skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the APL history confirms that
How about a skinning/theming system? Would make this far simpler and less fork-y.
I wonder how this compares to Android users, where (I presume) many users have auto-update turned on.
Dear fellow entrepreneurs, I'm disappointed nobody sees the business opportunity here: with right marketing, demand for cheap, heat seeking or optical recognition rockets could skyrocket (pun intended).

Home Defender™

Oops, my rocket launched from my backyard and accidentally hit your drone, neighbor ;)
This is not the answer HN is looking for, but Iceland is safe because it's full of Icelanders. England was safe when it was full of Englishmen. Not anymore. Sweden was safe when it was full of Swedes. Not anymore. Etc.
We have treadmill desks at our office, I don't use it all day, but will hop on it for around 1 hour usually. I feel like that is a pretty good compromise.
The question you should really be asking is why shouldn't they? The best applications out there do one thing and do it well. Awk, sed, vi(m), emacs, git. Need I go on?
You can use visual studios express for free. It may not have all the bells and whistles of the full blown VS it works pretty well.
This is also good advice for walking. Your shoes tend to encourage you to heel strike and trying to step with more weight on the balls of your feet will let you walk much much longer without fatigue (after your ankles get used to it).
You could always compromise the drone via a hose or some such, without any physical confrontation with the owner.
Draft (YC W11) now has tools to transcribe video/audio
Shouldn't be too hard to sue for criminal damage to the legal drone either. On top of that, there would be liability for any damaged caused.
Both travel and volunteering have to do with connecting with other people in the most quintessential ways.

Volunteering has to do with helping people in need. When you do that, you realize the scope of how much fellow humans are in need. As social creatures, we humans can't but feel humbled and feel that there is still something meaningful worth striving for -- a sense of purpose. Given that we are all tech people here, it's safe to assume that daily needs and 'creature comforts' are so easily secured that we easily don't feel that sense of purpose as it pertains to ourselves. Volunteering connects with others who inherently have a sense of purpose, since they struggle, and the act of volunteering is an act of committing yourself to the purpose of helping fellow humans in need.

Traveling opens your mind to new people and new cultures. And those ideas can get you to re-think what you believe, and you can grow as a person. You can also learn things to make the world around you better. What is the culture around education in Finland, and why is their ed. system so good? If Americans increasing want public transit, what does European rail transit have to each us? How could Bus Rapid Transit pioneered in S. America be even better? How can some cultures in Africa and India be a peek into human history 4000 years ago? Does South India's plant-based cuisines have the tastiest answer to current diet and environment movements in the US?

We tech people & entrepreneurs are taught to build things that people want, so talk to users to find out what they want. We are also taught to leverage other experiences and ideas to inspire solutions to our problems at hand. It should be obvious, now, that both of those ideas are directly related to volunteering and traveling, respectively.
Empty list initialization
ASIC's accidental block exposes secret Internet filtering scheme
I think it was meant to be sold, but I recall them just giving them away for free for people that originally bought them.
1) You don't need Parallels: http://xamarin.com/ have a lovely ide for OS X built on Mono (open source. NET), I much prefer this to VS-in-Parallels although I'm on a lowly macbook air with 4gb of ram. There's also free alternatives to Parallels, and Microsoft certainly don't "require" it for .NET development.

2) There are cheaper windows licenses

3) There is a free version of Visual Studio: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-st...

4) Resharper is great but it's a luxury and an optional one
First, I make unmanned aircraft as my day job. I'm comfortable with the technology, and my windows have curtains. So I have no problem with someone flying one of these on my property. (For the record, I do not think it's OK to fly on someone else's property without the property owner's permission.)

Second, I do not believe the story happened as the person claims. The details just don't add up. A guy takes his radio-controlled aircraft to a local park with a huge soccer field and chooses to fly in someone's side-yard instead? I think that's unlikely. Also, the interaction between the husband and the pilot? That sounds heavily weighted to make the husband seem uber-nice and the pilot seem like a dick. I'd bet the real interaction was different than described.

