skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be almost impossible to get a reliable estimate for other countries, most do not have separate civilian and military space programs like the US. For example, the ESA is building Galileo, a positioning system similar to GPS, primarily for strategic military needs. The Russians and the Chinese, who make up almost the entire remainder of global space spending after the EU, spend quite a bit on military space, but there is not reliable data. In fact, there is basically no data on Chinese spending at all, it's an industry estimate of their spending based on outside observations. In addition, there is some crossover each way. Hubble, in particular, received substantial benefit from military research into spy satellites, not to mention the recent gift of two space telescopes to NASA from NRO. At best it's unclear how to decouple the spending in the US, and nearly impossible internationally. I believe going with the totals is fair, as the approximate civilian to military ratio would be pretty close internationally, given the obvious military implications of space, like ICBM's and spying, the interchangeable nature of the fundamental research in each field (e.g. ICBM guidance systems research can be applied to landing on Mars, spy satellites are space telescopes if you turn them around), and the countries involved.
One does not need to paint the Mona Lisa to appreciate and be enriched by it.
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I am not at all up to speed on these things but I guess there's more to the human body than fat and muscle. Those 1.7 lbs will certainly also include water, for example.
The need to access memory efficiently is also applicable beyond the JVM:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4339089
From OP's article:
"It will belong to us. It will belong to humans."

It's a slippery slope.
Replace "space" by "Palestine" and you will have a perfect example of what happens when different groups have different notions of how ownership of physical space is defined.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=FRA_39750...

I see the same thing.
Yeah, I don't like it in coffee either, but it tastes pretty good in tea. There's also Stevia-Coke here that tastes pretty good.
Thanks.
Here's my take on who the achievement really belongs to (in ascending order):

DNA based life < Mammals < Primates < Homo Sapiens < Countries involved in space exploration < Taxpayers of the USA < Rich tax payers of the USA (they contributed more proportionally right?) < People working at NASA < People actually working on the Curiosity project
interesting subtlety - i'd refer to that as an "ass-kick" rather than an "ass-kicking"
I prefer the view that this achievement does belong to the world.

I work in the oil and gas industry. We supply the world with energy, it gets used up about as quickly as it gets produced. In a sense, I will have nothing concrete to show for my work say 30 years from now... apart for the fact that the world continued to function. Same goes for farmers, dentists, parking attendants and in fact for the vast majority of professions.

The people who product the truly lasting products are scientists (and arguably artists, politicians and lawyers... but science is special because it is so consistently worthwhile). But I do feel a part of society's successes, I was one of those millions of little cogs that are a part of the whole machine.
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Actually my guess is that he honestly doesn't really want any consulting gigs and previously wasn't advertising a rate, but due to his involvement with some high profile projects got a constant stream of offers he brushed off by quoting ridiculously high rates, then found out that some would accept those rates and some of the projects were genuinely interesting.
Hm, I ask because it's a good way to see what type of learning environment it will be. Maybe pay attention to how the people around you are treated after a mistake is made.
I completely agree with this. Last time I was in New York, I was kind of dismayed that there is not tons of new construction going on. I would not be shocked if the subways are still in use in 500 years. They are a tremendous investment, but they pay back over very long periods, and people absolutely adjust their way of life around this kind of infrastructure. Bonds can be issued to pay for the construction, and then repaid with the revenue from fares over many years. I think it would be difficult to argue that they don't add value, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate exactly what it is.
I believe this is the shadow of the rover.
Wildlife conservation has been marked in Chandaka     
Forest department has started the steps to follow the demands of Bandhu Dhotre who is a wild life activist. He starts the save tigers campaign in recent fats in Nagpur. Pravin Paradeshi who is the principle secretary of forest department has guided the officials to take some major steps. Bandhu Dhotre who launched this indefinite plan of fast in Nagpur to urge the 16-point demand for protection and conservation of tigers in Chandrapur in the month of July.
Just as with architecture or project management, it makes the notion of a separate QA phase performed by separate QA staff obsolete. But it doesn't mean you don't need QA, or people with QA skills.
There's a big strategic risk in you guys offering web hooks: it facilitates competitors piggybacking on your event detection and building high value response services that compete directly with your own. In other words, you become a piece of costly-to-maintain middleware and others capture the real consumer value.
I have to wonder though: are projects whose managers are willing to pay $1000/h really more likely to be exciting than others?
In bold. Underlined even.

