skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piracy is often profitable because of ransoms paid for crew as far as I know. The article seems to directly address this. With no crew on board, how would the pirates stop the ship from just continuing on to port with them on it? I suppose they could threaten to destroy the ship or something on the ship but that's no different than the situation now.
Interview with Jason Long, Designer and Developer at GitHub
Gaming is Not a Hit Driven Business
I wish this page worked. Might just be on my end, but I really want to see this. I love the overwhelming feeling of insignificance.
Thanks. Found out this morning, when I came back from a vacation. It sucks, but it's nothing I can't rebuild.
This is why it's bleeding edge technology. At the moment it's not very good; and it won't be for some time. To get to something useful will probably take multiple iterations.

This is why it's so exciting. If you can build something useful with the current generation of technology; it will get better.
I hear you with that. It's hard to let go of something you sunk hundreds of hours. It would be quite healtier to just fire them and move on. It would have a tremendous positive effect on my days on my business.

I am thinking to do it in 2 phases. I am finishing the last wave of update to the site today or tomorrow. From then on I'll let them know as I said to them previously if the want any other update/changes, they have to pay if not the contract is done. At least I give them a bone, and if they pay I am willing to continue the relation.

Yes indeed, it was the hard way to learn to manage client. Although I read about it so many time, I just jumped in hoping it wouldn't be one of those...
> Cameras and sensors can already detect obstacles in the water better than the human eye.

I wish that was available on consumer sailing boats. There are lots of hazards for small vessels out there. And to be honest, lately big ships are one of them. No crew is actually watching anything other, but the radar & AIS, hence small boats can be destroyed and never found again.

As per piloting - the first crude autopilots were made in 1970s...
What's so strange about that? Personally I think it's a brilliant strategy. It's the logical conclusion of having few users love you, and frankly I can't think of anyone better than Sam Altman to beta test a email app. Once they got him satisfied and hooked, they can easily go for the other big fish in the SF startup scene.

I'm sure they appreciate your two sentence dismissal of something you've never seen and haven't heard more than two sentences about.
This also. Without hostages the pirates are open to a world of hurt. Here's to hoping the Somalian pirates won't need to be as desperate by the time these ships set sail.
> But in a bid to take on the likes of WhatsApp, Google replaced Talk with Hangouts in May 2013.

Seems to me it was more of a bid to force people onto Google Plus. It's a shame, Google has been chasing Facebook for social and gaining no traction (Buzz, Wave, Plus) and in the process gave up the chance to own messaging. It may as well be 2004 for all messaging has evolved over the last decade.
> With no people aboard to pay, feed, etc, it wouldn’t matter how long it took.

Yes, it would, because it would limit the number of times you can turn over your assets, as more of your assets will be locked up in goods in transit at any time, and no bank will offer you free credit for 100% of its value, so there's a real monetary cost to slower delivery. Of course that doesn't mean that slower delivery can't be a benefit, but there will be a cutoff point where it starts to cost more than you save.
But then how can they know where to send the email to?
France? I'm not sure the NSA has ever blown up any Greenpeace ships, for instance.
Looks like the source code isn't available yet, so this is more like a plan to release it open source.

Is anyone on HN using Go (name collision is a hurdle, for sure) and have a positive experience with it?
Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious 'Drone 2 Home'
IMHO, well deserved. A focus on doing right by the users.
BLE is not ideal for accurate positioning, or RSSI for that matter. That said, it works for proximity, which should be sufficient for many applications.
Right, it sounds like they use tries with 5 bit keys. It's a very neat data structure, for sure, but _tree is just at a lower level. It doesn't impose structure. Tries can be implemented in _tree.
actually the latest banking disaster was largely due to a decade prior of deregulation, and the economies of other counties who came through it best had retained a lot of their regulation (Canada).
According to BBS Earth Biography series, half of all the water in the world came from a comet colliding to earth some 4 billion years ago.
PG points out regularly that there is no way of predicting whether a startup will succeed. So, I'd guess that much of what they do is try to filter out companies that are likely to not succeed.

