skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>These drones won't be carrying bullets. They'll be carrying tiny payloads of VX nerve agent to be "effective detterent."

Seriously? I don't know how this comment is at the top of my list. I have never seen a citation more needed. A single bullet fired at close range from one of these drones would be much more effective than dropping some nerve agent. If you can aim effectively and have 20 of these - only one of which needs to get within 10 feet then the target is much more surely dead than an LD50 nerve bomb. If you are going to do that and not give a crap about collateral then just fire a missile from the plane or a big drone. Mini drones are much more likely to be used for recon than attack.
> Yet, ironically, it appears that if we encouraged the human pilots to hand fly more, the accident rate would probably increase.

An interesting analog is the history of spin training in the US. Until the 1950s, a pilot was required to enter and recover from a 3 turn spin on their private pilot checkride. The thought was spins are dangerous, so pilots should show they can recover. The problem is that spins ARE dangerous, so a large number of students and instructors were spinning into the ground during training.

The FAA decided to remove the spin from the checkride. This effectively removed it from training. Many instructors lamented this, claiming the spin accident rate among private pilots would increase dramatically. They couldn't be expected to recover from something they had never trained for. The accident rate did change. It dropped sharply. But why?

The first part is the FAA accomplished its goal. Less pilots intentionally spinning meant less pilots spinning into the ground. But this didn't explain the drop in spin related accidents in nontraining situations.

It all came down to the airplanes. The airplane that most pilots train in is the same kind of airplane that most general aviation pilots fly: small, slow, single engine two or four seaters. Airplane manufacturers designed airplanes that could fulfill the needs of both the student pilot and weekend pilot. This meant a school could rent out its training airplanes, and a pilot could learn in the airplane he meant to own long term.

One of the requirements of the student's airplane was that it could be used for spin training. This meant making an airplane easy to spin. The problem here is clear in retrospect. You have a population of weekend pilots flying airplanes that are specifically designed to spin easily!

Removing the training requirement removed the manufacturing requirement. There is a clear difference in the design of airplanes before and after this change. Compare the Cessna 140 and 150, or the Piper Super Cub and Piper Cherokee. The later model is incredibly more difficult to spin than the earlier one.

Spin accidents in these post change airplanes are almost nonexistent. The FAA statistics are even misleadingly negative. They lump stall/spin accidents together. But, if you look into the accident reports in detail, you'll find a fully developed gyroscopic spin into the ground is incredibly rare.

This story can serve as an example for other interactions between regulations, operators and machine. Remove training requirements that do more harm than good. Focus on emergency avoidance instead of emergency recovery. Allow engineers to create the safest possible design, even one that doesn't pass archaic requirements.

No pilot, ship captain, or driver operates in a vacuum. If we want the best possible environment, we have to look at the environment as a whole.
ScriptCat

http://www.scriptcat.io

Currently it's a "pingdom for ports", and emails you if a new port opens up on your server. I'm working on making it a fuzzer for basic web vulnerabilities that automatically scans your site on deployment. Basically, ScriptCat will be your script kiddie in the cloud.
Indeed, from a graph theory POV the "top" and "canonical" graphs are exactly the same graph, the difference is psychological at best.
It only "didn't pan out" in the sense that people aren't aware of this approach or it's politically unpopular. Hence why we end up with ineffective billboards exhorting me to take shorter showers, even though it's a far more value-dense use of water than the marginal unit used for rice, which has zero economic disincentives to grow. True absurdity.

If the farmer had to pay even an opportunity cost (like with David Zetland's all-in auctions[1]), then he would cut back his usage immediately and the crisis would be over.

Does that platonically align with "the right thing"? No, but it reduces wasteful uses of water, effectively, without the moral crusade.

[1] It wouldn't take away any water they have a right to, but would simply pay for any water usage rights they waive, meaning that growing $10 of rice would cost them $30 in potential payments for letting someone else use the water. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1658193
I only see three comments, one by a guy who complains that Yudkowsky was mean to him and has no academic credentials, one from a guy who calls Yudkowsky overconfident (in what, his belief that we should be cautious?) and naive for being a libertarian and one from a guy who admits he also knows nothing about the field.
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Yes, yes and more yes. I love his ideas and thoughts on many topics, but it always comes across as the person who was too busy being "brilliant" to learn how to interface well with the broader society. The sad part is that he really is brilliant.
I think the last sentence of you really also is in part its own cause. People excited about Python 3, are not using PyPy since it seems like it is not maintained at all.

At least adding the same improvements that were added to the 2.7 interpreter would put a bit of confidence in that. Most libraries also support up until CPython3.3, which as far as I know is mostly caused by the fact that the "u" string prefix is allowed again. So just adding that and keeping the core up to date with the PyPy2.7 releases would make it usable.

