skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a huge abundance of civilian drone tech available in the hobby world. Don't forget that the whole feasability of drones in the first place was demonstrated in the hobby crowd. Many military drones do in fact derive their designs from RC/hobby realms ..
Wow, that's annoying. Which project was it? Could you let them know, perhaps pull request a fix?
Grant Mathews suggests another possibility: alignment of planets:

Feb. 20, 6 B.C., when Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the constellation Pisces.
April 17, 6 B.C., when the sun, Jupiter, the moon and Saturn aligned in the constellation Aries while Venus and Mars were in neighboring constellations.
June 17, 2 B.C., when Jupiter and Venus were closely aligned in Leo.

The only "publication" I could found: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318014,00.html
Probably the stupidest "design" "article" I've ever been unfortunate enough to read
That's one of the reasons I don't like shopping offline- I hate the act of negotiation about price of something. I also don't like to negotiate on price when I'm selling something myself. If I'd be willing to sell it cheaper, I'd put a cheaper price tag on it.

Reminds me of classifieds like "will sell for $100. Serious buyer will get $30 discount".
I'm building a similar one (it also allows you to inspect html elements like using Firebug or Webkit's Dev tools), and it's a native Windows app (and really fast one!) http://liveditor.com
You butchered Greenspun's Tenth Rule (booze; dekstop)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Woops.. my bad
> Allen Grinshtein of Layervault may have coined the term “flat design” originally.

AHAHHAAHAHHAAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHADBSFSDFHGJMPOrstjpofgijop

Such a joke
Thanks .. What's the difference between them anyway?
There are two dovetailing things going here.

# 1 is Windows' part in the disruptive innovation curve which I think touch OSs are clearly following. In the beginning new technology is not directly competing with other players in the category. It is drawing marketing share from non-consupmtion. That's been most of what mobile has gobbled up to now. Then comes low & mid end consumption come next. We're seeing some of that already. People bringing a tablet on business trips when they would have brought a laptop 2 years ago.

Windows seem to be trying to "catch" tablets on their way to "high quality use" on the disruption curve. "Primary computers" used by professionals, students & such. Current Android/iOS devices are not really ready for these uses so they have some time. If they can get enterprise on to Windows machines, they may be able to build a moat (or at least some basic battlements).

# 2 is Microsoft's lipstick-on-a-pig marketing. Marketing fundamentals like product segmentation, branding, naming, pricing. MS have never been smooth with that kind of stuff. "Windows Home Office for Students (noncommercial use only)" has always felt like a contrived afterthought. I'm sure it's well researched and functional, but it's not elegant. When you don't have the elegance at the more fundamental level of marketing it's harder to communicate. So Windows RT/Metro/Surface/Phone/Touch/8 is not going to be understood by consumers until they start using is.

If it was another company, Id say they're doomed. But Microsoft are stubborn and resilient. They may do it.
My experience of local stores is one of cheap nasty products which break on the day you buy them, idiosyncratic opening hours, and an inability to handle even basic stock control. Oh and everything is overpriced by a factor of about four. No thanks.

That's presuming they even stock what I want, which they usually don't.
That's not correct, you as a user run a snippet of leadlander js code on your web page. This code has no access to the cookies on a leadlander domain.

I've worked on a similar tracking snippet/system for http://www.projectcounter.org/ and this was one of the first things we attempted.

If you block the leadlander domain(s) the script will obviously not run and also consequently won't be able to send fingerprint details back.
way to go google, fix the world! it's only an algorithm problem
The limitations of the stuff available to civilians have more to do with airspace regulations: commercial use of UAVs is simply not allowed[1]. Regulators are trying to figure out a better policy[2][3].

[1] http://mi6films.com/2011/rc-helicopter-mikrokopter-hexa-heli...

[2] https://www.aiaa.org/CAuav/

[3] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328506.200-civilian-...
I'm really curious just what evidence is required to consider jury misconduct. Statements from a juror themselves seem like about the best evidence possible. Maybe others with more experience can shed some light?
We are just at the start of the 21st century, so events from the mid to late 20th century are still relevant and culturally important. Why is 10 years suddenly the distant past?

