Luckily I manage this on a monthly base. Only 23 on Facebook and none of those can acces information I do not want them to see. Good link though, we need more awareness for third party apps accesing our social media profiles.

I hope this launch doesn't cause Russia a huge setback in their spaceprogram. That is quite the expensive launch failure if it carried a sattelite.

It was carrying three GLONASS (Russian GPS, sometimes combined with traditional GPS for improved accuracy, fix time etc - e.g. iPhone 4S/5) satellites. The loss of another three in 2010 was estimated to cost up to $160 million[1]. Expensive, but presumably nothing crippling in the scheme of things ($4.6 billion spent on the program from 2001-2011 [1])

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS#Finishing_the_constella...

It carried three satellites.

Any reason to think these wouldn't be insured?

Stereotypically satellite launch insurance is a comsat thing.

That doesn't mean there's no insurance involved in the whole process. Somebody will pay out third party liability claims, for example, either .gov or some insurance co or more likely a mixture of them. But specifically launch loss insurance is something "mostly" found with commercial comsats. Note its just stereotypical. Maybe this is the first navsat I've ever heard of with launch insurance.

To bad we already managed to overload the site.

Anybody has a cut&paste ready copy of this top-10 in their browser?

It's overloaded now.

Surprised the result wasn't cached.

Cache: http://svay.com/projects/FullHackerNews/#article-11

It is a good point and I surely see its potential. However 6 pages seem a bit long.

And my general opinion is that the presentation should be supportive towards the presentator. Not the other way around.

Python support! Thank you Chris. Will certainly give it a shot.

I love these reminders that we are so very small and fairly new to this place!

And yet we seem to have accomplished so much, both in advancing humanity as well as in doing damage to nature.

We're just damaging the earth. Which is nothing.

We have a vision of the past, of the future, of a huge portion of the universe. And that's not nothing.

I'm translating a lot of the Dutch blank spots. I hope it will be helpfull for at least one person.

This discussion is quite intense. Frankly it's scary that a single attack manages to slow down popular sites like Netflix. What consequences for future attacks will this attack have?

2% here. I feel the hot breath of my boss in my neck already.

0%, which is odd, because I had a tough conversation with my boss yesterday :P (of course this thing doesn't check Hacker News, or my odds would improve a lot :) )

If that thing accounted for all the social webs, I'd never have a job ever. =p

I followed the whole thing and however I am sad that this stuff still happens, it was inevitable that she was fired. I do hope people got more aware what social media can do now..