skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The killer app for drones? Teaching kids to build drones.

For $1000, you can get enough parts to build 10 drones. You need the know-how, of course, but that doesn't cost much but a bit of interest.

As a long time builder of flying machines, I've got to say that the commercialization of this hobby in the form of the DJI Phantom and its ilk is really some sort of pity. Building a drone out of parts that are commonly available takes but a little bit of research, some careful attention, a free afternoon or two .. and voila! Flying thing!

You might be surprised at just how easy it is to build a flying plane out of nothing much more than a few bits of cardboard, an old cell-phone battery, a stick or two, an old DVD-drive motor .. until you do it. Then you'll wonder why you spent $1000 on something that is very, very easy to destroy almost immediately.

(Purist: build, fly, crash, build ..)
Ask HN: Productivity tools for windows 8?
What are the must have productivity tools for Windows or Window 8?
US has had good anti-monopoly legislation and enforcement of it in the past including Standard Oil, Telecoms, and Microsoft and even Intel. It seems odd not to mention that possibility with Amazon, if they are a monopoly.
what do you mean by this free, case by case basis, or a addon for additional fee? thanks
Microsoft wins case to block FBI request for customer data
Ask HN: Can you build something better than Youtube?
When I look at some of Google's properties, they are the best. For a change look at Youtube, its by far a single player monopoly with other players like dailymotion/metacafe/vimeo far behind.

I would like to get HNers opinion on the following:
How can one unseat a giant like Youtube ? I sometimes feel its a lost opportunity as I was not able to code around the time people created Youtube.
To Err Is Human, To Study Errors Is Science
Twitter Agrees to Block‘Blasphemous’ Tweets inPakistan
What, because it's in reference to a woman? Everyone's so smitten and keen to come to their aide, like shining white knights. But if it comes to a man, you would have no problem about it. That is the real sexism that no one wants to talk about, and it's rife in this thread. Endangering someone else's life deserves a beating, man or woman.
I'm currently consulting on a project which, if all goes well, involves putting a fleet of drones in a box and having them go detect methane gas in certain high-methane-gas regions of the world..
Using Rails and unable get mysql wait_timeout to work? read this
I've never seen a landlord go after a tenant for breaking a lease, honestly. The few I've talked to generally say they are beyond happy if the tenant is just out, and indeed, that's exactly what they say in eviction courts. They say they don't care about trying to get money out of the poor person being evicted, but that they just want the unit available to rent to someone who can pay. I think any landlord would be happier with a tenant breaking lease than doing AirBnb, for example.
How To Build Momentum And Awareness
If it's mainly the Texas court, then why not go after that angle?
Google Resolver 8.8.8.8 Not responding to RDNS lookups
I have a /24 in an Internap colo and use Google Resolver 8.8.8.8 on all my machines. Google will not consistently respond to RDNS lookups from my IP X.X.X.1 but will respond consistently if I change the IP address of the machine to X.X.X.2. I have proven the DNS response is never returned using tcpdump.

It's positively not a local networking issue as changing my resolver to 4.2.2.2 (Level 3) while my machine uses X.X.X.1 allows RDNS lookups to work consistently.

Has anyone else seen this sort of selective response by Google? Do they maintain some sort of black list?
Article based on this Tumblr
http://holding-pattern.tumblr.com/
Not a problem because the end of the runway is always down.
what a bland and general article. doesn't say anything and just makes general statements.
I think having a friend to help you out would help immensely, as they can show you the basics and help balance you. I had no idea what I was doing.
Kind of prefer that landlords take care of all that, personally. As a renter, if something is broken I'm calling the landlord and going to work. Sure ain't my job. Couldn't really care less if someone else is inside.
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Still, the experiments should put to rest the argument about whether mice in the lab are running on wheels because they live in cages—they'll do it anywhere they find one

and

They also put the wheel inside an enclosure with a small entranceway to keep large animals from knocking the wheel on its side
I wonder if this could be a trademark issue. A newcomer could easily come to the conclusion that w3schools is part of W3C, which is what trademark is intended to protect against.

I wonder if it could be used as leverage to get them to enact some of the changes listed in the article.
Depends on what you consider quality of life. Mine mostly depends on short commute time and I don't really care about interior decor beyond there being WiFi, a shower, and a bed. End result is that renting is a much higher quality of life because you have more choice of where to rent and can rent the minimum travel distance to work.
CounterSports – p2p betting using Bitcoin and CounterParty (XCP)
China to crack down on US technology in retaliation for indictments
There is always a way to build something better then existing giants.
Some of examples in past:
AltaVista vs. Google
MySpace vs. Facebook.

