skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how doing manned suborbitals would stack up against Japan's JAXA which semi-regularly puts things into orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-IIA#Launch_history

They don't have active plans for manned missions right now iirc, but I would venture to guess that if they wanted to, they could put someone up there without too much effort. The most immediately obvious hurdle is that they would need a human-rated pressurized reentry vehicle.
The modern version of misfits are already crafting the brothels of tomorrow - check how this porn site disguises itself amidst today's ignorance of psychology.
The most famous companies per state (visualization)
Every couple of months, I visit my Pandora profile, go through songs I have liked since my last splurge, and just click the "Buy on Amazon" links all the way down.
One way they would be pertinent would be if the royalty rates are the reason the business is unsustainable, then the question arises if the goal is to have other folks hear the music or not.

So there is a cost to deliver songs (servers, bandwidth, devops, engineering) which is analogous to the old radio days of the engineer, power, transmitter, tower maintenance, etc. And there is the revenue from advertising and/or subscriptions. And there is the royalty rate.

If you are managing your on-going costs to a minimum, your ability to sell advertising/subscriptions is a market thing (people will or won't buy the service based on the perceived value to them) and then your royalties come out of that.

How would make an argument that royalty rates aren't pertinent?
What about it, exactly? Doesn't affect your life, shouldn't make a difference.
technology has outpaced him

It feels sort of weird to see such claims about a guy who was hacking on computer systems that were almost two decades ahead of everything else. (But that probably depends on what one sees as "technology". Shrinking transistor size is definitely technological progress, but I don't think that this alone has ever had a qualitative influence on the impact of computing systems - unlike their ubiquity, which, on the other hand, is not as much a technological advancement as it is a social one.)
The Myth of the Product that Sells Itself
Read at least one book this summer, you'll be better for it

This is such a refreshing thing to read in a tech community that seems to so unfairly decry literature. (And, no, rereading 1984 doesn't count.)

I also recommend people check out Alexis's short eBook, Make Something People Love: (http://www.hyperink.com/Make-Something-People-Love-Lessons-F...). It's ten bucks and something like seventy pages: easy to cruise through on a lazy afternoon, and has a very pleasant perspective on the philosophy behind creation. Alexis is a gifted writer, and you certainly feel his personality on the pages.
It occurred to me overnight that while people may find the domain-specific conventions annoying or an attempt to convey superiority, there is actually information being conveyed by the weirdness.

For example, when I say "etsy" out loud, it makes it clear that I'm referring to the actual directory and not just saying "and other things".

It's a way to avoid a bad "who's on first" routine.

To take an example from further down in this thread: Likewise, in print, using cp and mv make it clear these specific things rather than the abstract concepts of copy and move.
I'm gonna upvote this, because i just got a free box. kind of lol at the hackers who couldn't find the link to the home page, I wouldn't worry about that.

One gripe is it doesn't show what kind of box it is after you make it. Another is no laravel+php box.

Thanks for putting go on there. Good luck I wish yall the best.
"gay" alone is enough to trigger it. It's been there for some time.
That's curious. If it looks and behaves exactly the same then adoption (as in updating) shouldn't be a problem.
The internet will always have government surveillance, just as real life always has surveillance and monitoring.

If you don't want to be monitored, either encrypt things, or don't post it online.
This is 100% blog spam. Actual announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/03/teched-...

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/2013-downloads
They just enabled forward secrecy today: https://twitter.com/duckduckgo/status/349948709418696706

This link has a nice rundown of why RC4 is no longer recommended for SSL/TLS: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/03/attack-of-we...

Basically:

"According to AlFardan, Bernstein, Paterson, Poettering and Schuldt (a team from Royal Holloway, Eindhoven and UIC) the RC4 ciphersuite used in SSL/TLS is broken. If you choose to use it -- as do a ridiculous number of major sites, including Google -- then it may be possible for a dedicated attacker to recover your authentication cookies. The current attack is just on the edge of feasibility, and could probably be improved for specific applications."
I agree. I am the author of https://emailprivacytester.com/

"morally/ethically OK is probably not the right question"

It is always the right topic to bring up, whenever anybody nonchalently states that they are doing it and are proud about it. Perhaps the author hadn't considered the morality of what he does. Perhaps somebody else reading this hadn't either.
Plastic goose?
I mean this kind of treatment of the 1%...they get it in the ass from their husbands! Damn! Dirty Rich Joke.
The devtools are indeed dockable on the right now in FF 22, but not responsive yet (so when little horizontal real estate is available, the tools will look and feel very cramped).

