skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a whole lot of places where the weather doesn't change on a dime and an IFR rating is not required. Also, you don't need IFR for night flying.

Any high hour pilot worth his salt is going to be IFR rated, but there are tons of great VFR pilots who know not to leave when the weather might turn IFR.

METARs and TAF are your friend.
I'm especially excited about Zeppelin. Using IPython for SciPy and smaller datasets is great. I would love it for the big data space I work in and Python's tooling to come together more.
It's best not to take moderation too personally around here.

It's pretty easy to damage DNA molecules in vitro, just as it's easy to kill cancer cells when they're not attached to people. In living tissue, the more alarming RF exposure studies all seem to be very difficult to reproduce. In any case, on a milliwatts-per-square-meter basis, the exposure levels used in airport security theater are very low compared to what tends to be used in studies.

Note that I'm not defending the use of these scanners, only their mechanism of action.
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A modern static type system allows this style of programming.
I feel like some of the points he raises in the article answer that question. The one most compelling to me from the article is that I would like something more rugged and usable for hiking, biking, skiing, etc. than the current types of smartphones.
It has nothing to do with "reversing" hashes. The attacker would use the quantum computer to determine the CA's private key (e.g. by factoring the RSA modulus using Shor's Algorithm), and would then be able to sign any hash they want. No need to attack the hash function; in fact hashes remain secure under quantum computing.
have you even read the article?
...or just promote tethering as a first-class feature and charge per GB of data.
It would not be reimbursement if it were not structured that way.

See: fractional ownership
I know you're not OP and I understand this is the definition of rent-seeking behavior, but your examples are empirically and theoretically invalid. Landlords (renters of capital) and middlemen provide huge benefits to society.

Of course, this doesn't mean that it's impossible for a landlord it middleman to be a rent-seeker, but they would need to pursue some type of artificial benefit/restriction on others in order for this to be the case. This does happen often, but I have no idea why OP would suggest rent-seeking is the primary activity of sharing economy companies. One of Uber's greatest accomplishments has been significantly weakening the rent-seeking taxi industry.
The smart phone category is now firmly established, and there's little room for radical innovation. It's not a question of colonizing new niches—the market trend has been exactly the opposite, the iPhone cannibalized entire product categories by being good enough at so many things and then surpassing them with the integration benefits. Sure there is room for innovation and expansion into new niches, but those are small local maxima, nothing that is revolutionize phones again.

If you realize what the smartphone means—literally the entire middle class population with a powerful networked computer in their pocket—and where it stands in the logical progress of computers from government to business to home to the person, it's clear that the next revolution of this magnitude will be nothing less than physical implants. Maybe there will be some intermediate step like Google Glass, but just like smart watches it's very hard to beat the utility of a phone in your pocket.

Other major innovations will happen, sure, but they will come out of unexpected areas and solve new problems. The OA seems to be nostalgic for the pace of innovation of the last 8 years, but that time is over now, smartphones will continue to improve incrementally but the low-hanging fruit for reinventing them is pretty well harvested. Even if someone comes up with a fundamentally better mobile paradigm than iOS it's probably impossible to overcome the network and polish effects of a decade of Apple and Google pouring their entire essence into their respective mobile platforms.
I don't understand what's the value of exposing this autofilled data to the user. Why not just do it on the server-side?
> which means a small

Not that small, actually: phones keep getting bigger and bigger over time, a tendency that even Apple succumbed to. It still proves your point, though: manufacturers are optimizing for a stable environment where users are ok with using an unwieldy phone.
I understand the argument about the sociological reputation trap, but a little more reading about Rossi's research turns up some very fishy evidence:

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

In particular, the copper supposedly generated by the fusion of hydrogen and nickel has an isotopic composition very similar to that of natural copper, rather than what one would expect from byproducts of nuclear reactions. As a result, it's much more likely that copper comes from a conventional source rather than actual nuclear fusion.

It also doesn't help that Rossi has been convicted of fraud for purportedly inventing dubious devices in the past. In particular, he "created" a system for turning toxic waste into oil, but this turned out to be just dumping the waste into the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rossi_(entrepreneur)

I'm all for avoiding groupthink in scientific research, but this might not be the right story on which to base that argument.
I can't tell looking from the outside in what kind of scanner I'm about to go into, it's not as if they are labeled on the outside.

Though on big and modern airports you will likely only see millimeter waves scanners.

Agreed that flying high in an airplane will give you an extra dose regardless, but that still does not mean that people do not get to make their own choices in things like these, if only for their mental comfort, no matter how misguided by the laws of physics that may be.

