skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been watching the private space movement for almost 20 years now -- since shortly after the Delta Clipper[1] and Clementine[2] proved to many people that low-cost innovation was genuinely possible in the fields of rocketry and space exploration.

But when I went to my first Space Access conference[3] in 1996, I can't say that I found it very encouraging. The Delta Clipper and Clementine vetrans that I met were also frequently Apollo vetrans. Brilliant, passionate engineers, but almost totally devoid of financial resources, and obviously nearing the end of their careers, if not their lives. At 19 years old I was the youngest person in the room by several decades. WIRED was regularly featuring "rockets" and "space exploration" in it's monthly "TIRED" column. I began to fear that the old dream of space -- long fostered by the likes of O'Neil, Von Braun, Oberth, and Tsiolkovsky -- would die with the previous generation, and I was arriving just in time to see its last, heroic gasp.

We have turned so many corners since then. The actual rockets are merely the most tangible results of that. What I find even more hopeful is the cultural change. Politicians as disparate as Barack Obama and Dana Rohrabacher are willing to put principles ahead of pork and advocate for the development of a robust commercial space industry. It's now possible to seriously talk about "space tourism" without people sniggering derisively and making Marvin the Martian jokes. Investors are no longer cowed by that old saw about how the best way to make a small fortune in space is to start with a large fortune. Some of the largest companies on earth are investing in asteroid mining, for goodness' sake. And most critically, young people are getting truly excited and passionate about this. (It's also extremely gratifying to see women staking out a place in the industry; the old Apollo fraternity was exclusively male.)

All in all, I have to say that the progress I've seen in the last two decades of space development is one of the things which most gives me hope for the future. And this is only the beginning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)

[3] http://www.space-access.org/
Leaving aside your sarcasm, Django was more a matter of convergent evolution—it was developed concurrently with Rails and just released slightly later—and both frameworks have copied a lot of awesome innovations from each other.
Twitter is blocked in Pakistan, on orders of IT Ministry.
Here comes yet another black day for internet users in Pakistan. Back in May, 2011 they blocked Facebook & few other sites as well.
If he doesn't live in the USA and is not planning to come back I don't see how it is a "horrendous advice" to renounce his US citizenship.
Your code breaks for me when the "hacker-typed" text reaches an UTF-8 symbol (← for example)
Is Microsoft hinting at a June 8th release for the Release Preview?
"It is one of the few times outright price manipulation is allowed (which should be a completely different discussion"

I'm curious to know what arguments are in favour of it. If they're incorrectly pricing the IPO, surely they should suffer for it and adjust their pricing models and strategies rather than be allowed to manipulate their way around what's pretty much their own mistake?

I don't know much about how companies go public but it sounds like a good portion of the stock is issued to "investors" at or below the IPO price who then immediately go on to sell that stock to the public when trading is opened? So the downside of pricing the IPO too low is the company won't receive as much for the shares as they could have. Presumably just issuing the shares directly to the public during the IPO seems like the way to capture the best price? Is the problem that the exchange doesn't allow for the issuing of shares, only the trading of shares, so somebody needs to own them first? I'm sure there's a good reason why but what is it?
Apparently someone was posting drawings of Muhammad. http://tribune.com.pk/story/381639/twitter-blocked-across-pa...
One of the authors of RACS here. Indeed, the architecture of RACS is quite similar to Tahoe-LAFS, with a proxy server that sends shares of data to different cloud providers. With RACS, we focused on fault tolerance rather than malicious modification of data: Cloud providers have their own internal redundancy, so they (hopefully) protect their users from low-level hardware failures... but a company itself can fail, or even raise prices suddenly which can lead to an "economic failure", where the user's application becomes prohibitively expensive to run. So RACS is intended to protect against things like this. It can tolerate malicious modification of data shares on individual cloud providers, but that kind of security wasn't our focus, so it's interesting to see that Tahoe-LAFS takes that direction.
Poonam Pandey- Finally got a movie
Reminds me of the completely Open Source financial analytics company Open Gamma (http://www.opengamma.com). They also have a GitHub account with (in their own words) functional java code https://github.com/OpenGamma.

