skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AmSat [1] is an organization of ham radio enthusiasts that are also very interested in space and satellites. They've launched a bunch of their own satellites into space that are available for anyone with a ham license to use to communicate. These satellites are usually named /^AO-\d+$/. That's what the AO-40 reference is to.

I don't know anything about the geosync or Mars sats that the GP is referencing. I'm assuming those were proposed AmSat projects that have never been launched.

Edited to add: A ham license is easy (and cheap) to get. I studied for a few hours and paid about $10 at a local testing facility to get my license (KI6BJU). The equipment is a bit more expensive, but I'm not sure how much it costs for a decent setup because I worked in a lab that already had the equipment.

Once you have a license and equipment, you can talk to other people over the AO-sats and download pictures from scientific satellites. I got my license when I worked in a satellite lab, and we used the equipment to download weather photos from NOAA satellites and helped gather data from other scientific satellites like NASA and various aerospace companies and universities. A lot of satellites have some sort of beacon with a public data format that you can decode.

[1] http://ww2.amsat.org/
"a waste of my time and money?"

No, definitely not a waste, but I'm not sure it's an optimal use of those resources. You can try to simply do the minimum to "get your foot in the door" of software development jobs, then take it from there. That minimum is probably taking mostly programming-oriented courses, and asking your programmer friends what else can you study to make you a more appealing candidate. (Not sure I'm qualified to give that advice, but feel free to contact me about that if you want)
What do you mean "accepting counter offers is a bad move"? What would be the point of negotiating then?

Is this referring to a counter offer after threatening to quit, a counter offer during the hiring process, or both?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
Interview with Adam Stacoviak (The Changelog)
>At $25 per picture there must be 40 000 people as excited as you for this project to get funded.

Not really.

Take away all the backers over $1000 (because I notice you complaining about that in another post), scale up the number of backers for every <$1000 level proportionally to reach $1M and it would only take 16,500 people.
I'm not a designer, but I know what I like.

I like my web pages to center on my wide monitor. When I see pages that don't do that, I assume an amateur did the page. However, obviously Blekko is not designed by amateurs. I wonder why they chose to have the page hug the left edge of my monitor.
> driving requires alpha decision-commitment and trust that the gigantic killing machines around you will make room for your bold, assertive self

In the city this is true. I learned to drive on highways and suburban streets, and it was much less stressful. Transitioning to city driving took practice and, most of all, objective-based transport methodology ("I have to be at a client's office in 10 minutes...I'm turning!!").
Some of it might have been bad luck but I didn't really think any of it was. I knew that I was bad at interviewing. I just didn't realize how bad.

My experience is probably more limited than I knew and the area I live in, while having jobs, isn't huge. That added frustration when the same companies had the same job pop up every 3 months (I applied for the new ones every time and never got a call).

I hope that I can prove to this new place I am worth taking a chance on. Just feels good to not have to worry that I am a failure (at least for now).
Having an MS on your resume is worth it for itself, let alone all the extra knowledge you can get.

So the real questions is: can you handle the coursework?

Only you can answer that. If you can pass the degree, and it is from a decent school, I don't see how it could fail to be worth it.
Sure, but I don't think this article is aimed at explaining something to a minority. It's aimed at explaining to the majority what it feels like for those different than them. The point being that minorities shouldn't have to fight for every inch.
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Ask HN: What are most undervalued places for masters in CS around the world?
There are Ivy ones and then there are the famous schools after them. There must more tech schools/ universities all around the world.
We paid 12.5% on private projects, 10% on DP.

Free accounts on Freelancer do pay 10% commission. But that's not the only difference. According to your own page (http://www.freelancer.com/membership/) free accounts only offer you 10 bids PER MONTH, 20 skills, 5 portfolio entries (why would you limit a freelancer ability to showcase his quality?)

So yes, I was happy. I personally feel I rather have someone charging me more and provide me a personal service, than pay less and have to pay more to be able to bid. Meritocracy is what should drive your limits upwards, not money.
Lol, true, true. Everyone who buys one of these things will end up sending them to a landfill soon enough.
Back to the Future of Databases
>1. it's anti-useful for me and

How is it anti-useful? In which way does it hinder anything useful?

>2. while it may be useful for some, it is another clear step toward throwing in the towel on e-mail as a platform for serious discourse.

It is not. It is a buttonbar for selecting pre-categorized mails. It does nothing against email itself and doesn't change its usefuleness for discussions at all.
> it's surprising how often you _don't_ need a debugger in a _functional language_

I disagree. That may be true in Haskell because it's static and the compiler finds a lot of problems.

