skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish I could remember the name of the machine, because I've never seen anything else like it

Sounds like a phototypesetter:

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

(I'm probably going to get some terminology wrong here, but...) My mum worked at a regional daily newspaper. They had 2 or 3 phototypesetters in the corner of their computer room. Each one was about the size of 3 full height racks. They'd print on to photographic paper and were designed to be automatically fed in to a machine (about 1.5 full height racks high) from the same manufacturer that would develop the paper, ready for a Compositor (ie, a surly unionized employee) to cover it with hot wax, slice it with a scalpel and physically lay it out on the page. If the printer crashed, it would have to be rebooted with a series of switches to bootstrap it far enough that it could load it's bootloader (?) from paper tape.

Where she worked decided to use a different manufacturer for the printer and the developer such that it wouldn't automatically feed from one to the other. So the printer dumped it's outputs in to boxes mounted on the wall of a darkroom and would wait for someone to go in and manually feed it in to the developer.

It was glorious.

If anyone ever gets the chance to go on an open-day or tour of the noisy end of a newspaper or large print shop, i'd totally recommend it.
The hardest part is finding a routine and meal plan that works for you I think. I failed in attempts to enter ketosis a couple times simply because I wouldn't find enough keto food to eat, get hungry, and start eating normal or sugary food.

Lettuce wrap burgers (with cheese and advocado!) are great when you need food on the go. In-and-out is my savior when I travel now. I also ended up hacking together my own ketogenic Soylent(fat-protein shake with nutrients) to supplement for about 1/2 a days worth of calories. This suddenly made being in ketosis completely sustainable for me.

I suspect its slightly easier for those loosing weight rather then maintaining, simply because it can be difficult to eat enough fat and calories through normal food. If your loosing weight you can lower your fat intake a bit and go on a slight calorie deficit once your used to ketosis.

Its a fairly big life-style commitment, and I wish it wasn't so absolutist, but its what works and its helped me with energy levels and mood quite a bit. I feel better overall and don't crave food all the time.
I guess the author didn't get the purpose of XML. It doesn't have the goal to use the least amount of metadata/tags as possible. If you need that, just compress it.
Whatever, XML offers a wide range of tools, such as:

- Data in XML can be transformed into almost any other format using XSLT.

- It can be validated using XSD.

- It can be searched using XPath.

This makes it a perfect data exchange format.
Wow. That is a lot.

Here in Germany we have some private schools that are almost free because they are run by the catholic church or protestants. Other non religious private schools are at about 5000€ per year.
It's all about how widespread they are. What was before a pretty limited hobby where most people would know about and be mindful of light aircraft (and sometimes share airstrips with them), might turn into a real problem when prices come down and anyone can operate them without much training, as modern drones can with gyro and GPS stabilization.
Get in touch . I'm working on making a low cost sensor box from Raspberry Pi's for wide dissemination; atmospheric/temp sensors, precision GPS receiver, software defined radio for grabbing AIS and ADS-B data, etc, and then open sourcing all of the collected data sets and the live streams.

I would love to integrate with Cumulonimbus! My email address is in my profile.
Some things to think about:

Students are often given the digital slides which they use to study off of for finals.

The act of writing/taking notes does help some in knowledge retention. Note taking doesn't happen when students have access to the slides.

But, really, power points aren't the issue with higher education (or education in general).

The purpose of classes are to enable learning. This seems to be best done through student involvement. Lecturing really isn't a good way to get students involved.
Here's a contrived example:

Promises:

//model
User.get = function() {
return getData();
};
User.getOdd = function() {
return User.get().then(filterOdd);
};

//controller
someControllerAction = function() {
User.getOdd().then(redirectToHomepageIfEmpty);
};

Callbacks:

//model
User.get = function(callback) {
getData(callback)
}
User.getOdd = function(callback) {
User.get(function(data) {
if (typeof callback == "function") {
callback(filterOdd(data));
}
});
};

//controller
someControllerAction = function() {
User.getOdd(redirectToHomepageIfEmpty)
};

Notice how there's a little bit of noise required in the callback version of User.getOdd - i.e. if (typeof callback == "function"). Ideally this kind of noise is something that should be hidden at a framework level, and not show up in application code.

