skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can generate low-res, closeup 3D images of the ground using the stereo hazcams and manual colorization. It's far from what stereo zooming mast cameras would have given them, but I still think it looks cool: http://nitrogen.posterous.com/curiositys-view-of-mars-in-pse...

And yes, I'll probably keep posting this image in nearly every thread that mentions Curiosity's cameras until NASA starts giving us more color imagery.
Thank you for the correction.
Based on the previous comment, I assumed the trap function was doing something evil without completely reading the script.
SCO is finally “Dead Parrot” dead
My first hack was in typing class in 6th grade (1990?). They had the PCs (running DOS) locked down so you could only run the designated typing programs, but one of the programs let you open a text file, and in the root of C: I found a file with the passwords for admins to go straight to the DOS prompt. Turned out there were all sorts of games installed as well, I was the class hero. Ironically, I got terrible grades in that typing class even though I type over 100wpm now...
Nikon’s Android-powered camera isn’t as cool as you think
I like that SE has taken a stance on this, and I like their stance. The programming community, especially as it pertains to blogging, news, etc, has been infiltrated by navel-gazing unproductive carebears that insist that you have to be nice to get things done.

This isn't an MBA program, and HN/SE/reddit/etc are not networking arenas. They're discussion boards.
Full disclosure: I backed the project.

I think it's fine if marketers use the service. It's similar to Twitter in that you can choose who you follow. The difference is that if I want Coke in my timeline, I have to follow Coke (or someone cleverly disguised as not Coke) in my follow list.

If companies add their brand to app.net, fine. If people opt-in to follow those brands, also fine. No harm to everyone else.
I think the explanation is satisfactory, but how often, if at all, do other components of such projects change, up until lift off? I imagine engines and other propulsion parts won't be upgraded much after the original spec, even if such components even remotely followed the same curve of improvement as digital chips do. But what about other types of sensors used by the rover? What is the most recent piece of tech used by the rover?

In any case, it's kind of surprising that by 2004, NASA engineers wouldn't have proposed a solution that anticipated vast improvements in digital sensor technology, so that something, in 2009-2010, could be "dropped in" (relatively speaking, not literally) as a replacement.

Of course such a design feature is going to take way more planning and resources than it would for the holiday consumer camera lineup...but a) this is NASA, some of the best of the best engineers. And b) while panning-and-stitching is always a solution, doesn't that have additional operational risk of its own? Additional panning requires additional mechanical movement and attention to moving parts.
2004 technology aside, this is called the "Good Enough Factor". Obviously every super geek at NASA wants an 20 MP camera with full zoom,100 year lifetime, 3d, blah blah blah. But, they are working in very exact specifications and budget. So, you have to opt for the option that satisfies the Good Enough Factor.

What will get us closest to what we actually want, without totally breaking spec and screwing with the time and monetary budget.
What exactly do you mean by "originating from GNOME"?

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xfce4-panel/

I can't find anything GNOME-related here, unless you are talking about GTK (which you probably would already have on your system if you want the xfce-panel).
Control telephone calls from the browser
It beyond that though, a lot of it down to the sports themselves and the way they're structured.

Look at swimming - if as a country you're great at swimming there are a boat load of medals you can win. Great at football or hockey on the other hand... two in each,- the men's event and women's event.

And that's before you get into sports that aren't even there - India would be in with a solid shot at a cricket medal but it's not an Olympic sport.

And because different countries have access to different facilities, different participation and interest levels the cultural differences that dictate these things can have a major impact.

Watching the Olympics has been great but while interesting, I'm not sure how much you can really learn from this sort of analysis.
A superscalar machine should still be able to benefit from loop unrolling by issuing the instructions for multiple iterations in parallel (though this is more hardware-dependent than I like to think about when coding). The rollback machinery in branch speculation hardware can only handle a limited number of branches, so a loop with a very small body running on a machine with a very deep pipeline could spend a lot of time waiting on confirmations of correct branch predictions.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Do you want a webmail system that allows you to access multiple email accounts? Or do you want a ready made service that allow you to check various email accounts? I believe both gmail and hotmail will gladly accept your account credentials and check your other email accounts?

