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Call up Travis Goodspeed and tell him "Open Season" on ICE/ISEE-3.

I'd bet on successful bi-directional communications within 18 months.
Thanks for the info! That's definitely helpful. Maybe it should be a bit more prominent, like adding that "Why should I trust you?" section to the main page below(or above) "What is a VPN?".
We hear you. We think that getting more people using VPNs is more important, so we made that trade-off. We built this for people who are mostly non-technical, but we wanted to provide the script such that those who are more technical are able to run this on their own. :)

I get that you can make the argument that we're training people to stick their API keys in random textboxes on the internet, but we thought getting more people on a VPN was worth the risk.
Here's someone else taking a http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2014/01/21/brand-new-new-worl... go at the paper, too.
> Apparently the highest gain antenna NASA has is 61.7 dbi at the relevant frequency.

Don't forget angular resolution. Because of the antenna's geometry, it's misleading to describe its gain without also mentioning that the gain applies to a very small angle -- which, depending on the circumstances, may be a great advantage if it needs to reject interfering sources.
Can you possibly link the script more prominently, with a suggestion that folks run it themselves? I found it easily enough, but I was also browsing with the primary intention of finding out what it was you were running on the servers, not as someone looking to make a VPN.
Life's too short to worry about whether somebody can tell one piece of technology from another.
Thanks for the concise summary that saved me from having to click through the click-baity headline.
Can you compare Krita and MyPaint[1]? (In terms of features, completeness, UI, etc.) From the video, it seems that Krita is a bit more advanced, with image transformations, texture tiling and probably other features. But both programs are digital painting applications, much more than GIMP, which is a generic graphics editor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPaint
Luckily, there are ways to get better without actually coding.

1) Watch every confreaks video on youtube. You probably won't remember any of it (I don't). That's good. It's not being filed away in your memory, it's slowly changing the way you think. (Optionally) listen to these instead, preferably while playing a mindless video game. If that doesn't do it for you take up knitting.

2) Read the entire documentation for a language, front to back. And it's going to be ruby. First the core: www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/ Then the library: www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/ It won't make any sense at first, so read it again. Repeat until you think you could create whatever you wanted, in Ruby, provided you had those references in hand.

3) Do not spend another second entertaining thoughts that your code sucks or something. If you have time to think about such things, you have time to read.

4) Don't create side projects until you're confident that you can complete them, since fear of failure is too great an obstacle. Instead, make it a priority to read programming blogs. Don't say they don't make sense, it's irrelevant. Again, this is changing the internal language of your brain and setting you up for sudden "aha" moments later (trust me).

5) Don't waste time considering the relative merits of languages/frameworks. I just gave you a language: Ruby. Use rails. Don't be persuaded otherwise until you are equipped to make a decision for yourself (I'm really not yet either). Ten other people would give you ten other starting recommendations, and all of them are grand. But someone has to make the call, so I'm making it.

6) Don't not program. If you have spare time, literally writing hello world over and over is better than not programming.

7) This is going to suck. Everything about it will suck. Your code... will suck. But you don't have the luxury to acknowledge that fact. Doing so means instant defeat. 90% of getting anywhere is convincing yourself that you are incapable of failure, like some kind of superhuman coding god. If you can shut out all mental opposition to your success, you will get there much faster.

Oh, and your boss can suck a bag of skittles. Don't listen to that jerk, (s)he wants to keep you from realizing your true potential and going elsewhere, because whatever kind of hellish whipping-boy type development role you've had the misfortune of getting stuck in is going to be hard to fill.
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They say they need to use the DSN to do the comms. This is a set of three stations, in the US, in Spain, and in Australia, that has a 70 meter dish each, plus some 34 meter dishes.

Here is a pic of the 70 meter dish:

http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/images/picture_70_bw_lg.jp...

It's not regular ham equipment in many ways, obviously. Besides power, aperture, and accurate pointing, which have been mentioned here, there is also the need to hand off transmitting/receiving as the Earth rotates. You also need a receiver and transmitter velocity model to adjust for Doppler.

People are not giving the difficulty of this problem adequate respect.
http://krita.org/faq/item/16-krita-features contains some information on the features supported by Krita, including 16 bit per channel colorspaces (including Lab, a much-vaunted Photoshop feature). Krita is also available with support for OpenColorIO, and integration into the asset pipelines found e.g. in VFX studios is part of its mission statement (support for Photoshop's file formats has been steadily increasing along the way).

You're entirely correct about Krita's focus on painting (a focus it has greatly benefited from; see also my other comment), but it turns out the kinds of foundations required by a good painting application offer utility in many use cases.
Something's amiss. Why is a fund created to solve a problem that no one seems to have discovered? From another article regarding this:

"No one was sure, on Thursday, just what those practical applications would be."

