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Curiosity's older sibling catches rover as it parachutes down to Martian surface
Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
Curiosity is nuclear powered
"He was carrying around recreational narcotics."

That wording, including the use of present participle ('carrying') and plural-like word ('narcotics'), makes it sound like this was an ongoing activity with multiple doses.

He had one pill in his pocket. His story, that he'd just received it at the concert from which he was returning, with no intent for or history of use, is plausible. (Even if we assume he's shaded the story to make himself look better, the prosecution and damage to his livelihood was not based on any other evidence.)

Most people will not find someone completely unsympathetic as soon as they "straight-up break the law", especially if the discussion is about the law itself. The point of the article isn't that 'James' is innocent, but that the punishment is disproportionate, and (via the details of the required classes) often absurdly wasteful and mistargeted.

The fact that there may be other even more sympathetic stories doesn't weaken this one. Their stories are additive in the case against the drug war, not competing with each other for a rationed amount of available sympathy.

For example, some people are going to figure a licensed professional doctor in trouble for suspect prescriptions should have known better (and received a strong defense at trial). But, hearing about James' naive errors -- holding a single pill, consenting to the car search, relying on his lawyer and probation officer -- they may recognize mistakes they might themselves make, and sympathize more deeply.
Correct. See 1:15 into the video in the OP that explains the visual odometry system.
We're not talking about murder.

The threshold for obtaining a subpoena is remarkably lower than that. NSLs -- I wish I could tell you, but the whole program is classified.

The EFF reports that mobile providers received 8 million law enforcement requests for GPS data:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/surveillance-shocker-s...

And ... due process like subpoenas and court orders? Not so much:

AT&T said it now responds to more than 700 request a day, about a third of which do not require court orders or subpoenas.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57468316-94/cell-carriers-s...

I'm all for rule of law. This isn't.
How much % of Americans can afford to go to grad school? 1% doesn’t seem too far off…
Free4Life
VEVO videos are not available on mobile (except through the VEVO app)
Fair enough, but those people weren't forced to work menial jobs because of stupid drug laws; they were forced to work menial laws because of a stupid economy. I get what you're saying -- that it's unfair to say his life was "nearly ruined" relative to all these other people -- but that really doesn't make this example of the unnecessary damage done to one individual's life by drug laws any less compelling. He had a promising career and future, and both were derailed by heaps of stupidity; it looks like he's recovering from all that, but there was a perfectly reasonable chance that he might not have. Why not leave it at that?

I think that you're understating the rest of his situation because it better suits your argument that his life wasn't ruined. For instance, yes, his record was expunged, however, as noted in the article, his record is still showing up in private background checks -- thanks in part to getting an extra year of probation after being charged with violating his probation because his PO told him it was OK to work late.
I completely agree. I would love to see something that beeped at me when I didn't use an aliases which is already in my system.
This is just ContentID:
http://www.youtube.com/t/contentid

The content owner gets to choose to block the video, or to share in the advertising. The Youtube app on iOS doesn't have advertising, so there is nothing to share in, so the videos end up blocked. The web site (and the future Google YouTube app) will surely have advertising, and so they'll have these vids.

Edit: This isn't just the actual VEVO music videos... it's also all the "songs with lyrics onscreen" videos that come up on a Youtube search for a song.
Github: Notifications & Stars
Keep in mind, a merchant account is going to cost you monthly fees for the account + payment gateway (like, $50-60/mo, atleast). Plus a deposit. Plus a credit check. Plus several day wait. Plus nasty APIs.

In the end, you might save a little bit, but likely not much since you're still processing without the card being present. If you're doing enough sales for .007% to be big difference, it's worth it. Otherwise- how much is your time and frustration worth? Even on a million dollars in revenue, .007% is only $7000.

IMO, Stripe is the holy grail for most startups.
The reverse is also true. There are albums that I just cannot buy in the US. Eventually if I do find someone selling the imported CD I'll go ahead and buy it, but sometimes that never happens.

On the plus side, this is happening less and less often, bands I couldn't even find search results for a few years back now have people selling their albums on Amazon marketplace.

I've also talked to guys on the other side of this though, who are trying to get material to market in many different countries at once. It isn't easy, often times some stupid "international distribution agreement" is signed in the far off past with some company that about 5 minutes later decided they didn't want to have anything to do with the band thereafter.

Or music labels in different countries want different agreements that would degrade the user experience, or would upset distributors in other countries that have already signed on, or one of a million other stupid things.

