space elevators at the same skunkworks that produced their self-driving cars and recently-announced AR glasses. Really excited to see what comes of this.
Why can't the mess be cleaned up the next day?

And, honestly, just how often does do people in your team drop the ball right before leaving for the day? Every day? Every other day? Every week even?

If someone's dropping the ball so frequently, perhaps they're either in the wrong job or need some serious training and mentorship from more capable members of the team.

And if it doesn't happen particularly often, what are you complaining about?
Amature product photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Culture_se...
I agree... but I'd like to phrase it the way I thought of it. The evolution the article made me think of is not really innovation but rather integration. Things like Google Wallet, mobile apps, etc... they aren't new technologies, they're current or old technologies applied in different ways. If the article's author wants innovation on the scale of the electronic computer or space flight, you've got to understand that that kind of innovation is far more difficult to create, as you pointed out.
>"Think about it, a lot of people do believe that Instagram had a real chance of taking Facebook out."

Who, pray tell, would these people be? Because that's a ludicrous assertion.

I'll argue by analogy here: I don't know anyone who uses Instagram. Everyone I know uses Facebook. Instagram was making zero dollars. Facebook is generating cash in the billions. Instagram has 30MM users. Facebook is approaching a billion.

Instagram has some strategic value to Facebook, obviously. But I don't know how anyone can claim that these companies are competitors.
There is lots of stuff happening which I hope we'll probably see integrated soon in our mobile phones.

The top two things which I'm waiting to see in my mobile is 1) The lightfield camera and 2) a device like the "sixth sense".
Woo! Glad to have my shop featured on there!

Stripe is far and away the easiest to use processor out there.

http://purefixcycles.com for those that are curious
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This guy, Phil Plait, gives an related talk about asteroids and how it's a really good idea to be thinking about them now, just in case one should come close to hitting us and making us all extinct.

Plus, he's a great speaker with a healthy dose of wit:

http://www.ted.com/talks/phil_plait_how_to_defend_earth_from...
Do you think H-M, which can be presented in full in less than a 60 minutes functional programming lecture, is harder than a whole subfield of physics? I don't think so. Astrophysists deal with large objects every day and there might be a reason why they find relativity easier.

BTW: Debugging is much less used in Haskell, this is not a strong objection to LYAH.
why trying get the minerals "back" to earth? just build more mining drones on location and expand the mining operation.
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You're right - our website not the greatest thing in the world. We are working it too... please be patient as we're still a small team.

Yes, it works on Mac and Windows version will come soon!
There's a fade at the bottom, but it's only affecting the right half of the screen. Using firefox 11.0 on windows xp.