skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay, yay and verily. Forsooth though it is time to rely on sciencey things.

http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/CR188427.p...

Wherein the effects of radiation on films is documented. The answer is that some damage occurs, but films are fogged only by extreme conditions such as those that STS-31 got hit by. I don't know what steps were taken by apollo to protect films, but I would not be surprised if some protection was used to prevent excessive damage.

Also I would point out that Apollo missions were 8 days in length while the martian missions are 9 mths long (if they smash into Mars at 13k kmph) or hopefully 24 mths + long if they work - hence the serious need for hardening.

Anyway - if you like don't believe in it all - the rest of us are happy looking at the photos, data and science and enjoying the general idea. You can believe in invisible pink unicorns or ghosts or something instead if you like! (we don't mind)
Largest 3D map of the universe, SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)
I read the Mythical Man Month years ago and for a long time I've thought of this as the "second-system effect": You can create a much better architecture the second time around. (Hence the advantage of quick, throwaway prototypes.)

The article (and wikipedia) tell me I'm wrong on Brooks' meaning.
More like the author was lazy and not thinking about correct ordering of the date there. It should absolutely be yyyy-mm-dd. I'll be updating the post w/ feedback from the comments sometime today or tomorrow. So expect to see that change.
Agreed. We use mod_unique to add a header to each response and make sure it's included in each error log, back end access log and front end access log as well as being viewable via Charles/fiddler at the client. Being able to tie the various logs from different machines together has been invaluable.
Exactly like that! But with the toolbar at the top and less of the kitschy storefront skeumorphism. But interface wise, it's still nicer than anything I foresee coming from Valve in the next decade or so.

Bodega really nailed the updates system. It found all of my non-app-store software that was out of date, and handled the updating with one click and a password. It's having trouble with Calibre, but Adium, Transmission, Pixen, BetterTouchTool, and others all worked fine.

Thanks for pointing this out! The only areas I see Steam having an advantage are preexisting users, and the ability to sell cross platform (Mac+Windows+Linux) software.
YouTube had this for April Fool's, where you could watch any video in ASCII art.
Applying Occam's razor we're left with a teenage drop out who has found a way to sell bank account details on the black market, to fund his new car.

But of course not, obviously it's Al Quaeda. How else will the security industry succeed in strangling more cash and evil, preferential, freedom-damaging policies from central government?
That is definitely one of the better CollegeHumor videos.
Ship API literally just launched, so the sky's the limit. Mailing a postcard is as simple as hitting two methods (upload and create). After running Sincerely for a little over a year, we've definitely witnessed how meaningful getting something in the mail can be.

Our Ship Library partners have done some interesting stuff: http://dev.sincerely.com/partners
As an aside, I believe there's a textmate package for emacs.

http://code.google.com/p/emacs-textmate/

No idea how well it works, but I suppose the only major difference in some respects is having to use Ctrl/Alt/Esc instead of Command.
Here is a direct link to SDSS : http://www.sdss.org/
>so it isn't just CL, though admittedly it works well there.

Just out of curiosity, have you tested this or is this just supposition? It was the first thought that came to mind when I read about bidkat (posting it on CL, that is). I would just wonder whether people viewing the posts on CL actually click to go to another site?
Actually, while Georgia is a good font overall, the design is Georgia is optimized for the screen. Because of this, it has some peculiarities, such as a very large x-height (so the pixels in the counterforms can be read).

Here's a little more about what I'm talking about: http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/design-for-hackers-why-you-...
Talking about frivolity on the internet while posting from a device with several editors open and getting work done. There is a large difference between choosing to do something fun and frivolous, and choosing to lock yourself into a platform that forces you to consume.
A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 flight simulator
SQL Injection in Plain English
I think Microsoft has more consistent quality across a variety of hardware than Linux does. After all, they've put money into it, it's in the interest of hardware companies to support their brand of hardware with all its intricacies and driver compatibilities and what not.
TextMate 2 tarball for your downloading convenience: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10047/TextMate2.tbz Binary uses latest source. [I compiled and tested, works on Lion at very least]
And yet Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape. Who would have thought Mozilla would become relevant again five years after Netscape died? I'm starting to think open source projects are a lot more hardy than startups because they can't run out of money.
I think these infrastructure start ups are a good idea. We can build an app\site faster by concentrating where it matters most. Please reply to my comment with the infrastructure providing company that you know. Let's build the list. Googling is not going to be an easy task for this.
But the problem is speed. I found that if parsing logs is slow, bug hunting is far less efficient.
"seats upholstered with the tanned skin of Scandinavian virgins"

Ew?
Grub2 is a complete re-write
A prerequisite for a theory to be scientific is to be built on a naturalistic background. The mere fact that one asks for a scientific explanation, says much about their _ideological_ background.

