skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. Manned space is only part of NASA's mission and the whole agency has been the Federal Agency of Low Earth Orbit for so long, its pretty crazy we're suddenly giving them a hard time. NASA is doing it right: giving up the LEO Shuttle monstrosity to commercial spaceflight and doing the things that are, yes, expensive and difficult. Protip: google 'nasa launch calendar 2011' and compare it to the number of launches SpaceX has had. Seriously, I'll just sit here and wait for you to do this. Now lets talk complexity of missions.

Cut NASA down to size and you're just getting more missiles and warships. You're not getting a tax break or the sudden birth of 100 SpaceX's. SpaceX should be applauded for its innovation and drive, not considered the low hanging fruit of space and everyone suddenly saying "This stuff is so easy why isn't NASA using their methods?!?" Because its not easy.
Generally speaking, when a country saves it takes money and invests it in things that will make more money, like factories or research. The reason that China is growing so fast right now is that it has a very high savings rate. On the other hand, there are less obvious good places to invest money in a developed economy.
Isn't this just a method of implementation for your option 3? I don't really see a substantial difference between mocking the server and mocking the API.

The same caveat still applies about needing an integration test with the real S3 in either case.
If we can ship iron to Cleavland cheaper than we can ship it from the Iron Range then we can stop strip-mining the countryside.

Which - whoops - puts guys out of work in favor of robots and technicians who operate them. I think that's another HN thread however.

Of course ... you _could_ make tractors and cars in space, but that's somehow mind-boggling to me.
One possible advantage to the energy situation is that if you have a space elevator or similar structure, bringing lumps of asteroid down it counterbalances bringing other things back up.
rent and food
Apple acquired exclusive rights to LiquidMetal’s technologies
I agree. We're using Recurly and a traditional merchant account instead of Stripe specifically for that reason.
> You don't need reverse osmosis for the filtration - the water is quite clean, it just has some dust in it which a simple filter could handle. May be easier to filter the air instead.

I was thinking the same when I read the article. I assumed they didn't intend to filter the air because an air filter may become clogged by sand particulate - especially in a sand storm. I said reverse osmosis for the filter, merely because this setup is actually well suited for it, and if these turn out to be mass produced (hopefully cheaper for more litres of water a day) that they may become used in more urban areas where pollution is a bigger factor. It would also make bacterial contamination less of a concern as mild chlorination of the holding tanks would likely make a long term potable water source with low maintenance.

However, the advantage of compressing over refrigerating is that the compressed air could be vented to periodically clean any air filters. It's important that these turbines be very low maintenance if they're to be installed in remote areas. A self-cleaning air filter and a simple water filter might be ideal.
Healthy Delusions?
I tried to use that option, but every time it tells me that the card was rejected. Even though I can use the card fine if I enter the details directly... it's just weird.
The nice things about nobility (and by extension, dictatorships) is that the buck stops with one person. You can get what you need by having one decree (at least until their mind changes).

By extension, you can fix a problem by killing/overthrowing one person.

The truly scary thing about both governments and corporations is that they are remarkably resilient power structures. Consider: would removing/jailing/prosecuting the entire board of directors/C-level officers of a company truly kill it? Could it just be taken over? Would its property, patents, IP, employees, etc. become public property, or just food for another entity?

It's pretty terrifying, actually.
Agree. Heroku appears inferior to Ep.io in terms of how easy you can get a Django website up and running, and less flexible.

In our case, we use Brunch (node.js-based tool) to build client-side code. With Ep.io, we'd just build the code locally and then do `epio upload`. While Heroku requires everything to go through repository. Since it's impossible, I think, to run a Node.js tool directly on Heroku, we'd need to `git push` compiled code. It is not nice.
But this is one of those cases where you're much more interested in recall, than precision, right? The false positive cost is much lower than the false negative cost.
echo -e '\033[0;32m'

EDIT: Of course, real hackers use a rainbow shell prompt. (http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm) Building one of these is left as an exercise for the reader.
> What if it's the opposite? What if the people who end up with the wealth do great things with it?

I think you've made the mistake of reaching a conclusion by cherry picking. You think of a few select cases like Page, Musk etc. and think maybe it's good there's a concentration of wealth, that there are billionaires. But you are ignoring all the other billionaires and "fat cats" who are arguably doing bad or selfish things, who aren't pusing the human race forward, just being parasites. Does the existance of Musk, Cameron, Bezos, etc. efforts somehow more than outweigh the negatives of the other guys? Perhaps. But we can't ignore the other folks, the more parasitic aristocracy, like the Koch brothers, possibly the Rockefellers, the Morgans, etc.
Zen beat Takemiya Masaki a few weeks ago in a non-blitz two-game match at five and four stones. It didn't even use an excessive amount of hardware, just a couple of boxes:

