skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you find one, and the owner doesn't post his face in a video, how do you track it back to him? My greatest concern with this is that they'll destroy RC aircraft as a hobby. There are many experienced RC helicopter and airplane pilots out there who have been flying these safely for decades. The problem is now that prices have come down (they used to cost an order of magnitude more), every idiot thinks they can do it.

That being said, the 'drone' this man was probably flying doesn't really pose a danger to anyone. They're typically made of foam or lightweight plastic and have very little kinetic energy. A full speed hit to the head with one wouldn't cause much harm (this is pretty much true for anything 100 sized and smaller - anything larger and you can start to hurt people with direct hits).

For instance, something like this: http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/blade-nano-cp-x-bnf-BLH... weighs 29 grams. That's ~1/30th of a kg. This quadcopter: http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/nano-qx-bnf-with-safe-t... weighs 16.5 grams. Banning stuff like that would be a huge overreaction. My largest helicopter (I fly RC stuff, if you haven't already figured it out) is ~750 grams, which is definitely large enough to hurt someone, but requiring me to have a license to fly it in my back yard would be crazy - I have 12 acres, which is ample space. Besides that, I've never crashed it, because unlike that buffoon, I know what I'm doing :) (edit - never crashed this one. As stated by another poster, components do fail, even on real aircraft, so it does happen). That being said, because I know what I'm doing, I'd never try flying it off a balcony in NYC.

TLDR; Responsible/skilled people should be allowed to fly, irresponsible people should be held accountable. If they can nail him for reckless endangerment, I think the current laws are strong enough.
Where will the videos be posted? A youtube account I presume.
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The original mac mouse had a very heavy mouseball - it was my first mouse, and I remember switching from it to flimsy, plasticky PC mice when I first encountered them at university felt very strange - they lacked the inertia I was used to.
Given the seriousness, I would hope it is in the five figures (Facebook don't go into details about rewards, but a comparable exploit for a Google Account would net you at least $10k).
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For what it's worth, I found I had to turn compatibility mode back on in order to upload files in Gmail.
First, I don't dislike Python (or Go).

Second, I don't dislike Python (or Go) community.

Third, a group of the Python community (and people from that group who migrated from Python to Go) that bashes other languages and communities at every opportunity deserve such nickname.

It is the venomous Snakes that bite others for no reason.
US gadgets have backdoor - blame the bad programmers

Chinese gadgets have backdoor - evil Communist country making a grand scheme.
Here's a link that explains the Turing-completeness of Magic the Gathering. http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/index.html
As a RC plane flying hobbiest my greatest fear is from over reaction to fools like this one. Yes he did the wrong thing. And he's been charged. The present laws seem fine.

The big danger is from over-reaction and then just a law outright banning all civilian use. This is my worst case scenario.

When me and my friends fly it's a day trip. We travel to a remote location, or a large open flying field. We don't fly over people, or sporting events. We check local regulations over places banned from model flying. Where I am (Australia) there are areas where it is not allowed at all. All the inner city areas are off limits except for a few allocated fields. It's all handled at the local council level. Different councils are different.

We fly under the 400ft ceiling and give way to all other aircraft (Hear a real plane? Bring yours down.) We don't need any permits. I usually don't crash but I have in the past, and I know that I might. Components fail. Radio links can have issues. And then there's the wind and the elements. So we take all the due precautions.

I don't want people to ban my hobby because some fools take this new piece of tech and without much experience act recklessly with it. It's a danger with anything. There are young hoons who burn their tyres in the middle of the night on some corner. Don't ban driving. Or the car. Or all civilian uses of the car. Let's all keep our heads screwed on.
Minus the "evil" and "communist" (that doesn't really describe China anymore), that sounds about right.
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Grand scheme healthcare system software contracted by government is often plagued with issues, compounded by naive government officials not drawing up strong enough contracts to hold their sharkish IT "partners" to account. With the UK as an example, here's a summary from the Reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/27/uk_public_sector_out...
"It says that clearly some of the problems encountered by ICT projects are a result of over-ambition, a lack of design and development before procurement, and pressures for efficiency savings overtaking the ability to deliver. The technical complexity of ICT projects is also often underestimated". There's also a report linked at the bottom with more details.
Haha! good point!
Lessons from the Identity Trail
I can't hire IT in Chicago for $50k/yr.
Not only is normal defined as the absence of disorder, but disorders are viewed dimensionally rather than categorically, so to some extent they apply to everybody.
While I appreciate getting specification perfect coffee every time I order, there is just something about it that seems too perfect.

