skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JPL seems to have had quite a few founders. I recall reading about Jack Parsons who was also into occult matters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whiteside_Parsons

Happen to run into his story while reading about the history of Rocketry. His story even takes a more bizarre turn with L Ron. Hubbard, and finally his death in a mysterious explosion.
This is like that moment in one of those alien movies where the smiley neighbour has something slightly different about him.
It doesn't cost that much to have a space program, relativelyspeaking... (as in compared to the military)
Well, this guide is great but it doesn't tell me the most thing I need to know: Why should I install SteamOS?

For people new to to this whole Steam/SteamOS thing, who like me have Roku, iPad, and XBox, etc., why a having a box with SteamOS a good thing to have? It currently doesn't have HBO Go, Netflix, or Hulu on it, so not truly a STB that I want. Is it a just competitor to game consoles?
Observe changes
But that still isn't the same thing as "forever." Time does not go back infinitely — according to current theory, the universe definitely has a beginning in time.
Gotta wonder how hard it is for a robot to 'translate' an offshore worker's speech in real time into a sexy female of the target's culture/region/ethnicity. Probably too laggy LOL.
I can see how that might be confusing. I'll have to give that some thought.

You don't really get much through registration right now other than a simple way to keep track of the photo albums you've created...
I don't think that's actually how the scientific community as a whole evaluates theories.
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$108 13.3″ Android Laptop, VIA8880 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, 5000mAh
Do you have any ideas in this space? My wife is a dentist and I've done a bit of work in the EHR space.

The real issue (at least it seems to be the issue to me) is people are lazy (or perhaps uneducated) and don't put any effort in until it is too late.
The actual title of this article is "Let's Bring The Polymath - and the Dabblers - Back". Much more grounded, and much less linkbait-y.
There are many of us who don't do social
photography and use desktop photographic
software and Windows' built in image
management stuff.

I fall into a different category. I do some 'social photography' as a means of personal promotion, but almost never with my iPhone's camera. Virtually 100% of the photos I upload to, say, Facebook and Instagram came out of one of my dedicated cameras, like my DSLR or digital rangefinder.

All of my photos are shot in camera RAW, and I manage them in Lightroom. It wouldn't be possible for me to use built-in image management tools on OS X or Windows, or manage the photos through Finder or Explorer, respectively, since I need non-destructive photo editing.

Lightroom provides non-destructive photo editing, and basically everything else I need, and provides it through their .lrcat catalog files, which, interestingly, are actually just sqlite3 databases.
I don't know much about Marxism. Here, it's just a token -ism, as an example. Context matters of course; even so many -isms are ambiguous and should be avoided.
Crap, so if I wanted to do the ludum dare I'd have to use windows? :/
>477.5°F

Perfect. Time for a steam powered generator add-on. BTC generating perpetual motion machine. :)
Codd's relational vision – has NoSQL come full circle?
I took my first software classes 2 years ago at the University and HATED every second of it! That summer I landed a co-op where I spent 6 months (I was invited back to mentor) learning Ruby on Rails and related technology. During that time, I tried to throw up as many apps as I could for practice. Thos included Rails apps, Cordova apps, JS apps etc...Those 'practice apps' landed me my first starter position making the industry standard for a rails dev with 2 years or so of experience. I am learning WAY more now then I ever thought I could and have built a hell of a resume over the past year with real world experience. Online tools got my foot in the door. A year and a half later, I am making an honest living and developing features that I thought would take me years to master. I started with a single GOOGLE search...For me, it was a mix. The experience of the co-op was the driver to what I have today though.
Of course getting groped on public transit is a bigger problem outside the US. People don't ride public transit in the US.
This is Why Learning Rails is Hard
I've always wondered if in the entire universe we humans are the first creatures to have evolved and we will spread out populating the universe.
"Too often is the inventor the faustian idealist, who wants to improve the world, but fails at the hard realities. If he wants to realize his ideas, he has to cooperate with powers which have a better sense of reality than him. Today such powers are, without making a value statement, primarily military and managers. [..] From my experience the chances of an individiual to defend themselves against such pacts are rather low."

