skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's still very cool, hanging a sensor off a balloon in the upper atmosphere isn't quite the same thing as launching a satellite into orbit (by about 8 km/s).
CFL ballasts can overheat if you do that.
Also Squaw Valley in Tahoe. Ski passes are a great use for RFID! Their season passes are prox cards with a photo ID on them. Edit: they also work from 1-2 feet away. You just leave it in your pocket and walk through the gate.
But we should.

Future generations will judge us very poorly on this.
Sounds like a workable solution.

That said, the way I would've architected this is I'd include a build version # into the distro and provided a checkVersion backend service that would return the current build version # for the client side logic to compare it's build # to.

And if you want to go an extra mile maybe a shouldRefresh service that would only return "true" if the changes that were made require a refresh on the client side.
I don't at all agree that someone can pick Python or Ruby up and start writing idiomatic (or even "good") code on day one. In fact I make a good living consulting in JRuby shops where they thought they would get some sort of benefit by using Rails but then wrote all the code as if they were still using Java.
I used to think that as well but time to create the knowledge could be the difference between winning or losing.
A friend's Echo set to respond to "Amazon" kept getting triggered when she told her kids to get their pajamas on.
Wow, I'm really sorry to see it go. I learned to play Bridge there.

I would have assumed Yahoo Games was mature enough that it could pay for itself kept in maintenance mode. Was that not the case, or were the expectations for growth?
Language idioms are not set in stone (mostly). You have functions, variables, containers etc there. It's not like they invented a whole new way of computing. Not unreasonable for people to ask for some decent ideas that solve problems in other similar languages. Like generics.

Maybe if enough people complains about their toaster's pizza heating capabilities, manufacturers would release pizza heating toasters. Or at least explain why, technically, it's not a good idea. Not yell people "you would burn down your houses! idiots! we are looking after you."

At least it feels like that to me, the condescending tone of designers / advocates is irritating in Go land.
Demetri Martin: It seems like there's a fine line between having a pet and having a hostage from a different species. You go to somebody's house, they're like, "Close the door. He'll get out. CLOSE THE DOOR! HE'LL GET OUT!" Okay. What kind of relationship do you have with this dog, exactly?
Pizza Hut Partners with John H. Conway for National Pi Day Math Contest
Ask HN: Bootstrap without JQuery on CDN
are there any really great forks of bootstrap that work with native JavaScript that you use that are available on the major CDNS?
The alternative and what is most commonly used for control, in the nuclear industry, is a very long 'umbilical' (wire with loads of cores). A lot of nuclear providers are against people using wireless as if you lose connectivity and it gets stuck you are in trouble.

Also we are going to use a manipulator arm more than likely. Manipulator arms are cheaper and more widely used in our industry.
Weekly Top 10: ITIL vs. DevOps – Top Takeaways
I have personally swum with wild Orcas. They seemed to asses me then discount me as food fairly quickly.
Nothing is "meant" to be kept as a farm animal. The choices we've made about which animals we keep as livestock, which we keep as pets, and which we keep in zoos (or, per TFA, only slightly oversized swimming pools) are in absolutely no way derived from some sort of teleological mandate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11267987
It's also a lot easier to scan a bin of 100 RFID tags than it is to try to line up all of their barcodes :)
"I've got RED CODE!!!" - Queue hacking montage.

It made Tron look technically accurate.
Our relationship with wild/animals can be better understood by giving more sympathetic ear to tribal people around the earth. I personally find the western liberal logic to far more rely on mutual-exclusion principle than required.

I come from India where we literally and figuratively worship plethora to animal gods. We made our bullocks work like slaves in our field and yet for us they were members of family. Humans in the house-hold did not start their food until the Animals were served their food first. Same for temple elephants, bullfight bulls, snakes etc. it was a relationship that both used Animals and yet respected them for their "life".

In last decade or so a lot of western funded NGOs are on prowl painting all Hindu traditions as "exploitative towards animals" demanding ban on almost everything from bull-fights to temple elephants.

Solutions sometimes exist in plain sight but we refuse to look.
Interestingly, the same thing happened about 2 years ago with the Xbox One: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/06/13/kinect_vo...
I normally frown upon people getting too hung up on page design on HN, but this one I gotta admit is a real WTF'er. When you "scroll" down, it's doing page loads, and filling up browser history. Back back back back back back. Worse still, you think you've backed through all those page loads, and you find out it's one of those sites that keeps you from backing out of their site! We used to call this "breaking the back button" and Google used to discourage it.
We are looking into a new video storage and streaming service and are looking for feedback. We are creating a cloud service to store all your movies and allow you to stream them from anywhere. There will be both free and paid tiers available depending on how much storage is required.

