skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a mission designed to bring back a small amount as a baseline for bringing back a large amount is ridiculous, I agree. If I drive from Chicago to New York to pick up a piece of mail, you might say that one piece of mail is $3000/oz. But I don't have to spend much more to pick up a couple thousand piece of mail; I've already spent the money on the car. Adding maybe a trailer and the marginal increase in gas, you end up with... UPS. They don't deliver one package at a time.

Assuming the launch costs are the same or slightly more, how much extra will it cost to attach a rocket to an asteroid and slowly push it back to Earth orbit? I would wager that the engineering costs would be exceedingly more than the marginal cost of hardware/fuel. Couple that with keeping the resources in orbit and building new ships off-planet, economics of scale will easily take care of the cost issue.

One asteroid mentioned in Planetary's plan had more platinum than existed in the entirety of Earth. It's hard to imagine they wouldn't make money from that.
This article isn't laying out a coherent argument for Assange's extradition; that's not its point. The point of the article is to catalog common misconceptions about the legal issues arising from the Assange drama. The "courage" of Ecuador in offering asylum to Assange is one of those misconceptions.
That obviously ignores inflation. Microsoft's peak of $619 billion in 1999 would be about $851 billion in 2012 dollars [1]. As such the word valuable is out of place there.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
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That being the case, what does it matter what country Assange is in? If it's all the same be he in New Zealand, Sweden, or the UK, shouldn't he be required to face charges in Sweden?
Those are essentially ESR's original, canonical examples of "bazaar" projects. They're not middle-of-the-road. They're precisely what he meant by "bazaar".
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See the car in action here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRBCbMy_Tw0
I don't even know if I want to try it without seeing a demo or at least a product tour.
First off, the 100MM was a total expenditure across several airports, for multiple aspects of their security systems. It was not all spent on the fence perimeter system at JFK.

JFK is a complex airport, I'm not aware of the specific length of the perimeter they are covering there, but it's likely between 8 and 15 miles of perimeter fence line. You need something with a high degree of reliability and false alarm immunity to make this work. This is especially true because the fact is that the probability of a real terrorist incursion is pretty low. So, the guards aren't going to stay actively engaged with reviewing alarms for very long if essentially 99.9% of what they see are all false alarm/no-action events.
MT4 Account Copier application is ready for download, C# source code included
It will be part of TaskUp.com, just another feature
>Which will be great, but this isn't the only project using MS-PL.

It's certainly one of extremely few I've ever come across, and it's the only one which pertains to component/framework code like opensubdiv that I've seen, which is usually not GPL licenced either but rather uses permissive licencing like BSD/MIT.

>And if the GPL didn't include its "strong copyleft" text, there wouldn't be an issue.

That's the whole point of GPL, to keep the source code open. Just like the whole point of MS-PL is to serve proprietary needs while still employing the reciprocal nature of GPL.
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Phantom of the Floppera - Toccata & Fugue on 4 floppy drives
Cargo on fire explodes in the Atlantic Ocean on July 14th
Horse and Rider: Following Design(UX) Principles
That's not extradition, that's extraordinary rendition, an extrajudicial process. It's always illegal. And while it's a worrying thing, it would be very odd if that was an option on the table for Assange, if only because they could have done it before, and can still do it just as easily from the UK, or actual Ecuadorian soil for that matter, than from Sweden. Assange is too much of a high profile target for renditioning to do anything but backfire.
I follow the guidelines quoted below. I use an old electric kettle: not very fancy, you just plug it in and it boils the water. There's no temperature control settings, but there's no need: the water comes out about 92C, which is just right. Note that 175F=80C is not hot enough, it's "supposed" to be over 90C. But try it for yourself a couple of times and see if you can tell the difference.

I use a plastic pour-over filter and a manual burr grinder by Kyocera, which costs around U$25. I use coffee ground in the same day or in the previous day. In my experience this is what makes the biggest difference.

