skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hilarious. Reminds me of Bored Elon Musk: it is so funny exactly because it is so close to believable reality. I, for one, could certainly see the viability of the idea of giving startups office space for equity, Airbnb or not.
NASA lost two of their finest Physician-Astronauts [3] (and 5 other crew) in 2003 on Columbia STS-107 mission.

I've heard that if a physician can pass the (NASA Class 2) medical and (Naval) Flight Officer qualifications, along with respectable science and engineering grades, their chance of selection as an astronaut is significantly "higher than average". They've also selected civilian physicians as astronauts.

The Navy usually lets their flight surgeons fly in the back seat when practical, although most are not mission qualified NFOs. Dr (Capt.) David Brown was actually a mission qualified Naval Aviator, prior to astronaut selection.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Physician_astronauts

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Brown

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark
See also https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion and https://twitter.com/TechCrunchOnion.
Ah! Yes I jumped to an assumption there. That's a much better solution.
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As for missing RTG's, it would not be at all surprising if they grew legs.

Maybe not the locals, but I would think most educated modern people, if they found the equipment, would have a large clue what was inside. There are not too many things you can put in a box on an isolated mountain top that would make it stay hot. It's not batteries, and it's not a engine.

In the late sixties, there were a dozen governments that would pay handsomely for such a box.
I think there is a fine line between under pricing competition and having exorbitantly high margins.
http://seriesf.com/post/116747678376/peter-thiel-has-change-... was pretty good!
Algorithm is not the same as the the source code, which is what genes contain. We have obtained them trough gene sequencing, but we still don't know how organisms work and grow.
So rather than fix your one server to be more robust, every one of the thousands of browsers that exist should change?
100 kg is small compared to some of the behemoths floating around up there. The Milstar satellites that provided high reliability communications for the USA were 4,500 kg each. GPS satellites are over 1,500 kg and are in MEO, which is higher than LEO but lower than GEO.

But a lot of smaller companies don't need gargantuan satellites like that and can get a lot done with 100 kg. If you only need to put one or two satellites up it is not cost effective to spend lots of money on a large launch vehicle, so you buy space on another launch that has spare capacity and is launching at a compatible time/inclination. When you do that, you are not given priority and will have to wait if the #1 priority delays the launch for any reason. So Rocketlab can capture a market segment by letting small companies have their own launches.

It's kind of like getting the individual packets of ketchup from McDonald's vs the family size bottle of ketchup from the grocery store. Sure, the family size gets you more ketchup for your dollar, but you don't normally need that much.
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Ask HN: Any other good 'essays' sites about technology, startups, the world?
Obviously pg's essays are great and I also found defmacro.org by the founder of rethinkdb which are also quite well written and insightful.

Does anyone have other gems they've found through the years?

Thanks!

the list so far:

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
http://www.defmacro.org/
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ahh.. was hoping it'd be a stitching/mosaicing app
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That's a problem that needs to be addressed by hiring a full-time maintainer for all legacy code. For example, Clark University has an endowment of $355 Million. That's three times the size a company like Veracode. Why are universities unable to hire maintainers for all this legacy code and bring this legacy code up-to-date with current standards and best practices?
> and that the qualitative distinction is used to justify all of these.

Yes - does it pose a risk of harm to yourself or other people; does it interfere with your day to day life? These quality statements are used as part of the process of assessing whether someone needs or wants a treatment, and they should be common across all forms of mental illness. (EG people with auditory hallucinations often go unmedicated because they can live with their voices.)

> You can be compassionate and understanding towards someone's problems without categorizing those problems as a medical illness.

Compassion does not treat depression, although it's important part of preventing depression. Talking therapies like CBT are pretty structured, and the evidence says they seem to work. We know the counseling generally doesn't, and can be harmful. And also, if a person needs treatment then they might need money to pay for that treatment and protected time off work to get treatment. Calling dysfunctional forms of sadness "depression" is partly a bureaucratic measure we take to fund treatment and protect people from losing a job.

Strongly agree with your last sentence. A few people on HN equate mental illness with violence but mental illness does not predict violent behaviour (drug addiction; or previous violence are much better predictors, and if you have a combination of either / both of those and a mental illness that's a better predictor, but merely mental illness itself isn't predictive).
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Another point of reference is Planet Lab's Dove cubesats are ~4kg and fly in LEO (~400km). This would be an ideal launch platform for ongoing maintenance of the constellation. Falcon 9 still makes sense for the initial launch as they normally ride up in large groups. The most recent Falcon 9 carried 14.
>I don't think we can just get rid of Google or break them up just because we think they're too big. What did they do? Did they do something illegal?

