skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price tag is probably way less than a single helicopter shot in some movie budgets, so it seems like a steal to movie industry veterans who watch the demo reel.

Every segment of their demo reel seems to have been filmed with a drone/quadcopter. The fact that they can put a platform that powerful (REDs can do full remote zoom/focus/aperature/ISO/etc.) is impressive.
Oracle is the one hurting the market for java with their ego driven proprietary API case. It seems that is SOP at Oracle though, where even customer relationships are "predominantly hostile and filled with deep-rooted mistrust." http://ubm.io/1Fv21WP

Oracle should take a page out of Google's book and reorganize their cashflow/m&a business more like a hedge fund instead of pretending that their is some sort of cohesive strategy around their product offering.
What if robberies decreased by 20% for some unrelated reason and the legislation increased robberies by 10%? It would still look like a 10% decrease overall.
My father likes to tell me how they had DDT sprayed in their hair when he was in school in the 50s to control head lice.

When asked what he thinks of this he just says "Well, it killed the lice".
What about just a jumper instead of having complicated crypto setups?
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> The "justice system," like the rest of the government, doesn't pay for anything under any circumstances. We, the taxpayer, do.

Which is how it causes the mistakes to go away. Politicians want to get reelected. They want tax dollars to go to things that help get them reelected by generating votes or campaign contributions.

The problem right now is that the defendant gets screwed but there is no cost for that to the police, politicians or voters. Make the voters pay for it and they will immediately want it to stop.
Nowadays it's much more complex and very much like software. Things got very complex, so a lot of things which Intel guys did by hand is nowadays done by a design program. For example: they devote a lot of time to describe how layout was done by hand. Right now you nearly never draw new rectangles of metal layer to build gates. Big fabs like TSMC will give you the library of cells which they know they can product. You'll tie it in your EDA VLSI software and you'll basically get a netlist from a Verilog simulator. And from there you'll do more via auto-placement for highly repeatable parts, and you'll do placement by hand for things you really care about. And you're assisted by software doing design checks all the way from design to manufacturing.
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Isn't that a tautology?
Is it just for clothes? How do you get the results?
I live in a small suburb in Ohio, so I took the kids (5 and 8) out back around 11pm last night and we threw out a blanket to watch. We saw a dozen or more, with 3 or 4 of them being good across-the-sky ones. Definitely one of those moments I'll cherish having shared with them. :)
> I couldn't find the way to switch between running apps, I kept having to go back to the home screen and hit the app's icon.

That is the way to switch between running apps. There are slightly faster ways to do it, but they do exactly the same thing, functionally.

This is why people say that the Apple interface is intuitive: you actually were able to accomplish your goal first try with no instruction.
Software engineers will be obsolete by 2060
Low-carb can definitely be a subset of Paleo but you're right, Paleo by itself is not strictly low-carb, the carbs you do consume will just be from fruits, vegetables and starches rather than grains and processed foods.

I lost 40 pounds on Paleo/Primal sticking to 50-80g carbs/day.
> There would be no such issues with Go and that alone would be a real incentive for language designers to put work into a compiler.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You can use Go to write android apps already so let the people that like other languages already supported by Android do the same. Nobody's going to rewrite Java or Scala in Go. As I said earlier, if Google wanted to do that it would have done that 5 years ago. They are clearly not interested in betting all their mobile strategy on a niche language.
Some have, but many persist for years (e.g. Scared Straight).
So, watching https://twitter.com/golang_cls, some escape-analysis and general garbage-prevention stuff landed (much from, or with the involvement of, the always-amazing Dmitry Vyukov).

Maps don't always escape now, for example: https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3508/

Code was added to recognize that some ops don't cause escaping: https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3031/ https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/8201/ https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3162/

dvyukov wrote about some potential improvements and linked to issues in Feb: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CxgUBPlx9iJzkz9JWkb6tIpT...

I think I saw even string bytes can be stack-allocated sometimes now, but couldn't immediately find the CL.

It looks like this is one of those things where one just has to chip away at cases. Movement happening; just a ton of round tuits required.
There's an interstitial page.
Intermittent fasting is popular in parts of the Paleo community: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/health-benefits-of-intermitte...
UW team wins AI prize for optimization approach
There's a small group of us in Boston working on a free meshnet as well. We're hanging out on #bostonmeshnet on Freenode and there is a mailing list here:

https://lists.projectmesh.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bosto...
I got 2ms, 2x slowdown! This is already too bloated, better rewrite it in a FPGA :P

On a serious note, this is an interesting piece of work.
This is a straw man. How do you know someone didn't copy the physical key to the used car? I think most people don't care.
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I also agree the price is a bit high, but it says you can get a refund within 30 days.
DDT has been demonised with much good cause, predator bird egg fragility leading to extinction and near extinction being a red light of many environmental issues. However, there maybe sensible case for usage of it or analogues that is prevented because of prejudgement.

