skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> never declare a decease onboard

I had a friend on a transatlantic flight that got stuck in Iceland (they tried to get the person on the ground and to a hospital but there wasn't really anything that could be done) for... a long time... because of this. And IIRC, letting them off the plane was not really an option either, so it ended up being not only depressing, but pretty miserable in other ways as well.
That's like saying that it's alright if I write a blog post about how all Americans drive Chevrolets, and then it's up to the reader to figure out the truth by applying critical reading.

While the reader should apply critical reading, the writer should certainly make sure his facts are straight.
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I also wasted a fair amount of time looking through these files, trying to figure out what all the miscellaneous bash configs had to do with the stated purpose. I did find that there is a nice undocumented feature of the cdff command, which allows you to specify the directory of a window lower in the stack by sending a numeral as the positional parameter.
Show HN: Record every day of 2013 with iOS App
Example of a montage can be found at http://momentmontage.me

I started developing this in January when I saw a video of a girl who recorded a video everyday of 2011 and I wanted to make one myself, but thought the editing would become too tedious and annoying.
So, I made an app that completely automates the process, you record a clip every single day (or more than one per day, this was a popular feature request which you can see in the example URL), put some music from your iTunes library and you can upload it to Facebook straight from the app, or to your camera roll so you can do anything you want to the video.

Hope you guys like it, it was ten months in the making.
but even comparing quite different states in the US they are more similar than the extremes of the EU you get in practice - arguably the expansion was botched and a lot of entrants came in before they had converged.
I don't think the purpose was primarily military-related. The US's GPS system can be jammed as is, and I don't see any reason why this system would be any different. GPS satellites are very far up in the atmosphere and thus produce a very weak signal to near-earth. This isn't just a theoretical attack: a few years ago, a truck driver with a GPS jammer accidentally jammed the GPSs of planes above him landing at Newark [1].

I think it's more a matter of national pride issue: to show the world that China doesn't have to rely on the US for technology. Russia's GLONASS system (briefly referenced in the article) is more or less the same thing. The good news is that this system, like GLONASS, will likely improve positioning speed / reliability, since there will be more navigation satellites in the sky. Already, receivers can tie GLONASS and GPS together; it's only a matter of time before Beidou is integrated as well.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/18304246
Obviously you don't ignore the cache.
Example of a montage can be found at http://momentmontage.me

I started developing this in January when I saw a video of a girl who recorded a video everyday of 2011 and I wanted to make one myself, but thought the editing would become too tedious and annoying.
So, I made an app that completely automates the process, you record a clip every single day (or more than one per day, this was a popular feature request which you can see in the example URL), put some music from your iTunes library and you can upload it to Facebook straight from the app, or to your camera roll so you can do anything you want to the video.

Hope you guys like it, it was ten months in the making.
> As an aside, how does the US government make money from the GPS?

Do they? What would the royalties be for, licensed chip design?
> If they don't participate in the Rails project, then, no, they don't have a "legitimate grievance".

Why don't non-contributing users of a software project have a 'legitimate' opinion?

I wonder if this attitude in the late 90s / early 2000s accounts for Linux's level of success as a desktop OS.
A paywall can work for the same reason iTunes works. Most people aren't thieves and are willing to pay for quality things. In short, make something good and charge for it. That business model has worked for a long time and will continue to work for a long time.

The biggest "problem" is that it will be harder to build as many giant media companies around general news distribution. On the other hand, a bunch of smaller players will have a chance to flourish. A lot like modern digital music.
Something like this: http://www.martinsteiger.aero/files/flightforum_ch/2008/fern... :-)
The law is "refactored" all the time. That's one of the tremendous virtues of the common law process. And while the law is designed by committee, it is applied in any given case by a single judge which has insight into the actual issues in play. Again, a tremendous virtue of the common law process.
America doesn't have a gun problem: it has a mental health problem, caused by the anti-psychiatry movement that started in the 1960s. Each of the recent high-profile active shooters could have been stopped were it not for legal strictures that have virtually eliminated involuntary commitment in the United States.

