skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to the discussion... according to the briefing, they believe that all of the technologies required for a human mission to Mars are 15 years away, assuming that all technologies are fully tested. This puts an approximate time-line near 2030 [1].

Question from Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel:

"The technologies you talked about that are still a long ways from being fully developed, the EDL [2], the propellant and communications. Do you have a sense for what kind of time tables we're talking about, to get those to the point where they'll be able to be used in manned missions?"

Answer from Dr. James Reuther [3]:

"[...] To get all the way to the point where we are able to put 10 metric tons, 10 times what we can do today, to the surface or greater, which is what's really required for a human mission, is probably going to take until the beginning of 2030 before we have all of those technologies in hand, ready to go at that scale. And, that means that they're fully demonstrated and ready for that kind of mission."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBoj-1m-qLU#t=2304

[2] Entry, Descent and Landing

[3] http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/about_us/bios/reu...
How many tech companies apply for H1-B visas for developers who are unable to speak any English at all?

Your post has such an overwhelming air of nationalistic, racist sentiment. "These foreigners come over here, they don't even speak english, and they take all our jobs".

The reality is that most of the foreign developers I've met speak english and communicate at least as well as other developers we've hired here, and oftentimes speak even better english.

Remember, not all H1-B visa holders are dirt-farming Indians who read Ruby on Rails for Dummies in their native language and got tired of farming themselves out on glance for $10/hr. A lot of them are from well-educated western countries - the Ireland, Britain, Canada, Mexico, Germany, etc.

You're generalizing all immigrants into this offensively racist image you've got in your head, and it doesn't make any sense at all. Perhaps there are people like that where you live, but by and large the H1-B visa holders are well-educated, skilled, and speak English as well as people who have been American citizens for decades.
Well, the obvious answer is that it sounds like the product of mental illness, which is a) not something that we want to encourage people to shoot back at and b) can't really lead to good conversation.
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I'm a college student looking for a mobile development internship. I recently started working with Android development and really enjoy it. I only have four quarters of school left, so I'm looking for a six month internship (June - December 2015). I am considering two standard length internships if I can't find a six month one.
Do you have some sort of source for that figure? Every company I've worked at, including both Google and obscure outfits you've never heard of, has made an offer to far more than 1-5% of its interns. This random Quora answer says 70% at Google get offers, which seems high to me, but less off than 5%.

http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Google-Interns-get-f...
But... isn't that really the same thing? Not worse but not much better. Sounds like about the same.
"I have no desire to do a Mars landing on our own," Bolden said (two years ago).

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012...

I've more faith in Musk than in Bolden. "[going to Mars has] always been a goal of SpaceX. We're hoping to develop the technology to do that in probably 12 to 15 years."

http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-0801-morrison-musk-spacex-20120...
so inspiring article.
What makes you think that hasn't already happened? The NSA recorded Washington area codes during the 2008 election campaign, ostensibly due to a typo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-br...
At this point we have corporations that can fund space flight. Do we really need governments funding a trip to mars? I think it isn't worth it. Leave it up to those who want to spend their own money. The government should be funding climate science, geo-engineering research, studying how to avoid war, and continuing to fund research into more powerful and cost effective propulsion and energy systems that we can use in space and here on earth.

I think NASA shouldn't send a manned mission to mars.
My Personal Path to Learning Haskell
That introduction is not an irrelevant link. It is a link to a bug that admittedly everyone was talking about at the time, but also a bug that was in an open-source library, and that would have been found if the method that was being applied to PolarSSL had been applied to Apple's SSL implementation.

Seriously, one step of the method is “look at every snippet of code that was not visited by the analyzer and explain why it wasn't visited”. One particular usage of a multi-purpose library may always leave you with seemingly unreachable code (that is in fact only useful for other usages of the library), so the presence of such unreachable code cannot be considered a bug, but verifying a library in the way one usage of PolarSSL was verified means each instance of unreachable code is justified.

(The “goto fail” bug could have been found in many other ways, and I admit that makes my using it as an introduction slightly tangential, but it is not my job to advertise all these other ways—some of which are already recognized and easy to apply by a company the size of Apple.)
I got most people using git now!
Why Is Object-Oriented Programming Useful? With a Role-Playing Game Example
Are you insane? VK has horrendous UX (best and simplest example: Browsing through image galleries resizes the image viewer so that the next and previous buttons constantly move)

And they call it a Facebook clone because it was a direct copy of the Facebook UI, and while Facebook has innovated and polished, VK has been stuck in the same decade-old look and feel.

It may be faster to use in Russia because of geographical proxmity, but I assure you it is nowhere near as Facebook is from North America.
I disagree that the article you link to supports your conclusion. See "Why Poor Schools Can't Win at Standardized Testing": http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/07/why-poor...