Or did you want a html5ish web app that stores your email in your browser, and talks to imap and pop3 servers ?
Gauss: Nation-state cyber-surveillance meets banking Trojan
The mast camera is actually two cameras with zoom of each camera fixed at two different values:

http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/Mastcam/

James Cameron lobbied to make zoom lenes for the cameras so they could be set at the same zoom level to create stereo pairs for 3D images.

JPL had "problems designing the lens without using wet lubricants which would require battery-sapping heating"

Difficult trade-offs must have been made everywhere - who knows where that extra battery power went that the zoom lens gave up.
That's just a mobile app for Steam. You can't play Steam games on Android yet, but that may be the real objective for the Steam-on-Linux project.
Great idea. I built something similar to this for myself. My company has a full cafeteria and Aramark (the co that runs our kitchen) posts the nutritional info on the web. Quick tool to scrape the nutritional information into a DB and it kicks me out a solid meal for the day everyday. I'm trying to incorporate a little logic so that it learns what my favorites are and adjusts its recommendations accordingly.
What's the process for selling something like this without FDA approval? Do you need a special disclaimer? Is there more to it?
Here comes Offbeatr, the Kickstarter for porn: Why you should take a look
Let's see what we can do to address these issues, 1) get a hosting company outside the US, and that is hardened and resilient enough to shrug off frivolous C&D letters. 2) get a PO BOX address, or just use a mail forwarding service outside California so you can make money on the affiliate program again. Just look at the grey area sites (Torrents) to see how it is done.
Sounds like org-mode, except it is free and open source with tons of great add-ons. MobileOrg for iOS which is also open source.
Show HN: We just launched our new realtime photo widgets
Few steps closer to nanolathing :).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanolathe
There's a slightly creepy (unacknowledged) clone of Things for Windows. I can't recommend it though. When I tried it at my previous job it wasn't as capable or well designed as the original.

http://codea-dev.com/gtd/
I've been reading the comments on Twitter and Facebook by book authors that wanted this site shut down. What's surprising is that even if they're convinced the site wasn't hosting their books and was sending people to Amazon, they're still against it -- they feel they agreed to allow people to lend their ebooks to friends and family, but not to people they met through a lending club website.
The dastardly Error 491!
I don't know about his assertion that suburban sprawl will revert to farm land. That would be quite the undertaking. I've had a garden in my front yard since 2008. I've learned a lot over four years about how to grow vegetables. I would hope that we could take the common areas in these sprawling suburban neighborhoods and convert much of it into community run gardens, chicken coops and pig farms. That would make much more sense to me.

Also,

>What is peak oil going to do to population carrying capacity?

>I've heard mass food production is very dependent on synthetic fertilizers made from natural gas. How long before peak natural gas affects food production capacity?

>How big of a mess will the grid become when we have a bunch of electric cars on the roads?

>Without a substitute for oil-powered automobiles, just how much higher will the unemployment rate go, and how much civil unrest will that cause?
For oracle db, we sometimes take partial db dump from prod. into dev/test environment. But this is at my work where we have specialized DBAs.
Everyone knows Gabe worked for MS, right? He had a stellar career there before he quit one day to start valve. No way he sells to microsoft. There is no positive aspects for the company, the owners, or the employees.
Please. The quality of images from the MastCam will be sufficient for the plebs.
Better uptime for long running Java applications
Does a natural gas engine work similar to a gasoline engine?
It seems to me that Mayer is just trying to create her own Google. The issue here is that while it's all well and good to improve email and search, and that should be done, there are much more important things to be done. Reinvigorating Flickr and focussing on giving the little talent that remains there latitude to make great things should be higher on the list.