-- Konrad Zuse
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The LeBron James of Computer Science

http://www.livescience.com/40023-james-mickens-microsoft-s-l...
Yeah, it really is. There might be some advantages to running SteamOS over just installing the Steam client on another Linux OS. They seem to have put a lot of effort into optimizing the sound and video drivers.
Of course, and am now I am hell banned for it.
"Taxable reporting? Do they handle that or is that up to you, the investor?"

As far as I know, it's a legal requirement for your brokerage to report your income and transactions to you and the IRS on the various 1099 forms.
Rewind the tape to 1900. Everyone who is non-religious assumes the universe has been around since forever: it is eternal. Then people like Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaître notice that distant galaxies are red-shifted, and they calculate the amount. From this they conclude that the universe is expanding. From this they conclude that the universe must have at one point been compressed to a single point, and then exploded: a Big Bang.

But if there is no red shift, then there is no Big Bang, and the Universe is not expanding. Therefore we go back to where we were in 1900, when everyone assumes that the universe is eternal.
I suppose it depends on what you consider consistent (i.e., all nil operations should be no-ops or just message-sending operations), but that only covers 1 and 2. Trying to invoke a nil block still crashes.
Funny, but in light of recent events (see http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/uk-spies-continue... for example) things like Byzantine General's problems do not seem quite so far fetched.
Haha, haven't seen the news lately?

Check out what happened w/ node, also the guy that made the 'dongle' joke.
Depends. What do we learn from it?
Are your originals actually the original files? Some people have strong opinions about data leakage via EXIF metadata, specifically location and sometimes date/time. Do you strip that information out during upload/resizing?

Overall, it looks great. My family would definitely use it, for similar reasons to yours. Nice work!
Any links to tutorials where people show how to repurpose these old steppers?
Navigating the Clojure Web Stack
Read it or Throw it
10 Useful Weekly Technical Links
Map: Income Taxes by US County
Well, they got my email address.
Interesting. I never clicked on it so I never noticed it was an additional link!

I've never liked the scribd interface, but what's more is that Chrome and FF have their own, decent, pdf viewers which are light-years better than either the scribd or adobe viewers.

I wonder how much HN gets to put that link there.
Personally my favorite is the Jet 4.0 story and how the Access team ended up having to fork it for Access 2007. I think for a year or so, any development on Jet 4.0 was stopped until it was eventually resumed due to security.
You're misunderstanding my use of "legitimate" in this context. I don't mean "legitimate" in some broad moral sense. I mean "legitimate" as in being consistent with the accepted rules of the system. Many people who decry the U.S. government don't express fundamental disagreement with the principles of the system. They instead claim that the consensus is inconsistent with those principles.
The Dart editor is Eclipse-based, so the IDE at least is familiar.
Can Physical Activities Improve Fluid Intelligence?
I don't intend to belittle the author's writeup of their experience with Objective-C. I've been working with the language off and on for over ten years, now, and have been working almost exclusively in it professionally for the last 3 or 4, and I have a ton of complaints about it. But...

With one exception, I feel like this entire post could be summed up as 'I don't like dynamic languages, static typing FTW!' The one exception is with regard to merging pbxproj files, which, I agree, is a fantastically awful experience. The only worse experience I have ever had working with this stack is in trying to merge XIBs (short answer: just don't even bother trying).
This is a bad business. Competing on cost against large incumbents without a defensible low cost position in a competitive industry without most target users paying high costs currently (interactivebrokers).
I would take this as a compliment, if it weren't a poorly paid position.
If you can build a self driving car, you can build a self driving tank. The tank is probably easier. It can just go through obstacles.
> Isn't that the point of a democracy?

