skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm as impressed or more with Under Armour snagging Bryce Harper, Tom Brady, Steph Curry and Jordan Spieth (arguably the top players in their sports currently).
OpenOffice...
Unless it was an industrial-sized drone, I don't see it doing much damage to a helicopter. Helicopter blades carry an enormous amount of energy in them.

There are stories of Vietnam-era military pilots using the rotor's blades to cut down small trees to rescue American soldiers in harrowing circumstances.

Regardless, all airborn vehicles should be able to transmit their location to other aircraft. Rather than forcing drone pilots to get FAA approval, this technology should be built into all drones. Bad actors will get culled out quickly and all non-transponding drones could be considered a threat.
If the helicopter had crashed, killing people on the street and the pilot, does that make it a good example?
Paredit.js – structured navigation and editing of s-expressions
E-mail as a paradigm has been optimized about as far as it can be. We need a new paradigm. It shouldn't look like e-mail.

Google Wave was an attempt, but the chemistry wasn't right. Someone one will find the right mix...
Off topic from the post, but interesting discovery it spawned.

From the top orgs at the top, I learned about https://thegrid.io: "The first artificial intelligence (AI) platform that creates websites." [0]

> The engine AutoDesigns your site, publishes it, and stores it on Github. Your source content will live in a Github repository that you can access and download anytime. [0]

All the publishes go to the same organization! https://github.com/the-domains/

[0] https://thegrid.io/faq/
Realty Check – State Governors Have No Authority to Reject Syrian Refugees
That's the only one I'm aware of.

Put me in the "if that makes a difference in your code, you're doing it wrong" camp (and yes, I recognize that not everyone agrees, and that argument has already been had too many times).
Often people also have trouble with breakfast foods. There's often no rationale for what makes an "appropriate for breakfast" food except for what you've grown up with.
Hacker, news?
The constant issues with drones just make me really sad for the prospects of flying cars.
In this case, Wikipedia indicates that all in all likelihood the food was not invented in Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrito

Then we might interpret the fact that the burrito is much more popular in northern Mexico as evidence that the taste for burritos is correlated with American cultural influence.

But overall my point is, different cultures may have different tastes. Hence if you would concede that northern Mexico and the rest of Mexico seem to differ in opinion about the burrito, then we have established cultural taste distinctions can exist, which is all I want to say.
Some of us live in apartment complexes where a lot of APs are broadcasting in a small area, and the 3 non-overlapping channels in 2.4ghz are pretty limiting.
Isn't this taking a somewhat narrow definition of "the e-mail space"? Slack, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. all seem like successful innovations that lots of people use to communicate instead of email.
Unity WebGL
DJI Phantom 3 Professional

http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3-pro

Looks like a drone to me. But a big and expensive drone, I admit. Weight is 1.3 Kg, about the same as a duck. Aren't helicopter windows able to resist duck hits?
And David Beckham.

All of which have equity stakes in the brand as well.
Mike Trout would like to have a word with you, but Bryce Harper is by no means a bad get,
I would assume putting a bluetooth device on one side, then try and connect from the other.

Or look really close and hope you can see it.
I thought that the xfinitywifi was just for Comcast subscribers. You can't call it "wifi everywhere" if it's only usable by certain people.
Assessment of COTS Microkernels by Fault Injection (1999) [pdf]
The main advantage of Guix over Nix seems to be that the former uses Scheme, while the latter uses a language of its own.

As a lover of Scheme, that's a big win for me. I really don't want to have to learn a special-purpose language just for package management.
So.... if the problem here is one of education. Why didn't this article quote the relevant safety guidelines (https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/) or link to the FAA's information campaign (http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/)?:

The operator violated the '400 ft ceiling' guideline and the 'remain well clear of manned aircraft' guideline, and so could face civil penalties from the FAA.

