skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on your purchase! Having 4G internet is a very nice addition to your infrastructure, and critical in this day and age. Even if you want to disconnect for extended periods of time, you still have to pay your bills and taxes.

Speaking from experience, solar panels and car batteries work very well to supply a minimal amount of power for daily use (LED lights, charging cell phones and laptops, etc), but a generator will likely be needed for the occasional heavy equipment use. I'm less of a fan of windmills, but they have their place.

Water is indeed the most important infrastructure element to get right, but the solution you go with often depends heavily with your power choices. It's one thing to leave a desalinization system running 24x7 and maintain it, but it's a whole different story if you need something that can be shut down and restarted several months later. Maintenance and long-term reliability become important factors. Maybe you'll get lucky and find you can drill a well for fresh water, but the size of your island makes me think that is unlikely.

Other fun things to think about: plumbing, septic systems, waste disposal, hot water systems, lights, cooking, and refrigeration.

Then there is always the debate of redundancy vs. simplicity. and the real cost of maintaining an often fragile infrastructure.

I am very curious to hear more about your progresses in building out your island infrastructure and have subscribed to your blog.
I was struck by the "climate does not matter" part - I have always assumed Canada will be one of the 22nd century's big winners in climate change terms (lots of nice melted permafrost agricultural land and an extra 6 degrees would be balmy)

the upshot of this is I assumed land north of Toronto is always going to be a good buy for grand children. am I thinking too small?
A "full desktop OS" on hardware which lacks the horsepower, input mechanisms, and screen real estate required to compete with desktop gaming systems.
The main site (www) - I call that social, probably because I'm a dinosaur. But you've got a kind of ... well, curation thing going, and a personal contact locally. It's not just ads.
Why would you guys buy the island without seeing it first? Were you guys just really excited?
There is a word for a friend-with-benefits for hire, and it's illegal in many places. For good reason.
As a SAR guy, I can say the big big thing is the first aid (plus CPR). It sounds like you're relatively close to civilization, but realize that if someone has to come to help you, they're likely not going to be there within the Golden Hour (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_%28medicine%29). That, and just being prepared in general (ten essentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Essentials and knowing how to use them), having skills, and being wary. I've seen even well-seasoned people end up in bad situations; the best way to survive seems to be to avoid the bad situations. Also, never go alone.
Presumably the island is still part of Canada, right? I doubt you could get away with trying to start your own little sovereign country on it.
Why does money printing cause more unemployment? I don't see the link?
EDIT: I guess a good debt destroying hyperinflation would root out all the FIRE jobs and cause unemployment there. A high inflation would funnel more wages into debt payoff so think I can see the link.
The distinction between "casual" and "real" gaming is entirely facetious, and can actually do more harm to the credibility of your statements than anything. Games are games and come in all shapes and sizes.

I also have to disagree with your dismissal of horsepower as the root of the issue, because I can currently hook up any keyboard, mouse, or even game controller I want to my phone or tablet. Additionally, some portable devices are capable of hooking up to a larger screen via a microHDMI port. Their only limitation, then, would be the internal hardware components that ultimately add up to their "horsepower", with the added advantage of portability.
The Kinect and other optical systems have a number of drawbacks we considered when deciding on inertial sensors.

Like you say, range and latency are issues, as well as occlusion, resolution of limb rotations, difficulties with multiple actors in one space, and general inaccuracies due to the system having to make a guess as to the actor's pose and position.

While the Kinect can work fine for simple games, we wanted the user's motions in game to feel natural and fluid, and to be able to extract the whole body pose even if part of the user's body is occluding another part(e.g. hands behind the back, crouched down).
Definitely. Most of my rep is from Prolog answers. I can spend an hour on a lengthy, detailed answer, and the best I can hope for is <4 votes and (maybe) an acceptance. Average return on an answer is probably 20 rep. OTOH, if I squeak a Haskell answer in, average is more like 50-100 rep because there's simply a lot more eyes on Haskell answers. At the same time, this means while there's a good hour or two window between a Prolog question being asked, it's more like 2 minutes for a Haskell question. The community is just really good like that. So there's a limiting factor problem there. Competition for MySQL and Postgres answers is also really high so you have to be really fast with your answering, but all my "greatest hits" were in Postgres.

Question-askers benefit the most from this competitiveness, but without a niche it would be really hard to break in. For a little while it seemed like people were starting to treat S.O. activity as a test of your virtue or capabilities as a programmer. Today it seems absurd to judge someone for not having an account. It's just too hard to get started.
Why would that be obvious? It would require way more work to prove, but I think I could define a set of rules about the world and a control mechanism for an autonomous vehicle that guaranteed there would never be a collision at dangerous speed (Getting that work at reasonable speed and with enough 9s of availability to make the thing practical will be even more work)

Problem is, the assumptions that such a model makes will be violated, either because the world is different than modeled or due to failure of a component. That is why you would want additional safety features.

