skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the lunar descents were all on autopilot until fairly close to the surface. And even when the astronauts took "manual" control, the LEM was still fly-by-wire, like a lot of modern aircraft: the guidance computer was reading the movements of the joysticks and translating that into thruster settings. (Pulling the joysticks "hard over" would bypass the computers, but that was considered an emergency measure only.)

The LEM software was supposed to be capable of a fully automatic landing, but none of the astronauts rode it all the way down.

David Mindell's book "Digital Apollo" goes into these systems, and their development, in much detail; the discussion of the LEM user interface is in chapter 8.
Sounds to me like someone just packaged up the Monomyth[0] in a version that makes more sense for movies. Formula in fiction is not necessarily new, as the article points out at the end. The trick is to dress it up, change it around, or throw it out if necessary.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
This reminds me of pop music. At some point you realize most of the songs on the radio are "verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus" with only subtle variations in structure.

But in the end, I don't actually think that's a bad thing. There is a lot of variations you can do, even within such a limiting structure. Summer blockbusters are the pop music of movies. And just like pop songs, even if you know the overall structure you can still be surprised and entertained throughout.

And, just like music, it doesn't mean that there can't be things that break the mold entirely, even if they aren't quite as popular. There's always going to be someone out there pushing the boundaries, and there's always going to be someone really skilled who makes something really popular that doesn't conform to the formula at all.
Market Share for SSL certificates in top million sites
To be honest, it does only change the start screen a little and add the start button, though even that helps especially in RDP/VMs.
I'd defend the practice, but there's a certain attractiveness to just showing me what my financial liability is. You start with sales tax, then you exempt certain classes of consumer goods from sales tax, then you impose an extra eighth of a percent on purchases made within this or that economic district (usually to help finance a stadium or megamall), and pretty soon, your consumers don't have any idea what their tax liability is going to be when they check out.

Over time, one does develop a vague sense of how much their purchases will be taxed, but I would definitely support a measure that required merchants to charge no more than what's on the tag.
> You think straight people are keeping something away from gays.

I don't think anyone thinks straight people are keeping something away from gays. After all, the proportion of the population that supports marriage equality is much greater than the proportion that is gay.

> But I think its gays trying to take something from straight people.

As someone in a stable, opposite-sex marriage, I'd like to know what it is that gays are trying to take away from me. What that I had before equal marriage came to my state have I lost? Because I don't see it.

> they want everyone to be forced to recognize their marriage.

What they want is for their committed life partnerships to be treated the same way under the law as those of people who happen to prefer a life partner of the opposite gender.

> So they are taking something - our freedom to interpret our own reality.

You are free to "interpret your own reality", and I doubt any equal marriage supporter will argue against your right to do so. Your freedom to do so, however, does not give you the right to deny others equal protection under the law. The concepts aren't even related.

> This is a kind of rabbit hole type revelation that spans many other issues and underpins my fundamental opposition to statism/slavery.

And that is the kind of sentence that doesn't even begin to make sense in context. WTF are you talking about, seriously?
MSFT is keeping up with the S&P 500, but it's still doing pretty poorly compared to its biggest competitors (GOOG, AAPL, ORCL).
This software is something which should be used only with encrypted file containers[ala truecrypt] as it is closed source and its own built-in OTW encryption is not the greatest.
Twik : a tiny language for Go
I actually wrote one of these when I was about 11. It was a menu-driven program written in BASIC that constructed (more or less) syntactically correct BASIC programs. It had a user interface similar to Multiplan, or the Microsoft Word of the day.

I eventually abandoned it because even as a kid, for me it was faster to type stuff in than to mess around with a program like this; and typing gave me access to the whole language rather than just what I had implemented in the menus so far.
California, and especially SF bay area.
Opera owns Fastmail
I'm partial to the advice to designate strings by the vertical bar instead of quotes. eg, write |Hello | input_name |. Nice to meet you|.
This avoids the complication of escape formats until much later.
I'm very happy with Rgraph (http://www.rgraph.net/examples/).
The article seems to say the opposite:

'It is the standard policy of the Government to only grant pardons to those who are considered "morally" innocent of the offence, as opposed to those who may have been wrongly convicted by a misapplication of the law.'

It also mentions that in 1996 there was a pardon given as a "reward for information".
It seems that these Fastmail guys are primarily charging for storage. My question would be, do they allow to set up many different domains and email addresses inside a single account or is this a one email address/domain per account thing?
Yeah - if I only manage to make movies as good as "The Dark Knight" (one of my more favourite films), I'm reasonably OK with that.
The following really struck me:

"In a 118-page set of opinions, two members of a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. — the court whose decisions cover the Pentagon and the C.I.A. — ruled that the First Amendment provides no protection to reporters who receive unauthorized leaks from being forced to testify against the people suspected of leaking to them."