This isn't true for all functional languages though. I REALLY want a debugger in Clojure code and it's pretty functional*.
The |> looks weird to me. It's the opposite way around to F# (and thus LiveScript). Is that really equivalent to Haskell's $?
> My system is simple: do not sign-up for newsletter
> or notifications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, GitHub,
> etc.) you won't read, unsubscribe anytime you realize
> you don't read the ones you receive, delete emails
> you won't ever need again, archive the ones that are
> nice to keep around but won't require anything from
> you anytime soon, and use filters whenever possible.

If that fulfills 100% of your email wants, awesome!

I've been managing my email fairly well with various hand-rolled filters (which are a pain to update) since the 1990s and I have to say: I still think there's a lot of potential value in what Google is rolling out here.

> unsubscribe anytime you realize
> you don't read the ones you receive,

Again, if it works for you: perfect!

This doesn't work for me.

The reason why is because there are whole classes of emails (notifications, etc) that I do want to read... but only occasionally, and I don't want those classes of emails clogging up my inbox.

Obviously, I can and do manage this myself today with filters/rules/labels/etc. It is totally possible. It is also a pain in the butt sometimes. So I'm eager to see what Google can do here.
Theft is not exchanged. You're completely ignoring the fact that the government is providing things in return.

This gentleman is a Canadian Expat, the government in Canada is not depriving its citizens for nothing in return. The redistribution of wealth is important for an effective society. It protects the 'wealthy' from the uprising of the peasants/proletariat/commoners, hoarding all the wealth does no good to the wealthy—they often lose their heads. So instead they lose a piece of, what they consider, their rightfully earned pie, in exchange for the betterment of all and the stability of a society—along with all its benefits. "Smart indentureship"

Sure, you can argue that what they are providing in return does not equate the amount you're giving them, but guess what: you agreed to live and earn in this society. Good riddance to those who do not see this, but don't be taking what is not yours as the door hits you on your way out—you earned it under the agreements and covenants of the 'System'.

Thanks for the Straw man.
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Among others. They were using them to conduct targeted and dragnet man-in-the-middle attacks in the country for weeks or months before any users spoke up and browsers were patched.
He means, why not just say "minus 10 celsius". Or in print -10c
Ewww. Interesting, but weird to think of 10K year old blood. This guy, Semyon Grigoriev, is somewhat obsessed with Mammoths so I take his reports with a grain of salt but it would be difficult to mistranslate 'blood coming out'
We use lots of photos, check our social profiles. Best.
This is the case for chinese (japanese, despite being from a completely different language family, inherited the system). Digits are grouped by myriads (10^4) instead of thousands (10^3). Accordingly, you would write 10^6 like this: 100,0000
I have definitely heard this. The loss of privilege feels like a loss. And having to do the work to make things more fair can feel like a burden.
That's actually exactly what I was trying to point out. It may be significant practically, or might not, and definitely would be if you were really washing the dishes ;) But in terms of big Oh, they're the same.

If you assume that all of the methods (getSponge, getTowel, wash, dry) do the same amount of "work", ie take the same amount of time to execute, then the first function takes 4d units of time (continuing to use d as the number of dishes). The second takes 2d+2 units of time. We define these as (mathematical) functions in terms of d, which compute the time spent for a given input size:

f(d) = 4d
g(d) = 2d+2

It's possible to prove that both of these function are O(d).

The formal definition of O(n) is:

f(x) = O(n) if and only if there exists some constant c
and some value x0 such that, for all x > x0:
f(x) <= c * n.

It's a way to talk about the growth rate of functions, what people usually mean when they say some algorithm is O(n) is that the function calculating the runtime based on input size is O(n).

This is pretty trivial to show with f and g above, pick c=5, x0=1.

Roughly, you can drop additive and multiplicative constants when computing the "big Oh" of a function. I'm leaving out an awful lot of formal mathematical details here, partly because I'm rusty, but also because all of this is much better presented elsewhere, in numerous algorithms textbooks and courses. (btw it's possible I've made a mistake in the above, for which I hope you'll forgive me)

Lots of people would recommend the big white book from MIT, but I'm fond of "The Algorithm Design Manual" which is less formal and rigorous, and thus perhaps a little better suited to professional software developers who are just brushing up.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

http://www.algorist.com/
New software could have ID’d Boston bomber
New virus called 'threat to the entire world'
Put the screenshots in the Github README - I've found that this is one of the easiest things you can do to get traction with your project. I'm not going to go setup this project before I see what it looks like.
Assuming they'll continue to use slideshare, you can subscribe to their uploads by rss (and possibly convert the rss stream to mail notifications)
Rand built "exaggerated" characters, that's true. Unfortunately the style results in a bunch of cheesy straw men.