I usually buy beans at an import shop that has good turnout, so I know the beans are fresh. But last time I ended up buying at Starbucks and it was... awesome. Really.

If you follow these three guidelines and do nothing
more, you will enjoy coffee better than you can find
in most specialty coffee shops:

1. Buy only whole-bean coffee roasted within the last
few days.
2. Grind it fresh, just before brewing.
3. Brew it in a French press or a pour-over filter using
fresh water, off the boil.

http://blog.moertel.com/pages/coders-guide-to-coffee
I'm on chrome as well. OSX? Windows? Linux?
have you read it somewhere in the news ?
"Many geeks have had horrible, humiliating, and formative experiences with ostracism, and the notion of being on the other side of the transaction is repugnant to them"

If you think being bullied and abused removes the possibility of them feeling comfortable being bullies and abusers, you have issues with reality.
Yes, it's quite a bit like that old saying about pornography "I know it when I see it". But that hardly changes the point that there is no reform that can both prevent such suits and protect our interests as consumers.
Nice work. In the first example, I would put the From and To input boxes directly aligned with the corresponding calendars. Right now, with those inputs being aligned into a right column, they look like a totally different option
2GB per node - not enough IMHO (at least for the use I was thinking of ).
At This Camp, Kids Learn To Question Authority (And Hack It)
This article just seems like a rushed and careless attempt at pageviews. I wish people didn't upvote submissions like this.
Chivalry: A FPS Medieval Fighting Game
That url doesn't work for me. Here is the google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dd1yD0u...
It's a good point, but if it's easy to copy how can we solve this problem?
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The fact that OpenBSD put any users and source-code holders in USA in direct violation of USA (stupid!) laws on spectrum access is the context you are missing here.
I completely agree with the Railscasts mention -- I use it and asciicasts (http://asciicasts.com/) which is the text version quite often.

The pro membership pays for itself back right away as you have access to the whole collection of pro and revised episodes he has released to this point.

The docs for ruby and rails both are really helpful too.
http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/
Horacio Pagani is quite a genius - while the article doesn't go into as much detail about how so much more is involved in the creation of the car, Horacio is most definitely the single most important aspect of the inception, creation and production of his cars.

Without his sheer bloody-mindedness I doubt the entire supercar industry as it stands would exist today.
I read ESR's essay. He was protesting how hard GNU makes it for outside contributors such as himself. Somehow the essay got construed as open source vs. closed source, and ESR pivoted to align with the popular interpretation of his essay. I've never read the book (someone would have to give me a really good reason), but I assume it doesn't focus on GNU.

You're calling a ot of people out on using Microsoft as a cathedral example, so I assume you want the original bazaar-vs-cathedral reading of the paper. But if you do that, how can autoconf be a bazaar example, when it's GNU software?
Mostly JNI, plus using our core class to use the java.reflect and discover methods and fields (you can't do it in JNI :/)
I found a little info on Saaspire's blog. [1]

Here's a relevant experpt:

> Sean gives a lot of his time towards helping to organize the local developer community and in particular gets involved with running conferences like DjangoCon. One of the problems he encounters as an organizer is figuring out how well different talks, activities, and events at a conference are performing. Basically, he needed a somewhat accurate idea of how many people were involved and didn’t want to have to do manual counts everywhere. His solution was to provide a service that allowed you to upload a photo and get back a count for the number of people in it. When he shared this idea with me, I thought there might be even broader applications for counting anything (e.g. marketing agencies needing to count SKUs on a shelf or biologists counting birds in flocks). Enter thing counter, a service that lets you upload a photo and request a count of something.

Sounds like you're paying to have someone count the number of X's in your photo.

[1] http://saaspire.com/blog/2012/8/our-lean-product-experiments
Brazilian government have plans to invest in Startups.
Twitter changes provokes anger from developers
I've been wanting to get more control over my brewing. For now I just use my Keurig. I love it, and I know I'll probably get shit from coffee snobs (no offense), but it's good enough to have a quick cup in the morning.
I don't want to be a tinfoil hat conspiracy nut and make unsubstantiated claims here, so I'm a bit hesitant to voice these thoughts.

