skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wondered this as well. It seems like with the transporter accidents that occasionally happen where someone's pattern is lost, they could even just dematerialize the enemy and then memset(0) the transporter buffer.

My theory is that there are some rules of war that most people with transporter technology follow. We've already seen examples of similar conventions in Trek; for example those banning thalaron & subspace weapons (Nemesis & Insurrection movies respectively).
The research version has these problems.

Go and find me another robot that can climb rough terrain hills autonomously and I'll say that the cost is unjustified.
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It reads like standard PR damage limitation, but it ticks all the right boxes:

* They've admitted responsibility.

* They've shown they understand why they were wrong.

* They've explained what they've done to put it right now.

* They've explained how they intend to proceed in the future.
That was a deliberate mistake. at the first they said it's not a big deal (just like Airbnb did) but then when they saw the social media getting on fire they apologized.
Better they should not have done it, but good they took measures.
Awesome!-)
Ok, somebody round here must have a superresolution library and Matlab to hand.
In fact, Facebook's age-check would be 10,000,000% more effective than every other age-checked page on the internet.

coughSteamcough
It's about freaking time. I remember back in May 2009 I was on a UA flight from HNL-SFO and if I'm not mistaken, they were testing SFO's GPS approach system: IIRC, we descended from cruising altitude to wheels down in about 10 minutes. Awesome.
This is really interesting; by giving due consideration for access to your browsing habits and the sites you visit and so forth, they admit that this is not something that they could necessarily have presumed to use for free. The $25 protects them, but I think in some ways it also protects us, or at least future-us.
Doesn't work on IE9. Have to wait til I get home. :(
Didn't Tim Ferris found and run a supplement company years before publishing his first 4-hour book?
if you use the google toolbar for firefox, you can opt in to web history which tracks exactly what you say. i didn't see the option for it in chrome, and i don't think they make the toolbar for firefox anymore (?) but i used to find it a very useful feature.
You are most probably right.
So Android phones lose value just sitting on the shelf.
If I understand correctly, you are referring to https://www.google.com/history/

Then it can track only links you click on Google websites. So you clicking on your friend's profile in Facebook will not get logged in here. Unless it is browser extension it can not track * every * link.
That's the typical approach. Either the client ships with a list of IPs / hostnames for seed servers, or you update a single well known DNS name with a bunch of A records. For maximum resilience you can put a whole series of DNS names in the client under different national registrars. This is often how botnets receive command and control messages - lookup RANDOM_HEX.ch and download a signed script to run.
It's filmed using a GoPro in the 4:3 mode which results in a fish eye effect, exacerbating the curvature of the Earth.
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Why would Amazon pay aggregators like Pinterest the same affiliate fees that they pay individuals/bloggers etc. for sharing? It seems as though they could discriminate in their Terms of Service for the affiliate programs, and that paying Pinterest doesn't directly motivate the site.
I'd say 99.99%.
It's a pack mule. Except pack mules require a lot more infrastructure to take care of and deploy.

If you're in the mountains of, say, Afghanistan, it's really hard to be resupplied. But with something like this you can take hundreds of pounds of food, ammunition, etc. with you into very rugged, unimproved terrain. Which allows you to reduce the load on individual soldiers, increase the length of time deployed soldiers can fight effectively, etc.
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This is a good idea, but it seems like most of these features are already included in springpad
Given that they've removed all the data and updated the app, I'm not sure it's necessary that they give highly granular details as part of the apology.
Isn't it unfair that Path gets all this press for making a mistake and apologizing? What about all the apps that didn't make this mistake?
I hesitate to reply b/c none of this is tech related, but you're completely wrong.

You don't ask for permission for every move you make while with a woman. If you're moving a bit too fast for her and she says so, then cool, fall back. But just about every woman I know would be turned off by a guy that asked permission to kiss, to touch, and...well you get the idea.
It's a bear eating a fish
I see a trend of pushing the envelope of what is admissible.
If users don't like it they are quick to apologize (lusers..., we'll iterate over this...)

If they do it often enough, in the end one of them will even claim they're using the "standard industry practice"
Pinterest is based in California, so I thought the law regarding affiliate taxation would apply. In fact, that's why Amazon dropped all affiliates in California a while ago.
The Eugenics Wars ran from 1996-1999.
World War III was sometime in the mid-2000's with First Contact with Vulcans occurring in 2063.

