skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which would power the Dragon V2 capsule, exploded during an Aug. 22 test flight. Musk said afterward in a Twitter post: “Rockets are tricky.”"

Am I the only one who finds this a bit misleading? That was a highly experimental version of the 9 that failed. And it failed while trying to do something no rocket this size has ever done. It seems that would be worth mentioning.

Next paragraph:
"The Atlas V boosters chosen by Boeing have a flawless record launching high-priced military payloads."

...yet the google finds me this:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1222
"Two top secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) ocean surveillance spacecraft were fired into the wrong orbit June 15 when the 200-foot-tall Atlas V rocket they were riding on stopped firing too early in space following launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla."

I guess I'm not surprised the media is uninformed (or biased) but it still ticks me off enough that I feel the need to point it out.
The FAA is flushing a multi-billion dollar industry down the toilet with their ridiculous restrictions on this gigantic, growing drone craze. Most of these things weigh a couple pounds and are mostly harmless (definitely less than, say, a baseball hitting you). I'm glad I live in Europe.
What about the source code for Episodes 1-3?

Don't let the Vorticons win!!

I'll never forget the day I discovered the Vorticon alphabet in episode 3. Mind blown.
I'm sorry to hear you've had a frustrating experience. The governance model should be outlined in the CONTRIBUTING.md file located in the repository which should address the concerns.

There are project maintainers that are not on the Docker, Inc. payroll, and getting anything committed requires the approval of at least 2. We actually consider this a litmus test for our involvement with the ecosystem, and it's fundamentally a great thing.

As for the issue at hand, I personally understand desire on both sides. I have been frustrated multiple times by the lack of being able to have multiple Dockerfiles per repo as a simple example. On the other, providing strict guarantees about context ensures true portability of Dockerfiles.

What I will say, is that this is a topic we talk about a lot, whether it be on the issues themselves or in IRC. It's tough to get the right balance.
Yes. RSS is still primarily how I get my news.

As for how, I built my own reader: https://github.com/edavis/river

It generates a roughly reverse chronological "river of news" (http://rsshub.org/feeds/) via a config file I host on Dropbox (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19853263/Feeds/feeds.txt).

If I may brag, I'm pretty damn happy with how it turned out.
A lisp machine!
Been working on this with Adrian for the last 3.5 months. Happy to answer any questions if I can.
They both look like they have a trailing slash to me.
Keen was amazing, I hope we see more of them released like this... IMO Keen Dreams was the worst of the lot.
A Hedge Fund Wants to Cut Jobs at Olive Garden
The all new Ninefold dashboard
Isn't much of the UK's nuclear arsenal also in Scotland?
That said, I don't find it likely that someone will sue you for saying, "we need someone who has more experience with <language/framework> or <type of project>", which is what many rejected candidates are looking for when they ask why they are being passed on. I mean, on what grounds would they sue?
Agreed, it's likely what you say is the perception. But the thing is:

> The ideal (from their perspective) is that there is only one way to do a particular thing

The lack of useful tools like generics (and others) means there is no single way to do a particular thing: things must be duplicated everywhere (or ugly workarounds to avoid doing so must be employed, like casting from Object or using interface{} or whatever). Surely the benefits of better tools outweigh their inconveniences, even in a corporate environment? This is not a nerdy programmer's whim, but a major software engineering principle of direct consequences for any business.

Taken to an absurd extreme, you can simply copy & paste code everywhere -- that's the simplest programming model there is, and even the most junior of programmers can handle it without having their learning skills taxed in any way. It just leads to maintenance hell, which is why it's frowned upon even in corporate environments.
Jazz Jackrabbit and Commander Keen on a gravis gamepad are second in nostalgia only to playing the original Test Drive [1] and Stunts [2] on a crappy old joystick...

crap. Also playing Jet [3] on the same joystick.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Drive_(video_game)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(video_game)
Here is a good rule of thumb. Three feet is about the swing of a car door. If you can park next to another car and your passenger can get out without denting the car next to you that's three feet.

