skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a similar idea for a while. In my version, the passenger module includes the seats and floor but not the walls, which remain part of the plane. If you could do it this way (I'm sure it would be a great engineering challenge to make it work) then you could load and unload the modules virtually instantaneously because people could just go out the sides. Each row would basically be independent.
Profit for Pocket. If they aren't making money off of their database of what people read, how are they paying for the bandwidth/hosting costs?
Ask HN: Is Facebook Messenger Censoring Swear Words?
Messenger appears to be censoring swear words. Bullshit appeared as b* * * * * * *, that's how I found out about it. I haven't tested a wide range of words and I don't see any info about it online or in the app settings. Has anyone else noticed this?
Wow, so much nicer -- works with SIGQUIT too. Very nice work!
The problem, I think, is that there does need to be a way to "anonymously" report suspicious activity. Imagine a legit call, where the "callee" is known by the "suspicious person". I agree that there's room for improvement/checking, but not sure how to reconcile the two.
What 4chan thinks about HN
How will the non-profit be funded? Do you think you'll be able to sustain yourself working at a non-profit?

(serious question. A lot of us want to work at non-profits, but find it to be not a realistic choice since it doesn't pay enough to survive, wondering how others are able to do it)
Pretty awesome price point.
I currently work as a software engineer in a hedge fund on their datawarehouse platform - most of it is written in Perl. I also code in JavaScript/JQuery/HTML/CSS. I code all day long in Vim on a Linux system. I've developed significant sub-components of the system and learned tons doing that. It is pretty great.
If you had a rooted phone, you might be able to capture the packets that the app sends over the network interface and try to analyze what they're sending to see if it looks random enough to be encrypted data. However, it would still be difficult to figure out what the quality of the encryption was (e.g., would it be trivial for the NSA to break it).
Well he'll surely get those hits now that the BBC has picked it up?
Develop different financial products and provide business intelligence. Software Development manager with 4 direct reports in 3 sparsely geo-located engineering team.

It is OK as long as I am earning enough to have good life.

I love to develop products that are being utilized by common people and it improves their lifestyle.
CrowdProcess: HTML5 supercomputer
Argue whatever you want - it is out of the courts at this point. It is purely a civil matter between him and the companies. The article specifically stated that the number was thrown out there to give him the incentive to cooperate.

So there is no guarantee they would sue if he fails, no guarantee they would win if they sued, and they already admit he cannot pay even if they do sue and win.
this in my opinion is the real issue, when i fly international people tend to check bags/the planes have ample overhead bin space i always find that the boarding process goes surprisingly fast. On domestics inevitably someone boards the plan sitting in row 6 but all the overheead space is full until you get to row 10 and they stand there confused for a few minutes
> that's surprising b/c i've had a good experience with firefox on android

The earliest Android browser was lacking things that people had gotten used to on desktop (like tabs), but since the introduction of Chrome I would be surprised to see high usage of any third-party browser on Android (and iOS, of course, makes it difficult to consistently use a third-party browser). It's worth noting that even in the days when third-party browsers would have been most compelling, usage was still tiny.

I don't think the fact that firefox mobile is good quality really makes it that surprising that usage is low: people simply aren't in the habit of customizing their devices in any real way, especially on mobile.
IIRC a Custom Element does not necessitate a shadow DOM. Shadow DOMs are attached programmatically and the definition of a Web Component is a custom element with a shadow DOM that allows it to act like a encapsulated, reusable module. You can have custom elements in Angular without a shadow DOM, hence the existence of Polymer.
Funny you ask. I saw it once, in the theater when it came out. But that happened to be my first date, and I spent the entire movie awkwardly making out with her. 20+ years later and I still haven't actually watched that movie.
This is an awesome board for embedded development. Not as powerful or I/O rich as the Beaglebone Black, but add $6 worth of CAN transceiver chips and a 12V->5V switching power supply and you've got an incredibly powerful automotive compute unit. The Pi 1 was a bit underpowered for what I'm doing, and this might hit the sweet spot while dropping $35 off my unit cost for small quantities. None of the issues you mention affect that calculation at all.

Who uses ethernet anymore?
Pirate needs 200,000 video views to avoid being sued
zero effort attempt to copy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7745561
I hope its not as stupid as that "You would not steal a car" one... I would steal a car if i could copy my friends BMW with the press of a button without having any material costs. :)
Reader View is unfortunately no longer being maintained since Mozilla decided to integrate Pocket. It bugs me since I find Firefox's Reader View actually does a better job than Pocket in most cases of stripping out the clutter.
> I don't believe you. Here's the source, show me where it does this

You're wasting your breath. This thread is littered with people uncritically repeating that assertion. It's officially graduated from "fact" to "article of faith among the cynical and ignorant".
Second part: Show me the money

"In 2000 Asturian sheep farmers put in compensation claims for more sheep killed by wolves than actually existed in the Principality".