Its a bit like Plex however you don’t need a server at home and not have to rely on your home upload speed.

Link to concept site: www.streamlyapp.com

We also have a way that you can scan the barcode of your DVD’s and we add it to your account to save upload.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated
We just don't taste like the food they usually eat. Someone who's never had kimchi, or any spicy food, might react similarly on the first bite.
Or you could use framework like for example ember.js and have it out of the box.
"Given any two unobfuscated source codes, the one that produces more value in average per line of code is greater."

For some software, higher performance is more valuable than fewer lines of code. For example, if you re-wrote the Linux kernel in Lisp, it might have many fewer lines of code than the current C version, but would deliver less value because it would run much slower and might stop for garbage collection in the middle of an interrupt handler. Concerns about real-time performance and memory-usage would also apply to lots of embedded software, like the code that controls the engine in your car.

I'm not sure that I'd call something a "fundamental theorem of software development" if there are large classes of software that it doesn't apply to.
I think the parent post was meant more in terms of decades than centuries.
I was thinking the point would be that one reason for the low price is that the manufacturer wants your design so they can use it to build a competing product at their other factory down the road--a joint venture with the local Party boss. You'll never know, but even if you figure it out, what do you imagine you can do about it? Maybe get a court to block the product in the US (causing them a week's delay while they change labels and distributors), but if you're looking for cheap Chinese manufacturing, you won't usually have the resources for any worldwide legal battle against these guys.

And if the design you are paying them to take from you is for some IoT product, the local Party boss can even make bonus points with his superiors by offering them a chance to backdoor it.

I'll bet the cheap tablets in that hotel for tech conference attendees, the tablets with the ethernet and WiFi listening circuitry, could collect a lot of great technology for their makers, and I'll bet they were made in China.
It's hard to call TIS-100 a "game", it's more "fictional, slightly gamified IDE"
Pajamazon would be a great product name.
Ask HN: Looking for Feedback on Media Storage Idea
We are looking into a new video storage and streaming service and are looking for feedback. We are creating a cloud service to store all your movies and allow you to stream them from anywhere. There will be both free and paid tiers available depending on how much storage is required.

Its a bit like Plex however you don’t need a server at home and not have to rely on your home upload speed.

Link to concept site: www.streamlyapp.com

We also have a way that you can scan the barcode of your DVD’s and we add it to your account to save upload.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated
This may be an unpopular take but I think it has some merit.

Cryptography is not the answer to surveillance. It has its place but that place is not to keep everyone's data secret _and_ irretrievable as plaintext except by its holder (never mind owner), if they retain the key.

The answer will be legal and political.

I cannot see the endgame where all data is forever gone, with the exception where people proactively plaintext their data for future generations.

Let's say instead of iPhone contacts or chat conversations we begin keeping tax records, transactions, commerce, etc. secret, except for the person or entity encrypting the data (who may or may not be the owner). What if the heirs need that data or third parties, lawfully? What about discovery in court cases? What if someone comes up with malware which encrypts your data and you have no backup?

How do we reconcile wanting data to be available (free) with also wanting everything encrypted for posteriority --do we just forgo that treasure trove of data?

I'm not saying don't encrypt on transmission, or even at rest, simply (or complicatedly) that we have a way to data once it's lawfully determined it can be should be made available to second and third parties, including the public.
Well good luck, but as far as Infiniband goes, keep in mind that cloud cluster interconnects will get better over time and AWS is at 10Mbit now ...
3 maneras de promover la comercialización del afiliado Enlaces Ahora
I think Infinifactory is mind-blowingly amazing on many levels - an epic triumph of game design. The components are few and simple, but provide enormous combinatorial possibilities. There's a logic-language and aesthetic that emerges, that includes the very things patio11 mentions: input ratios, timing, and pipeline issues. The puzzles are sequenced so that each level is initially shocking, but gradually yields to the player's contemplation and experimentation. I think I've had more pure delight from this game than from any other.

I liked TIS-100 a lot too, and Infinifactory is kind of like a visuospacial, high-production version of it.
U.S. Publishers and Others Petition Congress, President to End Cuba Book Embargo
Immutable Infrastructure is the modern day "have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
You could probably have a central logging service like graylog or logstash that automatically collects that information and just sort through the logs that way.
> This game is like crack for programmers.

When I have been programming the whole day at work, cranking my stress/anxiety levels up, then playing an "automation game" does not sound very compelling, to be honest :)
> Third, they don't come with the advice / community / expertise of good VCs.