http://gogameguru.com/zen-computer-go-program-beats-takemiya...
From the previously-posted thread on this that got no other replies:

an astute article. One thing not addressed here is the failure of the Smantic Web paradigm to really take off; I don't know whether this is because of a lack of critical mass in the quantity of semantically coded data or the immaturity of ontology frameworks or something else - my best guess being that the browser is no more suitable to traversal of the semantic web than FTP/ Archie/ Veronica/ Gopher were suitable browsing tools for hyperterxt - although each solved 'part of the puzzle.'
Good luck!
Clickable: http://ellarum.com
App Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/family-matters-from-ellarum/i...
Frequent updates with fresh content promote app usage. Frequent updates for tiny bug fixes promote app removal, at least for me.
I found somebody to go to a movie with because he posted on our film group saying:

"This film is playing in Tempe tonight, who wants to go?"

And I responded with a "Me".

The ads they show you will now be more targeted, about movies and located around Tempe. I've seen ads based on search terms in "private" conversations I've had on FB. They mine your interactions very aggressively. You'll almost certainly see that guy's posts on your "News" feed more often for a while.

"At any time"? Do you mean "With a court order"?

OK, I was a tad hyperbolic. But LEOs can search FB for "public" information about you and your friends without a court order. I put public in quotes because if you're not keeping on top of your privacy settings, you probably don't realize that some things you thought were private are actually public.
Web apps are cheap to build, easy to learn how to build, fall into a predictable model for investors, and are equipped with lots of social institutions (like YC) encouraging people to build web startups.

So, all things being equal, we should expect more people to be creating web apps (compared to other kinds of technology) than their profitability or social value would warrant.

Framing makes a big difference. If there were an established culture and set of resources for engineering or biomedical startups, they might seem less daunting.
Sin number 8: Your super cool effects only work on some browsers.

Konqueror:
http://ompldr.org/vZGZjeg/sin8.png
You must live in fresno :(
How about "BURGERMASTER", the name of the root memory segment in Windows 1.0 memory manager, or "BOZOSLIVEHERE", the name of the winproc for the edit control?

http://www.kraigbrockschmidt.com/mm/Chapter06.htm#_ftn1

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/15/5529...
If you're the best in the world at anything there's an audience, sure. But don't pretend it's available to anyone who's passionate about it. I'm passionate about casually playing various games with my fiance while drinking a beer. Who's going to pay for that?
Show HN: GBX St. George, the forging of a legend, a medieval Android gamebook
Hi, I'm the guy who invented RoboCom back in 97. Yes, RoboCom Workshop is Windows only (unfortunately), but there is a compatible interpreter named RoboTour which has been ported to various OS. It's not at fancy as RoboCom Workshop but it basically does the same.

The most exciting news about RoboCom is that I have started to re-write RoboCom as a web application in pure JavaScript (actually CoffeeScript). It runs in any modern web browser. The compiler and the simulator core both somewhat work, but it's very early alpha. The thing is that I have currently no time to continue the development because I founded a company which keeps me super-busy... but expect it to happen some day :)
Anti-piracy measures make life difficult for those who actually pay for content
Trust me, you really don't want a Django-specific hosting environment. Django's a WSGI framework like the rest of the Python world (even moreso as of 1.4). Supporting any WSGI app is in some ways easier than just supporting Django, so I can't see any good reason why a platform provider wouldn't support any WSGI app. Further, why would you want to choose a platform that locks you into a particular tool? Django's far from the only good choice in the Python web world; don't pick a tool that forces you to put on blinders.
Datomic Early Experience launches
Gondor launched in September and we provide a load command for data but can also work with you to load existing data and media. Unfortunately we do not have any European data centers yet, but it's something we've planned. If you email support@gondor.io we'll be glad to answer any questions.
Why Hasn’t Software Eaten Healthcare, Finance, and Education Yet?
>The ads they show you will now be more targeted, about movies and located around Tempe.

Good!

>I've seen ads based on search terms in "private" conversations I've had on FB.

Why on earth would you think this was "private"? It's private to you and your friend, but you're using a third party (facebook) to facilitate the interaction.

Gmail does the exact same thing. So does amazon.
Boulder Has So Many Open Tech Jobs It Wants To Fly You In To Apply
I know more rich people than i care to admit on the internet. Long story short, they're mostly useless human beings busy investing in whatever makes the next dollar, dying, and handing off their treasure to their spoiled children and grandchildren who will squander it or continue to do the same.

You're cherry picking a handful of nerd billionaires who are getting into, lets face it, a pretty big gamble right now. SpaceX is the only success story of all the commercial space companies and the whole "The rich will find a way to become immortal and sell us the serum" scenario is this weird opposite of classism.

