skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good enough for me, thanks. Though not being able to pull together something basic like automatic billing is pretty worrying :-/
Thanks! It's going to be a difficult task, but probably a very worthy one. Even for scientists getting into a new field it would be useful to get an overview of some things first, before drilling down into the details.

We're working on a way to get existing plain english summaries from various places on the web and combine them with ScienceGist's database, to make ScienceGist a central, all-encompassing, permalinkable repository of simplified science.
Users submit lyrics, sometimes the actual artist of the song verifies it too, it's a completely different theme than 99% of lyric databases, kind of like, the reddit of lyrics in a way?
Accidentally leaving an open administrator account is a bug as old as time. I won't necessarily attribute it to malice.

That said, it's still a backdoor, whether it was left there intentionally or not. I'd have a hard time trusting HP products after this.
Well from this post earlier today about a drone landing itself on a aircraft carrier, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6023979. I would say that automated flight will come sooner than later.
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Ask HN: Is there a universal Self-Destructing Messaging app?
By universal, I mean Android and iOS compatible, I've looked at Wickr (unfortunately only iOS still) along with Vapor and 'Privachat'... None of them are out on android yet.

Do you guys know of one? Or maybe an email service that has self-destructing capabilities?
Thanks! :D
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The 6809 is a very nice 8-bit CPU, designed with the intention of using higher level languages---it could generate position independent code, had four general purpose index registers (all 16-bit, one was also the system stack register), two 8-bit accumulators that could be used as one 16-bit accumulator, and had some rather advanced addressing modes.
What's the point of this? Is it the new MySpace or are people supposed to host real projects on there?
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Compiling, virtual machines etc. With your setup it's SO slow. Not that it is bad, it's just you have your requirements which don't change.
I agree with some of the others, Dota 2 really tries to work on this. I've met so many nice people in Dota 2 willing to help out, but of course, I've met scumbags aswell.

The best solution to enjoy your game when a scumbag is in your team (or the other):

1. Mute him/her. Both the chat and microphone will be muted.
2. Report.
3. Keep playing.

I've done this since day one, I've muted about 5 people during the last month. It's acceptable for me. And if you team up with friends in a party, you'll have so much more fun.

Please remember to commend the people helping you out. I love being commended, and that's why I'm trying to help out and staying friendly during all of my games no matter how it turns out.
Why do we usually utilize science to fix the wrong problem?

Shouldn't we be making more efforts on
1) Growing more trees
2) Reducing environmental pollution
3) Controlling human population

???
> "The X are very very bright and smart so I was puzzled by their inability to fly an airplane well"

Turns out to be true for most X as long as:
1. The speaker does not belong to group X
2. Speaker has one data point to support said inability.

Humans error. Humans that program machines error. Machines error.

Buckle your seatbelt.
I think you're vastly exaggerating the situation, especially for people who are not at the extreme low end play skill. 10 years ago this may have been the case for some games, but a lot has been done towards fixing it. Guilds in WoW allow for players to only do 25 man PvE or premade PvP with people they both know and are equally skillfull. Besides, arena is is the only PvP that's truly competitive in WoW and that has both a matchmaking system and ability to have premade teams.

Other games such as Dota 2, Starcraft 2 and League of Legends feature excellent match making. Anyone who takes these games seriously usually has a set group of people to play with, and only do public games when they have to.
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Sell your expertise and you have a limited repertoire.
Certainly, yes. Is it not ok to discriminate against someone who has joined a terrorist group and is actively helping them? Is an army medic not rightly discriminated against by the other side if the medic's side loses the war?

Discrimination is bad when it's about 'who someone is', never when it's about 'what someone does'. Providing work and support in exchange for money is very much 'what someone does'.
Do you mean read once messaging? The Client Server model makes this impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_server
Ohhhhhh I see. This makes a lot more sense. I saw Multiple "July" and increasing numbers and thought it was days.
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Reliability: Amazon makes no guarantee as to the availability / down time / safety of EC2

EC2 Does have SLAs - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/

Security: Amazon does not makes any guarantee as to whom it will disclose your data

Please look at the Security and Data privacy section of the agreement - http://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

Persistence: ensuring persistence of your data (that includes, effort to set up the system) is complicated over EC2

Not sure what this pertains to. Ephemeral storage ? Permanent storage being backed up to S3 ?

Management: there are very few integrated management tools for a cloud deployed on EC2

Amazon's web management tool for EC2 is pretty good. Netflix open sourced their tool Asgard which does precisely what this - https://github.com/Netflix/asgard. Perhaps Asgard was not available at the time this comment was made.