This Java paradigm of "private final static" all over the place and its ugliness is one of the prime reasons Rich Hickey considered creating Clojure.
Maybe this awesome illustration by Travis Pitts gives a good picture of how people see Tesla http://www.flickr.com/photos/zom-bot/7227505456/sizes/o/in/p... :)
The speed and manner in which the full version of Visual Studio allows you to debug container objects and jump JIT to the code currently executing to look at the call stack and inspect variable values, is not superficial. As a text editor, code writing tool, sure it's not much better than a standard editor. As an IDE with a debugger it allows an experienced developer to debug faster and write better code more quickly. Even experienced developers have to debug their code, and it is time consuming even for them.

Eclipse is not Visual Studio though I've heard good things about IntelliJ IDEA.
Ask HN:How to use complex psd files in web and software development?
I have found that lots of psd files with high graphics for web and software design are available. But I cant figure out how to use them. Slicing and exporting to html helps but there are other things that seem difficult. Like I found a progress bar psd. How to use such psds?
Tape melts, emits gas which is poisonous and is more conductive than the plain air gap. There's your failure mode.

Bear in mind my Airport express melted and blew my circuit breakers so shorts are definitely a possibility.
How many times does Turnbull have to say he isn't going to rip up the NBN?

He has two main problems:
He doesn't want labour getting credit for something liberal can.
He doesn't believe labour is managing the project in with best financial interest of the public and feels up to $10 billion could be saved.

This is the BS that is ticking him off: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/new-homes-dudd...

35,000 new homes built last year had fresh new copper laid by Telstra instead of fibre.

That copper isn't old, damaged, and incapable of fast speeds. It is brand new and was a complete waste of money. Except for Telstra shareholders who get to profit even more off the labour government once tax payers buy it all back to replace with fibre.
Extreme view in the outside world but very common view in the tech geek culture. I've seen countless of times this rambling about Edison evilness vs Tesla misunderstood semi god status.

The Oatmeal always run with something already popular to the crowd that frequent reddit and the likes.
Hahha, forcing a point yes, but also just being a little thick and not 'getting' the foam-pad method. THANK YOU.

In real life, doing many through-hole components at once, I have tack soldered them top-side - when possible, e.g. resistors, not possible for radial caps.
For people interested in the original from 1931: http://www.w-k-essler.de/pdfs/goedel.pdf (in German). Work of art IMHO.
But isn't the important question whether population growth is remaining below economic growth? And in that sense, it's a perfectly valid concern that an increase in population without an accompanying increase in economic growth is a serious problem. I live in South Africa where unemployment rates are already very significant; an increased population growth rate seems almost certain to make this situation worse.
Are collisions that common?

I've never used namespaces in C++, and they aren't supported in C. And yet the only collisions I've seen between libraries are from un-prefixed identifiers. There's a whole pile of them in the Win32 headers of course. I ended up with a variable called "compress" once, in a function that was calling zlib. And Bink has a U32 or u32 typedef that conflicted with the same one in the code I was working on at the time.

Aside from that, no problems noted - of course, I cannot claim to have seen every program ever, and it is straightforward to engineer problems cases. But if a namespace collision is somehow news, you may assume that they are rarer in practice than you might imagine.
Are you supposed to use Adobe Photoshop to open PSD files?
I will say that they replace earphones readily. Unfortunately my dead MBP resulted in me being pretty much told to F Off depsite being literally 2 days out of warranty.
because facebook is better
Congrats Mark.
Can you imagine if Mark had married a man? Now THAT would have been interesting, if only for the media reaction. Now trying to guess who would have been the perfect husband for him... :)
Are you honestly not aware that most of Africa was pillaged and plundered for centuries by European powers that greatly benefited from African resources - human and physical? Yet you expect Africa should recover from centuries of oppression without any assistance? You really recommend lending money, part of which, in the big scheme of things, was indirectly sourced from pillaging Africa?