If YC has nailed down the process, then only formidable teams would make it to the interview, and then the interview would serve to simply make sure the dynamic and attitude of the team is not such that they'd be likely to not succeed (sorry for the double negative, but I think the inverse would have a different meaning). It seems reasonable that after hundreds of these interviews, YC partners would be able to spot those dynamics in minutes.
New generation of pirates would hack into the main computer and divert the ship to their port?
No, we're NOT intentionally censoring anything. This looks like a bug in the source processing. We'll take a look.

If you see a munged file, report it with the feedback link. Sometimes regex's go bad and we can fix them.
Probably quite a few, especially those like Drew Houston who didn't get in on their first try. Presumably on that first application Drew had some of the same good credentials (MIT grad, perfect SAT score).
> Presumably when Mt Gox's bank accounts get seized, whatever money in them will be used to pay off accounts with real currency balances.

Weren't a number of Mt. Gox's bank accounts already seized for other reasons? Before the loss of bitcoins issue, wasn't this already a source of concerns about Gox's viability?
Nobody I know has TextSecure installed.

Of course I can still send unencrypted text messages. Are you trolling me?
If You Run a Company Together, What Happens When You Divorce?
Graphics cores: trying to compare apples to apples
I'd use base64 instead of a MD5 hash, but I'm not a huge fan of security by obscurity.
I didn't say people refer to Wifi as "Airport", I said calling BLE "iBeacon" is like calling Wifi "Airport". That is, calling an IEEE spec by a proprietary trademark.

Yes, BLE needs a better name. Still doesn't change the fact that the media almost completely ignore what iBeacon is. I see lots of articles that fail to even mention that it is BLE.
We already know what Apple's iBeacon BLE advertising packet looks like without having to sign away your first-born to read the spec. Here it is:

ff 4c 00 02 15 # Apple's fixed iBeacon advertising prefix
<Your 16 byte iBeacon proximity uuid>
00 00 # major
00 00 # minor
c5 # The 2's complement of the calibrated Tx Power

Anybody can build such a BLE device and market it as "Compatible with iPhone". The question is if Apple will try to to go full-asshole and claim copyright of that packet structure or something ridiculous like that.
Debian jessie.
I think that contention is flawed in that it assumes the two methods are, must be, and should be equal in terms of email address exposure.
My point was that Google Hangouts, iMessage, etc. can do some or all of those things, but only on their own silo'ed platform. I'm a Google Hangouts user so I have no good way of communicating with my iOS friends unless they download extra software onto their phones and we communicate using a third party app. I don't want to use five apps to cover my bases. I wouldn't even mind having to have a Google Hangouts, iMessage, Jabber, etc. account and be able to add ALL of those accounts to a single IM app so that I can communicate with all of those people in a consistent way.
If I'm not mistaken, mtgox has not publicly stated that >700k BTC are indeed missing.
Why you could soon be buying your electricity from Elon Musk
I think you mean posturing.
I'm thinking he means registering an account on the formspree site. So your form's `action` attribute doesn't require the inclusion of a plain e-mail address. Instead it gets some encrypted string, which is uniquely tied to your formspree account.
As I think I said on my blog once, educators fancy themselves hip and cutting edge, but they are one of the stodgiest, resistant industries I know. They will get there. Silicon Valley will drag them, kicking and screaming, if necessary.