Of course, there's not enough info to know, so my interpretation is only speculation.
An interpretation of the future.
Huh. I would think that the only ones benefiting from the current state of affairs are scammers and spammers, strange that the big players haven't gotten together and done something about it.
One workaround is to sync your apps with iTunes on a computer, do the app updates there, then sync the updated apps back in to your iOS device.
Shoes are huge, yeah. You can go to a local restaurant supply store and get perfectly cromulent anti-fatigue mats, btw. People in kitchens have been struggling with this longer than us nerds.
Hi, I'm also working on a minimalistic reactive programming concept; https://github.com/azer/attr

I have a library called "attr", which mixes pubsub (npm.im/pubsub) and new-prop (npm.im/new-prop)

And you simply get;

foo = attr(3)

bar = attr().getter(function(){ return foo() + 5 })

foo()
// => 3

bar()
// => 8

foo(5)

bar()
// => 10

They are simply based on a very simple pubsub interface (publish,subscribe). So you can also do;

foo = attr(3)

bar = bar()

foo.subscribe(function(update){
bar(update + 5)
})

bar.subscribe(function(update){
update
// => 10
})

foo(5)

The advantage of this concept is, it's really easy to extend and optimize. Here is an example that I use new-list (npm.im/new-list) and new-object new-object (npm.im/new-object) to create some lists and objects, and use subscribe (npm.im/subscribe) module to create one callback for observing all changes:

people = newObject({ 'jack': 23, 'smith': 27 })

fruits = newList('apple', 'orange')

foo = attr()

bar = attr()

foo.subscribe(function(update){
bar( update + 5 )
})

subscribe(people, fruits, bar, function(updates){

updates[0].params
// => { add: { John: 21 }, rm: ['smith'] }

updates[1].params
// => 12

})

people.rm('smith')

people('John', 21)

foo(7)

My work is done until here. And here is the part that I'm actually working on: http://github.com/azer/new-reactive

It's a library for creating your own HTML binding abstractions like AngularJS. But your own that you can share, that can be extended by somebody else or can be mixed with another namespace of abstractions.

Which means, if your company is named "foo" and you're using a library called "bar", you can have bindings like;

<button foo-play="song" bar-content="i18n.play"></button>
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Javascript and the Future of Native Applications
Great graph and spread sheet in this article. I wonder how this would model out for changing cost per acquisition if you factored in a K Factor less than 1?
People clearly didn't understand the question and are having a visceral reaction to the fact that this woman said 'startup' which ironic given that this is hackernews. Even people who work at Google Facebook etc all work 9-9. I don't know a single person that doesn't work more than 8 hours a day including fashion, media, event planning, medicine, banking, consulting, etc etc.
On the off chance you see this later, I think you want a Turing-complete language, but one without an interesting standard library.

> - Automatically scanning for insecure configurations (eg. OpenSCAP)

Since the language can't access the outside world, the worst it can do is use unbounded space or time. Just verify that it halts in a couple ms.

> - Parsing the configuration in other programs.

You don't parse, you embed an interpreter and execute.

> - Modifying the configuration programmatically (cf. Puppet et al)

Code generation isn't that hard.
Sure you can, if you have a backup of the ipa file on your computer.
Not sure where you're going with this. Care to explain?
Perl's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform is much more functional-style, I suppose, and it's here from 1994.
RethinkDB is definitely late to the party, so this is a great question. Here's how we think about it.

1. Technically, Rethink already does very useful things leading NoSQL contenders don't do. An extremely expressive query language, massive query parallelization, distributed joins, etc. You can't get that anywhere else, and we have lots of features in the pipeline to keep raising the bar.

