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Futile and very foolish. Space MUST be owned. Humans do not invest in, nor do they take care of or clean up things they cannot own. Case-in-point: Great Pacific Garbage Patch (along with the other 4 oceanic garbage patches). The inability to own property is devastating to a civilization. Property ownership is a form of democracy that is necessary in human societies. Too much ownership can be devastating due to human greed (The Amazon) and no ownership can be devistating due to lack of desire to protect something that isn't yours (Earth's Oceans, African Tribal Lands).

Examples:

1) I also do volunteer environmental cleanup. So far I've bagged 523 pounds of garbage from forested areas and some abandoned private properties. Garbage pollution happens in forested areas and land where neither party knows exactly who owns what. Land without ownership is allowed to accumulate garbage which flows into the storm drains, into the rivers, and into the oceans. Without ownership, one cannot be accountable. Without ownership there can be no consequences or rule of law. People don't take care of things they don't own (or realize they own).

2) Many African countries are still on the "communal lands" system. Where no one owns any land and individuals simply have a right to live on it. This lack of land rights and ownership is one of the main reasons why so many Africans live in poverty, are behind, cannot build wealth, and resulted in the 2010 Great African Land Grab. Fertile Land the size of France was taken away from numerous African nations at only 23 cents per hectare. That's 23 cents. The normal rate can be $1,000 per hectare. Natives are forced off the land by force.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y05fzp0YSrw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFTGq94dXs

http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/special-investigation-two-la...
As much as anything, those guys were doing their bit to secure funding at a time when their budgets are under really huge pressure. A lot of that stuff is aimed at Senators who decide budgets. They respond well to this kind of thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Charles Bolden also has political ambitions, that was quite a 'statesman-like' speech he gave.

It also plays well to the people who don't know any better, the people who say 'why are we spending all this money on space when I can't get a job?'. You'll notice that the straighter and more senior heads - Pete Theisinger the PM, and John Grotzinger the chief scientist, did not go all Team America during the press conference, but did make similar points - 'The money isn't sent to Mars, it's spent here on Earth' - again speaking to the pressure that they're under.
i can summarize this as blablablabla. frankly i don't care.

i had people studying computer science in the university that had never seen a computer from the inside. do i like it? no. does it matter? no.

i'll crosspost from another hackernews thread:

“Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do.”

the real question is do we have to blog about everytime we decide to go the toilet? well, i don't think. but people obviously disagree. hence the twitter popularity
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OK I know it's following on from this question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339174 I'm just asking what are the signs that point to the culprit being lack of scalability?
Right, so the greater point I was getting at is that committing is something under the programmer's control. It's not "sacred history", it's all created by programmers as part of their craft, saying you shouldn't rewrite history because you might need it is not much different from saying you should commit every keystroke—they both mean you are of the opinion that you need to know every transformation to the code that happened.
I see a company called Euroconsult publishes estimates of governmental space expenditures. Unfortunately it costs over 4000 euro! But a summery is available here:

http://www.geospatialworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&...
There is one annoying thing about these cameras -- they have a large profile/bad aero dynamics. This seems like something that would not be too hard to address either.

First of all they look silly (e.g. if you wear them on your helmet). A more aero-dynamic design would look better. Also, at the high speeds of some of the sports this is used with this may actually cause problems.

Take skiing for example -- a professional downhill skier can easily reach and pass 80 mph. This camera will cause so much drag that if it does not fly off it will probably cause a lot of discomfort by jerking the skier's head up. But even at the lower speeds of advanced amateurs this will cause problems.

But of course the most important thing for a product like this is looks, and a more aerodynamic design would definately look better.
You can do that (there are options to git merge that will let you squash the merge into a single commit), but IME that's too coarse. I usually want what I've done on a branch to be several distinct commits, just not the hundreds of false starts and minor syntax changes you'd see if you looked at my "real" commits.
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Close enough:

http://jayse.tv/v2/about/

http://jayse.tv/v2/the-work/
so is "int i;" in my programs a copyright infringement?
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Hey guys!

