skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also have to factor in that the camera needs to withstand take-off, deep space flight for months (hello radiation!), 11g's on re-entry, heat of re-entry and landing. Along with lasting for at least 2 years on Mars with no spare parts in sub-zero temperatures.

There's a reason why they don't send the latest and greatest camera or computer technology into space.
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>It pains me to think what NASA could be doing with 10x more money.

Me too, but pretty much it all ends going to Lockheed anyway whether it comes via the DoD or Nasa. I don't mean that conspiratorially either, even JPL people joke that JPL stands for "Just Procure Lockheed". The subcontractors rarely get mentioned in Nasa PR, but Nasa is really a whole bunch of different project offices spread over a few campuses with an enormous ecosystem of subcontractors.

I expect a vertical, strongly-led skunkworks style structure with guaranteed funding for several continuous years (vs "start working on this now but we can't promise we won't change our minds in 12 months" which causes a lot of subcontractors to not properly commit to new hires or other big capital commitments, and having to spread all the work evenly among different states) would probably yield 10x as much for exactly the same money.

Regardless of all that organizational arm-chairing (though I work in this space, hoho), Curiosity is bloody fantastic and I am very excited to follow its progress over the next year at least.

Camera chat: fewer bigger pixels = less ccd noise - remember Mars further away from the Sun than Earth, and so it's generally darker. Take an Iphone 1 photo of things at twilight to appreciate some of the difference!
And you wonder why almost the entire world bar US politicians hates Israel. Not Jews. Israel.

Illegally putting "facts on the ground" through settlements is a big deal to the Palestinians and it's a big deal to everyone else. It needs to stop.
That image of Venus is wonderful, thanks! I hadn't seen it before. I, too, think this is fascinating stuff. Another cool image comes from Titan, one of Saturn's moons, which we managed to land a probe on.[1]

[1] http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_0.html
I believe it's Alt + right button with XFCE/XFWM. Alt + middle button is GNOME (or Compiz, perhaps?).

Either way though, once you get hooked on moving/resizing windows this way it'll be hard to go back!
ME! Christ, I hate the app store. They don't need to do much to improve on it. Also, part of the reason that you can't imagine it is because Steam is currently a games network. Who knows how people might perceive steam in a year? Also, they may make money simply by offering the excellent software that isn't sandboxed: Alfred, Sourcetree, etc.

Plus, I will never release on the app store unless I don't plan on making any money on it. It's simply developer-unfriendly: no trials, no paid upgrades - it's as if Apple is trying to kill off using the Mac to make a living of selling software and force developers into subscription/freemium models.
If this was real, would you?
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The solution I propose is just to leave everything the same and have browser vendors make a compatibility view which will increase the size of the text and images.
Full disclosure, I had nothing to do with the show, but was curious about the HN communities thoughts about implants like this.
"Finally we’re inserting the image markdown tags into the page using the insertAtCaret() function. This too is a custom jQuery plugin called jquery.insert.js. It’ll make sure that any text inserted is placed after the blinking caret."

Looks like it shows up wherever your cursor is
E-Tailor Startups Challenge Amazon in $200 Billion Market
To add a reference to your comment (good explanation btw), see the recently posted "Why Valve?" post from Valve's economist which contains more information on their corporate structure and philosophy, as well as links to the employee handbook and such.

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4333578
Dalton stated he will return all the money if he does not raise the full amount.

Now why do I have the feeling that there is going to be a annex to that statement in a few days? He'll probably figure something out that allows him to (be allowed to) keep the money raised.
You can see the reference marker on the panorama. It's on the solar panel to the left of the mast. At the top of the panel is a white disk that looks like if has an old style arcade joystick sticking out of it. Zoom in on the disk and you can see the (now red dust marred) colour calibration indicators on the square surrounding the white circle.
enterprises run on "some other big company uses it".

This is a major coup for Square. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I look forward to the IPO. Square has value.
I wish the airline had been mentioned. I don't think leaving their name out will ensure that the site is improved.

Also it is ironic that we are discussing this on Hacker News.
I sat next to a guy on the bus today who made me realize that if somebody can invent a breath mint that lasts for 24 hours our society will be much better off. And that picture alone in an advertisement could sell a couple million.
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Decent article, but I wanted to add a little extra warning to this:

>One way to do this is to look at past returns and come up with the historical correlation.

Be very wary of historical correlations, at any level. I am old enough (I was in my early teens) that I can remember the screaming of economists during the 1970s stagflation - it was known that you could not have high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. Until we did.
NOAA report: July was hottest since record-taking began in 1895
I haven't found any full resolution examples, but there's a resized sample here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/instruments/cameras/mas...
> sell orders for stock that doesn't exist

naked shorting is only possible if you are a market maker. if you don't have a locate, you can't short the stock.

also, how are you going to put up the margin required to short that much stock?

