skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested in the Planck and Avogadro projects to redefine the kilo, this video is an imperative watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
Why creating a blogging website is essential
It seems that you are interpreting that comment in an odd way to suit your agenda. If he "trusts" his "JTAC" then that implies that he believes something about the targets he is being given, not that he is willing to hit any target. The most obvious interpretation of the statement is that he has some notion of a legitimate target, and he believes that the JTACs share this notion and he trusts both their intention and ability to select only these targets.

EDIT: Holy fuck, there is even an edit that clarifies his actual meaning, and shows I am correct (I don't know when this edit was made, I am assuming it was made before your comment). Here is the clarification he added:

"Not really, this notion that we go out and pick our own targets is the most invalid statement ever. And by JTACs controlling us, we are an extension of their capability. They are the ones with boots on the ground, the know the ground situation WAY better than anyone thousands of miles away and they are ultimately responsible for Friendly forces lives and the lives of the civilians [my emphasis]. When they give us a target and clearance the burden is always on them unless something goes wrong and we miss. Then it becomes our fault. But JTACs really do know their stuff and if I didn't trust them then I wouldn't be here today."
That's beyond extreme. I suppose that Palo Alto is formally a City, but ...
That seems pretty simple to solve - just decouple the courses from the grading process. Let the teacher specialize in teaching and let some other firm that specializes in testing rate/certify your resulting competence or lack thereof in the subject.
I've just completed Dailybbble http://dailybbble.herokuapp.com/ it sends you emails with best Dribbble designs of the day. It's cool because I always visited dribbble.com to see populars, now they're at my inbox at every 9am.

There are already hundreds of subscribers in the list. That excites me.
I wonder what was the genesis of this policy change? From a legal standpoint, they were untouchable with the whole "parallel construction" thing.

This has the potential to get the whole program killed. Did someone in charge with both the clout and the morality to do the right thing take a risk? Some other reason? This fascinates me.
Gingerbread and Candy Corn (http://gingerbread-and-candy-corn.appspot.com) - A one-stop spot for finding houses with holiday decorations. Sadly, I don't think it'll be ready for Halloween :( Though it should be ready for a launch near Black Friday :)

As a kid, I always loved driving around looking at Halloween/Christmas lights and as I've gotten older and moved to a bigger city, its been a little difficult knowing where to go to see good houses. The only real way to do it right now is YouTube videos or hoping your local newspaper has it covered.

The reason I think its cool is I'm learning to use Google App Engine on a responsive HTML5 style page. Since I'm not too graphic oriented, I'm learning how to use Flat UI to my advantage (as you can see in the nowhere near done demo). I'm going to get to learn a lot of web hosting stuff, like the official webpage currently is hosted with Dreamhost, but how do I get GAE to play nice with that, managing/handling requests, how to appropriately display houses without killing my GAE free package. If it generates enough success this Christmas, I'm hoping to spend next year learning mobile development for an app that does the same thing, but also gives you directions.
> There are strict rules about over-accommodation too.

Not sure what you mean there

> The bedroom tax has been operating for many years for everyone except those in council houses and housing association properties.

Or there
http://jaunt-api.com

It's a (free) headless browser API for web automation, creating web-bots, scrapers, and talking to REST-ful web services. I just released Beta version 0.9.5 last night.

It's cool because it's far more lightweight than the most obvious alternatives, which means (for example) that it's possible to run many, many browser instances at once, such as one per thread. As an API, it's very developer-friendly with extensive documentation and simple examples for every concept, making it very easy to get started writing java-based scrapers/bots/etc.
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Is there any wireless communication? I've been building a similar pH monitor using XBee communication. If your buddy would like to someone else to work with, I've been doing this in my free time.
Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility
https://github.com/EliasZ/breakingthetower

A clone/rewrite of Notch's Breaking The Tower game in Javascript (Canvas 2D API). Cool because it's not Java?
interesting! any idea on where I could find writers that would help on my story?
GeoGraph - http://geographapp.com/

Like imgur for location. No sign up & 1 click to share your current location. If you sign up, you can save your location privately (only you can see it).

