skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno .. does this really need yet another drone body and rig just for the sake of the product? I mean, wouldn't it have been a little more sensible to add "follow-me" features to existing drones - like, this could just be another feature for ArduPilot .. does it really require all the product hype to replace this? I think this is sort of a 'me too' factor with these kickstarter campaigns - whereas in the past a hacker would just add the feature to the existing open code, now its become a reason to start a whole new company and get funding up front, first.

I think, rather than spend any money on these guys, it'd be simpler/less problematic to just add follow-me to Ardupilot. With a little bit of bluetooth/wifi tracking magic, maybe it'd be easy, who knows ..
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My only major issue with Linode is their limitations of their stackscripts, and that they don't add and setup local IPs for their servers by default.

I would also like to see them use their Nodebalancers (Linode version of a loadbalancer) to expand across datacenters. It could be nice of them to provide an easier solution to load-balancing between regions so if I set up my app in each of their datacenters, and add a nodebalancer, they could help me lead the traffic to the closest source.

As for innovation they have added LongView recently https://www.linode.com/longview
Yeah, it's bullshit by design, so I guess there is not a lot to talk about. Oh well.
----- Thank you for sharing! Believe me: even for people that are reasonably ok with strangers, it can be hard to find friends in adult age. I think, I have the same kind of a problem. So I wouldn't concentrate on introversion or something. In my opinion, reading books and reflecting won't help you much either, so I wouldn't devote too much time to it. Excessive introversion is not the most pleasant thing, but please don't be obsessed with it. Just be yourself! ^__^

About meeting and finding friends. First thing that comes to mind is participating in some group activity: take Salsa classes (a good way of overcoming shyness, BTW). Buy a bicycle and get in touch with local biking community (via forum or app like www.meetup.com). If you prefer running do the same with running. Or horseback riding, or whatever. Or take cooking classes! Just remember that it must be group activity and your task is not to learn, for example, to cook but to participate in activity with a group of other people. So if you did not find friends in current group for, say, 3 months, move on to the next activity. Also, I would avoid IT-related activities as IT-people in general are "not very social", mildly speaking (I am programmer myself). Good luck!
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My grandfather said that he went broke twice in his life: once when he was sued, and once when he sued someone else. Lawsuits are expensive, and if this game isn't making enough money to warrant that money-sink, they might end up putting themselves in an even worse position.
Phasors finally clicked after watching the first one.

Author uses MathBox which he appears to have developed: http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/
Very great article, and yet quite sad and scary. You can grab an old apple ][ and run programs from 30years ago! If you can get access to a PDP computer, you can run programs from 40 years ago on it! Or even the emulator. You are not going to be able to run your favorite andorid programs 10-20years from now.

Just the other day, a link was posted on here about how to get a Lisp machine running in your Linux. I downloaded the binary and some source and got one up and running about 2 years ago. To be able to time travel to the past and explore what has been done without just reading about it is a great experience. With the mobile eco system, we are going to miss out on this. There are going to be great programs that will be written and then rot away with time never to be recovered.

Quite sad if you ask me.
Why does this make your life easier than clojurescript?
I love their admin panel. I think it is the best among different provider. But seem lack some feature especially the options for share storage like S3.
You should seriously consider going to the gym. It helped me build my confidence and the way I carry myself around strangers. Doesn't quite give you better communication skills but it's all in the confidence, really, and confidence in yourself you'll get.
> I've calculated free education, it would basically collapse our government's finances.

Free, useless education is costly, but in the long run, useful education works to the benefit of governments.
Exactly.

It's about balance. In my case, my introversion is strong enough that I usually let it have its way. If I find myself doing that too often, I try to be mindful of it and moderate it. It's work, though. Friendships need work. I have a hell of a time explaining this to my more extraverted friends -- many of whom "don't see it," because I'm not particularly shy or reserved in social settings. (Incidentally, I've been called an asshole or a misanthrope on occasion, because people don't "buy" my introversion. They just think I'm avoiding them.)
Do you mean a ClojureScript compiler compiled to JavaScript? ClojureScript can be compiled and run in v8 just fine right now.
Think of them more as a sales team than a marketing one, they're trying to upsell you, and presumably it works in enough cases as they keep doing it.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/212001/Catapult_ISCA_2014...
Your mistake is thinking that any statement of the form, "I hate X, for example because Y" implies that Y can be solved by any action that eliminates X.

For example, "I hate how they're serving a 50/50 mixture of coffee and urine, makes the coffee taste like urine." This does not imply that the problem can be solved by eliminating the coffee.
get over that and get room-mates. They might not necessarily become your best buddies, but at least your interactions with them should help you improve your conversational English.
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Seems like this would be a good way to frame somebody else. Hack into a server, do some damage/steal files, and drop somebody elses public key on the server.

