skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks great! Would be cool if you could somehow show everything in one screen. Definitely trying it out.
Helicopters (used for media coverage, passenger transport and medical emergency) provide the perfect template for the Aviation Authority and Amazon to base a framework of operation on.

The main considerations will be:

- Set routes/paths the drones must follow, taking I to account altitudes that minimise traffic with other things high up (buildings, aircraft, UFOs)
- emergency procedures and a risk assessment for each foreseeable eventuality (not that hard considering the lack of other traffic 'up there')
- limits on the amount of drones in the air within constrained geographic localities.

It is likely that this could all be agreed for a single trial city well before 2015 rolls around. This isn't rocket science...
Vaporware aside, revealing the Amazon Drone project before Cyber Monday was an enormous PR coup, with all the press tucked along. Kudos to Amazon's marketing department.
Have you considered outsourcing your shipping to a third party logistics company? Slightly added cost but takes away a bunch of the pain as well.
This has no place here at all.
What legal or contractual constructs did previous bitcoin lenders attempt to use to ensure repayment? Surely they required some form of collateral or obtained sufficient information to be able to place a lien on the borrower's (thieves by your description) property.
Drones don't intentionally fall "on you" either. By the numbers cars are probably the second most dangerous thing you interact with day-to-day (cheeseburgers being the first). Safe travel - especially safe failure - is obviously an important concern, but can we at least bring up some rational evaluation?
But it's not just the book (which by the way is getting excellent reviews from people other than Jeff Bezos' wife). It's about the worker strike in Germany and the other negative news about Amazon. They are following the Google playbook of creating goodwill and good PR through these types of "innovations" that are destined to remain as vaporware or never really considered by the company to be a real business for them to get into. Companies like Google and Amazon need it terribly because their businesses on their own aren't going to create the type of goodwill that releasing a product like the iPhone and iPad does for Apple.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-02/amazons-dron...
Isn't this submission about Y Combinator joining him on that book tour?

> We’re thrilled to announce that Y Combinator will be joining Alexis Ohanian on the road starting next week for the Without Their Permission tour.

I think this is how a lot of people here will inevitably read this: The most famous startup incubator is going to be joining Alexis, a well-liked guy, Reddit cofounder, on a tour to promote his book (and by extension, the personalities of the participating parties themselves -- this is just the nature of promotion tours, you don't just raise the profile of a book, album, or movie, you're also raising the profile of the parties involved). The first three stops are Harvard, MIT, Tufts. At each stop there are successful YC alums telling budding entrepreneurs that YC is the way to go. Something I don't necessarily disagree with because I like YC, I'm just pointing out that it's perhaps a bit disingenuous to reduce what's going on here to "just Ohanian's book tour".
Presumably the drone will be quite valuable too. But then the current delivery trucks are valuable as well.
I hope others don't take too much away from an article that contains the gem:

"So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?"

Human contact is nice and can't be replaced by our current technology. Don't let this one, easy-to-make, statement let the rest of the contrarianism seem correct. Mr. Stroll's vision for the future of the internet was short-sighted and uncreative, but it's fun to see how far we've come.

Very related article in which the author eats humble pie: http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/curmudgeony-essay-on.html#c...
Newegg on trial: Mystery company TQP rewrites the history of encryption
Of note: you can achieve a solid 60fps yet still have latency issues. What instinctively bothers people is not just framerate, but the fact that on iOS†, scrolling (for example) has the content literally glued to your finger due to whatever scheduling trick, whereas the ever so slight latency on Android breaks the illusion as the content plays an uncanny catch up with the fingers. Project Butter made great strides to solve the framerate issue but also enabled triple buffering, which by definition increases latency. It's definitely noticeable even on both my N4 and N5 and absolutely jarring on my 2012 N7.

† also available on my Mac right now, even though the finger is on the touchpad instead of the screen, the scrolling response is instantaneous.
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The TQP Patent
To add to this: I would hate to be a 3rd shift worker and have to rely on 9am-5pm mom and pop stores for all of my purchasing needs.

Hell, just considering regular office workers, where are you going to go to pick up new diapers in the middle of the night when your kid wakes you up screaming, following a logistics failure? Without Walmarts, the only realistic option for late-night shopping is the local 7-11.
I think any sort of censorship at all, once the word gets out, will be damaging to HackerNews, and they should stop doing it before it becomes their "reputation"

HN censors people every day, as is their right. My account right now is under the influence of a slowbanning for what reason I have no idea.
It's been used since 1995.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator
It's the halting problem, not the parsing problem.
How does it fair for software development or email? Is it inadequate even for those tasks?
But the headline doesn't mention LSAT, it mentions "preggers" and "pizzle" both words with sexual innuendo attached to them.

