skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is some slow internet. I am in a remote region of Hawaii with no public utilities. No water or electricity reaches here, no phone or cable lines either. Currently satellite is my only option, which is fine speed wise, but latency is quite high and the bandwidth caps are very restrictive.

I'd love to see what Google can offer in this space.
Apple's thing is not high prices but high margins. I'd imagine they can get embarrassingly good margins for a sensor-only, display-less device even at what seems to be a low price point. We'll see I guess!
Curious, why this matters? Honestly, not being a troll.
Also check out http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanar_Dag
Does anyone on HN use Plan 9 for day to day coding? I've been wanting to hear practical experience with Plan 9 - likes, dislikes, etc.
Salt implements its declarative language as a separate thing (States) from its more imperative parts (Modules, Runners, and the like). That's probably a better abstraction.
This is amazing. With some camera smoothing in post production you could have shots that were previously only possible with a helicopter shot. I can see this being just as influential if not more than the gopro.
That does make zero sense.
I've been to that campfire. Turkmenistan's main non-urban tourist attraction.

First, the gas seeps up through the ground, not through a single bore at the surface. So it is hard to capture.

Second, the amount of gas coming out of that hole is simply not that enormous. Enormous by an individual human scale, but by and large, it doesn't have the same menacing quality as a high pressure oil well being on fire. You can walk right up to the crater's edge without protection, while the oil well fires radiate so much heat you can't even get close. I doubt it's a significant amount of gas leakage, compared to what the country already drills for.

It's also in the middle of nowhere. Quite literally, it's almost exactly in the middle of the turkmen desert.
It's probably not that much, on a global scale. What's more, CO2 is a better gas to be venting to the atmosphere than methane is. [citation needed]
Hey, I worked as a consultant for a while and would be happy to share my contract with you. I had it drafted by a good lawyer that I trust. Contact me through my site mailer: http://nealke.mp I am very glad to see you are being proactive about getting a good contract form to start. I did not do the same and was burnt.

I also highly recommend getting a lawyer you trust so you can go to him/her with questions. I also have some more advice contained in a conf talk I did back in January https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUCl0PPAT9U

Hope that helps, consulting is a fantastic job when done properly! Feel free to reach out with more questions
They've changed their IP address ranges not their physical servers from what I can tell in the announcement.
TalksDump (talks from FOSDEM, DEFCON, BlackHat)
Valve didn't use password hash salting? That seems borderline ridiculous. Pretty much the only way he could have broken the hashes is if this is so.

Valve's use of SourceSafe at the time is another black mark, though not related to the security breach.
I've used Acme for long stretches for go programming. But native Plan9 (or VM P9) just lacks too many of the tools I use regularly, pity.
Hi, FastMail employee here.

Just to clarify ahead of time, what's happening is literally all the blog post says - we're getting off of Opera hardware and networks and on to our own.

For end-users, nothing changes. There will continue to be a secondary DNS and MX service in Iceland. We're continuing to hold a live emergency replica of all our data there. And that's all. No new services, no precursor to non-US hosting, nothing.

As the blog post says, the _only_ reason it might be of interest is if you've hard-coded the old IPs somewhere. If not, then there's nothing to see here. Sorry to disappoint you ;)
I had a parrot drone before. It went up to 30 feet, disconnected from Wifi, dropped from the sky, and when I was just about to catch it, it re-connected, turned and crashed into pieces.... Ever since then, I am not a very big fan of their technology. For slightly more, you can get much better drones which would be worth the investment.
The Open-office Trap
TNG serves all of Schleswig-Holstein now? I thought this was a Kiel-only thing?
That one pixel is how all windows applications should work. I've been an Opera user for a long time and at some point that one pixel was the only thing stopping me from moving to chrome.

Here's the deal: when you have multiple monitors, the windows mechanic of click+dragging a full screen application's titlebar is the best way to shift applications from screen to screen. With Opera, I just throw my mouse to the top of the screen and drag. With Firefox and Chrome, I have to search out a tiny 20 pixel wide hitbox between the end of the tabs and the minimize button to start the drag action.
Every single windows application I've used respects this mechanic, except for Chrome and Firefox. I actually brought this up with the Firefox UI team on reddit and they agreed that it's broken but evidently decided to keep it because people like OP now expect it.

I'm actually looking for a way to enable this on chrome/FF.
Concrete sounds too expensive anyways, just cap it with a big flame-proof tarp. Wouldn't cost more than $10k or $20k I'd imagine.
How big companies made their meetings suck less
Most manufactorers supply tools to root your device. It's about the same as ubuntu having a root user without a password you still have to set.