Definitely not business advice/community, but if a startup is doing significant R&D, it can be useful for the scientific and technical advice and community. Not guaranteed by any means, but I've seen it work out well, mainly in the case where a company submits an STTR jointly with a university research group. If the arrangement ends up working, the most valuable thing to the company in that case is sometimes not even the actual NSF grant money, but the connection to the research group it opens up. Having a joint STTR provides an excuse to get a company sort of attached to the research group as an external partner, with a forcing factor ensuring you end up on their schedule with regular project meetings, access to grad students, etc. Can also end up useless, of course, but when it works out well, it can provide value equivalent to something you'd have to pay a lot for if you were hiring technical consultants (especially in areas like machine learning).
In the cases I use this setup, HAProxy won't fit, since I route based on URL values. I do have HAProxy in front of my nginx machines though.
Site is too buggy to even read this short text and Google give guidelines to webmasters how to make their sites...
Yea, but even free software maintainers need money from somewhere. Especially if you want $software to continue improving.

It's fantastic that free software has increased so much in market share. I just wish that more companies would recognize that that only works if they actually pay for development of some projects in some way. That can be directly employing maintainers, contributing patches, sponsoring feature development.

Since that often doesn't suffice you sometimes end up with companies trying to make ends mean with "open-core" type models; even if they'd otherwise prefer not to go down that road.
What's really great about this is that it's a joke on the future that's been predicted so many times already, my favorite of which being the last vignette on Disney's Carousel of Progress. The future family is talking about points in a video game, and the oven hears it and turns the temperature way up, ruining another family Christmas dinner - the joke being that this convenience was finally going to make Dad able to not ruin dinner.
While I agree with you I feel like that's a technical problem - if you want to argue from that position it should be a question of "how do we keep them in captivity efficiently/safely" both for them and humans rather than "should we keep them" and phrasing it as a moral question.

Also the article's point and general theme seems kind of weak :

>In line with this, several decades of observation show that orcas are not naturally violent towards humans. There are no recorded cases of a wild orca killing a human.

This implies (and the surrounding text) - that this behavior is a result of captivity changing their behavior.

How often do orcas and humans meet in a setting that would allow them to harm a human in a similar way they would - say a penguin ? Would it be plausible that they would do a similar thing in the wild in a similar setting given enough opportunities (since trainers interact with them constantly) ?
Can't forget this classic work of speculative fiction either: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59

In the Coburg Street control room of the London Underground system, there was a full emergency... In a dozen tunnels, trains ground down to a halt. Hordes of terrified commuters made their way anxiously along dark, musty tunnels to the lights and safety of the next station. There were minor explosions, fires, and the failure of a million wires and cables. As the dissolution of plastic proceeded and accelerated in rate, the elegant order of the system gradually turned into complete chaos...
I agree with you. My SO's family chose to stay at an airbnb for our wedding this fall so they could have kitchen access. On one hand it comes down to convenience - it's easier to buy a couple boxes of cereal and a gallon of milk and some sandwich supplies rather than find a place to eat 3 times a day. I suppose a hotel could have a mini-fridge, but that wouldn't be able to hold enough for them. I've stayed in a suite with a full-size fridge, but that was considerably more expensive.

There are 5 of them, so that's a factor too. It's easier to plan/use up groceries for multiple people over multiple days than if you're just alone.
I thought VW belts were pretty easy to change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA

The similarity between vehicles is why I've stuck with Subarus, everything under a Forester looks pretty much like everything underneath an Impreza.
It's not just that they don't eat us, it's also that they haven't killed us for other reasons.

For example, a human happening to stray close to a young orca might be confused as a threat to it, which could trigger an attack by a parent. Yet, despite there being lots of orcas in the ocean, no violent altercation between a wild orca and a human has led to a human death.

That this hasn't happened even once is remarkable, especially given the massive size and strength of orca. Other large mammals often kill humans, and not just as food, for example, hippos.

I don't think we know exactly why orcas have never killed humans, but I would guess their intelligence has something to do with it.
Show HN: Stormia – 2mi precision live rain radar and storm tracking
I think your last point on comparing against EULA's isn't the best fit here. If I see an ad, the actual data that led to me seeing that ad doesn't suddenly make the product I'm seeing an ad for less of what I might need. It might make me question the business I would buy it from, but there's a big difference between agreeing to purchase something where the terms of the transaction are known (you are buying X, this is the return policy, etc.) vs. clicking an EULA where you decided not to read it (which is the other reason I think this was a poor example...the EULA is there, people just choose not to read it).
"Alexa" also responds to her own commercials. [0] [1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/3oxi7b/commerci...

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/people-are-complaining-that...
For a single store, or family business, that's equitable and I'd opt in by shopping there or visiting the website. On the web the small business is often the artisanal butcher, small crafts or the one HN reader running their side project trying to compete with IBM. Happy to share some data. Happy to help and try and support by giving you my money.

