skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well considering that she really has no problem sidestepping the generally accepted etiquette and ethics of journalism when it suits her, I think that was exactly the way Forbes should have handled it.
You're quite correct that cadence is diminished, though that can be mitigated by adding a delay to each word based on its length.
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The multi-rotor drones are basically uncontrollable without computers; you need a reasonably powerful processor, which in turn means a fairly high-capacity battery. I think a lot of the innovation has come from mobile phone tech; there's now a lot more demand for small, light, high-performance processors, batteries and cameras, and so while much of the tech is not really new it's a lot more available to hobbyists than it was a few years ago.
I am based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Drop me an email at pulkit110@gmail.com and we can speak more about this.
In a network, "be in the same place" is not a real solution. Try laying out a protocol in terms of messages passed, and you'll see the issue.

My attempt at an explanation: At any given point, one general has less information than the other. When I send a message I learn that I've sent a message, but I don't know that they've received the message. When I receive a message, I learn both. If there is any specific threshold of knowledge required to go, one general must pass it first.
I'd say Lithium-ion batteries, cheap and power-efficient controllers, cheap sensors (orientation, acceleration, GPS), and the quad-copter layout.

With them you can build a device which is lightweight enough to fly for tens of minutes, and can easily orient itself. This lets you control it with high-level commands. You can say "fly there, face north, stand still", something you can't usually say to a traditional helicopter.
That's why I've put the fine in quotation marks. I just wanted to say that I could get an opponent in chrome (but now also in ff).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386425
Thanks! Yes, I'd say "agile" is an accurate adjective for how I work. It's the work style towards which I gravitate, absent any external pressure. Agility with a lowercase "A" that is, because I don't claim to meet any official definition of Agility.
I think it's a combination of prices coming down for the quad-copters, cheap GoPro's providing HD video of the flights, and YouTube being available as a marketing platform to convince others to buy their own.
Google buys Green Throttle Games
Sorry, I can't provide a proper page citation. I had one of those books many years ago, and I was surprised when I saw the recommendations about foil.
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"a coding team's only salvation is smart coders"

Smart coders who understand that they're part of a team.

I've seen at least as many problems caused by people not working with those around them (whether they be other developers, users, testers or whoever) as caused by rank stupidity.

That's not to say there needs to be a massively formalised way of working together, just the fact that other people are involved needs to be a central part of everyone's thinking.

EDIT: A central and constructive part of their thinking I should say - thinking "I need to steer clear of all these other bozos" I guess qualifies as a central part of someone's thinking but isn't what I was getting at.
No, that's precisely the misconception I'm trying to address here. Taking homeopathic treatments won't make any difference to your health. But following the principles of feng shui (even if the beliefs behind them are bullshit) will, more often than not, lead to a psychologically-pleasing layout.
Epic Partners With Mozilla To Port Unreal Engine 4 To The Web
once it comes to windows i'll have an opinion.
My (possibly contentious) experience: assume they are smart, like facts and can smell BS from a mile away.

Most wealthy people have loads of experience with sleazy people trying to take money from them. So if they're still wealthy it probably means they're good at detecting BS and ignoring "sales tricks". So be genuine, be informed and be brief.
It uses keen.io for analytics, and it might even store the URL you're visiting. You'd better not use this if you're concerned about your privacy: https://github.com/cameron/squirt/blob/gh-pages/js/io.js#L65...
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I know I am not them but since you seem to want some data^H^H^H^H opinions.
I would exclude any songs with words. Probably something slower like Moonlight Sonata but I could see something like 1812 Overture being good (cannon shots and volcanoes).

I get that techno is supposed to make you feel pumped and all but it distracted me way too much. Now had it been say Firestarter or something at least mildly related maybe but I like that song already. I don't mind it when I'm watching something like a compilation of stunts or whatever.
Pretty sure it is sort of there already without any extra extensions. Place cursor on line, alt+shift+up/down arrow to duplicate cursor up or down
Youtube is down for maintenance
Google is primarily located in Mountain View, in Santa Clara county.

