skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://zombie.labnotes.org/ is a library I've used with great success. The documentation in particular is cute.

I found PhantomJS unnecessarily convoluted for trivial tasks and was unable to figure how to do the nontrivial thing I was actually trying to do. The documentation in particular was unusable.
And they just announced touch down!
Just landed..."lets see where Curiosity takes us"
Images arriving now.. Would like to be part of the next trip ;o)
Curiosity just landed: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/232348523050450945
Wow! They made it... Great stuff happening and what a technological challenge!
Edit: even more impressive that they are already receiving some pictures
Curiosity Landing Successful (RSS)
Mars Curiosity's first images
Really?

The posted link contains all of 3 studies. One of those studies involves a single individual and the other study is a meta-study which contains no actual data at all.

("Meta-study" is a fancy scientific word meaning "find studies that fit our thesis and massage the data as necesary until it says what we want." Did you know that meta-studies suggest that most hackers (actually, any male who has not lived with a sexual partner prior to the age of 24) are 70% likely to be sex offenders? Did you know that this study is the landmark study that nearly every state uses to justify indefinite commitment of sex offenders?)
18 is not late. You are about the right age to get started. Its great if you have started earlier. Programming is about constant learning. Its not doing something repetitive. Keep in mind, it takes about 10,000 hours of programming to get proficient in it. At 8 hours a day it is 5 years of effort. But, in reality it may take 10 years to reach the 10,000 hours of learning. Join a startup or a good school, where you can meet awesome peers. With great peers you learn faster.
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Apple already prompts me to agree to new terms and conditions every few months. Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to add '...and is this still your address?'
It seems like every single person at JPL is teary eyed, this is awesome.

Edit: The crowd at Planetary Society started chanting "USA! USA!" and Bill Nye the Science Guy quickly made them change it to "JPL! Planet Earth!" freaking awesome.

Edit #2: Every. Single. One. of NASA's websites is offline and overloaded. I know it's a DDoS due to everyone trying to look at the images, but this is really a good example of 'Hey, maybe the company that just landed a fucking spaceship on Mars needs more funding.'
I've seen a fair number of bike riders around Seattle and Bay Area with the helmet cam's, and seen that a few hit and runs solved by them.

Also, I've seen some amazing perspectives with these and "drone" quad copters, for < $4k, I think

http://gizmodo.com/5900820/unbelievable-aerial-footage-of-bi...
> He's losing massive amounts of muscle as a result of this diet, which is why he is losing so much weight.

You're conflating two different things.

The first is gluconeogensis, the breakdown of amino acids to create blood sugar. This is the main mechanism whereby energy is liberated from lean tissue. But it doesn't happen easily -- the body will go to fat stores first because they are highly accessible and very dense sources of energy.

The second is catabolism or protein degradation, which is a constant cellular process. Catabolism is affected by cortisol, a hormone which amongst other things increases under conditions of metabolic stress.

But here's the kicker: if you do weight bearing exercises and consume enough protein, you create offsetting pressure for anabolism that the "protein balance" will come out neutral or even positive.
They're already getting pictures. I wasn't born for the moon landing, but this seems almost as cool. Must have been something like this.
JPL's Curiosity has landed.
Curiosity has landed
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And your peer-reviewed sources are ...?
You don't get the cheering, though...
#MSL: Touchdown confirmed for MarsCuriosity
That's the second time in recent memory that I got chills watching a room full of really smart people erupt into applause. Congrats to everyone involved.
Screenshot of landing picture:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76008/Screenshot%20from%202012-08-0...
NASA’s Curiosity makes history
Curiosity's first images from Mars
Why can't they ever take just one horizon photo of the scenery in front of the rover instead of the typical, "looking at the ground" photos that are common with these rovers? That would have been a far better shot to show live.
How exactly is eating no sugar or fruit a starvation diet? You're way off on this one.
What a beautiful moment. That team has a lot to be proud of.
If you look at the images, it seems like they use linux as their OS? Can anyone else confirm?
If his time was really worth $1000/hr, he wouldn't have time to write blog posts like this
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Kind of misleading to use the quotes from a year and a half ago, when it's no longer the case since IE9 doesn't get updated the way Chrome and FF do.
I posted this in the other thread, but wish there was a nice forward looking, expansive Mars horizon photo instead of looking at the ground and wheels of the rover.
The images are a lot clearer this time around :-)
Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars After Epic Descent
They did. Front and back.
There were about 240,000 concurrent users on the web feed at touchdown. But not a single TV news channel was covering the event live that I could find.
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I don't think it's an overstatement to say that this is one greatest expressions humanity is capable off. Simply amazing.
cnn.com is, but they're just repeating the nasa feed unmodified.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Successfully Lands on Mars
ustream was showing an even higher number of 11.4m viewers
A man or mars has nothing to do with whether or not this is successful.
My god, the energy in that room was amazing. Just watching how happy they were was worth staying up late for.
From the other thread: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76008/Screenshot%20from%202012-08-0...
As far as I know, the cameras a folded in during landing which is why the view is of the wheels and rear.
I found it quite a hassle to snap a screenshot, export it to my computer and then load it in Photoshop just to measure it though.