This is all positive on the surface but somewhat shallow on the inside. First world problem?
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Well reading through their site it seems it gets some categories of facts right nearly all the time, and some categories it does poorly at. This should be expected because some things are hard to understand even for a human, especially if you don't already know a lot about the subject. However it does seem to assign a confidence estimate to every fact it learns. So it does get some facts wrong, but at least it knows what probability there is the fact is wrong and doesn't assume it is 100% true.
The previously linked pdf puts the up/downlinks around 2.0/2.2GHz; the same band used for the Apollo missions, which figures given the era (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_S-band).

Currently, the entire Deep-Space Network is on ~8.4GHz.

Re-equipping a multinational network for S-band could quite possibly a significant budgetary issue given how little love have been NASA getting in recent years.
It's not just that. Investment projects to increase oil output are having costs going through the roof :

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230327770... (just an example)

But it's not just that EREOI in Saudi Arabian oil is projected to be at most 10 currently (down from > 30). While that's not that serious, it is decreasing exponentially and a value of < 5 would be catastrophic. Most other projects are far worse off.

(Why ? At EREOI of 10 you have to "waste" 11% of oil, up from 4% at 30. However at 5, the factor becomes 25%, at 4 it's 33%, at 3 it's 51%, at 2 it's 100%), note that current total reseve oil output is 2% at best, and minimum depletion rates are 7%.

Here's the net problem : the world will run out of oil in 6 months - 12 months. The US has a stay of execution though, but not for long : 2-3 years at most, and the US will need to implement protectionist measures to keep oil at a reasonable rate. Given what happened every other time we have a few percent drop in oil availability, I'm expecting a total stock crash and a new crisis by the end of the year.
Pushing to production as we speak. :)
There's literally nothing an Uber driver can do that I would see as "above-and-beyond".
The food metaphor definitely overcomplicates this. Translation:

1. The citizens of the Bay Area for years have limited new housing development, complaining they could change the "character" of their neighborhoods, for the worse.The limitation is baked into the democratic process at the local level.

2. There arent enough homes to accomodate the job growth and influx of people (both renting and buying)

3. Jobs are growing and workers are moving in, competing with longtime citizens and each other for a limited amount of housing (and groceries, and parking, and public transportation, and city services etc).

So it gets more expensive. We protest buses, but long after the buses are paid for, homes will still be expensive.

Whatever we do, we need more homes.
Yeah. I want everyone give themselves a pat on the back for the quality of this discussion. Jeezas.
Turning off the underground cellular repeaters you own and maintain is not the same thing as remote-bricking someone else's phone.
Yeah you're right :)
Thanks, I'll have a look at the talks.
Why stop there? You can thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand.
That's just the kind of thinking that hasn't worked for anyone yet. It didn't work for Rome or anyone since. The collapse always comes when the public coffers are drained.

"if government deficit spending increases stimulate economic expansion"

Which it didn't and hasn't - the best times in our economy were when the government spent and taxed less (e.g. 1946 & 1948 fiscal changes).

"the tax funds to pay for the spending can be produced by the spending"

No, they cannot and that's just twisted logic - you cannot spend your way out of debt
"vpns are too painful to set up for everyone else"

Its been a long time i did not not see as much bullshit. In linux, its as simple as going into the vpn tab of your connections, entering your username, password and crt file, and you are done.
They forgot to include the part where there's a neighborhood that's 10 minutes away by train with no meal restrictions, but the Junpero-ans don't want to eat there, because it isn't a popular place to eat, and it's harder to eat with their friends. They'd rather pay outrageous prices to eat in Junipero than get on a dirty train.

Also, let's not forget all the tiny, artisinal birdcage companies that are buying up a non-trivial percentage of the available meal credits on the black market, so that they can feed their employees free lunches during the daytime. Maybe as many as 40% of the meals being served in some neighborhoods are being used for birdcage company cafeterias.

But really, this is a stupid metaphor, because in city that's less than 50 square miles, lack of available real estate isn't a manufactured problem.
> One of the key issues that nobody looks at when they talk about this is very distinctly a collective lifestyle choice: retirement living and who retirees live with. This is undoubtedly a collective lifestyle choice, and societies tend to fall in one of two groups: retire with the kids (the international norm) or retire with the spouse.

Children being the primary source of retirement support is the norm whenever there isn't a strong social support network; it was pretty much a universal norm in the US until fairly recently historically. Strong social support networks change this, and, by changing it, also change social incentives in a way which leads to a reduction in natural population growth.

