skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you look at something like a Boeing 747 -- that's over a quarter of a billion dollars, buying a 747," he said. "You need two of them for a round trip. But nobody is paying half a billion dollars to fly from L.A. to London. It's a few thousand dollars, and that's because you reuse that aircraft multiple times, you use it thousands of times."

Airlines have always been subsidised by taxpayers, in fact air travel has never been super profitable even with the subsidies.
I'm thinking Singel's -ism meter is just screwed up, here's a twitter post where he seems to equate the driver-bicyclist relationship to racism, and in a somewhat offensive way to boot:

https://twitter.com/rsingel/status/232719063854510082
FYI, I had a big array of green disks that ended up going out with ZFS, luckily not all at once. I read online that Seagate said they were not designed for use in RAID so they didn't cover it under warranty. You should replace those two disks with the Seagate Black series.
> what's the ultimate value to humanity?

What if we found a bacteria that would spread on Mars and create an atmosphere? There are so many questions like that. Science for science sake, art for arts, because dammit, we are alive!
Call me old fashioned, but I would really like some "old new distro"

Put modern packages, but not "new" packages
. No pulseaudio, packagekit, networkmanager. You don't need to worry about automounting usb for example

Get me the latest version of KDE 3

That would be very fast in any modern machine
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Find a comparison of all the tiling window managers here -- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_Tiling_Wi...

The Arch community is great for support with these types of WMs.
To be fair, there is no guarantee of a typical loan either.
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Right most recently people moved away form GNOME to Xfce because it was more streamlined and lighterweight, but that doesn't mean that GNOME can't do that better.

If you wanted to provide a refuge for the amateur then you are playing towards one of your weaknesses. The camera that I buy at BestBuy is not going to have instructions ons on how to use it with linux. If your not targeting teh professional you have already lost.
I moved from Ireland to London last year, and personally found the water in London to be all but undrinkable.

Even when I moved back, I still hated the taste of tap water, and am now moving over to bottled water as regardless of anything else, it tastes so much better, therefore I drink more, which is good for me. Its disgraceful that I have to do this, but that's another argument.
> A nuclear holocaust would not kill all the humans. A major asteroid strike would not kill all the humans. A super-flu pandemic would not kill all the humans. A single short circuit, puncture, or virus could kill all the humans on Mars.

Terraforming Mars would prevent a 'puncture' or 'short circuit' from wiping out its population. The goal isn't to only spread human life but all of life.
I would imagine the most complex element is landing on Mars safely at low Gs, or even travelling for years in a spaceship moving through a hostile environment. Getting stuff into orbit seems easier to me.
erm, "Instead you probably want to POST data to the /users collection."

wouldn't it be PUT?
If you're looking for this functionality (over Google Voice), there's always GrooVeIP.
How is this about copying? This is a company taking a long hard look at how their product stacks up against the competition. It's called capitalism and competition. If you're not taking a hard look at how you compare to competitors then you're going to die. Notice development steps on each page point on how to improve their offering.
I imagine explorers like Columbus heard many of the same arguments.
Cloud9 - much better now (and adds 1 free private project)
Improvements I've noticed recently,

- much faster, and clones faster from GitHub
- I can now use tower.js (couldn't before)
- command line limitations seems to be lowered
- starts to feel like sublime text 2...

Reconsidering it as a real node.js IDE solution
Coupled with the eventual shift to Wayland, a default install of Debian should be a lot slimmer and internally less chaotic.
We are already testing video actually and URL-based imports will be added even sooner.
Why the Market Loves LinkedIn and Hates Facebook
The grammar in the article is terrible. For a minute i wondered if i were looking at some kind of spammy fake article.

But now, i think it more likely it is a poorly written summary of legitamite research.
Sure, assume that. But is it too much to ask they state it either way? Why be so dismissive about it?
Apple won’t change passwords over the phone after hacking incident
"The backers - acquaintances, alumni or other accredited investors - provide funding that will typically range between $20,000 and $50,000 in exchange for an agreed share of the graduate's future income over a 10-year period. Upstart determines the portion of future annual income to be shared based on the total sum raised and the person's qualifications, including academic record and field of study."

I'm failing to see how this is any different than a loan, with the exception you can pay a loan back early AND you know how much you owe the lender. This just seems like for $100k (based on the 5 backers at the minimum $20k that is quoted above) you could be paying many times that for success that is unrelated to the money that you received.
Thanks, I did look for this scene but couldn't find it. "Whole movie" indeed. So... why did some clown downvote my comment?
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Assuming you mean why it's relevant now, not why mobile adoption is up, the mobile number travels with you at all times and also is more heavily used for SMS, which is becoming an increasingly standard way to interact with people. By definition this means a greater and greater percentage of the people you interact with are running through your mobile phone, meaning more carrier minutes, more annoyance, and more stalker risk if people have the number that you don't want to.
Wonder if the recorded video was saved to megaupload... :)
> Or do you think that way because you've always assumed it was a problem?