I would guess that if the operator's behavior was malicious or caused active harm, it would also be possible to be charged under other laws (e.g. manslaughter).
> Your code tries to install into /opt or /usr/local [ +10 points of FAIL ]

I thought these were the canonical directories to install software. Is the idea here that the directory should be specified by the user during the build?
At likely much better contracts than their competitors have for their marquee athletes.
I imagine a three pound hailstone (Phantom 3 specs say 1280 gram weight) would cause some problems for a chopper.
SF MUNI delayed deploying dual train subway stops due to a monster code review
The issue is what law(s) did the RC heli pilot break? A part of that issue is making RC pilots aware of the limits of their flying.
>this shouldn't be able to store this much

Same here. I was thinking about how many CD-ROMs it would take to store a certain amount of information, as a measure of just how much data something amounted to. Then I thought that with microSD cards, the same amount of data would sound much less impressive.
Haha. Love this. I just setup my PiZero to run Blockstore this weekend. I'm absolutely amazing by this little machine. Was actually blown away with the speed even though it's 1/2G of RAM. Impressed.
Dropbox is shutting down its Mailbox and Carousel apps
We're very tempted to, yep.
Education has become more and more DEREGULATED over the last 15 years, so you're going to need to go back to the drawing board with that one.
I'm 30 years old and I am not even ashamed to say KSP is awesome. Now I understand most things going on aerospace.
It is declining, but it's not dying.
People are not using it for instant communication as other apps have taken the place of that, but email is very much used and useful.
With some uverse subscriptions, you have to use the ISP provided access point (at least as a modem, not necessarily for wireless) because the TV service is through IPTV and the uverse modem is needed do dns for the TV (you also can't use an arbitrary alternative dns server).
> cultural taste distinctions can exist

Okay, everyone agrees with this -- I was responding to the notion that "real" foreign food, not tailored to Anglo tastes, doesn't exist in the US.

Maybe this is true in some regions, but certainly not in big coastal cities with large non-culturally-Anglo populations.
Damage to the rotor blades could either snap a blade or cause it to become unbalanced. Choppers are barely flying it doesn't take a whole lot to bring one down.
seemingly only in the United States

Is this an example of Poe's law? Isn't "the construction industry" "incredibly corrupt" pretty much everywhere?
No, it means how is docker successful if it's not profitable.
A Phantom3 was the same model that was shot down by neighbor: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625468/drone-slayer-kent...

Fine, call it a UAV if you want, but it's a drone to me.
Hard forks push changes to the protocol from a centralized location, namely the bitcoin organization. You know how hard forks work, right?

It's not a "vs. bitcoin" comparison... just an example of how organizations in an industry would use block chain to store numerous small transactions, instead of a decentralized database.
I tend to think that's more of a stereotype than a reality. I mean, I've been all over this country, and the only place I've really found people to prefer bland food was in the Upper Midwest -- I may not know how it's possible to cook ground beef so it ends up with less flavor than it had starting out, but Wisconsin sure does. But that's the only place I've ever been where I could make that complaint.

Of course, now that I think about it, some of the tastiest dishes I've ever had were based around venison, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the taste of venison is rarely known among white Americans who like to go around making snide and rather ignorant comments about the tastes of other white Americans.
The minimal income shall be given in exchange for voting rights. Pick one or the other.
Ducks don't typically have bits of metal in them (at least, live ducks).
Ah, I see. Fair enough! I agree that witty arguments are enjoyable to read, I just don't like take-downs so much.
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That's cool! Can you tell us why Google is putting resources into the medical area? How does this pay off in the business sense? Are Calico/Google Life Sciences profitable?
They also have to have razor-sharp edges http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06262007
As do I, and that's why I understand the whole "generational white guilt" spiel, cause I hear it often. Even an educated person such as yourself will be quick to jump the gun.

I get it, condemning their actions gives you the higher moral ground, you feel like a mensch and somehow detach you from whatever shared responsibility you think you shoulder.

IMHO, we can't judge old-day actions with current-day ethics. The same way we don't generally allow ex post facto law, we should be careful to deliver ex post facto moral judgement. If there's a place for moral relativism, it is probably when comparing different times in history.

