skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX has taken an interesting approach here -- effectively, they've crowdsourced a more-robust MPEG decoder! It would be interesting to hear a description of the steps they've already taken to repair the bitstream (and would be really cool to see source for it). I fear that may be asking too much, though.

I also wonder how much could be recovered if they had a sufficiently advanced soft-decision air interface. If the missing macroblocks from the bitstream are simply macroblocks that have failed a checksum, data from the radio receiver as to which bits it has the lowest confidence in could be very valuable in pulling more blocks "from thin air". The answer may be "no, there is nothing else to recover", but it seems like a good jumping-off point for more research...
Virtual Post Mail has a street address and is much cheaper.
Check out CLBC in Da'an district (大安區): http://clbc.tw/

The Taipei.py (Taipei Python User Group) also meets there pretty regularly and they are all really friendly people.

http://www.meetup.com/Taipei-py/
The flip side is that if you're in an exotic/expensive car people will pay for you to get help. The rental car companies will help you, the dealers will help you, and when you find someone finally willing to take their money, they'll help you gladly and kindly for that nice payday they're getting.
http://imgur.com/ZvrzdV5

(Took me about eight tries to get that...)
I was wondering why it was taking them so long to post a video. Either post it or don't, but a delay is just weird.

Well, now it all makes sense. Terrible corruption! Unfortunate, but these things happen. Certainly a minor failure compared to the overall great success of this test.
Well, if you look at modern IBM System/360 descendants (z/arch, etc), this is almost what they do. Programs are compiled to an IL bytecode, and then recompiled during install to produce a CPU-specific binary. Its largely the same concept.
I've been looking for somewhere to host FreeBSD (without much luck!). Their site doesn't mention FreeBSD and their set up cmd line tool only seems to list Linux distros; although they have a "none" option!

Have you tried *BSD with bigv.io?
I think it has more to do with engaging all your senses with the complexity of a natural environment. Many layers of sound, sight, smell, touch that are supressed indoors.
MS is putting a lot of emphasis hand gesture recognition since their Kinect 'surfaced'. Meanwhile they're still quite behind Apple when it comes to touchpads. I wonder whether it will pay off in the future - I for one would quite like a surface type tablet with this sort of keyboard such that one doesn't have to lift his hand for gestures.
This looks like a nice use case for partial robot control.
Simple tip for improving error handling for iOS applications
I have found this true and honestly I have found it true even while driving over long distances at reasonable speed.
FreeBSD hosting is an issue for me, neither D.O. or Linode offer it officially (although supposedly it's possible with Linode).

According to Etel Sverdlov Digital Ocean is working to add * BSD, but that was from Oct 2012:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-it-possi...

You can vote for * BSD on Digital Ocean's user voice here:

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...

EDIT: Looks like Vultr offers FreeBSD for $5/month:

https://www.vultr.com/faq/
My understanding (not a Tesla vehicle owner) is that you may pick the regenerative mode of the car: low or standard. Low allows for the coasting experience of driving a car with an Internal Combustion Engine. Standard allows the electric motor(s) to slow down the vehicle when the pedal is let up for regenerative effect.

In either scenario, I believe both the motor and disc brakes are utilized when the brake pedal is depressed; however, the general theme is that more kinetic energy is lost to thermal from disc brake friction in the Low scenario.

My thoughts are that regeneration of the battery is encouraged, but the marketing of the Model S appears such that Tesla Motors wants to deliver EV luxury & performance first, and foremost and then cleverly extend it behind the scenes in such a way that the user need not think about it. To me, it's not all that different from flagship smartphones. Actively 'hypermiling' a flagship smartphone for battery life would compromise many of the flagship features... which aren't suprisingly luxury and performance.
Dedicated to the high speed network connection inside the great wall.
I don't understand. The fully-charged range is 265. They're mostly-charged and have an estimate of 247 miles. The actual path they want to take is 209 miles. Having a range only 80% of estimated is newsworthy, in a car which doesn't have a lot of infrastructure around to give it juice.

The article also wasn't just about the range; it covered several other topics as well. One of those topics is the difficulty of getting towed. It doesn't matter how many times you say "well, duh, use it according to spec", humans are humans, and they will run out of juice in their vehicles, particularly in limited-range vehicles with little refueling infrastructure. They couldn't even get the car onto the truck without a Tesla guy to power it enough to shift it into neutral, so even if they had found an earlier towing service that didn't fob them off, not being able to be put in neutral is still a problem in regards to towing.

There's plenty of newsworthy stuff in this article, it talks about one experience of when things go wrong. There's also plenty of articles talking about how great the car is - should we say that they're also not newsworthy, because there have already been glowing reviews?
"The current system is an oppressive, exclusive system designed to be exceedingly top heavy."

