skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's for aviation, it's incredibly expensive. This is largely down to the monopolistic supply chains that operate - you want a widget for your aircraft, it's gotta come from Lockheed, Boeing, BAE, EADS (Airbus), Northrup, GDC, Raytheon and that's pretty much it - yes, there are other suppliers, but they're the ones that the huge manufacturers pick. Because of the closed nature of the market, and the infinite pockets of their governmental buyers, they can charge whatever they fancy.

I spent some time in RAF repair hangers ~15 years ago, and remember being absolutely blown away by the cost of parts (for a Jaguar GR1B in this case). Torch lightbulb? £10,000. Red LED? £25,000. 50cm of 16swg wire, £5,000. Seat cushion? £90,000.

So a satellite tracker for £100k is an absolute bargain, in aerospace pricing terms.
Google X, Moonshot Incubator for Driverless Cars, Robots, Drones
`Package: nginx (1.6.2-5)` is there just fine for me in Jessie and `1.9.6-2` in Sid.
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Echoing thoughts from one of the best documentaries of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
There's Dozens of us!
Not a UK company, right?
There's a whole arsenal of Netflix enhancements in this extension. I like the Secret Categories, can find lots of new interesting movies. Plus a Netflix Randomizer for "special" occasions when no idea what to watch.
> Having emerged from authoritarian rule just 30 years ago, Brazilians are especially sensitive to encroachments on their basic freedoms, including digital ones.

Actually, I'd say most people don't care.

> For a while, the country looked to be a progressive voice for digital freedom. No one expected Brazil to become a leader in cyber surveillance and censorship.

President Dilma Rousseff has used her influence to get "Marco Civil da Internet" approved in Congress. Most people who backed this project thought it would probably not be approved because ISPs have lobbied against it.
He means the search just did make headline
Not just FB. Everyone is moving (have moved) to proprietary protocols.
Renault's stock price (RNO) drops by 16%. Peugeot (UG) also drops by 6.5%. Fiat (FCAU) loses 7.7% in premarket.

AFAIK, Peugeot hasn't been raided (yet). Here's some context about the companies' exposure to the diesel scandal: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/peugeot-re...
>A startup is always a company, but not really a 'business' until it's making a profit.

So is a newly-opened mom & pop grocery store, then, I guess. But that kind of business isn't likely to generate blog write-ups.
I don't think there is a definition anyone will agree on for 'startup' in this context. You either have a business that makes money, or you don't.
It'd not be particularly hard to raise it, although it'd require some code restructuring/duplication (for on-disk backward compat). I doubt it's really worth it anytime soon, such large datums imo have biggers problems than the length limits.
Blast from the past!

I remember using SMS server tools and a cyclone(?) 8 port RS-232-hub to drive a bunch of GSM modems to act as an SMS gateway for a company back in '99. Funny to see that the software is still around.
Save Money by Fixing Used Equipment for Your New Restaurant
An excellent idea. Perhaps combined with the look away detection mentioned in the article, such that the painting only tracks you when you aren't looking directly at it. Reminiscent of many a horror movie.
U.S. Department of Transportation: Policy on Automated Vehicle Development
Should've patented those curtains, dude...
They try to be objective, but nobody blames any media for siding against ISIL.

As for Israel, I feel like Al Jazeera isn't one-sided; there simply are more articles about Palestinian deaths because there are more Palestinian deaths. Even when around 20 Israelis across a few attacks died at the end of last year, with each death heavily reported around western media, a comparative death toll puts it into perspective: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/10/mapping.... It seems that one side simply has better weapons, and so, causes more deaths.
I think it's mostly about support and SLAs. Some people like to know that if something goes wrong there's a vendor they can shout at.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Competition, No Matter Who the Heavy Hitters Are
As you say, it is difficult to explain humor. The best I can do is try to give examples. And to be honest most of the things that immediately strike me as funny deal with sex.

In the passage cited below by jhedwards, I find the way Joyce suggests Shem's Greek-Jewish heritage explains his taste in cheap prostitutes very funny (as well as his skewering the sanctimoniousness of it all, "you like prostitutes but only the cheap ones"). Also, that he gives the address of the whore house, like it is an advertisement is also funny.

You mention the first chapter, so I started reading from the online link given earlier in the thread. In the second paragraph, I found it funny the way he says that topsawyer (Tom Sawyer?) had not exaggerated the size of his balls when they were "doublin their mumper all the time."

It's all about the wordplay and frankly being ridiculous. Obviously if you read these things in the context of a forum, you are probably not going to find it funny. Context is very important:
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0i0fy2/stand-up-hannibal-bures...

