skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather just carry >1TB of flash storage around with me, with all of the content stored web addressable (so it could be served back to the net if needed).
But back in the real world, are the news networks doing much different from that?
Standards that power Internet per se (not WWW) would be a good example.
The most salient point he makes is when he says there's a difference in what email was designed and how we use it today. And it sounds like Slate needs better tools.

Do you even Confluence / JIRA (or insert your preference here)? If you'd stop trying to use email as the one tool for everything, you'd stop (or significantly reduce) the times you run into it's supposed shortcomings.
SpinRite was never useful:

https://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/...
> most people aren't ... willing to spend $7/mo so they
> can use private repos

Ah. I'm a student, I forgot there was a fee normally.

Still, there's Bitbucket and others, or self-hosted if so inclined.
"Regulation bad! Disruption good! BRB defecating in the sandbox." - HN groupthink
That's fairly similar to what the Spanish government does for its fishing fleet. Mercy Ships operate hospital ships, but as a charitable cause.

It's something I've sometimes wondered about before.
Depends on whether or not the rotors autorotate.
If this is true then it's a real bummer. Jailbreaking tends to pave the way for a lot of bad things. Rampant piracy and multiplayer cheating will totally bork the playstation ecosystem.

Edit:
I dug into this a little bit and it doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility that this is credible. A little more info (though no smoking gun) can be found at the tweeters GitHub page http://cturt.github.io/articles.html
When flying, spotting anything from a higher elevation is very difficult - you essentially have to track the differential velocity of the bird / plane with respect to the ground. That's the reason why generally, the right of way in air goes to the airplane with higher elevation.

Adding additional things to spot in the air, especially slow moving objects like drones, demands focus and divert attention away from flying. Other airplanes in the air are fine to spot because they move quickly, and in unrestricted airspace, generally communicate on a universal radio channel. Drones have none of these capabilities and are essentially high flying birds to avoid.

In non-urban spaces, airspace above 500ft is always a potential manned aircraft flight path.
If the drone is registered in your name, people will be more careful to make sure they don't break any laws. Some of the same reasons we register cars and have license plates. People tend to act shitty when they know they won't be held accountable.
>“And a master's is not considered a failure for those who can't make it to a PhD.”

I was in a physics PhD program straight out of undergraduate school. In that program, at least, the culture very much was that the master's degree was the "failure option".

I ended up leaving after one year for personal reasons, and I felt like even more of a failure because I couldn't even get to the "failure option" point. Five years later and even though I'm relatively successful working as a programmer it still bothers me.
A new chat server that isn't vulnerable to XSS; the internet is learning.

Edit - Who killed it?
I am surprised Samsung don't point them at their own service. Said service can then redirect to google and act as an anti-corruption layer. No doubt they could also find out how many devices are online and wether people are updating.
The author doesn't seem to be very clear on why dd didn't work. Perhaps he was trying t partition the new drive and then use dd on the individual partitions?

I'm guessing the one thing he didn't try was using dd on the raw devices themselves, rather than the paritions. This would throw away the additional space of the larger drive, but should serve well as a last-ditch "there's no way this can fail" measure.
All three of those are just bad function names, though.

Executors.instantiateThreadManager()
exec.queueForAsyncExecution()
exec.executeQueued()

would all be a far better solution than putting an inline comment on everything.
How are you using Time Machine? Over the network I've found it incredibly slow; and of course my network is more or less unusable during that time.

It is simple when it works. However, it is not very good at communicating its status and since I've had it fail in the past, I'm never quite sure its working when it takes long pauses in updating its status.
Open Hybrid is a platform for interaction with everyday objects
A "near miss" in aviation terms would be anything close enough to potentially compromise safety if anything else went wrong. This tends to be taken very seriously – for example, every such reported incident in the UK is investigated and a report issued – even when the distances involved seem very large for a ‘near miss’. The UK investigative authority cites an example where the aircraft involved were 3 miles apart horizontally, and yet it was still handled as a safety issue ( http://www.airproxboard.org.uk/default.aspx?catid=423&pagety... ).

I expect the absolute distances considered critical for drone operations to be smaller, but still significant.