The web is mostly not like this. The ad and tracker networks are on multiple sites and are so agressive and successful at retargeting that it almost induces paranoia. Sadly out of ignorance the innocent small business is using a network that's borg like in their assimilation of everywhere.

Tesco, Forbes and the agressively multi round funded startups can fuck off. Especially as they give no shits for apparently anything. Fuck that man, get bigger fast. Let me show you this ad for VisualThing++ for the 96th time, even though it's well over a week since you accidentally clicked on the maximise on rollover sound playing flash abortion.

Back when I was being persuaded that all advertising and tracking online was becoming evil I'd innocently visit somewhere work connected say SEOMoz, as was, then see ads for them EVERYWHERE, for ages. Like the bad commission only salesman who ruins parties and friendships with only one topic of conversation I'd go read something in the evening on sports and the ads would be having a conversation about Moz, or random startup service we looked at for work. WTF man fuck off and stop following me!

Even on the web the good ol days, as you describe them, wouldn't be so bad, but that's not what we have. Not even close.
Simpler enough to use and reason about that tools in such languages have been mathematically verified a lot by relatively small teams. The imperative, popular alternatives are usually PhD projects for people attempting such things. Speaks volumes about the intrinsic complexity of reasoning about such things.
While money has a hard time to get a politician to take a position contrary to the will of the public, money is a great tool to manufacture public consent.
Potato, potato. :)
I seem to recall Xbox One with Kinect and its voice commands doing the same :)
I think it would be cool to be able to play the natives too and have to come up with super ingenious ways of dismantling these unholy factories of the invaders destroying your planet...
> BBC seems to know what these creatures are called

Yes, they're called both "orcas" and "killer whales", with the latter being more common.

And on that note, do people really parse "killer whales" as "whales that kill (people?)". I'm pretty sure I don't; my brain treats the phrase as an opaque semantic unit meaning "those giant, black and white dolphins".
There've definitely been algorithmic improvements, but from what I've read so far, the change in search algorithms, from traditional minimax search to MCTS, has been the biggest improvement, more than deep learning.
It seems to me that nuclear (Gen IV), space (propulsion, moon bases) and AI (virtual prototyping) may speed up innovation in a combined manner. Elon Musk and Sam Altman in the US are at the top of the game here and may counter stiff competition from China. On the other hand, my team of middle-aged nuclear engineers & related network from Italy can't do that much but would gladly help, if needed.
Just like guns.
It's easy to imagine that they would do better as a premium brand, but there is no evidence that they have the brand or the competency.

Yet, VW turned Audi around and made it into a luxury brand in the US.

The Planet Money podcast covers a little more into how they did it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/15/155039824/can-l...
OK, the RSA conference failed here. They're supposed to be a security conference, yet they didn't use an RFID tag that's challenge/encrypt/response, so you can't clone it by passive listening. RSA itself used to make such things.

That tag is about the right level of security for towel inventory. The big win in this is managing outsourced laundry costs. Knowing how many items went to the laundry, and how many came back, rather than just counting linen carts, matters a lot. ABS Laundry Solutions overview (with ominous music) [1]

[1] http://www.abslbs.com/
At one point, I saw a video on youtube where somebody set their gamer tag on xboxlive to the phrase "Xboxturnoff", and then went around griefing players in games like Halo, where voice chat is active.

The end result was that the player would do something obnoxious, and somebody would ask them to stop, but of course this necessitates saying their gamer tag. So you'd get audio clips of people saying stuff like "Oh my god, xboxturnoff is so freaking - WAIT NO CANCEL CANCEL XBOX TURN ON".

It was pretty good stuff.
Just to clarify. After entering the VIN, you get the compiled firmware ready to flash.

There are no instructions on that page (or anywhere I could find on the BMW site) for how to get the source.

I've emailed the address in the license file, but I've not yet had a response.
Southern California Linux Expo Founder Quits Calls Out Nonprofit Org
The ESA has a really interesting segment on the space debris problem and possible solutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_CvGJKMOs
As soon as vat grown meat surpasses traditional meat sources in cost and quality, it'll make life a whole lot easier for everyone.
Toyota ran an anti-distracted driving radio ad where they did this. The ad narrator says "Hey Siri, please turn airplane mode on." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZBVTMrgFA
Scala for the impatient is a 400 page book that essentially teaches the syntax :) I can recommend a drastically less time-consuming algorithm:

1. Watch a 1-hour video that teaches HelloWorld-stuff in Scala:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFt0YkZo8M

2. Then read first 45 pages (free sample) of my book
https://leanpub.com/modern-web-development-with-scala
I'd like to have more details about YC research and YC software.
First I've heard of it, and I've been online and into games for all those 20 years...