skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/22/us-usa-security-sn...

And they're urging Hong Kong to do it quickly. I wonder what the result of that will be.
Yes, of course, but money was definitely not my goal when I built this. :)
well said. your original point was completely clear btw.
http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/post/46864003608/a-practical-... might help with the skillset. When you feel ready, update your linkedin profile to match.
The incorrect assumption is that I don't think you'll necessarily make more money by being a data science consultant rather than a django/flask developer.

I don't know where you live but where I live you can make 60-70 USD/hr with the skills you already have. Like, make json API server for a mobile app with Flask, that pays anywhere from $50-150/hr in my experience. As someone else mentioned, what you get paid has more to do with where you live and who you work for.
No, that argument moves the goalposts. He's in the embassy because he didn't want to go to Sweden. He claims not to have wanted to go to Sweden because of the ease of extraditing him from Sweden. But it was easier to extradite him while he was walking the streets of the UK.
So you don't do whiteboarding for interviews, then?
But how does proliferation increase as a result?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Kahney
White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition [video]
No can do. The LatAM will change leadership and he'd be screwed sooner or later. Sadly, USA probably pushed him to commit treason and spill the guts on what USA does to China. He's very valuable to the Chinese; USA should have granted him a pardon, if he stopped talking and secured the materials. Bad precedent but...
SVG has the added problem of not knowing what size/detail it needs to be rendered to - while the image has a size it never knows to what scale it's going to be drawn. If we could provide hints we'd be able to cache a bitmap and scale it without the need to redraw. Even better would be to do away with the bitmap altogether and draw them as triangles.

I'd love to see some of the new vector map detail algorithms applied to SVG - the ones where you throw away any detail smaller than a pixel. Then we'd be able to zoom smoothly or (if the points need to be calculated and cached) progressively loading (and possibly streaming) detail.
What's worth pointing out with the corn->ethanol issue is that it would take 1 acre of prime farmland to run your average F150 for 5 weeks. That acre would be damn close to perfect nutritionally (IE mixed diet, animals actually use more land but can feed on relatively infertile but pasture-able land) feeding one person for a year.

However, in actuality one bushel of corn averages 50 ears, the national corn harvest average per acre is 123, which means 6150 ear of corn, which means ~16.8 ears of corn a day. 110 calories for your average ear of corn, meaning 1800 food calories a day for a full year. On one tank of gas for your average commercial vehicle.

I do not get why anyone would want to turn corn into fuel, because even fuelling a statistically insignificant portion of the market would literally mean removing hundreds of thousands of peoples food from circulation. And it is food grade corn that goes to make ethanol, because unsellable ears of corn are already spoken for and sold for animal feed.

One of the main reasons I want to buy land is so I can become as close to fully self sustaining as possible.
those aren't legal statutes, those are contracts.

Just because a contract says something doesn't mean its enforceable. Many grad students moonlight with consulting work in computer science and other technical disciplines.
It also has a 'Sign up by June 23' at the top, so maybe there will be more available then?
What Google gets right and where it fails
Is this solely for developers or does it cover other fields?
Certain people are going to like iOS 7 and certain people aren't. Its been that way with every single work of art since the beginning of time. Trying to "make" someone see the beauty in something they instinctively dislike is pointless.

For what its worth the "common" people (i.e. not the ones that write blogs or go on Hacker News) seem to generally like iOS 7, and that has always been Apple's primary market anyway.

I don't like Barbie, but I'm not a girl. Same thing.
Someone, you know who, will call in a bomb and force the plane to land in UK, or Germany or another US satellite state. Or maybe USAF F-16s will greet the plane along the way
No. We actually work to factor out a lot of the hard technical stuff into stuff candidates do at home.
The hard bit isn't the drawing of the vectors - it's the conversion from vectors to triangles (triangulation) it's non-trivial and can be slow for complex (and complexly filled shapes).
For many people, that's rather like asking them to "get over" their fear of heights; it's not very reasonable. It's the kind of thing you struggle through over the course of your lifetime, probably never totally solving it.
Can someone explain this to me like I'm five, because what I'm taking from "unencrypted GPS data" is that the military controls these drones by basically pushing coordinates, and gaining control could be as simple as broadcasting your signal a heck of a lot louder?
This reminds me of an episode of Castle.
But the reality of ease of extradition may be very different than what the laws would suggest. The US has been secretly breaking its own most basic laws. Maybe Sweden does, too.
Yes, what a bummer. It was much more fun to watch while it was broadcasting video from the bottom.
https://twitter.com/niconicoen/status/348479142871834624/pho...

