skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect it would have been intercepted and destroyed if it threatened a military area or high population centre.

In 1954 the Chinese shot down a Cathay Pacific flight killing some of those on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Pacific_VR-HEU

If this was the case it wouldn't explain their apparent helping in the current search phase though.
> If a passenger jet entered their airspace and ignored the towers, what would have happened?

I would expect them to send fighter jets. They probably wouldn't blow it out of the sky without further reason, but I am sure they would stay with it until it leaves their airspace.
Sounds too good to be true. I'll believe it when I can buy/build it. Until then it's vapourware, period.
At first I thought "well that's an unforfunate name collision with the Brewdog brewery". But it turns out the show's headlined by brewdog's founders. Nice. They make fun beer (though I'm still sad they retired the tac' and the bismarck, those two were interesting experiences).
Article author is very wrong, Linus isn't.

If 99% of XML uses make a bad name for the rest of them, the problem is with XML. "XML" is not a spec - it's a culture, and the culture is rotten, and Linux calls it out. Even if there's the occasional good use of XML, it pales among all the other horrible uses -- and every rare good use of XML is not actually better than the alternatives.

Author blames Linus for using "m" to signify "meter" instead of "miles" as being incomplete. Well, every nontrivial important measure is in MKS, in which "m" is properly distinguished from "mm", "cm", "km". (And by the way, did the post mean nautical miles, or ground miles?)
How about private schools?
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But what is your reasoning for prefering this? Do you find it more visually pleasing?

I have always used one var per line out of habit (I think probably from C dangers with one var being a pointer and the following not if you put the asterisk by the typename rather than by the varname). However, I find it more visually pleasing too and I think there is something nice about a line of code being "atomic" so you can easily cut it and paste it in somewhere else instead.
I've been using Bitbucket a lot, is that also an option?
While i'm vaguely excited for HSA i'm pretty skeptical of anything that needs to be 'leveraged correctly' there's a history of sufficiently smart compilers not materializing.
Ditch Linux and port PgSQL to run on top of raw Xen interfaces. You get to control your own buffering, worker thread scheduling, and talk directly to the (virtual) disk driver. I believe it'd be a win.
> If this was the case it wouldn't explain their apparent helping in the current search phase though.

Reminds me of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007#Sov...
How does the microscope cost compare with paying the technician who will do the diagnosis? Assuming even $1000 per tech - which is roughly the per capita GDP(nom) of many countries - in this case maybe it's just better to buy the scopes in volume from Alibaba?

So the real value of the 50-center may be for people to make their own samples, and use a local shop to upload a cell phone picture to an online analysis service. Running on the cloud, maybe?
OH! I think I like the line format of those even better.
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Also cinemas are really becoming hostile. I have to subject my bag to inspection. I also risk arrest every time I take phone out. They also ask me to leave my laptop at reception...
The eternal question which makes piracy unsuitable and complicated for me: what about subtitles? As soon as you need to download it separately it's a no go. It should be one click to activate a perfectly synced subtitle in at least English.
"We're not making any money off of it" is kind of a moot argument. It's like breaking without entering.
That's not the issue here.

Making a new version of iOS that doesn't run as well on older devices — that's fine. I understand that iPhone 4 wasn't a priority (but note that in spite of what many people mindlessly repeat, iPhone 4 performance problems were not because of "new animations and effects").

What I have a problem with is:

* pretending that all devices should be upgraded, even though iPhone 4 clearly should not have been included given the abysmal performance,

* disabling downgrades (it's not that they are technically impossible, it's that Apple specifically disabled them after several days),

The goal was to show how unified the iOS ecosystem is: so-and-so-many percent of users upgraded immediately, there is one version to develop for, etc — but I was sacrificed on the way to that goal. That is not OK.

Net result was that for several months my phone was a useless piece of crap, taking forever to do anything, missing taps and swipes, taking screenshots of the lock screen instead of switching on, etc. That is not OK.

In the future, warn me that there are performance problems and that the upgrade is possible, but not advised. And give me the possibility to switch back.
I love primer. This quote made me smile.
"if they admitted that there were possible risks and explained the risks vs. the benefits."

I think that nicely sums up my viewpoint. Hanging around with 'intellectuals' these days can leave you tired and disillusioned, though this little thread was a refreshingly pleasant bit of discourse.

All I want is a balanced perspective, it's never "this OR that"!
I have netflix, but I will pirate if it is not on there.
Sure, that's an OK choice to make for you. But if you're heading into the second half of your career, what you absolutely need to do is establish the fact that you know what you are talking about, and are able to clearly and concisely communicate that. Anyone staying in their career for a long time should be a specialist in a few topics, and should be sharing that knowledge. If you're not specialised, your career will be shorter than it could be.