The two last spanish ministers of environment had repeatly tried to convince Brussels that all was plenty of wolves so they should be hunted also in the south. Each year between 140 and 300 wolves are tendered to hunters

http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/27/inenglish/1332871020_305...

And here is this bright jewel of internet sarcasm that you surely will enjoy: Lets save the relict population of tasmanian wolves in Andalusia:

https://scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/s...

Although there is no proof, in the last decades, of thylacine presence in Andalusia, it is estimated that 8 reproductor groups can be still survive in Sierra Morena.

The project perspectives are good, is easy to harmonize the interests of hunters and livestock keepers with a species that do not exists.

We want to improve the social perception of tasmanian tigers among citizens. No reintroductions, or real measures against the causes of their extinction are planned.

The context of this is about the new 12 millions of euro granted to "improve the social perception" of wolves in the South of Spain. Since 2012 not a single iberian wolf was caught in the trap cameras deployed to census the also hightly endangered lynx, but Spain said this year in Brussels that there are 50 iberian wolves in two subpopulations instead, the same number as in the last 30 years. A growing number of people think instead that they are locally extinct by now

http://infoandalucia.com/ii-plan-de-recuperacion-del-lobo-ib...

Even if one or two wolves miraculously remain they will be highly hybridiseed with feral dogs currently. But as long as Brussels do not ask inconvenient questions about why Spain is not just taking some of the 300 auctioned wolves that will be hunted in the North and traslocate this animals to the National Parks in the South for a small fraction of this money, all will be OK.

As I said I'm not a total jerk. I do not mind if some kangaroos need to be culled as long as is done correctly. Is the common rethoric what is a problem to me, because often it just covers an abuse or a scam (I'm not saying that this is the case here).

If Australia need to keep off kangaroos out of children play areas, I'm fine with the idea. Maybe some strategically situed realistic statues of dingos or thylacines could do a much better job for less money. Who knows?. Children at least will enjoy it. Just lets try it and see what happens.
I've been working for a b-corporation that is in the ed-tech space. There are a lot of problems to solve here.

After two years, I feel that educational software is more about production quality/entertainment value than about solving technological challenges. Poorly designed content that is not engaging can't compete with other resources on the web.

Building a platform to facilitate learning is difficult, because the user experience will only ever be as good as the effort the instructor puts into the course. At the same time, training/education requires a hugely diverse set of features. You're pretty much developing a content-management system, plus a lot of extensions for client-specific needs. Different school districts/companies can have hugely different needs and standards that they need to satisfy, so apps become bloated and dysfunctional. I don't think anyone starts out thinking that they'll build a "crap webapp", but education is a really tough problem for computers to solve.

At the end of the day, organizations choose the most "comprehensive" system, which usually means Blackboard or one of their competitors. Established vendors make integration difficult, and will try to scare their clients from working with you. Also, school districts are also notorious for procurement processes that are incredibly painful.

If you go the content route and become an eLearning development firm, you're looking at a race to the bottom for lowest price for acceptable quality. You'll also be going up against big companies (e.g. Relias) that already have thousands of stock trainings on-hand that they can adapt slightly to individual clients.

All of this said, the online learning space is ripe for disruption. Articulate Storyline (the industry-standard eLearning authoring tool) is still heavily dependent on flash and has numerous glitches. xAPI is almost completely meaningless as an LRS standard. I also get the sense that many organizations are beginning to re-think their commitments to Blackboard and the like. It's a great cause and I wish you the best!
I've noticed some sloth over the past few days. I'm using google.co.uk.

Search results can take a while to appear at times. More common is that when I click on one of the links (which of course are always of the form www.google.co.uk?blahblahblahblah...) it spends a while waiting for google before following the link.
One year living on Airbnb in nyc
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/3116706556
Tamagothi (1997)
Cross-state crimes have always been a major issue for law enforcement.

You would think that the local SWAT team would investigate, except most SWAT teams are only county based. All of the calls for "small local government" come to bite us in the ass when a punk from California calls a SWAT team in Ohio. Lets presume a simple VPN setup here: California Punk buys VPN in Switzerland, creates a Google Voice Account for Ohio, makes a phone call to 911 through Google Voice in Ohio.

SWAT Team eventually realizes they've been tricked, but then they have no authority in the next county over... let alone California. They call the FBI and hand the case over to them... but now what? The phone call was probably anonymized and tracing the caller id leads to a fake Google Voice account that was accessed from Switzerland. All of a sudden you need to pull an international team in to deal with the issue.