A Google search for the exact text "Does Agile make QA obsolete?" finds http://postmodernquality.blogspot.com/p/does-agile-make-qa-o... . It's a good first answer to this question.
> Math! What can't it do?

Real randomness, or actually explain what it is. And some other things. But it's pretty powerful :)
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yeah that's true, has been iDev for 3 years but didn't expect to serve this far....
"Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do." - I love the archaic language.
I think that's the case. Early in the video, she was saying that she couldn't lift her arms anymore. It's like wearing exo-armor all the time for super strength.
There are people who suffer because this technology either doesn't exist yet or is unavailable in their area...therefore the progress of this technology needs to sped up. As a joke I'm saying that all the leave should be cancelled for these engineers until the technology is available to the people who need it.
I think it sounds like an excellent idea. I would suggest creating a "crowd funding" project to try and raise some backing.
Kickstarter is probably not an option as their TOS won't allow this. But there are many other options out there - http://www.quora.com/Where-is-the-kickstarter-to-help-launch...

Good luck
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I used to see a lot of TW tubes and it is amazing these are still vitally important and have never been surpassed in terms of gain and low noise.

Vacuum tubes (or valves here in the UK) in the high-microwave range are truly wonderful and bizarre. Some of the quantum theory involved in their operation is utterly mind-blowing.

I recall as a kid, a lot of military stuff my stepdad was involved with from Rathyon, Westinghouse and GE during the 70s was really cutting edge and has seldom been matched or bettered.
Since we're talking about the Shannon limit, why does a 56 Kbps modem not violate it?

The common wisdom in the early '90s was that the fastest possible modem for a dial-up connection would be ~35 Kbps. I even remember reading this "fact" in a communications theory book from that era. Analog modems could never be faster. (It's assumed that US and Canadian analog telephones have a 3 kHz channel.)

Then why does a 56 Kbps modem not violate the Shannon limit for data transmission on a 3 kHz channel? How is it possible to break a fundamental principle of information theory?

This question has bugged me a lot. Based on some research on web, I tried to put together an intuitive answer to what happened. Here's my answer, but I welcome insight or corrections from people knowledgeable in telephony or information theory.

At the time the book was written--when people believed that dial-up modems could never be faster than 35 Kbps--the telephone network was perceived as being analog end to end (though lots of it was already becoming digital), like this:

User<------------{ telco network }------------------------>ISP
(analog) (analog) (analog)

A critical assumption in calculating the Shannon limit was the noise floor of the network, which was taken to be 35 dB, a figure based on an all-analog network. (A higher dB number is better for transmission quality.) The Shannon limit would be 35 Kbps based on a 3 kHz bandwidth and that particular signal to noise ratio of 35 dB. ( bps = BW log2 (1 + P/N) = 3000 log2 (1 + 10^(35/10)) = 34881 bps )

However, by the mid-'90s, most of the telco network became digital. Only the customer loop--the connection between the user and the telephone company--remained analog. So now, with respect to the Shannon limit, only the noise floor of the customer loop matters, since the rest is digital:

User<------------{ telco network }------------------------>ISP
(analog) (digital) (also digital)

It turns out that it is possible to achieve a much better S/N ratio when only the customer loop is analog. The Shannon limit would be based on a 3 kHz bandwidth (the same bandwidth as before) and but a much higher noise floor of 98 dB for the customer loop. The Shannon limit would now be ~97 Kbps. ( bps = BW log2 (1 + P/N) = 3000 log2 (1 + 10^(98/10)) = 97664 bps )

The Shannon limit still exists, but other factors related to the network would limit the data rate before this bigger Shannon limit takes effect.