Now it's back on the surface again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Shinkai_6500
Microsoft already had hardware accelerated xaml (which is almost identical to SVG) with shaders for bitmap filters: blur etc. I would hope they were able to draw upon that work for their SVG implementation.
The idea was to have a list of somewhat high quality resources out there. It's not a complete stack you can install and use out of the box (like debian). You still have to do the work and choose what's right for your project.

If you think something is missing, please send a pull request.
I'm amused by the meme emergent from the Assange debacle that Sweden is some US client state, but the UK is fiercely independent. Like Sweden is Belarus, and nobody really knows anything about them.
Really?

> Sophomoric comments like this ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_calling

> Name calling is abusive or insulting language referred to a person or group,

If I squint in a half light, I might consider you have obeyed the literal letter of the guidelines. So, congratulations.

But seriously? You want to defend that comment as not insulting to the poster?

Also, at what point did you reply to the argument?
I'm confused about how you can be so confident in your assessments of the "ease of extradition" property of these two countries. To me that's like claiming you know which country is going to support the US in it's next war. Sure you can look at the laws and the history, but these things seem very fuzzy to me. I don't understand where your confidence comes from.
These are basically the definition of "populist sentiment": things that it makes voters happy to hear/think about, but which no political party desires.
Not a single major bankster thrown in jail and now we're lecturing other countries about the Rule of Law? Hilarious.
If I understand it correctly, the actual communications link between the drone and whoever is controlling it may be encrypted and uncompromised but all a hijacker needs to do is spoof the GPS signals itself coming from the satellites by, as you said, broadcasting alternate signals more powerfully in the vicinity of the drone.

But I could be wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPPA
"or you simply quit??"

That's just silly. I'm not trying to defend his actions but I do want to defend a sane persons option to change their mind in light of more evidence / information. You don't just quit. You re-examine your priorities and adjust your outlook.
> Esperanto is far from "unbiased" - it's obviously extremely influenced by European languages.

I agree here! It's so much easier to learn for English or Spanish speaker. But still Chinese or Japanese speaker will learn Esperanto 10 times faster then English. Huge improvement.

> E.g. no non-gender pronoun, for some reason.

Well, most languages including English doesn't have non-gender pronoun.
Yet in Esperanto officially you can use "ĝi" (it) or "tiu" (that person) for referring to the person of unknown/unspecified gender. But people seem not to use it often.

>Use of diacritics and extra pronunciation rules are also a negative.

Majority of languages use diacritics or non-latin writing system and steel doing fine. It's not that hard. But as a trade-off you get one sound - one letter philosophy.

> Moving to Esperanto would not save time at all, and would be significantly more difficult for the many people that now have to learn yet another very Euro-centric language with complicated. And, there's really very little benefit to switching.

Moving to Esperanto is like moving from Latin numbers to Arabic. Yes, sorry, it will require at least some learning to use.

> Making up a language won't gain traction. Even most programmers can't figure out how to write/read decent programming languages

We don't need most to create something good.

> Why on earth would we think the rest of humanity will accept it for spoken language?

I don't thing so. But there are good reasons mentioned in this comment.

> And at any rate, it'd have to be a lot better than Esperanto or alternatives for it to be worthwhile.

It's pretty awesome, really. I was skeptical too until I tried.
Approximately how many loons are required to give coverage to most of the world?

If the density of loons per 100 square kilometers isn't too high, mesh networking together with GPS should be sufficiently evolved at some point to make it a network very robust to attacks by government. It's also possible that the networks can discard GPS-assisted routing data before beaming that content back down to earth, ensuring that we won't even be able to determine the geographic origin of any packets.

I would imagine that one of the few things out there that may help us combat the balkanization of the internet and eavesdropping will be the ability to have extra national communications in the sky. I think the best thing would be to actually set up many of the loons as Tor exit nodes. If the price of hardware gets cheap enough the ease of putting these in the sky and not worrying about them will be awesome.
Except isn't that exactly the rule of law? Making up laws after the fact and then convicting people of them is the opposite of the rule of law.
I was going to point out that I disagree in some parts by sharing a screen cap of your article viewed in Safari on iOS 7. But that upload from camera roll appears to be broken.

I've been actively using iOS 7 since first available. Overall, the experience is good. I'm not going into any specifics because I don't care to violate the nda on my dev account. (Posting a photo would be fine since the Safari interface is already public knowledge.)

Safari needs a lot of work. The UI changes are not good. Not good at all. It's the one app that I really hope Apple backtracks on.