Especially seeing as there is no such thing a leak that isn't unauthorized. It seems another step in hiding information from the public because would-be leakers now need to worry that the reporter they give information to would be forced to reveal their source.
Apple is a small team?
I wouldn't say it felt like dying, but yes, I once had a very strong panic attack with symptoms like this.

It was actually helpful (in retrospect) to consider the experience in terms of a temporary glandular over-reaction of some sort. As in, not "aww look how broken and pathetic I am to be all curled up in a ball like this", but rather, "look at what a complex feat of engineering I am, and look how helpful it is of my body to warn me and signal me when I'm exposing it to stresses it doesn't like very much."

So you might want to look up the terms "cortisol surge" and "adrenal fatigue". And also look into that magical chemical known as serotonin, and how it works as a cross-regulator among various cognitive and strictly physical subsystems in your body. Mind you, I've had no formal medical training, I'm just saying a bit of self-study and serious research might be helpful here.

As to how to prevent them: that's a touch one, because everyone has different trigger thresholds, and (despite what big pharma would dearly like for you to believe) there are no magic bullets.

But personally I've found a sustained, low-key meditation practice to have surprisingly positive long-term benefits. When you strip away the paranormal- and pseudoscientific baggage around it (which are really just that), what it comes down to is (1) basic common sense awareness of how mental and emotional stress works in the body, and in particular, how it correlates with physical stress; (2) how easily we fall into "monkey-mind" patterns of reacting to stressful situations, rather than simply detaching from and (mentally) walking away from them, as it were; and (3) how the same natural tendency of our minds/bodies to learn counterproductive reactive behaviors, can, over time, be used to "unlearn" them, and with surprising efficacy.

But in general -- increased awareness of how our minds and bodies aren't really separate things, but different manifestations / aspects of the same, unified (and beautiful) thing; couple with a realization of how much potential we really have (despite all of our past mistakes, and all the crummy things other people do to us, or say about us), can really help quite a lot.
Also keep in mind, most of the people you'll want to send mail to will still be using email providers located in the US. So the messages will just be NSA'ed when they're delivered, instead of when they're sent.

On the other hand, if you have specific counterparties and you can get them to switch to the same thing you're using, just use TorMail, or run a VPS somewhere where you both have SSH keys and use it as a dead-drop, or whatever. "The solution must involve SMTP and POP/IMAP" is only relevant when you're communicating with unauthenticated peers... at which point, you'd better not say anything important anyway. ;)
And in some of these jurisdictions, the clock restarts when you are informed that your appeal was unsuccessful (even if the collecting agency likes to pretend otherwise.) So check the rules first.
They shouldn't "pardon". If there were some other form of nullification, that might be ok, but did nothing wrong by modern standards, and "forgiving" him implies that he did, even if that isn't their intent. And any legal relief a pardon would give a living person is irrelevant.

Let the conviction stand as a historical marker of shame.

Instead, they should vote on an apology to him and all the other people wronged by the actions of their predecessors.
I was laughing at
"On the morning of a divorce a kleptomaniac construction worker tries to find himself but when terrorists forecloses on his house he/she must learn all that glitters isn't gold or all is lost."

Nice site
Another mile-wide grin! :)
I grew up in Georgia and my mother was too cheap for air conditioning. It doesn't even compare to the misery of riding the NYC subway in July.
I've had the same Fastmail account since 2003 -- they were one of the first webmail providers to have strong IMAP support back in the day. It's always been reliable for me with very few outages through the years.
Samsung was in South Korea. Apple blocked Samsung's sales in US based on patent issues.

It doesn't matter where you're located. What matters where you want to do business.
Thanks for that. I seem to have misunderstood.
I just love the fact I can have multiple "root" folders... something that is missing from Dropbox/AeroFS and pretty much everything else I have tried (I know about symlinks etc, but, native support is so much better!)

The whole single string security is a mixed blessing... It is what makes the application so easy, and at the same time, it makes it feel so insecure!
All I have to say about this is maybe. I mean, tropes are used, overused, and come and go - that's how the industry works. Writers are who they are just like directors. You aren't all of a sudden going to turn Zack Snyder into Scorsese or Abrams into Tarantino.

