skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the element of social engineering in this!

The person enquiring has clearly baited the support rep into disclosing more info than they would have if it was just a bland question about the release date.
Wait... how did the pilot not know he lost a wing?
It was interesting that the article used the word bo{2}b in the section about regular expressions.

I'm not particularly bothered by it, although I recognize that it's not neutral with everybody and thus best avoided. I'm just fascinated since it it's very rare in mainstream publications, especially from the US.
I don't think that's a hurdle. I imagine that would be some form of trespassing onto amazon's very expensive property.
I don't know that this is infringement -- at the very least, it's arguable that the use of the image is transformative (e.g. it's being used in a montage of criticism).

Just because something is used commercially doesn't make it non-fair use. That's just part of a 4 part test that courts apply: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

Copyright is intended to make sure creators have incentives to create. Fair use is intended to keep culture vibrant.
Yeah, maybe for a lot of people it comes down to, "have you ever met somebody who, had their name included 'Satoshi Nakamoto', would have fit the profile used by Newsweek just as well". I think a lot of people involved with technology (and especially those involved with bitcoin itself!) have met such people, but most people in the general populace probably haven't.
So, I need three things to make this happen:

1. A picture of a squirrel or pigeon on your campus. One close-up, one with background that shows buildings, a sign, or something to indicate you are standing on the campus.

...
The article linked has a link to the actual decision:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/211088332/Pirker-Decision
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Before the discussion derails Feminist Frequency is the name of the website who's owner infringed on the copyright: feministfrequency.com .
There seems to be a major issue with artists having their work appropriated and stolen.

I wonder if there isn't a startup business model in here somewhere. An artist could sign up for a service that automatically does TinEye or a Google reverse image search for images that they upload, and then flags suspicious uses for the artist to review.

If it's fair use then you can whitelist a particular site. Maybe the software could even do it for you, by learning about the reputation of various sites for this particular activity and automatically assigning risk factors and so on.

Right now, it seems like the only way to catch art thieves is to have the coincidence of someone who's familiar with both your work and the thief's work point it out to you.
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Im certain amazon is not living under the assumption that people capturing them won't be a problem, and I think its safe to assume they aren't going to release a bunch of easily stolen drones without coming up with a way to make it more difficult (much like the UPS driver who takes the keys out of his otherwise easy-to-steal truck).
I'm just guessing but I'd assume fair use laws are different in every country. If for example the content creator was based in the UK and the potential infringer was based in the US (and the content was digital and online) which countries fair use laws would apply?
> Virtual machines are the other problem. Because people like to clone them, or rewind them to a previously saved check point, this seed file doesn't help you.

There is work on fixing this problem (or, at least, improving the situation) on Ubuntu: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/02/random-seeds-in-ubunt...
hey, thanks! we have some performance issues in firefox and safari, but there should not be any problems in chrome.
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the discussion on layers and masking reminds me of Gimp, did you take any inspiration from it?
Thank You ^_^ Honestly, I did not think they would even reply.
> For more information about the formats and the definition of the reference time, see the documentation for ANSIC and the other constants defined by this package.

I find the information at http://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants very explanatory.

What do you think is unclear about the documentation?
Maybe. But the cool thing about this mission is that even a negative answer will mean a lot (like not finding anything, or finding primitive life forms plus proof that they have existed for very long but evolved very slowly): it would support the theory that the "3 zones" configuration of atmosphere + liquid water bodies + land masses, with any of the 3 zones in contact with all the others, dramatically increases the probability of life and/or the speed of its evolution compared to other configurations.

If I were to place a bet, I'd say that the "3 zones configurations" is as important for life's appearance and evolution as having liquid water.
I don't know exactly what I have to implement to support SSHFS. But really in my mind a service like Reesd (or S3) is used through a networked API to read and write files, not through an exposed file system (although sure it can be exposed that way, just that it is not the "philosophy"). E.g. if you implement a music streaming service, you would access mp3 through say a REST API, not on disk, before streaming them.
Thanks for the compliments! Not sure about what's causing the fps issues, but we're definitely investigating.

At the moment, there aren't any limitations after you sign in - Animatron is free, and the only difference between a registered account and a guest account is that guests can only create one project (which is only saved for 15 days). Pretty soon we'll be rolling out a few different paid-subscription plans that will offer advanced features and functionality, but there will always be the option for a free account.
edit: this was an administrative law judge's decision from the national transportation safety board

aka not set in stone
YES! I have several business ideas that I've been sitting on because of the restrictions.