Found myself wondering if there was an easier way to do that, so built this mainly to scratch my own itch.
Usain Bolt of the space race.
Exactly. If the lucrativeness of his side project changes I'm sure his tune will soon follow.
Oh, and the Simulator doesn't work with 3rd party apps from the AppStore either no?
From a screen recording I took: http://i.imgur.com/C5Y6P.jpg

I actually shed a tear. That was beautiful.

Edit: Raw images being put on Twitter by NASA:

http://p.twimg.com/Azl6LRUCMAAU1GK.jpg:large

http://p.twimg.com/Azl9hyXCEAE5_Hw.jpg:large

http://p.twimg.com/Azl7LXOCUAAJT5z.jpg:large
It's times like this that I think everyone can be proud to be part of the human race.
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Well done to the whole team who made this happen! Now go find some aliens!
Because you can use octopress and only have to serve static files. https://github.com/epochwolf/epochwolf.com
This is amazing. I can just imagine the anxiety and excitement of waiting for Odyssey to fly around for another pass and transmit more data back home.
That is total views on the NASA ustream channel
That's total. Live concurrent viewers was around 240k.
Indeed, Josh works at HubSpot and the pricing page on our website preceded his joining. So, he shouldn't be blamed for it.

Having said that, HubSpot has spent a lot of time on designing our pricing model (vs. the pricing page).

For our first 2 years, HubSpot had a single price ($250/month). We've since run many, many pricing experiments and though the complexity bugs me sometimes, it's working.

But now that this thread is going, I think there are things we can do the improve the pricing page (even if we leave the pricing model the same).
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I'm not much of a sports fan. I have no "home team". Football doesn't even raise an eyebrow for me. I haven't even watched the Olympics.

But I haven't sat down for the last hour. I paced like an animal and I've just finished jumping up and down, yelling like a mad-boy.

The whole thing was so hair-brained. Giant supersonic parachutes? Blast-away heat shields? Rocket Powered Sky Cranes? It was so damn Wile E. Coyote. And they totally nailed it. I'm awestruck.
> It sounds exactly like a starvation diet; you can't lose 1 lb/day without losing massive amounts of muscle.

Yes. Yes you can.

Gluconeogenesis is difficult and wasteful. Lipolysis is by comparison a doddle. The body will gleefully favour liberating energy from fat stores for a long time before turning to lean tissue.

The idea of "starvation mode" comes from the Minnesota Starvation Study, where subjects had their intake reduced by 25-50% for six months. They were so completely starved that they exhausted their fat stores and broke down lean tissue for energy.
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Bear in mind that even DHH (creator of Rails) didn't feel like he got anywhere with learning to program until well into his 20s: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2582-how-do-i-learn-to-progra...

I know plenty of programmers who are far better than me and have been doing it for a fifth of the time. It's a bit like art in that way. There's a lot you can learn over time and become "wise" about, but in terms of raw output, time isn't as relevant.
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Earth wins another round of expensive hardware lobbing! Here's a humorous reminder at how difficult it is to reach other planets, especially Mars - too bad it hasn't been updated in a while.

http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/
"Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity has landed safely
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I had a semi-similar experience. I sat next to the guy who invented the shower radio on a flight from SFO to ERW. He told me about his start as an entrepreneur by getting himself $500k in debt and at the last moment, he sold the design to Salton.
I had the impression that the whole "control" room was nothing but show. Estimating the travelling times of a radio wave, nobody on earth could have had any control about the spacecraft, and none of the engineers in the control room could have done anything other than watch.

