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That's not why we call them incorporated. 'Body' or 'corpus' are synonyms for 'organization'. They are called corporations because the embody some coordinated effort, not because someone realized "hey, this organization seems to have a personality. I'll call it a corporation."
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why should taxpayers fund space toys?

They're scientific research, not 'toys'.
Article says, "On April 23, 2003, Tarpenning bought the domain name Teslamotors.com", but whois creation date shows 2003-04-03. Is that possible?
I don't get why you're being downvoted. I write Go professionally and I've been doing all of my work in Go for 2 years. I used Sublime/vim/emacs, and I'm very productive without an IDE.

Still, there are many features of IDE's I wish we had, like extensive refactoring. I was making heavy use of those in Java.

It's very easy to write software that manipulates Go code, so I know it's just a matter of time before all those equivalent (and more!) tools get out. So much that I feel a lot more productive in Go today than I ever was in another language before. Go works really well without an IDE, but just imagine how much more you could get done with an environment that ships out of the box with comprehensive tooling for refactoring, debugging, profiling, etc.

I think it's counter productive to not acknowledge, or be dismissive, of what comprehensive IDE support can provide to your productivity in a stack. Tooling in Go is awesome, but there are gaps. Debuggers and more-than-gorename refactorings are to big bullet points in my personal list.

[edit]: OP was being downvoted when I wrote this.
> The politics of this are interesting, and IMO related to the decline of the PC as a platform.

Why would this signal the death of PC? If anything this is most closely related to the death of Windows Server, since a ton of application development is done via the web.
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I just can't stay out of the debate no matter how much I try to.

I am as well-rehearsed in financial history as anyone. I have read about LTCM, Nick Leeson (I even watched the movie), etc. In these situations there was so much size being used that if any unexpected squeeze scenario occurred, those guys would move the markets and cause a horrible chain reaction.

I understand on the surface this totally looks like I'm trading in a "eat like a chicken, shit like an elephant" type of fashion. If I were in your shoes and I read "guy made x, x, x consistently and lost 20x one time!!!" I'd be thinking along the same lines. The difference is, I had more control of my outcome. It's hard to prove this and you won't totally believe me unless you are also a day trader who grinds it out and has a feel for intraday liquidity and slippage (particularly on the otc/pink sheets). I wasn't trading such a large size where I would move the market if I was squeezed out. The risk distribution of intraday scalps is not at all similar to writing naked options with unlimited loss.

It's like this:
normal trade: entry signal occurs. get in. exit signal occurs. get out.
the trade in particular: exit signal occurred and i chose to ignore it and keep scaling in. would there have been awful slippage? yeah but it would have manageable. in the heat of the moment on the largest loss ever, 10-15c slippage on a $4 stock massive size feels like the end of the world but it's better than riding it down 50c or a point.
Not sure if you're trolling...

http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html for some. A comment above has many others listed.
It may be a bit premature to say that, though 2014 looks to be the year that I started liking Microsoft again.
> Does it?

Yes.

You say you want choice, but if you didn't have a browser how would you download the browser of your choice? Osmosis? Or, more importantly how would your average user download their browser?

Every OS since then (OSS or not) has shipped with a browser and has made it the default for any API rendering that needs to occur (e.g. Ubuntu, Android, OS X, Windows, iOS, Firefox OS, etc).

Netscape's business model would have held the internet back significantly. If Microsoft was forced to provide IE on a CD and sell that CD for $40 then frankly it could have held the internet back at least five years.
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Quick poll. How much would you need to be paid to accept a job at HP. 100k, 150k, 300k,...etc.
Nations have a long history of funding exploratory ventures. It is generally understood that the process is useful for a variety of reasons: it creates jobs, there is a small chance that something practical could be discovered, and most importantly it satisfies a basic human need to know more. With this mission in particular, we may be able to answer some very fundamental questions about the arrival of organic compounds (or even life) on Earth...surely that's worth spending some money on?

You have the right to feel however you want, but a world without curiosity would be pretty sad; the internet wouldn't even exist for us to have this discussion.
Not really if you understand how large corporations work. I think Nadella being a former dev and understanding the importance of it has a lot to do with it.
I'm thinking the same thing, and adding that they launched it 10 years ago... and had to avoid planets and other space junk while doing a crazy orbit until it could fling of to meet the comet at a precise location... But I wonder if engineers can change things a bait after launch with thrusters?
I wouldn't call that an insult, much less a passive-aggressive one. Maybe it's time to get a bit of fresh air; the world's not out to get you.
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There is a way. Their source may have been well organized and license problems known already.
So effectively, you want to subsidise scientists working on some arbitrary aim (Space exploration), in the hope they'll invent cool stuff you can spin off...