So the key thing that the experts and the communications theory book got wrong was to neglect the hidden assumption about S/N ratio. The bandwidth matters, but the S/N ratio matters too.
That's one small step for a robot, but a giant leap for robotkind.
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Space is like all frontiers. It doesn't matter how loudly anyone argues back at home. It belongs to the people who go there.

Space is different than our other frontiers because as a proportion of its size to ours, its unprecedented. It belongs to everyone who wants to go, and will for a very long time.

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I guess I owe @mat an apology here - it seems Apple's customer service was at fault, not @mat's password reuse practices…
I figured a paraphrasing along the lines of "Do you want to sell shiny phones..." or "Do you want to work on ways to share cat pictures..." would be more appropriate.
"Far better it is, to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure

than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much

because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Typically how these things are measured is body fat and lean mass. Lean mass is all the stuff other than fat (muscle, water, organs etc).

You're right, I did assume that the lean mass lost came out of muscle in retrospect. Given his weight loss ratios I'd guess that it has to be, but it may be all water.

One interesting point here is if he lost significant water weight then he could have actually gained muscle as he lost fat. (that one's hard to tell though)
A lot of the arguments here, whether for or against the idea that this achievement 'belongs' to the U.S., miss an important point.

Not everyone working on past, current and future Mars Exploration Programs is an American citizen. The funding may be from the U.S., but the individual contributions at NASA come from all over the world.

To name just three, there's Fernando Abilleira, Spain (trajectory analyst); Nathalie Cabrol, France (planetary geologist); and Firouz Naderi, Iran (manager of the Mars Exploration Program). There's a huge list of people, you should check it out: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/people/
Hundred. A few hundred years ago.
For left-CTRL you can often just rest your hand on the CTRL while hitting the key with the index finger. :)
Another reminder to be humble wherever you go. You never know who you're talking to :).
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Seven years minimum experience developing mobile apps? Seriously? I don't see why PalmOS or WinCE experience can be criteria for minimum experience these days.
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Glad to know it has support for IPv6, early adoption in new places is good!
I've been told the opposite. If your call is interstate, then federal rules (one party consent) apply.
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Did you review the source or profile the emu, or do you make your judgement out of what you believe the implementation of an accurate SNES emulator should take?

In the former case, cold you enlighten us on the parts that are slower then they should be.

In the latter case, please have a look at the source.
I hope space exploration becomes cool again!

Also... soon it will be 40 years since the last man walked on the moon. Need to do something about that. Can we register NASA as a charity so donations become tax deductible??
On my work setup (Chrome / Windows 7), a dialog box will ask for permission to install/run a Java applet...
Raw images straight from the Mars Curiosity Rover
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True, thank you for the correction.
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For $1000/hr you would think he could afford a valid certificate for his app's webstite.
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Hm, I'll agree, however where does the money from a casino come from? Ordinary people losing, creating casino profit which ends up back on the table for someone to play to win. At the end of the day the money comes from somewhere, often at the expense of a losing party. So when someone figures a way to con the system they're often taking money lost by people who played in good faith and it didn't work.

Plus with Wall Street whilst they play the rules to maximum effect, they often seem to step outside the rules and they're frequently not just playing with the $10 Joe Smith paid on Friday for his ticket, but with the entire retirement savings of Bill Brown.

It's pretty morally shady whichever way you cut it, but there's definite shades in there.
oh thanks! now it works again, but it hasn't (at least here in italy) for 15-20 minutes. I close the thread.
"...indeed, we were capable of inducing a complete compound eye on an antenna, on a wing, or on a leg... We actually showed, later, that the fruit flies can see with these eyes."