Is there a good source someone here can hook me up with already made drones? I can do software, but i'm not really a hardware guy.
Yep, and the appropriate response should be via the legal system, not inciting an internet witch hunt.
And then dogs started to think out loud with human voices
No need for envy, get some land and go to work! It's wonderful. Getting ready to tap our Vermont Sugar Maples for a bit of spring maple sugar production... Nothing like old time, home made, boiled over a open fire, Vermont Maple Syrup!
everything is in the cloud.
currently there is no limit on the duration
The F-15 has a Control Augmentation System (CAS), and would be difficult to fly without one: http://www.f15sim.com/operation/f15_flight_control_system.ht.... Fly-by-wire means there is no hydraulic/mechanical control system, and is a relatively new feature. But computers have been "in the loop" with conventional hydraulic/mechanical control systems for quite a bit longer, especially in fighter planes, where the emphasis on maneuverability calls for airframes that are a lot less statically stable and would be hard to fly without control augmentation.
It just means we have to be selective about applications, but this sounds like a great starting point.
I agree but also credit should be given where credit is due.
That would be excusable if we were talking abuot somebody who writes higher-level programs that would be excusable, but not for a kernel developer.
The problem with learning Haskell is I just can't shake the "Research" feeling. Learning Erlang looks a harder slog, but with the benefit of a "Real world" feeling, whether correct or not.
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I really like that it's using GWT too! You don't often see much GWT apps these days.
yep, sorry about that. IE11 support is coming really soon.
Also I heard that http://pusher.com/ have or will have a bit of Haskell in production:

http://pusher.com/jobs/platform_engineer
>> why not use it with a natural gas plant that produces electricity at much lower costs than solar or wind?

I was under the impression that natural gas plants can operate continually and that therefore energy storage isn't needed. Could you explain how cheap energy storage would enhance natural gas plants?
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I don't necessarily agree with this.
Scala gives you the ability to write in an OO style - which can result it some funky looking hybrid code. But if you are disciplined, you can write perfectly pure, functional Scala.
This reminds me of a case study sponsored by DARPA where a plane that suffered significant damage to a wing could still land when autonomous systems took over.

Here's a link explaining the project:
https://www.rockwellcollins.com/sitecore/content/Data/Succes...

And here's a youtube clip showing a demonstration of the system. A UAV has part of it's wing removed mid-air and the plane manages to land.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiPNV1TR5k
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That's an ethical, not legal argument. (Unless we're talking about CC-licensed images requiring attribution.)
probably beacuse over-budget, too late, tries to do everything, too pricey
For what it's worth, it's a well-made desk, although I too was a little miffed that I had to drill directly into the pressboard wood during assembly.

You could always put your own desktop on the frame. (It's a very good frame.)
Appropriate? It's not for us to decide that. And the legal system is an imperfect remedy that is not available to all. Just guessing here, but perhaps the artist in question can't actually afford a legal team?

Further, if you actually read what the artist wrote, the wording is actually quite polite and gentle. It is not threatening and does not incite.
As a Graphic Design major at the end of the 90's, I had to learn to eat, sleep and breathe Quark. Dealing with the company was HELL on a student. For context sake, this was right around the time that Apple released their new iMac with NO ADB ports. (USB only) Quark used a hardware dongle even for their educational version (which cost over a thousand dollars if I remember correctly) The company was extremely obtuse when it came to solutions. They suggested I buy an ADB to USB adapter. It flaked out constantly. I tried a few different models. I turned to Quark for help. Almost every conversation with support seemed to be "you don't like it? try formatting your text in Microsoft Publisher". All I was asking was to assist me in using their software - which I had paid for. At that time, they OWNED the market, so anyone that they helped was almost guaranteed to be a future customer. Adobe on the other hand had educational versions of Illustrator and Photoshop for 99 bucks a piece. I graduated when InDesign 1.0 had just come out. No one took it seriously at that point as it was brand new. But Quark's "we don't care, we don't have to" attitude is definitely part of what unseated them.
A side note: I opened this in a tab along with a number of other things. By the time I got to it, it was some Jim Cramer thing and there were about 30 other things in my history, and I had to come back here to find the original link again. Terrible usability for a news site.
We know, Spartacus.
definitely not layers and masking, may be something else
Unrideable bricycle
i suspect they don't use feature detection because the GWT framework makes it a bit more difficult to do feature detection (its not impossible, but it does work against the "default" way of doing things in GWT).
What about the BBC? It runs stories that it knows will capture eyeballs and ears. And? The Guardian - the same?