No, the point of democracy is reaching compromises.
Just to further this point: NASA receives for its yearly budget 12 days of the military's budget, not counting expenses in the wars.
What happens if I claim an album that isn't mine?
Getting off topic, but have you seen the new xib format in Xcode 5? It's totally different and way better. I haven't actually tried merging one yet, but I'm highly optimistic for when it comes up.
I find it far more convenient to type something like

NSArray *a = [self somethingThatProducesAnArray];

if (a.count > 0) {
// do something
}
else {
// do something else
}

than

NSArray *a = [self somethingThatProducesAnArray];

if (a && a.count > 0) {
// do something
}
else {
// do something else
}
Officials Say U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowden’s Leaks
So Objective C is not what you're used to? Awh... It's no secret that Objective C software is generally richer and more robust, thanks exactly to its "strange" differences. Sure it takes effort to learn a new way of doing things but if you're willing, you'll soon realize it was worth it. Dynamic and compiled is a great combination.
I'm just using this on my mobile device, and it's great! Simple and straight to the point.
>> "You don't really get much through registration right now other than a simple way to keep track of the photo albums you've created..."

That's what I would have guessed. I don't think it's that big of a deal but it might be confusing to some users, especially if you are targeting less tech savvy people looking an easy way to share.
You're not hell-banned. Your post was just downvoted.
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Claiming an album simply adds the album to your "My Account" page for easy access. It would be very hard to claim an album that wasn't yours without knowing the url which is randomly generated so it's very difficult to guess...
WinFS teaser video was so cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhWCH8ebShY

Watching various Channel9 videos with the cool demo apps, and then trying WinFS beta 2 on WinXP, I was shocked how alpha quality it still was. It was clear for me that it wouldn't ship with Whistler/Vista.

Sadly, all cool WinFS demo apps like the "Life Journal" timeline app (where you could zoom in and see all photos and videos on a vertical timeline) were missing in WinFS beta 2. All related videos got removed from Channel9 :/

Life Journal Timeline app screenshot: http://siliconvalleysleuth.co.uk/photos/uncategorized/img_61...

The WinFS "store" was actually a sub-folder of the "System Volume Information" directory (a hidden dir on C: partition). You could access the WinFS using an UNC path and some .Net based utilities.
No, I haven't. I'm guessing you have to either explicitly upgrade your existing XIBs to it, or recreate them? Thanks for the head's up, I'll check it out.

Also, thanks again for the ridiculously awesome blog. It's been one of my favorite reads for years.

edit: OK, I had a chance to check out the file format. This looks far more sane and human-readable than it has in the past.

Related: I will happily pay $100 to anyone for a piece of software that has an auto layout constraint generator that works with XIB files and doesn't suck.
Your fees is commission + the spread. Will be good if the executions are good, but one cent in spread on 1000 shares is $10 anyway.. Also $50 to close the acct.. what other unusual fees in there?
I use a DSLR, shoot raw and use Lightroom as well. In fact I just filled up 12Gb of Harry Potter studio tour today...

However we're a pretty niche "prosumer" market. The really big sector is "cheapy digital compact" and use windows' tools because it's what they have and it's the least effort. The tooling is shit but it's good enough for most things.

I mentioned the studio tour becuase there is a good distribution of "normal" camera owners there. The breakdown was pretty much 10% DSLR, 70% compact digital, 20% smartphone.
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It seems that this project emerged out of the Robinhood iOS application they were previously developing. I spoke to the founder of Robinhood a few months ago, and they looked quite centered around the idea of crowdsourced finance. It's pretty interesting that they've decided to change their product completely, and it seems like a smart decision in the long run.
Yes, I agree that Steam should be issuing refunds -- but even more so when they don't do any compliance testing of their own.
That's because blocks aren't completely objective-c objects. They can act like them in some cases, but underneath they are still C based. That's why you pass NULL instead of nil to specify an empty block.
They on purpose don't allow balances in USD as maybe then they will be considered a bank.