Anecdotally, I know several teachers. Their salaries, for their education level (Master's degree) and cost of living (NYC area, often teaching in the city), are very low. One particular example I know is a NYC public school teacher with a Master's in education and several years experience making $45k.

Many members of this community are fine with the notion that paying programmers more will tend to attract better programmers. I see no reason why we can't extend that to public school teachers.
We won't know until we do it MikeA. Suffer the consequences later -just like here on Earth.
Ah, is this for human mail or programmatic mail? In any case, you can probably configure your mail server to use SES as a relay instead of sending directly.
These are merely more disingenuous arguments. Not everything is worth discussing -- especially when all the other person offers is political posturing poorly disguised as rationality. At least if you want to posture, be open about it.
It was a threat, they were letting him know that his time in Russia was coming to an end. He took the hint and bailed before he got into an "accident"
It is not all that. Lets say you are planning the next protests with your friends over WhatsApp using TextSecure. The security agencies cannot view your message content but they can view whom you are talking with with a warrant which will show you that you are a terrorist. Now try to explain why you encrypt your messages if you are not a terrotist. Oh, you are polititian with wife and texting secretly to this woman... Explain it to the public.
Issue filed https://github.com/scotthasbrouck/HackerSurf/issues/7
I think it is sad that so much of the discussion here is about the name. The focus is upon marketing not on the substance of the article / blog post.
Cool, space launch system (SLS) is a great start!
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/539814651404754944
This comment really sums up the cult of personality that's grown up around Musk.
> If by known life you mean human, why is it so important to ensure the continued survival of human species in the universe?

I know this isn't a constructive comment but... Really? Like you don't see the point at all?
Great idea. Know any good Meteor job boards?
Public schools have special education teachers, and sub-schools within existing schools for special education teachers. In other words, we already do that. We just don't fund it very well.
Because private-sector corporations never have problems with every manager wanting to add something to justify his/her budget and existence, resulting in a bloated over-budget under-delivered project.
If we're being honest, then we need to start slapping the wrists of the employers.

Technically speaking, to be approved on an LCA (H1B) application, the prevailing wage has to be at or above the mean payable wage for the citizens in the same SOC job classification for the region. Long story short, if there is any exploitation or hurting the local labor, it's because the employers are getting away with illegally hiring talented labor for the wrong, often underpaid positions.

More resources are needed to enforce the restrictions against immigration exploitation on employers, not the immigrants.
Nginx content pack for Graylog2 (OSS log management like Splunk) released
Easier to manufacture the fuel on Mars. It only has 40% of Earth's gravity, so easier to lift to waiting orbital fuel depot.
I just watched Neil DeGrasse Tyson's word on the subject yesterday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxnCzz5oQE) and he quite agrees with you: "We're going to Mars in 20 years" is not what NASA should be about. NASA (and other space agencies) should strive to make space re-enter our culture so its benefits can rain on all aspects of our lives. In order to do that his proposal is to double NASA's budget and focus on building a suite of vehicles able to transport whatever they want. Kind of like the space shuttle but for longer distances, such as the moon, asteroids, Mars, Lagrange points... If you have perfected a space vehicle, going to Mars is about adapting that vehicle.
New Dating App Faiit on Beta List
App that collects data on users game playing decisions, profiles the,, then connects similar people.
http://betalist.com/startups/faiit
www.faiit.com
You say there is a shortage of tech workers because nobody local is willing to work for less than $100k a year.

I say there is a shortage of tech jobs because nobody is willing to employ me for $400k a year.

Who's right?
I have been using Trello to keep my different lists organized: Inbox, Today, This Week, Waiting For, and Done. Then I use labels to determine priority: Important, Not Important, Urgent and Not Urgent.

Here is a great article by Gautam Ramdurai, who works at Google on how to incorporate Trello with your GTD workflow:
https://medium.com/precise-curiosity/locus-focus-an-approach...
In my experience Stripe has very poor customer service. Hopefully they spend some of this money in that department.

Trying to talk back and forth through e-mail because they won't give me a number to call about sales trying to get a lower rate because my volume of sales is greater than $80k+ monthly, waiting 24+ hours on average for a reply and even 72+ hours on one occasion, finally gave up on them and went with another payment processing company. This happened over the past month. Kind of disappointed.
I want to see a concrete plan. Dates on a calendar. Milestones and targets.

I want to be able to sit down and spend a weekend reading the step-by-step book-sized roadmap.

As far as I'm aware, there's not even a project name.

NASA is not going to put a human on Mars in the 2030s. I simply don't believe them anymore.
> On the other hand, no one has the right not to be offended.