There will be somesite, someday that will takedown youtube.
And it's 5m€ out of a total 14b€ enveloppe, which includes 4b€ for infrastructural refections and improvements.
From MDM to MDM: From Managing Devices to Apps to Data
Mobile operations management (MOM) is one of the top priorities of today’s modern enterprise. From a functional standpoint, MOM solutions attempt to enable different levels of management and operational readiness for mobile solutions adopted in the enterprise. While the first generation of MOM solutions evolved around the management of mobile devices and applications, organizations have quickly realized that an effective enterprise mobile infrastructure requires addressing a more difficult challenge: managing mobile business data.
I still don't see your point. Afaik, we could have something like:

Input = FHE(data|opcode1|opcode2|...|opcodeN)

The server won't know what are the (opcode1|...|opcodeN) if the FHE scheme is properly implemented. That is, the actual implementation would be something like

Input' = FHE(data|opcode1|opcode2|...|opcodeN|randomness)

Output' = InverseHE(FHEval(Input'))

Output = Output' - randomness

I.e. the server can't uncover the (data,opcode1,...,opcodeN) tuple by enumeration if exp(randomness) is large enough. Is this what you had in mind?
IMHO, this should not be dealt with at a company level, since the shell company is arguably not engaged in any economic activity: their juridical entity is, essentially, worthless.

Instead, given the toxic economic climate the people behind it create, this should be transported into criminal charges brought against the make-believe CEOs behind the shell companies that specifically engage in patent trolling. They're arguably pulling a con against a system designed by the state for something completely different, and their con should be treated no differently than, say, tax evasion.

I think the only reason why companies like these continue to flourish is that the people behind them are entirely safe. No legal system will be able to close down as many companies as they can open. So jail the motherfuckers, or otherwise forbid them to take part in the economic system, and it's bound to stop.
Could you provide an example? I'm having trouble understanding what you mean.
Mumbai Restaurant Delivers Pizza by Drone
On a different tangent, I would be interested in hearing your personal views on having your own (classified) words put out into public - how did you feel when you found out? Worried about being taken out of context? Proud that despite the leaks there was demonstration of professionalism / reasonableness out there? Pissed off? None of the above?
That only works if a few things are true, primarily that you can rent your properties for more than their carrying costs. If you bought and then the bottom drops out--which, potentially, causes you to need to move for work so you have to sell low--then this isn't as feasible. Second, you also take on the risk of being a landlord, so you're now responsible for the maintenance and upkeep on two or more properties and you get the cost of vacancies.

True that your housing costs will eventually drop to near-zero (upkeep and property taxes always exist), but renting out your place won't always help you with that. Besides, more and more people are winding up in blasted Homeowners' Associations with deed restrictions that prevent renting entirely or more than a certain, small, percentage of rentals.

Ultimately, as you said, the decision is an individual one, but the conclusion is usually far from easy.

(Even more bonus fun: Try accidentally being the landlord of someone who decides to cook meth in one of your rentals. Does your investment risk profile consider this? Remember that rentals are, fundamentally, investments, unlike your primary residence which is, first and foremost, your shelter.)
Finally having XPC would be really great for application and tools developers.
> It really, really pains me that so many cloud providers are taking so damn long to support IPv6.

Not sure about cloud providers, but several VPS companies already offer discounts for you to go IPv6 only.
Disney's First Trailer For Big Hero 6 Is Wildly Adorable
Even though bacteria that grow on skin may be beneficial, I assume hands need washing since they are more prone to act as interfaces for pathogens. E.g. handshaking, food handling is usually not done with other body parts, and may spread disease. When talking about skin, you pick up pathogens with your hands, and you pass them on. Not with your armpit, back, etc.
Akhil Rekulapelli wins national geography bee
The capability has been used since iOS6: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...
And one of them ran for up to 18 minutes.
Android App Development- The quickest way to reach maximum customers
Thats actually really cool, its about time for our generation to get more familiar with the future!
Drone Walking A Dog
This is just some PR wildly exaggerating results from a SSD garbage collection paper.

The linked graphs show the big improvement in just one of many workloads and only in the case where the SSD is near-full, and don't show what disk/ftl they're comparing against. But even then these are their own hand picked benchmarks.
(presumably the details will be published along with the paper at some point)

The trick itself is that they scramble the LBA addresses of blocks with some 1:1 function. But it raises the question why the FTL doesn't already do this. Which is a reason to suspect they're benchmarking against some el cheapo SSD with a dumb FTL.
I'd highly recommend the Blackfish documentary about killer whales regarding mammal emotions (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEjYquyjcg).

Especially this part where a mother is separated from its baby, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFo6kf21Hw ; it gives pretty good insight about whether animals can experience emotions.
Or with a nice game of Quake.
4) They were on a power trip and looking to destroy things for the sake of it, just to make some point. 5) Extending their "field time" for personal reasons, e.g. because it pays really well. 6) The people in question were just completely clueless about hardware.
> No JS, no CSS, no hints of a CMS.