But then again, Scorsese and Tarantino aren't making movies like 'Pirates of the Caribbean 7: Wet, Hot Caribbean Summer' that can be absolute shit, but as long a Johnny Depp is playing Jack Sparrow it's a billion dollars globally.
Here's the funny thing. We have here a shining example of why Microsoft is becoming irrelevant.

You're making the case that Windows ME sucked, Vista sucked, 7 was good, and 8 sucks.

You're absolutely missing the bigger picture, which is this: nobody cares about operating systems anymore. Everyone, I think, finally gets that the function of the operating system is to get out of the way of the application that the user is running. iOS and Android are perfect examples of this. Everyone who argues about operating systems now talks about contextual menu this, flat button style that, driver update this, without realizing that the typical primary use of a computer these days-- desktop, laptop, tablet, whatever-- has nothing to do with the operating system and everything to do with HTML and JSON.

You talk about how a lot of people bought iPads thinking that it would fully replace their PC, and now they're disappointed. I would argue that, based upon the rate at which mobile web traffic is increasing, those people are anything but disappointed.

I have serious doubts that there will be a Windows 9. There will simply be no market for it. No kid today is asking their parents for a Windows Phone or a Surface. None. When those kids grow up, Microsoft will simply stop existing save for the Xbox.
If you'd like, could you say a little more about why this is the case?

You ask a very pertinent question, to which other HN users have already replied. I'll link here to some articles by mathematicians who have considered how to do mathematics education well. When I just did a Google search on "fractions pizza slices" I had a HUGE number of hits, most to abominably bad materials for elementary teachers. Restricting the search in various ways found the links I share here, some of which I've read before and some of which are new to me too.

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/oregon-outline.pdf

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/oregon-presentation-2.pdf

(Hacker News will not style these two as links, I think, but the URLs are valid.)

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Lisbon2010_2.pdf

(general audience version)

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Schoolmathematics1.pdf

(teacher version)

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/steinhardt/gateway/pdfs/Greenleaf_...

(a source new to me today)

http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v53/v53-66.pdf

(another source new to me today)

I hope this helps.

The book I mentioned in my first comment in this thread is very good and well worth reading for any mathematics teacher.
> but did nothing wrong by modern standards, and "forgiving" him implies that he did

One of the purposes of the pardon power is to nullify convictions where a law was broken but the conviction, justified as it might be by the law, was unjust in the specific context.

Now, its designed (on the premise that the law is always just in the general case) to deal with exceptional cases, but it is no less appropriate a vehicle for the case where the law failed to be just in general and thus any conviction under the law is unjust in its specific context.
Who fucking cares. Google sucks now. Gmail sucks now. I am aborting all Gmail related accounts post-haste.

I may as well be using AOL. Those stupid tabs, and retarded categories are bullshit. The exact kind of noisy, cluttered, shitty interface I'd expect from any other e-mail service.

Fuck them in the ear.
Not submitting links to your own articles is probably a good start.
This is eerily similar to the plot of the movie "Nothing but the truth" starring Kate Beckinsale as a reporter outing a C.I.A. agent. In the movie the reporter outs a C.I.A. operative and is then prosecuted for not revealing her source. If I understand correctly in this case the situation is even worse, the source of the leak is known and been prosecuted and the reporter has been asked to testify in his trial, though I guess the reporter never breached the law.
> if I'm talking to my mailserver over HTTPS/IMAP TLS, I don't mind where the traffic is routed.

You do unless you're using PGP for all your emails, because SMTP can be easily intercepted in plan-text.

Of course, if you're using full end-to-end encryption (like PGP) for all your emails, you don't care so much about using HTTPS to fetch them, because you're using end-to-end encryption.
The real problem and challenge of the issue (especially in terms of litigation) is taking the power away from PAEs but also not taking the power out of our patent system.

The fact that our system allows folks to invent but not manufacture led to substantial growth in our country and also to the entrepreneurial culture we all enjoy.

PAEs are abusing this and absolutely need to be stopped.
Why would we go to your link over the Google Finance link? Most of us are engineers here and don't want to sift through bs to find the info we need. The Google Finance link is straight to the point and gives us the info we need to have a discussion.
Kaze alternative to SIFT - Image feature descriptions
>> "Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me."

How much is this outage affecting you? You can still provision devices etc. through Xcode, documentation's still online. I'm also a full-time iOS developer and hadn't even noticed it had gone down I go to it so infrequently.
<sociopath>Other patent assertion entities would be inspired to think carefully about targeting entities subscribing to our protection service.</sociopath>
These days I try to avoid going to movie unless it promises something genuinely new and interesting.

All kinds of comic-inspired movies are hard no.

