skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we assume symmetric forces, we could assume that the defending force knows of the technology and has developed countermeasures. Yes, an R/C copter flying like this would be difficult(-ish) [1] for a human to shoot down, but for an automated defense system, it would be trivial. They are fragile, and they simply don't move that fast compared to many other weapons. A conventional mortar operated by a well trained crew is more difficult to defend against.

If you're talking about asymmetric forces, then it's a different ballgame, but I'm still not convinced that there aren't innovative defenses. I saw a game show (of sorts) some time ago where engineers competed to develop a solution to a problem given a very limited set of resources. Some of the ideas the contestants came up with blew my mind.

1: And I still don't think it would be all that hard for someone who is talented with a shotgun.
Noticed that duckduckgo gives you quite a nice stripped down youtube experience.
Optimizing SQLite on Raspberry Pi
Google Eyeing Mission Bay for San Francisco Move?
The noun project also has some decent art you could convert to a logo.
The situation with electric cars is a little more complicated , as there's a $7500 tax credit for them. If I lease an electric car I can get the full value of that $7500 over the 2 or 3 year lease. If I buy it, that value is spread out over the entire life of the car.

Personally I'd prefer to lease an electric car, and am going to soon. Even if it's more expensive than buying one, the extra cost is like buying an option to give at back after 2-3 years, which is worth something, especially with relatively new battery technology.
- This might help ~> http://www.informationweek.com/security/client/10-top-passwo...
Who actually reads youtube comments? Anyone here? They should just remove comments all together or allow only the video poster to create and approve comments.
Just do not add any logo at all. You imagine problems that are no problems at all.
FB was too popular at IPO, they could do whatever they wanted. Activists only get involved when shares underperform. Otherwise, they have no leverage. Shareholders only care about the stock price and nothing else.
Sorry to hear that. Been dealing with similar of the sinuses myself for about the same period of time.

Definitely no fun, but this does sound promising. Good luck to us all.
Sergey Glazunov is not "Pinkie Pie": they each separately attacked Chrome in 2012 using unrelated exploits; this was part of the same event, so their names are used together often, which may be why you are confused.
9 Minority Report Inspired Touchless Technology
Don't hire anyone that is reckless with your IT investments.
Thanks for throwing in some neat ideas. Doesn't your Second Time Around Problem conclusively answer _every_ question with "there is no way to know," though? For example: is there really gravity? Suppose there was a universe with gravity. We let that universe run for its lifetime and record everything that happens. Then we play back that recording in a universe where stuff (matter/energy/etc) is not affected by gravity, but instead behaves according to a recording. The two are identical.

As another example: did I really write this comment? Perhaps there was another universe where this comment was written, but _this_ universe is just a second-time-around recording where playback was started right after alternate-me hit post.

Anyway: the determinism question folks are talking about is, does the current state of the universe dictate the next state? In your playback universe, the answer is no -- you could edit any "frame" arbitrarily without affecting the frames that follow.
Renault ships a brickable car...

Nothing new yet.

...with battery DRM that you're not allowed to own

Ah, news! On the upside, this car is somewhat theft-proof. (Nothing can be totally theft proof.) Next, it should have a 360-degree dash cam that's monitored 24-7 by an organization funded by a consortium of insurance companies and 3 letter government agencies. All the above sounds scary while bringing benefits. (The scary that brings benefits with it is the truly scary stuff, as it has a good chance of sticking around.)
For math students
Jasymca on the mobile web:

http://jasymca.holoklip.com
I may be wrong and I'm too lazy to search back in time, but as far as I remember they did mean to launch Google+ as a product in itself, at least that was the general vibe (both here on HN, and generally among people commenting on its launch). They made the switch to the "social layer"-thingie a bit later on, after they had probably realized Facebook was too ingrained already to be challenged head-on.
No one is ignoring the "obvious elephant;" it's just not the most important discussion point.
It's going to be a long time before it is readily available for human use. Expect three, maybe four stages of clinical trials. There is also the risk that it doesn't even work in humans or has major side effects that outweigh the benefit.

This is sensationalism news, or as it is most often called, news.
Nice! I assume LDA was run on the lyrics?
The One Idea Radical Enough to Solve the Trillion-Dollar IT Debt Crisis
Statistics is the least important part of data science
If this makes the total cost of ownership up front significantly cheaper while keeping overall costs to operate equivalent over the time I plan on keeping the car, this is a completely rational idea. I'm not sure what everyone is so upset about. Sometimes there is a solid economic / utility argument to be made for a certain subset of consumers that will help increase sales. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
- Link ~> http://jasymca.holoklip.com/
Rust isn't stable enough for anything but alpha-level applications at the moment. But you're right that the blog author should elaborate on why he chose Go over all of the other compiled languages (and even dynamic languages with nice standalone packaging solutions).
I really like this, because it shows that quadrotor (and flying vessel in general) research is far from "done".