I commute by bike daily and 100s of cars a week manage to pass me safely. It is not that hard and has been common sense for 99% of all drivers who pass me even before this law. It is that one super-sized SUV who passes me with mere inches to spare while going 50 in a 35 zone.
Doesn't really reference mooning, I guess:

https://github.com/keendreams/keen/blob/master/kd_keen.c#L15...
Now it only needs a decent editor.

(I'm sorry)
From a quick skim of the algorithm paper, here's what I understand of how it picks "high assimilation score" people:

1) look at all links to mutual friends; categorize friends based on their connectedness to different clusters (ie, "school friends", "work friends", etc.)
2) look for friends who are mutual friends with people from multiple clusters (people who know both your family and your coworkers -- "bridge friends")
3) look especially for friends who are friends with multiple people from category 2 (people who know most of your bridge friends)

The assumption seems to be that people who are peripheral friends will only know others from one circle. People who are somewhat close will know others from multiple circles. And people who are the closest to you will know a lot of your multi-circle friends.

(FWIW: this put my wife well ahead of anyone else, but the rest of the ordering seems barely better than random. A guy I played video games with a couple times back in 1998 is #2 by a large margin; the guy from the same video game who my wife and I hang out with several times a week and who co-runs some major projects with us scores less than 1/4 of that. My dad clocks in just behind the new youth pastor at my church who I've known for all of two weeks.)
pretty affordable compared to most enterprise software packages
132-51 | IMS | Implementation Ninja Services
You can get ~5$ for doing the same thing with the app Mobee
It's hard to find prices for Atlas, even more so for the so-far-unflown dual engine Centaur version which CST-100 uses, but it's clear that it's a lot more expensive than a Falcon 9.
King Vim is not amused :P
We're using it. (OpenDNS)
Http://www.nickbarron.co/why-apple-watchs-success-may-depend-on-mom/
Happened to me a few days back. I quit, but was asked to leave pronto.

1. I've been using a password manager I purchased. That was the first thing I uninstalled.

2. Unlink DropBox. Delete the DropBox folder.

3. 4-years is a pretty long time. If I ended up using my work laptop for personal stuff (for instance a friend asks me to review their resume, scanned docs, pictures, rental applications etc.), I create a folder called personal that I can delete. Usually this would be under my DropBox folder anyway.

If I get walked out (i.e. I don't have access to my computer), I wouldn't know what to do. Ideally you would expect IT to wipe the hard disk and re-image the whole disk. I'm not sure it happens as often as it should.
Had to press F10 and one of the debug keys (eg. J for Jump cheat)

https://github.com/keendreams/keen/blob/f477cef79f0893420f47...
My friend's dog can open the door, walk in, and close it behind him. Let's see a dolphin do that!
My Not-So-Smart Smart Home
MxNitro – probably the fastest web browser by Maxthon
Well, maybe. Which part of the story is important is largely a matter of context. If the topic of discussion were his children, yeah, changing the subject to how he got one over on his wife would be kind of disturbing. If the topic were his wife, expressing satisfaction at how he got one over on her when she was at her most "evil" seems pretty normal.
If I can get a laptop with a e-ink display (or build one using a raspberry pi) this is my dream setup for when I am writing.
Which is why Golang has exploded recently: it gives you static typing security of Java with a coding workflow of an interpreted language.

What I personally find wrong with Java is the extreme verbosity of the language, the verbosity of maven (it's the only build system I've used for Java), the extreme memory consumption for little benefits and generally the Architect Astronaut mentality that is so easily associated with Java.