It seems e.g. PayPal, Amazon, Coinstar, and Bitstamp have negotiated this particular obstacle somehow.
The original photos are processed for more efficient storage, so I believe that all EXIF data is stripped out, but I'll have to check to make sure.
I sympathize, I think checked exceptions are a good idea overall, just poorly used in Java, but the current trend of languages is clearly showing that we're moving away from the idea. None of the languages that came out on the JVM these past ten years (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, etc...) support checked exceptions.
It's disingenuous to say that he abandoned ship because he was mistreated because other people of the same ethnicity were spies? What kind of insane reasoning is that?

Either there are good reasons to believe he was a spy, or there are not. If there are not, then it's absolutely reasonable to say that he went to China because he was mistreated. If there are, then let's hear what they are, but "other Chinese people were spies" is not remotely a good reason.
That was far funnier than it had any right to be.
If you want a real brokerage that uses technology to keep costs down, check out Interactive Brokers. (http://interactivebrokers.com)

With IAB, a small player (5k+ in IRA or 10k+ in normal account) can trade on terms comparable to what a mid-sized fund can get.

When it comes to financial assets, I'd rather pay an established player $1 per trade than a fly-by-night operation $0.
Christmas Story
i press ctrl-tab several times, i press "c" and the compose window opens, i press "s" and "Self" is preselected as a recipient. i press enter, double-tab, and begin writing.
I'm not talking about the scientific community. I'm talking about people in the world. Christianity for example has accepted the Big Bang Theory as plausible and has not accepted others. This fact alone will help 70% of the world make a theory more prevalent.
I recently got into the world of Bitcoin and was really impressed with the ease of acquiring bitcoins and selling them on.

I wish trading stocks was as easy and cheap as this. This is one of the reasons why I'm too nervous to buy invest in the stock market or just put some money in it for fun, the barriers to entry are bafflingly complex.
With good support for Intel graphics, and more laptops leaving out 3rd party GPUs even on Core i7 models, it's easy to buy a laptop with high confidence that Linux will work on it.

But the article glosses over the trickiness of keeping a Windows partition on UEFI machines. Not an issue for me, but it does make me want a Windows license refund more than before.
I think you have to manually convert existing ones. I'm fuzzy on the exact details, but I think there's a popup in the right-side info pane that lets you choose which Xcode version (and thus which format) you want to use for the xib.

Glad you like the blog!
They won't be allowed to use terms like 'purchase' and 'buy' without a specific legal consequence (like the right of resale).

I really like this idea. Make sure that words that if you want to claim to 'sell' something, you actually have to fulfill criteria that guarantee buyers' rights. It makes a lot of sense and would eliminate a lot of bullshit in digital distribution.
I have to agree with you. Additionally, I'm happy to pay my broker 25 basis points for every trade I make. In exchange I get 24h phone support, trade over the phone, analyst research, morning notes, end of year trading tax records, etc. Paying for a service, if it's an excellent service, is not a bad thing. This internet trend of "everything free" wants to shift the attention from the fact the back-office, customer service and other support functions are lacking or inexistent.
In my experience, the barriers to entry into the bitcoin/cryptocurrency world are much higher than the equities world for lay persons.
Anyone else a little surprised that we hadn't heard anything about this mission earlier? I didn't really know that China was even planning on landing probes on the Moon. Kind of a big contrast to SpaceX, say, who seems to publish a press release or at least a tweet about everything they have done and are planning to do. Not that I mind, it's cool to read about what they're working on. I suppose if the Chinese space program is publishing much about it's plans, it doesn't make it into English-language media most of the time.
We should spend more money on space exploration, but you do remember the US landed several rovers on the moon in the last decade.
All of Objective-C is C based in the end. Blocks are completely Objective-C objects. Attempting to call a NULL block crashes not because blocks aren't Objective-C objects, but because block invocation is not a message send.