> If you do it for a prolonged period of time it will destroy the value of the companies' stock

which is something that doesn't affect bruce wayne, because it doesn't matter if the market price of his equity has dropped, he still has the same percentage share of the company, which means he'd still retain ownership.
Better than Jekyll?
It's not self-justifying sophistry. Most things (including software) get invented independently multiple times. I've done it myself. Independent invention invalidates any moral claims to "intellectual property". The massive costs to society mean that we all have to (reluctantly) acknowledge that an "ownership of ideas" can't really be enforced practically. Enforcement of ownership of ideas would entail no civil liberty at all.

I don't write software for a living right now, but I have in the past. Go right ahead and take a look: http://stratigery.com/source.html Take a copy, too. On the house.
I definitely benefit primarily from Dropbox's neutrality. Much as I benefit from the neutrality of lastpass and xmarks. I can use them at home on the latest Mac and Linux, I can use them on personal VPS instances, I can use them at work, even in a fairly locked down network environment.

iCloud is useless at work, and my officemate has switched from SkyDrive to Dropbox for the same reasons. We now both doubly benefit from the wide-ranging accessability and sharability of Dropbox.
That's really no less objectionable, it's still suggesting self-serving dishonest manipulation of people vulnerable to it.
It's amazing how someone can draw conclusions about an entire industry from the amount of errors in a single book, and it's corresponding errata page.

IF book publishing is dying, then that is simply due to a decline in the demand of books, something which I suspect is not subsequently due to typos, but more likely, something a little closer to do with our ever changing interests.
I had occassion to visit the CBS network website to try to find out the topics of 60 minutes show. I got mobile jailed and they tried to have me download a mobile app. So I didn't watch 60 minutes
Sure there's an anger component, but that's a low blow to call it Occupy. First of all, it's not an aimless protest at a "big company", it's anger about the fact that Twitter became a big company on the backs of these developers, but when it comes to monetize, turning into an ad company and shutting any threat to the ad revenue stream down is always the safe bet.

More importantly, it's not just a bunch of ideologues camped out on a lawn smoking weed. Dalton is making an assertion that the only way to make the service that the Twitter developers of 2006, 2007, 2008 signed up for, is to enshrine it in founding principles. This is because inevitably advertisers always outbid users.

Because of this, of course VCs aren't going to pony up the $500k. There's not that much upside for a VC. But that doesn't mean the service doesn't have value, it just means that value can't be captured the same way a billion-user free service can. However, the promise of stability means that for developers it is much less risky to build against, and they can create much more value. Some of that value maybe captured, some of it not, but just because no one is making a buck doesn't mean there isn't a tremendous amount of value being created.

Finally, the Kickstarter thing is critical to this project because it validates the idea itself. If a VC writes a check that proves nothing, but if 10,000 users promise $50 that is a critical mass right there. It's sort of like how public radio members drive the big contributions. No one is going to pay $50 for an empty social network, but if there are 10,000 quality people there you know there will be at least something interesting on day one.
I'd argue that spreadsheets are applications that allow for organization and analysis of tabular data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet).

This clearly has some limited organizational functionality, but no analysis (that I can tell, at least.)

I think the argument about what is or is not a spreadsheet is pretty much semantics and nothing else, but I think it might be a bad move for Grid to call itself a spreadsheet app (note: I do not know if Grid calls itself a spreadsheet app) since the vast majority of consumers are going to equate that with Excel or Numbers.
User-base. Millions of people already have Steam but don't regularly use any other marketplace.
I wonder how many Buckie High alumni are on HN....
From the FAQ:

Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

Yes.
Its not just gabe's thoughts that matter- Many startup founders forget that as you have people who work for you. He has a responsibility to the people working for him- If he gets a offer for some ludicrous amount, does he not owe it to his staff to do whats best for them? Im sure most of the staff would be happier with a few million bucks than not.

And what if MS says "We want to buy you, we promise we wont touch you and will sign these docs to ensure you can keep doing things your way" - At that point, its not about morals, its about the fact that not doing something like that isnt fair to those people in the companies who are not yet millionaires, like Newell already is.

In short, if Newell could guarantee that the company would have no changes moving forward and could also get significant wind falls for all his staff, then yes- I expect him to sell. Anything less would be not prudent.

* Nobody knows if MS would be willing to pay as much as would be required to have a outcome like above. I just think that Valve is in the #1 or #2 spot for "Companies we want to buy" at redmond.
Is it really that difficult to fend off a DDoS?
I thought it was interesting to learn about the different ways we get data back from mars. Excerpt from [1]:

The data rate direct-to-Earth varies from about 500 bits per second to 32,000 bits per second (roughly half as fast as a standard home modem). The data rate to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is selected automatically and continuously during communications and can be as high as 2 million bits per second. The data rate to the Odyssey orbiter is a selectable 128,000 or 256,000 bits per second (4-8 times faster than a home modem).