None of these organizations survive without mass acceptances of the stories they intend to run .. whats your point? That these are altruistic organizations? I think not!
Statutory damages for willful copyright infringement go up to $150,000 per offense. Instead of complaining to a content thief who obviously doesn't care, the artist should be looking for a lawyer interested in taking this on for a cut. Then the donors to the kickstarter will at least know where their money went.
The part I'm wondering about is that this is a project about criticizing the depiction of women in video games. In the piece we're discussing, however, it's not from a video game. It's a fan art piece tributing a video game.

In any case, I'm disappointed in Sarkeesian for not even responding to the artist.
When you phrase it like that it sounds really bad.

How about a ruggedized wifi eink display with a fully featured HTML5 application stack, long autonomy and awesome support.

Is that a better value proposition?
They have iAd so they've put themselves in the advertising game. The systemic issue with advertising is the desire to extract as much information as possible, in order to better target those ads and help their customers (those paying for the ads) to make a return.

It remains to be seen how much influence the Ad folks in Apple will have over the rest of the iOS/iPhone ecosystem. In the short term, I doubt there's much to worry about but in the long term, and if iAds become a significant revenue driver, who knows.

http://advertising.apple.com
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I've had to write output save file formats for various projects on several occasions, and it never occurred to me to take this approach.

Thanks for sharing this, it's one of those ideas that (to me) seems so brilliant in its simplicity that I probably would've never thought of it.

Any hiccups in the day-to-day work using this approach? I'm just trying to get a better idea of the workflow since I'm very seriously considering applying it to my next project.
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Oh? Well then by all means, let's all play pretend legal experts and decide the fate of the accused based on this single one-sided blog post. I'm sure that's never gone wrong before.
The point about fuselage lift isn't wrong. The F-15 has a relatively lightly loaded wing because it generates so much lift from the fuselage. Which means that the torque created by one wing continuing to operate while the other is destroyed isn't as much as you'd think.
Wow, multi-level parallax!
I had no idea there was a skeptics stackexchange site. That's very cool (although not as cool as landing a plane with one wing).

It will be interesting to see if this site has any effect on Snopes.com
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The culprit had plenty of time to resolve this issue, inciting a "witch hunt" will only spark a faster response from her.
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To say nothing of how we're supposed to take his denial of being Satoshi, as evidence of his being Satoshi.

That catch-22 (he either admits it or you take his denial as admission) would give you a false positive rate of damn near 100%.

Surely that has to be essentially written off as noise if we're going to use a probabilistic approach.

That said... while people are talking about the amazon reviews as counter-evidence, due the clear ESL attributes, that bike mirror review throws an interesting curve.

Either Dorian has a habit of dictating through someone with far more fluent (and precise) English [1] or he's far better with English than he generally lets on. [2] Which is an interesting wrinkle, but hardly enough to tip any scales.

[1] "(i.e., clear though convexed)"

[2] Which is something of a stereotype of older, professional Japanese.
Load screenshot into Acrobat Pro->zoom(200%+)->Output preview rollover confirms the existence of artifacts that appear to be vertical color bands near the boundaries of light shades.
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I would reach out to a local makerspace. There is a ton of DIY drone enthusiasts in the commumity.
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While Clojure does a lot of things well, it have the same flaws that Haskell (and to some extend Scala) tries to solve. For example, Haskell has strong emphasis on types and has no side-effects which let you easier write correct programs. One beautiful thing you'll encounter doing after some experience with Haskell is that types will guide you when designing your programs, not only giving a correct but also concise and elegant solution (most of the times).
The language that has more lines of tutorials and articles written about it that actual lines of code.
That's why I said "far more likely" and not "certain". I commented on that article, if you check my history.
I feel the SSD power is the least captivating feature of them. Just 20 GB of SSD power isn't enough for most production uses. Their main selling point is that they're cheap and you can spend just $5 for a decent server that does tasks like crawling, sending the data to another server that stores it.
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It is a huge waste of money ~$200m each.
The project has been plagued with technical problems (it doesn't meet its performance specifications, it has structural problems, etc.).
It does not perform any better than current fighter planes in war game simulations.
It is being made for a war that we will never fight with fighter planes. I wonder if America has fought its last human controlled air-to-air dog fight, or it will be extremely rare.
And it was shoved down the Pentagon's throat by lobbyists.
Take a look for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_...
Not to discount these attacks, but 29 deaths and 140 injuries really doesn't compare to 9/11 (2,996 deaths and 6,000+ injuries).
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My husband and I tried this for a while, but we couldn't come up with good food that we would both eat (we're both picky eaters).
not an expert but:

I was amazed when my Das Keyboard came with a USB->PS2 adapter, and said to use the PS2 to get N-key rollover (I think it's limited to 6 on USB.)

