skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if it had something to do with Easter. There might be a lot of people who were tied up with family stuff and figured they could start on Monday. Last year Easter was in March.
I can't see how Oracle and IBM can compete long-term against the breadth of IT infrastructure Amazon has built. I can't see how Walmart and Target can compete with the distribution network and frictionless transactional model Amazon has developed. I'm not sure any company has the same depth of real-world data for training AI systems... 300 million users "liking" with their wallets and not a simple mouse click for example.

Its been 127 years since the Sherman anti-trust act was passed. Its probably time for a serious re-think.
This is cool... and let me say I am no aerospace engineer. I am a flight enthusiast... mostly R/C quadcopter and plane as real planes are $$$.

It looks like an extremely large ducted fan R/C plane with VTOL. Calling it a "jet" in the parlance of today seems like a stretch. Are ducted fans "jets"? I guess the argument could be made. I would think the people buying these would very well think of a jet as propulsion from combustion. Also, the FAA and turbine (jet) rating... I could go on...

The VTOL is awesome, and something I think we'll see more of as quadcopter technology scales to more robust .gov missions. The applications for this tech are limitless...
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Agree. One of the thoughts that i had was:: even if they say they will pay for it.. would they actually do it when the time comes. I find that a lot of people will say "yes" just to give you a quick answer and call it a day. But thanks nonetheless. Cheers!
There's this: http://insideenergy.org/2014/08/18/data-explore-15-years-of-...

Which includes a link to this Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AdxhulfM9jeqviIZihuO...
So far, I count three separate replies to this article along the lines of "I also found my bank doing so-and-so thing insecurely, but LA LA I'm not going to tell you which bank it is!" These kinds of comments don't help anyone--you might as well not post them.
Hanlon's Razor is not an established law of reasoning or of philosophy. Quoting it is not a valid counter argument without additional reasoning given.
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> The temperature of food can be easily changed with the ubiquitous household appliances called "refrigerator" and "microwave oven". And it isn't as though a drop in temperature of 5 degrees changes the flavor.

You ever eaten a microwaved hamburger? :)
I don't care if a scammer scams the IRS out of $20K; that's their problem, not mine. If they think I'm responsible, well they can check my accounts; they're shit outta luck.

And their protective measures demonstrably did not work, anyways. Requiring a tenuous chain of several checks to all succeed is ridiculous; I have plenty of ways to verify my identity, FFS.
A lot of Africans are white, especially ones settled and controlled by Brits at some point.
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Out of the people returning, do we know how many fall under the income requirements? Is it possible to ascertain those who aren't paying taxes out of protest?
Because it is a required subject in your curriculum? You don't get to pass people just because they say they know something.
Could be another warning shot from someone -
2013 silicon valley substation sniper attack http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/16/technology/sniper-power-grid...
As well, they've gutted the Intel XDK, soon to be stopping cloud build services and removing several other features.
To me, a lot of success is knowing when to give up and make a tangential change. Many failures I've come across were stubborn people who refused to let it go and try something different. But then again, you might let go and someone else will pick up the ball and make a million. You are back to gambling.
> It bothers me a lot when services, such as Google Voice, announce to all parties that such recording is occurring.

Google is based in California. There is a good probability that the act of recording occurs there. California is an all-party consent state. Also, even if the recording isn't happening in California, it's potentially tricky to be sure that no party to the call is in California (even numbers assigned to landlines don't assure that the person ultimately connecting is in a particular place.)
One thing to research, and to keep in mind when considering "journalism", is that the media in the US is deeply penetrated by government agents at all levels. Research Project Mockingbird. Research Agent Bob Woodward's past.
Probably as much as for helicopters.

That said, what's the differential why one would want this instead of an helicopter? It it cheaper? Faster? The site is certainly not telling this.
Not sure about everyone else, but I'd love to have this problem. Oh I have to pay $593 million in taxes? Boo hoo, let me cry all the way to the bank to write the check.
As a Turk, I think the identity issue is not that the Armenian/Assyrian/etc genocides didn't occur. Its that the exact same sorts of mass executions/population removals had occurred to the Muslims of the Balkans in the decades preceding WW1.

Turkish nationalism, of the genocidal ethnocentric variant, was a direct result of what Turkish leaders at the time personally experienced in the Balkans. The lesson learned was 100s of years of residence in a land didn't entitle you to anything. Just as Turkish reformists copied European concepts in warfare, education, parliamentary reform, they also copied population removal policies.