I'd also add that this mentality is why we had kings and dicators in human history. We're just too prone to thinking a few alpha males will Fix Everything and pesky things like division of power, politics, just get in the way of our Ayn Rand heroes. I think you can figure out in the lifecycle of kingdoms and dictatorships that the endgame is never paradise. Its usually a long ongoing nightmare of cronyism and human rights violations.

Weird to see a western person dismiss the incredible priviledge he has and free speech rights and lack of obligations of serfdom/slavery suddenly take up the mantle of 'let the alpha males fix everything you stupid bureaucratic peons.'

Just out of curiosity, do you think these gentle nerds would have thrived in a environment like the one you're applauding? Imagine Bill Joy or Wozniack or Bezos born into a crony capitalistic environment. Something tells me without the nannying of the western enlightened nanny state with its safe streets and cheap public education, would any of these guys have had the class mobility or opportunity to move upwards? Makes me wonder how many geniuses are being pissed away in places where the alpha males rule harshly. The world has probably lost hundreds of north korean and somalian genuises.
Datomic 0.1.3007 Released
Stormtroopers get down to Party Rock Anthem
I do not see why they need to stop spam creation of accounts. They can just ban the bank account in addition to the Paypal account. Without any bank account or credit card connected to the Paypal account it is not very harmful to Paypal.
I had an idea like this a while back, but as far as I know there is no shell support for it. Basically, you would install decorators in your current shell instance. The decorator could act as a filter for all stream io. Then you would not need any special commands or aliases, just configuration for how to highlight patterns.
New Download Manager in Firefox 14
It takes rich dreamers to create a new industry.

In-orbit infrastructure will have to be built, though probably not anything as exotic as a space elevator.

One approach to get material down: create basketball-sized meteors during the mining process or in-orbit with smelters. Coat or cover them in a material that will make their re-entry less wasteful. Using some kind of thruster, direct these into a de-orbit ending on a raft thing in the Pacific Ocean or parachuted to a deserted area.

For the more precious or dangerous material mined: use cheap glider-style re-entry vehicles.
That's really interesting, I had no idea they were incorporated in Ireland too and hence sometimes subject to EU law (in theory at least). Thanks for the link. I'm not actually a member, but I'd be interested to see what they produce on other people just to see what sort of data they're holding.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design
I did some moderately serious dual n-backing a year or so back in an effort to improve my chess game. Of course it wasn't a remotely scientific experiment so I can't tell if it really helped, but I did feel that my ability to concentrate increased, if not my ability to reason. I felt more able to take a breath after working out a variation and take a few seconds to really concentrate on the final (imagined) position and scrutinize it for tricks.

(My USCF rating did go up fairly significantly around then but it's no proof of any causation, plus I was doing plenty of other things at the same time to increase my chess results anyway.)
PayPal is good in some ways (lowers the bar to becoming a merchant) it is broken and horrible in many other ways. Let's hope the competitors can improve upon things (Google, Amazon, Square, Facebook, Apple).
Is being the darling of the NSA/FBI/DHS/R.Murdoch crowds really that big of an achievement? Oh.. right, it is when you have Goldman Sachs re-hypotheicating your 'capital' to infinity in London.
Just a piece of background: We are a new startup from Catalonia and this is our first gamebook, which is a trilogy. Indeed, this is the very first product we release and it is free.

Probably you may remember those "Choose your own adventure" books from 80's. Now imagine them in you Android device (or other, coming soon): this is GBX, a Gamebook Experience :) You can find the crew that made it possible at http://gbx.epnuke.com/eng/about/

You can find the app at the Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamebook
Light Table Kickstarter lowers prices
Either would break the agreement.

> Assignees must obtain prior written permission from all of the Inventors without additional consideration or threat.
I think parachutes would be a waste, but a cheap, spray-on ablative layer could make sense.
You can basically do anything you want on heroku because they allow custom buildpacks. You could make your own buildpack that vendors in node.js and your tool and builds at deploy time. Here's a heroku doc article all about it: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks
Good luck abeymm. Nice to see a reference to Malayalam here
New features on Debian Wheezy iptables
Love Stripe!
Nice intro, though I think you can take it further.

One addition I'd be interested to see is how do modern markets with HFT compare to markets 20 years ago, or whenever the pre-HFT era was.

How does the liquidity of each, and more importantly the cost of liquidity of each, compare? Was lack of liquidity really a problem in the pre-HFT era?
I'm fairly sure I've done this in the last 6 months.
And the argument and evidence he provides is what?
Could you convince the court that an MP3 file is just computer code? And downloading an MP3 file is not theft?
(I'm one of the two Epio founders)

Obviously, we have an interesting view on this whole problem. I'm personally of the opinion that PaaS is still not quite the right solution - there's certainly some progress, but there's such an murky boundary between what a platform and an app provides that it's hard to make something that doesn't surprise people in some way.