Use cases are wide open. Save your parking spot. Share location to meetup with a friend. Save a special spot in a forest. Etc.

If you use check-in services, GeoGraph may interest you. If you never share your location online, you shouldn’t use this.

Working on new features to make location more useful.

Edit - Link to site.
That sounds useful! I signed up for your newsletter. I'm curious if you have a series of screenshots or something showing it in use?
You forgot those who develop technology to enable building better guns and drones.
Valve: Handbook For New Employees
Techies concerned over NSA surveillance will march in D.C.: ‘Stop Watching Us’
A data-driven analysis looking for what users are interested in when they are on Facebook

http://successful-facebook.herokuapp.com/
There's also Yeoman generators available to help scaffold out extensions and apps:

https://github.com/yeoman/generator-chrome-extension

https://github.com/yeoman/generator-chromeapp
An ios app to make roadtrip timelapse movies (video + gps = fun). This idea has been on my mind for ages so I finally sat down and built it.

This video, the very first upload, shows it in action. Bonus if you can guess where it is:
http://youtu.be/-sFu7xAxt5c

The in-app playback has map route, speed, & direction overlays, not yet present in the video export.

It's not ready for the store yet, contact me if you'd like to beta test.
I'm no AI expert, but after reading both Hawkins' On Intelligence and Kurweil's How To Create A Mind, I'm pretty sold on the idea that our minds are basically pattern-matching machines. Lately I've been trying to spend a lot of time "thinking about thinking" and recognizing how I form thoughts, relate to memories, etc. I am not super familiar with Hofstadter's ideas, since I haven't (yet) finished even GEB, but the general idea is very intriguing to me. I'd be happy to chat with you sometime and bounce ideas around. You're almost certainly way ahead of me in terms of technical knowledge in this domain though.
That is a very odd perspective. Surely the "honour" in being a warrior comes from the morality of the actions they are engaged in, and not whether or not they are personally at risk.
I understand that. And this isn't about me trashing the operator.

But I also have a logical mind and I can't avoid the implication that if his JTAC was a bad apple, he'd do what the JTAC said.
> They are trying to cap it, to howls of outrage but from whom? Not the tenants, they never see the money.

Universal Credit will cause tenants to be paid their housing benefit directly.

http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/welfare-reform/universal-cr...

There are a number of different approaches to addressing the extra risk this will introduce to rents, with things like Jam-Jar accounts, but it's generally expected to introduce more insecurity and thus limit the amount that can be spent on new housing.
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I hope you guys like this i worked hard on it:D
Please post the following comment on the new BlackBerry Messenger Android APP. Thank you so much black berry team
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This surveillance was authorized by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, per the article.
Show HN: Hoursboard-Tool to get details about how much time screen was locked
You'll never make animal testing obsolete, nor would it be a good idea to do so as the benefits from using animals in research are so immense, and most such experiments are not transferable to humans (e.g. genetically modifying humans is not viable.)

But it sounds like an interesting idea nonetheless - what experiments are you considering running?
> The people complaining about drones likely had nothing to say about Clinton lobbing cruise missiles into downtown Belgrade.

Huh?

People 'complaining about drones' are very likely the same people that 'complained' about the other unjustified wars and bomb/missile attacks over the last 60 years. But Clinton is what you're going with here...really?
What a farce.

You've just shown there is nothing wrong with my statement "commute to Cupertino from the Bay Area every day" which you seem to have such a problem with.

Also with regards to:

> "the 101" is slightly unusual phrasing, too. Usually it's just "101".

