skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to fly remote control aeroplanes as a hobby. There's a really strong culture of having a licence and insurance before you're allowed to fly solo. You have to pass a test before you can get insurance, and there are more tests if you want to fly around spectators (stunt shows, etc).

This seems to be completely missing in the drone community. I quizzed some drone enthusiasts about it and they responded with "meh", touting that they have home insurance and it doesn't matter.
and cars are still one of the most likely ways to die!
A mandatory security parachute could avoid this scenario.

To ban drones is the simple way out.
To add more context to that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

Although i have never though of actually write a language i can agree on those. Especially Minimizing keystrokes.
I want the language to be verbose and easy to understand. Dealing with thousands of line trying to figure out what is going on there it is essential to easily pick up what is going on !
telegram is already doing a great job with their bot platform. hard to catch up for google...
Surely you missed https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/967.pdf , which prompted the CA/Browser Forum not to delay the SHA1 sunset.
Four Years of Schema.org – Recent Progress and Looking Forward
I haven't read the FAA regulations in extreme detail, but from what I've surmised, RC copters would count as needing to be registered. So if that makes it a drone -- and I don't see why not, as it is an unmanned aircraft and whether it had a camera or not doesn't seem to matter to the FAA -- then yes, people have been killed by them. I remember in Brooklyn a couple years back a teenager was killed quite gruesomely in a public park by his own RC copter: http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/man-decapitated-by-remote-contr...
I remember reading centos tried to make systemd available in docker containers briefly but went back on it due to bugs (not sure if they were ever resolved). I've seen containers that need init management using supervisord.
You can some stuff around iptables recent:

http://blog.zioup.org/2008/iptables_recent/
It's really good for prototyping things, actually.
I haven't read it, but it was featured on I Don't Even Own A Television with hilarious results: http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2014/06/19/010-ready-...
I honestly don't even know which side it is that you think is "far more effective" at solving social problems. Do you think it's the Democrats? Because "big government and taxes" are also far more effective at creating social problems that local charities. Have you read about the corrosive effects of welfare on black communities? Have you ever joined in complaining about the inability of public school systems to successfully adapt and harness changing technologies? Have you noticed that our biggest social problems just "happen" to also be located right where Democratic policies were enacted (i.e., the policies preceded the social degradation)? All of these things are certainly at least debatable, but they are also certainly not so obviously false that they can simply be discarded without consideration.

"Big government and taxes" may theoretically be more capable of solving problems, but there's a big gulf between theory and reality.

And back on point so this is at least less an off-topic diversion than it otherwise would be, are you A: inclined to agree that hierarchies are bad for cooperation even as B: you declare that the largest hierarchy in the world, "government", is better at solving social problems than distributed non-hierarchical networks? I don't know, because you, mozumder, personally didn't say, but I rather suspect there's a lot of people here holding both those beliefs simultaneously without noticing the profound philosophical conflicts they have.
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This is very relevant to your comment. "In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics (personality) to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation rather than considering the situation's external factors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
No one ever mentions this, but do you know what is almost as bad? The ocean. I have romantic ideas about living next to the beach. Worse than living next to a highway.
Seems like a malfunction on a homemade rig. Possibly throttle cutout when descending?

Why the pilot would insist on using this on what seems like a professional job is beyond me. The industry is coalescing around a couple of field tested professional rigs (DJI products for instance). I hate all these FAA regulations around stuff people do in their backyards but at a professional event like this (with this many people around), it seems like a no-brainer that air worthiness should be tightly regulated.

Source: been building drones for 5 years.

EDIT: This is Europe. So EASA not FAA
Sure, but I think Google has still the advantage of having millions of millions of users already using at least one platform. And if this messenger will be delivered through Android, this will be some hard competition for other messengers
FreedomBox 0.7 released
I didn't spend enough time to see if it's just loading random sites or if each site is specific to a domain (that'd be cool) but I encountered a whole bunch. Not bad as far as marketing goes. Note: one of the sites I loaded played sound by default. A bunch got stuck on the loading screen, but I also do a fair amount of uBlock/uMatrix filtering, didn't bother to check what I was blocking.
Damn Vulnerable Node Application
Disclaimer: I am a manager.

No Hero - M. Owen;
Zero to One - P. Thiel;
The 7 Principles of Professional Services - S. Anastasi.
The drone in the video seems to be flying like a brick; complete engine shutdown, IMNSHO. If any of the four rotors were operating, the vector would be significantly different.

As to why "it's raining drones, hallelujah" - too early for that; I very much doubt there's enough of a data recorder to reconstruct the event, even with a commercial-grade drone.
Not including technical books

"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" - I got a very detailed view on customer development.

"Zero to One" - got some fresh ideas on how to think differently wrt business.