Thus: TIRED linkbait.
Tomitribe’s Recommended Cyber Monday Architecture
Here are the three things Amazon needs to get its delivery drones off the ground
I've been meaning to write a post about all of the weird stuff we do in the interest of maximizing our limited resources. We've always had to stretch things as far as possible given server, financial, and time constraints, which has led to some interesting/unorthodox "solutions."
Facebook did not release a phone. They released a home screen/app launcher for Android. HTC did release a phone with it preloaded, which bombed (because move fast and break things works better on the web than on phones).
> - I don't quite see how you are factoring in the 60% batting average above (seems like it would water your returns down quite a bit from an average 2% "per move"

You're right, I was jumping the gun a little. The average gain is actually a bit higher than 2% (probably 3-5%), and if you're disciplined, you can keep your average loss to a percent or so.

The 2% was a more or less arbitrary number to show some of the math behind it, and that you don't need big gains on one trade to make a lot of money.

> - I'm not sure how well I believe that a casual trader can bat 60%. That sounds quite generous to me, especially on short-trades.

Casual, no. A dedicated retail investor, yes.

I agree with the original post that casual investors shouldn't be in individual stocks, but disagree with the notion that a non-professional can't trade.

> I think your ability to execute this strategy as high as 60% is going to vary year-to-year as well, although (thinking out loud), maybe this is a good strategy to play in obvious bull (2013) or bear (2009) markets, but not in flat markets (2012), when it's going to be hard to predict the outcome of any given drop or bounce.

Well this year has been a bull market, so I've batted 100%. My best trade was a 20% gain in less than a week. 60% is what I'd expect over time, though even 40% is workable if you limit your losses and maximize your gains. I also choose stocks based on their relatively predictable price movements, I stay away from over-publicised stocks that trade wildly based on the news.

Flat markets are tougher, but as long as there's some volatility you have opportunity. Learning how to read technical indicators (various statistical indicators based on price movement and volume) is incredibly helpful.
No Southeast!
I guess that Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Auburn, University of Alabama, Clemson, University of South Carolina etc. didnt give their Permission!
I would be interested in a blog post detailing the day-to-day mechanics of this.
You're absolutely right, I was just sharing some other options. Given the way 4chan is currently built inlining all of the Javascript would not be beneficial over keeping it external and allowing the browser to cache it.
I think that many of these criticisms, while perhaps valid in some ways, are unfair. Why single out Scala, when other, more popular languages have these same issues? The intent of this post seems to be to discourage using Scala on any project again, but it is difficult for me to discern the proposed alternative. Is it Haskell? A fine language, but seems to lack the tools that even Scala has, and it's not on the JVM. Is it JavaScript? Java? I'm not sure which comparisons to make. So to address each point:

The compile times criticism is probably one of the more valid ones. Was incremental compilation enabled in Gradle, though? It was only specified that daemon mode was used.

The libraries and community criticism, I think, is completely unfair. There are lemons in every community. Part of getting to know an ecosystem is learning the parts you don't like. For example, I don't think that anyone should attack the entire Java ecosystem simply because Java EE with its EJBs exists, or because Struts exists, or WebSphere.

Is the magic syntax criticism specific to Spray and SBT? But I thought that Gradle was the build system, and that's in Groovy. I'm a bit confused, here. Again I think this is about picking libraries you find readable, and again I think it is not fair to judge an entire ecosystem because of one or two bad library choices.

The HTTP header criticism...is this about Spray again?

Not using Scala because it doesn't have Hindley-Milner type inference is not fair, either. This seems like an unusual standard for which to hold any language, really. Is it only ML languages like Haskell that have this?

Really I'm not sure why any or all of these would make Scala an inaccessible language, or even what inaccessible means in this context. Is it simply that Scala has too many language features? So should we all go back to BASIC? Or is Java the answer? But wait, Java is adding more language features, too! Where do we draw the line? In the Java world, there are so many libraries that provide the functionality that Scala has baked in. Are using third-party libraries such as Guava, Project Lombok, and LambdaJ really preferable to using Scala?