It's not about marketing and over-the-top self promotion. It's more about taking control over defining yourself so you can't be easily stereotyped based on a cookie-cutter resume.
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Some people buy the legitimate product and then pirate it too because the product has weird restrictions.

Some movies were not released in all regions. The user can import the DVD from a differet region. Some OSs impose restrictions on how many times the SVD drive can change its region. Piratig the content solves that.
To be fair, I'd be calling for your arrest (under my breath) if you pulled your phone or laptop out during a movie...
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There are in fact acceptable levels of relativity in the morality of acts (otherwise we couldn't have laws), so yeah, it can certainly be fair cause.

Now, you may believe that this moral justification is nothing more than an argument and the real justification for pirating a show is "because I am greedy, screw the authors"; however, this applies almost exactly to media conglomerates and their pro-copyright lobbying and protectionist activities. So, all in all, this is a small but perfectly valid piece of the debate.
Maybe, but "News at 11" was definitely part of local stations' vocabulary when I was growing up.
Here's just a few factors:

– Security: possible to do background checks on citizens of your own country, easier to hold them responsible, less chance of rogue employee, etc.

– Communication problems: both in terms of poor communication skills being more apparent in limited telecommuting communication channels, and cultural differences (different norms of subordination, etc.). Language barriers and time zone differences also go here.

– "Outsourcing" is a misnomer for what you describe, and has a poor reputation for a reason. Turns out hiring cheap incompetent sweatshop workers using an intermediary/broker is apparently not a good idea if you want a decent result. And quality workers are not as cheap as you'd expect in their home countries because they are a rare breed globally.

– Telecommuting on the other hand, by which I mean hiring individual contractors to work remotely, can work out pretty well if you do quality control in-house. It will surely become more popular.
The description says it's for Windows. Anyone know what's blocking it on Mono? Or possibly they've just had a Windows-only target for management reasons and didn't investigate Mono yet?
PioneerOne plot sounds a lot like Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
Sorry, I was being sarcastic about the `defineMethod`-style. IMHO the author overvalues the class/inheritance part of OOP and discards the considerable risks posed by using it. For example in the case of the self-binding he misuses inheritance to express "a Class with SelfBinding" which is a strategy/trait relationship and inheritance is the absolutely wrong hammer for that screw. A simple function would be less intrusive, have less indirection, and be more flexible.

EDIT: I'm not sure self-binding is part of ES6, to address your actual question. self-binding introduces a certain overhead to every function call, so I'm not even sure it would be a good thing if it would.
here is a mail from mel gorman with many more details.

http://mid.gmane.org/%3C20140310101537.GC10663%40suse.de%3E
This reminds me of the excellent tv.js. The same, but running in your browser (plus node.js)

https://github.com/SamyPesse/tv.js
Thanks for posting this!

"most genes" - I think where our food supply is concerned it probably needs to be '100%' - but that's not to dismiss the valid perspective you raise.

I just hope open-minded people are overseeing the processes, and not leaving the chicken coop to the corporations. GMO has a valid place, an important place, in our technological "bag-of-tricks." It's only the apparent short-sightedness of certain members of the scientific community that sets some of us on edge.
I'm going through a great Irish incubator at the moment and I agree. The ones that focus on customer development and give you the added resources to do it more effectively are definitely worthwhile and make your limited time more productive.

There are a lot of incubators out there. For startup founders I suggest you do your homework.
My experience is the opposite of yours (I wish it wasn't so). I've haven't worked with that many female engineers in 28 years as an engineer. There's been maybe 12 total as there are so few.

Of those 12 only 2 would I personally hire. That's under 20%. On the male side, depending on the company, it's between 95% at good companies and 50% at bad. In other words, 80% of the women I've worked with didn't seem like a peer (as in able to keep up) whereas less than 50% of the men couldn't keep up. In both camps, men and women, there were plenty of people I liked as people and would be happy to have as friends but I wouldn't hire them to work with.

I know that's just an anecdote

Maybe we're saying different things though. You're claiming in your experience 9 of 10 female engineers are productive members of society. I'm claiming in mine 10 of 12 female engineers are not productive engineers. They may be productive members of society but at work I need productive engineers.

It would really be nice if there was an objective way to measure and or fix this. I'd really like engineering more if there were more women and every time I interview a woman for a job position I hope she's going to pass but even that has been poor. Then again, so few women interview that I don't know what the hit vs miss ratio is there vs men. I'd say it's 1 of 6 or men at best. So far it's 1 of 5 for women meaning I've only interview 5 women since we get so few female applicants.
> something (probably the security C/R exchanges) is timing out

Yes, something's definitely timing out. If I watch the Vera UI after sending the command, it times out and retries several times before giving up. Yet other times it works, but usually only after at least one retry. The hub isn't too far from the door, and there's no walls in-between. The unreliability of z-wave stuff is my biggest problem with it.