Personally I don't remember Khan being launched into space, but it is kinda funny when you look back and think that they sort of thought that was going to be possible in the late '60s.
It's not really all that impressive, most async servers boast similar stats. You can get tens of thousands on one multicore machine with twisted easily.
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Dance to the Beat of my RFID?
But you wouldn't give out your number. I haven't completely thought it through but the service provider would provide an api for common platforms. All it would do is 2-way encrypt contact numbers (SSL?). Then the service would do a basic lookup using the encrypted data as a key. If there is a hit for this particular platform it'll return the platform specific data (in this case, like a path specific user id).

Of course the other side would be maintaining users in this service, which again is pretty straight forward.

(Hi David?... I'm the OTHER DJB, probably not the one you are thinking of)
Ask HN: Any startups hiring sysadmins, or sysadmins looking for work?
I've seen a few threads recently about developers, and I got in touch with some really talented people through it. So I thought I'd start another for anyone who's looking for or looking for work as a sysadmin.

I'll start - we're looking for freelance/contract help on our site, which runs on several Ubuntu VPSs and is based on Django, Redis, MySQL, and Celery. Feel free to contact me.
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What the hell? People are really believing that?
Sorry to be skeptical but just look at the "mammoth" movement in the water. He is clearly passing through parts of the river where the stream is variable but its balance is totally constant and so is his speed.

Also I am always amazed that people filming something like that provide 5 seconds clip. "Oh cool a mammoth I am going to shoot for 10 seconds and stop randomly, because you know, Siberia is busy."
Hashing phonenumber+userid does absolutely nothing for them, though.

The purpose of uploading your contacts is so that if Jack's phone number is (555) 555-5555, and Sam uploads a contact list saying that he is friends with a guy whose phone number is (555) 555-5555, Path can match up those two phone numbers (or hashed versions of them) and tell Sam that Jack is a member. That match-up doesn't work if the phone number is stored as (a hashed version of) 5555555555jack and 5555555555sam.
I realise you might be using Facebook as an example in a theoretical sense (i.e., that Apple believes protecting your location is more important than protecting your contact database), but in case you weren't, Facebook's "find friends" feature does give you an explanation of what is going to happen, asks you to confirm.

Here's the explanation:

"If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends' profile photos and other info from Facebook will be added to your iPhone address book. Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information."
Forgive me my sarcasm, but the posterboy of crowdfunding will be a piece of hardware that is designed for people who are too lazy to use two hands to undock their smartphone?
A proper apology. Unlike what Google did with their fiasco in Kenya a few weeks ago, the company actually did away with any benefits they derived from the bad conduct. Google simply apologized (great because it's free) yet didn't mention deleting all data scraped, deleting all contact information collected for the businesses, and cancelling all orders for hosting and other such services. I presume they must have maintained all profits generated by their conduct. It's good to see that Path at least understand what it actually means to be contrite.
We do #2 - #5 but could get a lot better on #3.
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I can't parse the "would" here. Either you do it or you don't. What does "would" mean in this context? (unless you can't do it because you are not yet 13 years old)
Totally agree. Same thing before letting apps dump the entire iPod library, while they're at it.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Audio...
Using images to leverage Facebook commerce.
Ask HN: Do certain methods of payment (or lack of) deter you from buying?
Very frequently I see startups discussed on HN and people comment on how only offering Facebook and/or Twitter login deters them from trying out the service.

What about payments? Would you be more inclined or deterred from purchasing something on a website if a certain payment method was or wasn't offered? (Paypal, Google Payments, Amazon Payments, generic credit card processing, etc...)
Sarcasm or not, it's a good point. It's hard to see a viable endgame for the MPAA/RIAA if newer file sharing technology simply routes around the obstacles they through up.

The broad trend has been toward easier, faster, more secure file sharing. Does anyone really believe that trend is going to reverse course?
some are even worth more than they were origianally.

http://www.itp.net/553344-hackers-pay-top-dollar-for-old-nok...

i've found that nokias sell well second hand. i wouldn't recommend an iphone second hand as they are much more fragile than old solid nokias. i've seen a number of iphones that the mic or wifi no longer works on and knowing the users i don't think they abused the devices that much.
Wow. I have never heard of an employer plan that costs that much per month. At those rates why even bother offering it as a benefit? Not sure your age or where you live but have you looked at buying it yourself on the open market? You can get a high deductible plan cheaper than that. I spec'd a plan for me, wife, and 3 kids at the insurance company I am currently with through my employer and it would only cost me 300 per month(pretty high but manageable deductible, state of Maryland, adults in low-30's.)
But if you do this then you can't match phone #s in a users phone book against phone numbers in your database.
But just about every woman I know would be turned off by a guy that asked permission to kiss, to touch, and...well you get the idea.

