skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you're linking to the wrong battery. Looking closely at the electronic speed controller PCB in the (cruddy, low res) pictures, those look like Traxxas connectors still attached to the ESC and you linked to a Tamiya connector battery. Whatever glob of plastic is on the ends of the ESC cables, I've done enough RC over the past decades to tell thats not tamiya connector, not even a heat damaged one, and enough ham radio stuff to tell its not a powerpole or remains thereof. The orientation of the connector does not look Deans connector like either. There really are not many popular RC battery connectors out there. One interesting point to note is the Tamiya connector battery is Amazon's 3rd best seller and although I haven't figured out which Tenergy battery w/ Traxxas connector this is, I'm sure its sales rank is way below 3rd.

You can trivially google for RC car traxxas connector and compare the pics to the pix of the ESC used.

Of course the overall "project" was probably kit bashing a ready to run full kit, not buying bits and pieces off amazon one at a time. Of course if you google for ready to run RC cars sold with traxxas connectors and tenergy batteries there really aren't that many possibilities. So that is interesting. If they find the remains of the RX that should probably narrow it down to like, one model of car or something. At which time things will likely get exciting for retailers of that ready to run model...
This feels like a pretty HN style answer.

Is Ember worth learning? Let's see.

It adds no value over anything that we already use or what I see being used elsewhere. It's just another library that doesn't add any significant.

There is not liquid job market with good salaries or day rates with Ember at the moment, you may be able to find one or two roles in London that ask for it but it's certainly not liquid and therefore could not support a contractor.

Embers approach is not radical therefore there's not a lot to learn here. I'm not stuck in a Java rut. You can write modern, slim, fast, concurrent Java. You don't have to be stuck in the days of massive J2EE government projects. The buzz around modern Java in London is massive.

You're right in saying that I could do other things for money but I love software development and I love that people are willing to pay be quite large salaries and day rates to do it. My career isn't money focused but money is a part of it. Why shouldn't I have a big house and holiday often just because I love writing code?

Also, seeing Java devs as being 'stuck in a rut' shows massive ignorance as to what is actually happening in the Java world right now.
Since you always worry you are going crazy when a high-uptime site is down: mine too

FWIW: I was able to log in by going to www.gmail.com and logging in suing myusername@mydomain.com as the username.
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My wife is a planner. I'm more of a "let's get in the car and see where we end up." A healthy mix of both planning and spontaneity adds a lot of variety and enjoyment to life.

Which is one reason I love the start-up scene. You start out with a plan, but the challenges come when you have to make important decisions in a moment.
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This is happening for gmail for some accounts, but mine seem to be running. Seems the outage is per user account.
I can get the admin console to load, but it took a couple minutes and now its hanging while trying to log in. What gives, Google?
Sounds like an interesting conference. Sadly, I'm still hoping to manage to get a WWDC ticket and it may just be during the same timeframe.
It's intermittent for me. I first noticed trouble when the Android gmail app said it couldn't connect for one of my accounts. I cannot login to my apps domain control panel right now, but I can access its email via both IMAP and the web interface. However, another account on that same domain cannot access via IMAP.
Already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563949

Service disruption

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
Nearly 30 minutes since it started and the status page is it's customary blank screen.

http://imgur.com/OLyGf0O

Almost as bad as AWS at getting notices up.
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Quite right -- I think there is something actually interesting here.

That's why I was so frustrated that they just went with the publicity stunt when this could have been real. it would have been a bit harder to spin into a slick documentary, but it would have been much more valuable.
So what's the point of making the MVC portion of the application client side when I can just use Spring MVC (or similar) and keep to the same tech stack that the rest of the project is using? Same goes for .NET projects etc?
+1. For now.
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I thought I'd give them a call to find out whats going on, however to call them I need my support/admin pin - which is only accessible from the admin portal and without it they won't answer the phone. Nice.
> Still thrilled with how well my Zeos 386 notebook (from the early 90's) works w/ Linux

That won't last long, 386 support was removed from mainline kernel.
Was having problems with play developers console yesterday, suddenly it was a 404. Seems like they're planning something in my opinion.
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Google Drive is down for me on Apps too.
On the other hand, I suspect that when it comes to the nexus of IP and Android, it is in their legal interest to avoid every appearance of Ownership and Authorship. I.e. Google has no interest in claiming responsibility for anything connected to patent violations.

