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I'm very excited/nervous. I haven't felt this way about a space mission in a long time. My daughter (she's 10) made me promise to wake her up for it.
There's a live blog plus the ustream here: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html

It's starting to get a little bogged down though.
This link looks more live, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
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Not sure if it still works (installing VLC to find out), but try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDqU2AFhwu8

EDIT:
with rtmpdump and mplayer it can be done with the following apparently[1]

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp39920.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live" -a "live" -f "WIN 10,3,183,7" -W "http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.rsl.755.swf" -p "http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html" -y "nasahd@55196" -o - -v | mplayer -

[1] http://stream-recorder.com/forum/play-watch-view-nasa-tv-hd-...;
Glad someone else noticed that. Those programmers sure are loose, must be the yoga.
If they pull this off I will be thoroughly impressed.

I keep googling to try to find where they tested the landing system altogether as a unit and there doesn't appear to be such an event, only individual components.

Can you imagine designing and testing the individual parts of a car, then assembling it and never testing the car as a whole unit and just hoping based on theory it works?
Also worth noting on his "hire me" page (http://hire.samsoff.es/):

"I prefer not to sign NDAs. If this is a requirement for you, there is a $10,000 fee to sign your NDA. You will need to sign my consulting agreement. It has confidentially agreement included."

He then has a very simple work-for-hire contract that includes an NDA.

There's something appealing about this approach, because reading arcane contracts while a project is still being spec'ed is quite annoying. So instead he shifts the burden to the client. But, obviously, many clients won't swallow that.

I'm curious if he can make this work.
I don't remember this much excitement over the 2004 landings. This is pure speculation, but I would like to think the Internet is partly responsible for this shift. It provides a more democratic way of deciding (as a culture) what is important and newsworthy.
The parent of my comment mentioned 80386, so my comment was about x86 and not, for example, Itanium. In the x86 world, AMD forced Intels hand.

And I totally agree - I would also prefer a clean break.
Is there anything left to be done by NASA HQ? For example, are they still controlling the trajectory of the probe to Mars or is that mostly done by probe's onboard computers?

I'm genuinely curious about what kind of things the HQ is doing right now. I've been watching the live stream and there's not much activity besides milling around screens and resizing windows on the huge screen.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't care if it works, he is working on his own project.

He is invincible, hence the rate.
Airtrain is less than a decade old. You're in for a long wait. :(
The BadAstronomy folks have started a google hangout covering this event:

http://www.youtube.com/user/universetoday?v=wrJT1d1BKhw

Some interesting discussion going on there now; highly recommended.
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I think the comment was supposed to point out that Monier is supposed to be one of the principle inventors of reinforced concrete and that he passed away in 1906 ... hence trying to figure out how the gentleman in the story fit in.
Afai can recall, only a few DAs are fighting - the DA of NY being one of them.

Usually the DA's office goes tooth and nail after offenders, so there must be a reason, I presume.
with an out-of-the-box configuration, Wordpress is notorious for dying if you so much as breathe on it. It requires generous lashings of caching to make it workable.

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http://nasa-f.akamaihd.net/public_h264_700@54826 should work in any H.264 + HTTP capable video player.
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im also another doing the same thing, except I bought my optimus v for $40 off ebay. Using roms, I get excellent performance and battery life (beating even my wifes iphone4 with similar usage). Completely worth it except I'll be probably switching to a gsm pre paid only because I'd like to take my phone with me when I travel.
But it doesn't always follow obviously. All of math follows from set theory, but we still teach most of it explicitly. You don't always want to be deriving details from broad principles like "don't waste the users' time".
>Prepaid plans offer lower-quality handsets,

Virgin Mobile offers iphone4 and t-mobile you can put almost any quality android phone on their prepaid.
First off, I agree, my spelling sucks. Oh well, let's move on. Oh and I'm a looser, I'm good with that too. +1 for you, Mr. Cool.

Secondly, saying the ABA ask for "spec work" is like saying college ask for "spec work". You have to do it to be in the profession. It's an exam, it's mandatory to be in the field. Spec work for developers / designers is not.

>"Doctors and lawyers do not need spec work because of professional licenses/certifications."

That's my point exactly, thanks for agreeing with me. Designers and developers lack any real formal "licenses/certifications". Their public work should take the place of "licenses and certifications". That's why you should hire them - not because they got suckered into doing 6 hours of spec work for you.
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I'm using an Optimus V on VM as well, but my experience with their "unlimited" data is disappointing. I have been using the service since May, 2011, and the bandwidth typically doesn't serve more than 40 KB/s consistently around my area. For instance, listening to a stream via TuneIn is unbearable, because VM data service can't even stream at 32 K without buffering every few seconds. It doesn't matter that VM advertises unlimited data or have a 2.5 GB fast cap when the service can't even be used besides reading email.

