skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical (‘please, do it’) or not (‘is is possible?’) but, yes, it should be possible to find lower bounds of such events, by multiplying:

- estimates of meteroid paths (per year); tenths of thousands;

- estimates of people sky-diving (per year); 3 millions; Source: http://www.statisticbrain.com/skydiving-statistics/

- time of one jump; minutes, say two;

- time of one meteroid drop; minutes, say two;

- length in meters of a typical jump; 3,000;

- length in meters of a drop; 20,000;

- and the square of an estimate of visibility boxes — say meters across —; 1000 m^3;

divided by:

- a year; 525,948 minutes;

- Earth’s jumpable atmosphere (that's the whole thing) squared: 3×10^24 m^3 (Wolfram Alpha).

My take is that the over-all volume of atmosphere and that meteroids can drop at anytime makes it extremely unlikely: an order of 10^-35 with my very rough estimates. 10^30 years of jumping would not make it likely. Even by estimating millions of asteroids shattering in millions of pieces, that even should be rarissime even considering the length of human species’ history.

More parameters, such as the fact that people tend to jump when there is daylight or pay attention to the landscape, certainly counts.

If you compare to how many cameras are in the ground, we should have seen a meteoroid last meters much sooner. So, if statistical disappointing skepticism is to be considered, what makes all those camera unlikely candidate appears that they are too stable and generally face other cameras and the ground were the stone might be recovered. It doesn’t make that video fake; it’s just that, using a Bayesian framework, it comes off as incredibly unlikely not to have been done using editing.

It makes it all the more spectacular if it were. I’m guessing the camera makers can easily tell that from the recording on the device.

Please — correct my math, reasoning or any assumption: I certainly got most of it wrong.
So it's art then?
It needs more Michael Bay! Kidding aside, I do agree the Fastback and Charger are beautiful pieces of engineering. What I wouldn't do to own a Charger.

I'll have to (try and) watch the movie again.

Personal favourite is the car chase from Ronin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVaNBrYLvFg#t=339

Link to Bullitt chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lbs_nYW3-o
So I'm not working on this but I'm working on software that might be the base for this? An Open Source collaborative wiki calendar http://ican.openacalendar.org/

As others have said, data is the main problem. Sometimes it might be best to focus on a small area or niche. There are lots of sites like this but the ones that succeed generally seem to cover one area or niche (or both)?
I agree with most of the problems OP describes, but find the article lacking two important things.

It is always easy to say "don't do X". But without explaining how that can be replaced with- or ported to an alternative, it is a quite hollow advice.

For me, Cucumber is not just the Gherkin syntax. It is, first and for all, a turnkey setup that allows me to have browser interaction (including selenium), organised in a nice and workable way.

How I would implement something like:

When "I fill in my payment details" do
fill_in "Creditcard Number", "1111111222"
fill_in "ccv", "1234"
end

In, say, Minitest or MinitestSpec is beyond me.

Are there good resources on doing proper integration tests as OP suggests? There are entire books on Cucumber, yet I cannot find something similar on Minitest.

Is it easy to set up a toolchain that allows me to use Capybara and Selenium (phantom.js) interchangeble in my integration tests? If so, is there a place where I can find documentation on that?
In terms of development time, iOs and Android both take the same amount of time if the developers are familiar with the platform, as mentioned by andymcsherry. We often develop features for both iOs and Android alongside and usually release on the same day. As far as SMS/MMS integration goes it can’t be compared, but I do agree with the article that its non trivial to integrate with. I have had experience dealing with SMS on android and there is no documentation at all. The only way to get things working is by looking at the source code of the Android sms app or finding snippets on the internet.

I have developed for both platforms and have written a detailed description comparing UI design, Tools, Documentation etc. for both platforms here: http://qr.ae/v4rT2.
Definitely awesome. I have a signed copy of this article floating around my house somewhere.
Sintel is back on YT after being wrongly blocked by Sony for copyright claim
Once they get a little older, maybe try alice [0] [1]

0. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_al...

1. https://www.facebook.com/AliceProgramming
There is a very simple solution: Don't use facebook. It sucks anyway. There is absolutely no need for you to own an account.

// Normal 20-something year old
In papers, meaning not published books but papers in journals.
ALOT of apps are starting to do this. I believe Snapchat initially was the company that began doing it. When a site like Facebook uses your number to identify you, this feature actually makes sense.

