skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
R/C airplanes were pretty limited by three factors:

1. Mostly fixed wings airplanes, these needed dedicated airfields to operate. You wouldn't see them in NYC streets;

2. Hobby grade equipment meant you actually needed to know what you were doing to fly these. The barriers to entry were high enough to keep the average joe out of flying;

3. Most importantly, all piloting was done using simple radios with limited range and line of sight requirement.

Now all of it changed. We have aircraft which are not exactly R/C anymore; a 3DR Iris is a fully autonomous vehicle that can go anywhere you tell it, within few miles. A DJI Phantom Vision is something you can buy on Amazon or B&H that you fly using a video downlink to your mobile and it can go far beyond where you'd normally fly an R/C airplane. Both are multirotors that take off vertically and anywhere, and both of these aircraft can take high resolution, stabilized videos of anything in their path.

I agree with you that any regulation will only burden individuals and not the government; I also think that this regulation will be proven ineffective as consumer drone technology of today mostly originates in China. Also, this area is simply too intriguing for many people to just regulate away.
I want it to be seamless. I don't want people to have to call one number if I'm on wifi and another if I'm on 4G. I want to be able to make an outbound call and not worry about if it's 4G or wifi. I want to be able to send and receive text messages just like normal.

I want wifi to be just like a cell tower. Are there other apps that can do that (and that aren't a nightmare to set up?)
Bible

C:\TAD\Text\QUIX.TXT

earth, brother squire, and if that's not enough for you, take as
many more, for you may have it all your own way and stretch yourself to
your heart's content. Oh that I could see burnt and turned to ashes the
first man that meddled with knight-errantry or at any rate the first who
chose to be squire to such fools as all the knights-errant of past times
must have been! Of those of the present day I say nothing, because, as
your worship is one of them, I respect them, and because I know your
worship k
Rebuilding 24 ways
The awesome thing about climate engineering is it isn't even "we". It's "one guy who skips buying a new Global Express and spends that money doing it."
ArangoDB: A different approach to NoSQL
Generally most trans people have commented during QUILTBAG events or private company. I've found that in a formal office environment, they tend to welcome, or at least not notice, gender neutral defaults
Not at all. You can paint over a crossover with something (Whiteout I think) and then just write across it. When you can do that it's far more flexible than multi-layer with via's.

The resistance will not be an issue either for signal traces. Only those receiving or delivering power such as Vcc or the output of an audio amp or cable drivers.

I'm looking to enhance it with software for another KS project WaterColorBot, a very low cost plotter. With that, multi-line overlapping traces can be created to lower resistance and it could even automatically implement their suggestion of rubbing over a dried trace with something hard to compress the colloidal silver in it into making better contact between particles.
Considering when you sell all the gold in Fort Knox all at once would pretty much crash gold's value.

How much is the gold in Fort Knox really worth?
Ask HN: How to promote my website?
Hi HN,

I've built a website that provide a very good service for everyone, especially for experts/influencers with many amazing features.

Now I'm trying to promote it but as you all know it's not an easy task to do. I've searched a lot and all tips are good and I've been following each one of them with no success so far. I've contacted a lot of bloggers and still doing so actually, I tried publishing on slashdot but it looks like it's getting rejected. My co-founder is attending a bloggers/hackers event trying to promote the site with many people.

Is there anything we are missing or we should do better? and how can we get the big websites talking about it?

Thanks,
The clearest finding was that the more diverse the area, the less people trusted each other.

I grew up in Hawaii, arguably one of the most racially and culturally diverse populations in the world. As an adult I've lived in 10-15 cities on the mainland and none of them had as much warmth and acceptance in the culture as Hawaii does. If I had to pick one reason for that, I'd say it is because Hawaii has less correlation between race and wealth than most places in the US. Still not completely egalitarian, but closer.
As an alternative to this, what about ICBM/Nuclear Launch codes - they have the potential to destroy a lot of value (both natural, material and psychological)?

Or even a terrorist's planning information prior to an event?

Or even genetic code?
Do we know absolutely, for sure, that this is what happened? From the revert, bnoorhuis clearly didn't know that Bert had signed it off. To me it looks like there was a bit of confusion, and there's not enough info to say either way. As I said elsewhere, the error bars on this look far too wide.

Given even the remotest possibility that this was a confusion, such a public and childish telling off seems entirely unreasonable.

I appreciate you are an employee and are qualified to speak as such. But as an outsider (and a feminist), I won't touch Joyent with a bargepole after this.
I'm sure a root private key from Verisign or something could give that a good run for its money on a byte-for-byte basis, though it's harder to directly valuate.
Interestingly enough, in the developer community we fork and clone each others' repos like never before; I bet most people don't check the source code, unless they need to make changes. I believe there's still some trust left.
What is the general consensus on TPM? Is it trustable? Bitlocker is the only encryption I know that makes use of it. Weirdly, Truecrypt is stern about never ever using it.

