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Re:Spending Too Much Time at Airports on Sunday August 24, 2025 @08:45AM (#45003848)
maybe this is different for americans, but isnt google flights quite better than your typical orbitz/kayak? especially so if you're a little flexible on dates with their graphs?
Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:56AM (#42854637)
Pretty exiting times in aerospace these days. Seeing spacex doing awesome innovation with starship and boom making good progress bringing back supersonic air travel

Can someone innovate general aviation

Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:25AM (#18192009)
The Soyuz-FG which has been used since 2001 has had a 100% success rate till today. Seems pretty good to me.
Re:Lessons I learned on the road as a Digital Nomad on Monday August 25, 2014 @10:58AM (#8222037)
Off topic, but I found those photos to be very nice. Is it just an app and an iPhone? I would love to be able to take photos like those. Are there any blogs or anything which have guides on this sort of photography?
Re:Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years on Saturday September 21, 2013 @10:11AM (#6422972)
Am I alone in finding the graph scary? This rate of change in temperature is probably not something that would be easy to slow down, yet it feels like not many people care about this.
Re:Cassini to image the Earth tonight on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:39AM (#6070439)
I love the romance of this. Even though the earth is only going to be a few pixels, the frame will contain a snapshot of the entire human race.
Re:Ask HN: could an EC2 microinstance handle being on TechCrunch or fr... on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @07:25PM (#5902713)
I had a front page item about a year ago. The article ended up getting like 300 points so it was on the front page for around 12 hours. All the content was served by nginx on a micro EC2 instance, nothing was even put on a CDN. But still, it worked flawlessly.
Re:Learning to code, with no Internet access. on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:39AM (#5344320)
I kind of did something vaguely similar, except less cool. I wanted to learn a little python except there was problems with getting internet access at my house. I was only without internet for like 3 weeks but that didn't cause too many problems with learning (and could always go to a friends house if I really needed internet). The best thing that helped me when learning was the python docs.

I highly suggest downloading documentation. Just going through little sections of the documentation was a great way to learn. Not having internet was also sometimes a good thing as there was very little distraction.

Re:HN statistics on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @11:41PM (#4353769)
Hey, OP here. I realize now that it was a mistake to come off like that but there were a few reasons on why I did:

- I just felt like a piece of shit when I wrote it because I have no connections and have had a very hard time trying to get a normal job. I also had no confidence that any of this would work out so that did not help my ego when writing.

- When I submitted this to HN, it was fairly late and I went to sleep about half and hour later so basically I slept through the entire discussion going on here and it would have been a bit late to change anything after I woke up.

- There was a comment or two saying that maybe I should change the post of labs.im (before I went to sleep) but I did not know what I could write. I didn't just want to write something like "im smart and can do this well" because anyone could say that and I particularly dislike talking about myself like that.

Also, to anyone that has emailed me, I have not replied to any emails yet but I am starting now. And sorry for the late reply.

Re:Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @02:36AM (#3791781)
I had a kind of similar idea a few months ago: http://nhoss2.github.com/gapp/
Re:AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2 on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:11AM (#3469839)
Along with 750 instance hours of Windows Server 2008 R2 per month, the Free Usage Tier also provides another 750 instance hours to run Linux (also on a t1.micro)

Does that mean you can run two t1.micro servers concurrently?

Edit: yes it does - http://aws.amazon.com/free

Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @08:12PM (#3272550)
The hardest part to that for me is the "get to know people" part. He already had a mentor before he started learning. How would one get a mentor in the first place? How do you get to know other people?
Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:41AM (#3264418)
how about making an app that just stores the .tex files, and to convert them to pdf or something, the .tex file gets sent to a server
Re:A better introduction to Objective-C on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @01:33AM (#3042016)
Is there something like this for java (for andrioid)
Re:How much traffic being on a Google doodle gives on Friday September 16, 2011 @09:56AM (#3004444)
Hey maybe someone should do a graph over time on this
Re:A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more user friendly on Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:54PM (#2985654)
I think you are missing the point in your shallow analysis
Re:Personal jetpack in 2012 for $100,000 on Saturday September 10, 2011 @04:45AM (#2981186)
I doubt you will be able to just fly around with it anywhere you want. They probably will give you training since you are paying $100,000 and there is no other way to get any training.
Re:The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @09:24AM (#2916425)
Pretty disappointed on the comments here (this was written when people were saying moon landing was fake)... The training had to be exhaustive, there was no retrying. Each Apollo mission was an important step from the previous. They had to be prepared for just about anything and know how to do each step of the mission in their sleep. This kind of redundancy has always been there in manned spaceflight including the shuttle. One cool thing they have to assist in training these days is virtual reality training. Here is an image: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery...
Re:SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @08:45AM (#2890921)
One thing that is too common in these aerospace related budget estimates is that they go up. I am trying not to be pessimistic, but I have a feeling that their launch costs might go up a little bit. Even if it does it, their prices would still be groundbreaking nonetheless. I bought Dr. Zubrin's book on mars direct (its great!) and lets say that somehow the cost to send three spacecraft with the capability to come back (including development costs) is $10 billion (which I am pretty sure is a super under estimate but the spacex way might say otherwise). To put that into perspective google could have funded a full fledged manned mars mission and still save $2 billion to spare by not buying motorola...

But this is definitely possible even with nasa's reduced budget now that the shuttle is retired.

Re:SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @04:34AM (#2890373)
I am really hoping everything goes well in this mission; we are so close to being able to send astronauts into space through commercial companies. Space X is doing things cheaper and faster than any government has. These commercial companies are going to revolutionize spaceflight.

While they are doing all of this they need to develop their heavy lift rocket as fast as possible with the goal of landing a man on mars within 10 years. Elon Musk himself said a few days ago that we need to go to mars and it is possible for them to do this "as early as 2018". The reason for the quick timeline is because funding and political slaughter for space programs is more likely to happen as time goes on and as new presidents come in or some new economic trouble happens.

Following the success of the ISS, going to Mars should be an international endavour. It needs to be a goal not for one country, but the whole human race to become a multi-planetary species and go to Mars.

Re:How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox on Friday August 12, 2011 @08:17AM (#2876951)
I wonder what would happen if somehow duckduckgo managed to be the default firefox search engine. Their results compared to google aren't bad at all.
Re:Ministry of Defence files on UFO sightings released on Thursday August 11, 2011 @09:51AM (#2872796)
That is exactly what I was going to say. Investigating these UFOs would be a waste of money and a waste of time. I remember reading something where people would call to say they have spotted a ufo when they were actually looking at venus (the brightest "star").
Re:Redesigning the browser window on Monday August 08, 2011 @08:48AM (#2859849)
I don't see how most computer screens - even the large widescreen ones are a problem when reading webpages. I sort of like scrolling... It would be weird for me to read from the top of the screen, move down to the middle and then make my way to the bottom. What I usually do when reading is keep my eyes in a relatively fixed position and I just scroll down very slowly. This thing is pretty cool, but it might be a little annoying to have tabs on the side just to save 10-20 pixels of vertical screen.

And while I don't find it difficult to click on tabs (keyboard shortcuts!) I really like the idea of having the url inside tabs - adding that firefox/chrome and then getting rid of the url bar would be pretty cool.

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