"But I didnt do it!" - Then why was your key on the server?
Registering your copyright entitles you to damages in court. It's quite valuable.

Edit: to be clear, with an unregistered copyright, you can still sue for an injunction to stop someone from distributing your material. You won't get your statutory damages, though.
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Wow, I didn't even read the article at all, but the background and title of the site are amazing. Some kind of 3d parallax rendering on canvas. As I was examining it, a badge popped up, I had unlocked "Dat Parallax".
I think the revelations that product makers are changing their components (to cheaper ones -- decontenting their devices) after they get solid reviews, throws all tech reviews into question. After all, it's a matter of trust - you trust that the review is honest and unbiased, and you trust that the device you subsequently buy is the same as what was reviewed. And when either condition isn't true, you feel like a chump for being burned.
Protecting American consumers is the FCC's job. They can't be expected to prevent protectionism in other countries.
> It does make sense when you look at it as a user.

No. You misunderstand point 1, I'm not saying comparing Firefox to Foxit as PDF viewers is nonsensical[0], I'm saying GP comparing the number he gets on his machine to the numbers provided by OP is not sensible: OP uses 64b Firefox on 64b OSX on an rMBP (the retina part quadrupling the size of the render target if software is compatible) while GP uses unknown bitness Foxit on unknown bitness Windows on unknown hardware.

That's a fractally nonsensical comparison, just about everything which can be changed is changed. A somewhat real comparison would require that GP install a FF33 nightly on his machine and look at what happens there, and only looks at the difference between browser open and browser open + PDF. That would give the browser and PDF.js's overhead over opening PDFs in a native client.

> Also, there's about:memory available in firefox for quite detailed memory break-down.

Which is not what's in OP's graphs, not what GP compares his numbers to, and not relevant to my comment.

[0] although it kind-of is, firefox bundles a PDF viewing utility for convenience, it's not a PDF viewer (unless you're in firefox os maybe?)
> I can name dozens more languages that could do the same

How about naming one that actually now does the same with the native access to any GUI resource constrained platform? F# certainly can't avoid the graph quoted. The y axis is the slowdown as soon as there isn't enough memory. The point you yourself claim that you don't understand, so how can we discuss anything further? I actually wrote my comments assuming that the people who'd discuss would understand the issues I assumed to be well-known and thoroughly documented among other places in the Drew Crawford's article.
Exactly. If people don't like Google Docs they won't open it. No need to apologise.
kvakvs, FYI you have been hellbanned.
Except, with an RSS feed, you can be assured that you are receiving ALL of the content that is being published by the site you are following. With Facebook, you are at the mercy of a black-box algorithm that decides which posts you want to see. Those local breweries are going to have to pay FB in order for all of their followers to view any specific post.
The best thing to do would probably be to ask people on places like r/london, as (like the article says) London can have great areas right next to less nice areas.
I don't consider what happens in religion bullshit as defined by the article. I think this sums it up pretty well:

> The liar, by contrast, is concerned with the truth, in a perverse sort of fashion: he wants to lead us away from it. As Frankfurt sees it, the liar and the truthteller are playing on opposite sides of the same game, a game defined by the authority of truth. The bullshitter opts out of this game altogether. Unlike the liar and the truthteller, he is not guided in what he says by his beliefs about the way things are.

Especially that last sentence is relevant. I may personally consider most of religion to be nonsense or untrue, but its proponents at least are guided by some underlying "truth" (belief). Bullshit - again, as defined by the article - goes beyond that. It doesn't have to be true or false. It's just.. bullshit. The infamous "leverage synergy" phrase comes to mind. It doesn't even mean anything.
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While you're an introvert, you have a strong drive to socialize so you should nurture that part of your personality. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. If you develop a sense of humor about it, it will take some of the pressure off.

Also, everything you describe could be interpreted as self-centered or (less attractive) self-absorbed. One way to get out of that loop is to start doing things for other people. Volunteer at local food banks, runs/walks for good causes or tutor little kids in reading/math. All of these things will get you outside of yourself and introduce you to great people...potentially good friends or connections to good friends.

Last, it's probably been said here already...work on your language skills and find a teacher who can help you reduce your accent if that is also a problem.

Good luck!
Sorry my comment was not clear - I'm not the author of the linked article, but it's a good primer on the issue (even though I believe some of the solutions are out of date).

I also rendered pixels using rectangles and lines using my own routines. If I recall correctly, the editor worked fine when zoomed in 4x-8x. The problem was rendering the image 1:1 or 2:1. The rendered image looked a bit blurry compared to Graphics Gale and grafx2 (the two pixel editors I was using for inspiration).
did you really have to add the 'Asian' connotation? IMHO, labeling yourself is already a sign of low self esteem. Don't limit yourself, being Asian has nothing to do with your lack of friends or your introversion.

