skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand they do, but even if you had it been deployed seconds after it touched down, the wait for returning images would have been a while. Packet radio from that distance is no joke.

From Earth I'd rather have a few crappy thumbnails to confirm that the vehicle wasn't upside down or something in a few minutes than something National Geographic worthy in a few days.
I don't know. Twitter said they were going to launch annotations in the API, too, and that never materialized.
> In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

According to the internet, this is from "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach
How the Curiosity Rover's Nuclear Battery Works
Nice work with Graphene, indeed.
Standard chartered bank falsified $250B worth of Iranian transactions
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It is not a matter of the language so much. Use what your team is comfortable with. I find it super important how to structure the app. First design an API. Then implement it on the server with corresponding tests. Then build the frontend. Here is more to decide: server driven (server faces or server pages) or single paged (client side MVCs)
There's about 5 million tutorials online how to do everything properly. < 1 day work for 1% of sales... HMMMMMMMMM. tough decision, not.
Plutonium 238 would be your best bet for such devices, if only because it's halflife is 87.7 years. Strontium 90 might also work, with a halflife of 28.8 years.

However plutonium would not be easy to put in every house since you have to make it in nuclear reactors. You get about half a kilowatt per kilogram of it, I don't think production of it could scale that high.

Strontium is naturally occurring and relatively common. Sr 90 is a trace isotope though. Off the top of my head I would suspect you would be facing similar challenges that separation of Uranium isotopes face.
Ads are not the problem, the problem is the implications of being ad-supported. How it affects policy and decision-making.
How exactly would NASA exist without American citizens? I'm sure those engineers would happily work for free in a shed, right?

That doesn't mean we get significant credit, but to ignore the realities of how this stuff works is silly.
Probably not. The problem with isotopes needed for things like this is that they tend to have short half-lives (short half-lives = high decay rate = lots of heat generated), which means they pretty much don't exist naturally at all. So they will need to be produced artificially as fission fragments or through neutron irradiation of other isotopes. It's easy enough to produce large quantities of "hot" isotopes in a fission reactor which could be used for RTGs (ignoring safety) but the problem there is that if you're operating a nuclear reactor anyway why not use the heat production from the isotopes to produce energy there instead of going the roundabout, and unsafe, route of packaging things up in RTGs?
I thought there was a ban on radioactive materials being launched by NASA but I couldn't find anything about it, does anyone know any more?
First and foremost, congrats on shipping - that's the hard part. As per the product, the UI looks pretty good for a MVP - I would probably polish it up a bit.
NASA is just rocking this mission. Very impressed.
I've been hearing (sic: reading) a few folks suggesting actually python. This was in the ##curiosity IRC chat this morning during the landing
The Las Vegas Downtown startup thing looks really interesting. $960k in NV should go 2-3x as far as in Silicon Valley, as long as the founders want to go there. Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and founders having existing relationships with Silicon Valley help a lot, I think.

I don't think this would make sense for developer tools or anything where you needed very frequent in-person meetings with Bay Area companies, but for a consumer or small business product, potentially a good idea.
You're also ignoring the political/emotive aspect.

People don't like things called 'nuclear'.
Looks nice, it should integrate with CRM's
Is it not ironic, though, that we’re at a point that any browser which supports @supports would also support any property you’d test for support for?
Well, let's be totally clear: "obtaining things for free" is not particularly what's at issue here. What's at issue is something more like "obtaining something which is not yours to obtain." That invokes a tremendous question of what is "yours to obtain" which is not easily settled, and because we have competing intuitions on this point, Hacker News discussions can go wild between camps which take both extremes of the issue.

I would guess that it's at least a strong minority view -- if not a majority view -- that record labels have abdicated their moral authority to assert transgressions of this kind. It is not unlike patent trolls, where we feel that if someone fails to capitalize on a potential market and in fact attempts (politically, legally, etc.) to hinder the growth there, that they forfeit their right to be wronged.

So I think it's a shame that both sides never seem to get around to Step One, which is to say, "here's what I think the spirit of the law is, here's what I think the purpose of law as a whole is; now, do these conditions efficiently uphold those ideals?"

If those questions are answered then it may not be "pedantry" -- perhaps they think that the purpose of the law is to stop theft, and theft-like deprivations of property. There may or may not be a nuanced argument here; and we won't know until people manifest their assumptions rather than burying them under knee-jerk slogans.
Is there a need for legit email newsletter advertising? Yes. Is it ever going to happen with a CPC model on a large scale? No.

It seems like LaunchBit is trying to do two things: 1) Launch a new affiliate network and 2) Advertise spammy products via email (one of their default advertisers is a teeth whitening product).

