skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inky is an excellent client. I tried+reviewed the first version released on HN about a year(?) ago and it was quite solid and well-engineered. If I weren't already happy with my notmuch/emacs setup, I would switch close to immediately.
This is the future of warfare and it's a good thing. Way better than back when you would firebomb an industrial city or lob cruise missiles at poorly defined targets. No boots on the ground means none of our people at risk and drones are much more precise than bombs.

The reactions in this thread demonstrate the classic uneasiness with killing a few people while being okay with killing lots of people. The people complaining about drones likely had nothing to say about Clinton lobbing cruise missiles into downtown Belgrade.
It's a standard, yes, but it's really hard to reproduce.
Congratulations, you've just described all warfare outside of civil conflicts as terrorist attacks. All non-civil wars involved killing distant people in a foreign country.
I had a fun little project with brainfuck, wrote a rather slow interpreter in it. Was implementing BF natively in ruby before I was caught up with other projects.. Would love to have your project implemented!!

https://github.com/Pholey/BrainRuck
How are you testing the code/network?
I want to see http://fountain.io/ built into these editing tools. Screenplays in markdown!
A high performance, affordable personal airplane: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com

It's extremely fuel efficient, can fly 575 miles on a tank, cruises at 118 mph, and comes standard with really nice instrumentation including GPS, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, and an auxiliary input for your iPod. They sell for $55k.

Here's the HN post I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826062
How do you define the unit used to measure the volume?
Reference: https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs
Been sitting just below the threshold forever...I really should make a point of commenting more rather than just reading.
Why is 18 optimal? Is it just the least bad solution to a problem that has no good solutions?

To me, this is what it is. Determining maturity and adulthood in an institutionalized fashion with a subjective measurement would be extremely difficult. Drawing a line in the sand at 18 wildly simplifies the problem of maturity, around the time when most children's brains have mostly finished developing. As far as objective measures for when you should be considered an adult, "your brain is done developing, you now have an adult brain" seems fairly reasonable.
Heh, thanks!
It's definitely a challenge, and a work in progress. But it's coming along!
Terra Ex (http://www.terraexgame.com/)

* Terra Ex is a 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), online game.

* We are raising money for STEM education from the game's profits (see our foundation: http://www.odinfoundation.org/).

* We've got 20+ years of experience in making games and wanted to leverage this expertise to make a game that will help fund our charity.

* We're a completely new and indie company.

* Our team worked on World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Command and Conquer, Mercenaries 2, and several others.

* Professionals from NASA/JPL and USC are helping out so we can make the game educational, and scientifically correct (see the video on our site). But not so "educational" as to ruin the fun in the game.

* 100% bootstrapped in our free time.

edit: formatting
90% platinum and 10% iridium for its virtual immunity to oxidization, and because it’s extremely hard-wearing

well thats bollocks. Platinum is hilariously soft.

There are a few issues, one is radioactivity. There are radioactive impurities that as they decay loose weight. Second, its postulated that there is a build up of trace amounts of mercury on the IPK due to environmental factors.

thirdly, they are not cleaned anymore. they used to be cleaned with shammy leather.
Only in the sense that a civil engineer's job is to pour concrete, or an electrical engineer's is to burn coal.
Wow this looks nice! I wonder how complicated this would become for songs from Satriani, Malmstein or Steve Vai?

Why did you choose tabs which is rather weak (correct me if I'm wrong) notation?
However build too many houses and you have the opposite problem. Just look at Ireland.
Champagne socialist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_socialist
Juveniles always get free passes

Patently false. Juveniles can be tried as adults.
I'm a writer and I'm not sure why I need this.

If I'm doing something collaboratively, I'll either use a DVCS or meet with people in person. Or hack something together via Google Docs. (OK, I'm starting to see how this could be useful).

That said, I use Draft on a daily basis and it's awesome.
Considering Bryant is one of the only operators speaking out, his conscience seems to bother him more than the average.

Here's a comparison (an IAMA thread from reddit).

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ghkm7/iama_drone_sens...

Q: Have you ever had to strike a target that you were not comfortable with?

sensor_operator: No, I trust our JTACs 1000000% they really know their stuff.

While this was the top voted comment, I found it very dark. To me, what the operator was implicitly saying was that he'd target whoever his superiors told him too.

I don't get outraged. More than being outraged I think this shows a fundamental truth about humans which is that they'll kill without losing too much sleep. I'd put myself in the 'let him who is without sin cast the first stone' camp.
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Would community service not be a sentence?
I wonder if you'd allow a pilot to use the term? They do much the same thing, of course they are actually physically present (miles above). They are, however, about as likely to be injured (in these counter insurgency operations) as the drone operator is driving home. I think this is largely just what modern counter insurgency wars are for Air Forces, who are largely aerial assassins rather than "warriors". It makes war less sexy, and I think that's a good thing.
As they cost billions to produce, they've held securely since they've been made.
I'm working on a few projects.

