skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think our trees are even similar to yours, and our evergreens don't seem to acid the hell out of the earth like yours! New Zealand doesn't have any deciduous trees I'm aware of... They are usually quite 'dark' though and make somewhat too much shade if not pruned.
Not quite. The Shuttle's wing design was an airforce requirement (high cross-range) to allow a launch from California, release or retrieve a polar orbiting satellite and return to US soil.

The idea is that if you track the launch vehicle's path you can get a good estimate of where to look for the payload and so you know it's orbit and when to not doing anything suspicious out of doors. KH satelites are so big that you can see them in orbit anyway and are difficult to move to an other orbit very often. If you had the ability to maneuver in flight while over friendly territory the opposition couldn't get a good estimate of where you had been.

Since the Vandenburg facility was never used and shuttle flights from the Cape were pretty public and a payload this big was pretty obvious then it's unlikely that it was used.

Buran was probably a pure case of "what do they know that we don't" plus politics overriding the engineers saying that it didn't make sense.
I dropped Ubuntu since after weeks of research and discussion, etc the only way I could get it to output acceptable screen resolution on my monitor was to hand enter a MODELINE. a !@#$@#$%@#$ Modeline; I couldn't remember the last time I typed in a modeline before this.
Pringles ones are crap, but I can attest to the power of Illys based antennas, having done one exactly like this for a half mile line of site link to a public wifi hotspot about 8 years ago. Eventually I swapped it out for a sky mini-dish with usb wifi dongle and a small biscuit tin lid as a back reflector, as the Illys can dropped out too much in bad weather.

[edit] Woks with usb wifi dongles are also pretty good.
Contrary to popular belief, not using DRM really shows respect by game creators for their users. I simply won't buy any DRMed game. Luckily some publishers like GOG emerged, who promote DRM free games, and have such major contributors like CD Projekt Red who aren't scared to show respect for their users by selling DRM free games. They (CD Projekt Red) managed not only to pay salaries and improve their products, but also attracted a lot of potential customers for their future titles. GOG is behind in providing Linux versions yet, but I'd rather get DRM free game to run under Wine, than DRMed native one.
I linked to Will's post in the article, definitely worth a read: https://plus.google.com/103382935642834907366/posts/FKot8mgh...

Check the comments, there are some very good discussions in there with Daniel Stenberg about c-ares and other resolvers.
Of course... This is actually a much better solution than introducing a img tag attribute. It would be more visible at the template level and (at least the first example) requires minimal configuration.

Out of curiosity: do you do (or know someone who does) this?

Do you think the functionality is worth the code to implement it?
Because of the quotes, I'm not sure if you mean that PC gaming is dead, or if you mean that the way we consume PC games is dying. Either way though, PC gaming numbers are on the rise. They overtook console gaming revenues back in 2010, and have continued to grow.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/97705-pc-gaming-vs-console...
If they want to support more than just a single version of a single linuxdistro, two years would be an incredibly fast port. Ask anyone who has done commercial software shipped binary-only for linux.
Dirty IP Secrets of Social Media
I know a lot of people are against DRM in any and all forms, but the Steam implementation is pretty much the definitive case study in how to do this stuff the right way.
I have no connection to the antivirus industry. It was meant to be a legitimate question. Please reconsider answering it.
because the KH-12s didn't work as designed?
Our great moral decline
PC gaming is still growing, but the rate it's growing at is marginal compared to the growth of gaming in general.

Console growth is considerable. Hand-held, including phones and phone-like devices, is growing even faster.

What's prevented consoles from fully conquering the desktop is a few key applications for which the PC is still a superior platform. One is ultra-high-performance graphics, especially when directed at enthusiasts, and the other is anything that requires a keyboard to be reasonably useful, e.g. strategy games and MMORPGs.

If the next generation consoles include a mouse and a wireless keyboard, the PC gaming market would implode in a matter of years.

Kids that have grown up with an XBox of PS3 aren't going to want to fiddle with drivers or find out how to patch their game using the "Downloader App" or endlessly wrestle with DRM. They won't bother to switch unless there's a very good reason, and every day there's fewer reasons.
You're right, I'm not paying any attention to B2B uses simply because I care little about them and in my opinion the only way on gaining mass adoption for NFC technology is consumer orientated.

In 2006, a year before the iPhone was released Mobile Suica was brought to the East Japanese market, NDEF was standardised by the NFC Forum, the first handset with NFC (the Nokia 6131) was released and a year later it was trialled by the Transport for London for use in their ticketing system but was rejected for being too slow at the gates. In 2009 NXP released the PN544 - currently one of the most common NFC chipsets used in mobile devices.

