skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody is arguing if they have the authority or not the more important question is why do they want to?

I find the FAA's attempt at banning anything commercial relating to drones a bit curious.

Step 1. Ban/regulate all commercial Drones.

Step 2. Require a license for commercial use.

Step 3. Profit?
Hm. I understand your individual points, but don't understand the argument you're trying to make.

Why does this difference between art and science justify art's comparatively hostile attitude toward "derivative" works?

Also, I don't agree that there is such a stark contrast. I think you over-state the role of testability in science (esp. the task of articulating theories) and under-state the importance of the social process in science.

Oh, it's worth noting that sometimes scientific communities do frown on "derivative" works. E.g. scooping other group's low-hanging fruit. But the general sentiment regarding these cases doesn't even come close to even contemplating something like litigation. (edit: oh, I guess there's some patenting in the natural sciences esp. in near-to-market research. But patents != copyright. And CS comes a lot closer to the nature of art, and AFAIK it's unheard of for a researcher to sue another researcher over derivative works.)
The change of healthcare fees was a $7 co-payment on going to the doctor and less of a tax benefit for higher income earners.

Australia still has universal health cover.
The truth behind Google and Evil?
A Lifetime of Intellectual Stimulation Staves Off Dementia
So again. Why is it not a story here? Either you did not read the article or you did not understand the inner currents, politics and business strategies involved. Read again.
This tool works pretty well. https://github.com/fgsch/varnish3to4 - combined with the "whats changed" it should not take you much time to upgrade.
It was a rhetorical question.

But it's not necessarily true that Nokia X came "way after". Nokia could have put the project on hold when they started serious negotiations with Microsoft.
Aka as "lots of hacks using non standard C, while forcing the developer to do the work of the compiler".
Crystal Acrylic Photo Frame bit.ly/1o2dWFt
That seems like something well suited to compile-to-js languages like Coffeescript. It could substitute cases as you mentioned with fast.js equivalent functions.
The JAMA editorial is here, but is behind a paywall:

http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2013/07/03/WNL.0b013e...

My institute doesn't subscribe to these journals, so if someone could post a link ...

Here is the abstract:

Dementia affects a staggering proportion of individuals, imposing a huge cost to our society. There are currently no disease-modifying treatments for dementia, making lifestyle factors that influence dementia risk of utmost importance. One such lifestyle factor that has shown promise in delaying dementia onset is engagement in cognitively stimulating activities, such as reading, writing, and playing games.1,2 However, the mechanisms by which these activities exert protective effects remain unclear (figure).
The market for those guys seems to be fairly globalized.
Most indie musicians can scarcely eek out a middle class lifestyle. Only a lucky few ever get rich off it.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385634
I was with him until the perl bit. Otherwise, awesome piece.
There's a fatal flaw.

Even if commercial delivery drones could be engineered to not crash into people or houses, not tangle with power lines, not cause accidents on highways, and not collide with each other once they are common, there's one thing that will instantly get them banned.

That will be the time someone uses a UAV to deliver 10 Oz of Semtex and a proximity sensor to someone they don't like.
Exactly how are you going to stop that becoming common, if there are lots of UAVs in the air everywhere?

Actually this factor is probably why they will definitely be banned before there is any commercial take-up. Because there are some powerful people who very many people don't much like. And this application will be very unpopular with the powerful.
Kind of. I am under the impression that many companies have a top management that wants a strong data science department, resulting lots of demand for high profile PhDs, without having actually a real use for them, hence many DSs are over qualified, like I was.
Depends on the sport. Chris Froome, for instance, is one skinny dude: http://inrng.com/2014/06/the-moment-the-race-was-won-2014-da... - he's the one in the yellow jersey in the 3rd picture.
Welcome back to the 80's, where C++ used to play with macro to make templates and inheritance was only a basic compiler trick.