And I'd bet money there will be a lot of kicking and screaming, but the economics are inevitable. They'd be a lot more evitable if education had not rested on its laurels for so long and simply spent, spent, spent its social capital to suck in ever-more money, but that is what they chose, and that is where we are now.
No "explosion" in Big Bang cosmology: teaching kids … [pdf]
Big Data's Impact on the Food Industry
CounterTack adds $3M to Bring Series B up to $15M
If I'm understanding this correctly, it looks like a smart move by Apple that will suck for anyone who doesn't want an iDevice? Are they just trying to market BLE as iBeacon so consumers use it, even though it's clearly never going to be marketed under that name by any other OEM? They've essentially found a way to make companies pay to call their BLE iBeacon, paying for Apple to break the market and make everyone else think BLE is iOS only?
Someone already mentioned in a previous thread that this is an anti-dos method.
Give up hope. This thing is toast.
Also, Android Settings -> More -> Default SMS app. Also reachable via Hangouts app menu.
I would sure like to see the code for its repl. If it's all he says, that loop should be uniquely tiny.
My Management Lessons from Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square
If you are the Richard Feynman of your field, don't you think you could pick up if someone is a good physicist or not in 10 minutes of talking about physics? Not just physics per say, but the mental models you have, the experiments you are going to perform, what kind of theories you have, what you've worked on before, etc. I certainly do, especially if you get to ask the questions.
The design and message reminds me of zappos.com.
The Internet is Fucked
One of the few, and more unusual captures in which that wasn't the case:

"Pirates captured a Saudi-owned supertanker loaded with more than $100 million worth of crude oil off the coast of Kenya, seizing the largest ship ever hijacked"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/world/africa/18pirates.htm...
I guess that explains why we can't see if people are online anymore. The app itself doesn't know.
Mt. Gox says it will close all Bitcoin transations for now
He's referring to accounts for formspree, not the static sites.
The Incompetence of MT GOX-How it all began
My phone now vibrates five minutes after anyone chats with me. I miss being able to have only on-screen notifications, and having them be timely.
What I’ve learned about creating meaningful work (Working for yourself)
Lessons learned building an anonymous social network
I took a look but it's hard to judge since you are using React 0.8.0 and Om is now on React 0.9.0.
Lawyers have a saying "Never Ask A Question If You Don’t Know The Answer". Not sure how it applies, but reminded me of it.
Neat looking tool!

The front page of https://colleagues.io/ might benefit from some of the screenshots in this blog post.
NIC.py hacked, Google.com.py redirected
Jeff: sorry... who are you?
Ah, how good it feels to not have been a greedy bitcoin evangelist. That is, 90% of the people pushing positive opinions about Bitcoin, have a stake in it, in investment - not actual, real use. Just a 'hope it goes up, so I can make money like a bandit.'

The truth is that if one really wanted to assist Bitcoin, they'd buy a few; not a treasure trove for speculative investment.

The really sad thing about this situation is that Bitcoin investors are not the usual class of investors that measure safety, volatility, and other factors. These are your hardware monkeys and computer geeks who have 15k saved up, find an investment they can finally relate to, and foolishly attach all their emotion to their savings floating inside a glass ball. I wish our kind could be more rational when it comes to enthusiasm and unbridled ignorance surrounding bits and bytes. Because it usually doesn't hurt us but when it does, we never see it coming.
I wonder if this is the truth : http://i.imgur.com/xMeW43a.jpg
Customers turn violent as Zimbabwe bank runs out of cash

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/customers-tur...

Riots Hit Cyprus Bank After Accounts Frozen

http://www.endalldisease.com/riots-hit-cyprus-bank-after-acc...

Panic of 1837

Moreover, the panic unleashed a wave of riots and other forms of domestic unrest. The ultimate result was an increase in the state's police powers, including more professional police forces.[17][18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837

Baltimore bank riot

The Baltimore bank riot of 1835 was a violent reaction to the failure of the Bank of Maryland in 1834. The riot, which lasted from 6-9 August, was aimed at the homes and property of a number of former directors of the bank, who had been accused of financial misconduct and fraud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_bank_riot
Software Craftsmanship: The need to understand maintainability
Hangouts' killer feature is a proper desktop (web) client.

For all its warts (which don't end up bothering me much), the fact that Hangouts' messages are available on my/any desktop, where I can communicate with a full keyboard, is a necessity for me. It's the chief reason why I've dismissed WhatsApp as a replacement.