We defend against DDT and ignore names we don't know at all.
> We theorized that the skateboard and remote used the 2.4 GHz band, which is well supported by HackRF One. Ordinarily one would use GNU Radio and a basic waterfall sink to look at spectrum, but GNU Radio can be a bit cumbersome.

> Luckily we had a PortaPack to play with! The PortaPack sits on top of the HackRF and acts as a wideband spectrum analyzer (among other things). We tuned up to 2400 MHz and swept the spectrum in 20 MHz increments looking for our signal.

Why not look the frequency up in the device's entry in the FCC's online Equipment Authorization database instead of guessing?

(I'm guessing they just wanted to play with that PortaPack...)
Wait, I thought you were the resident Kali hater. Forget to create a new account?
Then just think of the run times instead.
Hi Ted, how's the UBC branch going these days? :P
Fault-tolerant backup architectures are cheaper and more reliable than depending on any one service, regardless of due-diligence outcome on them. Any shop of any sensible size/scale would mitigate risks accordingly, or risk losing all their data and going out of business within a few months.

The end.
Try Hyper on Mac: https://hyper.sh/blog/post/2015/07/30/running-containers-fro...
Tesla Motors will raise $500M to accelerate
There are two problems that I have with this romantic view of DDT:

1. Mosquitoes become resistant to DDT over time, as is the case with most pesticides.

2. DDT might possibly be "cost effective" when considering direct costs, When you start factoring in the indirect costs, it doesn't look so good. DDT bio-accumulates and decimated many bird species, including insectivorous birds, the last time it was used. In the intervening years, habitat and bird populations have continued to decline. The cost today, especially to ecosystem services, could be very great.
Maybe you can link to that at the end of the quiz?
Race conditions would have a totally new meaning.
Section 142 and particularly sections 7 through 10 are all about extradition. The reveal is the defense of Assange's case as being in the "preliminary investigation" stage and the catch-22 logic used to justify the Swedish refusal to move beyond it. As any schoolboy can find out by reading up on the matter, it is critical for extradition to the US that the investigation does not pass this stage, since actually charging Assange would give him legal protections which make extradition difficult, some of which are even outlined for you in Section 144.

Of course, since your objection is disingenuous (you cannot possibly be so naive as to believe that the Swedish prosecutor will publicly state that her goal is to indefinitely detain a suspect), let us just force your actual beliefs into the open: (1) why do you believe that an interview with Assange will provide the Swedish prosecutor evidence to prosecute if she doesn't already have it? (2) why do you coonsider it reasonable to extradite someone who has never been charged with a crime to answer questions instead of asking them over the telephone, Skype or in person?

Not even the UK High Court considered the Swedish position reasonable (see Section 160), so it is hard to imagine any sentient person coming to the opposite conclusion.
I wouldn't expect anyone to read TAoCP front to back either. It isn't finished. We've only got the first part of chapter 7 and none of chapters 8 through 12. On the other hand, it's the best rabbit hole out there for the non-layman.
Has there been a consensus reached on whether or not this could have been a factor in the death of Michael Hastings? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
Extensive discussion of the Tesla stock offering can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053474
Probable cause is something you need to conduct a search. They went far beyond a search in this instance. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea they actually charged him with a crime when they had no evidence a crime was committed. None. I don't understand why the judge didn't laugh them out of court.
Thanks for this description (and others below). In that case it's not reasonable to use this for safety critical applications, IMO. Any element on the bus becomes a potential point of entry, and there's no defence in depth once on the bus. Kinda scary from an architectural point of view.
We're starting with clothes and accessories – most people still prefer shopping offline for clothing.

We use image recognition and scrape items from social media, partner databases and crowdsourcing.

Also testing with Beta users to snap what they're wearing and let them tag semantically ("night out","office","summer wear", "goth").
What money man are you referring to exactly? Most of the actual money in these situations comes from massive institutional funds where there is no individual man.
This is quite distressing, showing how our quality of life has actually regressed by some metrics rather than improved as is normally assumed. Americans of the 1960s did not have to worry about Chagas, Malaria, or Bed Bugs. These were parasites that had been eradicated. It even seemed possible then that TB, a scourge on humanity for centuries, might soon, at least in the US, meet a similar fate. Now it, like the parasites, has come back full force.

Though neither the author nor the posters here will identify the culprit, I think it should be obvious to all but the most deluded progressive that this is a consequence of unchecked mass immigration to the US--a consequence I doubt economists factor into their models when trying to justify conclusions about its benefits.
DDT is still allowed for anti-malaria campaigns but those old approaches aren't used because they don't work: resistance was already recognized as making that approach untenable by the mid-1950s. Even major proponents recognized that they had only a short window for widespread usage before it became ineffective:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02749227?LI=tru...