Most people would tell you that you'd be insane to try to design new types of aircraft, because we already know how to do that. This research proves otherwise.
Skeet practice.

IOW, pretty easy to defend against with a shot gun, netting around your position, and so on. An air strike, on the other hand, not so much.
Depends on the definition of the person's idea of greater good.
Can anyone say whether this letter is fake or real ?
I know news is true.
HuffPost: The proposed terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal are secret. The Obama administration, like many of its predecessors, has registered the trade platform as classified information, to the chagrin of lawmakers. - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/trans-pacific-partn...

The way that negotiating positions taken by nations are concealed in IP deals is in stark contrast to that taken in other trade negotiations: the negotiations for GATT, the US-EU deal, NAFTA and EEC have been very contentious and public.
Very interesting. You may also want to look into Bitalino http://www.bitalino.com it's an Arduino like approach to playing/hacking with biomedical signals, at a fraction of the cost this kind equipments usually has.
There are a good number of channels who have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, combined with the hunger for new content... I think you don't even need to do much incentivizing.
Word of mouth, recommendations.
I would love if it turns out, that the De Broglie–Bohm theory [1] is correct making the universe deterministic.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
The Google bashing is well deserved. Even people at Google despise Vic Gundotra (just check memegen.googleplex.com today), yet this incompetent figure is allowed to continue alienating users and driving Google's brand into the ground.

Vic, do us a favor: Go back to Microsoft and never return!

Disclaimer: I work for Google.
Ecosia: A Green Search Engine That Plants Trees in Brazil Contends with Google
As HN policy is to keep the original titles of the submitted links, this probably has the consequence that only original content that has an "upvote-able" title, can reach HN frontpage.

If the original content is good, but has a "non-upvote-able" title, then the only way for that kind of news to reach HN frontpage is if a third party re-blogs about them with a better title.

As happened in this case.
This probably happened because vimeo offered better quality encoding early on.
There is always a possibility to create a pseudonymous G+ account with a fake name. Its not like Google requires an ID to create an account. I don't get it, completely free conversation quality on youtube is abysmal. Why do you want that on Youtube?
No but my new MBPr's caps lock key and USB ports magically decided to take a vacation.
I quite like NewsMap and made a HTML5 version of it a while ago.

http://www.newsola.com
Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons fight cancer
Sub-reddits are like irc channels or usenet newsgroups, they can have owners and be moderated to whatever degree those owners desire. Some sub-reddits are very tightly moderated.
I only watch at home, so clearly I'm not the right person to ask about accessibility.

Streaming though... It obviously depends on the userbase, but I have downloaded feature length videos faster through bittorrent than youtube took buffering the first minute.

Another idea - maybe a middle ground would be pre-leeching episodes. I will want to watch them eventually, so might as well download ahead of time. Best of both worlds. Actually... that's exactly the kind of thing that would kill a centralized service like youtube, but would make a torrent-based service fly.
> because length of existence of a username is really a good argument of anything

Yes, if the user is lecturing others on HN etiquette.

> All of your posts attacking Dart are for nonsensical reasons

If you think terse syntax and good quality documentation are nonsense then you are welcome to think so, I wish you the best of luck.
I also liked the idea. One way to ask questions would be using a hashtag (#screech?). So questions that use the hash would have a better chance of being selected. It would be nice if you could choose some keywords to filter the questions in your area of expertise.
I think a lot of it has to do with expectations.

Personally, I don't buy DRM'd ebooks from Amazon, unless I happen to get them at a tremendous discount and consider it a throwaway item. (I think I have purchased 1 DRM'd ebook for my Kindle in the 3 years I have had it). I also only purchase steam games in a similar way- when highly discounted- mostly through the Humble Bundle deals. This is because I know what to expect, and I make other choices.
>A straight up accusation of potentially illegal acts. There’s no ambiguity, I’m guilty until proven innocent

Usual complaints, but it's weird how people expect corporations to somehow adopt a charter of rights like "the right to a fair trial for your corporate ban-hammer". Much like complaints about "free speech" when reddit bans some subreddit.

There's no obligation for Google to prove anything (until you start paying for something, in which case you start entering contract law issues).

There's a lot of value-add in offering a minimum of customer service nowadays, considering the complete lack of service by most companies.
Proxying probably is. nginx is usually a good front end, Apache is not dead yet and it is very stable with plenty of people that would know how to configure it.
And thank you for this comment.

You point out one of the most poisonous things about nerd culture. By pointing out when people are doing something that is in retrospect stupid, we train them to hide mistakes.