It doesn't matter if they did something illegal. Under the interstate commerce act the Federal Government most definitely has the constitutional authority to regulate internet search if they choose to.

The government recently exercised that power to regulate ISPs. The FCC didn't accuse those companies of acting illegally.

>Why would they expose themselves to such scrutiny?

To make more money. If they think they can get away with it, of course they will abuse their monopoly. Show me a monopoly that hasn't done this.

>I thought you didn't need a huge market share to be anticompetitive. Apple didn't have a huge market share in ebooks when it colluded with the publishers.

Their isn't a magical market share that allows anticompetiveness. The key is to look at the potential harm that Google's monopoly allows. As a society we do it all the time. The constitution says we have a right to bear arms, but we still regulate weapons of mass destruction because the potential for harm is so great.
> but at some point you have to admit that's too much power for one company to have

Competition law doesn't punish market power. Punishing success would be insane. The abuse of market power is what is illegal. And abuse needs to be proven.

Yes, Google Maps is the first result if you search for "maps" on Google. Search for "maps" on Bing and the first result is... also Google Maps. So maybe, Google Maps is just the leading mapping service on the Web?

> So far we've seen no evidence that they've done anything like this, but if history is any indicator

So far we've seen no evidence that the defendant has indeed killed anyone, but can we be sure that he hasn't? No, but: In dubio pro reo.
Your 'syntax' is very hard to read:

['* ','->','admin']

Couldn't you write a little parser to understand this:

" * -> admin"

I doubt the overhead would be much.

[edit] a * is hard to get into a HN comment
" If they can achieve reusable rockets it'll be on the order of a few hundred thousand per launch though."

Do you have any sources I can read on that? I know reusing some of the hardware will have cost savings, but you are more than an order of magnitude cheaper than I have heard claimed. I would be very surprised that even if all of the hardware was 100% free that there would not be a few hundred thousand in labor costs alone for analysis and launch operations.
As a metaphor, it will get you to outerspace but you may miss your target. You don't actually need to guide it, there's so much thrust/traction that you'd have to be super talented and purposely trying to sabotage it for it to fail.

That being said, Snapchat has made some incredibly good decisions, new products and so forth.
they be fucked, hard time to pivot before they go all RIM
You think the Internet isn't already 99% useless garbage? Sifting through it is the entire point of intelligent search engines.
I would be highly surprised if Twitter posts got more comments. I have had tweets of mine "trending" in the past, and I would estimate (based on how quickly and how often on those days I'd burn through the 800 recent mention window; I have more exact stats, but I just want an estimate here) I was getting mere thousands of responses. I routinely see Facebook posts with thousands of comments. Essentially every single post to the Stargate Universe has thousands of comments. On Facebook, comments matter: you aren't just mumbling into the void. Facebook surfaces comments of high value so that people viewing the post see them, and makes certain that people you are sort of connected with see your comments. On Twitter, your responses are only seen by people who follow both you and the account to which you are responding, making it so effectively no one ever sees what you said. This means that Facebook comments are first off more interesting to post as a commenter, and secondly more "viral" and can lead more people to your brand. You also, and this to me is the killer issue with this statistic, are able to moderate comments on Facebook: the only place where a person is able to say things is a post on their own timeline; comments that are horrible are under the control of someone who is unlikely to be, at least in that moment, equally horrible, and who are incentivized to make their content not look horrible.
So, taking that to its logical conclusion, your application would read:

I can do anything you need.

That would be it. You don't need to provide evidence, I'm expected to take you at your word.

Of course not. Of course you expect to provide evidence, you just might not think of it like that. You might think of it as showing me your github repo, or listing your previous jobs and/or contracts, or listing your credentials and/or qualifications.

That's evidence. But I don't want to see all of the things you could list. I want to see the things that support your statements of what you can do, because like it or not, I'm not going to take your word for it if all you do is say:

I can do anything you want.
Yepp. Recently played with Teleport - http://teleport.org/mobile/ - man there are so many reasons to leave the Bay Area.
> The government recently exercised that power to regulate ISPs.

ISPs are natural monopolies. Duplicating the subscriber line network would (usually) be economically inefficient and pointless. "A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which it is most efficient (...) for production to be permanently concentrated in a single firm rather than contested competitively." (Wikipedia)

This is not at all the case with search engines. Develop a superior algorithm and you're in the game. That's how Google once overtook Yahoo, Ask, etc.
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When I was 13 years old, my dad had a heart attack and was admitted in hospital for 2 months. My mom had to accompany him in the hospital and we did not have an earning member in the family during that period. We also didn’t have health insurance to cover the hospital expenses.