In my mind, Yahoo has lost already. It's in the bin with Myspace and Aol. So I don't think that Mayer can pull it out of there by refreshing Yahoo Mail and search. But let's see what she can do.
We just launched our new realtime photo widgets, enabling anybody to embed live pictures on their site, together with a new site. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
(I'm the co-founder of Skylines).
"I must confess I've grown to love my own bad judgment"

This quote is amazing. I see myself in it.
Unfortunately it wouldn't be an easy task to even come close to disrupting EA. Especially in the sports genre. They own way too many exclusive contracts with leagues. And there are really no indie developers that can afford to pay rights to any sports leagues for team / player names.
I suppose we should throw out our TV's while were at it
Teajs : Your cup of server-side JavaScript. Formerly known as v8cgi.
> A useful set of C++ and JS libraries, allowing the use of JS as a server-side (possibly HTTP processing) language. Basic functionality includes IO, GD, MySQL, Sockets, Templating, FastCGI and Apache module.

> Before 18. 7. 2012, TeaJS was known as "v8cgi".
Hope similar tangible controllers make it for other top games as well.
Prognosticator - A Java Framework for building Machine Learning models
> Police say Dotcom posed "low threat." Dotcom says they beat him anyway.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/helicopters-guns-...

You can see the video in that article too.
The problem I see with Stack Exchange is that they are too highly ranked as a site in Google which means that the rubbish pages show up highly ranked.

A very common experience for me is to be searching for a solution to a problem. Follow a link to Stack Overflow to find a page where somebody has asked the question and been told they are asking the question in the wrong place.
Peter Thiel's College Dropouts: How's That Working Out?
Not unless you can prove they were lying and acting in bad faith. It's not illegal to defame someone based on a falsely held but reasonable belief.
The best thing was a post by John Carmack. It had a "edited by <some SO poweruser>" next to it ...
Were you online around, say, 1993? That was when the reality of the terrible non-performance of internet advertising really hit home -- the performance of most internet ads beyond below abysmal unless you used the most egregious of tactics (popups, popunders, etc).

Doubleclick -- the nefarious agent of evil -- essentially single handedly changed that by building up user profiles by tracking, with which they could individualize ads to a great enough degree that performance was somewhat useful.

What I described isn't hyperbole at all -- the actual industry already went through this.
Cloud – It’s About Flexibility
Why did you keep reading? If you weren't getting the value out of HN you wanted, why not just stop reading that thread and move on?

All -isms are charged topics, and sexism is especially so in this community. It was a fairly respectful discussion around those things. It got fairly tangential, but that's when I just stopped reading.

You can go to bed today knowing that you've done nothing to make this community any better--just pollute it with more on that topic instead of keeping it contained.
The "naysayers" as you say, bring up a lot of valid points that have nothing to do with the OUYA's ability to raise kickstarter money so this will probably not silence anyone.

If anything, the money raised only proves the fact that over 60k people jumped in on the bandwagon of a non-existent console with no controller design that plans to ship in an almost unrealisable timeframe.

I want people that try bold things to succeed as much as the next guy but my (and others') concerns about the OUYA are far more elaborated than their ability to raise money.
I don't think that anyone doesn't want it to succeed. There are a lot of valid reasons as to why this can easily fail. No one is saying, "You know what, screw that Ouya company." They are merely saying, "You know what, Ouya looks pretty cool, but how are they actually going to solve problem Foo and Bar?"
So quick things I noticed reading the Article

1. There are still places in the US where our _current_ standards are world class ( boston is given as an example )

2. This quote
""" The first draft, released in May, explicitly included evolution and climate change. A second draft will be available for comment this fall. """

Why, why as your drafting standards for something that could help all americans do you intentionally politicise it. You have now turned this from something everyone would agree with ( We need to educate our children better ) to something that people will draw up battle lines off of. I understand that people see the denayal of these two aspects as a marker of an anti-science mindset, but the solution is not to just draw the line in the sand and use the tynnary of the majority as a hammer to force your changes through.