That is not to say I excuse everything that was done during the colonial times —there are plenty of recollections of senseless atrocities— but there's definitely a tendency to look at all this in a reductionistic and emotional way that I don't think is fair.
Undocumented API then?
"The container tools I'm working on are completely declarative. No imperative Dockerfiles! This means that you don't have to worry about order of operations, something that you have to think about constantly when using Docker, especially when trying to maximize the use of the image cache."

Sometimes you actually need or want something to be done before something else, though. I'm wondering how Guix deals with that, or if it's capable of dealing with that.

I've been bitten many times by Puppet's default lack of order in its declarative manifests. What was vaunted to be an advantage turned out to be a curse when you actually do want/need them to be in order.

I hope Guix does a better job at this than Puppet.
Let ther be light, I made and LED glow
These drones come with information and resources for responsible and legal flight. Depending on where you buy it, you may also be encouraged to review that information before you even make the purchase.

I agree the author of the article should also have done his research and helped to spread the word (as should the CHP officer whose only advice was to use "common sense" - which is different for a CHP officer than it is for the common person).
> The argument that people in favor of decommissioning the ISS should make is we need a bigger, better, further away one that we could use to go cheaply to the moon, asteroid belt, mars, and the Jovian and Saturnian moons.

That is the answer to my question. Should we sink the ship because it is old and we have no use for it or should we sink it because we need another one and can't bear the cost of maintaining two?

If someone is willing to use it, then they must pay for it's maintenance. For NASA it's mission was accomplished, and it's time to move on.
> Unless it was an industrial-sized drone, I don't see it doing much damage to a helicopter. Helicopter blades carry an enormous amount of energy in them.

It was a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced [1]. Those weigh 2.8 pounds [2]. A 3 pound red-tailed hawk can take down an AH-1W Cobra attack helicopter [3]. I doubt that a 2.8 pound drone is less dangerous than a 3 pound bird, or that a military attack helicopter is significantly more delicate than civilian helicopters.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/drone-nearly-coll...

[2] http://store.dji.com/product/phantom-3-advanced

[3] http://www.10news.com/news/report-bird-strike-caused-deadly-...
Google Inbox for Education?
With Mailbox shutting down, when will Google Inbox arrive for education customers?

Why has it taken a significantly longer time to roll out compared to Google Apps for Work?
The comparison starts to look different if you include an "Availability Date" row...
> Throw these people in jail until the message gets across that unsafe flying is not tolerated regardless of the aircraft being piloted.

There isn't any law to throw (most of) them in jail under.

The FAA guidelines the operator violated carry civil, not criminal penalties.

Flying model aircraft could conceivably result in Reckless Endangerment or Manslaughter charges. However I doubt that most violations of the FAA guidelines warrant such charges.
Reading this made me realize: it looks good read because there are no ads on the page. It's crazy how obtrusive ads are these days..
I really wanted to watch this, but the video is unwatchable, it keeps buffering every few seconds, and the slides aren't showing at all. Many thanks to pron for linking the paper. Message to http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/ and all others who persist in using video players that don't work: maybe try youtube?
There is an interesting read as for the ratings on Amazon vs Goodreads vs B&N:

http://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2011/06/amazon-vs-b-v...
"Will Mailbox be open-sourced?

Unfortunately not. We gave a lot of thought to open-sourcing the underlying system, but this is ultimately not something we will support."

https://www.mailboxapp.com/faq/
"One could say that, in theory, these needs and roles could be satisfied in a completely marketized society—but we have seen that they are not. Indeed, as amply documented in 2001 (following the collapse of Enron) and 2008 (following the collapse of Lehman Brothers), the avowedly marketized society does not even prevent economic disaster; we need to regulate markets firmly and fairly."