The upcoming versions address this issue (in the end, it's all just CSS; for example: [0]).

[0] http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/themes...
Ugly Code Means Your Product Used to be Successful
In practice, how is this different than simply being able to install a package? Furthermore, Ubuntu has 3d printing packages in the standard repositories, are we to believe this gives MS any sort of practical advantage?
If I learned anything from reading this article, music royalties are an extremely hard and complicated thing. Hat tip to them for even attempting to do business in this kind of insane environment.
> all ripe for profitable tech startup disruption

This phrase itself has by now become "shockingly dull", too, though......
Obviously there is a can of worms here.

Can I just suggest that if you are not a conscious human being who makes choices, but instead, like a billiard ball, are whacked around by the myriad balls and cues you encounter in your meaningless existence, with thoughts caused by minds caused by brains caused by effects chaining back forever...

then being swayed by one more argument or not makes zero impact on your status. You remain a mere effect of your circumstances.

If you want to pretend to take part in a rational discourse, you should also pretend to be a conscious human being to whom discourse makes a difference and reasons can be better or worse as they conform to reality or not. Your alternatives are limited by the nature of the forum you've chosen.
Yes. For example, I'm working on a language learning web/mobile app, where the value proposition is that you can use this one "Swiss army knife" tool to keep track of everything, to study in a consistent way, and that works on most devices all of the time. There are lots of great tools for language learning out there, lots of flashcard apps, apps for learning to write Chinese characters, for learning pronunciation, a great site with subtitled videos etc. Learning a language takes many years though, and throughout that time you'll be using lots of tools and lots of different resources, but they're all walled gardens and isolated, and mostly work for just one or two platforms. Switching between them and keeping data synced between all of them is a pain. Also, who knows if you'll be using an iPhone forever, and whether they'll ever come around to making an android version of that app you need?

I think this is a case where the integration of all the features and data is more than the sum of its parts. The difficult part is knowing what the essential features are, and providing something useful until all of the necessary features are there.
Arguing that high royalties make it hard for Pandora to do business is just bullying and threatening. Obviously if sharing songs via violating copyright weren't an option, listeners would happily pay a little more for Pandora premium or endure a few more commercials.

Instead, the public starts from the stance that music should basically be free, and artists are lucky to be paid anything at all.

The purpose of statutory rates is to create an economic environment where businesses can operate without constant negotiation, and creators can earn a living.

Virtually no one is earning a living from Pandora or Spotify, so, it isn't working. Meanwhile the public has access to a functionally infinite amount and variety of music for nothing, or next to nothing.
NetFlix has the exact same problem. Its an issue with any industry where you are trying to resell a primary service.
Bacon.js Cheat Sheet
I got sick of trying to crawl the documentation so I slapped together this simple cheat sheet
Before Aurora there's also http://nightly.mozilla.org/ one update/day. I've run it since shortly after they moved to a six week cycle (I ran Aurora initially) and have never had work loss. Only once in that period have I had to downgrade to Aurora for a day (the nightly build seemed broken, crashed on startup). Overall I'm very happy with getting features and speedups ~18 weeks before general release.

BTW, they must have more or less completely solved the add-ons version compatibility problem that was initially a big pain when they moved to the six week cycle; I haven't noticed any disabled or broken add-ons in a very long time.
Tim Berners-Lee scolds 'hypocritical' West over spying
>Yeah, if you don't activate the 5-ht4nonsense receptor for a little while, stupidtonin production returns to normal levels. Check, please.

