skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the bigger news would be if you could pay taxes in Bitcoin. If that happens a currency has arrived.
For smaller objects they would need higher resolution censors? Not sure.

All I remember while trying to do this is that high sensitivity is expensive..
The study contains "examples and descriptions of best practices...details [that] make overarching principles, such as "empowers the team and does not micromanage," more concrete..."

Their "concrete" example is given by an employee who says, "Early on in my role, [my manager] asked me to pull together a cross-functional team to develop a goal-setting process."

I can't think of anything more illustrative of why engineers to be dismissive of management than strings of abstract buzzwords that conveys little information, such as "Pull together a cross-functional team to develop a goal-setting process."

That's where I stopped reading.
> Why not provide early access to new features to technical people who don't mind to be on the bleeding edge? That would be a sword cutting on two edges since you'll get high quality feedback in an early stage.

I'd hazard a guess and say that people who often think they are on the bleeding edge aren't, and therefore get themselves into trouble.
There used to be the bounty board: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bounty_board
People aren't desperate to see Tesla fail. It's just that stories about something new are much more interesting than stories about something that everyone's familiar with, and stories about danger tend to be more interesting than stories about safety. These add up to a story about the three Teslas catching on fire, as opposed to stories about all of the gasoline cars catching on fire or stories on Tesla's safety record.
Running flash is a terrible security risk.

I won't do it even for Dylan.

Bummer. Someone should've told his dev team that the times, they are a-changin'...
>This passphrase is the username of someone in the Hacker News top 100 karma list as of November 19, 2013. However, we dropped 2 characters from his or her username.

That is definitely an empty string. hint pg hint
This is the official policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(organizat...

The short version that will cover 95% of cases, though, is that it's less about "worthiness" and more about existence of decent third-party sources you can cite. If a company is discussed in books, articles, etc. that aren't written by the company itself, then an article on the company that cites those sources for its information will rarely cause issues. Actually that applies to just about any topic: a well-sourced article more or less trumps other concerns.

The bigger issue here is that Wiki-PR's articles are exceptionally likely to be biased. Even in cases where the company should have a Wikipedia article, it should be a neutral one, and cover both positive and negative aspects of the company.
David Byrne: A Tangled Web We Weave
A multi-rotor will ccurrently only give you 10-15 mins flight time with a payload. There are cheaper options (than the OP) that are also more practical.
It's a link bait title. Got me to read it. The word "minor" doesn't get me interested.

Other suggestions:

"Why John Kennedy would have loved Digital Ocean"
"What Digital Ocean and the weather have in common".

Sorry I hate to joke and I don't want HN to end up just being people joking. But I had to point out that the title that gets attention is the title that gets your attention.
Then everybody will assume he's technical enough and still flood the trackers with issues that are more of a pebkac than a real problem. It would probably end up like the dev-builds of IOs7: People were downvoting apps because they crashed, even though it was impossible for the app authors to rectify the problems.
I remember seeing a kickstarter campaign a long time ago for this company. So cool that they're really making it work and doing a kick-ass job at it.
Would it be sufficient to just slap a big "Warning: Advanced Users Only!" label on the custom image option? I understand not wanting not-so-technical users to underestimate the difficulty of setting up a custom install and having a bad experience, but I think it's safe to assume that the not-so-technical users will be stick the default images, while the hard-core OS geeks will be willing to put up with, say, importing a QEMU or ISO image.
The Rolling Stones (which names themselves after this song) also have an innovative video for their cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziRR5h3b4YU

It's 183,000 photographs, morphed into each other.
Use these 3 or end up powerless, scared and lonely
I'm here, commenting on this because -HN-Timesink
Correct bugs, logic errors I'm assuming, are a better problem to have than logic errors + undefined behavior in my opinion.
I don't think that's how particles work?
I would be extremely surprised if Debian did not update it. Ubuntu I'm less sure about, mostly because I'm less familiar with their security update policies.
I'm guessing it has something to do with EU data privacy laws.
Coauthor of JSON API here, expect to hear lots of neat stuff soon. ;)
60fps on chrome
This statement says that wiki-pr was in performing "paid advocacy." I looked at the Terms of Use for Wikipedia and this company seems to be in violation of some or all of this portion:

Engaging in False Statements, Impersonation, or Fraud

- Intentionally or knowingly posting content that constitutes libel or defamation;

- With the intent to deceive, posting content that is false or inaccurate;

- Attempting to impersonate another user or individual, misrepresenting your affiliation with any individual or entity, or using the username of another user with the intent to deceive; and

- Engaging in fraud.