My question was how much of San Francisco's street infrastructure - a different city and county - was supported by Google. Did Google pay "a lot more" than the citizens of the city, as SteveGerencser suggested?

The residents and businesses in SF pay about $1 billion in property taxes. How does that compare to specifically Google's contribution? Who pays more in payroll, corporate income, and gas taxes to San Francisco, Twitter or Google?

If the answer is Twitter, then shouldn't they have a bigger say than Google?
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You're right, there might be minimal pairs, but for most words the exact pronunciation doesn't matter - like there is a minimal pair for [i] and [i:] (ship/sheep, beach/bitch), but (1) not everyone can pronounce it, so often you must be able to infer the meaning from the context, and (2) for most words it doesn't matter (see, thin, happy, ...)
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That, and the fact that Julia has pretty good CUDA modules, makes it seem like Julia is perfectly suited for work with Neural Networks.
> As much as this is probably not a popular opinion here, I think the days of Geocities and the like, with almost everyone wanting to

Yep, I made a similar (but less eloquently stated) observation a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3876834

It now seems clear to me that the only way to keep the Web/Internet free is to narrow the gap between what programmers and non-progammers can make, at least prima facie. That is the real difference between now and then: kids and novices like me could make something that prima facie resembled what the professionals were doing, whether it was hacking DOS apps or simple web pages; at least I thought I had a chance of getting near the pros.
Interesting! Makes sense given the common heritage in Proto-Germanic.
Maybe you forgot it because it's so simple?
The cell phone industry has massively driven down the costs of the gyros and accelerometers needed to easily fly a quadcoptor. You also mentioned tiny cameras, another component that benefitted from the economies of scale of the cell phone manufacturers..

For example, you can buy a quadcoptor that fits int he palm of your hand for less than $40:

http://www.amazon.com/Estes-4606-Proto-Quadcopter-Black/dp/B...
The Web's Silver Jubilee (A Technical Timeline)
"utf8" in mysql is limited to 16-bit range (!) ; see http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/002539.htm... - basically, you need to use "utf8mb4" (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode-utf8m...)
Google buys up games controller firm Green Throttle Games
Fascinating story, but I don't see how the town's larger economic forces drove the actions of either Rosa or Cantrelli. Mind elaborating?
Ember outperforms any other JS framework
One team varies from three to six people. Another has maybe 20.

The larger team definitely produces more intermediate artifacts than the smaller team. You could say there's more process in that team. But it's still not formalized as a methodology. The larger team mostly just muddles along. I'd actually prefer to organize the larger team's tools a little better, e.g. maintaining a single, sane VCS. Even if we did that, I wouldn't claim we're following a methodology. (By my definition, artifacts and tools do not a methodology make.)
Name mangling, as always, is a mess. If they export extern "C" headers, then of course there's no trouble.

There's work on interfacing with the C++ ABI, though. See Cpp.jl[0] and Clang.jl (whose C++ support is still a WIP)[1].

[0]. https://github.com/timholy/Cpp.jl

[1]. https://github.com/ihnorton/Clang.jl/issues/20
Apple drops its 30 day return policy on iPhones down to 14 days
updated URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57620198-93/tim-berners-lee...
Agreed 100%. I like your metaphor of lead bullets. There's no silver bullet that will win a war, but you sure aren't going to win without putting the lead bullets in the right places.
I got hooked up with someone who scored 500+ points in the first 10 seconds. Is someone playing this with bots?
So it's all someone else's fault?
I expect it means that the developer can handle both backend and frontend related javascript (like, they are comfortable working with nodejs, expressjs, Angularjs, Emberjs, etc.)
Does your product really need to be "perfect" to succeed?
What killed the web are js-app sites that don't work in mobile, along with the 1MB webpages that contain everything and the kitchen sink right on the page that also don't work in mobile (can't resize, font too small, javascript popups, flash popups, etc)
What is needed is a return to the basic: plain html sites that don't assume unlimited bandwidth, that let the browser render the content, that don't need images, tables, etc.
Most people have limited data plans and would like to keep most of it for music/video, not monstruously large web pages.
So true! A bunch of smart, arrogant lone wolves won't be very effective at software development.
This is great, but not able to read play books.
You imply that, left to their own devices, free to serve their own self-interest, private citizens would not decide to help "people dying on the streets."