I don't think you need to subsidise science like this.

Did we really get "propelled" into new age of technology half a century ago? Did the moon landing really change anything here on earth? Technology would have advanced just fine without it.
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To be fair massive interest in this is expected given Hacker News' population.
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Why? Do you disagree with the concept of voting with your wallet?

How else can you get companies to listen to your needs? And my needs as a developer and a user are simple - I need my privacy, an open web and a healthy open-source ecosystem. And I'll vote with my wallet and I'll bitch against any company that has a problem with that - and I'll also encourage alternatives that cater to my needs.

The world would be a much better place if all people behaved like this IMHO - oh, so are the shareholders a company's top priority? Not my problem.
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This is absolutely true but even in the present Microsoft has anything but clean hands:

http://euobserver.com/political/125868

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

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2466540/software/munich-...

And on and on.
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Wasn't F# already open source? And it runs on Mono.

This does bump F# up quite a bit in my estimation, though; I never loved that Mono was a reimplementation of a proprietary platform.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8594652 for more discussion on this.
While I'm sure there was an "idiots list" at some point, this is the kind of criticism that science has had to put up with for a while. Governments understand by now that it's well worth it to invest in research, even research that doesn't have obvious immediate benefits.

The LHC took over $13B to discover Higgs. It's a bit of a stretch to call it a discovery, it was really a confirmation of what we were already pretty sure of. But, that money didn't just disappear; it went into building a tech industry which is pretty valuable to have. And a better understanding of our universe has a funny way of being really useful down the road.
Roseta mission is 1 400 000 000 euro. London summer olympics costed almost 10 000 000 000 euro. Consider the benefits.

Landing on comets and knowing what materials are there (and how to detect that from distance) will eventually let humanity explore solar system. In next 10000 years it's almost sure there will be at least one global cataclysm (huge asteroid impact, ice age, global warming, methane-producing bacteria boom, some supervulcaon could go off). It's just statistics, we're in borrowed time anyway.

How much would you pay to save human race?
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Love Visual Studio. If a Mac/Linux version is provided, that's perfect for me.
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Actually, the vast amount of features in C# isn't improving readability. But MS can't just throw out the bad half of features, which makes C# practically unimprovable. Scala has a similar problem.
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Good luck pushing that opinion amongst elites who are more likely to be the beneficiaries of space program spending than the victims of austerity.

Space exploration for it's own sake is a self-perpetuating relic of the cold war.
Visual Studio with ReSharper is also great (when working with C# code). It really makes you develop code faster. I suppose CodeRush works equally well.
Next up (hopefully): Windows core subsystems (basically everything minus the GUI shell, a la Darwin)
Netscape killed itself.
Can anyone clarify for me, does this include WPF?
I remember I wanted to run a few apps off github on linux and they used WPF, which mono doesn't support.

Otherwise mono seemed to run pretty much everything i threw at it. Can someone with .NET experience clarify for me what this will enable that mono doesn't (yet)?

In other words, if .net will continue to be riddled with windows only API's I'm not really interested.

The article seemed to mostly focus on the server side of things, but I'm not really sure if they can pull many devs over to writing application servers on .net. It will be hard competing against Java there.
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The Last-Modified header for the image is from 18 July 2014 so they could certainly have passed 500K over the last few months.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
Microsoft people correct me if I'm wrong - but this feels like a decision Ballmer never would have let pass?

This feels huge to me as someone that has always been on *nix variants but that has been told the .Net environment is amazing as long as you're willing to pay/work on Windows. I still probably won't switch over to C# or F# any time soon but it's good to know I could actually work on a WinMo app if needed.
FTP? Wget? Xmodem? Does it even matter? It's not as if downloading a piece of software without a browser is an impossibility. About 99% of the software on the machine I write this on has been downloaded using something called a package manager and the boot CD that started the process was downloaded as a torrent. No browser required.

> Netscape's business model would have held the internet back significantly. If Microsoft was forced to provide IE on a CD and sell that CD for $40 then frankly it could have held the internet back at least five years.

You can't make statements like that. This is the reality we live in, there is no undo/redo/replay so we only have data about this reality. What would or could have happened if things had not gone the way they did is immaterial, for all you know we'd have moved faster rather than slower. We just do not know. What we do know is that Microsoft engaged in illegal anti-competitive behavior, and that they continued this for quite a while after they were already convicted using their lobbying power to get-out-of-jail free.