Launching anything internationally isn't easy.
That's worthless because it's contaminated with other isotopes of plutonium. Pure Pu-238 is made by irradiating Np-237, which comes from spent fuel but is already separated in very large amounts in the US. I think the main setback is funding.
[In the voice of old "Gauntlet" game] "About-robots.com needs editing badly!"

> The first time I heard about the Curiosity Rover nuclear battery, I was thinking this must be top notch technology. What a surprised I had when I saw it has been used for more that 40 years already.

Évariste Galois came up with mathematics in the early 1800's which only in just the past several decades had widespread applications in cryptography. Carbon electric arcs were developed right at the start of the 1800's, and not only have we been finding new applications for them ever since, we'll probably keep doing so!

Also note that the mid-90's trappings of the digital office were running at Xerox PARC in the early 1970's.

As is often said: "The future is here, it just hasn't been evenly distributed yet." There is a lot of "top-notch technology" that the general public doesn't know about yet, and may not for a decade.
> "don't try to do too much"

Yes. This has served me well. I got into a hackathon with the assumption that I'll be the only developer there. With that in mind, I focus on what I can accomplish in a weekend.

I plan for additional things, but I keep focus on what I need to do.

I also try to plan for additional people. For example, if I get another developer, what will they work on? A lot of it is back and forth, but having a plan at least gives you a place to start.

Planning is important, and lets you spend the weekend having fun instead of worrying about whether you will get done or how to manage a larger team.
I agree with you. It isn't obviously better to write long verbose messages. I commit dozens of times an hour and try and keep each change as small as possible. Ideally, so small a single sentence is a perfect description.

I'm fond of speaking tersely.
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I don't know if there is a PDF. The media player is interesting, though, in that it's actually just some javascript that loads a sequence of stills at the appropriate time, and if you look at the source, you can write, say, a python script to download all the images, which I did. When I get home, I'll see if I can find it.
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Back in 2007 there wasn't even an App Store. There would have been no way to watch YouTube videos on the iPhone at all without it.
Generating the word tree is short and simple, though. It's also useful as a standalone Unix utility. Here's my one-minute hack:

import sys
import collections

tree = lambda: collections.defaultdict(lambda: [0, tree()])

def printtree(node, indent=0):
padding = indent * ' '
for word, (count, child) in node.iteritems():
print "%s%s %d" % (padding, word, count)
printtree(child, indent + 2)

wordtree = tree()
for line in sys.stdin:
node = wordtree
for word in line.split():
node[word][0] += 1
node = node[word][1]
printtree(wordtree)
> You must be part of the entitlement generation.

Ooh, I want to play! What's your birth year?
Apple releases iOS 6 Beta 4 to developers
I am not an attorney; it would be stupid of me to speculate further (and stupid of you to listen to me :-).

Here's a for-instance though: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/police-stop-ha...
This is not an example of the 1% getting in the news.

This is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19601277/ns/us_news-crime_and_co...

"They found less than an ounce of marijuana along with Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall, which is used for attention deficit disorder, he said."

Spoiler: He got off without being charged by entering a 90-day treatment program.
If you have to do it once, fine. Some work needs to be done.

If you have to do it twice, think it over a bit.

If you have to do it a third time, automate it.

I am lazy enough that I have aliases setup to change to directories I frequently use. I know people who have gone far beyond anything I have done and looking over their shoulder when they are at the shell will show a highly custom environment with dozens of custom scripts that automate all sorts of multi-step commands.

I even know a few people who have used most of the alphabet to create single letter scripts. That is efficient!
While I'm not sold on this particular concept, it does highlight a feature of modern Unices which bears pointing out: the command-line environment isn't some dreadful primitive thing that should only be relied on as a last resort.

Rather, it's the evolutionary end-point of some 40+ years of continuous improvement in issuing and processing text-based information streams (both commands and outputs), in a very powerful, highly flexible, extremely adaptable manner.

The age of "Oh, Linux, that's like DOS" are far beyond us. But it bears pointing out that this is much like comparing a pogo stick to an F-22 / Boeing 777 / Mercedes E-class. Yeah, the both get you places. How, how much, at what speed, and in what style ... differ.
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It's business 100 to not waste money. If 1% is not a lot to save you have a hobby, not a business. I do see you enjoy using every service imaginable. I imagine you are building your dumb idea on top of Amazon SES or sendgrid. And you even used some other dumbass start up to make an email submit form for new startups. You're a pro.
This is actually a really GOOD development.