This technology has been around for several years now, and the press has talked about at length of carriers, transportation authorities, financial institutions and retailers "trialling" contactless payment in some form or another, very little has actually emerged in comparison. In addition there has been a handful of startup types either social network orientated or hardware/service orientated attempt to find some use case in the parts of the NFC specification (mostly surrounding read/write NDEF to card or SNEP to device) that can't be monopolised because as yet only one mobile OS maker (Blackberry) is opening the secure element - required for transactions. Nokia have also tried to push the non-secure parts of NFC when Symbian was more important to them in the market but are charging £20 for a single smart poster.

Perhaps there is some unfound use for NFC in both B2B and B2C that I, and the handfuls of other people have failed to see or the dozens of companies who've trialled this technology didn't make proper sense of. I'm still convinced this is a chicken and egg problem and the only reason it exists is from a lack of cohesion between multiple factors.
Lean Startup Testing Hacks Gone Too Far?
The Chromium experimental DNS resolver should respect that. If it does not, it's a bug and please file it at new.crbug.com.
Awesome! going to use these in my side project now =)
I hypothesize their reason would be because they want to turn chrome more into a full os (chrome os/chromebook), and bring more things in house. I also recall something about some resolvers having through when ipv6 is enabled but not actually functional. Possibly they are trying to make such things a bit more seamless.

I, currently at least, would still prefer that the os handle name resolution.
I think the pricing should be setup more of a way to get you hooked on the crack. You give some crack for free, get addicted, and want more. I think most corporations have a need for many dashboards. So what about two for free and get them addicted, and they want more?
I liked Humble Indie Bundles precisely for their DRM free Linux releases. Other good DRM free source is GOG (though requiring Wine). Steam is of no interest to me because of DRM promotion. It's a choice the company has to make. You can see DRM free releases being successful, so those who stick with DRM need to be discouraged.

There is a positive side of Valve's interest in Linux though. It'll encourage others to pay more attention to Linux, and eventually more DRM free games will be available too.
PostgreSQL When It's Not Your Job
Things You Need to Learn To Build Your Own Prototype
From what I have seen, computer science university programs are really not heavy on web development overall. You may not be learning it in school, but so aren't most students.

Online tutorials, books, and getting practice by doing it seem to be the chief ways that most people learn web development. You could do worse than being able to point to a portfolio of web applications and telling a potential employer "I built these".
Great news! Thanks for testing igrigorik.
Google's Bouncer malware scanner for Android pwned
yeah, shills. sure. no way you're getting downvoted for spreading FUD and then exolicitly refusing to back it up. Nope. Must be shills.
Uh, what? If you play piano, you're looking at the score, not the keys.
Google Analytics now supporting A/B Testing
From 8 years ago:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/world_eye/

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/eyes_relight/
I grabbed the Meebo chat app for iOS the day it came out, and it was a great, free alternative to existing options like IM+ and Beejive. It had a few minor bugs though, like tapping 'send' was actually tapping Return, so if your cursor was in the middle of a line it would send a message which was broken in half where your cursor was.

They fixed it after a few months, but you could very obviously see that what was happening was it was inserting the newline, and then they were removing it, and then the message was getting sent. It was an obvious hack and it made me feel like they really didn't understand how to make a good iOS app, and didn't care enough to do it properly.

Meanwhile, they started adding other 'features'. They added the ability to 'check in' to a website, like foursquare for web pages. Except it only worked inside of the built-in browser in Meebo, which meant it only worked for links that your friends sent you via IM while you were on your phone. How much time did they spend implementing a feature that I can't imagine anyone ever using instead of adding actual functionality to their app (or fixing the constant crashes I got all the time)?

That was the point where I basically wrote Meebo off. Sure, they probably couldn't make money providing a free chat service, but they could have branched out in other areas, rather than the idiotic-seeming stuff they've been working on lately.
Adblock usually blocks it, for what that's worth.
Moneyball is a good read as well. One of the baseball statistics it addresses is errors which are entirely based on what someone scoring the game thinks should have happened.

The speedy outfielder who just misses catching the ball on a flat out run gets charged with one, the hung-over slugger who waddles toward the gap after a late start doesn't.
To be clear you have to pay over the average (which at the moment is $7.86) to get Bastion. Still, this is probably the best Humble Bundle since the first one. Every game here is great.
No, generally when a launch fails the satelite doesn't reach it's final orbit. Either part of the shroud (rocket nose fairing)( fails to release and the extra drag makes it reenter - or even if it is in a stable orbit the lack of power causes it to freeze.

A manned Shuttle service mission cost something like $500M / $1Bn (depending on how you do the accounting) so it was never really practical to retrieve a damaged satelite from a purely economic perspective.
There are several backup solutions available in the Rackspace Cloud Tools program:
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/tools/category/applications/c...

