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Yeah, I am more talking about putting up some real money towards these missions. We are a rich first world country, would love to see the American space budget cuts made up for more internationally, especially on the science based robotic missions and space telescopes.

I would imagine that a lot of the communications stuff has a lot to do with geography and would probably happen without Australian government funding.
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And Linksys.
FWIW opendns blocks your blog.emfcamp.org domain by default but the main domain is allowed. Couldn't really see why, usually it tells you a category it's blocked under but not this time.
Khronos Group’s OpenGL ES 3.0 should lead to more console-like games on mobile
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...

I live in a land of suburban sprawl; every square inch is owned by somebody. But litter is everywhere and and decay is easy enough to find. I'd guess the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is actually cleaner.

I'd guess that polluters and litterers aren't generally in doubt of the ownership status of the areas they pollute; on the contrary, they're certain that they do not own the areas they pollute. The high school kids who drop their empty soda pop bottles on my lawn aren't in doubt about the ownership status of that lawn. They merely avoid dropping their pop bottles on their own lawns.

Do you suppose that if we arbitrarily decided that the Pacific belonged to (say) China, that China would launch some sort of ocean clean-up force, because hey, that's their land? Do you suppose globally, litter would stop finding its way into the ocean, out of concern for polluting the sovereign property of China?
X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X
Mars Curiosity landing live blog: relive the moment
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What I hate about git is the religious fervor surrounding it. It's a tool. And energy spent debating the good or bad of any tool could be better spent building something amazing.
Precisely the reason why we built TapFame (tapfame.com) Businesses always have hard time finding the developer under their budget and we developers don't want to waste our time dealing with the low budget projects or just the idea people. After connecting a couple of projects we are realizing the tremendous value we can provide to the app ecosystem.
97% of users in India are prepaid - that is almost 550m users. You can get a pre-paid connection without paying anything and recharge options start from Rs 10(20 cents). 1 minute call costs less than 2 cents. Free cell phone plans are not popular as customers can just buy a prepaid card and use it with any phone they like. (Phones start at $20)
Grammar: to discover what people are sharing

Also this seems like self-blogspam. Why not link straight to the site where the copy reads much better. http://phototags.me/
There was a link to the same story afaik last year
While the USA puts lots of money into space projects, it also invest in cheap labor from other countries. There are poor countries that could never afford to pay for a space project but, in the other hand, if they weren't there, USA (and many other countries) would not be what they are today.
Why should your entire blog post look like a blockquote?
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Volunteer to mentor a FIRST Robotics Competition (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc) team. The robots built for the competition use a National Instrument cRIO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIO) which run VxWorks 6.3.
It's illegal for citizens, probably not for official cooperations between branches of different governments.
So all the sims on the street come with data?
> As long as America is paying for the vast majority of space exploration

No. The achievement doesn't belong to politicians who sign the bills granting the funding nor to taxpayers who provide the money for the politicians to give. The achievement belongs to engineers and scientists who do the impossible (one of the impossible things they do is to convince politicians to give the money in the first place).

Also, keep in mind military spending by the US ended up tying a lot of money in the Soviet Union and China (who, quite reasonably, had to spend a lot building military to defend them against the US) that could have been directed at making the world a better place.
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Why are these not games yet?

HN has dozens of people capable of creating a nice lunar lander / mars lander sim.
P vs. NP, A Primer (And a Proof Written in Racket)
Editorialized title, but the "problem" seems to be that the (HN) submitter expects to be able to use Obj-C without having even a basic understanding of C.

Yes, that won't work.
And now, how do you break from within the 2nd and 3rd level of nesting? break can only break one of them. If only "break" had a label, so you could say "break toplevel;" instead of just "break;" (and name the relevant scope "toplevel", of course).

Turns out, you actually can! instead of "break toplevel;", you just write "goto toplevel;". There's another minor change, in that you have to put the name at the end of the scope, rather than the beginning of the scope, which is why people tend to name it after the next block (e.g. "goto cleanup;" in this case).
If I put my thesis paper and vacation photos on a service that uses EC2 as a backend, I'm not a competitor to either the service or Amazon.

If I'm the provider of said service, Amazon are a potential competitor.
Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes
Ask HN: How does a modern web service handle multiple languages(locales)?
I would like to know how a modern web service handles such at a rather large scale. At the moment, I am working with a web service fully translated in 3+ languages and plans for more.

