skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh - have you ever been close to a quadcopter capable of carrying a 2lb payload for 20+ minutes?

It's pretty much 4 carbon fibre lawnmower blades thrashing around in the air. I'm not getting anywhere near close enough to remove a payload from one while it's attempting to keep a stationary hover in an area of poor gps reception.

I'm reasonably careless with my little quads (~350g with 5 inch plastic props spun by 220W motors), but my medium sized one (~800g) gets treated with much more respect. I've got a friend with a 5+kg Octocopter - it's got 2+kW motors spinning 18 inch carbon fibre blades, I don't get within 4 or 5 meters of that when it's powered up and armed (and I'm extremely wary of it when it's got power connected but isn't "armed", because that's really just trusting Chinese electronics and open source software to not chop my fingers off...)
Sure. A friend of mine is working on a redesign (#7), but a bit of CSS love would go a long way. This is just the basic Jekyll theme with a few changes.
Yes, free software OSes aren't just plug-and-play with their setup and take some upfront effort. But once set up, they don't tend to break or nag. The article is pretty clear in showing that the author doesn't mind troubleshooting, but what annoys him is having to keep turning the same thing off due to updates.
Do you mean the E3 visa?

As for me, I started building websites in year 11 for friends/family - I was self-taught HTML, CSS and Wordpress. I had no "real" programming experience, which is where we might differ from each other.

I did an accelerated diploma in Design and then went back and did my bachelors in Comp Sci at USyd. The programming components were definitely new to me (Java, C etc), but you may have experience with them already.

I think it's safe to assume that CS is really not about teaching you how to program - many people graduate and do not know how to code. What you do gain is a deep theoretical knowledge that is really important and useful (algorithms, data structures etc). There are many threads on HN where the differences between self-taught & CS students are compared, you should definitely check them out.

Ultimately, I think it really depends on what you want to be developing. If you want to work at FB/Apple/Google/MS or anywhere outside of Australia, get the degree. If you want to found your own startup, I could see an argument of why the degree might be less useful. That said, I think very few people would regret studying CS or software engineering, it's always going to pay off.
Any specific reason? Its a simple static website that doesn't really need a database. If it grows to a point where I need filtering, I might think about it. But plain-old HTML is really powerful.
Excellent choice of colour and tasteful use of animations =)
There's definitely market segmentation and it's definitely a conscious decision, but there are other functional differences between the supermarkets. (Bigger package sizes at pak-n-save, and New World's are also located in more convenient locations).

So they probably got the market segmentation right. Compare with eg Four Square -> small, expensive, small selection, but still feels cheap.

I worked at New World when I was a kid and they definitely hired disabled and people of various cultures. I think this is reflective of the location of the particular supermarkets though. They are generally staffed with people from the local area so definitely represent the local demographic.
I've successfully restored several times, most recently last week. TM is a lifesaver.
Prominent Climate Scientist Critiques Obama's Paris Plan
Just started abandoning Photos today too. I have a 1.5TB library, so it never did fit on iCloud Photos. Switched back to plain old file system directories with all the files named uniquely, and it's surprisingly refreshing. No beach-balls, no BS prompts about not having enough space on iCloud even though I don't use it. Better integrated with the tools I use too (DxO).

Apple's whole 'Each app is it's own file manager' theme is getting really tired.
You're talking about "progressive enhancement". It's a romantic idea, but it never happened, probably because it's too hard and the cost is not justified given most users run with their browser's default settings.

The precursor of the web made by Tim Berners-Lee dates back to 1980, but it was not based on HTML or HTTP. These happened later in 1990 and early 1991. But then CSS happened in 1994. And Javascript happened in 1995 at Netscape, but then Javascript was completely useless until Microsoft came up with the iframe tag in 1996 and then with XMLHttpRequest in 1999, which was later adopted by Mozilla, Safari and Opera. And people still couldn't grasp its potential until Google delivered Gmail in 2004 and Google Maps in 2005.

Not sure what the "the web was meant to be", we should ask Tim Berners-Lee sometimes, but in my opinion the web has been and is whatever its developers and users wanted it to be, with contributions from multiple parties such as Netscape, Microsoft, Mozilla, KDE/KHTML, Apple, Google and many other contributors, being a constantly evolving platform.
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Where do you store your library?
Yep. I think it's mostly about mass production. Pyra, not really a phone, but can be used as one is the closest thing we have to something where you can install whatever OS you feel like. And it requires a very dedicated effort to bootstrap a project like this and keep costs within control.

Many projects, like Neo900 (or even Jolla Tablet) have had loads of trouble trying to manufacture something that is affordable.
Not just hooliganism: there is real booty to collect.