It really is a problem, one people tried to solve long before we had modern advertising. Try going somewhere that deodorant hasn't really caught on yet (e.g. India).
And why is it considered faulty?

Because dyslexia is annoying. If I want to visually differentiate among pqdb and I can't, I deem my visual system "faulty".
I ran DWM for a while. It is solid and more stable than Awesome but does require more work to setup. I wish it had native system tray support. Patch conflicts are quite common.

I am back to Awesome which requires little to no modification.
Unfortunately for you, you haven't proven anything about MSG being the root of any disease whatsoever, as both links only proves what it can do to someone who already has some kind of disease (fibromyalgia in this case). This is not so different from the harmful effect of gluten to someone who has coeliac, or sugar to a diabetic, but no sane person is going to demonize gluten or sugar just because a very small subset of the population are harmed by those substances. Or milk. Or peanuts.

Almost any type of food source could be thought of as harmful based on your own criteria.
I can find the kind of study you link to for so many things that you'd develop a fear of eating itself.

The truth remains : there is no STRONG correlation between MSG and the kind of horrors the demonization campaign stirred up by conspiracy theorists pretends it to do to the human body. You type "monosodium glutamate" in google and one of the links on the FIRST page is a link to rense.com, a website maintained by 9/11 deniers and UFO believers, and it's for a good reason if that link is on the first page, because talk about MSG is most popular amongst that group of people.

Anything that is not "natural" (for some highly subjective value of) is prone to be hated and part of a fear mongering campaign from the type of people that are obsessed with fear, fear of technology, of progress, of science, of politics [...]
The 'problem' being that he didn't just do that.
Why don't we better terraform the sahara desert or the death valley? Greenland? Australia's outback? Antarctica?

Honest question.
Heck, the Arch community is great with regards to getting software (including the latest branches) up and running on a machine. Definitely a helpful community with admirable goals.
According to the article, they don't have that yet. Which seems ... surprising.
It says in the article About was bought by the New York Times for $410 million in 2005.
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Conventional wisdom would be to install conduit in the walls and leave installing the actual fiber until you are planning on using it.
The Viral Challenge.
>Apparently they're from the U.S., believe Julian Assange is a terrorist, and plan to keep attacking WikiLeaks for as long as possible.

This is silly. Judgements of Assange aside, isn't Wikileaks just a portal for a collection of torrents? If that's the case, what an utter waste of time and bandwidth.
Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware
Given the choice of an automated flying car or a trip to mars, I pick the former.
Android is too bad to be Linux. It's a platform dominated by closed-source application software, a cathedral-developed kernel and core, and dubiously open bootloaders. It's utterly useless for development, and it makes numerous sacrifices on many levels to try to appeal to 'regular users'. When one pines for Linux success, one means GNU/Linux [and whatever DE or graphical environment you like]. Nobody cares what kernel your phone runs.
I can’t help but wonder if this will give people a little bit of a tan in the office! A little vitamin D never hurt anyone.
We're doing science. There's a whole science lab on Mars, right now, rolling around doing science. That's super valuable. What does it need a human for?
Is there a reason you chose to do this as an app instead of a webapp?
Either I missed a post somewhere but I don't think any has answered your question... I'm also wondering what the benefit for customers will be....
SpaceX has been profitable since 2007.

http://www.spacex.com/usa.php
Terraforming Mars is a great long-term goal. But I don't see how putting a human being on the surface of the planet gets us there any faster.
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Yeah, unless something changes in the time it takes us to put a manned mission together it's pretty much a given that the first trip will be one way only. It greatly simplifies things not having to worry about how to get back.
Are any APIs anywhere truly RESTful? All I ever see is people pointing out how various APIs don't meet some criterion or other of RESTfulness.
"While everyone has the right to have questions and theories, only believable people have the right to have opinions. If you can't successfully ski down a difficult slope, you shouldn't tell others how to do it, though you can ask questions about it and even express your views about possible ways if you make it clear that you are unsure." -- #194 from Principles by Ray Dalio
I did lose data from a ZFS raidz pool once. The cause turned out to be a slowly failing power supply. (An expensive, high-end OCZ unit, no less, with a 5-year warranty. OCZ replaced it without argument. Had it been a lesser PSU I might have suspected it sooner... oh well.)