People were downloading files long before browsers were commonplace.
You cannot use Community to make enterprise software. Enterprise software described the entirety of the people willing to drop $2,000+ a year to use Visual Studio.

This won't impact their primary market, especially when you consider that MSDN subscriptions are often considered the primary benefit of using Visual Studio.
Thanks, looks cheaper than Fisher for some things.

For the antibodies, do you have any validation data? Or, could you provide trial sizes priced under $50 (or free)? I think the $100 savings vs Abcam/Life Tech/CST etc. are negated by the lack of validation data and lack of brand recognition.
You could try http://www.wavemaker.com/
It's heartwarming to see that Microsoft is using AngularJS
Wow, it's great that this only requires Windows 7. Its predecessor requires Windows 8, which I just installed today purely for the purpose of having Visual Studio. My only criticism is I wish it had come out half a day earlier...
Probably because,

A), it was an uncalled-for digression into language wars, and

B), now that we're here anyways, a lot of us think the majority of features in scala and Haskell for that matter are fundamentally misguided. My goal is not to write elegant code, but to write the least complex code with the lowest cognitive overhead. TCO, 10x the man-hours in maintenance and all that. If the choice is between having to write null-checks or having to understand category theory to read my code, I'll take the null-checks.
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Sure. There will be a SERVICE CHARGE of $125 for custom debug assistance services.

(Sorry, you can't expect end users to debug your product. That's your job. It's probably because I'm using Flashblock and Ghostery to block ads and tracking, and Mozilla tried something those won't allow. I don't have time to debug every defective web site.)
Visual Studio doesn't run on the .NET runtime entirely and uses WPF. Thus all of the C++ logic and WPF itself would need to be ported for that to happen.
Does space exploration has the potential to transform civilization? Yeah it actually does. It represent funding in research, it represent dreams, it represent our future. It's also an amazing collaborative project between countries.

Also let not forget that NASA only represent 0.5% of the US federal budget. Do you really want to lower your federal tax by 0.5%? Seriously? Please lower your entertainment budget, stop alcohol and coffee consumption and donate all that money to a charity. If you actually believe that 0.5% should be put somewhere else because you doesn't believe they really transform civilization, then all that money that you use would probably be better somewhere else too.
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One theory is that intelligence is largely inherited by way of the X chromosome oh which men have one while women have two. So with women things are more likely to average out a bit more.

I know almost nothing about this subject and this theory could very will be bullshit. Just something I've read.
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Your point is not unfounded, and it's our duty as research scientists to justify the value you receive for your money.

There's a famous example where a US Senator asked a similar question of a research physicist prior to the establishment of Fermilab, specifically tailored toward defense application [1].

SENATOR PASTORE. Is there anything here that projects us in a position of being competitive with the Russians, with regard to this race?

DR. WILSON. Only from a long-range point of view, of a developing technology. Otherwise, it has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things that we really venerate and honor in our country and are patriotic about.

In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.

To address your concerns more directly: Basic and exploratory research pushes scientists to extract the very highest performance one can get from known technology. On occasion, that technology can do something exceptional (precision timekeeping, GPS, vaccines, medical imaging, etc.). The highly-motivated people who do this work tend to be willing to do it at low salaries and with limited chance for advancement, simply because they love the field. You can think of it as a low-cost government-run VC fund that aims for the occasional spectacular payoff at multi-decade timescales.

Another key benefit is education: research funding underpins the post-graduate education of most people in the physical scientists. Funding basic research, which companies won't usually touch, furthers the continuous supply of a top-notch skilled workforce for industry nationwide.

Furthermore, in many fields, retaining a trained and knowledgeable corps of scientists is an efficient way to retain the capability to respond to sudden and important societal needs (Manhattan Project, Ebola, asteroid mitigation, Fukushima, etc.).

I'm biased, as taxpayer dollars pay for my work, but I think you're getting a reasonable-to-excellent return on your investment.

[1] http://history.fnal.gov/testimony.html
I didn't realize there were non-outlets there. The prices are strange--I've bought a handful of items, and they were all stickered at or below nearby retail, but when they rang them up, the actual price was even lower. While I love to get a deal, I prefer to know what the deal is before I hit the register. Anyway, that should be a good location, easy access from three interstates and a couple major trunk highways, but then, that's where Cedarvale was, and that died a slow painful death too.
Well, they do now and from what we've seen funding space research leads to loads of technology. We already have innovation/invention centers, but having loads of people focused on one incredibly hard task will bring out lots of awesome stuff.
Part of the problem is that we're trying to cram every developer in the world into a 7x7 grid and a small corridor down the peninsula.