Perhaps, but it works alarmingly well.
>these hypothetical feminists you speak of

>citing no evidence whatsoever to back up the statement

>outright fabrication

I provided a link to the source. I recommend you review both it and the hundreds of comments agreeing with it. Most major feminist sites picked up on it at the time as well, and it is also listed as a source on the "geek feminism" wiki.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Interacting_with_women
It it possible for you to respond to a good faith question by not being a flippant prima donna?

I actually agree more with you than him, but my goodness you have the worst attitude ever when you talk to people who have misguided notions on things. Try the being nice approach once in a while if you want to convince others of your viewpoints, rather than going berserk and putting a caustic contrarian spin on everything.
One of the most interesting things about the site to me was the navigation system. There is an "up" button and a "next" button in the navigation panel on the pages. It is conceptually set up as a file directory--which has been replaced in navigation with the modern convention of "forward" and "back" buttons.
>Aaaaaaand it's flagged off the front page.

Any discussion of men's issues is usually quickly suppressed by the usual parties. :/
I would hardly compare to a person saving fractions of a penny by unplugging electronics when they leave the house.

I will. Let's see…

I just ran down http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html and added up typical phantom loads at my house. It comes up to about 50 watts. 36 kilowatt hours per month. I use about 1500 kilowatt hours in a month, so thats 2.4% of my power consumption.

The Tesla has a 425km range. Our 50 meter savings works out to 0.01%, but to be fair that was for one hour of savings, so lets quadruple it to cover the whole battery trip… 0.04%

Unplugging all your phantom loads is 60 times more important to your electric bill than the backlight and stereo is to the Tesla's range.

Lets think about how tiny 50 meters is a different way… The probability of turning off your backlight and stereo making a difference in running out of power in the last 50 meters of your journey is 1 in 8500, once every 2.2 million miles (if you never plan your trip to have enough range). In 2009 there were 74 crashes with injuries per hundred million miles traveled, or 1.3 million miles per crash.

So you are more likely to be injured or injure someone else than to make any difference by turning off the console and stereo, but wait! If you do turn them off, you will likely be less distracted and may spare someone an injury.

(Um, I should confess that I played more than a little loose with the "running out in the last 50 meters" thing. It would require extensive modeling. One would probably never plan a 3000 mile trip on a single charge, likewise a 200 mile trip is never a problem, and realistically after the first few dozen times they ran out of power by cutting it too close, surely a driver would learn something and change their planning. I just calculated "given you ran full distance and ran out of charge, what is the probability that 50 more meters would have helped".)
Just a thought about this. I wonder if the improved creative thinking has anything to do with increased heart bpm and blood flow to the brain that is stimulated by walking or other exercise. I noticed the article said "creative juices continued to flow even when a person sat back down shortly after a walk." Perhaps this could be because after a short while a person's heart rate will go back to resting bpm, and the brain blood flow will return to resting state levels.
No hard evidence on my part to back this up, just a thought.
Weird. I looked up Operation Choke Point and you're right, the lead-off stories are from Keating and Oxman, followed by an article in Reason, all suggesting that OCP is a scheme run by DOJ to suppress legal businesses through the banking system.

Then I found a WaPo article saying that OCP was a scheme by DOJ to monitor and constrain fraudulent businesses like payday loans and prepaid cards.

Before your comment, I had no inkling that any of these enforcement actions might have been orginating with DOJ at all. I figured, Chase just doesn't want to service the porn industry. But it looks like that's not actually the case!

My priors indicate that the Democratic DOJ is not actually launching a shadow jihad against porn (of all things) by intervening in the bank system. That's just not a Dem issue. On the other hand, consumer financial fraud is a top-tier issue for the DOJ under any administration, liberal or conservative. Occam's razor suggests the WaPo is probably right-er than some op-ed by a banking lobbyist.

Why are EFF and Reason and the largest bank lobby campaigning against OCP?

Weird! Thanks for pointing this out. I flagged the story originally, but have now unflagged it.
All the stuff you're talking about has been the case not only for years, but since the beginning of HN. I'll venture, also, that what you'd actually get if HN worked the way you imagined it did is a much, much lower-quality site. Indeed, HN would never have been HN. You're free not to believe that, of course.

There certainly are some drawbacks to transparency!
At least please provide some explanation for a downvote. Did I not give enough reason behind my feelings?
This is where a Bitcoin-like chain could really help.
It doesn't have a place in an encyclopedia, for sure, but I posit that Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It was supposed to be, and ostensibly started as one, but the amount of content that gets placed into it (and then removed by the mods...) shows that a sizable amount of Wikipedia users use it as a "knowledge repository" instead, which I think is subtly different.