So if anybody is more involved into the mission than I am ... is my impression correct, or were there actual fallback mechanisms that these people could have decided upon?
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What a great achievement of heroic engineering! I can't wait to watch what comes next.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
If they did, would you jump on the Internet and start complaining about lamps?
this sounds like a horrible idea. so much for Mark's vision of everyone sharing more of their lives.
I took those during landing sequence..

http://i45.tinypic.com/353eemc.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/ej95s5.png

http://i49.tinypic.com/2qicoqq.png

http://i50.tinypic.com/2hd8j13.png

edit: its just fun to watch those. also, according to NASA there is 500,000 lines of code behind those 38 steps.. would love to see some parts of it!
Looks (user experience) are very important. Apple didn't get to twice the size of Microsoft with shitty looks.
I think CNN covered it, but you're right, it would have been nice if it were on at least one major network.
It's a PR stunt, and a pretty lame one at that. And he should be building a massively cross-platform data sync framework (ala Dropbox, but not just files) -- not a to-do app whose defining feature is sync.
Sorry that's the cost of a civil engineering professors consulting time being the top in their field. I misunderstood op
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Images are up now on the raw feed. They're getting F5ed hard, so actually seeing anything may take a bit.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/

Images are grouped by Martian solar days (sol 0 == day 0, length 24h 39.6m).
They committed ("non-reversible changes" on the livestream) to the landing about 20, 30 minutes prior to entry.
Oh, do you have a link to those photos? I must have missed them. Thanks!
That's how you learn programming. I started off editing HTML I copied and pasted from someone and just changing some colors.
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The people who began at a super early age started off having it as a hobby. Whenever they were bored they could fall back on coding for fun. Which then grew their interest in the subject (really important). But then comes middle school. And after that high school. Where most of the time you worry about the upcoming test or college admissions. For others, it will be that one girl or that upcoming party. They didn’t completely shun programming out of their life, but they didn’t have the time to nurture their knowledge either. Instead they left it as a hobby (still important).

That wasn't my experience. I learned to code at about 12, but it took over my life. I don't think I talked to a single girl between the ages of 12 and 19, never mind went to parties (didn't help that I went to an all-boys school). I programmed so much I failed my final school exams and couldn't get into a college course; I had to repeat the final year, and I still could only scrape enough marks in subjects like English and French to study at a very humble college, my 20th choice of a ranked list of 20 (this relates to how the college admission system works in Ireland).

And then, I hardly learned anything in college. I knew more than most of my lecturers. I did, however, party as much as I reasonably could in the first two years. But I wouldn't have gotten a job working on the Delphi compiler without my degree; I needed it to qualify for a visa, as Borland wanted their hire to be on-site in CA. But as it turned out I was able to work remotely.

I guess what I'm getting at is that there are more important things than programming at a young age, and getting really deep into it very early is not necessarily a great thing. I certainly don't think it's a life experience to be particularly jealous of.
To see the images from Mars:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw

Edit: it appears that the page has moved to http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/, discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4343891
It's never to late to start. If you love it'll work out anyway.

I started "programming" at 10, didn't do anything useful until 16-17. I didn't program for real until I was 25, and it wasn't until I was past 30 that I felt like a proper programmer.
I was at JPL when this mission was first being planned. I actually sat in on a meeting where the sky crane was first being discussed. I remember thinking to myself at the time that there was no way that it would ever work. I'm very happy to say that I was wrong. Congrats to everyone on the MSL team!
what's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki:

> ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR

> Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency.

> Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space flight center, the Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA) (jointly operated by France's CNRS and some Parisian universities) and Honeybee Robotics, along with many additional external partners.

> Radiation assessment detector ... was developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the extraterrestrial physics group at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

> Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons ... provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency

> Rover environmental monitoring station ... provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
It is ~10,000 hours of concentrated practice[1] to gain a mastery of a field. It is not just 10,000 hours of doing something (over and over). That is the rub, you can code for years and years and years and gain nothing from it unless you are constantly challenging yourself and trying to up your skill level, surrounding yourself with people that can teach/challenge you and always striving to get better (i.e. never telling yourself you are awesome/great as it can seriously damper your drive to 'keep going' and cause you to think you are 'already there').

