skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best guess is that SpaceX had to buy a lot of land in the buffer region surrounding their testing facilities in McGregor, and they're just looking to put it to good use.

In addition to the direct income from farming, farming the land would maintain its eligibility for an "open-space appraisal" under Texas law, which would reduce its property taxes by changing the valuation methodology for the land. Although there are two types of agricultural property tax exemptions in Texas, only the open-space appraisal eligibility requirements allow the owner's principal source of income to be something other than farming.

Sources:
http://recenter.tamu.edu/pdf/1361.pdf
http://bigskyranchtexas.com/everything-you-want-to-know-abou...
I don't know whether I'm more excited about the fact that this could be an interstellar-themed joke, or that SpaceX is trying to do something interesting/ambitious in the farming industry.

I know companies are mostly in it to profit, but it's hard not to like/want to think the best of SpaceX
facebook is using php compiled to C++, and that's only for their frontend. Mind your anecdotal evidence :)
The problem is that for me it looks that whaterver is happening in JavaScript world it is not going forward.
More like running on the treadmill or just spinning around catching own tail. The note about gazillion MV* frameworks is spot on, and it still goes on, with no end in sight.
It can't. If you download the package you'll see it includes an example of patching PNG, as otherwise the CRC as the end of each block prevents afl from doing much at all.
How we built a new UI for Finder 2.0
A road is a bad example. The only reason a road is required is because of gravity.

I disagree with your hand wave of "software = art". Software is also bound by many constraints. Time (as you mentioned) is not trivial because it's the difference between useless and useful software. Memory also puts limitations in that can't be ignored.

Useful software runs on real machines bound by physics. Theoretical computer science can disregard the constraints to see what's possible, but that's CS and not SE.
Yeah, this post should be getting more love. Superb collection of resources. Thanks!
Yes, pretty poor usability to link two words only separated by a space, but terrible usability to extend that to linking two adjacent characters separately.
Do you know that there are JVM and CLR meta-circular implementations, right?

And that the reference implementations get less C++ code with each release.
If people are using an XML parser they're still ahead of the majority of the software business.

We have one partner that discovered a bug in our XML feed (developed by a consultant), the bug on surfaces because they actually use an XML parser. They're the first of our customers to find this bug, in 10 years. The rest simple view the feed as plain text.

The consulting company that did the feed generation original also have something against using XML parsers. The only code they have that doesn't just concatenate strings is a logging library (A library we asked them to stop using because ther way to doing XML logs are useless with Splunk and pretty much any other tools).
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Because the whole point of the OP is being able to use the same language for the whole stack.
Finderjs – Finder and file picker library for Firefox OS
That looks really neat. You ruined my day (in terms of productivity), but might've given me a nice early Christmas present. Thank you!
Yeah, "makes sense" and "reasonable" would be criteria involved in the debated I mentioned.
ART is a native backend.
You can start making money once you can get a customer's payload into low earth orbit. You want to achieve this initial revenue as soon as possible, by making the simplest orbit-capable rocket you possibly can, which would be a 2-stage (probably non-reusable) rocket with 1 engine per stage. An additional trade-off you can make if your company only wants to carry cargo, not people, is you could use solid instead of liquid fuel to simplify your rocket at the expense of danger.

I would start by planning your rocket architecture and your series of equipment builds, ground tests, and test flights, and leaving plenty of margin for when things inevitably go wrong (SpaceX's first 3 launches failed, so I wouldn't assume you yourself can do any better than 3 failed launches before your first success). Plan out the total cost of all of these builds and tests (including healthy (2X?) margin on the cost), and plan how much revenue you can generate once you start having paying customers. Expect to self-fund most of your initial builds and tests, since I'd guess investors won't believe in you until you've at least built a working engine. Also always apply to any possible government-backed competitions or incentive programs that can provide grant or debt-based financing.
Santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for Mac OS X
Well, a custom framework might evolve when you write everything using just JavaScript, but I've found that when such a thing does happen, it suits your needs perfectly. Even if I screw up, I'll at least know where to look when I'm debugging :)
Since we're swapping stories of weird bans... I got banned for saying Battlefield != Call of Duty. I have no stake in the matter; I don't play either game. But apparently this was enough to warrant a permanent ban!
EU VAT rules make EU startups uncompetitive in a global market
Awesome public DataSets
Also some company pay the RTT at the end of the year.

It's a good solution for a employee to get a little bonus once a year.
Dang, I have to be a US citizen. Surely SpaceX's agricultural activities aren't subject to space industry regulations?
Any ways to increase the chances of winning projects on freelancer sites?
Hi,

We are a start up looking for some beta customers, to help us test and fine tune our service delivery solution, and to assist us in this quest we are about to start bidding on a few projects on several freelancer sites (namely, Freelancer, Elance, Odesk and Guru).