For an encore: people get to choose to be religious, even if there is no physics proof that a god exists and so on. People will base their decisions on all kinds of reasoning, some rational, others not so rational. Trying to reduce everything to a physics problem isn't going to get you very far.
The Dart authors are geniuses but even they can't violate the laws of physics.

Dart is between two and five times slower than Java, as of six months ago [1].

It's not clear whether Dart can close that gap since Java is not standing still either, so I remain completely unconvinced that Dart will ever be the replacement of Java on Android.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/dart.php
I got the same thing the first time, but I did it again and it sent me an email to claim my account. Maybe their site got overwhelmed by HN requests? Not sure what happened.
the bay area rider forum already claims BARF.
also why do you sound so surprised?
http://bayarearidersforum.com/
"Here's the thing: most of our clients LIKE the fact that we don't discuss price upfront. They understand that software is a different beast, and its value is dependent upon how well it fits into and/or can be molded into the needs of the business. Only very inexperienced purchasers push us for price, and over the years we've found ways of disarming or at least sidestepping them."

I am not sure which side of that interaction to hold in more contempt ...
There is a conceptual difference between granting permission for everyone who sees you at a time to see you and know you were somewhere and granting permission for everyone in a place to make images of you and share them with everyone else in the world for all time.

I think that this is especially pertinent for children who are not able to make the decision to grant these rights, the permission for a photograph or video cannot be rescinded on majority, but the person could make different decisions about where they go, what they wear and how they behave, with limited responsibility for the prior decision to do something else.
No one? I thought Microsoft implemented it, or at least an early version thereof.
I've never thought HN was missing the ability to post images as responses. But this one time...

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/0/05/The... :)
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Yes, but how does that apply to the sharing economy? Uber has added immense value to my life and the lives of it's millions of satisfied customers.
Thanks! That's really interesting. The "Whatever runs in a Docker Container runs on Giant Swarm" promise is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Deis has currently a limitation that it's really only for services that work with only one port exposed, and that port should be serving HTTP.

The fact that right on the welcome page they suggest an elasticsearch node as a Giant Swarm consumer, is really promising, since that's probably one of the first things I'd want to try and spin up on my production cluster, and Deis can't really deal with that currently inside of its provided framework.
And this is the point.... any device that tries to "beat" the iPhone will fail by fighting a pointless spec war.

Any future device that comes along that truly changes everything, needs to forget about what the iPhone does and re-imagines everything again... that will be some time yet.
Not time to go wobbly when constitutional liberties are at stake.
thanks for the reply. there's definitely a 10,000 hours component to this but i suppose my desire is to learn an organized system and process, versus piece-meal trial&error youtube videos and tutorials.

This is how I've been learning so far (I have the basics of CSS down) but I can't help but feel I have a huge gaping hole in my knowledge somewhere. The best analogy I can think of is: knowing how to shoot a basketball into a hoop, but lack a playbook for winning games.

It would be amazing to watch someone design a site like Twitch or Airbnb over the course of a week. To see their systems, processes, methodologies, frameworks...
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I think the idea is great because fresh groceries really are the problem since charities usually provide only things such as flour, oil, sugar and stuff. Urban poverty is unfortunately still a big "shame" so the drawings are pretty cool solution for how not to expose families.
the "link to my profile" is just a link to the same submission form for "claiming" my profile.

I filled that out, and got another link to the same place.
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Here are a few more screenshots of it in action:

http://imgur.com/a/tWBSg
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Voice recognition in 2015 is where touchscreens were 15 years ago. It sort-of works, the way Palms sort-of worked, but Palms never really took off the same way Siri hasn't really taken off.

Current smartphones are just iterative improvements based on affordable touchscreens crossing the "suck" to "don't suck" threshold.

The voice-as-UI will come (and such a device looks like a particularly nice match for a smartwatch), but it's not a problem of the design not being tried -- it's that it's still some serious hardware/software R&D breakthrough away from being viable.
Requiring someone to wear an ankle monitor for the rest of their life sounds bonkers. You would either have to give him/her the charger or mandate that he/she return to a police station or court house to have the device recharged perhaps every month. If you gave them the charger, couldn't the person just "forget" to charge the device and then drive out of state?