It means the current app, which was made by Apple for iOS 1 and barely updated, can now be replaced by a Google-made YouTube app available in the App Store.

The new app will presumably also support all of YouTube's new features since 2007, notably videos with ads (i.e. music videos).

Remember, the only reason the app was ever built-in is because the App Store didn't exist on the first iPhone. Separating it into the App Store will also make it easier to update regularly (see Apple's own iBooks app).

I wrote more about this in my wish list for iOS 6:
http://raviudeshi.com/2012/06/ios-6
> The fact is if you can change the light bulbs you can
> run a personal server.

I can. I just do not want to — I have way more interesting stuff to do.
But tags aren't dimensions. Tags are merely a list of dimensionless values and completely lack context that are essential for dashboard construction and value aggregation.

Suppose I apply the tags "ord", "foo.example.com" and "bar.example.org" to a metric. How does the dashboard builder or the aggregator know what they are? They're values without the fields.
It would be easier to lift the rover perhaps, but F=ma, so since the mass of the rover hasn't changed, neither has the acceleration you can develop for a given force applied.
Steve also removed the arrow keys from the original Mac keyboard to force developers to support the mouse, then put them back later.

Steve also said that native apps weren't needed because Web apps would be just as good.
The beautiful, cruel wisdom of Ptacek, in haiku:

Arm amputated?
Stop crying and use your brain
You still have one left
On Android, they do show up in the official YouTube app.
Where did sixty minutes come from?

What happens in organizations is that progress is made in quantum steps, not continuously. As you go higher up in the organization, the quantum is a larger period of time and two minutes of programmer efficiency per day never moves the shipping date forward or changes the feature set.

The only real tipping point from a management perspective is if the improved efficiency eliminates a full time employee.
It is a lot of money to possibly waste on a language that is not proven, so why not stick with what works?
Awesome idea. Loved it
Are you sure you care this much that I disagree with you about an article in _Reason_?
Show HN: Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified
Ok, some agency "searches through" my music. So what?
Remote wipes? Oh, how scary. I do have backups.
But the rover can drive at night, right? It just doesn't for safety reasons.
Metaadvice: Minimize the backroom work (coding the site, hosting issues, etc. etc.) and focus on writing great content.

A minimal answer would be:

If you're not well-versed coding-wise: Wordpress
If you are: server static pages, e.g. from S3, using Octopress.
They can cuff you any time they feel it's warranted by concerns over their physical safety, the safety of others, or the need to judge the situation (ie, they may be detaining you now with the expectation of formally arresting you 3 minutes from now).
It’s incredible to me that so many people still fail the most basic skill of “interviewing 101″. As soon as possible after the interview, send a concise thank you email.

Do people actually do this? I've always assumed it was one of those pieces of advice they teach you in Interviewing 101 only to find that it isn't as applicable to programming jobs.
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Github: Notification Email Improvements
Since I think drug laws are bad, I find it easy to agree that any punishment, no matter how lenient, is disproportionate to the offense.
Finally!
Per organization email routing is great too.
Thanks!
I think we can discuss that problem when it actually becomes anything other than a fantasy. There are solutions to the "artists are literally starving" problem, but there is really no sense considering them while artists are still flying around in private jets.
References and testimonials, LinkedIn, Zerply, Github, et al? Maybe I'm too suspicious; if after an initial interview I got a stream of emails from an applicant's buddies/colleagues that I didn't ask for, I'd wonder why he felt he needed to coerce them to do so. I also think it's a bit dangerous to latch someone's technical skills to their social aptitude. Everyone has friends, not everyone thinks it is professional to sweet-talk a founder on your friend's behalf. I'd love to hear what others think, though.
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GitHub, you should have made it so any repo that you had watched previously remained watched AND starred.

It looks like everything is now starred but unwatched so no one will receive any updates on the feed anymore unless they manually go through all their repos and choose to watch them.
To be fair, a lot of money that went into ICBM research ended up being applied by NASA.

But I agree with you. If only we could convince the five top military spenders to cut back just a little, we'd be terraforming Mars and Venus by the end of the week. ;-)
Additionally, there's significant benefit to lots of tiny commits with a 1 sentence what changed and the squash the commits and write the larger, better formatted one based on your list of one-liners.
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I think this is the behavior most people are going to prefer. It seems like it's pretty general to use "watch" for what is now a "Star" (i.e. something you find interesting but don't want updates from) so this will probably please the most users.
To be fair, most modern (CMOS) digital cameras work like that too, it's called a rolling shutter. The scanning speed is the cause of that wobbly effect you see on videos made with mobile phones.
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I think it's intentional. Many people watched repos to show support, but didn't really want the notifications. Hence, their notifications feeds filled up, and they never really looked at them.