I wonder if more fine-grained permissions would make more sense for this sort of feature. Perhaps it would be better if Android had support for "This app may read text messages from 1-800-XXX-XXXX" or something similar instead.
We're following a similar setup here in New Zealand, except in lieu of NBN Co the government has outsourced network build and maintenance to different companies in different parts of the country. We've actually had FTTN to 80% of the population set up for about 5 years now (what the other alternative was in Australia) and as any geek will tell you, it's not sufficient. In addition, VDSL is now available nationwide if you're close enough to a cabinet which is a nice stopgap while FTTH is being built. All of this is ISP neutral, so a new comer offering DSL and fiber has significantly less required investment.
In Europe it was already Android first. Only the upper layer of the society in many countries can afford to have iOS devices.
Note that this already exists in the form of Bitcloud [0].

I'm skeptical about putting it in every conversation. If every peer has to pay to work on the internet, it will make bigger peers more important (because they have more resources) and it will force everyone to mine (instead of having only a minority of people mining today)

[0] http://bitcloudproject.org/
Bats, balls, and substitution sensitivity [Neys, Rossi and Houd (2013)]
Android needs to fix the way the permission system works. As it stands now, all permissions are asked upfront at installation time where the user has no data available to make an informed decision.

Also, the fact that apps only auto-update when the permissions required don't change produces all the incentive for app developers to just ask for everything. After all, most conscious users will find something they object to at install time anyways and thus might not install and most people don't read the dialog anyways, so not much to lose.

But even when android changes to ask for permissions as they are required (which could be done in a backwards compatible way by not throwing exceptions but just pretending that whatever API call you just made has succeeded, but then doing mothing or returning meaningless/no data), this still would not help with a malicious app asking nicely with a legitimate reason ("let me access your SMS to read the login token") and then using that permission for illegitimate uses ("let me upload all your SMS to my server").

Even with all these permissions, it still boils down to trust and where on the desktop world, this trust was rarely abused, in the mobile world between all the built-in adware and social integrations, that trust is badly hurt.
Kevin Rose on Digg, upvoting, proof-of-work for mining alternative currency
> Why exactly am I getting downvoted?

Well, you're probably irritating people who like Facebook by implying that Facebook's actions are so bad that not having a Facebook account is a good idea. And you're probably irritating people who dislike Facebook by implying that their actions are justified because it's possible to opt out by not having a Facebook account.

In all seriousness, here at HN we're generally looking for posts that contribute to the discussion. Your post simply bashes Facebook and/or Facebook users without saying anything that isn't trite and hateful.
In order to transfer power using magnetic induction you need a _variable in time_ magnetic field, which causes a variable in time electric field to appear. That seems to me to be exactly the description of an electromagnetic wave.
Hard, not impossible. I presume the second market for IPv4 addresses is going to go through the roof once we hit complete depletion.

I'm with a ~6 month old ISP here in New Zealand, by default everyone is behind CG NAT, but you can request a public IP.
Which audiobook have you been listening to?
But any method for helping people become more productive is going to require significant effort and enforcement.

Possibly, but I'm not sure we should take that at face value. There's another Planet Money story[0] about the efficacy of just giving money to people. If you accept that reducing poverty lets people become more productive by applying more of their available effort towards actions that do more than just sustain life, I think this at least puts enough question to that assertion to make it something that needs qualification.

One possible way to help is to use technology to reduce the need for large corporations, by making more and more things doable by smaller and smaller groups of people.

How does that account for the increased efficiencies gained from being large, e.g. bulk logistics? Walmart, split into 5,000 smaller individual stores, would likely not be able to match the prices of Walmart the mega-corporation, even if only due to bulk shipping and purchasing efficiencies (and leverage) gained by the single larger version.

Great discussion though, +1's all the way up the stack for you and mrow84.

[0]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-hap...
>yet you suffer from all the consequences of the growth and demand happening around you aka your wage is the same

What would a $15-$17 minimum wage SF look like?
Wow, it seems like you don't really know what you're talking about. It's not easy to move away if you're born and grew up in Africa. It's not like renting a U-Haul, pack your stuff and drive across the country.

You need a visa. But it's impossible to get a visa to work in US/Europe unless you have a job. And even trying and applying for a visa costs more than most people's monthly salary. And there is no money-back guarantee.

But finding a job is also not easy. Applying to some IT company in the US without being able to show of significant work experience? No college education from a well-known university? How can you get job experience that is sufficient to apply for an IT job when you live in a country that has the problems the article talks about?

And no, you cannot just apply to some junior entry-level job. You won't get a visa unless you are so qualified that the host country has a huge demand for people with your skills.
And this is just one of the hundreds of problems you're facing when deciding to leave Africa.

So yeah:

>Get out of Africa. Africa will steal your life.

Thanks for that advice. Very helpful.
As the proud owner of mypro.tips, I'd be totally down to create this. Piggybacked off GitHub Gists, maybe?
I actually missed the junior part :)
There is absolutely no need for you to own an account.