It just doesn't seem like either of those things have a very bright future.
It's Apple proactively removing things from one of their products. They decided that XScreensaver was not something they wanted to allow and invented reasons to not allow it. Until they changed their minds.
Jumping the hurdles with the GamePad API
This to me feels really sci-fi since "we sent a rover to mars and another thing we already had hanging around took a picture of it." That feels pretty neat.
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That's lovely, and I wish them luck, but having some sort of closed beta is about a million miles away from having a service I can check out to make sure that it works. And by works, I don't just mean payment mechanics and security, I also mean PCI/DSS compliance, EU data protection compliance, VAT handling, financial reporting, and all those other little details that are often completely different here from the US.

So as StavrosK said, can we please lay off the Stripe hype for a while? It's not a viable service for use outside the US, and it's not going to be (at least for any responsible business that isn't willing to bet the company on not getting into tax/regulatory trouble) for a long time.
I'd think this is right, because the answer that gives the 2.5 million loc number also says that this code is descended from the code for Spirit/Oppie and further from Soujourner, but the EDL system for Curiosity is so different from the ones for the older rovers, it has to involve a lot of entirely new code.
However, I believe you have to be comfortable and convincingly experienced in that particular area in order to get such a contract. Which is not always an option since the area is ‘very specialized’.

Or you may be able to deal with wide range of IT problems that includes that area, but then there's a question of credibility—whether that particular area would seem like something you can deal with to company management, considering that you've never done exactly that thing before. In this case it seems that you either need strong reputation for dealing with different problems successfully, or some leads inside the company. (Either way is possible, of course, but apparently not as easy as it may seem on the first sight.)
Just cribbing from Wiki, the generator contains 11 pounds of Pu-238 and produces ~150W of electricity from ~2000W of heat. It's hard to put an exact price on it, but it's definitely in the $millions per kg.

It's theoretically feasible, but the cost would be, ah, prohibitive.
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There are certainly some places that would probably be more accepting of it than average. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_RTG.jpg ;)

Those are 10 watt Sr90 RTGs, sitting around. The used to use them for lighthouses.
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You realize that can't happen right? He's been accused of breaking the law of the state he lives in. That won't change if the case gets appealed to federal courts.
https://join.app.net/

People aren't backing join.app.net. Are they really going to find 300k in a week, when they have raised only just half that after such a long time?
How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life
I'm sure MailChimp, ConstantContact, Campaign Monitor, MadMimi, AWeber, etc mention some of their clients on their home pages. Email is big business still, with much higher conversion rates and LTV than web traffic.
Cognitive recognition SaaS to slash costs?
Thanks katabatic - reducing friction was exactly what we were going for.
More BGR spam.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044354550457756...
Any time I can transition a service that is important to me to one in which I am the customer, I grab that opportunity quickly.

I'd happily pay gmail $10/month for mail in which I was the customer, and not the advertisers. $4/month for a user supported twitter environment sounds like a bargain - particularly as all the people I suspect I want to "follow" (or whatever the join.app.net terminology will be) - have already pledged their support for app.net.
IronWorker's Most Requested Feature is Here: Max Concurrency
Now yes. But what about in 5 years time? You'll be able to use @supports to find out what a browser supports
Zorin OS 6: The ultimate Linux distro for Windows users?
Why to switch to Git from Subversion
I'm inclined to give this a shot. My business targets non-tech-savvy SMBs and marketing to them in a scalable way is tricky. Since it's CPC there's no risk, I'll report back in a week with some data
Thing is: I don't think your younger self would have listened to this advice because your mindset is a function of time. I know I wouldn't have. Unless, of course, the advice giver can show you actual proof that the things he's saying are true, e.g. like the Almanac from the future that the older Biff is clutching. Or to show Archimedes how to derive the volume of a sphere using calculus (should you show him how to generalize the formula for a n-dim sphere, maybe not).

So that brings us to the following thought: There are two kinds of advice a time traveler can give: (i) "Objective" stuff that will actually happen, and that perhaps you can provide proof for, i.e. the Instagram advice; and (ii) "subjective" stuff that may or may not turn out that way, i.e. "don't marry that girl".

BTW, due to the Butterfly Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect) these two are not as clear cut as above.
Sure, send me an email at douglasrohde at gmail, I can certainly answer those questions.
...I am not easily emotionally moved by git command lines...