Are you being serious?!!
A simple algorithmic stock trader. https://green-machine.us

Give it a set of rules and it will buy and sell stock for you. I got interested in algorithmic trading and built this site to find out if it works. If it does I'll add real money trading.
Right, in other words, you only have extra mass during the time that you are at a higher velocity.
Inky looks pretty cool, but I had the same reaction as porker when I read that part. I don't think he's trying to malign you, it's just a pretty blatantly false statement amongst a sea of neat-looking stuff.
Do.com says goodbye, Blimp says hello
Or you could rent in Croydon, a suburb with below average crime (for London), a population earning above the London average, and pay more like 11,000 per year for a 2 bed flat, within 15 minutes on the train from London Victoria and (EDIT: I left out the rest of the sentence) <20 minutes from London Bridge.

25k/year here will give you an upscale serviced short-let apartment, or a 5 bedroom, 3 reception room house with a large garden.

In other words, the prices you give are based on assumptions about living in a really expensive part of London.
Calling an attack an attack is not an insult.
Using mininet right now to do verification of message parsing and link discovery. Other than the latency calculations, link discovery seems to be working just fine. After I get this next iteration done I'll take it to the office (InCNTRE SDN Lab). We have a lot of 1.0 hardware to test against. Next I'd like to add path computation based on user defined weight functions.
Yes I know that. That's why I said if the mass were "somehow actually retained". I'm positing that the some of the extra energy somehow becomes real mass. Yes, this is not how special relativity works. That's why I said "wacky theory". But is there a simple and obvious way to falsify this?
Are there any tools for building cross-browser extensions? What would be really useful is a tool that can help you build a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and Safari Extension.
Turns out he's a good guy after all, huh?
Drones are just like any other tools of war. The fact that the combatant is sitting very far away from the battle doesn't make the killing any less real, the stakes any lower or the human cost to the operator any cheaper. War is hell because of the horrible decisions that have to be made. Distance doesn't make it any easier.

Drones don't kill innocent non-combatants, people do. There are many cases of civilians being killed by artillery shells or friendly fire by naval guns. I'm sure there was even an errant trebuchet or two. Long distance warfare is ok as long as there are people like Byrant on the other end of the weapon, people who worry and struggle with the moral consequences of what they have done. I feel for him and what he's had to go through, but at the same time I'm glad that drone warfare hasn't become the video game that people thought it would be.

Some of the commenters on this thread sound like the people who would throw things at veterans returning from vietnam. Have we learned nothing? The blame for the cost of war doesn't go to to the weapons or the people who pull the triggers. We're all responsible for the things done in our names, and responsible for changing them if we don't like the outcome.
That really shouldn't outrage you just about drones. Anyone doing indirect fire, from the Taliban way outside the perimeter fence with mortar, to artillery guys in WWI, to pilots dropping bombs, is trusting the guy who picked the targets.

Hell, the guys who fletched arrows and cast musket balls were trusting they will be used justly and have always done so (or didn't care). Drone warfare really doesn't change that at all.

Fighting irregular forces does. It's far harder to be sure someone is an enemy.
Better quality livestream on C-SPAN: http://www.c-span.org/Events/Group-Holds-Rally-Against-Mass-...
I think a lot of companies will push back against this. A lot of service companies don't really make anything but provide a kind of social network based around offices. If you eliminate the offices the company looses power and could be dis-intermediated.
PHP has some ugliness, but in what way are any of these specific features bad?
I'm going to be rewriting my image booru engine ( https://github.com/asiekierka/boorushy2 - all demos are down ).

It's not cool. Nothing I make is cool. It never was. All I seem to make are boring, niche ideas... and not even I care about them. Since half a year, I haven't found anything that would interest me. I'm a man with low standards, I guess.
Just wondering what the effect of all the waste heat will be on (what's left of) the Bay's ecosystem.
I have a limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom, and I am working on three projects that I hope will turn into profitable products.

* Main focus: Transactional and marketing SMS application, it's a little boring and lots of companies do it, but none are truly self-service, and none make it super-easy.

* Back burner: Digital asset management, again it's done by many companies already, but there UIs are mostly upload, tag and try to retrieve. I have a background in AI (B.Sc) and I want to make it a little smarter than what's currently out there, with uploads that detect previous revisions of digital assets, etc – finally putting to an end file naming conventions such as x_final.ai, x_final_2.ai, x_final_final.psd (something I have seen used by every company I have worked for.)