It's no different than Apple not indemnifying developers when they were sued for violating patents a couple of years ago...except that Microsoft and the companies licensing their patents have legal teams similar to Google's.
Odd, "Admin control panel/API" is marked as disrupted for me.
Try it out directly at: www.maskr.me
Now it is showing Service disruption for Admin control panel / API

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1...
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Thanks for the YAPC link. We're UK based though, so quite a way away from Texas. :(

We do online games (amongst other things). Though I don't want to go into too many details as I try to keep a degree of anonymity online.
I watched the marathon from above, these are my photos.
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On today's roads there are always some people driving over the speed limit. By your logic we should abolish speed limits to remove this "speed differential".
I think the rumors say June 10-14 for WWDC so you should be fine :)
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Do we have an agenda? I am willing to come..
I also can't authorize an app to have access to a Gmail account. Google's auth page presents an error.
Right. But at the end of the day, this was a marketing short...they gotta pay the bills. Dove isn't in the business of doing research :)
Yeah it is now, only took 30 minutes :-)

The outage is affecting IMAP/POP/HTTP for email plus Gchat, the admin control panel/API is probably the least impact.
The FBI very much leaked those names though. It wasn't an accident.
To expand, they're not bad at software per se, but they missed the boat on the idea of connected devices and the whole ecosystem that Apple and Google have done so very well.

Japanese phones were several years more capable than the first few iPhones and at the time it was thought that Japan would never use them. What changed that was how much better a phone was when it connected to a store to buy apps and games. Competition purely on electronics doesn't cut it anymore.

It's a shame Sony didn't realise this sooner, they've made phones, laptops, game consoles, music players for years. They should have been in the position to do the iTunes store or Apps way before Apple. They seem to only be trying to do such a thing now with bolted on crap like replay sharing on PS4.

Edit: Sony have a record label as well!
I was expecting at least a mention of Mecha-Godzilla. What happened to him was the old Godzilla.

Sony was a really big inspiration to Steve Jobs, or at least Akio Morita was. It has been very surprising to me to see Sony slip repeatedly. I think they got caught up in just packing in features without a real vision to unify what they were trying to accomplish.
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The dashboard hasn't caught up. Admin Control Panel is one thing, but GMail/Apps has a huge impact!
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I did wonder about this. My phone said my username or password was wrong for my email, got a bit worried, so I tried with their webmail and it worked there.
> What super power does law enforcement possess that us lesser humans don't?

You're completely right. Everything was much better when the mob could just perform justice with a rope and a tree.
>hacking into several Swedish companies and stealing personal data

Are these allegations true? If so, I don't think this man deserves sympathies. The punishment may be too harsh in my opinion for these type of crimes, but they are crimes nonetheless.
What? When was the last time you tried?

In Canada you signup at https://www.cavirtex.com/ then go to any of the big banks and deposit cash into an account with an account number. No validation required, takes 2-4 hours to complete.

In the USA with http://bitinstant.com/ you go to CVS/Walmart or other vendors and use MoneyGram to deposit cash. No validation required, takes 30-60 minutes to complete.

Or just use http://bitlocal.com/

It's as easy as paying a bill...

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/
Webmaster tools also down with auth failure.
Down here. Additionally, my iCal won't sync with goocal.
What was supposed to be a quick first iPhone project, turned into many months of hard work. So tired, happy, and relieved to have this out in the public.
In the particular case of models, that can be way worse, as it is a very competitive field where you're constantly compared and measured against other (obviously gorgeous) models.

I imagine that being a model put your self-esteem under a huge presure.
It's interesting that I kind find news for this on google itself, but Hacker News already has two posts.
Maybe developing games and robots , in past didn't require good english, but today, in many industries you have to have good english in order to develop software since a lot of code will come from other places around the globe(whether it's open source, or commercial libraries).

The japanese are pretty weak in english in general.
Getting IMAP rejections, and Google Docs doesn't seem to be working: http://cl.ly/image/3W2e0X1O1i0o
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Depends on playback speed.
This one is more like a personal forum where people (maybe) known or close to the owner of domain/forum rule(just my somewhat far fetched speculation). There are no set forum rules or guidelines and the one that they follow on "as it comes" are decided after seeing who the guy is in question. A newbie, a lurker or an established founder or so.

So, my request is to keep it HN Meetup and not to make it HS Meetup or H(S+N) Meetup.

