skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, in turn, the executive branch's job is to enforce the law. Could the current administration do more to scale back the War on Drugs? Possibly. Probably, even. But they are taking some measures, however small. E.g.: [1]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5341284/obama-administrati...
I had a math professor who put it this way: Just think of a general n-dimensional Euclidian space, and then set n=4.
Love Paper, 100% agree with you - I hate the Facebook iOS app and never want to open it again, but I'm missing the classic Apple vertical scroll view because it's just soooo good.

I'm probably not adding too much to this discussion since I'm just agreeing, but there it is.
I completely agree, except I am advocating shoplifting. I also wish there were more hackers who would use their lockpicking skills for more than just recreation. I feel like the idea that “hacking” can only be motivated by pure curiousity, and not by anything political or in any way threatening, is an idea that serves the interests of the people in power. They don't want us to think about or analyse our political situation, or to try to change it; they would rather divert our attention and our abilities towards solving rather pointless puzzles, which at best are inconsequential, or at worst just make them even more money.
Yes, we knew this was long in coming. Chrome is yanking similar support in NPAPI as well. That's why 2 years ago we started working on SuperDevMode. This happened a little quicker than we had planned, but some upcoming changes to the GWT compiler will make it an incremental compiler more like JavaC, and in SuperDevMode, compile/refresh should be much much quicker when that lands.

On the IDE side, IntelliJ 13.0.2 can attach a debugger to Chrome and provide an in-IDE java debugging experience using source maps. Similar work is ongoing from James Nelson for the Eclipse plugin.

Firefox recently added support for column number support in stack traces, so eventually, Java IDE debugging using sourcemaps attached to Firefox JS debugger should be feasible.

In the mean time, GWT developers who use Firefox will need to stick to Firefox ESRs.
For $15 a year you can get a crappy little VPS with 20 gigs of disk and 200GB/month connection. Install transmission on it and use it as a seed box. On popular torrents you can get 4-7mbps transfer speeds. Have the files saved once done to a folder that you share via BT Sync, and the files will automatically move to your computer once done. Just another solution.
I too do freelance software development. I'm at a pretty small scale right now, but shoot me an email if you'd like to talk about doing some work together in the future. Whether its just passing excess projects off to each other or it turns into something bigger, I am open to discussion. I am booked until end of June right now. My email should be in my profile.
Note that the slides don't say "4 methods that are legal".
Chuck Palahniuk?
There is equivalent! And many applications know about it. Example? Far Manager, Vim, ...
WINDOW_BUFFER_SIZE_EVENT
I think MS had disregard the enterprise/line of business apps a long time ago. There is no talk about WPF. It's all about apps and mobile. HTML5/JS and not a lot of xaml. I can't find a article or blog about WPF that is written after 2011.

What's the future of WPF? What's the road map?
The number of users isn't actually what makes it impressive. At Napster, we had 80 million users at a time where we had 1 backend engineer, 3 web developers, 3 windows developers and 3 mac developers.

But 40 engineers to build apps for web, iOS, android, blackberry, windows phone, a thousand consumer devices, 100 types of cars, etc. is impressive assuming they roll out new features regularly. Even if some of it was done third-party, just the managing new integrations, ensuring feature releases are backwards compatible and testing new releases is still a feat.

I agree the project management style isn't anything special though. Plenty of people use something like scrum with dollar values attached to features.
Edward Snowden Interviewed in English.
Found this on live leak, good stuff.
Something like the Insitu ScanEagle is probably the drone closest to being effective for our application: http://www.insitu.com/systems/scaneagle/capabilities

However, they're still quite expensive and not really cheaper to operate than a Cessna, and then there are the legal issues. I personally think that once of the things that will drive the cost of drones down quite a bit will be when an autopilot maker comes out with a way to retrofit Cessnas and other proven, GA airframes into OPVs (optionally piloted vehicles).
For those interested, here is a paper that explains the importance of ariel imaging for crops. http://www.lighthillrisknetwork.org/uploads/Crop-Insurance-A...
The Unpaid Bill that Launched a Thousand Starships
Interesting story on that big EVE battle from last week. Talks with a lot of the involved parties.
In 1991, Microsoft was already ascendant. You may be too young to remember, but MS-DOS was everywhere. Given the failures of Commodore and Atari, the rise and fall of the 80's unix wars, and with Jobs no longer at Apple, Microsoft essentially took visionary leadership of the computing scene by default.