Note that accessing an instance variable of a nil Objective-C object pointer will also crash, e.g.:

obj->_ivar;

That's obviously not because Objective-C objects aren't Objective-C objects. The crash when calling a nil block is the same thing.
And it's not just inspirational; the Lunar descent stage used today is completely over-specified for the job of delivering the small Youtou rover.

There is speculation that it is actually a common descent stage design which will be used in upcoming science-orientated Moon landings. For example, emplacing a substantial telescope.

The Chinese, as seems usual now, are playing the long-game.
I'm surprised there's people here that don't.
The fastest way to share... what? I scroll down and it's blank green.
how does interactivebrokers compare to this in terms of cost? are there any hidden costs retail investors should be aware of?
May I ask why this is a problem / requires a warning?
Doesn't a chart like that apply to virtually all languages? You have command line of course, a package manager, the standard library, etc.

EDIT: Even the supposedly Rails-specific things on the right are very general other than Ruby & Rails. VCS? Text editor? How is that Rails specific?
Unintentional, and not much to gain from such a thing
National pride, I think. By the 19th century it was generally acknowledged that Antiqua typefaces were more legible, but they were perceived as insufficiently German or whatever.

In any case, Fraktur probably would be a lot easier to read than old-school blackletter hands— look at the sheer number of strange ligatures and abbreviations in the Gutenburg bible!

This is entirely based off of memory so I could very well be wrong. The fact that blackletter originally evolved as a way of condensing text, though, is pretty much indisputable.
> suggestion amounts to a vapid, lame attempt to curtail discussion.

No, claiming that any popular policy you disagree with must be the product of illegitimate factors or influences is an attempt to sidestep the essential process of establishing majoritarian consensus.

> Polls repeatedly show clear majorities for the legalization of marijuana use, possession, and distribution.

Marijuana is a bad example for your position, because:

1) The consensus reached the point of favoring marijuana legalization just in the last few years (http://www.gallup.com/poll/165539/first-time-americans-favor...). As recently as 2005, the Gallup poll showed that Americans were against marijuana legalization almost 2:1. And unsurprisingly, now that the consensus has shifted, you're seeing real movements all across the country to legalize marijuana.

2) The polls are still based on a random sampling of people, instead of a sampling of likely voters. People under 30 favor legalization more than 2:1, but people over 65 still somewhat oppose legalization. Guess which demographic is more likely to vote? It's not really a fault of the process if younger people don't care to participate.
HN is owned by YCombinator. Scribd was founded under the YCombinator program. There's really not much to it.
I couldn't think of a way to make Scribd's user experience any less enjoyable. I usually give up after the 3rd page hangs and navigation and even reloading fail.
Huh, go figure. It really took off as the home for artisanal techie websites:

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-ri...

(Beattie credits evocative short name, stable British administration, lots of available short and English word domains.)
I would love a copy!
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Well said. Add "in a regulated industry" too.
I'm certain that there surely are damning cases where Chinese-Americans were convicted of treasonous high crimes.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/leung/

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1990/Report-Stolen-Secrets-May-...

But then there are also cases like that of Wen Ho Lee where there was significant prosecutorial overreach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee

Four Chinese Espionage Investigations

Details of four investigations into suspected Chinese espionage over the past 20 years -- only one of which was prosecuted successfully -- revealing the complexities of such cases.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/spies/four...

Edit: Corrected URL
To be fair, Amazon sends review request emails to every one of our customers who buy through that channel. These people don't get a test drive of our mattress before they get it so I'd expect we are a little more exposed than a car you wouldn't rate unless you test drove it and purchased it because you liked it.

You seem to be a little critical of us, which is totally fine. We were really looking forward to show the HN community because we wanted everyone's feedback. Could you recommend another way we could represent our customer happiness to the public?
Correction: 22. The founder I thought was from Finland is actually from Slovenia.
I thought this article would be about System76. I've had pretty good luck with buying a ThinkPad T/X series and just plopping in the latest Ubuntu LTS release.