That, IMO, is similar to the case where you build a component for base64 encoding, prove that it never will be called with a null pointer argument, and yet include that null pointer check and a way to signal errors in your component.

You can be sure "It will never happen" _will_ at some moment turn into "that's interesting", but you don't know where or when.
Tesla Ad Probe Sought by California New Car Dealers Association
Interestingly, the full Moon is brighter than one would expect because of a similar phenomenon: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/coherentbcksctr.html
Meanwhile, didn't Ubuntu recently, rather publicly, fail a crowdsourcing campaign because they couldn't find enough people who actually care about their mobile proposal? Yeah... I'm just not seeing that stuff as the future.

Maybe this will seem like a very foolish comment in 3 or 4 years, but I doubt it.
No, no. The decision is right, and I'd do the same. The "packing" itself, i.e. how he speaks about this, is funny. He doesn't articulate on this obvious reason.
I recommend you to read again the article. Newell here makes some interesting points that directly address your concerns. Briefly:

(a) Games of tomorrow will be made to host creative communities, which almost mandate those games to be for desktops. It's just too awkward to do serious modding work in a tablet.

(b) What is really worrying about the PC is not the format being outdated -- Minecraft, LoL, TF2 and WoW attest to its potential. What's wrong is Microsoft awkwardly replicating mobile ecosystems. Creating videogames now is all about novelty, taking ideas to market fast, and growing cool communities around these games. This just can't happen, when your platform maker is Big Brother's whiny, lazy cousin.

All in all, I just don't get why the Droid Brigade is so enthused about mobile gaming. It's probably an USian localism. The cons: Android smartphones are slow and jerky and shit; the iPhone is like Manhattan if it were a North Korean gulag; fat-fingering your way around is the shittiest of input methods; and most of the games are preheated gimmicks, tastelessly exploited before the camera until boredom strikes.
Hence the copyright assignment required for any contribution to Canonical's projects, to ease the double licensing.

But for now, it's only speculation. Time will tell.
Everything depend son the municipality and province you live in. I can't speak for Halifax area, but on Lake of the Woods and surrounding unincorporated area, Ministry of Ontario is the governing body. Floating docks do not require a permit, but for the most part, you aren't allowed to modify the shoreline, except under direct permission from Ontario and/or the Department of Fisheries (Federal). You are allowed to build boat houses on land (with permits), or by driving pipe into the ground, as that minimizes damage to the shore.

The ministry will do periodic inspections of land, and will investigate complaints. The property we purchased had all vegetation removed from the shoreline to expose the natural sand beach. The owner was fined, and forced to lay down landscaping fabric and crushed granite to cover it in order to reduce erosion. The matter was strictly dealt with by Department of Fisheries.

As for septic, you're required to build a field, but permits are easily obtainable. Same goes with putting buildings; permits are (usually) required, but usually attainable relatively easily.
In the meantime, if you haven't already, you can look into edb (Evan's Debugger) to see if it fits you better. It's Qt4-based and it's modeled to resemble OllyDbg. It's not very actively maintained, however.
Umm.. you are missing a huge part of the psychology behind incremental buy-in. Think about it a bit. If someone let you test drive a Ferrari for a year would you ever be inclined to buy it? Why right. But if you had 20 friends tell you something is amazing and you should buy it and you will be amazed, chances are you will be intrigued and much more likely to put your money down. SaaS/cloud products are much harder to sell IMO than downloadable software too. We used to use the analogy that if someone is downloading your software we are getting an invitation into someone's front door to sell them on the product's virtues. With SaaS, the sales scenario is kin to trying to sell via product display in a crowded mall. Sensory overload with too many different options to distract someone's attention.
Linux in the 1990s was still quite strictly a platform for power users and tinkerers. Nowadays the Linux distros that people are adopting strive to be user friendly enough for your parents and grandparents.
Good stuff second all of it, the last one you can't emphasize enough. 'SAR guy' -> Search And Rescue guy.
> Seriously, if you want to cheat DirectTV call them up, go to retentions for cancelling service, and get FREE (or heavily discounted) Sunday Ticket, just like many others.

Your entire first post was about getting NFL content without cheating (see: "The NFL goes to GREAT LENGTHS to make content available to you without cheating"). Whether you are dishonest to DirecTV's retention dept, or you are dishonest about your IP location, or are dishonest about your ability to get DirecTV service, or a slew of any other methods, it all involves being dishonest to someone.

The root problem is there is no way to get out of market games without resorting to cheating. Every other American sports league offers this type of subscription package.