But _a priori_ we can not impose any restrictions on what will explain something. We are part of what exists. We can have no expectation on what exists, why and how it works.

Some things may have a scientific explanation, some others may not. We don't get to decide. We can't restrict ourself to accepting only one kind of explanation.
Presumably the variation in devices would be observed across all the fonts and therefore average out. I.e. there is no reason why people who got font A would disproportionately be using device X.

You make a good point about the possibility that people did not actually see the passage in the intended font.
Must have hurt someone's feelings
I'm a Scottish teenager. Perhaps the only possible reason I managed to scrape a 2 (2 or 1 is high enough to do Higher level course the year after) in my Standard Grade English was because all my work was in Georgia.
http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php

Not totally free (due to shipping), but it's definitely cheaper than buying all your books new.
In the UK there is an inter-library lending system, so if your local library doesn't have a book they'll borrow it from one that has.

You never hear authors railing against libraries, even though (in the UK) very many more books are read via libraries than bought new. But publishers, especially in the US, are vigorous about lending ebooks.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9722000/9722410....)

(Last segment of programme, starting at about 20minutes in)
Cool site I re-listed a CL item I have up at the moment, we'll see how it works! The video was super great and to the point and made it clear that it is intended to synergize with other services.
Witholding the top bid (except to those who are interested) means buyers offer what they think the item is worth - which could be a lot more than top bid + 1$.

That's not true. I'm not going to put down what I believe the item is worth because then you will charge me that amount. If I believe this item is worth 100 and you charge me 100, I get a final value of 0. What I actually do is bid under my value and its not exactly clear what I do.

If you sell the item to the guy who bids the highest but charge him the second highest bid (known as the 2nd price auction), then people are incentivized to bid what they think the item is worth.

I'm not claiming that you should necessarily do any particular auction format because the theoretical results are for scenarios that typically dont hold in practice. However, I do recommend reading a bit about auction theory to help guide your decisions.

Good luck!
I got a kick out of "Mehole" and "Simplert" from the list of possibly real names a couple sentences later in the article.

I have no idea what their product or service would be, but I'm having fun thinking of things...
Take for example my company's product. It's old, written with a mix of Pascal, Cobol, VB and C#. The VB for the user interface is now at a point where it's causing problems, and there aren't a lot of developers who want to work on VB6 applications. Not to mention it's 12 years out of date. Never rewrite your code? Yea right, I'll just leave all this cruft here so that in the future nobody can even put together a development system to build the thing.
Yes, but they had been developing the NT product line for years, so it wasn't a full start over. Then they had the Windows 2000 release which was their first stab at a "merged" kernel for desktop and pro/server. XP was the full cutover after Windows 2000 validated that it'd work.
While I think this idea is awesome, it solves a common problem in a unique and creative way, I sadly cannot watch the video: "Unfortunately, this EMI-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights."

Oh my, one more video I cannot watch just because I am german and one more day of my life ruined by them :(
Two quotes from George Orwell spring to mind:

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

nuff said...?
Dumped: how my password went public
+1

I'm not sure why people like the Computer Modern typeface so much. I think it looks terrible. :\
Mars receives half the light that the Earth does?! That is a ton of light!

For you photographers out there, just think: Mars's "Sunny 16" is a "Sunny 11". That's not that much darker!

I sincerely thought that Mars would be pretty dark out there since it's further from the sun. I was clearly wrong.
So any consumer of content deserves simply scorn and
ridicule?

That's not what I said--please don't put words in my mouth. I did not expand my definition to include any consumer of content, and I did not suggest anything other than that developers have no reason to view their target audience as anything other than entities paying for their product--they have no reason to see them as people with feelings and emotions, they have no reason to see them as independent creative beings, they have no reason to see them as anything other than actors in a marketplace.

Forgive me for not according to gamers qualities that on the whole we can't know.

(and, hazarding a guess from your username: come now, what would Heinlen say about your imprecision of argument?)
Jeez, I knew someone was going to call me on "random." Each numeral is vertically offset. The offset of each seems to have no rhyme or reason... thus "random" (3,4,5,7,9 are lowered; 6,8 are raised). Apparently, however, it is a common pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures

>they're basically numerals fitting lowercase characters

Nope. I think you may be forgetting what Georgia looks like: http://www.identifont.com/samples/microsoft/Georgia.gif

>Numerals that are all at the height of upper case would LOOK LIKE THIS IN TEXT ;-)

I disagree. Lots of fonts have numerals that are the same size/location as the rest of the text. http://desktoppub.about.com/od/glossary/g/Lining-Figures.htm
I'm not sure of the resolution at which FB stores photos. At any rate I don't think it's standard practice for people to upload originals in the first place. So large scale printing might not be that simple.
While I haven't personally printed a photo in the past decade, the market is surprisingly large for photo printing services. A new revenue stream could be quite meaningful to Facebook as their ad revenue slows -- in 2011, Facebook did $3.7B in revenue while Shutterfly did $473M in revenue.
I saw Microsoft's OpenType options demo for IE 10. I was rather impressed. (I believe it's on IE TestDrive somewhere)
Purposeful Procrastination: Does it Lead to Better Productivity?
i love the service, but when someone made me an offer and chose his contact details to be just his First_Name, I have no way of responding to him. You should change it so email is required on a bid
I prefer an alternative interpretation: if rewriting your code is an existential risk, you weren't writing it right in the first place.