I suppose the flying altitude should be outside te air gun range, with descent right naivete landing spot.
When you say "washing clothes yourself," do you mean with a laundry machine and dryer, or in the river? Certainly, it costs more to do laundry at a laundromat on a per-load basis, but having your own washer and dryer is a capital investment many people can't afford to make.
Again: I am sorry. This is something the project needs to figure out: how do you deal with thousands upon thousands of issues? Just of major issues there are more than a thousand! So if you post a random patch the chances are , alas, very high it'll be lost in this vast sea. Again: this is not ideal, hopefully we will figure something out.

OTOH, if you need help http://drupal.stackexchange.com/ is a good place to ask.
oh wow you weren't kidding
The first hit to "photo stream limits":

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299

I don't know if that answers your questions or not. It does seem kind of complicated.
All back-end infrastructure should reduce to a good pun. This is a known design pattern.
One of the few(?) compelling arguments for cloud storage with no cave-in ability for law enforcement. :/
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era by Henrey Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, and Danah Boyd:

http://www.amazon.com/Participatory-Culture-Networked-Era-Co...

It's actually pretty interesting so far. The premise is basically back in the 90s many/most early adopters of the Internet (including myself) thought it was going to bring all sorts of beneficial changes to society. This obviously hasn't entirely happened, so it's looking at the state of what's changed, what hasn't, why, what's likely to happen in the future, etc. And it's written as a conversation between the three authors on various questions, which is interesting because each has a slightly different research speciality -- henry is most famous for his work on participatory culture, mimi is most famous for her ethnography of japan, and danah probably most famous for her work on social software and subcultures/outgroups.

A lot of the book is looking at community culture vs corporate culture vs internet culture, and specifically how the web got corporatized or whatever. It's also looking at youth use of social software, especially in the context of the U.S. where kids have very little in the way of autonomy, rights, or freedom to participate in public organizations. (This is where the video gaming stuff comes in.)
I meant any good "app-builders" out there. I found a bunch of products that are for social profiles or content (like dwnld.me) but nothing that is more integrated with unique mobile functionalities.
Lazerhawk and tripping cat - perfect.
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every restore I've done has worked successfully
I'm not saying that native apps > web apps isn't true, but…

> * Request stuff from arbitrary URLs without a CORS proxy

CORS isn't a proxy; it's a browser policy/algorithm that allows a site the opportunity to say "yes (or no), other websites may (or may not) make AJAX requests here". The native app (unless you've informed it somehow, or it has done something malicious) doesn't have the user's cookies, whereas the browser does, and needs to be a bit more cautious.

> * Open TCP and UDP sockets

There are websockets, which aren't the same, I'll admit. Frankly, I'm not sure I want my web pages to be able to arbitrarily open TCP/UDP sockets. (I don't really want my native apps to be able to on whim, either…)

> * Barometric sensors

You mean like current air pressure? Are there common devices out there with these? (None of my computing devices have anything like this, for example.) (and what would I want this for?)
Why not? I had an hour long ECG done, spent another 2 hours talking to a doctor and played specialized testing games for another hour..
This is my three-year-old's favorite game. (He only gets iPad time on the weekends.)

He currently can complete a half dozen levels or so by himself. I suspect a lot of it is rote memorization, but I hope the game is helping to develop problem solving skills. He's also fan of Lumino, but the puzzles in that one are a bit beyond him at the moment (e.g. in the first sequence, he does everything except place the lemons on the proper pegs).

And he has kids games that he enjoys (e.g. the Dr Panda ones, and some sorting/matching games that he played when he was younger).
For the sake of a fair comparison, here is a New York Times article from June 1993: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/02/business/headache-for-japa...

> During the real estate boom of the 1980's, Japanese investors purchased or financed tens of billions of dollars of American property

> the Japanese are now forced to consider the same unpleasant choices that their American counterparts have already been confronting: foreclosing on mortgages, writing down loans and thus acknowledging grave losses, or selling the whole mess to someone else, almost certainly at a loss.

> The Mitsubishi Estate Company ... Rockefeller Center ... mortgage for $1.3 billion

> The Shuwa Corporation of Tokyo ... ARCO Plaza complex in Los Angeles, the U.S. News & World Report Building in Washington ... 18-story office building at 551 Madison Avenue ... $10 billion in debt

> Mitsubishi Trading Company ... 1,400-room Westin Bonaventure hotel ... $75 million mortgage.

In summary, Japanese companies bought commercial property via loans.

Today, Chinese individuals are buying residential property, paying full price in cash up front with the aim of settling down in America and sending their children to the local schools.

Doesn't appear to be the same situation at all.
I admittedly haven't been that close to one but we do trust or are seriously considering trusting software to control heavy machinery like cars. Is is truly so out of the question that we might be able to make them safe enough for that?

It might require more advanced designs, far better tested and well regulated software but being able to get that close to a drone would enable a lot more use cases for them. I think many people are going to invest quite a lot of money into making this possible, so I think we're going to see something like this eventually, even if it takes decades.
You have to make subjective decisions to structure your code anyway. So I feel that you will hit auth vs settings debate when you implement reset password anyway.

