skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you an electrical engineer, or similarly educated in RF communications, and thus able to determine what is arbitrary?

CpE here. The vast majority of communications links on planes use twisted-pair differential signaling [1], which is extremely resistant to RF interference.

I've also worked on test procedures for avionics equipment, and assure you that RF interference testing is a part of all test plans for such equipment. The types of interference we tested against were far more aggressive than those that any consumer electronics can emit.

Keep in mind that the FCC also aggressively regulates RF emissions from all consumer electronics devices. Testing against FCC regulations is an involved and expensive affair, and the vast majority of devices are forbidden from any powerful RF emissions.

> if I am unsure a device that emits RF will affect my instruments, I shut it off. Inconvenience does not outweigh safety, even / especially if the effect on safety is unknown. The worst case scenario, although likely minor, is simple not worth the risk.

If phones or other complex electronic devices truly can interfere with avionics, their presence should be forbidden in the passenger cabin. It wouldn't be hard to detect them during security screening.

I conjecture the reason that this hasn't happened is because the risk of such interference is a practical impossibility for the reasons stated above.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_signaling
NPR is great, but never questions the legitimacy of the US Government.
Nah don't worry, it's just an info thread. Actually this document doesn't even talk about false positives, so even if everything inside is right, it's at least incomplete and non representative.
A psychologist friend whom I just asked about this said that in animal models of behavior, this is called an "extinction burst." Animals that have been conditioned into a behavioral response through operant conditioning will often be found, after a reward is no longer given for the conditioned response, repeating the response often and with random timing. Sometime human beings are trained by their computers rather than exercising volitional control over their computers.
Oh the irony if their "web design" firm is using pirated software.
> have they addressed the simulation and UI building issues

I don't know what UI building issues you're referring to but the intel based emulators run very quickly and I have no problems using them. Though I still prefer testing directly on hardware, for different form factors that isn't always an option.
Dwolla isn't a bank, it's a payments processor.
So basically radio? Not at all as attractive as Spotify, where you create your own playlists (that, and off-line mode on my phone are the two killer features of Spotify for me).
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Two complaints: what is with Google's naming these days? "Google Play Music All Access"? If Gmail was launched today it would have been called Google+ Mail Unlimited. What's wrong with "Google Music"?

Secondly- why would I use this over a specialist like Spotify or Rdio? I know why Google want me to, but as of right now I don't see the benefits from switching to a specialist provider that is dedicated to music to a generalist company that has a passing interest in the area.
But you are obligated to file, even if you have zero income, and you are obligated to disclose assets, even if they're your spouse's.

There are several more requirements not related to income, or even if the citizen ever lived in the US (many people have US citizenship and have never stepped foot here), each of which can carry a substantial penalty if violated.

There are many people living in fear -- and many in substantial debt -- not about income tax problems, but about IRS filing requirements. The system is a monstrosity.
I've been developing Android apps for a couple of years now. On my machine, Eclipse degenerated to the point where building and running an app would lock up my machine for about a minute. So I made the switch to IntelliJ. It's been great so far, much more responsive. But there have been a few Android tools from Eclipse (the layout preview is worse in IntelliJ) that I've missed. So I'm insanely excited that the Android team is going to be building off of IntelliJ now.

The next thing I'm waiting for is the new, Gradle based, build system.
http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system
This is what I don't understand. Bitcoin/crypto currency is almost not even a factor for these exchanges that deal with both crypto currency and regular dollars.
See, if you were only dealing in crypto currency, then yes, you could argue this is a grey area where there are still a lot of regulations to be laid out, which as a currency you may or may not land on the wrong side of the law.
But when you are dealing with dollars and crypto currency, the crypto currency doesnt matter. there are already PLENTY of laws for being a currency exchange and money services business and the like. So there is no grey area here. It just so happens that in addition to your dollars currency exchange you also deal with crypto currency.
Why tell Mt Gox what they are doing wrong when you can fine them instead? Seems like the American way.
Doesn't auto rotate, widget doesn't really work, playlist resume didn't work for a long time etc.
Happy with Rdio. Sticking with them.
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I moved from Oxford to London five years ago. In comparison to Oxford (and my previous hometown of Portland, Oregon), there were hardly any cyclists and the drivers seemed outright homicidal. I didn't get onto a bike during my first few years here. But lately I've noticed that things seem to be improving tremendously. There are a lot more cyclists on the road, and driver behaviour seems distinctly less homicidal than before. I'm really encouraged by these trends.