We thought it might be a good idea to ask if any forum members know of any ways to increase the chances of winning projects on freelance sites such as these?

Any tips or advice would be well received.

Kind Regards,

Gary
Setting a standard for every browser to cost the end user nothing seems to have worked out pretty well for the Web and everyone on it.
6 life lessons from the world’s coolest billionaire
Great article and I agree on most of the parts.

But, don't put tldr; on bottom of the article.
I would say that most things are in no way incompatible with racism or white supremacism -- but that finding (and publicising) an Asian IQ advantage is incompatible (at least, for a white racist). But then my concept of racism might be different: I mean it to be any attempt to position members of some/all other races as inferior in some morally important respect, in order to justify treating them badly.

Do you know if Rushton's beliefs that Asians are inferior in other areas are based on experiments? I'd be interested in any links you might have.
True. Then VS is missing, and the poll is a bit weird as many would use an editor to edit a config file on their computer, but also use an IDE for all dev work (personally I can't fathom why you would prefer developing without interactive debugger etc.).
when I edit drawings I use a cad program, and when I edit letters I use ms word....
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Queensland Government to sue IBM over health payroll
If you cross your eyes, can you get a reverse (inset, concave) image? I don't understand why magic eyes are always implemented in the way that requires people to do something almost impossible (ignore an object in front of them and try to focus on something further away) when almost everyone can cross their eyes and those that can't can probably force their eyes to do it with a piece of string or a pencil or something. I still have never managed to see a magic eye correctly (outset, convex), but can at least decode what other people are seeing in reverse by crossing my eyes :(.
Randomly I came across this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:IDENTITY

2nd bullet point
Java projects can be compiled to a self contained native binary using http://www.excelsiorjet.com/ (though this is a proprietary tool, with a gratis license option for non-commercial projects).

Curious: why is this a requirement for you?
Google is yet to support invokedynamic, which is used by Java 8 lambdas.
Apache Solr is best suited for such applications. AOL Mail uses Solr to power search for all users [0].

[0] - http://lucidworks.com/blog/podcast-solr-at-scale-at-aol/
> SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by ... veteran status, disability status ...

> Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities ...

Seems a bit contradictory?
"HAS-KELL! HAS-KELL!"
RIP Ezra!

Thank you very much for your contributions and Merb.
" typically, SpaceX employees work a minimum 50 hour week"
yehaa.. just sleep in the office!
Why most prog. languages only support returning a single value from a function?
> I don't follow. What does this have to do with reducing the possibility of Java 8 compatibility?

Nothing, assuming Google cares to implement invokedynamic support.
A book about 3 guys who risked everything to turn an idea into a global business
A small number of people will never be able to see them, but AFAIK if you have normal stereo vision (no lazy eyes etc.) then you should be able, with practise. Since these particular stereograms use coloured random dots, the colourblind might have some extra trouble with them.

I messed around with SIRDS quite a lot in the 90s. I found it hard to see them at first, but the reflection technique initially worked for me and after a while, I had no problem seeing them and even started seeing them by accident in wallpaper patterns and the like.

Another thing that makes a difference is the width of the strips used in the stereogram compared to your IPD. Depending on the width of these, it might be easier to sit closer to, or further away from the screen. Once you get the basic technique you can tolerate a wider range of widths, but at first it can be tricky. It might help to start really close to the screen and slowly move your head backwards as you try to focus.
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Cyber Monday business deals for SaaS
The tools we used to build a SaaS
Sounds more like you're describing Smalltalk 72 (http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/#p12) than Smalltalk 80. I've written a fair bit of Smalltalk code, and I can't remember seeing something like what you're describing here. It would certainly be possible, but I don't think it's an accurate description of how most Smalltalk code works.
It’s Time to Keep Solving the File Format Problem
When Are SaaS Finally Going to Be Intelligent?
wow spacemacs actually works ! so far this is incredible.

I've tried all these starter packages and there is always some problem that leaves the whole thing unusable.
But is autocomplete the only feature distinguishing the IDEs from the editors? I'd say interactive debugger/watches etc are most important, followed by graphical tools in the case of frontend mobile/desktop development.

Autocomplete isn't about speed, it's about context sensitive lookup in documentation. You should never have to alt-tab to a browser to check a function signature, that costs too much.
Jack Dorsey Was Supposed to Become Steve Jobs – Here's What Happened Instead
What does it mean to "outwork" someone? If I have two jobs, one at a fast food restaurant and the other harvesting vegetables, can I outwork someone living off of $50 million in inherited wealth?