If I were a new user, I'd go with T-Mobile instead of Virgin Mobile. T-Mobile uses GSM so switching to a new phone won't require calling up VM for activation -- just pop in the SIMM card. Right now there's no way to use a newer CDMA phone without losing my grandfathered $25/mon plan.
3 hours ago they were at 300k total views, ever.
Now, it's about to hit 1M total views.

This is a great chance for NasaTV to advocate for more funding. /just saying
It's great marketing for his app, if nothing else.

"The guy who makes this app charges $1000/hr, he must be amazing!"
Mightn't that be better phrased "define your UI in terms of user success"?
Excuse my ignorance, but at which part of this otherwise nice story the guy's ass got kicked? It was an unexpected encounter with an important figure in computing that has been quite unknown to people, and it must've been fun, but at no point I got the impression that he got his ass kicked...
Take a moment to consider what you're actually seeing here: a truly historic event.

This mission is so expensive, and has involved the figurative blood and tears of so many extremely talented people, that it will probably always be remembered in the history of space travel, whether or not the landing itself will be successful.

(It could be argued that the value of having so many millions of people watch or follow this (whether now or later), and have the associated mind-expanding thoughts and possible subsequent ideas or decisions, is itself worth the price of this mission.)
Actually, it might take a lot longer than that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7p08hcQzs
Well, that's a pretty reasonable position. HN is pretty overwhelmingly opposed to software (and algorithmic) patents in general -- anything that any given professional in the field could be reasonably expected to develop on their own shouldn't be patented. This opinion of patents seems to extend beyond HN, throughout most of the programmer community. So I'm not sure that your concern that, "I like company A's usage of patents/I dislike company B's usage of patents" is valid.

Patent nullification is one of my favorite things, too, and I've heard quite a few other people argue either for that or for massive overhauls of the US PTO. But, that's all very expensive and somewhat politically suicidal, so at the moment going and having dinner seems to be about the best thing that anyone can do. That, and cheer on companies like Mojang when they choose to double down and destroy an offensive patent troll rather than settling (https://twitter.com/notch/status/226604081932812288).

As far as Groklaw goes ... I sympathize, but I think the organization you're looking for is the EFF. Groklaw was never really intended to be an activist organization; they just wanted to help the Linux community understand what was going on in the SCO case (and stomp them a bit publicly too). Groklaw doesn't seem to have been biased in favor of one particular company, to the extent that they cheer on that company for offensive use of patents against a competitor.

Groklaw is however providing a very valuable service in helping programmers better understand the law where it applies to patents, and I think we should appreciate that instead of criticizing them for not doing more. (Especially since nobody else does what they do as well as they do -- except maybe Grellas here on HN sometimes.)
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There's that, and also that this is a pretty interesting landing compared to previous landing methods. There's been a lot of hype over just the landing gear. I've got non-techie friends who are tuning in just to see the engineering feat.
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Nah, there's another guy (from 2010!) http://le.mu.rs/motherfucker/Entries/2010/6/24_What_money_ca...
I think the part that shocks me the most is the fact that he has a client who is willing to pay him at this rate for 3 hours. I can see the benefits of doing this, but lets be frank here unless you're good and have the proof to back up the rate then you'll be laughed at by everyone for charging so much and be undercut. It's more than obvious Sam is more than just mediocre and can justify this hourly fee, I wish I could do the same myself.
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Well I'd better get moving on Provolone... I can't wait to be charging $1000/hr.

Seriously though, that's pretty stellar if he can pull if off, and someone that's knowledgeable and creative enough is certainly worth it to get things going in the right direction.
On 1) that is what I meant. The level of security measures is proportional to the risks, and a realisation that every measure costs time and money.

For 2) white collar crime certainly has shorter prison sentences in the US. It is a little harder to apportion blame as directly as with a bank robber. The general cause of problems has been the US government bailing out creditors. Because of that creditors have been laxer in their standards, had lower oversight and a greater tolerance for risk. This is virtually US government policy and has been going on since the 1984 rescue of the creditors of Continental Illinois. Ultimately fixing this involves fixing the US government and the corruption of Congress - see Lawrence Lessig's talk about they operate around money - and smaller things like regulatory capture.