So in essence you imply that the state must act as a coercive mechanism to override the personal interest of its productive citizens.

From where I stand it appears that you endorse tyranny. Can you explain otherwise?
Aye, first thing I learned about R was that their for loops suck. On the bright side, it taught me how to use apply.
I'm not sure what my career goals are. I know I want to get much better at my craft and I want to make sure I don't have any gaps in my education. I'm worried that, since I'm self taught, I don't know what I don't know and that a Masters can expose and fix holes in my knowledge.
Aren't you are proving the parent's point there? You say that only articles depicting their own culture are seem as relevant to the american reader, which is what he claims.

That's absolutely not the case in other places of the world. In some cases, even the opposite problem arises (that is, discriminating against your own country/culture and favouring a foreign one)
I'd be curious to see how this compares with zurl

http://blog.fanout.io/2014/02/18/fun-with-zurl-the-http-webs...
That's not a hack, that's actually the best way to do it. And it can work with more complex shapes (even non-convex ones) as long as you can find the tangent points - which isn't always easy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Yeah, fuck that noise.

"Spend less time thinking about getting sex" hahahahaha yeah okay.

Look, maybe when you're in your 30s or 40s and you've got the wife and the kids and the minivan and the bills and the mortgage you can focus on the more noble things in life, like making the world a better place so that your progeny will have an easier time of it.

But, in the meantime, for those of us without children, fucking is a pressing issue.

EDIT:

I'll be still more blunt--the people who gain the most from us "making the world a better place" are those with kids and a stake in society. You are trying to take advantage of us.

You should've gotten us healthcare, but you fucked it up. You should've gotten us a safety net, but you fucked it up. You should've gotten us cheaper student loans, but you fucked it up. You should've gotten us more affordable housing, but you fucked it up.

So, no, I'm not going to help you beat cancer so you can spend an extra year with your kids (who are going to be bankrupt the rest of their lives because of your medical bills).

EDIT2:

You couldn't even manage to kick out the bastards in office who are running the alphabet-soup agencies that are ruining our country. There. There's your fucking legacy.
In the UK, we did manage to get the identity cards scheme killed and all the data collected destroyed. Admittedly it was still in the pilot stage.

The key to effective political action is getting all the other existing politically active groups to realise that they don't want to do politics under surveillance either. Everyone from the NRA to the NAACP should oppose this.

Talk about guns on the internet? It's trivial to keyword match make and model names, and the NSA can presumably correlate this back to home addresses. They already have the database of who the gun owners are if they were to want to confiscate them.

Remind nonwhite people about the FBI's attempts to blackmail MLK. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-brea...

Everyone should understand that this infrastructure can and will be used to interfere with domestic politics, not to mention being used to attack democracy abroad (see 20th century South American history). You cannot support a system that is unjust to your enemies and assume smugly that it will never be turned around on you (Diane Feinstein passim).
Cloud-backed localStorage at SproutSocial
Codiqa for Desktop
Working here. What error do you have ?
Sacked Google worker says staff ratings fixed to fit template
Isn't photo-sharing a solved problem? Getting sex would seem to be, as well, but to the degree it isn't, then why aren't the youth of today inventing real solutions? I'm not sure Tinder/Grindr/etc. are a confident step in that direction.
Everything is how it is because that's how it's supposed to be. It's the old "Dragon is dead, long live the Dragon" phenomena. It's because of human weaknesses - greed, lust for power, etc. Whatever we do it will always come full circle. And then it will begin again.
I'd really like to see this model with an adaptive speed. Same speed for all the words isn't always the best.