"Dhandha: How Gujaratis Do Business" - collection of stories , which highlight why/how Gujaratis are so successful in businesses.
> There are more computers on the Top 500 supercomputer list using AMD GPUs than Nvidia GPUs.

Oh? According to http://www.top500.org/list/2015/11/ (aka "the Top 500 supercomputer list") ... I counted three with AMD GPUs and 70 with NVidia. So...?
Me too...I taught a python class by making everyone download Anaconda's distribution of 3.x...and everyone could do the assignments no matter what kind of computer they used. Anaconda does a little too much for me to have it be my own default install but it does quite well in on boarding beginners. I use pyenv to install maintain Anaconda on my own machine when I need to replicate student work
Write once, read often.
Using Samsung Gear VR to Revolutionize the Restaurant Experience
It's a new thing, they started coming out of the labs a season or two ago: http://news.pocsports.com/2015/10/13/poc-and-inmotion-introd...
The Intelligence System That Can Hack Any Smartphone
"Leaving Orbit - Notes from the last days of American spaceflight" - pleasantly sentimental view of the wind down of the shuttle program.

"The Dark Forest" 2nd installment in Three Body Problem series. Quite clever.

"This Changes Everything" - triggered by a quote from the doc on the radio about trying not to think about climate change and whether it's possible to be bored by the end of the world. Lots of good info (including a visit to a climate deniers conference), bit long winded.

"The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics". If I read only 10% still worth it. Lots of things to dip into.

"The Astronomer and the Witch" Kepler fights to save his mother from persecution.
"Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability" It's a collection of New Scientist essays based around probability. Well worth reading, and because it's just short essays it's easy to pick up for just a few minutes at a time.
Books this year that I loved:

"A Place of Greater Safety" - Hilary Mantel [French Revolution - Danton, Robespierre, Desmoulins ...]

"One Summer: America 1927" - Bill Bryson

"Napoleon the Great" - Andrew Roberts

"Seveneves" - Neal Stephenson

Reading "The Box" at the moment which is pretty interesting.
I re-read Dune for the first time since I was a kid. Boy that did not hold up well. The world and lore building, which is what I guess I fondly remember, were still fantastic. The constant inner dialogues, not so much.
New Year PVS-Studio 6.00 Release: Scanning Roslyn
in the video, the skier mentions that he felt something and just kept on going. so, it very well might have hit him
Having been running Docker in a production system now for 6+ months, the size of the images is really a non-issue if you're using the Docker layer cache effectively. We use all of the official language images and builds are under a minute, with deploys happening in ~5-10 seconds (machines generally only need to download a single layer).
I wonder if they controlled for specific relationships like the participants never have met prior to the trials or anything of that sort. I can't find anything the article to indicate that.
...and won that one, big time: nowadays, just suggest that the road is not exclusively owned by cars, and watch the foaming-at-the-mouth flamewar.
The problem is support and marketing aren't free so you might be able to use price to buy market share etc. but if you can't cover support costs you run into trouble.
In other news: Moon nearly hits earth.
Does anyone here use “Summ All” for Twitter analysis?
The mouse capture API is pretty new and the the sites don't use it - your browser is fine, it's just not being used to its fullest.
One of the most interesting books I read was mentioned here on HN early this year: A Thread Across the Ocean

http://www.amazon.com/Thread-Across-Ocean-Heroic-Transatlant...

It covers the beginnings of one of the most important historical legs that most of our amazing technology rests on.
A strong 2016 resolution–fixing global healthcare
I had a weird year, reading no new 2015 books. Here's a handful I enjoyed the most:

"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynmann" - probably needs no introduction here on HN, but some wonderful anecdotes by Richard Feynmann.

"Red Plenty" by Francis Spufforth. Enjoyable (and apparently thoroughly well researched) depiction of life in the Soviet Union during its rise and decline

"My Ten Years Imprisonment" by Silvio Pellico. An autobiographical account of an Italian revolutionary during the times of the Austro-Hungarian empire, he was imprisoned in a castle I live next to.