My only regret today is my ancestors didn't finish the job of population removal when they had the shot. Turkey would be that much closer to Caspian Sea access today.
Hmmmm...I'm trying to verify the outage in LA. The tweet about the power outage at LAX is from today, but the other tweet in the example is from 2/22/17. No articles about a power outage in LA are popping up on google. Something about this article feels a bit click-baity.
I know - I'm being facetious, but really, if you want to really understand how most modern computers actually work, there's probably no better way than to learn C. It's high level enough and provides enough structure so that you don't need to actually blurt out a bunch of assembly instructions, but low-level enough so that your code mostly more or less corresponds to what the underlying Von Neumann hardware is actually doing.
Qumulo can't hit the numbers. It's just NFS, running on ho-hum hardware with an Ethernet cluster interconnect. It's like slow Isilon if cheaper and with less functionality.
Really? I get on that as soon as I can in February. Filing earlier gets me my refund as quickly as possible.

Though I'm also kinda weird, in that I actually rather like the process.
Every one of those states you listed are experiencing increased coastal flooding thanks to climate change and yes that flooding damages marshlands.[0]

Nowhere have I claimed that the issue in LA is solely AGW.. only that the sizable portion of the problem that is caused by AGW is going to fall on deaf ears in that region because of the amount of oil money there.

[0]http://www.evergladesfoundation.org/2016/10/14/this-weeks-ki...
Sounds like money better spent to me than the 5 trillion dollars in global fossil fuel subsidies in 2015, or 500 billion just in the US[1]

That 5 billion number for Musk I think is a grand total of all subsidies, spanning all time.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16...
Of course it was from his IP, the only way the transaction works is if your browser has the proper cookies. The whole vulerability is that all someone has to do is put that <img> into ANY webpage you visit and so long as your browser still had the cookies, the transaction would go though without you needing to do anything.
As a counter-example, they bought back Itseez which had spun off to develop OpenCV.
There are law firms working with hedge funds that specialize in doing exactly this when they are about to file a class-action suit. It's possible to be criminally charged if you know that the information you are spreading is false. But other than that limited circumstance, you are free to trade on any information you have about a company that you did not illegally obtain from an insider. Even in the case that the information was obtained from an insider, to convict you, the government must be able to prove that you knew that the insider both a) received a benefit (usually money) in exchange for the information, and b) breached their fiduciary duty by disclosing the information.

That said, technical glitches tend to not affect the fortunes of companies nearly as much as we (the HN crowd) think. Tradeking had the glaring vulnerability outlined in this article for years, and they are doing just fine.
If you care enough to ask, find a trademark lawyer. An hour (or even half an hour) of their time is all you need.
My university did. COS101 was an optional class for complete novices but if you weren't already at least exposed to programming your advisor would sign you up for it. COS125 was the first for-realsies class (taught in Scheme, as it happens).
That's the debate I was trying to initiate!

For instance, is it OK to crawl a blog with explicit copyright, save that data, then publish it elsewhere?
yeah, i second this. Clojure is a major success. Depending on how you look at it Racket is a decent success too. It seems to just be more focused on things like helping universities/uni students explore language creation, instead of being a tool for use in businesses.
It's a "jet" in the sense that it doesn't have a visible propeller, which is really the only meaning that word has any more. Virtually all the thrust produced by aircraft that people call "jets" comes from shrouded fans of some sort.
Yeah I genuinely don't understand the point here. Who is protecting what?
This is very interesting. And very indicative of convergence. If someone at the same of Netflix has a strong drive towards cross pollination of talent from device to server, then I suppose the js ecosystem is far more successful than I thought.
I’m a female developer, and this is what I want in a company
I did have a really snarky thought that maybe a good chunk of those who voted for Trump thought it meant they didn't need to pay taxes, but I know better than that.
thanks, I do have tech background and can learn quick. i prefer stack for rapid development to prove/test idea
That's RAS Syndrome -- redundant acronym syndrome syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
> Filing earlier gets me my refund as quickly as possible.

Not everyone overpays taxes in advance, so filing early provides no benefit other than moving a required task to the "done" pile sooner.
Probably smaller, faster, and safer.
Why spend the time pontificating, asking others for things that are clearly explained on the website, when you could answer these questions yourself?

https://lilium.com/technology/
if you take a screen shot of all the items being scraped you could build a dataset for a pretty powerful AI. Something that takes an image of a webpage and out puts machine readable data. Not saying there's a NN that can do it right now but it seems like eventually it could get there.
A great many folks don't get a refund.

I was exactly even this year, guess my withholding was correct.
Seems like something is going on in LA: https://m.sce.com/outage/OutageMap.html
Nothing can protect you from the lawsuit being brought, but it will likely be thrown out. That's the same with anything, and whether you short a stock or not.

If you short it, at least you might make some money to offset any pending lawsuit. There's plenty of examples of people doing the same thing to fall back on, such as the guy who found out a newly listed company wasn't actually real[1].

