skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this could be used for a lightning based positioning system independent of GPS, if the events (time + position) were transmitted on longwave like the DCF77 time signal.
The military is operating very much within the law. You use "declaration of war" as a legal criterion, but that is not the applicable criterion.

Rather, the Congress themselves have authorized the use of military force explicitly, both in Afghanistan (and against Al Qaeda and associated movements generally) and in Iraq.

But the military is only a single (albeit important) branch of the government, whereas a declaration of war would encompass a vast accumulation of government power to the Executive across a wide range of the branches of government.

There is a reason Congress has not declared war (even assuming one could literally declare war on "terrorism"): It would grant the President powers far in excess of that which Congress wishes.

So in fact you have it completely opposite; Congress refuses to declare war because refusing this declaration constrains the power of the President.
For those of us not in the UK; could someone list the price?

Just interested to know if this is still the same $1.5k explorer dev kit that was in the US, or a consumer priced version.

Edit: a friend in the UK says its £1,000 - so still the crappy priced dev kit.
This is an interesting attempt. It has Sinatra like simplicity, providing the modular architecture that was promised with the Merb + Rails merger.

At the very least, this will spark some interesting conversations and ideas.
Parallelism is complicated: the per-server connection limit has been increased in modern browsers and will change dramatically as SPDY deployment rises[1] and multiple connections per domain becomes a complete de-optimization.

In contrast, the speed of a DNS query is relatively fixed – that initial lookup can take a long time on a cold cache (possibly seconds, particularly internationally) and nothing will transfer until it's completed, so you really need to calculate the time to last byte with that in mind. If you're talking about small, cached files, domain sharding is often a significant step back if the entire transfer can complete over an existing connection in the time it takes to perform DNS + connection for a new hostname. This is particularly interesting when you remember that modern browsers can do DNS prefetching really early so e.g. DNS for your primary domain was completed before someone even clicked on the link and multiple connections were opened as soon as they clicked.

Steve Souders looked at this last year:

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/09/05/domain-sharding-...

> A middle ground is to alter domain sharding depending on the client: 1 domain for browsers that support SPDY, 2 domains for non-SPDY modern browsers, 3-4 domains for IE 6-7. This makes domain sharding harder to deploy. It also lowers the cache hit rate on intermediate proxies.

1. interestingly, CDNJS has supported SPDY for 2 years: https://twitter.com/cdnjs/status/231227466335797249
This is depressingly similar to what I was aiming for when I recently began work on: https://github.com/lean-framework/lean (I feel like this happens to me a lot.)

Rails controllers are hard to test because actions aren't designed to be testable objects.

ActiveRecord models become monolithic because there's no separation of instantiation, validation, persistence, or retrieval.

I originally experimented with building a Rails app that forgoes ActiveRecord to a large extent; using plain Ruby classes + Virtus gem to separate the aforementioned concerns depending on context.

I was pretty satisfied with the number of design headaches I was able to avoid, which is when I started to create a framework around the aforementioned paradigms.

Not sure if I just lost my motivation or not, but I'm glad I'm not alone.
You should probably get a job (any job) if you don't already have one. All the skills in the world don't equal work experience.
Probably because those things actually made sense.
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Looking at the URL, it's still the explorer edition.
This is amazing work. I hope it continues to go even further. I'd like to see a browser that is really just implemented on top of a kernel with full programmatic access to everything from the top down: just as Emacs happens to be a text editor built on the elisp kernel, Firefox could happen to be a browser built on a web kernel.

Everything that drives the UI are just functions that could just as easily be invoked from the scratch pad. If you know a bit of javascript you can write a few of your own functions to automate some common browsing tasks. And if you need even more functionality you can dig deeper and write your own libraries that seamlessly integrate into the kernel without a hitch and can be invoked from your own menus.

No plugin tom-foolery or artificial walls around the garden.

Looking forward to seeing how this develops!
I see 'RSVP available soon' - is there an email list for when new RSVPs are available?
Ask HN: Funding for attending Google Mentor Summit
Hello,
I'm a gsocer and I've been selected to attend the 10th Google Mentor Summit in California this October. However, being a lottery winner, I have to arrange transportation, lodgings and all by myself.
The finances for attending this event have to be paid by me.
I want to know whether there are some funding programs for this, which could ease my expenses a bit. I'd appreciate any help :)

Thanks again
why would anyone trust a 3rd party to inject javascript into pages?

what is to stop you from altering the packages to steal user session cookies and post those back to your server?