I can only emphasizes the need to move to real C++ if you want to use C++ idioms, to do it safely and performances wise: here you just opened the gate of Macro error's hell which will be more horrible than anything the C++ could throw at you.
Why wouldn't something like Paint.NET just be AOT compiled with ngen?
Brackets Snippets for KnockoutJS is now available on GitHub.
I could probably live with most of this, but the macros make me want to gouge my eyes out. C macros just have too many issues
spain really has a disproportionnate amount of small players. That's why they use such a different kind of game (which i like a lot), with many fast short passes rather that long kick reaching the head.

I'm really surprised by their poor performance at this world cup. Does anyone here analyzing this set of stats can see another difference that would explain this bad result ?
This kind of things are gimmicky at best, and an awful reading experience at worst. The time it takes for your eyes to adjust to the blinking letters is larger than the saccadic movement, and a single saccade reads a bunch of words instead, allowing you to both comprehend the sentence immediately, and also easily skip back-forward in case of errors.
Particularly interesting for game developers who can use it deeply customize maps to fit well into their gaming experience. I am tempted to build a monopoly-like game with the real world up for sale and purchase. And one like Need for Speed with real-world traffic. Even one for amateur marathon runs on countryside terrains.
The Hitchhikers Guide To Hacking
Suppose you have two computer programs on of which kills people. Even if they don't have agency you can still denounce the killer. Replace program with elevator, or person without free will and I don't see the issue.
And if that address is a fake address?

I really don't understand your reasoning for wanting an About Us page before purchasing a service. I don't feel that this level of paranoia is appropriate when using online services.
The service costs $29/mo. Most people here make more than that per hour. It's completely illogical to worry about losing $30 unless that $30 has high utility to your life.

If they steal your money, you can make an HN submission about your experience, which will completely ruin their reputation. Their reputation is far more valuable than whatever small amount of pocket change they could skim by tricking a few HN users. Therefore, the chance that your money is going to be stolen is hovering just above nil.
Aha! Looks like they "sent them in error", whatever that means... whoops! http://imgur.com/0oXES08
You got it wrong. European Latin-based scripts are not identical. They have, besides the basic Latin set of letters, different diacritics. The original Latin alphabet has/had less than 26 letters, and the European languages had to adapt (either by supplement it, or by expressing sounds through combinations of existing letters). Now, a font may or may not have all the European letters, but that makes it merely incomplete from a language's perspective, not that it belongs or not to a given language.
The 10 mistakes to avoid when developing an app
I believe the content and instruction for Metis is provided by the Rails consultancy, Thoughtbot. This seemed to be a recent foray into the space for both parties; perhaps, Kaplan saw some encouraging traction from the joint partnership and thus decided to make an acquisition.
Ask HN: Hitting a wall with Twitter
Hey guys, I am desperate. I have been running a Twitter Analytics service for a few years now and it's gotten way too popular. I have companies like the NASA, Firefox, UFC, Disney, WWF, Subway, Playboy, UrbanOutfitters, Tate, Medium, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah, Tim Ferriss and even @ev and many many more using and/or paying for my service.

It's constantly breaking down due to Twitter's strict REST API limits (something everyone knows and has to work around with), but I receive e-mails from people daily willing to pay more, and more, and more if I can find a way to keep the service up and running.

As of now, it's all coming down to site-streams, which is only enabled to whitelisted accounts. They would solve all the problems, I could make the service real-time and make a lot of money before all those guys decide to go with Adobe or Sprinkler, the big terrible ugly things. This is my biggest shot taking off and I feel like the window is about to close very shortly.

I do not sit in San Francisco, I have been unable to meet Twitter folks in person outside of SF so far. It seems a lot of the partnerships are built locally, in SF, through networks, which makes a lot of sense, but completely shuts it down for us.

I've been trying to reach out through every possible venue, partner programs, beta programs, mailing lists, been an active and helping member on the API forums and have hit the wall now, not knowing what to do next.