The business leaders like Rearden are hard-working, smart, and good looking. The villains are stupid unattractive leeches, or at best weak and cowering pushovers. Nowhere in those books will you find an intelligent argument in favor or utilitarianism or moderate altruism.

Rand was guilty of disingenuous representation of opposing views, which shouldn't be totally excused under the guise of the romantic style.
Well, your employer is definitely treating it like a game.
The problem with this and most similar projects is that I probably don't want all of these defaults, and I don't have time to look through each one. In fact, on average, these defaults are probably worse than OS X's default defaults.

If someone made a simple interface to let me cherry-pick the ones I want, that could be useful.
Amazon is all about e-commerce, and their partners are reporting a 40% adoption rate for new signups? That sounds way higher than facebook's oauth ... if this continues, Amazon could be an awesome platform to build a business on! They also have a credit system now -- and inventory!
One wonders though, his research was shown to be fraudulent but is his skill fraudulent? I mean guy the might be an excellent cell biologist that tried to short cut his way to fame and got caught, or he might be a complete fraud and not even be a passable biologist. Trying to find stuff about the man is difficult through all the articles about his downfall.
"Most Enabled Entrepreneurs Ever?"

Most definitely. At the same time I wonder if alpha personalities were more enabled before regulation and competition were everywhere.

Anyway, I'd like to hear the talk on this portion. The slides are okay but its an interesting discussion and nothing was really said about the implications (except for some examples of people who, because of passion + being enabled, were extremely successful).
Wayland preview on Raspberry Pi
Post doesn't mention how to opt out... -1
Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative?
Agreed. City driving has more stimuli (more turns, more pedestrians, narrower roads) and less ability to correct for mistakes (more one-way streets, more traffic - you can't just pull over in a parking lot, check directions, and turn around).
> Whether or not you change the world is up to the gods.

No. Take some responsibility (and therefore, credit) for your actions.
The headline for that row implies that they're talking about one selected founder of the company.
If they offer well below market rate, they didn't love you. An offer that much lower than what you could expect elsewhere is probably not worth negotiating with, they've already what they value you at.

Obviously this means you need to do your research and have a realistic idea what your skill set is worth. Don't let ego get in the way of that research.
So your complaint is that the ads you see will be more relevant to your interests? Really?
I was taught in early rhetoric and composition classes that it is poor style to include "In my opinion" and other qualifiers in pieces that are clearly rhetorical or opinion based. The repetition is unneeded. In engineering discussions it is very common to differentiate between opinions and knowns. When discussions happen between people who don't agree on these things, someone gets annoyed. The engineers get annoyed when people state opinions as fact and think the other person is making unjustified assumptions. The non-engineers get annoyed and think that the other person is being pedantic.
first thing that popped into my head after seeing this: Other Inbox. I've had a similar feature for years from them, just tosses things in the OIB/xyz labels/folders.

Also how will this work with something like Mailbox app for iphone?
A joke with "tape her and rape her" is not a sincere discussion.

People posting on Facebook is a privilege granted at the sole discretion of Facebook, it's not a right. While I support free speech, it's completely at FB's discretion as to whether or not content is acceptable.

Also, this could help you: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope
> the idea of “online shopping” has only been around for the last 15 years

Along with so, so many ideas that are prolific in web people's every day lives. Its pretty wild if you think about it: industry standards haven't even been set for many of the technologies we use daily.
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The SI unit is "degree Celsius", the original statement looks perfectly good English to me.
My experience is really similar to yours. I just kind of worked both in there...
I do this exact same thing. Works perfectly for me with minimal effort.
I got a curseword-laden request in my inbox that I never hold the mic so close to my mouth again.

Noted, thank you. :)
B612 wants to make a big telescope and put it in an orbit very far from Earth. PR's approach is different - make many small, cheap Arkyd telescopes and take advantage of economies of scale. They don't want to concentrate resources and risk in a single large object.

Building a small satellite is quite affordable, but commercial launch costs are a problem. There are several funded kickstarter projects whose goal is to deploy one or more satellites in orbit for much cheaper than what PR is trying to raise.

People also overestimate the difficulty of finding asteroids. Asteroids are still being discovered by amateur astronomers on Earth. It's estimated that there are millions of undiscovered objects. A big space telescope is an advantage but not a requirement.

other kickstarter projects:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/880837561/skycube-the-first-satellite-launched-by-you

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space
Responsive Web Design Easter Egg
Small revision, the second code line should be:

f a b <| g x y

Just like F# :)
> a big shiny button... that will show me "Promotions" from Google Offers and Zagat

No. It files all your emails that it classifies as promotional but non-spam. That won't include Google Offers and Zagat if you're not subscribed to Google Offers or Zagat (for me, it's mostly events & careers newsletters). It's just an auto-categoriser (a new UI for smart labels), it doesn't invent new emails that weren't there before.