I mean, I wish we could collate the entire set of human knowledge into one place, however Wikipedia says that it doesn't want to be that place. The thing is, when you've already got 100,000 word treatises on Sailor Moon due to some Admin/Mod having that as his/her pet topic, it smacks of elitism, favoritism and hypocrisy.
I think it's beautiful. I can't explain exactly what I like (I'm not much of a designer) but I can say that I now find it more visually appealing than Chrome. The only reason I'm staying on Chrome is because of a few extensions and because it syncs so well with my Android phone.

I think there is a lot of hate here with the tone "I liked it the old way because I was used to it!". New designs change things, that's why they're new. If we didn't ever want anything to change, we'd still be looking at this every day:

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-old-new-design-2007.png

And just like the old Firefox design, that has more features up front and almost everything today's version has. But I'm glad I see this instead http://cl.ly/image/2d3a0c2h1Z2R.

Maybe I'm an idiot, or not a power user. But I like pretty things and I appreciate Mozilla's effort here. I'll be using Firefox more often.
... and in the same sense that most things humans do are [pyramid] schemes :-)
That's actually why I called the original title misleading, and the linkbait (Male Scent!) seemed obvious to me as well. However, this was clearly a case where it was impossible to please everyone, so we retreated to the original.

It's often a little tricky to come up with accurate, neutral titles. It would be good if people would suggest them.
Looks like it's a good few thousand feet in the air still based on those white caps. They look like what you see from a plane. But it's pointing in the right direction. Very cool.
vagrant-lxc provides the fast boot times of Docker too, and it's been working well for most of the last year. It's too bad you didn't know about that!
CNY 20 billion is about $3.2 billion USD
50 meters is the difference between making it and having to push the car to make it. It'd make for a funny story, but you're not going to be kicking yourself for leaving the display on.
>men have to deal with the fact that they're more likely to be rasped by another man

Not really.

From a comment below:

One of the studies of the Bureau of Justice data notes that in a certain subset of the data, 46% of the male victims of sexual assault reported a female perpetrator.

Citation: http://jmm.sagepub.com/content/12/3/275.abstract

54% vs 46% is not much of a difference. And then you have this from the article:

"Women were more likely to be abused by fellow female inmates, and men by guards, and many of those guards were female. For example, of juveniles reporting staff sexual misconduct, 89 percent were boys reporting abuse by a female staff member."
American Museum of Natural History Digital Special Collections
Just what are you trying to say here, besides pointing out the banking industry is making a significant propaganda effort right now?

Do you think the industry likes the Federal government using lawless means to force them to stop serving whomever is the target de jure?

Is it axiomatic that banks dealing with large sums of money is bad??? (I kinda thought that was their business....)

If this precedent is established and takes roots, where will it stop? What are your objections to their using the soap box to try put a stop to it?
>What does it mean for you?

Someone who believes something or another about women's rights, and is statistically more likely to dismiss or suppress any discussion of men's issues.
Probably not on this issue, no. But if you see me being a flippant prima donna on some other issue, please do let me know. Actually, axe the "flippant" part of that; it's just the prima donnaism that I actually care about. I'm sure you're right that there's a strain of it in there.
IPv6 addresses are determined by the computer MAC address, some governments must be excited about this feature.
I actually like the feeling and I do it when I pause my typing to think.
Part of what might make this reasonable is that this process takes who is moving in together as a given. Say you and I want to be roommates, and you happen to know that I have a pathological fear of sleeping in big bedrooms. Clearly the efficient thing to happen if you're a normal person is for you to get the large room and me to get the small room. But how much do we pay?

It seems rather unfair of you to incorporate that information into the bidding system and bid up the price of the small room (a sort of strategic bidding). But it also seems unfair that if we both answer honestly the system has a good chance of making the smaller room priced the same (or more than) the big room.

With any other roommate, especially one who didn't know about my pathological fear, I could expect to pay less for the smaller room. These "external authorities" might reflect such widespread notions, as well as avoid the risk of strategic bidding that can occur after roommate selection is fixed.
I really hope this idea of colonizing Venus catches on. I've held this view for some time now. I just don't see how colonizing Mars could possibly be practical.
They were passing the truck, not the other way around. The truck driver was aggressive and possibly not safe to be around.
was totally expecting an awesome video. maybe someone can edit the title to reflect the problems with it?

in any case, it's still a cool video
Google already announced they will be dropping Netscape plugin support. Unity had to choose this or Pepper NaCl or dropping Chrome entirely.
I agree, in using a cloned 'MITcoin', there is less danger of serious money being stolen or lost, (assuming the coins are only used for low-value services like photocopiers or vending machines, etc). This would give a substantial community a gentler intro to how Bitcoin works.
Banking, Reinvented
Oracle Ksplice[1]: patches the kernel with security updates without rebooting.