We owned a shop where me and my younger brother used to help my mom during weekends. With that experience, we ran the shop and took care of the hospital and living expenses. That's one accomplishment I am proud of till this day.
Start with prostitution, drugs and alcohol and you will see an inflow of cash to get it all started.
The point is that the "I did X" should be listed specifically to support the statement "I can do Y." Start with what you know or deduce the the prospective employer needs and wants, then demonstrate evidence that you can do it.
Cost, according to another article I found. The article also mentioned that electric is 95% efficient while turbine-pumps are ~60%, but that is still definitely not worth the weight penalty.

I suppose it makes sense, as it is very difficult to have a turbo with rocket exhaust on one side and cryogenic oxygen on the other. Its quite creative if it is actually cheaper. It might also allow finer control over throttling back, but thats not useful unless you're spaceX.
Very cool. For people running the numbers about launch costs, there's a lot more to it than just $/kg. There are very big constants in the cost of a launch (even though SpaceX can get 13150kg/61M$, I doubt they'll offer 1315kg/6.1M$), and having final say in launch timing and what orbit you get is worth a fair bit. For now, it's relatively cheap to hitch a ride as a secondary to the ISS (or ISS orbit), but 500km sun-synchronous is not nearly as easy to line up.

Comparable prices for small sats: Nanoracks quotes 60,000$/1U (usually ~1kg) to the ISS. Interorbital quotes 12,500$/kg at a 310km orbit (or 8,000$ to use their 0.75kg tubesat).
The one thing that project fails to see is that no small nation can be independent without full and unrestricted access to sea or at least proper airport.
Sounds like the idea was created by utopians or hobbyist rather than people that know anything about creating country. Or scammers, but hopefully thats not the case.
disclaimer.. i understand the strengths of 2.x, but i use and prefer 3

my standing question in the debate has always been what is the big deal with having built a robust 2to3 preprocessor?

i figure if you make a change to the spec migrating existing code to the new syntax should be a pretty straight forward ifttt, something that should be a necessary addition to the change, a la tests

knowing full well 'pretty straight forward' is the bane of all software endeavors could anyone explain to me what is going on within the scope of 2to3 preprocessors?

and why such preprocessors seem an impossible boon very few, except a handful of seeming independants, endeavor
Unfortunate? It's a direct attack on the legal system. It's worse than the average person breaking the law. Because that's expected... that's why we have police.

When the police (who should know better) break the law, they should be charged. After all, that's what happens to normal people.

Instead, the people in the legal system too often get a pass. Because they're in the legal system.

It's a kind of inverted thinking I don't understand. Other than an "us" vs "them" mentality. Where "us" are the people in the system who are somehow worth more than "them". The peasants who have the law enforced on them. With often lethal force.
Last weekend, I went to an event hosted by Tea With Strangers called "Sunshine with Strangers"

One of my favorite experiences ever. I've lived in NY my whole life, and that was the first time it truly felt like a community. It was over 100 people, and everyone was just open to meeting new people.

10/10 would go again.

(P.S., The creator, Ankit, is awesome.)
I read recently some commentary by a colleague and friend of his (I forget who; Silverberg, probably) that Brunner felt that after his "American trilogy" (Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit and Sheep) he'd said everything he had wanted to say, and he was disappointed that his work was not recognized to the extent that it deserved. Without knowing much about Brunner's life, it's possible to infer that he simply lost his passion.

On the other hand, between the first (The Squares of the City) and the last (The Jagged Orbit) of the books in his "golden period", he wrote 11 books that nobody talks about. As far as I can tell, his signal-to-noise ratio was higher than contemporary novelists such as Dick and Zelazny. One has to pay the rent, I suppose.

Not many people know that Brunner spent years working on a big, ambitious historical novel he hoped would put him on the map as a mainstream novelist, though from the subject matter alone you can pretty much tell it was doomed from the start: The Great Steamboat Race. Apparently it's quite good, but nobody noticed when it eventually came out.
Awesome Site!
I've been thinking about building something like this for a good while now. I'd love to see a markups are on each region page so people can make their own "world pages" like on Kitely.
It's funny how the future kind of crept up on us. I'm at the right age to remember 8-bit computers as an oddity in just a few homes I knew about, to today's always on, always connected, satellite directed super technology ultra modernism. But I don't ever remember passing date where I was suddenly "in the future". I remember think it was going to be the 2000s, and here we are almost a generation in, and there doesn't seem to have been that kind of earthshaking revolution. It's like putting on weight, or getting grey hair, it just sort of happens gradually, and only when you look back and reflect does the magnitude of the change come into perspective.