Instead of using proper unix machines, my early computing years were spent on DOS and Win 3.1.
Ok, but then why has it been up there for over a year?
Who ares about the market share or the desktop? Microsoft does not make significant new revenue from their installation base. Google however does with their platforms (web and mobile), so does Apple (on mobile mainly).

I think it's very interesting to see an internal MS manager with a background in Bing and Azure to become CEO, interesting times are sure ahead.
There are loads, but they wouldn't be cost effective (or legal) in the US for this.

Random example: http://www.uavfactory.com/product/46
I get what he's saying - but the swipe-zone of Facebook Paper is actually quite a large area - well into the "natural" zone. While the user may feel inclined to swipe near the bottom-right corner of the screen, they can actually swipe near the center of the phone's display towards the left-edge, and achieve the same effect.
> OTOH, in North America it seems there are only 2 extreme ways of handling alcohol: the Russian-like approach and the Muslim-like panic. Teenagers and poor people abuse it and drink heavily, all the others are obsessively scared of it.

This isn't true at all. You're seeing the extreme cases and generalizing it to everybody. We may have a higher incidence of alcoholism and alcohol abuse (I don't know the numbers), but the vast majority of Americans use alcohol occasionally and responsibly.
It's hard to compare across different types of products, but IIRC, Instagram had only 3 engineers well into the millions of users (which I always thought was pretty impressive).
I have revised the article at http://publicsphere.org. The normative value judgments are not hidden behind scientific seeming jargon. The normative value judgements retain the significance they have--however, they are inextricably entangled with certain positive phenomena, which should be explicated. Instead of denying the relevance of positive aspects outright behind philosophical seeming jargon based on a discredited fact-value dichotomy imported from British Logical Positivism into economics, find some positive reason they are wrong. I see no reason to privilege the normative aspects at the expense of the positive aspects--unless the intention is to prevent the discussion from rising above ideological debate.
So you if you can't afford it, you're allowed to steal it. That makes sense.
"Sent from my iPhone" xD
Yep. I honestly could see the desktop being relegated to only scientists, programmers, IT, and possibly gamers, with mobile and tablet devices replacing it for nearly everyone else. This kinda makes me sad, seeing as I'm in the programmers group, and our fun toys (desktops) are starting to go away, but ultimately it's probably the right direction for society.
If they used a cryptographic signature, they could detect ticket tampering without networking the barcode readers. I'd be somewhat surprised if they actually did that, but it would make it much harder to forge them.
If that were true, we'd expect to see wages rise.
what a ridiculous comment, please never post again.
Actually, "how" is "why".
There's lots of talk about nuclear platforms. I don't believe that's the case with the X-37B for a few reasons. We have better options elsewhere, the X-37B designs I've seen don't seem to fit this picture, and NASA/Boeing Space & Intelligence would not typically deal with nuclear weapon platforms.

I think it's clearly a reconnaissance (ISR) platform. Think Gorgon Stare [1] but for an even wider area. As an aside, Dryden has a long history of testing recon platforms.

Source: I used to work on this stuff (although not the X-37 program)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache?
> ...it's maybe the third time that I post Reesd as part of a comment on HN... still, is it ok to do so regularly even if the subject makes sense ?

Totally. You're not spamming ("if the subject makes sense") and of course nobody sees all the comments. So if you're adding to the discussion and your link to your work helps, then go for it!