Also no ads or commercial content, and no cookies. I'd like to use that. Maybe I'll build that.
How Startups Create Contents?
Chevrons do not "mark the direction of a given strip". Imagine chevrons pointed toward grass and rock instead of the runway - what sane pilot would follow that instead of the pavement?

Chevrons "are used to show pavement areas aligned with the runway that are unusable for landing, takeoff, and taxiing." [1] In other words, the pavement is too soft to bear a heavy load.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/aim0...
Fact: I didn't know anything about Meta Filter until I read the blog about it yesterday.
"To Arendt’s mind, Eichmann willingly did his part to organize the Holocaust — and an instrumental part it was — out of neither anti-semitism nor pure malice, but out of a non-ideological, entirely more prosaic combination of careerism and obedience."

http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/hannah_arendts_original_a...

And the original book,"Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" in PDF -

http://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/arendt_ei...
it's a shame TBH, Google Code could have a lot of potential, if only because Google as a company is chock full of developers. Maybe not as much UX designers though.
Is it just me or is that font a mess? The insides of the '11' are 3.8m apart. Adding the overhang of the second 1 (0.3m) and the width of the vertical lines of both 1s (2 * 0.8m) gives us 5.7m. Yet the outsides measurement is displayed as 5.6m.

Same for the 10: Adding up the space between the characters (2.3m), the width of the 1 (0.8m, just the vertical line) and the width of the 0 (3m) gives us 6.1m, yet the outside measurement is 6.0m.

Am I missing something?
Houseguest downloads child porn, cops show up
Flipkart acquires Myntra in India's largest e-commerce deal, takes on Amazon
Another issue is that when you search about Web 2.0 (HTML, CSS JavaScript, etc), W3Schools comes among the first hits, and they have very poor examples.

The OP site used to document this but this was not a solution since W3School just fixed those issues.

Check this bad examples from Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130430052445/http://w3fools.co...
" too much dependency injection and other magic"
"No dependency injection. No magic."

What do they have against dependency injection? Why do they think its 'magic' ?
I've always wondered why earwax was called ear "wax". Certainly didn't seem like wax to me. This explains it.

Why would your SO be frustrated by minimal BO on your part?
Yep, I absolutely agree. Even if mammal emotions have not been scientifically "proven", I think there's a lot of strong evidence that they do experience most or all basic emotions.

It's not like it's very shocking that they would, either, considering humans aren't that distantly related from them.
Framework agnostic validations for Node.js
Rent will almost always go up. If I rented my house the moment I bought it, I would be running a nice deficit and have nowhere to live. Today I can rent it out and the market rate will make me enough money I can then go rent a 2 bed room apartment and still have a surplus. This is because my mortgage costs either stay the same or drop...in dollars priced at the year I borrowed the money originally. While the rental rate increases have matched or exceeded inflation every year since then.

If I bought a home in my neighborhood and rented it out tomorrow, I'd take a hit on it for maybe 4 or 5 years, about $100-200/mo. But trends show I'd match my outlays after that and within 10 years have made all my losses back plus a monthly profit plus whatever property appreciation the market has decided to give me.

TBH, being a landlord is a huge PIA for the reasons you hint at, which is why lots of people don't do it, but financially it can make easy sense if you can stomach a few years of losses till rents rise enough to exceed your outlay. Ideally you'd rent at market rates, when your mortgage and other expenses were far below market rate. That's the situation I'm in now, my monthly expenses are about 50-60% of the market rate rental price for a house like the one I live in. My wife and I have already decided that when we move, we're just going to rent this property out and use it to make money. Even with the overhead of a property management company, we'll come out in the black every month. If we stay here, we're on track to pay off the entire mortgage in 2-3 years anyway and then we'll be living for close to free (minus HOA and property taxes). We could both live comfortably on part time jobs at Target at that point.

One of the problems I see in many of the Rent vs Buy comparisons is that people who favor renting seem to think landlords are a charity of some kind who magically make all the extra costs of owning a property disappear. But nobody is in the landlord business to lose money like this, as much as the market will bear, your goal as a landlord is to pass along as many possible costs to your renter as you can and not just rely on property value appreciation to dig you out of your financial hole in 20 years this includes, but is not limited to: HOA fees, utilities, taxes, appliances, repairs and maintenance, common area service, everything.
How is that different from OIN [1]?

[1] http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ «The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. Launched in 2005, OIN has strong industry support with backing from Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Red Hat, Sony and SUSE (a business unit of Novell). Any company, project or developer that is working on Linux, GNU, Android or any other Linux-related software is welcome to join OIN, free of charge or royalties.»
Well I can see why, as the research states at the end animals enjoyed it.

If we see it in a scale, it's like for us humans going on a roller coaster!
> I have posted the links to 7 policy and legal frameworks. If you cannot find these documents or you are still asking then frankly, you are too fucking stupid to trying to analyse the law or most other things.