It's the way of the sheeple: "Everyone else is doing it, so I should too". In this age of instant communication and remote work, there really is no other reason than herd mentality.
That's the Metaverse. That's what it does.
So I guess the pitch is: imagine C# async/await could be "just a library", and other contexts that you wanted to handle similarly could also be a library, and the resulting functions are first-class citizens in the type system (no awkward choices of whether a particular function is async or not, you can handle that generically).

That's true in F# -- async is just a library in a computation expression.
You're kidding right - this would have lowered my taxes by about 20 cents a year, or 3E50 total. Careful not to spend it all at once. So much for lowering taxes.

Simply put, Rosetta's budget was about 70m Euros per year over 20 years. That's like funding maybe two schools, or one hospital ward, spread over the whole EU. None of these enrich humanity as much as Rosetta is.

As for employment, well, the project is creating exactly the right sort of jobs for the European economy - that money is being spent in Europe, helping to usefully occupy the European aerospace industry, and thereby keeping engineers and scientists in work.
Honestly, Mercurial is just better than Git -- the only reason I switched away from it is because Github. Constantly contemplating switching back.
This looks fantastic - Google's emulator offering has always been so poor that I turned to Genymotion. The only shame is that we won't see the same for iOS, given that the simulator requires OS X.
Hijacking the top comment in this subthread to make a meta-complaint:

The comment-parents viewpoint is perfectly valid, but has been censored because of disagreement within the broader HN community.

For all the talk about "free speech" that HN does when the topic is, say, not objectifying women, or making racial minorities feel included in tech, it certainly seems to perform an about-face when confronted with... objecting to space science as a policy.

1. Doesn't it seem a little outlandish to have your priorities so far out of whack with respect to the number of non-whites in the world, versus the number of space scientists in the world?

2. Why should the comment-parent be flagkilled for expressing an unpopular opinion?
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Wow. The new Microsoft indeed.

If there are any MS people in this thread: I would pay for Visual Studio for Mac and Linux if I could also use its GUI designers on those platforms. If I could write a GUI front-end in C# and design it with VS and ship it for Windows, Mac, Linux, and possibly others, then I'd definitely pay money for that.

Right now we've got Qt, Java, and possibly HTML5+node-webkit for that, and none of those are anywhere near as good as MS's GUI tooling and IDE.
What languages have you got experience with that you feel C# is the best language you have worked with?

And what makes it such a good language for you?
What other arbitrary aims would you rather scientists work on, since all aims are arbitrary anyways? I don't think you really understand how scientific research works at all.

The engineering effort of NASA took a bunch of disparate scientific discoveries and pieced them together to land humans on the moon. Don't tell me you don't think that sparked major economic development in this country for decades. One of the largest reasons America is an international economic powerhouse is the space race and the need for technological innovation during the cold war.

The entirety of humanity has been involved with exploring our curiosities. Exploring our curiosities tends to lead towards societal/scientific progress. Space is one of those.
"Nobody is forced to do anything" is a very lame argument, because it is quite obvious that systemd is effectively being forced on the Linux world, because it has become a dependency of Gnome. Other distributions besides Red Hat will make their life very difficult if they don't implement systemd as well, so yes, practically, systemd is being forced upon Linux users. You could of course continue the argument by saying that nobody is forced to use Linux, or even a computer, but it gets silly.
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I don't think your comment really deserves a response but here I am anyhow. It doesn't take much research to see the amazing discoveries that originated from NASA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

Subsidizing research, no matter what that research is, offers tremendous value to society, and we've benefited immensely from it!
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Microsoft had designed .NET to be independent of platforms. But the strategy advices they got were mostly wrong; so they did not release it for other platforms. Open Source alternatives existed (Mono) but due to unavailability of committed support enterprises did not endorse it. Now there is very little hope that the *NIX users will now use .NET languages.

It was a great platform though. I was impressed by the it when I first went to Teched in year 2002.
It really sounds like you're trolling. If you're actually trying to have a debate in good faith, please read back over your posts and edit them to reflect that. Using dismissive language such as calling space probes "toys", or space exploration "some arbitrary aim" doesn't help your cause - it makes you sound juvenile, defensive, and bitter.
You find C# harder than this?

trait SeqLike[+A, +Repr] extends Any with IterableLike[A, Repr] with GenSeqLike[A, Repr] with Parallelizable[A, ParSeq[A]] { self =>

or

def :+[B >: A, That](elem: B)(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, That]): That
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