This could very well inspire other devs to add support for the other features that they are missing from later releases CPython3 releases.
I like Mark Zuckerberg's comment: “Twitter is such as mess — it’s as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in.”
Holy CRAP. Seriously?! That's insane! How is it going to take them more than 30 years to develop it?!
Azure is also slower in block device speeds: http://www.cbronline.com/news/cloud/public/aws-vs-google-clo...
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And here's Stimpy with the red shiny history eraser button...
Chinese pilot project could bring electronic tracking to all cars
Source Code Policy: Introduction for Public Comment
everyone of those cases involve multi-people organizations with significant revenues or funding. These cases are largely reflecting of businesses forcefully shutting down other innovators by claiming some bullshit like CFAA. CFAA should really only apply to people who are doing SQL injections and other penetration. Vast majority of people scraping data do not fall under this category of malevolent behavior, although the dumbassery of people who wants to scrape linkedin for 30 bucks on freelancer ruin it for everyone.

I'm not sure Scrapinghub is funded externally as I couldn't find anything on their valuation or revenues so I assume that they are bootsrapped.

I do not discount any of what you wrote but a lot of it are imagined dangers, scrapinghub would be immune to such cases unless they sided with their customers like 3taps did. 3taps did not stop scraping for their client Padmapper. I don't think scrapinghub is willing to put their neck out for someone paying $20/month to scrape craigslist. In fact, those are the shittiest segments of this market imo, the bottom feeders who demand excessively unrealistic expectations from scraping as a blackbox magical world that will solve their problems.
I actually really liked that line because it was beautifully concise I was talking more about the essay answers later in the interview.
She is..it's projected onto her in real time.
Maybe you should consider cognitive behaviour therapy.
Could you link to any good sources on the kidneys? I might need one one of these days...
Are you stating that there was no CFAA claim, or that PadMapper wasn't the involved party, because it was actually 3Taps? The case against 3Taps definitely included a CFAA claim and the judge refused to dismiss it.
I made something small to help me debug colors on android and people told me it was dumb. :( I thought it was helpful because there are no ARGB converters online.

http://kelukelu.me/argb/
Omg, this has me so jealous. I am working on something very similar as a side-project. Good Luck!
Why does Excel think CSV files are SYLK?
Zinnia (https://zinniapos.com) is a POS system for the retail and service industries, focusing on developing economies.
This is the best feature you could ever think about implementing. It solves tons of problems, real and potential, at the same time.

I'm using Fieldbook for running my non-tech physical business and it's awesome. Now I'm starting to introduce it to another small business in which I'm a partner.
Is there an actual legal distinction between the two? Even if there is it seems like in a corporate world that could be quite messy because the corporation it self could be split into multiple legal entities so if you have a group wide IT department that provides the images for developers to use it could still count as distribution.
While driving: "call my wife's cell on speaker phone"
Depends on the person. Personally, I can't hear much above 14kHz.

Here's a youtube that runs 20Hz-20kHz if you'd like to check for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k
OpenSSH Security Advisory: xauth command injection
Neat, now I can browse /r/listentothis and discover new music easily! Thanks for sharing this, I'll be using it today. :)

UX idea: I'd make the subreddit list alphanumerical. I had to look through it a few times to find the subreddit I wanted.

Another UX idea: If a video/soundcloud fails to load, is it possible to detect that the tab isn't playing audio (say after 10-15 seconds) and skip to the next item in the list?
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>Seriously?!

No.

Here's a timeline of the plane so far [0] and a page that includes some details from 2014 including a master schedule and a production status [1]. The 2050 comment was presumably an exaggeration referencing the frequent problems and delays with the development.

[0] http://aviationweek.com/F-35Milestones
[1] http://intercepts.defensenews.com/2014/09/the-current-status...
WOW. so the guys doing all the heavy lifting (3taps) took all the heat in the end. So looks like 3taps is out of business but padmapper is still up and running....getting data from crowdsourcing? It's really odd that if you made this efficient by automating it then it's hacking.

This really is a shitty shitty business model. All that work 3taps did for you guys and they take all the heat? I don't know why 3taps didn't just comply, was PadMapper 100% of their business?
ok but the point about the title still stands :)

<<This should really be titled "A comparison of AWS and GCP.">>
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I think that his point is that it would be interesting to see AlphaGo pushed to its limit and playing a point-maximizing game. Which would be pretty terrifying.
We do joint military operations and training with allied countries all of the time.