Is it just me, who value the fact that It's a human being who makes my coffee. Coffee making is not science, it is an art, perfect coffee depends on the taster. While this machine might make exactly coffee to my specification, there is no telling if that is the better than a barista.

I do think however that this may very well replace the press-play baristas that have grown popular with starbucks. This is a solution that replaces the semi-robotic starbucks coffee with a full robotic solution, but I'm sure this won't' replace the coffeeshops that strive for the best coffee.
then fix those, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

the problem is that, at least in my case, DSM-V was replaced with an appeal to authority.

when the alternative is "ok boss, you know best" i prefer a list of symptoms where i can argue, "look, almost anyone could tick half these boxes at some point in their lives". at least i can see what's happening.

i am not saying that DSM-V is a rule book that should be followed blindly. i am not saying that it is "right", or that it carries some kind of moral weight. all that i am saying is that any communication - even dissent - needs a common vocabulary, and DSM-V can provide that.

from my outside perspective it seems that it's a tool; that the real problem is some of the doctors. discarding the tool won't improve the bad doctors, it will just make them less accountable. how is that an improvement?
So this is integrating Google voice and hangouts? Still separate on my android, but if so, I suppose you might say it could be inevitable..
It's because old people built a nation of shitty unwalkable suburbs, then blamed the consequences of their fuckups on their kids.
It looks like we can expect more huge federal IT fiascoes in the future:

Accordingly, [CGI Federal] continue[s] to view U.S. Federal Government as a significant growth opportunity," Roach continued. CGI Federal now has an $8 billion pipeline of future task orders — doubling its federal business over the period of a year — including big-ticket items such as $871 million for the Defense Information Services Agency, a $143 million contract to do visa processing in China, and a five-year, "indefinite quantity" contract for the Department of Homeland Security and Coast Guard. (It's also working with state governments too — California, for example, handed it a $399 million contract to revamp its tax processing system).

And here's an interesting insight on the Federal procurement process:

Evan Burfield, who founded the relatively small company that worked with CGI to build Recovery.gov, says the problem lies more in a federal procurement apparatus that makes it nearly impossible for an agile newcomer to bid on projects that in the private sector would take much less time and money. Plus, with so many contractors, everyone could technically fulfill the requirements in their statement of work, and the thing can still not work in the end.
It's still two separate apps on iOS too, though this does appear to be a step toward a unified product that's less of a kludge than voice has been on its own.
a lot of interesting articles turn up periodically, as new generations (or cohorts) discover them all over again. I love this, and I'd never have found it if reposted. It's a pity there aren't a few curated archives for gems such as these.
I don't really agree. They made all the effort to put CSRF tokens everywhere, and the vast majority are properly validated, but here there was probably some bug where they assumed the CSRF token validation check was always running, but I guess it wasn't.

It's certainly a mistake, but it was probably easy for developers and QA to miss.
Is Google Nexus 5 released?
"Delete system32"
Care to expand? What about taxes?
I see chimeracoder has already posted a comment here. Maybe I should plunge in, after looking at the "book review" kindly posted here, to comment on psychiatric nosology (classification of disorders) in general.

Basis of knowledge disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor, and I have never attended even an undergraduate-level course in psychology. On the other hand, I have been reading extensively about psychology for twenty years,[1] mostly focusing on research on human intelligence and human behavior genetics, and over the years my participation in online discussion networks gained me an invitation to participate in the "journal club" (graduate seminar course) on human behavior genetics at my alma mater. At the behavior genetics seminar, I have met several researchers who have been trying to clean up psychiatric nosology and improve the newly released edition of DSM. The researchers I know locally do NOT like the framework or approach of DSM-5. I'll try to do a layman's justice to their point of view in what I write below.

We have discussed before here on HN the blog of the director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, which included a post "Transforming Diagnosis,"[2] casting considerable doubt on the diagnostic approach taken in DSM-5, which was published just before DSM-5 itself was published. Most researchers agree that to develop better understanding of troubles patients experience, and better approaches to treatment, a lot of mental disorders will have to be recategorized (including no longer being categorized as disorders) based on new criteria. That's what the progress of science will look like in this field.

It's important to remember that Freudianism was still in vogue when I was young (and constituted most of the higher education in psychology that my parents received in the early 1950s) and psychology and especially psychiatry are STILL undoing some of the harm caused to those disciplines by mistaken ideas from Sigmund Freud. It's easy to tell persuasive stories about what makes people's minds work, but much harder to test those stories with evidence.