[1] http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.ht...
If you run a successful company, you'll be getting that hourly income at some point ... It's not likely to be a todo list company though.
Did anyone grab the image with some purple on it in a grid pattern? I didn't get a good look at it.
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Does anyone know how close to their target landing spot they reached?
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Maybe it's because of the way you put it, but I can't help but see an algorithm that exponentially increases the reliability of the message by linearily adding bits. 1 bit for an error rate of 1/4, 2 bits for 1/16, 3 bits for 1/64. Am I wrong or was this really lost on everyone, back in the day?
I'm 22 and only just now going to university. I've had the same issues as the author, about the non-encouraging environment, friends not interested etc. I had the interest sure, but never -really- got into it. Dabbled through Python books and tutorials here and there, tried different languages but never got prolific in any of them. Rarely creating anything outside answers to exercises. But I forgave myself (kinda, I always felt too old when reading about those 12-year old wiz-kids, being 15 and all).

For a long time I considered myself ahead of the curve, for browsing sites like HN, absorbing information from the internet. It was about a year ago I finally realized it doesn't matter if I haven't actually done anything. "Sponge learning" only gave breadth, but no deep knowledge was achieved. I couldn't DO anything.

Nowadays I still think I'm behind my peers. Maybe not behind the average, but it's never the average we strive for. I still feel inadequate and, most likely, will never get rid of that feeling. I concentrate on doing what I can with what I have, getting better and trying not to compare myself too much.
Don't take my word for it. Certainly don't take the internet's word for it. Just go see your doctor.
CNN was covering it live with interviews with scientists etc. Coverage continues, there is a press conference in a few minutes.
First Two Images from the Curiosity Mars Rover
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Congratulations to Curiosity team Photos at moment of landing
Yes, but the point was the "punishment" part is 21 years maximum. Any additional time will be only to protect the lives of other citizens.
Incredible, congratulations NASA, what happened today was nothing short of miraculous.
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From NASA's twitter, you can see one of Curiosity's wheel in this one:

https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232354875189628929
What innovations from this vehicle can we expect to see trickle down into the consumer space?
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I might jump on the internet and complain about how consumers believe that's what lamps are for.

edit: Or rather, I might jump on the internet and complain that the company making this particular lamp markets it as such.
I think they were there in case of problems. Plus the post landing checklist, which they are doing now.
Has anyone mirrored these yet?
I saw that too, I don't know what it was.

Best guess is, they talked about finding a flat surface to land on, so my guess is that's a grid showing the options.
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> but _why should we have to do that?_

This is exactly my feeling. Sure, I can, but why should I? I just want to get work done, not become a git fanboy.

The place I work at compared DVCSs and chose mercurial, and I'm very happy, I've never looked back, and heres the point... I really have no understanding of HOW mercurial works. It just works.
This is amazing. I hope that school children are given time to watch this. I hope that parents and teachers have the skills and knowledge to foster the Curiosity-driven curiosity of those children.
Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
a point of clarification...you (aka employer) do not decide if a lawyer (aka employee) gives you "spec" work. He does. And he only does it if he thinks it will give him a sweet payout or he is guaranteed the $ (win the case). This works well for him because those "sweet payouts" are often in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Comparing spec work for designers and developers to a lawyer is, well, not exactly reasonable.

It's more accurate to compare large ad agencies to the lawyer analogy. Which then, makes complete sense.

Back to my analogy. You will never go into a lawyers office and demand he "write a case study and strategy document" for how he plans on dealing with your crazy neighbors because they killed your dog. He will laugh you out of his office, while sending you a bill for wasting his time. But...you can walk in and ask his opinion, get a feeling for his ethics and ask for references. This is akin to the interview for the designer or developer. I see nothing wrong there, on either side.
First you need a time machine.

These types of trickle down are not identified till much later. If you knew what it would be in advance you wouldn't need it to trickle down - you could just use or develop it directly.
I've been watching for 3 hours, I accidentally closed my browser during the sky crane step, by the time I opened the ustream feed, they were already cheering... I missed out.
In my current project we do actually stand up, although only due to the pleasure of the team leader. The main reason it's called a "stand up" is to serve as a reminder that it should be very short, 5 minutes max, or otherwise the time most people would feel comfortable standing for a meeting.