It's not an invasion if we invited them and they're not attacking.
> AlphaGO is the best at playing Go. Maybe humans can devise a better style and defeat AlphaGo, but I'm sure AlphaGo can adapt easily if another style exists.

Which is a curious point. The gripes about early brute force search algorithms (e.g. Deep Blue?) were that they felt unnature.

However, as the searches get more nuanced and finely grained, is there a point at which a fast machine begins doing fast stupid machine things quickly enough to feel smart?

Are there any chess / Go analogs of the Turing test? Or is a computer players always still recognizable at a high level?
The code examples are quite non-idiomatic and have lots of issues, to be honest.

- constant strings (defined as vars) as return values instead of the standard error type

- not formatted

- synthetic request's response body not closed - a memory leak

- log.Fatal (which results in os.Exit(1) immediately killing the program) for all the non-critical errors

- timestamp as a string instead of time.Time in the struct

- not re-using http.DefaultClient

- 3rd party package with a custom DSL instead of a simple
time.Ticker

Sorry for the pedantry, but if such code examples live on the internet, newcomers to Go will learn from it (if not blindly copy-paste) and it will spread even further indirectly giving bad reputation to the language.

P.S. i do like this idea of continuous integration testing in production, will probably start using it at our company.
Yeah, for technology from 1966 its barely acceptable. F-35 is '21st' century technology, or so I thought. Can we really compare the two?
I am heavily biased as I was active on Overcoming Bias (Irony?) and then later the Less Wrong forums, but every interaction I have had over the years with Yudkowski or his followers has been insufferable.

Beyond just the pathos of that, I take major issue with the lack of technical depth of MIRI and the rest of these "futurist" prognosticating semi-doomsayers with respect to current AI state of the art, or even proposals for actual roadmaps to AGI.

Their Step 1: Create AGI; Step 2: ??; Step 3: Doomsday reasoning chain has led to what is in my mind the silly concept that AGI can be built to be "safe" to humanity. This leads to false hope and to things like the AI Safety Pledge aka "Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence"[1] - for which admittedly I am a signatory largely cause my research adviser did and it was the thing to do at the time.

That said, I thought his response to how he differs from Kurzweil - moreso the conclusions he comes to - are pretty spot on.

[1] http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/
> Lockheed Martin has discovered the cause of the problem and has diverted developers who were working on the next increment of the F-35's code to fix it. A patch is expected by the end of March.

Much ado about nothing.
Amplitude

https://amplitudeapp.com/

Interactive music discovery. Amplitude tries to get a feel for your current mood and then gives you a 30 song playlist that you can save to Spotify.

Spotify's discover weekly is great, but you only get one playlist a week. The radios are a great idea, but I found them to far to repetitive and playing very mainstream music I'v already heard. Amplitude sits somewhere in the middle.
Roles and other new features
MAVinci - http://www.mavinci.de/

We're making high-end fixed wing surveying drones with custom autopilot, the best RTK GPS that money can buy, an excellent camera (that we modify) and an excellent flight planning software. We're making the whole package in-house to keep the whole toolchain under our control, up until Agisoft Photoscan which we heavily script. Surveying engineers seem to love the system, and rely on it working perfectly every day!
http://rationalfiction.io - collection of rationalist fiction(if you don't know what that is - http://rationalfiction.io/story/rational-fiction).

http://webcomics.io - online webcomics publishing platform.

I also have a dream of building a youtube competitor, video hosting platform with a better design, functionality, and discovery system. MVP is almost ready but not online yet.
Years ago PostgreSQL already support recursive query, and in Oracle you have CONNECT BY. I have only used the recursive with once and it was just a quick demo, but my understanding is update is extremely expensive.
I am not sure about the technical merit of this link. Best of show:

"Google probably has the best networking technology on the planet."

How do we quantify this?

"This is important for several reasons. On EC2, if a node has a hardware problem, it will likely mean that you'll need to restart your virtual machine."

I would much rather create a service that can tolerate single node outages than relying on "live migrations". I am not sure what he meant by the SSD comparison, Amazon EBS that can be SSD but still it is a network mounted storage.

"Most of GCP's technology was developed internally and has high standards of reliability and performance."

Guess what AWS was developed for.

I like hand-wavy, articles as much as any other guy, but it seems to me they picked GCP and wrote an article to justify it, an cooked up some numbers with single dimension comparisons to make it look like scientific. I wish I was working on single dimension problems in real life, but it is always more complex than that. I am more interested in worst case scenarios and SLAs than micro-benchmark results when comparing cloud vendors. Discarding Azure was purely arbitrary, in fact, Azure is more than happy running Linux or other non-Windows operating systems, I am not sure where he got the idea of " Linux-second cloud".