> Russia is in the retire-with-the-kids category, and as a result they have a strong interest in maintaining a sort of traditional family structure that has all but disappeared in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, etc, namely the multi-generation household.

Being in the retire-with-kids category -- e.g., lacking strong public old-age support -- means they have a strong economic incentive for individuals to behave in a way which maintains that family structure, independently of people's natural inclinations. But it doesn't produce any justification for other people to discriminate against people who don't choose a lifestyle conducive to natural production of children, whether or not homosexuality is involved in it. After all, in such a system, your adult children's children are competing with you for resources when you retire.
Based on the article, the more accurate title would be "ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth not interested in spending money to reenable transmitter to it"
I said "And the civil rights movement was deeply socially disruptive for the Jim Crow South, just as the abolition of slavery was deeply socially disruptive for the antebellum South even earlier."

And you replied "If slavery is structured such that the interests are aligned well enough to politically constrain abuses..."

Well, yes. A situation which clearly did not pertain in the specific examples I gave, rendering the rest of your comment irrelevant. And if the oppression of gays in Russia was structured in a way that wasn't brutal, cruel, and a denial of basic human rights, it wouldn't be so terrible...and if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their ass when they hopped.

(I'm not going to even touch on your characterization of slavery in Rome, since it just doesn't matter. Your argument is that slavery was (somehow!) good for the Roman slaves, but unless you want to argue that the oppression gays are currently experiencing in Russia is somehow good for them too (please, I'd love to hear it!), then this entire example is a pointless derailment. Which is why, incidentally, I was careful to specify slavery in the antebellum south, and not slavery in general. I am comparing two—three counting Jim Crow—situations that are unambiguously bad for the victims, and I think you wouldn't be so desperate to talk about Rome if you didn't realize this.)

TL;DR: You managed to write an awful lot while very carefully avoiding every point I made. My troll-o-meter is starting to flash...
Not once in that demo video did I see the usability monster leap out and try to stomp on anyone's balls. So it doesn't really invite comparison with the GIMP.
True ... and in this case, you don't have to worry about getting the spacecraft into space. The mechanical challenges are quite a bit simpler (steering antennas to track the space-craft). Perhaps we should make a high-level list of what needs to be done?

1) Find/track the spacecraft

2) Steer antennae to follow the spacecraft

3) Create transmitter and receiver hardware capable of communicating with the spacecraft's radio equipment (perhaps software radios).

4) Write software capable of handling the transmit and receive protocols.

5) Write software that captures the state of the spacecraft.

6) Write software that can control the spacecraft.

7) Decide where the spacecraft should go (hopefully, if we were to reestablish communications, perhaps NASA would help with the physics).

I think the bulk of the project consists of performing the research required to actually "speak the spacecraft's language". Fortunately, this part of the project is most conducive to crowd-sourcing and collaboration.
Krita and MyPaint share a common interest in implementing things like sophisticated brush engines and color mixing models, and MyPaint is strong there and has been an influence on Krita (perhaps also vice-versa, though I don't follow MyPaint as closely).

One difference might be that Krita existed as a project to write a raster graphics editor for years before deciding to double-down on painting, and did quite a bit of broad foundational work in that space, like aiming to operate colorspace-independently and implementing various general raster editing tools (e.g. a sophisticated layer and adjustment layer system). Krita retains those traits today, which I feel makes it broader in actual scope than MyPaint, which I think directly started out as a personal project to write a stylus-driven painting app and then grew out from there.
it's small-ball management, certainly not appropriate for a firm of their size and stature.

we've seen some crazy unprofessional behavior from armstrong before - the spot firing conference call is also classic amateur hour. not a good sign for AOL.
As someone who has briefly worked with FUSE for my own toy projects, that seems like it would run into a lot of unexpected difficulties. Programs seem to behave very oddly if their assumptions about a file-system are incorrect.
This is the most confusing thing I've read in a while.
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Fundamentally, we need to recognize that in a certain sense, San Fransisco is a Malthusian nightmare. Expanding population, limited resources. No matter what you do, someone will go without - that's just simple math.
To me the solution is clear: tear down the shitty Victorians and build skyscrapers instead. It made me terribly upset to see that the new buildings in Mission Bay are only 5-6 stories. Nothing that gets build in SF should be under 30 stories. We need living space and lots of it, so that prices come down.
They are referring to the server side of the setup process, which is painful.
61.7dbi, while it represents a peak rather than a more descriptive statistic, does go a ways toward describing 'angular resolution', or rather, how tight you can make the beam of the transmitter.