From the Wikipedia page on Ankle Monitors [0]:

>GPS units are similar in design, but the offender also carries a GPS cell phone unit that receives a signal from the ankle unit, or both functions may be combined into one ankle unit. Persons subject to a restraining order may also be subject to GPS monitoring.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankle_monitor
For what it's worth, I started putting together a visualization of big data systems and how they interact. There are so many systems that it's difficult to get a grasp on how they relate to each other. I got distracted with more important things, so it's only partially complete.

http://jonathanmace.github.io/bigdatasurvey/
1) Providing commercial passenger service is not the same as giving someone a ride. In the case of commercial service your passengers are your customers and expect a certain level of service. This could motivate you to take additional risks that you would not otherwise take. Such as flying in questionable weather so as not to lose the fare or get a bad rating on the service causing you to miss out on future fares.

2) Flying an airplane is nothing like making a cheeseburger. I do not think it is a worthwhile goal to allow unskilled people to operate airplanes, especially if they are carrying passengers. Instead we should focus on making sure the operators of the planes are as capable as possible to first avoid dangerous situations and then deal with them when they are unavoidable. This is exactly what the FAA does.

If you screw up a cheeseburger maybe someone gets sick, if you screw up in an airplane people die. They aren't even remotely the same thing.
It's called security theater because it only gives the illusion of security: there are many examples where people have successfully brought knives, guns, explosives and what have you through these full-body scanners.

Further, it's theatric because the many of the "dangerous" items have no obvious malicious use, and the rules are totally arbitrary. I can't bring knitting gear on an airplane, but my small pocket knife is totally fine (according to official rules, though some airport security agents will disagree).

Finally, any attempt at plane hijacking nowadays will cause passengers to fight for their life to prevent it. Prior to 9/11 people would just sit still and wait to land in Cuba or whatever, but now people associate hijacking with flying into a building and will act thereafter.

It could actually be safer to allow knives and similar "weapons" that can't penetrate the plane body, so people have a chance to defend themselves when some terrorist inevitably smuggles aboard a handgun and starts shooting.
I flew back and collected my stuff, even going back to the office. The place was dead and I met with some of the people. They were in utter shock. Over 30 people's livelihoods destroyed.
It's useful on tablets when combined with Twitter lists. Each list becomes a Flipboard magazine, you can then flip through meta-pages with substantive link previews, surrounded by tweets. This gives the benefit of Flipboard's UX with Twitter's manually curated content. This use case is buried:

Profile
Following
Accounts
Service Name (e.g. Twitter)
Your Lists
List Name

Before it was turned off, Zite allowed their users to migrate their data (topics, white/blacklist, votes) to Flipboard. For longtime Zite users, there were thousands of data points. Sadly, that data has not resulted in a Zite-like filter of Flipboard's content.
Yes, and I have also read other sources, especially with regard to Rossi.

e.g:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1306/1306.6364.pdf

http://www.sott.net/article/241427-E-Cat-Cold-Fusion-Machine...
Unfortunately this is not uncommon part of my job is to audit sites and its shocking in 2015 how poor a job many CTO's/CMO's of many major brands just do not get the internet at all.
You can have "implicit" currying behaving as you described in a dynamically-typed, strictly evaluated language as well.
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I have a copy of California Water Crisis; it's actually quite well-designed and a fantastic discussion piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws You might not be able to.
Basically, strncpy and strncat shouldn't be used because they don't do what you want. You want a NUL terminated string without buffer overflow, but these functions instead work with fixed size strings. They're simply designed to perform a different task. In particular, they put 0…N NUL bytes at the end, but you usually want exactly one NUL byte, no more, no less.
You're correct in the narrow sense (a commercial flight is less likely to crash) but wrong on the big picture (a commercial flight is safer for passengers).

Here's the thing: we don't care about the number of crashed airplanes, we care about crashed people (the number of deaths). And the number of deaths is about the same per passenger mile flown.

Passengers are no safer in either form of flying, according to this source.
I don't get it :-/

I couldn't even try it because my browser's autocomplete automatically completed all fields.

Doesn't everyone has autocomplete?

Also, it's pretty creepy.
Why would their customers do that?
Apparently SpaceX uses a cardboard celebrity cutout for similar purposes:

"100% of software engineers don't like Justin Bieber"

http://lwn.net/Articles/540368/
So, I guess it's cool now to overload app/service names? E.g.: https://getmagicnow.com.

But more than that... "Because it helps your users save time, Magic increases conversion rates and makes the web easier to use."

There's one heck of an unfounded/unvalidated assumption.
No, I'm in the same boat. Chrome already does this for me, I couldn't tell if anything different was happening.
same thing with me. Somehow pulled my information from twitter.
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> Few things change more frequently while evolving/hacking together software than the data structures and types.

I tend to agree; it is often correct. (Though sometimes we have solid data structures and types and are able to evolve things without changing them.)