(and since I don't use an iOS device or Mac, iMessage isn't an option either.)
Concise Naming Scheme for Polyominoes
Nice idea. But initially there should be a trial provision.
Try Telegram. My whole network (20+ people) have already dumped Whatsapp for it.
I think we call this diversification of your investments, not 'long shot' investing.
What it tells us is that most companies who are successful normally only have one hit not multiple. What they do have is the money to buy other successes :)
I disagree with a lot of this.

iMessage always works very well for me and I love that it's integrated with SMS so cleanly. It also provides read receipts so I know if a message has been received.

I don't use WhatsApp but a competitor of its called Viber which also does calls and it works well and includes delivered and seen receipts. It also tells me if the user is online which is very useful.

Facebook messenger also works great imo and is one of my most used communication methods.

10 years ago I was also using IM a lot. I'd come home from school every day and use it until I went to bed. MSN was the Facebook of the day. Fortunately everyone I knew used MSN (it was ubiquitous with IM here). I used Adium on Linux and thought it was a nice client but I think today we're in a much better position than before. Fragmentation seems to be much worse today but handling that is as simple as installing an app for the service a specific friend uses. The fact we have push notifications means I don't need to check in with 10 apps to see if I got a message - I'm alerted when a message is received and who it's from and in what app I can view it. It would be nice to use one app but I don't think the fragmentation is too big of a user experience problem.

Personally I wish everyone would just use SMS! Most plans for smartphones come with unlimited SMS nowadays. I hate having to send my communications through so many companies with questionable privacy practices. The only place SMS is problematic is when messaging abroad but I doubt that's a major concern for most people (and they can use one of the plethora of other methods for messaging abroad anyway).
It's a shame YC doesn't provide feedback on applications…I'm sure they make notes as they go through the apps (at least for the ones they're not sure about) — would be great for them to have a system to include those notes with their decision notifications!
You raise some good points.

Over the past year, I have dedicated hundreds of hours towards improving my reading speed. I usually use Acceleread on my iPad; most recently I used it to read D.H Lawrence's Sons & Lovers at around 750-800 wpm. I also use Beeline -a different type of reading tool with some additional functionality for dyslexics- when reading web pages.

I've learned that certain types of prose make for poor speed reading material. Without a "rewind" option, there is no way that I can use these apps to read anything instructional or anything involving a high level of detail (such as a mystery novel). I understand that allowing the user to rewind would sacrifice speed, but speed can't always take precedence over clarity.

Also - in terms of the text- there needs to be a better method for handling quoted text. With speed reading apps that give the user the option of seeing chunks of words, it is far too easy to lose track of who is speaking when one chunk of words has an opening quotation mark and the next chunk of words [may or may not] have a closing quotation mark. I'm guessing that this problem is exacerbated by the fact that - in Spritz's case- words are only presented one at a time.

Here are some things I would I would like to see adopted by speed-readers:

Rewind functionality

Punctuation-based text color:

If the text is in between quotation marks, parenthesis or brackets, this text should be shaded a slightly different color than the rest.

Contextual deceleration:

I would love it if a speed reading app would automatically slow down at the end of a chapter. The last few sentences of a chapter are usually crafted with especially deliberate care and are meant to be savored.

More customization options for dyslexics:

For example, Beeline allows users to chose a specific type of font that is specifically geared towards dyslexics. In the future, I'd like to see speed readers enable these types of fonts (as well as customization options for line height and letter spacing).
This article gives a nice glimpse into the essence of why modern strong static type systems like Haskell's are such a huge win for development. The type system gives you a way to bound the number of things that you must understand about an API in order to use it. The confidence that we get from having these guarantees makes code reuse orders of magnitude easier in Haskell than it is in pretty much any other language in mainstream use today.

All this reminds me of a comment made by a friend of mine awhile back when he was learning Haskell. He said that programming in Haskell feels less like programming and more like putting together a puzzle. I think this article very nicely captures what he was getting at.
They can do that now.
It's unfortunate though because Samsung will obviously never market a feature of iBeacons.
I would think they were more interested in the products being sold as compared to the made-up currency that was being used to purchase said products.