"it's just very convenient".... no... it's ALSO very insecure.
This just in: Yesterday, more people not wearing Glass were punched than people wearing Glass, despite media reports that Glass reportedly makes people want to punch you.
JavaScript has quite a few advantages compared to RoR (eg. it will forever be the language in browser, hence if you choose Node then you are using the same language on both sides. This is the main reason I think it won't be a fad like Ruby. Also Node is way faster than RoR on average). So no, nothing like that.
There is no XUL in there.
I think the OP was just trying to pick an easily accessible activity so he could focus on getting his point across. As a newbie to backpacking knowing if I have the right gear, what to do, where to go, can I even do this? could cloud the reader and miss the whole point of his article.
Renouncing your citizenship and finding citizenship in another country is still easier, safer, and cheaper than starting a revolution.

Anyone capable of organizing and running an effective revolution is capable of leaving the US with less risk & effort.

That is the point you are missing. This is about a revolution & revolutionaries, not "is this easy for anyone? is this best for everyone?"
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There's a difference between being fluent in something and mastering it.
You might be capable of reading and writing Java code, but that says nothing of your knowledge of JVM internals or of any particular framework etc.

It's like the difference between being fluent in Spanish and being able to use the language to write moving poetry or having a very extensive vocabulary.

I think it is much better to be as specific as possible about what skills you expect the candidate to have going in and what you expect them to be able to learn on the job.
If it’s anything like the existing developer tools it’ll be fairly hidden and lazy-loaded when needed. I wouldn’t worry too much.
For a long, long time, the greatest physical threat to an American has been other Americans. As a result, the more ruthless among us have felt free to use people from other countries, who own fewer guns and fewer dollars, as pawns and catspaws.

The main conflict is America vs. America. Right now, the Americans that believe in the Jeffersonian ideals of civil liberties and limited government are losing to the Americans that uphold the Hamiltonian ideals of unbridled government power serving common nationalist interests--namely, both the Democratic and the Republican political parties.

Since other nations also have their own authoritarian factions, it's very hard to shed a tear when two deadly adversaries war against one another, even knowing that they will hurt innocents in the process. The people who actually care can't really do anything to stop it.

It seems arrogant and entitled, but it is actually much worse. The people doing it are so secure in their power that they are doing whatever seems convenient to convert a portion of that power into spending money. That brown guy that died in a fire was just some Beltway Bandit's monthly boat payment. Thanks to dilution of responsibility, there is a complete ethical dissociation between the blood and the lucre.

And the worst part about it is that the government of the country you live in is probably quietly supporting this behavior. The best thing for an "outsider" to do is to kick the authoritarians out of their own country, and start calling the US out onto the carpet internationally instead of just cashing the aid checks and blindly signing the multiparty treaties written by American business lawyers.
It calls it the Glass Explorer Edition but the price is "only" £1,000
> not all of us want proprietary operating systems

Not sure if these people want to use a proprietary browser.
It's amazing to me that people would screw around with this for 2 or 3 hundred dollars.

I realize wages are low in many parts of the world and this might represent a significant amount of money, but anyone with access to the resources and possessing the technological know how, to pull this off maybe could make that in a legitimate way.

I have no idea, but maybe state actors are involved. Maybe it is a low level warning of what "could" be done. Probably not... but maybe. $300 doesn't seem like it would be worth the trouble and risk but maybe it is.
Hey pling, I work on the OneDrive team. We definitely don't do the type of content scanning that you're describing. I wouldn't be comfortable with that. The only time we currently use file hashes for automated takedown is when known child pornography is re-uploaded to the service after being reported.

For copyrighted content, we have to respond to DMCA notices like other services. Sharing content to the public and getting reported by a third party is the only path for that. And in those cases, you definitely get a specific notice about the takedown. The web UI would also show you exactly which file was affected, and prevent you from sharing it again. It doesn't just delete files. (That would be unacceptable.)

Note that there's currently a 2 GB file size limit. It seems like the most likely explanation is that you put a large ISO in your SkyDrive folder, and it never succeeded in uploading because it exceeded the limit.
Maybe you just found your kindred spirit and can join forces and produce something awesome for all of us
require, require, require.

Reminds me of early php days puke.
Laika is right. It's a chat room with a 3d sandbox.
Sing in the shower much?
Still no searching/tagging/OCR, which is the killer feature of Evernote.

This is just Dropbox/Google Docs/Box/S3/etc.
It's not really a problem, as long as you've got extensive test cases (perhaps with millions of randomly generated samples) to show that the implementation always has the exact same results as OpenSSL's.

Or even better, since ECDSA is used in bitcoin-qt, just show that the full bitcoin implementation has the same results as bitcoin-qt, with millions of samples.