I've done it plenty myself, so I'm casting no stones here. But there's a giant gap between appearing smart and being smart. We rightly value smartness, which is great. But by playing Nelson to stupid mistakes and stupid questions, we encourage the appearance of smart over actual learning. To keep getting smarter, you have to be willing to look stupid sometimes.
I can't help but recommend our own product: http://teampasswordmanager.com

It's specially designed for groups that need to share passwords between several projects. Since it's a self hosted app, you install it wherever you want. It has 2FA, logging, IP blocking and more. Feel free to contact us for help.
How should it be phrased? Honestly I see nothing wrong with this wording. Talk about an overreaction.
> Of course Youtube being right below 4chan's /b/ in terms of online discussion it was a very risky decision.

I've always taken pleasure in pointing out that 4chan doesn't have the worst comments, and that title belongs to YouTube.

I'm glad the world agrees.
WinTarsnap
Perfectly fine? Maybe you only watch videos in an extremely narrow group, which typically have only the most eloquent and empathetic commenters, but I think most people would argue that comments have been the worse part of Youtube since their inception.

Spam, trolls, racists, and flamers were routinely "thumbed up" in comments. And then we have the comments consisting entirely of "exact quote from the video you just watched" which typically have hundreds of thumbs up as well, and add absolutely nothing to any discussion on the video itself. I don't think I'm alone in saying the SNR of Youtube comments was low to the point that I never sought out to read them any more. And when I did, it was more of a "lets see how bad the train-wreck is" mentality.
The smartest person in the room is usually the one asking a lot of questions about the stuff they don't know. Particularly if there's an expert there to answer them in a manner that provides more insight than your typical Google search.
Personally I don't mind hoisting but for the moment, OK. So obvious question: why doesn't the language create this entry point for me?
This won't completely replace traditional antibiotics. As the article states this acts on Gram positive persister cells (a very specific group). The coming storm is from Gram negative bacteria such as Klebsiella, Actinetobacter and Pseudomonas.

There is actually very little activity occurring in the field of antibiotic drug discovery and you identified the issue; no money in drugs that someone takes for 14 days and stops. Pharmaceutical companies are driven by stockholders and therefore they want them developing drugs that someone takes for the rest of their life (anti-depressants). Much of the research for abx discovery comes from academia who struggle with budgets that are pennies compared to what Pfizer, GSK, Wyeth, Astra can afford.
I really like the design of the Review, especially the animated SVGs.
This post hit the nail on the head for me. This (the first few sections mainly) is something I have been doing for years and am trying to get better with. It makes me happy to know I'm not the only one that does this. Great article, Lyza!
Yes, you are entitled to believe it's worth nothing. But the only problem is that, the market has decided it's worth anywhere from $0 to $3 billion.

Facebook is not paying for the software. A very good hacker can put together a snapchat app in an afternoon. Facebook is paying for the traction and the fact that the people who are using both services are not exclusive set of people. therefore, the more a user spend time on snapchat, the less she spends on Facebook.

As already mentioned, this is not about how much they are making now, it's about how much they could potentially make in the future. Facebook knows this better than you and I because they've been there.

Any dollar that SnapChat makes in the future is potentially a dollar facebook would have lost and that is what they are trying to protect.

FB can throw $10b at snapChat and some people (me not included) will still find sense in it. Look, if on March, 2006, a 'crazy' billion said he has envisioned that twitter is the next big thing and threw $5b for a 99% stake, everyone would have called him shit crazy but in just 7 years, he would have made a cool $16b on his investment.

No matter what you think about how silly the service is, its ability to be monetized is where the value lies.. In a logical world, an investment in coca-cola shouldn't be considered a safe one at all, but here we are!
This is a cool idea, but I wish everything wasn't so 'big data' oriented. Most people will never work with big data. Instead of teaching me map/reduce, how about teaching me how to model with a mixture distribution? Teach me how to master small data and then scale those up to big data when and if need be.
> My policy is to stick to a couple of stacks for projects I will have to maintain 5 years down the road:

> On the other hand, when I get to do a short-lived project I tried to use a new technology:

Hey, that's a pretty good idea, I like it. So what are your impressions so far on Chicago Boss, and what do you like about RethinkDB? I have been following those as well but haven't got a chance to try them yet.
Seattle police deactivate mesh network surveillance system after public outrage
Instacurate, Reddit edition
You're confusing pedantry with rigor. The fact that a compiler will complain at you if you misspell 'continue' but a mathematical proof will keep going just fine doesn't mean that programming is more 'rigorous' than mathematics.
Yeah, the Moller Skycar has been an impressively long-running scam. It felt like he got his own article in Popular Mechanics on an annual basis.

I wonder how much damage he does to the nascent industry if personal flying vehicles by sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
Sounds interesting but how exactly is 64Wh/kg "almost comparable" with 100-200Wh/kg?