Maybe using an n-gram model to predict how probable the next word is, could pass high probability phrases at a faster rate, while slowing down for "harder" words
Well said. Agile isn't your collection of software toys, and yeah, fuck your long term self-assuring development plans too.
Good insights! Shame I couldn't be there live to experience it this year.
I have a good number of 433mhz switchable & dimmable outlets controlled by an Arduino with a 433mhz transmitter. It was a good weekend project that I am extending at the moment - including real world controls of my Sonos components (the Arduino talking to them via SOAP).

I've just ordered 10m of RGB LED strip, which is the next component I plan to control with an Arduino which will communicate with the first via an Ethernet shield and a protocol I am yet to devise!

Yes, all of this is fairly pointless but it's keeping my brain active whilst I recover from some fairly extensive surgery!
Introducing Codiqa for Desktop
I've often imagined what an awkward look I would get mentioning Hoare logic [1] to someone who hadn't seen it written.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic
Goldman Completely Obliterates Bitcoin In New Report
Apache Kafka – Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log
Yes. All of that usually happens when totalitarian regimes fall. These systems are made and run by people, so they can be remade or disbanded if they are no longer wanted.

For now it's probably useful to concentrate upon emphasising how illegal/unconstitutional all of the above activity is and that the buck has to stop somewhere. Someone has to be held accountable.
Leaking the file size (Issue 2.2) is due to the way EncFS is architected to work at a file granularity. Adding some random bytes or rounding up to the next block size are small improvements but still leak approximate file size. I don't think anyone would like their 5KB file to occupy 2GB on disk so EncFS sacrifices some level of privacy for practicality. On the flip side this design tradeoff allows EncFS to be used somewhat effectively on top of cloud storage services like Dropbox/GoogleDrive etc. whereas full disk encryption schemes don't work as well.
But happier employees are more productive employees, so this is a false dichotomy. I wonder if it would be possible to sell management on non-open floorplans by making a convincing case that people will get enough more work done to pay for the extra costs of open offices.
Now you've switched topics. I said there are reasonable arguments for saying that the thesis - that private buses reduce the number of cars and make more effective use of commuting time - is frivolous.

Now you want me to make a specific judgment about a generic use of your car? Why the topic switch?

My view is that my taxes should not help fund a personal garage for you to store your car. If it's kept on the street then you should pay market rate for it, and the city shouldn't subsidize the cost for everyone with a car.

So, are you paying the real costs for the parking? Then no, it's not frivolous no matter how you want to use it.

Are you driving because you don't feel like walking two blocks every day and would rather drive that distance instead, and you want the city to guarantee that you have free parking on both ends of the trip? Then yes, it's a frivolous reason.
Sent! Sorry for the delay.

I'm all out of invites now.
Solarminer utilizing cellphone as wireless spot
We believe solar powered crypto currency mining can be anywhere, and everyone with a cellphone can mine bitcoins.
To prove such concept, we used a cellphone as the wireless connection point and start mining bitcoins far from our factory.

The cellphone connection speed is far beyond our expectation. 14 Antminer U1 miners mine around 22GH/s FREE of Wall Power using cellphone as wireless spot!
More importantly, it's a fully cloudy day.

http://www.solarminer.com

OK, I'll show you the photos for what we did:

http://www.solarminer.net/viewtopic.php?t=200
I don't know about the gtk theme. Possibly part of the ElementaryOS project?

The HN skin is actually a Chrome extension called Hacker News Extension Suite.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Losing a drone is a lot better than losing your life.

Teleimmersion gear + a drone like this = ?
Does anyone have a good guess of how FASHIONCLEFT works? Has it been seen before?
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Oh FFS. Where's the principle of charity when you need it?