Of course no filesystem could have survived that. But I still could really have used a salvager (fsck). I actually recovered a couple of critical files by dd-ing blocks off the disks.
It isn't until our most insecure moments of adolescence that we really start sweating there anyway. It's a function of puberty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrine_sweat_gland
Actionscript assembler/disassembler for Scheme
Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time
The health care system is so complex that where would you even begin? With car and/or space, you can just throw money at building something to compete, but it would be difficult to disrupt health care by starting a new insurance company or hospital.
How about coming back? Not in a hundred years. Sorry to be realistic.
> In the absence of asking consumers what they actually want in regards to tracking...

From the original blog post by MS ... "Since then, we have conducted additional consumer research that confirmed strong support for our "consumer-privacy-first" approach to DNT."

Sounds like that's exactly what they did (asked their users).

> Guess which group is the largest.

The group that you explain what DNT is, and then enables it...

> "How, exactly, are they intending to detect the user's explicit consent via the medium of HTTP headers?"

My understanding is that when shipped (Windows 8 or IE 10), on first run the user is prompted to opt-out of, opt-in, or dismiss DNT. DNT is explained, and is given its own huge screen in the first-run process/dialog.

A set DNT header to 1 (don't track) or 0 (do track) signifies an "explicit" choice was made.

A missing DNT header signifies that user has not set, or has dismissed the option.

http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-d...

http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/the_state_of_do_not_track.html

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

*I'm taking some guesses here with the "dismiss" choice. But I'm pretty sure MS pulls up a screen explaining DNT and gives the opt-in/out-out options to the user.
It can still change before release.
Business spreadsheets most definitely need help, though perhaps mobile Google Drive, which is currently atrocious, is too intimidating to take on.

However, I have to applaud anything that moves our information-consumption into a more delimited, structured form. I love narrative and paragraphs, but Tufte's small multiples is something that would greatly help day-to-day communication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple
I'd go the same route. The features a consumer needs are much lighter. I imagine the hope is that someday people will realize, "Hey wait a minute! This thing kicks Excel's ass!".

Quote from PG:

"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."

http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html
Yeah all the "yo"s had me wincing. That doesn't change the fact that this fellow is a much more experienced programmer than me, but the style did turn me off a bit. Good show overall. :)
And if Mars had an oxygen atmosphere, protection from solar radiation, a fully self-sustaining human-compatible ecology and a number of extant human civilizations that might be relevant somehow.
That anecdotal experience doesn't match mine, all my friends with Androids have plenty of apps installed, a frequent question I hear from new Android users is 'What are some good apps to install?'. If you look at the Facebook app in Google Play[1] it says it has 100-500 million installs, that's a big chunk of all Android devices.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.k....
Introducing Dex: the Index Bot. Recommends indexes based on MongoDB queries
Conservation I guess. And cheap existing land.
Please let the iPad version be next. Everyone at our company has embraced Trello and there are a lot of iPads floating around. You can view boards on the web fine, but lose the drag-and-drop niceties in the iPad browser.
Who is "we" exactly? Go back in time far enough and you will find your ancestors are of a different species. So why are we throwing a pass to some future "alien" species? Is this some sort of cosmic chain letter we just received?

The arguments I hear on this subject really sound more like a guy talking himself into buying that Porsche (or Tesla!) than anything else.

Keep sending the robots!
All tiling window mangers

I used to think that until I started using goomwwm, which, while looking and feeling like a tiling window manager, is technically a stacking window manager.
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This could be related to the Syria data dump. Russia and maybe China could have assets exposed in these emails.

And we all know the Ruskies have bot bandwidth to burn!
Yes, affected parties can file a counter-notice.

But this isn't an official DMCA notice, apparently.
The tablet layout of google now is multi column.
Nope what?
OK, updated here:
https://github.com/chute/media-chooser/#browser-compatabilit...
It's "push the camera" instead of "push the picture." I agree that it's unintuitive.
You don't? That assumption is extremely obvious to me. Most people don't care about Mars right now - in fact, most Americans are against space travel because they think it's expensive. So, terraforming Mars is seen by people (including those with money) as ridiculous. But if SpaceX puts a team on Mars for less money than, say, making a blockbuster film, an obvious result is massive increase in space travel, colonization, etc.

Progress is progress. Choosing to make progress accelerates the process, especially when the progress we're talking about would be the first humans on another planet (and the first known life on Mars).
Nasa's Curiosity rover lifts its navigation cameras
Well, the project is called "dablooms".

Edit: For comparison, here's a pull request he made to libgit2. https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/856
> My experience is that this is owned by osx. Adobe's creative suite is the lifeblood of any media development and the Linux equivalents are not as good. If you're commercially invented to create new media then you'll use the best tools for the job.