The comments on Network and Cost still hold good. Network IO latency can affect throughput severely and cost is not a great win in the long run.

Why would you single out EC2 if you were looking at `Cloud computing` ? The question can be broader in nature even though the OP expressed interest in EC2 specifically.
16GB of ECC memory for servers is a lot more expensive than your Mac Mini's memory. I recently spent £250 on 2x 4GB DIMMs for a Dell Poweredge server[1] (ok DDR2 is older and therefore more expensive, but still). The same configuration for my Mac Mini came in at around £50[2]

[1]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=36C1...

[2]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=9137...
He/she was the far junior of the two pilots and was reluctant to challenge authority. Or so the story goes.
> But what seems clear is that the moment that the pilot turned off auto-pilot, the flight was doomed to crash as the auto-throttle was not in the right mode for landing.

I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. It's true that the flight was probably doomed the moment the autopilot was turned off, but it's not because the auto-throttle was in the wrong mode. It's because the pilots apparently didn't actually know the basics of how to fly an airplane.

> The inability to hand fly an airliner, is a disqualifier to be a professional pilot.

Not in Korea, apparently.
Oh boy you have to visit Turkey sometime.

It is not just war, it is a religious war! They attack people while chanting "Allah Allah Allah...".
If you want to make a case for an "ethical system" in which mass surveillance is good for humanity be my guest (and PM me your email login credentials while you're at it: I promise not to use them irresponsibly).
I think it depends on when the projected arrival of Automatic Acronym Generation (AAG), which of course relies on the Syntax Reduction and Simplification Protocol (S-RASP), on which there has been little progress of late.
Amen. "Human readable" is not the same thing as human readable.
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This is cool, but why TeamSpeak and not Mumble? As someone who would be playing on Linux, this is a non-starter for me.
Awesome! I would totally buy this book.
this is the beginning of the t1000, right?
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I was just expecting to see him defending the NSA and telling us we're all wrong again.
I think it's a mistake to aim for most readers. Aim for a segment that is similar to you, and write about what interests you.

Build a cool little OS X utility? I use Linux, so I probably don't care, but there are plenty of people who will.

Interested in a discussion on a topic? Find an article about it, or write a blog post with your own ideas, and post it.

Stop trying to target people. Write about what interests you. Hell, write up a whole bunch of different things, post them at the same time, and see what does best, then report back on which caused the most click throughs, which had the most discussion etc, if that's what interests you.
I'm going to ask a dumb question.

I have a commercial drivers license, I've driven semi tractors, large straight trucks, and a wide variety of passenger vehicles.

Is it safe to presume that flying one type of widebody airliner is the same as flying any other kind of widebody airliner?

I can drive a Pete, Freightliner or International and they all largely drive in the same broad generalities.

Just as I can drive any full size car, and they all drive the same.

Would two similar classes or aircraft be the same?
I've been trying to think of a better name, the best I have so far is TTD - Team Tower Defense. If you have a better idea I would love to hear it.
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But municipal water typically comes from rain or snowfall. The distillation has already been done.
You're right. The error is from here: http://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/predator-drones-seek...

I thought it sounded awfully high. Egregious errors like that don't auger well for the reliability of the rest of the article.
> Gameplay-wise, DotA is very cutthroat in that a single hero can go rambo and 1v5 the other team if he gets out of control, while LoL generally allows you to come back if you play smartly with your team.

The same thing happens in Dota, too (especially if you play smart). The game has very good comeback mechanics. If you're losing you'll be fighting closer to your base (so it takes less time to buy stuff and to go back and heal), you'll probably be around your towers (so you'll have additional firepower), you'll also have better vision and a position on higher ground (same as in real war - higher ground = better position to fight), you'll probably be underleveled and respawn faster if you die, so you can come back into the fights faster, if you kill the higher leveled enemy you get a LOT of gold and experience, etc.

1v5ing in Dota only happens in very low level games where most people don't know the game and their characters. Sadly, many players don't know it and think it's Quake or something :)
The full quote:

“Sell your expertise and you have a limited repertoire.
Sell your ignorance and you have an unlimited repertoire.

He was selling his ignorance and his desire to learn about a subject. The journey of not knowing to knowing was his work.”

— Richard Saul Wurman on Charles Eames
I find air disasters a strangely compelling topic, so I've read all 82 pages of comments on that site. Lots of very experienced pilots post wide range of views.