And when you spend less time on crap you actually begin to explore the good parts!
Would be a nice idea to just get rid of the few bozos there and open your own nice little kingdom. Maybe develop a tax heaven and vacation destination.
Ask HN: Transfer analog data via digital line?
Quick Summary: The sending device is talking to the receiving device but the receiving device can not talk directly to the sending device.<p>I have a Magicjack Plus and need to send analog data to a third party.
It is setup directly through the router/gateway.
I opened the UDP ports 5060 and 5070 on the router and forwarded those ports to the MJ IP.
It still is not allowing analog data to go through.
It is talking with the other network but the other network is not able to talk back to the sending device.
Any Ideal?
FYI, what is being transmitted is EKG via Medtronic Carelink modem.
EDIT ADD on: They talk fine with each other until sending device is done. Receiving device cannot initiate the closing statements to the sending device.
It's hardly an original idea to try to identify terrorists via social networks.
They released support for file recovery a few days ago, along with their android app (http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/07/17/now-in-beta-bittorrent...). Instructions to recover files and set the recovery history time here: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/16410-bittorrent-sync-faq/.
I've only had one really insane experience like this, but I've had hundreds of minor panic attacks. The key for me was learning to control it before it spirals out of control. The problem with panic attacks is that they're recursive and only stop when your stack overflows :-)

I've trained myself to exit() the second I notice my mind going down that path. I tell myself "DONT FUCKING WORRY. YOU'RE FINE. THE ODDS THAT YOU'RE DYING VS HAVING A PANICK ATTACK ARE REALLY LOW! NOW SNAP OUT OF IT!". One thing that helps me a ton is to reach for my phone and start reading Reddit or Hacker News or something familiar to engage my mind in something until it calms its stupid ass down. Sitting down helps too, just to relax myself.

The other thing that I found is that being tired is the biggest factor in my ability to control my mind. Being well rested is essentially a cure for me.
Interesting.

At its peak, how much bigger was MSFT than Apple?

Hint: Lots.
This would be why I never bothered owning a pi.
Hmm -- all I'm seeing is a white screen of death on my (admittedly overloaded) chrome instance.
Since the author of the article says the same thing directly, this is a somewhat superficial critique of that article.
Thanks, I'll probably check it out. Wasn't there a movie about them recently? That might have put me off at first.

Roughly same genre, I don't know. Ordinarily I am not even into magic, but the odd fantasy book sticks.
"The frame contains". Meaning that every dead and then-living human was within the camera's view frustum, except for the three in the spacecraft. Not considering whether they're in the nighttime part of the planet or on the far side away from the camera; just that they're somewhere within the field of view.

Presumably many photos of the Earth from spacecraft have achieved the first part of that criterion, as Cassini's will. But the set of photos of most of the human race minus a few is much smaller: limited to the moon missions, because the shuttle and space station orbit too low to fit the entire Earth in one camera frame.
Not surprised. It's not about making a good movie, but about making money. Specifically making money safely, with low risk.
Making a different movie is risky, and thus producers prefer tried formulas, no rough edges, no thinking really.

Shame.
Lucidchart released a graph API
To clarify: They talk fine with each other until sending device is done. Receiving device cannot initiate the closing statements to the sending device.
Mobile app based locker system SnowGate launches
How about the part where, for example, the #gay tag returns zero results unless you turn safe search off? It's now impossible to search for gay support/community stuff on Tumblr without making an account and explicitly enabling porn.
This is a link to course content that we just released yesterday, not quite a repeat
You're responding to:

> Clojurescript is the browser language I always
> wanted. JS seems like such a hack.

You're getting downvoted for reading into someone's enthusiastic personal endorsement and then ending it with the tiring "Tell me something good about <thing I refuse to read or understand on my own time but I'll partake in discussion anyways>...".

Start with Rob Pike's "Go Concurrency Patterns" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs)
NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say
I'm not concerned about you or I, but the woman who just barely passed her drivers test on the third try and is trying to corral 2 kids in the back seat, drink her mocha frapuchino, and talk to her sister on the phone.
This hits the nail on the head. It isn't just that Apple do this well, very well, but Microsoft are just terrible at it!
An account is only one account, but it can have a number of aliases that varies by plan. https://www.fastmail.fm/pages/fastmail/docs/pricingtbl.html
Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler, has been optimized
The government ruled in favor of the government and against individual rights again? At least they're consistent.
On that point, I seem to recall Vogler's The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters (1992), which is more directly an adaptation and application of Campbell's monomyth, getting quite a bit of the same kind of "formula that's killing Hollywood originality" criticism.