“There is an urgency today about malaria eradication. Insects are revealing a disconcerting ability to develop resistance to the new insecticides. For example, houseflies in many areas can no longer be killed with DDT. In a few cases, malaria-type mosquitoes are also resistant. Apparently, it takes six or seven years for the malaria-type mosquitoes of an area under continuous spraying to develop resistance.”

WHO's current position allows DDT for disease control – but not agriculture – but it's also with the kind of controls you'd expect to minimize collateral damage and avoid breeding resistant mosquito populations:

“WHO recommends DDT only for indoor residual spraying. Countries can use DDT for as long as necessary, in the quantity needed, provided that the guidelines and recommendations of WHO and the Stockholm Convention are all met, and until locally appropriate and cost-effective alternatives are available for a sustainable transition from DDT”

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/69945/1/WHO_HTM_GMP...

(Ars had a great Ed Yong piece last year on the history of resistance through the present: http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/a-field-report-from-m...)

Interestingly enough, the DDT boosterism of recent years was apparently funded by tobacco companies trying to discredit the public health agencies which are also behind anti-smoking campaigns. A few researchers connected the dots between that campaign and right-wing cash-for-sciency-veneer activists like Steve Milloy and Roger Bate:

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcar...
Scared straight is highly effective PR. Hood looking young people getting yelled at by scary men? Possibly crying? It's like schadenfreude for "civilized" society.

I don't understand how policy leaders can look at hard numbers and say, "fuck it, let's keep funding it."
If my own experience is any indication, this will cause for more eyestrain problems than people realise. My eyes have recovered somewhat only because I made a serious effort to avoid nonessential uses of my smartphone, particularly idle reading. I feel much more physiologically comfortable reading on my Paperwhite or 10" tablet. Size is the primary factor, but so is light, contrast and resolution.

And yes, my vision is properly corrected and prescription current. I didn't expect to end up with long-range glasses, computer glasses (a weaker version of the long-range prescription) AND prescription sunglasses at age 29, but so it goes.
Where to meet founders? When to seek funding?
I recently moved to Palo Alto and don't know many people or how the startup process works (if there is such a process).

I'm an everything developer and am currently building an App prototype for an idea of mine. I think it has a lot of potential and would fill an important niche.

Given that I'm a developer and can build out the infrastructure/backend/mockups+app myself, what makes more sense? Should I seek funding and then try to "hire" people, or should I try to meet would-be co-founders first?

I'm not trying to be greedy by doing it all myself; equity-hoarding is a solid way to sink your potential. I simply don't know the point at which I should really seek out others. I also don't know where I should go to meet people who would be a good match.

I've been to local entrepreneur Meetups and haven't had much luck in finding people to work with. It almost seems like getting seed funding might make more sense and then I can simply post job ads.

I think I can move aggressively with a proper designer, another developer, and marketing help.

Thank you for any advice you might have!
Hi Solomon,

It is great to hear you guys are working on that. I find Hyper is pretty interesting to run Docker on Mac https://hyper.sh/blog/post/2015/07/30/running-containers-fro....
Visual Explanation of the Raft Consensus Algorithm
That's pretty cool. A long time ago, I had a mock-up of C/C++ in LISP that let me use LISP macro's instead of C++'s metaprogramming. A generator produced C/C++ from it when I was done with the algorithm. Much automation of boilerplate, portability, security, etc w/ some 4GL-style stuff for productivity and LISP's incremental (per function) compilation. Miss that tool.

Anyway, just mentioning it because it's best of two worlds and someone else might want to re-create the concept. I saw one person do something similar for C just for interactive development. However, my old toolkit showed it could do a lot more. Some bright people could probably take it way further than what I did.
Anything significantly different in your Python implementation?
Having done this a few dozen times:

A best practice is to ask the next new person to keep notes of obvious questions/unclear details to put in an internal, secure wiki. The issue, as founders, we often don't think about what is obvious to us when we deployed an app and all the server tweaks necessary to get it going, for teaching someone else or replicating what was done. Then, they learn some things and put them into the wiki. Rinse-later-repeat until there's few/no questions as the team grows.

It's continual DR/BCP housekeeping: architecture diagrams, instance inventory/config and other critical info (contact / escalation info) updated so that it's run-over-by-a-bus and EC2-burns-down (almost) resilient.

As you scale, having someone put server config all in Chef or Puppet (cfg management stored in git) will also help reduce deployment pain at the expense of initial setup pain. Initially, a wiki page containing a giant shell script for each server box kind is usually a faster hack.
or travellers. you know.
One thing is clear: our brains required tremendous amounts of energy. Cooking starches allows us to extract more energy from them. Meat eating is calorically dense too and so that could of played a role (see Expesive Tissue Hypothesis). I have read meat-eating was hugley beneficial during resource scarcity.

