skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi techie girl. I am not an expert, neither succesful, but I can give you a simple advice:

Try to go as far as you can with your project without quitting your job. I am talking about validating.

I understand that you believe in your idea, in your project. I've been here. I think everyone have been there. But that doesn't mean anything, sadly. So before you quit your job, before you make any bet, try to cut risk. Send emails to potential customers, to see if they are interested.

To code for a whole year a beta and then see that nobody wants it, that's pretty bad. So try to avoid that.
Good point. I come from a low-rise city (Christchurch, New Zealand) so I'd forgotten about that. I suppose you could designate a safe spot, perhaps on the roof of the apartment?
Thank you for this comment. I'm starting a hobby webapp project and wanted to try Clojure but was probably going to choose RoR out of fear. Now I'll use Clojure :)

Would be interesting to see a blog post demo'ing your workflow.
I picked up a couple Korean 27" 1440ps for the desktop for around $300 and loving them. They're even overclockable.
If I saw strong evidence Szabo wrote some of Satoshi's words (and I haven't yet!), then maybe someone took him up in Apr 2008, they pretty quickly refined some things and got 0.1 out the door, Szabo contributed some text, and they changed the post date to after Bitcoin's release/threw in some British spellings/made incorrect claims about when work started [or the implementer really had started earlier, or something] to add noise for anyone trying to trace Satoshi back to actual people.

Still, that all kind of assumes there was 11-dimensional chess going on to conceal who worked on Bitcoin, and I think the reality was likely simpler.

However, that scenario would allow for some of Szabo's post-Bitcoin statements to be sincere even if he was involved: could be true that he hasn't audited the code and that he's not entirely sure if certain bit gold -> Bitcoin changes are features or bugs, since any refiner/implementer presumably had some independence and collaborators never agree on everything. And Szabo being involved is at least a saner notion than previous ones: we at least know he found proof-of-work e-gold interesting.

But I'm speaking without having dug deeply into what they both wrote, which would probably probably a prereq for developing useful priors. I don't think I know much here, and I certainly don't think the comment alone is evidence for Satoshi=Szabo (or Satoshi-involved-Szabo).
Interesting, thanks for the research. I guess I shouldn't be too shocked, but it is a bit surprising (we have an enormous land mass).
So I am curious what npm gives you that sbt doesn't. I have heard it a few times how much better npm is but i haven't seen anything it does that sbt doesn't
It's obviously not ever going on the same scale as Amazons service but there is already something similar underway in Australia: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/push-for-liftoff-o...

Apparently we have very forward thinking laws in regards to UAVs
RHAT has stated that XFS will be the default filesystem in RHEL 7.
Show HN: RiskIt, a deliberation tool for empowering patients.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/push-for-liftoff-o...
Presumably they'll have GPS and will phone home constantly- if someone shoots it down/hits it with a thrown ball/etc Amazon will probably send someone out to find it. If they find it mounted on someone's wall like a hunting trophy they'll call the police.
Can't wait until the first time one shreds a customer's dog, (or face, child, etc.) as it tries to deposit a package on her front porch.
It'll have to take evasive maneuvers and return fire ;) Does raise and interesting question though. Will books and other items be dropping out of the sky?
I'm using WR943ND and have problems with WiFi - it usually works, but may suddenly lose connection and start not accepting some or all clients (usually looks as a failure to obtain address via DHCP). Requires me to power-cycle the router every now and then. Not sure whenever the problem is within the hostapd or kernel, and I'm too lazy and incompetent to debug it. It seems to work fine for others, so maybe it's just my particular hardware issue.

Also, about an year ago, switch support was nearly non-existent - they just had the configuration struct hardcoded right inside kernel and nobody (including me) hadn't enough patience to properly expose config to userspace. But that matters only if you want 802.1Q, which is rarely a requirement for typical home networks. And maybe someone bothered to hack that, already.