You can leverage these with Rackspace Cloud Files.
It's on the page: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/vidmag.pdf
I'm more of a minority in terms of my SAT score than my identity as homosexual. That's oddly striking.
How best to get a new developer up to speed?
The original comment in this thread seems to have been deleted, so I can't tell what was said. The primary reasons for implementing our own DNS resolver include:
* Being able to fully instrument it. As the article mentions, we have internal debugging pages like about:net-internals, which rely on this instrumentation.
* Being able to run experiments. Google Chrome releases often run A/B experiments to play around with different configurations to see which has better performance and what not. This is harder to do with a 3rd party library.

As Ilya notes, a fuller discussion can be found at the G+ post's comments section.

Note: I'm a Chromium developer on our network stack. I'm also the author of the G+ post linked to in the article.
Is there anything to preclude there being an ultra-massive particle that might be able to cause a singularity by itself?

The particles we observe today exist in a relatively low-energy environment. Whatever's going on in the furious intensity that is the inside of a neutron star that's on the edge of becoming a black-hole could be quite spectacular in comparison.
The World In An Eye
Doesn't look like a stunt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_t_Hooft

Where does it says it a stunt?

Is this the link?
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ue62o/dutch_compa...
How Weebly Quietly Became A Giant Publishing Platform - with David Rusenko
Or go beyond monetizing eyeballs. Turn it into a live chat service, so visitors to your website can instantly communicate with you. Or do what Chatterous did and let people create custom IM group chats. Maybe they did these things and I didn't notice, but anything seems better than 'Let's put a toolbar at the bottom of other peoples' sites!'
Google owns a satellite service, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole,_Inc)
why shouldn't Facebook and Apple?
I wonder if Debian is the only Linux distro prominently named after a woman. The 'Deb' is from Debrah Lynn, Debian's founder's girlfriend (and Ian from the founder, Ian Murdock).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#1993.E2.80.931998
G+ is still pretty damn young. I'm sceptical they can upset facebook, but it's not as if it's a ghostland.
Petman: A real life Terminator "made for testing chemical suits" (video)
well that, and the CCDs love cold.
This is the first I've heard about Pinterest. What do they have to do with Meebo?
Can you imagine WBC protesters with "God hates smart people" signs?
Keep reading your high-school textbook on physics and be sure to note the equations on calculating the force of an electrostatic charge over very large distances.

If you rubbed the entire galaxy with a cosmic-sized cat you still wouldn't have the effects you're postulating.
How about wealth of the overall economy? When a tornado happens, when a house burns down.. as mentioned, wealth is destroyed because resources are utilized that could've been used for other purposes - investment, new venture, etc.

You give the example of Christmas. Wealth is hardly ever created when you buy lots of stuff for Christmas - that's wealth distribution from your savings to Macys. Savings is still wealth. If nobody spent anything for Christmas, wealth would not decrease - because our money would remain in our savings accounts.

Technology is a good example of wealth creation. With the invention of the internet, we save time on many things like shopping, buying plane tickets, etc. Time that could be used on other things in our lives.
'Second, if the DOD didn't need these two birds, which are both better than any civilian telescope, what do they have?'

This line worries me the most, hubbles pictures of things thousands of light years away are spectacular. Imagine what a better scope could so pointed at earth 300 miles below!
Well, yes, but imagine buying a new console vs. just buying a new graphics card or a few additional gigs of ram.
As far as the telescope optics is concerned looking up or looking down is irrelevant- 500km or 500 million light years is the same focus setting!

Looking up has more stringent pointing and tracking requirements just because we want to sit on the same object for hours at a time, but we also have lots of bright stars in the field to track. Although our downward looking colleagues also use small star tracking telescopes on their toys.

The big difference was generally in the cameras. Astronomers use a 2D CCD (like your digital camera) to take a long (hours) exposure which is read out at the end. Spy satelites (used to) use a 1D sensor like a scanner or fax machine which was constantly read out as the earth passed underneath - producing a long continuous strip image across a target.
Inventory management for Minecraft on 360? Easier to shift things around with your fingers than moving a pointer with the standard 360 controller.
> Release Wave -> Failing -> Buy Etherpad -> Wave fails

Except etherpad technology is actively being used in google docs, maybe more than it has ever been used in wave, and docs is quite far from dead
Or you could just disallow "1234567890".
No, I don't know anyone who does this. This is just a curiosity for me.

No idea if it's worth it. Measure. Build a test case that implements a limited version or emulates this somehow. Test it against some group for a few weeks or months. Did it benefit you, made no difference or harm your goals? Did it give you something unexpected that you can turn into your benefit?
Cyber Spy Program Flame Compromises Key Microsoft Security System
I hope they have a CLI only version available for simpler server management on both local and remote systems. Having it as a desktop UI for gaming would be absolutely fantastic.
I like the statement "Wells will be fighting for the users".