Startups need to value flexibility. The longer they stay flexible -- even in the presence of growth -- the higher their valuations get. So the conclusion seems inescapable: find ways to make rewrites utterly banal. This may seem hard, but I think it's possible. Part of the answer might be replacing compatibility concerns with automated tests to a far more comprehensive level: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361596.

One benefit of Google's NIH syndrome that I think people don't focus on enough: because they built the entire stack from scratch they had no backwards compatibility overheads in the early days. (Of course this is no longer true.)
Interesting, I had a very similar idea that I can share my notes with you if you'd like. I would love to share some of the things I learned while researching. I decided to move away from it and focus on another project.
The magic line is 'for more pictures and information visit bidkat.com...' :) People love pictures.
I just realized this was from 2004. Ah well, fascinating anyway. Wonder whatever happened with all that.
> Do you have any examples of Microsoft throwing away their codebase and starting fresh? I believe that is what Apple did with the OS9 to OSX transition.

Even that wasn't "starting fresh". The starting point was a complete operating system: OPENSTEP. It was just a different operating system than the one they were using before.
Everythinker.com launches beta
Also most companies don't live in happy land, where you are allowed infinite time to do this things.

It can be "I have one day, to a 4 day job", better hack it sort of thing.
Could someone with an amazon turk requester account please test this?
Thus, instead of you and me profiting from buying facebook stock in 2006, where we would be up 100-fold by now....

Aren't you assuming here that a stock price does not reflect a revenue-based valuation of the company?
Anything worth writing is worth writing well.

But not everything is worth writing.

I would not even begin to disagree with you about the merits of beautiful prose, but would the article have been anything more than a collection of entertaining images and vitriol if the author hadn't been skewering a very real and obvious and silly trend?

Most of us have probably shaken our heads at some startup name or another, or rolled our eyes at a particularly unbearable lump of marketing-speak. So underneath all those pretty words and images lies a sentiment we understand and can sympathize with.

If you want your blog READ instead of skimmed for buzzwords and facts, write things worth writing.
Somehow I don't like this statement: "We've implemented https so you don't have to."

Just because authentication itself is secured over SSL doesn't make the whole site secure enough. For some things, it might suffice, but it's not something you should publicly recommend IMHO.
I have had two domains, months apart (back in 2009?), that I looked-up via GoDaddy and then were gone the next day when I went to register.

These were obscure names, one with numbers.

This is just my experience, could be plain bad luck/timing. However at the time I wondered about this (nice to know it has an actual term) - emailed them angrily and got a placating response.

This makes me reconsider.
Ruby on Rails strip_tags XSS Vulnerability
Ask HN: What are subscription eCommerce platforms like Member.ly?
Looking to build a subscription based startup and looking for an easy way to implement the idea but Member.ly is not accepting applications yet to use their platform. Anyone know of anything? Need to rebill on a monthly bill.. similar to barkbox.com or craftcoffee.com thanks!
If there is any lesson from OS X and Windows, I think you've hit on it, exactly. The way to replace isn't to stop one and start another – instead, you need to build in parallel and have a smart migration plan.
Remember, it's got a 14 year lifetime because the half-life of Pu-241 is 14.1 years. At the end of that time, half of its mass will be gone, and it'll be producing half as much heat. It won't produce a steady 2KW for 14 years and then bing, go out like a lightbulb. Power produced will slowly fall over time.
On Odesk, people are offering $5-10 per hour of audio:

https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/browse/c/administrative-support/sc/transcription/

It might be worth trying.
Get Your Offices into a Walkable Town Center
It's the one that found water ice on Mars.
Just got a tweet from @macromates, they say they'll still charge for binaries
> Do you think hundreds of millions of users all would just buy from Microsoft their PC's

Yes, if that was the only way to get Windows. Linux doesn't run their software. Windows does. They'll buy Windows.
Yeah, but if they had no choice but to use Linux, they would make sure their hardware worked with it. Can't really compare to the past, when Microsoft essentially got a 10 year head start on Linux and was a monopoly by the time it arrived on the scene.
> My point is that I need to be philosophically aligned with my editor's developer.