"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer - luckily a couple of months before Everest was released (it was recommended in an HN discussion)
Have you ever tried anything with PhGABA in it? The known good source I have found is Biotest's Z-12. From the experience of others using Melatonin will only last so long before it too stops having a noticeable effect. I used Z-12 for a year and it pretty much resolved my issues and now I can sleep 99 percent of the time just as well as when I used to take it...it must have helped reset some Circadian rhythm of some sort because I don't need it anymore to go to sleep or get a good nights sleep.
Have you tried promoting it? You're walking away when things are just about to get interesting and the true lessons take place.
Professor Lessig Opinion in Kim Dotcom Case
Leaked Documents Expose the US Government's Cell Phone Surveillance Options
Federal Student Loans Make College More Expensive – And Income Inequality Worse
Eh. Times have changed. In many cities you are the idiot if you are in a car.
A laughable claim, mister Bond, perpetuated by overzealous teachers of science.
At one time, in the late 90s and early 2000s, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., owned many thousands of variants of the words 'walmart' and various bad or negative words. A lot of that was in reaction to the visibility of (I believe) walmartsucks.com

One way or another, talk about an exercise in futility.
Maybe it's a translation thing, but I love how calmly the skier talks about the incident afterward. It would have been very easy to take the "F that drone pilot!" road, but instead he just says "Please be more careful next time."
The Scientific Benefits of Mind-Wandering
Running Swift within Docker
It was not my intention to imply that javascript is not weakly typed. And I think we have collectively determined (correctly) that weak typing is a burden in a general-purpose language. So yes, your conclusion is correct, weak typing is "a reason" that javascript is poorly designed.

But your claim wasn't "weak typing was a bad design decision", it was "JavaScript's weak typing is unequivocally one of the worst things about the language". I think it's silly to call a mis-feature "unequivocally one of the worst things" when people who write javascript basically never run into, and when it can be completely avoided by using unintrusive tooling like a linter.
No idea about italy but austria has strict regulations for drones. So this is already happening anyways.
Cannabis works just fine... you will sleep like a baby.
Alpine really wouldn't fall into the Enterprise category due to it's small size and developer pool. It's a great community project that I wouldn't doubt has some form of corporate support financially.
I just looked over the first chapter or so of "Big Data" that's online with the intent of purchasing it yesterday. It seemed decent enough.

What were you general thoughts on it?
In the US, maybe, but for sure not in Europe. We don't even have a word for "jaywalking" in Germany.
It's very new.

"The airbag is in this debut season by no means standard. Because many drivers believe he would impede on the track. Others fear aerodynamic deficiencies and malfunctions. In addition, the Italian manufacturer Dainese many teams not supplied as outfitters. And so had the sixth race this winter in addition to Mayer only five further downhill in Val Gardena over the air bag striped, four Austrians and two Canadians." (from the source above)
You've already got a perfectly fine KVS built into the language.
A 20 minute early afternoon nap does wonders for my productivity and alertness for the rest of the day. Sadly, I don't work in a place where that is easy to do explicitly. But there is that little-used lab over in the other building...
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

-Lao Tzu
I am using Scrapy a lot. http://scrapy.org/ It is very well designed web crawling library.
Venezuela tries to shut down US website for reporting inflation
Never mind how good is the leader.

I think you miss what, in my opinion, is the most relevant point:
The collaboration phase doesn't change the splitting phase, they are independent.

That means that never mind what you did in the collaboration phase, what decide the result in the splitting phase, is your place in the hierarchy.

Of course, that leads to those low in the hierarchy investing less, as they know that, never mind what they invest, what decide what they will get is the hierarchy that is already decided.
witty_username may have been exaggerating, but it's worth pointing out that this is substantially cheaper than prepaid internet access is available in the US. I pay $10/GB/week, which works out to something like $30/GB as I'm not trying to finish the GB/week allotment. This may be somewhat unusual in the US, and I'm assuming you prepay for a set amount of data, rather than data/time.

Anyway, I came to posit a different question. How much would it cost if it were a nonprofit that provides the internet access? What kind of margins are made on top of the prepaid data plans we're using?
There isn't really a drone community. With RC, almost everybody involved was an enthusiast who would meet with other enthusiasts.

Anybody interested, even for a few minutes, can get a drone. This is the RC world's "Eternal September".
The Python module I learned to love this year is Click. Gets me better command line interfaces fast. URL is http://click.pocoo.org.

It does progress bars too...
Perhaps 'crashes near skier' ?
If the power cuts out and the drone is falling out of the sky, how useful is a software rule which is dependent on a computer that is now offline, a non-functioning altimeter and a set of dead engines? (Spoiler: not very much)

But of course, such thing would never happen. (Except it just did.)
We used GitLab for a few months, until we could get spending approval for Github.

The switch was surprisingly controversial, as the GitLab network view was apparently much more useful than the Github network view.
Show HN: Candidate-focused jobs marketplace
Do audio books count? If so my favorites from this year would be Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, and Armada by Ernest Cline.