Anyway, therefore it follows that if we calcify and ossify data structures and types, we kill the progress, not to mention fun.

> Changing a type in one place while forgetting to in N other places is an extremely common defect introduction method that is easily caught with static type systems.

This is blown out of reasonable proportion by static type advocates. In a dynamic system, type is de facto a few bits of value in an object. So the above situation is just another value that is wrong.

Static programs also have run-time values that can be wrong. A static program that is supposed to calculate 42 might calculate 43, which has the correct type.

To discover the cause, someone will have to sit down and think about the code.

Code which has never been exercised by a test case (coverage) should still be regarded as garbage, in spite of passing type checking. It is not known to be correct. Type checked is not the same thing as correct.

The graph of "type-value" in typical code is rather trivial. Take any moderately complex algorithm, and ignore what its operations are doing; just consider their input and output types. The resulting graph/tree is a lot simpler than what is going on with the values. Type problems are trivial. That is why it's even possible to move them to compile time and have static languages. Think about it: something that runs for hours or days in order to produce a result (and is not even known to terminate) can be entirely type-checked in a millisecond.

We do not know a whole lot about code just because it has type checked. It may feel like you do, but that's just a feeling. The name of the function might be `sort`, but it could actually fail to sort items, in spite of type checking. Or it could sort them in descending order when the expected order is ascending: some test was reversed and the reverse test type checks because the operator is commutative.

You still have to either prove your code if possible and feasible, else test it exhaustively if possible, or else test it imperfectly.
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Alex McCaw mentioned in Clearbit's launch post earlier this year that Svbtle is using their API to auto populate their sign up form:
http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/clearbit

My guess is that Magic is using Clearbit's API as a base, then layering on their own scraped data sources as well, which is a pretty common strategy for these types of APIs.
The question has to be - why the #£@&! are we allowing one of last-resort antibiotics to be used on animals at all? Let alone as a 'preventative', when resistance is not exactly a new concept, is it?
Interesting that software engineering in the Bay Area is the other way around. There are such high salaries being given to bachelor's holders that it is hard to justify the opportunity cost to go to a Master's/PhD.
Because it wasn't in compliance with the law, they were using personal aircraft licenses for commercial purposes. The standards for those two things are vastly different.
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Abdul, profit seeking is the most important element of a common carrier (a common law term). The term “common carriage” is well-known and understood by the courts, and refers to a commercial transportation enterprise that is willing to take all comers who are willing to pay a fare, without refusal. See CSI AVIATION SERVICES v. US Dept. of Transp., 637 F. 3d 408 (Court of Appeals, Dist. of Columbia Circuit 2011). A commercial enterprise is a business pursuit for livelihood or profit. See STONE V. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 198 F.2d 601 (D.C. Cir. 1952). In contrast, there is no possibility for profit when expense sharing.

At Oral Argument, the FAA agreed the common law definition of common carriage applied.

See, https://soundcloud.com/flytenow/judge-wilkins-on-whether-the....

Despite this, the court did not apply the common law definition. Indeed, they ignored the question, "we therefore do not consider Flytenow’s argument that the FAA’s decision contravenes the common law."

So, the determination is that Flytenow pilots are engaged in common carriage, yet the central element of common carriage - commercial enterprise for profit - was not addressed by the Court.

Your last statement [Flying is dangerous and should not be subject to the race to the bottom and rent-seeking behavior that is the "sharing economy"] cuts against your own argument. There is no "rent-seeking" behavior where there is no possibility for profit. That's the whole point of the common carriage analysis, and why the FAA and the Court got it wrong.
Reminded me of BS Johnsons inventions from the disk world
I would like to have a fully modular phone. Where i can change or add hardware capabilities (like fairphone) . More hardware freedom.
Too true. "Non-practicing entity" feels like (and is, I guess) doublespeak, but at least it would make it clearer that a law firm doesn't qualify.
If you read an article about two housing groups in San Francisco, one called BARF and one called the Coalition to Increase the Housing Supply of the Bay Area, which one would you be able to remember a week later?
This for example http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100520/full/news.2010.256.ht...

This guy is really good. Some of the links here might be informative http://www.vad1.com/lab/

I am happy to answer any questions you might have.
A good documentary to watch is Fire from Water.

There has been a lot of work into LENR and a lot of it is positive. Toyota dedicated a two years research division to it.

The trouble is it's not consistent, and when excess heart is recorded, we're not sure why. I'm sure this is of those fields that needs a "eureka" moment where some group figures out what might be simple missing pieces.
My observation is that a person cannot know too much math.