The NFL has stated they're shopping the exclusivity of Sunday Ticket to carriers other than DirecTV starting next season. Hopefully that is the case so they can address this glaring hole.

> I notice you replied to everything except for Rewind.

I ignored Rewind because that doesn't involve live NFL games.
Too bad Google doesn't care anymore, or else they'd do the same to Quora.
I was a PhD student (I stopped to move to SF and work on startups- although now after 2 years I'm thinking of going back), and fwiw I enjoyed TA'ing. Grading papers was the worst part (but with a glass of beer and some motivating music it's not that bad), but I found everything else to be fairly rewarding.
(Minecraft) The Heist
Looking at the craft in the pictures I doubt it. It looks like a fairly tiny UAV with visible spectrum imaging capabilities. But it may pass through IFR conditions in between the takeoff and target locations. It may also have sensors that can see through cloud layers, such as a small radar. Again, I doubt it based on the size but I might be wrong.
How exactly did the US feds "Seize" 5 million in bitcoin? I thought the whole point was that it wasn't seizable unless you got the encryption keys, which would be weird since MTGOX is based in Japan, no?
Am I the only one who could not read this due to the site's contrast?

http://contrastrebellion.com/
The study was conducted on microblog networks in China. The people who use the networks have plenty to be angry about, and few other channels for expressing dissent.

The fine article submitted here correctly notes that this is not a finding about the West, and so the first thing to do to find out how general this phenomenon is is to study the West directly. "Of course, it would be interesting to see whether the same effect can be observed in western networks such as Twitter. That should be relatively straightforward to find out given the growing interest in sentiment analysis and the increasingly effective tools available to carry it out." So, yes, let's see what we find out when other social networks are put to the same test. And let's see what is found in China someday when China has a free press and an open political system.
For my company, mobile apps aren't expected for our service but we want to create them for a better user experience. So we would likely be fine settling for a mid-tier person who can do both over top-tier people who are specialized.
Just another case of corporate socialism. The big three were just following the profit when they left Detroit a hollowed husk of an auto industry. Now the people they left to clean up the mess, they did the real harm by making sure normal people could afford to live.
Shame on me for thinking this but, any chance of internet connectivity there?
Anything that you'll actually do every week and gets your heart rate up. Bonus points if it gets you outside. Walking. Running. Bicycling.

Personally, I like biking to work. Integrates the exercise right into my routine and doesn't really take that much more time than my other commute options. I also do longer weekend rides (40-70 miles).
I agree, both with you and with TPTACEK, as in-and-of-itself, an investment by In-Q-Tel just means that they are interested in the value of the tech in general defense/intel perspective.

What I would be interested in, and there is likely never going to be any way, other than an actual leak of proof, whether IF a company could be leaned on to comply with some NSA/CIA request based on their funding;

E.g.

"Hey, you know how we gave you $100MM to build out your infra? Yeah - well here - install this box into your DCs as well."
It's been tried with England (Sealand). And I did advice against it :)
Ubuntu initially agreed to use Wayland, then they changed their minds and invented Mir.
Real gamer here (well I play games for fun, I would say that makes me real).

I use FOSS AMD drivers, the default sound system for Ubuntu (I presume it's pulse) and the compositing gnome shell desktop environment.
I am able to play Valve's ported games quite smoothly and enjoyably, Even things like alt-tabbing out work flawlessly.
I'm always a little dubious about any service whose comparison page is "we do everything! others do nothing!" like that. Anyone got any direct experience with them?
This series Dexter has some great tips.
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Yet they won't ban a subreddit extolling the virtues of giving women, any women, a beating.
Something tells me those islands would not be cheap. But agreed, it's an absolutely stunning part of the world that I miss a lot.
Posting private property is a good idea, not only because of telling people off but because you could be liable for claims if you don't and someone you did not invite gets injured. (crazy, I know, but that's the law in some places).

Jealous as well :)
Android users on Android 2.3 can't use Chrome and Dolphin uses the native browser engine. I think Firefox Mobile would be your only option, but the performance has to be awful.
AngelHack has been to Toronto in the past; I'm not sure there was enough of a turnout to offset the costs of running it though.
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Question, if and when this is done. would there be room to make warp cores to travel into the Stars like our Ancestors did.?
But it was beautiful while it lasted, no?
Two answers that I can think of at first glance:

1) A large proportion of the games that I own for Linux are developed using the Unity engine. This has many advantages for an indie developer (ease of use, cheap license), but is especially useful because it can cross-compile to Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS/Xbox/PS. Even Blackberry! This is a godsend for indie developers trying to reach as large a market as possible.

