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by bfe 6y ago
Just to clarify - Orion is a partially reusable spaceship, developed by NASA with Lockheed Martin as the prime contractor, while SLS is a non-reusable launch vehicle, developed by NASA with Boeing as the largest contractor. SLS has been a
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by bfe 6y ago
NASA is looking at domestic commercial launchers powerful enough to reach lunar orbit for non-crewed elements of Gateway. As far as we know now of what will be available at the intended launch time in 2024, that will be SpaceX Falcon Heavy
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by bfe 6y ago
I'm super excited about returning people to the Moon. But Lunar Gateway is a bad mission architecture that really reduces the cost-effectiveness of returning to the Moon. It costs way more delta-v to reach the Gateway and then procee
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by bfe 8y ago
I've really come to admire Satya Nadella as a great CEO.
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by bfe 9y ago
https://x-r.ai | AI engineer | Portland, Oregon | Full-time | REMOTE | https://x-r.ai/careers https://x-r.ai is applying AI to accelerate technology development - initially by applying AI to accelera
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Show HN: X-r.ai – patent attorney AI SaaS for invalidating bogus patents(x-r.ai)
1 points by bfe 9y ago|0 comments
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by bfe 9y ago
you can sign up for updates at http://x-r.ai & be notified when it launches. thanks.
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by bfe 9y ago
http://x-r.ai/ is working on a patent attorney AI to automate a lot of patent attorney work to resolve patent disputes more quickly and cheaply.
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Show HN: Stackoverflow-focus: a chrome extension to clean up Stack Overflow(github.com)
1 points by bfe 9y ago|0 comments
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by bfe 9y ago
Patent owners could use it too, but overall it would make invalidating patents and resolving patent disputes faster, easier, and cheaper.
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by bfe 9y ago
Most patents are probably not valid, and most patents used in licensing offers / threats are probably not strong enough to avoid being invalidated or found not infringed if litigated, but the would-be licensor / troll counts on th
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by bfe 9y ago
Thanks, this looks great.
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by bfe 9y ago
The author, Andrea Ghez, is one of the leading researchers on observing the center of our galaxy, and the stars that orbit the central black hole, among other things.
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by bfe 10y ago
Looking for more, Paul. This from a Swiss news site says he had previously reported threats to the police, S3's data center was broken into and flooded with a fire hose, and that he remained in the hospital in serious condition with bu
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Y Combinator adds late-stage Silicon Valley fund(ft.com)
1 points by bfe 11y ago|0 comments
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by bfe 11y ago
The breakout-success rate thus far is also skewed low by YC's growth curve. Things have still just begun.
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by bfe 11y ago
This site was built as a side project by one guy who got it acquired by Planetary Resources. He's got some other fun projects: http://www.ianww.com/
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by bfe 12y ago
Yes, brief sitting meditation and running meditation every day. There's evidence of physical and mental health benefits. It seems to help bring calmness, focus, and new ideas.
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by bfe 12y ago
This stylometry analysis is 95% of a stylometry obfuscator/homogenizer.
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by bfe 12y ago
More generalized, compassion and integrity seem to be in a positive feedback loop with drivers of technological and economic growth.
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by bfe 12y ago
Gov't contracts are only something like one-third of SpaceX's revenues.
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by bfe 12y ago
Yes -- even a breakeven on the satellite business that pays for more launches would be a big win, though I don't think SpaceX would do this without having good ideas for a niche with decent margins. But I wonder if this might mean fore
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by bfe 12y ago
Me too. Add fires to energy consumption among the perverse results skeptics will harp on for the arbitrary constraints imposed by bitcoin.
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by bfe 12y ago
Fitting that this comes just after Bezos also finally does something overtly public with Blue Origin (last month's ULA deal press conference), and that both efforts still seem, relative to time invested & return at stake, remarkabl
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AstroHackWeek: Kepler 2 Photometry(astrohackweek.github.io)
4 points by bfe 12y ago|0 comments
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by bfe 12y ago
Progress on all fronts is driving the progress in exoplanets. The Kepler space telescope has been a huge driver, and Hubble, Spitzer, and big ground-based telescopes have played a big role; this new discovery is based on Hubble and Spitzer
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by bfe 12y ago
Still, modern launch vehicle human ratings were only developed after the second Shuttle disaster, and are far beyond 1965 standards. http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_... Falcon 9 v1.1 is almost ce
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by bfe 12y ago
It's Lockheed Martin that still insists on using imperial units instead of SI, even after the loss of mission that confusion caused in their work with metric-using JPL on Mars Climate Orbiter.
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by bfe 12y ago
This 14-day interval between Falcon 9 launches was the fastest consecutive launch since Gemini 7 & 6A in December 4 & 15, 1965. SpaceX plans to beat that record soon with launches a week apart becoming routine.
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Applying to YC(blog.samaltman.com)
4 points by bfe 12y ago|0 comments

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