Otherwise TL-WR{7,8,9,10}4[13]ND is a good platform. Unless they changed something recently, I'm not aware of.
This is talking about the Argentinian government defaulting on their debt. That has literally nothing to do with US government accruing more debt.

So yes, I have no problem making that statement.
Are you considering land mass or where people actually live? Large sections of the country are practically unpopulated.
A few months behind Australia, wonder who will be the first to actually start using it in production.

http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/aussie-company-zoo...
I don't understand how this would work without having distribution centers that fully cover the nation to within 30 minutes, and having every item they sell at every such center.

Even if you just want to cut UPS out of the last 30 minute radius and not stock everything at every distribution center... that's still distribution centers everywhere.
> This is institutional failure.

Indeed. I wonder how hard it would be to have random testing of the chemists' work.
Basically sugar as a texture with butter and salt & pepper.
Yeah I can see why this is delicious. We generally love anything we sugar :)
One of the linked references also supplies these tasty ideas:

The toast sandwich isn't the only recipe in Mrs Beeton's compendium to use cold toast as the basis for a meal. She recommended toast soup - 1lb (0.45kg) of bread crusts boiled in 2oz (0.05kg) of butter and a quart (1.1 litres) of "common stock". Or for a refreshing drink, what about "toast-and-water"? Made with, you guessed it, a slice of stale loaf toasted, then soaked in a quart (1.1 litres) of boiling water until cold.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15760897
Long-term stability.
Now if they can just build Amazon ICBM or Amazon Railgun for us international customers, that would give a new meaning to "dropshipping".
While you're absolutely right, this is my home network, and not that big a deal. I'd guess that even outdated FreeBSD is way more secure than most consumer router firmware, which hopefully makes me a less appealing target.
Well, not a day goes by that I don't already hear multiple airplanes and even more gas powered leaf blowers from my back yard.

I expect drones will increase that form of ambient noise in my neighborhood substantially.

Those who live in high vehicle traffic areas may not notice a difference.
I have a feeling they are doing it to garner support for drones in general, which will help them with the FDA when it comes to getting approval.
Why try on clothes?
http://www.jhilburn.com/
Gender identity is not at all the “grammatical expression of a sex within an environment’s constraints”. It is ‘a person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender.‘ — http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender_identity

> All else other than male (primary masculine) and female (primary feminine) are imaginary, and not based on biological reality. Those things do not merit being taken seriously no more than any religion or superstition.

Complete and utter bullshit, evidenced by how the ideas of “masculine” and “feminine” vary between and even within societies. These ideas are hardly the same “all over the world in varying civilizations”. Please, please read the Wikipedia article on Gender Identity, especially the section on non-western gender identities. It is such a different concept than classifying nouns.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity#Non-Western_gen...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender

Even grammatical gender is hardly consistent or strict with its being informed by sex. In Spanish, a man’s shirt would still be “la camisa”, a feminine noun. A female cheetah would still be called “el guepardo”. This insistence on adhering to biological sex — which itself isn’t even always binary — as a strict basis for gender makes no sense.
Amazon Prime Air: must see video
This will be a huge issue, even if Amazon gets this through the FAA, there are going to be all kinds of local interests expressing their concerns. What happens when one of these gets tied up in an overhead power lines? Did folks living near the fulfillment centers (assuming the warehouse were there first) sign up to live near a heliport, with dozens+ of aerial noise sources buzzing off every day? What about trees, etc?

This looks cool, and Amazon has some smart folks so this will likely work itself out over time, but there is going to be a lot to overcome.
My understanding is that CentOS essentially takes the RHEL packages and removes the trademarks (the RH logo and name).

Entirely legal and ethical under the GPL, and RH benefits from all the folks who know the RHEL system because of exposure to CentOS - when they're recommending a supported version of Linux, it's likely to be RHEL.
I have two remarks or questions.

The person who receives the package doesn't have to (or cannot) sign for it apparently.