Your article has visual formatting problems and an incessant ad taking up the top 25% of the screen.
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Since Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, the general look and feel of smartphone interfaces has become somewhat commoditized. The new iOS 7 separates Apple from the pack a bit more with a super different-looking interface. Once this has been on the market for awhile, you’ll be able to tell from a distance or in an instant whether a phone is an iPhone or not. (This is true despite the fact that Apple decided to copy the Android animated wallpaper look.)

I'd argue the opposite: previous iterations of iOS are much more visually distinctive than this one. Which isn't a knock against the design language of iOS 7, but I think its a tricky argument (and certainly one that the author did not make) to say that this looks more different than WP/Android as opposed to less.
This is not true or at least it is more complicated than you suggest.

The computationally complex bit is triangulating the image. If you can do that the graphics card will have an easier time drawing the vectors than it will shuffling all those textures around. In fact you could send all your vectors in one draw call.

What we need is browsers caching SVGs as geometry not pixels.
the law being on your side is a cold comfort when you're fired!
If you are coming from the microsoft world you will have lots of surprises until you realize that the open source world (the unix philosophy) is completely different. You have lots of small tools which are designed to work together and be replaceable, not a huge monolithic product curated by a single entity.
Reuters[1] published a correction clarifying that the UAV in question was owned by the university. It wasn't a military drone. The article on Sophos[2] site also says this.

Military GPS signals are encrypted[3]. 'Hijacking' a drone that relies on the civilian signal is an interesting technical accomplishment but offers no progress towards doing the same thing to an aircraft using the military band.

[1] http://rt.com/usa/texas-1000-us-government-906/

[2] http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/02/drone-hackedwith-...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Commu...
sarcasm by the OP...maybe?
I'm not sure I believe that he's spent much time with iOS 7. There are some awesome changes under the hood but the overall experience needs a lot of work. Many of the built in apps that were changed seem like Apple spent about a half day on them. Safari is a real mess.
Satellites are considerably more expensive, and have a lot more lag.

I am interested in the helium, considering it's a non-renewable resource with limited stocks. As I understand it (and I'm probably wrong) I thought one of the problems with high altitude balloons was that helium leaked more readily.

It's a fascinating project, and I'm really glad that there are companies like Google doing this kind of stuff.
There are phases of the flight where the drone is flying automatically. Also if the connection to the command center is cut, the drone flys automatically.

Thus to hack a drone, you need to:

(1) Cut its connection to the command center.
(2) Shout louder than the GPS satellites, and shout data
that will confuse the drone into being in a location
it is not, trying to get it to move where you want.

You can do (1) by just shouting random crap over the control frequency.

By 'shout' I mean, emit radiowaves.
The OS/Browser don't matter. I disabled font smoothing and anyone who has that on on any software/hardware combination will be subjected to output like in my screenshot.

To explain this a tiny bit further: Fully developed and professional fonts will have had attention put into them to ensure that they will look perfect in pixel-exact representation at any font size. The font you chose had that kind of work only put in for up to font size 8 or thereabouts and thus looks terrible.
Yep, I suppose this would be the preferable way to deal with this whole situation, although it might confuse new Go programmers and it may produce nasty bugs which are rather hard to find (especially in a larger code base, obviously).
Why not just Clojure?

Does it have a tail-call->loop strategy? cpython, like JVM, doesn't have TCO.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13591970/does-python-opti...
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"I need to go off the radar for a bit."

Not sure how big this guy is, let's just say average build, average height - is it me - or is there no visible body in the driver's seat at 3:00 in the video?

If he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, he would have been ejected to where the engine was. Otherwise, that seatbelt keeps him in the same place, even if he leaned over, etc.

Not into conspiracies but definitely some interesting observations from others on this thread.

The BIGGEST red flag of course is WHY he was speeding through a red light at a high rate of speed.

Could be many, many things.
It would be better if the browser cached the image as triangulated geometry. Then it would be much faster to draw and could be arbitrarily scaled.
It wasn't clear at first, but the other headlines from this author make it obvious that this is Onion-style satire:

Taliban Named Best Place to Work 2013

U.S. Promises Smooth Transfer of Quagmire from Afghanistan to Syria
I think he went to the embassy, to avoid being extradited from either the UK or from Sweden, to the US. The point is not to be extradited; avoiding the interrogation for the trumped up rape charges, which would have resulted in a Swedish slap on the wrist even if convicted, was not his fear.