Assuming no foul play, I think a combination of TPM (Hardware based Keys), Secure boot and Open source encryption should be enough to keep your data safe from any prying eyes.
Here I was hoping for an article detailing what this was really about. There are a LOT of angles to this.
Websphere, lotus notes
I guess it depends on how you want to spend your time.
Yes, I also have a problem with createuser vs adduser vs useradd.

Also, dropdb, createdb, postgres, pg_ctl, initdb, pg_basebackup. No consistency.
the gender neutral pronoun is now officially "she"
Introducing Bud: A Declarative Build Tool Made For Humans
I'd be worried about that leading to a denial-of-service attack on ssh; TPM crypto operations are really slow.
Who's your target audience? Where have you spoken to them in person before?
Let's suppose you represent the coordinates as four 8-bit values: 37deg 54', -85deg 57'.

Then these 32-bits provide the whereabouts of about $238 Billion dollars[1].

For this information to have a higher value-density, it must grant you a 0.01% chance of controlling all of the gold in Fort Knox.

Good luck getting in, getting out, and surviving the manhunt.

[1] Wikipedia
Knowledge of that location has very little value.
PS you should probably add the prefix "Ask HN:" to the title :)
Miserably if you apply the same rules. But I can't imagine a Russian female software developer being offended by Russian "he" in the documentation. Every occupation has a gender too and 'software developer' is 'male', though you can produce the female gender from this word, but in looks very awkward in the text - if you use 'femalized' words it means you actually make a point. We also have 'neutral' gender (like "it" in English), but you usually can't use it instead of male or female unless you're writing satire :-)
There're even different female forms for 'male' occupations depending on whether the female is the professional or wife of the professional.
So all the documentation I can think of uses the 'default' gender which is usually male. And I'm yet to see someone offended by that, male or female.
Can someone roughy explain how this works? I've looked through the source code but failed to identify the part that magically makes the headlines sound sensible.
The short answer is optimism and poor assumptions. The hiking analogy works well to illustrate this answer.

Everyone who has been a part of a software project knows about poor assumptions. From the start, you don't have well-defined requirements. You don't have a complete design. You don't understand the consequences of decisions you have made or will make. Any estimate is doomed to fail in the face of all these poor assumptions.

Staggering a software project into smaller chunks goes a long way to controlling these poor assumptions and the impact to schedule and, more importantly, customer expectations.

The principles of the agile manifesto go a long way for mitigating the too common pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking that dominates software engineering. They work even better when the customer realizes they are a part of the system under development and its success - if they can keep that balanced with giving the development team the space to do what it is they do.
"Modern" in the art context has a time period attached to it (20th century), you're looking for "contemporary" most likely.
> Guy shoulda just let it blow over. Esp when project lead accepts the patch, he doesn't even have a canine level of sociability. Woof.

You're literally dehumanizing someone based on misleading information, and he's the one who's an asshole? Wow.
I mean inefficiency in terms of "an inefficiency in a market is a business opportunity". This inefficiency is in the process of being filled by the big players. Dropbox cannot survive as just a file sharing app in the face of bundled software from companies with deep pockets. Apparently they are fully aware of this as shown by their efforts to evolve into something more sustainable.
SANs typically have dozens of drives configured as a RAID array to achieve 10 Gbps performance.
From the documentation: "Hyperopt has been designed to accommodate Bayesian optimization algorithms based on Gaussian processes and regression trees, but these are not currently implemented." [1] So it sounds like they've at least thought about it.

[1]: http://hyperopt.github.io/hyperopt/
At some point, someone's going to decide it'll be easier to try and crack that key than mine.
At the top is origami - no glue, no cuts, only folds ... and ideally only one sheet of paper.

How would multiple sheets of paper really differ from cuts?
Some users (of course a tiny minority) generate random passwords. I think the point holds, I just think the presentation isn't completely accurate.
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/?action=fun_f...

Amount of present gold holdings: 147.3 million ounces.
The gold is held as an asset of the United States at book value of $42.22 per ounce.