Firstly, I've developed a suite of Python libraries to deal with NFL data, including play-by-play statistics and slicing game footage into its play-by-play components. A demo of my work is here: http://demo.nflfan.burntsushi.net/?week=5 (excuse the slowness, my web server is crappy)

Everything is on GitHub: https://github.com/BurntSushi/{nflgame,nfldb,nflvid,nflfan}

Secondly, I'm also working on a small utility to produce Entity-Relationship diagrams from a simple text description. Surprisingly, there were very few tools that could do this. It's written in Haskell. Current progress here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd

Thirdly, my PhD research involves finding proteins that are similar to other proteins. Most of the infrastructure is written in Go: https://github.com/TuftsBCB
It's mentioned in the text but it's worth bringing to the attention: Kindle has the smaller screen area, you'll miss that fact if you just look at the number presented for the diagonal and not consider the different aspect ratios.
I posted 114k in my post here, but it was 144k in the article. That was it :) So it is 0.7%.
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classic uneasiness with killing a few people while being okay with killing lots of people.

What a smug remark. And who is okay with killing lots of people? Citation please!
I doubt it's impossible, but kids can be plenty technologically adept. I can believe that a 12-year-old could act as a script kiddie or conduct moderate attacks.
I believe they've been trying to do this with silicon.
Nothing to do with coding, but I recently started writing energy things at www.btus.us It's just Wordpress for now, but I want to talk about energy generation and consumption related things using EIA and other data sources in ways people haven't seen before. Maps, charts, tables, I think there are a lot of fun things to look at in the energy industry, and most people don't have a strong grasp on it.

I'm working on a map series (36-48 maps in a .gif) of dominant generation types by state and month right now that I think a lot of people are going to find very interesting, as the seasonal disposition of hydro and the fast uptake of natural gas by all the boilers that can use it will be kind of visualized.
GPS jammers are easy to track. A GPS spoofer, on the other hand, is more difficult to pin down and can cause at least as much havoc on the unencrypted (civilian) GPS.
Ryanair is not unreliable. Horrible and uncomfortable yes, but no one can say they are unreliable.
Most people don't realize that the gravity on ISS is almost as strong as it is on the surface of the Earth. They're continuously falling toward Earth, going just fast enough to miss the ground.
Hacking Health

We try to break down the barriers to innovation in healthcare. We bring together doctors, nurses, developers and designers so they can hack without all the bureaucratic bullshit.
Ah, nice to have high-DPI voting arrows finally.

Would be nice if the favicon was similarly updated.
"Cowboy" attempts to somehow outflank the NSA are foolish.

Time and resources would be better spent asking voters to shutdown the NSA's illegal collection of information on US citizens (for starters).
Yoctolisp - Lisp in a weekend
Drone warfare isn't inherently bad. The issue is that it makes warfare safer and more convenient for us, which raises the odds that we'll do it more often and use it for more questionable means.
> It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to come up with a philosophically sound logically consistent explanation for natural phenomenon which isn't unified and connected at a fundamental level

Well, one could come up with some kind of model of "infinite complexity", different models of different aspects of the universe can never be unified because of stretches of "infinite complexity" "between them", like imagine a model of particle physics with an infinite number of ever "smaller" particles and no fundamental particles/forces, things made of smaller/deeper things ad infinity. I guess our current mathematics is even capable of describing such a thing. But since "more knowledge" means "more advantages / chances of long term survival" for a species, it wouldn't matter if there is no finite upper bound of understanding, we will still pursue science. And such a point of view would only support theories that violate Occam's razor and the principle of parsimony, it wouldn't really help.

...but it would make for interesting philosophy, if the people smart enough to formulate such a theory mathematically would wast their time doing metaphysical philosophy :) And I don't even want to imagine how such a theory could be bent and twisted by popular interpretation and cult leaders looking for scientific support for whatever new "religions". But overall I think some paths of thought, like this one, are better let unexplored - too many dark and weird areas and too little of use for the advancement of science: we'd better keep our Occam's razors sharps and minds aimed at simple and consistent explanations ;)
The thing about this kind of problem is that even if it affects a small handful of users (say, a dozen out of millions), that's a dozen servers that the OP has to fix.
Shift + Cmd + R (on Chrome,OSX)
Agreed. iPad Air has 20% more screen. I'm all for the pendulum swinging back, but that's a number that should be used in all of the comparisons.
Under Jewish law the official age at which one is considered able to tell right from wrong and thus held responsible for one's actions is 13 (for a boy) or 12 (for a girl). I've never seen a good argument for 18 or 21 being a better place to draw that sort of arbitrary line. My suspicion is that kids act irresponsibly to the degree that they do largely because we don't allow them agency or true adult responsibilities - we've infantilized them. Whatever age gets picked becomes essentially a self-fulfilling prophesy.
> nobody in SF I know says they're taking the 101 to visit the "Bay Area", they say "South Bay"