[0] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Zelda Timeline. Coming 2015
It's on the "we'd like to get to that sometime" or "pull requests accepted" list. It's not on the immediate roadmap unless we get a contribution from someone that needs it. Internally we don't have so much c/c++ that people can't just use traditional tools.
Could you go into more detail? As in, I'm not sure if you're replying about administration, contract awards, or tech; all of which would be interesting to read more on.
I'm sure that is happening, but do kickbacks to the artist really make up a majority of the fees? I find that surprising.
The variables are here, though...

https://github.com/keendreams/keen/blob/f477cef79f0893420f47...
Penrose gave a talk at the Royal Institution about his periodic filings. Well worth a watch: http://youtu.be/th3YMEamzmw

It's light on math and heavy on hand-drawn transparencies being lined up on an overhead projector. He has these inscrutable registration marks that he matches by hand -- reminds one of the alien code in the movie Contact.

One of my favorite parts concerns some mysterious scribblings by Kepler that seem to presage his work!
I think it makes sense that your wife (or SO) would score very highly; if someone is close to you, you typically introduce them to friends, family, co-workers.

A more interesting question would be to ask if it has any predictive power.

Though, also, FWIW, I can't get it to run (getting an error already reported in another comment).
This is real hacker news!
Or as the Cowboy Junkies put it: you can always see it comin', but you can never stop it. (Bea's Song)

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/cowboy-junkies/beas-song--r...
I laughed even though I'm a dedicated emacs user.
Agreed - if ever there was an example of why performance matters on a web app. I gave up after the spinner was still spinning after I had navigated away and back (and replied to 5 emails)
> For decades now, dolphins and dogs have vied for the title of most intelligent animal.

According to what source? What are chimpanzees, chopped liver?
You can use the NetBSD drivers pretty much anywhere including in another kernel - see http://rumpkernel.org/ - and they are already using NetBSD userspace code in Minix. I was planning to talk to them at eurobsdcon about this, after a few mailing list conversations.
Half right. They're using for the benefits you cite, but taking a much higher than indicated dose (based on Yonatan Zunger's fascinating G+ thread on this topic).
Yes, Europe, known for its lack of reactionary restrictions on useful technologies.
Yeah, I hate svbtle for exactly that reason. Despite kudos being a thoroughly meaningless number, the kudos widget makes me feel like I'm nine years old and I just fell for the "a sphincter says what?" trick.
Yeah it seems like it is also a bit zero sum - the higher your 1st match is the lower the rest will be.

This probably happens because if your partner has a large number of connections to the other important people in your life, your partner (/person with most connections to all the various groups) then absorbs all of those people, leaving only people with no connection to those groups to take up the runner up spots.
I am excited to see where this goes. I really like that NASA is getting out of the way of things that drag down its scientific ventures.
Docker Said to Be Valued at $400M in Funding Round
> Having set up all three of those, I can say that getting a correctly functioning Postfix or Exim takes just as long as getting a correctly functioning Sendmail. All of them have a lot of arcane options.

You are either a genius at sendmail, or incompetent at Exim and Sendmail.
I assume that's removing primates from the running where there are probably a dozen species to mention.
Yes, there are a great many present fishing practices which are unsustainable, virtually all of them industrial. It's one of the great ecological tragedies of the 20th century / industrial age.

However primitive / simple line-fishing and small-net fishing have been practiced, sustainably, for thousands of years.
Also I believe you could make the object files (before linking) available on your website, and you'd still be fine. If I'm wrong someone please correct me.
I've heard the same thing from their CMO when I spoke with him, but I think that in itself is just something they tell people.
A History of Misses for RadioShack
Any time. There'll be a full guide to the module system when I get some time...
"per core"
Aside from weapons I'm not sure that characterisation is fair.
Do you mind sharing a little about the nature of things that drove you to quit? What got the HR lady and VP-A and VP-B so angry? Who was at fault? Just trying to understand the situation a bit.
MxNitro is on a par with Google Chrome 37 in Numion YourSpeed 3 (http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed3/).

Its user agent string is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) MxNitro/1.0.0.500 Chrome/35.0.1849.0 Safari/537.36.