2. I believe we have a unique take on usability and design that is very valuable to users but isn't present in other products. Rethink is pleasant to set up and (hopefully) pleasant to use. To us, design matters, and we put an inordinate amount of effort to make the product beautiful. It turns out users care about this a lot.

3. I feel like leading NoSQL contenders are somewhat stagnant. There is an enormous amount of innovation that could be done, needs to be done, and isn't being done. We'll continue releasing really useful features that nobody has, and (I think) nobody expects. I think we bring a unique philosophy to product design that's very valuable.

4. Details matter (which is why Rethink is late to the party). Once you outgrow the ten-minute blog stage, a lot of underlying architectural decisions start to really matter, and we took the time to do them right.

TL;DR: Rethink is already really good for building apps on top of it and offers things nobody else does. It will continue getting better. We'd be honored if you took it for a spin!
Or mount a remote controlled gun to the drone to shoot back...
"Too old to be new, too new to be classic"
Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation
I guess my issue with this is dependent on how the LP videos are done. I've seen boring LP videos where they just play the game. However, there are things like Game Grumps that I typically watch more for their reactions and commentaries moreso than the actual games they are playing.
The Sagnac skew would still occur in a non-relativistic universe. All that's needed is a finite speed for light.

However, yes, relativity further complicates it.
"Why build one when you can build two for twice the price".

God I'm such a nerd.
Won't run on my iphone, since it requires ios 6.1.
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete ?
All human movement is a skill and anything you "do wrong" over and over again will eventually cause injury. I'd recommend you take a look at Dr. Kelly Starrett's book "Becoming A Supple Leopard" the title may seem silly but the information inside is life changing.

Here is the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Supple-Leopard-Preventing-Per...

I can also help if needed, contact should be in my profile.
I hope this succeeds in the market. IGZO can combine the positives of a-Si (lower cost, scalability to larger panels) and LTPS (high PPI, thinner borders), and can have significantly lower power than both a-Si and LTPS. In other words, IGZO can be the key to large low-cost high-PPI panels.
Wow.

Was it ever used?
This accords with our experience with large Oracle databases as well.

We've had a few panics caused by a DBA having updated table statistics when trying to optimize some query. This would occasionally cause sudden, massive changes in the way that other unrelated queries were performed, which queries would not finish and sometimes bring down the database.

These experiences caused us to have to change our procedures and keep the test database data closely in sync with the production data, so we'd know how newly gathered statistics would affect queries. The database is large enough that having testing be a full and recent copy of production is pretty painful. Oracle has since introduced features in 11g that allow pinning query plans, we've yet to try these though.
Would love to get an email (address in profile) from you to chat about some tangental stuff (re: intelligence in monitoring systems)
After spending years in the military, where your profession is basically standing around for long hours without knowing what the hell is going on, I decided that standing sucked.

There is one general rule: get up and move around! The human body is built to resist staying in the same position for too long. We are built to move.

Go for a run! Or, just go grab a coffee across the street. Just move!
Why my client fired his accountant (hint: they were terrible at email)
Coroutines in C++
I built a standing desk with two adjustable height shelf systems from home depot instead of splurging on an expensive adjustable height desk.

One shelf puts the monitor at eye level and the other shelf holds the keyboard at the appropriate height.

I repurpose my yoga mat as an anti-fatigue standing mat and take my Air to the couch or bed when I get tired of standing.

Its a pretty good system that I have come to rely on.
Prepos - Codekit for Windows (Open Source)
I wouldn't necessarily say that standing desks CAUSE the injury, but you could make the point that going from standing for 0 hours to standing for 8+ hours in a single day or week could cause plantar faciitis. Maybe working up to standing for that long, or standing in intervals would be a better choice.