There are several frameworks all over various web stacks that support multiple locales/languages, either with the internationalization API or something named similarly.

However, at some point this doesn't seem to feel like using the right tool for the job. After talking with my colleagues, I have had some recent ideas about using an isolated web service to handle multiple languages requesting translations over REST.

What do you think are pros and cons of such approach ? And of course, what would be the industry-proven way of handling multiple languages, so that I don't stupidly waste a lot of time and money ?
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According to this page, it's not 100% clear or consistent, but the more restrictive state's laws applying is definitely a possibility: http://www.rcfp.org/can-we-tape/interstate-phone-calls
One can only hope the developers inside Apple still enjoy using the terminal and "unix subsystem" in their work, enough to keep these things going into the future. I mean, xcode still needs to shell out to run gcc/llvm/clang, right?
Putting an Apache Lucene Index in RAM with Zing JVM
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Does the UK have any regulation of the 38ghz band? Based on the FCC info here in the US (http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum/table/fcctable.pdf) the 38ghz area of the spectrum seems to have only a small subset of bands that qualify for this use. Do you know the exact frequency the DragonWave kit uses?
VxWorks is a real-time OS. I didn't know whether there was a real-time variant of Linux and what I found was that there was, but Wind River acquired the company that was working on it and essentially killed it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux

Edit: Wind River is the provider of VxWorks.
I think he's suggesting that two decades in prison is an unreasonable punishment for violating those laws.
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From their careers page:
"Our Flight Software Group currently has opportunities developing software for embedded flight hardware using Linux and VxWorks as well as ground simulation software using Linux."
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Most systems today are completely automated, they'll check that the routing number is valid but not the account number the check is drawn on. Routing numbers don't change, but hundreds of thousands of account numbers are created every day throughout the US.. banks are different on how they do their internal account numbers, different algorithms are used when generating these account numbers. I work for a relatively small bank and on a normal day we'll clear 100,000 checks.

With the changes put in place after 9/11 and the Check 21 legislation float has diminished quite a bit but it still exists. Unfortunately there's just so much blue tape that banks are required to jump through that money that is fraudulently acquired takes some time to get back.

the reason this even happened is he was a good standing customer, and they did have his account information so of course they let him deposit it. it would be the responsibility of the bank that the check was drawn off of to catch the mistake. The man's bank just issues a credit to the bank that is drawn on.. it's when that bank catches the error they have to send off for a correction, this normally takes quite a bit of time.. we're talking 2-3 weeks especially in 1995.

the minute the man withdrew the cash their internal system red flags such a large withdrawal amount, this is why the bank was suddenly made aware of that transaction.
Is there a high-level changelog / "what's new" overview available somewhere for OpenGL ES 3.0?
I remember this story flooding the Internet in 1995. I'm confused why the author is doing a "one-man comedic show" 17 years later.
Let's Incubate Businesses, Not Just Startups
Thanks for your interest, we have fixed the error. this is our first time and we are learning in the process.
> I see no practical use and only danger. Outages,
> ownership, authority snooping, seizures, hacking,
> etc, etc.

Yep, selection bias. Cloud is not used for anything else, just snooping and hacking.
I see a practical use: I dont' care what device I am on, I always have my contacts in sync, I can now see the same tabs open, I can access my presentation which I started yesterday on MBP on my iPhone.

> Nothing vital to me would ever sit in or on a cloud.

Well my kidneys are not on the cloud. Neither my lungs. My contacts? Not vital at all. My presentations? Not vital at all. My music? Not vital at all. But damn is this convenient to have that stuff up there.

> I've seen too much go wrong to ever trust them.

Then don't.

> Overall, I just don't understand why people who have decent, cheap local
> storage and back up ability already,

Because when I figure in my time needed to configure and maintain this decent, cheap and local storage it is not that cheap anymore. And local does not really cut it.

> while retaining complete control, would suddenly hand all their vital data
> over to somewhere where you lose all control.

Maybe some are not control freaks? And maybe some just have some data what is not "vital", but can be kept in the cloud? Like music collection?
In other words, banks use lazy evaluation to validate checks.
He returned the cheque after getting a written letter from the bank, and had to pay for the interest he made.
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Technology does not matter in a tech start up
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It was surprising to me too, I work as a consultant and am regularly billed out at up to $400/hr. I have a resume and a "consulting resume", which is a list of all the projects I've been staffed at for my current employer with the company name's redacted.