I follow HackerNews via https://twitter.com/hackernewsbot but since the 07/27, there isn't any new update from the bot.

I thought it would be quickly noticed but it's been a week and there is still no news.

Do you know the reason? If a fix is en route or if it's abandoned?

Thanks !
I wonder what the ground control software is written in. I know that for one of the previous ones, they used Tcl and Tk, and the first screenshots they showed with the first image were the X windowing system if I've ever seen it.
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I snowboard and, on those rare perfect blue-bird powder days, the go-pro army hits the slopes in force. I'm conflicted about them to be honest. Boarding (or skiing) is very much about the story. While it's exhilarating when things go right, the most entertaining stories come from when things go wrong. Swapping those stores in a hot-tub or over a much-needed dinner is a big part of the experience. Being able to toss narrative to the wind and just whip out your phone and show off video of the insane trouble you've gotten into cheapens the experience somehow. I get the appeal of capturing those perfect moments, but I don't want to lose the story in the process. Maybe I'll try recording my runs someday, but for now I prefer to live the story.
> However, if you actually want to get those things to the surface of Mars and let them do meaningful work, the best option is the US. ESA didn’t even manage a (successful) landing yet, Russia is failing constantly.

Not on Mars no (Beagle 2 was a bit anomalous, having a budget that would barely cover Nasa's stationary costs each year and wasn't secure until about half way through the project anyway. Very embarrassing from a PM point of view). But don't discount Huygens! That was pretty spectacular, especially given how much less we know about Titan.

Asside: I asked a few people who worked on the Huygens landing system why that worked so well but why ESA hasn't been able to recreate that success. They said, quick as a flash, project management. ESA used to PM their projects with a small, powerful project office. Now the sub a lot of the PM out to the big contractors, who seem to just do MS Word documents about how they can't deliver anything and it's someone else's fault.

You need good PMs (we all know this anyway right?). The MSL PM is also the MER (spirit and opportunity) PM, Pete Theisinger. He is a great man. There's a fantastic talk he gave a few years ago, that should delight anyone into ambitious and cool engineering projects, about the development of MER. You can see that he's the kind of guy you'd like to work for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZBLklsUys

Edit: typo.
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Currently working on an office timesheet application that's going to make staff 'clocking in' a lot more productive and regimented.
Previously built a couple of applications to help improve productivity in motorsport and automotive engineering.

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Just for this purpose it's fine to go with some much cheaper camera. For example this one: http://www.chucklohr.com/808/C16/ The video is nowhere near GoPro's quality but it's OK as evidence. It can be mounted on a helmet (while being discreet) which gives you a much better view.
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Here's the article about Tcl and Pathfinder:

http://wfr.tcl.tk/fichiers/pub/Tcl_on_Pathfinder.pdf
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It's been linked to many times on HN, but not yet in these comments:
An accessible textbook (free online) on information theory, and its links to machine learning: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html

Recently video lectures that go with that book also went online: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn_lectures/
I truly hope curiosity uncovers some new friends for us earthlings!
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a bit off topic.. but I found this he/she thing really annoying.

Then use singular they. See http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-th... for verification that this is acceptable English.
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This kind of dynamic exists in a few professions.

About a year ago I was locked out of my house and had to call an emergency locksmith - the cost was around $150. He turned up and inserted a piece of rigid plastic into the gap between door and frame, opening the lock. The process took 5 seconds, and I immediately realized that, given the knowledge that this would work, I could have opened the door myself using a credit card. But I didn't possess that knowledge, and the value of gaining access to my home was worth what I paid. I had paid not for hours worked, but for experience.
I didn't mean to imply it was a good method but rather make the point that HR are actually doing this.
That's a bit of an "it depends" situation though. There's a good answer on Super User about this: http://superuser.com/a/156969/4682
Add a long piece of paper and suddenly you have a limited manual turing machine. Add some LEGO Mindstorms, and suddenly you have a limited automatic turing machine.
NASA does this ALLLLL the time. And as an Australian it pisses me off. Particularly when they throw in "God bless America" at the end. Such a primitive tagline to a scientific endeavour.