What is suspicious, it connects to a Chinese IP address 223.202.36.45.
Apple details content migration for Android switchers
$79.95 seems rather expensive for a Bluetooth keyboard as you can buy one from Amazon for only $11.57. Am I missing something?
Or you could have more reasonable traffic laws.
Just the fact alone that there is no systemd makes this an awesome distro!
I doubt any car dealership ever feels mildly dissatisfied after selling a car...
Not directly they don't, but once they stop signing requests for the older releases, the old OS version dies from attrition as full backups can't be restored from that rev anymore.
An old joke, but a good one.
Nice work.
You may want to mention HackerNews in the site title so that non-HN visitors will know what it is about - unless the omission was intentional.
Also recommendations solicitors for employment/contractor agreements (from both sides) with understanding of startups would be great too.
I've heard it's almost always the venue - but same thing. TM is happy to take the hate, they're used to it.
I'm not sure if that's was a feature of Keen Dreams; I definitely remember it was an easter-egg in Commander Keen 4, though. Normally, if you left Keen alone for a while, he'd pull out a book, sit down, and start reading it. However, in the Temple of the Moon, if you stood Keen on one of the moon-shaped carvings on the floor then left him alone, you'd get... a different animation.
Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard
It's weird that this article left out Skycatch and Airware.
What advantages does running a Toshi node hold over using one of the many cloud services that allow free public API access to basically the same endpoints?
Plominism: The Christian heresy that salvation is neither by faith nor by works, but 50% hereditary and 50% based on non-shared environment

https://twitter.com/slatestarcodex/status/500107441762074625
Pretty affordable considering many other things on the GSA don't work once you buy them!
Pfffp, dolphins didn't feel the need to invent doors in the first place.
Slightly related (from the same era). But the composer for the music for Unreal, Unreal tournament, Deus Ex, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit and others has a music bundle for sale.

http://loudr.fm/bundle/alexander-brandon-bundle/hq4hZ
Sobrr Inc. Closes $1.1M Funding from IDG Ventures
> I find it interesting that Boeing is constantly trying to get into every story that they made all their milestones on time.

The companies pretty much wrote their own milestones. Most of Boeing's milestones in the last part of the program were paperwork milestones vs SpaceX's milestones which involved actual testing.

The main ones SpaceX haven't completed yet, that they had as milestones for the last part of the program were pad abort test and in-flight abort test. Boeing are no where near doing those on the CST-100, SpaceX have them scheduled for November and January, respectively.

Just because they completed their milestones, doesn't mean they are ahead of SpaceX in total development. They are in fact far behind.
e-Ink is one of the worlds most underutilized technologies. I wonder why that is?
You can host it yourself.
https://github.com/sulix/keen-dreams-sdl2

The Linux port
I don't imagine that rate is even remotely significant. Restores (aside from buying a new phone) are extremely rare from what I see.
Big PC games are almost always written in C++.

The Phusion Passenger application server is in C++.

Node.js is in C++.
I'm working on the write up for this project at the moment. The best aspect of the language in my eyes is having a scriptable compiler with Haxe macros (macros themselves are also written in Haxe). In this project there's a macro that parses and extracts the variables from the shader glsl - so rather than the usual method for passing variables to shaders:

gl.useProgram(program);
mouseCoordLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, 'mouseCoord');

... then later during rendering ...

gl.useProgram(program);
gl.uniform2f(mouseCoordLocation, mouse.x, mouse.y);

With Haxe macros it becomes:

program.mouseCoord = mouse;

Best of all it works with autocomplete!
Checkout shaderblox by Sunjammer to try it for your self - it's quite experimental so in this project I'm using a fork with a few of the bugs patched https://github.com/haxiomic/shaderblox .It also supports fairly rudimentary shader inheritance which is terribly useful if you're not a fan of the rigidity of shader languages like glsl.

Alternatively, Ncannasse is working on a haxe-based shader langauge, hxsl which when ready will be my language of choice - not least because we'll be able to target glsl, AGAL and hlsl, maybe even Cg with a single codebase
Consider it a challenge. No real reason you couldn't implement it as well, though AFAIR there's no internal shell mode in vim (you shell out).
and octopus?
Nah. Luckily it can shell out, and /bin/cat is a decent editor in comparison.
The UK's fleet of 4 Trident submarines is based in a sea-loch (fjord) not far from Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. As you might expect, this isn't a particularly popular policy for a lot of people in Scotland.