A great option would be to get a treadmill desk and walk at a slow pace. Not only would you burn more calories but you would also constantly be shifting your weight, meaning less time being spent with your wait placed on one area of your foot. Obviously you would want to build up to 8 hours of walking as well.
This guy is awesome, thanks for the book link!
Ah yep you're right. Don't know why I had £100 in my head.
Chief executives and the itch to quit
Plain text works fine in ASCII world. But if you ever need to read bi-directional emails like I did(e.g. Arabic text with some English words) you will understand the necessity of using HTML in email. Without proper formatting and markup that HTML offers, English words seem to fly around the text and end up at semi-random places.

I wish to see better support for non-ASCII plain text in email clients and web browsers, but until the HTML is all I have.
I know this feeling, and I know it well. I agree with philbarr that it depends on your job. I think it also depends on your position in the social structure.

But it's just another way that a job may seem better at the time than it actually is. I try to be skeptical of the perks of what I do, and put the main things (pay, gaining experience, commute time, comfort, etc) first.
It's an easy problem to talk about avoiding, sure. We can see an obvious failure mode, so we just won't do that. But it won't be you doing it in the first place, you won't have that sort of authority. You've got to think what sort of person's going to be giving you what you ask for, what sort of terms they're likely to impose.

The person doing it won't always have an incentive to avoid the same things that you or I might think of as undesirable. The last thing you want to do is to ask for something, be one of a selection of competing viewpoints on it, and then get the Cthulhu version imposed on you.

Can you get rules that make sense out of a system? Sure. But the tendency is that you won't - at least not without a threat that forces a uniformity of interest upon the system.
Holy Quantum Annealing Qubits Batman!

That article was not for the faint of geek.
If this was the case, they'd fix the accounts system. Nothing I do on the web is ever tied to my G+ account because I have 5 different Google accounts and it's a crapshoot which one I'm signed into at any given time. One thing is for sure, though, that I'm never signed into the one that my Google+ account is tied to since you couldn't use Google apps accounts at launch to sign up for G+.
In short. Google+ is thriving, but we decided to shut down Google+ Games. Look away... Look away.

If you paid for anything contact the companies that are already tired of us and have them solve your problem. Oh and by the way, try our new Google Play Game Service! Hurry, before it's gone!
This is actually my intuition, too: most of the Scandinavian countries' successes are better attributed to racial homogeneity than to actually being institutionally sounder.

I can't prove that, though; there have been discussions before about immigration similarities, but nothing that I found convincing enough to remember.
Re: Your first point, the App Store uses delta updates now, so, it doesn't download/replace files that haven't changed.
Newegg is winning the hearts and minds of the "Tech Influencers" here. People like us who follow the news and understand the importance of supporting endeavors like this are more likely to recommend and influence the buying decisions of others.

You go from being a customer, to an evangelist.
I guess this is better than hardcoding your password... but not by much.
What about them? Are they especially good? Bad?
No issues whatsoever with Firefox 21 on XP
Great Ideas Aren't Worth Much Without Great Execution Behind Them
I understand some of the words, but the article itself seems to me as ancient Greek.

Can someone explain to me what the hell the whole story is about?
Sorry for the snarky comment. I usually don't make these types of comments but shutting down a service, asking users to do the leg work to solve game credit problems, and then marketing a new service in the same post bugs me.
What was the comment about the weight gain? Does the author mean that one gains weight by standing a lot?
I agree with your sentiment, but note that the white English "working" class has descended into much higher criminality and violence over the last fifty years. So there are other factors at work. In contrast this has not happened to nearly such an extent in the USA, for one example.
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I frequently see apps with thousands of distinct query signatures. Having a developer manually chose indexes, join ordering, aggregation method, (just to name a few) for every single query, and then select multiple plans because input parameters absolutely do result in scenario where plans can be 10,000x off in performance -- well, that's just untenable.

Not trying to claim that CBOs are the panacea here, but let's be realistic. Having developers manually plan every single query is not the right choice.
When you have 2 extremes the real solution is almost always somewhere in the middle. I think a good solution to the syntax amount problem is Python, but I still don't like significant whitespace.
Yeah you are right, nothing odd about this behavior (of flying a drone near someones house without permission and then claiming you are doing research).