[1] http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/communicationwithearth/...
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I had an optiplex desktop that did not work well. It was a giant pain in the ass to get video working properly, and it would often not wake from sleep.
Dude, I'd say so!
Very very nice. Great job SteliE.

I used to meditate every day, and have fallen off the wagon lately. This reminded me to get back in the practice. That alone was worth it.

I am no entrepreneur (yet) but I think your advice applies well to life in general - it's just a ride - many things that we fret over today won't matter 5 years from now - this, along with "what's the worst that could happen?" can help put many things in perspective.

Congrats on getting married, and your first-born :)
Response to “Never Use Black”
You should get Wendell Pierce as a spokesman
No, penalties for issuing a false takedown. If it actually cost something (even a little something) to claim you own something and try to have it removed, but then it turns out you were in the wrong, it would be taken more seriously.
I have to agree. Despite being a fill-time C# programmer I spent many evenings trying to get something working in WP7. It was far easier (and more fun) to pick-up Java and start android programming.
I speak for myself alone, and the "we" was obviously rhetorical. The parent comment spoke of males in monolithic terms like "masculine identity", and I seized on that. I also never extrapolated my own personal experience onto anyone else, just the totality of my experience, which is all anyone can offer really. So there's really no need for you to project any sort of messianic arrogance on me.

If you have a problem with people speaking in broad terms (this is not what ad hominem means), you might want to reconsider the comment space of a news aggregation website as the avenue for any deep, precise insight into unbelievably complex social issues.
Really? Care to point out the factual inaccuracies?
What app.net can do is offer you as a developer the credible promise that whatever you build on it will not be shut down because it conflicts with business decisions made 1, 5 or 10 years from now.

This of course trickles down to the user, since you are virtually guaranteed that there will be new clients for as long as the service exists. With Twitter you are virtually guaranteed that no new client ideas will see the light of day unless they come from Twitter themselves, and those will all be designed to increase your usage of the service with any increased utility merely serving as the hook.
Really brings home the fact that we have reached beyond the place where life sprung up, and are probably getting ready to move beyond the earth.
And, anything streamed can't be confiscated. You aren't obligated to show a police officer anything not physically on your phone if they're arresting you.
Logically it would seem that the company would provide counsel because at the time of the alleged incident you were conducting business for the company. This is all laymen speculation of course. Any lawyers around?
Huggyface is correct. The pointless mini-review drivel that pops up on these stories belongs somewhere else.
In the meantime, GNOME and KDE have moved on to something else: shiny, full of animations, and resource-hungry. I think it's only natural that some other desktop environment has moved to fill the void where GNOME 2 and KDE 3 used to be. LXDE now fills the place where XFCE used to be. Sooner or later, something else will fill the space where LXDE used to be, etc, etc, and life goes on!
I've never seen a claim from another partner, I think it's first-in gets the claim, then others can dispute the claim. Like I've had a video uploaded by someone else that we own start to go viral, so we upload a fingerprint to get the match, then make a claim against that user-upload, which someone else may have already tried to claim. It's really complicated.
This is probably a bug, and will be treated as such. I wouldn't worry about this one.
At first, I didn't understand why well-networked entrepreneurs, like the founders of Uber and DuckDuckGo, use AngelList.

Now that answer is clear. So many investors use AngelList, that it just opens more doors. Even for the super connected. This is a BIG deal. Proprietary deal flow (read: relationships) defined venture capital success in Silicon Valley. Until now.

Well done AngelList.
Ah, you know him well:

https://speakerdeck.com/u/tanoku/p/oh-youre-so-random
Curiosity First 360 Panoramic Image of Mars
Me. I use Windows and Linux in addition, so a cross-system marketplace would have significant appeal to me. The MAS is mostly a dud to me, whereas I waste oodles of money on Steam.
How are they supposed to do it at the factory if it's some user downloaded app causing the problem?
The highlight of my day is to watch the NASA daily press briefings each day this week.

(1pm EST or 10am PST on all NASA channels)
Great. I'm looking forward to being able to purchase utilities which I can run no matter what OS I'm booting into. It is constantly frustrating to need to separate copies/licenses on core software, like 1Password, etc.
Why are you using a nearly unreadable letter 'k'?
The number of people in the comments who know enough about DNS to put together the phrase "nasa.gov CNAME www.nasa.gov." but not enough about DNS to know why that's a terrible idea is very worrisome.
Personally I think Venus is the more interesting planet to be exploring
There's also redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
We will defintitely do more with structured data.