But I haven't been following that case so I have to admit I have outdated info on that one.
Javascript version:
http://codepen.io/ajimix/full/zEdaL
Apple lacks an emergency fix process. Also the fix will be released in 10.9.2, but it's held up in testing amgonst all the new added functionality.
This might also work:

<form action="//api.formspree.com/user.smith/gmail.com">

Truthfully, base64 is probably better at deterring email harvesters.
ROFLMAO!! Some nigger fighting God. Just fucken shot an arrow at God!

God says...straighten_up later fer_sure et_tu radio it's_hopeless wont_you_be_my_neighbor
segway exports I_give_up vengeful what_part_of_God_do_you_not_understand
choose_one sess_me is_it_just_me_or I'm_done I'll_be_back
how_bout_it you_talkin'_to_me

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

ommanded Moses.

27:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of
Israel.

27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy
people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

27:14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in
the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before
their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness
of Zin.

27:15 And Moses spake unto

-----

What's gonna happen to them, LOL!

God says...
adultery unemployment Ivy_league woot church guilty silly_human
employee not_good you_think_you_could_do_better eh beam_me_up
hippy I'm_not_sure desert Moses insane energy incredibly
enough_said to_infinity_and_beyond I'm_in_suspense money
run_away don't_count_on_it act what's_it_to_you phasors_on_stun
Catastrophic_Success sing sess_me impossible illogical
pride debt air_head yeah take_the_day_off off_the_record
hooah Tomorrow yeah population come_and_get_me lust absetively_posilutely
China these_cans_are_defective fortitude act liberal do_I_have_to
I'll_get_right_on_it smile it's_hopeless funny hippy I_didn't_do_it
abnormal charity you're_so_screwed comedy furious mundo_stoked
ba_ha hilarious no_more_tears end it_gets_better white_trash
I actually suspect that backends are very different between all of the major messaging solutions. Whatsapp used to be absolutely terrible when it really started growing. I know quite a few people who dumped it then but came back about a year after
Top Programming Languages to Learn in 2014
We are putting up a fully functional demo to try out the whole product. It should up and running in a day. Will post the link here. Thanks.
Amazing details about the language. I simply can't believe we have such an advanced tool available as of today.
I like your idea, but I think delivery time is still hugely important for the owners of the cargo. It is still inventory on somebody's books.

BTW, I feel this is one of those "why didn't anyone think of this before" situations. Hundreds of thousands of people in the maritime industry, and I bet this was totally off their radar (pun intended). It is still far-fetched, but now that someone has researched the details, it feels possible. I especially like the idea of more tech and comms jobs replacing difficult and dangerous work.

If you're interested in following the various maritime industries, gcaptain.com is a good website. They cover many aspects (shipping, drilling, ports, finance, insurance, piracy, wrecks, and rescues), and usually have great photos.
Upon reading this, I immediately went to Bestbuy and Amazon (both .com and .ca, just for kicks) only to not find the product that "﻿is available worldwide". Sadness.
I doubt Mt Gox is listening. You may want to seek a therapist to help deal with the highly likely crash if you are deeply attached to your Gox coins. And I say this without sarcasm or vindictiveness. Talking to someone about uncontrollable circumstances is pretty much the only way to come to grips.
There's a start of an open source implementation of Mathematica called Mathics, which is written in Python.

Javascript would be an interesting choice for a toy implementation, especially because there are orders of magnitude more javascript installations than python, and much more effort put towards making javascript fast. And who knows, maybe the toy would turn into something more serious.
Looks like your comprehension is suffering. No wonder you said 1wpm. Read what I wrote again will you:

>Most of the gen-pop is around 200-250 wpm which is why I >said it is good enough. Don't be a troll.

At around 200-250 wpm you are in the middle of the normal distribution hence good enough.