This is going on my "best of" list of HN-related excerpts
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From what I recall, groklaw.net (by Pamela Jones) is based on donations, and PJ works as a paralegal. Florian Mueller is a paid consultant on patent issues, and uses FossPatents.com to get consulting/expert witness clients and this sometimes shows through in his blog. He also consults for Oracle and Microsoft.
My feelings exactly. That line literally made me feel warm inside for a second.

I am not easily emotionally moved by git command lines, but this is clearly somebody who understands me and what I need in life
There's also the thermocouples, which also wear out and are made of pretty expensive materials themselves.

However, it is likely that a "home" device could be made simpler/less expensive.
It looks like they had the coordinates of the decent path of Curiosity, knew where to point the camera, took a large picture from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) like they did with Phoenix [1] and then when that picture hit human eyes NASA cropped it.
That being said, if they have multiple HiRISE images of the decent[2] I think that would make one amazing film. Anyone know the FPS of HiRISE? [1]http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2012/08/PhoenixHiRise.jpg [2]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62081000/jpg/_62081182...
You've already figured it out - math and financials.

Do the math, show statistics. If they don't care about the downtime, it happens.

It's also worth noting that, depending on the age of the CTO, "4 cores, 8 gigs" might seem like enough for anybody. It seems like a hell of a lot to me - I still can't believe that we have mobile phones four times as fast as my first PC and ten times as fast as my first computer, with more RAM than I ever had harddrive space. I'm not saying it's not needed, but man we've come a long way.
> You can't drop the "by illegal means" part from my statement, on the grounds that copyright infringement isn't theft, because my statement isn't predicated on it being theft, it's predicated on it being illegal behavior. Which it is, on a basis wholly distinct from theft.

But your statement was being used to show how copyright infringement was equivalent to theft. I think I understand what you're saying now though, is it that copyright infringement and theft are equivalent because they both are illegal and they both acquire something? If so, I would still have to disagree by saying that theft has the important distinction of removing original ownership.

> "Getting something you would normally have to pay for for free by illegal means" encompasses a wide range of non-theft illegal means: by use of threat (extortion), by use of trick (fraud), etc.

It also encompasses a wider range of non-theft legal means: finding deals, being resourceful, doing favors, etc.
Indeed - and really the "potential" keyword is really dependent on if that person would have purchased it outright if they had not been able to pirate it in the first place.
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You might be thinking of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban which banned nuclear detonations in space (ending Project Orion).
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I don't understand why we should avoid talking about services that produce significant, easily measured uplifts for US companies just because those services aren't available in Europe.

I absolutely understand the frustration being expressed and am not suggesting that these threads are the wrong place to express it. But the idea that we should "lay off the Stripe hype" sounds wrong. It's entirely possible that we're not hyping Stripe enough. Startups need all the help they can get.
WePay makes that particular use-case very convenient IME.
I backed this almost immediately, and expected them to be a lot closer to the goal than they are now (still more than $300,000 off with only seven days to go). I'm very surprised with the apparent lack of resonance with the idea from people around here.

So what are some of the reasons you aren't backing?
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I would bet most of that comes up in opening and closing arguments.
Wow, that's super cool. I wonder if this technology is being used on any earth-based applications? If not, I'm assuming there are harmful side effects that don't necessarily affect the space missions. I'd like to learn more about the negatives of this technology basically.
"Bill Pate...says the group understands the stakes: "If the software isn't perfect, some of the people we go to meetings with might die."

Some days....
Waffles are a $10b annual business in the US alone. If we can get just 1% of that sector...
> what's to stop you just printing a cheque from someone else

Going to jail for fraud is disincentive enough for most.
I'm sure there's a class of M&A laywer, or at least a class of M&A project, where rates can be backed out to 4 figures an hour. But my numbers come in part from recently being a party to a BigLaw-mediated M&A transaction.

(Hopefully this doesn't sound argumentative; I believe you. Just supplying a data point. Overall point: $1k/hr is very very high.)
Fantastic story! Brings to mind the following quote from Bach's "Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah":

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
I either don't have time to understand, or it hasn't been made clear to me what it is and how it's going to save my life/money/family time.
Waffles are overpriced. That's why I am introducing my new technology: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Waffles.

This will allow you to create high syrup capacity waffles from an array of lower-quality waffles.
I think you mean 'Messages.app obsoleting iChat.app.'
In the article it says that they basically took the only picture they could. A second later or sooner and they'd have seen a landscape only.
shouldn't public DNS servers ignore packets from IP addresses that shouldn't appear in the public internet ?
Click & open rates for email lead nurturing program
HSBC offers two-factor authentication as a paid service. If your account balance is high enough or you are a business, it is offered for free.
It's a tough balance--at some level, if you're starting a business, you've got to be pretty stubborn--otherwise you'd just take everyone else's advice and get a job like "everyone else in the world". But you've also got to be flexible and open-minded enough to know when you're wrong, and be able to admit it. And if you want to keep people on your side, give credit where credit is due!