I definitely agree that you can make code unreadable by using too many language features or libraries, but it should be agreed upon what the best practices are for a project between its developers. For instance, on a Java project, everyone might be using JUnit and Mockito for unit testing. Then one day, a single developer decides he wants to introduce PowerMock or something, instead. His pairing partner could explain to him why this is a bad idea; or it could be rejected in a code review or similar. The same idea holds for Scala, I think. If not everyone understands something like implicit types, they should be avoided.
Make University of Toronto happen! Glad the tour didn't stop at Waterloo :)
I work in a newsroom, albeit a small one--a public radio station--and we do that.

I also have the freedom to tell my bosses "no" so I expect my newsroom is probably in the minority.

Interesting side note: We're growing in a small market (Vermont) at a time when most newsrooms are shrinking or even collapsing, especially the small markets. Sure, correlation is not causation, but I would argue that the culture plays no small part in our success.
> We’re almost at the stage now where we will never have to even see another iPhone case.

"We successfully made the transition from being an ad agency with attached warehouse and fulfillment center to being solely an ad agency."

So you never had anything to do with the physical product anyway, no development or manufacturing or anything. Naturally you had to streamline your business process to reflect this, but it's not what I'd call a "Physical Product Experiment".
I foresee a 4K Thunderbolt Display coming our way within the next couple months. I have been wanting to get a new display for a while, so I am holding out for that. If not, I might consider a Dell. It's not unibody and it's not as thin as the newer Thunderbolt displays are going to be though.
I do have that issue with Google keyboard, there are words I want to add, but I don't even get the suggestion from the keyboard to add the app.

I wish there was an official tutorial somewhere.
"grep searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named..." Important bit being "or standard input."

Also, what an odd one-liner. What's the use case for this that makes it such a common command: file names and sizes for all files matching a pattern beneath the current subdirectory (and all subdirectories and files within subdirectories matching that same pattern)? Genuinely curious.
Cliff Stoll had his moment when he wrote Cuckoo's Egg. A pretty good tale of his stalking a hacker and getting the FBI interested. He then squandered that brief internet fame by becoming an internet naysayer and got another 15 minutes.
Of course, there are no reliable 100% stocks. If there were investing would be easy.

But compounding gains for a 100% return on a portfolio is very possible, through more active trading.
It seems your link for The Last Question is dead, which is a shame because it's surely my favorite out of the ones you listed.

An alternate mirror can be had here:
http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/
"Whatever else this is, it cannot be mere vaporware. "

I am unclear on why not, exactly? 4-5 years before it appears, with the obvious possibility that it never does for regulatory reasons, technology reasons....

At this point I wouldn't call it vaporware, its not that far along.

It is still a fantasy. A nice fantasy. I loved the idea. but, for now, just a fantasy.

Check back in 4-5 years (or 5-10 years?) when something has actually been delivered to the market, and lets have a glass of whiskey and be amazed at the futuristic technology.
So this is the same guy that bought the Las Vegas apartment and rents it on Airbnb?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6655492
That system only works as long as all parties agree to the concept of "innocent until proven guilty". If one party is willing to take the stance of "guilty until proven innocent", the entire scheme falls apart.

For instance, let's say that A wants to send bitcoins stolen from G to X and B wants to send other bitcoins to Z. G simply approaches F and says "You stole my bitcoins. As punishment, I'm going to chain you to a mattress in a 6x6 cell until you confess." That leaves F two choices. F can stand for his principles, keep quiet, and serve as an object lesson to all other potential anonymizers.

However, if F doesn't want to slowly go mad from a lack of mental stimulation, then F would probably keep detailed accounting records of each transaction and pass them on to G. G might feel gracious and upgrade F to a 10x10 cell with a window.

Granted, most of these options are available with cash, but you don't have the transaction record which shows you who F is. In this way, bitcoin is easier to trace than cash.
Improving Client Communication: Own the Problem with a Smile
they have been effectively fixed

That's a big part of the preference dynamic too. The price per resolution got stuck and didn't budge above 27" for years.

Hopefully one day I'll be happy with four 50" 8K screens.
Definitely my thoughts. This article takes a further look at why he announced it so early: http://gigaom.com/2013/12/02/so-why-did-jeff-bezos-pre-annou...
Very useful. Good job.
Why The HTML5 Vs. Native Debate Obscures The Real Challenges Of Mobility
We actually do this with reply loading already, but not by default. We have a read-only JSON API and use that to append new replies when you're browsing in a thread (click [Update] or [x Auto] at the top/bottom of a thread). We also have a de-pagination feature that grabs all of the OPs from a board and let's you scroll through the indexes as one giant page.
Look at the photo.