It's interesting to note that as a PaaS platform you do get an advantage over IaaS - you can share resources and box-pack apps a lot more efficiently when you control memory and disk access at that higher level, so it's not like IaaS is certain to win either.

I probably need to compose my thoughts into something more intelligible and write a full blog post about how I think deployment should evolve, but I have a migration to shepherd first.
I have one more: check your website with JS disabled
Ditto.

People drastically underestimate the effort required to make a PaaS platform and drastically overestimate people's willingness to pay. It's a dogfight of a market with brutal economics.
One of the great things about terrible situations is that everyone agrees on how bad it is. This agreement makes them think they have something in common. But if you prompt them to independently suggest solutions, you usually find that they hardly agree at all. That's happening here with the Euro. The situation is potentially unfixably bad, which gives the advantage that nothing will work and no one will ever have to find out they didn't agree all along.
Doing The Same Thing, Only Better
Funny, I could work for a US database company but I can't work for a US rocket company.

Also, if the US wants to buy an aerial refueling aircraft, they are more likely to choose Boeing than Airbus. And of course its the other way around, too.

So these are two different markets. For products, but also for engineer recruiting.
I think the sentiment went over your head.

Useful applications will pop up soon enough if they make truly open apis and downloadable data. He's not suggesting google/facbook actually implement the statistics themselves. In fact the opposite, because that would still mean the data was closed.
The Supposed Primacy of Text
IceCube detector puts the chill on fireball model of gamma ray bursts
Track Thyself: Quantify Your Life For Productivity
Ikea furniture with integrated TVs and sound systems
It seems they are quoting an article from rechargenews.com [1] which erroneously adds this "steam before condensation" stage.

Reading the skimpy tech specs of the "WMS1000 Wind Turbine" from the company itself [2], it only lists the following stages:

Energy production -> Ambient air suction -> Humid air condensation -> Water production -> Water purification -> Pure drinking water distribution

----

Ensuring the water is airborne pathogen free would be a big issue for me which I am sure they must have thought of.

"Eole chief executive Marc Parent dreamed up the concept in the 1990s while working as an engineer in the Caribbean, where he had been reducing his bottled water costs by siphoning the condensation from his air conditioner."

I hope he boiled this water here first. This is the exact method used by new airborne pathogen detectors to collect virus and bacteria samples :/

[1]: http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/innovation/article...

[2]: http://www.eolewater.com/gb/our-products/range.html
Not to mention the fact that you have to have a really wide range of knowledge to cover that full stack of management and security - from raw networking to database management and everything in between. We're fortunate that our skillset just about covered it, but throw in support for all the popular web languages and it's unlikely you'll pull it off without 3 or 4 people, minimum.
This. Exactly. The potential profit value of doing asteroid mining, Moon mining, Mars mining, etc. is going to be much higher if the products are sold and used locally. The farther the material has to move, the delivery price goes up, and it becomes less attractive to buyers, and for less buyers. But set up a mining operation anywhere out of Earth's gravity well and orbit, and you call sell your stuff to, say, any colonies that are created on the Moon, Mars, or other asteroids. Plus the problem space of successfully and profitably doing mining and manufacturing off-Earth is really wide open right now, no competition, so huge potential long term profit upside for those willing to take the risk now and begin developing the capability.
The Great Lakes would make a great catcher's mitt for a few tons of air-dropped iron.

Not without an environmental impact study first.
so the BPP people are part of this conspiracy too?
Expected 'passion' to be startups or internet marketing, but no it was to teach math. Nice little surprise.

Interesting post, sad to hear that the educational system grinds down the few folks who want to actually make a difference to the point where they go join big box retail.

Glad to hear he is happy with his new job.
I've tried that, and when it complained that the card was linked to an account, it wouldn't let me proceed until I logged in.

At the time, my account was locked down because I had the audacity to go to a conference in a town 80 miles away and try to use my Paypal account for something. They wouldn't let me unlock my account until I gave them a new landline phone number (which I didn't have) or fax them my ID (which I wasn't willing to do). It was as if they didn't want me to reactivate my account.

And I still couldn't buy anything until I got a new card.
Maybe Best Buy needs to be like Costco, where lack of service is a plus.
Keep going with this! I was just playing multiplication asteroids and there is a little lag between when I "die" and when the game over comes up so I can get an extra 2 or 3 answers in. Also, would it be possible to show lives remaining in asteroids?

I'd make the instructions pop up at first or at least make the link a little more prominent. I struggled with how to play the color game at first and it took me a minute to find the instructions.

The games are fun and I could see them being used for brain training or even just as teaching aids for middle school aged children.
orbital does space vehicle launches on FFP contracts ...