A very interesting article on the UK's "independent" deterrent by Charlie Stross can be found at:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/on-the-u...
Why Ruby? (Nothing against it, just curious)
There seems now to be a cottage industry producing fuzzy, non-technical articles about machine learning and particularly deep learning. I guess we are now in the rapid inflation phase of the hype cycle.
I think it's a super idea. The reading/writing comment you made the other day really clicked for me.
Give the dolphin remote water-resistance buttons and i'm in!
Because it's not very nice to use. It feels unfinished and wonky. I do enjoy using my (high-end and fairly recent, Kobo Aura HD) reader, but fast path page turns degrade the rendition quality of type so quickly that I've set it to do a full refresh every two turns, and so get to put up with how slow and violent they are. It's the sort of tech that would send a cartoon Steve Jobs into a raging fit.

e-Ink feels like a prototype we're putting up with because it has some intrinsic conceptual advantages, but it never feels like it's fully there yet. It's probably the most utilized such technology I can think of (though perhaps I've just gotten more used to other tech's flaws). I'm happy we're willing to do that, really, but e-Ink is unsatisfying and needs to be better.
Joystick, feh! I played Stunts with a keyboard and I liked it. :D

Also, you forgot Scorched Earth [1].

[1] http://www.whicken.com/scorch/
WAY off for me. My top 10 include a good friends brother (whom I have very little contact with), and two people I dislike somewhat strongly and have had no contact with for at least 5 years.
You can probably guess it from context, but I had to look this up to be sure, so for the benefit of others: assortative mating is when you have kids with other people similar to you, rather than selecting mates randomly. In other words, in this case, people with high intelligence tend to marry other people with high intelligence, and people with low intelligence marry other people with low intelligence. This causes the variance in the distribution of intelligence to steadily increase, rather than everybody evening out over a few generations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8326845
Only one step left before it's truly a OS in its own right!
I told the Coinbase people to use Postgres for this two years ago, and they treated me like a crazy person for it. Assuming they arrived at this through my advice and not the inevitable catastrophe, glad they finally took my advice to heart.

The next problem is that they are still using EventMachine. Still think I'm a crazy person? Oh look, it's like I'm a well-received field expert on this topic or something http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/KyleDrake/hybrid-concurrenc...

Incase anyone's interested in being a developer at Coinbase, I'll save you some time: they're more interested in pedigree and whiteboard puzzles than science and code. Most disrespectful interview I have ever had in my 13 years of coding, and probably ever will have.
I mean that we're about three years out from having the means to launch astronauts into low earth orbit, a capability we had in 1962.
Yeah, I used to play "Test Drive" but then "Stunts" came out and it completely blew my mind what was possible with computers back then. I wasn't even 10.

Wikipedia says Don Mattrick, CEO of Zynga, was original designer of those two games? Consider me surprised.
It's kind of trite and obvious by now, but can we please kill the "Everyone gets what they deserve" line of thinking?
We're mostly a ruby shop here - so using what we know is more efficient and allows more engineers to contribute (both internally, and from an open source perspective).
A Practical Guide to Anomaly Detection for DevOps
They both look pretty plain to me. I mean, Musk can lay on some shiny metal here and there, but they're both soulless capsules. I really like the Dream Chaser; a 1/4th size STS that can be mounted on the tip of existing rockets is very tempting.

Plain is good. Plain (in this context) is correlated with reliable.

Here's the thing with the STS. The lifting-body design spreads a critical system component (the reentry system) over a large area, necessarily on the outside of the craft.

A capsule with a more conventional ablative re-entry heat shield is more durable and reliable. It is also protected for most of the mission. It can be engineered with plenty of design margin (at minimal weight penalty), to deal with unexpected circumstances. That makes for a good design.

The TPS on the STS has partially failed several times [1], and once catastrophically.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage
Why all these downvotes... I was just joking :/