I don't see any of that in your package though.
DREBS: An AWS EBS back up script
Cisco Open Sources Experimental "FNR" Block Cipher
What will it take to create the next silicon valley? Money. Lots and lots of government money. Defense-sized pots of government money. Each year. For a decade or more. That, and the ability to live there and speak only English.
You can tell if a url has been disavowed by Google. So I did some experiments...
Anybody could be recording you with a camera in their hat or on their lapel or a microphone embedded in their clothes that you would never see, but you're worried about someone wearing incredibly obvious glasses.

You're the glasshole. Live and let live.
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> Is s/o really for copypasta mining?

Based on the questions there, it's primarily for that.
I'd be OK with that.
You did have some rather long downtime when you ran with a revoked SSL certificate.
Yes - Google Drive was probably an impetus for this, and it will be interesting to see what they introduce at IO. I think this price drop is a bigger deal than the Google Drive Drop, as I'm pretty confident that Microsoft is in this for the long haul, and that OneDrive is going to be around in 10 years, and show great enterprise integration.
I know they've been working on it for a while, I remember reading at least one progress report or the like.

They undoubtedly got diverted by being bought by Opera when they sold the company to it in 2010 and did various things for it, then bought the company back in September of last year. Now that they're again their own masters, we've been seeing a lot of improvements ... and I myself am happy that I can continue using their older "classic" UI because I don't think their New and Improved one is, at least for myself and how I use it.
Because the version they put on Youtube is probably not the exact version they received from the ISS. The article repeatedly described the video as HD, and the Youtube version isn't. And if you aren't willing to take NASA at their word, it's not that hard to imagine how multiple versions of a video end up getting passed around an organization, and the one that gets uploaded is compressed for whatever reason.
Are IPOs collusive and value destroying?
We can't have flying cars till we can figure out autopiloted cars. I don't want drunk flying :(
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True. But is being inert and lazy a bad thing? Can we get more out of life by allowing ourselves to relax?
My wife and I are avid fitbit'ers. We used to walk about an hour every day before we got them so it wasn't like we became fanatics when we got them but things have changed in some very subtle ways:

We can get the same amount of walking in even when we travel to a new city, we used to slack off sometimes when we travelled because we didn’t have a “route” to follow. Now we just go and often walk until we get to 1/2 our goal and turn around. Meanwhile we get to see so much more of the city we’re visiting. Our last trip to London we had so much fun we walked 8 miles out before we realized we needed to head back to the hotel.

We bought them for my Mom and Dad. My dad who is “Seventy something” walks me into the ground every day. He is on the west coast and we’re generally on the east coast. Every day he would beat me by 2,000 or more steps. I thought maybe my dad was taking advantage of the time zone advantage he had over me. To test this I stopped syncing for a couple days and then sync’d “all at once” and I managed to beat him. When I confronted him with this data he laughed and said “What else is an old man to do then to walk his son into the ground!”

My best friend has one also and he often loves to taunt me when I’m a bit behind. When we travel we usually smash his weekly records into the ground and the taunting goes the other way!

I’m an avid MMORPG player and since getting a fitbit it has slowly taken place of leveling toons or getting that next cool piece of gear. I have managed to make my life more of a game and enjoy the benefits of being more active while feeding that competitive part of my brain that want’s to win.

The only thing we love more is we have a Withings WiFi scale, tracking our weight along with activity and intake (Lose It! App for iPhone) makes for a pretty nice trifecta of tools to help meet personal goals. It also makes it easy when I slip up, I can look back “Ohh yea I really slacked off that week because of x, y or z”.

I have lost several of these and always replace them immediately. For a time my wife and I actually kept one in her travel case because we lost one when we were traveling and were crushed that we couldn’t replace it the very same day. We gave that one to one of our daughters and needless to say she’s in love with it.

Funny story: I lost one in New York city on a rainy night in December of last year. When I figured out it was gone my wife and I retraced our last walk and we found a fitbit in the rain but it wouldn’t turn on. I assumed the rain got to it so I took it home in hopes of reviving it. When I got it dried off I plugged it into the charger and it pops up “Hello Frank”. I laughed so hard I couldn’t stop laughing for ten minutes. My name isn’t Frank. We never found mine, I hope Frank found mine and reloaded it on his account. I’m still using Frank’s FitBit (Thanks again Frank) and happy to say it’s been a good companion in my day to day life.
And that work is key to the stuff we're doing. Thanks again, Chrome folks!
Here is a simple gist from Lotus author: https://gist.github.com/jodosha/9830002

And also there is a WIP room reservation app: https://github.com/sidonath/room-reservation
This. People just don't understand how much massive amounts of government money went into silicon valley from the 1950s onward. It takes lots of money and time.
Users and businesses doesn't care if it's PHP or Node or Rails or whatnot.
They want something that allows them to achieve what they want, no matter how custom or complex the thing they need.