Prediction, this will turn political and nothing profitable will get done and a majority of america will continue to see its education standards fall.
This isn't really a hack (I wasn't that smart). My earliest memory of playing round with computers was at primary school when I was very young, it asked me to enter my name so I typed in 'poo'. I then showed my friend and he laughed and hit his fist onto the keyboard really hard and the computer froze with the word 'poo' frozen onto the screen.

I got into big trouble as the teachers thought I'd crashed the whole computer, they shouted at me pretty hard!

I still think it's quite funny to enter your name as 'poo'.
> they feel they agreed to allow people to lend their ebooks to friends and family, but not to people they met through a lending club website.

They're probably just going by what they feel is 'normal' with "real books", which isn't an entirely unfair starting point.
Touch influences social judgements and decisions
The details on how they built cameras (in 1980 no less) to capture and transmit data in an environment of 100atm and 400+ degrees Celsius are really interesting! http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
The internals are essentially identical.

The fuel system needs to be adapted to handle the natural gas though. Looking around, it appears that there are vehicles on the road that can switch at pretty much the push of a button.
You may kiss the bride and update the Scrum board
Another random question: In pictures like this: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/800px-Op...

the rover is in a clean chamber, with the staff wearing suits. Why is the clean chamber needed for assembly?
After Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu : Gauss the most recent cyber-weapon
>47126 Ouya

>7755 Ouya + Controller

I thought that sounded odd. All have a controller, the second is 'limited edition brown'.

As for costs.. i am guessing they will probably make an order for 100k? (They have the cash, plenty of time for more pre-orders, and surely expect to sell some after launch, and they are tiny so easy to store). At those quantities my guess for a cost breakdown; SOC; $15, nand $3, wireless radios $6, case $5, power $4, controller $10, battery $2. So i think $50 is realistic, they will need FCC certification etc. Keep in mind they are (planning) making them for almost 9 months out, tegra 4 will no doubt be out, nand prices will be lower, tiny case, low power, cheap looking controller (sorry).
Unless they are in the UK. The libel laws in the UK are pretty crazy where you need to prove that the statements are true.
I personally stop reading anything whenever I read "M$". Like, I literally did not read the last half of your post.
Woah, let them actually make the thing and bring it to market before you write them off. It's grossly unfair to compare their fundraising efforts to the total sales of established console games... At this point, anyway.
When switching to metric (or perhaps as a separate setting, I'm not sure what European dietary reporting requirements are like), please change from calories to kilojoules. :-)
Isn't it just called LendInk? Like, ink that you put on paper?

And yeah, it's a shame. Obviously the authors didn't realize what they agreed to (or at least the implications of that). They should have some action taken against them for false DMCA notices.
Doesn't everyone have stories like this?

I remember when my parents (in Michigan) got a call from Norway after 14-year-old me owned a bunch of some large ISP's nameservers and proceeded to launch broadcast amplification attacks against a bunch of IRC servers.

I guess now that the Internet is for normal people, stories like this are news again.
Sigh. Circa 1991-95, when SCO was a real UNIX company -- revenues of $200M/year, the most popular vendor of UNIX for i386, not suing anyone -- I worked in techpubs with the group doing core OS development. There go some interesting memories.

(The SCO we all know and hate is actually the rump of Caldera, a Linux vendor established around 1995 with capital from Ray Noorda, based in Utah. Caldera got into the habit of litigation by buying the rump of Digital Research -- inventors of CP/M -- and inheriting their lawsuit against Microsoft for locking Windows 95 down so it wouldn't run on DR-DOS. They cleaned up to the tune of around $500M, but still burned through their capital without overcoming SuSE or Red Hat, at which point they bought most of SCO (the rest became a middleware vendor) and tried to do it again. Only this time they picked on IBM and Novell, and the rest is history ...)

(Did I say "hate"? That's four years of my resume that's a toxic exclusion zone, thanks to those shysters ...)
Freddie Mac's Chief Economist on Housing Recovery
Almost everyone who uses a spreadsheet wants to do basic arithmetic in it, though.