The response to 9/11 has been to massively amplify the original effects, giving a huge return on investment to Al-Qaeda. In the positive column has been some of the security theatre - the appearance of improved security will be reassuring to some people. But everything else has been negative - the government expenditures, making new enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss of freedom for Americans, the massive invasive spying on Americans, the use of "terrorism" as an excuse for inexcusable things, the loss of American prestige (Guantanamo Bay isn't good PR), the additional friction on American life in both time and money (try taking a flight) and the list goes on.

I don't want to belittle 9/11, but the same number of people die each and every single month on American roads. It happened that same month, and every month since.

IMHO it would be a far better remembrance to the victims if we said "fuck you" to the perpetrators and lived free and open lives despite them, rather than the crippling effects that did happen.
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What's wrong with mandatory encryption? Do you still use rsh to log in to your servers?
This makes me practically foam at the mouth. "Pre-paid" that expires a month or two after you purchase it, isn't. It is merely paying month-to-month. Pre-paid should not expire for a reasonable time-frame (at least a year, if ever), regardless of how much you've purchased -- just like international calling cards.
They tested it as much as they could. You can't simulate Martian gravity and the full Martian atmosphere on Earth.
What is the average hourly rate for high-level engineering consultation? It seems that's the service he's offering, and I don't really think he is overcharging.
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"Video games are a piece of our history, and we need to respect the fact that there is a "true" form they had when released. Imagine if we only had a JPEG of the Mona Lisa... etc"

I respect the work of the creator of BSNES, but somehow this does not really make sense to spend so much effort to achieve 100% accurate emulation. The essence of games is the playability, not in having the exact right timing from the hardware. I doubt that in the design document of super Mario, the game designers wrote that "a jump has to take 0.47s and no more, if not it will mess up the whole game!" -

There are very noticeable differences in speed and reactivity between arcade games and their ports on home consoles (at least 10-15 years ago it was certainly the case) and still gamers did not value their port "less" than the arcade ones. They were slightly different, but the essence of the game remained identical.

Humans are certainly able to adapt to get past these kind of details and still enjoy the experience. I'm pretty sure you would not find many players who could tell you, without direct comparison side by side, if a game is faster/slower than what it used to be on the actual hardware. It's not like having a JPEG of the Mona Lisa. For games, you'd need to be very, very acquainted with a certain game to know for sure the emulation is not right.
I've being playing with WebRTC for a little while and I love that we are saying goodbye to Flash for accessing devices (which no one has mentioned yet).

I built my own site photo booth site to give the new JavaScript a go.

http://gotcaption.com/

Next is to update the code for it for working Firefox Nightly. Hopefully the browser vendors will consolidate the API and stop using vendor prefixes.
This is conceited as fuck. Nice to-do app.
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> Amazon is great, but by the time I find myself in Best Buy, the decision to purchase has been made. Brick and mortar has the benefit of immediacy.

Even if you're planning to buy brick and mortar, I find it valuable to be able to look at Amazon et al and confirm that I'm not getting ripped off (since, once in a while, I am).
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>"Many people don't have this. And why would they: it's hard to evaluate a candidate via bits of random code and half finished projects which took their fancy, that they worked on on their own."

I do agree with everything here except "why would they". I have tons of old, unfinished, half baked code /designs lying around. I wouldn't show any of it to a future employer. What I would show them is something that I took real time and effort to do. Often time that's something for my self, an open source contribution or refactoring a side project to make it "usable". This takes a lot of time. But if you ever want to be in the position of choosing who you work for this is needed. That's all that I'm suggesting. The alternative is 6+ hours of spec work for every job you want to get. Which is mostly not reusable because it's company specific.

>"That's right. It's fucking impossible to evaluate someone based on an interview (there have been hundreds of posts to HN on this topic in the last few years). Existing work is hit-and-miss."

I mostly agree. I think multiple interviews with multiple people and talking through problems and design/development problems can greatly reduce the gap of it being hit-and-miss. I'm also not suggesting this is cheap to do (for both employee and employer). But hiring someone or starting a new job should require a lot of investment on both sides.

> " ...with the caveat that _we pay for it_. If you're serious about interviewing this person, paying their day rate for a day of their time is a reasonable way to ask people to do this."

I wish more folks did this. You obviously take hiring seriously. I bet you have many sold folks at your place.
> In Australia, I was with Telstra, which has by far the best coverage. I was on cotnract. The reason? For $50 a month I basically got (for me) unlimited voice, text and Internet (2-3GB/month). but the 32GB iPhone 4 only cost me $300 with $100 rebate. The handset outright cost $950 IIRC so for $1400 I got the handset and 2 years of service. I don't think I could've gotten two years of service for $450.