Imagine if it was a Black engineer, again, it matters very little, don't put society's label on yourself.

Also, you are totally not alone man, everyone's been there. I used to live and work alone but it's like well, something you just gotta get through. If it helps, I hear California has a great medical marijuana program, it would definitely help you relax and help you forget about being lonely, although I wouldn't rely on it solely.

You can add me on skype if you feel lonely sometime, just email me.
Giving a game to the world is a wonderful thing, and if it's a good game, it'll last longer than you. Better for the world that we compete on the quality of our implementations rather than the right to implement, or the right to identify what you're implementing.

To be clear: IMO you'd be entirely moral to defend your trademark here, but you're being exceptionally generous to let it go.
I became a good friend with my current coworker. We went to Islanders game. We watched games in the bar. Our friendship was developing steadily.
Then I went to his apartment and discovered he lives in the same building (that has 30 floors) on the same floor, in front of the guy we knew for years through my wife work. We dug thorough the old pictures and found my "new" friend on the pictures of our older friend kid's baptism.
World is small. Tons of people to meet. Everything starts form the talk. If you get common interests you will go from there.You can't become friends with someone you don't spend time with.
vast majority ... win/win/win

Vast majority, really?

Call me a cynic but win/lose/win seems a lot more common to me.
Its highly location based. On the coasts in SV and Manhattan Island, I'm sure McDonalds only hires high school dropouts and illegals, while anyone with a college degree has a real job. Elsewhere, it varies, and plenty of McJobs are staffed by people with degrees.

If the pie is continuously shrinking, and the supply of people with credentials (and related massive debt) is continuously expanding, this outcome seems fairly inevitable.

Most of the bartenders / waitresses I know have a degree in something. Maybe not a STEM field, but a degree of some sort. It is uncontroversial that there are unemployed people with degrees, so it should be no surprise there are massively underemployed degree holders.
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Without knowing your situation or location, it is difficult to provide targeted advice, but in general it will be advantageous to buy a 1-3 year old car, from a good manufacturer, using your own financing (or even better, mostly with cash).

New cars are nice and shiny, and do have the latest safety/efficiency gains, but you will lose a bunch of resale value as soon as you drive it off the lot. Depending on your goals, needs, and the car model, a lightly-used year-old car can give you 95% of the value for a lot less cost.

Then, as for financing, shop around instead of using dealer financing. Check with banks and especially local credit unions and see their rates. Then when you have a car in mind, get pre-approved and get the car.

I would only recommend a new car to someone with cash to burn, and I would only recommend leasing if it's a car for your small company and your accountant advises it.
Excellent post!

> To understand the effect of c we need to make a Mandelbrot set.

In fact, the Mandelbrot set can be defined to be the set of c that make the Julia set connected. This is something new I learned today because I was suspicious about the claims of connectivity (proving fractals are connected is a highly nontrivial task).

Now I kinda want to start looking at MathBox for presentations.
Further proof that the Moon was created by massive collision
Paper-based AR games in your browser
Go play a multiplayer game and join a guild. I know this sounds counter-intuitive as how could you improve your extroversion by participating in what most would consider an introvert activity? The truth is that while the social contact is minimal (much greater these days with the adoption of voice chat), it's still more than what you're currently getting. When you are a strong introvert, you need to take baby steps. But this advice isn't without some caveats. See below:

1) You have to remember that this is a stepping stone. Do not get overly addicted. This is the double edged sword. If you can avoid addiction, this will be a boon, if not, it will only hurt you. Don't forget that this is a stepping stone.

2) Join a non-top tier guild. You're here to learn how to overcome social anxiety, not to be the best damn xxx slayer.

3) Allocate a maximum amount of hours per day and per week you will play and a minimum amount of hours you will play with others while doing so. Do not let this simply turn into a game; it's purpose is to reduce social anxiety and have fun doing it.

4) If there are people in the guild who are local (let's say within 100 miles). Go and meet up with them. You will have an instant bond and conversation will flow much easier.

5) Just to reiterate the first point - this is a stepping stone.

Best of luck.
"You can't be the world's best and fail at the same time." Oh yes you can. You can be the best at providing something people don't want. You can even be the best at providing something people should want but don't. The NY Times is in the same boat as so many smart, literate, thoughtful, and educated communicators before them: either (1) dumb down the content, (2) fight the vain battle of trying to snaz up clever content with whiz-bang visuals and "Tweets" and whatnot, or (3) go out of business. Not a happy choice, but sometimes, when you're surrounded by swine, your pearls have no place to go.
Nothing to worry bro. There are innumerous number of people goign througg the same condition. I am also working in FLORIDA (which is very bad in terms of public transport) and in the same ship in which you are in.
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This just opens a page that says 0 of 0 tests finished.
This is why there needs to be some kind of indie developers' (/ artists'?) union which can afford to fight the big companies abusing their position.
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> Why bother?

one or more of :

- because it's fun to create things

- because you can still make money anyway

- to contribute to society and culture

- to stretch your mind

- because it might not be that big a deal in the whole scheme of things

- because being the underdog who plays nice can bring press and pennies.