The author jumps to a conclusion fairly quickly: that free-market capitalism caused Enron and Lehman Brothers (and not perverse incentives wholly separate from free-market ideology). This isn't the place to debate that, but rather it's illustrative of a larger point about academic professionals: they spend most of their effort engaged in very deep speciality, but occasionally they come up for air and assert broad knowledge, usually about politically charged topics.

In those cases, there's a palpable anxiety based on the knowledge that they do not make as much money as their intellectual inferiors who went off to work in business, or even worse, to use their professional credentials in the service of business (as a side note, for proof of this dynamic go read university professors' blogs about Mark Zuckerberg and his billions -- in the hierarchy of "deserves their money," tech nerds rank last, because they're simultaneously capitalists and social inferiors). This must be explained, internally and then externally -- their life choices are admirable, others' are not, and something must be done so that elites in the university and in government institutions can reign in the parasites.

I agree professional certification is important for healthcare and law -- when my life or liberty is at stake, I want to be sure my chosen expert actually has expertise. But the author is arguing that some sort of quality of life and cultural recognition should be automatically granted in exchange for completing training and passing tests -- something I don't think is worth caring about too much.
NXP closes deal to buy Freescale and create top auto chipmaker
Or skip the sodastream and special kit and buy a "carbonator cap" for 15 bucks. That, a tank, a fitting, and a regulator and you're good to go.
Disagree, I've refrained from buying several products in recent years because I know if I can keep the old one going for one or two more product generations then the new one will be much, much better. It also influences my choice of product, I'm more likely to get something high end and keep it for longer.
Gotcha, thanks, I mis-assumed your meaning.
If that's your definition of "drone" then have all RC aircraft have magically become "drones" since the media started using the word? What about kites? Model rockets? Birthday balloons?Frisbees? Boomerangs?

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but it's clear that right now there's no community consensus on the technical definition of "drone" anything more rigorous than the "I don't know what obscenity is, but know it when I see it" argument.

Does a "drone" need to be autonomous? Does it need to carry a camera? Does it need to be a multirotor? Is there a size limit? Is my 1.5oz CX10 a "drone"? My ~1kg GPS guided autonomous quadrotor? Where's the line? How about my 450g non-autonomous FPV one? Or my 320g one that doesn't even have a camera?

Was the heli pilot any more at-risk that if it's been a buzzard or a goose?

(Note: I think the guy was a jerk for being up at 7-800 feet with a chopper nearby, but nobody died - there's no suggestion that anybody even came close to dying. Is the situation and it's outcome any worse than it he'd been somewhat recklessly driving at 90mph on the highway rather than somewhat recklessly flying at 800 feet over it? If you do 90 in your car and hit someone, they hold you accountable. If you do 90 in your car and don't hit anyone else but happen to be observed by the police, they don't penalise you as though you just killed someone, they write you a ticket. Should this guy be treated any differently?)
the hub and spoke layout means almost everyone needs to transfer and trips are often circuitous

I don't know how well it works in practice, but ever since I saw the map[1] for the Moscow Metro I've always liked it. Especially the ring that presumably? keeps people from needing to go thru the core. It probably works better than most systems. E.g. NYC's subway doesn't do well if you're trying to get from outer borough to outer borough. Many such trips involve going thru Manhattan.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Moscow_m...
I live in Madison, where Epic is stationed. I run into a lot of people that work there.

They hold the records of over 50% of the US. It's pretty scary when you think about it.
The GE-style ranking is looking at something else, people with poor productivity. This is looking at people who are productive in their jobs by the usual metrics you'd use, but are a liability for the company, due to a propensity to cut corners, break laws, embezzle, etc.
For anyone who hasn't read it, do yourselves a favour: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302... that's the original cover story for The Atlantic. Few longforms have hit me as hard as this one did.
Financial Markets Crashed, Including the Dollar. What Happened?
Security lacks patience
I hate how they are constructing news stories like this by dropping in the word drone, and adding a little fear mongering to stir up us "common folk". It may not be useful news, but it sure must get the eyeballs...
> Fuck Off 45. He hates computers.’

> ‘Why forty-five?’