For something like reset password, put it wherever your team will find it. It feels more like auth to me, but if you have most of your auth functionality already built in your settings area, it might not make sense to move it (until it gets unwieldy and "uncomfortable" to keep it there).

Follow the principle of least surprise: if a fellow developer is looking for "reset password," are "settings" and "auth" the only two places where they would look? That's actually good enough. Think about all the times you really had to hunt around to find something that was placed in an unexpected, "weird" place.
Computers can't beat Go, either, not yet, though there's a lot more focus on this.
Let me walk back that a bit - there's an exception. A good programmer can have boring work if their managers forbid them from building the tools necessary to reasonably do their job. I had a job once that did exactly that; they were happier with the status quo because with the setup they had they needed N hours of programmer time for every customer-feature launch pair. When I showed them how we could reduce it to approximately N hours of work to add the feature to every customer's instance, I was told no, because as it those N hours spent on each client's site were billable hours to the client. In other words, that I was reducing the total work needed by a factor of the number of customers to provide the same value was seen as detrimental to the business.

Their business model was broken to the point where it favored operational work over engineering work. Hours spent working were more important than results delivered. I was only at that job for a couple of weeks; pretty much exactly when they told me that they didn't want me to reduce my total workload because of their billing structure was when I decided that I'd be leaving. And I have zero regrets.

So, allow me to rephrase: I don't understand how good programmers, given the autonomy they ought to have, can have boring work.
That was 8 years ago, and it doesn't look anything like that anymore. Anecdotally, I haven't really noticed any of the changes in the last few iterations, and I find all the grousing a bit mystifying. But in general I think all of the latest versions of Windows, OSX, and the popular desktop Linux distros are really nice and imminently usable, so maybe I'm just not critical enough.
Have you tried Google Photos? It's working extremely well for me and I'm paying some nominal $9.99 to get 1tb of storage and which is more than adequate for my usage as it also replaces Dropbox (using Google Drive) and the tools for automatically backing up from my phone as well as my desktop work quite well.
I've been considering the new Apple TV - could you share what you dislike about it?
Uncaught Error: This browser does not support webGL. Try using the canvas renderer :( :( :( :( :(
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The namedropping at the beginning of the article is annoying. What's it about? "Hey look, I'm awesome and even I am confused!" ???
Sorry to put it so bluntly: it is this kind of backwards mentality from your comment that really makes me despise American "progressives". The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.

- The dream of most ordinary people is to own their own home (...) we have sold everything.

Who is this "we" you speak of? Are people born in the US entitled to real estate when they are born? I don't know about you, but if I were priced out of my area because foreign money was flooding my country, I would just invest in real estate developments in other parts of the country (or any other part of the world where I could be free to invest, away from stupid nationalist laws like you defend) which were still cheaper, undervalued and not affected by the bubble. Best case scenario, I get to grow my personal wealth and I would get to be making my country even richer. Worst case, I would be living in a place that is affordable.

- selling real estate to other countries

The real estate is not being sold to China. It is being sold to a Chinese. The Chinese investing would like to see their investments safe, so it will be in their best interest to keep things from blowing up.

Thank heavens, globalization is already here, and it is not only supposed to benefit the people in rich countries to buy cheap things on Walmart. It is also supposed to help the poor countries to develop stable institutions, which can only come if there is free flow of people and work. Deal with it.

- If the government cared about its citizens then selling residential real estate to non-citizens/permanent residents would be outlawed.

So, you want Government to be Big Mommy that accepts the poor people in dire situations but God forbid some foreign that beats you in your own game? Fuck "progressives".

- The disaster can't be undone because governments will see the flood of cash and tax it.

And then they will take the tax money and try to provide public services to the people that do live there? Oh, the horror. Cry me a river.
Yes, start meditating. Meditation is scientifically proven to make use of your neuroplasticity, improve it and rewire your brain. I am diagnosed ADHD-PI and meditation over time corrected my symptoms to a level at which I function completely normally without any medication.

Oh, and it will make your life a hundred times nicer in general :)
Yep. :) It's "MacTerm":

https://github.com/kmgrant/macterm

The Python front-end is mostly here:

https://github.com/kmgrant/macterm/tree/master/Build/Application/PythonCode

The ".app" bundle layout is constructed as part of the build:

https://github.com/kmgrant/macterm/blob/master/Build/GNUmakefile

...but basically it puts Python scripts and a Python-runner into "MacOS", and Python and C++ libraries into "Frameworks". You could also download the built ".app" to see the final layout.