How difficult is it to shoot down such a drone to get the loot, if you will. Might become a sport for some folks.
so install a drone landing pad on the roof..
You would only roll this out to certain areas at a time. Not the entire planet at once.
As the regulatory and commercial frameworks evolve, I can see how buildings would have dedicated landing zones (likely on roofs)… the XXI century equivalent of mailboxes.
>> why announce this now, 2 to 3 (or more) years out? Are they gearing up to get governmental regulations?

My guess: if the public is clearly excited, it puts more pressure on regulators to approve it.

Which is otherwise a hard sell, especially when you think of what it means for security if autonomous drones are a normal sight.
bookstores, where one can browse more than the cover and a few pages
Ha. I found this statement pretty funny as an ex-army officer. You got it 100% wrong. You have very little control in the army. To do anything. Including leave for the weekend, or taking a vacation.
FDA? FAA?
It’s a symphony of people,
it’s a symphony of software,
it’s a symphony of robots now.
~Jeff Bezos
I don't really mind going out to the curb to pick up a package
Papers, Please: A Game That Puts Your Sympathy To The Test
Scala looks sexy, sort of like weird haircut.

But once haircut fascination is over - people expect you to do mundane tasks, like cook food or take out the garbage. Or they won't pay you.

And then you realize that when Scala cannot do what you want - you can always revert to Java.

And then you realize that you don't really need Scala-ing if you can do the same stuff in Java or any other strongly typed language.
I hope you mean FAA.
They simply repackage and rebrand RHEL, then give it away for free. If anything I'd be quicker to call RHEL the free rider on the hundreds of pieces of OSS software they use (but I do not make that argument).

If you want a warranty/support contract, definitely purchase RHEL. If you don't need that, but want enterprise grade stability and compatibility, use CentOS. If you want to run Linux on your laptop, don't use either.
I've been a critic of Play 2 on a number of occasions on HN but I don't understand the complaint. What is causing you to create URLs with trailing slashes?
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fedex.com/sg/servic...

Oldest is January 25, 2012
I was a bit distraught to see human hands touching my requested item at one point in the video. Surely that can be eliminated.
Crazy ridiculous idea: have the copters attached to a cable or pole that it drags along the ground, or whatever is necessary so it isn't considered a flying vehicle. Or just fly it really close to the ground.

Actually even just a UGV would be pretty useful.
In the 60min piece, Bezos mentioned 85% of their sold products are 5lbs or less... (wonder if that includes the digital stuff?)
Half of the evidence is the location of the SD card, and concealing your presence in that location would be extremely difficult.
It doesn't seem like the battery density exists for anything except fairly short distances with very small packages. For the vast majority of deliveries, this could only be a "last mile" mechanism, with the bulk of each delivery happening via more traditional transport. 30-minute delivery from the warehouse? Not going to be possible for 99% of purchases, even those that are under the weight limits.

Moreover, you can't just have hoardes of flying vehicles randomly over populated areas (and if this was at all practical, every company and its dog company would be trying to do the same thing), so you'd need fairly strict regulations on where they actually fly, and a system for managing them (e.g. limiting the number of flights by all companies). They'd probably need to do things like limit the paths that could be followed, maybe above public roads (which would reduce the delivery radius). Whatever happens, the (necessary, because it involves public safety and contention for a limited common resource) regulation and government control is going to slow the process down, probably a lot more than Amazon's timeline suggests...

Even if they could grind through all the problems, get government support, and setup a system to do final delivery of very small purchases by air... is the investment required to do all this worth it to be able to deliver a vanishingly small proportion of packages more quickly?

What this really looks like is an unintentional leak of Amazon's next April 1st gag...
I agree. A lot of problems that afflict innocent people in our society can be chalked up to not doing that kind of higher-level thinking - what would be a person's possible motives for setting up this scenario? What are the potential consequences? Am I risking my finances, health, or livelihood by getting involved?
Any laws we have are forward thinking compared to our new Bikie laws. One step forward for tech, two steps forward for the police state...