Judging from your profile you are Danish. If so, you have benefited from the colonisation of Africa by your ancestors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Gold_Coast).

(Don't mistake me for a reparations supporter, but I do believe it's absurd to believe that "Africa" is where it is through its own actions and should therefore be solely responsible for growth and development.)
Just before the above-mentioned article hit reddit, I got to wondering if the structure of the Galois field was affected at all by the choice of polynomial you used as the modulus.

Not really -- regardless of a choice of an irreducible polynomial for a modulus, all the fields you'll obtain are isomorphic, meaning that for two fields K, L with 2^n elements there a one-to-one correspondence f: K -> L, such that f(a+b) = f(a) + f(b) and f(ab) = f(a)f(b). This means that while K and L may be different as sets, they have essentially the same structure.
Show HN : xckd ruby gem (first gem)
Same here in germany.
Not sure if I'm more amazed that Oracle thought deleting the evidence from their website would stop non other than Google from finding it. Or if I'm more amazed that it actually worked for so long.

How exactly does this effect the current state of the trial? When will Google have an opportunity to show this, and on what context? I thought we were just waiting for the judge to finish making up his mind and give his verdict. Is that correct?
And we're only told after being forced to watch a 30s ad clip.
It also fails if subjected to a large amount of shrapnel!
Notes from Build Awesome Command-Line apps
That sort of licence is not "Open Source" nor "Free Software", since it does not allow Freedom 0 (the freedom to run the programme for any reason) nor OSD № 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor". (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and http://www.opensource.org/osd.html)

It might be nice to have a chuckle about "do no evil" in a copyright licence, but that's a massive loophole that the original author could use to stop almost anyone from using their software.
Not django specific:

Personally, after years of trying to solve the Object/Relational mismatch, I realized that it's better to drop the object side and stay with the relational side if you need a database.

The price is a little bit of syntactic sugar. The return is the ability to reason about your database and how it accesses data.

web2py eschewed ORM for a DAL (Database Abstraction Layer). I do not know how it compares to SQLAlchemy, but it is independent of everything else web2py; I've been using it in non-web projects and it is excellent, although a little slow if you have large result sets.
Apple to use only green power for main data center
What A Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk Through A Museum
钢筋焊接网
Users need to be able to get the functions they need. But the unix-way provides a mechanism for getting ls plus the functionality you want: have a shell macro run the minimalist ls and pipe it through a formatter.

Unfortunately, although unix scripting was good by the standard of its era, it's still not particularly good. Unix as we know it hints at great ideals that are achievable but lives up to them poorly. As a result, early packagers shoveled hacks into existing layers and we live with the result.

Evidence: arguments in commands like cat and ls; the crudeness of ps to represent the process table; inability for scripts to access unix systems calls; kitchen sink shell interpreters.

Why do we look to shell interpreters for command-line history? That should be done in a separate layer closer to the terminal. Had it been, we'd have two small unbloaty layers. Instead we have tcsh, bash and zsh.

You could have your ls formatting macros live in your personal terminal emulator and you'd never need to copy .bashrc hacks to each system. The formatter code might not even live on the remote system, it might be part of the terminal.

I suspect you could lay [racket scheme] + [a transform that converts python style whitespace code into parens code] over a unix that has /proc, and use that to create the layers you needed. With that in place, you could then start taking noise out of the unix tools and work towards a smaller distribution.

Plan9 is talked of as "unix done right" but I'm not convinced. Some things it does well, but it has lots of baggage. For example, you have to buy into their desktop to access the OS. How is forcing me to use a mouse and a particular tiling window manager a necessary part of a better unix experience?