Actually, London is improving on almost every front. My chief complaints when I moved here were the scarcity of good coffee, the total absence of burritos, and the lousy cycling conditions. Now there are "cycle highways" growing like kudzu out of the city centre, and you can't throw a rock without hitting a burrito joint or a yuppie-calibre independent coffeeshop.

Go, London!
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I don't see where you can sign up at all.
Well, online music is not particularly new or smaller problem.

The problem is online music is fraught with litigation challenges. Of course, only GOOG or any other tech giant could fight them off with their resources. But at the end of the day, will it really lead to multi-billion dollars in returns?
If I had the reasonable expectation to find somebody qualified willing to help on the street with practically no effort I'd go that route as well. It's just very time consuming to do so, so that's why I usually don't.
I think we do not have the slightest idea, what sentience is. ( Beyond a purely subjective description.) So we have one example of a general intelligence, humans, which are sentient, and no example of a general intelligence which is not. So the baseline expectation should probably be, that a AGI is sentient.
"Google's take on Android"?

Don't they mean just "Android"? Because the shit that comes on a regular S4 is "Samsung's take on Android", no matter how Samsung would prefer to define things.
Your confusing the issues of anonymization and eavesdropping. Tor exit nodes can eavesdrop on unencrypted Tor traffic, so you should always use end-to-end encryption if that is a concern. Tor Hidden Services don't need SSL because the protocol is end-to-end encrypted. Authentication is provided by the onion address itself, which is a fingerprint of the server's key.
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Even if it is already entirely broken by them, there's the question of whether they'll risk revealing that fact by going after you (publicly) c.f. Ultra[1] level intelligence from breaking Enigma.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_%28cryptography%29#Safeg...
I would think Nevada or Delaware would be better.
Back in May 2011, was Bitcoin really a currency? How should a dealer of World of Warcraft gold answer these questions?
Incentivizing the Wikipedia community by offering some extra cash to the organization that runs their servers is not necessarily the same thing as having that organization impose their views on the Wikipedia community.
People on the internet always seem to act like Megaupload was such a perfectly legal website that did nothing wrong and was wrongfully pursued by the American capitalist pig-dogs. Cmon, they were implicit on the piracy.
Oh, sure. I'll just do "DELETE FROM users" and forget about the WHERE clause. Same effect.
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As a former contract web developer myself, these are excellent points Trevor. You need to find a way for every potential client for every freelancer out there to read this. :) Actionable feedback is so key for working with creative talent in general - we can't read your mind!

We actually built some of these ideas into the core of matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). Specifically, milestones and paying your developer quickly. All projects on matchist are milestone based and the client can pay developers in 2 seconds by just clicking a button.
The response of No only became incorrect after the release of the FinCen document, these forms were completed before the FinCen report was released.
What is your app? Facebook started after myspace and friendster and we know how that turned out.
The future is arriving- slowly. Hopefully soon we will be able to make the core of our apps cross-platform by leveraging languages like Javascript, and only resorting to platform-specific code for UI layers.

Here's hoping.
I have been a subscriber to the Economist for, woah, 11 years now. Simply by virtue of its weekly format, it does a good job of ignoring a lot of the interesting-but-transient stuff that wastes your time if you read regular news online. It also has great breadth of coverage -- it's easy to get parochial when you read online news, especially tech, and the E is a reminder that the rest of the world exists and that important things are happening in it.

However, the breadth seems to often come at the expense of depth -- on the occasional chances I get to discuss an article in the Economist with an actual expert in that field, it seems their analysis is often dismissed as superficial and they not-infrequently get basic facts wrong (their letters section often contains quite substantial corrections).
Google releases the Chromebook Pixel - 239 PPI
Now I only need a VI plugin for this IDE.
Finally.... IntelliJ FTW! :)

Best decision ever IMHO
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Because I think it's bullshit (either superstition or a lie). "Might sometimes interfere in an undefined way with an unspecified device" is a non-falsifiable claim.

If somebody told me not to fart during takeoff and landing (because it might change trajectory of the plane — you never know…), then I'd still protest even though it _might_ be safer not to fart.

Phones are supposed to pass FCC EMI tests and I expect planes' electronics to be properly hardened/shielded from EMI even stronger than tiny consumer devices can produce.
Further, things like this give them competitive ammo in G+ vs Facebook & android vs iOS, which are battles over far larger chunks of data than this service alone will generate.
None of my friends will shut up about http://www.yelp.com/biz/zushi-puzzle-san-francisco-2 - probably worth checking out.
> Honest question, why does google want to get into every damn online market?

It's inevitable when you get into the platform business. This is a check mark for comparison charts, nothing more.
Yep, I'm aware of that. He was specifically referring to exit nodes.
How many of those stories would cause the reader to question core assumptions about the legitimacy of the US Government?