Noise can get quite significant when the code is predominantly dealing with asynchrony, e.g. try implementing this in callback style:

jQuery.when(User.getOdd(), Pinterest.search("something")).then(doSomething)

It's doable, but it's messy, because the code that is supposed to be focused on pinterest items and odd users now also needs to deal with flags indicating which http request is done at which point.
A bunch of projects that could use your help.

Hacker News API - https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI

Fully functional HN API as a Python module. It has a bunch of issues such as adding more end-points for getting more data. I could really use someone's help here.

HNIfy - https://github.com/karan/HNify

This is the REST port of the previously-mentioned API. It has a bunch of issues - not all methods have been ported, no unit tests, very slow sometimes etc. The biggest issue is to add a crawler and a database so the API doesn't have to call HN every time a request is received.

--------------

Both MIT licensed. Free to use and modify. Fork and send PR's, Happy to merge.

Let me know if there are any questions.
And Crash Override/Zero Cool at 1995 for the Hackers movie reference.
relevant: http://xkcd.com/1015/
Satoshi Nakamoto said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
He made that comment recently after 5 years of inactivity on his bitcoin proposal http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/xn/detail/2003008:Topic:9402?xg_source=activity
Thanks, and I'd be happy to explain. They extend from the bottom of the descenders to the top of the ascenders. So if you look at something like: [h][a][g], you'll see the 'a' is roughly centered and the top of the h and the bottom of the g line up. So for things like foo() and class blah { ... }; the o and semicolon are roughly centered vertically on the opening paren and closing brace, respectively.

If you look at Consolas, for example, you'll see this is hardly unique.
\shrug\ It's all sci-fi tech anyway. Artificial wombs probably aren't that far off: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-08/artificial-wom...

There's a clear demand for advanced reproductive technology, and it would offer the secondary advantage of neatly sidestepping the current abortion debate.
The Career Ladder Isn't In The Office
Well, not really.

Whoever Satoshi is does control an amount of BTC that could significantly shift the market if they suddenly did something with it...
Only works if slides don't omit important details or you are re-visiting the slides after having prior knowledge. Some ppts are more like visual aids (outlining important points in a few words) yet doesn't provide any detail. I enjoy both slides and audio. They compensate each other, provided that you have an articulate speaker... Whenever I read slides with proofs I rather have an audio stepping through the entire proof. Staring at proof or some data flow diagram doesn't convey enough to me.
The real Satoshi speaks up, denies he is Dorian Nakamoto
Plus, colleges need a way to trim the fat, so to speak. To eliminate groups of people that would attempt to steal a machine with a live network connection, GPS, several cameras, and surrounded by rapidly spinning blades.

I say that jokingly, but this happened in Iran to a plane operated by the US military.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incide...
That's not true. Project Orion would have been propelled by detonating small nuclear bombs, which have huge amounts of energy. It would be absurdly expensive, but technically feasible today.
On a side note, this may be worth looking at: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~mainland/2013/05/31/type-safe-run...
I guess it could be helpful knowing if it's a good-hearted civilian versus a tech savy mafioso.
Okay, by that standard, we should be posting theological links from Pat Robertson on HN, or any of a dozen other hucksters who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps or pioneered ways to fleece suckers. I mean, obviously they're successful, why shouldn't we listen to their insights?

I'd truly be interested in Asprey's business insights (particularly startups), but IMHO we've had more than enough unscientific dietary claims on HN to last us for a while.
Yup, and Windows is broken because ctrl-c copies text instead of killing a process.

Why doesn't Windows do the right thing by default?

Oh, its because a different system behaves differently.