I'd like to play with a plan9 fork where the only user interface assumption was a terminal, and where you could get a secure connection into that terminal. (Too inept to do it myself so far, but keep playing with idea of running it on linux, ssh'ing to linux as the jump box, and then telnetting into the plan9 instance. Still - what a hassle)
Disposable Email address
Can you be more specific? I'm certainly going to re-write the article, and I'd be interested to know which sidebar you are referring to. It's been incredibly valuable seeing the tangents people have taken, and how some have then caused them to miss entirely the intended point(s).

Thanks.
Just for the fun of it, "married" is ambiguous as it may mean he married years ago (supposing we did not know whether he was married or not), but "got married" signifies a change. http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/99745-got-marr...
Cool gadget equipment bag on Uncrate
Could you be thinking of housing allowance scandals? This is where elected politicians claim rent from the government for rent for houses they're not really living in.
Modern browser's HTML5 canvas is hardware-accelerated, so you most likely get a fully utilised late 2000s GPU. And since many games spend 90% of their time in rendering, the slower JS performance isn't a big deal.
When I interviewed at GS last year, I was explicitly told that I would not be able to go on working on open source (they had checked out both my blog and my Github). This despite none of the technologies in my main project being in use in the group I was interviewing with...
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemous Content, Facebook Complies?
Spring MVC 3.2 chat app: async requests, Spring Redis, Thymeleaf & knockout.js
Facebook IPO overshadowed by privacy lawsuit
Do you disagree with that position?

Yes.

But lets ignore my position, I'd like to extend your logic. You want VCs to make suboptimal investments for political reasons. Should you also be obligated to invest some fraction of your 401k in businesses you think are a suboptimal investment? If not, why not?

I do: the parents are subsidizing the future. The shareholders' money is going to be pretty worthless to them in the long run if there is no next generation of workforce from whom to purchase goods and services.

This argument is far more broad than you realize.

For example: "parents are subsidizing the future. The childless career woman's money is going to be pretty worthless to her in the long run if there is no next generation of workforce...".

Therefore, we should force childless career women to subsidize parents.

Do you believe the latter as well? If not, why not? What distinguishes childless career women from shareholders?
Statically check your Python code for errors
As noted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3998448

Pakistani perspective: http://tribune.com.pk/story/381639/twitter-blocked-across-pa...
Herbal remedies | skin care | homeopathic remedies 
Herbal Overseas is a completely natural herbal remedy online medical store, that are providing homeopathic remedies, skin care products, yoga DVD and many more at reasonable prices throughout the world.
Tesla's parents were both from a long lineage of Serbian Orthodox clergy. He was definitely Serbian, I doubt many Croatians claim him as their own, he just happens to be from a part of Croatia that was very Serbian prior to the last few years. My family on my mothers side is from the same pert of ex-Yugoslavia and large parts of the Serbian diaspora who emigrated are from parts of old Yugoslavia that are no longer in Serbia proper or the Serbian part of Bosnia.

The confusion came about for two reasons. 1. that Krajina became part of Croatia (that part of Yugoslavia) and 2. the old unifying Yugoslav government claimed Tesla as one of their own, and they did what they could to rid of ethnic divides so referred to everybody as 'Yugoslav' (or 'Yugoslav from Croatia' etc.).

This gets even uglier with the recent war where nationalists from all sides attempted to claim historic figures and celebrities as their own in an effort of ethnic superiority propaganda. (The funniest example of this was the President of Croatia leading an archeological dig in a part of Croatia where he discovered that the Croatian nation pre-dated the Roman empire - it got really messy). This really muddied the waters.

