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by yapcguy 13y ago
I have submitted this as a separate story as I believe it merits discussion regarding the links between China and America's space program. Bassically the Co-Founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was deported from the US to China dur
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by yapcguy 13y ago
There is an explanation in this video. Current renderings are based on real-time telemetry data being sent back from the probe. 40 years is a long time and instruments have advanced. I guess now that the solar panels are engaged and the rov
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Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (2009)(latimes.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Science. 40 years is a long time for advances in the capabilities of the probes and experiments. http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131214/104563.sh...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yep. Hope people can put politics aside and appreciate another step forward for humanity and science. Good luck to all involved!
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Do you have a link to a live stream?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Precisely. We don't know what the future of Yahoo and Flickr will be. The terms of the deal could change drastically down the road, especially if Yahoo/Flickr get new owners. There are also legal issues. Visitors from around the
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Great, but why should the British Library, a non-profit charity and UK taxpayer assisted institution put these images on the servers of a US based for-profit company? There are a lot of talented Brits in the Bay Area, but there are also man
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Greg stepped down as CEO of AngelHack in October 2013(blog.angelhack.com)
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Google play devices no longer ship with Gallery - must use Photos & Google+)(pocketnow.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I think the problem is that many people are here not for the tech, but the money. These same people probably would have gone to Wall Street had the investment banks not choked on their own greed. Lucky us.
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Search the SF Chronicle archives. In a nutshell, the city doesn't have enough money to install public toilets which are deemed appropriate for use by the homeless etc. Not sure what the exact requirements were, but that's the nub
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Yes, let's all come together and help the city tackle the problem of drug abuse, an often cited precursor to becoming homeless. Together we can put petition Ed Lee and SFPD for effective non-political policing. Let's start by uph
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Startup Advisor Alice Zhang on SF Homeless: "Put them all in labor camps"(twitter.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
This is tech sexism in all it's glory. Will all those who poured hate and bile on @bnoordhuis for gender specific pronouns or @antirez for his views on sexism in IT please step forward and throw rotten tomatoes at Bethany McLean, the a
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Startup automatically retweets every criticism of its homeless-bashing CEO(dailydot.com)
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Sony releases USB flash drive for Smartphones(sony.net)
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Underage Worker Deaths Raise Questions at an Apple Contractor in China(nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: What is the relationship between AngelHack and Y Combinator?
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If there was a market for grandmothers, they would trade them.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
We've had 'Leo the Homeless Coder'... it wouldn't surprise me if AngelHack's mea culpa is to hold a 'Homeless Hackathon' on Market St. "Oh look, we're helping people, you know, teach a man to fis
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AngelHack CEO Trashes SF's Homeless 'Degenerates'(sfist.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Ok. So if you contribute to the project, you assign copyright of your code to Digia who then dual-license the project to end-users under the GPL/LGPL and for a fee, a commercial license to use it in proprietary applications. Makes se
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> You can download a 30-day trial of Qt Enterprise from Digia’s Qt site (version 5.2 is slowly trickling out throughout the day). The open source version can meanwhile be snagged from Qt Project. Does anybody know the difference betwee
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Can't wait for someone to write a new faster better string class which handles strings of any length by internally chopping them into 23 character portions....
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Are awards being simply handed out for being the "first" at something? Also why do you think the Pope has any influence on a Muslim, Hindu or Jew? Do you think the local imam or rabbi is busy dissecting the Pope's latest pre
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by yapcguy 13y ago
If being "liberal" automatically equates to being "good" and you want to pick someone who has the maximum impact, well, there's probably at least one Muslim cleric out there who wants to ban the stoning of women, ha
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> The topic is humility, compassion, and charity. When is the last time these topics really had a globally influential champion? Er, since the last pope?! What makes this pope special from the others?
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If the app sells on its own merit, great. However, if people are only buying the app out of charity for Leo, it's no different than any other sad story which gets media attention resulting in charitable donations. So what would the poi
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Unison is no longer under active development, right? Would love to use it but going forward, is there a big enough community to fix bugs, add new features etc? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/status.html

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