Only if you buy your device from a carrier that locks it, you will have trouble with getting root access. But you should be angry at them, not at Google. Google is making Android safer to use for the general public. This ease of use and hanhdolding is one of the reasons Android is actually popular with non tech-savy people instead of any Linux desktop distro.
This guy...
Marketing... Springpad for me is much better. Maybe we can recreate it with The Drogulous as a backend?
I actually did this with 64x32GB eBay special (read: godawful slow) MicroSD's. More to make a joke about my "enterprise flash storage system" as we were in the middle of a bunch of storage vendor trials, and sick of dealing with buzzword sales guys.

It was... slow. But the blinky lights were pretty awesome.
No, this is response from employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832207
I've built several "hobby grade" multirotors with GPS and first-person video, and while I find the process fun and satisfying, it's far from accessible to mainstream consumers. I was never impressed by Parrot's original AR Drone, but this looks much more promising as an accessible drone with a good feature set. The biggest problem with the AR Drone, the control latency over WiFi, is probably covered up by the Bebop's GPS stabilization.

It doesn't look like there's any pricing information for the Bebop yet. They should definitely be able to keep it under $500, and if so (and if it works as well as their demos portray) I bet they'll sell well.
Thanks for not allowing cancan to die.
Sounds like O3b. I think they were mentioned in the article?
"I was 22F/USA – Europe" (impressive story from r/IWantOut)
It should not be too hard for people to write utilities to fortify what Plan9 offers, if they know what to write. But it's a chicken-egg problem to write utilities if nobody uses the platform. Is it a dead cause?
IIRC, you can apply for a 1-year self-employment/freelancer/artist visa in Germany if you're from the US.
8 Minutes of Walking Backward in Toronto (Toronto version of The Tokyo Reverse)
I downvoted you for a number of reasons, none of which are what PG are talking about.

Basically, I think your comment lacked perspective.

All cultures have taboos and rites. It is extremely difficult to predict how they will change in the future.

For example, the ancient Greeks had no taboo against homosexuality (indeed, it was considered normal), but they also had nothing against keeping slaves.

The US as a nation has no taboo against advertising to children, and yet attitudes to homosexuality vary dramatically by region. Extreme violence in films is considered taboo in most cultures, and yet entertaining in the US.

Racism is publicly decried in the US, and yet remains ingrained in some other countries.

Eating dogs is taboo in the US, not in other countries. Bacon is considered a delicacy in the US, and taboo in many countries.

Sometimes religion is the carrier of some of these taboos and rites, and sometimes it is not. Sometimes religion innoculates a culture against a particular practice (eg, Halal means alcoholism isn't a big problem in Muslim countries), and other times it is used to both justify it and to fight it (eg the changing Christian attitude to Slavery).

I suspect you'd be better off justifying your post rather than complaining about persecution of downvotes.
It could be feasible in the UK; we can do same-day courier across the country, although I suspect it'd be expensive at low volume. Next day post gets there the next day pretty much every time, though.
Funny you should mention double-clicking

5) double clicking the tab bar = New tab

6) double clicking the title bar = Maximize/Restore

And then you double-click the titlebar instead of the tabbar by mistake and your window jumps away.

Or just have a stupid option and let the user decide. Maybe have that context-sensitive behaviour as default, but let me say that I want the title bar to be the title bar and tab bar to be the tab bar and have the two not mix together.
Hope you find the site useful!
I'm more interested to see a small drone that can carry a small load, say of a couple to a few pounds. This could start to disrupt the small package/food delivery industry on a massive scale while cutting emissions and increasing service quality. We have seen plenty of small drones meant to be used for surveillance; it's not very interesting anymore.
> The composition of programs through pipes remains a brilliant idea, and an extremely effective way to get a job done

Except pipes were already present in another operating systems at the time, http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html

> C is still a remarkably popular programming language, and it has proven surprisingly hard to invent a new language that's better than C in every respect.

In 70's already had a few system programming languages better than C in every respect, safety, modularization, thread support, low level programming, you name it.

C's widespread into the industry is a consequence of UNIX adoption by the industry.
Hack electronic products to market now: scientific equipment to security systems
Appreciate you posting this -- it really lifted our spirits after this mild battering. :)
The first AR Drone was released before the tech was ready for an out of the box consumer experience, especially for outdoor flight. The technology has come a long way in a few short years, especially for hobby grade gear, and the Bebop looks pretty solid in the few demo videos I have seen.
This does not necessarily limit you to just one year - you can get up to a 3 year visa issued on the spot, and this can be extended as each visa period elapses, just as long as you can demonstrate that you have income and business activity.
I answered this previously, but I think it is ironic you keep posting this. I'll quote for you:

We may imagine that we are a great deal smarter and more virtuous than past generations, but the more history you read, the less likely this seems.... I suspect the only taboos that are more than taboos are the ones that are universal, or nearly so. Murder for example. But any idea that's considered harmless in a significant percentage of times and places, and yet is taboo in ours, is a good candidate for something we're mistaken about.