I have the technology and technical intelligence, the infrastructure, I have lots of paying customers, I haven't even started marketing the software yet (word of mouth), and all I fail at is getting permission to proceed professionally from Twitter.

Anyone, please, any ideas? This is a last resort call.
Looks like they don't offer ANAME or something similar.
You never trust the client; this is amateur hour shit TBH. How could a company like PayPal let something like this through? SURELY there were employees raising hell before it ever hit the app stores?
Branded emails is the best thing Google offers now! I don't want to buy Google Apps for my sideprojects.
Krita is pretty great for simple image editing on Linux (I even use it on Windows sometimes).
And, before someone suggests the obvious, yes, I've considered reaching out to some users of my service that are active investors, founders or business partners of Twitter. But I want to respect their privacy if at all possible and knowing the story behind Twitter, most of the original folks have moved on, it's a different business up there now (great background info in Biz's latest book, worth the read).
isn't that yet another rsvp implementation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_serial_visual_presentatio...)?
tried, it's terrible. try this instead, the coup - genocide and juice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18N1VwPPv8&list=PLcxmmGC6Lv...
What got me was advertising is still the monetisation of the internet / of things.

I would assume that because the next major product is going to be data (from pavement slabs !) that it is data that will be monetised - somehow. But I would assume that IP rights become DP - Data Property. And I charge people for use of my data (from my underpants) and they charge me for the analysis of the aggregated data - if we are sensible in a similar manner to internt exchanges now - mostly up balances down.

Hmm. Nice to have some new thoughts
I´m looking forward to getting my Google Dog in 2017.
DevOps Led Software Development
I think this kind of thing is pretty interesting... For me, the reason I can't use it for most stuff I read is that I often need more time to process/understand certain words and names. On the first article from Instapaper that I tried this on, I was fed a sentence containing the words "doxological peregrinations." That threw me off, and then I knew I would have trouble keeping up. It'd be interesting if there was some nonintrusive way to dynamically adjust the speed. I also found it confusing when first names and surnames were separated, because I tend to recognize a person's name as a whole entity. Spritz seems to use longer pauses for commas, which seems helpful. But I really miss being able to see the whole sentence I'm "reading"...
i use the http://pixlr.com/ editor, no need to install anything
Posted yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933870.
http://pastebin.com/akQRtDH3
Truecrypt is far from done. But wouldn't be the fact that it's open source be enough for you to deem it trust worthy? Of course not, as recent events have demonstrated.

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

Although we all have reason to believe every single encryption tool out there is compromised, where does that leave us? Paralyzed. IMHO, we won't have 100% trustworthy software ever and we're better off using what we have then not using anything at all. Remember, in this thread we're talking about our privacy, not some top-secret project for which developing a encryption tool from scratch would be affordable (that'd be cool though).
Two pages with too many images and scant information.

Will there be a way to just configure/edit the DNS records?

What sets this service apart from other registrars?
On the other hand, I found it incredibly useful. My mind often wanders when I read, and Squirt solves that.

I found their choice of color scheme jarring. They highlight a specific letter in blue for some reason, and you get a strange optical sensation after staring at that shade of blue for too long. I had to download their js and css, rehost it myself, search through it for the color code, and change it to black. But then I found it very useful.
Clach of clans
Net Neutrality Protestors arrested outside Google
These standings are pre-freeze, so not final, right?
fair enough. in no order, immortal technique, the coup, pete rock & c.l. smooth, de la soul, xzibit, the goats, jedi mind tricks, artifacts, redman, big daddy kane, black moon, btnh, canibus, dead prez, eazy-e, krs-one, leaders of the new school, nas, rakim, royce, kano, sway, skinnyman, az, the firm, wu-tang and so on
PHP is a big reason for WordPress doing so well, because it's everywhere, it is cheap to host (as in you can stick a whole heap of PHP sites on one box and it will generally be fine) so it's cheap to get hosting.