Looking at the cease and desist letter, it appears the real issue here is not that they were being paid to create or maintain wikipedia articles, but that the content was not neutral and that editors did not self-declare their status as paid but rather unaffiliated internet users.
45 FPS: Chrome on 2012 Macbook Pro. Looks fantastic.
There's been a recent trend of museums having some of their paid staff contribute to Wikipedia articles relating to the museum's area of interest. Things like writing articles about paintings in the museum's collection, biographies of sculptors who the museum has a large collection of works from, etc. This promotes the museum indirectly (by getting their collection more exposure), but in a way that also aligns with Wikipedia's goals.

There's a fairly organized system to do outreach to such organizations and help them contribute in a positive way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM
Right, employees are getting common stock so they don't get to jump to the front of the line when a company is sold. But they are also paying the common stock price, which is a fraction of the price paid by the preferred stock, so it makes sense that each share they own has less rights associated with it vs. the shares the investor pays a premium for.
If you are interested in earning some bitcoin, there is currently a 25BTC bounty to solve a mysterious leveldb corruption issue on Mac OS X. Inquire the devs on #bitcoin-dev on Freenode for more information.
Gaming Company Fined $1M for Secretly Using Players' Computers to Mine Bitcoin
I enjoyed that a lot - well done!
It looks like most of the heavy lifting is done in shaders, so asm.js probably wouldn't improve it much.
It can be played with the Interlude Player on mobile (at least on iOS), just hit the page on the mobile device for the download link.
I don't think the article mentions it, Because? Question mark.
> It serves the interests of an elite few at the expense of everyone else...

I think you've just described Bitcoin. The early adopters have benefitted enormously compared to everyone else.

I do know that when "the shit hits the fan" that I'll be able to trade junk gold for goods and services, but I have zero faith that Bitcoin will be worth anything in the future. It has zero fundamental value.

If you think you can "take your Bitcoins with you" I think you're mistaken. The whole apparatus could be disrupted and destroyed overnight by an organization like the NSA or China's equivalent. Also it's dependent on the Bitcoin infrastructure being operational.

The government can try to seize your gold, they can make it hard to move, but there's always a way. With Bitcoin there may be no-win scenarios no matter how hard you try. All you'll have is some cryptographic hash and a whole lot of tears.
Yeah, it's pretty, but I'd like to see some explanation of what exactly is being simulated here.
I wouldn't even make the claim that silver and gold functioned as money. In pretty much all circumstances that I'm aware of, the scarcity (in the slightly unconventional sense I'm using it) and fungibility of gold and silver money is not great -- debasing with cheaper, more common metals resulted in differing standards of purity.

Most often, when gold and silver were used as currencies, it was because some dude punched his profile on one side of the coin, and because doing that as a private citizen was difficult and/or punishable by gruesome torture, the value of the money was related to how powerful the head on the coin was because that related to the probability that the coin wouldn't turn green.

This doesn't really answer the question you posed. Now I'm totally in the realm of post-hoc reasoning, though, and I can't really think of a concrete way of falsifying this argument, but I'll go for it anyway. Gold and silver occur naturally near the surface in relatively pure forms; gold especially since it doesn't really allow with anything. As a result, these metals were present in antiquity, and as systems of money grew up, they were good candidates because people thought they understood the scarcity -- an understanding that turned out to be proven incorrect several times in the history of coinage, with reasonably disastrous impacts on savers in those metals. Of course, "being used in antiquity" was not one of the properties I defined above. Arguably fungibility is a factor if the metals were not easily identifiable or distinguishable from other metals.
I think once you change the channel once, it let's your stay on a certain channel for the entire song. I was able to watch a single channel for the majority of the song. And the first channel that is chosen for you seems to be random, it's been different the 3 times I watched it.
"Always get an experienced lawyer to review paperwork you sign."

Always make sure you read, understand and question what the experience lawyer is telling or suggesting to you.

Don't assume they will catch everything and/or will not make mistakes. They do and they will.

Even jockey for who gets to draw up the agreement first.

From my experience (others may differ in opinion although I'd like Grellas to weigh in on this one) it pays to have your attorney draw up the agreements (even at added expense).

Then it's up to the other side to catch any issues and it's hard for the other side to insert things without you noticing (because they stand out as insertion and are obvious).
A thin layer that maps methods to api requests should take care of this issue and be simple to write. This is exactly what database drivers and service sdk libs do, abstracting connection details into an easily consumable interface.
The linked github is broken. They haven't uploaded the source.
32 FPS - Chrome - Windows 7 - Thinkpad X1 Carbon i7