The level of scrutiny involved in aviation safety is very impressive. I’m not actually involved in the field myself, but find the human factors and systems engineering involved in keeping the skies safe to be very interesting. NTSB and CAA incident reports make fascinating reading!
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As far as I'm concerned chat and email are essentially the same thing: messages that get sent from an individual to a group of other identified individuals (as opposed to a broadcast platform where you don't have to identify all the user in advance). There's nothing to stop you making a UX for a mail app that feels like a chat app, or for a chat app that feels like a mail app.
I own a bunch of short domain names that I picked up back in 2007 when they were dropped. It was a fun hobby at the time looking through the list of new available names trying to find useful ones. In the process I picked up a bunch of short names like nzdk.com which I use for various projects. In the last few month I have been getting around 20 offers a week for these. The prices have become crazy.
I think this tells me that web api's and their versions are going to need to live much, much longer. Far longer than anyone realizes or is currently planning for.
Many (most?) emails probably make their way through decades-old infrastructure somewhere along the line.
Why are there so many mattress stores?
That it's a total restriction in those areas is absurd. There's no reason for the space below 40-50 feet to be restricted anywhere.
This is not long after MI6 were looking for NodeJS Devs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532855
I agree completely. But how likely is that to happen? Let's face it, companies that make 'smart' devices will likely want to monetize on customers whose software is outdated (in functionality, not security) and who want to upgrade because of that. I don't think they'd have a motive to do anything other than proprietary, non-maintainable software.

The only solution I could think of from a security standpoint would be to limit functionality on the device itself to such a level that there is not much need for updating, i.e., ideally the fridge becomes a dumb device that essentially offers a vnc-style connection to a central FridgeCo data center, so that the fridge itself would never deal with your passwords etc. other than sending them somewhere in an encrypted connection. This basic layer of functionality (and even that would be a lot to keep secure) would be more reasonable to maintain and keep secure than having separate apps for Google Cal etc.
Of course, this would cause many more problems, be a single point of failure etc., but I think that's the way it's most likely going to go.
Both systems require somewhat dedicated connections to the phone. Android Auto uses remote display and doesn't really want you to interact with the device while running, for instance. For a fridge, a Chromecast style box that gets direct OTAs from Google would probably work best.
I posted actual numbers. Sorry, but $0 is not more expensive than $36k.
What anki offers that memorang doesn't is a number of things:

* Thousands of free decks

* An open ecosystem

* Source code

* Doesn't spam your email

* Isn't just a straightforward monetisation of anki's general premise

I could see some value being produced from this, but it just isn't there right now.
The problem starts with "companion app". If your IoT device has its own apps, it's most likely something you want to avoid like fire. IoT won't take off until people stop being greedy about it and try to lock everyone in, forcing them to use their (usually completely shitty) apps.
I wrote about this last year on my blog. It would be cheaper to fly to Colombia and spend 7 days there while having a mole removed, than to have it removed in Chicago, with an ACA health insurance plan. The round-trip flight to Colombia alone, excluding any actual care or other expenses, was the same price as having an American dermatologist spend 30 seconds taking the initial biopsy.

https://alexcabal.com/today-i-had-a-weeks-vacation-in-colomb...
One hedge fund's plan to fix Yahoo: Fire 9,000 – and Marissa Mayer too
Please see my comment below about their support of CalDAV (only for specific clients, they keep changing the endpoint location).

CalDAV is a standardization of a previously proprietary but working design (apple's icalendar work) that most all other vendors support except for Google.
> you coward

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News, even if you find a comment reprehensible.
> I don't have evidence that what the parent said happened actually happened.

The parent provided evidence via hearsay from his grandmother. Him providing a source for his assertion lets us make our own judgements about it's veracity.

You made a definitive statement:

> they were acting against orders, at least the orders of the high command

I assumed you had some reason, possibly just hearsay regarding similar incidents, leading you to make that assertion. If you don't have any actual reason for believing it, then you are just saying it because it sounds nice. That makes you propagandist/liar.
Still, $60,000? That's more than an average US salary for an entire year.
It apparent is not only that, it is also the way they use qwerty keyboards where short combinations of letters expand out to Chinese characters.
Graph databases are perfect for identifying connections between who talks to who, relatives, contacts, etc.
I wish there was a site like NomadList, but for medical tourism. I'm up for going further afield for treatment, but the lack of information and good local knowledge makes it riskier than I'd like.
> It has a clear problem statement and then demonstrates how it solves the problem.

C4 address many issues across a variety of frameworks, while at the same time tries to make working across those frameworks feel more consistent. This makes a clear problem statement more difficult to nail down, but we’re definitely trying to find that description. For example, in my practice I use C4 for commercial work (building apps for clients), I use it for experiments, I build artworks with it, I teach / lead workshops, I have made print works with it, and a lot more. Describing C4 as a “drawing tool” or “wrapper around UIKit and Core Animation” would do the project disservice because its intention is to be bigger than that.

> That cannot be what sets C4 apart, because the APIs that C4 is built on top of let you do all of these things.

You raised the point about MPWDrawingContext to which my response was aimed, C4 can handle interaction / media / etc. where it seems MPWDC cannot. I fully acknowledge that C4 is built on top of frameworks that handle animation and interaction, and didn’t mean to imply that it sets itself apart from UIKit, Core Animation, etc.