Sorry, I'm bitter still. My state is frustrating me.
Are videos not covered under the 1st amendment?
A lot of people live in apartments. I assume they'll be excluded from this.

Also related: http://tacocopter.com/
Furniture is still a bit difficult to evaluate online, and quite complex to deliver.
Wal-Mart and other big chains already has much of that infrastructure in place.
Not quite.

When I was dead broke, I used to have bread sandwiches.

On really spare days, I'd have half a bread sandwich.
One of my pet dogs growing up always chased the UPS truck (rural area). I can't imagine what it would have done to delivery drones...

In a hypothetical situation where a delivery drone gets sniped by some kid with a 22, what is Amazon's response?
Why did you let your mom live on the streets?
If it can handle picking up a return package that would mean never having to go the UPS store again.
The video on the link does not impress. Patching java is getting pretty old.

Java is mature technology and you can (and I have) write any metaphor you want on top of it within the jvm 's constraints.

So the question becomes if your in the JVM and not writing java then you should probably have a big customer creating, money making, IT efficiency, time to market case to make.

As much as I can't stand closure at least I can't blame Rich Hickey for playing small ball.

These java patches are wanting and ill advised.
He means legitimate as in "I gave you bitcoins for a concrete purpose" rather than "recognized as legal by a government." People are using BitTorrent for an actual purpose, so it's different.
people pay too much attention to hats
Not a new idea. TacoCopter[1] had this idea as a ironic VC joke. It's amazing to see this sort of things are becoming a reality.

Just wondering how much it will cost to be a member after all. Flying a quadcopter is not cheap!

[1] http://tacocopter.com/
Previously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy
The awesome part is, (and I'm pulling numbers out of my ass here) for a 10 dollar delivery fee, or maybe a 100 dollar subscription to prime air with an average of ~10 items shipped), this thing would pay itself off within days.

I assume that the kind of quadcopter that could lift a few kg and had decent flight time would probably run you 3-4k with today's tech, at consumer prices. Even then, a fairly good investment. At bulk prices with 4 years in the future tech, this thing would pay for itself in no time.

Hope they get the FAA on board!
This is the sort of thing that makes me very glad to be a part of the tech industry. Reading this announcement literally made me giddy.
The basic python package will never change versions, but it will receive backports, this is the RedHat way.

If you must use newer stuff, check the Software Collections (still in devel, but prolly very usable):

http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/SCL/

Alternatively check out IUS repo, it has python 2.7.5 and 3.3:
http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/SRPMS/rep...

http://iuscommunity.org/pages/About.html
Fun thought: Hey! We now can get an owl to deliver to us our letters! (Harry Potter!)

Serious thought: Nice. Though what safety precaution will be in place? How many can be fly at the same time? How exactly do we pick up this drone? What stops non-owner from picking up the delivery? What stops from someone detouring the drone to a different location? How does it know where to drop? How to drop? Some environment reader must be implemented in this robot.
> battery density

Why wouldn't these drones be gasoline powered?
REST API's are Crud
China launches its first moon rover
Confession: I cannot remember names.

But I will remember actions of a person. I've had more non-hatted folks fuck me over than the other.

Again just a single source of stats. Nothing to draw from.
Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet
I'm curious. Suppose someone you love is abducted, and the police arrive minutes after the adbuction and can probably catch the abductors if they start the chase immediately...but although there were many witnesses not a single one will tell the police which direction the abductors ran, or what kind of car they drove, or the license number without talking to a lawyer first, because they watched that video.

Would you continue to recommend it?

And yes, a surprisingly large number of people who watch it say that in the above circumstances, they would wait for a lawyer before saying "the kidnappers drove north".
> Even 8 a-z characters requires (26^8)/2==104.4 billion attempts to bruteforce on average, which is high

Nu-uh.

Small GPU clusters - 25 in the beneath case - get you 300 billion guesses a second, more than sufficient to guess a 26^8 password in a couple of seconds.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack...