Wordpress allows to build very customized web portals at close to zero cost.
Zillions of free and pre-existing plugins helps.

If something really custom needs to be created - there are plethora of el-cheapo programmers bidding to do Wordpress stuff for you.
Sure. But that kind of ignores human nature, no? If I see a person with a gun I'm going to be watching them, irrespective of the fact that anyone around me could have a concealed firearm on them.

(and no, I am not trying to equate the two)
Age does not equal wisdom. Age times paying attention equals wisdom.
I guess I'm complaining about npm more than Angular per se. Most of our issues stem from the myriad package dependencies "in the wild" of npm itself. It's like tilling a field in the wind. Often one has to `npm install` >3 times to install all of your modules. I guess that's what happens when you have ten billion cooks in the kitchen.
The down vote comes from the idea that this is not the only way to create good, useful, widely used and appreciated code.
Of course there are geniuses that have enough raw talent, dedication and focus to do amazing things with ease. But there are plenty of others that while not considered a 'genius', will have to use pure grit to accomplish feats of greatness.
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Great story about the tech.

Now...

What actual benefits have you seen? For example, weight loss, increased muscle strength, blood pressure, heart rate?
Revolution sounds like a magical cure-all for bad government when you're chatting around your buddy's dining table, but in practice it tends to be excruciatingly horrible. Lots and lots of innocent people get killed or brutalized (by both sides--revolutionaries aren't known to make fine distinctions between murderous jackbooted thugs vs. guys who think maybe the old regime was okay sometimes); lots more suffer from the loss of utilities, emergency services, and general civil order; and even if the rebels win, it's basically a coinflip whether the new government is actually any better than the old one.

The Revolution hasn't happened yet because the closer one gets to putting it into practice, the more apparent all of this becomes. You don't get a revolution when things are bad. You get a revolution when things are so inhumanly awful that mass death and chaos starts to sound like a step up.
A quick look at the API[1] showed a couple mentions of Sessions in the example structure. Not sure if it is handled out of the box, but I get the impression it is not difficult to implement. But that is just authentication, no idea about access control.

[1] http://rdoc.info/gems/lotusrb
The thing that's missing from almost all discussions of making a "Silicon Valley" somewhere else is what I think is the key to the original Silicon Valley's success: intergenerational investment. That is, a bunch of guys hit it big on semiconductors in the mid 20th century, and instead of just buying boats and joining the country club, these people set aside a portion of their fortunes to invest in the tech-related businesses of the generation that followed. And, crucially, without extracting onerous terms from those investments. That established a culture of relatively permissive angel investment that encouraged innovation.

Trying to get a startup off the ground in most other places it too hard because raising seed money is too hard, and even if you raise seed money, raising a series A is too hard, and so on. To make a Silicon Valley, you have to seed the ecosystem with an initial generation of successful entrepreneurs who are wiling to adopt the ethos of the SV angel investor, then provide an investment infrastructure to make sure that promising startups don't die on the vine.

And, as many others have pointed out, an open spigot of government money was necessary for the original SV to develop, so that's probably necessary for any copycat.
Is it allowed by GitHub to offer a reward in exchange for repository Stars?
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Drone Valley? Yeah, the FAA would like a word with you about flying test planes over populated areas...
What? Kids ARE the experts and if you have spent time to become a professional you are already too old. Haven't you read the agism article on HN today?
> In fact, this kind of competition is probably the only way to create successful innovation clusters that can compete with the huge advantage Silicon Valley already has. . . . That’s why turning Detroit into a commercial Drone Valley could draw the innovative people who in turn want to be near other innovative people around that domain.

I find this akin to describing how other cities should create their own Wall Street. I don't see the point. Wall Street and Silicon Valley are both places that benefit so much from the concentration of capital (intellectual and monetary), that there is little practical reason to have more than one of each in the U.S. And outside the U.S., places with capital and technical talent will find a way to put them together.

What I'm interested in is the harder question: what will it take to create the next Detroit, circa 1950? Not just a place where new technology is developed, where wealth is created, but a place where technology creates broadly-shared prosperity and good middle-class jobs.
Here's our generator we build just to suit our needs: https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/generator-gulp-of-drano it's come in pretty handy as we have to roll out several apps at a time with (in general) the same dependencies.
Altering text files is sometimes an issue in OneDrive for Business, which is a totally separate service based on SharePoint. Consumer OneDrive never alters your text or binary data.

Photos are only scanned for nudity if they're broadly shared. The definition of "broadly" is changing. It's designed so that content isn't scanned if it's unshared or if it's only shared with a small number of people. The goal is just to make sure that people aren't using the service to host massive public porn collections.