The specific genocide I was talking about was the Bosnian Genocide in the 90s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide
Please make it possible to hide the "now there are N users" messages. Or at least put it at the top of the page. This is really cool, but those messages are absolutely ruining it for me on the iPhone.
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Yes, but not as a multiplier. After all, the threshold for a fifth crime is not equal to the threshold for the first.
A non-event, it's WHATWG that matters now.
Missed opportunity for Instagram
> UI Design has turned into fashion
> ===== The problems with Skeumorphism =====
> - Stuck in the past, old fashion, outdated
"Press ⌘ + i to toggle fullscreen view"

What is this thing, I don't have such a key on my computer?
What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram
It's like Poltergeist in there!
This is totally unfair .
Now shifting to Flickr
Interesting font, but as an radio operator, no one actually writes nor reads code in it's "visual" (dit/dah) form. Messages are written or typed directly to or from English. Also after a while you don't hear individual characters as much as words and phases similar to a "real" spoken language. (Except for call signs and such...)
Online only DRM depresses me slightly, until the internet is available "everywhere" we shouldn't be restricted to having to be connected to it.

I play games on the tube, trains, on holiday without wifi and many other places where I don't have internet access.

Some of the most successful gaming devices of the past few years (iPhone/iPad), don't require an internet connection to work, neither do the major consoles. Why should be users be forced into this? Haven't they heard of laptops?
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/clear/
Also, either they or UPS probably have a pretty good insurance policy.
This is why I often feel it is an utter waste of time to read HN. Alas, people like you are not always around to correct people like Mr. Welch and reign in the ignorance. God only knows how many readers will read comments like his and think he actually does know what he's talking about. They might even rely on name recognition or "karma" to ascertain the validity of his statements.

Sad.
You're right - I misspoke there. The OP was more careful, and discussed "iatrogenic" harms (an analogy to medical harms that arise from an attempt to treat a problem).

So, I'll revise what I'm saying to this: if you have a measure that you want to take that is only justified by such extreme events, it's probably not a good idea.
I get it now, thanks. It's very interesting, maybe I will give Python for ML a chance!
> social networks have trained me not to expect any control over them anymore

I think this is the major issue that will define the internet landscape in the long term. People indeed got trained not to care about privacy and just like with "war on terror", they gradually give up their rights and freedom for the sake of "security" and "better user experience".

Soon enough anyone who speaks out of user rights or privacy will be seen as a mad man akin to RMS these days. 10 years back, a site, which required a scan of your government issued ID in order to change your name would be deemed insane. Now it's a common practice.

Welcome to the Matrix, gentlemen.
What qualifications (or quantifications) do you use to ensure that your value is more honest than someone else's? At the end of the day, value is determined by someone who is not yourself.

This article for more me is pretty straight forward. It's a well crafted PR play (whether made by commercial means or not is irrelevant), that draws readers to putting more importance on what metrics are used to determine valuation. Something that they can draw from using a service such as Mixpanel. The reality is that you, nor I, can definitely provide one metric that clearly correlates to financial valuation. Every case is different and every case warrants negotiation.

Mixpanel appears to be a great service btw. I hope my tone doesn't dictate otherwise.
Are you supplying unnecessary alt text?
Discussion about whether you should always add alt text to images on websites, even if they're not relevant to blind users
The W3C and the WHATWG have parted ways due to various political and procedural disagreements.

The WHATWG represents the Browser Vendors more directly and is committed to an ongoing ever-evolving HTML standard rather than fixed release numbers. They also tend towards the more pragmatic side of things. They are probably the ones to watch.

(This is based on my limited understanding. I'm happy to be corrected here)
As a such, perhaps you have some interesting insights into what might be causing PayPals uniquely poor (it seems) CS record? It seems that the majority of PayPals public CS failures could have been avoided with a minimum of, well, intelligence, training and helpfulness.
> Excluding Mexico is a huge disservice

Fair enough - the only reason I took it out was because it squashed all the other values into the bottom left corner so that you could no longer distinguish their relative positions. I still made sure to mention it because Mexico's case is instructive.
It's not about stopping the evolution of web technologies, as you say, it's about guaranteeing a minimum baseline of features that we can be sure is going to be present. A minimum target that you can count on. Most sites have no need for the advanced features you mention, but if they do then there's nothing to stop them requiring that support, and browser manufacturers will certainly keep rolling out new features as they fight for market share. In the end, it's about moving the baseline forward.
I want to vote off the destroyers
You have chosen a very small topic to discuss the vast range of advantages TIMTOWDI offers.

Now bear with me for a minute while I explain you this whole thing.

Have you worked with a language where your though tool just wasn't for you? Have you felt that language was pushing down its own self believed principles down your throat? What happens when programmers face such situations? They just leave the tool and go to something else. Perl is one of those few tools that adapts to the programmer, rather than expecting the programmer adapt to it.

Now like every other design choices you can ever make, it has its own tradeoffs. Being flexible, adaptive, powerful and quick to evolve means at times you have to sacrifice a little consistency. You can sure present your arguments and your design perspective against it, but your design again will have its own trade offs.