Surely that's what these fine gentlemen believed all the way through booking. Guess they were wrong. If you touch a woman in a way she did not want to be touched you don't get to run Undo on your molestation.

You seem confused about consent. How a consenting handshake works:
1) You offer your hand. 2a) Other person consents by grasping it and shaking. 2b) Other person declines by not engaging your hand.

How consenting kiss works:
1) You lean in and pucker up. 2a) Other person consents by closing part of the distance in the same manner. 2b) Other person declines by not closing the distance (At which point you should stop and evaluate your position on this situation).

How molesting works:
1) You stick your hand in a woman's pants. Just because she engaged you with a kiss does not mean she consents to any more! Any implied consent in your head is merely for your own expedience. If asking permission is enough to end an encounter then you don't have consent!

How consenting contact works:
1) She gives enthusiastic consent
2) You touch her within the new boundary.
As mentioned in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564873, there's another new book "Machine Learning in Action" from Manning uses python instead of R: http://www.manning.com/pharrington/
> Also I am always amazed that people filming something like that provide 5 seconds clip.

Of course, it's just an appetizer. The whole movie should go to those paying well enough ;)
Great post series of Java performance tuning, check out earlier articles as well
One more reason why software patents are a toxic idea that should really just go away.
Forgive if someone has already stated the obvious, but the difficulty of rating the teacher profession, as opposed to other professions, lies in the intended outcome. For an engineer, there are many objectives metrics to measure code work against. The same is true for many non-programming corporate jobs (usual metric is $$$).

But what is the intended outcome of teaching?

Better test scores? (Google Scholar 'standardized testing and success' and take your side of the argument, but at best the jury is still out)

The three R's? Social development? Curiosity for learning? All of the above?

I understand your underlying point, but it is dangerous to contrasts teacher evaluations with other professional evaluations, lest we find ourselves programming students a science) and not teaching them (an art).

Crazy idea alert! With intended outcomes varying so much for teachers and teaching environments, I'd offer that teachers should be only evaluated by fellow teachers, parents, and students themselves.
I was thinking exactly this just last week. I started with the C64, making simple demos just for the sheer love of it all, but then I never went anywhere with it. Then things got complicated enough that "fun" just had too much overhead.

As of last week, I've been playing with Pharo Smalltalk, of all things. So far, the combination of a "live" and "manipulable" gui library like Morphic and image-based environment has been great.

I can directly modify things and see the results, which makes it fun again, and I can save my entire project state, open windows and running demos and all, and resume it later when I have time. It means I can do something with half an hour of time, which is often all I have between work and kids. I just pop open the image and I'm back where I was, and I can write a few methods or just play with the objects and save again. Otherwise, it seems like it takes me at least half an hour just to start up emacs or eclipse, load all my project files, start an interpreter, get my brain back together, etc., etc.

It'll never be useful for my day job, but it makes writing silly little visualizations of A* or cellular automata actually fun.
You will probably not be surprised to learn that your community is atypical, to say the least. The national average is more like $50K, and there are many places where the officers are paid way below the average.
Difference between US and rest of world.

US has free speech.

Rest of world doesn't. (yeah yeah .. "we have free speech except for obectional material" ... right.

American develop an "idiot filter" and get good at using it: "dude's an idiot. whatever. move on".

Europeans don't and find the need for authorities "e.g. The BBC" to police their brains.

Big deal So what? Some clown is an offensive troll. I'd rather deal with that with big brother smashing anonymous complaints, no matter how off base.
I wonder what will be iRacing's answer.
Sucks pipe and leans back in the rocking chair :-) actually ratfor was a very good pre-processor for text.

Though I did work on a big billing system for Dialcom systems that was mostly written in Fortran 77.
Paragraph four, which answers questions 2 and 4 in your list and suggests that the answer to 1 and 3 is "No":

"In the interest of complete transparency we want to clarify that the use of this information is limited to improving the quality of friend suggestions when you use the ‘Add Friends’ feature and to notify you when one of your contacts joins Path––nothing else. We always transmit this and any other information you share on Path to our servers over an encrypted connection. It is also stored securely on our servers using industry standard firewall technology."

The actual problem was number 5, and they tell you exactly how they are fixing this: by deleting all existing data and letting people opt in to sharing it.
But it relies on an internet which the station very well may not even have. Plus, the feature set of Facebook at the time was a lot smaller--no news feed, no status updates, not even photo uploading and sharing to start with. It very well may have been filled by the ship/station's crew manifest.
If you need to warm it up depends on the depth - at the bottom the ice is not much colder than 0°C due to geothermal flux. So if, say, you only used the hot water method for the lowest part, the amount of heat for warming can easily be neglected.
If you need to warm it up depends on the depth - at the bottom the ice is not much colder than 0°C due to geothermal flux. (That's why the lake is there too.) So if, say, you only used the hot water method for the lowest part, the amount of heat for warming can easily be neglected.
Tim Ferris founded and ran a Multi-Level Marketing company that sold supplements.