> ‘It’s the forty-fifth month since we signed onto that hospital’s system and one has to change the password every month,’ Caroline replied.

Every month is a little aggressive of a timeline. Also, stop making users do your bizarre regex passwords.

* include caps

* include numbers

* include symbol

* eight charachters

* must be recursive backronym

Also, stop trying to keep password requirements secret. I am sick of this guessing game. I can relate to Mr. Johnson's total indifference to the system.
Ask HN: Your advise wanted for how to get into programming
What's up everybody?

I suppose threads like this come twice a day but I only found dated and less relevant content through search.

Would definitely appreciate your thoughts if you could spare a few mins to me.

Here's the situation - me, a 27 year old, BSc and MSc in Entrepreneurship, tech savvy guy, just recently started to learn to do some dev stuff.

So what got me started is the 'android development for beginners' course at Udacity.
So I have been going through stuff like XML and now focusing on HTML/CSS, which should always be handy for basic webpages. So next step for android dev is to learn some java of course.

My goal is to get solid skills at web dev (full-stack), but not like aim to 'master' it.
Plus, that I would like to become a good android dev.

Currently I am going to approach this by learning the HTML/CSS/JavaScript thing for front end and Ruby/Rails for back end. Learn Java as my main/core programming language.

So questions:

1. How does my 'roadmap' sound to you, would you recommend something different about how to go into webdev (perhaps Python/Django?)

2. Is javascript as the programming element of a webpage being replaced? Or should I learn it plus libraries like jQuery?

3. Is it feasible for someone that doesn't intend to become a full-time programmer to get good at more than one core programming language like Python, Java, C, etc. Or are they so different that it's best to get good at one than mediocre at multiple?

4. What would you share as tips for learning more about CS (I would love to get a good grasp of it).

Thanks so much for reading!
And please pitch in, even if it's a sentence!

All best,

Deyan
I think his point was that the drone is unlikely to carry much more force than hail.

F = MA

Thus, even though the drone is heavier than hail, it won't likely be going as fast as hail (such that its deceleration when hitting the helicopter would be less significant).

Thus, the comparison is apt. If we had 3 lb hail, it would have much more force than most 3 lb drones bc of its speed.
Choosing an HTTP Status Code
> " They sent the scan on a CD but because of that crap from the government about confidentiality they sent two taxis."

Not they sent the scan over the internet but they had to copy the scan on a CD and rush it over to the hospital.

SORRY BELLOW is a comment I did this week and it seems just as appropriate.

Here is the discussion on Open Source Software for Developing World Hospitals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675275

My old comment still reliant.
Another story about my journey with my son while he battled cancer.
Closed Proprietary image formats and systems HURTS patients. We used the local hospital for Chemo and everything else at the Children's Hospital 1.5 hours away for his legs and lungs. I would always have to wait 20-30 minutes to get a DVD of the studies (PET, CT Scan or MRI even ultrasound, but those are worthless) and then bring them to the doctor. The doctor would be forced to use whatever the portable image viewing program that came on the DVD and then they had to be sent to the IT Department to be imported into their system.
We would be there to remove some horrible tumor but before half his surgeries (I can't count how many surgeries he had) we would have to go in the day before (3 hour round trip) to get the expensive scan done again. One time I had a scan at 11 PM - Midnight and then drive home around 2 AM and be back at the hospital at 7 AM check in for a 10 hour surgery. ALL BECAUSE THE FORMATS ARE CLOSED and SYSTEMS could not connect so that my son's records were all the same every where. I carried 20 DVDs with me all the time just in case.
In case you are wondering my son unfortunately passed away after almost 5 years of fighting. If you are ever interested in giving to a cancer society please consider stbaldricks.org. Most charities give 0% or 2% to pediatric research and that is why we went over 20 years without a new chemo for children till last year, which St Baldrick's funded the research for this amazing new drug to fight a different type of cancer my son did not have.
Similar levels of density were reported around the Mississippi river delta