Remember, each step of the way is a set of laws that we, the people, have wrapped the FBI with Red Tape in. What powers do the FBI have to trace phone calls? Was it legal for them to look at the IP traffic? Each of these steps are double-checked by lawyers in the FBI.

An FBI Agent who specializes in domestic phone calls (and what he is legally allowed to do in the investigation) suddenly finds himself looking at VOIP traffic from Google, and no longer understands the legal landscape his is operating in. So he has to pass the job onto another department.

Eventually, the FBI will build teams of people who understand the legal landscape across a typical SWAT attack, and have agents who can maneuver through the sea of red tape.

Considering how much "Hacker News" posts about "OFMG, GOVMENT SPY ON US" like every damn day, is it surprising to see the red tape that the political opinion has caused?
Modern cars are switching off the engine instead of idling.
Therefore no gas is wasted.
Arlington Wallace: First Free Robo-Advisor in the UK
I would love to see it too!
A algorithm helps you find your perfect place to live
I've been programming for 30 years now, I remember back before syntax highlighting. I had a bug that I couldn't track down - it took forever. I had an infinite loop that would only run 3 times and then exit.

Here was the problem:

for (int i=0;i<3;++i) {
/* Initialize important things.
frozzleTheNozzle();
}

while (1) {
/* Do ALL THE THINGS. */
makeSureTheNozzleStaysFrozzled();
}

Syntax highlighting prevents the entire class of bugs from happening (as do compiler warnings, but hey). I told one of the other guys I was working with, and he introduced me to emacs which had just gained font-lock mode.
The most interesting part is that you can script applications with it. I recall writing a script that played Google's running game during the Olympics a while back when I was learning to program.
Someone please pass this to the Go team, something like this would really be nice to have in the default Go distribution.
So for example you decide to mark adjectives with blue. Then you have: The grass is green. Nope, thanks.
XML does let you define tags via DTDs and schemas, but HTML Custom Elements let you _implement_ new tags, so that they do something.

The point isn't really to create new <div> or <span> tags, but new <img>, <a>, <input> and <select> tags, and of course, much more complex ones on top of those.
Well, ants and termites together are estimated to have about as much biomass as all cattle, sheep, and goats combined... [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_%28ecology%29#Global_b...
I work in performance-based marketing, running lead acquisition campaigns on Facebook. I really like it because it feels like you're playing a stock market with the fluctuating prices and algorithm changes in the market. Plus there's the creative aspect of making the ads while also figuring out the different targeting options that will convert.

It's my first job out of college and have been doing it for 4.5 years. I also run a creative/music community on the side called HypedSound (soon to be hype.co) -- hit me up if you're a Django dev ;)
I make little websites which I don't know if people will care about. Enjoyment will depend on the millions I manage to rake in.
What's the catch?
What is the counter-argument to XHTML but the proliferation of sloppiness?
> One does not exclude the other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

You're right that this doesn't follow devoid of context, but luckily we're talking about a specific entity and a specific situation. The assumption that motivates this assumption is the idea that Mozilla has finite resources, not just in the literal sense, but in the sense of having to make significant trade-offs in what to focus on. This seems like a fairly reasonable assumption to make given that they're often so far behind on things that are fairly widely considered positive, like one-process-per-tab.

You may disagree with that assumption, but at least address it instead of being wearisome and linking to a Wikipedia logical fallacy page.
Love the whole raspberry pi mission. I wonder if in 10+ years time we'll see the children learning on it today generating a growth surge in "middle(young)-aged hobbyists"? We all hear about the heyday of the homebrew computer club, maybe the future waves of innovation will be from the "homebrew raspberry pi club". Here's to hoping!!
Customs will check the package and if it contains any goods that they think should be taxed they'll call you and give you a quote. If you pay then you can get your package. If you don't it will sit on a shelf for-ever.
From non-technical to hired developer in 5 months
Ask HN: A distributed x86_64 emulator atop Erlang/OTP/Elixir. Feasible?
Major debate on robots and society sets scene for #ERW2015 European Robotics Week
My impression based on years of using credit cards is that the primary defenses against fraud are pattern matching of transactions rather than security built into the card...i.e. I get phone calls from my credit card providers when something weird happens.

My gut is that physical card features are analogous to client side validation on a web application. They solve user interface problems and reduce latency but everything still needs to be validated on the backend.
As useless as walmart's website is, I doubt that HN could break it by simply visiting. As the other poster said, if it's broke, that's probably due to black Fri/holiday traffic.
Hm that's interesting -- what kind of programming are you teaching? Is it for journalists per se or the people who work with them?

I would imagine there is some overlap between journalism and "data science". Many articles about the world would benefit from statistics derived from online data sets to back them up. But I wonder if this is really journalism, or if it's the primary source which the journalist relies on?