Most people in the region are pretty chilled out now, though - as a Serbian I have no problem with Croatians referring to Tesla as 'one of us', just as I often refer to Croatian football players as 'one of mine' (being from the Balkans). There is a lot more that unites us as a people than divides us.
Ayurvedic products | herbal remedies | skin care
Ayurvedic is the traditional medicine of India, which originated there over 5,000 years ago. Ayurveda emphasizes re-establishing balance in the body through diet, lifestyle, exercise, and body cleansing, and on the health of the mind, body & spirit.
You are right about it being just as easy to extradite from Britain. However, the U.S is not likely to serve him until all current cases are resolved. His legal defence is concentrated on making it as hard as possible to attack Wikileaks or anyone involved. It's basically showing that he will fight everything, at every point, all the way.
Last year I was using Django's django.contrib.webdesign.lorem_ipsum to generate dummy data for Django model instances. I grew tired of the Latin and sort of monkey-patched it to use words from the "Karel ende Elegast" medieval Dutch epic poem. ( http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2391/ )

My team and I found the medieval-Dutch title fields of model instances much easier to remember and to refer to.
Anti gravity ball
So? "He doesn't want to be a US citizen any more, that makes him an asshole"? Meh.
John Clements unimpressed at shovelware he found on Amazon
You might find the review at the bottom entertaining. I've seen a few of these books on amazon - basically selling printouts of wikipedia articles. Not sure why they let it stand.
深圳桑拿
You might find the review at the bottom entertaining. I've seen a few of these books on amazon - basically selling printouts of wikipedia articles. Not sure why they let it stand.
I prefer if SBJSON is an external dependency, since there's less chance that I need to modify external projects my own projects make use of. The downside of course is that not all external projects might use the same version of SBJSON, so method names could have changed, could be missing, etc... So it falls to the developer to provide patches to external libraries if they use an outdated version of a library like SBJSON.

Still, this is for me the preferred approach.
Anonymous Warn Nepali Government
I guess it probably depends on the position/team. I wouldn't expect GS to open source anything they consider a competitive advantage, but then I don't see Google open sourcing their search algos either :-)
[New Video] B.o.B - Play for Keeps (Official Video)
B.o.B has given MTV the green light to world premiere the visual in support of "Play for Keeps", a track featured on the rapper's sophomore album "Strange Clouds"...Watch above! Don't get confused though, the Valentino Khan-produced hip-hop record is not B.o.B's new single. His official next release will be the Taylor Swift-assisted 'Both of Us', impacting on US radios on May 22. That's gonna be a smash!! Everyone loves Tay-Tay. As for "Play for Keeps", this is only yet another 'buzz' single off "Strange Clouds". Funnily, all 'buzz' singles thus far have been urban tracks. I assume B.o.B is aware of the fact his true success lies in his 'pop-influenced' songs, and he knows Atlantic Records is probably gonna release only these kinda of songs as official singles. Hence, he releasing all these urban buzz tracks with random visuals. The "Play for Keeps" video is not a high-budgeted effort, it's simply footage of B.o.B exploring, and living the good life in Paris, France. The shots of the lighted Eiffel Tower at night were cool! Check it out.
Could this be used to further analyse websites? Instead of just the usual eye heat map, and optimising for that would it be better to optimise for each page based on the content on that page?
"His woman" no more implies ownership than "my parents" implies that I own them.
I am a Pakistani and I fully endorse this ban. It is actually a black day for Twitter for allowing cartoons in the name of freedom.

I am sure Jack will not allow holocaust and ant-Semite stuff on Twitter.
If the common opinion is here:

.

and you want it to be here:

.

sometimes you have to pull this hard:

.
Coffee drinkers have lower risk of death, study suggests
It's one thing to say Africa is responsible for its plight (OP didn't say that), it's another to say they're stuck in a vicious cycle of dependency on northern help that we should not feed. Not sure that applies to bed nets though...
It seems like Groklaw has this all backwards. Android does not run Java.

So Sun's position would be that software patents would be acceptable in this case because Android is not interoperable with Java not trying to be.
If you're price sensitive then you can consider Fremont - it is located right on Bart, you can get into the city easily, and it is very inexpensive compared to living in SF or even Mountain View. However, you'll need a car if you are frequently traveling to the peninsula (Mountain View, Palo Alto, ect).

If you go with Fremont, you'll get a better price and more spacious accommodations. I live there currently and find it to be a great area to live in.