The anti-psychiatry movement has been so pervasive and effective that psychiatrists are effectively banned from speaking about these cases publicly. See this recent editorial by Dr. Paul Steinberg, published two days ago in the New York Times:

"I write this despite the so-called Goldwater Rule, an ethical standard the American Psychiatric Association adopted in the 1970s that directs psychiatrists not to comment on someone’s mental state if they have not examined him and gotten permission to discuss his case. It has had a chilling effect. After mass murders, our airwaves are filled with unfounded speculations about video games, our culture of hedonism and our loss of religious faith, while psychiatrists, the ones who know the most about severe mental illness, are largely marginalized."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/our-failed-approac...
I think the (semi) hidden subtext of both of the applications is the sending of naked pictures or "sexting". I read through the reviews of Snapchat in the app store and it's pretty clear. That may clarify the desire for knowing when a screen cap has been grabbed.
If you're trying to block screenshots, AirPlay mirroring is something else you'll likely want to watch for. It's possible to send a separate feed to the AirPlay display; but not an iOS dev myself so I can't speak to how difficult this is to do.

On the Android side there's also DDMS; unsure if this is detectable or not.
Because sane defaults matter. Defaults that get in the way of people being productive are bad defaults.
> if you don't have sorted arrays

In this case certainly you should sort the multiple smaller arrays (in parallel), not the merged one.
I dual-majored in CS and Business. I don't think any single class really stands out, but the combination of a broad sampling of classes lets you make connections between various topics. A few classes that have had a lasting impact:

* computer architecture -- for understanding what's going on at a low level
* digital circuits -- for understanding the next level down
* physics -- yet another level down...
* all the various math -- shouldn't this be obvious?
* statistics -- take the course from the Math Department if possible; the courses offered to Liberal Arts & Business majors were watered down
* organizational behavior -- for understanding how humans interact in groups
* a foreign language or two (and don't just learn the language, learn about the culture) -- for an appreciation of how things work elsewhere
* a course in something you know nothing about that requires a lot of writing (I found this to be better than the actual "writing course") -- to learn how to research, organize your thoughts, and present information

Also, learn how to get along with people, and keep in touch with the people you meet along the way.

Looking back nearly 15 years later, the courses I wish I had taken:

* more EE
* forestry & ecology (I own some land with a woodlot now...)
* compilers (it wasn't offered every year, and I had a scheduling conflict the last time it was available) -- though this isn't that hard to self-instruct as long as you have a solid footing in the basics
Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton

>> in 1997, she received the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award from the IEE Computer Society for developing the sort-merge generator which, according to IEEE, "inspired the first ideas about compilation."

Whereas Hopper coined the term "compiler" and wrote the first one that's recognized as such:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_constructi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_programming_language
for some reason the "bayesian reasoning and machine learning" (which to my eye is the most readable - perhaps because it is assumes the least from the reader) link is directly to the pdf. the site is at http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=... and includes a discount for the dead tree.
If you're going to base all your thing on a totally unrealistic vision of Europe then yeah, your points stand.

But so we're clear, all the points the original article was making was about Europe as a an economic entity, most likely not including the likes of Ruasia and Kazakhstan (which you're obviously not afraid to do to reach that quite ludicrous and irrelevant figure of 750+ million people).

At this rate you might as well include all of Africa and Asia in Europe too.
> The Hanseatic league stretched from England to Novgorod

The Hansa Teutonica had its capital in Lübeck.

One possible future of the EU is a union of regions, not nations. The EU will take over much of what the current nations think they are.

> I am hopeful that once the EU finally collapses

Neither you nor I will see the EU collapse. Just the opposite. It might even expand.
>The way to acquire that skill is simply to do it over and over again

I would totally agree with you on this one because of my personal experience. I'm no CS guy, and nuking a VPS repeatedly (screwing up because typing a / instead of a ./ kind of errors) and installing a LAMP stack and CMS software has made me proficient even in the finer points of LAMP (like memory utilization of mysqld, or number of processes in PHP). Because of this, I am way more comfortable with linux as well.

You wouldn't believe, I've destroyed installations like no tomorrow. And even on the personal front, more often than not, I tend to screw up my hardware and then with a great incentive to try and make it work again I read man pages, google every possible stuff to get it fixed. This automatically results in me knowing EXACTLY what to do when someone's screwed their hardware and are terrified.

So, actually I think I should say, "Not afraid of breaking things, AND (most importantly) have determination to fix them up again."
There's way more than two languages: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/

If you live in a larger urban area in the US, odds are that you can encounter several dozen languages in a day.
He wasn't talking about culture, all his examples are commercial.
Try AngularJS :)
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Yes, and I grew up in the town where Pluto was discovered. I present to you the United Nations geoscheme for Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Eu...
How Tableau Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital
"The rest of the world has moved on"?

