skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scala: The Simple Parts with Martin Odersky on Livestream
There is a LOT of interest in commercial drone applications. We already have 100+ commercial drone operators in our directory at www.dronehire.org, with new sign-ups every day. Currently, the most commonly requested services are aerial photography and video for real estate and marketing clients, although we expect precision agriculture to be by far the biggest market in terms of revenue within a few years. Remote inspection of pipelines, powerlines and other infrastructure also has enormous potential, as does package delivery and border patrol.
The Los Angeles school district has run a program since at least the early 80s which, I kid you not, focuses on the top 0.1% in "intellectual giftedness". I attended this program in elementary school and met the most interesting people I knew before going to college.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_Gifted_Magnet
Consider the possibility that others have come forward and leaked documents, which have then gone on to be published (perhaps even by Greenwald et al) with sources listed as "NSA documents obtained by $publication". Everyone would assume they came from Snowden without much question giving excellent cover for other leakers who want these things to be known but aren't willing to give up drastically above average salaries in tropical locations to do so.
Mere possibility of measurement makes QKD protocol secure
"It’s not that you’re not smart..."
We have evolved while living in fear of the leopard that stalks the night. What is the meaning of evolutionary history? We have seen life expectancy go up with good sanitation.
> "those asshats"

Lawyered.
A git clone is not the same as just rsyncing a .git directory, but if you know Git, the latter can be made to work. You may want to GC the source repo first, and you'll need to manually add a remote and possibly clean up branches after you're done but a quick bash script can finish that up a treat too. (Good task to practice bash scripting on, if you're not familiar with it.)
But you've also taken away (at least some of) their tools to troll people with.
This one?

http://christonard.com/12-free-data-mining-books/
I used it to calculate if buying my house was a better deal than renting. Turns out over 30 years it was exactly the same.. down to the dollar.
I have thought about this problem, and I think the better approach is something way more domain specific. Start with an application in mind, see which machine learning algorithms they are using and just try to get them working. Once you have something working, notice the strengths of the algorithms for that particular domain. There is usually some nice learning theory to explain that.

Then move on to another domain and repeat. As you continue doing this patterns will emerge across the domains. This is usually the best time to start working through a machine learning textbook.

When you take this approach you defer a chunk of the theory for practical examples, but can immediately start to apply the algorithms and have some results.
Some of the down voting here is really weird right now. It's not really worthwhile commenting so I've given up. If you have anything outside of a mainstream geek view you are toast on HN. Your comment is fine and adds information, so I can't understand why it's been down voted.
Its not the same thing at all. The people coming forward about a sex offender have absolutely nothing to fear; they weren't the ones that broke the law.

On the other hand, revealing classified information will send you to prison for decades. Depending on what you do for a living, it could even result in the death penalty. Best case scenario, you will spend the rest of your life living in a country with a government worse than your own, wondering when a member of the intelligence community is going to murder you.

The comparison really doesn't hold up.

Also, think of how badly this has damaged not only the U.S. government, but also the private sector. No company in its right mind, foreign or domestic, still wants their data to traverse networks from the United States. They might not be able to avoid it, but that's besides the point. By the time all is said and done, tens of billions, if not trillions of dollars in damages will have been done to the U.S. economy. The NSA's shenanigans have been the most detrimental thing to happen to the United States in at least a decade. Unfortunately, the government doesn't blame themselves, they blame Edward Snowden. And so you can be sure that billions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours are being dedicated to the task of closing any holes that allowed Snowden to leave the country with large amounts of classified information.
The hate here, I believe, is because the ad is very artificial and the the children are clearly acting. Too obvious.
Northern Europeans didn't bathe regularly, it was seen as sinful. However there's records in medieval England that people washed their hands before and after meals back to the (iirc) 10th century.

Washroom hygiene is different than if you wash between your toes or not. No one on earth has died from Cholera of the pinky toe gap.
It's not entirely clear, unless you go to your website. I'm not saying that as an attack or an accusation, just pointing out that I didn't know until your comment just now that you did :)
I like it, but DirectX is still king of the game when it comes to high powered gaming. It was a calculated move to keep windows relevant as a gaming platform while still edging in on the console space. Keep in mind that the original Xbox came out about the same time OSX was launching and Apple was gaining mindshare.

There's moves to OpenGL/GLES everywhere but the screens that most gamers typically hold dear: the one on their desk, and the one on their wall.
You can actually use two of these addresses (network & broadcast) - but you cannot really call it a proper /X block anymore. You will also have to make sure to disable the broadcast address you've used up on all of your hosts.

This is all very fuzzy and some admins will look at you weird for doing this - but sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do.