It's easiest to think about it thusly: You steal part of the power that would normally go out equally to a sphere ("isotropic radiator") and you redirect that power to a smaller part of the sphere. If you can successfully redirect the entire power into only half of the sphere (1 hemisphere), you get +3db. Keep slicing that in half and you add +3db each time.

61.7dbi gain necessarily means that the power felt at the center of the target is 1545883 times as powerful as it would be if you were using an isotropic radiator, given the same number of input watts. If you have successfully concentrated the power that much, something at the target's range isn't going to detect sidelobes much at all.

This isn't a technical summary - radiation patterns are never absolute step functions and there is indeed a distinction between peak power and usable area... it's just not as relevant as the huge number represented by 61.7dbi, for any remotely gaussian distribution of signal.
It's definitely true that more homes are needed no matter what, but as far as I can tell, just allowing more development isn't going to solve the problem for anybody who's already priced out of the market. For-profit developers who invest now will be building the current unit prices into their model (and starting with current/future building costs, which are higher than past/amortized building costs).

I think this is basically why when I've looked, I can't seem to find any examples where housing supply buildouts alone have dropped prices -- seems there's always a drop in demand based on changes in regional fundamentals that has to happen first.
> No, they cannot and that's just twisted logic - you cannot spend your way out of debt

If that was true, corporate finance would be a lot different.
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James, have to say that I have shared this notion. I stopped taking meetings a little while ago for this reason. I think this is a great experience that you have related here, and I love the conclusion you arrived at.
I hear you dan. Let me see what I can do.
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Special purpose hardware is faster than software, but it's generally much more expensive. It also doesn't allow for much experimentation or change. A general purpose computer can emulate anything any other computer can do, and designing software is much easier than designing hardware.
Which company continued to spend money in excess of its revenues and took out debt to compensate then somehow without increasing revenue above spending paid off its debt?
If I remember correctly, almost 10 years ago (or less?) Helicopter.swf, which was exactly (or even better imo) what Flappy Bird is now, was crazy popular.

Except we didn't have all the media around internet, we didn't have all those famous websites that talked about buzz, hype, memes...
But aren't the unexpected difficulties half the fun?

Yes. I expect many programs would have trouble, but you probably wouldn't have too much trouble making it work for typical non-interactive command line programs.

But the possibility game mechanics like making files appear after moving a file (an item in the game) into the directory (room) are really interesting.
Very nice! You could make the linked script a bit more prominent, but the API key way is a good tradeoff between security and convenience. I'd still use the script myself, but I know that most people wouldn't bother with it.
Many western pundits also poopoo'd their HSR efforts, now it's one of the busiest and best rail networks in the world.
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This is really interesting. I wonder if the lines have to be so solid, or if a similar effect could be accomplished without breaking the image so much.

Would a bunch of almost imperceptible lines work? What about a smallish change in colour saturation or similar?
Do you have any criticism more specific than that you don't like GIMP? Does Krita's interface closely mimic Photoshop's or what? What is your actual point?
I think it says that you should explain what you mean instead of just making vague hints.
I have 40...on 1 pc.. if you count all the pc's I can connect to via vnc...well we're breaching 100 lol.
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> Fundamentally, we need to recognize that in a certain sense, San Fransisco is a Malthusian nightmare. Expanding population, limited resources.

San Francisco's population is only a little above its 1950 population. Its not an example of uncontrolled, unsustainable growth.
Probably 33 operations in parallel since the original question was talking about parallelism.
We're totally OK with you using the script. :) Most people, especially those just looking for a way to be secure without knowing anything about the command line, was whom this tool was built for. Glad you liked it!
Increasing revenue -- and the source of that increase -- was part of what I pointed to. So your question is irrelevant.
> Do you have any criticism more specific than that you don't like GIMP?

I don't like GIMP specifically because of its user interface.
He took up Uber driving in the free time created by his resignation as CEO so I don't really understand your comment.
Why are you bringing up GIMP?
>Find a job with a company you like, and get some proper job gratification and self respect, please.

It's so easy! I wonder why he hasn't just done that before!?
How hard would it be for access to be granted to the DSN? The challenge to build the transmission equipment does not seem insurmountable nor even particularly hard.

It's the logistics and red tape to make it happen.

I'd also like to point out, that this satilite will be doing a near earth flyby - you could probably get away with something smaller, maybe even a 3.5m dish versus a you know, 70m dish.
Is there some courtroom subtlety going on that I'm unfamiliar with, or is the judge seriously taking for granted the idea that being a Communist is sufficient reason to be placed on a watchlist, and that the only injustice would be if you weren't really a Communist?
Fascinating. Does anyone know how or why the visual trick works?