I laughed when you mentioned people not taking advice only to later take the advice but believe they came up with it themselves. It's really annoying when it happens to me, but I've certainly done it myself. I'm not sure why it happens that way exactly, but I try to be aware of it at least and always try to be very gracious for anyone taking the time to offer advice in the first place, whether I take it or not. And later on, when I end up taking the advice anyway, I really do try my best to not believe I came up with it myself.
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What is a growth hacker?
The Flashpoint
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"early adoption"?
Asana Now Supports Hyperlinks
In case anyone else wonders what "trade dress" means:

Trade dress is a legal term of art that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) that signify the source of the product to consumers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress
I thought Rust was going to be akin to Dart as far as programming realm. Was I incorrect? Is it a low-level programming language?
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Couldn't they use a sterling engine as well? That would be a bit more maintainable I would think?
I don't know about that. Golang is evolving pretty quickly. Barring a few language quirks, I like it a lot.
I sincerely hope that graceful "retirement" of these small satellites, especially if they fail to deploy properly, is being taken into account in their design. We've got enough orbital debris already. When the article quotes a company spokesperson saying "Even if 20% of them failed, you'd still do your mission..." I get antsy.
Startup communities are neighborhoods not cities
Machine Learning: Neural Networks
Probably from Simulink.
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Really interesting that the resolution is only 1280x800. This is just a little more than the 1280x720 resolution of my Samsung Galaxy S III phone.
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> I'd happily pay gmail $10/month for mail in which I was the customer

It's only $5/user/month and they offer a free trial. No ads, of course, and a SLA.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
App.net strikes me as a half-measure. It's still a centralized system with one company acting ultimately as a gatekeeper.

I want a twitter that acts more like email, on open, distributed systems that leave me in full ownership of my own content. I see very little reason for something like Twitter to go through a centralized party this way.
This is good advice.

I started out on my own startup path almost 2 years ago now, and it's dawned on me by now that things don't change. If you're building a company (or anything worth building really), you will always have problems, they will often catch you by surprise, and imminent success or failure always seems like it's right around the corner.

Best case scenario, you get to deal with higher quality problems, make more money, and still love what you do. Worst case... well, I guess you go get a job (and/or go bankrupt?)
What bothers me the most about Twitter is how, with a few sharp blows, they've destroyed the 3rd party client / app market which was perhaps the most amazing aspect of Twitter and it's surrounding culture when I first started using it in 2008
> I'm getting sick of this "iPad is for consumption" thing.

Something you miss is that the central directive for the iPad was a consumer experience. It's intended to be roughly equivalent to a TV. It's great that you choose to use it for Discovery Channel and the like, but you're probably not using it to write code. And that's fine; it's not meant for that. And that's the point: it's not meant for that.
Interesting. I'd say though that if you're a very good engineer, you can demonstrate that rather easily. And then social proof and all those other factors don't matter that much. Founders spend some time trying to recruit their friends away, but that's a very hard thing to do. Basically, if you're qualified, you'll probably get a good shot.
Definitely! That would be an interesting experiment!
I found this to be an excellent read. He highlights and breaks down several things that have bothered me for a long time, such as the share of money taken by iTunes, and provides perspective not usually heard in the labels vs. pirates/technologists debate.
No, that it is theft is pedantry. If it's more complicated than that and requires all kinds of caveats in order to equate the two, then use your words and stop taking shortcuts.
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The money should go farther in Nevada but probably not 3x.
How would they have become such a famous band that everyone loves? Without the marketing power of the record label all the radio's would have just picked them right up right? And so that means you would have me limited by your standards, yet my standards are unimportant and negligible? Also by you logic that means the people that actually created the product don't have a damn say, make money doing what you want and be a sellout or give it a way for free to the limited amount of people you can reach for free? Doesn't really seem like much of an option. Also by your logic no one deserves the right to change their mind? Because they signed a contract?
What sort of innovation are you looking for?

Your analogy could just as well be used like: the first food preparation was mixing together ingredients, sometimes with heat. Modern cooking is mixing together ingredients, sometimes with heat.

I don't particularly love my carrier, but I have a choice of several and they bring me mostly-available mostly-quite-high-speed service for a small fraction of my paycheck. It would've blown me away 20 years ago to have such service on a wired connection.
How can enterprise move from labor intensive practices with the help of SaaS companies?