&

22 FPS on Firefox..
Commando.io rocks man! I actually use commando server management on digital ocean :)

The IP thing is definitely annoying especially since you're never guaranteed an IP (say you want to switch VMs) even in the same region. That and hard drive size which has definitely made me pay more than I should (when I don't need that much CPU/RAM but need the disk space). Otherwise great experience with them.
Can't wait for lolcat spelling to become alternative spelling.
I watched the video and scrolled to the bottom of the page. I don't know what they're selling - is it just the stylus thing? Does it work with every app, or just their one? Is it only for ipads, or can I use it on an Android? Then I noticed they spelt "ginkgo biloba" wrong on the sketch underneath the video. Twice. And then I closed the tab.
Amazing compilation of knowledge, so helpful!
I'm not a native speaker. If i add a "of", ("because of short attention spans!") that sounds if it was correct in the past aswell, so I'm confused. For me that seems just leaving out the "of", or is there more?
You can't pay US taxes in GBP. GBP is a currency.
Might be better if you specifically define what you mean - are you referring to energy sustainability?
I thought this usage arose from dropping the word "of" after "because". "Because of" wasn't mentioned anywhere in the article.
Stability first: Ubuntu’s Mir won’t replace X in 14.04 desktop
Ah I see, that makes more sense. Yes, I think fears of deflationary currency are probably quite a bit less rational than fears of environmental cataclysm as long as society doesn't come to term with the fact that there are in fact physical limits to growth on some time scale.
You don't buy things in HDTVs so that doesn't really matter.
Python on the GPU with Parakeet
That seems to dumb down the language, rather than improve or evolve it.

> Skipping lunch today because sleep.

What is that supposed to mean? You need to take a nap during lunch; you got too much sleep the night before and are groggy, etc.

Why not add a few more words to make the sentence understandable (in this case non-ambiguous).
That number doesn't sound right. It's a 4:21 minute long video, or 261 seconds. At 30 frames per second, that's only 7,830 frames for the whole video.

Maybe that was the total source material they filtered through?
I think this is false. Double spending doesn't create coins, it screws someone who accepted a coin. My understanding of the 51% attack is that you can basically reliably snip the end from the block chain. That doesn't let you put arbitrary things into it.
I'm not sure if this belongs on HN in the first place, but it certainly needs a better source than a tabloid.
I didn't realise it was a real product until near the end. I was thinking "Jeez guys, Penny Arcade did this joke four years ago!"

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/
While I tend to agree with you:

> The whole apparatus could be disrupted and destroyed overnight by an organization like the NSA or China's equivalent.

Just for fun, how? And not just a one sentence quote of "the 51% attack", but how much computing power would be needed for that attack? (Forget electrical power for the moment, and money.)
How would you like them to handle it? Fraud and abuse is a big problem, and government ID is a standard way to sort out who is who.
The frame rate is incredible given the number of particles. JavaScript interpreters really have come a long way.
The frame rate for JS particle simulation beats the frame rate you get when you tell a browser to append content, which is usually native C/C++ optimized to death.

To the author: great work. It looked very much alive on my screen when I first loaded the page.
Iterating over a Javascript array at a consistent rate
Attach transient, disposable cameras with precise positioning to wide-ranging self-piloting lifeforms not subject to FAA approval, such as city pigeons.
If you liked this, Chrome Experiments is filled with particle examples: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/search/results.html?q=parti...

Three.js also has some pretty nice to follow particles samples:

http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_particles_random

http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_particles_sprites

http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_buffergeometry_particles
If I were in that situation, and I find I often am, my choice is to go and read the manual. I think this comes from years of reading man pages for command line tools, but the first step I feel should always be to read the instructions.
I agree with this in many cases, but "Droplets" is really not difficult. Some providers invent whole new languages for perfectly mundane things. Digital Ocean just brands their virtual servers in a very straightforward way.
Sorry, bad link, but I can't edit my original post: https://keybase.io/warp
It is, in the beginning:

> It can be followed either by a finite clause (I'm reading this because [I saw it on the web]) or by a prepositional phrase (I'm reading this because [of the web]).

Seems to me that you are correct, this 'new usage' is merely the latter usage without 'of'.
To cite just one instance, the Fed is targeting the curtailment of its so-called quantitative easing money-printing/bond-buying fiasco to the unemployment rate for which Census provided the false information.

This is an odd conclusion to the article. The Census Bureau is supposedly artificially lowering the unemployment rate. The QE "fiasco" will end when unemployment gets low enough. So shouldn't the author be happy that the fiasco will be over sooner rather than later?
Spiritual materialism
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that WebGL uses the exact same API as ES, including the same stripped down shader language.
My television preferences and the times that I am normally watching TV are personal data - and potentially sensitive.

There is some disconnection within two sentences:
If it's not personal to me, how can they return the best ads for me?
How do you watch youtube videos without flash?
I guess I'm different in that I prefer to have a substantial amount of safety with "safe" code. If it's something that doesn't require that safety, it seems that something truly dynamic like lisp or racket is best.

For intstance, languages with weak static typing seem to lead to "stringly typed" solutions.
How would they fairly choose what ads to place?
This is a little different.

Self-confidence is important when you are trying to accomplish something big, and feeling like someone else is bailing you out undermines that.