So the challenge isn't necessarily to get developers to stop using DirectX, but to get the major engine developers (eg. Unreal) to ensure good cross-compilation support. They already have to a certain extent, because the PS3 is already using a form of OpenGL. All we really need is a little extra effort from them to make sure it's compatible with Linux. This would immediately add a large proportion of the current game releases to the Linux market.

2) Driver optimisation isn't as important as you might think. The average PC graphics card vastly overtook consoles in graphical power a very long time ago. Certainly within a year or two of the current generation of consoles. Even without optimised drivers, they are still far more powerful than the Xbox360 or PS3.

All in all, the obstacles are very surmountable. The biggest problem that I can see lies in convincing the big game engines, like Unreal, to bother with such a small market. But if Valve leads the way with the Source engine, they could start eating away at the likes of Unreal - simply by being the only AAA choice on Linux.
The circuit in question could also be enabled or disabled by using a high-energy laser pulse to blow out a tiny fuse on the ICs as they sit on the wafer, before sending the wafer out to be cut into individual ICs which are then subsequently packaged into the seemingly ordinary chips that we are all familiar with.
disgraceful to see fellow entrepreneurs and coders working to kill other humans. hope your parents are as "patriotic" as you when they watch CIA drones kill children and women for oil.
Ask HN: Public shaming of startup spammers
Almost on a daily basis, I receive spam emails from startup founders trying to get me to try out their app.

As a founder myself (and someone who works hard to earn every customer) this pisses me off big time. Especially because spamming hundreds or thousands of people with unsolicited and impersonal emails makes it harder for me to send genuine 1 on 1 cold calls to people I'd like to work with.

My question/idea is this:

Would it be harsh to create a simple public list of startup founders doing this shady practice? I'm 100% sure other people are experiencing the same thing as me, and I thought it would be helpful to lightly shame perpetrators into stopping.

Your honest feedback would be appreciated. Ultimately I want a positive solution to something I think is a serious problem.
>Nope, its full as in 100% allocated. Go ahead, try and build a house in Yellowstone park, or take over a random spot on someone's ranch and see how well it turns out.

Well, the "allocated" part doesn't matter much when you have "a factor of 20 population difference" coming to get your land.

>And if you kicked all the ranchers and parks away, you'd have to find space for them outside the state.

Well, they could always do to them what was done to the native Americans, hack them up, let them starve and move the rest to concentration camps and reservation areas.
It's an LLC. We have bylaws to deal with people wanting out, but we intentionally make it very difficult (island llc gets 1st right of refusal, every member gets a right of refusal after that, and we must approve of any buyer). The idea is that it's an investment in utility, not in dollars. One bad person on the island could ruin everyone's experience, so we guard against that.

We're going to be building next year, so we still have lots of research to do. It appears that anything permanent like a cabin would require a permit, but that yurts / heavy duty tents / sheds / etc wouldn't.

A neighbor on the mainland has offered us dock space and gave us a couple rides this trip. We also bought an Intex Excursion 5 off Amazon which was serviceable but really difficult to navigate in wind. We'll buy a real boat next year.

HN is throttling my posts, so it may take a while to answer everything. I appreciate all the comments and questions.
Bill Gates is again the richest man in the world
And here's a blog post with a perfect case study: https://medium.com/how-to-use-the-internet/45dbd26ae4f2
Isn't this what Quora is? I notice a vast amount of sentiment on HN about how we need a "subjective place to discuss" and yet you already have it (quora).

My reaction is - you don't. What's becomes more helpful than reading discussions about what $FRAMEWORK1 is better than $FRAMEWORK2 (that inevitably are not supposed to end) is to stop discussing and build yourself.
How un-secret are they? Is there a room I can go sit and watch search warrants being requested and issued? If not, why do you believe it's better than the US situation?
I still have 100 acres for sale there if you're interested ;)
It's not facetious; there is a huge difference between people who primarily play mobile games and people who build machines for serious gaming. The represent completely different markets. If you were actually trying to sell games with your mentality you would fail miserably. You have to know your market.

Also, if I have a tablet with as much horsepower as my desktop then it would necessarily be more expensive than said desktop. So, you're proposing that I buy a tablet which is more expensive than my desktop and hook it up to all the peripherals I need so that I can... wait, what is the advantage here exactly?

You say that I gain portability; right, as long as I bring along my keyboard, mouse, and a monitor. Now that's what I call portability! Certain games just don't work without a large screen and more advanced input devices. Again, completely different markets.

As an aside, since you obviously took exception to my terminology, note that I put quotes around "casual" and "real" for a reason. I don't mean to look down upon the casuals, but to believe that they are basically one in the same is just ignorant. Those in either segment have very different tastes and want very different things from the games they play. I want games with depth that I can sink endless hours into. My girlfriend wants an occasional distraction. You're never going to sell us on the same marketing lines. We want different things.