It has nothing to do with legal rights. We have the right to say anything we want to each other and to our mothers (short of a death threat), but that doesn't mean we should.

Throughout the history of humanity, most would say you have a social 'right' (not a legal one) to be treated with respect. That includes not being insulted.
How 'Star Wars' ruined sci-fi
Yes, I see that challenge too.
You know, I'm quite sure those same arguments were made to the early explorers of the New World, back to the nutty Vikings and others.
I wasn't thinking about the whole journey back home, just the first part of it which looks damn hard to me: how do you get a space craft away from Mars? You need to reach escape velocity, and that's 5 km/s (> 11000 mph).

You'll have to build a complete launch site for that.
Come to Toronto. Amazon is here, and growing. Lots of other start ups and mid-sized companies. Canada is way less insane about visa hoops to jump through. We're pretty friendly, and the crime rate is low (our new Mayor doesn't do crack or hang out with gangsters).

Most importantly, we're a country and city that likes immigration of smart people who want to earn high salaries, and pay our slightly-higher-than-America taxes.
What I Learned About Lean by Teaching at the White House
NASA’s Journey to Mars News Briefing
The sad reason why is the welfare state. It didn't exist back then so it didn't cost that much to accept immigrants.

Low skill immigrants cost a lot unless you do the second class mexican thing unfortunately, then they're cheap!
And nuclear thermal isn't even that good at 'only' (should I say surprisingly?) about 2x ISP, so you'd still need lots of mass.
I've seen more expensive devices smashed on YouTube as a joke.
Don't be presumptuous.
Building a better car has an expected return on investment.

So far nobody is able to come up with a way to recoup the many hundreds of millions of dollars it will cost to get humans to Mars and back.
Yep

"Unix system programming in OCaml"
http://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/
For a Big Company, Apple Let's Too Much Fall Through the Cracks
In the U.S. at least, GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act) prevents insurance companies from denying health insurance on such a basis. However, I don't think it restricts, for example, life insurance from potentially refusing you. And of course GINA could always be repealed.
Unless of course, your domain name is in the .uk namespace, which allows you to change your registrar at any point without their involvement. I don't know of any other TLD's that operate this way, but I don't doubt that there is one.
Ah you are here Jeff! You da man, seriously I read most of your blogs, because I have been self-taught & I appreciate when people write good stuff to make you learn rather than just selling. :)!
Kudos!
The HTML5 way is to use specialized HTML tags, where everything inside is treated as the other language:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/svg

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Element/...

Yes, this is less flexible than XML namespaces. You couldn't do something like XLinks.
If you have fuel in orbit you just have to reach it, you don't have to get to escape velocity.
Who decides what should be preserved and why?

If the Grand Canyon contained no life, would it be ethical to strip mine it? Should we preserve the Mars for future generations (in terms of science, natural beauty, ethics or economics/resources)? In doing that are we harming people that could be helped today by those resources?

If you find a beautiful rock in the woods is it wrong/amoral to smash it? What about fossils? Is it ethical to burn art for heat?

These are important questions to ask and the answers are non-trivial.
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Communities tend to gravitate toward each other. Your attitude towards these neighborhoods is the same as the attitude expressed toward the european immigrants in the early 1900s.

Does the H1B system need to be reformed? Yes I completely agree. But your reaction is xenophobic. America is a country of immigrants, get over it maybe?
They don't offer the developer experience Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Lisp Machines, Ceres did, nor what modern IDEs are offering.
Another similar tool is http://www.rundeck.org this one is open source and self-hosted.
Whom should I be afraid of? A private company who or my government?
Upside: you could end up owning your own goddamn planet!

Downside: you can't do anything with it.

You're not going to make the staggering costs back in space tourism, notwithstanding geeks' relatively high risk tolerance; you need the possibility of some self-sustaining economic activity.
Yeah it definitely sounded like an intimidation attempt, though a rather ill-conceived one. If they had a search warrant, it seems odd to me that they chose not to force entry.

If they didn't have a warrant, I would think they would have a plan if consent was not given to enter -- getting punked out when intimidation was your goal is a pretty embarrassing result.
> It seems impossible that they could raise money like that without some serious legal documents stapled on.

The terms were almost identical to our previous rounds.

> Also, does this mean Stripe is looking to IPO?

Not any time soon!
In all honesty, I saw an #Onion tag at the end of the tweet and I thought it's a story made by the onion - had to read twice to see it's Orion, though it has more credibility with my first interpretation.
It's interesting to think how revision control will impact future art historians.

Imagine if we had the revision history for The Hobbit.
Backcountry hiking is great fun, but you don't need to hike out into the wilderness to find good darkness. You can instead visit an astronomy club on their way to a "dark site". Look that up and see if you can find one near you. They are usually not more than a few hours drive away, although if you are on the east coast it make take more travel time.