Good lord man, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and the web is not simply "apps". If you think Rails is irrelevant today than you are practicing fad-driven-development moreso than developing any real insight about the lay of the software land.
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There are three reasons I sold exclusively through my own site:

- Stores like Amazon and iBooks limit the price you can charge. iBooks limits it to $15 for the book, Amazon radically changes the royalty payments if you go above $10 (or so). I want to charge premium prices, so those audiences wouldn't work.

- Selling through another provider means that they aren't my customers. I don't have contact information for follow-ups, other sales offers, or anything else. Owning the customer list is really important to building a sustainable business.

- When I sell through my own site I keep about 95% from every sale. If I sold through the iBooks store I would only get 70%. I would be willing to accept a lower percentage if it meant I was able to build my customer lists.

A final thought is that I've seen people put all their effort into creating the product (whether it is an app or an eBook) then put it up on the store, just expecting it to take off and organically get sales. By selling through my own site I was forced to do all the marketing and promotion myself. Since that is a skill I am still developing, it was important to me.

Good luck!
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Can't stress enough that the 740 million figures includes Russia and Kazakhstan in the bunch. Two countries that are more Asian than they are European.
TDD - is it worth it?
its amazing anyone commits to the kernel after seeing that. i sure the hell wouldn't.
I think Adwords and other paid traffic would be more effective driving traffic to an email capture squeeze page that delivered a series of free reports over a few weeks.

The final few emails would then try to sell the book. IMO it's too hard to sell this sort of product to an audience that has never heard of you.
The majority of Eastern European countries were not part of the USSR. They were USSR's allies in the Warsaw Pact - in the same way that the Western European countries were USA's allies in NATO - but they were independent nations. I'm talking about countries such as Poland, The Czech Republic + Slovakia (Czechoslovakia), Hungary, the countries that were formerly Yugoslavia, etc.

> Former USSR countries are mostly unified by the same language, religion (or lack of) and culture.

Not true at all. I've been to both Russia and several other Eastern European countries, and I can guarantee you that even within the former USSR there were many different languages, ethnicities, and religions.
As a French dude, I've always dreamt of a more unified European culture. As in producing movies, TV shows with European money, catering to a European audience. England already produces some more-than-decent TV shows as it is.

We should also make English the official language, that would help us all move forward.
No. For instance Swiss and Norwegians are Europeans, but not part of the EU.
I was never able to stick with the terminal for email. The last time I tried though was with Pine in 2003 (ha) so maybe I'm due for a 2nd chance.
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Yes, there is a "Mozilla Marketplace" currently open for submissions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/apps https://marketplace.firefox.com/
For linux users: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open
Does anyone who has one already, want to collaborate on getting MOAI on it? (http://getmoai.com/) If so, drop me an email and I'll gladly assist ..
Want to collaborate on getting MOAI working?
It's probably worth noting that Contre Jour was originally an iOS game. The HTML5 version is a port of the original. (Not to take anything away from it!)
Yes, absolutely. I can't believe I overlooked this. Especially if I had other related products to cross sell down the road.

Right now it is just a matter of figuring out where to spend my time.
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By the way, I love the post! Excited to hear more about the book. Email me, nathan@thinklegend.com, if you have more questions.
If that is true then "Germany," "China," "Russia," "Ireland," "Australia," et al. are all slang for their proper (sometimes anglicized) country names.
Interesting to me because it's a reminder that monitoring in and of itself generates load. I've seen that forgotten more than once.
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Haynes has manuals online already.
http://www.haynes.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n...

It's not exactly flipboard, but the info is certainly there. The pricing seems a bit obscene, but if the alternative is taking it to a mechanic then I guess it's a cost savings.
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The idea of hyperlinks for games is pretty cool because it opens up possibilities not previously (or at least often) considered.

One of my favorite real examples is Scott Schiller's use of hyperlinks in his Survivor C64 game. He used hyperlinks to encode the entire level so you could then tweet the levels you create via short URLs and others could take that level, modify it and retweet it.

I'm curious if hyperlinks could even be used to create meta games. i.e. everyone makes different versions (equivalent to add-on packs) for a base game, where the hyperlink encodes the state of the current player and passes that state along to another level of the game created by another player.
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Do the lean startup. Find 10 paying customers first, have them pre-pay, then build rev 1 in 1 months time.

Assuming you want to build only a software company, that's the fastest route.
> ambivalent feelings toward entrepreneurs

Germany has over three millions SMEs (small and medium enterprises, called 'Mittelstand'). I can assure you that there are no ambivalent feelings against 'entrepreneurs'. Exactly the opposite. You find world-market leaders in small towns all across rural Germany. You can guess that people are extremely proud to work for these companies.