For most people I reckon there aren't many no-push-rights repositories they'll need to re-watch.
It's not apple. Lots of songs (especially VEVO stuff) are restricted on youtube to only play in a flash container. if you force youtube to only do HTML5 stuff, you get the same selection of stuff that's in the iPad YouTube app.
This is awesome. I think most users have been wanting a feature like this for a long time.

One notable omission: There's no way to filter or search starred repositories.
The difference is the Curiosity folks had billions-with-a-B in taxpayer money to spend on going somewhere and seeing what's out there.

I've got only my own means.
No, digitizer technology is built into the tablet itself as well as requiring a special pen.
The light gray color of your comments should give you a hint as to how welcome they are in this community.
Of the various illegal ways that I can hurt a companies profits, which would you consider theft?

Libel/Slander? Trespassing? Vandalism? Disobeying zoning laws?
Ask HN: What are some other good replacements for traditional Unix utilities?
I use autojump to replace some uses of cd, and I know a lot of people use ack over grep in many cases, but it would be nice if we could assemble a list of lots of similar no-brainer replacements/complements to traditional CLI tools.
2 buttons/actions(watch, star) and 2 different pages(dashboard, notifications)?

Why not make it simpler but powerful by introducing better watch button (w notifications and w/o notifications) and much better dashboard page?
The article says 340km away.
Got it. Tags can be of the name:value kind. for ex: role:db or availability-zone:us-east-a1 or foo:bar

And you can then ask for "my.metric" summed over "availability-zone:us-east-1a" grouped by "role".

Here's a screenshot to show what it looks like https://skitch.com/oliveur/emywc/sobotka-datadog

You obviously have a lot of experience with monitoring tools - I'd love to connect. I'm @oliveur on the twitters.
Rush Limbaugh (who, just to be clear, I find odious in the extreme) was prosecuted, plead not guilty, and had his charges dropped only after paying $30,000 and agreeing to 18 months of addiction therapy.

The person in this story was prosecuted, plead guilty, and had his record expunged after agreeing to 12 months of addiction therapy.

No amount of prosecutorial discretion was ever going to equalize outcomes between a young Merrill broker in Florida and Rush Limbaugh, one of the richest blowhards in right wing media.
What affiliate network are you referring to?

As to point #2, Launchbit allows publishers to select which ads they want shown in their newsletter - something you can't really do with any other ad network. Don't think teeth-whitening products are a good fit for your audience? Don't run those ads.
They have very detailed physics-based models of terrain-wheel interaction ("terramechanics" is the general term). The tread depth must be one of the design parameters.

Slip is something they watch closely, and 100% slip is something they worry about a lot. I worked on a project using a small prototype in that same yard (metal wheels with metal tread) and was really f-ing hard to get the thing to slip with anything like a reasonable load and slope.
Yep, Teenagers aren't dumb. I'm slightly biased on this matter, being one. But, for example, one of the top developers of PHP at the moment, nikic, is 17.
For space applications, you can use the aforementioned solar sail, or charge an ion engine (though this still requires you to relinquish some matter).

For air applications, the old-fashioned propeller is your ticket to thrust. Something like a dirigible or a hot-air balloon, which is able to keep itself in the air without continuous thrust of a minimum force, would be less difficult to make work.

Interestingly enough, weight is more important than efficiency when dealing with aircraft PV. A company I spoke with that was working on "stratellites" (basically high-altitude blimps that stayed in one place indefinitely) used thin film PV instead of high efficiency cells because of their flexibility and high power-per-weight rating.
Multiple database sync with no back end?
Hi All, I inherited a project for iOS that needs to use iCloud and is currently using SQLite. It's easy enough to copy the database file from each device to iCloud or pull from iCloud back to each device.

But my question is, does anyone have a good strategy for merging additions, removals and updates besides asking the user what to do on each row?

I was thinking that it would be possible to make a new kind of database or extension to SQLite that would track the changes (perhaps by date or transaction ID) and then have a universal strategy to merge those changes back together, and only ask the user when absolutely necessary, perhaps through standardized callbacks that could bring up an alert.

Does anyone know of an approach like this, or is there an open source project trying to solve this problem? Basically a database with no back end, but a way to sync through a central read/write file. Stack Overflow hasn't been much of a help on this.

Thanks!