For years I had the bad attitude "simply do the work and obviously everyone will know how good (or not) I am". That quasi worked in the lab where we all shared a filesystem but no, it's terrible personally, professionally and, in the case where I did do good work, for everyone else. I'm still unlearning that...

Note: there are plenty of scammers and the simply inept who "network" by blindly inserting themselves into other conversations. Doesn't sound like you're at risk of that.

Go for it.
The Zune is at the foundation of Microsoft's Metro design language.
One question I think is worth considering: if the quality of STEM education increased, wouldn't that increase the number of vacancies in STEM jobs per year? Theoretically, more qualified people -> better research -> new companies -> new job opportunities.
Your advice is not bad, but you should definitely try ISPC before rewriting everything in assembly. I'm currently optimizing Cycles Raytracer (without implementing an actual SIMD-packet raytracer), and I'm a little bit tired of avalanche effect in modern compilers too. The unusual thing about Cycles is that its code can be compiled by CUDA, OpenCL and normal C++ compilers. GPU and CPU architectures are very different, so SIMD optimization is not trivial at all. Simple operation reordering can lead to completely different stack map and performance drop by 10%. And you won't ever know about it, until you test with every supported compiler (i. e. gcc, clang and msvc).
Here we go, and I use Thunderbird and would switch to Outlook (if it would be available for Ubuntu..)
Author here: I disagree that one can achieve the same effect by swiping near the center. A middle-to-left swipe on the phone doesn't make use of Paper's exciting physics-driven carousel. I can barely get any inertia swiping from the middle. Even worse, my thumb covers up most of the content and I have to make a "dabbing" motion to see a steady stream of stories.
I'm guessing you haven't tried MS's latest desktop platform developer suite?
Same for me and I have been a user for 4-5 years with a few hundred photos and at least a few dozen statuses. Facebook managed to completely fail to impress me yet again.
Might as well pay a bit more and get a seedbox. Most VPS won't all you to torrent in their TOS.
I'm kinda surprised there haven't been more WebGL based graphing libraries popping up. I'd love to have one to replace the graphing I do in D3.
I don't know. It doesn't seem like Facebook has done anything new for users since around 2007/8 to me.
Your SaaS product is too cheap if you never lose customers because of pricing
No. You'd have to mix in some blue, and then you'd just end up with a muddy purple.

You can prove it to yourself by looking at any painting from before about 1860. See any magenta? No. Magenta pigment was not available until 1859, and it could not be mixed from other colors without getting a muddy result.

Edit: Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bouguereau-Psyche.jpg

The painting (Psyche by Bouguereau) was done in 1890 and could not have been made thirty years earlier.
If I give this to my kids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves) will they disappear?
Your comment implies that "divine intervention" has little to do with it, but I would argue that he was at the right place, at the right time, with the right passion, and then did a lot of hard work that could have easily turned into nothing (financially), but just so happened to turn into something. He implies that he was close to working in a cube farm himself.

Just supplying the more jaded view here...coming from someone who has tried to take his skills into the freelance market for a few months and is now going back to the cube farm. :)
Key word is "Should"
Written like someone who has no experience of how common power outages are in many parts of India, not to mention the cost / scarcity of what "rich westerners" recognise as a Washing Machine.

-- sent from a hut on the beach in Goa.
I don't think Americans really care either. I am American and don't remember that sort of thing from any C-level announcements at any company I've worked with. But my Indian-born coworkers have pretty consistently asked me about family, including how many sons and how many daughters. So maybe it's a mix of that culture and also a show of American openness.
Worth noting, the link clarifies that it's actually 50% less than women who become pregnant /or never have birth at all/ after age 35.
In the US, at least, I see that severely limited by the small usage caps most of us with wired connections live under.