What we need is an International space exploration program where countries can be involved provided they commit a certain percentage of their GDP.
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I know a similar thing from top online poker players. Many of them offered training lessons for ridiculous rates simply because they would make more money playing the same time, so why bother teaching people for a lesser hourly rate ?

Other successfull players still took these lesseons at these very high rates simply because these top players were the only ones able to help them improve their games and this was worth thousands to them, as they already were making alot of money.
That's not a typo. Winter 2012 Passed already. Winter (season) is December through March but for the typical YC term, it is usually January through March (for Winter), hence 2013 for the next YC batch. Summer is the second batch of the year.
I don't get why everyone is so up in arms about this. I come across folks every day who say they charge "$x" or "$y" and think it's way above market rate for what they say they do.

The reality is that perhaps this guy and his todo app might score some work at that rate or he might not, it's his prerogative to decide what he wants to charge.

I might look at someone elses folio today and when they tell me they want $500 a day I'd look at their work and think good luck.

There's a massive difference between saying what you charge and what you actually charge on the invoice at the end of the day.
"The commands will trigger a webhook call to your server, where the actual deployment/testing/whatever command you need takes place."

The end user still needs to run something on their servers to actually do anything for their custom commands, which is essentially what hubot scripts do, which is what my book is teaching people about.
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It basically has nothing to do with the JVM. These speedups are entirely a function of how modern processors work. To some extent the platform/language matters because its guarantees determine how easily you can achieve good memory locality.

(For example, one could implement a java compiler that correctly made all Java code work, but gave absolutely no memory locality--different instance variables of an object could be arbitrarily far apart, and you could even implement arrays as linked lists (or at least chunk lists) so that arrays don't guarantee locality either. One couldn't make the optimizations he made under those conditions. But any language where you know what data will be contiguous allows you to make these optimizations.)

I'd guess that you knew this, but your comment suggests that there's something special about the JVM that makes it especially well-suited for these optimizations, which might confuse readers.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the devastating impact of GoPro on the environment. Every single one of those cameras is going to end up in landfills. If we're lucky. Most likely the plastic, metal, and toxic battery trash will end up on slopes, in the wilderness, or in the ocean. Ironic and disappointing for a company that pretends to celebrate the outdoors.
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Good for Sam. Now you just need to get your prospective clients to get wind of this, right before you quote them your steal of a $300/hour rate. Level-setting is a powerful thing.
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Any possible way to install extensions via Dragon only?
> Property ownership is a form of democracy that is necessary in human societies.

I smell applause lights. Property ownership and democracy are entirely different concepts.

Also, the things you mention, while being true on Earth, aren't necessarily true in Space (at the moment). Pollution isn't an issue except possibly in Earth's orbit. "Protecting the environment" is another way of saying "keeping the environment friendly to humans". There is no human friendly environment in Space to protect (within our reach). I'm all for land ownership on Moon or Mars but we should probably have this discussion in a few decades when some people actually live there permanently (at which point they will most likely form their own independent government anyways).
Maybe some people use their iPads for Facebook/Twitter/YouTube. I don't give a damn. They're the same boys/girls that were watching celebrity news and other useless TV shows 10 years ago, when you and I were watching "scientific/educational" shows on TV and hacking away with computers.

I'm getting sick of this "iPad is for consumption" thing. How are you going to "produce" something if you haven't learned anything yet? For me, iPad is a learning device. In the past year, I've read maybe 15 (technical) books on my iPad. I wanted to read them for the past 3 years, I had downloaded their ebooks and stashed them neatly in a 'To-Read' folder, but never get to do so on a Mac or PC because of their form factor.