Personally, I'm all for supercaps for regenerative braking right now and will love to see a day when we can fully charge an EV in 30 seconds.
I think the ultimate competitor for these kinds of things will be no competitor, when people can just post things "up there" that don't appear to be tied to any obviously identifiable gatekeeper.
Why is it OK for a newer technology to be restricted just because that's how it is for an older technology? We didn't start charging for emails just because snailmail cost money..
It's so strange that you say that - I actually initially coded it with this exact idea in mind! The only reason I pivoted to regex queries was that in its initial stage, I would have no questions to serve up - but I think #screech is subtle enough to be integrated when the userbase is there!

Thanks again for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
Ah, so google thinks a given "FirstName LastName" is unique?
thanks! like it?
HP Stops Sales of Chromebook-Power Brick Safety Issue
Not having to download a video/piece of music is exactly the problem that YouTube solved. Going back to this doesn't seem like the right answer to me and will likely cost you most of your audience. Furthermore, moving to torrents is hardly a solution for YouTubers who actually monetise their videos through the site.

The better solution, if you don't agree with their new comment policy, would be to migrate to another video site like Vimeo.
Why the media is fundamentally broken
I like the idea of turning off comments, and then linking to a Reddit post in the video description. An alternative to that, should you not be balking at required G+ integration, is visiting the comment management[1] page. It should be possible to build a vetted user base with the tools there.

You'd have to do some heavy upfront work approving comments and adding approved users, but I believe it would ultimately pay off more than piggybacking on another free service to de-spam comments. Instead, it would be sort of a throwback to the old BBS days when sysops of some boards would call you to verify your account before adding you as a user.

And clearly Google is going to address the nonsense comments somehow, since so many high-profile users are complaining now and threatening to leave. I'm genuinely curious how this will all play out; it may be a good test as to whether management and devs at Google still have "chops".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/comment_management
Actually it is the current.
So, like, a remote-controlled Osprey?
> Are you trying to say Dart is unnecessarily verbose

Yes. See other posts.
The most understated portion of the article is that there is a method discovered that can kill biofilms. The discovery of new antibiotics and delivery techniques leaves me less optimistic for long-term change in the availability of life-saving antibiotics. I suspect bacteria can, and will, evolve around almost any mitigating technique we develop.

Yet I'm optimistic, because tools that crack biofilms are a new are of development and promise hope for exploring new attacks on bacteria. Current methods of biofilm dispersal are application of strong acids and bases or an autoclave. You can't treat a hospital room with an autoclave, and comprehensive treatment of a room with very strongly ionizing agents has its own risks. There are other, experimental methods, but all are worth examining.

I hope research like this continues.
Hey, Zack, wanna see me drink a milkshake through my nose? #screech
For $100 you can hire 20 designers from fiverr.com to make you a logo. I'm sure one of them will come up with something useful.
Hackable organic laser pattern device on Kickstarter
And thank goodness a lot of people have ignored that.

Back in Ye Olden Dayes, we trained everybody to back up. It was an important ritual: every once in a while you had to stop whatever you were actually trying to do, spend a bunch of time fucking around with odd, expensive media, and the store the media in complicated ways.

It was a giant pain. Most people didn't do it. But we programmers, wanting people to be as programmable as computers, told them they were doing it wrong, that they had to learn the rituals to pacify the machine gods, who would otherwise destroy their data.

I'm glad they ignored us, because without them we wouldn't have moved toward the correct solution, which is making the computers do the work to solve the problems created by computer use.

We still haven't reached the logical end, which is where every consumer computer is backed up by default on every change. But we'll get there eventually, thereby freeing up people to spend their time on what really matters. Which isn't wasting that intelligence on making backups.
Not at all... "documents" were the user's play history and "words" were artists. So if you played one artist twice and another artist once it'd be like a document that says "artist1 artist1 artist2". The assumption is that document topics are analogous to music genres, and each artist creates music within a small set of genres each user prefers music within a small set of genres.
The quality of questions is the main problem, yes. May be they can be upvoted or downvoted, so they would appear more or less frequently?
try fiverr.com. I've used the service a few times for a logo. Decent results for 5 bucks.
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It´s never been about passenger attention, it was electronic interference in the navigation, control and communication systems.
Or you could pick up questions for existing popular tags. #stackoverflow might be one of them.
That's a really obnoxious page for such a little amount of content.
Marketing. No technical reason.
Yeah, I miss that game. It ran for a couple of years before everyone moved on but a couple of us are thinking of putting it back together. Ping me at my HN username at gmail and I'll let you know.
> Furthermore, moving to torrents is hardly a solution for YouTubers who actually monetise their videos through the site.

That's why I mentioned flattr and patreon.
You are right, I was merely using the term as I've seen it used.

My real point was that he does not organize sentences by the standard subject-verb-object. This makes the sentences more complex. That complexity makes it harder for people to understand what is said. It would be OK to do that occasionally, but he did it with every single sentence!