To make it clear: thinking particular taboos are caused by religion is shortsighted. These things keep happening over & over again, and unfortunately "progress" isn't always towards something you may like.

However, human sacrifice (aka murder) is a taboo that is shared by many cultures. That makes that different to the other things you lists.
An odd position, as you're well known for hiring someone to break into TriOptimum and remove ethical constraints for the Sentient Hyper Optimised Data Access Network.
I think the "old textbooks" complaint is actually due to the books falling off the binding. I had a physics class where one of the books had the teacher's name in it x_X, and he was near retirement age.

When the recession hit a lot of students asked teachers whether the earlier edition texts were still okay for class. Most of my teachers completely understood the situation students are in financially, one teacher went on a tirade against the school's bookstore.
I'm not quite sure if you're saying that Apple may start selling the MacBook Air with some locked down iOS-like OS on them while leaving OS X on their other chunkier PCs, or if you're saying they're going to entirely get rid of OS X as we know it today. I think both scenarios are pretty unlikely, though the latter one would be most unlikely IMO. What would they expect people to develop iOS apps on if they fully lock down or take away OS X? The biggest single reason I switched to a Mac (about 5 years ago now) was because it was a reasonably well curated (in terms of the GUI) Unix machine with a lot of commercial support and I could employ the various *nix utilities that I was used to, having previously used a combination of Linux and Windows for my computing needs. If Apple no longer offered a full featured Unix based environment, they'd precipitate a mass developer exodus of which I would certainly be amongst. I believe such a move would be no less than the most egregious foot shooting of all time for any tech company ever.

But all this is not to say I don't have a Plan B if against all reason, Apple was to decide to enrage just about every developer that builds on their platforms... I would sigh somewhat heavily, shake my head in disbelief and then it would be back to Linux with a touch of Windows (and possibly Android) on the side. Not my first preference obviously, but not such a bad thing all in all.
The DJI Phantom is pretty much the standard in consumer-grade multirotors. It's plug & play, sold as a complete package with transmitter included, and for what you get it's actually not that expensive. If you're reluctant to fly a $500-$1000 UAV, get a cheap multirotor first and learn to fly. The Hubsan X4 is under $50, for instance.

If you're a tinkerer you can build your own for a lot less, but be prepared for a LOT of fiddling to get it right (and the crashes that come with the fiddling). I fly a DIY F330 (same dimensions as the Phantom, only 'naked' frame) with an Arduino-based flight controller (APM2.6). It has some advantages over the DJI system, such as unlimited waypoints for autonomous flight. It can carry a gopro, and replacement parts/batteries are a lot cheaper if you get them from China. I don't get anywhere near the battery duration of the DJI, though.
So: if you're looking for a new hobby: build your own. If you just want to fly: get the DJI.
How to connect a power supply on the battery socket of a laptop?
I think we'll see a demo of the 'iWatch' today. When you look at the iPad launch, it was shown a few months in advance to give developers time to prepare. They have to do the same for the iWatch. And if it will be released in September/October what better time to show it to developers than at WWDC when iOS 8 is being unveiled and they can teach people how to develop for it in the sessions. This seems obvious to me which is why I'm surprised no commentators have suggested it (that I've seen).
Clue is a great company with really mission-driven founders, and they're rightly held up as one of the shining stars of the Berlin community. There are quite a few worthy up-and-comers that Adam could throw his considerable experience and clout behind - I know Contentful are doing something very interesting and seem to be running a tight ship indeed, and Avuba is part of what seem to be a whole new generation of payments startups sprouting in Europe.

Hy.co/Hy!Berlin on the other hand, represents some of the very silly self-aggrandizement and hype Berlin is prone to, which hasn't been helped with their acquisition by Axel-Springer.
We serve the same content to Google that we serve to users. We have no interest in deceiving them.
Webdiversity
How to Conquer the Tipping Point in Employee Engagement
What beach is that in the header image? It looks nice.
My AR Drone had busted battery on arrival. But what really had disappointed me was very flimsy styrofoam construction. Looks like this version also continues to have styrofoam.
The philosopher Wittengstein has something to say about this, in part of a discussion of formal logic. He says contradictions are not as bad as you might think.

"Or suppose that there is a contradiction in the statutes of a particular country. There might be a statute that on feast days the vice-president had to sit next to the president, and another statute that he had to sit between two ladies. This contradiction may remain unnoticed for some time, if he is constantly ill on feast-days. But one day a feast comes and he is not ill. Then what do we do? I may say 'We must get rid of this contradiction.' All right, but does that vitiate what we did before? Not at all.
[...]
When a contradiction appears, then there is time to eliminate it. We may even put a ring round the second rule and say 'This is obsolete.'"
This with the Oculus Rift combined is going to make for some seriously awesome "tourism demos". Someone has to make a Bebop-as-a-service thing where you have warehouses full of Bebops across the world's largest tourist centers, then a paying user will have his/her Rift linked up with that Bebop, which will then fly high above the city's ground and let the tourist have a look at the city from the comfort of his/her home.
Current law doesn't allow commercial drones - meaning nothing that makes a profit or supports a business. Hobby photography is the only application that makes sense right now.
corrected link:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-i...
We are hiring for several full time positions at Contentful in Berlin (Germany), we do sponsor visa.