- because not suing them is much less stressful and possibly cheaper

- there's more than one way to skin a cat

.. just off the top of my head.
Ultimately the best advice is to talk to an accountant and a lawyer, as this varies by location and industry. You can find one of each who will give you a free 1-hour consultation. If you like them, you can hire them hourly to customize a boilerplate T&C and to incorporate you in whichever way is most advantageous.

A more HN-style recommendation is to not provide a freemium B2C product, but to provide a paid B2B product. That is, do not invite general users to abuse your system for free, but rather encourage serious businesses to pay for your service. This will attract more lucrative, less problematic customers. If you have questions on how to do this given your product, post a Show/Ask HN about it. :)
The last time I tried to install it, it was a nightmare. This was a few years ago before they put helpful explanations of what different versions mean, so the first time I picked the wrong one. After installing it and realizing that I tried to get the right version but it wouldn't install. Some issue with the other version being installed, so I uninstalled the other version.

Only then I discovered you can't actually uninstall SQL Server. I mean, you can tell it to uninstall, it'll go through the motions and look like it uninstalled, but it won't actually uninstall. And you can't install another version until you uninstall the other version, which doesn't actually uninstall.

I think at this point I either had to go in and manually kill processes and delete files and registry entries, or I just reinstalled windows on my VM, I don't remember. I do remember it being a nightmare and once I got it working I vowed to never reformat or update again.
It is. Unlike DO, they also have IPv6 support and don't censor.
Does somebody has user experiences about Digital Ocean and Linode? I heard that Linode is known to be more stable and that Digital Ocean had servers offline for some hours even without informing customers. Any insights or user experiences here?
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Switching between two non-consecutive pages in a pdf is not an unusual case.
Don't censor what, exactly?
What does DO censor? oO
Looking forward to reading this.
None of those things could tell you if the human torch was denied a bank loan or something. You're better off just grabbing their bank records.
>Battery life is still not acceptable

I can't think of any Nexus device that had a long battery life. The pressure to deliver a high-spec $350 phone means cuts somewhere. The big beautiful screen uses a lot of juice as well. I think if you want battery like you should not buy into the Nexus platform.

That said, its certainly not bad. There are reviews of long on-screen usage and its certainly usable. It just may not be as long as the tiny-screen iphone.

Things not working on Nexus for me is pretty rare. Usually one bad application that wasn't expecting to be on the newest version of Android and has not been properly tested for it.. Typically, these get patched quickly.
some people in religion are bullshitters, some are liars, and some are truth tellers.

the real bullshit comes in with people like you who pretend your preaching the truth but you really know nothing about it. your just a bullshitter.

see, if you truly believed in science, which could be coined as the pursuit of truth, you'd simply stick to saying some elements of a religion are true, some are false, and some if not many cannot be known/discovered.

you'd probably sit there and complain if someone said something that blanketed an entire topic, while you do the same to religion. and i would guess you'd probably call yourself scientific. again, i think this is the epitome of bullshit.
Now imagine the dough expanding faster than the speed of light.

You're going to need a very big oven.
Wait a bit: first the tests are executed and then the results are published
Trying to find ways to integrate react / om / clojurescript into my Ember app and this is perfect. Thank you!
I was the same. Meetups are not as helpful as groups where you actually do an activity together, be it theater, climbing, board games, ...

The problem with meetups is that you don't have the common activity to help with really interacting between each other. It's often a presentation and then some networking but networking events at meetups don't help introverts at all.
I run https://minimalreader.com/ on Digital Ocean. They do have moments of downtime every now and then, the most severe being 12 hours of severe network issues back in October 2013. Since then, I have rarely had issues with my Droplets in the NYC datacenters.

You can see their status page for all of the issues they've reported: https://status.digitalocean.com/ (mostly network connectivity issues)

Feel free get in touch (email in profile) if you want to talk more about my experience with DO and how I try to architect around their network issues.
I'm currently trying to buy a pair of shoes on amazon, and many reviewers are calling out the fact that after giving the shoes a five star, they go to buy a second pair of the same shoe to find that it is completely different and of terribly quality.
It doesn't. Because it looks like HEXO's drone in the videos is a fake =]

Basically, they have a mockup and a campaign which started few hours before Airdog's.