Personal experience; so this jm2c of mine might be biased as well.
The punchcard system surprised me, but I've seen plenty of Apple II and C64 systems used as standalone in small businesses, and various minicomputers are quite understandable (although most of the normal environment VAX stuff got moved to Alphas in the 1990s, which aren't that horrible from a maintenance perspective).
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Same here. Intermittent though. I'm like 2 for 5.
Even displaying any page over non-HTTPS and linking to a login page is a big hole for MITM attacks. Who's to say the login page is really on the correct server? As long at the little lock looks green (does Joe Public even pay attention?), it's safe ... right?
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Best practices and a large-scale app would be awesome!

The people in the IRC channel are very helpful (and will happily tell a cleaner way to do it than the KO examples on their website), but to have all this written up would be excellent.
> My point was firstly that it's odd (though not unforgivable) that the compiler links to those procedures even though my source .bas wasn't calling any networking APIs...

It's pretty common for compilers for niche languages to statically link the runtime library by default. Many think it eases distribution.
That was absolutely beautiful.
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It is true that Japanese studio created some of the greatest games of all time. But I have also heard reports that every game was rewritten from scratch. The DIY concept was entirely alien.

Source: 84 Play Podcast interview with Gregg Tavares (I think, I cant relisten to the podcast now). Linked if interested
http://8-4.jp/blog/?p=1423&lang=en
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Yeah.. my pop mail stopped working too
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Same problem, on multiple domains. Admin is down for all of them, and Gmail for Apps is down on some of them. Some work fine (web, IMAp, POP3) and some don't at all.
At least Google Reader still works :-)
Something that I'm curious about is the officially release pixs show it used RC car stuff. Some official newspaper type places are already claiming it was a lone-gunman scenario for no apparent reason. Whats never explained is how a dude carrying two backpacks plus another backpack of short range RC car transmitters wasn't noticed carrying three bulky bags and crossing the street to plant both.

Also where did the dude go to use two bulky RC car transmitters to set off the bombs? Can't be far away. Portapotties? Look for one with two RC car transmitters dropped in them? I would imagine that would help with DNA analysis too, having 1000s of peoples samples in there.

So the vigilantes need to find pix of the portapotties, which I suspect were within a a hundred feet of the blasts. In fact their location combined with the predicted blast size probably defined where the blasts happened as the bombers would want to be just outta range of the blast while still having a great RC car signal.

TLDR is the witch hunt should be searching for two guys with bulky backpacks and one guy with a weirdly shaped pack who left the portapotties with a much smaller backpack right after the two booms.
Why use hashing when you only need checksumming?
smtp.googlemail.com also failing

(edit: intermittently)
Image has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with perception.

The interesting thing about this campaign is that it shows how strangers are far more complimentary about how people look than those people would be about themselves. We know our own perceived flaws far better than anybody else does; in our culture of image obsession, it is far too easy to assume that every person in the world is judging you for every little imperfection on your face and of your body.

There have absolutely been experiments conducted about people's self-perceptions as compared to others' perceptions of them. This is nothing new. But it's far more interesting to look at than your average psychological study, and since it's not saying anything especially groundbreaking – does anybody really think strangers would be more critical of a woman than that woman would be of herself? – "interesting to look at" is what matters.
Google Drive for Google Apps for Business is Down
Google Drive for Google Apps for Business is Down - several of my clients are noting Internal Server Error 500 when trying to access Google Drive this morning. Google Drive (non-Google Apps for Business) seems to be working.
I'm uncertain from your description but have you heard of QuickCheck or http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck/ ? QuickCheck might be available in some form in your language.
Yep, you know you've gone too far with "legacy support" when you get a visit from the Computer History Museum !
Faaack. I thought I was just having a local connection issue. Same problem here.
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Last year TIME had an article about OS/2 and how NYC was still using it http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the...
Was anyone else expecting a 500 Startups parody?
He's charged, not guilty. I don't think anyone here could answer if it's true.
Anyone else see these things? http://imgur.com/C9uo2zj

The man with the blue jacket and back pack is seen helping an injured person... where's his back pack? (We have no idea)

There appears to be a back pack in the same picture.

On the OP page the third photo stating "Backpack seems to be missing... it appears to me that the man in the white cap is looking down and doing something, perhaps getting something out of his back pack?
Um.... good point.

I would trust resumes even LESS than I do now.
Appears Groups is down also.
I still use my TI-86 which I bought 13 years ago. Does that count?

Surprisingly, a new one sells for double what I paid for.
Actually I think Sony would have been (and in part still would be) perfectly vertically integrated. They were big in content, home electronics and hand helds. In the beginning of the last decade they could have hardly asked for a better position to completely dominate the electronics business, the way Apple/Samsung do now - but it was all for nothing. Instead of integrating everything, they just let their divisions keep doing their own thing until it was too late.
It might not make sense for sony to make one device that would replace many, with most money for the software going to other people. This is a classic innovator's dillema.