In the past 2 weeks alone, I read 'JavaScript: The Good Parts' and first 5 chapters of 'Git Pro' (ePub, in iBooks), 70% of 'Head-First C' (PDF, in the fantastic ReaddleDocs[1] app) and 20 other technical/"intellectual" articles in Instapaper. Without iPad, I wouldn't have read them.

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[1]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/readdledocs-for-ipad-pdf-view... - Believe me, this app is fantastic. You don't know how great it is until you use it.
I didn't really include distribution, I used 'educational system' and 'education' as the same things (which was fine in the context I did, but which are not the same when used in the context you are pointing at), and more or less assumed saturation or near-saturation of the demand for education. As was evidenced by the qualification in one of my posts that country-wide per capita GDP can only be a proxy when a sufficiently large portion of the population has received an education.

So I guess you're correct, that I was talking about the quality of the education itself, and that I wasn't talking about quality of an educational system (as opposed to: quality of the education). But then again that's not what this discussion was about anyway, nor do I have any special thoughts on that, so I'm not really interested in going off on a tangent in that direction.
And in a couple of days, if everything goes fine, we'll have a couple of color, HD pictures of Mars. I'm very excited about it.
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Like with most things, anything to an extreme is dangerous -including possibly positive thinking. People just need to learn moderation.
The artist David Hockney loves iPads so much that he actually has had his suits modified to include a suitable pocket - here is a video of him using an iPad to draw in a cafe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jabJKtqK0k
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this buggs me too. They used to say that ADSL mas max speed of 8mbps, now there are faster ADSL all around the world.
I've seen an electronic music group perform with some iPads used as controllers and others making sound directly, including modifying the sound of a cello. One chap was using a thinkpad with a games controller to be different I suppose...

http://www.bilensemble.co.uk/

And I've just spent a week in Yorkshire including a visit to Salts Mill. Hockney has an exhibition of some of his iPad paintings (projections) and some of the paintings he did using a graphics tablet on Photoshop. I actually liked the tablet/photoshop paintings more (composed of thin lines building shapes and shadings) than the iPad ones.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jan/13/david-hockney-...

http://danielonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/daniel-h...

But I think that a 'direct manipulation' interface will allow creation in variety of media. I'm waiting for a notebook sized tablet with stylus input for an electronic moleskine.
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When will people understand that those ads aren't targeted for the general public. They are specifically for those users (typically older) who aren't experienced in using computers and appreciate having someone in person to talk to. The type of people mentioned during Apple keynotes as booking YEAR long training programs.

I don't see why they didn't compare the Nexus 7 advertising with the iPad ads which are still currently airing. That would make a lot more sense.
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This whole article reads like someone who's just way too big a fan and has lost touch. When you look at brand surveys, Facebook is not loved. In fact, it ranges from borderline creepy to outright untrustworthy.

Why do people use it? Because it has momentum. To pretend that there's this mythical love affair between every Facebook user and the site is just naive.
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Yes, I did, version 089 (http://bsnes.googlecode.com/files/bsnes_v089.tar.xz). Is clean and well written C++, but in addition to the accuracy, I see a problem in the emulation itself: templates, data structures, L1 data cache usage, synchronization. In my opinion, that emulator could be rewritten in plain C, with better data structures, and without such rare synchronization, using just one quarter of the resources is using today (v089).

I pointed just 2 things: 1) against the byuu affirmation about Nesticle ROM patching for speed (in my opinion the speed of Nesticle was because of great implementation of the Bloodlust folks, via 386 assembly -both for the Watcom C + TASM DOS/DOS4GW case, and the Win32 port-), and 2) the non-sense of a whole 3GHz (with 3 of 4 threads at 100% usage), for running a SNES system, even with 100% accuracy.
"In most legal systems, confidentiality is part of hiring someone."

I assume you're talking about European systems, in which case it's not true, at least not to a significant extent. And when you hire a contractor it's even less defined - a contractor can freely talk about what kind of work he did for a company, right down into quite specific detail, without a proper NDA or clause to that extent in the contract.
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