Here is a list of the likely factors that contributed to the crash, based on my reading of the comments at pprune.com:

poor piloting skills, specifically not monitoring speed during landing, a very basic skill

recent switchover of flight pilot from Airbus to Boeing (Boeing planes have throttles that physically move when the thottle setting is changed by automatic systems, Airbus doesn't)

misunderstanding of details of automatic thrust control

inexperience of pilot conducting the training (new to being trainer, 1st flight apparently)

glide slope system on the runway was inoperable, otherwise would have possibly been used and the crash wouldn't have occurred

possible crew social status issues, a known flight-deck issue in some cultures, where those of lower status are hesitant to correct those of high status, but it doesn't seem likely a big factor here

FLCH 'trap', where if you use a certain type of autopilot setting, you might expect the thrust to keep the speed at or above a certain level with automatic throttle adjustments, but it doesn't happen

To summarize, it appears the two pilots at the control thought the jet was in a mode where it automatic thrust control would maintain an approach speed, but when they increased angle of attack just before landing (basically gliding decent up until then), the speed fell off and the throttles did not move automatically, and they failed to note the falling speed until it was too late to avoid crashing. (once you command full throttle from idle, it takes five seconds for the engines to spin back up.)

If they had actually had the plane in the mode they thought it was in, they would have had a perfect landing of the most routine kind.
> Speaker has one data point

If we trust him, the OP is a flight instructor with many years of experience training X. So, your dismissal is completely invalid.

> The speaker does not belong to group X

Clearly, your are subtly accusing the instructor of at least some kind of racial prejudice; otherwise, this point would be completely irrelevant. And that accusation doesn't seem warranted.
In short: No

Bigger aircraft (any commercial flights aircraft basically) have a different training and type rating from each other.

This means even flying a 777 is different from flying a 737 (and even between 737 versions there are some differences to merit a retraining of crew)

So, no, even if you fly the 767 or the A330 you can't fly the 777 without going on training again (they're all aircraft though, so most of the principles apply)
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1. So are translated subtitles. Is the premise that Undertexter was not responding to DMCA requests to take down reported content, but Rap Genius is?

2. This confuses me. Unless the labels are licensing/legally approving of the use of the content, isn't just allowing it to happen weakening their case against sites they are not so friendly with?
>>Terrorism remains a huge problem...

Does it? Was it ever a large statistical threat to the US? If the goal of the DHS is to protect Americans, I can think of some much cheaper problems to start with that could have a huge impact on public health and safety.
Come on, we're hackers! A pesky light is asking to be turned off all the time.
Yes

RTO is basically when you abort the takeoff by not taking-off, that is, hitting the brakes before the aircraft leaves the ground

The other option is taking off and returning to the airport, when a problem happens later
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Absolutely not. There are similarities, but also major differences.

For example, Boeing vs Airbus do many things differently.

And within a specific mfgr, there are differences in cockpit layout. Even within the same model but different releases, eg: 747-400,500,600,700 all have slightly differences.
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Self-destructing...I don't think so.

But any OTR-enabled chat (both users have to have it) encrypts every single message with a new key (at least 128 bit AES, depending on implementation). Most of them still go through a server, though. Retroshare uses OTR and it's also P2P, so it should be a little more trouble for them to get, but since they're tapping the cables, they're still getting it anyway - and this is why anything "self-destructing" would be irrelevant, too.
So from your two examples, discrimination on the basis of one's employer is okay if the employer is not recognized as legitimate by the state, taxes are not remitted, etc.

How do you decide if it's okay or not to discriminate against employees when the employer in question is legal? You say it's never bad. How do you know that?

Is it okay for the IRS to discriminate on the basis of one's employer? What about other arms of the government?
It lacks a few things that the old site had but this is a visually striking improvement.

It should empower the user - that new header is like "WE'RE NEOCITIES, (psst, you can make a site or, instead, consume content below from less lazy people). The "it's your site, your vision" is a nice tagline/alternative to "Create a site."

Oddly enough, the "Create my site" button is now lower on the page and smaller than it used to be. There's so much empty space at the top of the header that the call to action is less dramatic (despite the red button).

The lack of a "sign in" button near the create is a bit sad. Yeah, not completely hidden but having a small "sign in" near the create button shouldn't be that big of a burden.

Looking pretty good besides those things. I know you're getting a million and one remarks about this, but I think it's all in hopes it helps further your vision. Please consider some of the things said - even just a tiny bit ;).
This is the same model as Undertexter (minus the "sometimes the actual artist verifies it part), the subtitles are sourced via community user submissions.

What do you mean by it being different than 99% of lyric databases?

Are you implying that 99% of the lyric databases copy their content from somewhere or the site admins themselves enter the content themselves?