Corporate, local, and state-level corruption are all small potatoes fare that is used (along with sensational stories with little actually news content) as a tool to help the orgs pretend to be doing real journalism.

Notably, the NY Times was complicit in the propaganda effort to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
> If you don't do that, then any recognizable* use of someone else's image is a copyright violation.

Er, no. Fair use is actually fairly broad.
I'm not at all familiar with the current ecosystem, but the theory is that complete replacements for VS wouldn't be able to compete if VS was free.

Whatever the merits of the thesis, they'd certainly get sued, and almost certainly lose.
This description of the European startup labor "shortage" sounds so similar to reports from the US that it makes me wonder how diametrically opposed political systems end up with the same set of problems. Of course, when it comes to immigration forces on both ends of the political spectrum aren't so different. The populism of the left and right wing differs in rhetoric but not is substance.
Google Pixels for everyone at Google I/O
Do We Really Need an App for That?
> How much longer until we can develop native applications without Objective-C entirely?

You already can --

Lisp: Nu

Ruby: MacRuby/RubyMotion

Basic: Objective-Basic
This is great; you have just received validation that there is a market out there for your app. How big is this competitor and how far are you from launching?

(If you are talking about a Google I/O launch, well... don't give up yet. You never know when a project will join the Nexus Q and Google Reader.)
Heh, yes, we seriously considered the Honda Civic full of external drives option.[0]

Some of our images were from NASA’s hot new GIBS[1] service, which was extremely fast. However, it’d only backfilled about 2/5 of the data we needed, so for the rest of it we were using a legacy endpoint that was launched around 2004ish and has some, let’s say, idiosyncratic caching and throttling systems.

Instead of setting up a special channel, we talked to them and figured out how to shotgun the downloads in a way that wouldn’t kill their cache or require them to give us special treatment. We thought of this on a Friday and wanted to have it ready when we came in on Monday, and it worked. Thus the somewhat blunt methods.

0. For any young persons in the audience, the reference is to “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” from Tanenbaum’s “Computer Networks”.

1. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about-eosdis/system-description/g...
Thanks Tim. It's too true that people assume because they're paying they can be lazy and assume the contractor will handle every little detail.

Of course not everyone's that way, but you sure can make friends much faster by treating your contractors well.
I believe you can simply remove Facebook Home from the HTC First to return to stock Android, though I'm not sure that guarantees updates like the Nexus devices do.
What makes you think the IRS does care about medical records?
No word on number of songs in the catalog? More than Spotify? Less? What about vs. xbox music?
This stranger seems to have achieved his objective of demonstrating a capability and pushing the conversation about drones along.

The home owner could have dones his part by destroying the drone (I'd prefer a shotgun but if it really was that close simply shooting a net at it would have worked) such that the "researcher" would suffer a property loss which could then give him action to sue.

Then we could have the whole thing walk through the court system and draw out the folks who are pushing behind the scenes because they would not want case law on the books that made done use over private property ruled illegal or property owners destroying drones over their property ruled legal.
Liquid hydrogen UAV flew for two days straight
Would it really be the Facebook phone if it came with stock Android?
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7.99 if you start the trial before June 20th or so.
Even the community edition[1] supports android development. Just point IntelliJ at your android sdk installation folder, and you're off to the races!

[1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html
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Shame it doesn't have a Linux version. But it appears to work fine on Wine.
I think it's awesome that they are using open data from NASA. I sometimes find myself skim through various open data sets and make list of possible projects/products with them.
I generally let the other person initiate contact and just go with the flow. If you have any doubt, it's best to err on the side of handshakes.
Thanks for some actual information (vs speculation, and paranoid resistance to authority).

That said, care to speculate why the prohibition on device use during takeoff / landing?
That comes down to the (philosophical) question if natural numbers existed before the first human started thinking about them. Depending on this the Peano axioms either just describe a part of the universe or they introduce something new. (I don't think it matters that natural numbers were known before the Peano axioms were formulated - before that we just defined natural numbers in a less formal way.)
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Answer;

Money. The other things you listed aren't money makers.
Can I put those batteries in my mobile phone? ;-)
I'm not defending their choice per se, but I can see how they see this move as potentially worth the trouble. It could for example give them an edge when it comes to the adoption of Android devices. Directly it might not generate enough revenue, but it can be an important piece within an all-encompassing ecosystem they are trying to create, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
One problem with having super-intelligent non-sentient AIs (and by sentient, I just mean 'seems sentient to other humans'), is that they won't necessarily have human's best interest at heart.