Hard to have vision when your workspace is so cluttered.
Wonder how well various OSes will handle resolution jumps. The embarassing failure to scale GUI objects was acceptable in the technically-limited '90s, but in 2013 it seems ridiculous to have everything pixel-sized.
Maybe, but that's in the realm of philosophy though. People use metrics and it's certainly debatable if it works or not.
Data point: I sideload Android apps onto my BB Z30 all the time, and it's less than five minutes from start to finish. I feel like I have the best of both worlds.
Caffeine energy drinks 'intensify heart contractions'
4chan logs IPs and provides them to the cops if the ask, so it's not like users who want to remain completely anonymous can do so without being behind seven proxies anyway.
Your eyes can't tell the difference b/t 1080p and 4k on a 28" screen
Is this paralipsis(http://prevaricate.me/?p=451) or meta-paralipsis?
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/ghost.html
anyway to get notified when you launch this?
On API Design
there are a lot of investment funds out there. even if none possess any skill, it is possible for a few to produce extreme risk-adjusted performance simply by chance.
Mental poker is a neat thought exercise, but if one of the parties drops out mid-hand, it can't be completed. If there are connectivity issues or if someone doesn't like the flop that's a huge problem.
Doesn't history tell us that it's very common for reporters not to write their own headlines?
Beautiful. Can't describe with words...
> As soon as it kills a dog, you'll have to put certified accelerometer-triggered parachutes on them, and that's it.

I can't imagine them not having some kind of safety system to respond to in-air failures. The potential liability is an obvious concern, but protecting the drone itself is probably enough to make it worthwhile.
From that page, it seems like they didn't start sticking missiles on them until 2001, but stayed a bit hush about that for a while later. That's probably where the idea that drones in warfare is a more recent innovation comes from.
Less than a decade later my father, a history professor, thought I was a fool for thinking Wikipedia could hold a candle to Britannica for many reasons similar to those in the article.

Obviously I didn't know what editing meant, how quality came about in publishing, or what an encyclopedia was for. The value of the GPL was utterly lost on him.
How and Why to Backdoor Into Jobs
Almost no single prediction, critisism or estimate that held up to the test of time. Moral of the story, don't play the prophet and try to predict the future. The future is always stranger than anybody imagined.
I love reading things like this... This guy saw obstacles that were insurmountable while others saw obstacles that we begging to be conquered. And now we know how it turned out.
These things work out. Used car salesmen may be shady, sure, but somehow they are still in business. People tread carefully when dealing with them, but used car sales do go through in the end. A combination of regulation and reputation systems makes it all work out.

And I'd say that that is only a sufficient condition, not a necessary one. While SR was up, it function on purely on reputation, and it worked. No regulation needed.

All the more so, real business with actual real world presence (who are thus subject to regulation) will survive, but even the online ones that are not accountable to any government... well, it is a lot harder, but we have seen successful examples in the past.
OwnCloud is on your machine, here it is an external device on which you directly connect hard drives.
If the binary sizes are a problem for you, a temporary solution could be to pack them with something like UPX.

http://upx.sourceforge.net/
The first thing which came to mind is Spiderweb Software's role playing video games. I've been playing them since the 90s. On the surface they're just another turn-based isometric CRPG, but once you start playing, you're drawn into an excellently written tale of intrigue and conflict and fictional politics which is never boring. For me, the writing is just as good as a book which cannot be put down.
They have a faq section for this specific question.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brai...
If you give the url of the photo you are allowed to see to someone else, you can give the actual photo as well. I don't get the security risk here.
Techies vs NSA: encryption arms race escalates
What's that anarchist catch phrase? "Democracy is a process in which everyone tries to benefit at the cost of everyone else."
Cloudy with a Chance of Beer
ReplyAll Debuts The World’s First “Blogcasting” Service
== from their faq ==

Synology, Qnap or Iomega devices are Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. They add a new folder or virtual hard drive in your computer, and make it accessible from all your devices. Owncloud works the same.

This hard drive or folder is yet-another-memory, a separate place where you have to copy, move, your files into. So at the end of the day, if you use these solutions you still have to constantly manage and figure out where is your data.

The main innovation in Lima is that it manages all of your data for you. Not only the contents of a specific folder.

The Lima app replaces the entire file system of your computers. It handles everything: from the pictures in your "My Pictures" folder, to the files on your Desktop. So it really does feel like all your devices have the same memory: you can download something on your Mac, and open it on your PC.

Everything is in Lima, and the Lima app makes synchronization invisible to you.

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Want an example? You should watch our demo video, in the "Lima apps" section. Tell us if it's clear enough!
I'd pay to have Amazon - and other companies - NOT fly a relatively heavy thing over my property.