As jhedwards suggests, if you read it aloud you will hear the jokes.
Yeah, but the vision of the article is bob on. This is how things are going to be (source: usually being right)
It is a pitty they do not have a Dlang IDE, an deprecate C++ options.
Or try a pocket mount: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O9aLYSntTQ

Techmoan has extremely detailed action camera reviews, with raw sample footage, and often takes them out for a ride (weather permitting, he's in the UK after all!).
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/category/action-cameras
That makes sense. I have been curious about what would generate enough WMF files to justify writing a converter since I saw the post.

It might be useful to include why the software was written in the readme. It could improve discovery for people dealing with Visio.
I can't believe this isn't a native Netflix browse option.
You just made Netflix even more valuable to me.
As a front-end web developer that has used Emacs for several years, I often feel the pull to Atom. It draws very clear, direct inspiration from Emacs.

Spacemacs is an improvement, however I think it the biggest advantage it (and any other modern text editor) has over Emacs is the on-boarding process and general beginner friendliness.

Beyond that, Atom's modes for front-end web development are pretty top notch. We have js2-mode, and web-mode in Emacs, but the overall experience in Atom is often superior. For example, it's extremely easy to quickly install a color-picker, pull open a CSS file, and use a color wheel to make a hex value slightly darker. More, the color-picker UI feels tightly integrated into the editor.

On the surface, this feels trite, however the slow build-up of user friendly developer conveniences adds up.

The general command over the entire environment continues to draw me back to Emacs. Still, I continue to watch for when Atom can achieve this.
NFL Hackathon to use RFID data from players
Yeah as much as I appreciate the concept of XMPP, I find it unlikely that the average person cares about that sort of stuff. Of course, I'm limited to the people I know, so maaaaybe I'm mistaken, but if you think about the average Facebook user (Joe Smith, has 600 friends he barely knows, likes to quote songs in his statuses), what are the odds they would NOT want a dedicated app or tab?
Basically the inverse being applied? Sentence fully displayed, with the word that's focused on masked...
I wonder how many times that has been removed, blocked, or otherwise interfered with by Big Music.
Big Pharma’s Bets in 2015 and Ideas for 2016
Alan Rickman, giant of British film and theatre, dies at 69
Speaking about NetBSD.

I never see any news about NetBSD and hardly any about FreeBSD. Though quite a few about OpenBSD. Why?
Windows Power Management in Mac
Could have all been solved by now for a lot less with an ounce of prevention (about $10):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2630400/MH370-airlin...
The good part about using an open source editor is that you can disable (and know about them) these packages if you don't want to be tracked.
Just because someone isn't interested in what you're interested in doesn't mean they hate learnig
> Honestly I wonder, who the hell buys these overpriced networking appliances?

people that need to switch more packets than what you buy off of newegg can handle.

edit: oh that and when you have a network of thousands of routers and switches that you want to centrally manage in a way that "mass ssh" doesn't scale to and you just want to buy the management software from someone that has written it before and not spend a while getting the software wrong before you get it right.

if you can count the number of routers you need in your head, you probably should just be using beige boxes with a commodity OS...
Pomodoro Technique for Slack
Even that has to be tested that it won't burn, explode, cause some electrical problem to the power supply, the sat modem will not interfere with all other electronic devices (in some unplanned manner, at least), that it can report to be working or not, that it can be turned off in case somethings goes wrong (leaving the problem that it is less usefull if it can be turned off), and how hard it will be to repair it (if it brakes too often and takes time to fix, it costs a lot to the companies)...
Steam Link SDK released
Hangouts does all my SMS texting. Though having a modem to send text messages reminds me of setting up pager systems in the early 1990s.
No, the next step from awk is ruby :-D.

Anyways, I was talking about how this thing totally misappropriated awk, not awk itself.
I don't think the mat is rendered. In the video with changing light conditions, you can see how the picture lags slightly, while the mat reacts immediately.
I was having a conversation regarding these things just a few days ago. I always loved the idea of a digital frame and have had many over the years, but no devices really nailed it and backlit was always the wrong way to go. Refresh time is not an issue at all as you would refresh on inactivity if you really don't want people to see the sausage made. Feeding data to these things is trivial.
Oh, don't get me started on flash. AS is alright, but flash is a load of rubbish, and I am so glad that we are almost clear of it.
every hidden netflix genre, right in your browser.
Here's another overlooked tidbit: There's a good chance your skill set that was so valued in a 3-person early-stage startup will be significantly diminished when it turns into a 10-person, funded machine. Generalists are awesome when you're scraping your way through experiments and the "do whatever you can think of to increase sales this week before our investor meeting next Thursday" type stages. But I've seen those generalists left out in the cold when it comes time to focus and scale.
Now think about all the people installing "smart" smoke detectors.
SitePoint's Ambassador Scheme
TIL - thank you.
Can that hardware keep up with crypto bitrate and firewall rules, on multiple 10gb links?
Does anybody know if it's now possible to use Atom as a sane $GIT_EDITOR (or $SUDO_EDITOR...) such that a new tab is opened in an existing window and the invoking process (git, sudo,...) is notified when the tab is closed (similar to Sublime Text)?
Well, apparently you do what people on HN are suggesting here: You wait until someone else builds a hackable tractor, you buy it promising you won't hack it, then you complain about it and hope you can pressure the government into making it legal for you to hack the hackable tractor.