My product (http://grabaperch.com) is a CMS - I guess a competitor to WordPress, although we're certainly not trying to be WordPress. We're PHP and MySQL because that's what our target audience has available. We would not have been as successful as we have been had we written it in Python, Node, or Ruby or anything else.

The content editors using the CMS, and the website users do not care what the software is written in. Most of our actual customers (web designers and front-end developers building client sites) do not care what the software is written in as long as we make it easy for them to get it installed.

Successful with a CMS product doesn't have to mean that you kill off the competition. There is plenty of space out there for products targeting a bit of a niche, or just those who want an alternative for whatever reason. If you can figure out what that reason is, what problem isn't being solved by the main players, it's possible to build a product that serves it.
Actually, truly original art would be nigh-near incomprehensible to the viewer, because it wouldn't be using the language of shared cultural experience to communicate with the viewer.

Read any of the great artists and they will admit that there are no new ideas. Shakespeare knew it. Even the Greeks knew it when they were ostensibly "inventing" theater.
or i'm not 12?
If you want government assistance in enforcing your IP rights it seems reasonable that you contact the government to let them know that you have something that needs their protections.

See, for example, trademarks. You do not have to register your trademarks; just using them is enough. But wothout registration the government (in the form of customs agents) will not seize trademark infringing goods at the border or (in the form of police and courts) arrest and prosecute people engaging in mass commercial fraud / violation of your trademarks.

IP law baffles me and it'd be great if there were some short pages explaining why we are where we are with Intellectual property. There are lots of pages explaining what the law is, but not why. Also, some comparison with other legal systems would be cool. (Possibly popular article for HN?)
It's risk assessment time. How many people are hitting baseball bats with unregulated bats today versus the number of drones that will be flying around cities delivering things all the time (and bumping into people on the sidewalks)? It takes little imagination to see that once drones are accepted as an efficient method of transportation, then companies will want to use them as much as possible, thus possibly creating a situation where we might want them to be regulated. Perhaps it's hard to see this happening from the few examples we've of hobbyist usage today but that is probably going to change (if they're accepted, etc, etc).
Go static site generator
That style of football is also dependent on closing down the opposition when Spain don't have the ball, meaning the players have to run a lot, and be fast and fit. Several of the important midfield players are now "old" (Xavi is 34, Xabi Alonso is 32, for example) so they aren't as good at that side of the game as they used to be.

Also, while it was completely new 6 years ago when they won the European Championship, now people know what to expect and have better counter-tactics.

And thirdly, a lot of the Spanish players play for Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, who all had long and difficult seasons. The players weren't able to ease off at all, so must be more exhausted than normal.
Plus, every keyword is already in English.
I've heard second hand that they were test messages sent in error rather than BBC News being compromised.
It was a bit of a confusing title, I read it as something to be announced at Google I/O will change something for Airbnb everywhere.

A better title would be "How large conferences impact nearby Airbnb availability"
I'd miss the STL more than anything. It's so much nicer than any of the remotely comparable C data structure + algorithm libraries. That plus RAII are enough to keep me on the C++ side.
Just wanted to spread the word a bit, it's something I created for myself, found it really useful and hope other will enjoy it too.
If you pause playback, the surrounding words appear. If you then hold down the right arrow key, you can speedread at your own pace.

I wish keyboard buttons were pressure-sensitive so that you could adjust how fast something is going by pressing harder. But in lieu of that, using arrow keys to scroll through the words is a pretty nice reading experience for me.
Glad, you like it. And thanks for MapCSS. ;)
Rediscovered EDSAC diagrams reveal secrets of first computers
Any invite code?
It's fun to know how we implement these stuffs in C but not fun enough to use them :)
5 Hypothetical Planets That haven’t been Seen (Yet)
I'd love to see some stats that take into account wages or the purchase price of players.