Neurologists who are interested in science-based improvement of medical practice have commented[3] on DSM-5, and comments of that kind point the way forward to improvement of nosology in psychiatry in the future. Therapists may have to give up their pet "specialities" to recognize the realities of how to help patients. There will surely still have to be new diagnostic tests and new drug treatments developed. The DSM-5 didn't do as well as it ought to have to advance understanding of mental disorders. But its evident faults will prompt further research, and DSM-5 will eventually be replaced by a new edition, one I hope will be based on better science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellig...

[2] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

[3] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/dsm-5-and-the-fight-for-...
Though a lot of its topic is covered more in-depth by Sandi Metz's PODOR and the classics on refactoring, "Confident Ruby" might be one of the best purchases I've made as a professional programmer. There's some great practical examples in it, but most of all, it helped me understand why code should be "confident." Or, conversely, if you are writing methods that are constantly performing nil-checks and if/else forests, then you are likely breaking away from good design.

This is not really something ever taught in academia or in hobbyist/bootcamp code classes, where the motto is "just get something done until you get the hang of things", and the projects are so small that fighting cruft doesn't result in a huge time savings.

So for myself, when building large projects, it never occurred to me how vital it was to have consistent interfaces...and not having them in large projects is much more dehabilitating than it is in medium-size-to-small projects...I suppose if you studied OOP and software engineering, the "Confident Ruby" book would seem to contain little more than a review of code smells...but I think his take of "confidence" being a quality of code is what finally lit the bulb in my head.
I'm surprised that it took this long to discover this.I wonder how many this type of exploits are still out there.
I have amazing friends that I can rely on - friends of over 2 decades that would literally give their lives for mine. But they'd make horrible business partners. They aren't self motivated in the way they'd need to be. They require the structure of a 9 to 5.

I get the sentiment of the quote - that you need trustworthy cofounders - but it's a really odd and incorrect way to phrase it.
Slighlty related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxBM-JLNyBg

After seeing this video, I do see why people love drone flying so much, it's amazing how much can you see from there that you can't with any other means. (They have other very nice videos, from the costa concordia to Angkor Wat)
Oh look. Its the system actually working for a change. A guy did a stupid thing that might have endangered someone else with his property. He was arrested and may be charged for a crime that if convicted would lead to a fine large enough to deter him and others from doing something this stupid again.

Seems like a perfectly rational reaction to me despite the overhyped news story. (Slow news day no that there's no 'shutdown' to breathlessly go on about?)
Encryption algorithms in Libre Office
Let's hope author will update the post with some clues :P
There are several reasons why UA detection is relevant where feature detection fails. The first is that you can serve prebuilt js binaries that have only the relevant logic for the requesting browser; strictly smaller js files for every user since you aren't serving irrelevant js.

Some things aren't feature detectable, like actual weird bugs in behavior that need browser specific workarounds.

In this case it looks like MS has the domain listed for their fallback mode, which doesn't just change the UA but actually changes the browser behavior (IE9 in IE8 mode has no canvas support and will fail the feature detection for canvas appropriately).
> To me, I think either way this activity should be banned.

Define "this activity." I hope you don't mean all flying of remote control aircraft, which is a decades-old and historically extremely safe hobby.
There are ways. You could use services like domaintools and get IP history if you did use any of the IPs in the past. You could get the IP from e-mail headers, if the website sends e-mails during registration, password recovery, etc. You could look for ways for a server to make a request somewhere and log its IP, like posting an image on a forum, some forums do that. And this is just off the top of my head.
As someone who just launched a startup a week ago, the best advice I can give is to just go for it! You're always going to have bugs, want to squeeze more functionality in, make it look cleaner, etc. The reality is that you'll probably learn more about your product, users, and infrastructure capabilities in your first week post-launch then you will have in the past ten months. It can be a terrifying experience unleashing your product to the world, but it's also an exciting one. Finish up the last few tasks, launch it, and celebrate your accomplishment....then get back to work :)
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Seems like a portable, precision FFT analyzer would be more useful. The ability to measure frequency response, harmonics, cancellation, distortion, noise, etc. make an engineer's job so much easier. Frequency information is far more important than timing information.

What benefit does an oscilloscope have over meter+ears when resolving ground loop or crosstalk issues? Time domain information doesn't seem terribly useful.
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TIL. devs continue using google after NSA revelations. They also praise google voice. google and apple ftw yo.
"The word “disorder” occurs so many times that it almost detaches itself from any real signification, so that the implied existence of an ordered state against which a disorder can be measured nearly vanishes is almost forgotten. .... Here all pretensions to objectivity fall apart and the novel’s carefully warped imitation of scientific categories fades into an examination of petty viciousness."

Or as Richard Feynman coined it: Cargo Cult Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

Also lets not forget these same people claimed being homosexual was a mental disorder until 1973!
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Just like a calculator watch, the form factor is too small to interact with. And the analog bandwidth is too low. And I can't think of any actual use cases for this product.