The Nest responds pretty much instantly to commands despite them having to go out to the internet then back. The unofficial APIs provide access to everything the device and its web/mobile apps can do. Same with my Belkin WeMo switches and sensors -- you're probably not a fan of WeMo either, but I'm a fan of them responding instantly and speaking UPnP.

The divide between these products isn't really about "tinkerers vs non-tinkerers". If that was it, Nest/WeMo/etc would win over the monoprice z-wave stuff any day. They're much easier to hack with (no extra hardware required, HTTP APIs, open source libraries readily available) and typically do a lot more than the generic single-function devices.

The divide you've set up is around privacy and external dependency. The tradeoffs there aren't the same, and not everyone's going to agree with you on that either, even hackers with full knowledge. I don't necessarily think self-hosted and self-supported APIs are a better future. That's a future that would limit a lot of the cool stuff you can do with these devices to us, instead of making it available to everyone. Most of the coolest stuff in our homes today already relies on entrusting a certain amount of control and information to 3rd parties, from your electric company, to your ISP, to the makers of all the set-top boxes connected to your TV, to the phone in your pocket. All of these things involve giving up tons of data and control of your home.

I have no problem with "smart thing" makers hosting APIs so long as they remain trustworthy with that data, and reliable, which is not a huge ask. I'm a lot more confident Google can run Nest's API reliably and securely than Vera staying in business and keeping its P.O.S. MiOS functioning.
Tks for posting Kevin Roose's article. Had fun reading it!
His alignment with Russia consists of being there trying to catch another flight while his passport was revoked by the US administration.

And the appeals for asylum to non-dictatorships (such as most EU countries) fell on deaf ears - nevermind that asylum in "allied" countries probably isn't safe in the first place.
Look at Germany: Every spot within ~150 miles from a US controlled military base or embassy, and known to be used as hub for that extra-legal rendition program (where the German government looked the other way even when the US went after a German citizen).

After the US and UK, such countries are certainly the last place I'd try to hide from the US administration if I had to suspect that they're really eager to get me.

He should also plan his route so that he doesn't cross US-allied airspace - see the grounding of the Bolivian president's plane in Europe over suspicions that Snowden might be a passenger.

With all that, we're not talking about alignment but about a lack of options.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help if you want to watch on (for instance) an Apple TV or iPad. In that situation, a DNS-based proxy or VPN-connected router are your only options.
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BAM! 20880 points! Got to 2048
You are aware that watching netflix outside of it's service area is piracy, right ?

Paying the wrong amount, or one way or the other not following the terms of a licence (such as watching netflix outside of the US), is just as much piracy as bittorrent is.
I Fucking Love Pictures That Are Sometimes Tangentially Related To Science.
And don't forget, £49 in the UK!
Ask HN: Why is the 2048 post so popular?
For the sake of understanding what makes a project more successful than another, I would like to understand why would people from HN find the 2048 game worth 1000+ points?

Is it because it is opensource?

Is it because the game is really addictive?

Was it the right timing? People have Three as a success story in their mind and relate to that?

(I am very for the developer behind the project, I just want to understand what made that particular project tick)
my resume is a little on the exageration side. mainly so that when hiring managers read my resume and assume i'm lying they'll hopefully end up with a picture of me thats about at the right place.

Also I think that appearing to be better than you really are is a skill that companies are interested in having on their work force. So being frank and transparent could possibly work against you, especially if the hiring manager knows youre being frank and transparent.
Spot on. The word 'Agile', much like 'Big Data' has been misappropriated by marketers, who don't really understand it, the world over.
It's not vaporware. I've built them myself. Why make such a critical and cynical comment? I ask sincerely and not judgmentally. What value does it offer other readers?
I agree that confusing miles and meters is probably hard, especially to people exposed to a sane measurement system. However, his point about durating being represented in a non-standard format is a valid one. Also I'm very confused why temperatures are given in Coulomb.
Do you know of any how-to guides for this transition?
Is there also an option of you do not use Github?
I work with Java application servers and I loathe XML. Why Ant uses an XML? Why couldn't it be a simple DSL? <copy to=...>" is not needed, really.

Property files go a long way to help differentiate it. XML has invaded almost all aspects of Java programming, but it seems things are getting better with Java EE 6 and the web services annotations for example, but application servers and framework authors need to stop cramming XML this and XML that for configuration files.

This needs to stop.
Nice writeup. There's an error in one of the examples though:

(map :name people)

evaluates to a lazy sequence, not a vector.
Isn't sync() still useful for making sure all file-systems are sync'ed (as by the bin/sync utility -- which apparently basically calls sync())? For instance before shutdown?
100% agreed with you! I am customer on both service (kimsufi and online.net). Online.net service is much more reliable (Dell servers with hardware raid and many options), their technical support is fast and friendly, and their network is very efficient on US
They don't have VAT in the US, and their sales tax is a bit different. I'm not sure if it applies to digital purchases.