DVCS is fundamentally more complex than VCS.
Awesome - you perfectly represent 50% of the people I posted it for. Woo!
That question is as appropriate as "So, you go around randomly trespassing on other people's property?"
And now in a way that doesn't force you to flip through that ad filled slideshow... http://imgur.com/a/Ldx6T
It's all very nice. Except that I'm still stuck like 3 design in the past.

Stop creating new versions and roll out the ones you have already...
Every time I thought I spotted one, I was wrong.

But clearly depth perception and movement, not to mention infared, would help distinguish them.
Focus on selling what, and to whom?

Remember, they were selling one-time licenses, not subscriptions, so 95% market share means 95% of users had their product, not that they sold something to 95% of them that year. One of the biggest challenges about being a dominant player is actually that you mostly compete against the previous version of your products. "Why should I upgrade? This isn't any better than the edition I bought last year." So the business isn't fighting to get that last 5% of the share; that only allows it to grow a measly 5%. Instead, it has to focus very strongly on finding ways to make its existing customer base give it more money. And you do that by improving your products and services so that you can get existing customers to buy more of them. It's the only lever you really have, so doing almost anything else is crazy.

And here's a company failing to even address existing concerns with its products, so it's hard to construct a story on how it was acting rationally. It's not even clear how much money it was even making; how well did those new versions sell, given that they didn't seem to improve much? So I submit that even on a short-term basis, they weren't acting rationally at all.

Not to mention the long-term basis. You should note that Quark was privately held, so the stuff about the stock market doesn't apply here. One of the big advantages of being private is that you can play the long game. But they weren't! If you're not making your customers happy, someone else will. It's easy to blame the environment, but the environment was actually giving them all kinds of feedback about what they should be doing and it's the environment that allowed a competitor to come in and eat their lunch.
This problem is not solved via 2of3 transactions.

It can be partially mitigated by requiring multiple arbitrators (e.g. a 4/5 transaction with 3 hopefluly independent arbitrators).
The SR-71 was never the fastest plane in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15). It's the fastest "air-breathing" (i.e. not rocket-powered) plane.
Yes, contributors are definitely welcome on our project! We've got plenty of issues to tackle from simple fixes to big features :) Have a look at the repo or shoot us an email, team@solvers.io
Clearly, the solution is to ask them to please stand up. Didn't you people learn anything from "How Not To Be Seen"? :)
Nice examples, but to be fair these images are still very different from what you would experience in real life:

- The resolution is very low and makes it even harder to see the soldiers

- Depth perception is lacking (again, making it hard to find the soldiers)

- These are still images. In real-life, you could spot anomalies with movement. (e.g. if grass is moving in the wind, you could spot some weird shape that is surprisingly still vs moving grass)

- oh and of course if you have infrared goggles...
Android launchers are taking off; Q1 2014 usage so far has overtaken all of 2013
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7333354
Other than the fact that the guy owns perhaps $1 billion (surprise: he's not the only one), how is this illuminating?

It's been open source for 5 years and, by design, Nakamoto has no control over it.
You can't use entanglement to do FTL communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
They're pretty good at marketing... that's about it. The lowest quality start-ups in this training/education space (at least from my experience) are not coincidentally some of the most funded.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/general-assembly
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/skillshare

Once the focus becomes the return for investors instead of the quality of instruction/training, it's a bad alignment of incentives. It seems in these cases there was a rush to expand before they'd really figured out the long lasting recipe of what actually works beyond marketing gimmicks. They're the "cool" version of DeVry and University of Phoenix, dumping more $$ into marketing than into their product.

Contrast this with codeschool.com that has raised $0 to date and is a much better way to learn. Or with some of the better in-person learn to code, design, etc programs, none of the good ones have raised any money. From my experience with all of these, and there seems to be a significantly negative correlation between taking large amounts of VC money and quality. FWIW.