Everybody is different, but some people need to know they can bounce back from the hardest circumstances and the only way to do that is to face them head on as they come.

Its good if you have that safety net of friends and family to help out. Not everybody has that, and there is never a guarantee that you always will. This is where one would find comfort in knowing that even then, they can survive.

If you can survive the worst, your personal definition of impossible is redefined.
> From what I can tell, this means they will be monitoring the tags to spot potential bugs and strange behavior.

They'd better damn well! [html5-apps] is a horrible, horrible thing that meets many of the definitions of a "meta" tag.
It looks like there's some sort of gravity involved. So then how do you get around the O(n^2) problem of comparing the contribution of each particle to every other particle? Did they implement an quadtree of some sort, or is it something else?
Telling me why I was suspected of fraud and abuse would be a good start.

Another edit: I got a helpful reply.

There has been a response to your ticket:

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Unfortunately, we are unable to provide further information with regard to our backend abuse filters.

If we may be of any further assistance, please do let us know.

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I saw this last week when reading from a phone, but it hasn't come back.
Citation needed. The Rolling Stones started in '62. Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is from '65.

Wikipedia attribute the band's name to the Muddy Waters song, "Rollin' Stone".
Yes, I do. :-) That logo is the new logo for MDN, our network for developers at Mozilla. Since Stack Overflow is a resource for developers we see a direct connection to that. Also, we have different foxes for different products, so that would probably be confusing - rather have one consistent look.
So how long do I have to wait to see it go back to it's initial position? (Theoretically...)
Does anyone have the theoretical description of what is happening? I'm curious about the fractal patterns being generated and the increasing in entropy and the that results in a catastrophic failure of the stable system. Is this some kind of chaotic system or is just an force field being applied on the particules.
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What's fascinating to me is that, unlike so many other language "changes", this isn't caused by laziness or carelessness. This seems to be a rare case where removing words adds information, rather than removing it: "The talks failed because of politics" means roughly what it says, while "The talks failed because politics" means roughly "The talks failed because of politics, which is the kind of thing that always happens when politics are involved".

Any linguists care to comment whether there's a term for this kind of meaning compression? "Idiom" doesn't quite seem to cover it.
Disagree. If that were the case people would not buy, as being "used" is negative. One is supposed to happily buy.
Hi everyone - just a quick update. (1) the URL is broken because the poster put it wrong (there shouldn't be a slash), not because the site is down. And (2) the github repository linked to is now public, not private. Enjoy the challenge. The first should fall fast.
Thanks to mobile devices, most are available with HTML5 video.
fixed, thanks for the reminder!
That's impossible. Thanks for trying though.
Why would you even say that? It makes no business sense for them to disallow competitors with their eventual SDK because they will still be selling much more expensive hardware to those people.

With an SDK they can only sell more products, whether that is apps, hardware, or both.

Where they should limit their SDK use is in branding — they probably wouldn't want poor quality or badly designed apps advertising (or even using) the Pencil SDK. It would reflect badly on their product. So they need to maintain control in those cases.

They shouldn't allow "any kind of app." They should allow "any kind of app that meets their standards for quality."
The New Threat: Targeted Internet Traffic Misdirection
Interesting how language can evolve (devolve?) in the face of character limits for online comments. A very memetic fashion, as well.
While it is weird that nobody ever pushed for RC4-skip-1024, it wouldn't have actually fixed anything; the Fluhrer-McGrew biases recur throughout the whole keystream, have been known for many many years, and turn out to be the more efficient attack vector anyways.
Sounds a lot like what Nancy Kress explored in Beggars Ride[1]:

"Miranda Sharifi changed this by creating the "Change syringe," a slim black injection that rebuilt the human body to be photosynthetic, able to absorb nutrients from any adjacent biological matter (dirt, grass, clothes, etc.), and resistant against disease, infection, foreign matter and casual injury. Lying on the ground in the sun for half an hour is sufficient "food" for any Changed individual."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_Ride
I think this goes back to the fact that start-ups are not get rich quick schemes. I was at a successful start-up that was acquired by a fortune 500 company. I got north of $500. From talking to many other software engineers, that is a pretty fantastic payout. Most people will never be in a start-up that yields much of value. You've got to do it because you love it.
"Meaningful" was the wrong word here, FWIW.
This is beautiful, after watching I feel like I finally understand how the universe developed structure after the big bang.
And dismissal is different from hating, at least from my understanding of the word used in this context.
Easy solution. Don't charge the farmer to photograph his land. Instead charge to rent the drones to the farmer so he can "fly them himself" with supervision. Just code up an interface that gives him a big green "Go" button that sets off the actual flyover sequence.
That logo is part of the new MDN redesign. In general, the dino is very popular among developers so I believe we will most likely continue to use it in developer circles, whereas it might go away in others.

And exactly, we both want to help out and also identify what developers have issues with.