Why so many different ways of doing things? For example why do we have something like 'map' and 'foreach' in Perl? You won't understand this when you have used and written code that leverages these keywords to their power. Its more or less like explaining why Ice cream is delicious to somebody who has never eaten it. Unless you taste it yourself won't truly understand.

Perl is quick to learn. You can learn as much Perl to do the kind of work you can do in Python/Java/whatever. But as you learn more Perl, you become productive at solving problems. You can do it quickly, with succinct code with more powerful syntactical features.

EDIT:Corrected typo.
Samsung surprise us with the Galaxy Grand phone, 5-inch Screen, dual-SIM
Questions not Stories
InstaByeBye.com coming soon.
1 Click exports and online photo log.
Stay Cool.
3 hours and counting.
Live update = @instabyebye
Android Mobile Apps Optimizations = Scroll lists in #Adobe #AIR
Lots of countries were founded by violence. Europe, for example, was convulsed by violence for most of the past thousand years leading right up to the middle of the last century.

One big difference in the USA is that the right to own guns was somehow inserted into its Constitution among the rights to expression, assembly, fair trial and so on. I can't think of any other countries in which owning a gun is explicitly listed among the set of human rights.
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Absolutely. The French Revolution which followed not long after sparked a new type of government mass murder, with death tolls in the 20th Century in the 10s to 100s of millions (the latter is my adjustment based on how much estimates of Communist mass murder get increased when a country really opens up).

Somehow, these actions always happen to disarmed people....

They are, at least here, truly "unthinkable", for "it can't happen here" without a preceding confiscation of the nation's guns. Which is a sufficient tripwire to provoke a counter-revolution to stop things from ever getting that nasty.

One might also look at the Swiss experience.
"The startups that favour New York over Silicon Valley"
Export Instagram photos: a few good tools
Nice, thanks for the book recommendation. Im on the lookout for this exact type of material lately after the realisation that for the amount of design work I do ive really failed to put in a proportionate amount of learning effort compared with programming. Any other recommendations?
It's obviously an attempt at spam, of course. The point is that having submitted the bookmarklet instead of the intended page is a classic newbie blunder. I flag two or three of them each week.
To quote @tabatkins[1]:

"The W3C violates its own process, lets HTML go to CR with 100+ bugs still active: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=adva...

(Regarding the process to move to Candidate Recommendation[2], which is what HTML5 just hit.)

[1] https://twitter.com/tabatkins/status/280825291620896770

[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#transitio...
It really doesn't seem like a material change to me. Again, IANAL, so if there is some reason to believe these things would be disallowed under the old TOS, I'd like to know, but it sounds fairly straightforward. While Instagram may have had a more difficult case under the old TOS, and may have had to be more careful about the dispensation rather than just doing a blatant "stock photo"-type interface, I could definitely see an attempt at the argument that representation in "any media formats through any media channels" covers Instagram in most cases of what would be considered "transferred sub-licensing".

The clarifications, of course, are intended to clarify the consent they're taking. I'd be interested to know their motives for this; as I speculated in the parent, does a new law take effect in an important market with regard to advertising? Are they just trying to play it safe? Are they going to make aggressive moves into this kind of space (reselling user photos, using users' profiles without consent in advertisements) and wanted to ensure that they didn't have to deal with any lawsuits upon launch?

I will agree that the new TOS allows them to use your profile and likeness as they see fit, which based on my simple layman's reading, isn't included in the old TOS.

Just thinking out loud here, move along.
I don't know what the hell you were doing then because I've never had any good interactions with Paypal. Ever. Last time I tried disputing a charge when the seller disappeared on me (and several other buyers) I couldn't even get a response from PayPal at all. That was the last time I used it.
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> Paypal's customer service isn't bad because they don't trust the customer in terms of authentication - it's bad because they have horrible policies in place

This is true. I got locked out of my Paypal account because I had the audacity to log in from a nearby country (Germany). Fair enough, though maybe a bit overzealous. To get control back they then had to charge a small, random amount of money to my account and phone my registered phone number to give me a code to input. Reasonable, perhaps, except that it didn't work! and to this day still hasn't. I can't count the number of times I entered in the code. So I just created a new account with an alternative email instead . . .

This was a few years ago admittedly, so maybe they're better now, but it's one thing to have overzealous policies and quite another to implement those policies poorly. And that's not even getting into the one time I actually needed PayPal buyer protection, because I'm sure we could all be sharing PayPal horror stories all day if we go down that road.
As a data point, I have a "More" link on my "Saved Stories". Are you sure it wasn't a transient failure?
10 steps to software freedom
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Yep, I've had math through differential equations (so long ago it doesn't matter anymore), but never touched on abstract algebra that I can remember.