Obviously GA would have the advantage of a theoretical community, but at least in SF... that doesn't exist for them anyway.
Looks like HN killed your API:

> http://api.animatron.com/anonymous net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
In mathematics that is still the preferred method, because (latex beamer) slides have far to little space to capture all the stuff you want to view in parallel to e.g. understand a proof. Additionally it forces the lecturer to slow down the information flow, which is equally important in mathematics.

In less complex subjects I would prefer slides and well written lecture notes. What Rebecca Schuman is criticising are slides that are simultaneously abused as lecture notes.
Gentrifying the dharma: How the 1 percent is hijacking mindfulness
Our shop is still using CS6 and we have no plans to upgrade to CC. There is no compelling reason to do so, and financially it doesn't make sense for us to join. For the rare times when a customer submits artwork created in CC, we simply ask them to re-save it in CS6 format.
I've been looking for something like this. Powtoons is ok but sucks for someone who wants a little more out of their animation tool. Can't wait to try it out!
Maybe growing up or spending a lot of time in the depicted environment helps? I spotted him right away in all but one of the woodland/meadow scenes but couldn't find him in the riverbed/rock scenes.
The correct solution to the Linux urandom problem is to seed it explicitly at boot (or at your app startup), usually from /dev/random, and then never use /dev/random again.

Once urandom is seeded, there is absolutely no security benefit to using /dev/random, for any cryptographic application, anywhere. urandom is a stream cipher engine generating a keystream whose keys are entropy events. Keystreams don't (in practical terms) "run out of key", and urandom outputs don't "run out of entropy".
So they're the modern tech version of University of Phoenix? I wouldn't surprise if GA gets acquire by a for-profit.
I still use the tiny lightning fast Macromedia Flash 4 to make simple animations, when its just simple animations, without all the script power, features and Photoshop integration you get with the Adobe 2 Gb in disk elephant. I used to run this Flash 4 in a Pentium 133hz with only 16 MB RAM and it wasn't that slow. I was waiting, wondering why didn't someone bring something like that for HTML5 yet, and Finally it is here! Thank you .
Tox (http://tox.im)

Secure, encrypted, instant messaging, voice, and video, over a distributed network, aiming to be easy enough to use to completely replace Skype.

The core is a library written in C, and there are several different clients in different languages, help on any of them or the core would be great.

https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom (Vala/GTK+ cross platform client)

https://github.com/stal888/Poison (Objective C OS X client)

https://github.com/Astonex/Antox (Android)

https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity (iOS)
Interesting. Thanks for sharing this font! I've been trying it out for a bit and really like its feel. Great work!
Glad to learn something new. Thanks.
But not served over HTTPS :). I see you've not configured an SSL vhost and you're running multiple sites from the same IP (Actually appears to be a CNAME). While there's nothing wrong with that, you have no HTTPS fallback thus 'hacking.ventures' content is displayed when you visit https://encrypt.today.
How much of that demo video was made with the product? 100% would really impress me.
The authorization for model aircraft flight (at least in modern FAA theory--the document itself seems to be a notice to improve safety of a clearly extant and legal activity) is AC 91-57 (http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/9...). It doesn't make a clear definition. It was written in 1981, so it may assume small, radio controlled, line of sight, limited capabilities, flown as a hobby, and perhaps imitating "real" aircraft; this is what model aircraft were then. However, it doesn't define anything in particular.

In Federal Register Notice 14 CFR Part 91 (http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/reg/media/frnotice_...), they attempt some clarification, adding a line about "expecting line of sight" control, and leaning heavily on the "hobby" part as a clear distinction. This ruling kinda makes a hash of that, leaving undefined physical characteristics.

So in general it's fairly unclear. Another result of technology moving well faster than the speed of government. The FAA notes at the end of the CFR that it may in the future issue an authorization for unmanned vehicle "operations which do not qualify as sport and recreation, but also may not require a certificate of airworthiness". They may be encouraged to do this faster now.