People are willing to pay the high rates because you bring a wide range of knowledge about how other companies have done things, your level of technical skills is usually secondary.

The dirty little secret of consulting is that at a high level everyone is obsessed with NDAs and the like, even to the point of not letting you claim we've worked for them in any capacity, however once they've got you there they want you to name names. When it comes down to making a choice between several options, the option that company X chose is seen as the "safer" one.

Edit: after re-reading, I wanted to be clear that I wasn't suggesting that consultants do (or should) divulge this information; my emphasis should have been more on the experience vs. skills part.
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Pretty hard to believe a check that size held up a bank merger.
Because cash doesn't leave a paper trail and not everyone can accept cards.
Looks like his server has taken an unexpected ass kicking...
NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
What he says may be true, but convenience + cheap wins out (almost) every time.
It's true, pretty soon we are going to change the theme. Thanks for your time
I live in continental Europe, can someone please explain the American cheque system to me? Is it still widely used?

We have giro and SEPA transfers. If I want to transfer money to someone, I simply order my bank to withdraw said amount from my account and transfer it to the destination account. I could even do this without having a banking account. Anybody could walk to a post office or bank and pay into someone's bank account with cash on hand.
It depends on how you define ownership. In the context of the linked article the concept of "ours" is obviously defined as our ability to exploit space, to colonise it and expand our influence into it.

We're not talking about sitting at home wringing our hands with misplaced glee over our new found shiny possession, we're talking about physically making this new frontier work for us as a new medium that we're able to use and inhabit. Your Buddhist philosophy while possibly relevant to our personal lives has been misapplied here. This is industry, this is commerce, this is the business of expansion and survival.
The banking crisis has made it topical again.
Is that for real?!?!
We had an interesting experience at the start of the year where people were being "encouraged" by the project managers not to be negative on the project. It felt like being part of the Chinese Cultural Revolution where everyone was getting over excited but with a foreboding sense of dread hanging in the background. Myself and a few others continued to list cautions (normally I'm the optimistic one - but this had gone past my limit) but were ignored and treated as naysayers. It resulted in us putting a country live on a production system without having completed regression testing for existing countries, done any negative testing, or having done any testing with security and workflow configured in a production like way. The next couple of months were absolute hell, and only now are we beginning to recover from it. That said, to get the system stable everyone went out of their way, working overtime/weekends without break or compensation to keep the project on track (and losing one of the team from the project due to stress), which allowed the project managers to say "see, putting you under pressure meant you got it to work", without seeing the chaos they'd caused. People should be encouraged to do realistic thinking - aim for the optimistic, don't say no before you try something (so long as it's not clearly suicidal), but when you know things are going wrong take time to reflect and reassess your situation.
Because there's persistent demand for it -- from a public that is evidently outraged at the longstanding behavior of banks and the fact that virtually no high-ranking bank executives have paid for it.
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Look at the date on the check: April 26, 1995.

This guy has been milking this story for quite some time.
IBM Will Launch Next-generation Chip with a High Frequency of 5.5GHz
According to the report from foreign press,IBM will release its next generation processor in the coming Hot Chips Conference. This "zNext" chip is the heart of future System z large machine with a high frequency of 5.5GHz, which will be more powerful than z196(5.2Ghz) launched by IBM in 2010.
They even did a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
"Imagine if Apple removes Terminal itself in the next version of OS X, or decides iMessage is the future and gets rid of Mail.app?"

I kind of lost respect for the article at this point, Mail.app, really?

I see them removing built in support for X11 the same as them not bundling java. There probably isn't the corporate will to keep up to date on these packages and it is better to have groups that will keep them update maintaining them.
Imagine if Apple removes [the floppy drive] itself in the next version of [the Mac], or decides [wi-fi] is the future and gets rid of [the Ethernet port]?
I think the main thing is vigilance on the part of the supposed check writer. If you notice a check drawn on your account that you didn't write, you call your bank and get it reversed. Then they go after the depositor for fraud. It's nowhere near 100% reliable, of course, but the mere threat of prosecution helps keep it down. Keep an eye on your accounts....
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Does Google document these all anywhere? I could've sworn they used to have a page listing them, but I can't find it anymore. There are a few third-party listings, though, e.g. this one from SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professionals-guide-to-adv...
Stupid article. Don't read.
Positive affirmations can be detrimental if they're not realistic. You can't say "I'm the best ever at golf" if you don't truly believe it. That's when you will feel bad after using an affirmation.