Does that really make a difference since the end result would be identical (both in content and in execution) in that they are hosting and displaying copyrighted content that they are not licensed for, regardless of what the originating source was.
do you have a link? Because I cannot find it ;(
You are missing a news industry, who secretly want a Micheal Bay like special effects budget .
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A very informative article, thanks for linking.

However, his estimates for the energy required were very conservative, and even if these numbers don't work out with today's water prices, they do make sense at a certain point that is likely lower than one encouraging violence. That effectively provide a cap where we start to go this route if necessary, and the vast supply means that we shouldn't go above that for very long.
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Taking in a 15 million dollar funding round, while not considered profit, does seem to fall into a subjective consideration of "profiting from the lyrics".

If their site had no lyrics, they would have no traffic and as a result no funding.
I'm not sure any generation of console has used the best video hardware available, though. For at least the current generation and the one before it, there have been video cards which cost more than the console hardware at launch, and even this generation which is, by all measures, a damn long way behind PC hardware still looks good. Not as good as PC, but you could mistake them at a glance.

I think there'll still be a big push as raw hardware performance on the PC keeps up with clever optimisation on consoles.
Taking the article's numbers at its face value - 2.75 million vs 3.6 million is not huge difference.But apart from a smallish startup scenario in metropolitan areas,the situation is still grim.Most work is to be found in the IT companies involved in off-shoring and there isn't much indication that more developers will mean a surge in newer companies involved in more innovative work.
Or are they?

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

"On January 14, 1999, Swiss police raided de Vries' apartment and the service's ISP and seized equipment in pursuit of a criminal copyright violation complaint filed on behalf of eight music publishing companies including Polygram, EMI, and Estefan Enterprises. Although the industry succeeded in taking down this service (and turning many music fans to dislike the industry), the Internet proved more powerful than the industry, and song lyrics are now freely available on many similar sites."
We're also having our hack-a-thon this weekend (July 13-14). We're expecting around 15 people to participate on IRC and perhaps a Google hangout.

Hopefully we'll be making some good headway on things for our next release (which will include ARM Linux support among other things).
I was thinking about prejudice as well here, however this is not a racial culture thing but a corporate culture thing. If an airline improves training and quality assurance pro forma due to a formal threat of being shut down, something is very, very broken. I'm not sure if I'd ever board a KE or OZ airplane again. If the accusations here are true, both should be shut down immediately.
Psst, the piece is 4 years old...
I found this site morbidly interesting many years ago: http://planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm
Hitting the brakes before the aircraft reaches V1, specifically, which is the takeoff decision speed [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds#V1_definitions
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Come on guys, you know we don't cancel DEF CON until the badge line reaches 200 people.
I've played a lot of games, and when I lose a game of Dota it's absolutely devastating but when I win a good/close game, I am absolutely euphoric, sometimes even into the next day. I don't think (most) people actually take the game very seriously, it just has to do with the mechanics involved. First, it requires a high level of knowledge and focus. There are constant macro and micro strategy decisions to be made and a high level of constant fine motor skills required. Additionally, you are highly dependent on your teammates, as they are on you. If one person on your team makes a big mistake, it can cost your team the game. However, there is frequent opportunity to work with your teammates to set up great plays, which are extremely rewarding to pull off successfully. The third important factor is the match structure. Each game of LoL/Dota is a discrete thing with a small number of participants. It is common in other multiplayer games today to have people coming in and out during a "session". For instance in first person shooters, perhaps you join a 32 player server that is halfway through a map, you play for 15 minutes and then the server changes maps. New people join, some people leave. In LoL/Dota, a game lasts 30-60 minutes and you are stuck with the 5v5 team for that game. I think the extreme highs and lows are at least partially due to the above factors: the level of focus required, the intense team dependence, and the match structure.
And he's the Keynote speaker at Blackhat the week before.
How come this post gets to the front page ?

The question could be interesting again now that we're in the post-prism era, but nothing in that SO thread speaks about it...

Or maybe it's just a way to ask that question again to HN to see what's changed since that time ?
Traffic is easy. Profit is harder - especially if you make it clear from the outset that you're anti-advertising (See Reddit).

Whilst the growth is fun to watch, it's still only 37 direct queries a second, which is nothing.

Also, I know it's been mentioned a million times before, but the name is an artificial ceiling to growth. A large % of people have no clue what duck duck goose is. A large % of people see the name as amateur, childish and stupid.
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>How do you decide if it's okay or not to discriminate against employees when the employer in question is legal?

What is legal and what is ethical are not necessarily the same thing, hence laws changing to make slavery illegal, etc. Ethical considerations often result in the changing of laws.
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