Each touch of the ball costs €x; each tackle costs €y etc.
At least the 3.x versions were.
Why do you think that Dev Bootcamp lost out to App Academy in the prestige stakes?
If we put outselves in FAA's shoes, if they're too un-restrictive against drones now they run the risk of letting the situation get out of control in the future. As a thought exercise, how would the recommendations be enforced? Once drones are accepted as common transportation agents, how do you identify the one skipping the recommendations and, more importantly, who is flying it?
Seashore isn't too bad either, http://seashore.sourceforge.net
If there is no legitimate reason to circumnavigate 2FA, i.e. the S/N of detecting fraud by detecting circumnavigation is 1.0, why not just automate the anti-fraud enforcement and make the circumnavigation impossible?
That goes without saying at this point. I'm not saying the English-in-path thing is a huge deal, but it's worth noting effects that sneak in along with a feature.
It's a bit sad that this program was open-source once, and then further versions got closed. (It's the other way around to what usually happens!)
Sex on the first date?
I remember getting my Bigfoot for life email address. It didn't exactly last that long. But basically that was email forwarding. But you had to change your reply-to in outgoing emails, and it was a little confusing for recipients.

Email forwarding, doesn't stop Google reading the mail as it goes through transit. Which is a little unsettling. I'd be interested to hear/read their privacy policy regarding this.
Note, vm.overcommit_memory is not even mentioned.

How disappointing.
Supports PSD too, http://psdplugin.codeplex.com, not sure if it supports the latest version yet though.
This video is depressing, but reminds us that Facebook statuses can be lies
As C preprocessor macros come these are pretty mild.
You can use a car packed with explosives triggered by mobile phone to target someone you don't like.
It's much easier and more reliable than the short-distance drone.
Should we ban cars and mobile phones?
May being the operative word.
Yes, but sometimes for whatever reason C is all you have. And then tricks like these just might push down the complexity far enough to give you an edge. (Do it wrong and you'll lose a lot of hair.)
They'd need to be awfully big then, wouldn't they?
Well... from the previous HN discussion I had Squirt in my favorites bar, until I did a work presentation and realized the name could be misinterpreted! I then quickly deleted it.
Yon mean "non idiomatic", right? I don't think he used anything non standard.
In my defence, I wrote that before Snowden (the events, not the person). In fact I absolutely agree that encryption is probably ineffective if you're trying to hide stuff from a government.

However the main use for encryption is to store your journal on an insecure medium such as Dropbox, and I believe encryption is still the best way to keep your data from companies you don't trust.

(Then again, after Condoleezza Rice got on the board of Dropbox, I'm not so sure anymore.)
What technical skills or how much experience the client have, to say you can accomplish this in 1 hour ? I also question your own experience, why did you get fooled, be more cautious next time, analyse the situation yourself.
If, as an artist, you only had one monetizable piece of work, then you are NOT a genius, you are a complete failure. You prove your genius through a body of work, through a repetition of successfully creating things. And it's really not genius at all, it's just perseverance. Most of the artists we hold up as "great" weren't the most technically skilled, weren't the smartest of their peers. They just knew how to finish.

It is a major disservice to budding artists that we continue, through culture and through implication with our copyright law, to promote the notion of the genius artist. The image of divine inspiration, the golden work, a single masterpiece that creates a laying legacy, is complete falsehood. It relegated at to a world of myth, only to be attempted by gods, not for us mere mortals.

It's an incredibly important lesson for the entrepreneur. It's better to be done than be right or beautiful our elegant. Done is the only thing that sells units.
I don't see what problem delivering packages with drones would be solving, package delivery seems already quite efficient to me. Also I suppose drones would often be able to deliver just one package at a time because of weight restrictions.

I pick up most of my packages at the local post office because I live in an apartment, it's a 5 minute walk away, not really an inconvenience.
Yep, I like (and own and use) Pixelmator but before I was willing to pay money for something, Seashore was my go to app for basic editing.

My understanding is that it's bits of the GIMP processing engine with a nicer UI.