We thought about doing things besides software and we might eventually but we didn't want the interviews to be too onerous and we drew the line at software for now.

A few people have already strayed and referenced things like exec.
Poor name choice given the twitch response to DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) efforts. [1]

[1]https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html
I'm not sure where you're getting the Dropbox competitor bit.

Steam has had a storage system for game content for a while—this would let you transfer save game files between computers, for example. I didn't see anything in the story which suggests this would be extended to general purpose content.
Coincidentally, I started receding spam from OMGPOP today.

I simply replied: "F*ck Zynga"
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Lived from 1862-1939
President of US Steel Corporation, Bethlehem Steel,
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This is super awesome news for desktop software developers. I would love to publish my product to Steam - it has me lot more excited than publishing to the Windows 8 app store.

Another cool thing about this, if even for Windows users - is that it may mitigate motivations for upgrading to Windows 8. If Steam becomes the most popular, most profitable place to publish Windows apps - and every app is fully compatible with Windows 7 - they will have 'cemented' themselves quite nicely as milesskorpen would say.
Completely unreadable on my mobile device due to multiple popups.
There are already ratios of 1.5, 1.33 and 2.25 in the wild.

See Android
They might have to do some work to become resistant to takedowns, but that's a very long-term deal. Just getting the content off the phone is good for the short term.
Oh boy, the greatest adventure ever and 95% percent of the world's engineers have to watch -and all they can do is root and hope, because they are not american citizens.
Heck, if only there was a new Operation Paperclip [1], people would sign up to become "Nazis".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Looks like something the hardware startups sub-reddit would be interested in.
Earth stops being perfect after a rock hits us. This has apparently already happened more than once, and there's no assurance a breeding population would survive. I agree wiping ourselves out is currently the largest risk, but in the limit, we can always make redundancy with uncorrelated failure modes less risky than a single point of failure.
Depends on the bandwidth. You can use services like CloudFlare for DDoS mitigation, and some hosts provide DDoS protection as well, but all of those services are expensive and WL is broke. Besides, the website itself is just a static collection of links, at the moment. Given that, the value of defending the website against temporary takedown probably doesn't justify the cost of doing so.
That has always been my rational. I save my high contrast in case I need it.
Sounds fun. The problem with elisp, though, is that it's (I am told) not a real Lisp. The info tutorial shipped with Emacs doesn't make me suspect otherwise. Perhaps a few neat elnode examples might help.
"I mean, the fact that Apple has a war chest of tens of billions of dollars in cash - more than the treasuries of many countries - paints a really bleak and hopeless future for Android."

How does stupid bullshit like this actually make it to this website?
I thought Mumble was much more popular? Either way, a Steam-based/integrated voice chat app (i.e. much better than their current voice chat options) would be one of the best Steam features.
It's not exactly a knee-jerk reaction to an isolated incident though. Twitter has been moving in the media company direction for a while now, and with the latest communications you can almost see the "fuck you developers" oozing out from between every line of shmarmy corporate-speak.

Any developer would be a fool now to build a product whose core relies on Twitter's API. And yet the core functionality of Twitter is an incredibly useful base to build on.

With App.net you don't have the volume of Twitter, but on the other hand you will presumably have a much higher signal to noise ratio. It won't be inundated with marketing spam, bot follows, and banal teen banter. And in any case, Twitter was small once too, and people found a use for it. I think a critical mass of 10,000 is definitely enough to enable some interesting apps.
Absolutely. I should've made it more clear, but I'm working on the project.
Twitter hands over user data to NYPD after shooting threat tweet
Yep. I'd argue it's not the same idea, but with such a volume of portfolio companies, some will look similar.
How Coursera, A Free Online Education Service, Will School Us All
i put this together quick as an example: http://i.imgur.com/bNlkY.jpg
Wait, are you saying there's a version of Android somewhere that ships with a web browser which actually specifies its device pixel ratio as a non-integer? I am dubious, since I assume that would force rough anti-aliasing on everything and look like crap.
The Link Between Quietness And Productivity
So.. in case you haven't noticed..

This post is a clever little advertisement disguised as a blogpost/story. The submitter and author are the same person, selling services for moovweb, which solves the issue characterized in the advert.
Heh, google for 'svbtle site:news.ycombinator.com' - there was a lot of drama here when it was released. If you like it so much, you might find its history interesting
You can't claim that links are a contract. At best maintaining links is a courtesy and one you should not rely on.

Having said that I can see why this is annoying and a clear thinking business should allow manual override.
Obama looking to impose CISPA via executive fiat.
A lesson from a businessman in Bali: Compete with yourself
Sure, it's not "pure" black, but his argument is more that the average monitor's #000 text on a #fff background still has too much contrast for comfortable reading.
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