Can I outwork someone working half-time as a business consultant and making $150K/year?

Also, GDP is a proxy, and not an end point. As Paul Samuelson pointed out, if a man marries his maid, then, all else being equal, GDP would fall. By this reasoning, getting married would have the same negative social consequences you pointed out.
So is it to train people to create farms on space colonies?
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. iCloud is a service, and FastMail's web client doesn't talk to iCloud, it only talks to FastMail's servers - at least for now.
> pre-Kiva, pickers would walk the aisles to the bins storing the needed items. Now the shelves come to the pickers instead.

There's a great video of the things in action @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs
The employee could quit and go work somewhere better. A manager knows the value of employees, if the place where I'm working now starts to shift the goalpost, then I'll walk and they'll lose whatever value I provided. It would take long for a manager to end up with an office of incompetent people because all the good ones would have left. Why do you think Google provides all those perks? Because they have to compete for labor just like everyone else. We aren't slaves despite some popular opinion suggesting it.
Yeah, I kinda do have some demons chasing me. Again, I've never started a fight in my adult life (the last serious fight I ended was about a year and two months ago, don't try to steal my stuff and don't bring a knife to a wrestling match I guess). For sports, I used to do fencing (and be absolute crap at it, for the record, but that's not the point), haven't found something to get into yet, boxing doesn't sound like a bad idea, thanks.

If you think I have an overarching point with how to deal with sociopaths, please address it. If you don't, heh, thanks for the safety/health advice.

Who would try to appear intimidating to a HR lady? Got me. Who would try to appear intimidating to a HR guy who thought because he could get you in trouble with the boss, you had to tell him "you are right" when in fact he was wrong? Me, as often as necessary. There's right and there's wrong and it never matters who says what, if it's true it's true, if it's false it's false.

People who think might makes right, need to be reminded that the logical consequence of that thinking is "I'm bigger than you". Sometimes the reminder has to be very direct. I abhor that philosophy, but if it's the only way I have to relate to someone because they endorse it, so be it.

And no, I don't have much of a boner for anything. Like I said, I take great pride in being honest and generous. I'm just sick and tired of people acting like everyone but them is disposable, and getting away of it because they can work the system.

You know what worries me? I say "So, I spent a year of my life getting two people off meth" and nobody cares (Yeah, maybe I'm making that up to look better. Maybe I'm not. Make a decision). I say "I am not against punching the deserving in the face when warranted" and people think that's scary. What's scary is that nobody gives enough of a damn to risk bruises. I have tried to, in my small way. If more people did - we'd see more fistfights and less shootings, police abuse, civil right violations and so on, I think.
Agreed, find errors in Ant scripts is a pleasure compared with piles of Maven plugin errors.
Addressing just a small point from this: a lot of people working on the web at the moment have absolutely zero interest in using Visual Studio. Like, say, all the people using Macs.
Generally,

- First gen: NASA, governments
- Second gen: Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics etc. as contractors
- Third gen: SpaceX, Orbital, Virgin Galactic as private companies
Is very interesting how people on Microsoft got to the same conclusions that we got: get rid of Java and any other exotic language in the sharing code and use only c++.

Use other languages in the interface for different platforms,or in the testbench code.

We got to this conclusion after years of painful practical problems, but it is hard because it goes against the common philosophy of theoretical people that write best practice books(but not code too much) and natural inclinations of programmers(to use the new shiny thing).
And here's a 3d tour from the imperial times of this most historic of cities from khan academy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgA6G75XsI
You guys might like our latest gem, it outputs ruby-prof as FlameGraphs https://github.com/oozou/ruby-prof-flamegraph
UK Revenue and Customs on cryptocurrencies
Tex is not 50 years old. Also, it's borderline unusable to anyone who hasn't mastered what "underfilled hbox" means and the like. Internally it's so unsustainable that people are trying to start from scratch with full rewrites. However, because there actually isn't a standard for latex beyond "how tex" renders it, it's a horrific undertaking. TeX is far from "just working".

Onto bridges, just because they build them differently now does not negate the fact that 50 year old bridges are still reliable and safe to drive over because they were engineered well. Their shortcomings and failure modes are well known so maintenance can be performed to prevent collapses.