But yeah, the little kid in me wants one.
Stupid? That's rather harsh. While a lot of these are common sense, they are pointed out for a reason - people do these things. Common sense isn't so common as they say.
Ok, how about it?
http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm

There's also a 5 dimensional one and links to all kinds of crazy.

Interestingly, solving higher dimensional cubes isn't more difficult from an algorithm view. Understanding what you're looking at might be a different story!

There used to be a solution online called the "Ultimate solution", the web page I got it from is now sadly defunct. It showed you how to solve the cube with only two moves. The first was a simple commutator, of form FRF'R' and showed how you can use just this one move to get all the edges in place.

If you then place two of these moves together with a similar structure, you get a move that cycles corners. This is of the form (X)U(X')U', where X is an edge commutator like FRF' (example (FRF')D(F'R'F)D'). This one move properly applied will move 3 corners without disrupting edges.

So, the trick to the fourth dimension is to learn a move on the order (C)W(C')W', where C is the inner part (no final move) of the corner commuter above. And so it goes, each dimension only requiring one more move in the same fashion.

Of course, figuring out exactly how to make that move with the interface is the hard part. And the fun.
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12,500$.
(More than)Good enough for me, takes a year of work on average salary to get this much money in my country.
I'd be more supportive of GitHub if they open sourced some of their infrastructure code.
Except for the end where they say the NYPD is now investigating it and the person who reported it said he had a sense they didn't know how to handle it. That's why he brought the story to the media. So, yeah the system works if you include media/social networks and the 'overhyping' of attention in to the loop. Would he have been arrested if this story didn't have attention? It seems that the police have no strategy and have not yet thought about how they are going to enforce this FAA rule which is clearly going to be more and more relevant in the future.
Wow, free? What's the catch?

Oh, they collect all my texts, instant messages, and phone call data and metadata? That's not for me, then.
it's kind of a cool idea. I wonder if OS's would ever implement something like this. You would probably need to put some iOS like restrictions on it- only one app at a time, it must be running full screen in focus, and cannot be given that kind of priority in the background. Like having a dedicated built in console system.
It's pretty well known that there is some terrible software that comes out of the Chinese hardware shops. 99.9% of the time these are not malicious back doors. Instead they're debugging or QA frameworks that just get left in released software. There is zero process or control of the releases. They can certainly put a system together, but they can't write the software for shit.
He said that with tongue firmly in cheek. Phil Libin has a very dry sense of humor.
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Actually I just reread and saw you used the word "compete", I had read it as "complete". Now that's a cool idea you have there.
HN titles are absolutely awful. Many titles on the front page are vague and contain little if any information at all on what they link to. Many are vague or simply misleading. I'll take editorializing over no information content whatsoever any day.

And you can always de-editorialize it or make it a neutral statement wikipedia style, rather than changing it to random words that may or may not make sense in context of the article (which we haven't read yet.)
There was a teenager in New York who died recently when his RC helicopter sliced off the top of his head[1]. Flying these things in heavily populated areas is going to be an issue, whether there is a human being at the controls or it is some future autonomous "tacocopter."

[1] http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/man-decapitated-by-remote-contr...
> A very handy memory device. Make do / dont’s lists. Note all the things you never want to do again

Does anyone know what does Jack Dorsey use exactly? Evernote would make sense although he didn't say so specifically.
1 Dollar Equals 21,115 Dongs according to Google (no joke)
'cause that stuff totally doesn't happen when you pay carriers money...
Right. You're absolutely safe with Verizon or AT&T in this respect though.
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It's silly to make blanket statements like "FPGAs have become as capable, or more, than GPUs."

It depends on what you're trying to do! If you want to multiply big matrices, GPUs are great for that. A lot of scientific applications work well on GPUs. And obviously, GPUs are great for graphics.

Also, FPGAs are no longer blank templates on which you can stamp any design. The new ones all come with built-in "IP blocks" which you can't change. So you get a bunch of gates you can modify, but also perhaps dozen CPUs and a bank of memory, or so. Maybe someday GPUs and FPGAs will converge-- the former are getting more flexible, and the latter are getting less so.

The biggest problem with contemporary GPUs is that they're I/O-starved, which I don't see anywhere in your comments. PCI-e is just not enough bandwidth. That is why GPUs are a sideshow in big data. It doesn't matter how many cores you have if you're sipping your data through a straw.

The power consumption argument seems like a strawman. Replace a few incandescent lightbulbs in your home with LED ones. Congratulations. You can now run your GPU 24/7 and come out ahead in power consumption.