99% of all companies are in the Mittelstand. "Roughly 95% of all German firms are family-owned. Of these, approx. 85% are managed by their owner."
So, it sounds like most of the reason for the higher cost in the United States is that solar panels aren't a common sight - they have to be marketed more heavily to the end consumer, and power companies have to ensure that the system is safe to hook up to the grid.
Not a Kalman filter, but rather a Viterbi decoder -- a type of error-correcting code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_decoder

From lurking on HN, I read that the whole field of ECC's is infested with patents. There's even an example on here of a specific startup (allegedly) destroyed by an ECC patent:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3432322
Indeed, not only some of the largest countries, but the bulk of the PPP-adjusted GDP of "Europe" uses the Euro as a currency, so this point is not even pedantic, it's factually incorrect. If Wikipedia's facts are straight, the Eurozone member states total to nearly 11e12 PPP-adjusted international dollars, while all states of Europe (including huge economies outside the EU, like Russia) have a total PPP-adjusted GDP of 20e12. QED: most of Europe has the Euro as a common currency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eur...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone#Member_states
Please do pledge! I really want to play the game and having a Mac port would be even sweeter!
Citizens at the border have a lowered expectation of privacy. This is well-known and understood principle of national sovereignty (protecting a border is one of the core principles of being a soverign entity).

So the 4th amendment doesn't apply to border searches as a routine search is not an unreasonable one to (re)gain entry.

Making an international call to a business associate from Chicago to Cairo seems pretty obvious that I have as reasonable expectation to privacy as I do calling my business associate in New York. So, the answer is yes the Constitution does require a standard. The specific standard of probable cause is up to the judiciary to determine not found in the Constitution. I suppose if I was calling a known terrorist organization or conducting business in a war zone I would know that I have a much lowered expectation of privacy, for example.

FISA was simply a way to avoid the national security implications and backdoor the judiciary oversight by setting up a "fake" judiciary. Apparently we can't even trust public elected officals in Congress or on the bench to keep the public's interest in mind as they would divulge national secrets to the national enquirer at first opportunity or whatever. Not like we can trust the checks and balances on the legislative branch to function as intended </sarcasm>.

The concept of secret police and oversight by secret courts would be repugnant to the founders and should be to any citizen. Regarding the obtaining of communications between foreign nationals of which no citizen is a party, I have less to say. Espionage and counterterrorism is a dirty and necessary game played by every nation but conducting as wide a sweep as what is implied here in my opinion is bad policy because the cost to diplomacy and normal trade relations between nations is much too high. It invites and even necessitates a response that is chilling.
Interesting. I was more thinking along the lines of how copyright is increasingly digital and increasingly out of touch with the 1791 state of copyright, as per the Derek Khanna article.

Definitely not something I know much about, though. Thanks.
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Is Apple approving spyware applications now? Is it the app's business what core OS functionality you're using behind its back?
Those images on the right side of each page are great; They could be used to good effect to make the site more appealing visually as well as unique, if you displayed one or more of them in full size interleaved with the text: maybe one on top of each page; and one on the sidebar. They may also help with SEO (use alt-image tags), and ad Click-thru-rates, if placed close to or next to the ads.
In the city I named (Watsonville) there are many people that don't understand English and many of the signs there are in Spanish. This city is in the heart of agricultural California so most foreigners (and Californians, to be honest) never see it.

It is only about 60 minutes from Silicon Valley and yet has more culturally and linguistically in common with Mexico in many ways.
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Quotes from the article:

"The problem with PDFs, of course, is that they represent text as images, which glitches when going through rendering."

"Lesson learned: Use Word or another open format, not PDF."

The conclusions (don't rely on online applications) are correct but man.
Email is broken because people implement it poorly. I don't mean developers, but users: e.g. "Important: Everyone must read" as subject line from the president of the R/C Boat Enthusiasts Club of Milwaukee or cc2cya syndrome in an office.

Gmail isn't the winner. It's as dumb as box of rocks, then again so is every other email solution.

SMS is the best mobile app. Or at least it hints at what the best would be. Most emails aren't worth filing. Most subject lines are bad. SMS deals with both of these issues by ignoring them.

The solution to email is in AI [I'm waving may hands in a magic gesture]. The email problem is that we have to do something with each one...except what goes directly to "Junk" and the success of that approach hints at what an ideal email client would do.
The company is called Tsheets (http://tsheets.com). Lots of great stuff coming from them in the next 6 months.