1: http://www.npr.org/2015/01/30/382587945/winning-at-short-sel...
They broke the story, and are one of the few places still doing real investigative journalism?
If a student claims to know what the class would teach, you don't have to take their word for it: you can talk to them, or you can give them a test.

(I skipped the first two intro CS classes in college after talking to the professors and figuring out the right place to start given my background.)
In the past, many illegal immigrants filed taxes to get refunds. This year, many tax preparers are reporting a large decrease in illegal immigrants using their services, because of fear that the information would be shared with the federal government.

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dip...
There was no value in discussing this over the phone. Clearly their only motivation was to trick him into signing the NDA or foolishly becoming an employee to keep him silenced. Just send in the bug report and empty your account. If the bug persists after 6 months then close the account and go to public disclosure.
I dunno. Those incidents look like brinkmanship, not outright lying and making up evidence. If you think you can get the money and you, in fact, get the money, that may be a gamble, but it doesn't sound on the same order as inventing "evidence" whole cloth.
His books are going for a fortune on Amazon.
Great link, thanks for sharing. The quote that stood out to me was “My issue was that patient safety wasn’t front and center.”

I don't have a problem with MedSec making money by shorting St. Jude's stock (that seems to align incentives to take care of security issues as early as possible). But if MedSec publicly disclosed specific, exploitable vulnerabilities (I'm not sure about specifics from the article), they shouldn't be able to hide behind the "doing what is best for the consumer" argument. It's definitely a clever business hack, and that's alright, but the fake sense of moral superiority isn't.
so, there's nothing to improve in CL? My experience seems to be almost diametrically opposed to yours. CL seems a fossil from 20+ ago that hasn't incorporated any of the Computer Science learnings and advancements that have been made since its standardization.
That is an argument completely irrelevant to this discussion.
You find somebody that calls by "jet" anything that does not have exposed propellers. They also probably only use the name on their marketing material. Nobody goes out of their way to have regulators classify their engines as "jets".
Java is not "virtual by default", it is virtual-only, except for private methods, which don't participate in inheritence.

I like the Java convention, for one thing, because it is one less decision for programmers to make. I've seen many C# programmers who are oblivious to what virtual means.
Why not use stats from April 18th then?
Yeah, after an upgrade of Caddy on my server the syncthing ui broke. Not sure why but with timeouts the ui just doesn't work. It was a little surprising but I think it's more a problem syncthing should solve.
"Responsible 20% of the entire us internet traffic? Solved problem mate, i could do it on a single machine with mongodb. Overengineered!"
First class functions aren't replacements for factories. An abstract factory provides several methods for constructing related objects of different types. The objects come from different type hierarchies, whose inheritance structures mimic each other. For instance, you might have a hierarchy of EncryptionStream and EncryptionKey objects. Both derive in parallel into AESEncryptionStream and AESEncryptionKey. Then you have an EncryptionFactory base class/interface which has MakeStream and MakeKey methods. This is derived into AESEncryptionFactory, whose MakeStream makes an AESEncryptionStream and whose MakeKey makes an AESEncryptionKey.

The client just knows that it has an EncryptionFactory which makes some kind of stream and some kind of key, which are compatible.

AbstractFactory doesn't specifically address indirect construction or indirect use of a class, but it does solve a problem that can also be addressed with metaclasses. If we can just hold a tuple of classes, and ask each one to make an instance, then that kind of makes AbstractFactory go away.

The thing is that in a language like Java, these factories have rigid methods with rigid type signatures. The MakeKey of an EncryptionFactory will typically take the same parameters for all key types. The client doesn't know which kind of stream and key it is using, and uses the factory to make them all in the same way, using the same constructor parameters (which are tailored to the domain through the EncryptionFactory base/interface).

If we have a class as a first class object (such as an instance of a metaclass), that usually goes hand in hand with having a generic construction mechanism. For instance, in Common Lisp, constructor parameters are represented as keyword arguments (a de facto property list). That bootstraps from dynamic typing. All object construction is done with the same generic function in Common Lisp, the generic function make-instance. Thus all constructors effectively have the same type signature.

Without solving the problem of how to nicely have generic constructors, simply adding metaclasses to Java would be pointless. This is possibly a big part of the reason why the feature is absent.
If you hover over a link in a browser, the URL of the link will be shown as a tooltip, or in the bottom of your browser window.
Well, I wrote mismanagement this morning and have spent more time reconsidering the topic since. I'd guess that if people knew then what they know now, they'd do things differently or not do them. Using the word mismanagement is an unfair criticism.