I find it humorous the way you put that. I'm long past believing any sort of fiction that I actually own the account I created at Facebook (which I never use) and Google (which I use extensively).
2048: LoTR Ring Bearer's Edition
Yes, Internet marketing in now having lot of compitations over the business for products and services.

A best Digital marketing firm here
http://www.aimaxprovider.com
I'm not sure if the author is even aware of the 202 status code, which seems to solve this and other asynchronous issues.
As soon as a startup starts getting bigger and bigger, they become more and more like the established players.
If the feedback is anonymous, I'd certainly vote my boss's email down.
To keep their unemployment benefits alive maybe? I believe you have to show you're out looking for work.
I use both RSpec and Cucumber often, and easiness wise, I think Cucumber is just easier to write.

RSpec verbs and scoping still messes with my head, and I always have to debug why the tests are breaking.
It was excellent.

Spot on. Every company changing the world with <some random buzzword infested phrase>. Great.

Like the Thiel spoof.
the door is locked and we don't carry keys :)
Randomization tests in Julia
Well, you know, there can be more reasons why Mac costs "a thou" besides the ability to develop for iOS and OS X.
It did not surprise me to see Android developers using Macbooks Pro, but when I saw Windows Phone developer using it—I admit that was unexpected. But understandable.
Whether this is for critical infrastructure or not, the provider should tell the customer the problem automatically via the dashboard.

It should take some engineering work, but not whole lot.

How is that demand too much? Should we discard that demand because DO is a low-budget VPS? If you truly value your customer, you would take that suggestion seriously. I don't have millions to employ someone to manage an AWS farm for me. Instead of me asking DO why my nodes are down every time that happens, I want DO to tell me once that happen. It's a simple customer demand.
What happens when an Amazon drone hits a google self-driving car?
I received an email from OVH every time I managed to bork the [network | iptables | kernel | other stuff I should not mess with] so much that the server stopped being responsive. I always figured it was part of their default monitoring, I will check if I have subscribed to a paid option or not.
> I find it very puzzling that you say I am practicing all this hatred by saying I find Eich's actions repugnant

> If I have any vitriol at all, it's directed at his defenders and those that want to make him a martyr for "freedom of speech".

I'm saying Eich freedom is being violated. I'm just repeating what you said and referring to your "vitriol".

I understand where you are coming from. However, it's easy to misconstrue a position that someone took. Notice I used some weasel words such as "it sounds like". I could misconstrue your statement as you hating me.

I believe that Eich's support & position is being misconstrued. He should be able to express the reasons for his support without fear of reprisal. I would not be surprised if he & his family were harassed, as harassment seems to accompany such emotionally charged situations. I would be fearful if I were publicly targeted like that. Even if you are right, you never bully people into agreeing with your position.

I watched the commercials. The last one is ridiculous, since the couple should have answered that marriage is about love and not necessarily about having children. However, none of the commercials struck me as overtly discriminatory. The one with the two princesses, is somewhat discriminatory; However the position of parents (with religious convictions) should have control over their children's education at least deserved some consideration. To a parent, it coercive to (without warning), teach a child something that they disagree with.

The ads expressed some legitimate concerns that should be addressed. There was even a point where someone was afraid that people's jobs would be targeted for their beliefs. Obviously that fear is well founded.

I'm failing to see how this is a hate group. I believe some of the Prop 8 supporters were bigots, however, the campaign itself does not seem like it is based on hate.

I fail to see how Eich is an aware supporter of hate groups.
I agree with you. This is basically the reason I left the US ten years ago. However, there is something to be said for staying and improving the place where you were born and raised - and that goes double (or triple!) if you feel a connection to that place and its people. I definitely think it would be out of line to tell people trying to improve the lot of themselves and their nation that they should 'get over it'.
That is if you only care about the us. Just including Europe will give you a different story.
What continents should someone try? What's the immigration procedure like?
Octopus.org. I'm currently learning mobile development and hopefully will get around to shipping the app (it's in the commerce space)
Ever heard of Dark Profiles? Sorry to say this but Facebook does own your ass. http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-developed-s...
I use XPrivacy (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.bokhorst.x...).

With it, I have extremely fine-grained access control to a wide variety of "system calls", including access to contacts, text messages and to the device phone number.

In this case, I can permit access temporarily during the 2FA, and then return garbage values the rest of the time. Easy. (Though obviously if they harvest my text messages for other purposes during 2FA, that is a problem - but one can that can be technically solved within XPrivacy imo.)