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/futures/metals/

COMEX Gold Value: 1,250.40/per troy ounce

1 ounce =
0.911458333 troy ounces

$167,875,968,689 USD

You are correct. Selling that much gold at once would decimate the gold market.
You're definitely right. Dropbox seems to be in the process of developing their business into something much more sustainable, the link from bryanh posted below was enlightening. I believe Jobs was right about filesharing being a feature. It's up to dropbox to use their momentum to evolve into something much more.
Your argument apparently being that non-English speakers are just incurably rude? The problem wasn't the minor doc change but how it was handled – less capable speakers might make a mistake but a simple “oh, thanks for the correction” avoids any problem.
But to how many people we need to use a gender neutral pronoun in this context?
Can someone tell Google to stop using data to design their UI
Sometimes I don't know what you googler are smoking.
90% of the time when I don't type a search, I want to either log into my email or go to youtube. That's it.
Why do I have to spend cognitive energy and remind myself I have to click on that small grid on the right to get there. It should be right in front of me...
Please listen to your users for once.
1) Though it's not fool proof (because there is no upper limit on file size), a large JavaScript application that consists of many scripts can be minified and concatenated, reducing download times. The situation can be made better with aggressive caching too, not to mention the client side cache, so I don't see how JavaScript can really be a culprit in "slowing down the internet". Seems a strange idea. If a client side application is written poorly, I can see how that might lead to the perception that JavaScript is to blame, but undeservedly so. I blame the mediocre developer for that :P
Here's a link to headline generator: https://github.com/wilg/headlines/blob/master/lib/markov.py

I didn't make this, it's a slightly modified version of this: https://gist.github.com/grantslatton/7694811

I'm planning to rewrite this in Ruby to allow me to surface where each parts of the headline is sourced from.
There's an easy way to avoid being called a crank: back up your questioning with some sort of evidence or reasoning.

If you can't do that, please don't blame us for it.
Grammar purity is a reasonable alternate explanation. My past English teachers and some of my current friends would be appalled at the use of "they/them" as a singular pronoun. I have utmost confidence my friends are not covert sexists; rather they appreciate the power of clarity in writing.
except that's not in the realm of reality for the US...
link: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...
It's strange...

because traditional minorities, ie - slave descended blacks and native americans, make up a smaller portion of the population today than they did in 1960. But the explosive growth in the non-traditional minorities MORE than makes up for the decline. Add in the fact that many of the new arrivals speak english only as a second language... and you would think some degree of mistrust would not be a surprise considering our history.
In response to:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/20/fcc-announces-plans-t...
http://www.fcc.gov/blog/ip-transition-starting-now

It's all conjecture on my part, but I'll take a stab.

Deploying a next-generation telecom infrastructure is an interesting challenge - but one that is underway as we speak.

Verizon chose Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) (FiOS).
AT&T chose fiber to the node (FTTN) (U-verse) and is rolling out VDSL.
CenturyLink (Qwest) has also picked FTTN and is rolling out VDSL as well.

These rollouts are slow moving - but will continue to use copper for the foreseeable future - FTTP is the long term future still I think - but we keep being able cram more and more data over a pair - and with pair bonding that number keeps rising. For now at least, most voice will still be served over fairly long loops from the CO - AT&T is rolling out VoIP over U-verse - Verizon is doing the same over FiOS, CenturyLink has not yet marketed VoIP to residences - but I suspect it will come in a while (when more of their footprint is covered). Fiber to the Node has the advantage of having fiber near the customer when the cost of repairing the legacy copper exceeds the cost of putting fiber in to each house.

Largely, based on my research - the new VoIP circuits are often being served off TDM offices that have upgraded been to packet switching. Both Lucent and Genband offer a way to upgrade their TDM switches to a packet based core (Lucent 7ESS or 7 R/E and Genband C15 Session Controller).

In short - the article was full of hyperbole - If you look at the underlying blog post - it doesn't mention the removal of copper, copper will play a big part in last mile service delivery for likely another 20-30 years - in the end is about replacing the TDM based network core with packet switching - a process that has been going on for almost 20 years at this point. With proper engineering a packet based system is every bit as (if not more) reliable as TDM based one.

That said, it raises some real questions - what of universal service? How about the CLEC market - will they be granted access to the new networks which are replacing the old?

Only time will tell.
Experts, SME, anyone with followers who can be asked question and provide an answer. I don't really know the bloggers, I've been visiting some their blog and contact them by email.
And why's that? Almost all of the native icons (battery, wifi, sound, date/time, bluetooth) can be turned off in the menu bar (set to not show).

Are you under the assumption that OS X can't be changed? 'Cause with plists etc, you can do a great deal...
Just did, thanks :)
CRL. Just like you deactivate app tokens. Allow user to generate new cert and revoke their old ones.
No doubt, I was taught in the 80's in high school that "they" is only applicable to plural and "he" is the generic if you don't know sex of the person.

If I ever release a project, I'm just going to ban all pronouns because of how screwed up pronouns are in English. I'll just use single letters (U for user, P for programmer, etc).
The nasal spray is contraindicated for anyone with a weakened immune system because it's an attenuated virus vaccine. That doesn't mean that it's dangerous for the rest of us.
We're One Step Closer to Ending Mass Surveillance
In my opinion, irresponsible use of giant sweeping Images, HTML Video backgrounds, web-fonts, and other technologies (JavaScript included) are "slowing the internet down." Those and a heaping dose of people who only think about users with high speed connections (even when trying to target mobile devices.) In this case, I consider slowing to be constituted by long page load times and browser lockups.