In fact, if anyone wants to try similar research at my home, please email me, I would love to film my response. :)

Imagine 4-5 V for Vindetta mask wearing hockey players approaching you quickly and aggressively to get an idea of what would happen. I'll be the guy on the porch filming and laughing.
The truth is, D-Wave has done nothing to foster the coherence of their "qubits", and so they have built a very expensive, superconducting, classical computer. There is no quantum trick, actually.

Scott Aaronson, the self-described "Chief D-Wave Skeptic", disagrees with you:

Now, I’d say, D-Wave finally has cleared the evidence-for-entanglement bar—and, while they’re not the first to do so with superconducting qubits, they’re certainly the first to do so with so many superconducting qubits. So I congratulate D-Wave on this accomplishment. If this had been advertised from the start as a scientific research project—”of course we’re a long way from QC being practical— —but we’ve shown experimentally that can entangle 100 superconducting qubits with controllable couplings”—my reaction would’ve been, “cool!” -- http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400
Excuse the Noob question, but what's the difference between Scala.Rx and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5719637
4GB per Vector
Why getting new things make us feel so good: Novelty and the brain
Company Logos in Google Search Results, Thanks to New schema.org Markup
I clicked on the post thinking that mixpanel and fullcontact together would give me a drip campaign solution?

i take it what is really being said is that the combined analytical data between the two services provides more useful data for the campaigns?
> “stoquastic Hamiltonians,”

Why not "stoquastic Hamilsquonians?"
There is some sort of international agreement, originally intended to prevent the use of off-the-shelf GPS components in building cheap missiles. The agreement prevents all GPS receivers from providing data when their altitude is higher than some number (10 km I think), and their speed is above some number (hundreds of km/h IIRC).

Some GPS vendors read the above in terms of an OR function, instead of an AND function. In other words, their receivers stop functioning above that altitude no matter what the speed is.

That prevents some off-the-shelf GPS receivers from being used to build stratospheric balloons, since these things can climb all the way to 30 km altitude, or more. Other GPS receivers are built on an AND function, and work well with strato balloons. Sometimes it's a bit tricky to tell if a given receiver is an AND or an OR.

I assume, if you build a DIY GPS receiver, you can even ignore any such limitation altogether, right? That might well be illegal where I live, I'm not sure, and I have no intention to build such a thing anyway. I'm just asking in principle.

EDIT: This is the COCOM limit:

In GPS technology, the phrasing "COCOM Limits" is also used to refer to a limit placed to GPS tracking devices that should disable tracking when the device realizes itself to be moving faster than 1,000 knots (1,900 km/h; 1,200 mph) at an altitude higher than 60,000 feet (18,000 m).[2] This was intended to avoid the use of GPS in intercontinental ballistic missile-like applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom
...said every person who read the product description, ever.
Kinda concerned that a lot of replies here are all about destroying some potentially innocent hobbyist's property. Why the sudden macho destructive reaction? These drones are classic hacker territory, yet there is some quite disproportionate reaction.

Right now, we have no idea what was in the "pilot's" mind, to suddenly assume its some thing suspicious smacks of paranoia. The then start on about attacking and destroying the "toy" is absurd.

Did any one care when people used RC helicopters in the same way?

I think that partly the word "drone" has become a scary word because of its association with government evil doing.
How To Fuzzy Search in Postgres For Django (And why it didn't work for me)
Designer News. It is more focused on UI and such than writing or painting though.

https://news.layervault.com/stories
Rumored to have less than 1,000 pre-orders, then they just gave them to all those people for free and called it a dev product. So it cost them a couple hundred thousand and saved a good amount of future support of the device. Plus it was an unusual decision which got them some good press and might encourage people to preorder in the future just in case something like this happens again.
Your advocacy for throwing kids into the heavy handed justice system is a much bigger menace to society than Kiera.