Books I actually read which were good:
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
For simple containers, this is a great base image. I have been using it for an rsync server for a few months. https://github.com/Thrilleratplay/docker-ssh-rsync

The only problem is that the package library is not as extensive as Ubuntu or Arch. https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages
I won't argue too hard about that, but just as a counter example, I'm American and I work a fairly ordinary nine hour day, which includes a hour for lunch and breaks. I try to get a good night's sleep, but I'm old enough that that isn't as easy as it once was. I'm finding afternoon naps to be more and more desirable, not because I'm overworking but because of other life circumstances.
There is no proof that the airbag was responsible for his injuries and at least the German version of the news article isn't making any accusations like this.
I remember reading a study recently about the health aspects of power disparity. It concluded hierarchical social structures impose significant physical and mental health risks on those at the bottom. Unfortunately I can't find the source.
> I want the language to be verbose and easy to understand.

So, you basically want to write in assembler, which printed is very verbose,
and it's very easy to understand each separate instruction.

What I want is the language to minimize language entities used to do a task
(from parser's perspective those would be AST nodes), and I want those tasks
to be general and high-level. This is what makes source code comprehensible,
not verbosity.
This site show a pudim picture for the last 15 years
Could you make a cruise missile that didn't need any wings or other surfaces for lift - only forward propulsion - that just went so fast that it was effectively in orbit, but nor far above the ground?
Who cares what they think they're connected to? In Thailand, like everywhere else, most of the links Facebook shows are off-network.

AOL's walled garden didn't stop people exploring the big wide world, it was a gateway drug.
Alpine has Sable, and you can also compile your own OpenJDK (if it doesn't have it already). There are plenty of reasons to use Alpine and just as many not to use it, but lack of a JVM isn't one of them (Pretty much same with Docker- it added nothing of apparently value to me more than that LXC did (or BSD jails like someone above me mentioned), but I'm sure it provides value to some people.)
This started some time ago, when I did a Show HN for a chart of flashdrives sorted by prize and size. A lot of people liked it, so I kept adding product categories. Cameras is number 7. Hope to add several more in 2016. Open for requests on which products to add.
Thanks! I haven't but will look into it. The melatonin patch I use actually has GABA and my blood brain barrier may not be in great shape, so it is possible that is more the cause of the restful sleep than the melatonin.

ETA: It looks like PhGABA is also known as Phenibut.
No Python 3 support yet?
Lovely. Are you a Lao Tzu quote bot ;) ?
Most "private" corporations are only so large because their inefficiencies are subsidized by the state. [1]

[1] https://c4ss.org/content/18100
Thanks! Yes, I definitely plan to keep working on it though I won't have much time to add new features until after the holidays. Exporting to PDF is on the roadmap for sure.
I don't blame you. There's really no telling based on the information available whether Chipotle is particularly good or bad about safety. And they still have considerable altitude to fall before they're as bad as Taco Bell.
Nobody has provided the tiniest shred of evidence for this being true. Unless Indians are dramatically different from other Facebook users, and don't post many external links, everyone in the free service will be bombarded with what they're missing.
Sorry for not giving rationals or details.

Catnaroek said it already: without parametric polymorphism you are forced to either: 1) commit to a single type upfront which limit the utility (string in your example I think), 2) use interface{} and suffer the boxing in every circonstances while not having any static type checking.

I actually like your pattern. I think it makes sense to have a process as a pair of input and output streams.
Good point - the weakest point of current drones is that the same power source is used for engines and control, without any redundancy.
Thanks, thats more worrying than the 2012 article linked on the cloudflare blog.
The paper you linked to says 'will cost between 75K US$and 120K US$ and will plausibly take at most a few months', and not $700,000 like the CloudFlare blog does.
Even in a flat organization, some people are good at organizing other folks and getting things done that way, while others are good at sitting down by themselves and cranking stuff out. I'd say the needle is much farther towards "communication and cooperation" (as opposed to "unopinionated worker drone") than in a hierarchy, but the spread of abilities is still there.

The nice thing about being truly flat is that there's no boss to get rid of if they're not working out. You just decide not to work with them.

[Flat isn't totally wonderful and there are still issues with it which I don't care to get into right now.]
A-Frame: Building Blocks for WebVR
Fantastic picture! I bet editors in the newsroom took a collective breath when they saw that email from the field.
Could you name it?
My suggestion is to build a package installer for your app and use that to build the final image. For example, we use fpm (running in a container) to build .deb packages, then we push those to an apt repository (artifactory) and then build images downstream using apt-get.

Initially we did a lot of cloning from source and compiling/installing dependencies, but it's very slow, there's a lot of wasted time in rebuilding identical code, and it's hard to provide patches and upgrades to customers.
Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2 of 3
How many people are doing jail time for the AIG or Lehman scandals?

How much did those scandals affect the economy, compared to the effect of MU?
This doesn't alleviate the big problem with command hierarchies. If the top decision is wrong, and the commander in chief / CEO is ignorant to the advice of their subordinates, there usually is no other recourse than mutiny (war time) or resignation (businesses). This is played out at every level of the hierarchy.