That said, there are certainly sites with so much JavaScript, that even on my netbook or laptop, I find myself having to use a mobile version.
This company, DRT states that it creates systems for US SigInt and therefore can't talk about those system. Although I personally don't agree with indiscriminate use on foreigners in countries with are allied with, I accept the argument that there are circumstances where doing so is fine and dandy when those sigint systems are employed outside the borders of the United States.

What I simply don't get is why the US government is allowed to keep anything secret that is used on a civilian (non-combatant) population of American citizens within US borders during times of peace. This notion that we allow the government to do anything at all in secrecy that involves its own citizens simply makes no sense and I don't know why any US citizens would vote to allow it.

I would love to see a anti-secrecy act that prohibits laws and contracts (NDAs) on any program that targets US citizens at all, especially when warrants are not involved.

I don't know how any group of people elected to a responsibility for governance simultaneously claim to represent our best interests and keep us in the dark about how they are doing so.
According to an article from a few days ago, for about twenty years the nuclear launch codes were "00000000."
Daniel thanks for the books its amazing and I will donate to the kick starter campaign in the near future. I cannot afford it at this moment in time as I am going through a bootcamp.
Thank You Daniel
> Shorter, clearer, more direct, and gender-free.

Also very passive, which I think has been frowned upon in writing styles since the latter half of the 20th century.
Well, incidentally Minuteman launch codes were set to 00000000 for about 20 years [1]. Can you argue that zero entropy effectively reduces the number of information bits to 0 and thus drives up the value per bit to infinity?

[1] http://www.damninteresting.com/ive-got-the-same-combination-...
Oh, I wouldn't say that. The clear confirmation came from the introduction of the CLA. Regardless of how free the license is (or which type of freedoms you want from a license) once you make one party more equal than all others the pretense of "community project" goes out the window.

That's not to say people outside the company can't be highly involved and feel like they have an ownership stake in productive way. Just that when push comes to shove they find out they don't have an ownership stake. See: The Hudson/Jenkins split.
Caveat Emptor: Lovers of Latin Try to Sell a Dead Tongue
"Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that."

If you insist on that attitude, don't ask how to get more women in tech.
The few years before machines reach some kind of malevolent sentience will be the best years because they'll understand us more than we'll ever understand ourselves.
http://i.imgur.com/4dZq0ZI.png

Like that?
Bartender does even more than that, you can make certain icons reappear in the menu bar when they change for a certain period to make you aware of them.

And combined with iStat menus I even make for instance my battery-icon hide whenever docked and fully charged.

Also, quite some icons such as the WiFi, Volume, Bluetooth are only visible at all times in my case because I need a quick and easy way to alter the settings or be aware of them. This problem can be solved for me by automating these settings by profiles or my location such as School/home/on-the-move. This can be achieved by apps such as ControlPlane (http://www.controlplaneapp.com), you can even dimm your screen, kill apps that need a network connection to work such as Dropbox/Droplr/Twitter...

Very similar to what Llama (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...) does on my Android phone.
Possessing the launch codes is one thing. Positioning oneself such that it is possible to extract value is something else entirely.

The difference is the private key gives the beholder power over the wallet at any time from anywhere in the world. No additional information is required.
Considering that developers nowdays read tons of libraries just to show a alert('hello')... the answer would be yes.
Less kickstarter-y webpage: http://neolucida.com/

I have one of these. It arrived recently; I haven't really tried it yet, but will soon.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida -- it notes the basic optics were described in 1611 by Kepler.
Linkjacked from http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia...
In chinese, the pronoun is pronounced as "ta", but written as 他/她/它 depending on male, female, or it meaning.

Thankfully, this is a European innovation of Chinese that we mostly ignore.
Please don't peddle this FUD here.
And a retina one!
Interesting assertion. You're undoubtedly right, of course, but it just reminds me of the ideals promoted by the deodorant companies.

Once upon a time, everybody smelled like everybody smells, which is to say, probably not quite as pleasant as people smell now -- arguably. Then somebody came along and invented deodorant, began marketing it to women to give them a competitive dating advantage -- "Smell better than the next woman and get more men" -- which they (historically obviously) fell for, and now deodorant is considered necessary... but for what purpose?

People are very adaptive to smell, and beyond the same statistical outliers we have now, generally speaking, people would have smelled about the same. Now though, the bar has been arbitrarily raised, and the result is that everybody not wearing deodorant is a grotesquely smelling freak, where the only outcome is that, once again, we all smell the same, but slightly different -- and of course, we're now all spending an extra $10 a month on a product that nobody really needs, but that was marketed well enough initially that it's become a staple.
Crap like Google Chrome? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=247814