This is actually quite a bit simpler than it used to be. In the old days I was able to support both PowerPC and Intel, multiple versions of Python and about 6 different old Mac OS X versions in the same bundle. I still can't quite believe that it worked. :)
That is a shame then.
From TFA

> So far this year, 86 percent of the EB-5 visas issued worldwide have gone to Chinese.
Better to run an HSDir! http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf
I tried it for a week, but stuck with "my system:"

I have my Note 4 'phone' setup to wait until I am on a wifi connection and then backup photos and videos to OneDrive, Google Photos, and Dropbox. I delete old photos from Dropbox occasionally to keep under my storage limit. I tend to delete unwanted pictures before I get back on wifi.

All photo file names start with a date and time stamp so everything is organized chronologically. On OneDrive I sometimes add a text description to favorite photos after the time stamp: when I am zipping through a date range occasional descriptions help navigate.

I let Google Photos organize my photos also.

One problem is that I run Timemachine backups on my primary laptop and so I end up getting three copies of everything on my local backups.

Edit: I use selective sync on OneDrive and Dropbox to only keep a month or two of pictures on my laptop. I access old photos from the web interface.
I'm still figuring this out, so thanks for the concerns and suggestions.

Reference System: I think I saw a website on reddit recently that let you rate your experience on multiple platforms (Can't seem to find it now). But that doesn't work for everyone. For eg, I don't even have a listing on any other platform. Couchsurfing isn't very big here. I'm sure having the entire revision history in git would be of some help if I build a reference system. I'm open to ideas on how to exactly go about this.

Request Management: I could setup some form of email forwarding (How to get your real email over a side-channel might be an issue). Somebody asked me about setting up chat.hackercouch.com for a similar purpose, and I'm open to doing that as well.

On a different note, do you have any suggestions on the trademark issues surrounding Couchsurfing? We have an open PR to replace CouchSurfing with Hospitality Exchange and I'd love to hear your thoughts. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/captn3m0/hackercouch/pull/4
Sage advice. I read this after seeing a couch-offerer on this site with a name of "trouble"...!
Its 6am in the morning here, and that went straight over my sleepyhead.
Why not work on making education cheaper that way no one needs sign away their future?
Is it ethical to just walk away from a problem?
Being poor doesn't make you stupid any more than a runaway process makes a computer slow.

But being poor consumes mental energy and time, approximately equivalent to a decrease of 13 IQ points[0], just as a runaway process will make the affected computer slower (regardless of how fast it would otherwise be).

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/growing-up-poor-is-bad-for-...
> Another reason why Chinese love coming here is to take advantage of government benefits, particularly with regard to medical care.

As an American living in Asia this is horrifying. How did you discover this group of Chinese people who were so successful that they have to hide their assets, yet so stupid that they seek public health care in one of the only first world countries which does not adequately provide it.
I use 2 OS X machines and an iPhone (I have an iPad too but I almost never use it). And I've never had iCloud eat anything. The worst behavior I've ever seen is upon rare occasion having iCloud take longer than expected to sync changes made to stuff in iCloud Drive, but that's it.

During the OS X betas, I've had some issues with the underlying daemons that manages iCloud sync (e.g. bird), but that was a developer beta so it doesn't really count, and it still never actually lost data.
This more recent article contradicts the findings in the one you linked.

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n11/abs/ngeo2560.html

I won't take any strong stances as this as it is not my field of research but I was under the impression that the affects of climate change on extreme weather phenomena has already been observed. It's not just hurricanes. There's also articles about drought and wildfires.
Everyone tries to reinvent the wheel with zfs mirroring and snapshot retention tools.
The source code shows it uses an LSTM. https://github.com/shariq/burgundy
Maybe, but I find it frustrating that many people seem to believe that in-state universities are the solution for not going deeply into debt while supporting state policies that make them more expensive. I think state-supported higher education should be an important part of the solution to this problem, but policy is headed the opposite direction in most states.
That's not too surprising. Most NP-hard problems are pretty tractable in practice.
I will always use Apple Pay if available, since it prevents tracking by evil merchants and leaks by hackers via unique credit card numbers.

I do not understand why the US uses these terrible chip and signature cards, which were a repeated source of frustration for me in Europe this year, since they don't work anywhere.

Maybe they think Americans are too dumb to comprehend a PIN, despite having used them for years on ATMs? If so, why add the time-wasting signature? If we're not doing chip and pin (we should), why not chip and nothing? My signature is a different squiggle every time, there's no way they're doing computer vision on that in time to verify the transaction (if they could even decode it at all).
Except there will be no driver.
Being from australia, when i purchase something it could potentially be cash only, swipe CC, insert CC or use paypass/paywave (nfc).

Not once have I ever considered this to be 'dizzying'

I mean, if you insert the card and it needs you to swipe, it tells you to swipe the card right there on the terminal (or just doesnt have the chip slot on it).

Why dont people just throw their wallets at the register and start curling up into a ball when it doesnt work