Of course, that would be silly, since they're already in the Bay Area. I bet they don't say they're going to visit California, either. By the way, "the 101" is slightly unusual phrasing, too. Usually it's just "101".

Give it up. You have no idea what the bay area or anyone living in it is like, and it's obvious to everyone. You're the one who made this about geography. Don't get mad just because it exposed you as a fraud.
> I have not considered this kind of game, and therefor not designed the cypher to withstand it.

This seems to be the central summation of why most of us should not be rolling our own, and why peer review and cryptanalysis is so important to determine if something really is secure. :)
Tool for academic researchers: beta.bohrresearch.com
It is cool because it helps academic researchers to spend more time on their research.
The problem in both cases being over-investment in the real estate market as a result of too much cash chasing too few investment opportunities.
Funny xkcd, hadn't seen that one. Btw, did something relevant happen in March 1997 or was that just a random date?
Pure platinum is soft and malleable, but the heat-treated alloy can be as hard as stainless steel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum-iridium_alloy
Well that's certainly interesting. Isn't the python web dev community dominated by web frameworks on top of wsgi like django and flask? What kind of improvements would you be thinking about? Or is mod_python already better than wsgi in some way?
A friend and I have been working on building out a service to help connect organizations looking for custom software development-related services with organizations that provide them. At the time I first started on HN, I was looking for a company to do additional dev work for the company I was working for, so I posted this Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2787364. I got a few helpful responses (one of which I followed up with and hired) but it made me think about what was missing, and that was a service that provided comprehensive/well-organized listings (with all the stuff you would expect like case studies, work examples, contact forms that weren't buried, the ability to just "start a project" with one, etc.) of custom software development companies/consultancies/shops/agencies/your favorite term here.

You can Google for all this stuff, but sifting through the mounds of results takes way too much manual effort; you can ask on forums like this, but that's not going to work for a lot of people; you can look through LinkedIn or the ones that AdAge and friends use, but I didn't find anything I would consider thorough/useful on the former (and I find the searching and filtering system to be very poor), and the latter only really had advertising companies. I also thought about things that companies I've worked for that have provided custom software dev work would find useful (like having a single place to point customers with examples of everything - for various reasons, so many companies just can't/won't update it on their own web site - it even happens that the people who work at the company have to send an email around asking for examples of previous work.) So it's better than all that (we hope!) That's why we'd consider it cool.

At the moment, we're pretty far in to initial development of what we consider the MVP and hope to soft launch it in the next few months. Right now, we just have a splash-type page up:

http://www.gildedox.com/
Ha. PHP is a binary manipulation language, it's a bit more difficult to do unicode with it. Network, binary streams, and even long running apps are doable.
It's a misleading read unless you read it to the end. The author starts by criticizing Apple for its aptitude for marketing over technology (rightly so) but ends up claiming "how awesome Apple actually is".
It does go a bit deeper than not trusting folks[1]. Sometimes you must make sure you comply with information sharing laws in your field (e.g. HIPA). Two, most people are not super computer literate and just want the damn thing to work. Having a standard config that you slap down with their data stored on good servers is actually a pretty helpful thing to them. They don't want control of their machine, they want stability, reliability, and recovery from mistakes. The accountant wants to do his/her job and not learn IT's job.

As much as I'm not a fan of Windows Servers, I understand that they provide a pretty easy, integrated approach. I do wish open source projects would look to that and not think what's available is good enough. People will trade up their Camry for a Lexus, but not willing trade down to a Yaris.

1) although with over 1,000 or 10,000 employees you probably should assume you've hired some damn fools or evil folks - that's just basic numbers
Argentina’s Net Party Is Ready For The Revolution
Why?

I mean, the point of the article is a little shocking, but it carefully doesn't mention the commute time, which appears to be the thick end of 7-8 hours per day (2h 30 flight each way, and Stansted is not exactly in the heart of London).
As a result, there's no shortage of people paying London's high rent prices. I'm one of them, and I wouldn't trade cheaper rents for that kind of commute (or, honestly, even commuting for 1-1.5 hours from the many towns outside London where such a thing is practical). So why does London need rent control?
I am saying it. Ryanair is very unreliable. Twice I've had emergency landings with them, and it's not fun.
Currently working on an open source implementation of Minecraft [1] - a server, client, and various related things. The new Minecraft update released this week and radically changed how networking works, so it's a bit tough to get it all working again.