So what particularly do you have a problem with? Science has a relatively good understanding of the reward pathway. At least on the level of correlations. Linking masturbation/sex to serotonin and dopamine levels would not be a stretch in the orthodoxy of neuroscience.
Men are sexually stimulated almost wholly by visuals. Some women enjoy porn, but any attack on porn is a direct attack on men. Also, many men will spontaneously ejaculate if not stimulated. Honestly, it is not much different than needing to urinate or defecate. It is a bodily function that must be taken care of or your body will take care of it for you. Watching porn is not a bad thing. Some porn is bad, but watching it certainly is not.
G-code converts a 3D model into printing instructions for a 3D printer. http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code
Does that even matter? Since the marginal effort on the part of the performer is exactly zero? (which is to say they don't have to "do" anything to be on Pandora, they just collect checks from BMI/ASCAP). If a musician is arguing that they are being driven into poverty by poor royalties, losing them completely seems to make them worse off.
http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/resources_downloads.php has a CAD files. Are you looking for something specific that isn't there?
it really is a slow interpreter. Python comes with a pystone benchmark, and CPython is invariably the slowest of all interpreters. This being said, if you take a look at it's implementation, then it's immediately obvious why. The interpreter is a basically a simple C switch, with no optimization whatsoever. Simply threading the interpreter would make it about a factor 2 faster (at least that's what the experts claim you gain by threading)
What is it with every new site developed by HN:ers. No screenshots and required signup to learn more.
G-code is a language used to describe the movement of a tool. I think the first uses were for cutting tools, like CNC lathes and milling machines.

It describes things like movements of a tool on linear or rotational axis, cutting tool rotational speed, operation of auxiliary equipment (heater on/off), etc.
There are some things you could improve about typo correction to make it consistent with how you handle ad-blocking rules:

* Update the rules over HTTPS, not HTTP

* Filter preferences should show the typo-correction-rule URL, just as it does for ad-blocking rules, and it should be possible to inspect them by clicking

* typo correction should probably only be used if the target website doesn't actually exist. See elsewhere in the comments, that is what how one would normally expect it to work.

As it is now the fact that typo correction even uses an insecure, remote list of rules is not at all obvious from the UI, instead its hidden away in the code.

Of course its also a bit confusing on why typo correction is even part of AdBlock Plus to begin with, as there is another extension just for that purpose - urlfixer.
If someone wants typo correction you could suggest them to also install urlfixer, but it doesn't really make sense to have two unrelated features in one extension.
Don't try to become an extension that does everything...
Think of G-code like PostScript. It's a description language that tells a multi-axis machine how to move in 3D space.
This article is bullshit. Addiction is an illness. Pornography is not.

Pornography by itself, as strange as the video may be, is not a problem by itself.

I don't know what country / generation / family the author is from, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to come from there.

I talk openly with my friends and some coworkers about sex and pornography and I sure don't feel ashamed to do so!
As a life long New Jersey resident, I expected Johnson & Johnson. It took me a while to remember that Campbell's is Jersey based.
IsEdwardSnowdenDeadYet?
"A good flatterer doesn't lie, but tells his victim selective truths (what a nice color your eyes are). Good PR firms use the same strategy: they give reporters stories that are true, but whose truth favors their clients."

I have no idea if David Lowery's original post about making only $16.89 for 1 million plays was distributed by a PR firm, but it sure feels like it.

PG's thoughts on PR are spot on, and I love referencing his article to both discern truth from half-truth in the news, and, of course, to push my own PR efforts:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Celebrities die 2.7218 at a time
When did I say I was talking about inside apps only? There's a reason I specified OS-level hooks. The entire point is that Apple does not let you choose the Maps application your OS uses- even at it's worst, IE's "default browser" behaviour could be changed.
Compared to what, FM radio? Which pays NOTHING?

Artists, get over yourself. The market is huge now, and your product value is approaching zero. But keep on flailing in the noose.

EDIT: Half credit. Per dllthomas, "Per the article, FM radio pays royalties to the songwriter but not the performers."
I don't block ads, I block surveillance. The lack of ads that I see is just a side effect of this.
> Not enough people know this, but when you say "etc" out loud in reference to the directory, you should say "etsy".

Not really a big difference in meaning or tone, if you ask me.
Why do you think this is OK? Data mining and extraction are clearly a violation of their terms.
Amazon pays a 70% royalty for ebooks that were published directly by the author. Is it unfair for this royalty to be so large?

(I realize that this is more complicated than "70%", see https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O...)

I think it's a sign of efficiency that a large portion of the money goes to content creators. Content creation will get cheaper as technology improves, sure, but in fields like music and writing, content creators struggle to make a decent wage. Therefore as content distribution technology improves, the percentage of money given to content creators should increase.
I spent way too long trapped in an internal debate of which was the more famous Seattle company: Starbucks or Microsoft.

I settled on the caveat that while Microsoft had undoubtedly affected more people and had a greater impact on the world, their corporate brand really doesn't approach the ubiquity of Starbucks'. (Some of my teachers in high school thought Windows was its own company, which I suspect to be a relatively common misconception.)
What is the RDBMS backend? Is that included in the storage?
Is the web client in TTRSS that terrible?