This is taking things a bit too far, I think. If you're a one platform kind of person the most important thing should be "How well does it work on (my platform)?".
Good points. Verdana is one of my favorites, but I believe it suffers from the same issues because it was also designed for being legible on screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana#Usage
Thanks, I'll look into it. However, I guess one of my biggest questions currently is around staffing— it looks like Supportfu is just a competitor to Zendesk, Kayako, etc.
Investors are so desperate to find the next homerun that they'll cater to the ridiculous that is speed dating for startup ideas.
My guess is for a sort of absolute positioning as opposed to the relative positioning of an optical mouse.
A mouse produces deltas relative to your previous position, while the bar codes are always in the same place.
The problem with relative positioning is that even a small inaccuracy will accumulate over time, resulting in edges being off in the end.
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RecordStream is a great solution for manipulating JSON log files: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream - makes it easy to perform relational-style operations, such as grouping, counting (recs-collate), and even joins (recs-join). It can also display and transform the logs in a variety of ways (recs-tocsv, recs-totable, recs-tognuplot for graphing).

There are also tools to extract records from other data formats such as CSV or by querying a database.

All in all, a fantastic tool for manipulating and querying complex data from the command line. I use it regularly.
I created a binary from the current source, if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/downloads/albertz/textmate/TextMate-2012-...
Ahh.. yes that would definitely be it!
They are very anti-facebook.

Cheers!
> Our target audience of buyers

Who is that? It looks to me like it's local-transaction buyers. This could definitely make craigslist selling a lot better.

It wasn't clear to me what you did -- obviously I read "auction" and I think eBay. But you're much different. The marketing copy didn't explain it well to me, but the video gave me that 'ah-hah! Nice!' moment.

Take that for what it's worth. GL!
They do update them, but manually and probably not very often. Looking at commit logs, all three features that have asked for donations have had a lot of work done, but that's different from success.
What a great way to get addresses!
Best explained SQL injection presentation I ever seen. Need more presentation with illustration like this.
How Much Money Does the Federal Government Spend on Abortions Each Year?
This is fun. I made one of my '88 911:

http://kindel.com/porsche/Ascii
Sorry about that! We didn't require email because a lot of people use name and phone number instead. We'll fix the label on the input box.
Fab: 30-40% of its traffic is mobile, but 95% of its mobile sales come from iOS
Two points worth mentioning. Emacs 2.4 comes with many features by default that shrink the learning curve.

And most importantly, check out Technomancy's emacs starter kit. It even comes with a package that lets Textmate users keep using their familiar keyboard shortcuts if they want.
The video demonstrates the use of the router with no additional explanation.

Observations from the video:

1) On the screen is a picture of the object, with a blue path representing the actual path of the router and a circle representing the fault tolerance of the system. Apparently, keep the path inside of the circle and you win.

2) The computer can move the router independently of its mount, within the tolerance represented by the onscreen circle.

3) It looks really easy to operate.
Ok, then enlighten me. Are you claiming that an average dev in your business will make high 30's before tax?
What is the prosecution's justification for this not being double-jeopardy?
Adventures in Mobile Game Design
CallRuby seems very interesting, I hadn't heard of them before. Thinking of ways I can utilize them, but for my current situation I need more of a tech support rep than a receptionist.
Actually, the MastCams on Curiosity are bayer-pattern color sensors.
One male and one female student were voted "Most likely to succeed" in every year of my high school yearbook (northern California, 2000-2004).
HOw Apps will look on a larger iPhone 5 display.[Images]
JQuery 1.8 Released
Some of the thin mini-itx offerings look interesting.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/08/intels-thin-mini-itx-plat...

https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/hardware-develop...

http://www.missingremote.com/review/lian-li-pc-q05-thin-mini...

True, you don't need an OEM to build them (and maybe that's the point here). But I don't quite get the Acer argument. Thin mini-itx devices easily bolt on to the back of their monitors.

Last time I looked, the inside of my Vizio 47" had nothing but room too.

Dell, Gateway, Acer and many others got their start with the DIY system builder -- and a Computer Shopper.
Shoot me an email (in profile).
Different jurisdictions, Federal and state.

It still seems pretty vindictive.
This absolutely happens. Only with GoDaddy? Not sure.

I have searched for some obscure domains in unpopular niches (imagine <extremely obscure keyword><extremely rare/popular suffix>.com> to find them registered mysteriously 24 hours later to someone on.. you guessed it.. Go daddy. This has happened enough times to me that I now only search for domains after I login into the control panel at the domain provider I use.

Many domain/whois tools do the same things.

My semi-educated guess is all searches are queued, sorted by popular keywords, and most likely hand picked off by an official employee, or someone who may have access to the data.

OTOH, I'm surprised no one has done a honeypot experiment to catch this type of behaviour in the act.