I expect it to follow whatever path Netflix et. al. blaze. Depending; Moore's Law is very much alive, but doesn't apply to batteries. What's the attraction of a cheap tablet vs. a not quite so cheap capable tablet now, or a cheap capable tablet tomorrow, and how much will this depend on battery capacity?
The glyphosate team is a bad example. They deserved every bit of the criticism they received [2]. In fact, I'd go so far as to Monsanto's criticism was highly understated and generally an outstanding example of scientific discourse. I suspect that they (the team that found negative effects) didn't get the results they wanted so they came up with an implicit null hypotheses so shitty that they practically guaranteed p<.05: they first did PCA on a 48-dimension dataset and then did significance tests along the principal components. I'm not a statistician, but that methodology is about as dubious as it gets. You should read it and decide for yourself before using it as an example.

It's a pity that this kind of behavior is par for the course in the category of "controversial environmental findings," because there are plenty of legitimate questions to ask and legitimate issues to raise.

I have no relation to Monsanto, except that I eat their products. We talked about this paper [1] in journal club and were unimpressed (except by their criticism of Monsanto's methodology, which was, ironically, spot on). I wasn't aware of Monsanto's formal response [2] at the time, but from a brief glance it appears to hit the nail on the head.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793308/

[2] http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Documents/SpirouxdeVendimo...
Fundraising: Convertible Notes vs. Equity
'iCard' would make Apple shares a steal
Please stop spreading FUD.

With promises (Bluebird) this sounds like very little code in practice, assuming promisifyAll has been called the FS module:

- One line to read all files in a directory

- Map them with .map to a .stat call on them, returning array of promises.

- Reduce them to the largest element.

Something like:

var fs = Promise.promisifyAll(require("fs"));
var largest = fs.readdirAsync("/your/file/path").map(function(file){
return fs.statAsync(file);
}).reduce(function(x,y){
return (x.size > y.size) ? x : y;
});

With arrow syntax:

var largest = fs.readdirAsync("/your/file/path").
map((file) => fs.statAsync(file)).
reduce((x,y) => (x.size > y.size) ? x : y);

Alternatively, with Generators using Bluebird promises

var largest = Promise.coroutine(function *largest(dirname){
var files = yield fs.readdirAsync(dirname);
var sizes = yield files.map(name => fs.statAsync(name));
return files.reduce((x,y) => x.size > y.size ? x : y);
});

If one error occurs, the promise rejects. VERY far from 27 lines of code. Not to mention you can of course compose these in one line if you extract them to methods like in your code:

var largest = fs.readdirAsync("/your/file/path").map(fs.statAsync).reduce(largest);
Yeah, the two things I'm working on next are labels and click/hover events. Let me know if you have any other ideas
"Each ScanEagle system costs US$3.2 million (2006)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Insitu_ScanEagle)

Indeed!
This needs a better title. I commend you on the empathy aspect. I tend to think all people involved have much less sinister aspirations than people thing. The problem is that lawyers get involved and people become convinced that they have to move first or be conquered.

Sorry to hear about the headache.
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Yes. An extreme one, actually. I did one year of law school before realizing that I didn't want to be a lawyer and going back to the internet. Legal education is a massive scam.
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Once again, I'm amazed at the level of racist comments on HN. The truly sad thing is, reading this guy's other comments, you get a sense he/she is a truly intelligent person.
Well sure, I guess my problem is that the current console is terrible, including the powershell.
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Anybody know when Firefox 28 will be released? That's the one I'm excited for since it'll finally fix a bug with Firefox and flex-wrap: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939901

Edit: Looks like it'll release in March: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/28

Worth noting for designers since it'll implement background-blend-mode too: https://medium.com/web-design-technique/6b51bf53743a
My first CompSci professor told me that he had trouble at MIT grasping some of his early math where they were using n-dimensions, and when he asked his professor what the 'n-ball' was, he drew a circle on the board and said 'that, when n is equal to two'. Fun times.
This is from the section 3.3.1 of SPDY Protocol - Draft 2 [0]:

"When a server receives a non-SPDY request which could have been served via SPDY, it should append a Alternate-Protocol header into the response stream. Note that it is valid to have multiple Alternate-Protocols headers. The field-value can also be specified as a comma-separated list, as per RFC2616 section 4.2."