Or just get in your car, drive until you are really far away from anywhere, pull over, and look up. Then go find a motel.
PEGs date from 2002 :-)

Another brilliant recent discovery (2001, so still more than a decade ago I am afraid) is the algebraic connection between differentiation and zippers. See Conor McBride's paper "The Derivative of a Regular Type is its Type of One-Hole Contex"
> Given the dire problem that they claim there is, they should be out there getting kids interested in these jobs.

They are. Not directly, in person, perhaps, but that's why they many tech companies (and the capital funds that back them) are back efforts like Code for America. Increasing the supply of tech labor to drive down costs and increase profits isn't just something driving their position on H-1B levels.
The Father of the Powersquid Launches a Bluetooth-Enabled Carbon Fiber Drone
Only amongst the pompous.
Ask HN: Have you moved around to build your startup?
I am hoping to learn if and why you have chosen to physically move yourself or entire team to another place to be more successful when working on a tech startup.

Just for inspiration: have you moved to Silicon Valley or another hub for more opportunities (which ones?), left San Franscisco for higher cost, moved closer to your investors as a condition for their money, moved where a set of clients of your early clients of your B2B startup are, hired a remote team and then consolidated...?

Hope to get some colorful answers in the comments here, but in case you prefer, I threw together a quick 3-question survey version too: https://sten1.typeform.com/to/MmeLEU
>> The Department of Labor has wage floors for H1-Bs (prevailing wage). Company's can legally pay below that.

Companies play games with the experience levels and titles to force wages lower. An "architect" or "developer" gets replaced with an "analyst" or "engineer" making 2/3rds as much.
I still see it misspelt throughout.
Off topic but have you found any services that are good for tracing one's lineage?

I would pay a considerable amount, probably capped at 10k, for a service that was able to provide me with an accurate, detailed and thorough description of my personal lineage...but I can't seem to find any services that offer it.
I was thinking about that too. You would need one or more sheets of something transparent to infrared 8-13 microns. Such materials apparently do exist:

http://www.infraredtraininginstitute.com/infrared-transparen...

Such a material would also have to not absorb too much sunlight.
I guarantee you if China or India were to make strides towards a serious Mars mission (i.e. they had a Moon landing) we would have another space race with the US involved. It's exactly what happened when the USSR sparked the first space race. Whether we would win, who knows, but there is still plenty of expertise and know how in about sending humans into space in the US ...

I really don't understand all the absolute trust in SpaceX, in terms of human exploration they have proved nothing thus far. Sending cargo to the ISS is a different thing than sending humans. Once they pull that off we can start talking about great strides they are making in human space exploration.

Otherwise it's still a risky venture that hasn't proven anything yet, the only reason to have so much faith in them is because you're over zealously infatuated with Elon Musk. Not to downplay any of his obvious success, but I still believe in seeing results in the same way you're waiting to see if NASA is going to do some "serious things". Let's hold people to same standards, shall we?
Perhaps stackoverflow is a better place to ask this, but on a Mac this can be done easily.

Off the top of my head, save the PDFs on a folder named by the day, set launchd to run a script twice a day that opens every file on it with the print utility (that will print it).
Good lord, I'm not generalizing anything. I was explaining further the specific phenomenon (which does occur sometimes) that manticore_alpha was talking about. I didn't apply this phenomenon to anyone, nor make any statements about policy nor how it ought to impact policy... Or does the simple description of a phenomenon which sometimes happens, now mean I'm a jingoistic, nationalistic, racist dirtbag? I am in complete agreement that this phenomenon is very unlikely to happen with H1B workers, and I am completely familiar with the fact that many immigrants are well-educated, speak excellent English, and fully integrate into American society.
> I've thought for a long time that in the future only the most boring people who have ever lived will be able to get elected to any high office. We're talking boy or girl scouts with perfect attendance, a 4.0 GPA, never tried any sort of drug, never curse, had totally dull sex lives, and have only the most mainstream beliefs imaginable.

It's actually worse than that because nobody lives that life. So what happens instead is that everyone has to pretend to but only the ones the people with the big database don't like have their deviation from the norm sent to the major media outlets for publication.
Maybe I bring you James Clark (technical lead for XML, among others):
http://blog.jclark.com/2010/01/xml-namespaces.html

Namespaces in XML is a foot shooting feature. Sure it has its uses, but still a misfeature.
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We (not being snarky here) have a very narrow definition of "life" and what is and isn't "alive". Imagine our solar system as an ecosystem as you mentioned. If this is the case, what is done to one will effect all (and in ways we may not yet understand). Oh and the Moon has great effect on our planet and our bodies -we should definitely care about what happens to it.
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