* And later: I'm into brewing beer, and I have been working on recipes for a few years – Ambition is to make enough money to survive with the two projects above, and to begin investing in building a microbrewery and brew pub.
Ruby bindings are here: https://rubygems.org/gems/whitedb

What has been done so far:

* Create a database

* Create a record

* Set field to a string

If you feel like testing it:

require "whitedb"

db = WhiteDB::Database.new("foo", 20000)
rec1 = db.create_record(5)
rec2 = db.create_record(4)
5.times{|x| rec1.set_field(x, "Rec1 #{x}") }
4.times{|x| rec2.set_field(x, "Rec2 #{x}") }

Then use the wgdb binary (`wgdb foo select 20`) to see your data in your database.

I'm still new to ruby C extensions so the API is quite ugly (no blocks yet, no error checks,...) and I'm currently adding features as I'm following the tutorial.
Someone suggested http://airmailapp.com/ as a replacement email app for OSX in a recent HN thread and I've been very happy with it. Only downside so far is it doesn't have outlook contact integration, so you don't get autocomplete for all the email addresses in your company unlike microsoft outlook. Which is too bad, because airmail + apple calendar is much faster than microsoft outlook.
You're missing the point.

<?php if($condition){ ?>

and just an

<?php } ?>

gets illegible and confusing very fast, even from 20 lines of HTML in between. And that isn't even that much. endif, endfor, endforeach etc. are much more noticeable, plus every editor/IDE worth their salt will highlight it properly.
Looks nice. Some feedback

1. For the love of god, don't allow a Nil value! Pattern matching is so much better (Maybe/Option type)
2. I didn't see anything about the runtime, but if you can optionally compile to something ubiquitous like php initially it will ease adoption.
3. even though you target small scale, so did javascript. I'd throw in some rudimentary namespace/package/module/version/dependency things .
I really like this idea.

A common tactic for people being chased by the police here in the UK is to head for the most densely populated areas they can. This will most likely cause the police to refrain from the pursuit due to concerns of collateral injury.

With a GPS gun they could fire a tracker at the car, let them travel through the town and head them off as they exit. There's always a chance of them bailing but that was always a risk anyway.
I am a big supporter of building applications in consistent way, and the big part of that is being able to code components which do not know anything about the presentation layer. Building these components on hypertext preprocessor is exactly the thing I would not want and would avoid at all costs. We already have it with PHP, and we have learned to follow some practices to live with it.

Well, you may say, this is just for small stuff to run some scripts easily. Well, the reason behind the PHP was the same. And look what it has become :)

Please don't assume I will not use Sinatra just to plug Sinatra here :). I might.
One does not commute "from" a place to itself. You're trying to backpedal, but your chain is tangled in the English language's entrails.

It also makes no logical sense, as there would be no reason to mention where they commute from unless you thought it was of some significance, in which case you would want to be clear on where they are commuting from. Or are you now trying to insinuate that every engineer in the Bay Area (now that you've reversed your position and agreed the term is not limited to the peninsula), including Cupertino, is mediocre by virtue of being there, rather than only those engineers from the immediate San Francisco area?

> Are you being serious?!!

Deadly.
Group Holds Rally Against Mass Surveillance [video]
They could always let them go back to gravel roads; much cheaper to maintain, and if they're just for traversing through the hardwoods "forest", your top speed should be no more than ~20 mph.
Really cool stuff.

Did you think about adding the feature of producing a combined video with the original video plus the overlaid tabs? That'd be nice so that people that transcribe can post back to YouTube.

I guess a lot of people will just search in YouTube and it'd be nice if those searchers could discover the content that the people at Soundslice are creating.