And you can read about "deferred" here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8449058/what-does-the-de...

[0] - http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol/spdy-protocol-dra...
Not to speak of football and concussions.
Same thing in France. Everything is taxed,cds,dvds,usb keys,hard drives because of the so called "private copying".

I dont mind,the problem is "who's getting the money?why artist A and not artist B".And it's usually the artists that need it the less that get the most of these "revenues".
Immutant 1.1.0 Released – an application server for Clojure
Foursquare Gets $15M And Licensing Deal From Microsoft To Power Location Context
You're interpreting "explanations" in a different way than he meant it.

You're looking for philosophical or religious explanations, but scientific theories by their nature apply to more than one instance, and therefore explain, from one instance to the next, why things continue to behave in similar ways.

If the many-worlds theory is correct and things are the way they are because this happens to be the one universe where they're that way, that wouldn't satisfy you because you'd want to know why universes exist at all, why the quantum fluctuations exist that lead to the big bang.

If a grand unifying theory existed that provided a tautology proving that it, and only it, could ever be the underlying theory behind physics, you'd want to know why. Why is there physics at all?

There are no underlying explanations of that kind. Even if you believe in God, why he chose one form of physics laws rather than another can never be explained unless someone has the good fortune to be in contact and write it down in a holy book, and someone will still ask why God made that choice and not another, or why that God exists and not another; any tautological argument for God can apply to a universal theory explaining all of physics: "it is because it is". Philosophy can only offer insights about how to think about human existence in a helpful (sociologically and psychologically helpful) way, but has nothing to say about the origins of physical theories.
Man spams App Store for fun and makes $2800 in profit
Interesting! Looks it costs around $50,000: http://droneswatch.org/2012/07/12/not-just-for-military-use-...
only until you have a syntax error :)
I was going to go into more detail, but I will keep it short. None of those were permitted due to the war on drugs. The closest you could call is drug dogs, but those were allowed after research showed their effectiveness.

Additionally they all are based on previous things cops were allowed to do. If you actually research the core of how law enforcement acts you will see it isn't nearly as willy-nilly as you imply here.
It makes me feel uneasy how reliant on Yahoo I have become and basically everyone else I know.
I'm hoping they're inspired--they should be! In a lot of ways, this type of e-mail can be impossible to write; simultaneously writing about your pride in a company while acknowledging the recent missteps of your predecessor and also keeping the tone of the message completely optimistic is really challenging. I feel like I, as an outsider, knew exactly what this e-mail needed to say to give me hope for Microsoft as a customer, but had no idea how I would go about saying it. After reading, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing where Nadella takes Microsoft in the next few years.
I think the real question is "How much of Apache's market will Nginx take?"
Investment banking is the same way. 100 hour+ weeks for weeks on end.
Very very useful update to support scenarios where customers can purchase multiple subscriptions in parallel. In the past I basically rolled my own instead of many of the workarounds, like creating a subscription for the combined prices (ugly IMO).
I love this and it's precisely why I wrote this post. I just looked at what others were doing and realized "These guys are no smarter or riskier than I am. The only difference is, they just did it".

Thanks for the comment.
I know a number of aerial photo companies who have done this type of work for decades - what's new here?

My knowledge from local farmers is that they already pay for experts who amalgamate a variety of data sources (soil testing, aerial, satellite, etc) to assess & treat their crops. I mean, does a farmer even know what is NDVI or how to interpret it?
This opportunity doesn't really exist. Even with a much more established and proven business model like Netflix, they still have trouble getting and keeping licenses. The possibility of content owners going from wanting to kill Netflix to outright supporting people who upload their content to random Internet users isn't just distant; it's pretty much nonexistent.