(The fact that the clarification is in a policy notice is a major part of the ruling discussed here. Judge didn't think that was a good enough basis for the fine.)
Vitamin D is synthesized by ultraviolet light.
I use something similar, Invisible Hand. http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/

I haven't had a chance to check out Buy Happy yet, but it seems to me that displaying competing prices on product pages rather than when adding to cart might be a better experience. I use price as one of the deciding factors on whether to buy, and there have been a few times where the lower price that Invisible Hand found convinced me to actually buy a product.

Perhaps both approaches are useful.
There is a F-35 variant that's designed to provide close air support, but it's the USMC variant and it's designed to replace the Harrier, which is little consolation to the Army.

Of course, designing the same airframe to replace both the Harrier and the F-16 is a ridiculous notion and the F-35 suffers for it.
There is no such thing as too much vitamin C. People have taken more then 250g without any side effect. Toddlers can take multiple grams without any side effect. Its the safest substance we know of.
You can relabel Double with a type alias. Really, adding a newtype gives you a sort of partial equivalent of tagged arguments (requires tags, doesn't permit reordering), and might be best practice when there's more semantic content and no clear typical order (eg, you're passing price and quantity to makeOrder, rather than base and exponent to exp). I make a habit of doing this with my C (where a single element struct adds no overhead, much like a Haskell newtype).
BrickPi, an open source LEGO robotics system for the Raspberry Pi. We have had some great contributions so far and we really need help. The BrickPi is being used in classrooms but because of our limited programming skills it is still lacking in user friendliness.

The first repo is our main python project. https://github.com/DexterInd/BrickPi_Python.
This repo could really use some help with:
- Better motor control. Including a robust pid controller for speed.
-Vision analysis with the raspberry pi camera (so much potential for robotics!)
- A way better way to program with Scratch.

Tufts University is also working on a project called blockytalky that's sort of a souped up hybrid of Google coder and Scratch. The project is mostly in Python and uses a more complex version of daemons to control software and make a really beautiful programming environment for kids! They need some help and their project is here: https://github.com/tufts-LPC/blockytalky.

The hardware is easy to get, its on Sparkfun here https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12732

If hardware is a problem for you send me a pm.
In Tennessee, four bills seek to reverse restrictions on public broadband
Since being sold to the Daily Beast and then the IB Times, not very high. There are a lot of factual errors in their "Fall of France" article and even when pointed out Newsweek refuses to acknowledge any of them.
>If we're going to stipulate fantastic concepts like "uploaded minds" then let's just invent a hyperspace engine too and solve all the problems at once.

We don't know if breaking the light-barrier is possible regardless of a civilizations level of technology. Brain uploading will certainly be enormously complex and a fantastic feat of technology, but it's certainly possible based on everything we know.

Yes it's possible there is more to consciousness than just the physical brain, but that's such an absurd and outlandish assertion, it isn't remotely worth the time to worry about it.
This sounds similar to the UK's CAP722, which is the basis for commercial UAS flying over here. As jccooper said, the immediate industries affected by this will be those which gather imagery or video.

In the UK, there is a restriction against flying out of line of sight. Most operators will fly using a GPS lock for stability but will not be using video streams from the aircraft for anything other than framing shots. Here, commercial UAS are often used as a low-cost, faster alternative to scaffolding; I recently got up a 4am to help an operator survey the exterior of an old hotel in the centre of a large city, looking for damaged pipes. He did the entire hotel in the course of three 3 hour sessions.
It looks like they're going to be monetizing by partnering with specific retailers. From the plugin description:

> Buy Happy retail partners will soon be giving you deals to share with friends and family via social media. And we’ll be adding more powerful features to Buy Happy as well — while building a fun community along the way. Isn’t it time to add Buy Happy to your browser?
Initially it wasn't made in Animatron, but we're actually in the middle of publishing a video tutorial series about how to do it in the tool: http://tmblr.co/ZGr3es19AumCF
The only real difference is that you can't extend live - which matters, but not tremendously for a window manager.