1. Android Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/7793

2. Dev Ops - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/8221

3. JavaScript Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2980

4. Ruby / Rails Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2954

5. Elasticsearch / Lucene Engineer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2957
How can I apply this information to improve my Wheel of Fortune performance?
That would be Miami beach.
Do you have any idea who Matt Cutts is? He's owned the spam problem at Google since practically day 0. He's not some PHB.
Blurry photos claiming to be OS X 10.10 hit the web
ALL HAIL TIN EYE

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?src=PS5DwrRy6S3EBRIUs8...

(it's Miami)
This was also the case with minimized applications in Windows 95 and as such you could click below the box.

In Windows 98 they realized the mistake - but in a typical Microsoft way of solving things, instead of simply making the area clickable below they instead forced the mouse up by 2-3 pixels every time you decided to be so silly as to try and click below the box.
Why I left my academic job
Show HN: Stream2GDrive: Pipe your files to Google Drive
As Rob said - we've had our own separate space set up for a couple of months now, but we hadn't got things in place to move equipment. In particular to get maximum off-site safety during the transition, we wanted a cross-connect between the Opera network and our Network.

Once the techs in Iceland had the cross connect running, we moved a single machine to the new cabinet, verified that we could get traffic through the connect, and then moved on machine and the VPN link across to the new network.

Once THAT was done and happy, we moved the nameserver and mx roles onto that machine. That's where we are at now, and why the IP address has changed.

Next up is moving one of the database servers across, and then switching that to primary.

And once THAT is done, we can move all the other servers whenever we want. And when they're all in our own area, we can get the interlink cable pulled, and we no longer have any access directly into Opera's network, and they no longer have any access directly into ours. Yay.

(we're already firewalling each other up the wazoo of course. Don't trust any network you don't have to, even if you trust the people running it)
> Apple might as well get rid of Aperture while they’re at it

I hope not - I actually prefer it to Lightroom. Then again, it has been a while since an Aperture update...
We don't care about signup counts, only about real engagement. Most people have no problem with registering, and the engagement from logged in users is so much higher that it more than offsets the small minority of people who don't want to register.

More detail at my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7808698
Dynamics of the Universe in Problems
I was actually thinking of mezzanine when I wrote that (and django-cms is worse!). Both packages gave me a real headache while setting up settings.py. There was no clean separation between code and declarative configuration.
You should expect to hear back from us in the next couple of days. I believe I just replied to your specific application acknowledging receipt; shoot me an email (gdb@stripe.com) if you don't see the confirmation.
The Chimera was a fire-breathing creature from Greek mythological, part-snake, part-lion, part-goat.

Thought to have origins in the burning rocks near Cirali.

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

Apparently sailors used those flames as a form of navigation though they might've needed to have been a lot larger hundreds of years ago to be visible from that far out to sea. When I was there a few years ago, none of the flames would've been bigger than about 20cm. We could barely see them in the dark from down the mountain let alone some way out on the water.

Absolutely recommend Turkey as a travel destination by the way, and especially the boat trips along the South coast. Awesome experience cruising along by sail, then anchoring in a sheltered bay to dive off the boat, eat, visit ruins, etc.
vim or emacs, gcc, and bash or zsh would be a good start.

I'd love to use, learn more about, and improve Plan9, but the lack of the above make it pretty painful.

This is why Hurd is probably far more likely to gain traction in the foreseeable future than Plan9.
.. unless you're ultra-poor, sitting on a mountain of trash shipped to your destitute country by European nations who don't want the hassle of disassembling last years fad .. in which case, bonus! You've got something to do with all that trash.
Doesn't matter? There are still lots of places that try to filter user submitted html and javascript to "sanitize" it. And a lot of those filters are blacklist based rather than whitelist. But here we have an example of how it's possible to create any javascript program with purely non alpha-numeric input. I can guarantee you that such a result is immediately applicable to a lot of places around the web. It constitutes an attack vector making it possible to execute arbitrary javascript code in areas where that is allegedly blocked. Exactly how much of an impact that vector has is currently unknown, and hopefully not very large because many devs have realized the futility of trying to filter such things.

However, if there were a magic wand that you could wave which would show the maximum impact of a particular vulnerability and identify all of the sites in the world which were vulnerable and notified all of the site owners instantly with a full report I can guarantee you that there would be a lot of people out there with some sleepless nights and a lot of emergency work ahead of them.
The linked design only removes the excess too.