But legal issues or not: You need to have blind trust in the well-meaning efforts of national governments to believe that there aren't larger forces at work here than Swedish prosecutors wanting to charge Assange with rape. This is not the kind of high-profile violent crime that would lead to an international manhunt through Interpol. It makes me angry when the newspapers keep parroting that "Assange is wanted in Sweden for rape". Obviously this isn't the heart of the issue. Assange is wanted by the most powerful country in the world for revealing military secrets. This is what is really going on, but not many newspapers are as willing to spell this out explicitly.

This is what the "Assange supporters" in this case are saying. Assange is completely justified in fearing extradition to the US, especially since such a small criminal allegation (I'm sorry, but the word "rape" in this case doesn't imply a grave violent offence) has turned into an international manhunt against Assange. I have huge problems believing that the rape charges are anything but a pretext. In the interest of gauging people's opinions, does anyone disagree with this particular point?

Additionally, regardless of what lawyers are saying about the specifics of this case, extraditions are largely politically motivated. There is no central international body or law system governing cases like these, so the choices are usually left to politicians. And really, Sweden has a pretty bad track record with regards to looking after US interests. The case against The Pirate Bay is another good contemporary example of this. The Swedish government could guarantee that Assange wouldn't be extradited, but it would make them look bad in the eyes of the US and others. So clearly they won't.

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It's interesting to see how they saw Facebook in 2004. For them it was a college directory and their biggest milestone was reaching all the schools in US.

Their pitch deck looks mature. It covers all the major points; product, audience profiling, targeting, growth, future plans etc.
There is also this one here that Addy Osmani and others put together. But this one appears to be a little bit lighter weight solution.
http://addyosmani.github.com/jquery-ui-bootstrap/#rangeA
After decade and a half in startups I am of belief that you must teach management to people. Inspirational managers are not born, they are mentored into that. Good management is not common sense, it is learned. If you are new manager, you should take any help you get.
Sometimes I believe, Hacker News should have more of this kind of "self hacking" articles. It may seem more like reddit, but it is surely not.

I normally hate self respect, self development books. I feel they are mostly bullshit. HN main page is a great filter for bullshit so I really like these more.

And thinking about change, I also had the introvert/extrovert change for myself. But this was not just me, my friends helped me a lot. If they were not telling me that I was not a problem, but my attitude is a problem. I would never have enough self confidence and would not ever change.

Sometimes I get more introvert, but I know, this is just because I want to be. And whenever I want, I can change.
This is more indicative of your work environment. That said, this unfortunately happens in a lot of places regardless of age, gender or merit.
A better term is 'formal education'. By learning, you become educated.
I find it odd that the author claims that Gen Y is anyone born 1982 to 1999, and yet that it does not contain herself at age 30.

Given that the author herself stands about a 25% chance of being included in her own definition of Gen Y, she sure seems to hate them.
a) From the looks of things, "make CC=gcc-arm" should just work.

b) It's an X11 window manager. It's not likely to compile with SUA, and I doubt any amount of autofucking is going to change that.
Mostly instrumental stuff. Some Dub, electronica that sort of thing. Lyrics usually distract but sometimes they are ok if the music is smooth. This is the stuff that has been in rotation for me lately:

http://northatlanticdrift.bandcamp.com/album/canvas
http://seaoleena.bandcamp.com/album/sea-oleena
http://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-rarities
http://okamusic.bandcamp.com/album/half-lazy-half-crazy
http://trinityroots.bandcamp.com/album/true
And most of the Ultimae catalogue:
http://ultimae.bandcamp.com/
Railscasts.com