YES. Without graphics processing of one form or another, on one chip or another, over one cable or bus or another, to one screen or terminal or another, your GIF absolutely won't be visible. Or your PNG, or your JPG, or your desktop or movie or e-book. Nothing will be visible.
> jet planes, submarines and the like. And I think it is fair to say that the tools they use and the way they use them are clearly from the 70s - this is not a criticism, they create impressive technology, but I believe that once the practices of modern software development begin to take root in those industries, we'll be exposed the innovation we've actually created.

Or, we'll just end up with jet planes with zero day exploits and submarines that have to be patched every month when the next sprint gets pushed to deployment.
I thought you must be kidding about the "hammer-centric methodology": Do companies actually say they have a "tool-centric methodology"?

Then I remembered one I saw just the other day:

> We offer a highly configurable Agile and tools-based software development methodology

They also have an "execution-focused leadership team" and "offer a number of flexible outcome-oriented engagement models assuring the success of our projects"

The whole page is like that!

http://accionlabs.com/company/why-accion-labs/
DJI is massive player in the commercial drone space, so when regulations get written, you can bet DJI will be one of the corporations writing them.
Wow. This is how to kill an ecosystem.

Now that I'm at it, I wonder why the media is so interested in "game" consoles based on Android, but seems to be paid off to never say anything about the PlayStation Vita.

The Vita costs way less than the Nvidia Shield, for instance, even if you get the recommended 64GB memory card. The Vita has real games like Killzone Mercenary, and even plays some of the "games" for Android such as "Draw Slasher" not to mention it integrates very well with both iTunes and Windows Media Player and the PS3 and the PS4 if you want a media player.

Of course if you have a smartphone and the $300 a month phone bill that comes with it you won't be able to afford a Vita, and there is no way you could download real games because it would cost you $40 to download a 4 GB game over a cellular network.
If you like ruby on rails and want something lightweight that's easy to customize: https://github.com/natew/obtvse2
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Bitcoin Isn’t a Currency, Can’t Replace Gold: Goldman Sachs
My pathetic Profit & Loss Statement from 2006
Hasn't there been enough evidence that the system the founding fathers built in has been compromised to the point of irrelevance?

What you have today is an illusion of the freedom and the "equal and impartial justice under the law".

http://www.popehat.com/2013/12/23/burn-the-fucking-system-to...
Look into the art of selling luxury goods and services.

Luxury is never about price—it's about aesthetics, authenticity, brand, and experience.

In fact, price is an outdated concept that's only relevant in a socialist model of thinking (i.e. where the sole criterion for production is use-value).

Price and value are incompatible with laissez-faire capitalism.

Luxury transcends the value equation.
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Chrome's not DPI aware on Windows either. I think they just don't care.
plz enable github issues
Then maybe colorize nouns in a compound noun word instead of syllables ?
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Read the book that includes this incident Emergency: Crisis on the Flight Deck. Pilot's have 4 or 5 point harnesses, but don't wear outside of takeoff and landing. In level, uneventful flight, it's just the lap belt. Further, if you're walking around, say to the bathroom, you might not yet be belted in.
yeah I wouldn't say _Every_ but a very large majority most certainly are. I used to delight in ruining people's enjoyment of nature documentaries by pointing out that anything walking on snow is the sound of custard powder being crunched and twisted in a rubber glove! Yeah: I'm a bastard ;)
> If someone invents a toilet with similar upfront, recurring costs and ease of use to cellphones - the pipeless, waterless analog to a wireless phone - I'm sure they'd have no shortage of customers.

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

Although, I admit, ease of use compared to a cellphone may be subjective.
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You can't parallelize a for-loop the way you can apply a function on every member of a vector. If code can be vectorized in Julia, that is what I'm interested in seeing. These samples are obviously not intended for distributed compute. Thousands of CUDA cores sit idle waiting for this synchronous for-loop to finish.