However, the price difference is often larger than what taxes alone would suggest, but surely localization plays a part here. Still, many European countries would need a reduced price just like the developing countries (to a lesser extent) to have an equal purchasing power compared to the US.
You can't document your way out of UI mess, so it's still failure on their side.
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Here is the video uncensored: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAIoJJTY7M4

The article is in Swedish, translation into English is quite good with Chrome.
I was hooked to the game and continued playing it for 2 hours non stop, AT WORK. It's addictive. I could not reach the magic figure, but the experience was great.
I think you are over thinking this. I interview a lot of people for engineering positions. If I think you're trying to deceive me, or I think you've lied on your CV, you're getting a much bigger black mark than if you struggle a bit on the technical tests.

An aside: if you consider a $30,000 wage bracket a senior developer might fall in to ($80k-$110k), I see little correlation between what people ask for and what they 'deserve' based on their technical skills (inside of that bracket)
> I know that's just an anecdote

that's not just an anecdote, that's a disastrous sampling scheme.
Good idea with the simple numbers, and certainly necessary to use some tokens other than what this 2048 app uses so we can have a version of it in a 5x5 or 6x6 grid.

When you wrote "Good idea with the letters, but perhaps not necessary. People are happy with simple numbers. Just look at Sudoku which doesn't use A to I", I thought you hadn't noticed my mention of the larger grid, which was really the main point of my comment and maybe I should've worded it differently. Though if you'd begun your comment differently, i.e. "Good idea with the larger grid, but perhaps the letters aren't necessary. People are happy with simple numbers. Just look at Sudoku which doesn't use A to I", I wouldn't have felt the need to reply to correct a perceived communication mistake.
Anyone is free to make their own operating system, browser, and bundle them too, yet Microsoft got pummeled by both the DoJ and EU. AFAIK (IANAL), the market dominance of a product has a strong effect on whether something can be brought under the jurisdiction of antitrust law. You're right though, as the cases I've seen mostly revolved around anti-competitive tactics, like Microsoft above and Intel for their OEM deals (both of which I think relied on their market dominance).
Ask HN: Library for camera app to integrate a tshirt design function?
Hi This is Wai-lun from Snaptee, I am thinking about an SDK/library for camera app developer to integrate a design tshirt function after users finished a pics/images in their app.
I am struggling about the value proposition from the Camera App developer perspective.
Would it make sense as a monetization or value-added feature? Or both? Whats your thought?
> However, his point about durating being represented in a non-standard format is a valid one.

ISO 8601 does specify a standard for duration. I've only ever seen it used in vCalendar entries - I've seen DD:HH:MM:SS everywhere else. So while it is an ISO standard, much like OOXML, almost no one actually uses it - in which case I wouldn't be hard on Linus for not using it.

> Also I'm very confused why temperatures are given in Coulomb.

Me too, but it's still more sane than giving them in Farad like some people do :)
In this experiment, the employers picked between two candidates, one male and one female. If you pick the male on the basis that men tend to have a higher variance of performance, you will end up with a significant underperformance as much as you end up with a significant overperformance. In any case, the task was not to achieve the highest absolute performance - it was to choose the better of two candidates.

In other words, although the variance explanation might give a rational reason for hiring men over women in the real world (although I am very skeptical) it certainly doesn't give a rational reason for hiring men over women in this experiment. Your criticism does not apply.
I'm Australian but I don't see what's wrong with an Australia tax. If Australians are prepared to pay more for a digital product then it makes sense for the seller to charge more.

Imagine a law that says, "The price of Photoshop in Australia cannot be more than the price in the US". Wouldn't that law be economically similar to one which says, "The price of Photoshop in Australia cannot be more than $400"?
I have a Satoshi theory.

During the early-2000's there was an online location (being deliberately vague here) where there was an individual who was very excited about the idea of decentralised accounting.

At the time most people ignored everything that author was saying. Now, his comments seem strangely prescient.

That authors writing seems somewhat similar to Satoshi's, too.

Additionally at least one domain name that author had control over is a Japanese site (although it looks to be pretty spammy, and not Bitcoin related).

OTOH, there was little evidence that I saw that this person had the necessary skills to create Bitcoin.
An autopilot can perform an instrument landing, however this does require some preparation of the flight crew (e.g. setting the right frequencies for ILS, reducing airspeed, deploy landing-gear, flaps, apply brakes + thrust reversers).

So simply guiding it to the nearest (suitable) airport would not make a big difference.
The fact that you felt you had to create a fake username for this crap should speak volumes about whether it worth posting.
Who is hiring game developers?