The critical question is what diet do we thrive on? A carb rich plant-based diet is my guess based mostly on Dr. Michael Greger's work on summarizing nutrition science literature [0]. But I shall be convinced otherwise if the science is there.

[0] http://nutritionfacts.org/
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An interesting language. I'd like it if their performance charts had numbers on them instead of just the shapes. Leaves me guessing more than knowing.
If you are from NZ you'll understand this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nOU3jUf1Cg

Also Dr Ropata is the same actor that plays the clones in the new star wars films.
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It's really not that hard to install it yourself...
He wrote "often", not "always".
> If a certain police officer had a 15% conviction rate, and he actually liked his job, then he'd be sure next time to be more sure about his arrests.

...or get better at pretending to be more sure so that the innocent defendants he arrests don't screw up his numbers by getting acquitted.

You get what you measure. If you measure the conviction rate then the conviction rate will go up, but that isn't the same thing as the percentage of convicted defendants who were actually guilty.
Probably for the same kind of reason that people can take out life-insurance policies on themselves much more easily than on others.

The court assumes that the bail bondsman's incentive for you to skip town is non-existent, whereas your incentive to skip town is, statistically speaking, much higher.
I don't prefer reading on a kindle. But ease of transportation and the expense and speed of international shipping make it compelling anyway.

Phone reading is only for when you're stuck not being at home.
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In my LISP/C/C++ system I referenced, I was able to largely eliminate compile times by doing the development in LISP until it was correct and batching overnight an extraction to C/C++ w/ compilation and tests. So, if it's done right, it should be faster to iterate than a C++ tool even on older hardware. Don't do a lot of work with the ML's or this tool so I can't remember if they have the interactive option or at a good speed.
This article is completely off the mark about the paleo diet.

Paleo is not necessarily low carb - usually about 20%~40% of calories are from carbs. Tubers like sweet potatoes are specifically recommended in paleo regimens.

The author is confusing Paleo with Atkins/ketogenic diets.
I agree with you concerning Waze routing. If she tells me to discontinue my route and go another way, I've learned to trust her. Also, Waze will let you know how long it takes to make it through an unexpected traffic.
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> ...in a Tesla you have the option to change suspension settings based on location from a Google Maps -based GPS system.

Given Musk's technical background, one would expect Tesla to understand that they're building a network-connected computer-controlled two-ton missile and to have both the desire and know how to properly secure such a thing.

But yeah, AFAIK, all we have from any manufacturer is assurances of security. :(
I agree.

Google Maps has gotten worse if anything over time. The mid Atlantic corridor is a great example -- it's real difficult to transit the DC region without being directed to the Baltimore-Washington parkway, although alternate routes exist that are within a few minutes of each other.

The other thing it is missing is the ability to protect traffic over a long road trip. If I'm driving from NYC to Maine, they should know about typical commute cycles. The Microsoft Map desktop app had a manual capability to do that in the 90s.
I got way fewer of these right than I would have hoped. It's clear that I need to update my understanding of the questions presented. I owe a debt to those who put this together. Thanks very much.
I think there have been RAM-based storage devices even older than that, connected to IDE. I have no idea how one would go about finding a reference these days though.
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Yeah just the books I used in school:
Ross - A First Course in Probability
Rice - Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis
Casella - Statistical Inference
From start to finish. Interesting to see the whole picture. They made it, too. :)
Bed bugs are back because we realized the pesticides that kept them at bay had lots of unwanted consequences so we stopped using them. Actually, they would've resurged anyways as there's evidence bed bugs were becoming resistant to many pesticides.

Considering they don't actually carry disease, they're just creepy, I'd hardly put them in the same category as serious tropical diseases. Buy yourself a PackTite and relax.
Sounds like userland is mostly perpetually backward-compatible. If so, that would be awesomesauce.
Beginning Rspec
My cue was to vote against strategies that seemed built on a rewards and punishments foundation.
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What I'm saying is: it might be appropriate to look at specific kinds of diamond because of the complexity of lithography and such. But the purity of the wafer doesn't matter because that has nothing to do with chip cost.

That post was wrong about that being a driver of costs, and it's not fruitful to build on that wrongness.

An analogy that leads you to the right conclusion for the wrong reason is a toxic thing.
New Computer Tool Can Predict Dementia from Your Simple Drawings
Good Luck Nalin!
You Don't Need to Go Low-Carb to Burn Body Fat, Study Says
I run some frequently traded strategies as a hobby (i.e., time spent >> my salary). My strategy is profitable (15-20% returns) though not scalable. The IRA is the perfect place for these, due to the tax implications.