> For C4, the first guess is that it's like Processing

C4 is definitely inspired by Processing and OpenFrameworks, I used both of those projects extensively in the past. I learned immensely from both of them and I hope that C4 will provide the same kinds of opportunities for other people.

> ...but then I see that there's no interactive app, which to me is the key distinguishing feature of Processing.
Yes, the app is a fantastic tool for working with Processing, learning the language, exploring examples and building projects. However, you can use Processing outside of its app. Similarly, OpenFrameworks is very Processing-like, yet it doesn’t have an app either, and that doesn’t limit the project.

> Since you don't currently have an interactive app, my guess would be that you are saying you have libraries that are "Processing-like", is that correct?

Yes. But they’re also UIKit, Core Animation and AVFoundation-like as well, so claiming C4 is only Processing-like would be misleading.

> I personally always thought those particular libraries were fairly nondescript/generic graphics libraries, so possibly that's what I don't understand and maybe what you might need to explain.

From a software architecture perspective you might be right, but the purpose of those projects are bigger than their apis / libraries. The point is to enable people who would otherwise be unable to use programming for creative expression, and to promote “software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology.”
Not that they're necessarily talking to each other about PR in the tech community, but looks like maybe the British Gov is trying to attract some talent and get devs engaged. Maybe they just want it improved for free :-p
@Temporal - but there's no rent to use a 'smart' TV. You don't have to subscribe to Netflix or Amazon Prime just because those services are integrated with your TV.

You can just buy it, ignore what you don't want, and use it 'traditionally' (though still digitally..).
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Another vector might be to build a tool that allows programmers to build ad-hoc reports, and then hand it off to tech-savvy non-programmers. If the tool makes it easy to share/fork queries (I'm envisioning something like gist in an intranet), it would be a very gentle path for said non-programmers to ease into SQL.
One of (Ubik author) Phil Dick's great insights was that our relationship with machines would be intrusive and passive aggressive.

Flying advert drones projecting adverts onto pedestrian's retinas; home appliances like fridges that refuse to open until sufficient coinage is inserted - a prescient vision.
If you think SourceTree doesn't suck, I really don't know what to say. It is the laziest kind of GUI: they literally just wrapped the CLI application in this monstrosity, then made a button in the UI for literally every commandline switch.

No thought or organization, and certainly no usability study, went into SourceTree.
The problem isn't the now incorrect comment, it is the person that didn't update the related comment.
Thomas Midgley, GM, and the Dark Side of Progress
Why do you believe that it's absurd?

I live about 5.5 miles of a small (but busy) airport, and even at that distance airplanes are sometimes flying lower than I'd like for comfort.

If I turned off the 400' altitude restrictions on my quadcopter, I could easily be in their approach path. And not all quadcopters have that feature.
I once got lots of nice warez on a second-hand HDD :)
I wonder if this is for real
$7M Xprize for Deep Ocean Exploration
selling IoT bridges

In the connectivity sense, or the "I have a bridge to sell you" sense? :)
> If you have good insurance, I can't imagine the US not being top of the heap.

None of my comments assume private insurance unless otherwise stated.
Become a full stack developer for €500.00 and land a job in Amsterdam
Oppression and control and leverage
Today’s Productivity Paradox
I knew labeling the pile of money was risky, I realize it is unlikely to do such a thing. But the point of using a concrete example was that it clearly could afford it, not to speculate about whether it would do it.
Pardon my ignorance on the matter but, in regards to your last sentence, you mean it'll be possible for classical computer crypto to withstand QC brute force?
I live in Vancouver. Not too long ago we had someone flying their drone in coal harbor quite likely because they didn't realize it was an active airport and float planes take off and land from that exact location.

How sure are you that you know all the relevant things?

http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx?...
Lots of folks chuckled at this when it was first said, but then in the late 90s, the were not chuckling at y2k.
Didn't echelon effectively invent this concept?

oracle was founded to serve the CIA for fucks sake.
Depending on how much work you want to put into it, I believe MPD can solve this via multiple outputs. I use it to follow me from room to room.
> The Empire's heavy handedness lead to its downfall.