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/running-freebsd-in-az...
I rewrote https://www.w3counter.com from scratch over the past month, and just put it online two days ago.

W3Counter was a 12-year-old website offering web stats reports and hit counters with 30-something-thousand users. I ditched all the old code, and the data model, and the business model, and started from scratch. New framework, new way of storing and analyzing stats that scales better and provides more value, and snazzy new design (I hope; design was never my strong suit).

The most awesome part for me was throwing out all the old code. Not having to continue developing in and supporting a framework that barely runs in a modern environment. It's going over well so far. The transition was pretty seamless.

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A typical graph dbms exposes a node selection (often only allowing to start at a single entry node or selecting a set of nodes by tags) and arc selection / filtering. Given that they were mostly used for CADs such an interface makes a lot of sense.

None of such databases ever featured a query language capable of defining a Dijkstra algorithm.

And, no, for a typical use of a graph database, it matters most how cheap it is to follow a graph arc. Therefore, representation matters. Otherwise a graph interface on top of a relational storage would have been sufficient.
Another great article previously written by Quizlet on their Google Cloud efforts:

https://quizlet.com/blog/287-million-events-per-day-and-1-en...

TL;DR:
One engineer leveraged Google BigQuery's Streaming API to build a pipeline to analyze ~300 million events per day in realtime.
We are much more accepting of human errors. Machines have to have a reliability that is many orders of magnitude higher than humans. Just look at rail. We go to extreme lengths to make the rail system safe. Everything is redundant, every light has an extra wire that checks whether it's actually working. We could save a lot on railway infrastructure if we were ok with less than "perfect".
No doubt, and I am certain many developers are using speech recognition because it's cool, rather than for any specific benefit.

But still, many users seem to think it is a valuable feature, too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11222471
PageRank is of ... anthropically/existentially significant importance to the continuation of Google as a going concern.

You can't trust people to be transparent about things that are anthropically significant and that they realize are anthropically significant. Now throw in that it's legally protected as proprietary...

It's just one of those things...

The fact that Stallman cannot or will not accept this troubles me. I view this as a mechanism for choosing continued disappointment on his part. But it does serve as part of a dialogue.
Yes, of course you could always select a node (often you'd always have to start from a single root node), select arcs, filter the arcs by some criteria, etc.

But I've never seen a complex query language that would allow to express any complex traversal strategies (like Dijkstra algorithm), and from your wording I concluded that this was your requirement for something to be called a graph database.
The Simple Leads to the Spectacular
From 2007 to 2015 Quizlet ran on Joyent, a cloud platform built on SmartOS, which is a Solaris fork (Joyent also offers Linux hosting).

I would like know why they made that choice.
Hopefully, as simulators get closer and closer to real life (and become cheaper), pilot in training will be able to train for those events without actually risking them in real life.
Show HN: Upload photos to Instagram from Python/CLI
DomainStats.io http://domainstats.io/

Collecting data and metrics for all domains, with API.

Also the website builder N.nu, http://n.nu/
20 moves may sound like a huge number of variations but when you prune things early, it can be quite manageable. The alphabeta algorithm in chess does pruning quite a lot.
Pouring all my spare time into https://emailoctopus.com - dirt cheap email marketing via Amazon SES.
This is at best an pre-Alpha version. Multi browser support can generally be added fairly late in the process.
Q1: Do you have some BER versus SNR measurements, especially for the speaker->mic path through air?

Q2: For ultrasonic: Most cheap ultrasonic transducers are very narrow band around 40KHz. Are there barriers to moving the carrier frequency up to that range?

Q3: After a very quick look at the doc, I didn't see what kind of encoding scheme you are using?
He probably "measured" it within GCP. :)
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Lexi :https://github.com/codenrun/lexi

Its a text editor being written in python. Its based on the case study discussed in the GOF book. Still a work in progress.

If you do give it a try. It needs python 2.7 and pygame( for rendering text... will be targeting other graphics libraries in future).

Press F1 for one column formatting and F2 for two column.

Control + b toggles bold ( its buggy ).
Its awesome because it is teaching me design. Will write one in java and c++ in future.
The tricky thing is that a tool or service provider of scraping if compliant to the demands of website owners to stop scraping, there is very little to claim damages. Even if the customer used scrapinghub to login to websites and scrape all the emails, all scrapinghub would need to do is hand over their customer on a silver platter. This is what the DMCA is for. Can you imagine if you manufactured a bicycle and somebody used it to commit a crime? Plausible deniability. Scrapinghub can't monitor everyone's usage all the time to make sure they are following each websites TOS (which are not legally binding).
Why not post a comment on the post itself with constructive criticism?