Thanks for the info.
In the UK I think the person has to be "featured", ie a central focus(?), to require a model release - based on the ECHR right to a private life for example; exclusions apply for news reporting it seems.

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum137/82809-legalities-relatin...

After 20 minutes of searching with Google and reading on about 10 websites I couldn't find any photog sites that even reference the law ...
> What country is close enough to the US in size, heterogeneity and number of guns so that you can make a fair comparison?

In terms of number of guns, no other country is. That's the point: other countries made decisions and implemented policies to severely restrict access to guns, and the predictable result today is that there are far fewer guns and much less gun violence.

The decision to restrict guns is a long-term decision - it won't reduce gun violence overnight, but it will reduce gun violence over decades.
Yep, it was on the whois for several of my domains. I've since privatized them, but the caches will remain. Oh, how they'll remain.
iPad. I'm not a professional editor. Mock me as you will.
Why did they call the spec "HTML5"? This nonsense reminds me of Java versioning and I'm afraid that "HTML5 2.0" or "HTML5SE 1.4" will follow next.
http://asia.cnet.com/apple-wins-patent-on-a-rectangle-with-r...

Only biggest idiot in the world can accept patent like this
The OP actually suggests a second factor for authentication: The last four digits of the card you paid the order with.
Like others have commented, Apple could release such a device in no time. You can already hook an iPad up to a monitor and keyboard, so Apple just needs to add the OSX desktop. Looking at the Windows 8 reception, I doubt they are going to do that..

What Apple is betting on (and what Microsoft is betting on as well with SkyDrive and unified sign-in) is program data and state being synced seamlessly through the cloud, so that you can have a stand-alone high-performance PC on your desktop (maybe like the iMac).

If Microsoft is indeed betting on "all apps and documents localized on one device", they are betting on the past.
I agree 100% with you. Patents are ok, but not idiotic ones like (rounded corners)
Speaking of the Gates Foundation, it appears to be involved in myraid shady dealings - http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critiq...
I was about to delete my Instagram account when I saw this, but having given it a bit of thought, I'm actually ok with it.

Instagram needs to get money from somewhere, and as far as I'm concerned selling my photos is preferable to filling the feeds with ads. However I can see how for a lot of people they'd rather have ads then have their photos sold (especially pro photographers) so it'll be interesting to see how many users they loose over this.

Also it goes with out saying that if they do put adverts in, I'm out.
I was going to downvote your comment, but then I clicked through and read the linked question and commentary.
Presumably they meant, when you're 'asked to agree' to new T&C's the diff changes in the new policy are highlighted.

When presented with a new T&C's policy, shouldn't you explicitly be asked to agree to any changes from the previous one you agreed to rather than be presented with the entire 14 pages which approximately 0.00001% of people will ever read before agreeing to?

(And please don't say you read every EULA you encounter in full)
My main concern as a passive user is finding a way to export likes and follows. I haven't really posted that many photos, but there is still something to lose as a lurker.
Perhaps it would be better if the blocks were heavier? So that it isn't quite as easy to ruin everything?
Mark Zuckerberg made his own bed. He can't be trusted no matter what you say, just look at how Facebook handles privacy!
The same discussion happened with just about all Twitter image-hosting services except yFrog. It didn't seem to cripple their business.
>Are you really going to make your browser choice based on a certification? //

I'm not but I design websites.

The general public I think would find it relevant especially based on news media reporting. Why test each browser yourself when the W3C have tested them and certified those that meet a particular use standard. It's more likely to sway people on which browser _not_ to use IMO.
Is the hype about Mobile Device Management over?
> Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation

Yeah, somehow even I, a guy who has never been to the Staets, could figure that out only by reading the "Arts" section. Almost all of the people there were New-York-based or from around the area, it's like 2010s New York it's like Paris from 1920s full of bright artists and what have you, which I get the impression it's not true. Too bad for the arts, a pretty sweet deal for people making money out of it.
Perhaps they'll do what they're doing with CSS and we'll have "HTML body tag version 0.2" and "html head tag version 0.2.3" and ...
FirefoxOS app day in Bangalore
Posted some related stories:

* [Instagram's suicide note](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4934271)

* [Instagram Will Share User Data With Facebook According To Its New Privacy Policy](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4932765)

The last one may be more interesting than the usage rights for photos.
The stats in the link are interesting. I recently discovered the Code::Statistics module (https://metacpan.org/module/Code::Statistics). It tells you the cyclomatic complexity of your code which wikipedia tells me is basically the number of possible paths through your code.

It might be fun to see that run against the Perl core.

I also like looking at the number of lines of code. If your features go up while complexity and lines of code go down -- that could be a good sign.
AAPL. Now, I'd like to buy a lot of penny stocks.