I deployed TTRSS to Azure pretty easily, although auto-refreshing the feeds is harder to figure out. The Web UI seemed good enough. Not as easy as Google Reader but serviceable.
Masters of Doom was one the books that really steeled my resolve to get into game programming back when I'd read it in highschool. It's a fascinating story about the birth and development of ID Software (the folks that made Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and are near singlehandedly responsible for us having consumer-grade graphics cards of note today). It's a fun, easy read, and the personalities involved are quite amazing. Both Carmack and Romero are painted in very human lights, and it's a fascinating insight into how to run a growth company without venture capital.

It's the ultimate bootstrap and find market fit and make bank story you'll likely ever read.

~

Later, you should also read Soul of a New Machine and Dreaming in Code for a less calvinball approach to software development.
Cool tool.

A bit ironic:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ssllabs.com
I think at least the criticism of immutability and FP resulted from taking concepts to extremes. I made a point to address lock-in of different aspects of clojure in my post.

I think if you're mutating deeply nested things, or doing heavy algorithmic bookkeeping, it's worthwhile to evaluate different approaches (maybe pure java) as an 80/20 thing, and I wonder how hard it would be to have comparable mutability facilities and data structures as a library?

Of course, programmers want to get things done without spending time on building up their own tools, and I understand that.
Correct; presumably it's for the month of June (Gay Pride). But it is particularly appropriate in light of today's events.
SonicWeb: My freetime project is the german top mac music app, what now?
Since its release at monday SonicWeb went straight to the top of the german mac app store in the category music. It also broke into the overall top 10. Feedback is very positive so far. It seems I have something there that resonates with music lovers.

Everything has been done by myself in my freetime. This includes the design and implementation of the app itself, the backend with its REST-API and the website as well.

The question I have is, what now? What are the next reasonable steps to turn this into a sustainable business? It seems most of the technical problems are solved and I should turn my attention to the busines side. But I am a developer not a business person. Therefore I am reaching out for advice. I am sure many of you went through the same steps as I do at the moment. What did you do to turn your side project into a sustainable business?
Just to clarify: I didn't create FeedHQ, I'm just a happy user. "My X of choice" ≈ "My favorite X".
Ok I suppose that's better than nothing, but you're still violating the most fundamental aspect of snapchat, and I guarantee you that a good chunk of your pictures came from people who didn't realize that you were actually saving their pictures.
Try search google scholar. I haven't looked in this topic specifically, but I have looked into other politicized/psuedo-science heavy topics on it, and it has always brought up good science.
Except for the bookmarks window. Can you elaborate?
It's not so much watching porn in public... I wouldn't want to see to people having sex in public, but how even talking about it is a verboten subject. Of course, talking about your sex life is probably also problematic, so I don't know. Does society shame porn?
Adobe donated $5000 to JS-Git
Even though the small budget is very impressive, we wouldn't mind to have more members in the support group. Ahem... :-)
http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
It would be cool if you could put a description of what it is in the title of the page, so that bookmarking it could be faster.

If there is a bandwidth or number of connections limit per domain/user (there should be, IMO), it should be in the front page.
There are some non-robot implementations of this kind of idea out there, including:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibritumomab_tiuxetan

and more generally:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibodies

tl;dr: use cancer-specific antibodies with a payload of a drug, gene vector, or radioactive particle (!) to very specifically kill cells.
> Not that have knowledge of royalty proportionality, but it also seems unfair to have royalty costs dwarf any other business costs.

Why? Their business model is to take other people's work and distribute it to subscribers.

It seems to me that acquisition of the actual product should be the majority of their cost.
Yes, I used gchat for its instant-messaging purposes, which is essentially what the app is all about. Hangouts pretty much got rid of anything instant about it (online/offline, away indicator, status messages, etc.). I eagerly looked forward to Hangouts and installed it the day Google announced it only to switch back to Talk an hour or two later.

I suppose I wouldn't care if I didn't have gchat on 100% of the time I'm on a desktop but I dread the day Hangouts replaces Talk.
Err, their color schemes are not the same. And stop glancing at it. I want to see something real that's shows deliberate plagiarism.
Maybe when users actually avoid them, which means users need an alternative, eg Jitsi which has had desktop sharing a couple years.