It's cool because it's a totally open source recreation of everything. It's got a server, a client, terrain generation, physics simulation, level editing, classic support... this is one of two really big projects I've undertaken.

I'm also still working on MediaCrush [2][3], at least when my other half decides to show up and write some backend code.

[1] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/Craft.Net

[2] https://mediacru.sh

[3] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
If that were true, the reverse would have happened. Mail.app was behaving properly before Mavericks.
Looks interesting. You say you're a group who brought us WoW, SC, C&C and more, but no names. Would be interesting to see the actual team behind the game, portraits and brief blurbs etc!
AngelList: Doing the wrong things the right way
Practical question - let's say you spin new EC2 on AWS. This results in VM generating new host sshd key for this instance as part of bootstrapping new instance process.

How do you place host sshd key in DNS records without first connecting to this instance and getting the key, action which requires you to check/verify host sshd key (which is NOT in DNS yet)?

so it looks a bit like chicken and egg thing ...

What am I missing?
Dead By Zombie: a Python Rogue-like about a zombie apocalypse. I first created it several years ago as a commercial closed-sourced game and it actually sold copies. Now I've open sourced it on GitHub, and am upgrading the engine and giving it a facelift, transforming it into a more serious game of survival and a sandbox for rebuilding civilization. Survivalists, anarcho-capitalists and libertarians may like it. "Day is for the living. Night is for the dead."

links:
https://github.com/mkramlich/Dead_By_Zombie
http://synisma.neocities.org/deadbyzombie.html

In theory I'm also writing a sequel to my sci-fi comedy novella The Dread Space Pirate Richard. (http://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/) And fleshing out the outline and first chapters of my first attempt at a technical book, tentatively titled Software Performance and Scalability.

I also solve challenging technical problems for clients around the world. I make things. I ship.
Very impressed with your NFL data tool, check out this company, they may be interested in your technology: http://www.hudl.com/
> I'd like more info on how the video can take over your computer.

They didn't do it with a video. The supposed "video" in the zip file was just a bait so the victim has an incentive to open it. Most likely the zip contained a .jar again.
Can Things Get Worse? Yes, Easy (Divorce and Child Support)
I'm working on http://www.liberwriter.com - and it's not cool. But it makes money.

It's cool to work on something that's both cool and makes money, but I'm at a point in my life where I'm happy to work on something that makes money even if it's not cool. But getting paid regularly is pretty cool in its own way.

LiberWriter is a product/service to help authors, primarily by converting Word files to eBooks, as well as providing cover design services.
You skipped the part where he said "declared war". We have international laws and convention nowadays. But certain country is ignoring them just because it can.
QuietThyme(http://www.quietthyme.com) is like DropBox for your ebooks.

We let you access your eBook library anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Its great because we allow our users to convert their ebooks from one format to another with ease, its simple enough that my mother and father could do it. We also let you keep complete control over your library, if you want, by allowing you to store it on Dropbox or Google Drive
Thanks! The software scales up to that stuff. There's a bunch of complicated stuff transcribed on Soundslice. Here's an arpeggio exercise in the style of Satriani et al: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/4976/electric-guitar-solo-cra...

The slow-down feature helps. :)

I chose tabs to start because (1) it's easier to implement than standard notation, (2) most guitarists use tab instead of notation, and (3) classic tab really needs to be brought into the 21st century.

With that said, I'm working on a standard notation version now, and it's going to be amazing. It's a surprisingly tricky technical challenge to render sheet music in the browser -- there are centuries' worth of special cases!
The worst human beings on the planet are the ones:

1) Building the guns/drones
2) Pulling the trigger of the guns/drones
3) Telling others to pull the trigger.

No one in that chain is less responsible than the other.
Based on the video, the bullet seems fairly large and soft, and the reporter refers to it as derived from a t-shirt cannon. So, dangerous[1] but not stray bullet dangerous.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JgRXOmZkSo
In the States a 3 hour commute is uncommon, though certainly not unheard of.
> I think this shows a fundamental truth about humans which is that they'll kill without losing too much sleep.

I don't think you can deduce that from the AMA. It could just as well be a PR campaign and wouldn't necessarily represent what an actual drone operator really believes.
PS4 FAQ define sharing games and displaying 2,000 count friends lists
I was hoping for a large background image of someone feeding a donkey, too.

I cannot even begin to express my disappointment.