The third address (router) is actually used by your ISP's router's to reach your subnet.
I find reading books and tutorials pale in comparison to battle experience. Reading a book three times only gets you so far - battling rake for a number of hours about gem conflicts and you learn quite a bit...
... which is absurd. Google is basically admitting, as far as I can tell, that their algorithms have been gamed to uselessness.
Most game design companies use Perforce specifically for this reason, they have massive asset files that also need to be version controlled and Perforce usually does this better than other choices such as git/hg/svn. Sadly Perforce is proprietary and quite expensive, but it's basically the gold standard in game dev.
Correct. The usability gain was not having to (e.g.) write your own printer drivers if you wanted your program to use a printer. But if nowadays (e.g.) printer controllers are smart enough to take on most of the tasks that the OS abstracts from processes running in under it, then maybe we can turn that abstraction into a much thinner layer between the processes and the hardware.
A lot of people disagree with your opinion, myself included. Morals aren't absolute, obviously, and they differ between people, but the shaming is usually directed at those who work in the sex industry from those who are morally opposed to it. I definitely agree that shaming from either side is wrong, though.
What makes DoorDash different than all the other Delivery startups out there?
When a great product hits the funding crunch (2013)
I'm not down with Nintendo - their games are region-locked.
This is fairly balanced. A good read. What many people seem not to understand is the government control of information. The free market is really the only true way to handle this.
It seems to me that there is a good way for the industry as a whole to address the issue of patent trolls without waiting for legal reform by attacking the economics of the business.

Trolls make money by simply
1. Amassing patent portfolios (the only real fixed costs for this business)
2. Sending infringement letters to victims (sorry, targets)
3. Walking to the bank to cash the checks of companies who cannot afford a legal battle.

Once a troll goes to court, the economics of the business start to fall apart as the legal fees add up and eat into profits. Also, they risk invalidating their patents which jeopardize future revenue streams.

It should be possible to create an alliance of companies (Apple, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft are obvious candidates) that have an interest in a strong ecosystem of innovation to put together a fund that makes legal defense grants available to anyone in the mobile/web space who can demonstrate they have a plausible defense case. The amount needed would not be large (less than $20 million a year should be sufficient to cover the entire industry) since just the fact that every kid on the playground now has the ability to face up to the bullies will reduce the bad behavior considerably.
Would Android's `repo` be a good solution to this?
Right. Meanwhile, gmane and nabble float to the top of the SERPs. Give me a break.
You do if your custom shell scripts do not allow some of these not-so-standard features (that autotools and other mature build systems provide):

- cross-compiling

- extra flags (ie. for hardening) for various commands

- non-standard install location

- non-standard compiler location

- skipping/adding steps (strip/nostrip)

...
Another interesting fact that Gleevec turned novartis around. but that patent expires soon. There was a patent battle they lost in India w.r.t. "evergreening" gleevec i.e. a small change in the drug that would help them repatent it.

Shockingly they wanted to keep the price tag of ~3000$ you quoted which is > 95% of the population's gross annual income.
I agree with the principle presented here... but before we all hail Newegg, I'll explain why I have not conducted business with this company since 2009...

Here is a letter I wrote Amex then, disputing a nasty transaction with this company.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/8b8dg9diowqz48y/Amex%20Dispute%20R...

This is real, and I won.
Electric skateboard has 10 mile range, 20 mph top speed, app integration
So has the precedent of the court case you just won.
(I work at DoorDash)

For restaurants that we haven't yet partnered with, we have a slightly increased price in order to pay for the cost of delivery. However, many of our restaurants pay this fee as a commission, and the price on our website is the same as at the restaurant.

We try to be very upfront about this price difference for our customers. For more info, see https://www.doordash.com/faq/#question4.
Acacia Research has been at this for a long time now. I remember when they went after porn. They claimed to own streaming media and thought the adult industry would settle. While some did, one company took them up and won. If I remember he said it cost them $500k to defend.
Well done Newegg. From now on, Anytime I buy electronics, i am going to check Newegg first.
It started in maps. At the time IE had some issues with memory leaks when dom elements with an event listener attached were deleted. This allowed them to have just one listener for the page.
I remember when the Taiwan accident happened because my local paper decided to publish a picture of some guy's severed arm lying on the ground.

Not exactly what I wanted to see first in the morning over my cornflakes...
More interestingly, how much did Goldberg take off the table in these huge later rounds?
I've done that, waste of time. There's just no excuse for git being unable to resume a clone.
Did you see my edit above? I think you're right based on working back through the Wikipedia FHE article, but I also think it would mean executing every possible path, i.e. you'd need to at least evaluate "hello world" and "goodbye world", since the computer executing it doesn't know which it turns out to be. As applied to a bytecode interpreter, that would seem to mean it has to execute every possible program the same length as your bytecode, since it doesn't know what any of them do.
I saw someone go past me on a YikeBike in Sydney a few weeks ago - it's a small electric bike, with one large wheel at the front, a small one at the back and a seat and handlebar.