Why are people buying these annoying tractors anyway? The reason to me seems: They are worth the trouble.
we keep ours at 70 just due to small kids that don't have big blankets or understand you have to be under layers at night
Mutating an Array During .forEach() Iteration in JavaScript
Hopefully xmpp, as well as sip and http, helped the tech folks to learn that "it's text based therefore it's simple" does not hold.
Albuquerque is a pretty tenuous example.

Anyway, I don't know. I'm not talking about me, just saying this is how a lot of people react.
> I achieved momentary clarity on the 8th day which helped me get rid of some of unnecessary but deep rooted complexes of my mind.

Can someone with experience in meditation explain what this actually means?
That's a tough situation to be in OP. A few things you can do:

- Did you have any other manager during your time there? What about a senior tech lead/architect who could arguable be considered as your "technical manager"? Try asking them. Even if they now work for a different company, that's still fine. There's no reason to limit yourself to the one manager who's unresponsive.

- Ask your friends/colleagues in the company to send your manager a friendly reminder. Your manager may not care about you, but at least he'll care about not looking like a jerk in front of his colleagues and subordinates.

- Start going further up the food chain. Email anyone and everyone who was managing you, even indirectly, and ask them for such a letter. Ask your 2nd level manager, your department head, your division head, the VP, and even the CEO. As long as they managed you indirectly while you were there, their letter should be valid as well.

- Very similar to above, start putting social pressure on your manager to respond. Email your manager's current manager, explain your plight, and ask him if he could help. Mention that you haven't been able to get in touch with your manager (name him), but don't say anything else that's negative. People are generally more receptive to positively worded requests. If emailing your manager's manager doesn't get any response, try your department head. Then the division head. Then the VP... Email their secretaries as well, to ensure that someone else reminds them about the email. At some point, if your manager starts getting emails from people higher up the food chain asking him to help you out, he'll agree to do so just to avoid looking like a jerk.

The above steps are to be used sequentially and judiciously. Try the least threatening approaches first, and only if it fails, move on to something slightly more threatening.

Remember that your manager has something you want (a verification letter), but you have something he cares about as well: the power to embarrass him and expose him as a jerk. Your goal is to use this power in the slightest and mildest way possible, with the implication that a progressively stronger application is coming in the future if he doesn't respond nicely.
Atom 1.3 was hang up when opening same file name.
1.4 seems to fix this issue.
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10060
Alan Rickman dead: Harry Potter actor and theatre legend dies aged 69
in my opinion LastPass Enterprise is hands down the best solution you can get (granular permissions, reporting, policy, shared passwords between accounts, cross-platform sync/availability, 2factor, push password to users automatically, identity providers, the list goes on)
iOS7 made iPad2 and iPadMini very slow too.
TI-BASIC is a blessing and a curse. You can get the most non-technical people to write code in it, but if you've had experience in a REAL language, you can't bring yourself to.
Sadly though, shouting at a vendor doesn't fix your issues within a couple of hours, and downtime can be a pain.

Running Linux/*BSD/Whatever on off-the-shelf boxen which you can pickup everywhere (and have cheap spares) and fix yourself will let you get back online quickly.
Alan Rickman has died
"And that, kids, is how I quit my previous job."
Show HN: Azure Storage Blob Management
Nothing, there's no monetary obligation at all, from registering until you leave. It will only cost you time and dedication, for 10 consecutive days.
And all of that is equally true of the IFE units, thus the comparison.
You mean Shred Video?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/shred-video-turns-hours-of-...
3D Printing Marketplace Aimed at the Hobbyist
What if that Jam study has nothing to do with the paradox of choice, afterall?
Its a quite remote area of the ocean away from major shipping routes.
Is there a competition about how many of the world's finest Brits we can send to the other side in a month? All of them 69.

RIP Mister Gruber. I hope your death was not hard.
Regarding first paragraph of the story (redundant pair or routers crashing at once), it worth mentioning one possible neat trick to avoid this: When having a redundant pair of devices (routers, etc.), make sure such pair is comprised of devices made by different vendors - thinking here being that if there is a bug that triggers router crash, it's unlikely that two different vendors would be vulnerable to the same one.

Or with a generous budget, you can do what BT have done with their 21CN project: For each macro-block (access, aggregation, core), have two redundant networks each one built by a different set of vendors.
Very interesting. I've never heard of PressReader and will check it out.