He probably only has one GPU working on the problem, but even at as low as a billion guesses a second, you're going to have the password in way less than a day. It's not unreasonable to think that he'd crack it, especially if he just set a computer to working on it for a couple of weeks or so - and I see no reason he wouldn't.

Also, nesting encrypted containers was/is something people do to hide file names on passworded zips. Which doesn't inspire confidence in the skills of the defender in this case. I see no reason someone would have done so if they'd used decent encryption, like a truecrypt volume.
Or the PERFECT amount of money ;)
There was a story a month or so ago about a company in Australia doing something similar with textbooks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550765
I think so. I came from straight servlets, Struts and Liferay Portal and Grails was amazing to me. I can get apps up and running so much faster, with little configuration and things just work. I have never done RoR, so I can't make a comparison, but it is pretty nice IMHO and it's easy to get started, yet is very powerful.

It's also a pleasure to program in Groovy.
As far as range goes, you could Pony Express it with a series of waystations.
Contact the police and send another.
Yeah, we have a lot of land, but you wouldn't want to live there...
A bigger question is that even in 2015 w/ a successful lunch what is going to prevent these things from being hit or redirected (GPS MITM) in the sky. Going to assume it will become a crime to interfere with domestic UAVs @ some point.
From the original leaked email, great observation on the need to dig into library code:

. . . engineers need to have an accurate mental model
of how these libraries work or they shift into
cargo-culting snippets of code as magic talismans of
functionality.
I'm also running Merlin's build on the RT-AC66U. 802.11ac speeds with custom firmware, excellent ui and a rich feature set.
Delivery to a balcony could solve a lot of door drop off theft issues.
Thank you, that was the vague feeling I got when I saw it, you expressed my feelings perfectly.

But I'm old and I'll be gone someday. Y'all have fun with it.
Sentient code: A look at Stephen Wolfram’s new, insanely ambitious, paradigm
Why? Because that costs thousands of dollars more for a wardrobe than trying on off-the-rack clothes, and I'm certain it takes longer.
Java 8 for me is still far from making me move from Scala. Lambda expressions is only a small part of what I like about Scala. For me Scala is a statically typed Ruby / Python / JavaScript that runs on the JVM, and is very Java like.
I would change some things in it, but a language doesn't have to be revolutionary to make me want to use it.

Things I have in Scala that I like and Java 8 won't provide
(many are syntactic sugars and non critical stuff, I know, but I like it, I'm spoiled)

- implicit conversions. some hate it, I love it. It allows much better "pimp my library" mechanism than Ruby's and it's very easy to write extensions to your or 3rd party extensions in a safe and easy manner

- duck typing, e.g. allows to write a "try with resource" without native support for anything that implements "close"

- automatic tuples

- better type inference

- semicolons, hate them

- automatic equals and hashcode for case classes

- case classes

- futures and promises

- by name parameter passing (passing a block of code without running it)

- partial functions, multiple parameter lists

- for comprehensions

- pattern matching

- nested functions

- lazy vals

- everything is an expression

- String interpolation

- multiline string

- default parameters

- named parameters

- pattern matching

- everything is immutable by default

- very string type system

I think that's it. Yes, Scala is infamous as the language that took many many features from other languages and piled it all together, well, fine with me! you say more features that are great in other languages and make people productive? (and are kind of expected, like default parameters etc) I say bring them on and the more the merrier. I can choose which features I want to use out of the way too many features the languages, much better than waiting years for features to be added.
Hater's gonna hate, I'm still going to write Scala until something better comes around. (Nimrod? Kotlin? Ceylon? TypeScript? Dart? perhaps even Go? Don't know... time will tell)
Considering how signatures are mostly a farce (I routinely sign for my wife or my neighbours, who do the same for me), that's not a big deal: you'll just choose "classic" delivery via courier if you're really worried about that.

Interception is a real problem though, especially in high-crime areas. You could reduce it with some sort of hardened container which can be opened only with a certain code.