Are you really arguing that since he could have been extradited from the UK at some point before going to the embassy, that going to the embassy wasn't to avoid ultimate US extradition? I don't even get why you might draw that conclusion.
By the way, you don't need a _ assignment there. You can just do i := range mySlice.
Well, in the '70s the Democrats were perceived as weak on drugs, the party of "acid, amnesty and abortion" circa McGovern's run in 1972. And the Supreme Court delivered on abortion in 1973's Roe v. Wade, and Carter on amnesty for Vietnam era draft dodgers on his first day in office in 1977.

But I don't remember any president in my politically aware lifetime really being "weak" on drugs (any more than they were weak on crime, that is). And by the same token, opposition to the War On Drugs is not particularly ideological, it's a requirement for libertarians, lots of notable conservatives including William F. Buckley have opposed it ... overall it's a colossal mess.

Although I'm entirely uncertain a complete reversal would be better for anything but civil rights, especially since efforts in that direction in other First World countries have not worked well to my knowledge. And there are worrying studies that indicate marijuana might kindle schizophrenia, which we as a society no longer handle well at all.

Me, I said prior to all we've learned in the last few months that make it look like a sideshow, that we could have a free society or a war on drugs, pick one. This made no impression on parents I've discussed it with, they are terrified their kids will be harmed by them.
So easy to say "it would be better if someone with a better reputation picked up the baton," so difficult to actually quit your day job and do it yourself.
Not enough satellite spectrum, high launch costs, not enough LEO slots, can't be deployed on short notice, requires larger antennae on the ground for high bandwidth. [1]

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130618-googl...
How has he reversed his position on Gitmo?
Great blast from the past:

Several of the transatlantic telecommunication companies -- Global Crossing, Tyco, Worldcom -- are in financial difficulty due to alleged deceptive accounting practices

Hey, I remember them!
I never understood this view, why? Because of all the businesses I deal with daily whose systems I do not have source too store my personal data in some form or another. Some of them even store information I do not store at home, hell some of it I am probably not allowed to; medical.

I look at it that way, there are far too many sources out of my control to worry about a few programs or more at home. I don't have the time to review all that code even if I had it at home, let alone be able to say with a straight face I understood it all.

So I will stay in your insane category, frankly anyone who actually lives by that mantra would never turn a computer on.
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Can we please stop this? If anyone wants to follow this story, she can go to cnn.com or news.google.com; let's please leave HN for interesting technical content. This is truly becoming tiring.
The workers at the German tourist offices (e.g. those near a Hauptbahnhof) speak 5 languages fluently: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German.
> The BIGGEST red flag of course is WHY he was speeding through a red light at a high rate of speed.

I'd be interested to know how many people drive through red lights, and how many people drive at that speed, and how many people drive at red lights at that speed. (Not because it has any bearing on this story, I just want to put it in some kind of context.)
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Why would he do that? Neither he nor anyone else of importance would gain anything.

It seems very odd to expect someone to subject themselves to the anger of a deeply corrupt government recently (partly) exposed.
In LA people drive like that all the time. I am not sure why that part of the story is suspicious.
This may be satire, but it is also 100% accurate, in its own way.
Actually, I stand corrected, indexed subscripting works back to iOS 5:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Object...
I find English much more suitable for naming programming "objects" then Cyrillic languages. I think it's due to the lack of case system, tendency to short wording and even ability to short these already short words further.

I wonder would it be simple to name program "things" in Japanese?
how is what he spilled treason? Article III:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
The readability of Scheme and the speed of Python?
I wasn't aware of any such meme. I don't think many Assange supporters have a positive view of the UK. I certainly don't. The lying criminals in one government are willing to work with the lying criminals in other governments.
When I saw this title, I was sure this was going to link to The Onion.
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pineapple.io is awesome, I read it ever day. It's more of a news website for me though, not a reference.
Are they dangerous? Yes. Do they commit terrorism? I wouldn't doubt it. Do they do stupid things sometimes? Sure. Are they insane? Almost certainly not and your examples do nothing to provide evidence to the contrary. Why even provide a justification for the shelling if they were insane? Do you really believe they do not try to act in their own self interest?

I haven't seen any evidence that the depiction that they-could-do-anything-next and are therefore immune to normal diplomacy and threats of force is anything but a caricature.

Again, I am not defending North Korea just pointing out distortions which impair making informed decisions and correctly interpreting world events.
What world do you live in where this would be populism?

Most people don't care, and most of those who do would counter those points with "yes, but I'm afraid".
I've been using iOS 7. I was using Apple Maps in iOS 7 on the drive back today. With the screen in full sunlight, the UI is still very readable. I would say it's more readable than the old one. The black letters on the light background just pop out.
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