Railstutorial.org

The Rails 3 Way

Rails 3 Antipatterns

guides.rubyonrails.org

It's probably best to start with the absolute basics, just to make sure you don't miss anything. Even if you just skim through them.
NYC’s Third Tech Campus, at Old Brooklyn Navy Yards Hospital, Unveiled
It's on my end - sorry, stylesheets called from github are not loaded, as github's blocked at my work. Sorry for the false alarm. But I would imagine others would be in the same boat, so perhaps move the stylesheets over to your server, at least for demo day? ;) Good luck! I'm rooting for you.
Works for speech too, so I'd summarize it as "kids lacks interfaces". A neuroscientist said there's an adult/infant impedance mismatch, that caused wrong theories to develop. Kids would fail repetitive logic tests because asking the same question twice would be interpreted as being wrong so they tried another answer which made them look random. * sigh
A Startup is the Founder’s Thesis (#leanstartup)
Kim Dotcom's situation isn't that unusual. To whatever extent law enforcement overstepped their bounds, due process will eventually prevail. He's still in New Zealand after all.
Born in 1984, became a parent at 20, went to tech school at 21, graduated in 2009 (just in time for the recession, yay) uprooted family & moved to northeast for work, lived with inlaws a while, worked worked hustled & worked to stay afloat during recession, now I have a pretty good job where I work from home 3 days so I can live outside the city. My point? Stop saying we're all a bunch of lazy spoiled brats!!

Guess what? I'm a "gen y"er and it drives me nuts to see my peers pushing 30, directionless and spinning their wheels at shitty food service jobs.

I understand there's a legitimate trend and it's reasonable to describe it as such, but as one commenter pointed out re: "whole generation of free loving hippies", these sorts of narratives are just the result of journalistic laziness and don't reflect the nuance of reality in a meaningful way. It's notable that the author removes herself from the "gen-y" group, apparently to make it easier to lambaste them. :)
Cross-Domain Browser Window Messaging in HTML5 & Javascript
Refusing to use one's phone to access information during a conversation is not necessarily Luddite (not that you said it was).

In modern architecture after the boisterous 1920's when design was seeking to incorporate the concept of the machine and industrial life into our domestic living, designers found themselves in the 30's longing for more organic expressions. Life had changed. The economy had crashed and values shifted.

Just because technology is available does not mean it is always what people want or even that people will use it to its utmost capacity. Sometimes we just want to hang out.
That looks like a standard advertising pitch deck that you'd expect to see from any large publisher in the last year or so. Quite impressive for a college student in 2004.
How does a shameless "knock-off" hurt consumers? I own a knock-off Rolex and I enjoy it just fine.
How Many Of Your Followers Are Fake?
Been a while since I was heavily involved in high-density data centers... How does that work with traditional hot aisle/cold aisle layouts? Seems like you'd need to adjust the cooling to have an air channel up the middle of the rack?
Ignoring the metaphor for a while, if I'm 16 years old and a smiling guy comes up at me after a dive to tell me that I did a good job, I'm not sure if I'd feel so encouraged. At 12, maybe. At 22, sure. But at 16 years old? No way. Get away from me, old man.
I hate this fact. Not because the internet is in peril of going down, or because it's not convenient (of course it is) - but because we're confusing access to information with knowledge.

Access to information will tell you a number, or an answer, or even give you an amount of text about something. But knowledge lets you understand the bigger picture - how something came to be, or why.

At some point we become the needle on the gramophone, rather than the record. All we can say is what we've heard or read. It's the opposite of thinking, and it makes me worry.
Fifty Shades Generator
The Fifty Shades Generator is "a breakthrough in erotic fiction" !
looks like a good idea. i could use something like this for native mobile apps.
Show HN: Fixing common Unicode mistakes with Python â€” after they've been made
Looks nice, but I prefer hipmunk.com's date range selector. It doesn't require a start date picker and an end date picker. You select two dates and it knows the range.
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Aeropress with local beans when I just want to make a single cup. If making more coffee for multiple people, the standard Bodum french press comes out. All water temperature coming from a water kettle/boiler with temp control usually set at 195.
Language is a wonderful, complex, irritating thing. The same words in the same language meaning two different, completely context-sensitive things. The same word being used in completely different ways. Not being able to describe the use of a word without long, protracted arguments giving multiple examples of the usage. Even in the same county, the same language is used differently based on geographical region.