Look at the demo video on the site. There's a list of expenses and dollar costs. But you can't automatically sum them? Anyone familiar with spreadsheets would consider that a pretty fundamental feature.
Legal identifiers in Java
> Also why on earth they adopted the Kickstarter model instead of the Pinboard.in model is beyond me.

I would derive value from pinboard if I was the only subscriber. The same cannot be said for a social network like app.net.

I joined Twitter in September 2006, but I didn't start really using it until December 2006 when some friends and colleagues signed up.
I think the "-20" is on every Amazon affiliate link.
Not a bad idea imo. Just get a big PC screen:)
A Slicker Scala Stack: Q&A with Martin Odersky
Back when I was hacking on the iPod Linux project (alternative OS for classic iPods) there was a guy (normalperson) working on optimising the FLAC decoder to run as efficiently as possible on the SoC's ARM7TDMI. IIRC he used Duff's device to squeeze a small amount of juice out of various tight loops.

Then again, we were using an ancient version of GCC which didn't have great optimisation for ARM.

Sorry, I've just realised this doesn't really answer your question.
The "Work" Trap
It's priced fairly as far as paid software goes. Omnifocus is $40 and used to cost more than $50.

It's certainly a bargain compared to a $10/month service like Flow.
The "cute" toolkit by trolltech
is typically spelled Qt or qt

QT usually refers to apple's QuickTime.
And yet a major part of his point was that "discussion" is not enough. If someone presents facts in a way that causes the person they are responding to, to almost inevitably ignore everything they've said, then they've wasted their time (aside from generating fleeting feelings of smug superiority).

It's funny how easy it is to lose sight of that (I've certainly done it before). A discussion is only a discussion when information flows between two parties, not when it is is broadcast into the void.
Interesting stuff to think about but very poorly written and light on content and analysis.
Energy density per unit of weight of natural gas is in fact about 15% higher than the gasoline. The problem is compression, but not a big problem really, just about any car can be switched to use natural gas aftermarket, with some loss of engine power, but improvement in engine life span btw.

Overally, i feel these concerns of 'peakers' are nonsense, the free market will help switching for other sources of energy, and science and technology already brought us to the point where it is possible, it's all about scaling now.
Why are they in black and white?
For some reason I never paid much attention to the phone bills. I was long distance from every BBS, but I had an after school job and mom made me pay every month. That is until the $1200 bill (this was 1987) arrived. My modem got put away until I could pay off the bill, and we never did tell dad about that. I blame it on the Hayes 1200bps modem, it made it sooo much easier to redial busy BBS's than the Atari 830 modem I started out with.

For a while there the first program I wrote for a new computer was a War Dialer. Just like everyone else who had seen War Games.
WARNING: Careful with upgrading. My app does not start at all anymore, crash report is crashing even if I try to send or do not try to send it.

Things initially crashed when converting my DB, I am not sure yet if that is recoverable. Fortunately I had a iOS backup - hope that helps.

Anyway - I suggest backing up before upgrade, and wait for a 2.0.1! :-)
Thanks for your last sentence, i will quote you in the future when describing the Maemo/Meego debacle.
Why Bad Programmers Still Get Hired
Hewlett-Packard’s Deal-Making Missteps
Very impressive! If I were Google, I'd buy the company immediately. With Google's backing, they could go into production with more speed, maybe even using the Nexus Q's USA-based manufacturer. I think once they've release the first Ouya, Google should start working on putting in more Google TV and Nexus Q features.
Reusability and NIH
You also need to think about the risk.

The chances of a problem with newer technology may be small, but the impact of that risk (that you've gone all the way to Mars and your camera doesn't work) is HUGE.

Everything on that vehicle will have been reviewed, tested and retested and retested again all of which takes time. You don't just throw something new on there at the last minute and launch.
MDN: Cool URL tricks
I love this kind of stuff. Keep it coming!