> People on HN are not your legal secretary. You not being able to find something is not proof of it's absence.

This is needlessly baity. You know the nMes of the legislation and you should have just included those names. Otherwise you are requesting tens of thousands of people to make many websearches to get that information. That feels obstructive and evasive.

Calling people fucking stupid is decidedly suboptimal and peoe will downvote for that.
Rather, a one-time demonstration of a quadcopter flying from the restaurant to an open rooftop. It tackles none of the problems of actually delivering products via drone in a city, namely, flight safety, navigation, and delivering to actual apartments which are not likely to have nice open rooftops.

As an ad for the pizza company, it works well though given how much this video seems to have been shared.
The improvement of hospital facilities owe a great deal to humanity's ability to destroy germs at will when it is important to do so, e.g. during/after surgery.

http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/14/3/195.abstract

Hospitals were death traps 200 years ago.
The team will consist of 2 people, 2 liaisons (probably from Edenred's software development teams) who may or may not be coders, and 11 observers who may have some input into the process - that is how I read it.

The top prize is simply far too low. I can get that at a random hackathon locally. The real prize is getting an enterprise deal done with Edenred to implement the product. Insist on retaining all IP rights to everything, which is normally the case for all hackathons. If they balk, mention that Salesforce hackathon participants get to keep their IP. That's about as high profile as it gets. Having won enterprise software events in the past (eBay/PayPal and Ford), I can tell you that they open very interesting doors if your objective is to sell enterprise software.

Other than that, it's probably going to be 1-4 people coding and 11 people taking notes and participating in Group 2 and Group 3 portions of the project. The team will be overstaffed on marketing and sales side, which could be interesting.

I would probably do it to lay the foundation to sell them something after the event.

Background: My team won a Ford event, they sponsored our trip to Vegas, paid for a 5-star hotel at a bargain rate of $350/night, gave us CES Exhibitor badges and some spending money. So that's somewhat similar experience. No regrets, I got lots of business opportunities as a result of this and the red badge was a magnet for press. :)
The "scientific community" doesn't have a unified view on animal emotion, or on any matter.

However, it is widely understood that animals are non-human persons who are aware of their own existence and who feel a wide range of emotions, just like we do. Mice feel empathy[1], elephants grieve[2], birds hold funerals for their dead[3] and so on[4].

But yes, for many scientists the overwhelming evidence that animals are sentient beings[5] with feelings akin to ours is an inconvenient truth, since nearly 20 million animals are killed each year during experimentation in the U.S. alone[6].

[1]http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/researchers-say-mice-feel...

[2] http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/06/when-doves-cry-scientific-a...

[3] http://news.discovery.com/animals/birds-hold-avian-funerals-...

[4] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201112/e...

[5] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201306/u...

[6] http://www.statisticbrain.com/animal-testing-statistics/
anyone who writes in Go has to be fundamentally opposed to hacks like coffeescript

Why? In fact, there's someone writing a Golang → Haxe transpiler, which is no less of a hack than CoffeeScript: http://tardisgo.github.io/
Well, it doesn't work for everybody.

I gave no-poo a go for four months. My hair started to shed, got dandruff breakouts and going to the hairdresser was an embarrassment due to oily hair (machine got stuck frequently).

Tried many tricks, vinegar+baking soda and all that, to no avail.

I finally stopped when hair loss started to be noticeable.

I’ve ditched commercial shampoos since, and found that using plain baby shampoo everyday with ketoconazol every third day gives me the best results.
I don't believe there is going to be a time when amazon can suddenly flip a switch and start bringing in mountains of profit, and then maintain that for a prolonged period, in it's retail business.

It will be too easy to compete in some areas, indeed it's fairly easy to compete (with amazon) in some areas already.

My customer sells pushchairs (strollers) and prams and cots and so on. There is a thriving independent e-commerce environment in the UK with baby goods.

Amazon is supposed to be this cost-cutting behemoth that through market forces and a willingness to operate on razor slim margins will wipe out any and all competition.

Online4Baby can sell a sleigh cot bed with a drawer at £150 and Amazon's closest is at £179, even with it's 3rd party sellers.

That's just one product, but the continued existence and growth of the independent baby e-commerce operators in the UK is proof that there are areas where you can compete today. And when amazon flip the switch there will be more areas where you can compete.

What I've seen is that it's when the UK supermarkets entered the market, after one of them bought a competitor, that has had the greatest impact over the last 5 years or so.

[0] http://www.online4baby.com/4baby-sleigh-cot-with-drawer-whit...

[1] http://amzn.to/1mcLcZC
We need more of this.
> Martini is now succeeded by negroni.

From the link,

> Martini is not going away, and I’m not going to stop
> supporting Martini.