In other cases, such as running Skype, I deny access to everything always (phone number, my location, contacts, Google accounts are the things Skype makes system calls for) and Skype continue to works fine, so I think this is a viable strategy.
I've seen Telegram do this: they send a confirmation code when you sign up and the app reads the text right when it comes in and handles the verification code for you. It's quite convenient. However, if an app can get access to ALL texts just for this feature, I think these texts need to be categorized. It doesn't need access to all my texts, just the ones that THEY sent. Otherwise I'd prefer to enter verification codes (which usually seem to be only 4 digits anyway) myself. But we still can't really decide what an app may and may not access: it's all or nothing. I hope this changes.
I do know it's possible to install an application to protect your system afterwards (like LBE Privacy Guard) but that's only a workaround for what I consider to be a problem.
Search Crews Detect Signals That May Be From Missing Jet
I often go to install an app but then abort when it asks for what I consider to be overreaching permissions for what the app is. I'm sure the majority of the apps need the permissions for a valid reason that isn't nefarious, however, the end result should be the user's decision. This all or nothing approach is maddening and ridiculous. Simply allow the end user to selectively accept and deny permissions and require app developers to handle the cases when the permission they are asking for are denied. I would feel much better and buy/install a lot more apps.
It's the same concept as having footnotes in printed books. Adding lots of commentary in the middle of a document breaks the flow of the text. On RG, you can read the text intact in its original form if the annotations don't interest you, and drill into the things that catch your attention. It sounds like you're questioning the concept of footnotes and annotations in general, rather than just on Rap Genius.
Pretty sure they started from Quake 1 and did a lot of work from there
You at least give everyone a block of IPv6 without needing to ask, right?
I struggled for a long time trying to understand how Relative Layouts work. It just didn't gel with me and I found the documentation lacking. One day it clicked, but I very nearly gave up on the whole platform.

That said, the quality of the Android documentation has vastly improved since then. The training guides are excellent and the design section is good (although I much prefer the more practical Android Design in Action Youtube series).
How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research summary)
Natural booms do exist. Technology booms do occur. I'm not arguing that they don't. What I argue is that expansion of the money supply exaggerates unnecessarily and causes other damaging distortions.

Government is the use of force. It makes sense that it is sometimes damaging to distort economic choices. Moreover, there is little proof that all the interference has any benefit. Usually, they benefit a tiny group of well-connected individuals, with the rest of us paying the costs.
Ebay's Zero Effort Commerce – wonder if shops will ban phones?
just as an aside, quite often certain types of companies will just interview people to find out what the competition is up to.
I believe this is something where Android can provide a better experience by not giving a blanket permission to read all SMS. How about only allow SMS with a pre-defined header to be read by an app.
Yeah a couple of Mozillians who've worked closely with him mentioned news of the donation were at odds and struck them by surprise, also because it was not otherwise observable in any of his behavior.

It starts to become a litmus test when trying to define when it's acceptable to boycott and demand resignation. Was Mozilla a special case because of their mission and foundation status? What behavior makes someone's position unacceptable? A large donation? a small donation, a vote? Or is it due to outside community consensus at the time? so when the donation was discovered in 2011, it wasn't appropriate, but reappearing after more passing years it is?
Stephen Fry is incredibly condescending almost constantly, so I wouldn't cite him in defense of the word.
This article is really making a lot of broad assumptions about what people are making APIs for and how people write code.

"Now you hit an API that has to do some async behaviour and now your screwed. There are some solutions for that but they make the code really complex, even Node.js."

What does that even mean?
Their classic 'break things fast' mode. Keep infringing on user's privacy until they shout.
From my experience Angel.co jobs are mostly pure hoax - I believe it is for investors - to justify how startups are spending money.

Anyone had other experience to share?
I'd say that depends on what kind of service the provider is offering. Later generation cloud providers might specializing in providing such VMs - Heroku and GAE comes to mind. But on providers that offer more "bare metal" VMs one should not expect such migration. Indeed it would be almost impossible to do, since it would require a lot of information about the application you are running. Heroku and GAE solves this by limiting the capabilities of the VMs so that they have more control/information about the running applications.
Well, good hope you like the outcome, because outcome will be radicalization of opinions.

After this whole fiasco, I'm actually questioning my whole thoughts on the matter. While I was pro-LGBT, I'd now definitely don't seem myself siding with this block of zealots.

I definitely understand being bullied your whole life, but then deciding that after going through all that the best way to win sympathy is to bully everyone else, that I cannot condone.
Proof? What do you want them to say. Right in bold red that we WILL read all your SMS & sell that data to advertisers.

Will I agree that the article is sensationalizing, but if history is any indication, Facebook can & will use all this data against your wishes.
Creator of Cucumber here.

Cucumber is not a testing tool [1], it is a collaboration and analysis tool.

Use it to document (in very broad strokes) the features of your system.

It was never meant to be used as an exhaustive regression testing tool, or to replace unit testing.

[1] https://cucumber.pro/blog/2014/03/03/the-worlds-most-misunde...