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There is a handy script to get the Bash tarball from opensource.apple.com, apply patches 52, 53, and 54 from ftp.gnu.org, build it, and then prompt to replace /bin/bash and /bin/sh. Xcode required.

https://github.com/tjluoma/bash-fix

(yes, you have zsh on OSX by default)

mSpy[0] is the software that is featured in this story. For iOS, jailbreaking is required. For Android, some features (Instant messenger tracking and Keylogging) require rooting the phone.

Also, Windows phones are not supported yet, so go for one of those if you happen to have a psychotic partner.

[0] http://www.mspy.com/compatibility.html

Ultima 4+5+6 is on gog.com for $6:

http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_456

Windows and OSX, how about that?

edit: Just 4 by itself is free!

http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_4

If BetterTouchTool doesn't let you do some custom key/mouse input, it's probably not possible. :-)

You can use keypress + mouse movement:

http://imgur.com/ZeV8grb

...or just with the mouse alone:

http://imgur.com/JNXYf1q

A list of the icons sorted by their names:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0bd2c6fb5e42bfb5cacc

Doing it at all, economically or otherwise, is something that is being worked on this very year:

http://iddp.is/

Summary article here:

http://theconversation.com/drilling-surprise-opens-door-to-v...

Exxon's borehole is longer, but not deeper: Kola is 12.6km deep, and Sakhalin-I is 12.3km.

The article links to Facebook's example of a React app, which is available on JSFiddle [1]. I've been playing with using React:

- without its JSX templating

- with Coffeescript

...ever since I saw the idea here on HN a few months ago [2]. Here's the JSFiddle for that [3], I am a huge fan of the way you can pretty much write your DOM using (essentially) javascript functions.

[1] http://jsfiddle.net/3Vs3Q/light/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7232695

[3] http://jsfiddle.net/mFXVL

About two weeks ago, NPR mentioned two things that make this outbreak more worrying:

1. Cases in 2 countries with suspected cases in 2 more [1]

2. Cases in a capital city of 2M+ people

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/08/300509073/the-ebo...

[1] thanks nbouscal

As long as the library follows the "function (err, data)" convention:

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md#...

This [1] forum post on nasaspaceflight.com says at stage 1 cutoff, velocity is 2,531 m/s (mach 6.76) and altitude is 84.1 km. The actual deceleration burn starts 12 seconds after that, when the stage has coasted up to nearly 100km and has slowed (slightly) to 2,479 m/s.

I don't think (?) this altitude and speed requires heat shielding for the 1st stage. The 2nd stage is jettisoned far too fast and high to make recovery feasible (for now!).

[1] http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27748.690

The ISS is only in shade for 45 minutes at a time, which is orders of magnitude less than a lunar night.

But speaking of that: how long is too long to spend at 26K in a vacuum? Are there any good articles/videos that talk about what happens to various materials at such extreme temperatures in a vacuum?

While watching the stream, I was surprised to hear the translator mention a GoPro camera. Sure enough, each of the cosmonauts has one strapped to his forearm. That's pretty cool to see consumer-grade technology attached to a spacewalk.

Via G+[1]:

International Space Station Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) began a planned 6-hour spacewalk from the Earth-facing Pirs Docking Compartment at 9 a.m. EST.

Kotov is performing his sixth spacewalk. This is Ryazanskiy's third spacewalk. Both cosmonauts are wearing Russian Orlan suits with blue stripes. Their suits are equipped with NASA helmet cameras to provide close-up views of the work they are performing outside the station. Kotov's helmet camera displays the number 18, and Ryazanskiy's displays the number 20. The duo also will be wearing a GoPro cameras on their forearms. Kotov will have a single strip of yellow tape around his GoPro camera, and Ryazanskiy will have two strips on his camera.

This is the 178th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance.

The spacewalking duo's task is to attempt again to install a pair of high fidelity cameras on a platform attached to the Zvezda Service Module as part of a commercial arrangement between Roscosmos and a Canadian company to downlink Earth observation imagery. During their previous spacewalk on Dec. 27, Russian flight controllers were unable to receive telemetry from the cameras and instructed the spacewalking cosmonauts to bring the cameras back inside the Russian airlock. While outside the orbiting complex, Kotov and Ryazanskiy also plan to retrieve an experiment package housed on Zvezda's hull.

Flight controllers at the Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside of Moscow, are providing primary support for the spacewalk and coordinating with Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA Television is providing live coverage of the spacewalk at http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

[1] https://plus.google.com/+NASA/posts/YJ1i1L2nvY8

Thanks for the Seafile link, that looks perfect for what I've been looking for.

I was surprised to see such a mediocre HN thread on Seafile 6 months ago[1]. Haven't people been clamoring for an open-source Dropbox ever since Dropbox was released?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6051037

I wish it was javascript!

It's a Google App Engine-based Java monster:

https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow

But short of any hardware changes (including taping over the camera), this kext as far as you can go in software.

I'd MUCH rather see an admin password prompt come up, instead of nothing all.

There is a freely-available kernel extension[1] to make this firmware hack accessible to root only. The exploit depends on modding the camera firmware from userspace.

The kext is created by the same authors of the paper[2] this article is talking about. Search the paper for "iSightDefender".

[1] https://github.com/stevecheckoway/iSightDefender

[2] https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...

As Randall Munroe says:

  But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

I agree. NASA's MAVEN launch last week had a fantastic live stream that included commentary plus telemetry data, it was space nerd heaven.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/40966344

I couldn't find a better video, that one cuts off 6 minutes into the launch, before they get to the good part where the telemetry shows orbital information. The stream went on for at least 45 more minutes, I grabbed a screenshot 51 minutes into the launch:

http://imgur.com/LUD6XUk

While I'm a mere Kerbalnaut myself, here is some napkin math that almost checks out. For a GTO payload, the Falcon 9 http://www.spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-v11.html has:

  S1 Mass full: 490,300kg (that's both stages, fuel in both, plus the fairing and payload)
  S1 Mass empty: 100,300kg (S1 mass minus stage one fuel)
  S1 ISP: 282s (sea level) to 311s (vacuum)

  S2 Mass full: 82,300kg (second stage, fuel, fairing and payload)
  S2 Mass empty: 11,500kg (S2 mass minus stage two fuel)
  S2 ISP: 340s (unspecified)

According to this delta-v calculator http://www.strout.net/info/science/delta-v/, that would give delta-v values of:

  S1 delta-v: 4388m/s to 4840m/s
  S2 delta-v: 6562m/s

  Total delta-v: 10.8km/s to 11.3km/s

For GTO, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v gives a delta-v value of 11.8km/s to 12.5km/s, so these numbers fall just under the low end of that range. However, maybe the highly elliptical orbit that this launch is aiming for is slightly more efficient than whatever orbit is assumed for that chart on Wikipedia.