BTW (100% unrelated) - I took one of your YouTube guitar videos and added a couple of parts with BandHub: http://getbandhub.com/song.html?s=524e26a8cc8d46e238000001
£25k/yr is ~£480/wk - student accommodation at Imperial College (this is South Kensington) goes up to ~£250/wk for a living room and bedroom.

Taking a cursory look at the (current) prices in the area, Chelsea and similar areas look like you might find a single place or perhaps two at those prices, but it won't be terribly appealing - attempting to actually rent for £480/wk looks like it gets you a studio/1bed flat.

Edit: So essentially, £25k/yr will get you almost nothing in upscale areas, a hell of a lot in downscale areas.
A little friendly advice: don't ever tell someone what they can and can't achieve. It's impolite and the future is malleable.

Feel free to sign up for when the first of many self experiments is launched: http://flowandzone.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=bc7fdf29...
http://crossrider.com/
The historical trajectory of the "issue" of remote killing maybe starting with the ancient catapults, maybe earlier with spears or event the first rock ever thrown at an enemy;
this development of increasingly "safer" ways to kill from far away will follow the trajectory unless humanity decides this got out of hand, is not tolerable, not in line with some higher moral understanding of military conflict and decides to stop the progression of the trajectory. Similar to the way ever mightier bombs and nuclear weapons were put under quite heavy "restriction" and "control" in the end.

Also there is some bias in the representation of the way the "drone systems" are perfectly working (they are not faultless obliviously) and they are certainly NOT the uber-over-mega weapons the stories make them to appear. This has implications:

1.) collateral damage is quite common

2.) the insurgents learn to "fight" them over time (this will not be reported on)

Pure technocratic minds may wonder about the "latencies" and the infrastructure involved...BUT just watch the skies at the next protest and remember the first time "just" tear gas got very precisely administered to a crowd.

The sad part as always: convincing the "political" circle in the US is not enough, the huge weapons industry needs to be provided with some replacement idea/product/contracts should the killing drones become banished or more controlled.

ps: i'd love to see the good old RATM create a song out the first few paragraphs of this gq text; proposed working title:

“missile off the rail”

/edit: typos
I am deeply skeptical about nootropics for long-term use, and even more about 'natural' nootropics. It smacks just a little too much of woo and pseudiscience.

The self-deconstruction by the post author is interesting, if nothing else.
And, specifically, you only have "extra" mass from the viewpoint of someone traveling at a different speed or direction. From your own frame of reference, your mass never changes.
This is amazing. Awesome work. How much trouble have you ran into licensing / obtaining tabs for popular copyrighted songs? I think a legitimate tab database itself would be incredibly valuable and could power awesome services like this.

I look forward to hearing more about this project, I think this is absolutely great.
"Procrastination became just a lack of dopamine. Scatterbrained moments became low-choline moments. Wondering about the meaning of life was just a lack of serotonin. Excessive emotional sensitivity was usually not somebody else being a jerk but just a lack of GABA."

Sorry, but it's not that simple. It's nowhere near that simple. And playing with the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain is, while definitely useful, just a blunt force approach - like using a hammer to drive in uneven screws...
Updated my app today. A geeky stopwatch - http://logwatch.co
Tools to help people who are located far away from each other to collaborate in rich and interactive ways just as if they were together in the same room.

http://www.teamchat.me
Since when do hackers get mad when someone tries to turn their hack into a profit?
The reason "nihilists" aren't taken seriously is because they like to rely on an overly simplistic understanding of the world and ill-conceived metaphors.
Nice. But why have you added the horrible photoshop effect to those images?
Some 'other' reviews - http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professiona...
Rent control has so destroyed San Francisco.
By that logic, we shouldn't hold 24-year-olds responsible for their actions either, right?

Anyway, what makes you think having a "fully developed" prefrontal cortex means one DOES "know the full extent" of one's actions? And what makes you think full development means one knows this better than 50% or 75% development? Heck, for all we know, moral responsibility might even peak at 15 and decline from there with further development!

Is there some sort of test that shows how much people have, as you claim, "a distorted view of reality" as they age?