This is similar to my situation. I pay $79/month and pay $4 per month (or thereabouts) for a 32GB iPhone 4S. $0 upfront. I'm a relatively heavy user, and therefore the $1992 over 24 months that I pay seems the better deal (for me) than buying it outright for $999 and then only having $40/month to spend on pre-paid credit, which would not be enough for my usage.

I also get (slightly) cheaper call and text rates, AFAIK.
> Number 1-5 are mostly "I don't want to learn new things"

More like overcomplicated things. Git can be made simpler.
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I don't know about most of your points, but the components being crushed under their own weight doesn't seem right. The probe was built in Earth gravity and had to undergo 4-5G of acceleration during launch. Also, it's going to experience 13G of deceleration when entering the Martian atmosphere.
In addition to being discovered twice, by Gallagher and Glavieux & Berrou, LDPC codes have deep connections to the belief propagation algorithm, which was discovered in machine learning, and algorithms for spin glasses which were discovered in physics.

There's a great temptation going here to say that this type of algorithm is at a sweet spot for understanding communication, learning, and some physical systems. The behavior of belief propagation at state transitions is quite fascinating, and it really feels as though there is a great discovery to be made there.

I have the utmost respect for coding researchers; every time I read their papers I get new ideas. If you're a programmer interested in writing fast code or coming up with new algorithms, I'd recommend occasionally slipping a coding paper into your reading list.
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I'm curious about what you think is still a viable way to compete with GoPro: is it only on price, or are there some missing features that a potential competitor exploit -- the UI/UX you mention? If RED comes out with a water-proof camera I guess that takes care of the high-end, so is the only way to compete with GoPro to go... low end?
Maybe he invented the currently used formula for reinforced concrete?
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Pen and paper? Nobody ever said it had to be done using a computer :)
“Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do.” is a beautiful idea, but I think Theodore Herzl said it simpler: "If you will it, it is no dream."

Or paraphrased slightly better by Walter Sobchak, "If you will it, Dude, it is no dream."
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I know an SAT/LSAT/MCAT tutor who charges over $900/hour. No joke. (Many charge $500/hour.)

If the client thinks you're worth it, no amount is too high.
You can and should charge at least $225/hour if you are a competent software person. There are far less competent software people then there are mediocre lawyers, and mediocre lawyers can charge $225/hour.
What's wrong with mandatory encryption?

Some people say that it uses too much computational resources, for instance. Others complain that mandatory TLS increases latency by one additional RTT. Mandatory TLS is a biggest point of conflict at the IETF discussion about SPDY being the HTTP successor (at least from what I heard), though many sides disagree for evil reasons.

Do you still use rsh to log in to your servers?

Does this question add anything of value to the discussion?
Ask HN: What kind of role can I have in a tech start up if I don't code?
Hi my name is Robert :)

I obviously have an interest in starting a tech business, but I'm more or less a "wantrepreneur" - I have the coding skills of a weightlifting snowman, and no matter how ambitious or good I think my ideas are, I simply don't have the tools to implement them. I am only 19 so learning how to code isn't entirely out of the equation; but with kids my age already genius coding Super Saiyans, I figured my time would be better spent on other aspects of entrepreneurship.

So without laughing at me a la Patrick Bateman asking for a reservation at Dorcier (huge thumbs up for the American Psycho reference), what kind of role can I have in a digital world if I do not code? I appreciate any and all answers!
"T-Mobile and Sprint can give good deals but have really patchy coverage"

I am using Boost (Sprint network) and it doesn't seem to roam. Using only Sprint towers, I get one or two bars in most places and drop off of 3G along one segment of my commute. Well worth it though for how little I use it outside of areas with Wifi.
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From a Reuters piece...

"Mission control contemplated sending Curiosity one last "parameter update" on Sunday, hours before atmospheric entry, giving the vessel an exact fix on its position in space. But NASA engineers said they would likely forego that transmission because the vessel has varied so little from its ideal course.

Otherwise, controllers will have little to do but anxiously track Curiosity's progress as it flies into Mars' upper atmosphere..."

"We're all along for the ride," Seltzner said."

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-usa-mars-idINBRE...
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If you want to go SaaS, my startup does provide just that. We focus on bringing together the hodgepodge of tools, correlating metrics and events, and making it super-easy to collect app and business metrics as well. You can check-it out at http://datadoghq.com
Does this question add anything of value to the discussion?

Yes. If you are the "I hate encryption because it messes with my tinfoil hat" type, you'll get all angry and not reply. For anyone else, the question is just a minor annoyance to wade through ;)