But then I think back to how we used to do things and they seem almost inconceivable, even within my own lifetime. When I was an sci-fi reading 10 year old, could I have imagined going for a walk, thinking of something mundane like "I want something to eat" pull out my phone, find a place, read the menu, get dozens of reviews and recommendations, and then have my phone use satellites...in space to give me walking directions? Even the craziest sci-fi I grew up with didn't really predict that chain of events.

I recently took a job supervising a young crop of engineers, all born in the 90s. They never knew of life without the internet. It doesn't occur to them that you used to have to pick up the phone and call the movie theater to find out what was playing, or look up the playtimes in the entertainment section of the daily newspaper. Most of them have never even held a paper map, have no idea what a card catalog is, or any of that.

I'm reminded of my departed grandmother, who was born in 1900 before powered flight, and my father who was born after. It's not like early flight suddenly made the world available to her. It took decades for it to become something that she could directly benefit from. Yet my father can't remember not being able to buy a plane ticket to go pretty much anywhere on the planet, and neither can I. It's inconceivable that people would spend weeks on a boat to get somewhere. Around the World in 80 Days seems like an absurd concept for a story today, and when they tried to make a modern movie about the story in 2004, it bombed terribly at the box office.

I wonder how the younger generation look at old movies, who's central plot device hinges on people not having ever present smart phones and internet connections, how do they think of these absurd stories?
You are probably right, two very completely different ideologies.
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Yeah, would be neat if it used location & just paired with "within 25 miles" or similar
These companies always seem to find a niche in companies that need hardware that is 100x faster so they can write software that runs 100x slower.
It's a belief, people can look at cultures who really and truly thought human sacrifice would appease the gods and think. "That's false" It's much harder to accept F=M * A is also false. Sure, F=M * A is arguably much closer to the truth we can even say F=M * A is a simplyfied model known to useful Yada Yada but in the end it's clearly not true.

There are several less kind ways I could describe such overly simplified models, "Seperated from Reality" seems like the least offensive. Would you prefer, when there is a conflict between ideas and reality it's not reality that's false?
What about Simplivity? Do you have any experience/opinion on them?
They have the power, thats what it is about.
What are you talking about? Oracle's main goal with the Sun acquisition was to bolster their Engineered Systems business. The result so far has been quite successful:

- http://www.eweek.com/servers/slideshows/oracle-continues-to-...

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2015/03/31/how-engineered...
No doubt about that!

It's a shame they're miles ahead of the other chains in actually putting lots of jalapenos on the goddamn pizzas when I ask for extra jalapenos, though!
Of course, it is. But when it comes to source code it is a pretty recent development that everything ends up in the public.
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> Google partnered with a bunch of other organisations to create the Open Handset Alliance
Android was a product of that partnership and developers/companies were free to fork the platform should they so wish

No, OHA members never were allowed to fork Android as Amazon did. In fact, the very objective of OHA is use the same Android base with a certification process
This is why Liberian country is an utopia. Same with Communist or Capitalist country.

Those countries tend to forget one thing - human factor. That humans are not the same and they might not be a "perfect" citizen.
I understand that with so much market share Google has a bigger responsibility to practice good ethics. Which it seems to be doing. No? I'm sure if Google were to actually begin going astray, people would notice websites disappearing. Until clear evidence of this is found, it is unfair to scrutinize them to reveal their competative advantage. In fact doing so suggests malice more than anything. Sure Google may have the power to 'remove' content from the internet, but since when is that justification for accusations of malicious intent? If France was truly benevolent and actually concerned with improving Google equality, threatening a lawsuit is an odd way to address the problem. A good course of action would be to raise the issue with Google in a trustworthy way. Yes, in general, given enough power corruption emerges, but I'm not sure it applies in this case. Power could be wielded without corruption. Large market share does not imply corruption. Perhaps what is ought to be done by Google is to somehow address the issue of transparency without compromising their algorithm. I may be wrong but I feel confident that Google isn't corrupt. However, the people behind this legislation certainly appear to be up to something.
On the one hand, it would be nice. Enrons e-mail data dumps have been used to this effect for the past decade, especially to show proof of technologies.

On the other hand the Sony data dump, like previous data dumps on Wikileaks, was illegally obtained. Researchers analyzing and publishing it would be putting themselves at legal risk by doing so.
Just get a free cert from StartSSL while you wait for your other cert to go through. It's better than nothing.

Asking people on HN to send their passwords in the clear is suicide.