I have no use for anyone or anything that comes from a MLM background.
Interesting take, thanks for taking the time to post it.

Maybe it is me, I'm trying to sort that out. We would both be part time, however I'm building the product from scratch - so my hours/week is about 30-40 (with another full time job), whereas he might find a way to fill that much time but it's highly doubtable given no product touch. He'd be researching ways to market it and really come into his own once we have shipped, but then again, so would I as the company's CEO. I've already built the alpha solo, it's pretty cool but has a way to go yet until it's really shippable.

I see the value of the marketing co-founder in the mid-long term, but more as a glue and access to his network of engineers. In the immediate term, the term that makes or breaks the company, we either build the product and ship or we don't, and his role in that is limited to giving and perhaps managing feedback.

That's the rub for me - 45% (or 30%) at this point is challenging for me to get comfortable with...

After reading this extra context, you still think I need to check myself here?

Again, thanks.
I think this is rather ridiculous. May I remind that using a framework to serve a static webpage is a bad idea from the beginning?
A few years ago, when server resources were more valuable than they are today, the people at 37signals were preaching about the wonders of dynamic content delivery through rails. Fast forward a handful of years, and suddenly they realize it's a bad idea.

What bothers me is the trendy nature of all of it. Both approaches have their own place, as usual there are those who will stick with whatever is hip at a given time.
They could take the phone numbers, sort them and hash them together. So if Sam is 5 and Jack is 6, they both upload the hashed social relationship 56 to the system and it can match them up.

It wouldn't keep someone with access from checking if a social relationship existed in the database, but it should make recovering phone numbers and the like from the hashes quite a lot harder.
They're getting press because It's relevant to people like me, who are current users of Path that started freaking out over it...
Thanks jaddison, agree completely on the vesting notes & legal tip here.
ROFL in the code:

// forget about IE, just forget about it

I just thought that was hilarious.
I don't think written porn is covered.
I like (& use) R, but to say it is "for hackers" seems strange to me -- not really a "hacker" language. Seems like a bit of a marketing strategy(/gimmick) to toss that word into the title. Looks like a promising book, though i'd much prefer it be in a scripting language like Python.
Yeah, that was kinda jarring, especially keeping their earlier claim about how silently stealing the address book was "industry best practice" fresh in mind.
Sure, but on the other hand press isn't a currency system for rewarding good work. The other apps should have a competitive advantage by not making this mistake.
Anonymously? Or could someone come and request specifically your data?
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What's special about the .ch ?
Edit: my mistake. They will attempt to scrub data before sharing it (but make no guarantees).

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/google-paying-us...
I completely agree. I'm happy they actually took action and didn't just say sorry.
In case you (or others) aren't aware of it, the built-in maps app does give directions using all of these forms if you ask it to show mass transit instead of driving or walking directions.

Also in the Bay Area, 511.org is another way to get these directions (but I don't think the mobile experience is as good as the maps app.)
Congrats on the award!

Is there money to be made in this space? Ads? Exit to Google? I find it to be a small market for ycombinator to invest in, but maybe I am missing something.
Wow, HN is really turning into Reddit now if this kind of story gets posted. Call me when you have a body.
When I went to first grade, they did the usual testing, and then told my parents they wanted me to skip every other grade. Which would have had me in college at what, 13?

At the time I was disappointed my parents vetoed the crazy scheme, but in retrospect, it was a crazy scheme.
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>We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts

Better would have been 'we are sorry we misused your phone contacts', rather than trying to make the users responsible by invoking their feelings.

Aside: interesting how the concept of theft seems meaningless when applied to copyrighted material, but meaningful when applied to private data.
For me, the answer to that question depends on what happens with my data. Should I assume the worst?
Trolls don't generally write enough for these approaches to work.

From the article, we have a troll writing "Rest in piss" and "Rest in piss, you n*r". I'm pretty sure those won't personally identify anyone.
That's what my money is on.
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We've been using buildbot, it requires barely any resources at all.
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Just for once can we get one of these shot on a decent camera? I'm not asking for 5D Mk II level, but something on a Handycam or one of the Panasonic HDC range would be nice. Also someone who understands the concept of focusing
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