Really? I would have blamed the Empire's downfall on not being bus proof and falling apart on the Emperor's death. Sounds like poor planning to me.
No joke, I occasionally get a (barely noticeable) nagging feeling to check the battery level while reading a book now.
I doubt that Spotify is charging money for inclusion in the Discover Weekly playlists. This would run counter to the goals of promoting Discover Weekly usage, which is to get more users thinking "What's new on Spotify this week?" rather than "Let me pull up the new Taylor Swift album." The more that users flock to Discover Weekly, the more leverage that Spotify gains against the labels, so my guess is that they're striving for a wide diversity of rightsholders in Discover Weekly so that any one label threatening to leave will not damage the playlist too badly.
Google's meetings with UK Government over driverless cars revealed
Exactly as @tomschlick says. Taking in lots of data, and analysing its internal relations (rather than analysing it based on imposed foreign key structure) is far easier in a graph DB and is better way of establishing links between data that would seem disparate in most other DB types.
As someone who has been knee deep in Erlang for four years, functional programming is just like imperative programming except:

a) variables can't vary once set

b) you don't get to have for loops (because variables can't vary); use recursion instead

c) function pointers are not frowned upon

d) there are no objects, which is nice in my opinion because OO is usually awful (exceptions being socket wrappers; it would be great to be able to handle a unix socket, a tcp socket and a TLS socket the same once they're fully connected)

Honestly, I wouldn't necessarily bring up functional programming, unless you're working on something where a functional language excels. I didn't know anything about functional programming (other than I had heard it was weird) until I started a job where we use Erlang, and it wasn't that hard to pick it up.

If you want to write a chat server or something, sure do it in Erlang, and learn about functional programming at that point.
Indonesia? Although I doubt any proselytizing religion is going to meet such a standard.
A plane will smoke a civilian quadcopter every single time.

The only place where pilots should be close enough to the ground to hit a quadcopter are near airports, where quadcopters are already banned.

This is a non-issue. Pilots are complaining about nothing. They did the same thing with lasers a few years back. Civilian diode lasers have such a high divergence that they pose no risk to a pilot more than a few thousand feet off the ground, but pilots kept fear mongering and claiming that we needed to ban lasers everywhere. Again, the only vulnerable locations were airports.
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Since this has to be reverse-engineered for each model, it's not going to be very prevalent. Are there any examples of this already?
That second video is apparently not of a bird ingestion but of a containment test in case of turbine failure.
Show HN: Geminee – Easily transfer files between devices
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Is it possible to use CPS with functional primitives like map? Or do you have to implement CPS-savvy replacements? It doesn't seem like a CPS transform would let you early-exit from map in tail position.
I have a reasonably priced 7" ASUS Fonepad. It doubles up as my smart-phone too since my hands are large enough to easily hold it. Most importantly, it has a reading mode button (perhaps a feature of Android Kitkat itself) that dims the LCD and puts a yellowish haze, so its super-easy for reading. I personally spend several hours a day reading books on it.
> I'm using google maps on my phone anyway due to the
> better interface and constant updates.

And live traffic without paying a subscription (except for data)!
Author (and long time HN lurker) here! First time showing this to a bigger audience and would love to hear (read) your feedback. Besides the web app I've also got an about page which kinda explains how to use it (at https://about.gemin.ee ). Thanks!
Yes, it applies to all RC aircraft. The AMA was part of the task force. They were upset that their members (largely fixed wing and heli pilots) would have to register since the AMA is big about informing their members of the rules and safety regulations.
As a MS note, I'll just point that copy begat xcopy begat robocopy (and now apparently Copy-Item in powershell). This sequence doesn't fill me with Windows cli tool confidence.
If you came here like I did, thinking "HEY! That's old news!". You are correct. This added bonus is an interview of Aaronson for MIT News about his response to the google paper (which he previously blogged about). The original blog post has an update from Aaronson:

"
MIT News now has a Q&A with me about the new Google paper. I’m really happy with how the Q&A turned out; people who had trouble understanding this blog post might find the Q&A easier. Thanks very much to Larry Hardesty for arranging it."

EDIT: It is definitely worth the read. A concise laymans summary of the original post and outline of the issues still to be overcome by D-Wave.
I still type www dot... Call me old school I guess, but I just appreciate proper URL formatting.

It took me a while to adjust to removing http:// from the modern browser.
H or I class rocket engines are definitely not "park rockets".
“Free as in sexist?” Free culture and the gender gap (2012)
Didn't stellar's PoS network fork?
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There will always be crazy CSS browser hacks as long as browsers seem incapable of having CSS implemented correctly.
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They could, but they won't, because the control surfaces need power.
Java has always allowed try-finally blocks, which is what a try-with-resources compiles down to anyway.

Resource resource = new Resource();
try {
if (a)
throw new Exception("Oops!");
else if (b)
return resource.doBStuff();
else
return resource.doStuff();

} finally {
resource.close();
}
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The ~10 or so messages each day that I feel I should really answer, but not now. They always pile up.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with very old projects?
I've been doing this programming thing for ~16 years now. Every once in a while an old client will contact me asking for support for their decade old project.

In some cases, I don't even have the source code anymore. In most cases I'm happy if I've got some documentation about the build environment somewhere.

How does everyone else deal with this? Do you folks just have really good memories?

Thanks!
OpenAI won't benefit humanity without data-sharing