I am still slightly amazed every time I remember that the older format is higher spec - although I assume it is something to do with bandwidth on a "serial bus" (especially since most keyboards are forced to run at USB1.1 speed, for some reason).

Anyone who can explain these mysteries is welcome to reply :)
Wow! This really takes me back to my Flash Animation days. Very cool and slick. I like it.
I think we'll need fusion to make intra-solar system travel (really) possible, where we just transport stuff through-out the entire system, with a speed of at least 1/100 of the speed of light. Achievable in ~50-100 years.

For inter-stellar space travel, say to the closest 20-100 star systems, we'll need either an anti-matter powered ship or a black-hole powered one (a bit more likely) that can travel to these stars in only a few years to a decade, and then another few years to a decade back, with the speed of 30-50 percent of the speed of light. Achievable in ~200-300 years (remember technological progress is exponential not linear).

For whole galaxy exploration we'll definitely need something like a warp engine. When we'll get this is harder to predict, but it will probably take at least 1,000 years to do it.

Things that could definitely help with space exploration: figuring out immortality against aging, which could also make us more interested in 100-year old projects, transferring our consciousness to machines/more resilient avatars not just for space travel, but also for living on new dangerous planets, and quantum Internet so we can rapidly communicate through long distances.

If we do the last one, we might not even need to travel ourselves or transfer into other bodies, to go to those places. We'd just send robots that we control absolutely and very precisely, just like we were there (Avatar/Surrogates-style).
You've just perfectly demonstrated my point. Accusation does not equal guilt, and there is no reason for any of us to believe it is on the accused to resolve anything at all.

Being a copyright issue the author is well within her rights to send a DMCA takedown and initiate legal proceedings, which is all the "spark" that is necessary for a timely and appropriate response.
In the response, part of the quoted story says that he didn't know he had lost a wing until he had landed
Wow thanks for the answer!

Where do you host the backend? I think Flask is a great choice, it is easier to deal with than writing a backend in Node.js.
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Mostly immutability and the ability to update DOM on real changes, I assume. The immutability comes with nice ability to easily undo things, at expense of memory.
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His primary point of view is making money. If I can't figure out how to make money on something, I will dismiss it. This is likely what he is doing ATM, but not a good assumption moving forward.
According to that site, the transformative factor pertains to transformation which adds to the original work. Nothing is being said about the original work in this case. In fact, the original work is not even being acknowledge as an original work. It is being used simply to invoke the character of which it is fan art. I don't see any way to construe that as "value added to the original by creating new information, new aesthetics, new insights, and understandings" where "the original" is Ms. Smith's fan art image.
Possibly.

But they seem to allow military A10 and F15 posts, no problem.

Now they suddenly just made it so I can only reply in comments like once an hour, I had to wait a long time to reply to this.

You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

This is someone's cowardly way of bullying me off HN, or a big bug - I suspect the former.
You're actually expecting too many similarities from life that would've evolved independently from Earth. If a certain metabolic pathway is only present in bacteria in Earth's ecosystem, it doesn't mean that you could not find a very optimized version of it in bigger organisms in an independently evolved ecosystem.

If you were from a world where photosynthesis is rare and not very efficient, or maybe not present at all in nature (like Europa's dark oceans?), you would probably assume that no large organisms could use such a weird and inefficient process as an energy source, whereas in an open sunlit ecosystem like Earth there are lots and lots of photosynthesizing organism.

(I give the example of photosynthesis because it's actually a very complicated process: in order to achieve the kinds of efficiency that they do, the systems in plants and algae use very complicated mechanism that exploit even obscure quantum effects that are probably not used by any other biomolecular systems - there are studies using quantum tunneling to explain some properties of the molecules involved and others that talk about states similar to the ones in superconductors to explain some of the couplings and efficient energy conversions!)
http://3drobotics.com has a number of options with open source autopilots
You can still drop those bucks if you need it for Eclipse and other IDEs :P
I'm assuming they didn't ask for permission for any of the other uses, which seem, at first glance, to be official promo images. And somehow, I don't feel that they should have to.