You have to truly believe affirmations for them to expand positivity in your life. "I did a good job taking out the trash, I didn't tear the bag." It's rather boring, but saying something positive about something you know to be true brings positivity into your life. It builds on your positive self image and makes you better in all areas of your life.
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In a lot of places, a check is just a payment order written on a standardized and somewhat convenient piece of paper. At least in Brazil, if I write the same text that's on a check and sign it, you can take that piece of paper to my bank and demand the money.

That said, it's been so long since I last used my checkbook, the bank changed its name and my account number since it was printed. And yes, they are still valid.
If I had kids, I'd definitely let them stay up to watch this and skip the first half of the school day.
Wire transfer is the same as giro, except a single wire can cost you around $18 to send AND receive money while checks are always free (by law I guess).
It amazes me everytime, that in the US day-to-day banking still consists mostly of writing, sending and cashing cheques.

In germany (I dont know about the rest of Europe, but I guess the situation is similar), cheques are virtually non existent. You can still get and cash them, but you will get weird looks from the person behind the bank counter, most of the time there will be a hefty fee associated with it(I once cashed a cheque from an US-bases affiliate program and my bank charged me a ridiculous amount for the process).
What looks scary to you? Most sites give you cookies without asking you, so why is being told that it happens more scary?

Anyway, the reason for it is an EU directive, find out about it from the UK government branch tasked with these things, the Information Commissioner's Office: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...
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> Cut calories enough, you will lose weight. Raise them enough, you will gain.

That's true in the useless tautological sense.

I've read a case study a few years ago about someone who has to eat something like 10,000 calories a day, because after some serious illness, their body only takes in 20% or so.

Paper is also carbohydrates - albeit not ones that our gut can process. Any statement about "caloric intake" is so hard to measure to make statements about "caloric balance" vague. They are useful as a "small signal"[1] approximation around common steady states (which are often 1000-3000/kcal a day, although that's not a good characterization).

However, when you go away to this state, this approximation breaks down and stops working. A model that would have predictive power in the "large signal" setting would have to take your entire biomass (10 times as many bacterial cells, although only 10% of body weight; 30% or so of solid excretions; facilitators of many processes), and nonlinear effects of insulin, ketosis, and others.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-signal_model
Social grace and self confidence are not mutually exclusive.
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It's a website where you post your goals, interests, and things that you want to do on your profile. for example skydiving, kayaking, or getting accepted into law school. once you have completed your goal, you simply checkmark it, and it will go under "Completed" section.

you may also connect with people with similar interest by searching your desired goal. there is a search bar on the top panel. for example, if you search "thailand", it will bring up a list of people of those who want to travel there or who have completed "thailand". from there, you can message them via facebook private message.

lastly, there is a sharing aspect to it. on the homepage, there is a goal feed. it shows all the activities of all the users. it will show, John pinned "Spelunking"....Mary completed "University"...Sam pinned "back-packing". From there you can tag those goals, and it will add it to your own profile.

what you do all think of the idea? or even how it is being executed. how do you think i can get more people to sign up and engaged on this site?

thanks in advance!
What do you think about these venture firms?
I'm doing quick 3 min survey on what people think about certain venture capital firms and see if there is any correlation to their industry, location, school etc. Will post results back here upon completion.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VCstartup
From #wikipedia-overflow on irc.freenode.net:

09:29EST <@RD> Wikipedia is currently down - network issues (that is all that we know at the moment) - http://status.wikimedia.org
I'm not sure that it does. In fact the Mountain Lion upgrade deleted the command line toolchain from my machine. I had to go into Xcode and manually tell it to re-download the "Command Line Tools" optional extension.
Woz is absolutely right. The real problem with cloud is stewardship. Hypothetically, let us assume the advertisement model fails for Google, what will i need to pay for my cloud apps ($20/month or $200/month). What if Facebook changes hand and run by Kuwait Oil Barons? What if the cloud service provider sold to my arch competitor?

After seeing the TWiT.TV show about Roll your Personal Cloud (http://twit.tv/show/know-how/1) I have started using Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) for my remote access and sync needs. It can be run completely local and authentication is between my browser and the Tonido device. I am happy sofar and completely own my data.
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