It's unicycle in size but has a small wheel at the back. I haven't ridden any of these but the YikeBike looks cool, functional and seems to be a similar size to these electric unicycles and more stable.
http://www.yikebike.com
Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All – Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse
Is this a way to run docker/container in a GCE/VM, or does the docker/container run on top of the base OS, so that your application can run at bare metal speed, without the overhead of of a VM.
Electric is less compelling for motorcycles from the get-go because you can easily get ludicrous gasoline fuel efficiency. A conservatively driven 650cc bike can get 60+ mpg. There are hobbyist diesel motorcycles that get crazy mileage.

This of course hints at the major problem with car efficiency, which is excess weight. Federal safety mandates have made cars way more heavy than they used to be, so that despite 20% improvements in engine efficiency modern gasoline cars merely match the cars of 30 years yore. The big culprit, from what I gather, is the roll safety requirement. Take a hacksaw and welder to a modern sedan and electric doesn't really make much sense. Gasoline is still the way to go.
Thanks for the info. I'd not remembered them in my search.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=great+product+funding+crunch#!/sto...
Running and Software Development
I get plenty of compliments on my "Geek On" shirt. Of course, something more subdued and pro would be nice...maybe even a collar?

I've been down on their services the last few years, lots of headaches and noticeable lag in ship times... it feels like they had the IPO after all. Also, I don't appreciate having to take the extra step/refresh to exclude the 'Marketplace' from my searches every time... drop-ship crap has sullied their image, IMO. Anyway, I will recommence making them my 'go-to' e-tailer due to this action & for their years of providing (mostly) exhaustive product images, complete spec pages & informed reviews.
Learn by doing is the best way. I am a Ruby on Rails Developer, when I started with Rails and also the people I know started by working on their own project ideas and tried to create a working prototype. This proved fruitful.
Amazingly tiny paper crane
Netvibes seems to be hanging in there still: http://www.netvibes.com/en/individual
Evidence selectively included in a complaint or indictment is still biased. One can present a carefully chosen subset of all knowable facts in support of nearly any position.

However, it was not my intention to misconstrue your comment, and if you feel that I have done so, I apologize.
They make many times more money in the gadget factory than the subsistence farming. Nobody's forcing them to be there.
Power: 11kW

In something that weighs 200kg? no thanks...
I've never understood the clamor for government regulated Internet.

Internet commerce (particularly in the United States) has flourished beyond anyone's wildest dreams over the last few decades without the federal government's intervention. Why exactly do we need a whole new set of laws to save us from a problem we don't have?

Corporations have a very long history of manipulating the very agencies that are supposed to regulate them...
We're in favor of standardizing the ideas, here.
I can see how this could be useful on a cross-country trek, on the ISS, or in areas where clean water in short supply.

For the rest of us though, showers and baths are too much fun to give up. I'd still shower every day if it were bad for my hygiene.
Since you understand the paper well enough to vouch for the claim, could you spell out how you can encrypt operations like that in a way that doesn't contradict the "no obfuscation" paper (or otherwise show the latter wrong)?
I would love to see them stack Matlab up against R, particularly with respect to the vectorised computation. I suspect Matlab would put up a lot more challenge to R in that regard. Never mind introducing GPGPU computation.

When it comes to breadth of capability, R would not even give Matlab with its toolboxes a challenge. Simulink alone is huge in that regard. You pay out the nose for it though.
Can we just make a new version of Markdown that supports that and Skriv | http://skriv.org for links?
Radfem is more closely aligned ideologically with second wave.
I'm interested lapis as well, I think this might finally be what I have been looking for...
This runs in a VM. We're not selling bare-metal (and even if we wanted to, Docker doesn't really have a co-tenancy model yet, so you'd have to buy full machines...)
Burning sand as renewable power supply
Nuclear science, event studies, and the other side of Armen Alchian
What fascinates me is how easy it is to fight if you practice. Lee Cheng is impressive, but I suspect his secret weapon is actually having fought a bunch of such cases knowing he has a 'fuck them, they are going to lose' mandate. An enemy who's very practiced at -not- settling is probably not something his opponents know how to deal with.
It's probably better to fight one battle at a time. Network neutrality is a more immediate concern than IPv6 support.
I can't find any reference to chromeDesktopSource anywhere - is that correct?