1. http://www.ksplice.com/
Right. That is what we should be telling newbies. Not, "It's not possible to be productive in Notepad."
Expose? This is something we all know. It's no secret.
Not that I want to that guy, but...

"If this president is established and takes roots"
Well, you put another conveyor belt going in the other direction of course.

Then you will have the TWO longest conveyor belts in the world.

Ka-ching!

[Edit: Typo]
"It's a longstanding convention on HN that we sometimes add a question mark when the title is overstated, but the article is still interesting."

Really? I don't think this is true, I have only seen the question mark when it is on the original article as well. Any other examples?
This looks very similar to the Leap Motion. Both use infrared sensing, although they seem to use it in different ways. I think the setup in the video could probably be recreated using a Leap Motion integrated into the spacebar or other keys. I'm curious to see what they'll do with it (whether it'll actually become a product.)
Sounds like you might have been selected for their know-your-customer compliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
Well this is interesting. A while back I got a motion sensor to try some of this on. My current keyboard[1] was originally designed for the Thinkpad laptops/computers and has the joystick between the GHB cluster. The mouse buttons are below the space bar. That can speed somethings up by the track pad on the Macbook is much more expressive. In terms of full disclosure though I do tend to collect obscure HCI devices (like the Microsoft Commander if you remember that one!)

[1] Model M13 in black
Can I for once be the origin of a crazy conspiracy theory rather than the annoying guy huffing and griping in the corner and killing everyone's fun?

How about this:

DOJ has launched a project that coordinates with the country's largest banks to constrain and monitor high-fraud businesses; say, porn sites, prepaid cards, and payday loans.

Porn doesn't have a significant lobby.

But payday loans and prepaid cards sure as hell do.

Unfortunately for those lobbies, it's unseemly to write op-eds about how the DOJ and banks are collaborating to suppress the exploitation of poor people.

It is, however, possible to get stories placed about the government's secret plan to create a Morality Police Force to eliminate pornography and, one assumes, any other form of expression the government disfavors.
Yeah, but it injected your question to the feeds of people who follow the `linux` or `osx` tag, 99.9+% of whom have no idea how to answer your question, and this resulted in some of them closing your question as off-topic.

Whereas, the people following the `image-processing` and `face-recognition` would probably (my guess) not have closed your question as off-topic.
Governments might like the ability to offload responsibility for enforcement (and therefore, cost) to the banks themselves.
I have played with this question in the past, and never found a better "formula" than a search along the following lines:

For each n, find the closest interval to a perfect fifth (3/2 ratio), and write down the error in octaves. Graph error as a function of n, and you will see certain values of n with low error. On the same graph, do the 4/3 ratio, and so forth, for a small handful of small-numbered ratios.

Somehow 19 springs to mind as having reasonably consonant intervals, but I don't remember for sure.

12 is the smallest, and is also an auspicious number in ancient cultures.
Paper: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf

Abstract:

> Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after. In
Experiment 1, while seated and then when walking on a treadmill, adults completed Guilford’s alternate
uses (GAU) test of creative divergent thinking and the compound remote associates (CRA) test of
convergent thinking. Walking increased 81% of participants’ creativity on the GAU, but only increased
23% of participants’ scores for the CRA. In Experiment 2, participants completed the GAU when seated
and then walking, when walking and then seated, or when seated twice. Again, walking led to higher
GAU scores. Moreover, when seated after walking, participants exhibited a residual creative boost.
Experiment 3 generalized the prior effects to outdoor walking. Experiment 4 tested the effect of walking
on creative analogy generation. Participants sat inside, walked on a treadmill inside, walked outside, or
were rolled outside in a wheelchair. Walking outside produced the most novel and highest quality
analogies. The effects of outdoor stimulation and walking were separable. Walking opens up the free flow
of ideas, and it is a simple and robust solution to the goals of increasing creativity and increasing physical
activity.
This is a great hack, and a good look inside turning an idea into something (humourously) real very quickly.
A few friends and I experimented with this at a hackathon a few months ago. Check out a video demo at http://youtu.be/9ZAbQi_8y_A. Note: the OCR is mocked.
When you use your body it interrupts certain depths of thinking some. So if you're in deep thought or stuck there, it will pull you out of those crevices. Movement basically helps break up thought, I feel especially when it's bilateral movement.
Fair point. We took "mechanical" out of the title.