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nhoss2on Spending too much time at airports

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?

nhoss2on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]

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

nhoss2on Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket

The Soyuz-FG which has been used since 2001 has had a 100% success rate till today. Seems pretty good to me.

nhoss2on Lessons I learned on the road as a Digital Nomad

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?

nhoss2on Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years

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.

nhoss2on Cassini to image the Earth tonight

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.

nhoss2on Ask HN: could an EC2 microinstance handle being on TechCrunch or front page HN?

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.

nhoss2on Learning to code, with no Internet access.

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.

nhoss2on HN statistics

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.

nhoss2on Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages

I had a kind of similar idea a few months ago: http://nhoss2.github.com/gapp/

nhoss2on AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2

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

nhoss2on How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks

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?

nhoss2on The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad

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

nhoss2on A better introduction to Objective-C

Is there something like this for java (for andrioid)

nhoss2on How much traffic being on a Google doodle gives

Hey maybe someone should do a graph over time on this

nhoss2on A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more user friendly

I think you are missing the point in your shallow analysis

nhoss2on Personal jetpack in 2012 for $100,000

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.

nhoss2on The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts

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...

nhoss2on SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November

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.

nhoss2on SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November

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.

nhoss2on How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox

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.

nhoss2on Ministry of Defence files on UFO sightings released

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").

nhoss2on Redesigning the browser window

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.

nhoss2on Ask HN: Why is the tech world quiet on the possible impact of solar flares?

How is GPS going to be "inaccurate for some time in the near future" with the recent solar flares? Could you give me some links to articles or something? I read a lot of space related stuff and I haven't come across something like this.

nhoss2on See what Google knows about you

If anyone is interested, I found this existed from a daily newsletter I subscribed to - http://dlewis.net/nik/

Sure the things on the list aren't that bad, but if google can get that much just from you browsing the web they could probably get a lot more. And yeah they are transparent by showing what they know about you and it's one click to opt-out but how would someone even find that page in the first place.

nhoss2on Please rate my startup: ZigzagCloud - A Mobile File Management System.

It sort of looks like dropbox with a few extra features - I guess it is always good to have competition. But what is up with the pricing? I don't think too many people will pay $100 per month for 5gb

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Sorry I don't know much about this stuff, but I find some of the things done to the author pretty crazy. The one thing that really stood out for me was sending him back. That is a huge amount of money and time wasted for a ridiculous reason. Why can't you fight for yourself in these situations, you should have some rights because the crap they are doing is just unfair.

Also, what if you have a laptop with all your passwords and stuff, would they just go on ahead and copy your hard drive with you not being able to do anything?

nhoss2on AWS drops bandwidth pricing

oh ok, I thought "drops" meant get rid of but reducing is also great

nhoss2on AWS drops bandwidth pricing

ooh "AWS drops bandwidth pricing" come on please be true! darn it just inbound.

nhoss2on Ask HN: What is your opinion?

Your not a very good web designer if you are basically reselling other peoples work