It provoked an interesting thought, "what if certain employees are appointed by the users". The UX guy perfectly makes sense to be the representative of the customers first. He should listen first to them and then to the CEO.

Just thought of sharing my utopian 2c
Given the USSR also built the Tu-144 so you're probably right about it being a case of envy, though the shuttle is fairly unique in that it can retrieve things from space and bring them back, something not practical in a Soyuz or Dragon-type vehicle.

I can imagine if the military had orbit-capable telescopes like those sitting around, there must be many ground-based ones used to track other satellites.
Desktop and console gaming are shrinking. [1] Mobile and browser games are growing absurdly fast. The industry is shifting to mobile. [2] Steam is about 1 decade too late.

[1] http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2011.pdf

[2] http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/video-game-industry-...
Ubisoft unveils game based on in-game "augmented reality" at E3
I'm not sure if I'm adding meebocdn.com to my blacklist correctly. But I was able to block Slate's toolbar through the AdBlock interface...
At some point these things become so broad that they exclude any non-technical discussion. If Debian welcomes everybody, they also welcome white supremacists, nazis, murderers, hippies, polygamists, and other groups which the West views as undesirable.

Under a literal interpretation of their statement, I can make practically any statement and any ostracization would violate their listed principles. What if I say I engage in sending 1000 spam emails to the Debian list every day, and that I believe this will make God happy with me? Debian will be contradicting their statement if they do violence to my spam messages, because they will not be respectful of my religion.

Here's a less disruptive scenario in terms of the ability for the list to function: What if I believe it is my religious responsiblity to broadcast the message "God Hates Fags" to the Debian list, as the WBC in the US believes it is their religious responsibility to broadcast this message to the US populous via street protests? Debian would contradict their statement if any ostracization occurred on their list, if my messages were banned, if I were asked to change my sig, or if any other direct negative consequence was perpetrated or assisted by a Debian developer because of my post.

If Hans Reiser ever writes a Debian list, I expect him to be treated like any other contributor based on that statement.

What is this supposed to mean or solve? I don't really get it. If the intention is to stop any politically incorrect speech, a literal reading of that statement surely does not do so. Why do we want to stop all politically incorrect speech in the first place?

EDIT: Note, this has been edited. Some upvoters may have upvoted when less incendiary language was in use.
Linux has finally grown up. It's getting DRM!
PG posted an interesting speech a while ago by Richard Hamming. It was about what makes the most successful people so successful. I really like his take on luck.

"I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, ``Luck favors the prepared mind.'' And I think that says it the way I believe it. There is indeed an element of luck, and no, there isn't. The prepared mind sooner or later finds something important and does it. So yes, it is luck. The particular thing you do is luck, but that you do something is not."
http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
I haven't been offered a deal by the advertiser to watch ads for a discount or pay more for no ads (plus I'm paying a subscription for the cable) - not watching TV ads isn't stealing whatever Mr Turner says!

It would be like going to buy a car and saying and asking for a discount because you had seen their ads on billboards along the freeway!
If you mean there is some convenience - why do you need the overhead? Just install the game without any extra client which restricts you. It's a case study for DRMed approach, which isn't the way to go.

For example requiring one to connect to their server prior to playing (implicit requirement of having an Internet connection) is a ridiculous restriction.
Is there public information on the user studies Canonical has conducted on Unity or other desktop environments? It seems like that information would be very useful to other free software projects. All I can find are reports on empathy and rhythmbox.

http://design.canonical.com/the-research/
Buddy Media's Michael Lazerow: Is Fear Holding You Back?
Detailed catalog of early space games, starting with Spacewar
My Windows already fixed it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2718704
Bushwick and Williamsburg don't have particularly beautiful architecture-- just lots of vinyl-sided wood frame tenements. Williamsburg is already as expensive as parts of Manhattan while Bushwick is gentrifying rapidly too. Just about all of Brooklyn within close range of Manhattan is either already very expensive or moving in that direction.
I disagree that sharding can ever be a trivial problem if you're going to try to tackle moving data between shards while staying online. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's not trivial.
More On Meebo: Price Is Around $100M, Product Team To Work On Google+ Tools
Base_Controller is an optional controller in Laravel placed between the main Controller and the controllers you create. Normally you'll just extend the main Controller which is namespaced;

<code>class Admin_Controller extends Controller</code>
The only useful definition is a self-centric one because you'll use what you buy. I have no use for a machine that runs Visual Studio or Office, therefore, my criteria for selecting a computer will be very different from someone who needs to run both programs. For someone who wants to run games, a Windows PC with an ATI graphics card would be a good choice. For someone who wants to run Emacs and develop web applications, it's simply not the best one.
Or will have to have a better dole.
You can see DRM free releases being successful, so those who stick with DRM need to be discouraged.

I don't think that follows.