There also seems to be a lot of interest in journalism and computer security/privacy, because journalists are targets for spying. But that doesn't sound like what you're talking about.
I think you've wildly misinterpreted my point. Perhaps it's my fault for how I phrased things. I think these technologies, while undoubtably beneficial, have for many decades only pushed back the Malthusian limits imposed by nature which allowed exponential population growth while just as many people remained hungry and destitute.

We're finally turning the corner where the population growth rate has slowed somewhat (recent UN population projections where increased significantly; e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa alone is projected to have a population of 4.5 billion(!) by 2100) allowing people to get ahead of the rate of increased food production. But we're still basically just using up most of the increased production.

Vaclav Smil has pointed out that population growth has been directly corollated to the amount of artificial fertilizers. He points out that even if every bit of arable land was used to its maximum extent, only 3 billion people could be supported. So just think, by 2100 when the UN projects a population of 11 billion, 8 billion of those people will only be alive because the proteins in their bodies use nitrogen from factories producing artificial fertilizers.
If you have to type </satire> it's probably not good satire.

After only a few paragraphs in, it became obvious that you've set up a one-paragraph strawman. His point is that the process of design is being traded and mistaken for making things look pretty. Seems like a reasonable argument.
Doesn't Microsoft now distribute Windows images for free? I've definitely downloaded disk images off their web site and plugged in my windows license key. What's the exact nature of the crime, here?

Also, who exactly owns a license key? Is there a secondary market where I can sell my key to a third party? Because I have a buttload of Linux laptops with useless Windows license keys stickers on the side, and I'd sure like to be able to exchange them for value.
Deleting the programs seems strange:

"it resets many user preferences (including basics like your preferred web browser) if they weren’t Microsoft product/services as well as silently deleting third party system monitoring apps like: CPU-Z, speccy, 8gadgetpack, SpyBot, HWMonitor and more."
Couldn't find it in those places in two other locations in outer London. Would be nice to have a list of stockists!
It's still important to get complete protein in your diet (which isn't that hard, and there are some plant sources of complete protein, like quinoa). Not to mention that it appear that high-protein diets (especially from animal sources) lead to a variety of health risks[1].

1: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413114...
'Whole Earth Catalog' Demise Party: The Night They Couldn't Give It Away (1971)
"You wouldn't use the photocopier in the public library..."
>Mill Computing will release a new CPU

Their CPU is years away. There isn't even an FPGA prototype of it anywhere. And once they reach prototype stage, it will take around 5 to 10 years for it to reach consumers.
Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle
YES!!! Great news, thank you! :)
We eat birds and animals because they have high efficiency skeletons and circulation systems so they grow to large sizes and so their muscles become larger. Insects have exoskeletons and the spiracle based (air pipes throughout their flesh) respiratory system places limits on their sizes. If grasshoppers grew to be as big as cows, I am sure they would provide harvestable muscle masses to eat. As it is, the work of harvesting 10,000 grashopper legs and extractin their muscles, just ruins the economics of it.

Same with grubs, although the Australian witchetty grub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchetty_grub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNsCpRZXq68

is comparable to small shrimps as a edible lump. I am not sure if they need deveining, like shrimps where the lower intestine is removed from the tail to leave the entire peeled tail as high quality fat and protein.
A 200 pound witchetty grub might offer witchetty steaks etc.
If we selectively bred insects in high oxygen environment to grow them to large sizes, we might change the ease of harvesting grasshopper steaks etc - but that is for ~~100 years in the future
"distributed"?
haha my favourite response.
Possible christmas present option for techies? – LiveScribe 3 product review
This would also do a lot to solve the problem of filthy, unhygenic cabins- the cleaning crew would have a lot more time to go through the "pod" than the're currently able to spend in the plane between flights.
Many physical machines, one emulated machine.
I've spent some time thinking about what education should look like and how technology fits into that, I'd love to chat and bounce some ideas around.
Big iron is very much alive and kicking.

And we're likely to see a raise of RISC-V soon.
I suspect that stimulus spending on "shovel ready" transportation infrastructure also plays a role. Many of those projects are coming online...at least on the roads I use and are making travel easier. Also, cars have gotten better.
Very true, but you have to write it all by hand, so it's the usual tedious and error-prone boilerplate until IDEs learn to autogenerate it. It would be nice to have an automatic solution like you get with real ADTs.
And you think Facebook doesn't have powerful rivals? You think the content industry or the advertising industry that keeps it running likes the fact they are beholden to one network.

This is a matter of using some imagination and presenting the case to the right people.
The New Cheapest Computer in the World – $5
A lot of people already own TVs that would work as a display for this. My local Microcenter (which sells this new RPi too) has mice for $1 and keyboards for $4. You probably need to spend a few more dollars on cables and storage but I think you could easily walk out with a functional system for less than $20 total, maybe less than $15.