I guess Blendle is less like Netflix than PressReader, and more like iTunes in that you generally buy individual articles for a small price (often < 1 euro).
_Should you date a mathematician or not?

_Yes.
By producing worse updates without option to downgrade to previous versions, with no practical gains but to boost the new hardware sales. iOS 9 ruined the classic iOS fluidity and smoothness compared to previous release. And this wasn't the first case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iwh3lDeCME

Apple are a high-margin accessories and hardware merchant, the software quality days are over.
If it's actually a REST API then it's going to take multiple queries. Certainly you can put an non REST API in front of it to reduce the queries. Every site does it and every site does it in a different way. GraphQL is built to solve this exact problem in a standard way.
I use the 'atom --wait' command line option to do this and it's worked fine as an EDITOR so far, though I don't use atom much otherwise, so I never have a lot of tabs open.
California also recently rejected VW's "fix" for their cheating engines:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/221104-california-rejects...
People who want to have support by a large vendor. If your DIY-setup fails you can't blame a vendor. In theory using the same kind of appliance as everybody else means you can easily find an networking guy to work with it, people who are good at both traditional networking gear and BSD/Linux are harder to find. If a dedicated box fails you can just have someone with some experience plop a new one in, reapply the configuration and be done. Correctly replicating a DIY setup is harder, especially if the person building it didn't do a perfect job at documenting it.

Appliances promise all sort of fancy features that might be hard to exactly replicate yourself (if you actually need them often is a different question, but often networking isn't exactly in a position to say "no" to such requests). Although there is more and more a trend of manufacturers also offering the software for virtual environments, many appliances are x86-servers anyways.

+ as the article mentions all those cases where you need specialised hardware, e.g. routing/switching at high speeds, or working in special environments.
AFAIK it's free. I know that the center in Delaware that I've looked to going to is free.

[edit] Yup, the article address this: ...these courses are 100% financed by voluntary gifts from previous students (who are explicitly asked not to donate anything unless it is from the pure wish of helping other people).
Scaling ArangoDB to Gigabytes per Second on Mesosphere's DCOS – Mesosphere
Someone wants to change the licence of Microsoft's Chakra engine to ISC
The Virb looks awesome. Is your Dad enjoying it?
> Since the bar to entry for contributors is so low

Have they switched from Coffeescript to JavaScript?
I still would be pretty interested to see how Couchbase would behave under the Mesos DCOS. There were any tests done?
Did the Americans resolve the no SafeHarbor rule with the EU? We don't think so
Apple boss Tim Cook clashes with US government over encryption
If it's not your money you're spending, then the support contract helps take the heat off you when there are problems. Also, the junior staff can do things when there are problems and you're not in the office.
This is different - Without the mafia, there is nothing to be protected from. The things the government protect you from exist independently.
What it's like to be a Reddit moderator
Show HN: Build simple reusable checklists for your team
Now I have a new example to show AWK as a language. I usually get into arguments about AWK not being a program.
is this just a matter of complexity growing beyond
its masters' capacity to manage it?

No, this is stuff we know how to get right if it's a priority for the business.

Back in the 1990s if Microsoft released a new version of Windows they would test compatibility with other vendors' software - and often adapted Windows to maintain compatibility of vendors were relying on some eccentric behaviour.

What you do is build a test lab. You buy 100 routers covering a range of chipsets and manufacturers. Plug them into a network and a software-controlled power switch. Every time you do a revision of your hardware you keep a few back for the test lab. Then every time you do a revision of the software, you deploy it to all the hardware, and you test it one at a time on every one of the routers. Customer's having problems with hardware so old you can't get it for your lab? Ask the customer for theirs, and offer them something better in trade.

You do the same with furnaces - although you probably need many fewer units in your test lab because the interfaces are a lot simpler.

The main reason not to do this is cost - a company might think spending $200,000 on a test lab has lower returns than spending that money on adverts or product discounts.
No such thing as session synchronization for different vendors. You also need to configure everything for both of these vendors, which may or may not have equal feature sets.
Build photos would have been really cool. Also, some detail on the software would be nice. I'm assuming it's running on OSX, but I still have lots of questions (what language, how can you change the picture, how does he manage it remotely, etc).
Hello hackers!

For the last year or so I’ve been building a checklist management app for teams called Firesub.

The idea is to help make recurring tasks easy to remember and perform in a consistent way across the team.

It is an app that let you create and manage checklists that you and your team can follow whenever you need to perform a repetitive task like product development, code deployments, code reviews etc.

There is a ton of awesome features like assign people to checklists, scheduled checklists, email notifications when checklists is completed and so on, too much to write here, so please “check it” out. =)

I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Thanks!

/Frej
Take a dust and water proof smartphone, some of them do 20+ megapixel picture and 4k videos. Why would anyone still use a clumsy device? (except for rare action videos)