50 year old bridges may be expensive to maintain at this point, but the fact that it's still possible shows that they were engineered well. They may build them differently today, but that's more likely related to cost constraints changing (e.g. can't afford an army of riviters now) rather than the engineering being unsound.
Software engineering is an art in that it's more like theory building than theory using. Each project, each context is its own set of new physical laws.
looks similar to this old submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8486627
You've clearly never tried to implement a REST API using any flavor of Lisp before. Guess what: most clients of web services understand JSON and XML, not S-expressions.
Check out my solution for the first one:
https://oboeta.com/signup
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The other problem with the cross-eyed technique is that it can be hard to maintain a sharp focus on the 3D shapes. And it will really hurt after a while.

It's a good technique if the repeating strips are really wide. On my screen at least, the strips here are pretty narrow, so it should be relatively easy to converge your eyes correctly.

Having said that, I don't know if this script is resolution independent, so it's possible that on some monitors the strips are a lot wider than they should be and that could be giving people more trouble.
Why do you Ember people always try to sell Ember like a telemarketer whenever JS comes up?
Hipster?
Is the ICANN New GTLD Program a Draft for a V2 of the Internet?
Don't have instances explore the same programs starting from the same state. Have state reported back in intervals so other workers can be scheduled to resume the work if that one goes down.

Security would be an issue. A VM would probably be a hard requirement. That can bound the memory usage, hardware calls, etc.
Keep calm and watch JavaScript churn
Not really, the plan might just say, "we plan to treat you the same as everyone else."
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> I feel sorry for those stuck in web development.

Don't. They get so much for free that other developers have to work on hard (flexible data binding, easy portability and trivial deployment).

> They insisted on pushing no bytecode for the web. Wanting us to rely on Eich's JS + rest of the webstack monstrosity requiring ugly hacks.

I fully agree here. The whole "JS is not that bad" mindset is firmly ingrained in people's minds, which is a shame.
This is why nobody mainstream wants to work with web front-end. Would you be a JavaScript MVC expert or a Java server-side expert? Think about the rate of knowledge aging.
Iteration produces churn (I don't think anyone would argue for not arriving at the best solution in an iterative manner in this day and age), and almost everything on the front end is iterating.

I say keep calm and watch it churn.

When it stops churning, whatever comes out is going to be worth it
I've been reading this again and again for the exact same thing.
But that's nonsense; there's no way to disprove PG's claim if you make it untestable like that.
better languages will either do first-class functions

Modern Java has first class functions.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/function...
It's almost certainly to qualify for a Texas property tax break.

All kinds of people in rural Texas grow some hay or keep a couple cows on their extra acreage to save on taxes.
Why Not Nuclear-Powered Aircraft?
Mmm. I got this from Guillaume Laforge's blog:
http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/a-new-groovy-website-in-...

He's one of the core groovy developers - unless he's one of those despots you're talking about?
Cisco’s disastrous quarter shows how NSA spying could freeze US companies out
Google-Glass Deal Thrusts Intel Deeper into Wearable Tech
Not sure why he is including GWT. Google continues to fund GWT. We just hired another full time engineer on the project. We just released GWT 2.7 which has a massive number of new changes, including an all new incremental compiler that reduces development recompiles from minutes to seconds.

We have a lot more external contributor interested that in the past now, have accepted many more patches, and we just landed Java8 lambda method support, with even more cool stuff to be shown at GWTcreate.com conference in January.

In other words, Google has not removed support from the project, which has continuously existed since 2006. Not sure how much more dedication you want in funding for an open source tool/library.
I guess you aren't aware of

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sumatra/

Some of the features will come in Java 9, others in Java 10.
Bitcoin payment terminal combines NFC and Bluetooth for offline payments
This is hugely important. The rules themselves are designed to stop people like Amazon abusing the system (and believe me, they abuse it), but there's no provision for smaller companies, no one stop shop for dealing with the VAT authorities. It's going to be a disaster for SaaS startups.
Parts of the post are interesting and challenging, and to some degree I agree that the cost of layering abstractions is often underestimated, but the final few paragraphs read like a naive manifesto...
Ooops. For embeddable http server I meant jetty.
I think "influenced" here is meant in the negative sense (you will not be punished for your disabilities).

It's like how the the 14th amendment is not meant to get rid of advantages for whites, but of the disadvantages for pretty much every minorities.
I've heard mixed things about Play's Java version. YMMV, but the last I heard it was a "second-class citizen". Unfortunately I don't work with any templating myself, but I note that Dropwizard supports both Mustache and Freemarker. Would those work for you?
How to fold the world-record-setting paper airplane “Suzanne”
I would really like to participate in "What are you working on this week" thread such as in Lobste.rs but I couldn't since they require invites only, which I don't know anyone who has accounts already. The purpose of their invites-only was to avoid spam. If that's what they really want, then Magic Eye will make spammers bleed their eye, and the potential users who really want to join will have to take time learning Magic Eye, which I think pays the trade off.