NASA code from years of projects

https://github.com/nasa

by josh824 • 12 years ago

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hiccup• 12 years ago

Christmas comes early

joshgel• 12 years ago

Wasn't this news a few weeks ago?

dang• 12 years ago

It does look like it [1]. We'll kill this as a dupe if someone points out a previous story with a significant discussion, but not otherwise.

We did, however, change the url from [2], which stopped responding and mostly points to the GitHub page anyway.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nasa+code#!/story/sort_by_date/0/n...

2. http://code.nasa.gov/project/

dalke• 12 years ago

Yes. About 3 weeks ago there were postings like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569226 . The history of postings shows "NASA will publish a software catalog", "NASA has published a software catalog", and "NASA has published source code on a NASA site."

The variation this time is these are the projects listed at http://code.nasa.gov/project/ which are under the NASA account at github. This is incomplete, as the actual NASA site also includes references to other github accounts, and to non-github repositories.

tlarkworthy• 12 years ago

Um, the first one doesn't seem to have any code in it ... or documentation ... or anything ...

https://github.com/nasa/Kodiak

ForHackernews• 12 years ago

Library for rigurous verification of non-linear arithmetic

Very rigurous

draz• 12 years ago

all the elephants in the room are pink

sliverstorm• 12 years ago

Yes, that's right, let's mock people for typos in code that was never really intended for public consumption. I'm sure that will make them want to release more of it in the future.

jcchin41• 12 years ago

Many projects at NASA are just starting to ramp up open-source efforts, and it can be very challenging to publicly release aerospace toolsets. Give it some time to build up momentum.

joeblau2• 12 years ago

Some of the projects are missing licensing or have pretty stringent licensing restrictions. It's as if leaders of companies are saying "Oh yeah lets open source it, that will make us popular." If I can't use this code without having to jump though 100 hoops, I'd rather not bother with it. It's like Marvels announcement last week, "Here is our API, but you can't do anything with it. Have fun."

colinbartlett• 12 years ago

It's just a start, give them time.

joeblau2• 12 years ago

In this day and age, companies rarely get second chances. Unless NASA releases a brand new amazing library, this is the only time we're going to see this. Unfortunately, the Internet is not very kind to second chances.

juliocc• 12 years ago

Not sure if intentional but they left a couple of private keys in here: https://github.com/nasa/CoECI-CMS-Healthcare-Fraud-Preventio...

NASA code from years of projects

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