The usual example of this concept is the paperclip maximizer: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
A primary problem I have with any sort of bodily contact: When it is not genuine. (And my intuition is pretty good on this point.)

Where this perhaps becomes a problem for me is when I correspondingly cannot "fake it", whether that be a "firm, engaging" handshake, or hug (ugh...), or whatever.

I welcome a firm handshake at the end of conversation or negotiation with a straight-dealing, engaged counter-party.

I despise the glad-handing salesman or the like. And, dude, when you sidle up next to me and drape your arm over my shoulder? GTFO.

Hugging someone with whom I don't have some level of intimacy? In significant part an exercise in not pressing the wrong body parts together.

Hugging someone who is a real friend? A momentary welcoming of their physical presence and comfort in same.

So, to summarize: Welcome contact comes from being respectful and cognizant of our relationship (or lack thereof).

P.S.

> And, dude, when you sidle up next to me and drape your arm over my shoulder? GTFO.

That also goes -- this is from a hetero male perspective -- for the overly touchy female. There are some who use physical contact as a tool for foisting a temporary intimacy onto another party that is used for one degree or another of manipulation.

Guys do this, too -- if you read my "dude", above, as being male; although it could be taken in a gender-neutral fashion.

The point of my postscript is to clarify that, from my perspective, both genders can do this... "over-touching", although the details may vary from instance to instance.

I know it's done in good part because it often works, to greater or lesser degree. But, I for one find it annoying as hell because it is not genuine, and/or it seeks to exercise a degree of control and manipulation I do not welcome.
> Personally I think versioning packages is more important, and would prefer to have that option rather than the option to maintain branches for different versions of go (which can be done manually where really required and is unlikely to be an issue in the 1.x series).

The features have nothing to do with each other---it's not an "either or" deal.

I haven't used the `go1.0` or `go1.1` tags myself.

People have tried setting up versioned packages, but it hasn't taken. As for me, I'm quite happy with the simplicity of `go get`. It's been working great for me for over a year.
Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells
How does this compare to cocos2d/zynga's JSB? The JavaScript Bridge
Main disucssion (URL minus trailing #how): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5712802
Curious: what happens to the Eclipse interface and ADT? Do those go off into the sunset or is Google planning to maintain 2 independent development toolkits?
Is Eclipse worse or something when doing Android dev? It seems just fine to me doing normal Java dev, but to hear people talk it is the worst IDE ever invented.
I just remember some of my old co-workers who were developing cross-platform mobile apps complaining about how difficult it was to do UI stuff on Android compared to IOS/Winphone. It looks like they have addressed those concerns though

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333534/google-android-stu...
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Possibly related to operant conditioning with intermittent reinforcement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Intermittent_rei...
This looks like an extremely low-quality experiment for proving the hypothesis in the headline.

(Here is the blog post's link

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6133/707.abstract?sid=...

to the article abstract.)
The United States Dollar, which the company in question accepted and transmitted based on customer instructions, was a currency at the time the forms were filled out.
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I think they mainly use IntelliJ internally, too.
How long before GMail is supported and products like Streak (http://www.streak.com/) can be built on top of it and sold in Google's marketplace? This is a game changer and Microsoft should be very, very worried.
They noted that the launch is today, but it may not be live yet. Probably in the next few hours, now that it's been announced.
What makes you think you can't create playlists?
> The other things you listed aren't money makers.

Yet. It's nice to see Google focus on a mix of cash cows, short-term easy risks and longer-term speculative ventures.
No, it also includes playlists and albums in addition to radio.
Android does emulation not simulation.
It was started in Sweden so I presume they launched there. The UK was one of the early markets though but they were in several European countries very quickly.

I know that licensing is difficult and takes time but Google has plenty of money. They don't need to build revenue in one country before they can launch in another. They need to launch everywhere to get uptake on this, especially when the market is so competitive.
Can this be used for non-google apps ??
This last couple of weeks I've been contacting some companies (start ups and established ones). It seems London is really up there with a talent shortage, but except for one or two established companies, none of them pay any decent money for senior developers to actually live in London.

I live in freaking Portugal with low wages and high taxes. Taking most of the offers that were presented would mean losing a lot of purchasing power at the end of the month. How can you expect to bring people to one of the most expensive places in the world, and try to pay them just a bit above average the UK salary?

So as in the US, there is only a shortage because employers don't want to pay what the market is expecting. (note about the article, the fact companies are paying individuals off the books, actually means the companies are actually saving between 20 to 50% (depending on jurisdiction) over the gross salary, again, more related to money than 'visa' issues)
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