It amuses me to hear a US citizen use words and pronunciations I know are from the UK, just due to exposure to the BBC. In the US, Hyundai is pronounced "hun-die" or "hun-day", but I have a coworker who is very much an American who pronounces it "high-un-die" because the only time he hears the word is when watching Top Gear.

The Internet makes it difficult to tell which dialect the author is speaking, spawning these arguments and fostering communication between people 3000mi away from each other. That's a wonderful thing. Now if only I could figure out what a curry is and why everyone seems to love it over there.
The software that replaced Spaces in Lion is so painful to use that I just don't use virtual desktops on OSX any more. I basically only moved to Lion because Snow Leopard would not work on my new machine.
Yes, but there are plenty of times that younger workers come up with what they think is a brilliant idea. In reality, it's the same broken idea that other people have come up with before and it's already proven to not work. Just because you have just now come up with the idea doesn't provide any more merit to it.
The print version works for me, and it has all three pages:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/175586/cliff_bleszinsk...
Functions, Debugging, and Logic (Python in 30 Days - Day 9)
YC S12 companies - 56 and counting!
> Our strength comes from that desire to not be bored, so we come up with creative solutions to bypass them.

Wasn't this the war cry of Generation X? The Millennials are very similar, they just seem to get a bad rap for the entitlement part - whether its real or imagined.
@insickness, i agree with you that patent of shape is weird. but, is iphone and galaxy really indistinguishable? they are different size, operating system, logos and even buttons are different. only similarity i can find is that they are rounded rectangle and color black when they are turned off and if you look from far distance they both looks like tv remote control,,,
Clarifying the Saga pattern
Great idea! Love it!

What is your target market?

I think it might be a good idea to try changing the message a little because I don't think technology savvy people are the one which are willing to pay. I have in mind recruiting, CIOs in big corporations, sales, etc. And in that case you can raise the price :)
Which stops being helpful after year 4 : )
You should probably have used an example where you weren't smugly wrong, it WAS true at one point.
What it feels like to become rich
NaturalMotion product is called endorphin http://www.naturalmotion.com/products/endorphin/

When released it was mind blowing. It still is somehow
With our new Bootstrap guidelines, we're trying to encourage activity in the upper-left, lower-left and lower right quadrants, and limit certain use cases that occupy the upper-right quadrant.

Nearly eighteen months ago, we gave developers guidance that they should not build form elements that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter Bootstrap experience. And to reiterate, that guidance continues to apply today.
Put 10 developers in a locked room and they would eventually come up with the same idea. Just because you thought of it first does not give you exclusive rights on elementary things. Also, you probably copied someone at some point anyway. Ideas does not simply just appear in your mind, you are influenced by everything around you.
Even if we were to throw common sense and reason to the wind and pretend that is even remotely close to the truth, it would in no way explain your behaviour. You outright stated that "the way the world works" is accepting closed source garbage that can not be verified, debugged or fixed. You think the way the world works is compromising security and stability for convenience. And you belittle people who do care about quality, as if it somehow hurts you that such people exist.
I know you meant that as a joke, but I'd imagine one of these really would be an excellent candidate for being turned into a cluster.
So, it took BBC 30 years to make a news story on this guy just because it was relevant to today's issues?
I've been using the cold brew method for a couple months now and prefer it to the traditional drip coffee method, at least. It's a more involved process for the initial brewing, but once you have a large batch of concentrate, you can have hot or iced coffee in seconds for a week or more. And I really enjoy the flavor I've gotten from this method: http://www.coldbrewingcoffee.net
"... explaining that marketer’s could target by sexual orientation or even by dorm." Targeting by your dorm would seem a bit creepy.