Wow, that really is fascinating.
I'm 19 and I started learning at 14 and even I feel like I wish I started earlier. Even now, I'm not the best out there. My biggest problem is making developer friends. Being self taught and living in London where everyone just wants to party all the time is a little bit difficult for me.
The only clarification I'd make here is the distinction between "public wifi" and "unencrypted wifi". Some cafes I frequent have WPA2 secured networks with the SSID and password made freely available. I'm pretty sure that solves the Firesheep problem (I don't know for sure, but I'm reasonably confident that other people on the WPA2 network still can read my connection).
Haha! 14 points already... Told you!
Nobody's going to see a blurb about instagram in a history book 20 years from now.
The benefits of fasting are well documented.

http://www.ajcn.org/content/81/1/69.short

http://www.ajcn.org/content/90/5/1138.short

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v35/n5/full/ijo2010171a.ht...
I still remember when I decided to go from 10$/h to 50$/h on freelancing, and besides earning more, started to get better and more serious clients. Nothing compared to 1k/h, but still reminds me of something important:

The first thing to accomplish a goal is believing it.

(also, there will almost always be someone ready to pay any amount you ask, the best approach is an equation that maximize income/clients and minimize hours)
I was going to mention TracFone as a good example, actually -- but I looked at their website and saw that they had the "service days" limitation that you mention. IIRC they used to have an even better policy than that, more in line with what I described.
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Programming is not a race with one winner. There are a ton of programmers making 6 figures, and the distribution of possible incomes for someone who can program and ... has no real upper bound.

You are very unlikely to be the second coming of John Carmack, but you can still have a plenty good life. Welcome aboard, start your learning curve, and keep it going.

There is only one big tip that I have. A level people like to hang out with A level people while B level people like to hang out with C level people. The difference? B level people want to be the smartest person around and stop learning. A level people don't care about the label and want to be around other smart people.
Usually a perjury charge requires that you know the truth and tell a lie, knowingly and willingly. I'm not sure where negligence comes into it, but I think you'd have to prove WF knew their filings were wrong, as opposed to just careless. Also, it's rare to prosecute for perjury when the defendant volunteers the new version, as that would discourage past liars from ever coming forward with the truth.

In other news, I amended my tax return a few years ago. I do not generally refer to that event as the time I committed perjury.
The point is it slips off the tomato and cuts your finger.
I'm not begrudging anything, I'm just surprised I could recognize any of what they're using. :)
Disclaimer: I never ran a coffee shop.

Then again, most coffeeshops don't seem don't go under just because penniless startup founders. When you lower your prices and then put out a tip jar (after attracting the cheapskates) you are just asking to go bankrupt.

Look at small bookstores back in the late 90s: "And then one day Barnes and Nobles puts couches and cafes in the stores and practically begged people to read books in their store without buying them."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html

If people can rent out airbed space, why not rent out a booth for a day or on an hourly basis. You can even stop making coffee and just put in Red Bull vending machines.
Do you know what disease causes that sort of problem?
There's an anexdote for that:

woman is strolling through a local park, when she happens upon Pablo Picasso sitting on a bench. Struck by her good fortune, she summons the courage to speak to him.

“Excuse me. You’re Pablo Picasso right?”

The man smiles.

“Would it be possible to have you sketch my portrait? I’ll pay.”

Picasso accepts the offer.

He considers the woman carefully for a few moments and then takes out a pen and paper. He quickly sketches a single line on the page.

He takes one last look at the page and hands it to the woman.

“That’s incredible!” She says. “You’ve managed to capture my essence in a single stroke of the pen.”
“That will be $5,000,” Picasso replies.

“$5,000? But it only took you seconds to draw it!”

“Actually, my dear, it took me my whole life.”

(from http://morethanaliving.com/2007/03/20/pablo-picasso-anecdote...
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"The guy who invented the computer"

No, no and again no. That was Konrad Zuse, and adulterating that fact shows you learned nothing and wasted Russell's time.
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