If the coastline changes were significantly caused by climate change/rising sea levels then the other Gulf coast states would have problems too. The link between the control humans have exerted on Louisiana rivers, additional artificial waterways and loss of coastline is fairly well established. If you'd like more information, the below medium work seems a reasonable introduction--I scanned over it and it seems to have the main points, some nice maps, doesn't avoid the problem of sea level changes, and has some human interest stuff:

https://medium.com/matter/louisiana-loses-its-boot-b55b3bd52...
Big retailers know what they are doing (one hopes!) however, as for most businesses and their online ventures, I see anything but sensible pricing strategies and I rarely see how anyone in these businesses can price correctly given the information they have available to them.

For instance, how do you calculate the cost of selling a given SKU, particularly if bought with other items? Has money been made when you take away the cost of the warehouse, the cost of the shipping to the warehouse, the cost of the actual product, the cost of that 'adword' to get the sales lead, the discount you gave to the customer for their first purchase, the affiliate marketing cut that you have somehow incurred along the way, the cost of the transaction with the payment provider and whatever else? Note this excludes other 'costs' like the marketing spend and partnership programmes with other companies.

Add to the mix currency fluctuations and limitations of the accounting system you have to work with (e.g. unable to do fractions of pennies/cents) then factor in that the people running the show are managers, therefore of no technical competence, and there is no way whatsoever that costs for selling a given product to a given customer at a given point in time can be known.

Then add returns to the confusion. It becomes even harder to actually know costs on that fine-grained SKU level.

Plus sometimes you cannot sell less than what you are allowed to sell at. Your supplier will not like you if you sell at less than cost and will not supply you if you upset all the other retailers of the product. So the price is essentially set, discountable when the next model range comes out but not before.

If you have to sell at 'list price' then how do you compete? Do you pay £70 to people for those people to buy your £25 products at list price? Yes, this craziness happens when you have people of the non-technical marketing type decide to 'invest' in 'marketing'. These same people will send out ever fancier boxes and other packaging junk never thinking about the costs.

A company has to be of a certain size before it can have the people able to do the maths properly, to get professional about it. Otherwise costs are not realistic for the online operation and profit is not what it should be. This article tars ecommerce with the same brush, a large amount of it is utterly clueless and far from smart.
>what's the differential why one would want this instead of an helicopter

From the homepage:

"Access inner cities with less noise than a motorbike"

That's a huge difference.
There's plenty of laggards who don't have home internet and only browse through e.g. a library computer. Some of them are probably doing banking too, given the recent trend of preferring online transactions
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What are the fail safeties? Parachute? Alternate motor? It would suck to have one of these things fall on my head.
Ask HN: Is installing open source apps like Telegram from an app store safe?
It seems like it isn't possible to know if the source code of an open source app has been tampered with before deployment. Are there safeguards in place against this? Is building from source the only way to be safe?
Energy Density:

Jet fuel - 46 MJ/kg

Lithium-ion battery - less than 1 MJ/kg
>they're shit outta luck.

This is why the new measures exist.
I am taking what you say about historical events as you say it, but It still doesn't seem like the move is "anti-competitive". At worst its bad engineering.

Its not like there is some new killer feature in the new google maps that makes it not work on Firefox, I have used it from Firefox in the past week and it worked fine. Even if there were some killer feature, they are free to release it in such a way that it only works with their software.

I hate microsoft but I still don't give them flak for not releasing Linux versions of office and excel. They are allowed to not do that. Where it steps into anti-competitive is when they start breaking other's people things or maliciously manipulating standards. Google has demonstrated a willingness to go out of their way and fix things for most things not NaCl related.

Even per your recounting of history they weren't trying to coerce the standards body, they just asked for comments and then unilaterally did something else. They didn't force it on anyone else.
I dunno. Remember it's got wings, which means once it shifts into forward flight mode, the engines are used solely for propulsion and not for lift, which is vastly more efficient.

Playing with the numbers here:

http://web.mit.edu/lochie/www/erange/main.html

...shows it can be made to work, provided the thing has very low drag (I was using a battery specific energy of 200 for a LiPoly cell). Given it's a streamlined blob with stubby wings, that seems vaguely plausible.

Anyone with a better grasp of the principles want to comment?

Update: I found their tech page (see link upthread). They use lithium ion. They have about the same specific energy as lithium polymer.
A substation fire isn't a root cause. What caused the fire?

Possibilities I know of would mostly require failure of safety measures, but would include such things as hapless squirrels & birds, problems elsewhere in the system, and yes even remote operation of substation equipment by humans in dangerous ways. (Including both incompetence and malice, though in the latter case you would have to assume the safety measures didn't fail but were overridden.)

Addendum: I'm not coming out full force in favor of a conspiracy theory, I'm coming out full force in favor of keeping an open mind, not getting overly comfortable in one's beliefs, and remembering one knows a lot less than one thinks one knows.