Which is exactly why media production should be a target for linux development?
Fantastic article and reporting. I've read about people with "locked-in syndrome" where doctors implant chips in their brains, and the patient can control a mouse on a computer screen with their thoughts. I wouldn't mind having that technology implanted in my brain, although I've heard that China has an electron bomb that fries all electronics within an absurd-mile radius; I would be worried about getting my brain fried.
"For a fraction of the cost of sustaining human life on another planet, we could construct a huge automated research complex capable of doing everything a human would want to do"

No, we couldn't.

It's a common refrain, but there's no evidence of it. Where on Earth are these robots that are as productive as humans?

They simply do not exist.
So my proposal is this: Spend a lot less money building a much larger, much more durable self-sufficient colony of robots. Once that's going good and strong, maybe we program the robots to produce the oxygen and water and complex organic molecules and radioactive shielding we need in a reliable enough way that it's worth sending people. If that all doesn't quite work out, well, we still got a self-sufficient colony of robots.
That seems a little excessive, but the sentiment is good. Any personal data, including browser history, should not be stored without user consent.... Like a "track me" header field.
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Yeah, god forbid any of us actually have fun while working. GASP
Good grief, some of you folks take yourself way too seriously. No, his pull request wasn't groundbreaking, but it was useful. His presentation was whimsical and light-hearted. So what? Is dry and boring better because it seems more academic or professional? Bleh.

Life is too short not to have some fun in your day job and kudos to vmg for doing exactly that. For the rest of you..lighten up. Seriously.
No references, but in my family's experiences, it never works for some and it works great for others, but only as long as you use it. The day you forget, the stink comes right back.
Because this is what humanity does.
I really like the general idea of this app. The killer feature would be an easy way to contribute new features for the tiles, which would basically make Grid into an easy-to-use Microsoft Metro UI.
I specifically use the web search bar, instead of the gmail search bar, because I want web results.

This strikes me as an enormous case of optimizing for users that search for google.com in the web search bar. Maybe people do get confused around which search space they are accessing - I certainly do not. I really hope this either stays in beta forever, or at least has a toggle in the account settings to disable it.
Rather, I think huggyface is saying that slandering a product without facts/evidence is not very productive and is better to have off of HN.

It would be nice if more people on HN back up their claims with facts and sources. Instead, people bring up anecdotal evidence and leave it at that.

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Far less intuitive

This is kind of hand-wavy. Can you expand on this and say what you don't like about it?
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Opinions are great, but they leave a lot to be desired, I think, unless you have a feel for the person.

If I know that you are very critical about particular UI elements and that you like iOS for specific features that are missing on Android, then great! I'll trust you with your opinion. But I don't know you, so fleshing out this anecdotal story into something more factual would be much better for me.
I would personally rather see something like a space habitat before colonizing Mars.

If we can artificially replicate Earth's environment in space, then we're set, we could drift through space when our solar system becomes too hot and ensure our race can live on . We wouldn't need planets anymore.

So, instead of having to adapt to Mars' conditions (low gravity and little atmosphere), we would build something capable of sustaining life as we know it.

Much more valuable if you ask me.

But still, going to Mars is great science and will give us very valuable experience.
> Business spreadsheets most definitely need help

In what way? Are you talking about design (look and feel) or capabilities. I can't think of too many things that could be lacking from Excel in terms of capabilities for business and engineering applications.
Say what? That they won't be here in a month or two? I think they definitely will be around, they seem to be ripping up HN lately. All I'm saying is that using bootstrap's default styles tarnishes the brand they are trying to build (which is especially important because their target audience, developers, are very familiar with default bootstrap).
Unity felt like a large step backward from gnome 2, adding virtually no functionality and removing most customization. It's the ez-bake oven of window mangers. A toy.
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Then the unfortunate reality is that they might get flamed—sorry, receive a hostile and extremely harsh response—for it.
Ask HN: Anyone going to TechStar's Demo Day in Boulder tomorrow?
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Not taking it personally. heretohelp's comment history suggests a proclivity to unnecessary confrontation and aggressive tone.

It's obviously a question you could ask about any service ("Google, are you concerned about criminals using Gmail to conduct criminal business?"), but it seems particularly worth addressing when the name of your product evokes usage by drug dealers and mobsters to evade law enforcement.
Oh, I'm curious to here about Plivo. I've seen quite a bit of Twilio (they promote a lot at our events) but I've never heard of Plivo before. Are there any downsides to Plivo vs Twilio? If not, I may use Plivo more often.
So why not take the money, then use it to stop police brutality? The mere loss of the money will teach the government a lesson, plus you can use it for the cause you care about.
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