Currently there is a prompt every time when you request the desktop chromeMediaSource: 'screen' - it says something like 'Allow this web page to share your screen'. It definitely does not just grab your screen automatically with no prior warning.

According to the WebRtc bug report the ONLY way you will now be able to access the desktop is via an extension. Chrome are doing this because they believe there are too many risks in desktop sharing, and even putting a bigger, scarier warning isn't sufficient because many users apparently ignore warnings.
If you need source control and large binary files then use Perforce. It's pretty solved.
Predictive brains, situated agents and future of cognitive science (2013) [pdf]
As in documenting an API or command syntax, when you want to go from mono (literal) to italic (variable input) with no break. In Skriv it would be ##--input=##''filename'' except that (a) Skriv requires a space and even if it didn't, (b) the -- would be an unbalanced strikeout code.

Not to worry, reST doesn't do it either.
Assuming you are using AES with CBC, best case you will have to resend every block after and including the first one that changed.

My understanding is that CBC is among the most secure forms of AES encryption because it is essentially impossible to have patterns in data (unlike EBC). Practically speaking then one must assume that it is common to upload most of a file. Any software that boasts this security cannot effectively 'diff' your files.

EDIT: Formatting
Interesting read is "The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

There have been several miracle "cures" for cancer, none of them has turned out to be a miracle cure. Even the idea that cancer is not "one cause, one cure" has not been held for a long time, and was never universally held. Lymphoma was always treated differently than breast cancer, for instance.

But the more interesting point in the book, re a cure for cancer: "the only intervention ever known to reduce the aggregate mortality for a disease--any disease--at a population level was prevention. Even if other measures were chosen to evaluate our progress against cancer...it was indubitably true that prevention, as a strategy, had been neglected by the NCI in its ever-manic pursuit of cures."

In other words: cures make good headlines; we get excited by cures. But the only way to reduce the mortality rate of cancer is through prevention. Long-term we'll make more progress finding ways to prevent cancer, not cure it.
If you could put plenty of arguments and the right team together, perhaps you could raise money from a host of technology companies to pursue this.

If you can grind them to a halt or even perhaps drive them to bankruptcy and potentially buy up their patents to open to the public, this could be fundable.
LibreSSL presentation – BSDCon 2014
Separating the JSON API from the presentation layer is a clean separation of concerns. Structuring your app this way makes it easy to expand to additional devices when you're ready -- the API can be consumed by multiple front-ends, e.g. your Web, Android, and iOS apps -- and it makes it easy to provide a public facing API that others can use.

For example, a Java-based website designed this way would have two servlets -- one serving the JSON API and one templating servlet that consumes the JSON API and generates the page.

Another approach would be to forgo the templating servlet (or Rails/Django templating layer) and do all the rendering in a JavaScript client-side app that consumes the JSON API, but this can have SEO implications that may mean you also need to generate static pages for bot consumption (pjax can be useful here https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax).
I really wish we had a society/government that thinks about policy the way we think about everything else. A new policy? Lets try it out in some small locations and see what happens. But instead we have gigantic shifts in policy enacted nationwide.

I don't really have an opinion on net neutrality and I'm very wary of anyone who does.
Facebook's ad manager on the state of the media
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openbsd.org%2Fpap...
It's not a new set of laws. It's the same set of rules that have been imposed on telephone companies and other utility providers for decades. It's a set of rules that the FCC already has the legal authority to impose. The google-able term is "common carrier".
I have the feeling that fighting this is about as important as protecting net neutrality. I wouldn't like a world where only those who can afford to buy expensive IPv4 addresses can serve their content without any obstacles, especially when the issue would be completely solved by wider IPv6 adoption.
I touched on this in an above comment[1] (after you posted so I didn't expect you to see it), but essentially because of how AES CBC[2] encryption works, an encrypted block relies on the previous block to correctly be decrypted. Uploading and replacing blocks that are different will not work; the next time that file is decrypted every block after the first newly uploaded one will not be correct.

[1] -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7787791

[2] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation#...
No, this is a terrible piece. The argument of, "if these ISPs are evil why do business with them?" makes me think he is not a respected name in the tech industry but a trollish hack.
As for the comment of ”the free market is the only true way to handle this" it completely ignore the monopolistic aspect of most US internet provider markets where the "choice" is a single large company and if you are really lucky a small name company that leases the lines from the large company. That isn't a free market. Pull your so called libertarian head out of your a$$ and take a hard look at the way these corporations are using your ideology to rob you of your freedom.
Trust me, I am doing you a favor: Your redaction technique is very poor. Almost every redaction you used allows us to see the tops and bottoms of the letters which is enough to recreate all the hidden characters.

Partial redaction is no redaction.