Also they did build the first ebook reader, but they lost to the kindle. Since the ereader is mostly about building ecosystems, maybe the same would have happened to them with app stores ?
I also highly recommend "Semantics with Applications" by Nielson and Nielson. I read it this January and it is an excellent book. It is very approachable for someone with only the lightest background in formal methods. If you are looking for a good introduction to the field I would start there. I am definitely going to look into the OPs book it looks awesome.

download
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bra8130/Wiley_book/wiley.html

print
http://www.amazon.com/Semantics-Applications-Appetizer-Under...

EDIT:

after reading the author page it looks like the OPs book has not been updated so keep in mind that it is the state of the field as of the 80s. The work by Nielson and Nielson is fairly recent. I would also suggest "Principles of Program Analysis" for a follow up book.

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Program-Analysis-Flemming-N...
Like a bigger TodoMVC?

http://todomvc.com/
So far the Apps Status Dashboard only shows an outage for the Admin control panel. http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

Things seem to be cascading. Unable now to access gmail, calendar and drive.
Depending on the use case, man in the middle attacks could be a good reason for hashing.
Oddly enough, gmail itself works on my Google Apps domain. But accessing my account page does not work. As well, I can't log into Gchat using one of the generated passwords (says password rejected). I'm guessing this is the same reason IMAP is failing for others.
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Your reddit is leaking. Mop it up.
DIY? I believe you mean DRY :)
> illegally transfer money from a bank.

What does it mean to illegally transfer money? Is this a euphemism for stealing?
Great !! It would be good if we can get more people
I used one of those DEC VAX machines when I was in the military. When considering when they were built they have REALLY REALLY nice GUI. They were built around the time of the first Macs and their interface is significantly higher resolution and more user freindly than those first Macs. They are really nice machines and not terribly big (roughly the size of a small refrigerator).
IBM system-Z mainframes can and do run 20-30+ year old software that was written for previous IBM mainframes. There's an interesting podcast about them on se-radio: http://www.se-radio.net/2012/03/episode-184-the-mainframe-wi...
In defense of those IT departments. It usually comes down to some ancient ERM software that only works in one version of IE with one version of Java (or ActiveX). Management has decided it is cheaper to use a pwned version of IE than pay a contractor to update the software.
I have a laptop backpack like that. On Monday it was 27ºF at 6:30am when I left for work, but it was supposed to be 55-ish during the day. So, I wore a light jacket under my warmer jacket. My work laptop is a 15" Dell and is somewhat heavy.

When I was going home, I stuffed my lighter jacket in my backpack with my laptop... and it looked exactly like that. In crowded areas, when I'm not going anywhere, I almost always take off my backpack and put it between my legs. It's the only way I can safely swivel my upper body to look around without knocking people over.

Don't jump to conclusions. It's a dude with a big black backpack. There's hundreds of thousands of those in Boston. I would be surprised if there weren't a picture of a guy with a big black backpack in that area. Lots of people work around there and lots of people don't get the day off... I didn't. I saw a ton of regulars on the Commuter Rail that morning that obviously also didn't get the day off.

I applaud the efforts of people to scan photos looking for the perpetrators... but saying they may have found the guys responsible is incendiary and dangerous.
I'm really happy that you clarified this for me. I was a bit confused because the newest KickStarter video focuses mainly on a young girl using the computer to surf the web and doesn't really detail anything that has been mentioned in these comments. After reading everything, it seems awesome though.
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Will try dropping in if it happens at a place like Barleyz.
Video games are games.

The best GUI's and UX considerations for video games are a completely different kettle of sushi than what you want from a consumer electronics device.

I want to play a puzzle with Super Mario.

I want to answer a red-eye phone call in the middle of the night with my iPhone without playing a game (it still has a lovely app wrapper for puzzle games, right there on the customisable app launching springboard for when I want that sort of software).

I adore Japanese hardware/software design, but I don't want my toothbrush or phone to be kawaii.
Seems to Be world Wide, Same here From Sweden, Imap /smtp, Same logging in on Admin console.
We had a young'un who just graduated college who we hired and recently raised a ruckus about someone using IE8 in the field. I shook my head and silently thanked the powers that be here that we got rid of our WinXP userbase before he got here. Otherwise that poor fella would have had a heart attack. Laddie, you ain't got it bad until you've had to work with IE6.