Several people in this thread have already explained this. If you don't believe us, go to gmail and switch to the new view - there doesn't seem much point in doing competing close-readings of a short blog post when you can see how it works first hand...
Intercepting the plaintext of the communications to the server isn't sufficient since the password is sent to the server after being hashed and the plaintext is encrypted. It may provide the basis for an attack but in itself it doesn't break the second layer of security.

Ironically, this is an advantage of having a second layer of cryptography in the browser. It forces an attacker to do significantly more work to acquire the data passively or requires an active attack.
I knew this was unlikely to be the subject of the article but clicked through anyway... oh well.
It's trivial to brute force for anyone who has a weak password.

More importantly, it's trivial for an adversary who cares.

If I'm encrypting a note containing state secrets to send to a foreign intelligence officer, the NSA has the technology (and more importantly, the resources) to brute force their way in.

And if your password is too complex to crack (read: a 256-bit key), you probably can't remember it either, which means you have to write it down somewhere; so an adversary who cares would find an outside channel (subpoena, hack your personal computer) to determine your key.

What is your key derivation algorithm? PBKDF2?
You have to scroll all the way to the end before you find out what the copyright terms are: a Creative Commons License that allows commercial use of your replies. The fact that this is a potentially for-profit enterprise should be clearly disclosed before you begin the survey.

Here, for convenience, are the license terms:

By submitting this story you license this work under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Which says:

You are free:

to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work
to make commercial use of the work
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You can't directly compare numerical values of "idea" to "idea * execution": the two are conceptually different things.

To abuse physics terminology, the units are different. In physics, a mass of "12 kg" is not in some sense greater than a force of "6 Newtons", even though the two are related by F = m * a. Similarly here, dragonwriter is defining "quality = idea * execution", so there's no reason to expect that the numerical value of this notion of quality should be directly comparable to the numerical value of either of its components. (Comparing the value of "quality" defined this way to the value of "idea" would require assuming some specific value for "execution" for the comparison to be sensible. If you just compare the numbers directly, you're assuming perfect 1.0 execution, which probably isn't what you intended.)
Right, but by saying "comes down to two people" that implies you've already done some filtering: you've ordered the set of all possible people and then taken the first two.

My point is that if the ordering relation is wrong (which is what the article suggests) then it doesn't matter what subset you take: you're still not getting the best possible set of people. You have to get the right people. If your ordering is off, being more inclusive lets in as many more bad candidates as it does good ones.
My reward was remembering things I haven't thought of in years (I remembered halfway through about how satisfying moving the turtle in logo felt, or that I had almost completely forgotten about the hypercard stuff I played with in middle school).
Im not going to say anything what so ever about gmail, even though I have an account, almost by some sort of weirdo default.

I'm just going to stick with dear old yahoo mail and leave it at that. Its might be old, even stagnant, but it is simple, clear, functional and causes me zero grief. As it has done for 15 odd years.
Even recently, in the early 20th century, physicists believed that: a) The smallest particle of matter (the atom) had been quantified, measured, and fully explored. b) There was no more to discover in the field of physics. Clearly, they were wrong.

I don't believe any of this is true.
Rich Hickey fixed the problem with Datomic.
Because they are benefiting from those past actions.

And note that a penalty that offsets an unearned benefit is, from some angles, no penalty at all.

The expectation that everything should be fair from my perspective is something that I have because I'm a straight, white, upper-middle-class male. I get to assume that it's all about me, because it so often is. People from less privileged backgrounds don't expect that nearly as much.
Stoners made the Android screenshot.
And your parents were jailer because you couldn't do whatever you wanted right?

Like it or not, we are born into society and the social contract that goes along with it. The "utopia" of zero government already exists in the form of failed states.

The "theft" argument sounds a lot like the child who complains that "I didn't ask to be born!" when faced with family chores.
Worth noting it was a coldfusion 0day manufactured for that attack, and the story from the hackers (HTP) is that Linode was forced to announce it by the FBI despite being blackmailed with their customer credit card database.

Of course, they could have handled security internally better but I suspect other VPS providers appear more secure only because nobody has gone out of their way to target them.
It's nice that AWS and GCE also have premium support offerings now. Seems like a good source of revenue as well as cost savings.

I'm pretty sure I'd never trust Linode even as just a bare VPS provider, let alone giving them more access to my machines to provide this support, though, given their long and horrible track record.
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